https://fragilex.bandcamp.com/album/the-inner-circle

Taken from the See Blue Audio release page.

The story of ‘The Inner Circle’ goes back to 2016 and ‘The Outer Circle’ released on Bricolage. Subtitled ‘A Semi-Conscious Experience’, it captured the mood of a Sunday morning after a long weekend and travelling home on a busy subway train from the West End of Glasgow. Field recordings made on the journey were used as the basis for a series of tracks that reflect this special post-clubbing state of mind.

Field recordings also form the core of ‘The Inner Circle’, but whereas its predecessor was a little raw and rough around the edges, this long overdue follow-up is more refined and thoughtful, more mature even, in terms of both production and ideas. This is also reflected in the setting of the field recordings: 10pm on a quiet weeknight and travelling from the south side of the city. In both cases, the destination and final stop were the same – home – but ‘The Inner Circle’ is more introspective in tone. Essentially, this is the story of the subway environment expressed through music.

This second collection of five tracks, predominately beatless, begins with ‘One Way’ and the implication is clear: this journey has an ending. As often happens, we experience a sense of exhilaration when entering a subterranean world, and the dreamlike, slow-motion synths are reminiscent of ‘Departure from Nowhere’ and ‘Colour in Motion’, the opening tracks on ‘Maps of the Lost’ and ‘Chromatherapy’ respectively, both released on See Blue Audio in 2020. This is followed by ‘Kinning Park’, a suburb of Glasgow, and we are now fully immersed in an underground world of metal and machines. There’s a feeling of anxiety, even claustrophobia, to this track with its eerie bleeps and shadowy sounds.

As we reach ‘Shields Road’ and closer to home, the atmosphere is lighter, lifted by ethereal washes of electronica and trippy beats, which appear for the first time on ‘The Inner Circle’. Then it’s onto the post-industrial area of ‘West Street’ with its euphoric ambient tapestry of sound, which breaks down to an electronic pulse taken from a field recording of a train in motion, a hypnotic sound that surely resonates with us all.

Finally, ‘Home’ as the train pulls to a stop, and we pass through the ticket barrier and into the cool night air. Exquisite and cinematic, it’s a sublime ending to the story, but as is often the case, tinged with sadness now that the journey is over. As in life, most journeys are a bittersweet mixture of highs and lows, tension and excitement, communication and contemplation.

‘The Inner Circle’ is a musical dialogue between a mechanical underground world and the stories of the travellers through that world, as imagined by Fragile X, who fleetingly appear and disappear in the short stops between stations. The field recordings are far more than just background sounds, and they have been looped and integrated into the music that surrounds them. Trains approaching, brakes screeching, doors closing, tannoy announcements, cables buzzing, dripping water and the clang of metal, the buzz of commuters, the very stuff of life. In the context of 2021, it’s also the sound of the slow and hopeful return to normality from the coronavirus pandemic.

Mastered by Richard Jones at Dark Fidelity Hi Fi Studios.

The Inner Circle EP

The Inner Circle

Stella Maris : a female protector or guiding spirit at sea.

Music and artwork by J.Gorecki

For my Sun and my Moon.

https://fragilex.bandcamp.com/album/stella-maris

Stella Maris

Mångata (Together In Silence)

Pre-order date: 11th February 2022
Release date: 18th February 2022
Format: CD, Digital

"A cloud gathers at the peak of a green mountain,
a living curtain of leaves that could have been a
garland laid to rest upon the brow of the stone
apex, where the clinging arms of roots recede and
give way to progressively whiter stone faces,
pockmarked and stoic, a wisdom of bones.

Beneath the Urth, the hollowed cavity of Hell
wells up, an ironclad chasm full with hot black air,
delivering the profane names of the great thralls
it has called downward, like a long hissing
poisonous tongue, curling into a meaningless
symbol, thrust into the narrowing ceiling of the 
pyramid.

From a great distance apart, lowered eyes
consider the reverberant Urth, and the buried
dead. A hand turns, with an opened palm, and the 
seas reply, enveloping the landscape, reclaiming
its long forgotten inheritance."

- Brian Grainger -

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Jonathan Deasy is a guitarist, composer and improvisor from Cork, Ireland working within and without the confines of jazz, electronic and classical composition. 

Dedicated to Brian Grainger and Sascha Engel, two champions of the unknown.

Copyright © 2022 ROHS! RECORDS, All Rights Reserved

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previews. Quiet Clapping - Lyra (Album) | Lᴏɴᴛᴀɴᴏ Series

My new four track EP release "Mind The Gap" is out on Waxing Crescent Records came out last Friday. As of the time of posting this there was only 4 copies of the vinyl left.

Vinyl and digital
Side A : Vanishing Point
Side B : Moving Target
Digital Bonus Tracks ; Moving Target (Sitting Still version) and Spare Parts

Released August 12th

Vinyl and Digital

Moving Target

The end of August is our 7 year anniversary as a label and brings with it a new compilation in the form of "Working Memory".

We've pooled together some of the most unique artists on the roster for this special release.

"Szerencsés" means lucky in Hungarian. Minerva takes her sounds to a new level with some summery upbeat blossoming electronica and punchy drums.

https://soundcloud.com/ariadnevinerma

CD and digital available at https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/working-memory-bc074

Working Memory (bc074)

Working Memory

Minerva - Szerencsés

The end of August is our 7 year anniversary as a label and brings with it a new compilation in the form of "Working Memory".

We've pooled together some of the most unique artists on the roster for this special release.

Don't be fooled....this isn't disco. This is for the walk home afterwards. Deep and atmospheric late night garage from Doxil.

https://soundcloud.com/ahchooo

CD and digital available at https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/working-memory-bc074

Doxil - Disco

The end of August is our 7 year anniversary as a label and brings with it a new compilation in the form of "Working Memory".

We've pooled together some of the most unique artists on the roster for this special release.

Aquatic infused and lively, bubbly electronica from label head, Fragile X.

https://soundcloud.com/fragilex

Available : https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/working-memory-bc074

Working Memory CD

Fragile X - Algaerhythm

Elements - Available on Bandcamp

Erica Synth Bassline DB-01 -> TR8s ext in (sidechain with BD) -> Behringer UMC1820  -> Logic/Soundcraft Signature 12  -> Adam Audio T8V/T10S

TR8s main out (mainly kick) -> Klark Teknik KT-76 -> Behringer UMC1820 -> Logic/Soundcraft Signature 12  -> Adam Audio T8V/T10S

TR8s Assign 1 (tops, Hi percussion) -> Behringer UMC1820 -> Logic/Soundcraft Signature 12  -> Adam Audio T8V/T10S

Behringer K2 Mk2 Mono Out -> Flamma Ekoverb -> Behringer UMC1820 -> Logic/Soundcraft Signature 12  -> Adam Audio T8V/T10S

Modal Electronics Argon8 -> Behringer UMC1820 -> Logic/Soundcraft Signature 12  -> Adam Audio T8V/T10S

Echolocator  -> Behringer UMC1820 fx Send/Return-> Logic/Soundcraft Signature 12  -> Adam Audio T8V/T10S


Arturia KeyStep Pro for CV control of the DB01 and K2

One Last Stop

tropicdog

Yemen

Drifting in the audio void.  Somewhere between the chaos and the calm.
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Production (Fragile X) 
Label Owner (soundcloud.com/bricolage-g5)
Sleep Research as (soundcloud.com/leit-motif-sleeper)
The visible half of (soundcloud.com/futurendeavours)

Music released on Bricolage, Intellitronic Bubble, Waxing Crescent, Móatún 7, noci miste, Cue Dot, Neo Ouija, Soundtracking The Void, Disintegration State, See Blue Audio, Subplant, Triplicate Records, Tribal Pulse, Light At The End, Unstrung, Gorecki Productions, Neotantra, Soundscape Versions, BFW Recordings and Bath Dub.
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