Extract from "KNVF" released on Erratum Musical on March 19th 2021. 

Following the release of her 2018 solo tape, Ggggg (Anticausal Systems), vocalist Charmaine Lee returns with her debut LP, KNVF, for Erratum Musical (Paris, France). In just two years, the album marks a considerable evolution from the austere concentration of Ggggg towards expansive sonic worlds. Inspired by the arcs of popular music, Charmaine freely and fearlessly navigates a wide range of aesthetics, digging beneath each surface to disclose a highly personal sense of musicality. Microphones of varying fidelities, contact mics placed on the throat, and amplified hair combs are used to simulate polyphony and a dialogue between the inner and outer body. With Charmaine’s unique vocal articulations atop a bed of feedback and extreme frequencies, form follows expression in an ever-evolving context built on the traditions of noise, vocal, and improvised music. KNVF is a powerful statement in modern vocal music and a thrilling new development in Charmaine‘s artistry that will reward those who listen for the journey.

Charmaine Lee (b. 1991) is a New York-based vocalist from Sydney, Australia. Her music is predominantly improvised, favoring a uniquely personal approach to vocal expression concerned with spontaneity, playfulness, and risk-taking. Beyond extended vocal technique, Charmaine uses amplification, feedback, and microphones to augment and distort the voice. She has performed with leading improvisers Nate Wooley, id m theft able, C. Spencer Yeh, and Ikue Mori, and maintains ongoing collaborations with Conrad Tao, Victoria Shen, Zach Rowden, and Eric Wubbels. Charmaine has performed at ISSUE Project Room, the Kitchen, Roulette, The Poetry Project, and MoMA PS1, and participated in festivals including Resonant Bodies, Huddersfield Contemporary, and Ende Tymes. Her work has been featured in group exhibitions including The Moon Represents My Heart: Music, Memory and Belonging at the Museum of Chinese in America (2019). As a composer, Charmaine has been commissioned by the Wet Ink Ensemble (2018) and Spektral Quartet (2018). In 2019, she was an Artist-in-Residence at ISSUE Project Room and is currently a 2021 Van Lier Fellow at Roulette. Charmaine is a member of the Editorial Board of Sound American.

Artist Website: www.charmainelee.com 
Bandcamp: www.charmainelee.bandcamp.com 
Instagram: @charmainelee
Twitter: @charmainelee
CHARMAINE LEE - KNVF 
EM025 - 2021

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KNVF

Monstas' Marriage

1. "Nonak Seance" (Archgoat x Kanon the Preacher)
2. "Philippic" (Keiji Haino x Super Eight Loop)
3. "Masochistic Senzuri" (The Gerogerigegege x Justine & Juliette)
4. "Lift Voices to Steel" (Benedictine Monks of Clervaux x Harry Bertoia)
5. "Rule by Leatherette" (British Murder Boys x The Normal)
6. "Destiny Mastery" (Revenge)
7. "Angel Bakemono" (Street Corner Renaissance x Sshe Retina Stimulants)
8. "Mysterium Iniquitatus" (Christian Death)

Speaking in Tongues

https://noumenalloom.bandcamp.com/album/driftwood-and-other-found-objects - cassette + digital preorder 

Entire album created using a Casio CZ-1 Phase Distortion Synthesizer (+ Electric Bass on Tracks 1 + 3). Although the album was recorded more than five years ago now, these tracks feel very beyond time to us. The record sits nicely alongside works from electronic music pioneers like Isao Tomita, Wendy Carlos, Vangelis and others. Music for Interiors. 

Written and Recorded by Rob Collier in Fall of 2016
Mastered by Howie Gano at Louisville Recording Arts
Titles by Madison Stubblefield
Design and Layout by Alison Kleiman

Driftwood (and Other Found Objects)

Driftwood

Rob Collier - Driftwood

DIOR PROXY

OrangeTone's debut album 'Lightmixer' out now!

noumenalloom.bandcamp.com/album/lightmixer-2

Lightmixer

OrangeTone - Glow

Traces Of Jerøme

background noise☻

Hint

andrea_andrea & Kaho Matsui - i am a part of your life (reprise) [live @ The Six 8/10/2023]

Grind the earth, bones to dust,
Greed's cold heart, in steel we trust,
Rivers choke on the ash of lust,
Skies bleed black, in horror we're thrust.

Consume! Devour! Earth's final hour,
Steel jaws that bite, in towers that tower,
Nature’s screams, so sour,
Humanity’s greed, the devouring power.

Feast on the carcass, raw and ripe,
Our love for decay, adore the hype,
The end is laughing, it knows the type,
Wreckage and ruin, drink from the pipe.

March to the drum, of the consumer doom,
Blind in the gloom, we craft our tomb,
Flesh and machine, together loom,
The brink of destruction, can’t come too soon

Speaking in Tongues

kesshikou

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