Name: Hecker 'Statistique Synthétique' (excerpt) (SPGRM 003) by Editions Mego
Duration: 5 min
Description: Taken from the album 'Statistique Synthétique' released as LP and Digital

Taken from the album 'Sky Dice / Mapping the Studio' released as LP and Digital

Marcus Schmickler 'Sky Dice / Mapping the Studio (excerpt)'  (EMEGO 296)

My remix for Raimondo Gaviano's (aka Svart1) new release "Circondati dai Petali da soli moriamo" (Surrounded by petals we perish in solitude)

Mask Of The Slave ‎– MS-070
Digipack CD, limited to 250 copies
Distributed worldwide by Sun & Moon Records
Realized June 2021 

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https://www.sunandmoonrecords.com/
https://maskoftheslave.ro/mirgilus/
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Track 8

We’ve reached book IV in Rupert Clervaux’s series of “Zibaldone” audio diaries, at which point we find him telling a different kind of story. 

“The first three all had very specific themes, while this one feels a little bit looser and doesn’t have just one thematic thrust,” he tells me, which maybe explains why listening feels a bit like annotating. I’m underlining, emphasizing, drawing arrows from here to there, highlighting symbols and noting motifs, realising, questioning, eureka-ing. An impressionistic meaning’s been encoded in and we’re lucky to be given the space to play that most poetic and boundless of all mental games: narrativization. 

There are no wrong answers, but Rupert offers some clues either way. If there’s any cipher here it’s “something like a meditation on the concept of ‘depth’––in all its connotative forms.” Think below the surface, (the) underground, yawning oceans, being ‘down in the dirt’, soil, roots, rootlessness, pulling at the dregs, collapse, profundity, stable and unstable horizons, distance, perspective, intuition, not to mention relative opposites: to be shallow, to be above, to be beyond. 

It’s got me thinking of Bresson’s “Bring things together that have as yet never been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.” His: “Dig deep where you are. Don't slip off elsewhere.” Rupert has realized these—two favourite goals of mine!—here. 

This is music that catches you at your own periphery, gives pause, has you offering a little “huh” to, asking “I wonder why” to. Again, it’s got me musing on another mindworm, this time from New York publisher and multi-sensory reading room Dispersed Holdings: “Feeling-making-knowing feedback loop; cartography of feeling; water as text, read to know the land beneath and around it, and body as reader.” 

Is it ok to offer up these other contexts out of context? I think so, because Zibaldone IV articulates a similarly swirly tone. Like, we’ve got Rebecca Solnit talking through Kropotkin’s “Mutual Aid” and later calling out to Michael Ruppert a ways away, and “Easy Rider” is playing in the wings. We’ve got Susan Sontag magically contextualizing Mariah Carey with poet Thylias Moss triangulating in order to sketch out (Rupert again) “something a little more interesting than wilful eclecticism or that laboured and patronising kind of pop-savvy.” 

Are we following? Whether yes or no Vanessa Bedoret follows on with a performance of a performance of Moss’s 'Water Road’: to be once or twice removed, via strange transitions, purposeful confusions, and, suddenly, seagulls. We’re on a boat with Ingeborg Bachmann—and how I wish I could actually be! But maybe thanks to this music I can as literature, films, friends, lethargy, coincidences, little mental links, eternal wormholes, lingering notions come together to imagine something better. 

Text by Natalia Panzer 
npanzer.com 

Artwork by Coline Cornélis 

Music by Rupert Clervaux 

with 
Vanessa Bedoret: voice and violin on Thylias Moss #2 
Eben Bull: trumpet and electronics on Mutual Aid and Departure from England 
Isis O’Regan; voice on Departure from England 
Nick Taylor: electronics on Chthonic ’97 
Ben Vince: saxophone and electronics on Chatsworth ’17 

Artwork by Coline Cornélis 

Warm thanks to James Marrs, as always, and Natalia Panzer 

Vanessa recreates and reads an excerpt from ‘Water Road’ by Thylias Moss. Isis reads ‘Departure from England’ by Ingeborg Bachmann (translated by Peter Filkins). This record is dedicated to both poets––with great respect and deep admiration.

02. Simple Food For Our Simple Taste

From album 'Paths' (May 2016), Granny Records.

http://www.bjarni-gunnarsson.net/paths

http://www.grannyrecords.org

Ubieties

A reworked version of one of the tracks used in the soundtrack to Surface Area Dance Theatre's production, 'Auricular'.

Auricular was performed in April 2017 at CCA, Glasgow (16 April), Gymnasium Gallery, Berwick-upon-Tweed (22 April)and at Turner Contemporary, Margate (29 April),

http://www.surfacearea.org.uk/auricular/

GB 2 Re/r/ed

Star-shaped Biscuit: an opera for three singers, five multi-instrumentalists, and a pre-recorded sound piece on computer.

libretto, scenario and digital sound composition by David Toop.
voices: Lore Lixenberg, ELaine Mitchener, Jamie McDermott
instrumentalists: Sylvia Hallett, Rhodri Davies, Jan Hendrickse, Martin Allen, Simon Allen.
Recorded by Dave Hunt at Snape Maltings, 2009. Mixed by David Toop, 2010.

Star-shaped Biscuit: scene 1-Shivering Air

The next Vaknar release will come via a compilation that showcases the artistic wealth of the current Japanese experimental music scene.

First up is a premiere of 'Pyre Hymn' from Sho Mura - Sho is otherwise known for his excellent 'Ikura Imprints' show on NTS which often showcases Japanese fringe music from illusive bedroom producers currently active throughout Japan.

More info's to be announced soon.

VAK 06 | Shō Mura - Pyre Hymn

Take from the album 'Reactions' released as 2LP and Download

Reactions

First Tone 'Reiterations' (SP 049)

YL Hooi -  Prince S Version

Taken from Maxwell Sterling - Laced With Rumour: Loud-Speaker of Truth
LP/Download [ELP050] 
Ecstatic Recordings, 24/04/2020

Weaving an intricately detailed tapestry of meditative, spiritual jazz and dream electronics, Maxwell Sterling’s astonishing second album ‘Laced With Rumour: Loud-Speaker Of Truth’ blooms in the gaps between Don Cherry, Talk Talk and Kara-Lis Coverdale, gently coaxing us into a trance- like reverie where the real and artificial morph into one pulsing organism.

Originating as a multi-channel installation commissioned by Nottingham Contemporary in 2018, the four extended pieces here were recorded at home in Morecambe Bay and then subsequently placed in a room alongside works by Moki Cherry (spouse of Don, mother of Neneh and Eagle-Eye Cherry), Penny Slinger, and a collection of static musical instruments the piece was intended to complement. As a follow-up to Sterling’s 2017 cult hit ‘Hollywood Medieval’ for The Death of Rave, ‘Laced With Rumour’ works with notably more fluid and gently psychoactive structuring that takes in seemingly disparate influences - from Roman mythology to Nottingham’s Lace industry - that results in a sprawling but intimate world of sound, characterised by aetheric arrangements that effectively elide the disciplines of spiritual jazz, chamber music, and art installation into something altogether new.

Much like Kara-Lis Coverdale’s converging interests in traditional vs hyper-modern, acoustic vs artificial and synthetic modes of sound, Sterling’s work here is fluid and unorthodox, but rooted in a deep understanding of convention which he proceeds to bend and re-shape at will. The album opens with a slowly contemplative and almost solemn drift between ‘Laced’, which features samples of Don Cherry weft into its tingling fray of electro-acoustic timbres, alongside the breezy chamber strokes of ‘With Rumour’, the hallucinogenic qualities of ‘Loud-Speaker’, and the darker revelation ‘Of Truth’, which concludes with a transition from mired murk to tones that channel Maxwell’s refined cinematic nous.

One of those albums that seems impossible to fully absorb in one sitting, listening to ‘Laced With Rumour...’ takes you from a swirl of brushed cymbals into harpsichord shimmers, passages of solo piano brushing up against the deepest subs - like a more bruised and flipped Sakamoto + Alva Noto collab, to Arthur Russell’s ‘World Of Echo’ slowly descending into synthesised madness. It’s a rich and stunning meditation for our time.

Maxwell Sterling - Laced [ELP050]

Taken from the album 'Statistique Synthétique' released as LP and Digital

Hecker 'Statistique Synthétique' (excerpt) (SPGRM 003)

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Hecker 'Statistique Synthétique' (excerpt) (SPGRM 003)

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