WTF :D  Im glad I have super stereo sys tem :D OMG!!!

brown noise or was that just a coincidence 😶

From "Kambium"
Out July 2nd 2021
https://mondoj.bandcamp.com/album/kambium

Mastered by Sean McCann

Piętnastka - Kambium (MONDOJ15)

Kamana is a multiformat release inspired by and channeling the culture and traditions of the Aeta, an indigenous group from the Zambales region in the Philippines. 

One of the oldest inhabitants of the region the Aetas are also some of the most fascinating and ancient nomadic and hunter gathering cultures. The release goes from the realms of the real to the imaginary, from transcription to syncretism, from concrete to abstract. 

An (un)real Sonic Exorcism filled with Ancestral Frequencies, Haunted Ghosts and other animistic spirits roaming the Pinatubo forests.

More info at www.discrepant.net

Carlos Casas - Kamana (LP Preview)

Every day this month, for three minutes before midnight, some of the giant electronic billboards in Times Square flicker violently in rectangular sequences of black and white. This is not a glitch. It's test pattern [times square], an electronic piece by Paris-based Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda, reworked for 47 screens across five blocks of one of the most iconic and irritating places in the world. This is the soundtrack that was played on October 16 as part of the installation.

Ryoji Ikeda - test pattern [times square]

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Pre-orders available here- https://alienjams.bandcamp.com/album/rkss-cutoff-ep

Artwork- Maxi Springer 
Graphic Design- Joe Gilmore
Mastering- Rupert Clervaux

Special thanks to the Carvery

rkss- Wave

Ryoji Ikeda  - Data.Vertex

Arts and culture practitioners and organisations Declare a Climate and Ecological Emergency. See @CultureDeclares 

download to your phone, for participants in the Culture Declares in London ceremony, 3rd April 

'Sonum Vocis Magnum Parvo

This score comprises of both an amplified through composed piece of music and accompanying acoustic bells to be performed as a promenade. Shifting, phasing, moving like a sonic cloud.  Bells are traditionally used to call communities together, to mark the passing of time, to raise the alarm, we wanted to use these modest handbells, intrinsically a small sound, but when multiplied, the gathering of a small sound makes a big sound. Compassionate, compelling - we will be heard!  Sonum Vocis Magnum is a play on words the literal translation to Latin of Small Sound, Big Sound, but therein lies the voice - voices of the people, culture declares…  'Mira Calix 


written and produced by Mira Calix and Ed Handley

Sonum Vocis Magnum Parvo

Rupert Clervaux - After Masterpieces LP
Release Date - 24th May 2019
Buy - https://whities.bandcamp.com/album/after-masterpieces

On May 24th, experimental musician Rupert Clervaux releases his debut solo album ‘After Masterpieces’ on Whities. 
The record features guest performances from saxophonist and trumpet player Eben Bull, singer Sian Ahern, and renowned experimental artist Anna Homler (aka Breadwoman) whose inimitable voice ushers us into the record’s opening prelude, and out of its redemptive final piece. 

The design by Alex McCullough and Kia Tasbihgou illustrates a 1:1 scale etched steel plate; the industrially machined casing through which an abstract landscape by the late Brian McMinn is visible. The printed sleeve is a reproduction of this steel ‘breach artefact’, bound with custom produced elastic band denoting the tracklist, strapping in place an accompanying poetry chapbook to it’s outer. 

‘After Masterpieces’ sets six recitals of Rupert’s poetry in unique, unpredictable and expansive musical scenery. The enigmatic and densely compacted texts, reworked and gently honed throughout the album’s slow creation, find an aerial perspective from which a lifetime of reading, listening and thinking is carefully re-mapped. The broad thematic scope takes in aesthetics, ancient mythologies, the origins of language and music, epistemology and ecology––to name just a few––all of which remain tightly intertwined, resistant to abstraction, and imbued with a sense of inquisitive ambiguity which treats all certainty with suspicion: the listener is invited to find their own threads, draw their own conclusions and think their own thoughts––as Anna Homler once aptly said of her own work, “…it’s not didactic, it’s poetic.” 

Initially deriving its impetus from the mood and rhythm of the words, the album’s music utilises a wide-array of performance and production techniques. Clervaux draws on his full range of musical interests, creating long-form pieces that at turns support the recitals and then lead the way for the instrumental swathes within and between them. The sounds of ‘After Masterpieces’ revolve through the melodic ambience of ‘Her Fingers of Pink Light’; the dark electronics and multi-layered samples of ‘In Shadowlands of Like and Likeness’; the tentative interplay of piano and voice on ‘Damper and Drum’; and the riff-like patterned percussion and free improvisation of ‘Make Nature Speak.’ As the LP draws to a close, Homler and Bull join Rupert on ‘L’amore che Muove il Sole’—a sprawling anti-hymn, echoing the structure of ‘The Divine Comedy’, which discovers, in place of Dante’s heavenly paradise, a fragile optimism for positive change in the wreckage of failed grand narratives. 

Additional thanks go to Noel Summerville, James Marrs, Laura Lies In and Ju Canon for all their work on this project.

Rupert Clervaux - After Masterpieces LP - WHYT022

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Following two instalments in the collection, Spanish label @modern-obscure-music return this summer with a third volume in their 'Ritual Rhythms' VA series, subtitled 'of the Obscure Mediterranean Souls' and featuring the likes of Jorge Velez, Defled, Marc Piñol, Airaboi, Cardopusher, @pye-corner-audio & more.

Pye Corner Audio - Sentinels [Modern Obscure Music]

Kangding Ray . Pruitt Igoe
12’’ E.P.

Pruitt Igoe is a 4 track E.P on which both Alva Noto and Ben Frost have been invited by Kangding Ray to produce sonic variations on a contemporary architectural myth.

The EP’s title Pruitt Igoe is taken from a gigantic social housing project, completed in 1955 in the U.S. City of St Louis, Missouri, and often regarded as a symbol of the modernist architecture failure. Designed according to the principles of modernism, and by the same architect who would later build the World Trade Center, the project saw a disastrous and violent decline after only a few years, plagued with vandalism and massive criminality, leading to its complete destruction from 1972 onwards. Footage of its demolition are visibly featured in the 1983 movie “Koyaanisqatsi”, scored by Phillip Glass.

Pruitt Igoe is more than a post-modern icon, it represents an ancestral movement of hope and disillusion, of perfectly planned models and evaporated dreams. It serves as a judicious metaphor for our era, where the feeling of imbalance and doubt has replaced the certainity of eternal progress and endless economical growth. 

This movement is reflected by the two sides of the record: on the A side, the original track and its remodel by Alva Noto, both represent the planning and construction phase, based on a clear structure and a hypnotic loop of women chanting in the streets of a small town in North India. On the B-side, Ben Frost and Kangding Ray undertake the demolition process - slicing beats, destroying structures and emphasising the beauty of collapse.


A2 Pruitt Igoe ( Alva Noto remodel )

A live improvisation by Cool Maritime & Matthewdavid's Mindflight.

Recorded July 16th, 2018 at the 3rd edition of the "Listen to Music Outside in the Daylight Under a Tree" series of outdoor environmental music concerts from Leaving Records and Tierra de la Culebra in Highland Park Los Angeles.

All genre ~ All welcome.

These events are currently on pause, but I look forward to the day they resume, and we can once again gather, listen and rejoice.

Cool Maritime and Matthewdavid's Mindflight Under The Tree 7.16.18

The stories you love, now tuned to your ears.

Ryoji Ikeda - test pattern [times square]

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