The illustrious Abu Ama lets loose on Accidental Meetings with a 9 track LP, manifesting his trademark distorted dubwise style, with traditional folk song throughout.

Following wzrdyAV's sublime 'Midnight Visions' we're so, so excited to welcome Abu to the label for AM002. An unbelievable artist and person, we're honoured to have him on AM.
Abu who lives in West Germany showcases his whole repertoire throughout the 9 tracks with a selection of new and old, past and present.

His field recordings are scattered over the album and his rumbling bass is ever present, traditional folk songs dip in and out of the album all brought together in Abu's signature dub-wise style.

Release date: Oct 14th

Abu Ama - AM002 (PREVIEWS)

Premiere of a track called "Barely A Handshake" by Beau Wanzer taken from the upcoming VA compilation album "Allegories" on Insurgency.
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Artist: @bwanz
Track: "Barely a Handshake"
Album: "Allegories"
Label: @insrgncy
Format: Cassette + Digital
Release date: February 3rd, 2022
Pre-order: insrgncy.bandcamp.com/album/allegories

Mastered by Thomas Carney
Artwork by Prityka

Premiere: Beau Wanzer - Barely A Handshake [INSURGENCY001]

SOMA • ep01

Mix recorded at Paturia 2021

Visual: 
Pierre Clement, huRI, meshGTi(karen), 2021
Acrylic and polyester resin on canvas, fiberglass, artist custom aluminium frame, varnish, UV print and acrylic on transparent plexiglass, stainless steel. 70 x 50 x 10 cm. Unique. Pic by Fred Plateus.

SOMA • Altera Vita • ep01

For Valentine's day offer her/him a noise and experimental podcast by Aho Ssan and if you are single or think Valentine is some capitalist bullshit, well turn it up anyway.

Aho Ssan (@ahossan) is the artist name of Paris based Niamké Désiré. After studying graphic design and cinema, he began to compose electronic music and create his own digital instruments. Shortly thereafter he went on to win the Foundation France television prize for his soundtrack to the film of Ingha Mago in 2015 and has worked on several projects related to IRCAM/GRM in France. His debut LP «Simulacrum» was released on the 7th of February 2020 via Subtext Recordings.
Based on the concept of Jean Baudrillard, it navigates through society’s presentation of inclusivity and equality against my own experience of growing up black in France. Aho Ssan debuted “Simulacrum” at Berlin Atonal 2019.

FB :  https://www.facebook.com/AhoSsanMusic/
Bandcamp :  https://ahossan.bandcamp.com/album/simulacrum

Tracklist:
Tran Uy Duc - Came
Hydropsyche - Cred (Angelic Voices)
Olivi- Block - October, 1984
franck vigroux - Side Total
Albert van Abbe - Cellar closet
Bernard Parmegiani - Strio
Aho Ssan - Simulacrum II (Reworked) Feat Nima Aghiani
Aho Ssan - Untitled
Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster & Panaiotis - Lear

Photo by Tyler Mitchell

TREVE Series Valentine's Day Special - Aho Ssan

Forest Kelley's debut album, Silt, is the culmination of a decade-long sonic realization of a singular vision: nematoda, annelida, and other abyssal worms inhabiting the aphotic depths, sensing each other without light. Living and cavorting amongst a carpet of compressed dust and organic matter, as unaware of our existence as we are of theirs. To create this 'soundscape ecology', Kelley began developing custom software in 2018. It allows for sounds to function as organisms: to be born, express themselves, change through friction with their world, and then dissipate, transcend, or die. Silt represents a snapshot of this world; the raw material for this particular instance includes guitar-based recordings dating from 2004 in collaboration with Jacob Uretsky. Through Kelley's exacting and intuitive selection of the results, we are presented with an ever-evolving selection of sounds. On their surface perhaps intersecting with ambient dub techno tropes, but Silt draws the listener ever deeper into the zone with its organically shifting textures and events.

Forest Kelley is an artist, electronic musician, and experimental composer based in Lexington, Kentucky. In 2018, he contributed music to the score for the Academy Award-nominated and Criterion Collection-selected documentary 'Hale County This Morning, This Evening ' along with composers Alex Somers and Scott Alario.


Limited 125 copies
Holographic silver foil print on metallic paper
Recycled cassette shells and cases 
credits
releases March 29, 2022

Composed, recorded, and mastered by Forest Kelley in 2021.
Source guitar by Jacob Uretsky.
Audio finalized for cassette tape by Glyn Maier.
Design by RJM Vanderheyden.

SILT

"SILT" CASSETTE

ENXPL13 - FOREST KELLEY- SIDE B EXCERPT FROM "SILT"

100% of the sales of this is going to the Red Cross Ukraine! 

"I am gravely concerned for the safety of communities in Ukraine. Our message to the parties to the conflict is clear: uphold International Humanitarian Law, protect civilians and essential services". Peter Maurer, President, ICRC. 

It is dismaying that after enduring eight years of conflict, people now face more violence, pain, loss and turmoil. Fear, freezing temperatures and an uncertain future are what families in Ukraine are facing. 

How your donation will help people in Ukraine and the surrounding countries: 

As the security situation allows, the ICRC is responding to urgent humanitarian needs and must be able to continue their life saving work. ICRC water engineers and doctors aim to help more than 3 million people access clean water and improve the living conditions of more than 66,000 whose homes have been damaged by heavy fighting. 

The International Committee of the Red Cross - together with its partners in the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement – remains active in Ukraine, saving and protecting the lives of victims of armed conflict and violence. Our neutral and impartial humanitarian action supports the most vulnerable people: humanitarian needs are enormous, but together we can address them. Your donation will make a huge difference to families in need right now. 

The world is turning to even more shit thanks to fucked up politics and fights over land. Of course we are focued on what is going on in Ukraine at the moment. 

Cover design by Philip Marshall. Mastered by Jack Callahan.

https://idealrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/no-war

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"Solitude Essence" is the opening track from "Accession" by @evitceles. Out April 22 on vinyl & digital. Pre-order here: https://amekcollective.bandcamp.com/album/accession

Accession

Evitceles - Solitude Essence

Scène III with Nick Klein - 03/05/2022

For the past five years, Glyn Maier has developed a curatorial agenda for his enmossed label with an emphasis on recyclable and sustainable materials while living and recording within secluded natural environments. His level of dedicated praxis is illustrated with his latest 𝐸𝑛𝑣𝑖𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑀𝑖𝑥, concluding a dense output of 19 long-form listening cassettes. Capping the ENMX series run, 𝐸𝑛𝑣𝑖𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑀𝑖𝑥 is a deep distillation of the sonic agenda within the series and the label more broadly. Maier is keenly attentive to pace and spatial context, allowing for time to stretch, interweaving lush field recordings and emotive new age passages. All audio in this mix, just shy of the two hour mark, is culled from cassette recordings of classic 1970-80s field recording series (𝐸𝑛𝑣𝑖𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠, 𝑆𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑠, 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑂𝑐𝑒𝑎𝑛'𝑠 𝑅𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑥𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑆𝑢𝑟𝑓, etc) with their core utility being to invoke relaxation. Maier’s intentional recycling of materiality is an homage to respect for the environment, and in turn he is rewarded with bountiful environmental sonics to reshape. As the formal attributes of his selection process are in lockstep congruence with his lifestyle and production output, so does this chapter of the label's output come full circle.

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Glyn Maier is a sound artist and field recordist living in Pisgah Forest, North Carolina. Non-city outdoor spaces are essential to Maier’s practice. With a formal education in physics and music composition, Maier’s preoccupations with natural objects, landscapes, and their social histories guide his recordings, which are then integrated into ambient electronic works utilizing organic rhythms and complex timbres. Maier’s abstract synthesis work is deeply informed by sound design, but his larger focus is on the agency of both machine and environment.

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recorded by Glyn Maier
audio finalized by Glyn Maier
cover photo by Osamu Sueyoshi
all proceeds to Carolina Abortion Fund (Durham, NC) - https://www.carolinaabortionfund.org/

Environments Mix

Glyn Maier - Environments Mix [Side B Excerpt] (ENMX-19)

Burning Pyre ripples outward a new aural 'alloy' for Amulet of Tears  — all filtered through the vapor murmurings of a synthesiser and emerging phonography.  The flux as the respective halves float in the immersive aspect of synth drift & cultivates a new modality as an emblem of modernity by syncretic belief.  The mix remains largely fertile in impressive arrangement of electronic ingenuity.  More broadly, Christopher Macarthur has crafted a graceful approach to contemporary ambient and minimalist works across a number of releases for Opal Tapes, Perfect Aesthetics, Vaagner, Eastern Nurseries and Vienna Press under the moniker Burning Pyre.

Amulet of Tears 024: Burning Pyre

Music: @burningpyre

Artwork: @anasisana

Amulet 024: Burning Pyre

skating 40 bpm august 6 take 1

Electronic Sound Disturbances & Pleasures since 1998.

Contact: labelhead_at_idealrecordings.com

Nick Klein - PFEFFERSPRAY

iDEAL Recordings