Falling Down the Stairs

FallingDownTheStairs

deep scannin

enmossed is pleased to present 𝑬𝑵𝑴𝑺, a new cassette series curated by artist and perfumer Daisy Paradise, Florian T M Zeisig, and Glyn Maier. Releases consist of pairing an artist’s album with a plant of their choice and feature an interview - spoken or written - connected to the chosen plant. RJM Vanderheyden realized the series design beautifully with UV-etched, and color-matched cassettes and cases made from recycled materials, drawing upon a collection of rare botanical illustrations.

In the works for over a year, we are delighted to debut the first album of the series from long-time enmossed associate Chaperone - 𝑳𝒆𝒂𝒇𝒍𝒆𝒕 𝑴𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄, paired with chamomile and a chat between Daisy Paradise and Suzanne Belle Stone of Moon of Hyldemoer Herbals.

“Daisy Paradise tells us that when a plant is taken out of its comfort zone, its growth adapts to new and challenging conditions. Its properties change: they incorporate the difficulty and beauty of its foreign surroundings. Chaperone trawls the dusty grooves of bossa nova LPs, extracting forgotten melodies and re-contextualizing them into an indeterminate industrial churn. A boscagic echo rendered into a miniature plastic flower, partially submerged in a puddle alongside crumbling asphalt.

Suzanne Belle Stone reminds us that, while we obsess over the rare, we fail to honor and celebrate the gifts of the common - that’s why we tend to undermine the strength and the subtlety of the ever-present chamomile. Chaperone repeats a sound, looping it, making it common. An abundance of multiplicities that create a new temporality, helping us quiet our mind. Chamomile is quiet, chamomile listens. A flower that likes to grow in large groups, in community, surrounded by its own repetitions.

𝑳𝒆𝒂𝒇𝒍𝒆𝒕 𝑴𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄 is a dense hive of loops spreading their subtleties and becoming common through the air, a rooting system weaving an all-enveloping sea of electric dust under which we listen, as in a dream, to the static effervescence of a swarm of chamomile seeds. Each of these seeds contains a tiny sun and a tiny moon. Plants come to you when you need them.”
- Marta Núñez Pouzols

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David Coccagna (Chaperone) is a Queens-based writer and musician focusing primarily on transgressive human behavior, poverty, class division, and addiction. Born and raised in Philadelphia, the principle imagery and sonic influences of the depressed Northeast neighborhood Lawncrest has served as the palette and canvas Coccagna works upon. He has released worked with labels Great Circles, Jungle Gym, Con.apt, and Minor Adjustments, with more recent focuses leaning into repetitive sound and theme. He is an avid cyclist and has two cats. 

recorded by Chaperone
interview by Daisy Paradise
assistance by Florian T M Zeisig
audio finalized by Glyn Maier
design and artwork by RJM Vanderheyden

Leaflet Music

Chaperone - A Puddle With No Origin (ENMS-01)

Live @ Bar Freda 6.23.2023

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Somewhere Else - esile - 21 Feb 2024

surf is an ambient and adjacent netlabel with over 40 releases since 2020. Their focus is set on releasing forward thinking producers from all over the world in an uncompromising way. 
For the first mix in the series, usof, the label owner, made a 2 hour long playlist in chronological order of the first 44 releases of the label. Expect ambient drone, harsh noise and Playboi Carti. In the following episodes two artists from the label will be paired for an hour each.

🌐 "Outsiders" is our daily show hosted by labels, collectives, agencies, venues, clubs, ... worldwide
📡 Connect with the Outsiders, every day, at 9 am or 9 pm CET
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Outsiders: surf @ Kiosk Radio 25.02.2024

ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴀʀᴛɪꜱᴛ

Rojin Sharafi, a Tehran-born, Vienna-based sound artist, performer, and composer, fuses raw and abstract emotions with electronic elements that emulate acoustic sounds. Her distinctive musical language intertwines acoustic elements, replicating electronic textures and vice versa, resulting in a synthesis of resilient yet vulnerable and honest sonic expressions.
Using a mix of analog, acoustic, and augmented instruments, alongside custom-designed digital tools, Sharafi gained recognition for her debut album, "Urns Waiting to be Fed," described as “one of [2019’s] most ecstatic and fiercely original hours of music” by The Quietus. Following this success, she released "Zangaar" in 2020 and "Kariz" in 2021. In 2023, Sharafi, together with her band members from HUUUM, published their debut album—an exploration of folk futurism.

https://rojinsharafi.com/
https://soundcloud.com/rojinsharafi
https://rojinsharafi.bandcamp.com/album/kariz

🌿 ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ꜱᴏɴɪᴄ ᴀɢᴇɴᴄʏ

Spurred on by the acuteness of current global events, we are raising our voices in solidarity with the oppressed, the tortured, the silenced, and the unheard. While humanity is at stake, and our values are on trial, in moments of despair, rage and endless grief, acts of solidarity are needed more than ever. The events that shake Palestine and Israel are resulting in an ever-tighter spiral of violence and desperation. They are a horrific wake-up call that brutally brings the precarious situation on our planet to the fore. The humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, and Israel’s collective punishment of Palestinian civilians are intolerable. On top of that, the military actions threaten the lives of the remaining hostages in the Gaza-Strip, and even more innocent people in Gaza.


Listening is not neutral.
Listening shapes the reality we live in.
Listening is shaped by ethics and politics and leads back to it.
Listening is directly linked to memory and identity.
Listening is as important as speaking.
Listing is an active act.


Read the full curatorial statement here
strumandiodine.com/article/sonic-agency/

SONIC AGENCY - ROJIN SHARAFI - "Those Wild Whispers"

(eng. late) @p_o_z_n_o an audiovisual collective specializing in organizing intimate, multisensory ambient events, was invited by @holyld . With their actions, they intend to blur the boundaries between a concert, a club set and an artistic performance, creating an atmosphere enabling the free experience of every type of sensitivity without strictly imposed rules.  
The group consists of:   
- adam salamøn @adamsalamon is - electronic music producer, DJ & VJ 
- sackaanna - visual artist, VJ 
- serenitysoundseeker - DJ, VJ and promoter of electronic music  
 
Each późno event is closely related to a specific concept, and its expression reaches almost all senses. The basis of the conceptual approach is music exploring deep, ambient, experimental sounds and visuals metaphorically related to the theme. Event venues are meticulously prepared. Space is decorated with proper lighting and instalations. Even air is filled with specially composed scent for each night.  
Spatial Flood is a two chapter journey. serenitysoundseeker delivers delicacy of sounds and wide emotional spectrum with her selection, while adam salamøn blends his live improvisations and unreleased sound collages into multi-layered story.  
Spatial Flood brings emotionally what lays ahead of us - early spring with all new endeavours, fears and hopes bursting in our hearts, minds and souls. Vast and open.


Tracklist :

1. adam salamøn - Camenae Pt. I Submersion (UNRELEASED WIP)
2. adam salamøn - Camenae Pt. II Close to Vastness (UNRELEASED WIP)
3. adam salamøn - Camenae Pt. III Emersion//Emergence (UNRELEASED WIP)
4. Kenji Miyazawa - Ame ni mo makezu (雨ニモマケズ) [poem words]
5. Autechre - VLetrmx21
6. adam salamøn - unnamed improvisation
7. adam salamøn - unnamed soundsketch
8. Positive Centre - No Need For Narration
9. adam salamøn - unnamed dub
10. adam salamøn - Elegy For The Clouds
11. adam salamøn - Svalbard Acid (UNRELEASED)
12. adam salamøn - unnamed improvisation outro

holyld invite późno  —  spatial flood w/ adam salamøn

Recording of our Unizone on air radio show. Live from Radio 1, Prague (February 13, 2024).

𝘼𝙉𝘾𝙀𝙎𝙏𝙍𝘼𝙇 𝙑𝙄𝙎𝙄𝙊𝙉 [𝟘𝟘:𝟘𝟘]
Entangled Auch - Shimmering Structures [Radio Labe]
Shayu - Ingrained [self-released]
BlissVision97 - terra incognita [Radio Labe]
Parris - why can't rabbits wear cowboy boots [Can U Feel The Sun]
Kin Teal - Muscle Cars [Human Pitch]
Portway - Screwball (Vocal Mix) [excess]
domizako - off key [Amphibian]
WOST - Azaroso [TraTraTrax]
Vision of 1994 - AM Drive [Amphibian Recs]
Lutsu & Razor - Certy (Coffintexts Remix) [Scuffer Recs]
Toss Portal - Flight FM [Hinge Finger]
Hekkla - Nano [Flippen Disks]

𝙉𝙊𝙏𝙎𝙐𝙍𝙀𝙔𝙀𝙏 [𝟛𝟚:𝟙𝟜]
PVLV - Killah Tape [United Rhythms]
Bungalovv - Xylem (BENN remix) [Over My Body]
Oldyungmayn & Estoc - Strike [Magdalena's Apathy]
Martini - Chaste [early reflex]
Oddkut - The Mystery Lights [Judder Label]
Oldyungmayn & Estoc - Grapple (3Phaz remix) [Magdalena's Apathy]
Elpac - Hard Body [Amity]
Martini - If I Don't Laugh I'll Cry [early reflex]
re:ni - BURSTTRAP [TIMEDANCE]

Tracklists

Ancestral Vision & notsureyet @Radio 1 [13/02/2024]

Penultimate Press is proud to unveil a global collaboration that embraces the planet we inhabit. One with a combined member and atmosphere of Santiago, Chile, Salsipuedes, Argentina and Berlin, Germany.

El Jardín de las Matemáticas (The Garden of Mathematics) was written and recorded by Alvaro Daguer (Glorias Navales/A Full Cosmic Sound/ETCS Records), Pablo Picco (Bardo Todol/Bolinga Everest Records), Tomás Salvatierra (Glorias Navales) and Mark Harwood (Penultimate Press).

Utilising Chinese drum, ocarina, shakers, flutes, whistles, violin, bells, acoustic guitar, gongs, clarinet, n’vike, harmonium, Korg ms-20, moceño, tapes. owl flute and more, The Garden of Mathematics is an alluring, alien, bizarre, colourful, curious, fascinating, peculiar, romantic and astonishing recording where beauty and unsettled beasts coexist in an exotic exploration of sound and song.

Navigating waters possibly traversed by Angus Maclise, Pygmy Unit and Charlie Nothing, the nine tracks this garden brings forth take the listener on a journey through sound and song via nature and the expansive mind.

The results are a a unique record steeped in a wild mix of folk, ethnomusicology, musique concrete and psychedelia.

El Jardín De Las Matemáticas - The Garden Of Mathematics

Bed Bug Sleepover!

§ focused on contemporary sound and growth
✔ hand-constructed out of recycled materials as possible
♥ all proceeds to positive endeavors