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PLIB-031 KEVIN DRUMM & JOACHIM NORDWALL -  OLD PAIN
RELEASES FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Kevin Drumm & Joachim Nordwall have, respectively, spent collective decades carving out new pathways in the realms of electroacoustic, drone, ambient, noise, and improvised experimental music. Their variably multiplied ripple effect across the sonorous waters of disruptive sound cultures are indellibly marked by the touch of these two artists. Neither being strangers to intensive collaborations, the two stalwarts of meditative sonic practice convene to offer Psychic Liberation the eight song album Old Pain. At just under an hour, the pair shine in a complementary fashion across perfectly constructed chapters pulling from their signature tool kits of atmospheric field recordings, tape loops, and pensive oscillations. Cautiously sharing space, the album is at times as brooding as it is transcendent. 

Old Pain is an album nearly two decades in the making. Beginning in 2006, Drumm and Nordwall endeavored to record together in Chicago, a session ultimately abandoned purportedly due to the influence of “Listening to Finnish Black Metal and drinking good brews”. In 2007, Drumm released the cassette Purge on Nordwalls iconic label IDEAL Recordings. Later ,in 2013, Purge was reissued on CD for IDEAL and a subsequent performance together in New York City found the two still in each other's orbit. Later, Kevin would make an appearance in collaboration with Nordwall on his Communication Is The Key Album for Entr’acte in 2019. Whereas previous in-person sessions faltered, Old Pain was the result of the two artists working in their respective winter-heavy geographies of Chicago and Gothenburg, trading files until completion.

Today, Drumm and Nordwall are totems of an era of true advancement in tonal despair. Drumm’s output has been that of mythology, creating some of the most singular works in the canon of experimental music. Nordwall, an equally notable peer as maker, has maintained the global standards and operations of challenging art through his IDEAL Recordings project while performing in solo and collaborative contexts globally. Between the two, it would be a near impossible task to find an iteration of any peer or generation following not touched by the massive cultural imprint they’ve cemented. Finally, with Old Pain, we have a document of two masters of their form able to stretch their legs and pronounce a cohesive gesture of sonic material that will stand to long linger below the surface of comfort.


PLIB-031 KEVIN DRUMM & JOACHIM NORDWALL - 2

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Carrier - Tender Spirits
Cat # CRRR003
Label : Carrier

Vinyl / Digital / Streaming 04/04/25

available now from Boomkat https://boomkat.com/products/tender-spirits

Carrier presents Tender Spirits, the third turn on his eponymous series that explores his abstractions at its most sparse and cerebral.

Space maintains great purpose for Guy Brewer, having experimented with this previously for multiple drum-focused missives as Carrier. On his latest release, he treads deeper into the furthest regions of dub deconstruction, with Tender Spirits offering a serene path to the inbetween.

Across 8+ minutes, Light Candles, To Mark The Way moves towards the muted sublime; a gentle half time’d bliss that ebbs and floats across the enveloping mist. Slow Punctures gradually returns to dusk, eerily surveying the hollowed-out remains of its dub architecture with an off-kilter lurch. Carpathian echoes further in stark reduction, a weightless atonal zone anchored by the abstracted pressure suspended within.

Tender Spirits tracks Carrier at exciting new parallels, unfurling his most ascendant and capacious music to date. 


Written & Produced by Guy Alexander Brewer
Mastered by Rashad Becker @ Clunk, Berlin
Iconography by MENSLIES
Photography by Benjamin Lehmann
Digital layout by Atack.uk
distribution via boomkat.com.

Carrier - Tender Spirits

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Emerging from Czechia and Austria, phonon records return with their fourth transmission 'RESi' - this time dialling into the disrupted consciousness of Linz-based waveform saboteur, Sturmherta...The apex of this nonlinear journey arrives with Track 5, 'Rv' - a full-throttle warehouse exorcism that spits liquid metal from the subs and sculpts siren calls from microphone-feedback interludes. It’s a chaotic opera of post-club dramaturgy, where trap’s rattling percussion meets the oil-slick throb of industrial bass. Think Slikback tangled in a resonant hallucination, lit only by the glow of firewall breaches and strobes.

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For my new show, I will be diving in a shoreless sonic continuum. 
Once every two months I&amp#39;ll be on my own, trying to draw connections between genres, eras, intentions, or even feelings, to emphasize what appears to me as logical relations between sounds. From &ampquot;Gorillaz-type beats&ampquot; to Torchouze Disco, I&amp#39;ll try to suggest a sensitive approach to mixing.
Every other months, I will be joined by friends and foes from around the continuum, to get their perspective on how they approach and deal with their own sensitive listening.


Shoreless Continuum w/ Seul Ensemble (11/04/25)

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first half of my set at @sneakersocialclub party at OHM Berlin, 14th Februrary 2025.  enjoy ~

closing set at Sneaker Social Club x OHM Berlin [90min excerpt] 140225

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I watched "under the skin"(2013) last night and it got me in the mood to make something that feels a little off.

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