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music: @yakayaka
mastering by @inner-most
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Somewhere In That Water

downpour

Gather

@icfam

The 43rd release of katharsis is the album “Love Language” by the Danish artist icfam. It is evocative like a long makeout session, tongue action specifically. icfam celebrates the long journeys to daydreamy destinations on a record that is romantic and peaceful, yet at times highly energetic.

Through streamlined synthesis and arrangements, icfam produces a composite world of sound that carries a message of love and simplicity. Despite the meticulous care for sound design on this record, the use of intuitive sounds and phrases so simple, sometimes approaches a sort of mindlessness. Building conceptually on sinewaves as the only sound that really exists, the artist develops a nonfragmented illusion through obsession over the harmonic series and melodies within melodies.

Love Language is both reassuring and mystifying, like your favourite lullaby. As well as intoxicatingly painful like exquisite torture. icfam wants to express a special feeling one might get from going to the hospital. A cathartic feeling of being safe and held.

If you’ve fallen from above
You’re walking with your woes
If there’s nowhere to run
The happy hospital

releases August 26, 2024

artwork by Emma Kallan
Mastering by icfam
Mastering of the remix by Søren Oliver Due

icfam - Oh Boy

icfam - Ocean Blue

The album CLEMENCY holds exceptional significance for CHARITY SsB, as it represents not only a music collection but also his bold venture and evolution in the realm of music production. This album signifies his transformation from a rapper into a versatile music producer. Moreover, it marks his first formal album after years of collaboration with the renowned Shanghai electronic music label GENOME 6.66 Mbp.

CLEMENCY comprises ten diverse tracks, each capturing CHARITY SsB's life reflections and musical insights at various points in time. From 2020's Only One and The Meaning of Life to Wood House and Zhuangzi created during Shanghai's lockdown in 2022, these tracks span several years, showcasing his creative depth and rich emotional world.

The album's title, CLEMENCY, embodies a profound philosophy. CHARITY SsB believes that in a world filled with desire, conflict, and war, and within the complexities of societal systems, music is a divine gift of mercy and solace to humanity. Music creation is his sole pathway to experiencing true freedom and spiritual liberation. It holds significant meaning in his life, serving as his soul's sanctuary and the pillar of his spirit.

Many tracks in the album, such as the nearly ten-minute-long Wood House and the ambient-rich Courier, display intricate segment connections and rich musical layers. These songs resemble unique journeys, with each journey offering distinct life meanings. Through these musical works, CHARITY SsB conveys his profound insights into life and his boundless passion for music. To him, music is like a utopia of the spiritual world, providing him with endless solace and inspiration.

Track 4 mixed by Swimful
All other tracks mixed by GAO QIAO
All tracks mastered by Dirty K (Tsui Honagi)
Artwork by XDD, zasz.img, and CHARITY SsB

CHARITY SsB – Only One

tuchscreen s ruslan anima

RLX ASSASSYN - Hope 4 Nowhere

mezquital (ternura)

"I whisper past every creature I encounter: survive and prosper, for us both"

All proceeds will be donated to Anima, Vegan Farm & Dog's Voice in order to facilitate their efforts in rescuing, nursing and rehabilitating animals that were affected by the recent fires in Athens, Greece.

www.wild-anima.gr/en/profile/
www.dogsvoice.gr
www.instagram.com/veganfarm.gr/

Mastered by Oliver Torr
Cover & Affirmation by Female Pentimento

Ludwig Wandinger - Col

++ PRESENTATION ++

Scores +°-  glyphs to sounds !

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Scores is a compilation exploring musical notations and how they can be interpreted as sounds. People have always tried to translate sonic expressions into visual cues that could be archived, passed down, and transformed back into music. 

From symbols to numbers, grids, staffs, figures or abstract shapes, several languages have been developed and continuously questioned to improve the ability to retain the emotion and meaning sounds can convey - what lies behind the veil.
 
What if this time, the notation would come beforehand?

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The project unfolded in two phases. In the first one, visual artists from the Global URL Nation could propose one sheet of music score, free of interpretation. They were invited to play with musical notations and explore what it would even mean.
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It welcomed chaggrin, Eurrope, M4X1US, MYEN, s1m0nc3ll0 & Ziyiz for 6 sheets


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In the second phase, artists from GUN could pick one sheet and create a track trying to follow it as much as possible. It invited them to question music as a physical object, with its shapes, colors, textures and layers with the following :

__How is the overall composition? Are there any axis or lines that could be interpreted as a timeline or a melodic scale?
__How many discrete elements are in the image? How are they laid out?
__What are the shapes involved?  What is their scale? Do they have sharp or blurry outlines?
__What are the colors/textures used? How do they relate with each other in terms of tones, contrasts…?
__How are the different elements layered on top of each other? Are they superimposed or do they merge in some way?
__How would they translate them in musical terms, such as textures, notes, structures, timbres, rhythms, dynamics? 

It welcomed Bademjan, Baje Nunca, C+Vis, Capiuz, Clair X, C.T.A.A.M.  Ecovoron, Epiphagi, HeedLess, Mambo Kahn, migu, POL100, Yau Hei ASJ & Ziyiz for 14 tracks ranging from ethereal scorescapes to hyperstimulating scratches. Sounds and shapes weave together, blurring the boundaries between the two media to create one whole entity

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With Scores, we invite you to seek the music that can be hidden in our surroundings, to decrypt and hear the phantom scores one can find in every shape, every color and every little visual detail __ open your ears and see the sounds, sometimes music lies in a simple fold of clothing


++ TRACKLIST ++

__((Sheet A by chaggrin))
A1. Clair X - Unravel
A2. migu - Red for Funeral
A3. Epiphagi - Everything We've Come To Be

__((Sheet B by Eurrope))
B1. Bademjan - Wrinklenest
B2. Yau Hei ASJ - Jigsaw Puzzle

__((Sheet C by s1m0nc3ll0))
C1. Ecovoron - Burning Shide
C2. C.T.A.A.M. - A-L

__((Sheet D by MYEN))
D1. Capiuz - Dreamer of Nightmares
D2. POL100 - Butterfly Wall

__((Sheet E by Ziyiz))
E1. Baje Nunca - En Blue Gray et DVD
E2. HeedLess - Incomprensibile

__((Sheet F by M4X1US))
F1. Mambo Kahn - Celestial Arson
F2. C+Vis - Untitled
F3. Ziyiz - Skies Inside (Ring The Bell)


++ CREDITS ++ 

Music sheets created by chaggrin, Eurrope, M4X1US, MYEN, s1m0nc3ll0 & Ziyiz. 

Tracks produced by Bademjan, Baje Nunca, C+Vis, Capiuz, Clair X, C.T.A.A.M.  Ecovoron, Epiphagi, HeedLess, Mambo Kahn, migu, POL100, Yau Hei ASJ & Ziyiz. 

Common cover by Griigg
https://www.instagram.com/griigg

Mastering by Ioannis Nafpliotis
https://www.instagram.com/iamxato/

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katharsis is a label founded by @jjjacob focusing on the purification and purgation of emotions through music.

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