Silver Ladders

Chop on the Climbout

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After another weary year, allow us to soak your digital tendrils in our tepid aural ooze – a sonic silicone secretion to reboot the limbic system to its most primal state of ecstasy.

INDEX0X0XL is the second release of our pan-sensory bouquet, distilled to provoke and whet our deepest of lusts. An atomised, sway-inducing solution to seduce and ensnare the most sated souls, thru an intoxicating rhapsody of notes – a Venus in slurs.

The tracks will be available as 'pay as you feel' on Valentine's Day 2022. There will also be love inspiring merch to accompany the compilation: a colour-customisable, individually handmade INDEXOXOXL dildo by xoxo.dilco. Head to Bandcamp to order, or send us a dm.

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Mastered by @ikezwanikken
Artwork by @kingsofty
Curated by @connaharaway & @kingsofty

INDEXOXOXL

dildos n digis

ben bondy – trauma bonding

BEATRICE DILLON - Drum programming, electronics, synthesizer, bass guitar, field recordings

RUPERT CLERVAUX - Vibraphone, drums, percussion, field recordings, additional drum programming

and EBEN BULL - Pocket trumpet and zither

The Same River Twice - Beatrice Dillon & Rupert Clervaux

Copenhagen, Amager 2017. Performed by Frederik Valentin, Simon Littauer, Malthe Berlin Mcbeck, Jakob Emil & Hannes Norrvide.

F. Valentin - Don't Forget Me

A continous mix of 11 tracks as part of the release 'Wolfgang Tillmans - Hamburg Süd / Nee IYaow eow eow" (CD/digital/stream) 

The 11 tracks were the soundtrack to the exhibition 'There were 30 years between 1943 and 1973, 30 years from 1973 was the year 2003'.  

CD Digipack + 48 page artist booklet includes 7 new tracks + 2 tracks released on CD for the first time.

CD available online at: http://www.wordandsound.de/article/107297 
or physically at Kunstverein in Hamburg, Walther Koenig Bookstores

Hamburg Süd / Nee IYaow eow eow

Hamburg Süd (Continous Mix of Tracks 1-11)

A1 from 'Envelope' released on Ekster 2018
BUY: https://eksterlabel.bandcamp.com/album/envelope

Slope

Artist: ASUNA & Jan Jelinek
Album: Signals Bulletin
Label#: Faitiche18
 
Faitiche is delighted to announce the release of a new collaboration between the Japanese sound artist ASUNA and Jan Jelinek: the album Signals Bulletin brings together joint improvisations and compositions made over a period of three years in Berlin, Kyoto and Kanazawa. ASUNA’s meandering organ drones merge with Jelinek’s pulsating synthesizer and field recording loops to create dense superclusters that span broad harmonic arcs.

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Watching the Japanese sound artist ASUNA playing the organ, some people might be surprised. ASUNA is no virtuoso flying over the keyboard in a rage. Instead, with the calm gestures of an office worker, he cuts strips of adhesive tape to the correct length before sticking them onto the keys of his instrument. In this way, large clusters of keys are held down, creating a dense and sustained range of frequencies, while the sound artist continually prepares further sets of keys or removes tape again. I have rarely seen a more convincing performance concept, with such a power to fascinate.

I first met ASUNA when we both gave a concert at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, his home city. He performed the organ drones as described above and I immediately knew I wanted to collaborate with him. Six years and five meetings later, we completed Signals Bulletin. The album includes both joint improvisations and compositions, recorded in Berlin, Kanazawa and Kyoto.

Whether using prepared organ, Casio keyboards or mechanical plastic toys, ASUNA creates rich textures of sound that barely change over long stretches of time. It is a music without breaks. For a while, I was unsure how my loops made using modular synthesizers and live sampling fitted here – until I realized the role I had to take in this duet: I would provide the rhythmically pulsating foundation over which his dense continuums could unfold.

The result is harmonically drifting superclusters that put us into a meditation-like state. It can perhaps be compared to Automatic Writing – a mode of creative expression floating somewhere between concentration and distraction. Both the structure of our pieces and our approach to our instruments allow a similar “absence”: we let the machines play and repeat themselves – while we, in a mild form of trance, adopt the role of observers, intervening only occasionally.

It is no coincidence that ASUNA owns a collection of Doodle Art – drawings jotted down during conversations or while talking on the phone. It is said that works made like this point to the unconscious and reveal pet motifs – because a doodler always inadvertently returns to his or her favourite themes. The artwork for Signals Bulletin features pictures from the collection, in this case sheets of paper from the pads provided in stationery shops to test out pens. The special quality of such doodles is that the jumble of drawings is the work of a collective whose individual members do not know each other. Layer by layer is added, by someone different each time – until it becomes a dense cluster of lines and symbols ...
Jan Jelinek, Berlin 2018

ASUNA & Jan Jelinek: Relief, Pt.1

Music for Serge Modular, inspired by Maryanne Amacher's music and research. 

PLEASE USE SPEAKERS, NOT HEADPHONES.

Perceptual Geography (excerpt)

PREORDER/ shelterpress.bandcamp.com/album/the-fl…the-vessel-2

Félicia Atkinson  'The Flower & The Vessel '
Shelter Press / SP110

French poet and ASMR auteur Félicia Atkinson has frequently fixated on the elusive interwoven relationship between microcosms and macrocosms – how even the quietest creative act ripples outward in unforeseen ways, a whisper with no fixed meaning. Her latest work pursues this notion in a more literal and lasting fashion, as it was crafted while pregnant on tour, in impersonal hotel rooms in foreign cities. She describes it as “a record not about being pregnant but a record made with pregnancy.” Each day and night, finding herself far from home, she asked herself “What am I doing here? How can I connect myself to the world?” The answer gradually revealed itself: “With small gestures: recording my voice, recording birds, a simple melody.”

In truth there is nothing simple about The Flower & The Vessel. The album’s 11 songs span a vast pantheon of whispering textures, opaque moods, and surreal spoken word, leading the listener through a mirrored hall of beguiling mirages. Atkinson cites a trio of French classical compositions from her childhood as formative influences on this particular collection: Maurice Ravel’s “L'enfant et les sortilèges” (“a scary opera for kids”), Debussy’s “La Mer” (for its union of narration and music) and Erik Satie’s “Gymnopédies” (as an exercise in negative space, irony without cynicism, and “melody with doubt”). There’s certainly a shade of classicism woven within these tracks, however veiled, abstracted, or unorthodox. Melancholic piano motifs repeat then retreat into a radiant frost of shivering frequencies; processed voices recite cut-up poems and interviews over delay-refracted Rhodes and Wurlitzer; iPad gamelan patterns flutter from meditative to melancholic and back again, offset by pointillist patches of delicate software synesthesia.

Although much of Atkinson’s past discography is shaped by speech and the lyricism of language, The Flower & The Vessel ventures farther into silence, absence, and voiceless wilderness. Among her sources of inspiration were “women who wonder, dream, and create vacant spaces in their art,” as well as Ikebana flower arrangements, which reflect her own relationship with listening: “structure combined with everyday noises, selecting them to make a sparse music bouquet.” Field recordings from Tasmania and the Mojave Desert murmur beneath hushed reverberations of gong, vibraphone, marimba, softly processed into an elegant emptiness, alternately eerie and serene.

Her mode of minimalism has long been one of reduction, riddles, and curation, but here Atkinson’s synergy feels close to apotheosis, emotive but ambivalent, a ceremony of expectation and invisible forces. The 19-minute closing collaboration with SUNN O))) guitarist Stephen O’Malley, “Des Pierres,” is one of the album’s few pieces tracked in a proper studio (Music Unit in Montreuil, France) but it broods and burns with the same subliminal majesty as the rest of The Flower & The Vessel: an ember in amber, seeds planted in shifting sands. Atkinson’s voice flickers like a flame, framed by slabs of shadowy feedback. Her process may be personal is but its impact ripples to the edges of existence: “How does the act of creation connect us, not only to history, but to the cosmic? It’s a process of taking, and then giving back. It makes us belong to the world.”

The Flower And The Vessel

You Have To Have Eyes

FELICIA ATKINSON — You Have To Have Eyes (SP110)

Desertshores (Memorial Mix) is an exclusive remix of the track from 'Desertshores  / The Final Report' double album release. The track is a gathering of the voices of thirty five of Sleazy's friends and acquaintances. The lyrics are simply "Meet me On The Desertshore". A full list of contributors is here > http://127.0.0.1:53932/industrialrecords/industrialrecords/xtg-desertshores.html

Promo Videos:
https://vimeo.com/49072037 
https://vimeo.com/49072036
Released on Industrial Records 26th November 2012.

Desertshore

Desertshores (Memorial Mix)

Buy Album Here

Written, recorded and produced in 2016 with Jemma, Joel, Laurie and Ruth at Green Door Studios, Glasgow

Engineered by Emily

Épater

26 April 2024
Build From Here
Download, Stream, LP & CD

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3 March 2023
Your Body Is Yours
Download, stream and music video.

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20 May 2022
Insanely Alive (Remixes) 
Remixes by Pet Shop Boys, Total Freedom & Sami Baha. 
12-inch vinyl preorder here: https://bit.ly/3rRgKxm

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5 November 2021
Wolfgang Tillmans - Moon in Earthlight (Album) 
Download/CD/Vinyl

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2 July 2021
Wolfgang Tillmans – Can't Escape into Space (Honey Dijon's Euphoria Mix)
Download, stream and music video.

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20 December 2020
Wolfgang Tillmans – Can't Escape into Space
Download, stream and music video.

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21 August 2020 
Wolfgang Tillmans – Life Guarding  /  Growing
12'' vinyl, download, stream and music videos.

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17 July 2020 
Wolfgang Tillmans - Growing 
(digital / stream / video) 
Video: https://youtu.be/WhOSPqzKhiU

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4 June 2020 
Volkswagen Art4All Online Edition | Podcast mit Wolfgang Tillmans (in German)
https://bit.ly/3gO2JJw

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16 June 2019, 7pm
17 June 2019, 7pm
An experimental evening with DonChristian, Fragile/Wolfgang Tillmans (Live) + DJ Nedalot 
Kantine am Berghain, Berlin 

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Tickets via
https://www.koka36.de/event_site.php?event=113870
https://amwriezenerbahnhof.app.love-your-artist.com/de/
http://berghain.de/event/2852
https://www.facebook.com/events/623702948101216/

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16 Nov 2018
Powell Tillmans - Spoken By The Other EP (XL Recordings)
12'' vinyl / download / stream 

Preorder EP: 
http://www.xlrecordings.com/buy/powelltillmans-spokenbytheotherep 

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17 Oct 2018
Powell Tillmans – Feel the Night (XL Recordings)
download/stream/video

Video: 
https://youtu.be/OHKAyrNuPYU

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5 May 2018 
Fragile007 - Wolfgang Tillmans - Source (Original / Roman Flügel Remixes) 
12'' vinyl / download / stream 

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2 Feb 2018
Fragile006 - Wolfgang Tillmans – Heute Will Ich Frei Sein EP 
12'' vinyl / download / stream / video 

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17 Nov 2017 
Fragile005 - Wolfgang Tillmans - Hamburg Süd / Nee IYaow Eow Eow 
Cd digipack + 48page booklet / download / stream 

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9 Dec 2016
Fragile004 - Fragile - That's Desire / Here We Are EP 
12'' vinyl / download / stream / video

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16 Sept 2016
Fragile003 - Wolfgang Tillmans "Device Control EP" 
12'' vinyl / download / stream / video

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07 June 2016
Fragile002 - Fragile - Naive Me 
download and stream only

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24 June 2016
Fragile001 - Wolfgang Tillmans  - 1986 / 2016 EP
12'' vinyl / download / stream / video

Hamburg Süd (Continous Mix of Tracks 1-11)

Wolfgang Tillmans

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