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Bezodyna remix  by Flora Yin Wong (@floraytw). Taken from Katarina Gryvul (@katarina-gryvul) new album Tysha, out February 9, 2022, via Standard Deviation (@standard-deviation)

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TYSHA (Ukrainian for silence) is the second longplayer of Ukrainian-born, Poland-bread and Austria-based multi-instrumentalist and singer Katarina Gryvul. Following her enigmatic song ”In Coma”, which released in 2020 on Standard Deviation, Gryvul delivers an 8-track long album of blooming, emotional and tactile electronica pop ballads, resulting in an intensely personal journey into the artist's inner world at the most silent time of her life.

In an attempt to deal with her decaying perception of reality and the overwhelming sense of isolation caused by the experience of global pandemic, Gryvul finds refuge in silence. She is mesmerized by the all-consuming absence of sound, and the many ways in which silence can be perceived: silky, enveloping, calm, but also caustic, fractured and sharp. TYSHA was written entirely during the pandemic. Gryvul describes that being surrounded by people during that challenging period started feeling like ”a potential threat” and as something unnatural and artificial.” She says: “It made me feel like I was torn between two realities, virtual and real, and did not belong to any of them”.

TYSHA sounds imminently disturbing, yet soft, with ghostly harmonics, tempis and a wide variety of musical and lyrical influences. The album feeds from ”something that has already vanished” - a feeling of longing in a moment of uncertainty, crystallized in balladic writing and subtle elven-like soundscapes.

Gryvul, who usually works with classical instruments, now explores a more electronic sound with beats and apparent beatgrid structure, referencing the environment in which what once felt natural and organic started feeling artificial and synthetic. Varying in tempo, moods and instruments, TYSHAcreates an emotional journey, exploring different forms of silence, representing the tension between the virtual and the real world and reflecting Gryvul’s feelings of hostility and alienation in contrast with her longing for connection.

The album is supported with remixes by London-based artist Flora Yin-Wong, contributing on ”Bezodnya” with an ethereally soft and lyrically poetic rework and Belgian experimentalist Maoupa Mazzocchetti reinterpreting ”Tysha” as a gloomy, ecstatic and roaring piece for the dance floor.

Artwork photography by Sam Clarke

Art Direction and logo design by RAM

Mastered by UTC+16, Kyiv

Released by Standard Deviation

Premiere: Katarina Gryvul - Bezodnya (Flora Yin Wong Remix) [Standard Deviation]

“How to tell a story about being from a place you don't come from? The lives of both my grandmothers were marked by moving to the other end of their world. And this is how I was born in Warmia. A place that has repeatedly uprooted its history. From the Prussians to Warmians, Germans, and Jews, to the forced resettlement of Ruthenians and Ukrainians in the Vistula operation and repatriation of the Kresowiaks...” – Zosia Hołubowska 

“Singing Warmia” is an attempt to deal with the lack of family archives and the inability to establish a relationship with the place of birth. 

Instead of family stories, the album's material is photos of the artist's favorite places around Olsztyn (capital city of Warmia region), which were sonified using processes designed by the artists. Zosia Hołubowska follows Saidiya Hartman's critical fabulation, that is, the transformation of history that counters the violence of historical representations and archives. Singing Warmia expresses both the pain of exile and the gloomy beauty of the abandoned landscape: the slow current of the river grazed by tree branches. 

This process concerns the landscape, or rather the soundscape inviting the voices of the spirits that inhabit it. The bends of the Łyna become the signals controlling the synthesizers. The arrangement of tree branches is translated into a melody, and the splashes of light on the waves of the river constitute a harmonic spectrum of sounds resembling the whispers and wailing of phantoms. This piece is another example of creative work with archives, following the "undoing" approach, which means deconstructing, collage reassembling, and animating the elements to reinterpret the performative and magical potential of the material. 

The album is a rework of the 5 speaker concert commissioned by Canti Spazalizzati.

written, composed, and mixed by Zosia Hołubowska @zosia-ho-ubowska
mastered by Roland Nagy 
artwork by Peter Mazur 
font: HIDE productions

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Zosia Hołubowska – Forest of the Expelled / Las wypedzonych

Vladimir Martynov & HMOT – live at DOM march 2018

Trancendental

Toronto's @esaggila lands on Northern Electronics with a defiant seven-track LP titled 'My World My Way'. It follows up 2018's 'Dedicated To Sublimity' LP, which released on BANK Records NYC.

On her latest, the Summer Isle co-founder fuses warped vocal samples with breathlessly high BPMS, Rotterdam vibes, ambient, industrial and of course, lashings of frenetic gabber rhythms. Today, we're psyched to be premiering title track 'My World My Way'. Much like the rest of the LP, it's an intense, impulsive and propulsive thrill ride fit for the floor or a solo listen.

'My World My Way' is due out August 2 on vinyl and digital formats.

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Premiere: E-Saggila 'My World My Way'

NTS x Posh Isolation w/ Vanessa Amara, September 5th, 2019

Vanessa Amara - Double Bass - 0.00 - 4.52
Vanessa Amara - Piano & Accordion - 4.52 - 14.50
Vanessa Amara - Guitars 14.50 - 19.56
Vanessa Amara - Piano I 19.56 - 22.28
Vanessa Amara - Accordion - 22.28 - 29.19
Vanessa Amara - Piano II - 29.19 - 36.59 
Vanessa Amara - Organ - 36.59 - 42.02
Vanessa Amara - Piano, Viola & Organ 42.02 - 42.48
Vanessa Amara - Digital Feedback - 42.48 - 48.10 
Larla Ó Lionáird - Aisling Gheal - 48.10 - 54.58
Vanessa Amara - Feedback - 54.58 - 60.00

NTS x Posh Isolation w/ Vanessa Amara, September 5th, 2019

@aquarian's track "365 Days and Counting" will be released through @bedouinrecords on 24th of January: http://bit.ly/Aquarian365

The Snake That Eat Itself

365 Days and Counting

Aquarian - 365 Days and Counting

Blind Spot comes out from a session in Desden with @ulf-langheinrich .

Blind Spot - Mika Oki & Ulf langheinrich

Actor-Network Theory

Choking On Ice

@perkopair & @feroxmaw's 'Utility Hack' taken from the final compilation of @petrola-80's trilogy.

More: https://ins-rt.net/audio/perko-ferox-maw-utility-hack

Vladimir Martynov & HMOT – live at DOM march 2018

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