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PLIB019 - Joyul - A2. Marginalia

After 2022’s In Every Dream Home a Heartache, Romance and Dean Hurley return with River of Dreams; continuing their prismatic dissection of the daytime soap genre with an examination into the dark corners of fantasy-based escapism. 

Over the last 60+ years, serialized melodramas have played a critical role in shaping the way we think about, consume, and are affected by media. The daytime televised soap opera has without a doubt laid the fundamental architecture for contemporary dopamine capitalists’ dreams of harvested, monetized attention…and River of Dreams explores the psychological effects on the mind of its viewers. Whereas In Every Dream Home a Heartache spotlighted the external omnipresence of daytime tv’s persistent broadcasts, River of Dreams examines the interior havoc and mental unbalance sewn by obsessive viewership. The same waters that harvest and transport our buoyant dreams often funnel into nightmarish, tumultuous oceans… 

Once again, broadcast television samples by way of vintage, bit-crunched YouTube codecs form the source material here…all artfully inlaid and mosaicked to form tear-stained compositions of troubled romance gone astray.

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Romance & Dean Hurley - Eric Forrester

https://xtclvr.bandcamp.com/album/swag-takes-vol-ii

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audio 3

“giant reptile tongue slowly u n f u r l s toward a looming cloud
home of spicy drops that pierce the air into tiny peepholes

these taste buds widen like pink pupils
they get bigger to let more flavor in
receiving is both greedy and generous
a will to be shaped by sensation
and the knowledge it leaves behind
a snail’s trail pointing to the exits in this ship

this tasty cloud swims over us
changing the color in everything
lips kind of blue, asphalt’s sparkle metallic
skin becomes oyster, translucent
taking in the light and giving it back
in the form of something that slides down
the way sweat may fall in a straight line
or make a turn to drive
around the temple

this cloud abducts the earth
by sudden temperature change
lack of sun makes plants and rocks turn inward
the sky now a sheltering vault
distributing the heavy weight of what’s above”

- Marta Núñez Pouzols

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Sachi Kobayashi began making house music in 2017 but in recent years has shifted her focus towards ambient and experimental sounds. Kobayashi has sung in choirs since childhood, drawing from those experiences in her current focus in making harmonic ambient music. The liturgical aspects of her history in choirs is present in her work, which explores the theme of "the conflict between the sacred and the secular". Kobayashi also takes inspiration from nature and her surrounding environment of Saitama, Japan. Ever-broadening her artistic pallet, she has recently been developing and recording harsher sounds in the realm of noise music. 

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Source photos for design by Sachi Kobayashi
Interview by Rob Goyanes
Audio and design finalization by Glyn Maier

Clouds in the Sky

Sachi Kobayashi - Clouds in the Sky V (ENMS-03)

Irish artist Eamon Ivri (aka Lighght) and evo-natura's label founder Ioannis Nafpliotis (aka xato) present their two-tracker ambient / drone collaboration EP, 'Flown like dust / Glacial Endeavor'.

While the tracks have their own distinct sound, they both share the same main technique behind their creation: tape looping. Although it is a digitally made tape loop system, they both follow the ethos behind the analogue originator. With field recordings and improvised compositions, their existence serves to accompany you in different moods.

Artwork by Ioannis Nafpliotis & Ronja-Elina Kappl
Cassette Design by Ronja-Elina Kappl

Written by Eamon Ivri & Ioannis Nafpliotis
Mixed & Mastered by Ioannis Nafpliotis

Cassette / Digital

Eamon Ivri & Ioannis Nafpliotis - Glacial Endeavor

Some of you were asking for just a version with the background track, so I was more than happy to make it, hope you guys enjoy🗿

Fear of God (Instrumental Edit)

The Discovered

Join the crew of the Nostromo 2 deep space explorer on it's mission throughout the galaxy and beyond. Exploratory and atmospheric deep space ambient music. soundscapes and drones by Nairb One.

Recorded August 2025
© 2025 Aeon Records
℗ 2025 Ditto Music LTD

Website

Nebulae

Mualitic

German Army is as prolific a project as they get. Heading from California, the enigmatic ensemble have been one of the loudest voices in the international tape scene for the past couple of years. Taking a strong stance against imperialism in all forms and with a hefty focus on documenting the global extinction of language, flora and fauna, German Army's music shows art as a political act.

"Hearing Lola Kiepja" showcases an emotive take into the project's noisier heart, bringing forward the anonymous duo's flair for alluring melodies. There is a dark, cosmic quality to the work, with synthetic clusters of lo-fi beauty pushed in a fever-induced fast succession. Hypnotic choirs and synth-driven rhythms drawing you in as droplets on a basin. A thousand lost voices sing around the fire, we follow on the footsteps of the dead.

EN13

Dedicated to Lola Kiepja

German Army is P.K. and G.T.
Recorded in the San Gabriel and Pomona Valleys, United States
2019-2020

Hearing Lola Kiepja

German Army - A Segment Of Me

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

Sachi Kobayashi - Clouds in the Sky V (ENMS-03)

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