Following her introduction to Daily Practices with Ben Vickers for various artists, Sarah Shin from Ignota provides the first installment of a three-part series of practices commissioned by v/a magazine to coincide with their publication of Altered States: https://ignota.org/collections/featured/products/altered-states 

Forest Dreaming is a yoga nidra practice. Also known as yogic or contemplative sleep, yoga nidra supports active rest and conscious relaxation. Yoga nidra is a liminal state of consciousness between wakefulness and sleep that offers the opportunity to awaken and, at the same time, to dream. 

In Forest Dreaming, you will experience a guided yoga nidra meditation that explores the connections between language, ecology, and consciousness. It will take place lying down, so ensure you are dressed warmly and comfortably, with any bolsters, eye pillows, or blankets you may wish to use to support you so that you can remain still for the duration of the practice. 

You will be invited to form a sankalpa: a seed of heartfelt intention or resolve to sow in your mind during the practice. A sankalpa is a short sentence or phrase that speaks of an intention formed in the heart to create a change or an intention for your practice. It could be a statement about your nature or your purpose. Phrase it as a positive declaration or affirmation. The sankalpa does not take root in the thinking, intellectual mind; instead, try to hear your sankalpa as it comes to you. 

Through practice, every circumstance can become an occasion for awakening to the imbricated and simultaneous nature of realities whose connection is profound but often obscure to the ‘ordinary’ conscious mind that overlays what ‘is’ with concepts and beliefs. Here, you may find something of the wild profusion of meaning emanating from the enigmatic interstices of our lives, refracted into a seed and containing, to paraphrase Donna Haraway, a history of practices inside its coat.

Visit V/A – Various Artists to read Daily Practice and experience the full series: 
https://various-artists.com/practice-i-forest-dreaming/

Practice 1: Forest Dreaming by Sarah Shin

A collection of fearless love songs, inspired by Spring and the pains and ecstasies of nesting season. A gallery of lovelorn electronic ballads in the name of heartache. "Wild Love To Grow" is Eastern Nurseries' longest and bravest release to date, as well as the first to be presented physically as a double cassette edition.

"When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light."

EN28

Photo by Toby Ziff
Mastered by Diego Escriche

innerinnerlife ft. Amelie Siba - Riegrovy Sady

Zibaldone III of CVX

Marx’s famous assertion that history would repeat itself first as tragedy, then as farce, seemed to come to its full predictive fruition in 2017. Perhaps––in the case of the Euro-Atlantic democratic project––as a result of our systems of governance becoming so comprehensively untethered from the ancient idea whose name they continue to use and abuse. The parasites of neoliberalism are killing the democratic host… Plutocracy is thriving…  

In this third instalment of the Zibaldone series, Rupert Clervaux’s CVX alter-ego impulsively fills his audio notebook with musical settings for those ideas––namely sortition and anarchism––that present real alternatives to the dire political landscape of our time, and for the words of some who have made it their life’s work to challenge the foundations, assumptions and presumptions of the status quo. As with its predecessors, Zibaldone III draws freely from a wide span of performance and production techniques––tapping, for what it’s worth, creative roots before they can be grouped together into a stylistic formula.

Explosive  percussions pay homage to the anarchists of Argentina; Malcolm Muggeridge syllogises the grim logic of government, power and tyranny into a mantra of dissent, driving a stream of electro-jazz drums and synths to its rapturous disintegration; a saturnine piano improvisation leads the way to clattering protest drums as David Graeber shrewdly inveighs against the absurd but sadly pervasive neoliberal illusion that creativity and ingenuity are dependent on economic incentives; then, as a dancefloor footnote, a withering Gore Vidal wryly warns against the strict conflation of artistic methods with political theories in a smartphone-produced rafter-shaker that echoes Joey Beltram’s Orbital-sampling classic… 

Ultimately though, this record is a dedication to the work of one person, a musical wreath to be laid at the grave of the great thinker (and doer), Simone Weil––tragically so young in death, but thankfully so active in the brevity of her life. Here, as a looped fragment of another late-great ‘Simone’ reminds us that change is inevitable, unfolding piano and double-bass elaborations set the stage for Coline Cornélis to recite two key excerpts from Weil’s scathing and brilliant valedictory essay, ‘On the Abolition of All Political Parties’ (1943). Seventy five years later, the farcical horror of egregious corruption, misguided referenda and prevailing post-truths surely serves to strengthen the thrust of her prognosis and prescription––both of which are as sensible as they are radical.



Music by Rupert Clervaux
Artwork by Coline Cornélis

With thanks to James Marrs, John Coxon, Dan ‘EZ’ Lea and Max Henderson.

Zibaldone III of CVX

Zibaldone III of CVX - Protesta Humana

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ELIZABETH SONG
TRACES TO NOWHERE
S
LONELY TOWERS
MAIN TITLE
STAY
HOW TO HIDE DARK CIRCLES UNDER MY EYES
UNTITLED
LEAVING
MUSEUM PIECES
ALONE
UNTITLED

These song were mostly created in a period 2014/2016

All songs by unfinished portraits

How to hide dark circles under my eyes

Composed and recorded in Bandung, October 2017
Mixed in Montreal and Milan May 2018.
comes with a photo-zine, available on Haunter Records bandcamp.

https://heith.bandcamp.com/merch/sangkakala-malaikat

Sangkakala Malaikat

Premiere of Object Blue's remix of  Sim Hutchins' 'Dumped by Pirate Radio'. Forthcoming on Local Action.

Read article: https://weareinsert.com/audio/premiere-sim-hutchins-dumped-by-pirate-radio-object-blue-remix-local-action

C18230.5 (Mastered MP3s)

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Premiere: Sim Hutchins - Dumped by Pirate Radio (Object Blue Remix) [Local Action]

HOB9: 'Was it safer?' by @detente11

Artwork by Miel Audenaert

Detente - 'Was it safer?' (HOB9)

Lamin Fofana
"Cosmic Injuries"
Black Metamorphosis
SCIFILP03 – June 2019
https://scifiandfantasy.net/

Black Metamorphosis is the first installment in Lamin Fofana’s upcoming album trilogy inspired in part by Sylvia Wynter’s unpublished manuscript of the same title written in the 1970s. “Cosmic Injuries” is lifted from the first volume of the trilogy.

Black Metamorphosis

Lamin Fofana - Cosmic Injuries

Taken from SBKT027: Gooooose - Rusted Silicon

Rusted Silicon is a new album from Gooooose. 7 original tracks with remixes from Samuel Kerridge and Nahash, plus an electro-acoustic rework by Sote featuring traditional Persian instrumentalists  Arash Bolouri (Santour) and Pouya Damadi (Tar)

Artwork by Fang Yang
Mastered by Raphael Valensi

Release date: 17th May 2019

Rusted Silicon

Gooooose - Plasma Sunrise

RONCE - LOLITA
(DAWN010)
100 limited copies
7inch

@itsronce
Produced by Zoë Villerd
Mastered at Studio Martyrs
Photo by Gabriel Cautain
Design by Hajj
Dawn Records 2019

Ronce - Lolita

Taken from Ad Cue's album 'Temporary Titles in Fixed Media', out February 10, 2020 via Gin&Platonic

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Produced by @ccaaddeeuu
Mastered by @annafruit
Designed by Jiri Macku

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Temporary Titles in Fixed Media

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Ad Cue - Temporary Title 002

An invitation to awaken, and at the same time, dream. Publishing at the intersection of technology, myth-making and magic.

Practice 1: Forest Dreaming by Sarah Shin

Ignota

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