I made this piece during the winter months when I spent most of my days alone, digging into archives, collecting some forgotten scraps from old tape loops together and melting them with what felt present at the time, those soundscapes that vibrate most beautifully in deep silence.

It consists of two parts - one corresponding to the setting process, the other to resetting, it tells story of leaving traces and covering them up.

Trace had its very first premiere on May 6 at Rewire festival.

Trace

بتستضيف راديو معازف يوم الثلاثاء المقبل حفلة سماع افتراضية في قسم الشات على موقع الراديو، بالتزامن مع أوّل بث للألبوم التجميعي إتس نوت كومبليكايتد. بيضم الألبوم ١٩ تسجيل لموسيقيين عرب وعالميين مثل براين إينو ونيكولاس جار ولافاوندا وسارة هرّاس وجيسِّكا خزريك، حيشارك عدد منهم في حفلة السماع، إلى جانب الفريق الفنّي للألبوم اللي بيضم مهندسة الصوت هبة قدري، المخرجين الفنيين مووني استوديو، وكالة العلاقات العامة سمسارة وفريق معازف اللي تولى إنتاج المشروع.

على خلفيّة الهبّة الأخيرة في فلسطين، وجّهت معازف دعوة لمجموعة موسيقيين لإطلاق ألبوم تجميعي بهدف زيادة الوعي وجمع التبرعات. حتروح كافة عائدات الألبوم لجمعيّة ماب (Medical Aid for Palestinians) والمؤسسة الصحفية والتوثيقيّة الفلسطينيّة المعنيّة بالقدس الجذور الشعبية المقدسية.

حتبدأ حفلة السماع ليلة الثلاثاء الساعة ستة بتوقيت تونس (أو سبعة في حوض النيل أو ثمانة في الشام)، وحيصدر الألبوم في نفس الوقت. بإمكانكم طلب الألبوم بشكل مسبق على باندكامب ابتداءً من اليوم.

It's not complicated

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Myxomy - Myxomy (SUB042)

Stream & download: https://myxomy.bandcamp.com/album/myxomy

Artistic collaborations don't have to be exhaustive, competitive or combative. And for Berlin-based producers James Ginzburg and Ziúr, their work together as myxomy has been almost effortless. Both artists bring with them a deep history of recording in vastly different circumstances: Ginzburg has worked on bass music, folk, experimental techno (as half of Emptyset) and experimental drone, while Ziúr played in a number of bands before settling into her current explorative electronic mode. So when they started working together in 2020, it was their respective backgrounds that provided the touch-paper for an explosive artistic head-to-head.

Ginzburg instigated the process by sending Ziúr beats he'd made in Bristol in a former life, and Ziúr, fresh from finishing her PAN-released third solo album "Antifate", set about sculpting them into completely new forms. In response, Ziúr dispatched vignettes to Ginzburg and he did the same. As they exchanged ideas back and forth and lapsed into absurdity, the songs followed suit, evolving from raw concepts and loops into proper songs as both Ziúr and Ginzburg traded melodies, lyrics and production tricks. The duo's fragmented sketches and scribbles took on new life, channeled, refined and re-invigorated as they developed into anxious, hybridized pop jewels.

Their surprising stylistic choice is revealed immediately on opening track 'Sloppy Attempt', a fractured mood stabilizer that dissociates from Bristolian trip-hop into glossy android pop. Ziúr's singing voice carries the track into a sonic black hole, mutated into an alien gurgle as she gently coos the prophetic words, "a sloppy attempt won't cut it, no no." And as Ginzburg takes the reins on 'A little opaque', singing over Ziúr's twisted neon electronics, it's clear that both artists have pushed each other outside of their comfort zones, providing the reassurance and comfort necessary to evolve.

On 'In and Until', they find an exact median between their two most recent albums. Twanging hurdy-gurdy sounds remind of Ginzburg's 'crystallise, a frozen eye', compelled forward by brittle foley percussion we last heard on "Antifate". A scalding industrial boil of deranged synthesizer squeals and rolling drums parts like the Red Sea on 'Toxin Out', cooling to a crust for Ziúr's half-sung words to echo overhead. "Burn the bridges it's a choice, eat the rich, and throw up on the fuckbois."

"Myxomy" isn't an overtly political album, but driven by a desire to create and a shared philosophical space, Ziúr and Ginzburg are naturally outspoken. Their vision of pop is twisted through history and floated on frustration, growth and constant reinvention. It's a unique mix of polar elements - light and dark, noise and silence, joy and melancholy - that centers itself on one important theme: together, we're far more powerful than we ever could be alone. 
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releases November 12, 2021

All tracks written and produced by Ziúr and James Ginzburg
Album art by Stefan Fähler
Design by Philip Marshall
Artist photo by Kasia Zacharko
Mastered by Joker
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Artist: Gaul Plus / Bergsonist
Format: Digital
Release Date: May 29th

We are excited to announce a split EP by the NYC-based producers Gaul Plus and Bergonist. This release is also a follow-up of Bergsonist third album 'Middle Ouest' released on Optimo Music. Gaul Plus in the other hand, is following-up singles released in BizaarBazaar V/A and on his own label Broken Call Records.

Tracklist:

1. Gaul Plus - Church of the Motorway
2. Gaul Plus - Lecherous Suitor RIP
3. Bergsonist - Viruses Slowly Destroying the Planet
4. Bergsonist - Shootings Everywhere

Artwork by Nico Jacobsen
Mastered by Allmostt

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