Sodalith

Monitor, Suture, Linger

This is an album about black stars casting shadows on the present. Just like we can’t see if a dead star a million lightyears away is already dead, we can’t see if the future we have set our sights on actually exists. Becoming an artist and taking the risk associated with such a ludicrous, inadvisable and uneconomic „Lebensentwurf“ makes you constantly question your life’s choices and consider other paths you could have gone. But therein also lies the beauty and the greatest power of the artist. The pondering of eventualities is as important to successful art as any muse or idol. At least for me. The never-ending melancholy, the fear of failure and the boundless joy experienced during the creative process provide the artist with a new color for every day and a new melody for every night. Most of the time it is hard to separate the joy from sadness and the hope from despair. 

I worked on this album for the past 18 months and I have never made something that is such a concrete manifestation of my state of mind and a portrayal of my way of life. And while this is my darkest album since ‚Sondersensor‘, I also wanted it to be accessible and easy to dance to. This is a portrait of the artist as a young man and the backdrop is the urban dreamscape of a city that is eerily similar to the one I live in. The sound is dirty, urban and melancholic – the beats are simple and the textures are rich. In a way, this is the album I have always wanted to make. A culmination of the intensities and moods of the past two years. These moods will never disappear from my music but here they distilled to their clearest expression yet.


Bandcamp

The Achiever

Geometry VIII

Swimming with Blue Whales

On a Rotating Sphere

Eddie Ruscha (aka E Ruscha V, aka Secret Circuit) brings us 1 hour of original counter intelligence via his guise of The Only Thingz.

Using electronic synthesis as a basis for sound manipulation, The Only Thingz attempts a piercing of the membrane, be it water or yoke, in an imaginative sense, as of the creation of polliwog. 

A journey of searching and discovery.... A field guide composition of a possible life creation theory... A primordial map in linear sonic formulae.

Available now for pre-order via the Bandcamp store. Tapes will be posted out late February 2018...be quick!

only thingz sound snippets

GMT07 - Only Thingz (Ed Ruscha V) (snippets)

Manchester, so much to answer for

https://bleep.com/release/104438-black-lodge-bitter-blood-a-collection-of-archival-recordings

Black Lodge - Jamais Vu

Lucy Railton / cello

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"...What is it about the telling that provides comfort or consolation? Perhaps it's partly in the curative power of naming, an act that can bring our experience into relief and ward off the depressive forces of nothingness, formlessness, and monstrous plasticity. There are also other forms of telling that are not lexical, and our too-easy separation of sound and speech, music and words, belies the existence of something deeply healing and transformational that grounds and unifies them both." - Sofie Fetokaki  

This music was improvised and recorded on April 31st in the quiet bunker-esque venue, Ausland, just 20 doors down from where I live in Berlin. Additional processes and editing were competed on May 2nd 2020. Special thanks to Cafe Oto, Billy Steiger, Petter Eldh and Sophie Fetokaki for their part in the making of this work.

TR014 - Lucy Railton "First Lament"

Taken from the album 'Metabolist Meter (Foster, Cottin, Caetani and a Fly)' released as LP and Digital.

Max Eilbacher 'Metabolist Meter (Foster, Cottin, Caetani and a Fly)' (excerpt) (SPGRM 002)

Impatiens -  Scene At The River

TR073 - Kelly Jayne Jones - 'a fire that had to burn forever'

cups of joe
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ceo .jpeg artefacts
mastering engineer
https://soundcloud.com/jpeg-artefacts

On a Rotating Sphere

other joe