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Heith - X, wheel
Label: PAN
Cat.No. PAN 119 
Format: LP / DL
Release Date: 07 October 2022
Purchase: https://pan.lnk.to/Xwheel

Heith’s devout interest in the notion of reality started long before he recorded his latest album. The Italian musician, producer and artist probed the spiritual aspects of sound and its cosmogonic potential already in his previous works released on his own Haunter Records label.
Exploring the textures of consciousness through research into the ritual animism, he kept an omnivorous and universalist approach to cultural and sonic influence. This is central to X, wheel, Heith’s debut album and first release on PAN. It’s a deep dive into his creative and spiritual practice, one where art and life are inextricable.

Written and recorded across different studios in Milan, Rome and Florence between March, 2019, and January, 2020, eleven tracks cycle through a world of stylistic references—from psychedelia, psytrance and freak folk to stoner metal, noise and early electronic music—while remaining firmly a part of a singular vision.

Album opener “Letter 4” staggers along collaborator Leonardo Rubboli’s winding guitar melody, while second track “Dero” cycles into layers of assorted sine wave lines and tonal systems outside of the Western diatonic scales. X, wheel sits calmly at the centre of its own vortex of dissonance and diversity, moving through a spectrum of ideas, moods, and emotional states with uncanny ease. A glimpse of contributor Jesse Osborne- Lanthier’s synth melody briefly surfaces from a cacophonous flood of reverb and distortion on “Stoned Witch”. Aase Nielsen’s lonely saxophone wanders around the nostalgic hypnagogic noir of “Ensemble For Somnambulists”.

Heith draws together an array of philosophies and fictions together into a sonic tableau that exists outside of linear time. As the titular wheel spins, it does not bring about repetition, rather constant change and movement, spiralling into infinity.

The hypnotic nature of the release is translated in the album’s liner notes. It’s a collage of sorts, constructed from Heith’s own diary entries using the non-phonetic alphabet and linguistic experiment called “Angel’s Hair” developed with artist Pietro Agostoni. Together with contributions from ZU drummer Jacopo Battaglia and didgeridoo player Fabio Goldaniga, X, wheel is an exercise in creating new forms of meaning through sound, turning spectral vibration into conscious awareness.

Heith - The hermit (PAN 119)

@jjjacob @hlodowigekdahl
The 42nd release of katharsis is the collaborative album “Soft Space” by label founder jjjacob and various other artists from around the world, coming out on May 31st. The album works as a sequel to his previous full-length release "Brutal Nature" from 2022, both in terms of the collaborational dogma in production but also in the thematic connection and contrast between the brutality of nature and the softness of space. All tracks emerged as infantile jjjacob sketches, then taking more form and gaining inspirational matter from the collaborating artists' conduct and care, before finally being concluded by the final touches of jjjacob again.

The result is as the title suggests smooth and gentle at most times, but it does though have more wicked and harsh moments and aspects throughout the album. The emotional journey of the album keeps pendulating between the pleasant floating sensations of celestial emptiness and the brute mysticality of the unknown. At times it feels aerodynamic or dissolving, at others it tastes crispy and anthemic, but the overall output is definitely ethereal and cosmic.

releases May 31, 2024
artwork & mastering by jjjacob

Soft Space

Late Laments (feat. Hlodowig Ekdahl)

jjjacob & Hlodowig Ekdahl - Late Laments

@starleaf
The 44th release of katharsis is the debut album “Late Bloomer” by the malmö-based entity Starleaf. A whisper caught between interstellar winds, a tale of a cosmic protagonist - something growing, something distant and near at once. The album manifests the ethereal spirit of Starleaf with deep rhythmic pulses of bass sprouting from the deep, strong melodic forces of trancey synths and hard-hitting space-warping percussion.

Starleaf is an organism thriving on the edge of the comprehensible, drawing from energies that defy the natural laws we claim to know. In its branches, rhythms weave, harmonic growth pulses, and textures bloom from the nexus of the organic and the alien. Its origins are a paradox of seed and starlight, where sound becomes a tendril, twisting through Malmö’s underground and far beyond.

releases September 30, 2024

Artwork by jjjacob
Mastering by jjjacob & Starleaf

Late Bloomer

Brucebo

premiere: Starleaf - Brucebo

BUY: https://lowincomesquad.bandcamp.com/album/li-039

bk beats - first light (LI$039)

@star_shiftmusic

The 45th release of katharsis is the EP "Intrusion" by Italian artist Lefka, releasing in full on October 28th. Throughout the six tracks of the EP, Lefka swaddles the listener in a dense and distorted quilt of sound that feels both heavy and light at the same time. "Intrusion" is a release that aims to sonify the acceptance of intrusive thoughts through a kathartic and emotionally intense experience.

Through heavy use of granular synthesis and electric guitar recordings, the release varies from calm, introspective moments to peaks of intense sound pressure. Like through glass, the sounds refract and are broken into pieces, creating an aural effect of rebound and confused scattering, and like intrusive thoughts, the tracks have abrupt peaks that reset the silence with unsettling intensity.

Lefka is a multidisciplinary artist based in Amsterdam. As in a stream of consciousness, his own productions are characterized by an irreverent and disillusioned approach, which aim to detach from a precise genre-categorization.

released October 28, 2024

artwork by jjjacob
mastering by Lefka

Intrusion

Into My Bones

Lefka - Into My Bones

toiret status - #263

welcome to my advent calendar !
today @vildetuv and I split the mix,
have a glowy Wednesday ❤︎

TRACKLIST
Vilde Tuv - XX
Miyon - Why ?
Vilde Tuv - Frukthagen (Solplomme)
Vilde Tuv - XX
Vilde Tuv - Babypuls (Unison Puls)
Torus (@torvs) - Sound Of The Drums 
Astrid Sonne (@a_sonne) - Light and heavy
Simon & Garfunkel (@simon-garfunkel-official) - Scarborough Fair / Canticle
Dida (@didasy) - Cream
Simili Gum (@similigum) - sign from
Air (@officialair) - Homme Lune
The High Llamas (@the-high-llamas) - Hawaiian Smile

24 mixes before xmas, day 11 : with Vilde Tuv

mix 155 by @kakhagelashvili ᡣ𐭩

ᯓᡣ𐭩 monker178 - cicadas tall shadows of the afternoon
ᯓᡣ𐭩 Camille Keller - Get it
ᯓᡣ𐭩 Elevation - scrolling dirtydirt instagram on Glenwood Ave
ᯓᡣ𐭩 beloved trinket  - Meek
ᯓᡣ𐭩 Sioban - If a prey crossed our path
ᯓᡣ𐭩 vio lino - empire
ᯓᡣ𐭩 cash - cloudburst (cenaceae remix)
ᯓᡣ𐭩 vio lino and tettix hexer - chasing butterflies (porter robinson - sea of voices mothcore flip)

(155) Kakha Gelashvili

La jeune fille en feu (OST) - Para One & Arthur Simonini
Summer Day - Ange Halliwell
So Pay La - Triad God
FREE INTERLUDE (feat. Lil Fayo, Trenchcoat & Sweet Pea) - Yaeji 
California - Mylène Farmer
Corona (Peace Edit) x Ice Sheets Queen of Hell Blend - Jasmine Infiniti
social distance tune - mobilegirl
Nightmarket - Burial
Broken - Marcel Alcalá
MAZWADA - CHANEZE 
Shell Shock - Zgjim
Tongue - GFOTY
Before Today - KITTYNXC
CALL ME MAYBE (LOBSTA B'S VENGABOUNCE REMIX)
Influenceur - Ascendant Vierge
Banshee - Odete
The Couch, or The Most Important Source of Energy for Life on Earth - Johanna Hedva
Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 1, Episode 12. "Prophecy Girl"

juju1♥︎v3 - The Kiss of Persephone

Oliver Coates - Soaring X (featuring Malibu)

from skins n slime.
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juju1♥︎v3 - The Kiss of Persephone

Fruit of The Loop