IDM or else ? - Part 1

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LUDWIG BERGER - GARDEN OF EDIACARA
Cat #: OUS047
Release date: May 17, 2024
Distributed by Kudos: https://kudosdistribution.co.uk
Label Bandcamp: https://ousooo.bandcamp.com

«Music is a form of world building. I love to develop sonic characters and set them into fictional ecosystems with unique textures, acoustics and atmospheres. Each song forms a different landscape, through which a vocal character guides us and tries to tell us its stories.» — @ludwigberger

Ludwig Berger’s ‘fictional’ debut album «Garden Ediacara» unfolds as a musical eco-fiction, guiding listeners through a speculative ecosystem with synthesized vocals. Infused with storytelling techniques from sci-fi and fantasy, the album intertwines melodic songwriting with electroacoustic sound design. Inspired by hydrofeminism and eco-fiction novels, such as «A Door Into Ocean» by Joan Slonczewski, the album delves into the geological period of Ediacara around 600 million years ago — an era so remote it resonates as a glimpse into a possible future. The Ediacaran period was characterised by a peaceful and thriving ecosystem inhabited by soft-bodied creatures without eyes and bones, which were completely wiped out through the appearance of a new species. «Garden of Ediacara» alludes to this period, celebrating both the pleasures of biodiversity as well as mourning its inevitable loss. The narrative unfolds as an exploration of growth and interconnection in the shadow of a coming extinction. The track titles, written by Daisy Lafarge, reveal themselves as a cohesive poem and contribute to the album’s narrative.

Informed by his practice of field recording that focusses on intimate encounters with plants, animals and geological phenomena, as well as his studies in electroacoustic composition, Berger expands his palette for his debut in ‘fictional’ music. The album prominently features a post-human, non-binary death metal voice synthesizer, physical modeling instruments, and microscopic field recordings of plants, insects, as well as aquatic and geological life. With impressionistic strokes, Ludwig Berger crafts vibrant worlds using glassy timbres and more-than-human voices, guiding listeners through emotionally ambiguous terrain, seamlessly oscillating between moments of intimacy and irritation, melancholy and playfulness.

Ludwig Berger is a landscape sound artist, educator and musician. In his compositions, installations and performances, he enables intimate and playful sonic encounters with plants, animals, buildings and geological entities. He is founder and curator of the label Vertical Music, which releases field recordings and experimental music. Berger holds degrees in electroacoustic composition, as well as musicology, art history and literature. As a sound researcher and teacher at the Institute for Landscape Architecture at ETH Zurich from 2015-2022, he studied the sonic dimension of Japanese gardens, alpine glaciers and urban landscapes, which among other things led to the release of the acclaimed album trilogy ‘Melting Landscapes’, ‘Dammed Landscapes’ and ‘Buried Landscapes’.



ALBUM TRACKLIST
1. what seed quests for a coralline mud slump
2. where the body’s distant arrivals 
3. bake airwaves into symbols? 
4. like aurochs who fraternised with syntax of the riverbed
5. we stop short, frothy, outdoing the grass
6. rake a song-gush from the outcrop
7. or the noun of naïve particles
8. leeching off the glow-work of organ rooms  
9. we go candied in the marrow
10. grow dream-bark, a tree

CREDITS
Music written and produced by Ludwig Berger
Cover image by Paulin Rogues
Track list poem by Daisy Lafarge
Mastering by Manuel Oberholzer VFBM

OUS047
www.ous.ooo

Garden of Ediacara

rake a song-gush from the outcrop

Buy on Bandcamp

Ludwig Berger - 06 - rake a song-gush from the outcrop

@mimindru live from the Paris Studio for one hour of eastern electronics and folk

Semnale de bucium (Carpathian horn signals)

SUZANA POPESCU - Măi puiuț de rândunea

MIDNIGHT STAR MEDIA - IV

ВЕЖА ХМАР - Око Долі 

BOGDAN RACZYNSKI - I co dalej

KSIĘŻYC - Mijana

Lălăită (Caval la minor)

GVIDAS KOVĖRA - Dai kas teka , sauliula

Doină la țambal (Little cimbalom song)

SVITLANA NIANIO, OLEKSANDR YURCHENKO - Untitled 1

ANDRZEJ NOWAK - Deep Toned Emotion

NUNO CANAVARRO - Bruma

THE PENNYWHISTLERS - Dumai Zlato

SVITLANA NIANIO - Episode 2

BOGDAN RACZYNSKI - Długa Podróż W Chmurach

VOICE ACTOR - HHBYTL (feat. Yarrow.co)

ВЕЖА ХМАР - Хто Вона

ЦУКОР БІЛА СМЕРТЬ - Процесія Мертвих

FROM NURSERY TO MISERY - One Of These

КИНО - Дерево

Know Your Local w/ Mimindru

World Why WEB

KABAAL - Haaaawyeaahh  [MDT008]

Te souviens-tu d'elle ?

welcome to my advent calendar !
today I invite @stasczekalski and @nadia07109 for a triple b2b,
have a gourmet Monday ❤︎

TRACKLIST
Fievel Is Glauque (@fievelisglauque) - As Above So Below
Haruomi Hosono, Shigeru Suzuki & Tatsuro Yamashita - ノスタルジア·オブ·アイランド～パート1:バード·ウィンド/パート2:ウォーキング·オン·ザ·ビーチ
The Mellows (@the-mellows-629918098) - Romance Girl
100-sweet ㅤ҉⠀꩜cafe (@sweetcafe) - Clotheslines
Kate Bollinger (@katebollinger) - Je Rêverai à Toi 
Emily Reo (@emilyreo) - Above Ground and a Golden Cloud
satori (@aafpyfoiqrsq) - Prisma
Raymond Scott featuring Dorothy Collins - Use New Instant Autocrat (Autocrat Coffee)
NEW YORK - peace
tal egg (@talegg) - peek gleam grotto
Portable Rock (@portablerock) - BIG TURTLE(ボーナス·トラック)
Anna - 在座各位食屎大？

24 mixes before xmas, day 23 : b2b Staś Czekalski b2b Natalia Panzer

"Growing up in Bucharest, I was surrounded by strange objects from a haunting past I hadn’t experienced. I’m interested in the living archive, the accumulation of different bits and pieces and the re-imagining of the future through a sonic approach.
I’m a collector: some things I keep on my phone or hoard under my bed, some I find online and in other anonymous corners.
For this sound piece, I was inspired by my family’s cassette collection from the 80’s. I pictured going through a big pile of tapes of lost content and stories about expectation, transformation, grief, desire, absurdity. It’s a journey to meet spirits of the past and the future."

"I also added this drawing I made for some unknown reason the weeks I was working on the music. I had a ton of fun and discovered many things while working on this project."
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Switzerland-based musician and visual artist Ana Bălan writes songs reminiscing ghosts from here and there. Influenced by 80’s alternative, 90's emo, shoegaze and noise pop, she writes experimental pop songs inspired by stories of love and grief. Her music is closely related to her practice of poetry, drawing and performance, building a melancholy universe of intimate confessions. Ana Bălan is signed to No Salad Records, releasing her first album in December 2023.
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links:
instagram – https://www.instagram.com/anabalanaa/
soundcloud – https://soundcloud.com/user-293413996
nosaladrecords – https://nosaladrecords.com/ana-balan/
bandcamp – https://anabalan.bandcamp.com/album/toys?from=embed

104 – Ana Bălan

Enclosure

Stage

Verbal

Big Loada

A Journey To Reedham (7am Mix)

Taken from the album 'Paradise 94', to be released by Modern Love on March 23rd, 2018. Cover Photo by Rebecca Salvadori.

Paradise 94

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I do not own this song, it belongs to its rightful owners.

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