enmf [flexi] + enmd [digital] + enmb [lp] series

https://disquesdelaspirale.bandcamp.com/album/parasite-jazz

Parasite Jazz - π Dub

Incredibly glad to be premiering the a-side of Pat's latest offering on enmossed; an LP which nascent sounds we had the opportunity to host in 2022 at OCCII in Amsterdam. At times an unapologetic outburst against the system, e.78 holds the listener captive as it paints a sonic picture of the society we have become.

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Order via: https://enmossed.bandcamp.com/album/e78

Credits:
Audio mastered by Glyn Maier
Cover sculpture and photo by Lauren Pakradooni
Design by Joe Bastardo

LP limited to 100 copies, black vinyl, with bespoke hemp paper jackets silkscreened by Mark Rice (Goatmother Industrial) using black + silver ink

https://soundcloud.com/enmossed

Premiere: Patrick Gallagher - e.78 (side A) [enmossed]

Dans la forêt du temps passé

dubbing test loop

Troth - Recital (preview)

Miradasvacas - IV (ISLE016)

An array of commonplace metal objects - chains, pans, a bicycle, a chair - recorded by Ross Alexander at home in Berlin during the pandemic comprise the source material of 11 𝑮𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔. Functioning as a temporal and mnemonic exploration into the nature and conception of “home”, the album evokes Alexander’s earliest memories and broader hauntological perspectives of post-industrial England:

“Growing up in South Yorkshire in the 1980s and 90s was an existence haunted with the ghosts of a heavy manufacturing industry which once thrived in the region. On both a visceral and sensorial level it might be considered equally as impossible to escape the nostalgic stories of mines and steelworks as it was to escape the smell of molten metal in the air drifting from the Don Valley.”

The improvised metallic scrapes, bangs, and bowings recorded by Alexander were further abstracted in live performances using granular sampling techniques, creating a new and extrinsic world to which subconscious thoughts can flee, sonically and contextually. The results are both dreamy and unpredictable, fusing the immediacy of acoustic percussion with the billowing resonances imbued by granular synthesis.

“On tracing back through distant memories of my formative years for sound-objects which represented to me the essential idea of ‘being from’ as opposed to ‘being a visitor’ I related to a pervasive association with the sounds of metal and metallic objects, mostly in respect to how certain structural properties relate to haptic and resonant nature and the manifestation of those properties as sonic results. I feel this is the result of growing up in a place where heavy industry, or at least the remnant of which, was central to society, community and everyday life.”

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Ross Alexander is an artist, producer and curator based in Berlin working in the context of expansive trans-disciplinary practice and non-individualist ideals. His broad ranging body of work as an artist has encompassed music, performance, sound art, visual arts, installation, radio art, digital media, augmented reality, intervention, social practice and education. Ross has presented and performed at such institutions as ICA London, Transmediale Festival, Nyege Nyege Festival, Documenta Kassel and Martin-Gropius Bau Berlin.

As a curator and organizer his experimental and diverse practice has seen him work with Transmediale festival, Maerzmusik, Glastonbury Festival, Cashmere Radio, Nyege Nyege Festival Uganda and extensively with his own Salon Oblique production collective.

rossalexanderpayne.com
instagram.com/o0rossalexander0o
rossalexanderworks.bandcamp.com
mixcloud.com/rossalexandermix

11 Gates

Ross Alexander - Piece 2 (ENMD-04)

From Glyn Maier's A Passage, now available on cassette tape and digital from Muzan Editions:
https://muzaneditions.bandcamp.com/album/a-passage

Glyn Maier - A Passage (Part I) Excerpt

"Tumble into the dark kitchen, stub your toe and your necklace gives its beads to the floor. Each bead finds a completely separate trajectory. The second you turn on the lights one of them suddenly stops in the middle of the room. This bead wants to go unnoticed, and possibly merge with the fluorescent buzz. It looks like a secret sorry roach in an alien bright savannah. It’s convinced that lack of movement grants an invisibility cloak against predators and spectators. You respect the bead and don’t pick it up. With time it becomes as fixed as furniture.

One day you’re watching the news. There is a volcano waking up on screen. The camera zooms into the slowest lump of lava and you notice the bead has been changing. Cheek against cold tile to look closer: the bead is growing spores. Your pupils widen like a circle of water made by a rock falling into a dim black pond."

- Marta Núñez Pouzols

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David Coccagna (Chaperone) is a Philadelphia-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 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.

motion like catching balance on the moving train

Chaperone feat. Nazanin Noori - motion like catching balance on the moving train [Excerpt] (ENMF-03)

D002

void bless chereshenkaa and all living human beings

Memos of Balkanika

withurhelpbaby

Artist: Giuseppe Ielasi
Title: Rhetorical Islands
Cat#: faitiche 35
Release: Mar 1st 2024
Format: LP/DL

First vinyl edition of the album Rhetorical Islands, originally released by Giuseppe Ielasi in 2012 as a limited-edition CD on his Senufo Editions label, with recordings made in 2011 as a commission for l’Audible Festival, Paris.

The album’s ten tracks have neither titles nor accompanying text, standing for themselves as what Ielasi himself has called “isolated sound worlds”. They are nonetheless unparalleled in their plasticity, acoustic events with a rare degree of tangibility. Ielasi evokes physical objects, some of which seem to have been constructed out of paper and cardboard, others based on a mechanics of elastic materials. Of course these objects are hallucinations, and precisely because Ielasi constructs them so masterfully there’s no need for any further information. Here’s to everyone creating their very own sculptures while listening to Rhetorical Islands!

The front and back cover features 0.058, a work on paper by the artists Thomas & Renée Rapedius. They make sculptures whose form and artistic inspiration are defined by their materials. Like Ielasi’s acoustic islands, their impact derives from self-referentiality, resulting in paradoxical objects that embody both a detailed material study and a potential for free association.

Giuseppe Ielasi: 06

Magnetic aesthetes & collaging lush textures - contemplative walk on the vibrant path of rocks, leading into fluctuating fields, striking the balance between cracking drift & hollow spaces. 

Patina Lush is an electronic virtuoso from Austin, Texas. Michael Cockrell is appearing in collaborations with echoing ambient musicians & is a co-founder of the label - Somatic.

Amulet of Tears 044: Patina Lush

Music: @michael-cockrell-828988668

Artwork: @anasisana

Amulet 044: Patina Lush

𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺,
𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘦 — 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘢𝘳
𝘵𝘰 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘴.
𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴.

- Kristen Soller, April 2022

“In the back of the throat there is a subterranean river that holds you, humming towards the cave’s end. This end is a liminal mirror reflecting the contours of your voice. The mirror shows how —when brought to certain aquatic depths— unheard of limbs and wondrous branches are prone to sprout from your voice. Blind sibyls, your voice’s branches climb towards the surface, in search of light and warmth. After the great drought, your voice’s limbs persevere. They stand naked, pulsating in the purple that lies underneath grey. Your voice’s limbs erect themselves as monuments to air, kin among the deafening night. The water level is now only tall enough to keep your voice’s core below. Your voice, fed by the swamp, cradled by duckweed, wrapped in horse tail, has become a secret organ. Your voice palpitates and releases twin echoes that undulate, to smoke’s rhythm, in the afterglow. Intricately connected by labyrinth to soil and moon, through the water lilies’ roots, your voice weaves an underweb that flickers like the eye of a flame. Your voice sediments the entwined veils of miracle and prayer.”

- Marta Núñez Pouzols, October 2023

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taupe set xl is the devotional sound project of Kristen Soller, a Miami-based artist and hypnotist of the Philippine diaspora. Kristen illuminates the subterranean and oneiric landscapes of imagination, spirit, and memory — giving voice to the personal and ancestral stories of grief and desire that emerge in the process.

All music by Kristen Soller
Audio finalized by Glyn Maier
Cover photo by Jenn Huynh
Design by Joe Bastardo

All proceeds to:
Love the Everglades Movement (www.lovetheeverglades.org)
Union of Agricultural Work Committees, Palestine (https://uawc-pal.org)

swamp prayer

taupe set xl - dissolving forms (ENMB-15)

𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺,

𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘦 — 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘢𝘳

𝘵𝘰 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘴.

𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴.

- Kristen Soller, April 2022


“In the back of the throat there is a subterranean river that holds you, humming towards the cave’s end. This end is a liminal mirror reflecting the contours of your voice. The mirror shows how —when brought to certain aquatic depths— unheard of limbs and wondrous branches are prone to sprout from your voice. Blind sibyls, your voice’s branches climb towards the surface, in search of light and warmth. After the great drought, your voice’s limbs persevere. They stand naked, pulsating in the purple that lies underneath grey. Your voice’s limbs erect themselves as monuments to air, kin among the deafening night. The water level is now only tall enough to keep your voice’s core below. Your voice, fed by the swamp, cradled by duckweed, wrapped in horse tail, has become a secret organ. Your voice palpitates and releases twin echoes that undulate, to smoke’s rhythm, in the afterglow. Intricately connected by labyrinth to soil and moon, through the water lilies’ roots, your voice weaves an underweb that flickers like the eye of a flame. Your voice sediments the entwined veils of miracle and prayer.”

- Marta Núñez Pouzols, October 2023All music by Kristen Soller

Audio finalized by Glyn Maier
Cover photo by Jenn Huynh
Design by Joe Bastardo

All proceeds to:
Love the Everglades Movement (https://www.lovetheeverglades.org/)
Union of Agricultural Work Committees, Palestine (https://uawc-pal.org/)

Premiere: taupe set xl - Iridescence [enmossed]

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✔ hand-constructed out of recycled materials as possible
♥ all proceeds to positive endeavors

Chaperone feat. Nazanin Noori - motion like catching balance on the moving train [Excerpt] (ENMF-03)

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