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ARCHAIC - Noise In Your Head

@ylia —aka Susana Hernández— had a remarkably productive 2020. In addition to releasing her debut album, Dulce Rendición, on Barcelona’s Paralaxe Editions, she penned compilation tracks for Lapsus Records, Hivern Discs, and Super Utu/Stars on Earth.

But professional success can be deceiving: The following year was, personally speaking, terrible. Her grandfather died. Her father died. Her cat died. And she ended a relationship. “That’s a lot of things all at once, no?” she says.

Her second album, Ame Agaru, is not necessarily a record of that year, but it is, she says, a response to those life events—a record of grief.

The new album is clearly a continuation of the ambient investigations of Ylia’s debut, but it differs in key ways. Where Dulce Rendición was exploratory and faintly cosmic, Ame Agaru—a Japanese phrase meaning, roughly, “the rain lifts”— captures a melancholy sense of stillness. And where her debut was largely electronic, on the new album, Ylia has folded in a number of acoustic elements, even when they are not recognizable as such. Her partner, Alejandro Lévar, lends fingerpicked acoustic guitar to the glowing dronescapes of “Todos los Cuerpos”; multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Tete Leal adds flutes, clarinet, and soprano saxophone to “Ame Agari”—or “after the rain”—which opens the album with a moment of contemplative calm, the kind that follows an extended deluge.

One track, the dub techno-influenced “Flowers in June,” grew out of Ylia’s live sets, but the rest are the fruit of improvisational sessions at home in Málaga, five minutes from the beach—jamming and then refining, searching for the ideal expression of a feeling as it was first captured. Searching for the spontaneity behind the stillness. In places, Ylia even incorporates piano, an instrument she has played since she was 10, yet has never included on one of her recordings before. For the most part on Ame Agaru, she seeks ways to fuse piano with synthesizers and electronic processes. But on the closing track, “El Único Adiós Posible,” she leaves us alone with the instrument in all its stark, unadorned beauty. It is a profoundly moving conclusion to an album defined by its economy of means and purity of expression: a cycle of life counted out in the passage of storm clouds and clearing skies.

Ame Agaru

Ylia - Ame Agaru [BALMAT06]

Sixth June: Fade 
from the album "Everytime" 2010
No Emb Blanc  NEB002 
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Sixth June - Fade

The Second of Two re-interpretations (or remixes if you prefer) of The Librarian's upcoming single "Slow". 

The Librarian - Slow (Skeleton Hands Hard Version)

Originally released on CD via "TSM - Compilation 0002" (The Scrap Mag Label, 2012).

Subsequently included in "Beyond the Zero" vinyl LP (Peripheral Minimal, 2015).

Contour Lines

Originally released via the cassette compilation "Until the Sun Grows Cold" (Vocoder Tapes, 2012).

Subsequently included in "Thoughtcrime" cassette EP(Infravox, 2014) and in "Thoughtcrime" vinyl EP -- expanded/reissued version (Minimalkombinat, 2022).

Dissociative Females

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taken from IN DEATH IT ENDS - "Occvlt Machine" LP+CD [a+w lp001]
(limited to 300 hand-numbered copies)

out on: February 28
pre-order starts February 2
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[a+w lp001] IN DEATH IT ENDS - Disavow

UN SUEÑO TERRIBLE.

Ahí, en ese espacio liminal y sin tiempos, donde uno no sabe muy bien si está durmiendo, o está despierto, ahí el poder de esta práctica. 
Allí donde la mente racional se retira, el corazón abre sus ojos. Entonces la respiración se equilibra y se vuelve silenciosa. Ahí, en ese estado meditativo, los aspectos inconscientes y conscientes de la mente se des.velan. 

*Para esta meditación guiada: encuentra un espacio silencioso, coge unos auriculares, túmbate cómodamente, cúbrete con una manta y sigue mi voz....

· Por Marta Carrascal y Música Lucas Masciano.
✧ WEB: https://www.eldescansodeti.com

* Mantra final: Gate Gate Pāragate. 
* Fotografía: Tuco Amalfi.

Yoga Nidra Bhakti - para un profundo descanso y experiencia sonora.

Que t'inundi l'amor

Two songs recorded in April 2013 for Part Time Punks at Bedrock Studios in Los Angeles.

Mixed and mastered by Drew Fischer

·Y· | EL AUGE

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