excerpt from an unlabeled live recording 2017

Mare Insularum

Degradia (2018) is a sound work by Anni Puolakka and Miša Skalskis, originally made for an exhibition of the same name. They were inspired by some old Finnish poems in which vulva plays a central part and becomes a powerful character of its own right. Parts of Degradia are translated and altered lines from these poems, for example, where vulva is likened with a biting dog's jaws and a running wolf's gums.

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Anni Puolakka and Miša Skalskis – Degradia

Bones

This is a mixtape that I'm sharing with Jen Monroe's amazing blog Listen to This (www.listentothis.info). She will share the playlist too. Thanks.

This is a selection of music composed by Czechoslovakian musicians between 1974 to 1994.
Això és una selecció de música composada per músics checoslovacs entre 1974 i 1994.
Jedná se o výběr hudby kterou složili českoslovenští hudebníci v letech 1974 až 1994.

The cover picture has been taken from the leaflet of reissue album "Smyčcem & Háta H." by Irena and Vojtěch Havlovi .

Listen to This! Special : Vojtěch a Irena

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)

Pre-Order available now via imprec.com 
Cassette edition of 100 via Cassauna/Imprec

“Rupture” was inspired by the southern Italian folktale of Tarantism,
which is said to be an epidemic provoked by the bite of the tarantula.
It causes extreme spiritual possession. 
Aki Onda composed these tracks using the traditional folk music of the region as underlays, mostly in indirect ways but occasionally directly sampled. 
The tracks were recorded with musicians Tatsuya Nakatani, Gareth Davis and Clifton Hyde. The artwork features eerie and uncanny images of the Japanese
photographer Daisuke Yokota.

1. Rupture 
2. Betrayal

3. Rebirth
4. Growth 

Aki Onda : electronics, field recordings (1-4)
Tatsuya Nakatani : percussion, gongs, bells (1-4)
Gareth Davis : bass clarinet (4)
Clifton Hyde : mandolin (3)

Soundtrack for “Rupture” by Aki Onda
Recorded by Tatsuya Nakatani, Gareth Davis, and Aki Onda 
Edited and mixed by Aki Onda 
Mastered by Michael Fossenkemper



Photography by Daisuke Yokota

Aki Onda - Rupture - Cassette - August 3, 2020

"Erik K Skodvin's first solo film score evokes otherwordly dreamscapes that capture the atmosphere of the film Anbessa (2019), shot in Ethiopia by director Mo Scarpelli." 

Listen to the title track from the LP here. Pre-order in link.

As a "creative" documentary the film follows Asalif, a 10 year old imaginative boy caught between the ancient and the new, navigating modernization on his own terms. Asalif tries to make sense of things while living in a shed on the outskirts of Addis Ababa with his mom. A place where capitalism and “progress” is closing in on all fronts, and threatening their lifestyle. By becoming a lion (anbessa) he can fight back against the forces outside of his control.

Watch the film on MUBI from August 26th (for one month). Also available for rent or purchase through Video on demand.

Anbessa

Erik K Skodvin - Anbessa

Taken from the album 'animal électrique' released as LP and Digital.

animal électrique

Reinhold Friedl & Eryck Abecassis 'animal électrique 1' (EMEGO 274)

Taken from 'It's Worse', out on Cafe OTO's digital label Takuroku

TR083 - Shakeeb Abu Hamdan & Sholto Dobie - 'Slows O'er'

From album "Secret Passage," forthcoming on W.25TH / Superior Viaduct, 2021. www.superiorviaduct.com

Gavilán Rayna Russom - Shotgun Hits With Boys Who Drum On Metal (excerpt)

With special guest @cucinapovera creating original dialogue together based on a series of questions answered in audio form.

Elen Huynh : "How does your daily life resonate?" 00min00s - 06min25s by Cucina Povera
Cucina Povera : "Movement or stasis?" 06min25s - 12min15s by Elen Huynh
E.H. : "How do you experience the relationship with silence?" 12min02s - 17min20s by Cucina Povera
E.H. : "Is duality eternal? (unity)'' 16min17s - 23min55s by Cucina Povera
C.P. : "What does a city in conflictious tension sound like?" 22min55s - 37min00s by Elen Huynh
E.H. : "What forms of contradictions do you have to deal with?" 36min10s - 43min35s by Cucina Povera
C.P. : "What kind of soundscape do dreams have?" 43min35s - 55min00s by Elen Huynh
E.H. : "What is your perception of the sound environment during these special winter holidays?" 55min00s - end by Cucina Povera

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LYL radio
all episodes here : lyl.live/show/choses-contraires/

Aki Onda - Rupture - Cassette - August 3, 2020

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