"Första Snön" is a single released for Piano Day 2021 by the Swedish composer/pianist Jakob Lindhagen. The track is taken from "Piano Cloud Series - Volume Six" that's also featuring Dmitry Evgrafov, Matti Bye, Library Tapes, Elliott Jacqués, Gabriela Parra et al.

Stream/DL: www.1631recordings.bandcamp.com/album/piano-cloud-series-volume-six

Jakob Lindhagen - Första Snön

Buy/stream: https://kompakt.fm/releases/speicher_118_digital_single

Siberian born and since 2010, a proud resident of Naples where her musical journey began, Anfisa Letyago has brought to the next generation of techno DJ/producers a sincerity and passion few others can. Of which she is successfully channeling to an incredible growing fanbase. From her releases on Drumcode, Rekids and her newly minted imprint N:S:DA, Kompakt are ecstatic to welcome her to our long running SPEICHER series.

“Keep Flight” is bare and punishing. Taking cues from the greats – think early Hood, Broom or Surgeon – Anfisa takes us down a relentless wormhole fortified by a pulsing vocal and EBM synth. In contrast, the flip side “Rhythm Tension” is a more slowed down, acid squelched affair where Anfisa’s vocals keep the vibe fully in check for those feel good moments everyone is currently needing in a DJ set.

Anfisa Letyago - Rhythm Tension

Musicians David Poltrock and Adriaan de Roover (whom you may know as Oaktree) team up with Aïda Gabriëls (direction), Pieter Desmet (dance), Wim Piqueur (video), Jan Van Lindt (lighting design), Yoran Cambier (sound) for an all-immersive performance in quadraphonic sound, scheduled to premiere in Belgium in the next couple of weeks (see more details and live dates). Meanwhile, the score for this “sound choreography” is released as an album under the same name, VACUUM. The recording features binaural mixes which are designed to be experienced in headphones, capturing spatial positioning of sound to convey a three-dimensional “spherical” space. That’s all very rich and technically exciting and all, but what about the music? You know I wouldn’t be featuring something here if I didn’t connect with the piece. Hence my decision to host an exclusive premiere of “44,2 km” – a fourth track on the album, which I really enjoyed [in headphones]. On the track, advanced digital sound processing deconstructs the sounds of my favourite acoustic instrument and then places it back in the centre of a resonant space. The bass bottoms out beneath the piano, while sliced-up tiny sonic grains float up and flicker in a chamber of a hollow void to paint unexpected delays and reverbs in a space without time. A mesmerising sonic scape, one which, I imagine, could only be better if experienced during the performance mentioned above.

VACUUM

44,2 km

TRACK PREMIERE : Poltrock & de Roover - 44,2 Km (Binaural Version - intended for headphones)

irini - lost in dreams

This week's mix is curated by Greek duo Momery, following the release of their track 'Ophelia' on Mind Against's label Habitat.
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Photography: Brix & Maas
Creative Direction: Coralie Lauren
Styling: Aglaja Brix
Model: Sonia
Location: Berlin

Melodic Diggers °149 | Momery - Violet Blue

For the 27th EP in The Nursery Series, Greek acts Symmetric & Future of Matter deliver four tracks written and produced with care. These longtime friends have been producing together for over two years, with this quality EP as one of the results. These four tracks are comprised of various elements such as acid lines, rolling drums and melodic synths. Each track has a well-structured strong profile and is able to stand out. This causes the EP to be a collection of four quality tracks that are already gaining attention from electronic music's greats. Artist: Symmetric & Future of Matter Format: EP Title: Reject the False Icons EP Label: Dynamic Reflection: The Nursery Series Cat #: TN027

Symmetric & Future Of Matter - Acid Mel

Leafar Legov live [21:12:20] - 17.06.20

Frederik Valentin ‘0011000' 

Posh Isolation is proud to present the latest work from Copenhagen's quietly iconoclastic artist Frederik Valentin. Arriving in two halves, '0011001' & '0011000' together transport a suite of songs and compositions that render life's beauty in the same breath as life's binding determinations.

'0011000' is the second element of this twofold work. It features the Swedish vocalist Tex Weerasinghe and the Copenhagen-based composer and vocalist Soho Rezanejad.

As if catalysing all those who came into his orbit in the last years, Valentin has ushered in a dextrous and unassuming body of work as a willing collaborator and confidant. The most recent product of these engagements was his second album with Loke Rahbek, 'Elephant,' a work that pensively ricochets around the synthetic scaffolding of a wonderous acoustic environment, tracing songs as it goes. Preceding this was Valentin's breath-taking duo KYO with Hannes Norrvide. 2018 saw the release of 'All The Same Dream,' a full-length collaboration with vocalist Jeuru, which fantasised a rougher, granular edifice on top of the empyrean metropolis that was imagined with each previous release with Norrvide. Working with Yung Lean, Valentin was the producer of his album 'Nectar' as Jonatan Leandoer127, and also worked on a commissioned production for Sweden's Cullberg Ballet in 2018.

Valentin's new works, '0011001' & ‘0011000', do not abstain from collaborations, though on this occasion the authorship and breadth of scope remain entirely his own. As Valentin himself describes the album, "This is the space between becoming a father and losing my mother. All within one year, the space between zero and one." This is reflected in the two titles. Each is a binary representation of 0 and 1. Across the album, the space between these two thematic points is rendered in exquisitely gentle meditations on the quavering beauty that can be found herewith. "This is the infinite joy and unavoidable beauty of decay. This is from nothing to everything to nothing to everything to ... This is the sound of determinations, the entity of numbers."

Kindled from the gravity of these turbulent moments and experiences, Valentin has produced a twofold album that stands as his most accomplished and moving work to date. Throughout both '0011001' & '0011000' there is a gracious and elegiac instrumentation that knits a steady presence of electronic parts into perfectly balanced song-like structures. Never over-reaching with his experimentalist impulses, and never employing predictability to resolve a composition, Valentin has produced a suite of works that encourage a blissful, deep listening whilst retaining the ensnaring rapture of pop. If his deft ability as a multi-instrumentalist wasn't obvious from any one of his previous collaborations, it is perhaps on show most succinctly here. Likewise, Valentin's compositions and arrangements capture a maturity and earnest intensity that has not been revealed until now.

‘0011000’ is out Feb 19th

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Frederik Valentin - Melody Ft. Tex Weerasinghe

Lobster Theremin ambient sub-label Lobster Sleep Sequence announce their double LP + 7” album from Dutch producer nthng - featuring a limited run of copies on deep green vinyl.

Themed around events in the artist's life, Unfinished is a deeply personal journey, yet there’s something very relatable to the world he has conjured. Lockdown has forced us to look inward, explore realities within ourselves and the fragility of our forgotten world. The album is a series of peaks and troughs - hopeful words, ominous tones and other-worldly soundscapes, giving way to a journey in no way linear - but a true reflection of our times.

The title track sets the scene perfectly, while Son features deep bass notes, dreamy keys and spoken word - creating a visceral and unsettling scene. Subnautica resides in the fringes of ambient and techno - as tribalistic drums are suspended in our new rendered reality.

The marching bass and howling synths of Wrath of the Demon lull conspicuously in a vacuum, while the hauntingly beautiful vocals featured on Disappeared But Not Forgotten evoke a poignant, powerful reaction across the record’s B-side - “Everything stopped, you just disappeared...”

At its most tranquil Our Time offers a sense of rest - a space to appreciate, as we leave the window open, peer outside and feel the gentle breeze brush across our face. Saafe continues this theme, and feels like a warm embrace - “She saved my life in a matter of speaking, when she gave me back the power to believe.”

Ending Theme is beautifully organic as you hear the sound of the piano pedal touch the floor, tones are introspective and vulnerable - while the looming presence of uncertainty subtly takes form in thinly layered pads.

The album also sees the release of a digi only bonus track Only a Flash of Light and invites you outside while the stars are at their brightest.

>> @nthngnthng

Unfinished

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LSS004 // nthng - Unfinished

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Track from NE82 Anthony Linell - Winter Ashes LP
Out on EP and digital March 19th. Pre-orders on Bandcamp from March 5th.

For their first collaboration on an original audio-visual artefact, Ali M. Demirel and Anthony Linell have developed a stunning and unsettling work that studies the Icelandic landscape as a motor of mythology. Titled Winter Ashes, our senses search for logical order and signifiers with which to measure our relation to both the visual and aural elements, and by detailing the inhuman scale and structure of the region in this way, a hypnotic ambivalence regarding our place unerringly haunts the work. This edition is a snapshot of Linell's musical contribution at a moment of reflection in the project's enduring evolution. Far from being an acoustic summation of the collaboration, Linell has derived these pieces from his work with Demirel, retaining the name of the activity through which the album has arisen.

The nucleus of Winter Ashes is the relationship between landscape and mythology, a snare that binds us in contradiction. In its most common usage landscape refers to the visual indicators of any given terrain over and above any innate material properties. In its verb form it typically describes the agreeable construction and reconfiguration of terrain by the human hand. Our aesthetic preferences are from the outset privileged in the concept of landscape; our eyes are obeyed first. This is in distinction to mythology in which allegory upon analogy tells of but does not show the gods. Making sense of this nexus is to train our visual faculties towards seeing what is concealed, if not to merely search for an interaction with what is completely and surely unobservable.

Iceland's unearthly appearance is something else. It is conspicuously suited to the complexities of a task such as that which Winter Ashes imaginatively demands of it. It readily inclines toward the quality of the sublime. Situating this demand historically, Winter Ashes is inspired by the long and fragmented history of recording and retrieving Norse mythology, just as it is the mythology itself. The Codex Regius, a compendium of Old Norse poems that has been dated to the 13th century, and the Edda, a collective term for two volumes of medieval Icelandic literary works to which the Codex Regius is connected, both serve as points of reference. All were lost for periods of time throughout the centuries, and sections of each remain lost forever. As promptly as these documents tell the stories of Norse mythology, they register how easily they recede from written form back into the landscape. Though persistently morphing, it seems truer to look to the latter over the former as the eternal, volatile setting for these stories. Winter Ashes makes this ambiguous task its point of departure.

Words by Patrick Quick

Recorded by Anthony Linell in Gotland, Kebnekaise, Iceland and Stockholm 2019-2020.
Photographies by Ali M. Demirel in Iceland 2019.
Mastered by Neel at EnissLab, Rome.

Winter Ashes

Anthony Linell - Being Water

https://affute.bandcamp.com/album/afft004-symmetric-future-of-matter-figures-from-the-past-ep

Symmetric & Future Of Matter - Acid Mel

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