TR149 - Lao Dan - 'Solo 2'

© Michael Calabris & Carlotta Ferrari, 2025.

Composed/recorded September, 2025. A Calabris & Ferrari collaboration.

Please be sure to check out the YouTube video Carlotta created for this recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPw4Z-M9lXE

Witches

Purchase: geographicnorth.bandcamp.com/album/catch-a-blessing
Catalog #: GN52
April 5, 2019
LP+DIGI

Matthew Sage is a composer, producer, label owner, and publisher based in Chicago, IL. Since his earliest recordings, Sage has carefully considered and crafted each of his various approaches to experimental music. His debut LP A Singular Continent was an endless epic that charted imaginative aural cartography and seemed to soundtrack actual worldbuilding. Now, after five years personal changes and growth, Sage returns with his tried and true sonic trademarks, but with a noticeably liberated approach to his brand of experimental studio music.

Catch a Blessing shows Sage in a much more impulsive light. Where past work existed in space that was cerebral, meditated, and composed, the music here is more natural, playful, and effort-less.

Opting for chance and the unknown rather than rules and conceptual rigor, Sage "practiced" an amorphous technique that led to profound moments of accidental, unplanned beauty. And the perks were plenty. As Sage explains: "Learning to know less and to just feel more about what I am making has become important to me. I like, or am learning to like, the possibility of that openness, that uncertainty. Not knowing. It is uncomfortable, but it is nourishing."

Recorded over a summer in a tiny room on the second floor of a 120-year-old apartment in Chicago, 'Catch a Blessing' is the result of and the meditation on the exquisite exhaust and lavish lushness of his crumbling (and rebuilt) locales. 

Presented as a collection of ornately expressionistic portraits of Chicago, Sage approached the album more as paintings or sculptures than musical compositions. Album opener "Avondale primer Gray" unfurls a calm but vibrant quasi-melody that dissolves into a blur of found sonic objects both familiar unknown. "Lions to Baffle" is a semi-synthetic symphony of muted, sax-laden alien jazz, while "Elevator Straffing" maintains a whirling, glittering hum of echoed dissonance. "Claiming Air Rights" could be the literal sound of a piano floating through space, levitating despite an impossible weight. "Michigan Turquoise" brings an exquisitely eerie hymn with the same ghastly grace of Sparklehorse. Album centerpiece "Window Unit +Three Flat" is an open-ended epic of texture and ambiguity, immediately followed by the warped and trickling elegance of "Polish Triangle". "Wolfe Point Fog" closes 'Catch a Blessing' with peculiar focus, departing with an open-ended and wholly optimistic focus.

The moods and modes are constantly, entirely at odds with themselves: private vs. public, abject vs. profound, rural vs. urban(e), and so on. Where other players of experimental studio music take a more high-minded, often stuffy approach, Catch a Blessing floats in airier, more refreshing modes. It’s endlessly lush but sincerely marked by decay. This is naturalism in the truest sense.

M. Sage - "Polish Triangle"

Joshua Sabin "Sutarti" LP (SUB030)
Pre-order: https://joshuasabin.bandcamp.com/album/sutarti

Release date: July 5th, 2019
@joshuasabin

Sutarti

Joshua Sabin - Sutarti: VI

Dilian - Excuse

heard the ganjapolis remix this on exp-noise-weirdship pod episode7, had to drop everything the moment i heard it and re-remix with original aphex Ageispolis as well as ugly boy from die antword. thanx exp-noise-weirdshit
***I DID NOT CREATE ANY OF THE TRACKS YOU HEAR, I MERELY MIXED THEM(POORLY)*****

ageispolis/aganjapolis/uglyboy (weedmix)

Taken from The Henning Christiansen Archive release HC3 Opus 201 L´ESSERE UMANO ERRABANDO LA VOCA ERRABANDO LP

The third release on The Henning Christiansen archive label features a previousely unreleased work from 1991. The Wandering Human Being - The Wandering Voice, as the title suggest is a piece for voice and featurues Carlo Quartucci, Carla Tatò, Ursula Reuter Christiansen and Henning Christiansen. 

Ursula and Henning met the couple Carlo Quartucci and Carla Tatò through the curator Johannes Gachnang on a visit to Genazzano in Italy 1983 and became close friends, collaborating on a variety of projects, most notably on Carlo and Carla’s epic adaptation of Heinrich von Kleist's play Penthesilea (forthcoming on The Henning Christiansen archive). 

The Wandering Human Being - The Wandering Voice came about from a conversation between the four of them whilst on a beach on the island of Møn in the eastern sea in Denmark, looking south. Here they all laughed at the realisation that on the other ide of Europe in this direction was Sicily where Carlo and Carla lived. The island Sicily, The island Møn. As Henning says “The human-being was wandering from sea to sea”. Henning saw no difference in their way over life ‘over there’ and mused on the means of which we cross over oceans and move around facilitating awareness of the same family of human being. People from islands meet people from islands and they can all look across vast waters and laugh together. 

Human-basic-technology

This conversation and collective realisation of the simplicity of it all lead to this work which is one of the finest in Henning’s vast catalogue. L´essere Umano Errabando La Voce Errabando is a mantra for four voices, the sound of the ocean, a pvc tube, effects and wind instument. The piece moves in an organic hypnotic fashion lulling and rolling, ebbing and flowing over the two sides of the record. Rudimentary phrases in various languages interlope and weave a mystical music, as primitive as it is ‘contemporary’. 

The Wind, The Stars, etc are repeated over in random untrained fashion. The two couples from different countries weave voices, words and language into a common sonic fabric which eradicates identity, the idea of ‘national’, the idea of country, the idea of difference.  

Unlike anything else in Henning’s output L´essere Umano Errabando La Voce Errabando is a calm and meditative work which rolls along two sides wrapping the listener in a random melancholic meditative mantra. Only Henning Christiansen could summon such haunting, beautiful, gothic music carved from political hope.

Henning Christiansen -  L´ESSERE UMANO ERRABANDO LA VOCA ERRABANDO excerpt

TR095 - Nemeton / Rafael Anton Irisarri - '...spin into nothingness'

Excerpt from upcoming LP on Trás-os-Montes Records out in late 2020.

Yann Gourdon - vielle à roue, mixing
Filipe Felizardo - electric guitar
André Cepeda - cover photo

This recording was produced during a residency propitiated by Trás-os-Montes Records in Macedo de Cavaleiros, Portugal.

YANN GOURDON & FILIPE FELIZARDO - La Langue de l'Ophiolite (excerpt)

Off the new album:  https://snackmaster.bandcamp.com/album/this-path-of-mine

Rolling

"Reminiscência" is a single by Carincur, a mark of 2020 and a passage to new sound explorations.

released November 22, 2020

Producer: Carincur.
Mastered: Dominic Glare.
Artwork: João Pedro Fonseca.

YANN GOURDON & FILIPE FELIZARDO - La Langue de l'Ophiolite (excerpt)

Filipe Felizardo

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