Twenty fifth episode of our "States United" show on @n10-as, with guest @ikr_imprint

States United 25: Ikr. Imprint

Over the past decade, FRKTL has released an amazing discography of work, including her recent remix of Senyawa, and her critically acclaimed album Excision After Love Collapses. FRKTL is also a visual artist who creates multi dimensional worlds, glimpses of which you can find adorning albums by some of our favourites. From her home in Latvia, she has crafted a two hour journey through experimental, abstract, ambient, and instrumental works with many field recordings. It also includes some vocal work, and more of her own music than she usually puts into a mix. It is music to escape into while at home in solitude, eyes closed or looking up at the sky through the window.

For more, head to frktl.com

Kolya Dykhne - Tezeta [Klammklang]
Abul Mogard - Flooding Tide [Ecstatic]
$3.33 - There Are At Least Two Kinds Of Games [Recital]
Listening to the Seaside Waves at Dawn
Vlad Dobrovolski - Someone Has To Make Gods [Stellage.store]
Panxing - Idle [ANYINES]
Standing at the Edge of the Forest
Howie Lee - 鸟岛 (Birdy Island) [Mais Um]
Infant - damp grale [mappa]
James Ferraro - Fossils [Self]
perila - a river becoming [Self]
james ginzburg - light evaporates [Subtext]
Erik Enocksson - The breaking of waves [posh isolation]
Erik Enocksson - Dusk settles in [posh isolation]
Leo Chadburn - The Halogens [Library of Nothing]
Mu Tate - Ultra [Experiences Ltd.]
Lisa Lerkenfeldt - Champagne Smoke [Shelter Press]
FRKTL - Enheduanna [Self]
r.roo - Ø [Self]
King Gong - SOUNDSCAPE CHINA pt1 [Discrepant]
FRKTL - Untitled [?]
Nic Endo - Crystalline Circuits [Geist]
perila - riot spring [Self]
Aronofsky in Reverse
Auguste Vickunaite & Hugo Esquinca - Part II [Klammklang]
FRKTL - Sidereal II [Self]
Fatima Al Qadiri - Malaak [Hyperdub Records]
Sortlegeme - shrinking [katharsis]
Gramm - type eins [Source Records]
Merope - Ei Dvipa [STROOM]
FRKTL - Vitöga [Self]
PDP III - Walls of Kyoto [Shelter Press]
Kammarheit (Official) - Hypnagoga [Cyclic Law]
Pauline Oliveros / Stuart Dempster / Panaiotis - Lear [New Albion]
Joris de Laet - Cordes et Corps [Sub Rosa]
Pil - untitled [c-]
$3.33 - 102˚ [Duenn]
Lisa Lerkenfeldt - Music For Three Combs [Shelter Press]
Merdh Laleh - H4twag [Petrola 80]
Location Services - Exception Exile [Beer On The Rug]
Eigenseagulls
Lucy Liyou - how to ask for help [Self]
Yialmelic Frequencies - Spores [Leaving Records]
Toumani Diabaté & Ballaké Sissoko - Récital duo de kora (1999)
Kentaro Hayashi - Gargouille [Opal Tapes]
Cloistral - Ոչ մի սպասում [offworldcolonies]
Felicity Mangan - Time flys [mappa]
Pan Daijing - Dust 五月 [PAN]
Merdh Laleh - Peripety [Petrola 80]
Oliver Coates - Them (Prologue) feat. Malibu [Geographic North]
Vlad Dobrovolski - Impetus feat. Kurvenschreiber [Klammklang]
Lensk - Strained (FRKTL Manifold Remix) [JEROME]

Ep 244 w/ FRKTL (LV)

Will upload the tracklist later... trying to survive in this capitalist world, working 8h a day when all I wanna do is listen to music and paint  ... 

thanks for listening,
c

hush ~ 06

improv [30092021]

For the next episode of Navegante, Kraumur has invited Frutto.
Frutto (Angelina Nonaj) is a recreative human and metamorphic artist, currently moving and happening in the city of the Hague.

Navegante w. Kraumur guest frutto [25.09.2021]

https://cementfondu.org/unearthingxkudos/

FRKTL - SCENE IV: Our Ghosts Are Strata
Rosa Eskenazi - Gazele Nihavent
NRD - يأجوجكم قادم - ya'joojakom qadem
Osheyack - No (feat. Milky He & Michael St.Michael)
Muslimgauze - Namiki An Wadda
CCCP - Radio Kabul
FRKTL - Sidereal
Marcel Dune - Imposible Dream
Zuli - Kiwi Meld
Kirdec - It's Genocide
Sote - Plural
Traumesser - Conversion Artifact
Unknown - Roumeliotiko Souravli

"𝓉𝓇𝒶𝒸𝒾𝓃𝑔"

The rhythms of sleep are unknown to the sleeper. Usually, only with interruption, or dreams, or through wakeful observation, are we made aware of them. And even then, only somewhat. On this cassette, Zenxen uses his research into the cycles of sleep and rest to explore and recreate the phenomenon of neural oscillations. 

The tracks sound as if they’re composed of water, vapor, and dust. Trails of percussive events and simple melodic gestures accompany low end sculpting that moves like water, vapor, and dust. Like a tour of the body’s rhythmic structures, these are the waves within, crashing on interior shores. The electrical activity of the brain’s neurons are measured in hertz—cycles per second. Using a range of sampling techniques, Zenxen recreates alpha, theta, and delta waves to construct sonic models of the brain in various states.

Collaging other compositional elements into the works, such as field recordings of whispering voices, and the rise and fall of cicadas, Zenxen forms a tapestry that resembles autonomic processes, like a breath, or a secreting gland. Lullabies in one sense—these tracks were composed for an overnight drone event in the artist’s hometown of Berlin—in another they are intensely awakening, serving as activations of specific frequency windows. 𝐼𝑛 𝑊𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑠 is a sonically cavernous descent, down into the brain’s most mysterious and rejuvenating depths.  

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Zenxen [ˈzɛn ˈdʒɛn] is an interdisciplinary ambient project from Benedikt Ellebrecht, combining academic studies in sociology, literature, and philosophy, time spent playing in post-punk bands, and ongoing participation in the underground electronic music scene in Berlin, Germany. 

Starting with experimentation with sample-based techniques, Ellebrecht has developed Zenxen into a digital musique concrète. He processes and reassembles field recordings from his immediate physical surroundings as well as drawing from virtual spaces such as the internet and videogames. As Zenxen, he has self-released 2 EPs and regularly performs live. 

Ellebrecht also contributes sound design for theatre and performance pieces, including at Ruhrtriennale Essen 2016 and at Staatstheater Darmstadt 2019 in collaboration with Niels Wehr. And in 2017, he co-founded the multimedia label No Disk (https://www.instagram.com/nodisk_/) with Joel AS (Arad Acid).

In Waves

Zenxen - Mesh Of Nodes (ENMX16)

Tracklist:
@ibukun-sunday
1. distance
2. Leaving Planet 
3. black iv vi
4. dust

Variations w/ Ibukun Sunday - 8th November 2021

This track was born from the Bargaining chapter in “While They Were Sleeping” a moment where the main character pleads with a shattered world, begging to save those trapped in silence. But he can’t. This song is for them.

It’s for every voice that was buried too soon. for the peoples of every land suffering. For every girl who was silenced. For every boy who was forgotten. For the ones who screamed and were answered only by dust.

Musically, this is not a song. It’s a grave. It’s a prayer. It’s the sound of trying to carry an entire people’s suffering in your chest, and realizing that no melody will ever be loud enough to resurrect them but still trying. Still playing. Still lighting the candle.

“Can’t You Hear Their Voices” is for the ones who were erased, but never truly gone. It’s for the ones whose echoes live in the fire of every story we dare to tell. Listen closely. They’re still here.

Can’t You Hear Their Voices

ETHEREAL AMBIENT SOUNDSCAPES INSPIRED BY GAME OF THRONES AND THE  LORD OF THE RINGS AND MANY OTHERS. RELAX, ENJOY AND DRIFT AWAY.

ETHEREAL - VANYAR'S HYMN

Twelve gentle, melodic and ethereal electronic pieces. 


Awake the Lotus

Toad Garden

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bookings: 
carin@outer-agency.com / (EU/WW) 
michael@heavy-trip.com (CA / US)
sync & licensing:  
gavin@syncsmith.com

contact: joseph.kamaru.jk@gmail.com 
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Variations w/ Ibukun Sunday - 8th November 2021

KMRU