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THE POISON GARDEN

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]

“[....]
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)

I.

𝘣𝘢𝘥 𝘭𝘴𝘥 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘴 is the collaborative duo of makers doris dana and domingo castillo flores. Respectively the two have fostered practices that have sprawled out through various approaches and, whether in the lanes of the musical or the contemporary arts, the phenomenology of the social and inclusive prevails. On 𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘵, this motif continues through the psychedelia of its eight time-defying recordings, welcoming the listener into an open temporal architecture of the stereo field as a signifier of environment. It is worth noting that the group began collaborating in Miami, Florida with longer form improvisations recorded to a stereo cassette deck. In these recordings, the paved geographical sprawl and oceanic view permeated the approach to amassing long swaths of sound material. Listening back on that work at the time of this writing, each track feels as though one is walking into an active space, arriving to an event already in full swing and finding your place inside of it. On 𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘵 (this album) something different occurs. The space and events are built around you as you move through the record.

.... [please see https://enmossed.bandcamp.com/album/ultrafest for full description]

- Nick Klein, February 10, 2025

all songs recorded and arranged between Miami and New York by doris dana and domingo castillo flores in 2023
audio finalized by Glyn Maier
artwork by Dominique Saiegh
short story by Natalia Zuluaga
design by Joe Bastardo
silkscreening by Mark Rice
all proceeds to Palestine Children's Relief Fund

ultrafest

bad lsd trips - aventura sonidera (ENMB-17)

bad lsd trips - ultrafest (ENMB-17)
Excerpts below from the extended album description by Nick Klein, written February 10, 2025.

I. 

𝘣𝘢𝘥 𝘭𝘴𝘥 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘴 is the collaborative duo of makers doris dana and domingo castillo flores. Respectively the two have fostered practices that have sprawled out through various approaches and, whether in the lanes of the musical or the contemporary arts, the phenomenology of the social and inclusive prevails. On 𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘵, this motif continues through the psychedelia of its eight time-defying recordings, welcoming the listener into an open temporal architecture of the stereo field as a signifier of environment. It is worth noting that the group began collaborating in Miami, Florida with longer form improvisations recorded to a stereo cassette deck. In these recordings, the paved geographical sprawl and oceanic view permeated the approach to amassing long swaths of sound material. Listening back on that work at the time of this writing, each track feels as though one is walking into an active space, arriving to an event already in full swing and finding your place inside of it. On 𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘵 (this album) something different occurs. The space and events are built around you as you move through the record.

IV.

𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘵 mirrors the balance of the temporal interiority and exteriority of the previously referenced chemical compounds when applied to the body for recreational psychedelic experiences. The jubilation of the slack jawed festival attendee, the gallop of the horse upon the earthen ground, the stagnation of humidity on the body, the sprawl of unkempt concrete through Florida cities, the aroma of bleach in a bar bathroom. On this album, the band illustrates the territories when you almost have your grounding; the moment when you are on the pivot between the real and the intoxicated, or even the really intoxicated. These spaces are the softening and hardening of light on your eyes, they are the gripping of a porcelain sink between moments staring in the bathroom mirror.

In an era where so much tremendous creative energy is put into a softer, safer space through ambient music to respond (negligently) or (worse?) take shelter from the hellish global condition of late capitalism; 𝘣𝘢𝘥 𝘭𝘴𝘥 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘴 takes your hand into the murkier moments of reflection awarded to the listener in the genre. The resolution is not carved out for you, and what truly sits suspended in the ambiance of the now is an unfiltered view of where the world has come to through centuries of civilization. It’s a brutal landscape with an ill-determined end result. Where other practitioners of the sonic gesture of ambient are sheltering within a glistening plasticene blanket of clicks and rustlings with low pass filters of melancholic chord structures, this album burrows itself comfortably in the formless chaos of true psychedelia and reminds me 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 is truly what our unfortunate ambiance is today. The album reflects joy and terror, and it longs and leans towards finding something in the midst of sonic exploration. Passivity nullified, ambient beyond indulgence and evasion.

releases February 25, 2025

all songs recorded and arranged between Miami and New York by doris dana and domingo castillo flores in 2023
audio finalized by Glyn Maier for PLEN Audio
artwork by Dominique Saiegh
short story by Natalia Zuluaga
design by Joe Bastardo
silkscreening by Mark Rice

https://soundcloud.com/enmossed
https://soundcloud.com/dorisdana
https://soundcloud.com/nick-klein


Digi still available

Premiere: bad lsd trips - steaming mescaline (extended mix) [enmossed]

“Nicholas Remondino’s project LAMIEE. presents his latest album, 𝑳𝑼𝑴, for enmossed. Over the course of 10 electroacoustic excursions, iterative implementations of mechanistic rattling and vibrating expand the utility of the percussive surface of a snare drum. As overtones and harmonics swell in reverberation, Remondino carves an almost ecclesiastical sonic environment built on motors, one prepared snare drum, vocal samples, and feedback.

Inverting the didacticism of battery percussion as a musical tool, Remondino's stretched drum head takes on a metallic resonance in consistently modulated flux. 𝑳𝑼𝑴 at times envelopes the listener into cavernous subterraneity, and at others articulates itself in muted golden candle light piercing through dense incense smoke. A psychedelically pious album, the dulled weight of stained glass windows pours through into the listening experience as frankincense and myrrh waft through the nostrils and transcendence moves in multi-plane directionality. 𝑳𝑼𝑴 sits as another chapter in enmossed’s advanced catalog of finely curated sonic meditations.”

- Nick Klein, October 2025

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LAMIEE. is a project by Nicholas Remondino. It debuted in 2021 with the release of 𝑭𝑰𝑺𝑰𝑪𝑨 and 𝑶𝑳𝑻𝑹𝑨 𝑳𝑨𝑴𝑬𝑵𝑻, both born out of a concept inspired by the Italian Piedmontese tradition of masche. Published by US-based labels (Dinzu Artefacts and Never Anything Records), they were the first two chapters of a framework that was completed with the release of 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒇𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒊𝒔𝒆, published by the Portuguese label Shhpuma in June 2022, which was recorded with the valuable contributions of the Dròlo Ensemble.

After the first three albums, the project continues to explore new forms. A slew of additional recordings have been released on labels such as Audio.Visual.Atmosphere (Belgium), Jungle Gym Records (US), and Breton Cassette (Norway). Remondino also regularly collaborates with other artists for live performances across Italy and Europe. 

prepared snare drum, speakers, voice, sampler: Nicholas Remondino
recorded and mixed by Nicholas Remondino
mastered by Glyn Maier for PLEN Audio
source photo by Anna Vezzosi
cover artwork by Giacomo Mondino
text by Natalia Rogantini
layout by Joe Bastardo 

sente (ENMB-18)

digital edition:
https://forestmanagement.bandcamp.com/album/remain

Forest Management - "Privilege of Remembering"

そこは霧に包まれた湾のような、何も見えない場所である。~  It is a place where, like a bay shrouded in fog, nothing can be seen.

New album from Dravier out July 20, 2019
@draviersc

Listen: https://umerecords.bandcamp.com/album/light-recalls-our-landmark-for-this-barren-mind

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Dravier ~ Light Recalls Our Landmark For This Barren Mind (snippets)

"The sounds on Florian T M Zeisig's 'Coatcheck' are little like the experience of stereotypical clubbing. Likewise, these remixes are meant for the club of the future, or perhaps, the non-club of the present: a place emphasizing organic flows instead of machinic rhythms, a place of distanced, isolated collectivity at a time of transition to something different. Many of these remixes have resulted in entirely new compositions, more like collaborations than reinterpretations.

Joanna Pope—Berlin-based independent researcher, writer, composer, and producer—conjures a gorgeous pastoral composition based upon Zeisig’s filtered textures on “First Version.” Montreal-based Patrick Holland takes “Only Textures,” originally a swirling miasma, and sculpts it into dub burner perfection. Meanwhile, Exael’s breakbeat treatment of “Aspire,” reinserts the track into a more recognizable dance lineage. Forest Management, the moniker of Chicago-based John Daniel, strips out the low end of the cheekily titled “Ambient Middle Part” and hones in on its vacillating, verdant undergrowth.

In addition to the remixes, 3 bonus tracks from Florian T M Zeisig are included in this release. They were recorded during the same sessions as 'Coatcheck' but were not included on the LP due to time and space constraints."

releases October 30, 2020

order :: enmossed.bandcamp.com/album/coatcheck-remixes

artwork :: Sam Lubicz ~ www.instagram.com/slubicz

mastering :: Glyn Maier

Coatcheck Remixes

Joanna Pope - First Version [Remix] (ENMD01)

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