SoundCloud Weekly 11-12-2020

Recorded live at Soapbox Music - Humboldt Park, Chicago
April 16-17, 2021

Art by DJ PW
Mastered by Shy

Purelink - Head On A Swivel

https://oopheliaxz.bandcamp.com/track/fuzzi

Fuzzi-

Track from NE90 Vallmo – Othem LP
Out on LP and digital September 8th

For her second release on Northern Electronics, Vallmo (appellation of Melina Åkerman Kvie) strengthens her proficiency towards an electronic elevation with each and every track being a crevice offering kaleidoscopic gleams into a poetic narrative extracted from the slightly auto tuned yet softly metallic voice. What Virgil is to Dante, the piano is to the listener: a fragmented leitmotif and a guiding cicerone into the nimbus that is 'Othem'.
Dual in nature, the album comprises seamless transitions between divergent idioms, figuratively as well as literally. A false dichotomy conveying the opposing pairs tender and bold, distinct but evading and with a direction every so often forward as inward. 'Othem' is an opus in equal parts melancholy, magic and mimesis.

Mixed by Nori Kin
Artwork by John Gustafsson, Graphics by Jonas Rönnberg
Mastered by Giuseppe Tillieci at EnissLab, Rome

Vallmo – Othem

@SaintAbdullah & @Eomac rekindle their longstanding collaboration in this fiery new release sourced from the multiple cultural references and personal stories of its producers.

In their third installment entitled “Light meteors crashing around you will not confuse you”, the New York-based Iranian-Canadian siblings Mohammad and Mehdi Mehrabani-Yeganeh aka Saint Abdullah & Wicklow-based Irish producer Ian McDonnell aka Eomac continue their exploration of sounds and rhythms through an expansive use of sampling and heavy distorted beats. Passionately curious about diverse vocal and musical cultures as well as their own, the trio began their long-distance collaboration in 2019, releasing their first two albums, “Patience of a Traitor ” (Other People) and “Chasing Stateless” (Planet Mu) in 2022 and 2023 respectively.

The trio recorded the album as the world witnessed the genocide on Gaza, Mohammad notes that all tracks were “recorded within a few weeks in October after the war broke out as we tried to keep our heads above water.” The sound of Saint Abdullah is characterized by a keen interest to challenge cultural perceptions and expectations of diasporic narratives, by foregrounding sounds, field recordings, and sacred and profane music from the multiple worlds they belong to. They pay homage to the distinct influences, however sonically and culturally disparate, that have permeated their records and musical process so far. Together with Eomac, they continue a conversation shaped by their ever-growing sonic heritage and shared musical affinities. The inclusion of field recordings for example, often personal ones, are not ornamental but are integral parts of the whole album in which vocal samples are both used in moments of release or through thrusts of heavy beats, continually mirroring a state of unease.…

Reflecting on the recording process, Eomac notes that: “There is a strong influence and inspiration from hip-hop culture here. The beat-tape in particular. It’s rough, raw; rhythms are direct and not overthought. The beats are heavy and distorted for the most part, often shifting and changing throughout a single track. This brings an intentional “ungroundedness” to the record and a sense of tension.” Echoing this state of unsteadiness, Mohammad writes in a poem during the recording: “Those in the diaspora, are those that have left their home, by force, by will, somewhere in between. Are we the connective tissue that makes things more interesting?” Tracks like 'Bitch, I am Islam’ and ‘Rocknrallah’ relieve some of the sense of disorientation but are no less poignant. In the former, 'Bitch, I am Islam', Mohammad uses old personal recordings of his sisters reciting the Quran or repeating Iranian revolutionary chants like “War war, until victory”, an acknowledgment of the worlds they left behind and the ones that need building. In ‘Rocknrallah’ Abdel Ja7eem Hafeth sings a rendition of the 1933 American standard tune ‘Smoke gets in your eyes’ only to evoke the smoke coming out of Gaza.

The record also features fellow Iranian artists in the diaspora, musician and sound artist based in Paris Cinna Peyghamy and club experimentalist Aria Rostami. Ian Bruner, who worked on the album’s artwork, created a composite of the different elements and motifs that form the album, an image of arduous travel towards the mirage of Americana. In this historic period of grief and anger, ‘Light meteors crashing around you will not confuse you’ musically and conceptually engages world systems and beliefs through the experiences and stories of its producers.

—Rayya Badran

All proceeds UNRWA

Produced by Saint Abdullah & Eomac Featured Artists: Cinna Peyghamy, Aria Rostami, Abdel Ja7eem Hafeth Mastered by Rashad Becker Art by Ian Bruner

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Light meteors crashing around you will not confuse you

Saint Abdullah & Eomac - Bitch, I am Islam feat. Aria Rostami

Unequal cycles in search of synchronous experiences: On his new album »Pounding«, Frank Bretschneider tells of distance, convergence and congruence in a continuous, ever-changing flow of events. What is often regarded as an unquestionable dogma in club music (for which Bretschneider has provided significant impetus since the 1990s) – the groove – appears precarious, unstable, and in motion. Pulse and accent are volatile encounters and have to be found again and again for short, delightful moments. Music becomes a constant process of negotiation.
In search of new sound spaces, Bretschneider has recently worked a lot with modular synthesizers, both solo (for example on »abtasten_halten«, 2020) and in collaborations, including the project Beispiel together with Jan Jelinek. »Pounding« was created using similar means - conceived in 2020 for the Pochen Biennale in Chemnitz, subsequently developed further and recorded in March and April 2023 on a sample-based modular system. And in fact, Bretschneider is once again exemplarily scanning his own sound material, such as dub effects that listen to themselves disintegrate; but also the human voice, or more precisely: the stuttering of fragments of speech, far in the distance but omnipresent, like a mysterious narration. Aesthetically, the eleven pieces form part of a series of works with a focus on percussion. Bretschneider has already perfected this approach with albums like »Rhythm« (2007) and has been shifting the perspective ever since, for ever new results.
Shifting is the basic principle of »Pounding«. Bretschneider combines elements that are in different aggregate states, changing their relationship to each other and thus ensuring the complex overall movement. He lets one to two-bar loops run against each other and through small manipulations, develops a network of rhythms that creates a hypnotic state in the counterplay of repetition and mutation, between clearly recognizable meter and disorientation. There are comparable approaches in aleatoric music. Bretschneider combines them with sounds and patterns that are reminiscent of step sequencer logic and at the same time go far beyond it. The result is relational techno. Never obvious, always restless and exciting.

Pounding

Frank Bretschneider »Evening News« taken from »Pounding«

Besos Robados

L'Ivresse is a walk through different sensory landscapes.
A poetic narrative dressed in classical, experimental and ambient music. 

L'ivresse w/ helen island @ Kiosk Radio 14.03.2025

Dai Buki

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Sample is from Russell Shaw's "Temple of Light" and "Fresco Dome" from the Fable 2004 OST. Also included some sound effects and dialogue from the game.

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More info - http://loose-lips.co.uk/blog/james-bangura-broken-mind-vpr-18
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James Bangura EP

Broken Mind

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PREMIERE: James Bangura - Broken Mind (VPR 18)

Artiste : @blame_sound
EP : Bells
Label : @resourcesmusic
Sortie : 6/02/2020
Acheter : https://bit.ly/2V9ecuT
Release party (29/02/2020) : https://bit.ly/39TyFrM

Tsugi Premiere : Blâme - Bells

to whom it may concern...

its too beautiful to embrace change and to challenge urself to find something meaningful in it... i love my friends and love is deep :') i want them to know that always... but sometimes i get busy and overwhelmed n im not the best at saying how i feel always... just want to sit around and talk and feel understood together w someone who you like or u find interesting.. thats the best :) and if the day is nice or if the day is not nice but ur inside and its cozy.. thats too wicked. and ur making a soup and eating it together... just with the stuff in the kitchen.. dont even go out to get ingredients.. no need to follow a recipe.. cause ur grandma taught u to cook w the "sazon" (cooking by tasting w as u go on adding diff ingredients and spices.. no recipes. .. u can only really cook if u can freestyle in the kitchen she said).. and then u think about how ur grandma taught u that.. and your w someone in the kitchen making something together.. and then u taste it and it warms u up and ur like damn this is fire.. thats what this and i think maybe what "its all" about... thank u for taking time to read this and i hope you enjoy the album...

kiss u...

brian

'ADMSDP' is taken from DJ Python's "Mas Amable" LP
Vinyl 12" / Digital / Cassette
Out now: https://incienso.ffm.to/djpython_masamable

Written, Produced, and Mixed by Brian Piñeyro
Vocals on 'ADMSDP' courtesy of LA Warman
Mastered by Chris "CZ" Wang
Cover Photo by Lazaro Rodriguez

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DJ Python - ADMSDP (Feat. LA Warman) [INC-008]

Because of U (feat. Hence Therefore)

Towhead Recordings presents New York Dance Music III. A 22 track various artists compilation by artists based in the tri-state.

100% of proceeds will be donated to Black Visions Collective & National Bail Out.

Black Visions Collective is committed to a long term vision in which ALL Black lives not only matter, but are able to thrive. What we know to be true in order to create this world is that oppressed people, especially Black people, need to build collective power in order to create systems transformation. Through the development of powerful strategic campaigns, we seek to expand the power of Black people across the Twin Cities metro area and Minnesota. This can look like delivering mobilization and action goals as part of a national coalition in which Black lives are centered, but it most often looks like visioning and leading targeted collaborative local campaigns that advance a concrete impact for people’s lives here, while also advancing a shift in public narrative that connects to transformative long-term change.

National Bail Out is a Black-led and Black-centered collective of abolitionist organizers, lawyers and activists building a community-based movement to support our folks and end systems of pretrial detention and ultimately mass incarceration.

1. TAH - Track 09
2. James Bangura - Bountiful Fruit
3. DJ NJ DRONE - Collapse Syn
4. BASSBEAR!! - Heard Voices Today
5. Ase Manual - When The Fire Rains (Pick A Side)
6. Bergsonist - Fragment
7. MoMA Ready - Black Fluid
8. SUCIA! - DANCE!
9. DJ SWISHA x Kanyon - Fleece
10. John Wright - Earth2
11. Kush Jones - Jazzy
12. El Blanco Nino - No Tek
13. The Nativist - Netwerxxx
14. guerrer@ - Get Thru My Depression
15. Kanyon - Systems Blur
16. JWords - Noisy
17. quest?onmarc - Cabin Fever (?'s Radial Blur Tool Live Edit)
18. AceMo - Summer Jam
19. Color Plus - FOH
20. Drew. - Entropy
21. J. Albert - Cipher
22. AMEN the Producer - Blinded by the Light

New York Dance Music III

New York Dance Music III [TOW-VA003]

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New York based label founded in 2017 by Anthony Naples and Jenny Slattery (@jennyslattery).

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DJ Python - ADMSDP (Feat. LA Warman) [INC-008]

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