brutal sonics that were the mark of the late and sadly missed Mr Vainio - thank you MEGO for the release

"Not many people know it, but when Bob Marley performed in Peru at the Nazca lines, there was a woman in attendance and she gave birth to a Child. Furthermore, there was this man, who was this old "dead head". I was buying weed from him once and he made me listen to Grateful Dead live at the pyramids. He said that it was the first time anyone performed music at the pyramids in 5000 years. And the same period, the real Dalai Lama was born. He didn’t believe that a guy named Sun Ra had played there already."

To celebrate the 2022 Spain-Portugal-Italy joint tour, Mondo Lava and Babau split a tape in half with 40 mins and 9 new tracks ripe with earthboundish village ambiances, multi-fi humid dubs and post-world high-life anthems.

CURB YOUR IDOLS!
credits
releases July 9, 2022

BABAU & MONDO LAVA TOUR 2022 (SPA/PT/IT)

0907 - Ex Abrupto Festival, Moià
1007 - El Pumarejo, Barcelona
1207 - Secret Location, Santiago de Compostela
1307 - Luz e Vida, Porto
1407 - Damas, Lisbon
1607 - Eco Vesuvio, Naples
1707 - Bar India, Rome

Babau - Haile Muzak (Cursed Mix)

"Spectral is a collection of tracks using either the Buchla 296 or 296e
Spectral Processor. It was fun taking it into different sonic universes to see 
what it would reveal. Enjoy!" - Todd Barton, 2022

TODD BARTON - SPECTRAL ( excerpt)

Oramics is honored to premiere a track by @nino-davadze-690125351, released by @inklingroom. 

Oramics Premiere is our new series on SoundCloud and YouTube that will showcase fresh tracks and videos from female, non-binary and queer producers. We want to use our platform to celebrate emerging talents and independent labels that support them.

Nino Davadze is an experimental musician and multimedia artist from Tbilisi, Georgia. She draws inspiration from classical music training and choral singing in an Orthodox church in the Georgian countryside. Nino’s formative years in She eld, UK, had sparked the idea of combining two parallel universes into her compositions - avant-garde electronic sound and storytelling using the spoken word and field recordings. Nino’s recent live performances brought her to share the stage with the likes of Mark Fell, Sote and Rian Treanor, as well as collaborations with Mutant Radio, New Drama Festival, and CES Records, the platforms that are at the forefront of Georgian contemporary art.

The symbiosis of knife-edged experimental electronics, synthesised vocals and field recordings by Tbilisi-based composer and multidisciplinary artist Nino Davadze. She debuts on the London art platform inklingroom with ‘Geometry of Soviet Women’ - two tracks that shuttle between the deconstructed club and ambient aim to encapsulate contemporary Georgian society's resilience and vulnerability from the eco-feminist perspective.

Pre-order link: https://ninodavadze.bandcamp.com/album/geometry-of-soviet-women

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Hailing from Tbilisi, the experimental artist Nino Davadze uses her heavily distorted sound pallet, minimalist ambient soundscapes and profound lyrics as a language to express how her motherland is adapting to important changes in the new era.
The rawness of field recordings with heavily distorted drums, dark industrial bass, and sinister vocals ties all the abstract nostalgic reflections happening in urban spaces in the Georgian capital Tbilisi. Davadze tries to capture the intricate utopian vision and a fragile voice of anger, a desperate message, and a letter from the beloved city with a tangible memory of its people. Through the harsh, abrasive, metallic tones, Nino aims to create a sense of urgency; it’s the language she uses to manifest resistance.

PREMIERE: Nino Davadze – Geometry Of Soviet Women

upsammy - Germs in a Population of Buildings
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 132
Release Date: 05 May 2023
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/GerminaPopulationofBuildings

On her sophomore album "Germ in a Population of Buildings”, upsammy moves through her surroundings with the curiosity of a place-bending landscape architect. The album is rooted in her interest for ambiguous environments in constant shift, and the feeling of discovering strange patterns in different ecosystems. Often, the Amsterdam-based artist finds herself zooming in and out beyond a place's most recognizable surface features to inhabit the microscopic and gigantic. Gathering field recordings and evocative environmental sounds, she shapes this source material into vibrating electro-acoustic rhythms and unstable, psychedelic textures.

upsammy's debut album, 2020's critically-acclaimed "Zoom", was praised for its careful reimagining of IDM, evolving vignettes that nodded towards the dancefloor without being shackled to its rigid set of rules. On "Germ in a Population of Buildings" her process has evolved considerably; the skeletal trace of IDM is still present but it's been trapped in amber, allowing her unique sonic landscape to develop organically. 'Being is a Stone' is a proof of concept in many ways, layering upsammy's contorted voice in rickety patterns beneath a lattice of fragile rhythms and faintly melancholy synths. It's never immediately obvious where the sounds are coming from - a hiccuping beat might be glass cracking underfoot, and larger pulses could be wet concrete, rusted iron or bent plastic. As the sounds develop they morph into each other, demolishing what came before and building on top of the ornamental wreckage.

On the dynamic 'Constructing', upsammy's sound design fluxes through hyperactive bass music structures, abstracting expectations at every turn. Often her sounds are whisper quiet, rattling and vibrating until heavier masonry drops and disrupts the structure. And when discernible rhythms subside into the background, like on the album's eerie title track, they become almost illusory, morphing between the real world and the electronic. upsammy's processed voice works like a bridge between these realms, snaking between stark, whimsical melodies on 'Patterning', arching from AutoTuned detachment into cooing, dreamy intimacy. By considering the harmonies between each location she's visited, upsammy has been able to build a unique topology that's an uncanny digital amalgam of her lived experience. It's a thoughtful alternative in an era more concerned with flatting the landscape than crumpling it and examining its peaks and troughs.

Mastered by Rashad Becker
Mixed by James Ginzburg
Artwork by Jonathan Castro Alejos and Tharim Cornelisse

Germ in a Population of Buildings

upsammy - Being is a Stone (PAN 132)

Archaic Vaults is pleased to present the first vinyl album for the label, cataloguing ten tracks from ten artists spanning the globe. This curation brings together a multiplicity of genres within the label’s ongoing thematic output - durational ambience, field recordings, oversaturated improvisations and spatialised synthetic loops among them. A diverse cohort of familiar and new collaborators alike.

Edition of 300. Design by Severin Black.

‘Continuing A Worn Out Tradition III’ will be available for pre-order from Friday 5th May 2023 and then shipping from Monday 15th May 2023. Mastered by Owen Pratt at Shepard Tone.

https://archaicvaults.bandcamp.com/album/continuing-a-worn-out-tradition-iii

https://soundcloud.com/archaicvaults
https://soundcloud.com/floraytw

Pre-order

Premiere: Ciaran Jacob & Flora Yin Wong - Dome C [Archaic Vaults]

Gh0st

fatalism — Deafening [M]oon

Mats Erlandsson and Maria W Horn meet as Dufwa in heavy synthesis wielding insect field recordings sourced from the catalonian countryside.  Dufwa’s debut release, Fältinspelningar från Terres de l’Ebre (Field recordings from Terres de I’Ebre), defies the standard conception one might have about field recording music. By means of intricate digital processing, Dufwa scrapes the natural source-bonding from their collected insectoid recording and sonically stretches them on a continuum between drone, noise and generative music.

Dufwa - Atypi

Taken from the album 'Last Live' released as 2LP, CD and Digital.

Cave12 / Editions Mego co-release

Mika Vaino 'Movement 3' (excerpt) (EMEGO 300 / C12 A 07)

APPX:04

@blacksnakewhip - t( -_- t )

Tracklist:
01 Pop Msuik
02 Natures bezt
03 Scratch!dvd
04 5thelem

All profits to be donated to www.rainforest-alliance.org

Releases February 1, 2021

Music written & produced by Lawrence Fergus Goodwin
Mastered by Ike Zwanikken
Design by Amos Turner & Ike Zwanikken

Released by:
APPX: (Appendix.files) subsidiary of INDEX:Records

Contact:
indexrecords@cyborgorgy.com

t( -_- t )

digis & lathes

APPX:04 – Black Snake Whip - t( -_- t ) (previews)

From AEST-057: Zaumne “Dreams of Teeth Falling Out” CS

Dream books tend to explain the titular dreams of teeth falling out as a signal that some of our needs have been neglected or sometimes as a prophecy of failure or loss. As distressing as it sounds, such dreams are not necessarily a bad omen – they may also foreshadow regeneration and rebirth

Recorded in 2020, Zaumne’s new album is a study of suppressed feelings crawling underneath the consciousness. A dense mosaic of lurking emotional states that we need to recognize and make peace with for our own good

Dreamt in 2020
Mastered by Adam Donoval

Dreams of Teeth Falling Out

Zaumne - Let's Go Home

Order: https://shelterpress.bandcamp.com/album/pilled-up-on-a-couple-of-doves

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Pilled Up on a Couple of Doves is the debut full-length by PDP III, who fell into alignment in December of 2018 amid a handful of immersive and improvisatory recording sessions held at Gary’s Electric Studio in Brooklyn, New York. The trio is a collaboration between composer/producer Britton Powell and two Berlin-based artists, the British composer/cellist Lucy Railton and the electronic artist Brian Leeds (Huerco S).

At the outset of these sessions Powell presented a series of compositional sketches anchored around multi-tracked electronics and acoustic percussion. These concepts were then used as the framework for collective improvisation, with the musicians working on instinct and layering as many as eight separate takes across a track. A portion of the record also reflects moments that are purely spontaneous – in-the-moment invention with Railton on electronics and cello and Powell and Leeds working on laptop computers.

The composition process involved little in the way of overt instruction, instead favoring discussion on more abstract notions of feel and energy. As a result, the final product was a bit surprising to all involved. “I don’t think the three of us had any idea how heavy and physical this thing was going to feel,” reflects Powell.

Subsequently reduced, edited, and collaged by Powell over the next two years, Pilled Up on a Couple of Doves presents a succession of alien moods. Gauzy textures are buoyed by extreme low end pressure. Serene industrial hum illuminates the rhythmic beating of waveforms. The sounds frequently evoke opposing emotions -- tenderness and anxiety, claustrophobia and transcendence.

The record culminates in 20-minute closer “49 Days,” where gradually unfurling textures for cello and electronics mirror the overtones of a ringing gong. It’s unsettling, but deeply meditative. A map of liminal space. Music to get lost to. “One thing that’s important in relation to my work with music is to access a place outside of physical space,” says Powell. “To pursue music as a tool to reach a place outside of physical existence.”

“There's something really simple, innocent, and timeless about working with acoustic percussion instruments,” explains Powell. “I think that they allow for a very true examination of sound. It feels vulnerable and really powerful at the same time.

Pilled Up on a Couple of Doves

Walls of Kyoto

PDP III 'Walls of Kyoto' (SP125)

Independent record company based in Vienna.
For Spectrum Spools go here: https://soundcloud.com/spectrumspools

Mika Vaino 'Movement 3' (excerpt) (EMEGO 300 / C12 A 07)

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