Этих звуки, точно бурнус, защищающий кочевника в поле

JAMES K
"ELEKTRA (Scream Through the Eyes of a Statue)"
CD in jewel case w OBI strip
Edition of 250
Release 19.01.2024

“Why is female sound bad to hear?” - Anne Carson

ELEKTRA (Scream Through the Eyes of a Statue), is a multimedia performance broadly conceptualizing the female voice as an “X-ray to the bones of sound.” It was commissioned by Issue Project Room and performed April 26th, 2018 in Brooklyn, New York.  Taking poet, essayist, and Classics professor Anne Carson’s translation of Sophocles’ tragic play Elektra as a point of departure, James K monstrously externalizes the inner sonic world of female vocalization through a scored collaborative framework interpreting each of Elektra’s “screams” in the Greek tragedy.

The piece develops unique methods of screaming through musical and non-musical objects -- performed through manipulated text, videos, and live contributions from James K (voice, electronics, violin, video) Brooklyn-based musician Eve Essex (alto saxophone, various winds and electronics), electronic producer and performer Dylan Shir (electronics), composer and cellist Leila Bordreuil (cello), and poet/artist Eli V Manuscript (textual alchemy, projections).

Within this collaborative framework, James K scores “the scream” to express the various relations between hysteria and the “gender of sound” -- a blurred and overlapping feminine sound defined by its fragmentation and resistance to scripted narrative. Elektra’s presence is emblematic of a radical alienation that occurs as a standing discrepancy to tragic convention. Amongst society, she is the anti-dialogue, a symbol of protest.

‘my cries are wings, they pierce the cage’

Elektra’s vocalizations pierce through language, revealing a shattered interior of multifaceted reflections constructed against habitual linguistic or vocal expression. In tragic convention, such habitual vocalization takes the shape of the often terse, patriarchal voice of the Greek philosopher -- a didactic, conceptual container in opposition to the expressive “becoming” of Elektra’s cries that riot against fixity. As a tragic character, Elektra is radical and alien for Sophocles and his audience -- an ever-present conviction that demonstrates how female shame has constructed a life-size funeral urn around her.

Through translating a text within layers of translations, a fragmentation of the firsthand into traces, James K mirrors Elektra’s deconstruction of reality into siren shards, offering an experiencing of female sign language as a means of sabotage to the world of normal utterances. By sliding on the edge of convention to sharply abandoning rational speech and sonic construction, K’s piece aims to embody Elektra’s strained and stretching screams, as cuts against the glass; her sabotage bound within the blanket loop. In response to rigid vocalization and fixed sonic understandings, ELEKTRA (Scream Through the Eyes of a Statue) takes the scream as an unruly, emotive sonic experience projecting outwards into objects and audience: to the very bones of sound.

This is a live recording of its single performance. Recorded by Bob Bellerue at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, NY. Mixed by James K. Mastered by Jack Callahan. Performed by James K, Eve Essex, Via App, and Leila Bordreuil. Conceived and scored by James K for four players, and written in collaborative improvisation with the performers. Textual alchemy by Eli V Manuscript. Design and layout by Nicola Tirabasso and James K.

JAMES K - ELEKTRA (iDEAL225 CD excerpt)

The initiatory release on the co:clear label is a stunning debut by Brooklyn-based artist, @edenaurelius. Written between Chicago and New York throughout 2023, 'Plateau' is a lacework of chiller dub-techno and ambient sparkle, crafted via recorded material, astute sampling, and live instrumentation. Rounded off with a stellar remix from your favourite ambient boyband (Purelink), this record is one for the serial unwinders.

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"Plateau is a collision, formed over years of change — an elevated plane where land forms an even surface.

Towering above the ground you see the scale of the earth — terrain merging with sky, enfolding on one another.

Seclusion and observation — a timeless vortex where moments stand still and find place in clarity."

— Eden Aurelius
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credits:

Written & Produced by Eden Aurelius
Remix by Purelink
Mastered by Ike Zwanikken
Lacquer cut by Henry Rudkins
Digital Artwork by Shy
Centre Label Design by Conna Haraway
Distribution by Rubadub

Plateau

Eden Aurelius – Want 2

The ghostly atmospheres that, in a sense, mirror observations, abrupt interplay of sounds as they emerge, dissipate, and meld together in diverse settings such as wilderness, isolation, and inhabited environments.

"Tracked" is a compiled set of studio recordings and live cuts from 2022-2023

voice prompt 3:18 
head tracker 2:21 
northern digital 3:25 
depth camera 03:09
outdoors mobile 3:52 
response 3:14
reference frame 3:06 
tracked 2:41

buy digital: https://igordyachenko.bandcamp.com/album/tracked
buy 12": https://entangledvisions.bandcamp.com/album/tracked

Tracked

buy here.

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Slow

𝐒𝐄𝐑𝟎𝟎𝟏 - 𝐉𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐧𝐚𝐡 - 𝐍𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝐋𝐏 (𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐀𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐋 𝟏𝟗, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒)

Order Vinyl (Limited Edition) / Download digits:
https://secondendrec.bandcamp.com/album/the-next-kingdom-lp-ser001

Embark on an ethereal journey with Second End Records’ inaugural release, as the new entity unveils today “The Next Kingdom” LP, from label-founder Jonnnah.

As a manifest of SER ethos, the Lyon-based Producer’s second personal album is also a pure merging of his own touch: mesmerizing soundscapes, pulsating rhythms, and enchanting synth melodies. From Jonnnah’s intricate layers of instrumentation and melancholic vocals, arise the fragile yet powerful aesthetic encapsulated in the contemporary electronic scene. Boundaries between genres and emotions dissolve through the prism of digital hybridizations, and each track of this twelve-act offering alternately conceal or lay bare what’s deeply rooted in Jonnnah’s soul.

“The Next Kingdom” LP, To be released on April 19 in digital and a very-limited vinyls edition.

Credits :

𝑨𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒔 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝑱𝒐𝒏𝒏𝒏𝒂𝒉
𝑪𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒈𝒏 𝒃𝒚 𝑳𝒖𝒄𝒂𝒔 𝑫𝒖𝒑𝒖𝒚
𝑩𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒄𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒈𝒏 𝒃𝒚 𝑻𝒊𝒑𝒉𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝑽𝒐𝒊𝒙
𝑽𝒊𝒏𝒚𝒍 𝑴𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 & 𝑪𝒖𝒕 𝒃𝒚 𝑫𝒊𝒔𝒄 𝑨𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔
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𝑳𝒐𝒈𝒐 𝒃𝒚 𝑻𝒊𝒑𝒉𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝑽𝒐𝒊𝒙

SER001 - Jonnnah - The Next Kingdom LP (PREVIEWS)

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Official video >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9-I-b3yFDg

music and art by amos & selo
mastered by Ike Zwanikken

Soft Issues - Jurassic

TLPITS03 : In The Slush (iii)

The third of three tapes - ‘Tendrils Lurched Purple In The Slush’.

Artwork by Megan Willis & Lewi Boome.
Mastering: Track 1 Jordan Juras, Tracks 2-6 Johnny Arthur.

In support of St Christopher's Hospice.
In memory of Kim.

In The Slush (iii)

@sowet

On Friday the 16th of March, corecore invited sixteen DJs and artists, all more or less local to Amsterdam’s music scene(s), to share mini-mixes and hybrid performances in a six hour listening session in De Sering. 

Sets by 55ever, dj audio (⊥), cdr103, Frog of Earth, he1een, interlude, jp'♡, Mandy Pixel, mary, nefo, Odete, Pharfetchd, sara plusplus, so wet’s water kingdom, tj0ki and umanea.

so wet's water kingdom | y'all don't fw music like i do

NUG - Bong Boat (OUEST085)

1. Row
2. Kneippen
3. Tide
4. Mud
5. Sky
6. Hull
7. Heat
8. Drift
9. Night

digital: https://westmineral.bandcamp.com/album/bong-boat-ouest085
vinyl: https://boomkat.com/products/bongboat

NUG is the musical collaboration of artists Jordan Juras aka
PVAS and Florian T M Zeisig. They previously released their
debut album Napping Under God on 3XL (2022).

Recorded Feb. 2022 in Hinang, mixed Nov. 2022 in Berlin
Release Date: April 5th 2024
Format: Vinyl, Digital
Label: West Mineral Ltd.
Cat Nr: OUEST 085
Cover Photography by Marutonkun
Mastered by Rashad Becker

NUG - Bong Boat (OUEST085)

@xeniareaper
@indexrecords

INDEX:Records is vitalised to present a record that it’s been scheming for quite some time: the first full-length trip by your favourite-producer’s favourite-producer — otherwise known as XENIA REAPER.

Fluxing between ambient, mutant-idm and swashes of bass, ‘Luvaphy’ is a drift through the morass that arrives at a leafy plateau. An album that tickles your inner sentience and supplies endless indulgence for the inquiring-mind.

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