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Lend Me Your Radio - Jul 20

New Experimenta

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Remix Haydeh Dubstop (pro.Hooman Motaham)

6. Jan Garbarek - Evening Land

pike (taken from 'warm glow', monotype records, june 2015)

Dilúvio é um disco que ficou guardado durante cerca de um ano esperando pelo momento certo pra sair. E mais do que um disco, Dilúvio é o registro exterior de uma época difícil vivida internamente. Dilúvio nasceu a partir daí como um disco-conceito e uma espécie de diário de bordo de um período de séries de viagens interiores muito complexas e importantes para serem traduzidas em palavras, que de alguma forma que não sei explicar me mudaram para sempre. As canções são inspiradas assim nesses sonhos e divagações psicológicas, nas criaturas e nos símbolos que eu criei e descobri durante esse processo; são tentativas de tradução dessas experiências tão pessoais numa das formas mais universais e não lineares de linguagem: música. 

07 - Olivia

Mix of the tracks CGN and KIX taken from the album 'A 1000 KEYS' released as 2LP, CD and download

A 1000 KEYS

Thomas Brinkmann 'CGN + KIX Megobounce' (EMEGO 224)

What an enchanting night it was! 09.06.2019 at "Kapitel Bollwerk" (the live percussions and drums are missing...)

<3

Nikosh @ Kapitel Bollwerk

The Sacrificial Code

Kali Malone - Litanic Cloth Wrung (from "The Sacrificial Code" iDEAL 2xLP/3xCD)

DRAGONFLY, a scatter-brained, chemically-induced appeal to respond to the planetary crisis? SAVE THE WORLD? BUY MP3zzz

Dragonfly

A nightmare in a nightmare

LINE_111 

this is a new work of variable dimensions for variable ears and spaces. to find words to adequately describe it please listen to it. 

This is Chartier's first solo release since 2018's Central (for M.Vainio) (LINE_095).

Variable Dimensions

Variable Dimensions (excerpt)

If There Is No Where by Felicia Atkinson

Schleswig-Holstein is a thin land bridge between the mighty hull of the North German lowlands and the long pointed head of the Jutland peninsula, with the gentle Baltic Sea on one side, and the rough North Sea on the other. Numerous lakes, deciduous forests and wide corridors have shaped this region since its formation during the last ice age. The varied landscape, covered with fertile clay and littered with countless large and small granite blocks, is the legacy of the glaciers.

Fascinated by the cultural and geographical history of his homeland, Phil Struck recorded sonic impressions after hikes, wanderings, daydreams, historical readings and childhood memories. Schleswig-Holstein Aufnahmen is the distillation of these diaristic recordings, made between 2017 and 2019, using a sampler, synthesizer, and worn flea market records. Much like the cyclical musings of W.G. Sebald, or Cluster’s pastoral electronic miniatures, these works are intrinsically tied to the landscape of which they were born. The wobble and crackle of the samples is evocative of the craggy scenery of the lowlands, and also describes the patinated atmosphere of memory, found in the work of Vladislav Delay, Pole, Caretaker, Philip Jeck, Ken Jacobs, and Bill Morrison. The painting adorning the album cover was done by Struck’s great grandfather who was also seduced by this meandering windswept land.

Limited edition of 100 LPs with risograph printed artwork.

Tracklist:

A1 Horizonte (Intro) (2:12) 
A2 Baizubai (5:41) 
A3 Speckenbeck (2:05) 
A4 Grube (7:00) 
A5 Feuermachen (2:52) 
A6 Weiher (3:30)  

B1 Sommertage (6:45) 
B2 Wogen (11:24) 
B3 Jens (3:49)

Buy Limited Edition LP: https://www.seance-centre.com/shop/phil-struck-schleswig-holstein-aufnahmen

Buy Digital: https://philstruck.bandcamp.com/album/schleswig-holstein-aufnahmen

Phil Struck - Baizubai (21SC)

From the album Seeing Through Sound (Pentimento Volume Two), released on Ndeya 24 July 2020 https://ndeya.ffm.to/seeingthroughsound

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Seeing Through Sound (Pentimento Volume Two) MP3

Jon Hassell | Unknown Wish

SIAVASH AMINI, A Mimesis Of Nothingness, LP

Release date - Aug 28th 2020
Catalogue nr. - HG2006
Format - Vinyl with 8-page booklet/digital

https://hallowground.bandcamp.com

Tracklist:
1) Lustrous Residue (07:59)
2) Perpetually Inwards  (02:58)
3) Moonless Garden  (08:50)
4) Observance (Shadow)  (05:32)
5) A Collective Floundering  (06:48)
6) The Stillborn Baroque  (03:31)

Credits:
All Music Composed by Siavash Amini
Written and Recorded in Tehran 2018-2019
Based on Photographs of Tehran by Nooshin Shafiee
Booklet Photographs by Nooshin Shafiee
Mastered by Lawrence English at Negative Space
Cover Photo Nooshin Shafiee
Cover design Ruth Stofer and Greenpointless

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Siavash Amini returns to Hallow Ground  with »A Mimesis of Nothingness,« his fourth album for the Swiss label. Following up on »Harmistice« together with fellow Iranian artists 9T Antiope, the six tracks were conceived in close collaboration with another artist and see the prolific composer intensify his interdisciplinary approach. The six tracks enter a dialogue with the photographs of Nooshin Shafiee, an acclaimed artist whose work capturing their hometown Tehran becomes the starting point for one of Amini’s most visceral and haunting records. »A Mimesis of Nothingness« translates the ephemeral situations and melancholic moods of Shafiee’s pictures into suspenseful soundscapes that masterfully navigate between the concrete and the abstract.

Amini met Shafiee while setting up the sound art space SEDA Projects at the Emkan gallery in Tehran where the photographer’s second solo exhibition was shown. Following the suggestion of curator Behzad Nejadghanbar, the two started a fruitful collaboration that would eventually lead to »A Mimesis of Nothingness,« which was written and recorded between the years 2018 and 2019 and which includes a booklet with a selection of Shafiee’s work. The two share an interest in exploring the sensual experience and the metaphysical dimensions of space. »I was fascinated by Nooshin’s approach,« explains Amini who, ever since releasing the album »TAR« through Hallow Ground in 2017, has focused on how our experience of places is shaped by the individual and collective subconscious. »It wasn’t the Tehran that everyone projected into their work, it was Tehran showing itself through tiny and giant overlooked places or objects.«

Amini’s music accordingly does not seek out a specific sonic picture of the city, but rather lets it come alive on its own terms. »A Mimesis of Nothingness« is a disquieting record precisely because it is a quiet one. Working with field recordings, Amini sculpts dynamic portraits that create an atmosphere of tangible suspense that is never fully released. Even when string-like sounds enter the picture as they do on the third track »Moonless Garden« or when the abstract and glacial noise on »Observance (Shadow)« demand the listener’s attention, the six pieces take hold of the subconscious rather than trying to be direct and confrontational. It is sound conceived not as a description, but a circumscription of spatial relations and the eeriness embedded in them. 

»We both saw something decadent or violent about all of these captured places and objects,« says the composer about Shafiee’s pictures. »There is no resolution, just excess. It seems they are eternal remnants of a violent scene, no matter how new or old they were. Never finished, never begotten, a stillborn.« Throughout »A Mimesis of Nothingness,« its ghost roams freely.

SIAVASH AMINI - Moonless Garden (HG2006)

From Nakayama Munetoshi's Reboot a Repetition, available on cassette and digital now.
https://muzaneditions.bandcamp.com/album/reboot-a-repetition

Nakayama Munetoshi - Clear

Unreleased track included on the Lobster Theremin compilation, Music For Your Mind.

Music For Your Mind Vol.1 is a 22 track compilation from Lobster Theremin artists and our extended family, to raise money for UK mental health charity Black Minds Matter providing therapy and mental health support to black people in the UK - www.blackmindsmatteruk.com

Music For Your Mind Vol.1 is a compilation of electronic music from a number of Lobster Theremin artists past, present and future. Plus artists from our extended network and family, made in various styles of black-rooted electronic music - house, techno, breakbeat, acid, electro, jungle, drum 'n' bass, garage, bassline and ambient.

Music For Your Mind Vol.1 [100% of proceeds donated to Black Minds Matter]

Night Foundation - Breathless

Taken from the album 'Peel' released as 2LP and Digital

Peel

KMRU 'Why Are You Here' (EMEGO 289)

Ancient Indonesian tradition meets doom metal in profoundly Ur ways on Stephen O’Malley and Senyawa’s collaborative commission for choreographer Gisèle Vienne, highly recommended if you’re into Sunn O))), Keiji Haino, Nazoranai, Phurpa, KTL.

Following a decade of creative bonds forged between theatre director and choreographer Gisèle Vienne and doom sayer Stephen O’Malley that spans multiple soundtracks (solo and with Peter Rehberg in KTL) and visual artworks, the pair travelled to Indonesia on a commission to explore the country’s rich culture in 2018. They immersed in a magical world of performative rituals where they encountered Wukir Suryadi, an experimental musician and instrument builder whose acclaimed releases both solo and as half of Senyawa have invigorated the avant and experimental rock scene over the past decade. 

The six tracks of ’Bimi Sakti’ document groundbreaking ventures between Senyawa and O’Malley, yielding an incredibly powerful mix of electric guitar and bass guitar amp worship blended with the remarkable range of tonalities from Senyawa’s custom-built bambuwukir, plus traditional pipes and possessed vocals. Practically without precedent in the modern musical sphere, the 44’ release speaks to a resounding mutuality and common musical philosophy between two musicians who are usually geographically separated by a hemisphere. Slow to start, but culminating in a wholly dilated musical vision, the performance effectively collapses eons of musical practice and thought into a singular yet timeless expression of beauty and anguish that transcends the sum of its parts. 

Fleshing out the frequency spectrum between flighty, avian flutes and sprawling subharmonic bass riffs, they come to inhabit a thrilling mid-ground over the course of the album as O’Malley moves up the registers to thrashing mid-range riffs while Suryadi invokes a range of demonic voices and unearthly tones from his bamboo instrument. The results come to prod the pineal like little else beyond, say, O’Malley’s Nazoranai trio with Keiji Haino and Oren Ambarchi, or the first Phurpa album on his Ideologic Organ label, and we reckon should be hailed among the boldest and most astonishing records of 2020.

SENYAWA & STEPHEN O'MALLEY "Dewi Hera, Part I" (from "Bima Sakti" iDEAL198 LP)

Electronic Sound Disturbances & Pleasures since 1998.

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SENYAWA & STEPHEN O'MALLEY "Dewi Hera, Part I" (from "Bima Sakti" iDEAL198 LP)

iDEAL Recordings