Name: Merzbow - Merzbient by FathomDistribution
Duration: 2 min 1 s
Description: Excerpt from 10 CD limited edition Merzbow box set.

This track is pretty different for Merzbow.

Nick Hamilton provides a unique insight into his London-based label Horn of Plenty. 50% favourites and 50% forthcoming releases. Sentimental, crooning, and claustrophobic. The secret is breathing, profaning the soil.
https://horn-of-plenty.bandcamp.com/
@user-760223540

Outhouse Mix: Horn of Plenty

Sculpturegardening

Cloud Surface

A captivating journey through melancholic swirls and rhythmic patterns of synths in this week’s Rhythmic Culture podcast, coming out of the mind of Chantal Michelle. The NYC-based sound artist recently released her ‘Night Blindness’ album on Quiet Time, a 10-part album of lush yet tempestuous compositions seemingly made for introspective, stormy evenings or walks through barren winter landscapes. And this mix? It just seems to fit perfectly.

@chantalmichelle

RC:083 Chantal Michelle

Aboutface presents – °s
Released on AD 93 03/09/2021

Featuring the poem: The Rub written by Syd Hawes. Narrated by darker. Violin by Taro
Voice canon by darker.
Synths, field recordings, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, flute and composition by Aboutface.

°s is inspired by patterns in urban nature: language; behaviour; seasons, and along with the poem, explores the cyclical psychological peaks and troughs experienced during a pandemic. Live multi-instrumental improvisations apply the fibonacci sequence to create melodies and rhythms that mimic fractal patterns in nature, and are situated within binaural field recordings captured during essential travel in the first pandemic lockdown.

Track 1: 51°30'22.4"N 0°05'17.0"W
Composition, field recording, synths, flute and electric guitar by Aboutface. Section 1 of The Rub narrated by darker.

Track 2: 51°30'59.4"N 0°04'33.1"W
Composition, field recording, synths by Aboutface. Violin by Taro. Section 2 of The Rub narrated by darker.

Track 3: 51°31'12.7"N 0°12'29.9"W
Composition, field recording, synths, acoustic guitar by Aboutface. Voice cannon by darker. Section 3 The Rub narrated by darker.

Track 4: 50°49'30.9"N 0°08'40.8"W
Composition, field recording, synths, by Aboutface. Violin by Taro. Section 4 and 5 of The Rub narrated by darker.

The Fibonacci Sequence: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55…

Aboutface pres. ºs B2. 50°49'30.9"N 0°08'40.8"W

We are glad to share with you Liminal Spaces, our next compilation release (digital only). This V.A. is a collective effort from 8 artists, all invited to explore the concept of grey-area in a way that it would relate to their personal and/or creative realm. A grey-area is very linked to what is known as a liminal space : a transitional location, or a state being, in between two others, often empty, abandoned, that feels cold, nostalgic and slightly unsettling, but also familiar to our minds.

Liminal Space goes into a wide sonic spectrum range. Disturbing spoken words, emotional pop anthems, deconstructed club and disquieting ambient are merged all together here for an unsteady listening experience.

The creative process began just before the war in Ukraine - when we learnt that we were working on a concept so close to such an event, we decided that all proceeds will go to Helping To Leave, a NGO helping people evacuate from areas affected by the Ukrainian war.

Morfine - On & Off

Played & Recorded at Burnout-Regula by A-Alpha

A-Alpha | Lowlife Attitude  - Radio Bollwerk - 25.05.2023

Syringa Vulgaris

Member of HTRK and co-creative director of the VR-enhanced Ghost Train, Jonnine Standish utilises episode #4 to soundtrack the experiences of thrill, mystery and energy using a series of blended sounds.

In Ghost Trains, old theme park soundtracks, carriage screeches, passenger screams, sparks, sirens and mechanical clanking meld with background audio from a series of long forgotten Instagram stories, all boosted in intensity by an underlying soundtrack of techno and experimental electronic music.

Links:
https://www.sydneyfestival.org.au/2018/ghost-train
https://www.facebook.com/htrkrtio/
https://soundcloud.com/htrk

#4 Jonnine Standish - Ghost Trains

Excerpt from 10 CD limited edition Merzbow box set. 

Merzbow - Merzbient

Taken from 'Rhythmic Landscapes', out now on Takuroku - www.cafeoto.co.uk/takuroku

"I wanted to make something which reflected a scene of nature, outside of the city, somewhere which has become more and more attractive to be over the last few months... So I made these synthesised percussion sounds to be almost real and wooden, which are weaving in and out across different tempos, playing patterns that are somewhat regular, but always changing slightly. This is meant to be analogous with the dawn chorus, or any scene of nature where lots of different small events are happening, layered, at once... But I only had the dawn chorus, so I recorded that at 4am on Monday morning. These individual bird songs weaving in and out, repeating, different birds joining and leaving throughout. So it's meant to be 3 different sound environments, or imaginary frames of an environment at 3 different moments." 
- Cam Deas

TR049 - Cam Deas - 'Rhythmic Landscapes 2'

Digital Download, Limited Edition Cassette and CDr available here: https://tinyurl.com/y5ju8h8d

JUNGLE GYM RECORDS presents "Unit", a brand new offering from Berlin's Florian Kupfer. Sinking deeper than ever before, "Unit" is Kupfer on the brink, an existential psychosis of memory structures and mental decay. Like water-flow down towering industrial frameworks, brain channels erode, a neuro-static mist of confusion and degradation, a void of both body and soul. With labotomatic precision Kupfer dissects and perfects the innermost workings of his distinctive sound... exclusively from JUNGLE GYM.

@kupfer

[JGT60] "Unit" - Florian Kupfer (Previews)

Adventures in Audio, hand-picked audio gems at fair trade to the artist. 

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