FRUSTRATION - ODDITIES

K Ludd - Living With The Shadows

Pool

She slipped away

Madness

Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch returns with a brilliant new album for FatCat’s 130701 imprint. 'Ravage’ is the London-based French pianist / composer’s first standalone album since 2018’s ‘Époques’, following which she has been busy building a name for herself scoring an increasingly high-profile series of films. A powerful, deeply personal album that charts the process of grieving for a parent, Emilie describes ‘Ravage’ as “the most intimate and personal project I've created”.

Recorded largely at home in London over the lockdown winter of 2020/21, the composition process began way back towards the end 2018 with the title track, which Emilie felt compelled to write during a period of intense grief after losing her father. “It was a way for me to express and process the emotions I was going through, especially as I found it impossible to verbalise, or even tell people. It felt a rather solitary experience because we rarely talk about the loss of a parent with whom one had a fraught relationship, and those extremely layered and complex feelings toward that parent can be hard to explain.”

Ravage

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Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch - Parting Gift

Lost Film is set to release new single “Big Talk” from a collection of signature lo-fi jangle pop recordings written during the early days of the pandemic. Texturized by not much more than an electric guitar, a drum machine and distorted synthesizers, “Big Talk” marks a return to minimalist, early aughts' guitar-pop. The single wastes no time bursting into a soaring hook that lingers on the question of "is it where you are that keeps us apart or is it who you are?" Solitude can offer a silver lining of showing what we're able to live with and more importantly live without.

Written and recorded by Jimmy Hewitt (Lost Film) at home (Easthampton, MA) in July 2020.

Lost Film - Big Talk

Other Side

Off the forthcoming split 7" featuring two new songs by both Ladada and Community Witch.

Pre-order the limited edition vinyl here:
https://goldrobotrecords.bigcartel.com/product/ladada-community-witch-split-7

I Won't Wait

Desert

Community Witch - Desert

Curse Of Darkness

Artist : @user-431715985
Album : Firefly
Release date : 29/04/2023
Label : Records Ruin the Landscape (LH)
Catalogue : RRtL002
Credits : all instruments played and produced by JM Vasse, vocals by Delphine Rivals
Production & Mastering: Ergul Power at Gul Gul Club
Cover Art & Design : Laura Kopf (2023)
Vinyl Pressing : LMDV (74 - Seynod)
Printed at Lézard Graphique (67 - Brumath)

A dark and radical music produced in contrast to a sanitized and normalized era. Brigade Apache's First Album suggests a convincing alternative: bifurcation and dissidence. An abrasive and wild Sci-Fi space opera, unclassifiable Electro/Acid/New Beat/Post Punk, "Firefly" introduces the possibility of pogo on the dancefloor, through a melancholic and brutal soundtrack carried by machines played like guitars in a garage, and illustrated by the enigmatic landscapes of Laura Kopf who designed the album's cover.

ANGEL'S EYES - out april 2023

Lost

Ekin Fil continues her quietly complex dream-pop oeuvre on Maps. For many years now, this Istanbul musician has been writing mysterious and haunting songs, rich in heavy-reverb effects and an introspective torpor. With each successive album, her songwriting has blossomed through broader instrumentation and more intricate melodic phrasing, though the somber atmospherics and ghostly manifestations remain a judicious constant. Minor-key, tear-stained notes of piano, organ, and guitar veer along elliptical orbits as a soft-whisper lilt of Ekin’s voice narrates more by emotive decree than by literary couplet. 

Maps addresses the distance and dislocation of the self from the bustling center of Istanbul, where Ekin FIl (neé Ekin Üzeltüzenci) had once called her home. Having spent her first winter on a relatively quiet island in the Sea of Marmara (while still in the greater metropolitan umbrella of Istanbul), Maps  is “lonely, different, kind of isolated,” according to Ekin, who also noted that the island had “too much silence around. There is no other choice but to concentrate, I guess.” Her poetics of silence on her previous recordings had been noted as an antidote or a dream capsule of sound in response to Istanbul’s cauldron of politics, culture, and philosophy that has been boiling almost since the beginning of civilization. Maps bends that maritime silence into wind-swept smudges that complement her already spacious compositions.  

The saddest songs of The Durutti Column excised of rhythm and those few plunges into sorrow by Harold Budd make for apt comparisons to Maps, in addition to the drone-on classics of Grouper, Slowdive, and Sarah Davachi.

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