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Music by Emanuel Sundin | Recorded at the Sing-Sang studio in Malmö, January 2019– May 2020 | Mastered by Ruud Lekx at Rude 66 | Artwork by Jj funhouse | Published by Jj funhouse, 2021 JJ023 © All rights reserved

Prins Emanuel - Vhassal (JJ023 preview)(Releasedate: 12.04.2021)

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Artist: Groupshow
Title: Greatest Hits
Cat#: faitiche 29
Release: Jan 27th 2023 (digital single: Nov 25th 2022)
Format: LP/DL

Faitiche presents Groupshow’s Greatest Hits: The ten tracks on this first vinyl album by Groupshow (Hanno Leichtmann, Andrew Pekler, Jan Jelinek), recorded between 2005 and 2018, document concert recordings and studio improvisations by the trio.
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In improvisation there are no mistakes, only missed opportunities. Groupshow found their first opportunity in the routines of live performance and they used this opportunity to break with these routines. The trio consisting of Jan Jelinek, Hanno Leichtmann and Andrew Pekler came together in the context of Kosmischer Pitch, playing live versions of the music from Jelinek’s 2005 studio album of that name. During this project, the musical interaction between the three participants quickly emancipated itself from the original programme, departing from fixed roles and finding a distinct form in constant change.
Groupshow sessions – rehearsal, concert or recording – are always improvised. The interplay of the various sound sources, converging from the directions of “electronics”, “percussion” and “guitar”, does not follow the Krautrock wave logic of crescendo and morendo. Jelinek, Leichtmann and Pekler have established a method of transparent density in which links and breaks are not concealed but remain audible. The music works through attraction and repulsion, with a loosely organized structure that always leaves enough room for the next intervention.
The principle here, repeated even in the smallest units, is that of duration. Groupshow think of their music in terms of an installation: no starting point, no dramaturgy, and ideally no end. Concerts take place not raised up on a podium, but in the middle of the room on a level with the audience, who only enter the space with the musicians and instruments once their interaction is already underway. In 2008, Groupshow used this approach to create a live soundtrack for Andy Warhol’s film Empire, over the full length of eight hours and five minutes.
Recordings in general and the “Greatest Hits” format in particular are another key aspect of this ongoing work on a collectively modulated continuum. The ten tracks on this first vinyl album by Groupshow, recorded between 2005 and 2018, document the ephemeral capturing of opportunities that were not missed. Extracts and essences of an endless movement of searching. The sprawling form of the whole, suspended in succinct, separate units.
To paraphrase Lao Tzu and Roland Barthes, one might say: Once their work is done, they are no longer attached to it. And because they’re not attached to it, it will remain. (Arno Raffeiner, 2022)

Groupshow: Music For A Plank Press

Listen / purchase via auralconduct.bandcamp.com

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Salutingrome graces the second chapter of aural conduct. On ‘Washing Hands’ a few of the artist’s finest crafts and outtakes are assembled, intuitive lyrical music that appeared shrouded in mystery on the internet in recent years. 

The moniker came to life as the aperture for the characteristic experiments written by Zamity Mitelembe. Echoing his activity in theatre, these modernistic tracks express solitude and transgression. Swindling stairwells and winter nights – immerse yourself in an ode to the season of ice and distance.

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All music by Salutingrome (Zamity Mitelembe), 2019–2022. Additional production by Victor Keyser (4) and Max van Westerop (5). Additional instruments (guitar and cello) by Hidde Boogaard and Fien Bierman (2). Additional vocals by Femke Tijseling (3). Recorded and mixed by BUG & Mannes Kocken (3), Victor Keyser (4), Max van Westerop (5) and Zamity Mitelembe (1, 2 & 6). Mastered by Jasper Boogaard. 

Cover photo by Zamity Mitelembe. Design by Marianne Noordzij. Cassette (dubbing) by Luca van Grinsven (Off Center). J-card printed at Werkplaats Typografie. 

aural conduct, 2023. Label concept and lead by Luke Cohlen. Identity design by Marianne Noordzij.

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Cassette album, dubbed onto smokey brown near-translucent tape, comes with a 3-panel J-card that includes artwork, typographic poetry and credits, all packed in a transparent case featuring a logo sticker.

Wholesale import through Rush Hour Distribution.

Washing Hands

aural conduct 02 — Salutingrome - Washing Hands

claustrophobic

Ecstatic is thrilled to announce Foreign Body, the latest release from Barcelona-based Dania Shihab, who crafts dreamlike transmissions into the evocative concept of the 'foreign body' in the context of forced migration and cultural loss. 

A tapestry of sounds and emotions, this work is a product of Dania's exploration of her experiences as an Iraqi-born individual who grew up in Tasmania, Australia, an island where her native culture was completely absent. The profound sense of longing for a homeland that has never truly been experienced reverberates throughout, with each track poignantly capturing the complexities of feeling like a stranger in one's own body and society. 

Inspired by her work as an emergency doctor, the artist delves into the idea of removing foreign bodies, and sees forced migrants as 'foreign bodies' within their adopted societies. This release serves as a window into the emotional displacement of forced migrants and the struggle for cultural identity. 

Foreign Body was written and recorded at home in Barcelona, using a 4-track tape recorder, vocal looping techniques, modular synthesis, and collaged samples of Iraqi musicians and poets from the post-Gulf War era into an amorphous cloud of magnetic drones and soft hypnogogic vocal textures to entrance the listener. 

An emotive and evocative release, Foreign Body weaves together sounds and stories to explore a universal human experience. It is a testament to the sublime power of music to communicate emotion.

Dania - Foreign Body

After cultivating his own sound for over 30 years, de Babalon has continually expanded his sonic trajectory throughout the last few years via a series of noteworthy release on labels such as Alter, A Colorful Storm and AD 93. Now he presents his most encompassing album to date via Vale, an hour long phantasmagoric onslaught showcasing the full spectrum of de Babalon’s radical, menacing and inimitable style.

Vale (Master)

VAK71 | Christoph de Babalon - Denn Sie Sind Hünen

"Tumble into the dark kitchen, stub your toe and your necklace gives its beads to the floor. Each bead finds a completely separate trajectory. The second you turn on the lights one of them suddenly stops in the middle of the room. This bead wants to go unnoticed, and possibly merge with the fluorescent buzz. It looks like a secret sorry roach in an alien bright savannah. It’s convinced that lack of movement grants an invisibility cloak against predators and spectators. You respect the bead and don’t pick it up. With time it becomes as fixed as furniture.

One day you’re watching the news. There is a volcano waking up on screen. The camera zooms into the slowest lump of lava and you notice the bead has been changing. Cheek against cold tile to look closer: the bead is growing spores. Your pupils widen like a circle of water made by a rock falling into a dim black pond."

- Marta Núñez Pouzols

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David Coccagna (Chaperone) is a Philadelphia-based writer and musician focusing primarily on transgressive human behavior, poverty, class division, and addiction. Born and raised in Philadelphia, the principle imagery and sonic influences of the depressed Northeast neighborhood Lawncrest has served as the palette and canvas Coccagna works upon. He has worked with labels Great Circles, Jungle Gym, Con.apt, and Minor Adjustments, with more recent focuses leaning into repetitive sound and theme. He is an avid cyclist and has two cats.

motion like catching balance on the moving train

Chaperone feat. Nazanin Noori - motion like catching balance on the moving train [Excerpt] (ENMF-03)

Mary Anne Hobbs asked me to create a mix for her program on BBC6 while she was sitting in for Gilles Peterson.
I'm so grateful to her for supporting my music so far with enthusiasm and generosity, giving the fact she's an amazing DJ, music fan and attentive listener.

The track list includes tracks from my last solo album 'ORE'
1- Tribute to Raymond Scott
2- Vano
3- Hi-Jacked Drone (by Machinefabriek and Soccercommittee - Andrea Belfi's remix)
4- Ton (from my last solo record 'ORE')
5- 'East Timor' by Robert Wyatt, played by Hobocombo
6- Nautikon

Mix for Mary Anne Hobbs

Los Angeles, California artist and one half of Jungle Gym Records (@jungle-gym-records), V. Kristoff (@v-kristoff)presents the third installment in the Umé Records mix series.

Job Fulup - Tarz an Diaz
The Kyoto Connection - DNA
René Najera - Contours
Schizophrenia - Schizophrenia
Yuji Technouchi - Days in Blue Genesis High School
V. Kristoff - FFFFFFFF
Clare Fischer - You Call It Madness
V. Kristoff - Untitled
Unknown Artist - Transmission from Menahga
Unknown Artist - Transmission from Shell Lake
Ночной Проспект - This Night
Caveman LSD - Untitled
Justice A. Gonzalez - III

Photo courtesy of V. Kristoff

Umé Mix 003: V. Kristoff

Camber

Terminal feat. Erika Ceruzzi

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