September 2024

For this episode of Transience we have invited expert improvisor and cosmic angel, Dan Nicholls to create a 90 minute journey to alleviate our physical realm anxieties. I've been following Dan's work for many years and am very happy that the stars finally align to host them live from the Cashmere Studio to begin the weekend's programmation. I love the way Dan is able to create such detailed sound worlds that invite us to meander about in them, sway like spores or lay gently nestled in their foliage. For this occassion we sat on the floor of the Cashmere Radio studio in the same space as the audience with a few cushions and Dan’s live setup. Having spent the previous night dancing we were super relaxed and ready to continue the adventure. We arrived at the studio with no real plan, wondering about how to start and what kind of sounds the set might begin with. Despite the not knowing, we both had total trust and a willingness to surrender to the moment.

Dan sees improvising as a way to bypass certain tendencies we might have to control and rationalise; to get in the way of the story or the energetic flow. A personal process of deconstructing, unravelling and healing – but more importantly an experience of playful sharing, creating sonic spaces that the listener can inhabit. The set features an improvised text by Dan’s child Liv, which touches on our origins in the cosmos and the vital need to listen to our bodies. This monologue is spoken in a dream-like imaginary voice, refracting some of the ideas that Liv has been exposed to and has intuitively felt. A different kind of truthful speech. So in a sense, it does with a child’s freedom and clarity of thought what this collection of improvised sounds and imaginary landscapes also hopes to do.

We invite you all to listen to your bodies and your hearts, and lay down to embark on this journey back to our stars.

Photography by Micki Rosi Richter

transience #48 with dan nicholls (live)

Hidden Tracks: Domodossola – Weissmies

3500m ↗ 4017m

1000m ↗ 1500m

1000m ↗ 1500m (Single Release)

Crystalline

What Is Love (Priori Dee-Dub Remix)

Damon Days

Damon Days (Niilas Remix)

Moblu

Tekno Mind Port

@mslilen
@airtexture

Buy:
https://airtexture.bandcamp.com/

PLC009

PREMIERE: lilen - needing [Air Texture]

Improvised live set recorded at Whole Festival, summer 2023. 

Thanks to Lou Drago for the invitation <3 <3 <3

Features the words of bell hooks, cello notes from Lucy Railton, words of solidarity from Alabaster De Plume and Sirenne, strucked piano strings by Liv Nicholls. 

Thx to Imad for the pic xx

🌱 ୭ ˚ live @ whole festival '23

@discos_extendes
@phoebephoebephoebe
Bandcamp: https://discosextendes.bandcamp.com/album/de008-phoebe-homo-hustle
Release Date: March 1st, 2024
Info: If “Sempre a Correr” was the warm-up, then “Homo Hustle” is the final sprint to cross the finish line in style. “Homo Hustle” lands on Discos Extendes to confirm what we all already knew: the future of Portuguese dance music passes through Phoebe, aka Bruno Gonçalves. If his central role as founder of collectives such as “mina” and “Troublemaker Records” were not enough, or his role as programmer in festivals such as “Rama em Flor” or “Ano Zero”, or even as a central figure of the essential non-club “Planeta Manas”... or even as an agent at his own “Myth Agency”! Bruno Gonçalves still manages to find time to dj and produce! And he doesn't do it carelessly. Homo Hustle is a tight and muscular record that reveals his attention to the state of the art of dance music, without ever forgetting the original legacy of house. These were the tracks that he has shown us somewhere in 2021 and that we were so willing to release! A straightforward dance record made to shake your booty. A record that fits Extended Records like a glove!

Bandcamp

*PREMIERE* Phoebe - Go

Cute Continuous (Earthrise Recordings, 2024)

1000m ↗ 1500m (Single Release)

Julian Sartorius