Vitayu

https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/ssiege-12th-december-2022

SSIEGE @ 𝙉𝙏𝙎 Radio - Dec '22

mastering by audiodrag
cover by ratx.cc

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“[....]
This record highlights the Secret Boyfriend that obscures didacticism by highlighting output that opens up for more challenging catharsis and emotive signal processing. It provides an entry to the materialism of a cultural field full of ecstatic complexity and beautiful inconsistency. In these muted moments Secret Boyfriend has given us over his career we have an argument for evolving languages that further challenge our notions of what is supposed to happen and how it is supposed to be presented. In his more song oriented expansiveness, we can punctuate the ability to think in new modalities. Listening to these recordings reminds me of the polarity of sitting in the record store as a kid and understanding that His Name Is Alive is on 4AD and (gasp!) timeSTEREO. This trite early impression that nothing is really as different as our imaginations might want them to be, and that we can do whatever we want mostly within the creative realms we work through is an important filter to look through Secret Boyfriend as a project and a vessel. If we can achieve abandon and vulnerability through our artistic endeavors, then we have a sound model for, 𝗺𝗮𝘆𝗯𝗲, new potentialities. If that’s too much projection, or just complete liberal bullshit, I am fine with that. Secret Boyfriend's oeuvre at best offers us moments of reprieve to ponder these complexities, or at least a moment to zone out on a drive through North Carolina Highway 54.

You have one pocket of life that you must do whatever you want to inside of. Secret Boyfriend does it affectionately, in a variety of forms, and always with deep sentimentality. These recordings are a wonderful set of songs to begin further investigation from. Thank you Ryan for allowing as many avenues as possible to continue a broad cultural exchange and conversation that intersect and refract while being the kind of artist that is brave enough to not phone in the effort.”

- excerpt of essay by Nick Klein, May 2024

Casio, guitars, bass, percussion, no-input mixer, synth, tapes, and voice by Ryan A Martin, recorded at Meadows of Dan & Cathedral II
Audio finalized by Glyn Maier
Artwork by Ryan A Martin

Listener's Guide

Secret Boyfriend - Treil (ENMB-16)

gold digger dub

YouTube Streaming | youtube.com/live/uFws0qXttoQ

Flaty B2b OL | Kivach Radio x Gost Zvuk | 21.07.24

Hugo Esquinca offers his debut album format release, DOCUMENTO_UNO, for Psychic Liberation stating:

“DOCUMENTO_UNO [2014-2024] is a -mis-selection of bastardized personal archival material containing actions, installations, induced DSP corruption, after-hours field recordings and direct documentation of audio equipment degradation. With the intention to dispose rather than preserve, all files utilized for the production of this CD have been permanently deleted after usage.”

Copious libations and long, long walks around metropolitan sprawl are part of the process material that cultivate the contained audio within DOCUMENTO_UNO. Esquinca posits a formal conundrum, skewing the perceptual intake of the organic and inorganic aurality in a collaged twenty-nine minutes and thirty-nine seconds of Esquinca’s auto-documentarian efforts. Something about weighted city environments, places like Mexico City or Berlin or Glasgow, and how they interrelate with weather extremities, finances, alcohol, and one's personhood are embedded in DOCUMENTO_UNO. At the end of the day, you are not at home.

Esquinca is known for large scale audio works that take on the extremity of amplification to incite situations and circumstances that become ruminations on what is impenetrable or absent* yet consequently disruptive**. For DOCUMENTO_UNO a similar through line to materiality and ephemeral outcome is observed. The pushing of a recording device to its furthest capabilities and the harmonic damages that follow through as a result. The unwavering compositional directive to keep finding the threshold of the audio space, first in capturing from life and then later from processing and arranging. This is Esquincas first album effort.

The truth is that Esquinca is exhausted by Sound and its orbiting cultural sphere. His multifaceted work as an artist, researcher, and writer continually exhibits a perspective in extremity that manifests a perspective a politer audience recoils in facing. Esquinca though is no brute, nor looking for cheap tactics to elicit canonized pearl-clutching responses to the vulgarity of our times. DOCUMENTO_UNO complexly collages confrontation in formal, mechanistic, or actionable methods to unsettle your stereo and effectively not save your world.

In many ways, this release is a family affair for Esquinca. DOCUMENTO_UNO is the result of many nights of long talks and beverage consumption with friend and collaborator Nick Klein. Additionally, a selection of the original source material has been remixed by Russell Haswell, a longtime collaborator and friend of Esquinca.


* See works done at EMPAC in Troy, New York, where an entire auditorium's multi-channel sound system was played at maximum volume after hours with no one allowed in the building, leaving only the vibratory sensation of the architecture to speak to the idea of absence for the viewer.
** See Esquincas latest work, as part of a festival dedicated to Alvin Lucier, where the artist reinterprets Luciers “Sound On Paper”. Here Esquinca trades paper for architectural glass, focusing thousands of watts of amplification onto the glass to more caustically illustrate Luciers paper observations. 
credits
releases November 30, 2024

Edition of 100 Compact Discs
Each copy has been individually numbered, stamped, marked and wrapped in 50 liter garbage bags.

Recorded and arranged by Hugo Esquinca
Mastered by Russell Haswell
Designed and assembled by Hugo Esquinca
Product Photography by Gustavo Saiegh
Artist Photography by Dominique Saiegh

DOCUMENTO_UNO

ALBUM PURCHA$E

PLIB066 - HUGO ESQUINCA - DOCUMENTO_UNO (EXCERPT)

Montalvo - Colle [TRU008]

New York, NY – Colle, the creative alias of experimental musician Maya McGrory, debuts her solo album 'Montalvo' on urtruimage.

Inspired by her childhood memories of Montalvo Rd., this compelling collection of songs offers a profound exploration of McGrory's past, and presents a narrative of multiple lives lived at once. The contrasting landscapes of her life provide a backdrop for her music, allowing her to find solace in the innocence and simplicity of childhood. Emphasising the ephemeral nature of life, she embraces a flow that reflects the worries of her past and the allure of even the harshest conditions.

Her album invites listeners into immersive emotional landscapes; characterised by expansive glacial synths and strings, while trip-hop and shoegaze-inspired beats push her music into an experimental realm of electronic indie-rock, all enhanced by her sincere and captivating vocal delivery.

What began as a return to a specific time in her life evolved into a journey back to traditional songwriting, reimagined into an experimental vision during the production of Montalvo. For Colle, the process is less about distance and more about rediscovery—reclaiming the innocence and wonder that continue to influence her today.

Album Credits -

Mixed by Shane Lavers (Chanel Beads): Silent But For Joy, Green Edge, Day You Told Me, A Real Atone, Winter Garden

Mixed by Issac Eiger (Threshold): Held By You

Mastered by Rob Venning (DJ Pitch) excl. Winter Garden

Mastered by Ben Shirken: Winter Garden

Violin Credits to Zachary Paul: Winter Garden

urtruimage; run by Sophia Mannerfelt, Robert Venning (DJ Pitch)

Plea and Luck

Kawari o Suru

Pigmenti delle mie lacrime 190

Cool little remix of aira math that WON'T get popular cuz i suck ig lol
If u want to use my song, sure! Tho, crediting me will be appreciated.

C418 - Aria Math (Exot Remix)

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