A selection of our favorite music submitted by XLR8R+ members last month.
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XLR8R+ Submissions Roundup: March

● 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

Sumac

A1 - Humbros - Sumac

from "Hulahula Kāne" LP
https://nicolasgaunin.bandcamp.com/album/hulahula-k-ne

Nicolas Gaunin - "Mahiki"

Artist : Felicity Mangan
 Title : Bell Metal Reeds 
Label : One Instrument 
Catalog number : ONEINST011
 Formats : Tape cassette and digital 
Release Date : 04.11.2021

Tracklist:

1. Echo Harp 1 (Hohner Echo Harp) 11:37
2. Echo Harp 2 (Hohner Echo Harp) 06:13
3. Echo Harp 3 (Hohner Echo Harp) 12:58
4. Echo Harp 4 (Hohner Echo Harp) 08:52

One Instrument welcomes the Australian sound artist and composer Felicity Mangan. Based in Berlin since 2008 she plays her found native Australian wildlife archive and other field recordings exploring the timbre and biorhythm of animal voices and field recordings to create minimal quasi-bioacoustic environments.

For the release on One Instrument the mouth organ is her instrument of choice. Felicity explores the resonance and pitch of the reeds within at the harmonica The Echo Harp of the brand M. Hohner.
“Bell Metal Reeds” shows a committed and ambitious composition in each singular tone. The striking attention to detail and commitment to investigating tonal possibility characterizes throughout the whole body of work.

As an amateur player, through breath and minimal electronic music composition techniques she composed four beautiful organic ambient pieces within the parameters of the One Instrument concept.
Felicity breaths new life into the harmonica and meditates on a the single instrument where she takes extraordinary sounds out of.
The Echo Harp that Felicity used was found on a flea market in Hamburg in February 2020. All tracks were composed during the severe lockdown in the Autumn of 2020 in Berlin.

Composed and produced by Felicity Mangan
Mastered by Luca Sammartin
Original artwork and layout by Marco Ciceri

© 2021 One Instrument

ONEINST011

[ONEINST011] Felicity Mangan - Bell Metal Reeds

Photosynthesis bubbles

performed by Maciej Skrzeczkowski on 21.06.22, Royal Conservatory of the Hague (NL)
mixed & mastered by Lilita Dunska

for blandine & maciej

« 100 vaches à l’heure » est une pièce quadriphonique pensée comme une installation sonore pouvant s’écouter en boucle. Réalisée dans le cadre de l’exposition photographique de l’artiste visuelle Anne Leroy intitulée « On voudrait pas se faire manger », la pièce nous plonge dans le quotidien d’une ferme de Haute-Marne. Les enregistrements de terrain (field recordings) réalisés sur place dialoguent avec des fragments d’entretiens de deux trayeurs.

Laura et Martial sont salarié.es d’une exploitation laitière sur laquelle trois cent vingt-cinq vaches sont traites matin et soir. Au quotidien, ils soignent autant les animaux que les machines : si la traite se fait encore en branchant les vaches à la main, l’alimentation des animaux est entièrement automatisée. Ensemble, ils nous invitent à réfléchir au sens du travail avec les animaux en élevage intensif.
 
C’est une version stéréo qui vous est proposée ici.

100 vaches à l'heure - création sonore (extrait)

From the album "Another Song of Civilization"
$10 cassette
Available here: https://goatytapes.com/#!/tape/another-song-of-civilization/

Darrell DeVore - Music For Electronic Keyboards (c. 1980) (excerpt)

After closing our recent event at 90mil for Slowfoam's album launch, André set about to capture the essence of his set and the evening into a new mix for us.

Reflecting back, it was truly special to see the coming together of such diverse social spheres and how quickly all was broken down in the atmosphere of Andre's music. At the core, his sets are a total celebration of life, an invitation to dance no matter how undanceable or mysterious the song. Music you’ve never heard becomes the music you’ve known all your life.

Across fluctuating tension and rhythm, all sorts of worlds intertwine… digi-dub morphs to acid to avant-folk in perfect harmony. But what stands out most is the pure admiration for DIY music; it’s the curation of a tender heart, finding the purest of souls in the strangest of music. 

Towards the close of this wonderful set, Laurie Anderson recalls ‘I remember where I came from, there were tropical breezes and a wide open sea, I remember my childhood, I remember being free.’ It’s a sentiment that embodies the experience of André music, an invitation to be utterly lost in the most beautiful ephemeral moment, that melancholy-tinged euphoria in the instant before it’s all over, stretched out for eternity.

@andrepahl

Somewhere #16 ~ André Pahl

now available: https://handstitched.bandcamp.com/album/coastal-main-lev-e

split-artist s4mpl3r ☀️

Of the Night Sky / Jean-Emmanuel Rosnet [HS45]

Handstitched* returns after a summer excursion and is super-excited to announce the next release in the split-artist series, this limited issue is by producer and instrumentalist Andrew Dobson under his guise Of The Night Sky, and French sound artist Jean-Emmanuel Rosnet.

Both artists deliver two emotionally resonant and individual perspectives for the split EP, Of The Night Sky who has previously released an EP on the Cactus Island label as Digitonal visits Handstitched* with his Coastal EP which focuses on his creative visions, surroundings and explorations with combinations of textured ambience and introspective harmonies which links Of The Night Sky’s music and the Suffolk landscapes together in musical soundscapes.

Jean-Emmanuel Rosnet is focused on improvisation - weaving patchworks of modular synthesis, tape variations, resampling and digital process into magical and mysterious sound collages, inspired by Musique Concrète and his trademark overlapping of intimate dimensions within natural environments. À main levée was composed in early 2024 in the heart of Parc Naturel du Livradois-Forez's green hills where he is now located. À main levée follows his recent album Les Alentours which was released on Californian imprint Not Not Fun Records.

Issued on limited edition mini double CD and C-45 cassette [HS45] both formats are limited to 50 copies, featuring individually hand-bound and unique hand-cut collage CD wallets made from vintage Japanese materials and papers.

Each CD copy is hand-numbered and packed inside glassine bags. Handmade, creased and glued tape O-cards are presented in five separate designs taken from the collage artworks of the CD covers and packed in clear eco bags.

ofthenightsky.com
jerosnet.com  

released: September 6, 2024

Tracks 1-4: Of The Night Sky
Tracks 5-8: Jean Emmanuel Rosnet
Tracks 9-10 Maps and Diagrams [remixes]

☀️ Of the Night Sky / Jean-Emmanuel Rosnet - coastal / à main lev​é​e - S4mpl3r [HS54]

Fuckboy's Rhythm

The debut single from usr/friendly

LYRICS
Faithful wounds
Obey the noise
In function
Of the fright

A daylight reminder
Awaking the sleeper
In bodies of water

A shadow pleaser
Painting a picture

Servants of
The phantom wall
Fixed on
Veiled voids

Just a daylight reminder
Awaking the sleeper
As birds become feathers


CREDITS
Written & Arranged by Steven DeLair, Bradley Clevinger, Karlee Reiss, and Collin McCarthy
Recorded by James Fleege at Silver Street in Ashland, NE
Produced by usr/friendly and James Fleege
Mastered by Doug Van Sloun at Focus Mastering in Omaha, NE

Sleeper

Slam Jams Vol.2

Dawn RAzor - Be As One 2 [Holding Hands]

Disconnected, But Connected (feat. Ane Trolle) is the first single from the group Finds Them And Thrills Them.  Tyler Pope of LCD Soundsystem and Steven Jess Borth II (CHLLNGR) combine forces alongside Danish synth wiz Anders Dixen and drummer/producer Stunn Gunn to create dub influenced dance music that combines live horns, percussion and vintage analog and modular synths creating heavy and epic tunes for the dance floor.  Ane Trolle joins them for Disconnected, But Connected adding her charming melodies over science fictions landscapes.

Disconnected, But Connected (feat. Ane Trolle)

Self released EP 
by Rosnet Jean-Emmanuel (composer, author, right-owner)

https://jean-emmanuel.bandcamp.com/releases

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Taken from the 20th edition of XLR8R+, featuring GARZA, Toada, and Blue Fields, plus artwork by Will Canning.

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