Psychic Liberation presents “Friendly CSA Compilations Parts 1 & 2”. A compilation in two parts consisting of artists orbiting the PL canon from around the world in an effort to raise funds for Roots Unbound Friendly CSA.

Roots Unbound (RU) is an abolitionist grassroots organization based in Brooklyn offering nature-based programming centered around food justice, therapeutic horticulture and ecological disinvestment to people in the NYC area with a focus on supporting and uplifting people impacted by the carceral system.

Friendly CSA is a cooperative, agricultural initiative that was mobilized to respond to the food apartheid within New York jails and prisons. Roots Unbound sends care packages of harvested produce that are
chosen by incarcerated folks via a newsletter sent out every month, by growing and collaborating with local New York City land stewards. This CSA is provided at no cost to the recipients, funds raised for this CSA will be used towards packaging, postage, printed materials for newsletters, and a P.O. box.

To find out more information and donate further :
rootsunbound.org

opencollective.com/rootsunbound/donate
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releases May 7, 2021

Mastering : Glyn Maier
Image :Nick Klein
Layout : RJM Vanderheyden

Friendly CSA Compilation Part 1

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NICK KLEIN + GLYN MAIER - Pond Harp (Long)

Ybalferran is a music project of sound artist and researcher Błażej Kotowski, one of his many projects delving into interdisciplinary sonic phenomena. The sound of Ybalferran is explorative, deliberate, careful and constructive: its minimalist façade reveals a rich sonic palette teeming with untraditional ideas. His Amulet is a journal of travels, influences and recordings of past, a refined exhibition of tones and places.

Amulet of Tears 012: Ybalferran

Music: @ybalferran

Artwork: @anasisana

Amulet 012: Ybalferran

"The Final Chapter" unfolds over 4 minutes and 16 seconds of serene, immersive ambience. Soft, evolving textures drift like mist through a quiet soundscape, building a gentle sense of closure and reflection. Layers of airy pads and subtle drones create a warm yet spacious atmosphere, perfect for moments of meditation, focus, or emotional release. With its delicate dynamics and cinematic undertone, this piece feels like the last page of a long journey, both tranquil and bittersweet.

The final chapter

(dispersed signal) versions fragment the original material through granular time-warping, scattering its rhythmic core into drifting pulses and textured echoes. Like a fading transmission from deep space, these pieces unravel slowly, leaving behind only traces of their origin.

🔗 Listen & support:
Spotify · Bandcamp · YouTube · more → linktr.ee/amb1Matt3r

🎧 Music for:
sleep · deep focus · meditation · inner drift · slow time · space dreaming

📎 Tags:
#ambient #drone #granular #spacemusic #sleepmusic #darkambient #soundscape

Suspended Glimpse (dispersed signal)

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"Dérive des fluides" is an unfinished story of a boat drifting slowly and falling in the deep waters. A metaphoric image of a body, a mind, drawning into the abyss. 
Made with synthezisers, voice, theremin & sound collages from various movies.

Tucuxi - Dérive des Fluides

Warm Winters Ltd. is pleased to announce JC Leisure’s (@jcleisure) latest solo release, 'Mutations For'. The album is built from the artist's collection of mixtapes from circa 1992 onwards that distil the counterculture of rave, free parties and pirate radio broadcasts. 

For the last couple of years this archive has formed the basis for JC Leisure’s hybrid DJ cassette sets, a handful of which are archived on Bandcamp. Aware of each cassette's cultural legacy, with 'Mutations For' JC Leisure sets out to give the archive a higher form of autonomy. Similar to the audio-to-midi processes he developed with his band Raft of Trash (where they use the world-building game Simcity3000 as raw material) the cassette tapes are sampled live and fed to synthesizers, software patches and samplers; allowing them to write their own melodies and rhythms. Leisure has worked with and alongside these results and offers them up on 'Mutations For' as an alternative future to a counterculture's unstable history. 

These ideas are explored further in collaboration with designer Afonso de Matos on the poster that forms the physical realization of this work.

Full release coming March 20, 2020.

Mutations For

JC Leisure - Soft-Paste Porcelain (ft. Dialect)

Porto-based musician Rui P. Andrade, under the title of Canadian Rifles, transmits a palette of sounds that seems familiarly acquainted with the approaching cold in the Northern Hemisphere. The fifth chapter of Amulet of Tears is rich in expressive instrumental recordings, songs, bits and monologues of everyday being, as well as comforting memories of times and experiences that may have never even happened. The artist's work includes running the label Eastern Nurseries, a duo project HRNS alongside FARWARMTH, several EPs on the aforementioned label and a full-length album titled "Atoll" released through Audio Visuals Atmosphere in 2019.

Amulet of Tears 005: Canadian Rifles

Music: @canadian-rifles

Artwork: @anasisana

Amulet 005: Canadian Rifles

https://www.retreatradio.net/continuity

Tracklist:
Liai - 8 Tresses
Echium - Multiple Frameworks
Jonny L - Underwater Communications
Hideki Umezawa & Andrew Pekler - Amami Remote Extension
TIBSLC - Aliénation Pours Forth
Perko - Grounds (ft. Lia)
Ulla Straus - I forgot to take a picture
Unknown - 鵜沼駅 空中歩道の夜, Unuma Aerial Walkway (field recording)
Nick Malkin - Sixth Street Conversation
ju ca - Essence (Flora Yin-Wong Remix)
perila - shtureez
hironori nagatsuma - Utökad kropp
mu tate - Jun
Sa Pa - Room with a view
Marta Forsberg - Love
Rhucle - Butterfly in the Water
Continuity - Untitled
Unknown - 祇王寺, Ukyo Ward, Kyoto (field recording)

Continuity #8 (08/11/20)

Presented as a re-creation of two live sets performed in 2019, Patrick Gallagher deftly melds field recordings, a "fairly standard" synthesis toolkit, and prepared electric guitar into two peerless electro-acoustic compositions comprising his debut album for ENXPL (enmossed x psychic liberation).

As the album's title implies, "Set In the Bardo" embraces indeterminacy in all respects. An extreme range of timbrel variety and complexity is employed, from pure sine waves to nearly-incomprehensible sonic blasts. With a formal education in mathematics, Gallagher's astute arrangements modulate between smooth glissandos and abrupt interruptions, reflecting the compositional process used: salvaging hitherto-abandoned recordings and live snippets from the artist's archive. Post-processing was eschewed on the album in order to preserve the improvisatory nature of a live performance, giving an organic quality to the album which is often lost in academic compositions.

While "Set In the Bardo" was created in pre-pandemic times, it also functions well at this particular juncture of history. We have been 'set in the bardo' ourselves, and Gallagher has made an engrossing set of pieces - encapsulating and unfolding sonic uncertainties as we venture through trying times. Well worth many listening sessions; high volume and high fidelity during playback are recommended.

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Patrick Gallagher is a sound artist and composer currently residing in Philadelphia, PA. He cut his teeth in the North Carolina avant-garde underground, perfecting his composition processes with numerous live performances as well as releases on Tone Log, Hot Releases, Refulgent Sepulchre, and other independent labels. 

releases January 29, 2021

mastering :: Jack Callahan

cover artwork :: Autumn Casey

design ++ layout :: Robin JM Vanderheyden

a portion of Side A was recorded live at Rhizome (Washington, DC) by Steve Sanford

all proceeds to The Youth Art & Self-Empowerment Project (Philadelphia, PA) :: www.yasproject.com

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