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Olan Monk - Auto Life
Format: Digital (EP)
Cat. No: CANVAS011
Release Date: 1st October 2021

Watch the video for 'Fameless': https://youtu.be/-xndTe8uWrc

Pre-order Auto Life (EP): canvas-index.bandcamp.com/album/auto-life

‘A farewell to idolatry, where culture is absorbed into nature, like a body back into the fertile soil. Written as a 27 club survivor, lamenting the young dead, no longer young and celebrating the spectral presence of iconised peers. Reflexive and self-aware of the problem of over-identifying with the fictional performance of the solo act in various guises or archetypes: the rockstar or trapstar. Auto Life is a practical attempt at a weird re-hybridisation of otherwise seemingly divergent strands of popular music, conflating stylisations usually segregated by genre.

Auto Life was written as a collection of songs for eventual live performance. Recording music is absurd—an act in which you initially perform to no-one. The inclusion of a sample of crowd noise in ‘Fameless’ is the music studio equivalent of a laugh track being added to the soundtrack of a sitcom—unable to give up on disappearing horizons completely and imagining another context for performance in which an actual audience beyond the performer is present.

Autotune Punk—as a music of antagonism that resists from within, bending the lanes of a machine that flattens out the vocal performance to a given scale. I can still express feeling—even angst—but the machine doesn’t care. Refusing its own funeral, emulating the dead—it’s a Rock simulacrum. A renewably performed myth. I broke the spell. I just heard it as it was. The sacred framing of presence makes the pop idol always-already-dead by turning them into a symbol and an image—undead, un-ageing and endlessly reproducible within a commercialist visual culture.

The music which I would grow up listening to would later become a tool towards first facing, maybe later dismantling—or at least bending—the structures in which music was still being written, performed and recorded into existence. My emulation of and interest in pop—and popular—music is not in irony. I love this music—yet I question the context and conditions through which it has come to exist and continues to change shape. Opening up the horizon of pop to a new kind of strangeness, where the familiarity of the pop song disappears into blissful distortions and mixed signifiers towards a world in-between, otherwise unknown’.

— @olanmonk

Written, performed and recorded by Olan Monk

‘Bruised Fruit’ features an instrumental recording by Jam City, additional production and vocals written and performed by Elvin Brandhi
‘Burnout’ features an instrumental recording by Jam City

Tracks 01–07 mastered by Ali Najafi
Tracks 08 and 09 mastered by Jam City

Artwork by Ewa Awe

www.c-a-n-v-a-s.com

Auto Life

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xquisite releases is proud to present the new release by Sokora Violetov, ‘Q.’ @sobranie_kiss

through two sides Violetov places the listner into a shifting hallucination, sounds flourish and grow, ever more intricate, blooming and dying, only to become an uncompromising sonic brutality: distorting the klezmer tradition it into an unholy/uncertain terrain that offers only riddles while it holds your gaze.

Instruments: zither, celtic harp, shofar horn, electric guitar, bass, yamaha rs7000, elka electric organ, waldorf blofeld, korg triton, ms20, vermona drm1, roland juno, kaoss pad

featuring electric organ duet with bosco taylor 
lyrics by sokora 
with thanks to the treignac projet & oxhy
mastered by xr

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Polish composer Martyna Basta returns to Warm Winters Ltd. with her new album ‘Slowly Forgetting, Barely Remembering’, arriving on April 28, vinyl + digital

Today, we are proud to present the first single, which is available on all streaming platforms and online stores.

We also opened the pre-orders for the full album on our Bandcamp, where you can order your copy of the opaque white vinyl edition (ltd. to 300 copies)

Martyna Basta Album - Slowly Forgetting, Barely Remembering

Taken from Romance's debut album 'Fade Into You' (ELP076) out now on Ecstatic

Romance's debut album proper 'Fade Into You' is a mesmerizing journey through the emotions of love and heartbreak, with a masterful blend of symphonic textures and collaged samples into ethereal studies in sound. Loosely inspired by Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s acidic 1975 melodrama ’The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant’ an unforgiving dissection of the toxic relationship between a haughty fashion designer and a beautiful but icy ingenue, it’s a story where elegant surfaces hide tooth-and-claw instincts.

'Fade Into You' is a deeply textured and beguiling album that transports the listener to that world of faded glamour, desperate longing and narcissistic fantasy. The swelling orchestral arrangements, cathartic cadences and bejewelled sound collages create a sense of nostalgia cut with glazed neurosis while the swelling arrangements provide a lush and cinematic backdrop that perfectly soundtracks the wrenching intimacy and mysteries of love.

Following on the promise of 2022's iconic Celine Dion sampling 'Once Upon A Time’ and a brace of thrilling collabs with Lynch protege Dean Hurley and the mythological Old Testament ambient 'Eyes Of fade' collab album with Not Waving, 'Fade Into You’ provides a definitive and essential statement on the Romance sound.

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releases November 20, 2020
mastering and lacquer cut :: Mike Grinser (Dubplates + Mastering, Berlin)
mixing assistance on "An Indefinite Lattice" :: Nathan Taylor

all proceeds to NHLC (Honolulu, HI) :: nativehawaiianlegalcorp.org

"Indefinite Lattices, the new 12-inch record by Glyn Maier, is rock music of a very different order. During visits to two mineral-rich sites, Maier collected field recordings of these environments which were then re-synthesized into four extended compositions. At Ringing Rocks in Pennsylvania, a field of boulders make bell-like tones when struck, as well as low-frequency tones that are unhearable by humans. (Scientists have yet to discern why the rocks ring, but believe it may have to do with the freeze-thaw cycle that produced them.) The other site visited by Maier—the fairly remote Kaʻena Point on the coast of O’ahu, Hawaii—was believed to be the departure point for souls leaving this world.

The unstable rhythmic patterns from these spaces, as well as Maier’s tappings, scrapes, and footsteps throughout the two sites, are paired with lullabilic progressions and ghostly effects. Instead of the artist’s personal expressions, the tracks on Indefinite Lattices are envisioned as lithic formations in their own right, as things grown rather than produced. They seem to have peaceful but complex lives of their own. Guided by notions of deep ecology—and an anti-colonialism that recognizes the bloody histories of these two sites—Maier refashions the instrumental utility of electronic music so that the agency of environments is emphasized.

Like watching rocks fall down a cliffside and splashing into a stream, or the humbling calm of a thunderstorm, one is left wondering whether this record is the result of human intention or a combination of natural forces. Treading the line between traditional and experimental approaches to ambient music, Maier edits the contingency of his gear’s electrical signals and the recorded environments into tightly conceived compositions. Indefinite Lattices is documentation of moments in the geological process, but also illustrates the geologic nature of art itself.

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Glyn Maier is a sound & field recordist and conservationist living in the Unorganized Territory of South Oxford, Maine. He previously released music under the alias Lack. "

Indefinite Lattices

Glyn Maier - An Indefinite Lattice (ENM08)

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2023

01/10 'the heel and the egg', reading-performance, at @d-dh-68309115#8, The Grey Space In The Middle, The Hague, NL 
15/07 ‘Becoming Circular’, performance, at open:source space #2, Amsterdam, NL
30/06 - 04/07 ‘Becoming Circular’, performance, at KABK Grad Show, The Hague, NL
03/02 ‘How does C know?’, polyphonic performance at boox.space, Harlem, NL

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