Name: day 2 - 1 by tomes
Duration: 2 min 29 s
Description: 1 beat a day for the first 2 weeks of each month... here's July 2021's work. focusing more heavily on sequencing the Nord Drum 3p with the Octatrack....

1 beat a day for the first 2 weeks of each month... here's July 2021's work. focusing more heavily on sequencing the Nord Drum 3p with the Octatrack....

day 2 - 1

Composed, performed and mixed by Maria Moles in Fitzroy, Australia 2020
Drum kit recorded/mixed by Timothy Harvey
Mastered by Lawrence English at Negative Space
Commissioned by the APRA Art Music Fund 202

For Leolanda

In Pan-as

The second foray into Séance Centre's “Speculative Ethnography” series is an icy and tender missive of glacial piano, ambient electronics, samples, treated sax, and drum machine rhythms from snowbound Canadians Joseph Shabason & Vibrant Matter (Kieran Adams).

Shabason and Adams have been collaborating for years, forming the production team behind the celebrated experimental synth pop trio Diana, but their relationship has often been fraught with creative tension. Fly Me to the Moon is their ‘make up’ EP, a redemptive voyage through uncertain times. During lockdown Adams found refuge in routine, practicing drums every morning in Shabason’s Toronto studio. Afterwards, the pair would chat in the alleyway behind the studio, drinking espressos, a daily practice that became an antidote to the chaos of pandemic life. Through this daily ritual a creative spark was reignited and they decided to start exchanging ideas, but rather than working together in the studio as they had in the past, the circumstances required them to collaborate remotely. Through this distanced connection the youthful tension and ego of the past eroded, evolving into a deep trust.

Escaping the gravitational pull of a planet in distress, the duo composed a sonic love letter adrift in weightless ambient electronics, fourth world jazz visions, and cyborg IDM riddim technologies — an ode to a long friendship which has strength because it has travelled through so many galaxies and vortices. Who says you can’t fall in love all over again - ‘Fly me to the moon / Let me play up there with those stars / Let me see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars’.

Fly Me to the Moon is a limited edition pressing with risograph printed insert and designed for future archives.

RIYL: Ramzi, Photek, Mo Wax Headz, Jon Hassell, FSOL, Aleksi Perälä, Nuron, Ismistik

Purchase digital: https://josephshabasonvibrantmatter.bandcamp.com/album/fly-me-to-the-moon

Purchase vinyl: https://www.seance-centre.com/shop/joseph-shabason-vibrant-matter-fly-me-to-the-moon

B1. Joseph Shabason & Vibrant Matter - Winterhaze (32SC)

Taken from forthcoming album 'Only Love From Now On' - out 25th Feb via Smalltown Supersound. 
Pre-order here: 
https://carmenvillain.bandcamp.com/album/only-love-from-now-on

Written and produced by Carmen Villain.
Mastered by Beau Thomas.

Subtle Bodies

CuCiCuCi - Equation Festival 042023

Echoes

Brazilian Classical - Salome Otarashvili [DOA Presents Sounds Of Brazil] [09.07.2023]

Brazilian Punk & Post Punk - Sofi Siradze [DOA Presents Sounds Of Brazil] [09.07.2023]

track demo preparing for a live show at Forbidden City Antwerp, May 2018. posterart by Stenze Quo

Zambezi 2

On this seven track album we hear MinaeMinae (alias Bastian Epple) playfully scurry through his dense soundscapes on a tightrope. The sounds lying somewhere on the crossroads of psychedelic trance, exotica, ambient and melodic dance music – veering further off orbit with nontypical rhythms and dystopian percussive patterns.

MinaeMinae understands musical material similar to documentary footage which he would cut up, repitch, and rearrange freely. Most of his tracks are a mix of analog, synthetic sounds and recordings of ethnic percussion and guitar. Recently Bastian began experimenting with modular synthesis and self made tape echoes - seeking a more reduced and minimal composition style compared to his earlier quite whimsical tunes.

Growing up in a small village in southern Germany, Bastian was never interested in kitschy folk sounds that everyone would mindlessly clap and sing along to, rather he took solace in the time he would spend delving into patterns and repetitions that pleased him. His guitar strumming and what sounded to his mother like a young Philip Glass on a cheap Casio keyboard encouraged little Epple to continue on this self-taught path of developing his musical language. He then started to experiment with a tape recorder and layering sounds with non-musical samples, which his former village friends found too weird – then to eventually working with a small freeware DAW. Bastian went on to study Media Art at the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe – initially enrolled in music but the frustration and doubt of not being able to produce the music he wanted led him into film and documentary media. During his studies, Bastian was living with Florian Meyers (Don’t DJ) for several years where they would philosophize life and music into the wee hours – he encouraged Bastian to start sharing what he’s been quietly working on all these years and slowly emerge from this anonymity which eventually led to his first release on Human Pitch last fall.

Disproportionate forms, color changes, backdrops weaved into the foreground, all lay the dense earth for Gestrüpp through Benjamin Kilchhofer’s artwork.

Distributed through Honest Jon’s.

MinaeMinae - Gestrüpp (Preview)

Rory McPike dons his 2200 alias and picks up the guitar for some sun-bleached, Krautrock-leaning downtempo.

'World's Fare' is out October 10th on Altered States Tapes.

Pre-order: bit.ly/2GGBL9g

@rdjm0
@altered-states-tapes

Premiere: 2200 - Cryo Freeze [Altered States Tapes]

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day 2 - 1

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