87th installment of the Joyful Union Select series.

Tracks by Dylan Owen, LLWLL, Sleeve Of Skin, Blu & Exile, Fine China Superbone!, Original Flavor, Boyscott, Stereosity, Vic Spencer, and more

Joyful Union Select 087

ANFANG

Stream on Spotify/Apple here: https://dylanowen.ffm.to/dobeforeyoudie

"ROMANTIC LANGUAGE" CREDITS
Inspired by the language of love, and a girl from the desert who taught me how to dry my eyes.
Lyrics and vocals by Dylan Owen
Produced by naebird
Electric guitar by naebird
Background vocals by Astraia
Mixed by Jeremie Inhaber
Mastered by Héctor Vega at Bespoke Sonics
Bespoke Sonics Assistant Engineer Isaiah Chamberlain
Bespoke Sonics Studio Personnel Dasha Sands
Mixtape Cover Photo by Thomas Ford Flynn
Mixtape Cover Artwork by Dylan Owen

DO BEFORE YOU DIE MIXTAPE

STREAM

ROMANTIC LANGUAGE

Watch Me Drive Them Dogs Wild

Birdseed

Stena

Biskopskulla Hogstena

*title track from coveted LA vocal phenom, bandleader, songwriter Sharada Shashidhar debut album Soft Echoes, out Sept27 2024 via Leaving Records All Genre preorder vinyl cassette digital at leavingrecords.com/soft-echoes
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Los Angeles-based vocalist, composer, and producer Sharada Shashidhar has a deep awareness of the cosmos. There’s a distinct tug-of-war in her music, an understanding that scanning the heavens to answer existential queries isn’t quite enough; there are internal depths to plumb as well. Shashidhar’s first album, 2020’s Rahu, found her voice billowing out of smoky, post-beat-scene soundscapes, meditating on the collective unconscious and the energy exchange between all living things. Her newest work, Soft Echoes, is a bold step forward, eschewing her previous work’s hip-hop tilt for expansive compositions that blend jazz and Indian classical influences into a swirling, spiritual whole.

Though she has an extensive resume as a collaborator in LA’s experimental jazz scene, notching work with the likes of Carlos Niño, Zeroh, and the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, Soft Echoes marks Shashidhar’s first outing as a bandleader. Gathering an ensemble that includes Anna Butters on bass, Julian Rodriguez on keys, Devin Daniels on saxophone, and Timothy Angulo on drums, Shashidhar sought to create a band that ostensibly functioned as an extension of herself. Her primary goals in writing these songs were to “let [her] body do what it wanted to do,” to trust her intuition, and “play without judgment.” Through that process, making Soft Echoes became a practice of presence and exploration, a chance to unlearn rigid structures and rediscover the joy of creating for oneself.

Recording took place over three brief, distinct sessions at Altamira Sound in Alhambra, California. Though the full band wasn’t ever present at the same time, Soft Echoes sounds like the work of a group in complete, mind-meld focus. Splashy drums nudge up against skronkingsaxophone on “Canyon Song,” while mushrooming synth tones stack up behind rippling Rhodes piano on “Luckiest.” Shashidhar’s elegant voice is the anchor for each of these tracks, sometimes gracefully stretching between instruments like a lithe dancer’s limbs, other times scattering through psychedelic delay.

She describes the album as having “two poles,” illustrated by the whimsical, buoyant opener “Soft Echoes” and the darker, more anxiety-ridden closer, “New Echoes.” The songs in between may come from different emotional spaces, but “it’s all really reflective,” she explains. The album can play like a loop, with Shashidhar entering a portal “into the endlessness” during “New Echoes,” only to be transported back to the beginning, full of gratitude and pondering “how strange it is to be alive.” On Soft Echoes, Shashidhar leads us on a journey through her mind, traversing its peaks and canyons in search of greater connection. “I want to take people places,” she says, pausing thoughtfully. “I can’t always guarantee that they’re good places, [but] hopefully you’ll feel something.”

Soft Echoes

Sharada Shashidhar - Soft Echoes

ARTIST: RXM Reality
ALBUM: No. 1 in the World

to be released on October 4th, 2024 on Hausu Mountain

No. 1 in the World

RXM Reality - Blackout

Lucy Liyou, Los Angeles-based musician, opens a trilogy of invitations on Moans&Grunts. With her past records, Lucy has been playing with the idea of familiarity, documenting emotions through field recordings, text to speech softwares, vocals and piano.
The mix brings together piano works by Olivier Messiaen and Pierre Boulez as well as Klein, Phew and other experimental musicians. During this hour, the voice successively becomes ornament, ghost, instrument, body...
Lucy's album will be out on Orange Milk March 21st.
Drawing by R Tao Monnot @monnotao

@lucytheliyou

MOANS & GRUNTS w/ LUCY LIYOU (25/02/25)

Swimming Pool

From Under a Familiar Sun
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Written by Sam Beste
Produced by The Vernon Spring
Piano and Juno by Sam Beste. 
FX pedal piano processing by Calum Duncan.
 
Published by BMG Rights Management Ltd & Copyright Control.
Mixed by Iko Niche & The Vernon Spring.
Mastered by Matt Colton. 

Visuals by Eric Timothy Carlson & Aaron Anderson

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Requiem for Reem

The trilogy of invitations continues with Kraków-based writer and musician Natalia Panzer.
Natalia contributed with an hour of music and poetry, where listening can also mean translating. We discussed the enchantment and the hold that mumbling, not understanding a specific mouthing, can have on you. Tenderness and onirism, weaved in music and sounds by U.e., Yoran, Urika's bedroom, Oklou...
Natalia writes and makes music in collaborative projects such as Lynn, ana reme, Miniskirt
Image by R. Tao Monnot @monnotao
npanzer.com

MOANS & GRUNTS w/ Natalia Panzer (25/03/25)

Leaf Miner - as a toy
Matchess - Third Coin (live excerpt)
SOIL 77 - 18
Leaf Miner - Crushed Red Velvet 
Lily Dora - slip away
Leaf Miner - 99 windows 
Lily Dora - silhouette
Matchess - To Have Done with the Judgement of God (Antonin Artaud)
Keeyan Haack - Tinsel
Lily Dora - Cue 16
Ossemaan - All That Remains
Eleven Thistles - Fa11ing
Leaf Miner - Stood Still
SOIL 77 - untitled demo
SOIL 77- It Will Show Itself Again
Matchess - Klara Kyrka
Matchess - In The Bed of Ivy
Illinois WildFire Call Center - The Sunrise Fire of 1995
Keeyan Haack - In Chambers Carved of Ice
Lily & Alex - Red Wash

OB0537 — Cancer House

livefromaztlan20250426:

https://sleepdial.bandcamp.com/album/aztlan



windspell

Hypersoft Lovejinx Junkdream

UmmTss03

Q-O2 team members and interns created playlists of sounds they found interesting, funny or confusing in relation to the theme of the 7th edition of the Festival Oscillation ::: The Weather.
This is the choice of Cis De Gendt:
Youngso No -  JST- Solar Noon, Kyotango- Summer Solstice, Akashi- Winter Solstice _ A
Yan Jun & Yu Ji - A Piece Of Field Recording 
Manfred Werder – 20092 - II
Shots - Private Hate - K&K 
Jeph Jerman - The Second Attention
Gabi Losoncy - HH (A)
Marc Baron - Et nous neigerons sur nos pas - PART 4 C - THE SECRETS OF A ROUTINE, SECOND PASS OF THE MAGNET 
sound from ‘What the Water Said, Nos. 4-6 (2006-2007)’, dir. David Gatten
Éric La Casa/Taku Unami - Parazoan Mapping 6
Phil Durrant/Thomas Lehn/Radu Malfatti - dach 2
Seijiro Murayama & Toshiya Tsunoda – Snared 60 Cuts - Take 4, Take 7, Take 6 and Take 13
Devin DiSanto - Tracing a Boundary
Áine O’Dwyer - Turning in Space - Motorwave - Whorld
Staubitz and Waterhouse and Seamus - Gorgers
Yii Kah-Hoe - Bung Jagoi - In The Forest 0236 
Walter Marchetti – La Caccia (Da «Arpocrate Seduto Sul Loto») - Parte Seconda
Xiang - Dense Set - A1
Anne-F Jacques - l'ampoule et l'insecte - intempérie
Mark Moreland - Selected Tape Works - The Din Side A
T.D. – Violence As Sport: Audile Realizations Of Atrophying Reality - Life Lies
Alison Knowles - Frijoles Canyon - Glide Hall Banisters
Roc Montoriol & cecilie fang - Plants, Magnets, foil, Transducers, Cassette Records, and Bluetooth speakers
John Hudak - The Subterranean Pasture - Side A, recorded in Bloomville, ny, 4 july 95 at 3:00pm. noise reduction added at harvestworks/studio pass, nyc, 7 july 95
Jeph Jerman - Outside / Inside -  4 Track Composite Of Various Mics/Amps Bringing Outside Sounds Into The Studio 
Ami Yoshida - 動 (from Cherry Music's ‘In Drawing’ compilation)
Lionel Marchetti & Vanessa Rossetto - The Tower (l'escalier en spirale) - 1-12 Quatrième (et dernière) nuit – Coda _ Apologie des images ; de la substance…
Walter De Maria - Drums And Nature - Cricket Music (1964)
Takahiro Kawaguchi - Recorded Xenoglossy 2 - 94 water drops per minute

The choice of Cis De Gendt

feeling remembering

A label run by Doug Kaplan and Max Allison. We operate out of Chicago, IL and release music on vinyl, on cassette tape, and digitally via Bandcamp.

It’s likely that we’ve never met, but we believe that all of the decisions you make as a person operating in this world are well-intentioned and correct in their own way and with that belief in our minds we’d like you to know how deeply we admire you.

RXM Reality - Blackout

Hausu Mountain

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