Pretty Muslimgauze (not a diss, but a compliment), loving the design of the rhythms.

● CD01_SPLIT : Humbros / R​.​I​.​P. ●

❊ Composé et mixé par Humbros
❊ Masterisé par Ernest Bergez (Sourdure)
❊ Artwork par Josué Confort ©
❊ Sortie le 9 juillet 2021
❊ Cassette, 80 exemplaires, papier recyclé

→ champdoner.bandcamp.com/album/cd01-split-humbros-r-i-p

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2022 élan vital recordings 

Manja Ristic / Toni Dimitrov - Dystopian 001

1. Manja Ristic - Nothing Has To Happen, Fortress Europe
2. Toni Dimitrov - Against Civilization

🏴 'Dystopian 001' is split release between the sound artists Manja Ristić and Toni Dimitrov, and it is part of the new 'Dystopian series', showcasing a more abstract, darker, obscure and politically infused side of the sound of élan vital artist roster. Inspired by everyday life in the last several years living in realized dystopian visions and darkest predictions, the sound on this series will be the soundtrack for our daily dystopian reality. We are all aware that the future of our civilization is not bright, but that doesn't mean we are not living in an exciting epoch.

🏳️ Part one brings two longer pieces, presenting the dark side of the mystical long form experimentations by the Serbian violin and field recordings diva Manja Ristić and the latest field recordings experiments of the sound art naturalist Toni Dimitrov. Through this joint release the artists are trying to explore the potential for change of the society, resulting in a mature, expressive and complex album. 

Composed and arranged by Manja Ristić & Toni Dimitrov 
Mastering LaPlant Studio Belgrade
Cover drawings by Dorian Dimitrov
Design by Toni Dimitrov

Release date 27th March 2022
 https://elanvital.bandcamp.com/album/dystopian-001

Manja Ristic - Nothing Has To Happen, Fortress Europe (excerpt)

Richard Scott: Delirious Cartographies
B2 - Thunder, actually bicycles... - excerpt

arbitrary13, September 2022
https://arbitraryproject.com/Delirious-Cartographies

LP / CD + prints

1. Fragments of an everyday cosmos
2. Grace and delirium in Boliqueime
3. Thunder, actually bicycles...
4. Further fragments of an everyday cosmos (CD / DL)
5. 6 Graphic Interludes

richard-scott.net/about/

LP / CD

Richard Scott: Delirious Cartographies - 03 - excerpt

For a project exploring sounds created by fermentation in collaboration with Milena Farioli of and at OVNI, Fribourg, CH
September 2022

Fermentation of red cabbage

https://www.nts.live/shows/soundsofthedawn/episodes/soundsofthedawn-5th-november-2022
Sounds of the Dawn is a monthly two hour session through new age, ambient, environmental, meditation and relaxation cassettes from the seventies to the nineties. Tune in and zone out.

Sounds Of The Dawn 051122

https://2022.radiophrenia.scot/artist/manja-ristic/

In January 2020 I found myself in Ljubljana exploring abandoned spaces as a continuation of my obsession with listening to the Third Landscape – Gilles Clément’s concept which considers, among other things, abandoned urban landscapes or those which suffered an explicit human intervention as places good for thriving bio-diversities which are building the genetic reservoirs that an overall Ecosystem is dependant on. I instantly got hooked by the largest city project – The Sport Park Stožice. It was supposed to include sport facilities and a vast commercial area but only the public part was built, the arena and the stadium. Eighty thousand square meters of the shopping centre remained unfinished.

As often, politics and economics are inseparable, and as corruptive mechanisms become more obvious, both reveal deep submergence into necropolitics. A capital cumulation on the detriment of basic social rights leading to a radical devaluation of a human life. To cut the story short, most of the “modern” societies “background” economics can be reduced to arms sales, drugs, and human trafficking routes. Beneath them are stock value of oil and lithium, gold and diamonds. 

“Please be careful, you’ll be trespassing”, said a dear friend.

The private partner in the public-private largest investment in Slovenia since the 1970s went bankrupt in 2012. 

There were irregularities in the expenditure of EU funds, the then-Mayor pleads not guilty in the latest lawsuit investigating the case. 

“There used to be a wonderful pond, and a hilly landscape… now it’s just concrete, wherever you look, there’s concrete.”

It was a crispy January morning, I wore my army boots. The site was enormous. Several concrete terraces were covered in various surfaces, reaching as far as the eye can see. I decided to just walk.

..... (see web link for full text).....

Every time you think “That is somewhere over there. Nothing has to happen”, a child that dreamed of freedom disappears.

The composition is made around an excerpt from my Stožice abandoned construction site field recording archive. Recorded in January 2020 during the reZone residency in Ljubljana.
Poetry excerpts from the collection Stories Untold.
Mastering by La Plant Studio Belgrade.

http://manjaristic.blogspot.com/

https://manjaristic.bandcamp.com/

https://sonicmatter.bandcamp.com/
photo: Nina Pernat

‘Nothing Has To Happen, Fortress Europe’ is a co-commission between Radiophrenia and Kunstradio Radiokunst for Ö1, Austria.

Manja Ristic - Nothing Has To Happen, Fortress Europe

Sunik Kim’s Raid on the White Tiger Regiment arrives three years after 2019’s Zero Chime on First Terrace Records. Raid has strong political undertones and is named after one of the eight core revolutionary operas produced during the Cultural Revolution. This particular opera focuses on the joint struggle of Chinese and Korean communists during the Korean War, during which there were devastating US attacks on the northern part of the peninsula. Raid is an insanely wild ride made with software Sunik custom-built in Max MSP and SuperCollider using free orchestral soundfonts at hyper-speed tempos. Despite the presumed chaos of this album, there is a strong and present voice that permeates the barrage of noises, almost as if the teeming and swirling sounds coalesce to create a slowly shifting mass that is somehow soothing. There is a constant regeneration of textures and sensations here: simultaneously shedding and accumulating, receding and emerging. A multidirectional presence, both solidly grounded but also unpredictable in its motion. Side B presents a unique live document of Sunik’s performances of the Raid material: a lengthy 30 minute piece created from multiple field recordings of the performances at Cafe OTO in London and Counterflows in Glasgow. “Raid Live” stands as an interesting counter to the meticulously crafted studio-created material. Its weight is held by roomtone, pockmarked with the audience’s yelling and mingling; a cathartic experience felt by many.

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Artist's statement:
This is possibly the second album named after one of the eight core revolutionary operas produced during the Cultural Revolution; to my knowledge, the first is Brian Eno’s Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy. Raid on the White Tiger Regiment, the opera, focuses on the joint struggle of Chinese and Korean communists during the Korean War—a truly “forgotten war” in much of the world, in which the US dropped 635,000 tons of explosives and 32,557 tons of napalm on the northern part of the peninsula, killing 20 percent of the population, and massacred tens of thousands of Korean communists and suspected sympathizers from Nogeun-ri to Daejeon.

Raid, the album, pulls its titles from the opera’s program and thereby positions the music as a soundtrack: an inherently limited and dependent form that requires a broader historical and political context—a connection with the world—to reach its fullest state of development. In substituting my wordless, “abstract” music for that of the original opera, I hope to establish a living nexus of contradictions between: (1) the original opera, as direct an example of “political art” as there can be; (2) the extended historical and political processes that birthed it; (3) our current conjuncture; (4) the immediate listening experience. In this clashing and intertwining of timelines, histories, and sense-perceptions, I hope to facilitate a visceral act of comparison, a tracking of excess and deficiency: what aligns, what collides, what falls horribly or comically flat, what brings tears of joy or sadness? And why?

The music is constructed with custom software I built with Max/MSP and SuperCollider that controls banks of free orchestral soundfonts at chaotic tempos. I hope the overt “cheapness” of the materials, and their constantly coalescing, collapsing, disintegrating, reassembling movement, establishes a dramatic—operatic!—tension internal to the logic of the music itself: one that, above all, argues that possibilities—aesthetic, yes, but also historical and political—have nowhere near been exhausted, and that the present order will one day be rightfully relegated to “the museum of antiquities, next to the spinning wheel and the bronze ax.”

Sunik Kim, 2022

Sunik Kim - Raid On The White Tiger Regiment - [sample]

Abu Ara

Playlist

0:00:00 Internal Fusion - Le temps des pleurs [mhrk311cd]
0:09:17 Fallen - Echoes and Sin [mhrk313tape]
0:18:59 Bass&Delayer - Berg [mhrk322tape]
0:23:23 Takamu - Hail [mhrk327tape]
0:30:39 Philippe Neau - Fifth T [mhrk325tape]
0:35:06 Asshole Galaxy - Asshole Galaxy [mhrk324cd]
0:37:41 Grosso Gadgetto - Forbidden Territory [mhrk323tape]
0:41:47 Adriano Cava - Magnetic Lines IV [mhrk342tape]
0:51:38 Takahiro Mukai - #519 [mhrk340tape]
0:58:15 Francisco Sonur - Rosa y Nestor [mhrk339tape]
1:02:01 Plurals - Split Plane (Part 1) [mhrk344cd]
1:09:22 Petridisch - Experiments in War [mhrk345tape]
1:10:15 black_ops - Psychosynthesis [mhrk353tape]
1:14:52 Cognition Delay - Leika's Heartbeat [mhrk354cd]
1:21:18 4T Thieves - The Long Way Home (Weldroid remix) [mhrk357cd]
1:25:53 One Tru Odd - Winterfrost [mhrk358cd]
1:28:46 Oberlin - Poor Carlotte [mhrk363tape]
1:33:33 Dayin - A Cold Flawless World [mhrk364tape]
1:36:00 shabaH - 1 [mhrk362tape]
1:41:07 MoHoK + Tokee - nameless 3 [mhrk365tape]
1:46:02 Christophe Bailleau - Symp Mark III (with Paradise Now) [mhrk369tape]
1:50:19 Abu Ama + BedouinDrone - Leptis Magna [mhrk370LP]

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Abu AMA is an artist interweaving ethnic, traditional and multicultural music sensibilities with contemporary electronic music production forms. Distinctly recognizable through Middle Eastern influences in rhythm and chant, laced together with beats and ghostly samples from his well known territories of dub and witch house, the producer, collectiv part of the hexx 9 record label and all-around artistic nomad transmits a mix of clashing (or, perhaps, connecting) cultures.

@ama-54

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