Taken from Hugo Calcio new EP Open, out May 31, 2021, via Colectivo Casa Amarela (@colectivo-casa-amarela)

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With an intimate and reserved approach to contemporary ambient music, Hugo Calcio builds a microcosm of memories and projections, a series of short stories on synths and drones, elliptical layers of sound on what makes up each one's identity. As in most narratives, there is room for the abyss but also for catharsis, engulfed in gorgeous shimmering soundscapes and digital sighs. This is a short EP in its duration but an accurate one in its effect - these are powerful tracks, not easily forgotten.

Artwork by Mafalda Melim

Mastered by Jerome Faria

Released by Colectivo Casa Amarela

Premiere: Hugo Calcio - Multisens [Colectivo Casa Amarela]

With a background in playing jazz and formative years of playing saxophone in a live band, Prague-based Ursula Sereghy stepped out of the hustle to focus, all while becoming a regular at the local Synth Library. A space where she found the support of the musically and politically like-minded and could nourish her newfound passion for experimenting with machines and exploring the limitless possibilities of sound design. An extensive period of voluntary detachment from everyday life during the pandemic gave rise to the stunningly confident debut album 'OK Box' fabricated by this dark horse of a producer.

Opening 'OK Box' reveals a truly multifarious microcosm. On her very first musical output, besides manipulated field recordings and widely used granular synthesis, Ursula draws wisely from her past musical practice as acoustic or synthesized samples of jazz instruments become the furtive common denominator of the record's sonic narrative. Circulation of the breath among the instruments chambers substitutes the streams of city dwellers flowing through the cramped city environment. With Ursula's entangled compositions, she creates the representation of revealing and embracing the intuitive connections of the experiences and thoughts with their mental and physical surroundings, at times leading the listener to melancholic placements, followed by moments of mischievous clarity and rational sentiment. But essentially, the longplay is a friendly ride following unusual mental maps and broadening the borders of the very cartographical ones, all with inconspicuous sideroad peeks of cheeky little creatures, still surveillance by destiny-bending spirits, and oversaturation of out-there emotional associations. Hang in there, you little civilians and slimy slugs alike. To cut a long story short - 'OK Box' houses a lively collection of warm-hearted and witty jams honoring the nature of reasonable escapism. 

Written & produced by Ursula Sereghy
soundcloud.com/ursulasereghy

Mastered by Wim Dehaen
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Artwork by Jiri Macku
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Nick Malkin, 'Non Smoking Room' (2021). Courtesy Mondoj,

Notes of snowflakes filling cracks in the pavement, glimmering in the light from a distant window. Crisp fog settling on an open field. A light dusting of pollen on the windshield. Tiny twigs rearranging underfoot. Furtive glance of recognition between two toads.

Thank you, Levan, for sharing a shard of your inner most self around our campfire.

Limited edition cassettes: inner-most.bandcamp.com/album/erozia
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Music/Mix: Levan Shanidze
Artwork: Inner Most
Digital Mastering: Inner Most
Cassette Production and Mastering: seven.rec tapes

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Levan Shanidze - Long tail

"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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Somaticae's Kleis among the best albums of 2022 on The Quietus:
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Oroboro's SPIKYMEMORY video on If-Only:
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Ursula Sereghy on SHAPE:
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Ursula Sereghy interviewed for The Wire Magazine: www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/interviews/thinking-outside-the-box-milos-hroch-interviews-ursula-sereghy

Ursula Sereghy's OK Box among the best albums of 2021 on The Quietus:
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hmurd's Flower Knight reviewed on RA:
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toiret status' liquid house on The Quietus:
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toiret status' liquid house on Juno:
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Kindohm's Deserted / Reclaimed on Boomkat:
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Forces' Epoch on SBVRSV.press:
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julek ploski's śpie on toneshift.net:
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julek ploski's śpie on nowamuzyka.pl:
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Queimada's Eremocene on Paynomindtous:
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Strachkvas‘ mix of the month on A2larm: a2larm.cz/2018/11/mix-mesice-strachkvas/  

Kagami Smile’s Four Selves reviewed on RA: https://www.residentadvisor.net/reviews/23134

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