Noumenon

Composed during a whirlwind period of touring and sound engineering in 2019, ???? functions as both a tranquil refuge and as a heartfelt appreciation for the instruments highlighted. Berlin-based Bridget Ferrill crystallizes her professional recording experience and artist residencies into a singular focus on Buchla modular, harp, zither, and viola da gamba. Not merely an exercise in technical mastery, Ferrill's careful arrangements invite us to linger with each instrument; in her words, fulfilling the longing to "listen a little longer, a little slower". Every contour of the instruments is lovingly traced, a warm invite for us to join her in the exuberance of exploring their inner life.

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"Veering from fractured hyperpop into deconstructed club oddness and ambience, this album is a restless and rewarding experience that will delight fans of the Orange Milk catalogue and the stranger corners of Oneohtrix Point Never’s discography." (https://soundcloud.com/djmag) 

"Time and time again, we have found ourselves lost in this album. A potent stew of element we’d possible not normally enjoy tumbling in space with sections we wish continued into far longer expanses." (Obladada) 

On Organe Solaire (GEN051) by https://soundcloud.com/amselysen a coherent ensemble is presented consisting of digital, hyperprocessed textures, minuscule sound fragmentations and impassioned, pressing vocal broadcasts. Deceptively, the sound at intermittently even approaches something like a sugary sweet pop production: chord stabs, piano tones, heartfelt howling, energetic kicks, the whole works. The most powerful weapons in the electro-acoustic toolkit are used here: sound events occur on a microscopic scale, sliced, granulated, pitch-bent, resonant, bubbling, stretching - but at the same time have an impactful, cinematic, piercing quality. From the arrangement point of view there is a cryptic multi-centered, restless logic, with the trajectory of all tracks constantly getting out of balance, twisting, self-subverting. The human voice, or the remnants of it, form an important thread through this album; spanning a wide tonal, textural range, the voice material is sometimes vocoded, stuttering, crushed, resampled, fried, totally pushed beyond its limits; but at other times innately performative, assertive - a declaration of intent or active intervention, conveying meaning, communicating something important. Organe solaire follows 2020's murky transmission Hypnagogic Surge.

/ Hakeem Lapointe (https://soundcloud.com/amselysen) about GEN051
“My [Amselysen’s] second full length album’s focus, Organe Solaire, strays from conceptual music and goes on dissecting and splaying a dark but colourful sludge of emotions. A major point source in my compositional approach to the record has been imagining the trajectory of hyper-pop if it evolved with a more pessimistic tendency, with the same bells and whistles, but less shiny and squeaky clean — like the rainbow reflections of tar bubbles.
Organe Solaire, unable to afford being cryptic, doubles down on honest, raw lyricism and is quick to open up, building a comprehensive musical and gestural language that reflects the narratives behind each and every track. They range from slow suicidal ballads, to demented hyper-melancholic pop, to interludes containing heavy narratives, like Discrepancies (for Kellyanne): a heavily filtered piano composition dating from my late teens, also acting as a hope to reach out to a long lost then-best friend.
I did not shy away at referencing personal idols who’ve inspired me throughout the years: The Labour of Love samples Akira Fuse’s Shikuramen No Kahori, a song mentioned in Joji Koyama and Tujiko Noriko’s feature length film Kuro, and matches its theme: gazing at the afterimage of a romance long gone. Post-modern Tsunami, as outlined by “shoutout to Hito Steyerl”, is made to the image of Steyerl’s Liquidity Inc.: in its wave-like structure; in its senseless meme aesthetic; and nods at its conceptual approach, dissecting contemporary culture with economic undertones.
To aid me in my efforts, I have called upon two outstanding collaborators to lend their strengths on the album. I’ve recruited the excellent Ubu Boi, providing tactful compositions and solid vocal performances, and the mysterious 2x|n, a.k.a. Seraphim, for precise sound design and incisive aural interventions.
Delving into romantic torment, drug use, artistic frustrations, struggles with mental illness, Organe Solaire brings forth a fundamentally human experience in the form of raw edges thinly veiled under a layer of gloss.”

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Composed and mixed by Or or 
Compilation mastered by Bademjan (@bademjan)

Based on "Sample pack from my nightmares" by Lulu (@wormworld), released on 31 oct. 2021.

A&R : Gracchus Nortug (@gracchusnortug) & Luca Fonty (@mysterymysterymystery)
Master : Bademjan (@bademjan)

Artwork : 

Pumpkin sculpture : Tad McCarthy Budzynski
Picture : Rhubarcode  (@rhubarcode), Tad McCarthy Budzynski, Elisabeth Laulié-Sur & Shela McCarthy
Edit : Rhubarcode  (@rhubarcode)

Compilation of my nightmares

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"Non Masse" is the new EP from Brussels-based artist and producer Apulati Bien.

After several notable releases on the Parisian label Promesses ("OO:NÉ", "RER TRACKS" & "Azone", jointly released on the Belgian label KRAAK), as well as his latest delivery "Exvivo" on Belgian imprint Cold Moss or via the duo XOLOT he forms with artist Vica Pacheco, navigating in a neo-futuristic aesthetic with glitch and experimental influences mixed with juke, footwork and more broadly bass music heritage, Apulati Bien explores this time new territories, devoid of preconceived forms and leaving more space to each element.

Recorded at the time of the finalization of his album "Azone" released in February 2022, with the will to proceed with a different method, even opposed to the one he knows, "Non Masse" (whose title is equivocal of the approach) is a more aerial object, with unquantified structures and sliding material, reflecting a feeling of "wanting to get out of (his) own mass", according to his words. A feeling certainly shared by many during the troubled period of the last two years, and which echoes a general desire for detachment, for withdrawal combined with a search for discovery in these overloaded times.

"Non Masse" is not however an object apart from Apulati Bien's discography, where we find the main elements of his music : futuristic references, glitch and digital contortions, which should not be approached as a light object but as a complex one, where the subtle details don't aim at diverting the attention, but on the contrary at nourishing a more global speech. The title "Alone Global" of one of the tracks is probably the most accurate definition of this project. 

Produced by @apulati-bien
Mastering by @allpass1
Artwork by @lilvica
Design by @myrtille-vandale & @guigiojiolua

12" LP // DIGI

Apulati Bien - Precog

mastered by charles verni http://charlesverni.com/

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Elvin Brandhi - Shelf Life (EP)*OUT NOW*

Format: Digital, Cassette
Cat.No: CANVAS003

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Sickness unto death in an age of commodified well-being: approaching death from the point of view of an actualised virtual eternity. The commodification of daily life and the self, preclude the possibility of reincarnation, we do not identify ourselves as a cycle, a movement, an expression of life itself but as a single product that exists in and for itself.
 
The supermarket social network obliterates the surface of material hybridising, detaining all movement to self enclosed unit reductions, excommunicating mutation. Encapsulated in a fixed identity, packaged and promoted, immune to the infection of outsiders. The social contract of a pre-sealed self, branded with calculated sell by date, sentenced to a shelf life of inter-passive exchange.  
 
Shelf Life compiles this synthetic axis, upon which we bide out time smiling.  
Interrupt user: authorise disk-root conflict[ 
”

Elvin Brandhi is welcomed to the index of C.A.N.V.A.S. releases as the first solo release of 2019 and the third commission since the conversion from events series to label in 2018. As a performance nomad whose very practice is simultaneously about engagement with place and a lack of geographic singularity - there could not be a more fitting accomplice to C.A.N.V.A.S.’ effort as a self-publishing artist group to build a collaborative community despite increasing dispersion. This is the solo project of Welsh artist Freya Edmondes - otherwise known for her role as vocalist in father/daughter duo Yeah You - in which performances mesh a collage of electronic sounds with a disruptive stream of improvised vocals. These tracks are as close to studio versions as this fundamentally live practice gets - roaming recordings, sample blasts, club contortions and the ever present voice alchemically infused. In 25’46” of sound, Elvin’s bio-technological monster appears like a Cronenberg body horror - mouths appearing where they shouldn’t - or a living, breathing post-digital Beckett character narrating their own club induced self-destruction. Yet the future shock is fresh - Shelf Life is as fun to listen to as it is completely disarming.

soundcloud.com/elvin-brandhi-1

Mastered by Ali Najafi
Digital Artwork by Firas Shehadeh
Tape Design by AALTAR
In Collaboration with Olan Monk

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

Shelf Life

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Recorded, Mixed and Produced by Nesso 
nesso.bandcamp.com 
Mastered by Giancarlo Brambilla 
@kuthijin 
Graphic Design by Gianluca Lonigro 
gianlucalonigro.net

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Fausto Mercier - Misinput Tycoon (GEN052)
Amselysen - Organe Solaire (GEN051)
Blank Wall Season - Thoughts on Manifolds (GEN050)
Klahrk & KAVARI - Wax (GEN049)
ubu boi & r hunter - A Symbol For Disguise (GEN048)
Giant Claw - Millennium Bug Live 2018​-​2021 (GEN047)
ABADIR - Pause​/​Stutter​/​Uh​/​Repeat (GEN046)
Eilien - Digital Lovers (GEN045)
QOW - Dawafer (GEN044)
Amselysen - Hypnagogic Surge (GEN043)
Euglossine - Blue Marble Agony (GEN042)
adaa - ok im real i think (GEN041)
My Cruelty - The Secret Weapon (GEN040)
Quantum Natives - Silent Night (GEN039/QNR034)
Fausto Mercier - FULLSCREEN (GEN038)
Corporation - Graffito (GEN037)
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I am just a Pupil - Classical Classics (GEN033)
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Ten Hyphen Twenty - In-Store Music (GEN026)
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Wrong Dials - Hello Brightness My New Sex Friend (GEN023)
Forces - Plastisphere (GEN022)
Bonie Jash - Shirase (GEN021)
AF85 - ハイパーオリンピック (DIAMOND EDITION) (GEN020)
Percival Pembroke - Arpeggiatorworld​+​+ (GEN019)
HDMIRROR - ANTHEMS (GEN018) 
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The House in the Woods - Paralysis (GEN016)
Izanasz - Spectral Cascades (GEN015)
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Iku - Fugue (GEN011)
Dane Law - r.bit (GEN010)
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Cass. / Dudal / Stijn Hüwels - Silent_Night#4: Dauw (GEN008)
Liminal / Aires - split (GEN007)
HERBARIUM - DIVINE HERBA: EXTENDED (GEN006)
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