Landscape from Memory

2 Forms

devotion

~ LAAPS 043 ~ [SEQ.06 - LP43]

artist : Ben McElroy
album : Elkwort
duration : 41.21 mn
date : April 28th, 2025

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 200 copies / green LP / selective UV varnish (front+back) / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 150 copies / pantone / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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pre-order : April 10th, 2025 / official release : April 28th, 2025
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Ben McElroy - composition, arrangement, mixing, instrumentation

Elinor Rowlands - spoken word on "The Howling and I Must Have Walked past There a Thousand Times"
Debbie Armour - vocals on "Kindling and "Deosil"
Nick Jonah Davis - guitar and bowed weissenborn on "A Dream Of Deosil"

Recorded at home, Jt Soar (with Phil Booth and Rich Snug) and Nick’s studio-shed.

Mastered by Nick Jonah Davis
Artwork by Nieves Mingueza
Design by Sprflxgrfzm
 
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Links :
https://laaps-records.com/
https://www.instagram.com/iikki_laaps/
https://benmcelroy.bandcamp.com/
https://www.benmcelroy.co.uk/
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Ben McElroy - I Must Have Walked Past There a Thousand Times (with Elinor Rowlands)

Andvari

Andvari (Live in Reykjavík, 2024)

Hell Yeah have been busy making musical connections and reaching out to like-minded beatmakers once again. This time, it is Pier Paolo Polcari aka Polcari, a founding member of cult Italian band Almamegretta, who steps up with the magnificent new album I Will Try To Imitate The Birds. The eight-track record also features Adriano Viterbini, another Italian music icon and guitarist with the revered Bud Spence Blues Explosion and I Hate My Village as well as Ubjk, San Ignacio and Sergio Dileo.
Label head Marco first got in touch with Polcari after he remixed Italian cultural hero Sergio Messina's cover of 'Fly Away' back in 2021. The pair began sharing music, discussing their favourite reords and, eventually, the natural next step was to work towards the album now served up here.

Polcari is a master of downtempo sounds and, as well as several solo projects that fuse trip hop, folk, dub and world music, he has made a global mark as part of Almamegretta. The revered Naples band formed in the late 80s and has worked with greats like Massive Attack and Adrian Sherwood across more than 15 albums and are currently on a special 30th anniversary tour.

Opener 'Jardino' (Feat. San Ignacio) sets a laidback vibe from the off with gently breaking drums topped with whimsical melodies. 'Vita Nova' is cavernous dub with more lush instrumentals, xylophones and wispy synth motifs making for a world escape and 'Mundo' (Feat. Ubjk) has an air of Eastern melody with delicate pads and glowing keys floating above the pillowy drums. 'The Birds' (Feat. Adriano Viterbini) has fluttering harp strings that bring real beauty to a downtempo groove packed with vocoder vocals, synth smears and organic percussion.

'Orcos Ou Fadas' carries on with a rich blend of strings and percussion, shuffling rhythms and curious moods, 'Raifuki' lurches on moody drums and introverted melodies and 'Ligea' (Feat. Sergio Dileo) brings some romantic Latin rhythms and seductive clarinet while 'Superluna' completes the odyssey with more wavy dub and magnificent collages of melody and percussion.

I Will Try To Imitate The Birds will lift you off your feet and carry you away to a lush world of cathartic, sun-kissed musical pleasure.

"really special. Cut above typical balearic biz" - Ruf Dug

"Wonderfull!!" - Sean Johnston

"A beautifully atmospheric experience from start to finish." - Max Essa

"Fabulous release...All tracks" - Trevor Fung

"When experimental meets Balearic!" - Ilya Santana

"dreamy, hypnotic and lovely" - Chris Todd/Hot Toddy/Crazy P

"excellent album" - Andy Wilson (Cafe del Mar) 

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Polcari - Mundo (feat. Ubjk)

'Unstable' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den397
available on all formats at http://denovali.com/dictaphone

Dictaphone are back with their 6th full length called "Unstable". In the 25th year of the project Brussels born composer and mastermind Oliver Doerell is surrounded again by a lot of musicians & friends. Roger Döring is there, his clarinet and saxophone play has always been a trademark sound of the band - also Alexander Stolze's ghostly violins. The dark atmosphere and experimental sound of the new album is a reference to the 80s belgian art music scene, which Doerell had the luck to experience in his formative years. Minimal jazz meets musique concrete meets a postpunk mind. On this new album “Unstable“ more voices and vocals than usual can be heard - especially Helga Raimondi (who already sang on the last album “Goats and Distortions 5") . As a collage artist she is also responsible for the visual side of Dictaphone - she designed the cover artwork and the visuals for the live shows.

The Brussels-Berlin-Teheran connection: Other guests on "Unstable" are the voices of Kaveh Ghaemi and Ashkan Afsharian, who Doerell met during a modern ballet production by Modjgan Hashemian (2008). The trumpet of Shahab Anousha can be heard in the track “La fin“ - Oliver Doerell and Shahab Anousha also share the spoken words Project “Noufān”. For nearly 20 years Oliver Doerell is linked to the Iranian Diaspora in Berlin and the Dictaphone track “Rattle” from the classic album “ Poems from a rooftop “ (2012) has been a hit in Teherans underground scene since the beginning. Furthermore the title track “Unstable“ is a homage to Ian Curtis of Joy Division. The words of this piece are based on the setlist of Joy Divisions last show.

Dictaphone played more than two hundred shows all over the world (including festivals Mutek, Transmediale, Unsound , Benicassim and many others). Their music can be heard in countless films, tv series and theatre pieces - (“the responder“ (BBC) , “the love he knows” (Ali Mohammad) , “Don´t move“ (Modjgan Hashemian) , Ring (Felix Ruckert) among others.


Dictaphone - Desplendor

Make It Last

A young woman enters a magical world by reading a mysterious book from the library. Piano and harp evolves into an orchestral climax and returns to a relaxed final part of the music. It's just a 2 minutes track, but it tells a story which is visualized by a short film on my YouTube account.

Link:
https://youtu.be/lIr3_8fZKis?si=uNI_fG4SFAZpk9m8

Magical Mindscapes

Твоя Весна

Santa Rosa Transit Mall

Enter the hidden sanctum of the serpent—Templum Serpentis, the fourth chapter of the Arkanæa saga by ApØtheØsis. Across six ritual movements, breath becomes vibration, shadow coils into light, and kundalini fire rises through ancient stone. Deep hand drums and earth-sourced percussion pulse like a rooted heartbeat, while modular synth hisses and ceramic chimes mimic serpent scales. Oud, flute, and didgeridoo drones weave through commanding female whispers in Latin, Greek, and glossolalia, punctuated by tongue-clicks and throat-song. Field recordings of cave wind and rattling stones ground you in subterranean mystery.

This is hypnotic, tantric electronica—where eros and gnosis fuse in a temple built beneath your skin. Surrender to the coiled power, and let the serpent awaken you.

✦ Deep Ritual Electronica
✦ Sacred Drum Pulse & Breath Textures
✦ Serpent Whisper Vocals (Latin, Greek, Glossolalia)
✦ Modular Synth & Earthy Percussion
✦ Oud, Flute, Didgeridoo & Ceramic Chimes
✦ Cinematic Dark Ambient Trance
✦ Worldbeat Ritual Fusion

Presented by Arkanæa: the inner temple awaits.

Scalæ Tenebrarum

Find me on YouTube: Syrenie: https://youtube.com/channel/UCYoH17KHUX1jKMst151P64A?si=baVDEKinUZjiJoiG
LostJ: 
https://youtube.com/channel/UCZlaOgxOteHLD_zlTBMUlkw?si=8oVAQ0EJwByovxyd

Music Producer/ composer under two artists: 
Syrenie: Trip Hop, Alternative Rock, Experimental, Ambient
LostJ: House, DnB, Break

Make It Last

Syrenie

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