How To Disappear Completely

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Flatline

Lensk, 'Stoptime' (2018). Courtesy angoisse, Barcelona.

bela - deep dive

Spotify, Apple, etc. - ffm.to/ia17
Watch the music video - bit.ly/2WJOX1d

'Sinners, Saints, Angels, Damned' Lp by Warsaw-based vocalist/songwriter Rafael @r_afael
Music and lyrics written and performed by Rafael.
Mixed by Rafael.

Watch the music video for "Burning Hay" - bit.ly/2WJOX1d
Watch the music video for "Heavy Heel Of Love" - bit.ly/2xRclkZ

Limited edition of Rafael - "Sinners, Saints, Angels, Damned" cassettes available on Bandcamp, each tape comes with a 24-page printed zine containing lyrics and illustrations by Rafael. Buy cassette - bit.ly/2Tmqsq9

Cover photo by Lola Banet

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Burning Hay

Tiny spider crawling up your leg
pale field and the cold gray sky,
Tiny spider crawling up your back
black ink spilled across the edge,
Tiny spider crawling up your neck
skyline’s groaning under, 
Tiny spider crawling on your face
under burning hay

Dig deep
deep,
dig deep, 
deep
In this frozen ground
Take it all
All you got left
and throw it in

Rafael - Burning Hay (music video in description)

@victormetske

All life on earth depends on oxygen from the air. We breathe it to live and live to breathe it. Air is a transparent symbol of the eternal youth of nature, a constant reminder of our vitality. To conquer the anxiety of life, we need to live in the breath of air.

It is time to let go of your fear and doubts. You must learn to embrace the darkness of your soul, for it is a light beacon of hope for humanity. Your soul wants to show itself in its truest form, strength, perseverance, courage and determination of spirit. In this lifetime your soul needs to cleanse and open its feelings for katharsis. This current physical lifetime offers you a new leaf, to be able to learn to balance obsolete, distorted behaviors.

Mastering by RO Zar
Artwork by jjjacob

The Breath of Air

Victor Metske - Solar

Future Lights & Archetypes

Dreamcycles - Fonn Abhaile

katharsis is a new label and monthly radio show hosted by jjjacob, focusing on the purification and purgation of emotions through ambient and experimental music. In this episode of the show, he invited @lighyer to do a guestmix.

Tracklist:
jjjacob part [00:00:00-01:10:50]
Basura - Entering New Realms
indigoblue - No City Is Eternal
Jacques Brel - Les Marquises
øjeRum - I
Roly Porter - In System
boding - ingen
RO Zar - Growth
Biosphere - Arafura
fetva - We Are Floating
ML Buch - I Feel Like Giving You Things
Joseph Shabason - Fred and Lil
Victor Metske - Solar
Samuel Organ - Collection
Daniel Ness - I Won I Wanted
Julianna Barwick - Inspirit
M. Ward - Rio Drone
Elysia Crampton - Spring of Wounds
Mithril - Dream Needle feat. jjjacob
John Martyn - Small Hours
Airhead - Kazzt (Mumdance Remix)
Nazar - Retaliation
Hidden - Xertz
Beham -  Spiders
iTAL tEK - Deadhead 
EQ Why - Loner
Ishi Vu - Metamorfos (Edit)
Mang - SwarM
Lighyer - Spawning
Pedro Vian - Le printemps est arrivé
Nina Simone - Wild Is The Wind
jjjacob - ???

Lighyer part [01:10:50-02:00:00]
Om - Addis
Bladee - Imaginary 
Yoshitaka Hikawa - The Box Man 
Sensation Fix - Fragments of Light
John Maus - We Can Breakthrough
Trentemøller - Miss You
Lighyer - There Is An Omnipresent God Inside The Machine 
Heith - Yoga Of Stealth
Muslimgauze - Part 1
Lighyer - Untitled 
Madonna - Frozen
Slint - Don, Aman
Hajj - U don't need to hide urself
Arvo Pärt - Für Alina
Minais B - Ceremony
Grace - If I Could Fly

katharsis w/ jjjacob & Lighyer on Threads*Norvest Radio (02/07/20)

@psalixera -  Imum Coeli mix 008

Tracklist :

Fanjingshan - Wolves and Horses
TI - Vered Yeriho & Lefthanded Sign
Mysteries of a Mechanical Forest - Sij
Yaksha - Yuri
Nacionalnly - Урбан Акустика
Kluber - Vladimir Gnatenko
Молодой Человек - Vogel (Самцы дронта Cover)
Airplanes Sing Sad Lullabies - Max Rollins
Ice Cream ft. Jessie - Our.v
Crawling with Body Fluids Running Down - Lemna 
Chapter Kylie - HP: 925 MP: 463
Ты, Я, Рептилия (Красивая Пришла Cover) - Rites Of Passage 
The Sacred Circle - Doctrina Natura

Artwork by @holographic-internet

Psalixera - Imum Coeli mix 008

Mastering by jjjacob
Artwork by jjjacob
Video by jjjacob

Victor Metske is a Rotterdam-based electronic musician, who is normally known for his energetic club-ready style of production and for the label Bound Centre, which he co-founded with Ice Viper, Imhotel & Ezra V. On katharsis, he presents a more introspective and thoughtful side of himself with his EP “In The Midst Of Things”, which seems to stem from this weird year of isolation and quarantine.

The 4 tracks of the EP send us on a contemplative journey through our feelings, spanning from the blissful pads on the beautiful opener “Flour On Her Feet” to the more disturbing and anxious plucked strings on “First Sight”. Metske states the following about the release:

“In the midst of things, in between life changing events and entirely new daily routines there were small moments where I could sit down and reflect. The four tracks of this EP were created in these small pockets of time. During the pregnancy of my girlfriend, after the birth of our son, at the arrival of a global crisis.

Melodic and atmospheric elements previously hidden in my send channels have been braving the foreground of my productions for a while now. But more recently I've been able to use these elements to translate the weight of recent events directly into some of my music. All four tracks represent very personal abstract feelings that I could never put to words.

Within these four tracks, I can hear feelings of joy, love, doubt and melancholy scream back at me. I can hear myself settling into a new world, struggling with relinquishing control and discovering calmth.”

Music Video for "Flour On Her Feet": www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxVoSkuO_mA&ab_channel=jjjacob  

released October 15, 2020

In The Midst Of Things

Victor Metske - Flour On Her Feet

End Of The Line w/ Earthsurfaceopen - 01282021

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