Untitled #21

Name: Unguarded 2 - Entangled
Artist: Various Artists
Format: Digital, Compilation Album
Release Date: 08.10.2021
Cat.Nr: UGD-003
Cover Art: Jan Durina
Get it via: unguarded.eu/piercingtouch.html

***All proceeds earned from the compilation will be donated to Sea-Watch e.V., a non-profit organization that conducts civil search and rescue operations in the Central Med.
The civil eye in the mediterranean

(sea-watch.org)

Hydropsyche - Elements

'A String of Paper Cranes Clenched between My Teeth' is available at https://blankforms.org/publication/kazuki-tomokawa-a-string-of-paper-cranes-clenched-between-my-teeth-lp/, and as part of the Kazuki Tomokawa CD box set at
https://blankforms.org/publication/kazuki-tomokawa-kazuki-tomokawa-1975-1977/.

In a generation of musicians that came of age in postwar Japan, Kazuki Tomokawa stands as a pioneer of radical individualism, with a sound marked by shocking intimacy and blistering honesty. In his third album, A String of Paper Cranes Clenched between My Teeth, released by Harvest Records in 1977, Tomokawa creeps “ever more inward,” as Kiichi Takahara writes in the record’s original introductory text—embracing an attitude pervasive amongst musicians of the time who interrogated the prosaic and the profound alike, eschewing politics and society in favor of an “attitude of total self-containment.”

Tomokawa recorded the album over the course of a month—from August 24 to September 25, 1977—at Tokyo’s famed Onkio Haus studio in the bustling Ginza district. The arrangements, accordingly, are amped up: paired with the Black Panther Orchestra, Tomokawa’s “screaming philosopher” vocals find their match with the orchestra’s electric guitar, bass, piano, tuba, and ground-thumping drums played by the Brain Police’s Toshi Ishizuka—who appears on Tomokawa’s first three records and remains his collaborator to this day.

“This is Kazuki Tomokawa in the flesh,” concludes Takahara. A String of Paper Cranes Clenched between My Teeth is, in Tomokawa’s uncanny way, able to cut through facade and artifice in pursuit of truth. “You call that life?” he heckles, exhausted by the melodrama and nihilism of youth counterculture, “try saying you’re alive!”

Kazuki Tomokawa (b. 1950) is a prolific singer-songwriter from Hachiryu Village (now the town of Mitane) in the Akita Prefecture area of northern Japan. Since his first release in 1975, he has recorded more than thirty albums. The 2010 documentary about his life, La Faute des Fleurs, won the Sound & Vision award at the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, and that same year saw the Japanese release of the book Dreams Die Vigorously Day by Day, a collection of his lyrics spanning forty years. His most recent albums are Vengeance Bourbon (2014) and Gleaming Crayon (2016), both on the Modest Launch label.

Kazuki Tomokawa - Try Saying You're Alive!

Prism Architecture

https://soundcloud.com/undodespot - Balázs Bócsa 002
from "A64D" (QNR047)
released 4th March 2022
DOWNLOAD: https://quantumnatives.bandcamp.com/album/a64d

A64D

QNR047 (↓↓↓)

undo despot - Balázs Bócsa 002

Méryll Ampe "W7E" CD
MAR060
Release Date: November 4th, 2022

A multitude of processes, techniques, and forms unfold and unfurl within the work of Méryll Ampe,
an intermedia artist from Paris working through sound, sculpture, and installation using a wide assortment
of materials. What is immediately striking about Ampe’s work is the vibrant, non-linear approach to
electro-acoustic composition.
Here on the debut for Misanthropic Agenda, Ampe liberally reconfigures / deconstructs / genetically mutates
all sources: hydrophone recordings of vibrations through skin, analog synths, tape machinations,
sequencing programmed through algorithmic variability, and plenty of digital processing.
As Ampe describes it, the music on W7E is "a research with an experimental dimension, guided by notions that
systematically translate a form of ambivalence, between inside/outside, micro/macro. These intentions are
vectors of the dynamics, reliefs, depths and rhythm. My training as a visual artist also leads me to go through
mental images (such as a steep landscape, a boiling organism, an organic matter) which will then find a
sound form, states that I would describe as syncope, sound effluvia, abrasive arrhythmias. I look for a form of
plasticity in the sound medium, and that this energy become a living matter."
This multi-dimensional overlay through composition telescopes in and out of the body (not necessarily always
a human body, it should be noted), through a connectivity with technology that can influence psychological states
of being. The work addresses liminality, transitory slippages, and quantum theories of a particle being the two
separate places at the same time. If that can occur at the atomic level, why not through sound?
W7E stands as a dynamic, polydactyl album reflective of the aesthetics (if not concepts) of Keith Fullerton Whitman,
Francisco Meirino, and Bernard Parmegiani.
- Jim Haynes

links:
https://misanthropicagenda.bigcartel.com
https://misanthropicagenda.bandcamp.com
https://meryllampe.com/

Méryll Ampe "Close To"

@promenadeverticale

«L’horreur folklorique est basée sur la juxtaposition entre le prosaïque et l’étrange»

Invité Spécial ⏤ Promenade Verticale • A Deep Sleep Fell Upon The Hamlet

let it ride // music may #30v2

Music inspired by Raaijmakers' electronic music from the 1960s, and his writings on sound composition, particularly "Cahier M: A Brief Morphology of Electric Sound".

TA: Serge Modular feedback & sine/pulse generators, contact microphone.

Two short excerpts from a longer piece.

Please use speakers, not headphones, because of the inner-ear phenomena involved.

Homage to Dick Raaijmakers (excerpt 2)

Silvia Kastel - The Gap
from "Silvia Kastel - The Gap" (nkt007) 
out on noisekoelln.bandcamp.com
Edition of 50 Tapes

Photo by Ben De Biel

Silvia Kastel - THE GAP

Sfär "Ur sprickorna / Ett halvt liv" (Excerpt)

Toull-Karr

Vlada BC

@codewalk returns to @the-subliminal-kid with a triptych release spanning 3 EPs with a total of 15 tracks.

More: https://ins-rt.net/audio/code-walk-choke

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Premiere: Code Walk - Choke

https://flux-tracks.bandcamp.com/album/003

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from the upcoming 5 track "Meet The Top Boys" ep
to be released December 2020

Sfär "Ur sprickorna / Ett halvt liv" (Excerpt)

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