@nozagam is a solo project by French experimental-club producer Etienne Zastko who takes a bleak view of a destructive Anthropocene Epoch, in which “utopias can’t exist and we’ve lost our way in our blind devotion to technology”. The album pieces together a chronology of catastrophic events. A fictionalized soundtrack to humankind’s end-cycle. The abrasive textures and suffocating atmosphere immerse us into a total universe where everything that could have gone wrong has. Affirmations and tech bro optimism didn’t quite cut it. And if those disembodied voices that sporadically reach out are the survivors, that’s not good news.

The visual aesthetic of Zagam is one of fusion, a medieval plague doctor mask with a 23rd-century twist. “Anthropocene” mines a similarly disparate set of influences, spanning an evermore hybridized clubspace. Gqom, grime, industrial techno, footwork: everything is fair game. The rich musical background and hard sonic palette of Zagam make for a perfect match for the hybrid electronics approach of Unizone.
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Anthropocene is coming out on May 4, 2023 as a digital and physical release (50 limited edition cassettes available via label‘s Bandcamp page).

original tracks by Zagam
remix tracks by Miedo Total, Wulffluw XCIV, personalbrand & B E N N
mastered by Wim Dehaen
artwork & visuals by Erranth
tape design by Mr. Maquerelle
text by Thomas Romana

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ZAGAM - NO MESSING

Drawing inspiration from folk, medieval drone and Appalachian autoharp music, this week's TANK Mix comes from Berlin-based artist Petra Hermanova. She said of her mix: “This mix explores atmospheres adjacent to my debut album In Death's Eyes, moving across several sonic territories: folk, drone, metal, organ works and pieces written for the voice. Importantly, it also features several works by five different autoharp instrumentalists, whom I've chosen for their significance in the autoharp community, which in itself remains rather undiscovered by the wider public.”

In Death’s Eyes was released in October 2023 on Unguarded.

Tracklist:
Musica Folklorica - Umreli ně tatíček
William Ryan Fritch - The Shallow Well
Jo Ann Smith - Rhythm of the Rain
Kilby Snow - Precious Jewel
Chelsea Wolfe - Little Grave
Marie-Claire Alain - Erbarm' dich mein, o Herre Gott BWV721 
Sequentia - Spiritui Sancto honor sit (De Undecim Milibus Virginibus, Responsorium)
Bryan Bowers - Shady Grove
Bryan Bowers - Rickett's Hornpipe
Brìghde Chaimbeul - Òran An Eich-Uisge (Song Of The Waterhorse)
Frankie - Control
SUNN O))) - Cymatics 
Colm Keady-Tabbal - Ballyroan​/​Abbeyleix (xxxi)
Ghédalia Tazartès - Quatorze
Gori Women's Choir, Yosif Ketchakmadze - Archaica I
Karen Mueller - Eleanor Plunkett
Baptist Goth - Untitled Organ Improvisation
Kirsten Bråten Berg - Heiemo og Nykkjen
Bob Lewis - O'Carolan's Concerto
One Leg One Eye - Glistening, She Emerges
William Ryan Fritch - Unthinking Reverence
Jo Ann Smith - Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence

Photograph by Spyros Droussiotis

TANK Mix: Petra Hermanova

If there ever was a monicker apt for describing an artist’s behavior, that is Ghost Lemurs. Manifesting spottily in compilations and limited edition tapes, then returning to the shadows without much fanfare, the project has indeed demonstrated a ghostly behavior and a nature as puzzling as the animal it takes its name from. Wombs And Alien Spirits represents now their most public outing, one in which the duo of visual artist / producer Kareem Lofty and Daniele Guerrini (better known as Heith and as Haunter’s co-founder) are happy to showcase all the discoveries in a process of musical and spiritual research begun in 2019.
Described by the artists themselves as an experiment in mediterranean psi-trance, the album makes use of an incredibly diverse number of traditions, sonic sources and techniques of musical experimentation, keeping its psychedelic intentions central to the whole creative endeavor. Moments of meditative relaxation are brought to unsettling new levels by cavernous basses and spaced out drones, while tight polyrhythms bring beautiful granular melodies to a sidereal ceremonial dance.
As beautiful and captivating as it is, Wombs And Alien Spirits remains as chimeric and unrestrained as any previous effort by the two artists. It’s a type of folk music devoid of a specific homeland, but resulting from the authors’ heritages, simultaneously divided and united by the mediterranean sea, injected with all the trajectories of their personal journeys. It ends up sounding profoundly human and uncannily inhuman, tapping into the undiscovered alien element at the beginning of the experience of life.

Music by Ghost Lemurs
Mix by Heith
Master by Tapewave
Artwork by Katja Novitskova
Layout by Nicola Tirabasso

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A New Kind of ____

Ed Lalo - here for a lil bit
edu.tainment // edu005

1. I Wanna Roll (w u)
2. All Good
3. Bad Timing feat. Huar Huarco

Written by Ed Lalo.
Vocals on 'Bad Timing' by Huar Huarco.

Bad Timing feat. Huar Huarco

Yasmine Des Astres - La Forêt Des Amates 
Cat. Nr: DN029
Format: Digital
Release Date: October 11, 2024
Buy / stream: dansenoire.ffm.to/YasmineDesAstres 

La Forêt des Amantes was born in a daydream. “At night, under the shining moon of silver, I ran in a forest with the one I love,” describes experimental artist Yasmine des Astres. Arriving at music by necessity, rather than by intention, Yasmine des Astres arranges her voice, live instrumentation and synthesis into cinematic assemblage, drawing as much from filmmaker Philippe Grandrieux, philosopher Georges Bataille and Sufi mystics like Ibn Arabi, Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi and Mansour al-Hallaj, as she does any particular sound. 

Despite this, the artist remains fiercely opposed to overly academic approaches to her art. Entirely self-taught, her DIY practice emerges as the consolidation of years of personal discovery. Dropping out of school at 15, suffering severe social anxiety, the artist took solace in her mother’s rap cassettes, instilling in her a love for hip hop instrumentals. Before long she was digging for samples online to make her own beats. At the age of 16 she discovered the transcendent Gnosticism of Sun Ra, which shifted her entire worldview forever. However it was the artist’s love of cinema, in particular the films of Robert Bresson, that truly taught her what it means to be an artist. Bresson’s legendary text ‘Notes On The Cinematograph’ helped Yasmine des Astres construct a vision of art with which she could connect her sensations to her emotions. 

Specifically, the image of running through a forest at night kept returning to her, a vision she initially understood as a need for freedom, but which gradually developed into a deeper, more intense understanding. Chasing “desire as a liberating and enlightening force,” her dream of liberation became one of sexual exploration and self destruction, while La Forêt des Amantes grew into The Forest of Lesbian Lovers. “It is a dream made out of my lesbian devotion,” the artist asserts. “A desire to annihilate myself through the lesbian I would love.” Citing kindred spirit Obsequeen and Japanese experimental noise rock oddities Les Rallizes Dénudés as sonic influences, with La Forêt des Amantes Yasmine des Astres picks her way through an expansive sonic terrain of effects-laden vocals and off-kilter electronics. 
 “The album is about yearning,” she explains. “The forest doesn’t exist, it is not a forest we know. It is an absence. An absence of civilization, an absence of politics, just two lesbians and the universe around them.” 

Read more via Bandcamp 

Mastering by Rashad Becker 
Extase mixed by Julien Racine 
Artwork by Niels Wehrspann and Yasmine Des Astres

La Forêt Des Amantes

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Yasmine Des Astres - Chapitre Premier De L'Errance - IV) Lune D'argent

Keru Not Ever - Mezzanine
Label: Infinite Machine
CAT#: IM115
Format: Digital
Release Date: December 20th

Words by Keru Not Ever.

Mezzanine is an album of post-classical music. The twelve pieces that make it up are attempts to take the raw materials of instrumental music, dip them in mud, and turn them into shimmering confetti. Flutes, violins, clarinets, voices, cellos, piano, bass—these elements are all there, woven together through a mixture of hyper-sampling and recording, creating a chamber music without walls, without windows, suspended in stagnant air and multicolored dust. The conductor lies in bed, sheets pulled up to his shoulders.

Modeled on human breath, the pieces highlight the phenomena of loops and feedback, as though each time a theme is voiced, it must be repeated, insisted upon, until something else — a counter-melody — emerges to disrupt it. This is clear from the very first piece, Requiem Caesura, which functions like the tuning of a small orchestra, seemingly deaf to itself. Then come, to name just a few, the shimmering wind arrangements of Ghisolabella, the pulsing glissandi of the solo bass in Mezzanine, and, finally, the epilogue, Harmonies de la brûlure, a tableau of slow-moving harmonic ashes.

This album took a long time to create, the time it took to free myself from Tereza and The Wind Of? — old, forgotten music. Whether that time was worth it, that is, the doubt in which every melody is born, I can’t say. What composes is always next to myself, an extimacy. But it's a leap in time, an interval of a few years, a leap based on certain musical ruins, anonymous shreds twisted in the throes of a pandemic, in the love and joys, the sudden lights striking the blind spots of a body. These are companion pieces produced from the detritus of history. They hold out a cold hand to those who lend an ear.

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I'm the problem of my life (super slowed)

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