RECORD STORE DAY JUNE 12TH 2021 EXCLUSIVE

Suzanne Ciani
Xenon
FKSP020

Greg Kmiec’s Xenon pinball machine was released in 1980 and marked a significant milestone in pinball technology and design. The expansion of microchip technology would provide new opportunities for sound designer and synth pioneer Suzanne Ciani, allowing for basic oscillator control and a wider scope for sampling capacity which could facilitate the higher frequencies of a female human voice and entirely reshape the concept of the machine in the process. By using state of the art Synclavier synthesiser technology and an invaluable experience in film scoring and record production Suzanne would devise a complete minimal music score for the machine, then dissect the piece into separate fragments that would be triggered throughout the game play adding an extra creative dimension in player inter-activity (potentially turning the participant into their own musical arranger). By incorporating her own infamous voice box (which had been the focus of a seminal David Letterman Show feature) Suzanne’s combination of a harmoniser and a vocoder also provided the first-ever female identity to a pinball machine which in conjunction with the games ergonomic design and Paul Faris’ figurative graphics (echoing the aesthetic of Rene Laloux and Roland Topor’s La Planète Sauvage) Xenon was able to add a degree of subconscious sensuality to its performance, a feature previously unchartered in arcade development.

This disc presents the full extent of Suzanne Ciani’s groundbreaking musical effects for Xenon, in their isolated form, for the first time ever heard outside of the confines of the machine which recently earned the composer her own induction to the Pinball Expo Hall Of Fame.

LIMITED EDITION 1000 COPIES ON BLUE VINYL

Xenon

Xenon (Long Effects)

Suzanne Ciani - Xenon (Long Effects)

Michael William Gilbert - Moving Pictures Logo
Ralph Lundsten - Seance
Michael Ranta - Danse Générale (excerpt)
Valentina Magaletti & Marlene Ribeiro - Apples From Peru
Aogostino Nirodh Fortini - Dreams and Strings
Jean Guérin - Tacet - Triptik 2
S A D - Akpai Song
Ron George - Sleep and Waking
Gisteri - Pioggia Elettronica 
Nyssa Musique - Comme Au Moulin - Route De Sumatra
Lieven Martens - Culatra Island
Richard Scott - The Art of Being Broken
Giovanni di Domenico - Verde 1
David Tudor - Rainforest Version 1 (excerpt)
Terry Riley - In the Summer

Rendered Fragments Vol. 2

02. Chemin De La Croix De La Rivière

Lilly & George—Once I’m in [07.03.2023]

Episode dedicated to all creative women,in music,and art in general,different countries,different times,different races,thanks for the inspiration.

https://radioflouka.com/residents/cinturon-negro

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Rapid Eye Movement w/ Cinturon Negro - 22/03/2023

Herrmutt Lobby - Midi + Demi. Tape + Digital Thin Consolation 
12 tracks 60 minutes FREE

Briefly putting aside their Hip Hop (in the widest sense) fetish to once again explore more Jazz inspired paths, the Herrmutt Lobby have concocted an album that can be pigeonholed by the trainspotters amongst you between their “Mind Safari” EP released in 2012 on Caoutchou and one forthcoming on Eat Concrete later this year. Entitled “Midi + Demi”, it is an endeavour in search of new textures and tones, relying on a framework of acoustic drums provided by David Arens (aka Renax) and Lobbied improvisations using tools specifically designed for the occasion. “Midi + Demi” is dedicated to the memory of Barnum.

Art work St Joss 
thinconsolation.bandcamp.com/album/midi-demi

Baraki

This performance seeks to expose some inner workings of contemporary machines and technologies of diffusion - and to express the psychopathological symptoms of instrumentalised disinformation - by means of real-time processing, modulation and spatial diffusion of voice, signal and recording.

This improvisation was a part of a book launch: "Warsound/Warszawa" in Centre of Contemporary Art Warsaw, February 2017

Edyta Jarząb: voice,  field recordings, live delay&effects
Donia Jourabchi: field recordings, radios and transmitter
Taufan ter Weel : mixing, live processing
with
Krzysztof Marciniak: metronome

War Machines - Edyta Jarząb/Donia Jourabchi/Taufan ter Weel - Warsound/Warszawa

You can purchase and download this song here:

https://arambulapaul.bandcamp.com/track/mesquite

(Featured on Democracy Now!- 02/07/2020)

Thank you!

-LYRICS-

The water comes down
They flush to a sea
Where they get into boats
And they manage to flee
And go with the flow
As we wait like some bait 
for a modern pa
to make a flaw with a law
and a new definition for “all” 
holding on
occipital to the thumbs
cover ears with the palms
favorite song sung in a hum
By the velvet mesquite 
Where the guards cannot see
someone sees the bright light of possibility
and when it moves
they yell “run”
Amá and apá sweat yet baby is cold
it shivers with the quivers of the 8 year old’s 
concrete hold
Come out of the sun 
Into the inside
a drop into the rising tide
The old, won’t hold
Noé was the one who was their ideal
Forced to dream, dream until he’s real
now his touch and codes now intertwining,
the pulse silently refining
on both sides of the wall
So we see how it can fall
Because our hands, well they move
with this electrical groove
And the dirt in our nails
becomes soil when it gets wet
from the tide

Mesquite

Subtly

From the album Nu Vision available October 9, 2020 on Western Vinyl.
Pre-order / stream: https://smarturl.it/967zgg

Nu Vision

nubo - Nu Vision

Paralaxe Editions is based in Barcelona, and Ylia (a.k.a. Susana Hernández) has long been one of the city's most well-regarded musicians. A classically trained pianist who came of age DJing breakbeat raves in Andalucia, she easily maneuvers between disparate scenes and styles; she's as comfortable dropping electro and techno records as she is performing alongside experimental flamenco artist Niño de Elche (she's a member of his touring band).


Following her appearances on labels such as Lapsus and Hivern Discs, Dulce Rendición is Ylia's first full-length effort, a cinematic collection of meditative and richly melodic tracks that largely grew out of her intimate live sets. Weaving together analog synths, field recordings and fragments of her own voice, much of the music was directly inspired by her dreams—and more specifically, the seemingly impossible sights and sounds that populated them. Working to recreate their lingering silhouettes in the light of day, Ylia oscillated between moments of deep introspection and playful fantasy as she settled into the hazy space between sleep and consciousness.

Releases November 24, 2020.

Music by Perila.
Mastered by Rupert Clervaux.
Artwork by Oficina de Disseny.
Printing by L'automatica, Barcelona.
Words by Shawn Reynaldo.

War Machines - Edyta Jarząb/Donia Jourabchi/Taufan ter Weel - Warsound/Warszawa

edka jarząb

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