Efficient Space

In Focus: Jon Hassell 290621

Umé Records Manifesto Mix #4

Precipitation - Field Recording (Uguisu)
Ki Oni - Plant Life I
Matthewdavid's Mindflight - Tract of Hidden Animalia
iu takahashi - Daydreaming
Forrest - Crystal Suns
Rime Trails - Valediction I
Ulla - Somewhere Else
Øguu - Before Migration Pt. 2 (Umé Records forthcoming)
Rime Trails - Starless Lake of Blue
MIrage Area - Field Recording (Sea)
Emily A. Sprague - Star Gazing
Precipitation - Field Recording (Uguisu) Reprise

Mix by Zefan Sramek

Songs For Spiritual Healing

This is the first track ~ position A1 ~ my new EP for the famous Pinchy & Friends recordings division.  Following on from the impeccable string of releases i'm feeling chuffed to be sitting on PF009. 
•
•
• Mixed by Justin Vandervolgen 🔧 👍
•
•
• PRE ORDER AVAIL NOW ⚖️
https://pinchy-friends.myshopify.com/products/pf009-dreems-dreems-vs-scientist-pre-order
•
Mega Mega dope artwork 👑 🎨 by the one and only 
ALOHA PROJECT
https://www.instagram.com/alohaproject/
OBI design by @seancbate
•
Distro by Prime direct distribution

PF009

The Watchamacallit Machine [PF009] ~ out soon

Unspeakable Visions

Viva Voce

READ > inverted-audio.com/premiere-acid-springfield-troglodyte

Three months after releasing ‘Capsule‘, Melbourne via Brooklyn-based producer Acid Springfield gears up to issue his new album ‘Primitive Landscapes‘...Our pick from the album is 'Troglodyte'. In the sacred mountains of Dandenong, the producer presents a mesmerising downtempo fable that evokes visions of cavemen hunting. As the track opens with rainforest field recordings and digital soundscapes derived from uncanny constellations, it transforms into a space-time hypnosis of ceremonial percussion and a delirium of strange frequencies accompanied by faraway utterances reminiscent of mystical beings.

Primitive Landscapes LP

Troglodyte

Acid Springfield - Troglodyte [Self-released]

dima safronov - moyka, 3.10.24

A winding journey through the catalogue of All Night Flight's Stockport record store, spanning from modern classical and free-flowing jazz to a wide soundscape of dark ambient, folk and techno... with All Night Flight, anything goes! 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/all-night-flight/episodes/all-night-flight-6th-october-2024

All Night Flight w/ Bitzer Mal  061024

Ambient-Jazzy-Moody-Soundy

Tracklist:

01. AJO - H02S4YThA9Ku
02. Blondes - Aeon
03. Bloka - Night Runner
04. Khidja & Balabas - Chloe
05. Algebra Suicide - Tales Of Brave Ulysses
06. Pete Brandt's Method - What You Are
07. Shadowlust - Iris
08. Toulouse Low Trax - Non Giudicare
09. Jatibe - Entspannung
10. Meetsysteem - Bonaduz
11. Michele Mercure - Liberation Day
12. Cousin - Toad
13. Fernie - Opaque
14. Andy Stott - Sleepless
15. Lerosa - Suite De Paris
16. Le Marais - Forest Trip Adviser
17. DJ Sotofett presents Jesse - Autiomaa (I) (Tribbal)
18. Dazion - The Chant Of Celebrational Beings
19. Maria Minerva - Favorite Song
20. Androo - Wyatt Revolt
21. Angelo Badalamenti - Audrey
22. KRL - Intro Track, I Wanna See All My Friends At Once
23. Yogtze - Woodpecker
24. Plaid - Milh
25. Meetsysteem - Noch de Sterren van de Hemel (Speedy J Remix)
26. Louisahhh - Here Is Hoping
27. Rainer Veil - Change Is Never Easy
28. Benedikt Frey - Angst
29. Mike Leavy - Signs Of Things To Come
30. Jaki Whitren & John Cartwright - Times (Apophenia Dubit)
31. Chantssss - Fleur Oblique
32. Sea Urchin - Yohoforo Felmaya
33. Blotter Trax - Sleeping Though The Day
34. G P Hall - Alcheringa
35. Angelo Badalamenti - Fire Walk With Me
36. Beaumont Hannant - Utuba
37. Lamusa II - Get Your Job Done
38. Mila Anatoli - Too Late
39. Xyla - Ways
40. Heatsick - Deviation
41. Guido Flichman - Dos Ojos
42. Askia Lavender - Explain
43. Purelink - Slow And Steady Rush
44. B. B. Seaton - Dancing In The Moonlight (Instrumental)
45. 1987 - Michelle (Kornel Kovacs Remix)
46. Bell Towers - Privacy (DJ Python Remix)
47. Dreste - Intergers Cannot Float
48. Legowelt - Unconditional Contours Memorymoog
49. Global Aphasia - New Walk
50. Lamusa II - No Additional Text
51. Khey Mysterio - Infraglacier
52. Jeans - DLPFC
53. Overflow - Take Me There
54. Raff - Reductionist
55. Charlotte Bendiks - Hjemme
56. Atoloi & Gaia Ginevra Giorgi - In Questa Tua Prima Lettera
57. Richenel - I Need Your Love Again
58. Sleep D - Grass Bath
59. Robotalco - Saturday Latin Jam
60. Efdemin - Oh, Lovely Appearance of Death
61. Lamusa II - And I Hated It
62. Bjarki - Two Brainedness
63. Rupert Clervaux - Hidden In The Frail Partition

https://soundcloud.com/aleksandrl

Nešokiai w/Aleksandr L @ Baras Laiptinė / 25 October 2024

Recording of live performance from the Brighton Modular Meet, 1st July 2017.
Line up also included Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Russell Haswell and Makaton.
http://www.brightonmodularmeet.co.uk

PCAlive

PCAlive at Brighton Modular Meet July 2017

Wilson Tanner (Andras and Eleventeen Eston) return to shore with II - a new album of floating melodies, lightly salted. The 12 min odyssey Killcord Pts I-III battens down the hatches as these sailors eye merciless waves and blinding ocean spray, channelling Berlin-school electronics and sea legs.

Wilson Tanner - Killcord Pts I-III (ES013)

Wilson Tanner come to shore with a new album of floating melodies, lightly salted. Throwing electroacoustic conventions overboard, Andrew Wilson (Andras) and John Tanner (Eleventeen Eston) recorded this new work aboard a 1950s riverboat with a resourceful array of weatherproof electronic instruments and a long extension lead. These eight compositions pull in a by-catch of maritime folklore; of Siren and Selkie, Seagull and engine oil slick. A change of course from their debut album 69 (Growing Bin Records, 2016), the ambient temperature drops as II casts out to sea in uncertain weather and returns to the safe harbours of Port Phillip Bay. 

The seafarers head out to My Gull’s poised optimism. The birds watch but do they listen? By the arrival of Loch and Key, the shoreline has dissolved completely, the boat floating in serene infinity as the rest of the world spins. Conditions soon take a treacherous turn on Killcord Pts I-III - a 12 minute odyssey that battens down the hatches as these sailors eye merciless waves and blinding ocean spray, jointly channelling Berlin-school electronics and sea legs. In the aftermath, the waterlogged bleeps of Idle survey the damage as our parched crew sound the distress signal and ultimately descend into delirium. 

Known for navigating individual courses as solo musicians, Wilson and Tanner’s collective storytelling is saturated in detail, buoying between tension and harmony. II modestly stands as some of both artists’ most accomplished material.

07 Wilson Tanner - Safe. Bird. 5:21 (ES013)

05 Wilson Tanner - Idle 6:17 (ES013)

03 Wilson Tanner - Perishable 3:35 (ES013)

01 Wilson Tanner - My Gull 2:11 (ES013)

Three emotional years in the making, Be With and Efficient Space finally present Steve Hiett’s Girls In The Grass. Pressed alongside the long awaited reissue of his one-shot masterpiece Down On The Road By The Beach, these ten balearic soul instrumentals are of equal necessity; unrivalled beauty rescued from the fashion photographer-guitarist’s Paris Tapes (1986-1997). 

While recordings unintended for release should often be approached with caution, this is a rare case of unheard material being assembled as an indispensable and coherent piece. Girls In The Grass is something super special. The light and shadow that defines Hiett’s music is arguably more compelling here. It speaks to us in a language that feels profound, yet entirely comforting and familiar. 

Girls In The Grass reintroduces Hiett’s languid electric blues boogie, crafted on Saturday afternoons with fellow art director Simon Kentish. Kentish would cook, pour some wine and then utilise his arsenal of technology. He’d dial up a chugging rhythm, together with some ambient pads or keyboard textures, and anchor the weightless gauze of Hiett’s six-stringed touch. 

Hiett’s guitar sings with the same clean, crisp tone as Down On The Road, animated by a carefree weekend groove. Unlike his defining album which was boiled under pressure, these subsequent sessions have all the time in the world. The naïve melodies chart a missing link between Vini Reilly’s ventures into electronica and Booker T, sounding like sun-warped takes on wordless, fractured non-hits from his heroes The Beach Boys. 

Remastered for public pleasure by Simon Francis, these private moments are adorned with Hiett’s singular photography and feature typically idiosyncratic liner notes from Mikey IQ Jones.

Steve Hiett - Are These My Memories? (ES011/BEWITH062LP)

Representing the city of Geneva here is Second Circle affiliate Androo (androo-3) with his "m'enfin?!" mix in the MFM series. Interview (excerpt) down below.

www.musicfrommemory.com

MFM: Hi Androo, thanks for contributing. For the readers who haven't been to Geneva before, could you describe the city a bit in terms of culture?

A: Mmmh, there are many things to say about the city. I feel that my generation came just after a certain “golden age” of the “underground” music culture. Geneva had a lot of squats during the 90s and early 2000s but now the political situation isn’t the same. Today we don’t have many non-normative venues allowing experimentally and who aren’t based on economic profit. For me, there is a certain vision missing from various clubs in the city. It feels sad that filling the room seems more important than exploring and defend other ones. I feel the potential of night culture and dance which is based on the collective energy of a certain youth is channeled into a kind of apolitical and dull consumption. I wish one day, the night may serve to create more spaces for political and experimental moments! But there is something amazing going on in Geneva, it’s the sound system scene. 

MFM: Your music as Androo sounds quite melodic and touches many different styles in an oddball kind of way. Where does all that come from? 

A: I was playing the piano when I was a child but I wasn’t working really hard (what’s work when you play?), I always preferred composing little things. There was also music in church. Later, I’ve had some reggae bands. I have always been a bit romantic with music. But the real explosion was the discovery of the sound systems culture. Every two months there was the Dubquake organised by OBF in Geneva (it’s still going strong!). Their style was informed by new wave melodies and futuristic dub sound, their sound and musical explorations created something really physical, experience! Around the same time I discovered what the music studio can be. You mix a new song and the same night you play it out, without a fuss, dubplate style. Later I opened up to other stuff and soon tried to bring together irreconcilable things. For more than a year now, I dived deep into jazz piano and contemporary music. Every day I do exercises, scales, etc, some of them become musical compositions. 

MFM: Could you take us on a tour through your studio? What's the vibe like, what's in there?

A: There is a mixing console with external effects, everything is done live. This is how I learnt it from the dub. I don’t do much arrangement on the computer, the track is being built at the console: you remove the bass now and then put a delay on the piano, everything is recorded in one take. It’s about the hands. There are some mistakes and you let them be, that is what makes music alive. There are some synths and drum machines, boxes of matches, wood pieces. I am just trying things out, it’s kind of a space for experimentation. It’s about researching, letting problems appear, chance is also important. Not everything is smoothen out, it’s about acceptation. You throw stuff on the floor, you accept them and then start from there.

MFM: Are you keeping it strictly to writing and recording music?

A: For now I don’t do electronic live acts. But I do piano lives. I keep them raw and experimental, so in a way it’s also influenced by the dub. I have been DJing since quite some time now. I approach mixing a bit like editing in cinema, I try to do cuts, rapprochements and loose associations. DJing is also somehow about friendship, the fact of doing, of organising parties together. Djing is great but feels a bit repetitive most of the time so I try to propose other things with DJ May and other. We are both drawn to cinema and theatre. So we started to read texts in the middle of a set, adding small dance pieces or even mixing silence. For us it’s about proposing simple and non extraordinary little experiences.

MFM Mix 014: Androo

Label run by @noise-in-my-head

Distribution queries:

Australia | info@noiseinmyhead.com.au
Rest of the World | www.wordandsound.de

05 Wilson Tanner - Idle 6:17 (ES013)

Efficient Space

Recent comments

Kirsty P

Related tracks