From "Microphone Permission" LP, Editions Mego, 2020
https://jasmineguffond.bandcamp.com/album/microphone-permission

An Utterly Dark Spot

This is a short compilation of excerpts from the piece "Devolve" taken from the upcoming album "Devolving Trust".
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Erik K Skodvin's alter persona “Svarte Greiner” re-appears with another chapter in his “zen music for disturbed souls” series, channeling both spiritual distress and meditation in a live recording from the bunkers of a bombed out brewery.
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CD + Digital. Feb 25th 2022.

Svarte Greiner - Devolve (excerpts)

~ LAAPS 025 ~ [SEQ.04 - LP25]

artist : Arovane
 album : Sinter
duration : 39.29 mn
 date : January 23rd, 2023

edition :
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Written and produced by Uwe Zahn.
Recorded and edited at Saale Studio.
Track 03. Konstant is dedicated to Taylor Deupree.

Mastered by Taylor Deeper (12K)
Artwork by Marco Cadioli
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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Sinter

Arovane - Konstant

~ IIKKI 020 ~

music : Akhira Sano
photography : David Nissen
album : Shadow's Praise
durations : 37.40 mn (LP) / 43.31 mn (CD)
date : April 20th 2023

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All production by Akhira Sano

Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Artwork by David Nissen
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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Akhira Sano - Nakazu

~ LAAPS 027 ~ [SEQ.04 - LP27]

artists : Russell Burden (Being) & Craig Tattersall (The Humble Bee)
 album : Diagenesis
duration : 44 mn
 date : April 29th, 2023

edition :
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All Tracks written and produced by Russell Burden & Craig Tattersall.

Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Artwork by Russell Burden
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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diagenesis: the watery interactions, microbial activities, alterations, compactions, and chemical transformations of sediments slowly converting to rock.
this music was created through a process of exchange - passing tracks back and forth, each layer of sound buried a little deeper beneath the next.

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https://www.leavings.co.uk/

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Russell Burden & Craig Tattersall - Settlings (excerpt)

~ IIKKI 021 ~

music : Akira Uchida
artwork : Masao Yamamoto
album : Kurayami
durations : 40 mn
date : July 07th 2023

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Uchida Akira: Clavichord , Piano , Sax , Recording , Mixing.
Tono Tamami: Sho.
Kosaka Osho: Sutra.

Mastered by Taylor Deupree
Artwork and calligraphy by Masao Yamamoto
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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https://www.yamamotomasao.jp/

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Akira Uchida - Kurayami # 2 (excerpt)

Softer Than Before

Artist: ASUNA & Jan Jelinek
Album: Signals Bulletin
Label#: Faitiche18
 
Faitiche is delighted to announce the release of a new collaboration between the Japanese sound artist ASUNA and Jan Jelinek: the album Signals Bulletin brings together joint improvisations and compositions made over a period of three years in Berlin, Kyoto and Kanazawa. ASUNA’s meandering organ drones merge with Jelinek’s pulsating synthesizer and field recording loops to create dense superclusters that span broad harmonic arcs.

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Watching the Japanese sound artist ASUNA playing the organ, some people might be surprised. ASUNA is no virtuoso flying over the keyboard in a rage. Instead, with the calm gestures of an office worker, he cuts strips of adhesive tape to the correct length before sticking them onto the keys of his instrument. In this way, large clusters of keys are held down, creating a dense and sustained range of frequencies, while the sound artist continually prepares further sets of keys or removes tape again. I have rarely seen a more convincing performance concept, with such a power to fascinate.

I first met ASUNA when we both gave a concert at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, his home city. He performed the organ drones as described above and I immediately knew I wanted to collaborate with him. Six years and five meetings later, we completed Signals Bulletin. The album includes both joint improvisations and compositions, recorded in Berlin, Kanazawa and Kyoto.

Whether using prepared organ, Casio keyboards or mechanical plastic toys, ASUNA creates rich textures of sound that barely change over long stretches of time. It is a music without breaks. For a while, I was unsure how my loops made using modular synthesizers and live sampling fitted here – until I realized the role I had to take in this duet: I would provide the rhythmically pulsating foundation over which his dense continuums could unfold.

The result is harmonically drifting superclusters that put us into a meditation-like state. It can perhaps be compared to Automatic Writing – a mode of creative expression floating somewhere between concentration and distraction. Both the structure of our pieces and our approach to our instruments allow a similar “absence”: we let the machines play and repeat themselves – while we, in a mild form of trance, adopt the role of observers, intervening only occasionally.

It is no coincidence that ASUNA owns a collection of Doodle Art – drawings jotted down during conversations or while talking on the phone. It is said that works made like this point to the unconscious and reveal pet motifs – because a doodler always inadvertently returns to his or her favourite themes. The artwork for Signals Bulletin features pictures from the collection, in this case sheets of paper from the pads provided in stationery shops to test out pens. The special quality of such doodles is that the jumble of drawings is the work of a collective whose individual members do not know each other. Layer by layer is added, by someone different each time – until it becomes a dense cluster of lines and symbols ...
Jan Jelinek, Berlin 2018

ASUNA & Jan Jelinek: Relief, Pt.1

This is & was Twatt 004 with Mathias Van Eecloo, owner of the label @laapsrecords https://laaps-records.com & @iikkibooks https://www.iikki-books.com/
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Twenty-One Four Ears
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21 tracks from the 21 albums during the last 4 years on IIKKI and LAAPS
IIKKI : September 2014 - November 2020
LAAPS : January 2020 - November 2020
tracklist :
(time line / artist / track name / album / label)
(00.00 - 04.29) 01 - Toàn - Caillou (Volta No Vento) (IIKKI 013)
(04.14 - 06.18) 02 - Danny Clay - 6.12.2015 (I) (Stills) (IIKKI 001)
(06.07 - 08.50) 03 - Aries Mond - Cut Off (Cut Off) (IIKKI 008)
(08.31 - 12.20) 04 - Taylor Deupree & Marcus Fischer - On Branches (Lowlands) (IIKKI 003)
(12.04 - 14.49) 05 - The Alvaret Ensemble - Ast (Ea) (LAAPS 001)
(14.42 - 18.28) 06 - Offthesky & The Humble Bee - An Affair on Invisibility (We Were the Hum of
Dreams) (LAAPS 003)
(18.24 - 21.43) 07 - Tomotsugu Nakamura - Alone Together (Litterature) (LAAPS 005)
(21.24 - 24.38) 08 - Valance Drakes - Loyalty And Honour Above All Else (Freedom Is Its Own Kind
Of Salary) (LAAPS 006)
(23.59 - 30.20) 09 - Joni Void - Non-Linéaire (Nature Morte) (LAAPS 007)
(30.08 - 35.06 ) 10 - Andrea Belfi - Vano (Alveare) (IIKKI 002)
(34.56 - 38.44 ) 11 - Fean - Swellen (II) (LAAPS 002)
(37.57 - 41.09 ) 12 - Foresteppe - IX - XII (Odeyalo) (LAAPS 008)
(40.50 - 43.38 ) 13 - Federico Durand - Los Juguetes De Minka Podhajska (Pequeñas Melodias)
(IIKKI 007)
(43.07 - 47.09 ) 14 - Stephen Vitiello & Molly Berg - Mental Radio (I Drew A Fish Hook, And It
Turned Into A Flower) (IIKKI 010)
(46.57 - 51.52 ) 15 - Masaya Ozaki & Kaito Nakahori - Horizon (Mythologies) (IIKKI 004)
(51.39 - 59.42 ) 16 - Danny Clay - Ocean Park II (Ocean Park) (LAAPS 004)
(58.05 - 62.11 ) 17 - The Humble Bee & Offthesky - For Her Breath Is On All That Hath Life (All
Other Voices Gone, Only Yours Remains) (IIKKI 009)
(61.55 - 64.09) 18 - Akira Uchida - #2 (Sasanami) (IIKKI 012)
(63.56 - 66.54) 19 - Aaron Martin - To Stems Unclasped the Petals Cling (Touch Dissolves) (IIKKI
006)
(66.36 - 72.06) 20 - Scott Worthington - A Time That Is Also A Place (Orbit) (IIKKI 005)
(71.57 - 75.21) 21 - Seabuckthorn - And Bickers Into Colour (Through A Vulnerable Occur) (IIKKI
011)

Twenty - One Four Years (Mix Showcase IIKKI+LAAPS)

Falling Through Graves And Houses

Hidden Plateau - 1

edition project focused on some dialogues between some visuals artists and music artists which works with 3 publishings by year dispatched in 2 physical imprints: a disc (vinyl/cd) and a fine art book.

Akira Uchida - Kurayami # 2 (excerpt)

IIKKI

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