Artist: Serena (BIO)
Amsterdam-based artist Serena shapes morphing atmospheres consisting of a bold and unexpected fusion of aggressive noise with atmospheric musical elements, dubby loops, distorted guitars and harsh vocals. Serena, founder of SUBURBIA, Tbilisi's Mutant Radio collaborator and member of Garage Noord, dives into the past to recall old traditions and its ghosts of a lost time to create new non-linear narratives.
# 1 Insects. I feel them.
I hear them, everytime I look at her, side-eying her profile. A sound like the relentless whir of an electric lamp or the distant noise of a broken radio. It fills my ear and I can't ignore it. Like tinnitus, it drowns out everything else.
But when she catches me secretly staring, she gives me that perfect smile, signed by the little shining pearls of her teeth.
Her Perfect body eases my anxious mind. She covered me in tender kisses, gave me dazzling pleasure, with the quivering warmth of her insides.
I am under her spell.
But this time, what a pity. Why can't I ignore that small dot at the corner of her blue eye? I take her hand and she comes closer, like a groom to his bride at the altar.
This dot becomes my only fixation. I stare at it with transfixed intent. It begins to move. From that singular point in the white of her eye it pushes against her eyelid. I can't look away. First I notice a transparent wing, and then another, a head and the tiny hairs that shimmer on that fly’s filthy thorax.
The bug hesitates, flexes its wings, rubs its mandibles and flies away.
I look at the love of my life. With her beautiful golden hair. My hands follow the line of her body as I take solace in the delicate shape of her neck. She never stops smiling.
As my hands wrap around her elegant neck, I begin to squeeze .
Her blue eyes now tainted with red, her red lips now tainted with blue, her gentle body begins to shake and tremble, as the light of her life begins to leave her.
Then nothing.
Finally, silence.
A quiet, colossal, deafening silence.
Like a dark wave on cold seas, tenuous, subtle, plain, and then suddenly high, dangerous and roaring, the cacophonous hum rises. As her dead mouth breaches open, a million bugs storm out: flies and wasps, beetles and centipedes, scarabs, cockroaches, ticks, ants, spiders and worms.

 They surround me. They envelop me, they enter me. I have never stopped feeling her love.
- Lama Nudo -

SUBURBIA presents OBSESSIONS with Serena [13.02.2024]

Music for Empty Cinemas. Sonic sequences synced to celluloid featuring music from films such as Inland Empire,, Wings of Desire, Silence of the Lambs, Herzog's Nosferatu and more

Noir Age - Music for Empty Cinemas 03/03/24

Noir Age 07/04/24

A current snapshot of active listening featuring recent and forthcoming N/A releases mixed with vinyl selections from Love Spirals Downwards, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Laila Sakini, Eno + more

Noir Age 05/05/24

Andrej:
Sun Ra talking
Slowfoam - Blurred Mutuality [Eastern Nurseries]
taupe set xl - dissolving forms [enmossed]
C.L. Lobbestael - I [Jungle Gym Records]
Before We Melt into the Sea I
Before We Melt into the Sea II
Jonas Raudonius - Ritual Circle [forthcoming on Amulet of Tears]
Liai - Lover’s Prelude [Jevels]
Martina Lussi - Anarchy for Her [Latency]
Cares - Possible [FLOPHOUSE]
Pavel Milyakov - Tesco [self-released]
Jonnnah - Utomachine [Second End Records]
buttechno - ambian august [self-released]
Carme Villain - Two Halves Touching [Geographic North]
Filalete - Bakuradze [Shimmering Moods Records]
Before We Melt into the Sea III


Jonas Raudonius:
Rrose - Horizon [Eaux]
Undveld - You’ll See Me Again, But It Won’t Be Me [Captured Visions]
Mike Lazarev - Tonality Nuber Two [Past Inside the Present]
Kanding Ray - Cnidaria [ara]
Jonas Raudonius - Run [self-released]
Owl - Fragment [Silent Season]
Gaap KVLT - Belat
Jonas Raudonius - In My Arms [forthcoming on Amulet of Tears]
Jonas Raudonius - Imaginary Freedom [forthcoming on Amulet of Tears]
Jonas Raudonius - Forbidden Path [forthcoming on Amulet of Tears]
Jonas Raudonius - unreleased

Amulet of Tears @ Radio Vilnius #4 / July 22nd, 2024 w/Jonas Raudonius

In advance of a new album from The Wolfgang Press, their first since 1994, Noir Age celebrates the TWP catalogue with a retrospective mix of mostly vinyl favourites from the band, with a very special guest intro 🙂 Their new record, A 2nd Shape, is released later this month via Regis’ Downwards imprint.

Noir Age - The Wolfgang Press Special 07/09/24

Dreamreader

Interlude

Noirvember is upon us and Scorpio season is in full sting. Dubby, druggy, sleazy, happy, creepy selections from the likes of Grace Jones, The Cramps, Ollie Olsen (rip), Jah Shaka, Flying Lizards and more + an unreleased Night Foundation track at thee tail end. Blue moon baby, let’s go down.

Noir Age 01/11/24

Hailing from the wastes of Chicago by way of Boston, Conflict Bureau leads a life consumed by the derelict sounds of outsider machine music. Beginning their journey in the mid 2010s with a relocation to the midwestern region of the US, fully absorbing the mutated sounds of house music’s homeland via a handful of small clubs whos legacies Conflict Bureau refuses to let go of. Building upon the lack of time constraints put forth by covid, in 2022 Conflict Bureau began a slow and steady travel trudge, playing in new york, detroit, boston, chicago, new orleans, philidelphia, DC and all abouts the united states before settling back into a quieter life in Chicago once more....

For this transmission Conflict Bureau brings the meshing of early house simplistic electronics, industrial flavors through the sounds of MEDUSAS, a worship for the output of the hauge, goop, grit and grime all combine into a sound blast of relentless thudding bass hits, blown 303 lines, distorted hats and claps and more dirt then is possibly ever neccesary. 1 hour and minutes of vinyl and digital churning await you.....

Conflict Bureau 29/11/24

Selections from the 2024/2023 Noir Age release catalogue along with some exclusive Night Foundation compilation contributions for NARR Radio and Industrial Coast. A tooth for every track.

Track list:
Brieske Vergez - Parallels
M. Willet - Conversations with the big voice upstairs
Night Foundation - Hinterland
Dania Sixto - VI
Rental Snakes - Buzz Off
Robert Eggplant - No Moon No Wave
Skisserna - Monument 6
Anasisana - I Enshrine You (ft. FH HF)
Night Foundation - Beachy Dread
R. Pierre - Rain Data
Tarotplane - Between Soil and Sky (excerpt)

Interlude

Golden Beasts