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Happy to share @synalegg's Patchwork-02, a mixtape built from forgotten sound material, generated during phases of musical research, coming from different patches, different methods, different periods.

@synalegg is a French electronic musician who explores sound matter by designing his own digital tools. He mainly uses Puredata software to build musical environments that combine algorithmic sequencing, granular synthesis, sound and visual data processing.

Synalegg - Patchwork-02

Erik Tisu - Rous' Brook (CNC, 2019)

Erik Tisu - Lifetime Comedy (CNC, 2019)

German-Icelandic electro-acoustic trio Minua’s new EP Simulacra explores just tuning systems and alternate temperaments. Utilising various instruments like woodwinds, a modular synthesizer, a Bavarian zither or electric bass, the trio stretch barely song-like structures to their limits; the four pieces here move with glacial grandeur, their movement barely perceptible. 

The first half of the record revolves around the element of air. The opening “Order of Instants” utilises layered woodwind instruments to create a harmonic space inspired by an 18th century temperament often used by organ tuners. “Final Service” is an ode to overtones and noise, fusing bass clarinets with modular synthesizer and processed electric bass to calming, slowly modulating effect. 

The second half of the record shifts the trio’s focus to plucked instruments, but the pieces retain their slow-moving, monolithic character. “Sixfold Wilted Rose” features a Bavarian zither, unravelling its shimmering beauty on the bedrock of drone sounds like a rose blooming in parched soil, while the closing “Ascension Point” continues in a similar mood, a droning calmness underpinning the gentle electric guitar plucks. 

Inspired by traditional musics, elements of jazz and contemporary drone, Minua have created a body of work that draws parallels between musical worlds. Simulacra is beautiful, patient music.

Released by Warm Winters Ltd. as WW012 

Fabian Willmann – woodwinds 
Kristinn Kristinsson – guitar, electronics 
Luka Aron – guitar, zither, modular synthesizer 

Tracks 1-3 written by Luka Aron 
Track 4 written by Kristinn Kristinsson 

Recorded by Daniel Nentwig at Butterama Recording Center 
Mixed by Luca Aaron and Kristinn Kristinsson 
Mastered by Rashad Becker at Clunk 
Cover artwork by Nat Marcus

Simulacra

Minua - Final Service

Shattering whispers, secrets, hideous children

Alice Kemp has a new album due to be released by Coherent States in autumn 2021.

/// UPDDATE ///  'TO ALL MY HIDEOUS CHILDREN' RELEASED JULY 2022. DIGITAL, CASSETTE, AND BLACKENED BOX EDITIONS.


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alicekemp.net
coherentstates.com

To All My Hideous Children

Grotesque III

The scars soften - the silver knife melts. 
Sad-sack and cracked hearts, forever reaching the distorted harmony, 
never ceasing, beyond sight - sentimental, coarse reverie eats into euphony.

Each and all, we believe in our deities; although we may not tell, we worship in fear and in inspiration; although we may not feel it, we have our sacred places; although we may not see our idols, they are true in our dreams. Even as our prayer falls silent, these words of Voltaire will be, for us, forever true: if there were no God, it would be necessary to invent Him.

'Hedonistic Idols' is an album of six works by Volunteer Coroner, the avant-garde noise-and-ambient fusing project of artist and composer Preston Weippert. Through contrasts of harshness and fragility, the album explores truth in faith, and hope in decay.

Hedonistic Idols

Volunteer Coroner - Cardinal Sin

TR193 - Alya Al-Sultani & Mariam Rezaei - 'SISTER' [excerpt]

The immense soundscapes of Arkhad cannot be mistaken for those of another artist's - each work seems to be completely unrestrained, yet an over-arching sense of structure, a feeling of a looming megalithic presence haunts throughout. The rhythms are irregular and strange, yet palpable. The droning calls and textures appear inorganic, yet certainly feel natural; as if rising from beneath the living earth, from beneath deep layers of stone. The artist has been a known and unique presence in Lithuanian experimental art, traversing through drone, noise, post-industrial techno-hybrids, and many other unknown realms of music over the past decade. Such depths are thoroughly explored in the 18th Amulet of Tears mix.

Amulet of Tears 018: Arkhad

Music: @arkhad

Artwork: @anasisana

Amulet 018: Arkhad

LA VOCE DELLE PERLE CHE SI SVEGLIANO DI NOTTE
IL PIANOFORTE DI GHIACCIO
IL GESTO CHE INCANTA IL SUOLO

ALATA ONDA 3 SONGS

mirage switch

060423001 TMSMM

“Dead eyes” are what you see when the spark of presence is gone, when the gaze becomes flat and unfeeling. They don’t track the world with curiosity, don’t soften with warmth, don’t betray the smallest flicker of life behind them. Instead, they look vacant, as if the person is only half-there—or not there at all.

Psychologists might call it dissociation, emotional numbness, or the drained look of depression. Trauma can hollow the eyes until they no longer shine, leaving only a glassy stare. Burnout, exhaustion, even despair can strip away the subtle movements we instinctively expect, making the gaze uncanny in its stillness.

What unsettles us is that eyes are supposed to reveal the soul. When they go lifeless, it feels as if something essential has slipped away. The body is alive, but the windows look out onto nothing. And that nothing stares back.


Artist: KEX0
Album Title: DEAD EYES
Label: OVERDOSE
Catalog: ODEP005
Format: Digital
Release Date: 09/05/2025
Mastering:KEX0
ARTWORK:KEX0

DEAD EYES INTRO

01 Record 1

shifty 35 bpm keys test may 24 1

Usurper with Alex Drool, Maya Dunietz, Eran Sachs and Ilan Volkov - Untitled (excerpt)

A nice zombie who honors the moment does not allow himself to be terrorized by the future and the past. While two guardian spirits shield him from good advice.

All tracks and Images by Heinz Kobalt  and Artificial Intelligence.

Erik Tisu - Rous' Brook (CNC, 2019)

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