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B1. Before The Rain (Grand River Remix)

The 10th release of katharsis is the album “Matter Out Of Place” by @merdhlaleh , which will come out on April 15th. It will be the first physical release of the label, manufactured in an edition of 49 cassette tapes. Behind the Merdh Laleh moniker is the Copenhagen-based producer and multi-instrumentalist Valdemar Kragelund, who released his debut album “Water For Your Eyes” in 2019 on the danish label Petrola 80.

This second release of the artist is a collection of tracks and sketches made from vastly different perspectives and in divergent conditions, but which peculiarly made sense when put together in the context of the album. Consequently, the album seems to be a reflection on things that do not fit into a context. Themes of ostracism, the socially disadvantaged, shattered dreams and a lack of hope permeates the sonic atmospheres with deviating glimpses of serene and nostalgic
memories framed in sound.

The artist, who besides his Merdh Laleh moniker functions as one third of the experimental jazz trio Køs and as the keyboardist in the dark theatral rock band Josiah Konder, weaves together arcane synth-melodies with eerie vocals and hallowed saxophones to a veil of unsound laments. With katharsis-founder jjjacob contributing with the artwork and mastering, “Matter Out Of Place” sends the listener on a delirious journey, trying to understand the metaphysics of being the missing piece in a puzzle within a context you are not aware of.

thanks to Maria, Kristian, Jonas, Hjalte, Jacob & Martin
Ephemeral Dances originally commissioned for Camille Doussy's exhibition "Ephemeral Dance", 2018.

Matter Out Of Place

Merdh Laleh - relapse

Lime Lodge's Collection 2021 in benefit of Women in Exile.

Purchase!

Racine - Sous La Poudre

Rupt & Flex 1994 - 96 out 14 May → https://warp.ffm.to/rupt-flex

Spangle (Autechre Remix)

Seefeel - Spangle (Autechre Remix)

Pan Daijing - Jade 玉观音
Format: LP / DL
Cat.No. PAN 113
Release Date: 4 June 2021
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/Jade

What if a song was not a culmination but a singe, an imprint, or a crater left in the wake of creative process? On her new record “Jade”, Pan Daijing composes at a different scale than that we’ve come to know. Since the release of her groundbreaking LP “Lack” in 2017, Daijing has expanded her operatic vision into a series of major commissioned exhibition-performances at institutions including the Tate Modern, Martin Gropius Bau, and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Developed for full casts of opera singers and dancers, and reaching for an all-encompassing durational experience of intensity for both performer and audience, the development of these works was for Daijing as emotionally disarming as it was thrilling. In order to continue accessing her own limits, Daijing had to develop a place of sanctuary within her own practice.

Its nine tracks written and recorded over the last three years, “Jade” is the sound of solitary release and refuge, of creative self-sustenance. Written without the imperatives of direct address to performers or audience, “Jade” speaks inward, while inviting a kind of rhetorical listening. The artist draws on materials familiar from her previous work: namely, ascetic electronic textures that rumble and pierce, and voice bent in irreverent directions. In place of catharsis, however, her arrangements here linger in tension, extending curiosity towards the delicate void that nourishes extremes. They toy with the minor capacities of song: repetition, chant, observations that conclude without resolving.

“Jade” comes from a vulnerable place, tender as in an undressed wound caught in the midst of healing over. Vocals, mostly Daijing’s own, arrive as wordless sequences of notes soaring alongside a drone, or plain laughter, or in a few places spoken word. What is said or sung provides fragments of experience and reflection. In the process of piecing together these fragments, the listener is confronted with the tender parts of her own. “Solitude is like an immense lake you’re swimming through,” says Daijing of these songs. “Sometimes you dip your head in and sometimes you lift it above. On album centerpiece “Let,” she speaks to us over the sound of rippling water, returning between anxious scenes to a refrain: “I take my bath in the ocean.” We are not just consuming Daijing’s story; we are being invited to join her in the water.

The album is mixed and mastered by Rashad Becker, featuring artwork by Pan Daijing, cinematography by Dzhovani & design by NMR.

@pan-daijing

Jade 玉观音

Pan Daijing - Dust 五月 (PAN 113)

@merdhlaleh
The 10th release of katharsis is the album “Matter Out Of Place” by Merdh Laleh, which will come out on April 15th. It will be the first physical release of the label, manufactured in an edition of 49 cassette tapes. Behind the Merdh Laleh moniker is the Copenhagen-based producer and multi-instrumentalist Valdemar Kragelund, who released his debut album “Water For Your Eyes” in 2019 on the danish label Petrola 80.

This second release of the artist is a collection of tracks and sketches made from vastly different perspectives and in divergent conditions, but which peculiarly made sense when put together in the context of the album. Consequently, the album seems to be a reflection on things that do not fit into a context. Themes of ostracism, the socially disadvantaged, shattered dreams and a lack of hope permeates the sonic atmospheres with deviating glimpses of serene and nostalgic
memories framed in sound.

The artist, who besides his Merdh Laleh moniker functions as one third of the experimental jazz trio Køs and as the keyboardist in the dark theatral rock band Josiah Konder, weaves together arcane synth-melodies with eerie vocals and hallowed saxophones to a veil of unsound laments. With katharsis-founder jjjacob contributing with the artwork and mastering, “Matter Out Of Place” sends the listener on a delirious journey, trying to understand the metaphysics of being the missing piece in a puzzle within a context you are not aware of.

thanks to Maria, Kristian, Jonas, Hjalte, Jacob & Martin
Ephemeral Dances originally commissioned for Camille Doussy's exhibition "Ephemeral Dance", 2018. 

Mastered by jjjacob & Merdh Laleh
Artwork by jjjacob

Merdh Laleh - initiated

Schacke "Moments Forever Fading"

Following his appearance on the compilation 'Under Stars / Shells In Colour,' Copenhagen's Schacke presents his first unaccompanied work for Posh Isolation in the form of 'Moments Forever Fading.'

Taking inspiration from a trip to South Korea, 'Moments Forever Fading' sees the revered techno musician and Fast Forward member pivot towards a quieter form of introspection and release. The antics of the club are spared, though we are no less absorbed in the emotive surrender.

Posh Isolation 255

Moments Forever Fading

Protect Me From What I Want

Schacke - Protect Me From What I Want

Inner Ocean Records & Drift proudly present "Gradients", a diverse collection of songs from across the ambient musical spectrum. Uniting label alumni with new producers, the "Gradients" compilation was curated by Cory Giordano and Dan Panarese to feature artists from around the world. Each artist was chosen for their unique individual expressions of the ambient genre, with the intention to highlight diversity and creativity in its purest form.

In partnership with renowned Waltz Tape Store in Tokyo, Japan, we have created a special Tape Cassette Edition of “Gradients” featuring 23 tracks and over 1hour 40 minutes of music.

Limited to 200 copies worldwide.

Tracklist

Zac Colwell - Summer Sprinklers
Six Missing - Still Can't Believe It
IDRA - A Moment of Light
Peter Bark - Heart of the Forest
Arbee x Charlie Dreaming - Chinook Wave
Josh McCausland - A Worthless Endeavor
Shinji Wakasa - Deep Slope
yutaka hirasaka - Dear Salinger
Marcus Woods - Signals
Sidd Garrett - Grain of Decay
Rug Rivers  - Vienna 
Dokkodo Sounds - Floe
Jabbu - boulders blocked the exit
Aqeel Aadam - The Doves
altitude x Isak Gaines - quincey street, midnight
Apolo/Apolo - Infected Land
imagiro - empty field
morimoto naoki - kuu
Borealism - u n l e a r n i n g
v e n n - Lueur
Ave Grave - Tegeler Forst
Korossasu - Watching
A Companion of Owls - Sprain

Curated By: Dan Panarese & Cory Giordano
Mastered By: Cory Giordano
Artwork By: Nicola Van Acker @ studio.koevoet  
Design By: Cory Giordano

TAPE / STREAM

Gradients - Ambient Compilation [Full Album]

‘Part I’ is the debut LP from Indigo, the moniker and ongoing project of Melbourne-based composer and arranger, Nick Roder. 

The first release in what will be an ongoing three-part series, Part I features nine tracks for bass guitar and tenor saxophone. Part II, an exploration of a slightly larger, more sonically diverse musical world will feature string quartet and voice. Finally, Part III will collaborate with choreographer Siobhan McKenna, who alongside Nick will develop a percussive movement work that seamlessly intertwines with the musical work. 

“My aim is to create music that is sonically and musically atypical whilst still belonging to an accessible contemporary scene. Each project, album or ‘part’ will set out to explore a single ensemble or group of instruments. In the case of Part I, that ensemble is hollow body bass guitar and tenor saxophone. “ - Indigo (Nick Roder)

Pre-Order via: https://indigoisacolour.bandcamp.com/album/part-i
https://soundcloud.com/musiccompanyco

Part I

Premiere: Indigo - The Australian Dream [Music Company]

@bewareilive - Transilvanian Forest Light

Home A

ANIMA - Transilvanian Forest Light

GRIP NOW DIRECT! > https://futuretimes.bandcamp.com/album/brass-mechanics-b-w-tarahumara 

MOTION GRAPHICS
Brass Mechanics b/w Tarahumara 7" - FT038

*VINYL ONLY, NO DIGI*
front & back cover by CULTURESPORT > https://www.instagram.com/culturesport.tv/
COMING THIS SUMMER

Motion Graphics - Brass Mechanics - FT038

https://youtu.be/vKlchXv8s40 

vocals x lyrics @saeira
prod https://soundcloud.com/oloarchive 

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os lençóis de água enterram as lembranças 
os seus dentes mostram a verdade
mau e boa, pura e grita ama
mau e boa
pura
uma coisa que não acontece
que não consegue acontecer
bocas ardentes estão a sofrer
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coisa

These are 10 motifs for the violently fast times we breathe in.

'In The Eyes Of Lovers A Weapon Is An Instrument Of Grace' is the first long-running compilation from Eastern Nurseries. A call for solidarity when we seem to need it the most. 10 loving hymns for family and friends. A collection of music that bleeds in any shape or form. 10 foghorns in the dark.

Longbows are brushes at the hands of the archer.

A curtain of volley fire. Perfect as tears.

For all archers are also painters,

and every arrow an instrument of beauty.

EN06

'Cloud Cover' by Perfume was originally featured on 'Beauty Data Pollution', June 2018

Right side picture by Lisa Lerkenfeldt

Tracklist
1. Wilshire Corridor - Passage
2. Anasisana - Midnight Sun (The Uninvited Sun Remains In the Midnight Sky)
3. False Moniker - Turbulence
4. FARWARMTH - Amber Weight
5. Russian Standards - Tired Eyes/Tough Days
6. Concrete Fantasies - Bleak
7. FH HF - The Wings You Draw On My Skin Coat
8. Perfume - Cloud Cover
9. S. D. - Like The Water
10. HRNS - Old And New Bridges

In The Eyes Of Lovers A Weapon Is An Instrument Of Grace

FARWARMTH - Amber Weight

Earth

Corpus

Stream/DL

Malvina Meinier - MALADY

Bandcamp

Marzo /w Dyboski

NZ Taonga Puoro, acoustic piano, Arca's beautiful vocals, weird sounds.

Arca - Madre (Bromelain Mix)

@a_sonne @minaisb @petrola-80
Read more: pw-magazine.com/2021/premiere-astrid-sonne-minais-b-mistakes/

Exchange

Mistakes

Premiere: Astrid Sonne & Minais B »Mistakes« [Petrola 80]

Taken from the album Caterina Barbieri - Fantas Variations released as 2LP and Digital

Fantas Variations

Bendik Giske 'Fantas for Saxophone and Voice' (EMEGO 279)

Additional violin and processing in tracks 2, 4 by @candlelight1
Bass guitar in tracks 4, 7 by @concretefantasies
Melodica in track 7 by Claudia Dyboski
Additional drum hits and fills in track 3 by RRUCCULLA
Additional violin in track 4 by Alma Seroussi

Mastered by John Hannon at NO

Art by Nil Fernàndez

Digital album includes a 'Portuaria' text by Fabio García

2021, Otro / Aaron Morris

Valencia, En La Hora Del Alba

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