chillout

dub swamp

hey.. 

when blossoms paint the sky,
does this tree embrace new life,
or yearn for the past?

@oo_aa

+1 to your collection

OO0oϙ0O0O00O — i want to do to you what spring does to a tree

Elina Waage Mikalsen - Ro​đ​u Govkkit Glenner i Vier
Nikolaienko - Jazz Tape
Noemi Büchi - Le Souvenir d'une Ignorance Essentielle
santebela - dubsub
Mica Levi - Monk
Maria W Horn - Ave
Yves Tumor - Perdition
Ihor Okuniev - deep in the woods
International Music - Pfeffer
Beatriz Ferreira - Echos

Mixed and compiled by @seraina-faessler

Tales From The Orchard 03 w/ Seina

Session #3 - 2000-2001

My favourite night dream

Performed recorded, mixed and produced by Emma Grace PEKIKA

Theplantsgrowingoutofmybody

sun spot

from "Ideas Flotantes" released by Kraak and Nonlocal Research, november 2023.

https://kraak.bandcamp.com/album/ideas-flotantes

Uzumakia

The Tape —— a 45-minute-long mix of a few recent releases, as well as snippets of new ones that will be released this year. This tape served as a framework for an improvisational set, including objects, Atlantic shells, an electromagnetic microphone, a hydrophone submerged in different chemical compounds, a wheelchair wheel, a violin, and an open upright piano.

All sounds recorded & composed by Manja R  
Cover art by Manja R 
Master by Goran Simonoski / La Plant Studio

Bandcamp

Tape for Ring Ring

“[....]
This record highlights the Secret Boyfriend that obscures didacticism by highlighting output that opens up for more challenging catharsis and emotive signal processing. It provides an entry to the materialism of a cultural field full of ecstatic complexity and beautiful inconsistency. In these muted moments Secret Boyfriend has given us over his career we have an argument for evolving languages that further challenge our notions of what is supposed to happen and how it is supposed to be presented. In his more song oriented expansiveness, we can punctuate the ability to think in new modalities. Listening to these recordings reminds me of the polarity of sitting in the record store as a kid and understanding that His Name Is Alive is on 4AD and (gasp!) timeSTEREO. This trite early impression that nothing is really as different as our imaginations might want them to be, and that we can do whatever we want mostly within the creative realms we work through is an important filter to look through Secret Boyfriend as a project and a vessel. If we can achieve abandon and vulnerability through our artistic endeavors, then we have a sound model for, 𝗺𝗮𝘆𝗯𝗲, new potentialities. If that’s too much projection, or just complete liberal bullshit, I am fine with that. Secret Boyfriend's oeuvre at best offers us moments of reprieve to ponder these complexities, or at least a moment to zone out on a drive through North Carolina Highway 54.

You have one pocket of life that you must do whatever you want to inside of. Secret Boyfriend does it affectionately, in a variety of forms, and always with deep sentimentality. These recordings are a wonderful set of songs to begin further investigation from. Thank you Ryan for allowing as many avenues as possible to continue a broad cultural exchange and conversation that intersect and refract while being the kind of artist that is brave enough to not phone in the effort.”

- excerpt of essay by Nick Klein, May 2024

Casio, guitars, bass, percussion, no-input mixer, synth, tapes, and voice by Ryan A Martin, recorded at Meadows of Dan & Cathedral II
Audio finalized by Glyn Maier
Artwork by Ryan A Martin

Listener's Guide

Secret Boyfriend - Treil (ENMB-16)

what is it like

B5 Are We All Water

Preview of Pali Mersault's Stridulations LP, out in Discrepant 11th May 2018.

More info at www.discrepant.net

B - les apparitions ne font rien à part être [preview]

A - pour chaque solution il y a un problème [preview]

Carlos Giffoni
VAIN
iDEAL170 LP
Edition of 500 copies (200 coloured, 300 black)
Distributed by Boomkat

VAIN is the soundtrack to a film in Carlos’ head of the same name. Both the film and the LP are about a young woman with mysterious psychokinetic powers, lost in the deserts and beaches of California trying to find answers to her mysterious past. The music score follows Vain in a fantastic journey that changes her world forever. 

Despite having release over 50 solo recordings and collaborations released, Vain is only Carlos’ 4th official full length LP release, following Welcome Home (Important Records), Arrogance (No Fun Productions), and Adult Life (No Fun Productions.) It is also his first release of any kind in 6 years. Carlos took off from New York in 2012 and moved to LA to take a break from everything and everyone and work on some secret projects. He continued to play music sporadically with collaborators, and finally started recording this new album on his home studio in Malibu during Summer of 2017 inspired by heartbreak and deceit, where all great art comes from.  

The 9 tracks on this record were created with a variety of analog equipment, with no computer effects or instrument overdubs. The final material was selected from dozens of hours of recordings, with final mastering touches by Al Carlson, who Carlos previously worked with on in his Software/Mexican Summer ‘Evidence’ EP.

The cover is an original painting by american artist Wiley Wallace, commissioned for this release.

TRACK LISTING
A:
1- Vain's Face
2- The Desert
3- Erase the World
4- Hands
5- We Pay the Price
B:
6- Stop Breathing
7- Faith and Pain
8- I Can Change
9- Sun Rain 

CREDITS
All instruments by Carlos Giffoni
Recorded and produced by Carlos at Colorful Skulls Studios in Malibu, CA. 2017 / 2018.
Mastered by Al Carlson 
Cover painting by Wiley Wallace 
Graphic Design by Maya Miller

CARLOS GIFFONI - VAIN'S FACE ("VAIN" iDEAL170 LP preview)

OUT SOON ON VINYL ON AUDIOMER. Historical 1974 piano recordings by Charlemagne Palestine! Info: https://www.discogs.com/Charlemagne-Palestine-AA-SSCHMMETTRROOSSPPECCTIVVE/release/11769672

Charlemagne Palestine - AA SSCHMMETTRROOSSPPECCTIVVE (LP)

Electronic Sound Disturbances & Pleasures since 1998.

CARLOS GIFFONI - VAIN'S FACE ("VAIN" iDEAL170 LP preview)

iDEAL Recordings

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