This is a collection of dark, ambient dronescapes created entirely with outboard synths and guitars. These edgy, unsettling and tense tracks are perfect for those spots where more "musical" drones or standard production music fare is inadequate to capture the desired emotion.

It's Plucking Peculiar

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 609:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku609-revealing-in-the-dark/

Thanks to Marco Alessi from Naviar Records for the weekly challenge!

Photo by zenbytes (Bretagne, France, 2020)

revealing torch - Naviarhaiku609

See here for more info: https://wp.me/pwcbn-kMH

Makeda, 'Me, First' (2018). Courtesy Nice Music, Melbourne.

Degradia (2018) is a sound work by Anni Puolakka and Miša Skalskis, originally made for an exhibition of the same name. They were inspired by some old Finnish poems in which vulva plays a central part and becomes a powerful character of its own right. Parts of Degradia are translated and altered lines from these poems, for example, where vulva is likened with a biting dog's jaws and a running wolf's gums.

www.annipuolakka.com
https://soundcloud.com/ang3l_sp1der

Anni Puolakka and Miša Skalskis – Degradia

from 'Strawberry Swisher' s/t, out August 30th on cassette / digital.

[RM031] Strawberry Swisher - "water"

Index - Kainos
iDEAL197 LP
Available soon
Distributed by Boomkat

‘Kainos’ is the debut album by Index, a new electronic music project by British musician Simon Scott, recorded in 2016 to 2019 in Los Angeles. Scott is a veteran British composer, field recordist, drummer and mastering engineer. 
Taking inspiration from the conflicting opinions of Brexit debates from the Houses Of Parliament, Scott fed these live streams into his modular synthesiser for improvising and composing with. These symbiotic jams formed the foundations for each Index track, with only the sparse nocturnal beats from a Roland 909 and transparent editing of each modular jam to accompany the synthesis. 

Scott’s association with shoegaze, as a member of UK band Slowdive, and ambient influences, present in his solo work on Touch and 12k, is replaced by the early electronics influence of Coil and Throbbing Gristle on Insides, early metal pioneers Black Sabbath rising on tracks such as Blackesh and Exit B. The throbbing 909 pulse on Sprinkles provides a Dubbed out groove that calls to mind Arthur Russell jamming with Basic Channel and the bottom heavy bass lines of dubstep on Countdown has is visceral and contains a brooding sample of Rachel Goswell’s (from Slowdive) voice sucking everything into the mix.
A key conceptual influence to Kainos is Luigi Russolo’s Futurist manifesto for music, The Art Of Noises who glorifies the use of “noise-sounds” and other nonconventional musical sounds. This captures the imagination of a modern culture immersed in ecological disaster (climate catastrophe) and surrounded by the constant noise of capitalism and consumerism. Other inspirations for this album were taken from literary and non-musical ideas such as Donna Haraway’s 2016 book ‘Staying with the trouble; Making kin in the Chthulucene ’ and its central tenet that “our task is to make trouble, to stir up potent response to devastating events on a damaged earth”.
Index is the musical expression of Scott’s profound discontent with the lack of equilibrium we have right now and how disconnected we have all become in relation to nature and each other. Kainos means “now, a time of beginnings, a time for ongoing, for freshness” (Haraway). It is born from ecological grief and political frustration at a time when electronic and ambient music is sitting too comfortably in safe areas of sonic experience with nothing to say and providing aural wallpaper that is safe and sterile.

INDEX - SPRINKLES (from "KAINOS" LP iDEAL197)

ORAMICS is honored to premiere a track from @aleksandra_slyz debut album on @Pointless-Geometry

Oramics Premiere is our new series on SoundCloud and YouTube that will showcase fresh tracks and videos from female, non-binary and queer producers. We want to use our platform to celebrate emerging talents and independent labels who support them.

https://pointless-geometry.bandcamp.com/album/aleksandra-s-y-human-glory

Aleksandra Słyż is a composer, sound designer, and sound engineer. She is fascinated by interactive and multimedia art. In her music, she looks for connections between the human body, sound, and technology. Her works presented so far have been in the United States and Europe.

Aleksandra Słyż's debut album "Human Glory" has a dual nature. Intense and very emotional experience, built by layering, thickening, and intensifying drone parts of synthesizers (MG), intertwines with recordings created using motion sensors (BG), which created the sound recording of the choreography. Słyż is not afraid to lead the listener along winding paths - through silence and intricate details fragments of sound design, to massive, tectonic walls of sound. The precise logic of the composition naturally blends with intuition, and the album's narrative freely leads the listener from the microscale of the smallest particles of the world to epic film panoramas.

[PL]

ORAMICS ma zaszczyt przedstawić utwór z debiutanckiego albumu Aleksdandry Słyż, wydanego w Pointless Geometry.

Aleksandra Słyż to kompozytorka, sound designerka, realizatorka dźwięku. Fascynuje się sztuką interaktywną i multimedialną. W swojej muzyce szuka połączeń między ludzkim ciałem, dźwiękiem i technologią. Jej prace prezentowane do tej pory były w Stanach Zjednoczonych i Europie.

Debiutancki album Aleksandry Słyż  “Human Glory” ma dwoistą naturę. Intensywne i bardzo emocjonalne doświadczenie, budowane przez nawarstwiające, gęstniejące i intensyfikujące się dronowe partie syntezatorów (MG), przenika się z nagraniami stworzonymi z wykorzystaniem sensorów ruchu (BG), dzięki którym powstał zapis dźwiękowy choreografii. Słyż nie boi się wieść słuchacza krętymi ścieżkami - przez ciszę i pełne kunsztownych detali fragmenty sound designu, aż do masywnych, tektonicznych ścian dźwięku. Precyzyjna logika kompozycji w naturalny sposób przenika się z intuicją, a narracja albumu swobodnie prowadzi słuchacza od mikroskali najmniejszych drobinek świata, do epickich filmowych panoram.

PREMIERE: Aleksandra Słyż: MG I

Joining this week is the artist behind the moniker Celyn June, a project active 2013-2018 with releases on Halcyon Veil, Haunter Records and W-I.

https://www.retreatradio.net/continuity

Tracklist:
Celyn June:

Ellen Fullman - Work for two
Natasha Barratt - Deep layer
Biosphere - Out of the cradle
Quartet Bulgarka Junior 3+1 - Tri pirinski pesni
Beatriz Ferreyra - L'autre ... Ou Le Chant Des Marecages
Astrid Sonne - To change is to continue 
FUJI||||||||||TA -  sukima
Longums Symbiotiska - LS001001
Matt Evans - New moon
Elysia Crampton - Crest (feat. Fanny Pankara Chuquimia)
Giusto Pio - Spazi concatenati
Jenna Sutela - nimiia vibié I 
Pauline Oliveros - Horse sings from cloud 
Ben Vida - Reducing the tempo to zero (Part 3)
CJ/MM - Untitled
Hisato Higuchi - Hikari 

Continuity:

Flora Yin-Wong - Nymph
Mistareez - Truth is a response
Floran T M Zeisig - First version
Kindtree - kt16
World Listener - 夏が来た
Flaty - Pokrov
Tomoko Sauvage - Making of a rainbow
荒井優作 - 11月
Forest Management - Clarendon
Lisa Lerkenfeldt - A liquor of daisies
Unknown - field recordings
Sophia Zhuravkova - Sense

Continuity #4 w/ Celyn June (12/07/20)

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Downwards LINO61

An Intimate Conflict (Giant Swan Remix)

Porto-based musician Rui P. Andrade, under the title of Canadian Rifles, transmits a palette of sounds that seems familiarly acquainted with the approaching cold in the Northern Hemisphere. The fifth chapter of Amulet of Tears is rich in expressive instrumental recordings, songs, bits and monologues of everyday being, as well as comforting memories of times and experiences that may have never even happened. The artist's work includes running the label Eastern Nurseries, a duo project HRNS alongside FARWARMTH, several EPs on the aforementioned label and a full-length album titled "Atoll" released through Audio Visuals Atmosphere in 2019.

Amulet of Tears 005: Canadian Rifles

Music: @canadian-rifles

Artwork: @anasisana

Amulet 005: Canadian Rifles

Presented as a re-creation of two live sets performed in 2019, Patrick Gallagher deftly melds field recordings, a "fairly standard" synthesis toolkit, and prepared electric guitar into two peerless electro-acoustic compositions comprising his debut for the enmossed x psychic liberation (ENXPL) series.

As the album's title implies, "Set In the Bardo" embraces indeterminacy in all respects. An extreme range of timbral variety and complexity is employed, from pure sine waves to nearly-incomprehensible sonic blasts. With a formal education in mathematics, Gallagher's astute arrangements modulate between smooth glissendos and abrupt interruptions, reflecting the compositional process used: salvaging hitherto-abandoned recordings and live snippets from the artist's archive. Post-processing was eschewed on the album in order to preserve the improvisatory nature of a live performance, giving an organic quality to the album which is often lost in academic compositions.

While "Set In the Bardo" was created in pre-pandemic times, it also functions well at this particular juncture of history. We have been 'set in the bardo' ourselves, and Gallagher has made an engrossing set of pieces - encapsulating and unfolding sonic uncertainties as we venture through trying times. Well worth many listening sessions; high volume and high fidelity during playback are recommended.
credits
releases January 29, 2021

Patrick Gallagher is a sound artist and composer currently residing in Philadelphia, PA. Gallagher arose from the North Carolina avant-garde underground, perfecting compositional processes with numerous live performances; as well as cassette and vinyl releases on Tone Log, Hot Releases, Refulgent Sepulchre, and other independent labels.

Set In The Bardo

ENXPL05 -Patrick Gallagher - Set In The Bardo (Side A)

Electronic Sound Disturbances & Pleasures since 1998.

Contact: labelhead_at_idealrecordings.com

INDEX - SPRINKLES (from "KAINOS" LP iDEAL197)

iDEAL Recordings