This sounds incredibly deep and evocative, Dan! Looking forward to this release.

love it when the hopefulness breaks through the darkness...

Fellow Philly musician, this track flows beautifully. I love whatever is cracking through right here it's almost got a vocal quality to it. Great work.

This playlist is dedicated to Marie Laure.

2k16•03

Taken from El Idioma De Las Luciérnagas (Pathway007)

Federico Durand - El Idioma De Las Luciérnagas

Tue Sep

nowhere else to go

Track taken from the album "Euplexia" due out April 18th 2014.

Having spent the first half of 2013 working on two site-specific installations; UnThread in Southend, and After the Flood as part of Hebden Bridge Arts Festival, Isnaj Dui (aka Katie English) presents the follow up to 2012’s ambitious year-long Duodecim project.  Euplexia, Isnaj Dui’s most recent studio album, sees a return to the raw, edgy sound prevalent in earlier works, yet combines this with the maturity of composition which English has refined over the years.

With Euplexia, Isnaj Dui has drawn on aspects of her installation work and the journal-like nature of Duodecim to combine field recording and sampling alongside her trademark concert and bass flutes and dulcimer.  Using coil pickups, dictaphones and other electronics to build unstable textures and throbbing basslines, English has created a soundscape that is at once serene and grating.  Whilst the trademark schizophrenic nature of tracks is in check, this album also sees a move towards more dissonant harmonic structures and high frequency playing on the flutes.  The CD comes packaged in a hand-printed sleeve. 


isnaj dui / fjoeg

Album: Nº1 DVD and Remixes
Label: Self - Release

and instantly take effect (loscil remix)

First Performance at Marianischer Saal, Luzern, Switzerland 
by Christian Buck, Guitar and Christian Wolfarth, Drumset 
on October 8th 2011

artwork by soeren hellwege
slow birth of a coherent thought (detail)
pencil on two sheets of paper / 20th cent.

squall line territories - #1 movement

Album available here : https://wildsilencelabel.bandcamp.com/album/before-i-was-invisible
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Susan Matthews is a UK based composer/musician, known for her intense, ambitious, hypnotic harmonies and industrial noise creations. She began composing experimental music, described by da/73 as ‘...dazzling abstractions of grace and beauty’, in 1999 and has developed a comprehensive CV of achievements, including gallery works, festival inclusions, artist residencies, live performances and radio airplay, both home and abroad. 
In 2005 she founded the independent record label Siren Wire Recordings and has also recorded music for Tursa, Apollolaan, Sonic Oyster Records, Earth Monkey Productions and DA/73. 
An ardent collaborator, she has successfully worked with many of her favourite artists including Tony Wakeford, Rainier Lericolais, Richard Moult, Clint Newton, Clutter, Alistair Crosbie, M, Yokna Patofa, Nick Grey, Damon Shulman and Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo. 
In 2010 she launched Siren Wire Editions an independent record label specialising in hand made limited editions of music by carefully selected experimental artists from around the globe. 
https://susanmatthews.bandcamp.com
http://www.sirenwire.com/
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Rainier Lericolais (born in 1970 in Châteauroux, France) is both a multidisciplinary artist and musician. He's also an avid record collector. He works in a variety of media, including painting, film/video, installation, fanzines, and records (his discography comprises more than a hundred recordings). He has collaborated with such diverse artists as Simon Fisher Turner, Stephan Eicher and Sylvain Chauveau. In addition, he is a member of the band Minizza. His work is exhibited in many different private and public collections, galleries and museums (Centre Pompidou in Paris or FRAC Limousin for instance). His work as an artist aims at grasping the elusive, a fleeting memory or a furtive gesture. He is represented by the Frank Elbaz Gallery in Paris. 
https://www.facebook.com/rainier.lericolais/

"Before I was Invisible" is their third collaboration together after "when the ghosts are within these walls" (Siren Wire- 2008) and "homothetique ricochet" (Siren Wire- 2008).

Susan Matthews/ Rainier Lericolais - Your Ghost Moves With Me

Preorder CD | Digital: https://futuresequence.bandcamp.com/album/earthworks 

'Earthworks' is Thom Brookes' debut album as Drombeg, following his acclaimed EP ‘Notes From The Ocean Floor’ in 2015. A soundtrack for the middle-of-nowhere, the wild landscapes of Brookes' native Southern Ireland are littered with historic (Tumulus), and geological (Béarra) structures hardened under the relentless elements. Sinuous string melodies, and tender piano phrases reach like sunlight breaking through heavy clouds, blended with electronics and field recordings in careful balance to produce a rich cinematic sound.



Tumulus by Drombeg

Taken from the upcoming album 'Remnants'... 

A collection of memories, field recordings, and sound inspired by the remote corners of Iceland.

Available soon as a limited edition package exclusively through Fluid Audio.

http://fluidaudio.bigcartel.com/mailing-list

Recorded, mixed, and produced by Hotel Neon
www.hotelneon.bandcamp.com

Mastered by Taylor Deupree 
www.12kmastering.com

Additional textures on 'Cascading' recorded by Andy Othling www.lowercasenoises.com


Hotel Neon - Deluge

From the album A Boat Upon Its Blood by Jason Sharp

Jason Sharp
A Boat Upon Its Blood
180gLP/CD/DL
CST119

cstrecords.com/cst119
jasonsharp.ca

A Boat Upon Its Blood

Jason Sharp • "A Boat Upon Its Blood (Pt 1)"

~ IIKKI 006 ~

music : Aaron Martin
photography : Yusuf Sevinçli 
album/book : Touch Dissolves
duration : 35.17 mn
date : July 2018

edition : 
vinyl : limited to 300 copies hand numbered + hand sealed 
cd : limited to 200 cd (glass mastered) hand numbered + handcrafted
book : limited to 500 copies hand numbered + hand stamped

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pre-order : June 21th, 2018 / official release : July 12th, 2018

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All music by Aaron Martin. Recorded from March 6, 2018 to April 13, 2018 in Topeka, Kansas.

Mastered by James Plotkin in April 2018
Artwork by Yusuf Sevinçli
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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Links :

http://aaronmartin.bandcamp.com
http://www.yusufsevincli.com
http://www.iikki-books.com

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℗ & © 2 0 1 8 - I I K K I - I I K K I 0 0 6

Aaron Martin - Touch Dissolves (album preview)

DR-54 : kj - ex (CD, ltd. 150)  / DL
Release page : https://dronarivm.com/2018/09/07/kj-ex/

ex, kj’s third album and dronarivm’s 54th release, is a wandering into the dark side of nostalgia — labyrinthian refrains evoke the mind’s tendency to reach for the past. 

for chris

mastered by rafael anton irisarri
cover photo by emiliano marinucci

buy CD / DL

kj - caro (taken from 'ex')

From the upcoming Deaf Center album "Low Distance"

Low Distance

Deaf Center - Movements / The Ascent

From the album With Voices available January 18, 2019 from Western Vinyl.

Bandcamp https://machinefabriek.bandcamp.com/album/with-voices-2
iTunes hyperurl.co/806yif
Spotify http://open.spotify.com/album/3dDRn42zqNUv4vITI2Z3CU
WV http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv185

With Voices is the newest recording by Dutch composer Rutger Zuydervelt under the moniker Machinefabriek. True to its title, the album’s eight pieces exhibit Zuydervelt’s use of cassette recorders, tone generators, radios, synths, and other hifi curio to construct bewildering aural architecture around vocal contributions from Peter Broderick, Marissa Nadler, Richard Youngs, Chantal Acda, Terence Hannum (of Locrian) and others. These human voices are featured as musical instruments rather than mere vehicles of lyrical content, resulting in a sub-linguistic mosaic of primordially stirring moods.

The initial spark of With Voices was kindled while Zuydervelt was in Taipei creating music for a dance company. In the final days of his trip, a dancer named Wei-Yun Chen caught Zuydervelt’s ear with an instagram video featuring a voice that turned out to be Wei-Yun’s own (she would end up on the album’s seventh movement, a piece that features dissected bits of Taiwanese poetry amid low-pitched murmurs and whispering fogbanks of static). The encounter stirred Zuydervelt to create a single 35 minute soundscape upon which each vocalist on With Voices was encouraged to improvise, be it talking, reading, singing, or wordless, guttural intoning. Such vocal smatterings were then used to determine how the other tonal elements should be arranged, dictating where each musical passage would ultimately lead. “The idea was for everyone to just do what came naturally” he recalls, “the element of unpredictability was important to me.” 

Indicative of this approach “III” (the tracks are simply titled with Roman numerals) slowly winds like ivy through staccato phrases spoken by Zuydervelt’s peer Peter Broderick, whose micro-incantations skip along mechanically only to telescope into monastic grandeur at the track’s midpoint; the vibrations of vocal cords are often stretched to a seismic hum to form the heavy implements in Zuydervelt’s toolkit. On “V”, tape recordings of Berlin electronic artist Zero Years Kid (aka Joachim Badenhorst) sputter with their own apparent intelligence like a faulty AI attempting to interpret reels of human speech in some ruinous library of the distant future. Finally, a siren-like Marissa Nadler leads the suite to its lullabic endpoint with overlapping wisps of harmony devoid of accompaniment ending the album on an angelic note.  

In these moments, like much of With Voices, warm-blooded arteries seem to have grown around bits of well-designed artifice to form something warmly alien, soberly futuristic, and inherently satisfying. More than simply an album of collaborative features, With Voices is a mutating collage of modern minimalism that challenges as often as it comforts. There is an alchemical, metallurgical quality that arises from Zuydervelt’s unique way of merging humanness with abstraction, harshness with beauty, and unintelligibility with familiarity on what may be the most affecting Machinefabriek release to date.

Machinefabriek - "VIII (with Marissa Nadler)"

from 'Cycle and Reveal' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den319
available on all formats at http://denovali.com/mariodiazdeleon

Denovali is pleased to present Cycle and Reveal, the fourth full length LP of contemporary classical works by acclaimed composer Mario Diaz de Leon. Featuring bold performances by a cast of longtime collaborators, this compilation is an essential chapter in his celebrated series of recordings for acoustic instruments and electronics.
 
The output of Mario Diaz de Leon defies easy categorization, spanning the worlds of contemporary classical composition, experimental electronic music, extreme metal, and creative improvised music. Working extensively with an inner circle of close collaborators (ICE, Talea, and TAK Ensemble, among others) his classical works have been celebrated over the last decade for their “hallucinatory intensity” (New York Times), “snarling exuberance” (Pitchfork), “helter-skelter, electronically enhanced cadenzas” (New Yorker Magazine), and coupling of “crystalline clarity with the disorienting turbulence of a sonic vortex” (Wire Magazine). 
 
The A-side features two works written in early 2017, which colorfully embrace hypnotic repetition alongside dynamic contrasts and distinctly embody the electrifying post-minimalism that Diaz de Leon is known for. Opener Sacrament is written for a trio of musicians from Talea Ensemble and features the composer’s shimmering, bass heavy electronic production. This energetic piece, driven by the virtuosity of marimba player and Talea executive director Alex Lipowski, makes use of rapid-fire arpeggiations and heavy rhythmic unisons. These are starkly contrasted with moments of reverberant echo, bursts of noise in the flute and electronics, and ecstatic rhythms. Labrys, written for ICE bassoonist Rebekah Heller, builds on the celebrated legacy of solo + electronic works heard on his 2015 album The Soul is the Arena. Built around virtuosic interplay between bassoon and synthesizer, Labrys features shifting and hypnotic repetition alongside expansive melodies and sub-bass frequencies.
 
The B-side consists of two works composed in July of 2016 which draw from primal, incantatory, and improvisatory sonic landscapes. Irradiance, a collaboration with cellist Mariel Roberts, begins with a series of spacious riffs exploring the extremes of the cello’s register and transforms over time into a climactic frenzy of noise loops. Tuning the cello’s low C down to a growling G, Roberts interpreted the sounds of each pre-recorded loop by ear.  The piece gradually builds from cavernous depths into an ecstatic climax of anarchic noise. Concluding track Mysterium is written for the ICE trio of flutist and ensemble founder Claire Chase, clarinetist and artistic director emeritus Joshua Rubin, and bassoonist and current artistic director Rebekah Heller. Archaic melodies, improvised heterophony, spectral transformations, echoes of Klang-era Stockhausen, and the colorful noise of Moog and Ciat-Lonbarde synthesizers combine to create an expansive and wildly ritualistic atmosphere.
 
Cycle and Reveal was recorded in vivid detail by Marc Urselli (John Zorn, Laurie Anderson) at East Side Sound, Stephen McLaughlin at EMPAC, and mastered by Ryan Streber at Oktaven Audio. Diaz de Leon invited Melbourne-based visual artist Yuria Okamura to design the cover image and inner sleeve symbols. Sharing Diaz de Leon’s interest in the reinterpretation of spiritual art, Okamura’s cover “maps and reconfigures geometric patterns and symbols that reference esoteric symbolism, occult diagrams, religious architecture and decoration.”

Cycle and Reveal

Mario Diaz de Leon & Talea Ensemble - Sacrament

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Hotel Neon - Deluge

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