Author of Theory of the Solitary Sailor. Gilles Grelet sails across the channel to talk with translators Amy Ireland and Robin Mackay about his ‘antiphilosophical biography’ , with topics ranging from melancholy, silence, and formulaic writing to happiness, how to exorcise a boat’s deadname, writing and twitter, and why sailors never say ‘r****t’.

With the voices of Lendl Barcelos and Angus Carlyle.

Music:
Robin Williamson (with Mat Maneri, Ale Möller, Barre Phillips), ‘Sir Patrick Spens’, from The Iron Stone (ECM, 2006).
Kassel Jaeger, ‘Exposure Scales: Tide’, from Toxic Cosmopolitanism (Editions Mego, 2014).
Debussy, La Mer (III. Dialogue du vent et de la mer).
Leo Ferré, ‘La Mélancholie’ (1964)

Extracts from the short film Un bonne manière de commencer, c’est de se donner un myth (Dojo Cinema, 2006).

Theory of the Solitary Sailor is published by Urbanomic and is available as a book or e-book from our website:

https://www.urbanomic.com/book/grelet-solitary-sailor/

Traversing Melancholy

𝕤𝕠𝕟𝕠𝕕𝕠𝕝𝕚𝕒
thanks to these amazing artists for giving me the autumn vibes i needed

TRACKLIST
𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚝. 𝟷 "𝚃𝚛𝚊𝚟𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚝 𝚍𝚊𝚠𝚗"
01 Fennesz - The point of it all
02 Burial - Streetlands
03 Andrea Farri - Ora torna tutto
04 Heith - Your Element (a spell of equality)
𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚝. 𝟸 "𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚆𝚊𝚔𝚎"
05 Brian Eno - There were bells
06 Actress - Dreams
07 O'Fella - Sedateman
𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚝. 𝟹 "𝚃𝚘𝚙 𝙻𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚆𝚘𝚛𝚔𝚎𝚛"
08 James Bangura - Monterrey
09 Pangea - Still Flowing Water
10 Geotic - Maglev
𝒷𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓀 𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒
𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚝. 𝟺 "𝚁𝚘𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚌𝚒𝚣𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚐𝚊𝚒𝚗"
11 Floating Points - Problems
12 J Caesar - I Told You feat Yagamoto
13 Anja Lauvdal - Sukkertare
14 Andrea Farri - Ritorno in Liberta

deep sea mix (𝕤𝕠𝕟𝕠𝕕𝕠𝕝𝕚𝕒)

parallels.mp3 - (@mimofrl + @thecxdy)

stream: https://open.spotify.com/track/5VKIA8d4xsbU9DuAG67taN
photo by Taras Bychko.

Goodnight

Pre-order :
https://caninal.bandcamp.com/album/va01-echoes-of-zygomorphy

Artwork : Morgan Patimo
Mastering : Jules Payen

1. accou - 0001 1-A-8 0004 1-A-6 04:22
2. H2O - Récif
3. janomax - Chasing
4. AYLN - Intergalactic
5. Sainte Marina - I wear my flesh like a necklace
6. les angelos - contact
7. SHALT - Cull
8. ex.sses - tethered
9. Giganta - naked
10. Nixtrove - mythics
11. Toumba and Duswunder - Fawda
12. Anacronym - Karima say hey
13. fmvee - In Your Tattoos

echoes of zygomorphy

CANINAL V01 - echoes of zygomorphy

Quelles relations entretenons-nous avec les objets ? Les chaudières, les valises, les tablettes numériques, les parapluies ? Toutes ces choses précieuses ou banales que nous utilisons chaque jour pour nous faciliter la vie, mais auxquelles on accorde peu d’attention. Peut-on continuer à les balancer à la déchèterie dès qu’ils ont la batterie qui flanche, ou une rayure sur la carlingue ? Alors que l’on sait pertinemment que les ressources naturelles nécessaires à leur fabrication s’épuisent ? que les tortues marines nagent au milieu de carcasses de frigos ? Pourquoi sommes-nous si infoutus de les dépanner ? De s’intéresser à ce qui se passe sous leur capot, dans les tréfonds de leurs mécanismes ? Et est-ce qu’un objet nous appartient vraiment si on est incapable de le réparer ?

Aux prises avec un lave-vaisselle agonisant, Delphine Saltel consacre un épisode à l'importance de la maintenance de nos objets. Les gestes que l’on est censé déployer pour faire durer les choses, mais que l’on fait si peu ou si mal. Dans une société de consommation obsédée par l’innovation, ça ne passionne pas grand-monde de décrasser le filtre de son aspirateur ou de passer un coup de percarbonate de soude sur les joints de sa salle de bains. Pourtant, Jérôme Denis et David Pontille, deux sociologues rattachés à l’école supérieure des Mines, ont consacré des années d'enquête à cette activité banale et invisible : l’art de faire durer les choses. D’en prendre soin. Ils montrent à quel point c’est une pratique politique et subversive, une autre manière d’être attentif au monde, à sa fragilité et à ce qui nous arrive.

Avec :
- David Pontille, directeur de recherche au CNRS, co-fondateur d'un programme consacré aux politiques de maintenance et co-auteur de l’ouvrage Le soin des choses. Politiques de maintenance (La Découverte, 2022).
- Coralie Barbe, restauratrice du patrimoine spécialisée dans les livres anciens et directrice d’un atelier qui porte son nom.

Merci aux chercheurs Jérôme Denis et Julie Madon ainsi qu’à l’association 8connect et le Repair Café du Pré Saint-Gervais qui nous ont accueillis et fait découvrir leur activité.
Et merci à Hortense Martin, stagiaire.

Vivons heureux avant la fin du monde
Comment s’habiller, échanger, s’aimer dans les années 20 ? Pour se bricoler une morale minimale en des temps de crises sociale et écologique, Delphine Saltel explore chaque mois nos incohérences et les solutions possibles. Mêlant questionnement personnel, tribulations domestiques, reportages et entretiens avec des chercheurs et des activistes, ce podcast veut alerter, éveiller et rassurer sur un autre monde possible. Une production ARTE Radio.

Enregistrements : mai 23 - Texte, voix, prises de son et montage : Delphine Saltel - Réalisation, mixage et musique originale : Daphné Paysage - Illustration : Raphaëlle Macaron - Production : ARTE Radio

C’est mieux quand ça dure : prendre soin des objets

PRE ORDER: https://fanlink.to/RS2302

Originally released on the R&S Records sub-label Global Cuts in 1993, ‘20HZ’ by Capricorn became the breakthrough track for its creator Hans Weekhout, a Dutch multi-instrumentalist who started his career recording and mixing for international artists such as Falco and Ian Gillan.

With its memorable combination of those rolling and thunderous marching drums, glacial marimba-like melodies and a tense, trance inducing atmosphere, ‘20HZ’ has become one of dance music’s most enduring tracks. Hitting the singles charts in Holland, Belgium, UK and France on release, and still being played week in and week out across clubs and festivals thirty years later, it’s fair to say that Capricorn’s snare drum driven hit can be classed as a bone fide classic.

To commemorate the 30th anniversary of this behemoth anthem, R&S Records have enlisted an eclectic line-up of artists to add their own touches to a suite of remixes. 

Carl Cox helped break this record on its original release, it’s befitting that the global dance icon puts his stamp firmly onto it, jacking up the drums and turning up a big room monster version, ‘oh yes, oh yes’!

‘20HZ’ (Remixes) by Capricorn is available on R&S Records from 16th June 2023. 


Tracklist:

1. Andert Tysma Remix 
2. Marco Lys Remix
3. Vromm Remix
4. Carl Cox Remix 


Premiere | Capricorn - 20Hz (Carl Cox Remix) R&S Records

Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet - STROBE.RIP
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 139
Release Date: 16 June 2023
Purchase: PAN.lnk.to/STROBE.RIP

Amnesia Scanner’s third full-length album titled STROBE.RIP is a collaboration with the artist and musician Freeka Tet, who joins the album and associated live performances as a vocalist and creative collaborator.

Released by PAN records, STROBE.RIP is part of a broader series of live performances, installations, videos and physical products created by the group.

Since its inception in 2014, Ville Haimala and Martti Kalliala have continued to evolve and redefine Amnesia Scanner through experimentation across online and IRL realms. This album brings them a step closer to the latter.

With French-born, New York City-based Freeka Tet on board, STROBE.RIP acquires a new array of influences that draw from the multidisciplinary artist’s hacker mindset, shaping the sound into new forms. As a programmer and technologist, Freeka Tet’s work straddles commerce and art, combining intuitive and performative modes of expression with emergent technology and creative coding. Much like Amnesia Scanner, Tet draws from online vernacular and techno-magic to create satirical, uncanny work – artificially augmented, and highly engineered sounds, textures, images and ideas that translate memes and code into a more human and affective language.

Haimala and Kalliala say, “Amnesia Scanner is now living in the world it has built,” signaling a sincere commitment to the act. The human dimension in STROBE.RIP is chaotic: a reverse hero’s journey that merges deep-fried baroque with the quasi-angelic into a psychotic megamix of tropes, lyrics, genres, and sonic palettes that are both disorienting and deeply resonant.

The opening track Tongue Demons perfectly summarizes this, with blaring synth stabs and frenetic drum patterns paving the way for a broken melody arranged through a digital brass chord progression. Giggle and Bounds follow right after: two outstanding pieces of introspection signaling the melodic turn of the album, with the latter almost posing as a weirdo 2-step ballad filled with deep pads and pitched-up and down vocals.

The 160bpm, 4-to-4 pulsing kicks of Ledge and the palm-muted chords of Disperse serve as a perfect build-up to Ride, right in the middle of the tracklist: a summer hit from hell, a crooked saxophone-graced tune carried by a crusty, Balearic acoustic arpeggio. The alt acoustics continue with Damon, or at least before the track turns from Nirvana’s Unplugged to Slayer’s double kick drum pedals and becomes thrashtronica with Tet on screamo duties.

Things get softer with Clown, specifically in the chanted refrain, and even more aetherial in the almost trip-hop timbres of abandoned.club, where chopped-and-screwed vocals sing “I lost myself in the club.” Scorpions, Bats & Spiders is the abstract gem declaring the death of Deconstructed Club Music—a genre created by journalists and pioneered by the duo, among others. The words “deconstructed,” “club,” and “panel discussion” are spelled out in a vortex throughout the track as if they were to be carved on the genre’s imaginary gravestone. Closing the album, the saw bass of Cat serves Euro-electro à la Benny Benassi’s Satisfaction, while the doomed outro Merge closes the album in a triumphant aggregation of noise and pixelated drums that render the image of a crust-punk ensemble.

Written by Amnesia Scanner
Produced by Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet
Mastered by Enyang Urbiks

Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet - Tongue Demons (PAN 139)

Sorrow - All Is Silent EP

1. All Is Silent
2. Saints
3. Ardour

Release Date: 17/06/2023

deep sea mix (𝕤𝕠𝕟𝕠𝕕𝕠𝕝𝕚𝕒)

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