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KISEWA’s Scream Sonata explores monstrosity.

Scream Sonata seems like looking into the mind of a horror fiction writer.

The monstrosity is attached to the baseless hallucinations of different appearances depending on the individual rather than a authoritative grotesque appearance.

KISEWA seems to know how to instigate a vortex of negative hallucinations, but at the same time ritualistically induces another hallucination to drive it away.

Scream Sonata tells the story of a race between monsters carrying such double hallucinations.

About KISEWA:
Based in Seoul, KISEWA is an independent musician/artist who’s practice is based on observations of contemporary music culture and explores the various sounds that it is comprised of.

Committed to the practice of gathering pieces and particles of independent music that are scattered around, KISEWA’s pursuits have been heavily directed toward covering the wide array of so-called sub-genres, including industrial, noise and ambient.

As an extension of such research into the unique and multifaceted web of independent musical acts, KISEWA is also eager to present the artist’s own sound works that are equally unique and diverse in their own rights.

Format: EP
Digital Release by Absurd TRAX
Physical Release by Mouhoi
KISEWA's Digital Distribution by No Slack Reocrds
Cat. No.: AT-025/ MHR-011
Release date: 1 October 2021

Produced by KISEWA
Track 1-4 Mastered by Hakju Chun (Mushroom Recording Studios)
Track 5-7 Mastered by Nerve
Remix by Computer Music Club, Primitive Knot and T5UMUT5UMU
Layout and Cover Art by Mouhoi
Original Painting by John Martin

KISEWA - Scream Sonata (T5UMUT5UMU REMIX)

Yikii - Crimson Poem 深紅之詩
Cat. Nr: DN020
Format: LP (marbled) / DL
Release Date: October 1st, 2021
Buy / stream: dansenoire.ffm.to/Yikii

Yikii’s Crimson Poem 深紅之詩 exists at the foggy threshold where dreams become nightmares. The Changchun-based Chinese producer has released over 20 albums and mini-albums in her relatively short career, but none of them resonate with the same trembling intensity as this latest LP. “It’s the closest to the colour and atmosphere of the new world I imagined, compared to the previous albums,” says Yikii about the relative completeness of what could be described as her first proper full-length. It takes its cue from a particular interest in linear time, where Yikii asks, "if we can meet with the wonders of this world, will there be a new beginning in the next, or will it all fall apart?"

Crimson Poem 深紅之詩 consistently plays with this tension. There’s the rising dread of a hollow hand drum and other traditional instruments knocking up against each other, before they swell into waves of rising choral patches and layered, off-tune chanting on “Five Layers Of Crimson Snow 五重絳雪”. Then there’s the lonely piano and flute that weaves through its own resonance before exploding into noise and dissonance on “Phantasmagoria! 千燈幻景”. These, along with the drunken waltz to close “Liminal Space 虛與實”, echo the eerie fade of a psychological horror.

Inspired by ambient, gabber and post-club; contemporary composition, avant-pop and nursery rhymes, Crimson Poem 深紅之詩 is Yikii’s most complete manifestation of her ongoing creative focus on “sadness and despair in hazy beauty". It’s the surreal sound of a kind of trance-like, in-between state, a hypnagogia that’s not to be confused with the washy psychedelia of ‘hypnagogic pop’. The music here is instead detailed and intentional, with a dark-light chiaroscuro created by the shadows of a haunted gothic. “They are always one step ahead of others in digging deeper into the spiritual realm,” Yikii explains, citing dark fantasy games like Fatal Frame, Fran Bow, and Little Misfortune as aesthetic inspirations.

Initially intended to be an album of mainly microtonal music and special tunings, Crimson Poem 深紅之詩 has become more of an exercise in world-building rather than straight up music making. There’s an anxious beauty here, where destructive noise meets delicate atmospheres that build and bloom. “I want to create my own world through music and drawings, which exists in a separate time and space, and if I leave, you can still feel my existence through them. From there you can experience a whole world that is alive.”

Mastered by Rashad Becker
Photography by Yikii, design by Niels Wehrspann

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Crimson Poem 深紅之詩

Yikii - Five Layers of Crimson Snow 五重絳雪

Recording by Etienne Forte all instruments including vocals

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© Etienne Forte 2022

Etienne - Janice (single)

Enter&Exit

Inferno10

MDT [M.A025]

6-Track industrial club EP, featuring remixes by EGREGORE, DJ LOSER & Otang.

Artwork by N.R.X.
Written & Mixed by Ioannis Nafpliotis
Mastering by Panajiotis Vaxevanakis / https://soundcloud.com/astytekk
Remixes by https://soundcloud.com/egr3g0re, https://soundcloud.com/loser111 & https://soundcloud.com/otangbeats
Released by Magdalena's Apathy / https://soundcloud.com/regrets_regrets

Tartarus

AWOO is a new audiovisual project by two members of Prague’s BCAAsystem collective Bilej Kluk & RealityCongress, co-produced with musician Oliver Torr.

In a creative reimagining of Bilej Kluk’s persona into the new character and identity of AWOO, the album follows Bilej Kluk’s split into another dimension and the body of a digital avatar. The story’s principle plotline is his pursuit to reunify this virtual consciousness with his true body, and return to his original reality.

But the journey back is complicated, leading through numerous layers and worlds, where radically different physical laws, ecological systems, and biological beings exist. During his journey the avatar gains new perspectives and experiences, which — despite their origin being from alien realities — could prove useful for us in our own reality.

The sound of ‘AWOO’ reprises more than Bilej Kluk’s identity, but his sound as a musician: the foggy and translucent ‘cloud rap’ the artist gathered his following through is stretched taut, spiked with Oliver Torr’s trademark hyper-real sound design, and sprawls across a battalion of genre influences throughout the album’s 10 tracks and 5 skits.

From injecting the driving flow of ‘deadbeat’ with gloomy grime-synths and shredded vocal chord screams, or the heavy hand on the sampler of rugged ‘spezial’, Torr and AWOO’s co-production is ruthlessly disparate, but adeptly subsumes trance, hyperpop, trap, metal subgenres and numerous club musics into a glycerine-gleam whole.

‘AWOO’ is released in a hybrid format that harmonises the audio with visual narratives as vivid as the music itself: three extended CGI music videos and complementary Instagram reels built in Unreal Engine 5 by BCAAstudio (RealityCongress and Michal Plodek) tell the full story of AWOO, providing further narration and enhancing the world-building of AWOO’s environment.

The project’s video art comprises multiple techniques and modern digital capture tools, from the character creation made in the new Metahuman software to the live-action motion capture recorded using the Perception Neuron suite. Custom clothes for AWOO were created in Marvellous Designer, models created in Blender, and textures made using Substance Painter. Additional materials and models used from Quixel libraries.

Released on 4.2.2023 via BCAAsystem.

BCAAstudio is part of BCAAsystem collective - focused and open for commision projects created with technologies such as motion capture, realtime engines and 3D softwares. It is a small studio oriented on providing personal creative solutions for various projects, as well as developing its own.

BCAAsystem is a polyfunctional collective existing on the frontiers of contemporary alternative music, art and theory. Our projects flow through categories: we are an art group, a music label, an AV studio and a DJ crew — and anything else we can or need to become. We operate irl and online; we fill and share space. We are based in Prague but fighting to break through all constricting boundaries: being part of the global soul, we belong anywhere, and anyone can belong to us.

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awoo - city of tears

xquisite releases is proud to present the new album by Eazyhead

a mutant descent into blissful psychic torment, guided only by the spectre of a band, communicating via telepathy from limbo/Manila

Recorded by Eazyhead in 3 days August 2022 at Mush Room Jam
3 tracks recorded in the next 3 months with Diane Z. Pam
Extra guitars on "Cancelcultured" by Arang Kadabada
Album Artwork AI Generated by EAZYHEAD™
Produced/Engineered/Mastered by Tristan Ortega
Follow EAZYHEAD: https://linktr.ee/eazyhead

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