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@innerinnerlife reflects on misspent youth and possible futures on an intimate return to @transatlanticrecords.

’ILYSM’ marks a soaring, triumphant homecoming for the self-proclaimed “enricher”. It’s steeped in nostalgia and the longing for times past; a sublime melange of frothing effervescence, bedroom pop aesthetic and layered shoegaze guitar.

Featuring a cameo from London’s @dontpoisoneverything, our pick, ‘what’s left inside your mouth’, drifts in on clouds of pastel-hued vapour. Captivating stuff.

'ILYSM' is out March 22nd on Transatlantic. 

Pre-order: transatlanticrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ilysm

Premiere: innerinnerlife - whats left inside your mouth (feat. dpe0) [Transatlantic]

'Closer', taken from 'You Said You'd Hold My Hand Through The Fire', 🔥 a collaboration between Iceboy Violet & Nueen 
 Out on 7th June, CD LP/ Digi
Available to preorder now: 
https://iceboyandnueen.lnk.to/holdmyhandthroughthefire

You Said You'd Hold My Hand Through The Fire

Closer

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Iceboy Violet & Nueen - Closer

Following the events of "Annihilation", xato presents the second part of his personal odyssey, "Irrational Fear".

"Irrational Fear" explores the dark self with intense drone recordings being the main sound focus of the project, surrounded by field-recording manipulations and deeply evolving textures.

As the project's tracks aged between 2020 and 2022, it never felt like the right time to release the project. However things changed when the reasons behind the tracks were revamped in the more recent years.

Artwork by v.3lo
Written, Mixed & Mastered by Ioannis Nafpliotis

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xato - exodus

Performed live @ Q-Factory Amsterdam 29.2.2024
Performers: Iara Perillo, Waldorf 
Mastered: Waldorf
Cover Art: Waldorf

https://formforum.bandcamp.com/track/d-exp0i

Iara Perillo, Waldorf - D.Exp0I [live]

Kagami Smile - Regarding the Pit in the Forest releases on April 26th

Produced, mixed and mastered by Kagami Smile
Cover art by Gabriel Boicel

https://worldcanvas.bandcamp.com/album/regarding-the-pit-in-the-forest-2

Regarding the Pit in the Forest

Kagami Smile - 888

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@vanboom

www.cease2exist.se

http://cease2exist.bandcamp.com

The machinic rapture of Van Boom’s debut album, ‘Prosthetics’, firmly planted the Kuwaiti artist in the underground of critical producers that stoke grisly and inhuman themes. Set against the backdrop of the Gulf Region, these themes remain exceptionally nefarious. His latest release, the ‘NUBORNE’ EP, mounts wider explorations of the eviscerating sonic grounds that he began to depict with his first long-playing document.

Gestured with the EP’s title, ‘NUBORNE’ stakes its significance on regeneration and permutation, clearly relishing in the aftermath of ‘Prosthetics’. Across four tracks, Van Boom crafts precisely to forge a set of works that are attached to their live performance state. It’s here that the EP is at home, for this is where unknowns come into play, this is where distortion leads to novel structures. Featuring collaborations with whiterose, Safety Trance, and Evita Manji, ‘NUBORNE’ is rendered evermore atypical. Accompanying the shift in design, there’s an unnerving ambience that’s given free reign across the EP, too. Snapshots of solitude prick the focal points amongst rhythmic tics, as if these shards deform the tracks in real time. With sheer relentless momentum, Van Boom seizes a new path wielding his familiar forces.
credits
released June 7, 2024

Artwork: Lecxi Doumer & NA Service
Mastered: Giuseppe Tillieci, EnissLab, Rome
Mixdown. Emmanuel Ythier & Giuseppe Tillieci
Recorded in Berlin & Kuwait (2022-2024)
www.cease2exist.se
C2E22

Van Boom – POLISHED WOUNDS

We've covered his music before on Repartiseraren and we're proud to be collaboratng with Baldruin for an exclusive premiere of one of the tracks from his forthcoming release "Mosaike der Imagination", called "Der Verwunschene Hain".

I picked this track because I feel like it encompasses much of what Baldruin gives you in terms of experimentalism and percussion, a rhythmic wonderwork that transcends space and time. 

Thank you to Unsung Hunger, Quindi Records and of course Baldruin! May our paths cross many times more in the future.

Here's what the label/press has to say about the release:

"Turning their gaze to the buoyant culture of wyrd, modernist German folk music, Quindi Records (Woo, Monde UFO, Bondo, Testbild!, Nový Svět, Cabaret du Ciel +++) welcome a spectacularly idiosyncratic offering from Johannes Schebler aka Baldruin. Bewildering narrative twists, high drama and intricate delicacy make 'Mosaike der Imagination' an engrossing listen from the outset, as baroque atmospheres and tumbledown drums intertwine with tactile string plucks and needlepoint synthesis in an authoritative bridging of ancient and hypermodern sonic sensibilities.

Schebler's catalogue as Baldruin is extensive, reaching back to the late 00s and covering a lot of ground through cassette albums on respected underground labels like SicSic, A Giant Fern and Lullabies For Insomniacs. Meanwhile, his work has been recognised as part of a broader movement of experimental electronic music in Germany taking inspiration from folk traditions, as documented on last year's essential Bureau B compilation, 'Gespensterland'. Beyond his solo work, Schebler also works with Jani Hirvonen as Grykë Pyje (mappa), and both collaborate with Paul Wilson as Yayoba (Not Not Fun). Christian Schoppik of leading dark folk project Brannten Schnüre joins him as Freundliche Kreisel (STROOM). It's a tangled, fascinating and evocative sound world which 'Mosaike der Imagination' offers a compelling window into.

No two tracks on the album follow the same pattern or palette, whether gliding through the Giallo synth undulations and post rock tonal arcs of 'Stimme des Wegelagerers' or spelling out miasmic incantations through flickering flames on 'Aus dem Feuer, aus dem Licht'. 'Hinein, hinaus, hinüber' revolves around meditative drum mantras and cascading melodic phrasing, densely layered and evolving with purpose. 'Gemeinsam hindurch' flicks between swooping strings and pizzicato plucks in a purely romantic expression of orchestration, 'Mit verbundenen Augen' is a bewildering choral voice study and 'Im Sternstrom' revels in ecstatic synth arpeggios. Nothing can be predicted except the vibrancy and clarity of Schebler's vision.

It's a vision which extends to the front cover artwork for 'Mosaike der Imagination' — a glorious tapestry created by Finnish artist Jan Anderzén, with a responding design and layout from Schebler adorning the rear sleeve.

Stepping to the side of the cosy daydream reveries that inhabit much of the Quindi output, 'Mosaike der Imagination' indulges the label's penchant for sophistication in a freakily fascinating new framework from the heart of an exciting movement in experimental folk music.

Tracklist

1 | A1 - Zwischen Planeten
2 | A2 - Stimme des Wegelagerers
3 | A3 - Aus dem Feuer, aus dem Licht
4 | A4 - Immer wieder im Kreis
5 | A5 - In den Tiefen
6 | A6 - Hinein, hinaus, hinüber
7 | A7 - Fantasiegebilde
8 | A8 - Der verwunschene Hain
9 | A9 - Blick nach Drüben
10 | B1 - Innerlich außerhalb
11 | B2 - Schimmernde Chimäre
12 | B3 - Gemeinsam hindurch
13 | B4 - Mit verbundenen Augen
14 | B5 - Purpur-Trank
15 | B6 - Im Sternstrom
16 | B7 - Schlingerling
17 | B8 - Endstation Sehnsucht

Credits

Text written by Oli Warwick
Recorded in Wiesbaden, Germany by Johannes Schebler
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Cover Artwork ‘Rauniot’ by Jan Anderzén
Layout by Johannes Schebler
Vinyl manufactured at R.A.N.D. Muzik via Vinilificio
c+p Quindi Records 2024"

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