Eleventh installment of the Joyful Union Selects Series.

Tracks by Children of the Band, Schneider/Complainer, Beta Cuck, Power Therapy, Behind Clouds, Tony Crisp, valyri, MF KHAOS, Freddy Stone, Ryuji Takeuchi & Katran, Takahiro Mukai, DJ $outhbound

Joyful Union Select 011

SoundCloud Weekly

AMBIANT

morskie ucho - #8

Also available on very limited, numbered cassette tape:
www.diff.style

Nobody There Acid (Tight Fit)

Kodiak Acid

Video games, fear of nuclear war, spearmint thickshakes.

Moon Patrol: Such Surprise

Moon Patrol

Moon PatrolllllLLL

A single, unmediated vocal (save for a bit of reverb or room echo).

Sayonara Sound Productions 16

Side A, Track 1

Lady Gaga, you once said in an interview that you write music for the fashion industry. Is fashion as important to you as music? 
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Artist/Album: Jan Jelinek presents Zwischen
Format: LP Vinyl/DL
Label#: faitiche17
Release date: May 4th 2018

Faitiche is delighted to release a short version of the radio play Zwischen (German for ‘between’). Devised and produced by Jan Jelinek for German public broadcaster SWR2, Zwischen brings together twelve sound poetry collages using interview answers by public figures. Each collage consists of the brief moments between the spoken words: silences, pauses for breath and hesitations in which the interviewees utter non-semantic sound particles. These voice collages also control a synthesizer, creating electronic sounds that overlay and merge with the voices to make twelve acoustic structures.

We all know the speaker’s fate: you falter, you mispronounce, there are breaks, silences and false starts. This results in delays, a language noise compared by Roland Barthes to the knocks made by a malfunctioning motor. Such gaps can be disconcerting, standing as they do for a failure of the speaker’s rhetorical skills. But what happens when they become a constitutive, poetic factor?

Zwischen consists of twelve answers to twelve questions. The answers were all recorded in interview situations. From the speech of the interviewees – all eloquent public figures – the pauses are extracted and edited together. The result is a series of sound collages of silence. But this silence is deceptive, as it is only meaning that falls silent. What remains audible is an archaic body language: modes of breathing, planning phases, seething word particles in search of sense that can break out into onomatopoeic tumult or drift off into sonorous noise.

In a further step, each of the twelve collages controls a modular synthesizer via its amplitude and frequency. Supposedly defective speech acts conduct synthetic sounds and the speakers regain their composure – not via the spoken word, but through sound.

The opening questions in the various interviews are answered by: Alice Schwarzer, John Cage, Hubert Fichte, Slavoj Žižek, Joseph Beuys, Lady Gaga, Ernst Jandl, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Marcel Duchamp, Friederike Mayröcker, Yoko Ono and Max Ernst.

Jan Jelinek: Lady Gaga, (...) Is Fashion As Important To You As Music?

Blue 01 - Tessela & Lanark Artefax
Release date - 9th March 2018
Buy - https://whities.bandcamp.com/album/blue-01

A - Glisten
B - Touch Absence (Intimidating Stillness Mix)

Designed by Alex McCullough. 
Mastered by Beau Thomas

Distributed by Rush Hour

Blue 01 - Tessela & Lanark Artefax: Glisten / Touch Absence (Intimidating Stillness Mix)

Appears on Physically Sick 2, released March 6, 2018

Physically Sick 2 is a charity compilation by Allergy Season and Discwoman curated by Umfang, Frankie Decaiza Hutchinson, and Physical Therapy. 100% percent of profits from the compilation will go to the Brooklyn Community Bail Fund. Out Tuesday March 6th, 2018 and available exclusively through Bandcamp.

https://physicallysick2.bandcamp.com/

Terracotta [Allergy Season]

B1 - VVVVV

from

BAMBOUNOU - parametr perkusja ep
due Mai '18

VVVVV

BAMBOUNOU - VVVVV

Aiden Ayers for the upcoming VA Unknown Sources & Disbelief on Hidden Valley Logging Company available June 1st

Aiden Ayers - Zindagi (Unknown Sources & Disbelief Released 6/1/18)

First sound from my forthcoming Taut LP. This will be something like my 19th full length, and although I never felt out of breath, what a wonderful marathon its been. The song is more California quiet storm than gale force, but hopefully you feel it.

I'll be posting the stems for download soon and would love to hear your take on the song, or just pass along the the skittering drums for you to find use.

Cover by Debbie Cho

Taut

Pre-order

Raindrops

Artist: Milan W.
Title: Envelope
Format: 12 inch vinyl (incl. download)
Release date: 6th of June 2018
Cat no: EKS016
Edition: 500

order here: https://eksterlabel.bandcamp.com/album/envelope

Presenting “Envelope”. Album written, produced & mixed by Milan W. and pressed on 180g vinyl, to be released on the 6th of June 2018. With foil-stamped cover-drawing by Gerard Herman. Mastered & cut by Helmut Erler at Dubplates & Mastering. 


Tracklist:

A1: Slope
A2: Astma
A3: Orchestral
A4: In Limbo

B1: Heraldic Snippets
B2: Slow Runner
B3: Glaasjes
B4: Malady


The harlequin turns the handle. The contraption sucks in air, and breathes. Blows out tone poems. Wordless ballads that soundtrack enchanted scenarios. Issues forth magic. A sorcerer`s apprentice casting its spell. Animating the inanimate. To everything a life. Sets the frozen fluttering. Pirouetting in red shoes. Illuminates what was dark. Astma sings a Gamelan lullaby. Summons comforting angels to a post-Industrial landscape. Glaasjes has Jazz ghosts inhabit an empty bar room. Spirits stealing excuse-me`s under its deserted spot. In Limbo amplifies their whispers. Lead soldiers court jewellery-box ballerinas behind shuttered shop fronts. On Heraldic Snippets, a tin infantry marches. Ten thousand men up to the top, and back down again. Keys make-believing that they are massed brass and fife. 

The bellows pump, and the pipes all the while wheezing. An automaton philharmonic at the bidding of a steam-punk master. Analogue and digital. Clockwork and glitch. Malady finds sounds isolated, extrapolated, mutated. Orchestral`s organ-grinder moves with urgency, and alchemy. Spinning straw into gold. Snare rolls become bubbling mercury. Metallic, yet fluid. Racing at the speed of flight and escape. Slope is the music of water chasing through crystal caves. Slow Runner, a funeral crawl. Shoved into motion by a drama of strings remembered. 

Like the charismatic Rat-Catcher of Hamelin, the harlequin turns the handle, and we bang the cup.  (Text by Robert Harris — banbantonton.com)

Envelope

Milan W. — Envelope (Preview)

Teaser track for the album, GESTURES on Obsolete Staircases. Physical copies and downloads available here:

https://obsoletestaircases.bandcamp.com/

Gestures Teaser

Gsv001 Clips

A2. CRUEL IN THE SKY

Full Side A stream of my new album "Beautiful You". Purchase cassette and digital: https://heart.bandcamp.com/album/beautiful-you

Khotin - Beautiful You

Side A:
1. Welcome 
2. Water Soaked In Forever
3. Levi's Synth
4. Alla's Scans
5. Vacation

Side B:
6. Dwellberry
7. Looping Good
8. Merged Host
9. Somehow More Sad
10. Planet B

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Buy Cassette/Digital

Beautiful You (Side A)

another happy thought

Midori Hirano - Close to Life
From the album “Mirrors in Mirrors”

Release date: 5th March, 2019
Pre-order “Mirrors in Mirrors” here: https://daisart.bandcamp.com
© Daisart / daisart.info

From the liner notes:

If you stand between two mirrors facing each other, you’re faced with a curious and unique visual sensation – endlessly repeating reflections bounce off one another into an infinite, spiralling prism. Any movement from your vantage point derails the point of focus, and transforms the illusion in real-time before your eyes. Light bends, and with it, colours slip in and out of dominance, in an
Escherism of endless space, despite no change to the dimensions you inhabit in that ever so concrete space between two mirrors.

Midori Hirano speaks of “waning lights” and “edges blending into fog” as some of the sensory indicators inspiring Mirrors In Mirrors – her debut on Daisart – and these Impressionistic sentiments are deeply imbued within Hirano’s delicate, restrained compositions. The hallmarks of modern classical, electronica and ambient are adopted as an assemblage to explore nuanced tones and techniques less dictated by those stylistic underpinnings, perhaps somewhere hovering between – but never too far away – keenly aware of form and
function.

An emphasis upon the piano is an immediate point of reference for placing Hirano’s work within a broader context, but important to point out is the subtle and careful use of synthesisers and effects processing throughout the record – sometimes providing a more detailed background terrain, sometimes taking centre stage. Whichever instrument she turns her hands to, Hirano has crafted a record with enough dedicated focus and space to allow the listener to immerse oneself in her devised temporal expanse, an Impressionistic liminal space of Mirrors in Mirrors.


Written, produced, recorded and mixed by Midori Hirano in Berlin, Germany 2017-18. 
Mastered by Sean McCann of Recital Program.



“Mirrors in Mirrors” comes in a first edition of 200 x 12inch 145gm black vinyl (incl. download) with Pantone printed inner and outer
sleeves designed by Jeroen Wille and Rudd Ruttens [ruttens-wille].

Midori Hirano - Close To Life

- Jungle Gym Records (Los Angeles) : Crevalle (TBA)
- Lillerne Tapes (Chicago) : Atmos LP (03-2020)
- Lillerne Tapes (Chicago) : Reservoir LP (01-2019)
- Hidden Valley Logging Company - Unknown Sources & Disbelief V/A(June 2018)
- Hidden Valley Logging Company #1 (October 2017)

contact/demos: hiddenvalleyloggingcompany@gmail.com