Seven artists reckon with isolation and subsistence in Dragon’s Eye Recordings’ latest release, titled 'Touch'. Organized by Tomoko Hojo, the album collects six sound pieces by various artists who grapple with the restriction of physical contact through sound. Our ability to touch is a means of survival, an essential and intimate way of living and communing with others. So when it is taken away for the same reason we possess it—for the sake of staying safe—how can it be replaced? What can stand in? 

The pandemic claimed so much; and for a time, touch fell victim. In the album 'Touch', Alexandra Spense, KMRU, Viv Corringham, Myriam Van Imschoot and Federico Protto, Tomoko Hojo, and Melissa Pons prod at means of non-tactile touching. They explore spaces where touch is only a memory, a recording, something missing to find replacements. In assembling this six-piece collection, artist Tomoko Hojo recalls Yoko Ono’s 1964 event which invited attendees to “watch the sky and touch”. Over the course of 'Touch,' the listener is an attendee, witnessing sonic reconstructions of haptic happenings. In each of the album’s pieces, sound grazes unseen surfaces and traces invisible shapes with an absent finger.  

In “Communion”, Alexandra Spense recalls a space where tactility transformed into something more, an instance that dissolved the borders of the physical body to blend spirit with its surroundings. KMRU’s “its not a tangency” relies on repetition to feel the boundaries of its container. Almost like echolocation, the listener relies on distant children’s voices and the monotony of soft drones to situate oneself in an imagined space.  

“Imagine myself walking with you” engages with the physical intimacy created not through touch, but rather physical presence—the nearness of two bodies, the potentiality of tactility, the imprint conversations can leave long after they end. Viv Corringham digitally recreates her process of walking and talking with strangers, instead connecting with a friend online. In “Human Measures”, Myriam Van Imschoot and Federico Protto create an instrument which mimics what touch might sound like by simultaneously breathing into a circulatory system of tubes, wrapped into something like the symbol for infinity.   

In “fall asleep”, Tomoko Hojo conjures whispers, chants, and rings bells to touch the air.  From these sound waves of voice and instrument and element, intentional and drawn out, their dispersal can be felt. It’s when the waves enter the ear that we can hear them. But Hojo asks what happens to other waves that run into other parts of the body, unalive or unhearing.  

The absence of other bodies, the ultimate vehicles of touch, brought Melissa Pons inward with her piece “Three”. Through airy field recordings, scattered static, and gently howling drones, it’s as if Pons watches her emotions float off of her body like the minuscule flakes of skin that comprise dust.  

Each of these six pieces ask to expand outside of sound, to take physical shape, make gestures and wander. In their own unique ways, the artists of 'Touch' attempt to transmute sound into tactility, and they come as close as they can. Collectively, the sound pieces exist within the container of the compilation—an abstract notion that places collections of noise alongside one another. And so what is a compilation if not individual tracks rubbing up against one another, meshing, touching?

Touch

KMRU - Its not a tangency

Following the recent release of their "Beethoven 250" production which features on Coldcut's 0 Compilation, I'm very proud to be able to add this collection of ambient music from A Winged Victory For The Sullen's Adam Wiltzie to the Afterhours series.

As we turn the page on 2021, please enjoy this mixtape from Adam of AWVFTS.

Thanks,
-Josh
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Tracklist:
1 Labradford – Battered [kranky] 
2 Jon Hassell, Brian Eno – Delta Rain Dream [E.G. Records] 
3 Seefeel – Lux1 [Warp Records] 
4 Main – III [Beggars Banquet] 
5 Boards of Canada – Over the Horizon Radar [Warp Records] 
6 Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie – Tyler and Jesse [Artificial Pine Arch Manufacturing] 
7 Jóhann Jóhannsson – Melancholia [Starr Score Holdings] 
8 Brian Eno – Ikebukuro [All Saints Records] 
9 Stars Of The Lid – The Artificial Pine Arch Song [kranky]

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We Are Machine - Afterhours 014 - A Winged Victory For The Sullen

TESTFM > Bandcamp

TESTFM x КЛМ w/ Future Past Opportunities & Roma Nemov @ Co-op Garage — 25/06/2022

assumption of some (^¨¨^)

Remixed by : @archidi_1
Abyssal Remixed is a project initiated by amaranth_todd in collaboration with artists and friends around the world, aiming to push the boundaries of the original EP Abyssal released earlier this year at Geometric Corruption. An expansion of the previous project aiming to unveil in the silent realms within, where thoughts whisper in secret and the core of our being unfurls leading to a profound truth: the self within the self is an endless abyss.
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released December 21, 2023

Big shoutout to all the artists envolved and to our dear label friends glitch.cool

Archidi - Ossia Remix

Käse&friend

Shai - Hulud

All Mutant Disco Radio Show premieres available on :

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Taken from "ioli - Allo Lio LP (Honest Recordings)".  Out July 05th 2024. Buy here : https://honestelectronics.bandcamp.com

"ioli" debut album, "Allo Lio", is a profound exploration of Cypriot underground pop culture, written in the heart of Nicosia, the last divided city in Europe. The album features an impressive array of vocal and instrumental collaborations with artists like x.ypno, Kasska, Evagoras Bek, Hades Militia, Cievil Momo, and Androula.
"Allo Lio" or "Ακόμα Λίγο" means "(just..) a bit more." It serves both as a promise and a request, juxtaposing love and time. This phrase describes the theme of the album, the transformation of longing into waiting.

Artist social media :

https://soundcloud.com/ioli_fkarawsilver
https://www.facebook.com/rawsilverr
https://soundcloud.com/androula
https://www.instagram.com/androulla__
https://www.androula.info

Label social media :

https://soundcloud.com/honest-electronics
https://honestelectronics.bandcamp.com
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Allo Lio LP

Posi Wra ?

PREMIERE : Ioli Ft. Androula - Posi Wra ? (Honest Electronics)

Fire Draw Near Episode LV is respectfully dedicated to the memory of Heather Wood ' - outstanding singer, tank driver and wit'. It features her singing with the Young Tradition alongside some anti-marriage songs, a little look at Oró Sé Do Bheatha 'Bhaile, some traditional tunes by Rory Gallagher, some north American goodness and a bit more besides.

Tracklist

Jim Williams – Finger Scene
The Young Tradition – Lyke Wake Dirge
Rory Gallagher – She Moved Through the Fair
Darach Ó Catháin – Oró Sé do Bheatha Bhaile
Sinéad O’Connor – Oró Sé do Bheatha Bhaile
Natalie Ní Chasaide and Iarfhlaith Ó Dohmnaill – Welcome Home Gràinne
The Kossoy Sisters – I Never Will Marry
Lukas De Clerck – Sacrifice of a Reed
The Dubliners – Don’t Get Married
West of Roan – Let No One Steal Your Thyme
Abner Jay – I’m So Depressed
Rory Gallagher – Bratcha Dubha
Paul Clayton – Johnny's Gone To Hilo
Iris Dement – Pretty Saro
The Young Tradition – The Innocent Hare
The Rheingans Sisters – Devils

https://campsite.bio/firedrawnear

FDN LV

Len Leise and Salvador Ricardo deliver a shamanic edit of pan pipe, rolling percussion and heady atmospherics as General Purpose.

'Also Known As Edits' is out March 23rd on General Purpose.

Pre-order: bit.ly/2FVDQsl

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@salvadorricardo
@lenleise

Premiere: General Purpose – Concerto de Chasse [General Purpose]

grow ft. nueen

Fire Draw Near is a monthly podcast and radio show which investigates Irish traditional music and song in all of its myriad forms.

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