〜 Taken from Debit's album 'The Long Count', out via Modern Love on Feb 18th 2022 〜

Delia Beatriz’s musical output straddles two distinct artistic poles; her debut solo album, 2017’s acclaimed “Animus”, oozed from sensual, beatless soundscapes to high-octane club music, while her 2019-released EP “SYSTEM” harnessed tribal guarachero elements while simultaneously scraping ideas from industrial techno. 

On “The Long Count”, the Mexican-American producer has inked her most rigorous statement to date, sublimating opaque ancestral knowledge into vaporous AI-stirred fog banks, activating an ancient rite that reaches into tomorrow. It’s audacious electro-acoustic archaeology that sounds disorientating, anachronistic and arcane.

“The Long Count” is rooted in research Beatriz made into Mayan wind instruments – whistles, ocarinas, flutes and trumpets – using the archive of the Mayan Studies Institute at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, the oldest and largest collection of its kind. Developing a set of digital instruments that could be played using different types of temperaments and scales, Delia processed these sounds using machine learning techniques to shuttle the distant past into our extant artistic universe, peering into Mexico’s pre-colonial history and weaving those ideas into complex tonalities gleaned from musique concrète and contemporary electro-acoustic music.

The ten tracks of ‘The Long Count’ form a ritual that’s a few footsteps out of time – neither a part of our present, nor the past. Beatriz describes the Mayan instrumentation as ancestral technology, part of a world that’s not so much been forgotten, but purposefully erased. And although it’s impossible to know exactly how Mayan music may have sounded, it’s feasible to converse with history using modern technology to conduct a ceremony of remembrance.

Beatriz’s soundscapes are haunted by indistinct, shared memories and centuries of pent-up emotion, and are as intentional, direct and meticulously crafted as the work of Deathprod or Thomas Köner. Her microtonal compositions are psychedelic to their core, shapeshifting through dimensions and painting complex mental images, while retaining a stylistic focus and lucidity that’s all too rare. Although “The Long Count” was nurtured by machines, human experience is coded into its DNA – an ancient-future heirloom that whispers through countless generations.

File under magick concrète.

All tracks written, produced & mixed by Delia Beatriz
Additional Machine Learning for Audio by Isomov
Mastering by Rashad Becker
Album Art Photography & Creative Direction by Debit
AI Album Art by Moisés Horta Valenzuela

The Long Count

Debit - 2nd Day

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Tbilisi, Georgia-based artist Ani Zakareishvili joins the Warm Winters Ltd. roster with a hazy, phantasmic EP titled ‘Fallin’. Centred around crackling piano loops and edited snippets of Eartha Kitt’s interview from 1982, Zakareishvili ponders on the meaning of “falling in love” and reveals a deeply resonant layer of her work. This is hypnagogic, hushed music, untroubled yet profound, which somehow waltzes past you in the blink of an eye. Unhurried, it blooms with grace and fades with equal ease. A wonderful introduction to the work of Ani Zakareishvili, who will share more of her work via the label in 2023.

Ani Zakareishvili (b 1996) is a Georgian, Tbilisi-based electronic music producer and DJ born into a musical family. She is particularly interested in acoustic and sample-based music, and producing original sounds and textures using a variety of sampling and digital techniques. Her debut album ‘Mtirala’ was released in 2021 by CES Records.

Ani Zakareishvili - At First

International award-winning Australian electronic musician and composer, Jim Ottaway, has just released his new ambient/electronic album… INFINITE UNIVERSES. This album follows on from his well-received electronic album from 2022… SOMEWHERE IN-BETWEEN, and his international award-winning albums… WHEN ETERNITY TOUCHES TIME, DEEP SPACE BLUE and TIMELESS e-MOTION.

Jim says that INFINITE UNIVERSES is the next natural progression in his series of space ambient/electronic albums including THRESHOLD OF THE UNIVERSE (2021), BEYOND THE PURPLE SUN (2019), DEEP SPACE BLUE (2017) and SOUTHERN CROSS (2016).

Jim’s new album consists of nine (9) ambient electronic tracks all focusing on the beauty, wonder and complexities of the universe. The album also asks the question… “Could it be that our universe is just one part of a multitude of universes… an infinity of universes… a multiverse?”. An intriguing question, indeed.

Infinite Universes

Divided Skies | Jim Ottaway | Electronic Music

Mica Levi & Oliver Coates - Remain Calm [SLP035]

All music written, performed, and mixed by Mica Levi & Oliver Coates. Recorded by Erik Nyström. Mastered by Beau Thomas at Ten Eight Seven Mastering. Artwork by Leah Walker.

Clear & Black 12" Vinyl / CD / Bonus Tape + DL
Bandcamp: slipimprint.bandcamp.com/album/remain-calm
Bleep: link.bleep.com/mica-levi-and-oliver-coates
Boomkat: boomkat.com/products/remain-calm

@micachu-music
@ollycoates
www.micalevi.com
www.olivercoates.com
www.slipimprint.co.uk

Remain Calm [SLP035] - Mica Levi & Oliver Coates
Released: November 2016

Dolphins Climb Onto Shore For The First Time - Mica Levi & Oliver Coates

@ikukojohanna @1000amen
Read more: pw-magazine.com/2019/premiere-iku-as-it-fades-we-fade

Premiere: Iku »As It Fades We Fade« [AMEN]

segment from a live performance

https://a-v-c.bandcamp.com/album/almost-live

AV Moves - So Say So

"Pulsar Acid" is OUT NOW on SUPERPANG
https://superpang.bandcamp.com/album/pulsar-acid
Watch the video:
https://youtu.be/HrG6n9Wc3KE

*Playback on stereo speakers is recommended, otherwise single stems might not be audible*

Composed and produced by Jung An Tagen & Eric Frye
Software by Marcin Pietruszewski
Mixing and mastering by Jung An Tagen
credits
design: Joe Gilmore
released October 10, 2020

Jung/Frye - "Pulsar Acid"

Felisha Ledesma - In A Bow

@felishaledesma

Edited Arts is launching Serotonin, the second in a new series of charity fundraising compilations.

Serotonin features contributions by some long-lasting friends and new found collaborators ; Dane Law, DIDA, dj celes, Eye Measure, FARWARMTH, Felisha Ledesma, Georgie McVicar, hogobogobogo, IVVVO, KMRU, Lauren Duffus, Lenticloud, Monofee, mu tate, Nexcyia, onybdy, Shit Creek, SPECIMENS and 空蟬(Cicada Shell)

Cherubic voices, sparkling drums, and drones on their way back home from an all-nighter set the scene for this compilation. 19 artists have made sonic references to the hormone that acts to regulate our wellbeing. This is the second release from a series that is musically themed on psycho-sensory states of happiness, or the lack thereof.

Profits from this release will go to the Black Cultural Archives and Raw Music Media. 2 Brixton based organisations / charities.

Mastered by Colin Moir/ Moir Air
Artwork by Eliza

We appreciate your support and hope you enjoy the music. Thank you for listening.

Felisha Ledesma - In A Bow

Edited Arts

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