'Being Held' by Ekin Fil, from the album 'Feelings' (Vaagner/A Sunken Mall), gets tantalisingly reinterpreted by none other than Jefre Cantu-Ledesma.

download it here: https://vaagner.bandcamp.com/track/being-held-jefre-cantu-ledesma-rework

VAK57 | Ekin Fil - Being Held (Jefre Cantu-Ledesma Rework)

In the blue heavens
Scattered from dust - an ancient blow

Uninvited flames of the altar
Run over the wings
Of the butterfly spool

Meter by meter, loose
Landed on the hands of tower

The sky limits no air
Illusions of ear and throat.

An eternal liminality amidst of the fading blaze - sunset speaks so much of  light. Adorned by the dust-covered sundial, a candle being blown out since the crack of dawn. First, the hour hand and the minute hand - chime rods clang without touch. To remember: the core of arousal. The body / as foliage / as traverses too ceaseless to bring up the rear.

‘Butterfly Tongues More Ancient Than Flowers’ is the grandeur revival of early electronic era in the personal and subtle twists of a rethought perception of time. For the same reason, the matter simply drifts through it—not itself, but its own persistence. Copenhagen based artist - øjeRum maintained the reminiscence of rending impulses and rhythmic formations at the turn of provoking co-existing worlds, laid bare in the sempiternal totality.

Butterfly Tongues More Ancient Than Flowers

øjeRum - Recurring Dream of Coiled Organisms in the Sky

'For Wind Poetry' releases October, 2022.

Wind Poetry

VAK 62 | yolabmi - Circulation

~ LAAPS 025 ~ [SEQ.04 - LP25]

artist : Arovane
 album : Sinter
duration : 39.29 mn
 date : January 23rd, 2023

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 300 copies / black LP / pantone / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 200 copies / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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Written and produced by Uwe Zahn.
Recorded and edited at Saale Studio.
Track 03. Konstant is dedicated to Taylor Deupree.

Mastered by Taylor Deeper (12K)
Artwork by Marco Cadioli
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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https://arovane.bandcamp.com/

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Sinter

Arovane - Konstant

CD available from: IMPREC.com

“an intoxicating sauce of stark and tripped out ritual music... which conspires to keep listeners in a semi-permanent trance state” Julian Cope / Head Heritage

“a heady brew of deep listening music that is almost medieval in mood and wholly reverential in technique” Edwin Pouncey / Wire Magazine

“Razen push the drone potential of medieval instruments like hurdy gurdy as well as shawm and recorders... into realms of total sensory overload” David Keenan / Volcanic Tongue



Razen's Postcards From Hereafter was recorded using a 17th century organ tuned at 398 Hz (meantone) in a Belgian cathedral erected in 1305. The ensemble explored, with rich results, the organ's strict and limiting tuning with an arrangement that included hurdy gurdy, recorders, chalumeau, violone and nyckelharpa.

Razen - Poscards From Hereafter - CD - Release: 3.24.23

~ LAAPS 027 ~ [SEQ.04 - LP27]

artists : Russell Burden (Being) & Craig Tattersall (The Humble Bee)
 album : Diagenesis
duration : 44 mn
 date : April 29th, 2023

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 300 copies / green transparent LP / pantone / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 200 copies / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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All Tracks written and produced by Russell Burden & Craig Tattersall.

Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Artwork by Russell Burden
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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diagenesis: the watery interactions, microbial activities, alterations, compactions, and chemical transformations of sediments slowly converting to rock.
this music was created through a process of exchange - passing tracks back and forth, each layer of sound buried a little deeper beneath the next.

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https://www.leavings.co.uk/

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Russell Burden & Craig Tattersall - Settlings (excerpt)

~ LAAPS 028 ~ [SEQ.04 - LP28]

artist : Ned Milligan
 album : Considerable
duration : 43.49 mn
 date : May 29th, 2023

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 300 copies / yellow green transparent LP / pantone / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 200 copies / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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chimes, singing drum, autoharp, field recordings, processing: Ned Milligan.
campfire recording in "Sky Smokes & Electronics": Jerome Klap.
additional percussion in "Mosey With Me": Rory Milligan.
singing: graciously and anonymously donated.

recorded mostly outdoors, sometimes indoors in York, Maine .

Mastered by Taylor Deupree (12k)
Cover Photograph by Joe Librandi-Cowan
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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https://www.nedmilligan.com/
https://nedmilligan.bandcamp.com/

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Ned Milligan - The Path You Took To Existing (excerpt)

~ LAAPS 029 ~ [SEQ.04 - LP29]

artist : Sonmi451
 album : The Eighteen Minute Gap
duration(s) : 38.08 mn (LP) / 59.13 mn (CD)
 date : July 13th, 2023

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 300 copies / yellow LP / pantone / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 200 copies / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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All tracks written and produced by Bernard Zwijzen / Sonmi451

 Equipment used:
Hardware synths: Moog Mother 32, Arturia Microfreak
Hardware samplers: Elektron Octatrack, Instruo Arbhar, Make Noise Morphagene
Hardware effects: Hologram Microcosm, Happy Nerding FX
Software synths, samplers & effects: Various synths from Spitfire Audio, Applied Acoustics, Arturia and U-He; Samplers from Native instruments and Max MSP; Effects from Valhalla, Soundtoys and Sonosaurus.


Mastered by Taylor Deupree (12k)
Artwork by Maia Flore / Atout France (La Siesta, Argelès 2016)
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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The Eighteen Minute Gap

Sonmi451 - A Taste For Vicarious Pleasure

Saxophone Entertainment

This year London has experienced several weekends of the hottest summer and that moved the Australian sound artist Kate Carr, whose practice is centred on articulating the relationship between people and place through sound, to point her microphone at the city. This volume is based on her recordings during a particularly hot long weekend in a corner of very busy intersection in London, where she resides now. In Heatwave, Carr is interested in both the serious and also the more prosaic aspects of soundscapes related to climate change. She investigated the throbbing summer music from her neighborhood, people’s efforts to keep cool, and the uneasiness which accompanies these everyday activities in this moment of environmental crisis. The way these pieces construct and compensate, with all the tangible sounds that fold into larger moods via multiple instruments, exemplifies her acumen in creating sonic stories that reflect our multi-layered experience of reality.

Humidity - from Heatwave out now via Hasana Editions

NORMAN WESTBERG & JACEK MAZURKIEWICZ, First Man in the Moon - LP
Release date - March 12th 2021
Catalogue nr. - HG2101
Format - Vinyl / digital
Hallow Ground
Vinyl / digital, catalogue nr. HG2101

hallowground.bandcamp.com

Tracklist:
What Is Good For The Goose (09:35)
That Was Then (08:29)
First Man In The Moon (06:45)
Falsely Accused (06:33)
Oxnard (05:47)

Credits:
Recorded at Studio Diamentowy Pies
Damian Pielka, engineering
Piotr Mazurek, engineering assistance
Jacek Mazurkiewicz, mix
Lawrence English, mastering
John Fell, photographs
Greenpointless, design

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An unlikely meeting of two like-minded spirits, »First Man in the Moon« sees the former Swans guitarist and Hallow Ground regular Norman Westberg and the prolific double bass player Jacek Mazurkiewicz collaborate for five evocative tracks. The pair finds common ground beyond the boundaries of atmospheric drone, abstract jazz and experimental music and blurs the lines between the acoustic and the electronic. 

The two first met when the composer Mazurkiewicz supported Swans with his solo project 3FoNIA on their 2014 European tour. »I really enjoyed his approach,« says Westberg about the Polish musician’s blending of the acoustic qualities of his instrument with electronically generated sounds. A decision to collaborate was made and when the US-American musician returned to Eastern Europe to support Michael Gira on his solo tour in late 2019, Mazurkiewicz reached out to him with the idea of booking some studio time before Gira’s two concerts in Warsaw. »Recording was very fun and easy,« remembers Westberg. »It was just two people enjoying hearing and reacting to what the other is doing.«

»First Man in the Moon« is not however a plain document of these improvised sessions, but also shaped by Mazurkiewicz’s approach as a composer. Once the recordings were finished, he selected and edited the recorded material, refining the peculiar dialogue between the guitarist’s meditative drones and bright chords and his own rhythmic yet subtle approach to playing the double bass, sometimes plucking the strings and occasionally using his bow to underscore Westberg’s fleeting melodies, but also using the instrument in unconventional ways to generate sound. 

A feeling of weightlessness prevails throughout the aptly-titled »First Man in the Moon.« Even at their most abstract however, these five improvisations-turned-compositions remain tangible, lively, and joyfully explorative. It is a record that you wouldn’t expect from either of these musicians, but the logical result of two idiosyncratic minds sharing not only space and time, but also their respective visions with each other.

NORMAN WESTBERG & JACEK MAZURKIEWICZ - What Is Good For The Goose (HG2101)

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each release start with the end of the previous one.
in sounds and visually. 
an exquisite corpse with 100 releases which will make the loop.
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Arovane - Konstant

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