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

from the album, vol. 3. available 10/08
order now: https://peakoil.bandcamp.com/album/vol-3

Vol. 3

Topdown Dialectic - A4

MBE Series founder Giovanni Napolano continues his research of the Mediterranean, offering up his own personal Porta Del Mediterraneo.

Unfolding along two sprawling 15 min sides, Napolano stitches threads of chopped & screwed folksong with a discrete dub strategy, seamlessly leading the mind down labyrinthine ginnels of his imagination in a sort of uchronic regression session where the ghosts of the past inform the present. In the process it humbly speaks to Naples’ position at the frontier of the current migrant crisis, and necessarily takes a standpoint against Italy’s resurgent, nationalist fascism, revealing the beauty and energy of its indigenous mixture of peoples, rather than erecting borders between them. 

Taking his native Naples as a locus of Mediteranean culture, Napolano plunges the port city’s palimpsest of energies embedded by successive waves of Greek, Northern African & Eastern migration to discover an underlying, rhizomic connection and commonality linked by dub and hip hop as a contemporary iteration of folk music. 

Under its titular, mythical metaphor for the fall of Babylon, and usage in Rastafari culture, ‘Le Macerie Di Babilonia’ imaginatively examines a sense of self via a historic lens, drawing on Napolano’s upbringing in the chaotic port city and his autodidactic research into the rich mosaic of Napolitan heritage, to model how a folk class solidarity and shared character, with its own rules and rituals, has emerged from its syncretic milieu. 

Variously a treatise on provenance; an impressionistic tale of the European north meets a global south; a dub-abstracted, allegoric, ethnomusicological collage; ‘Le Macerie Di Babilonia’ is a fascinating and immersive listen that presents its maker’s dilated world view at its most mesmerising.

Limited Edition LP & Digi out 27th October.

© sferic 2022.

@nplgnn

Giovanni Napolano - Le Macerie di Babilonia (SFERIC11) [Preview]

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ghost amb2

"sea salt" by emer out Thursday 3/2 on cassette/digital via Lillerne

emer - sea salt

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)

Sophia Zhuravkova & yusk - jk5

"...As a rigorous listener, Gallagher has observed a multitude of sonic vocabularies in a relatively rearview acknowledgement of contemporary sound production and distilled them succinctly in his latest offering for Enmossed, titled “e.78”. Gallagher showcases his attention to detail and devotion to the craft of synthesis over two side long sections on the LP. It is clear that Gallagher is aware of how to situate his listening and furthering of the conversation around computer music in a post Peter Rehberg world by balancing sonic tropes from a golden era output of labels like Editions Mego, Entr’acte, Presto!?, or IDEAL. Tactfully, he showcases his ability to parcel distinct moments of clarity and sonic obfuscation. His abstractions are intentional, his ambience exacting, and his chaos undeterred..."

-Nick Klein

Patrick Gallagher is a sound artist currently based in Philadelphia, PA (US). With a formal education in mathematics, Gallagher employs generative/algorithmic processes, guided improvisation, and intuitive sound collage in an effort to weave evocative and evolving sonic narratives. Exploring the various developments of 20th century composition and contemporary computer music, he seeks to fuse that technicality with the cathartic and rapturous nature of the DIY noise underground.

Previous works employed a wide range of sound sources - synthesizers, field recordings, tabletop guitar, etc. - however, Gallagher currently focuses almost entirely on digital synthesis, particularly additive and granular techniques.

Gallagher has released albums on cassette and vinyl through ENXPL (enmossed x Psychic Liberation), Hot Releases, Refulgent Sepulchre, Tone Log, and other independent labels. 

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

e.78

Patrick Gallagher - e.78 (Side A Excerpt)

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]

"You cannot put your foot in the same river twice. Once ᴇʀᴏꜱɪᴏɴ ᴛʀᴀᴄᴇ begins, the listener is quick to draw comparison to previous Glyn Maier releases, as in ɪɴᴅᴇꜰɪɴɪᴛᴇ ʟᴀᴛᴛɪᴄᴇꜱ or the B-Side from the Jungle Gym release ʜʟɪɴᴄ. Instead, what happens is the truest descriptor of a “departure” in style and pacing.

Going back into the deeper catalog of Maier’s work you would likely cross influences of dub techno in the clicking and delaying bass tones, with sharp field recording rustling and chirps that create a fecund listening ecosphere.

This new album instead changes the pace to a glacial presentation, starting with a dark and sleek motif, generously pouring into rhythm and more subdued field recordings of the Appalachian wilderness. It almost seems like an album showcasing Maier’s ability to listen as much as it is his ability to produce. The finishing work with synth and string sections is a sublime reminder of his deft and capable craft in sound. We may not stand in the same water as before, but the river has the same name."

- David Coccagna

An Industrial Coast production

Recorded by Glyn Maier in White Mountain + Pisgah National Forests 2019-2022 - B2 contains source material from Joe Hisashi "Kikujiro"

Audio finalized by Glyn Maier

Artwork by Laura Arteaga Charlton (www.lauraarteagacharlton.com)

Erosion Trace

Emerald Pool

D003 arrives as a split between four experimental sound artists from London/LA, Philadelphia, Krakow, and Portland/Berlin.

TL: 

EBY150822 - https://soundcloud.com/yekate
In Defense - https://soundcloud.com/martyna-basta
Guiding You - https://soundcloud.com/felishaledesma
그posture - https://soundcloud.com/lucytheliyou

Available on Bandcamp now: https://doyenne-books.bandcamp.com/album/doyenne-003-felisha-ledesma-martyna-basta-lucy-liyou-ekaterina-bazhenova-yamasaki

D003: Felisha Ledesma / Martyna Basta / Lucy Liyou / Ekaterina Bazhenova-Yamasaki preview

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)

"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)

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]

Stop! You're Making Me Tired!

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

Patrick Gallagher - e.78 (Side A Excerpt)

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