Little thing with JD-Xi, System 1m and DX11.

Cloudberry

VA - Eleventh  Listen Teaser [2021]

Blessed By Saturn’s self-titled album consists of 11 tracks, recorded during a stressful week in June, a little after the creation of the project itself. Most of the recordings are made in one sitting - they can be described as spontaneous and raw, including modulated field recordings, drone atmosphere and simple, repetitive melodies developed in slow progressive structures. Emotionally, it’s a mix of melancholy, nostalgic longing, yet including impulsive moments of grudge - all expressed through a variety of sounds. The album is mostly instrumental, excluding the last track which features vocals from Niandraz.

Written & Produced by Niandraz
Mastering: Thom Vreeken

Blessed By Saturn

Loveless (feat. Niandraz)

11. Loveless (feat. Niandraz)

releases December 3, 2021

threeop.bandcamp.com/music

Written and produced by Mersad Muminović
Mastering by Nil Hartman
Artwork by Andrew Bates

Salire

Notein - Salire (3OP004)

https://open.spotify.com/album/18Wdi9q04IPQxxo1RbqlN5

KARUMA

making sounds in the hotel room for upcoming album. headed out to the sea today with a field recorder as well.

February 23, 2022 (hotel)

By David Fulford and Mark Vernon.

Out now on Gagarin Records. Available to buy here:
https://markvernon.bandcamp.com/album/time-deferred

Followers of the artist Mark Vernon will note a subdued and pensive mood on this new record. Monochrome and sepulchral, these tracks are in a minor key, a key which opens the door to a damp cellar of the imagination. Too-many legged spiders crawl over dusty violins. Time lurches, loops and echoes like excursions on slow motion railways in reverse. Concrète noir sombre séances for non-believers. Tauntological voices from the past provoke us. Half guessed ghosts, magnetic phantoms from funereal-to-reel tape recordings. The sibilant persistence of the deceased evokes the exhausted dread of waiting for a medical test result. Enigmatic messages thrown to the werewolves with nothing but cheap medication and some breathing exercises for support. 

Caution: this record can cause dreamless nights. 

“Psychedelic visions, blackouts and blinding lights reveal an unusual, sick, and feverish musicality... here the gods come back from the dead only to ensure us an existence nurtured by the freezing rays of a black sun.” 

Massimiliano Busti, Blow Up (Feb 2022)

Time Deferred

Athanasia

taken from the forthcoming album "Ruins", to be released on limited tape on 16.09.2022

Ruins

Corrado Maria de Santis - One Reign After Another

Prison Episodes, an opus five years in the making, is Pouya Pour-Amin's cry of anger and sorrow against our times. Structured as a series of sketches, this harrowing and powerful album explores the experiences of a political prisoner from her or his incarceration to breaking point. 

In this era of political extremism, repression and very often despair, this album could not be more timely. Composed in Tehran, Prison Episodes is a meditation on political repression, defiance and the limits of endurance and hope. Harsh, grating, transcendent and despairing it offers a soundtrack to our global political moment.
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Pouya Pour-Amin is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and actor from Tehran, Iran. He has worked with Tehran`s Camerata contemporary music ensemble both as a double-bass player and a composer, and presented works at SET Fest in Tehran, CTM in Berlin as well as composing for theatre, film and TV in Iran. He is also active, along with Sara Bigdeli Shamloo and Nima Aghiani in the band Migrain Sq. Pour-Amin first appeared on Flaming Pines as part of the Absence showcase of experimental music from Tehran, curated by Arash Akbari. This is his first full release on the label. 
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A note on the artwork:
The artwork for this album is by the prominent Iranian contemporary artist and grave marker Barbad Golshiri. Entitled Quod 2010 it features words in Persian of the prison memories of A’ezam, a political prisoner of the 1980s, retold by Akbar Sardouzami. The text reads: 
'A’ezam has been degraded and tortured, living in timelessness and facelessness. She has nothing, and has turned to nothing, she says. Then one day she finds a rusty pin in her solitary confinement. She starts to draw squares, and the squares become her world: ‘Then I saw if I draw a square within another square and reach the depth, the square turns to a point. The cell was too dark, but I could see a point in the middle of the square that helplessly looked up at me and said: you should testify that I’ve been a square. You are the only one who knows that I have been and still am a square.’
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Credits:
All music composed by Pouya Pour-Amin
Violin/Viola: Adel Poursamadi
Trumpet : Sardar Sarmast
E.Doublebass : Pouya Pour-Amin
Mastered by Lawrence English at Negative Space.  
Album Art : Quod by Barbad Golshiri

Have mercy, for crying out loud, O lord of the world! - Pouya Pour-Amin - Prison Episodes - June 26

Music and Artwork by Ryan J Raffa
Mastered by Taylor Deupree
Shimmering Moods Records 2021
SHM 163

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Soon: Hiraeth by tarxun and Siavash Hakim out Nov 5
Latest:
Oblique by Corder & Yantis out Sept 17
Sounds of Mmabolela - Nikki Sheth - out Sept 3
The Yearning - Liz Helman
A Long Wait - Paula García Stone

Have mercy, for crying out loud, O lord of the world! - Pouya Pour-Amin - Prison Episodes - June 26

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