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Warsaw-based cellist/composer Resina (Karolina Rec) returns with a first standalone album in three years, taking a big step forward on a bold and brilliantly expansive record that explores ideas about language, the voice and the unpredictability of nature. Recorded by Resina and Michał Kupicz, with striking additional mixing & production work by Daniel Rejmer (Ben Frost, Björk, Foals, Girls Names), 'Speechless’ is fluid and muscular, with wide dynamics and a dark and powerful dramatic weight. Across nine tracks, Resina's cello, voice and electronics are set alongside drummer Mateusz Rychlicki and the 23-piece 441 Hz choir.

Speechless

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It Is An Organ And A Vice To Some

KURMA, in Sanskrit, means ‘tortoise’. According to Hindu mythology, during the great universal deluge, countless treasures were lost. In an effort to recover them, Deities and Demons joined forces in order to upset the cosmic ocean. Vishnu, known as “The Preserver”, took on the form of a tortoise, and submerged into the depths of the ocean. On his shell he carried a mountain and coiled therein was a great snake that shook the waters, creating such chaos that would in turn bring about renewed order.

One year after their first release, Michael Sarian and Olec Mün present their new EP, KURMA. Having settled into a shared musical language created in synergy, the two eclectic musicians create a universe in sound to tell this tale of chaos and order, inherent to creation itself. As in their first release, MAKARA, Mün sets the terrain with synthesizers and sound design, giving Sarian a canvas on which to paint with his trumpet and FX. This collaboration transcends genre and invites all to listen intently, navigating the different emotions the music inspires.

KURMA releases on the 8th of July on digital format featuring artwork by Celia Bayo.

Olec Mün and Michael Sarian - Svāhā

Remembranza

Rostro

Clarity Of Vision

Soundwalk Collective & Jesse Paris Smith
Featuring Patti Smith

'Killer Road'
from the album 'Killer Road' - A Tribute To Nico
Bella Union, Sacred Bones Records, 2xLP, Limited Edition, CD, Digital

Killer Road is a sound exploration of the tragic death of Nico, Velvet Underground vocalist and 60s icon, while riding her bike on the island of Ibiza in the summer of 1988. A hypnotic meditation on the idea of perpetual motion and the cycle of life and death, the composition features Patti Smith lending her unique voice to the last poems written by the artist. Soundwalk Collective uses a travel log of field recordings and samples of Nico's signature instrument, the harmonium, to create a magnetic soundscape.

www.soundwalkcollective.com
www.bellaunion.com
www.sacredbonesrecords.com

iTunes pre-order: http://geni.us/SCKillerRoadDL
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/7zgbThP2pz2tMJ7mkrqqcv

Videos:
'Killer Road' by Tina Frank: vimeo.com/175356749
'Fearfully In danger [Live at Volksbühne Berlin]' by Barbara Klein: vimeo.com/178216980
'I Will Be Seven' by Tina Frank: vimeo.com/180648057

Killer Road

Soundwalk Collective & Jesse Paris Smith, feat. Patti Smith: Killer Road

Gadfly

Electronic part of the performance piece "Ask my Ash" for Saxophone, Cello, Percussion and electronic!
Premiered by Blackpage Orchestra in June 17.

Ask My Ash (ELectronic part)

less bells 'forest ghosts'

from KR060: SABA ALIZADEH - Scattered Memories (LP / DL) out on feb 15th 2019

Scattered Memories

SABA ALIZADEH - Dream

SIAVASH AMINI, A Mimesis Of Nothingness, LP

Release date - Aug 28th 2020
Catalogue nr. - HG2006
Format - Vinyl with 8-page booklet/digital

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Tracklist:
1) Lustrous Residue (07:59)
2) Perpetually Inwards  (02:58)
3) Moonless Garden  (08:50)
4) Observance (Shadow)  (05:32)
5) A Collective Floundering  (06:48)
6) The Stillborn Baroque  (03:31)

Credits:
All Music Composed by Siavash Amini
Written and Recorded in Tehran 2018-2019
Based on Photographs of Tehran by Nooshin Shafiee
Booklet Photographs by Nooshin Shafiee
Mastered by Lawrence English at Negative Space
Cover Photo Nooshin Shafiee
Cover design Ruth Stofer and Greenpointless

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Siavash Amini returns to Hallow Ground  with »A Mimesis of Nothingness,« his fourth album for the Swiss label. Following up on »Harmistice« together with fellow Iranian artists 9T Antiope, the six tracks were conceived in close collaboration with another artist and see the prolific composer intensify his interdisciplinary approach. The six tracks enter a dialogue with the photographs of Nooshin Shafiee, an acclaimed artist whose work capturing their hometown Tehran becomes the starting point for one of Amini’s most visceral and haunting records. »A Mimesis of Nothingness« translates the ephemeral situations and melancholic moods of Shafiee’s pictures into suspenseful soundscapes that masterfully navigate between the concrete and the abstract.

Amini met Shafiee while setting up the sound art space SEDA Projects at the Emkan gallery in Tehran where the photographer’s second solo exhibition was shown. Following the suggestion of curator Behzad Nejadghanbar, the two started a fruitful collaboration that would eventually lead to »A Mimesis of Nothingness,« which was written and recorded between the years 2018 and 2019 and which includes a booklet with a selection of Shafiee’s work. The two share an interest in exploring the sensual experience and the metaphysical dimensions of space. »I was fascinated by Nooshin’s approach,« explains Amini who, ever since releasing the album »TAR« through Hallow Ground in 2017, has focused on how our experience of places is shaped by the individual and collective subconscious. »It wasn’t the Tehran that everyone projected into their work, it was Tehran showing itself through tiny and giant overlooked places or objects.«

Amini’s music accordingly does not seek out a specific sonic picture of the city, but rather lets it come alive on its own terms. »A Mimesis of Nothingness« is a disquieting record precisely because it is a quiet one. Working with field recordings, Amini sculpts dynamic portraits that create an atmosphere of tangible suspense that is never fully released. Even when string-like sounds enter the picture as they do on the third track »Moonless Garden« or when the abstract and glacial noise on »Observance (Shadow)« demand the listener’s attention, the six pieces take hold of the subconscious rather than trying to be direct and confrontational. It is sound conceived not as a description, but a circumscription of spatial relations and the eeriness embedded in them. 

»We both saw something decadent or violent about all of these captured places and objects,« says the composer about Shafiee’s pictures. »There is no resolution, just excess. It seems they are eternal remnants of a violent scene, no matter how new or old they were. Never finished, never begotten, a stillborn.« Throughout »A Mimesis of Nothingness,« its ghost roams freely.

SIAVASH AMINI - Moonless Garden (HG2006)

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It was established in Lucerne/Switzerland by a group of individualists, idealists and first of all artists. We act as publishers, hosts and performers.

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SIAVASH AMINI - Moonless Garden (HG2006)

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