Taken from 'Fringe' LP/Download (E064, Ecstatic 03/09/2021)

A gorgeous swell of intimate soundscaping from Felisha Ledesma on this simmering stunner for Ecstatic, despatching two extended, richly absorbing pieces weft from everyday detritius; synths, strings, voicemail, found sounds - hitting a similar spot for us as Ulla’s diaristic 'inside means inside me’ but with a more defined play of sound-as-light that gently and memorably tugs at the earlobes and heartstrings. 

Exploring a music of presence and ultra subtle inference, ‘Fringe’ is the 2nd release by Ledesma, student of Berlin's estimable Universität der Künste, following from a debut for Enmossed x Psychic Liberation earlier this year. Using AMQR - a software synthesiser built by Ledesma together with Ess Mattisson - both pieces here shimmer with elusive timbres that occupy a realm that feels lost between worlds - neither electronic nor acoustic, but more a sort of observational sound that radiates togetherness and warmth. 

Operating at insightful levels of synaesthesia, Ledesma poetically turns ostensibly humdrum sources into clouds of smoke - emails, voicenotes, walking along the water, a poem attached to an email, walking alone in New York during lockdown, going for a swim at sunset in the desert - all turn into a smudge of memory. When ‘Beamsplitters’ opens with a tangible human presence - a voicemail from a friend - it startles with its earthly pull, eventually getting lost in a tangled spool of found sound leaving just a trace of iridescent, intimate reverie. 

On ‘Golden Mirror’ Felisha gently diffracts a lonesome guitar phrase into a humming thizz with a steeply uncanny ability to jog the memory in a similar way to how olfactory stimulus can conjure feelings of nostalgia. It’s a trick familiar from an emergent new realm of lower case composers creating something like submerged, small scale symphonies that work counter to notions of classical excess or anodyne ambient, instead focusing on microcosmic, highly peronalised sort of worldbuilding that’s impenetrable, yet somehow entirely open.

Felisha Ledesma - Golden Mirror [E064]

From the forthcoming album SG - For Lovers Only / Rain Suite (Faitiche 33)

SG - Western Affect

Allon Kaye runs the deeply impressive label and art project Entr'acte since 2004, and the man holds an impressive record collection... Allon is also dj'ing at the iDEALFESTs this fall in Malmö and Stockholm.

Contrastate — Invocation to the Rite of Birth
https://www.discogs.com/Contrastate-I/release/175392

Adam Asnan — Mthcigc II track 3
[Entr’acte; forthcoming 2017]

Merzbow vs Nordvargr —​ Tachyon Paradox
https://www.discogs.com/Merzbow-vs-Nordvargr-Partikel/release/331256

Hanno Leichtmann/Valerio Tricoli — Stone God
http://entracte.co.uk/projects/hanno-leichtmannvalerio-tricoli-e206/

​Backwords — Arpoon
https://www.discogs.com/Backwords-Tre/release/8626281

Jacques Beloeil — Completion
[Unreleased]

Costes — Le Funk Breton
https://www.discogs.com/Costes-Livrez-Les-Blanches-Aux-Bicots/release/310240

Hiele — Verwelkoming
https://www.discogs.com/Hiele-Ritmische-Bezinning/release/8513250

Isolde Touch — PVC Burn
http://entracte.co.uk/projects/isolde-touch-e194/

iDEAL MiXTAPE SiXTEEN - The Gill Suite Mix by ALLON KAYE

Caterina Barbieri & Kali Malone - Glory (Final Movement)

The final movement of Glory is a slowly evolving canon for two electric guitars pouring landscapes of bliss from the pythagorean region of the harmonic spectrum.

Composed at EMS in Stockholm SE 2015.
Recorded at Villa Strozzi in Florence IT 2016.

Side A from XKatedral Volume III
Edition of 100
Released on October 6th 2016

Caterina Barbieri & Kali Malone - Glory (Final Movement)

2nd track on 'Intact' (Jj funhouse, 2016)
http://www.jjfunhouse.com/catalogue/jj010

Data

"How To Swallow A Sword"

4. HOW TO SWALLOW A SWORD

Title track from the new LP, 'Insignia', out in Japan-only on cassette for Ryo Murakami's Depth Of Decay label.

https://depthofdecay.bandcamp.com/album/insignia

Insignia

From album 'TRACED', Pattern 04, Sonic Pieces, 2017

Traced

Post Human

This is track ONE on THE BLACK BOOK which is a 3 LP comp of stuff we love, and compiled to celebrate 20 years of iDEAL, ok? Its here rather soon. But we needed to share this with you tonight. Cover design by Philip Marshall.

JASSS - PARENTAL YOUTH (from "THE BLACK BOOK" IDEAL175 3xLP compilation)

Inspired by open spaces (and the objects that interrupt them), META DOOR L is the latest auditory excursion from Perila. Expansive in scope, it extracts beauty from the organic and inorganic alike, tapping into the wonder of the outdoors as it revels in the unique properties of metal—both as a material and a sound source. Building on her work for labels like Sferic, Motion Ward, and Boomkat Editions, META DOOR L is rooted in field recordings extracted from the wilderness outside Tbilisi, where a series of hiking expeditions led Perila to chance encounters with metal tubes, large rocks and the ruins of an old house. In the months that followed, these recordings were patiently processed, degraded and transformed, their misshapen remains welded together by hazy ambient atmospheres and textured soundscapes. From there, the St. Petersburg-raised, Berlin-based artist pushed herself into new creative territory, searching for the innate (and decidedly non-linear) rhythms lurking within her dense sonic stratigraphy. META DOOR L is the hypnotic end result, an immersive listen whose lush tones and guttural rumbles coalesce into something utterly transportive.

Music by Perila.
Mastered by Rupert Clervaux.
Artwork by Oficina de Disseny.
Printing by L'automatica, Barcelona.

Ent I Pse

Track from the upcoming DE NOR 2020 compilation LP/DL, out on January 11, 2021!

Aaron Dilloway & Lucrecia Dalt : The Monster Of Yesa

Electronic Sound Disturbances & Pleasures since 1998.

Contact: labelhead_at_idealrecordings.com

iDEAL MiXTAPE SiXTEEN - The Gill Suite Mix by ALLON KAYE

iDEAL Recordings