For its 17th edition Initiate Reflexions continues to explore affiliates of the label Elan Vital. 

We're happy to showcase @Dionisaf, a Russian-American composer 
who's work explores the principles of oriental musical traditions with modern technologies. Dionisaf makes a case for listening attentively and his music aims to re-contextualise the act of hearing. 

Dive into his podcast and if you want to hear more, check out his work here --> https://dionisaf.bandcamp.com/

As usual, for best listening experience, get comfy, take a deep breath, close your eyes, and let the music do the rest :) 

Enjoy! 

Artwork by Leslie Deboeur 

Tracklist: 

1. Dionisaf - Ice Kingdom - Skazka (Tiny Drones For Lovers 2021) 
2. Dionisaf - Blurry Bells - Frozen Time (Forgotten Dreams 2021) 
3. Dionisaf - Overcast - From the Silence (Chitra Records 2022) 
4. Dionisaf - Ocean - Lost Rarities (Élan Vital 2021) 
5. Dionisaf - Glitches in Reality - Frozen Time (Forgotten Dreams 2021) 
6. Dionisaf - 幽玄 Yugen - tʌntrə XVII (Neotantra 2021) 
7. Dionisaf - Long Way to the Ganga - From the Silence (Chitra Records 2022) 
8. Dionisaf - Tundra - Lost Rarities (Élan Vital 2021) 
9. Dionisaf - Museum of Voices - From the Silence (Chitra Records 2022)

Reflexions Podcast 17 - Dionisaf

This is a tribute mix to one of the most talented, kind, and lovely people I know. I have been a fan of Norm's work since I first became interested in "ambient" music, falling in love with the Pavilion LP the moment I heard it. His music has given me so much joy, solace, and inspiration ever since. 
His passing has left a giant hole inside me and for the past two days I haven't done much else other than listen to his music. This mix features some (but not all) of my favorite pieces by Norm.
I never had the pleasure to meet Norm in person, but it was an honor to work with him on several occasions at Muzan.
Norm, wherever you are - perhaps floating on some galactic current in a space-faring bathysphere - I miss you so much. Thank you for everything.

-Endurance

https://panabrite.bandcamp.com/

Tracklist:

00:00 		Panabrite - Veil (Pavilion, Immune)
06:10 		Panabrite - Regent (Pavilion, Immune)
11:00 		Panabrite - Reflections (Blue Grotto, Love All Day)
13:45 		Jürgen Müller - Jenseits des Stromes (Science of the Sea, Digitalis Recordings)
18:40 		Panabrite - Blue Grotto (Blue Grotto, Love All Day)
21:40 		Panabrite - Garden Interlude (Blue Grotto, Love All Day)
23:30 		N Chambers - Froth (Air Example, Love All Day)
24:50 		N Chambers - To Continue (Facets, Love All Day)
26:00 		N Chambers - Dome Flora (Mirage Colony, Soft Profile)
28:30 		N Chambers - Automatic Bog (Air Example, Love All Day)
32:30 		N Chambers - Optimal Point (Air Example, Love All Day)
36:45 		N. Chambers – Teto (Idea Region, Muzan Editions)
40:40 		N Chambers - Cathedral Canopy (Mirage Colony, Soft Profile)
44:00 		Panabrite - Golden Drape (Blue Grotto, Love All Day)
49:30 		Panabrite - Particle Counterpoint (Xenon District, VCO Records)
52:20 		Panabrite - Dawnscape (Blue Grotto, Love All Day)
55:05 		N. Chambers – Humidity (Idea Region, Muzan Editions)
57:00 		N. Chambers - Bells for Jun (Idea Region, Muzan Editions)
01:02:15 	        N Chambers - Carillon (Air Example, Love All Day)
01:03:15 	        N Chambers - Terrace (Air Example, Love All Day)
01:05:05 	Panabrite - Pool (Pavilion, Immune)
01:07:30 	Panabrite - Humid Zones (Seychelles, Field Studies)
01:13:15 	        Panabrite - Anse Boileau (Seychelles, Field Studies)
01:16:20 	        Panabrite - Riddle (Seychelles, Field Studies)
01:18:45	        Jürgen Müller - Wasserwelt (Science of the Sea, Digitalis Recordings)

Norm's Bandcamp

A Tribute To Panabrite / N Chambers / Jürgen Müller

Andrew Sherwell - Antiphon (album preview)
Release date: 4.11.2022
Format: CD/Digital
Music and Artwork by Andrew Sherwell 
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu 

Limited to 60 copies, handmade covers, hand numbered:
https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/antiphon

Autumn in Albion is always magical. Gold, red, and bronze, the quivering leaves glow in the perpetually slanting light, light that reveals yet also creates the deepest of shadows. As the season unfolds, the leaves fall, the mists rise, and the clouds lower. And the veils get thinner......

Andrew Sherwell - Antiphon (album preview)

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

mixtape of my reworks of Tim Hecker's tracks from various albums.
At this time before new year I usually create a mixtape, this time it is a bit different than a usual one. For many years I've been listening, examine and studying music of Tim Hecker, at some point I've started to take closer looks on his work by putting his tracks into daw and playing around  the frequency ranges. Eventually that resulted in me using his music as a source material for live improvisations which I was recording and saving one's I've considered decent and now I am putting those in continuous form. 
I hope you enjoy.

Tim Hecker - Deep Submergence mixtape (ambient reworks)

Liveset from 1.9.23 - played at Himmel in Oslo.
Utilizing mostly pitched down elements from my album Interiør.

Interiør (live version)

From Endurance's Further, out now on cassette tape and digital.
https://muzaneditions.bandcamp.com/album/further

Endurance - Further

Available on tape and digital from Muzan Editions:
https://muzaneditions.bandcamp.com/album/further

Mastering by Holosuite Mastering
Photography by Endurance

Thanks for listening!

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