Tau apuxí (hello family) this is absolutely beautiful keep making more

INCANTATIONS is a collection of sixteen visual and sonic experiments centred around the idea of score as spell, curated and produced by Séance Centre’s Brandon Hocura and Naomi Okabe.

A spell and its incantation are distinct, but conjoined by a symbolic, almost umbilical force. A spell is a totem text, a material call for change — a seed, a recipe, an instruction, a potential. The incantation of a spell gives it life, brings breath to body, raises hairs, moves minds. For this project, eight spell-scores were created by visual/text-based artists for a musician/composer to incant. Taking a wide interpretation of what can be considered a score, these works include concrete poetry, collage, painting, drawing, spell-poetry, instructional art, and recipe. The resulting sound works give voice to these evocative “texts”, residing in the liminal space between musical form and magical utterance.

INCANTATIONS EDITIONS:

- The Metaphysical: Digital + Spell Card PDF
- The Liminal: Digital + Spell Card Set (Limited to 200)
- The Corporeal: Vinyl LP + Spell Card Set + Digital (Limited to 300)

PRE-ORDER HERE: https://seance-centre.bandcamp.com/album/incantations

Museum Of No Art - Textile Trance (spell by Mehrnaz Rohbakhsh) from Incantations (30SC)

Give me half a reason,
I wouldn’t want to go out of my way.
I don’t think I miss you.
Faces in the wall tell me I’ve got to stay.

They just keep on comin’.
Trying my best to throw this story away,
but the sun keeps shinin’.
All the folks are still sayin they’re still on their way.

Dont think i miss you

This month's show is a fertile mix of obscure jazz, folk, rock and vernacular music put together by Vancouver based collector and producer Nate Drobner who operates under the alias Astrological and the duo Potatoehead People. He also pilots a fantastic Youtube channel called MoogMelodiya where he uploads the many amazing discoveries he finds primarily at local thrift shops. I’ve been looking forward to having Nate make a mix for the show for a while, and he delivered!

Séance Centre Radio Episode 52 NTS w/ MoogMelodiya NO BANTER

We’ve been fans of the Jakarta based label Divisi 62 since Uwalmassa’s Animisme EP in 2017. The releases on the label circle a community of adventurous musicians who create future leaning percussive electronic music, while sustaining a long and rich tradition of archipelagic music. The label defines their ongoing project as “a continual construction of the Indonesian identity, emphasizing a cross-wiring of world heritage.” For this show, the label’s founder Harsya Wahono has put together a mix of contemporary sounds from artists who orbit the label. Harsya performs and composes solo works and is also part of Uwalmassa and Zatua who released an incredible EP on Second Circle a few years ago. Most of the sounds on the mix are from unreleased and live recordings, emphasizing performance as an integral part of this musical community. We’ll hear recordings of Harsya’s own groups as well as emerging artists, relatively unknown outside of the local circuit.

@divisi62

Séance Centre Radio Episode 60 NTS w/ Wahono (DIVISI62)

I can't wait

hard to care

you left

Beverly Glenn-Copeland is already known amongst collectors and music heads for two sought-after albums of folky jazz in the key of Joni. But it was this album, originally self-released on cassette in 1986 that really caught our attention. The album, entirely recorded on DX-7 and TR-707, lies somewhere between digital new-age and (accidentally) early Detroit techno experiments. The inimitable style of BGC here is both peaceful and meditative while simultaneously rhythmic and bass heavy. The album was recorded in the northern Canadian town of Huntsville where BGC was living at the time and is a beautiful fusion of personal vision, technology and place. 

(p) & (c) Seance Centre 2017
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