EVEN THE CHIMERA’is the debut album by Wild Terrier Orchestra, a new project by Dimitris Papadatos, aka Jay Glass Dubs, based on interchangeability and open improvisation. A newer, freer incarnation of Papadatos’ creative intent, the projects act more like an open container of dsparate and idiosyncratic contributions from a mutable cast of musicians and artists. Often times not provided according to a pre-planned structure, these contributions are actually more likely to arrive in the form of free improvisations, unconnected musical segments and fragmented splinters of sound. This allowes Papadatos to aggregate all the constituent parts according to an intuitive process that bridges between the detailed craft of electronic music production and surrealist techniques such as the Cadavre Exquis and the Cut-Up. It’s both a harmonization of contrasting tones and a research for commonality within difference, although none of the wild terriers are ever nearly tamed.

Unsurprisingly, the main inspiration for this new chapter came from a pinnacle of from a a pinnacle of avantgarde literature: poet Andreas Embirikos’, considered Greece’s first surrealist and all-out paradoxical figure. Specifically, this release is guided and instigated by his poem OKTANA, in which Embirikos inscribes a manifesto for a hedonistic utopia years ahead of any accelerationist theories, bursting with contradicting presences and mutating identities. Written in the aftermath of the Greek civil war, the poem calls for a time of eternal poetry and spiritual intoxication that can only be reached through a painful process of violent deconstruction.

Thus, EVEN THE CHIMERA was born: a culmination of Papadatos’ decades long research on traditional Greek and Byzantine music, free jazz and free improvisation. Firmly spread between two side-long tracks, the contributions of American singer and musician Cruel Diagonals on vocal duties as well as Greek artist and musician Fotini Korre on ney suggest the existence of a filament that connects the west and the east through the creation of ‘’possible musics’’. This happens in accordance to Papadatos’ practice of a counterfactual approach to the process of what music history dictates. It is also directly shaped by the musician’s frequent dwellings in the isle of Cyprus, a land in which the clash of worlds and culture has often taken both violent and beautiful shapes. The long drones, acoustic ghosts and unbalanced choirs that form the album seem to call from the Mediterrean itself, not only from its history but also from its possibile futures and unreal narrations, invoking it as a nexus of diversity and possibility.

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As the first katharsis release of 2022, we present you the debut EP “Distance” by Rome-based artist chantssss. This release frames a deep introspection for the listener by exhibiting a granular sound collage based mainly on aquatic sounds but also on solid objects broken up to tiny pieces until they transform into a liquid semi-percussive state.

Throughout the four tracks of the EP, we are enveloped by a transforming layer of fluid noise, that momentarily resembles the slithering of a snake, which is also graphicly represented by the artist alias. This is no coincidence, as the artist is connected to this theme by their experience of being bitten by a viper while capturing aquatic field recordings in the mountains.

On “Distance”, chantssss premieres his artistic expression by employing intertwining multi-sensory atmospheres of nature combined with generative synthesis and field recordings. The single “Your Next Online Healing” will be premiered on the 3rd of February, a week before the full EP releases on February 10th.

Distance

chantssss - Breath

October 6th at Ormside Projects
with  Mobbs (live), Rat Section (live), YL Hooi and Tarquin Manek (dj/pa) + Susu Laroche (dj)

https://ra.co/events/1580038

Seraph FM #1

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Big or profound sensations from small gestures which are carefully arranged. Using a mixture of sacred and profane, or classical and prosaic sound sources, knitted into intricate, fleet-footed compositions that virtually spring into the ear. Profondo Rosa is composer Ailin Grad’s first vinyl album following years embedded and loved in the Argentinian experimental music scene, with past treats on labels Krut, Sun Ark, Orange Milk Records and her own label Abyss, devoted to ‘connecting Latin Juke with the world’.

There’s a playfulness at the heart of Profondo Rosa that’s immediately charming, with a sense of scale and spatialisation in the sounds being toyed with, exploring the strange pleasures and satisfaction in her approach to delightful and fresh feeling sound design. Aylu is known to be as likely to deploy the sound of a finger click, a fizzy drink being cracked open, or a fly buzzing past the ear, as she is drawn to sampling gorgeous strings or instrumentation. Her debut album for Mana constantly builds territories that tug at your heartstrings and then have you grinning five seconds later. This versatility and acceleration has often resulted in her music being compared to footwork, alongside collaboration with other producers experimenting in that sphere; in 2017 she and Foodman put together a dizzying hour of sounds for NTS.

Her miniaturisation of rhythm and ringtone-like sample size could also bring to mind SND circa their warmer softer glitch Tenderlove phase, or perhaps the approach that Teenage Engineering take to designing tools for music making. Each are deriving pleasure from small and satisfying shapes, as well as advocating an object-oriented philosophy and minimalisation in their work that sidesteps a draining of colour. Sound is fun, and in Profondo Rosa it sounds like Aylu has that at the forefront of her mind.

Her hyperreal sound and its link to the languages of electroacoustic or computer music are clear, but she outmanoeuvres many of the overly-academic and formless examples of those genres. Profondo Rosa’s skeletal assembly of objects becomes tunes in an elegant, almost understated way; tactile elements quickly combine and roll into deeper and persuasively emotional places. These compositions give off an air of being very free, very experimental, despite being meticulously artful and studied arrangements on precise and nimble coordinates.

released October 4, 2022

Artwork by Roberta Di Paolo
Typography by Gustavo Eandi
Vinyl mastered and lacquer cut by Kassian Troyer @ Dubplates and Mastering, Berlin.

Profondo Rosa

Aylu - Lilla

https://soundcloud.com/hasfeldt

https://www.retreatradio.net/open-minded

Open Minded #1 w/ Hasfeldt (04/02/23)

Thanks to https://soundcloud.com/digitonica.

(+)earth w/ DIGITONICA

Rinse France Podcast

Dawn avec Ronce, Qoso & Gargantuan Grief - 07 Avril 2023

[EP032] Guest mix by https://soundcloud.com/mira-shindento.

Aired via https://soundcloud.com/stegi-radio-athens.

Tracklist

Wild Terrier Orchestra - Κάθε Φορά Που Εν Εκστάσει Συντελλείται
Internazionale - Vestiges Of Nature
Honour - AZUUUL
Powell - Piano Music #1
Luc Ferrari - 4'59
Luc Ferrari - 7'28
Rashad Becker - dances V
Paul Jebanasam - eidolons beginning p = (m2A 2 am to (rho-z)-y ∂t+(ρ see to wait dz/dt = it xy that I -beta* do not z countless
Bridget Ferrill & Áslaug Magnúsdóttir - Tapestry
Torus - Enter The Sun
Racine - Quelque Chose Tombe I
Aestum - Sune
Bonaventure - Both (ft. Hannah Black) 
Lionel Marchetti - Micro-climat
Know V.A. - Trauma
the fertile crescent - get weeping
Caterina Barbieri & Lyra Pramuk - Knot of Spirit
Luc Ferrari - 5'18
MIRA新伝統 - unreleased

MIRA新伝統

Stegi | evo-natura with MIRA新伝統 ― 24 May 2023

Ambient soundscapes inspired by Blade runner, I Robot and all the other wonderful sci-fi of the past, present and future

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Shounthar - Ambient Music Soundscape

An immersive ambient soundscape blending deep ambient, relaxing music, and subtle drone sounds with soft pads and organic field recordings. Designed for meditation music, study music, yoga music, and sleep music, this track delivers calm vibes and a peaceful atmosphere for stress relief, mindfulness, and late-night listening.

Perfect as background music for video games, animations, film soundtracks, documentaries, podcasts, and creative projects needing an atmospheric and cinematic touch. Ideal for fans of cinematic soundscape ambient and atmospheric chillout.

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