1988 Mitsubishi Montero Sport: a small hard copy run of material that debuted live in late 2019 and early 2020. A musically headless period that spiraled out into silence before being sublimated in this release dedicated to one specific and inoperable vehicle. More important to me than whether or not efforts in sound meet a set of standards is that complex moments be marked, however imperfectly.

1988 Mitsubishi Montero Sport

from "Live in the Land of the Dead" 
https://hotreleases.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-the-land-of-the-dead

"Another sui-generis telegram from Ryan Martin's haunted shack, sounding like it's being slipped to its recipient in a scuffed velvet envelope. A ham radio broadcast searching through a forest of bare trees and into the starry skies, hunting for someone else out there to confirm this overwhelming feeling. Secret Boyfriend's has long been the loneliest corpus in contemporary music, and the most embracing: a paean to the eternal—the undead—dreams of youth that linger like a squishy tumor (possibly benign) long after the body itself has begun its inevitable disintegration, growing older and withering around a tender blue flame. On side A, shivery, whispery new-wave folk songs lure you close for warmth—power-pop hooks cast in shades of open-hearted embarrassment and humility—only for side B to excavate the oozing dripscapes, dusty torture chambers, rusted shards of noise, and spectral remnants of past dramas that all lurk deeper inside the house, locating and exorcising the aggression within the melancholy. At every stage, there are melodies and rhythms that threaten never to resolve, minimalist chord changes and looping, crumbling thuds that push you forward toward the emotional infinite. Maybe you'll find someone to sway alongside you as you head for that cosmic light in the distance. But “there’s no abyss, you’re thinking of it wrong”: acceptance that the end is also always a possibility, and that dreams always exist. This tape might emanate from the land of the dead, but it's evidence that it's still possible to be alive within that world." - Jonathan Woollen


"Live in the Land of the Dead" is a collection of innerworld psychotopographical pieces originally formulated in the rockbottom / positively transformational year 2019, evenly split between guitar (oh no) -centric songwriting in a raw, underground 'indie' vein and various 'instrumentals' of warped tape loop ambient ("ODE2"). no-input rhythmic destruction ("95S2", "Jungle Tape"), and imaginary soundtracks ("Reaper's Kiss", "You've Always Known"). This unusually limited (for me anyway) timeframe of writing and recording lends a more cohesive quality in terms of lyrics, concerns of which are: surviving hurricanes and general self-preservation, acceptance of the ephemeral physical, alternately erotic and threatening dreams, self-fulfilling prophecy, reframing the void, renewal. Trying to find the feeling again, moving against the wind past the sadness and hate in the midst of cosmic die-offs and transition.

recorded 2019 at Cathedral ii falling down and crawling up by RM on cassette 8-track except 2, 3, 11, 15, 17 = computer, & 19 by Victoria Shen with a phone in Boston. Originally released in sketchier form as a tour tape for a September 2019 east coast / midwest "Together Alone" tour with Housefire. Revised / remixed 2022. Mastered by Glyn Maier.

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barking dogs

The music artist and digital designer from Bangkok, @rab_neba, is presenting an album "(A)Iphoria".
The sound is a mix of electronica, ambient, vaporwave, and dungeon synth, crafted over 2.5 years. The album features futuristic landscapes that weave nostalgia and a mysterious dungeon atmosphere.

Rab Neba has been active in the electronic underground scene since the release of his vaporwave album "チュニック - tunic EP" in 2012 and has also co-founded bands like Goodbye Porsche (shoegaze, ambient trap, established in 2014) and Tomb de Narcisse (post-punk).

(A​)​Iphoria

rab neba — Perichoresis

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Sam Wolk "Trop-plein" excerpt from new cdr on Salon available at http://saloncdr.blogspot.com/

New stereo improvisations by Sam Wolk. Max/MSP, Acoustic objects and feedback, SP-404, Saxophone (Max Lesser), Voice (Charmaine Lee)

The trio of improvisations which follow are variations on a single idea.  Running a Max/MSP patch and interacting with it is a method of transducing energy from one form to another.  Electrical energy drawn from the grid is ultimately transformed into acoustic energy emerging from speakers along with the accompanying, over-flowing waste energy [entropic release].  The ephemeral, unstructured heat released in the process of generating structured acoustic energy [the composition] takes multiple forms: the discarded acoustic energy of computer keys pressed while manipulating the patch, the kinetic energy of hard drives whirring as data is read from disk into the patch, the thermal energy of CPUs radiating out and the acoustic energy of fans loudly attempting to reroute those heat flows.  In this trio of variations the central theme is feedback.  These ephemeral energy fluxes associated with keys, fans, disks, and CPUs are subjected to recycling [feedback] as the energy they produce is transduced by a contact microphone and the computer's internal microphone back into electrical audio flows which serve as the input to the Max patch itself.  As such, manipulating the audio at the human-computer interface generates the very energy flows which are transduced into the audio to be manipulated in the first place... The computer processes its own unstructured flows of waste energy back into structured audio [the output of the patch].  The machine is not treated as an abstract, universal computational device whose digital nature renders its physical existence irrelevant.  Instead, as it harvests its own unstructured heat and processes it into structured audio, its physical identity is embraced for what it is: a concrete, individual, material machine imbricated in a larger system of energy flows. 

Recorded at the Harvard University Studio for Electro-acoustic Composition, 2016. 

Special thanks to Jeff Witscher. 

Play loud.

Sam Wolk "Trop-plein"

MORALITY OF LOVE
REMOVE LINGERIE
mama ( no trust)
REMORSE VOLCANIA
SENTECE OF PAYBACK

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at Flat Nishiogikubo 9/8/2012 Jah Excretion presents 『Dread Under The Rainbow vol.6』

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