Pan Daijing - Jade 玉观音
Format: LP / DL
Cat.No. PAN 113
Release Date: 4 June 2021
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/Jade

What if a song was not a culmination but a singe, an imprint, or a crater left in the wake of creative process? On her new record “Jade”, Pan Daijing composes at a different scale than that we’ve come to know. Since the release of her groundbreaking LP “Lack” in 2017, Daijing has expanded her operatic vision into a series of major commissioned exhibition-performances at institutions including the Tate Modern, Martin Gropius Bau, and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Developed for full casts of opera singers and dancers, and reaching for an all-encompassing durational experience of intensity for both performer and audience, the development of these works was for Daijing as emotionally disarming as it was thrilling. In order to continue accessing her own limits, Daijing had to develop a place of sanctuary within her own practice.

Its nine tracks written and recorded over the last three years, “Jade” is the sound of solitary release and refuge, of creative self-sustenance. Written without the imperatives of direct address to performers or audience, “Jade” speaks inward, while inviting a kind of rhetorical listening. The artist draws on materials familiar from her previous work: namely, ascetic electronic textures that rumble and pierce, and voice bent in irreverent directions. In place of catharsis, however, her arrangements here linger in tension, extending curiosity towards the delicate void that nourishes extremes. They toy with the minor capacities of song: repetition, chant, observations that conclude without resolving.

“Jade” comes from a vulnerable place, tender as in an undressed wound caught in the midst of healing over. Vocals, mostly Daijing’s own, arrive as wordless sequences of notes soaring alongside a drone, or plain laughter, or in a few places spoken word. What is said or sung provides fragments of experience and reflection. In the process of piecing together these fragments, the listener is confronted with the tender parts of her own. “Solitude is like an immense lake you’re swimming through,” says Daijing of these songs. “Sometimes you dip your head in and sometimes you lift it above. On album centerpiece “Let,” she speaks to us over the sound of rippling water, returning between anxious scenes to a refrain: “I take my bath in the ocean.” We are not just consuming Daijing’s story; we are being invited to join her in the water.

The album is mixed and mastered by Rashad Becker, featuring artwork by Pan Daijing, cinematography by Dzhovani & design by NMR.

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Jade 玉观音

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Written by @lilvica and @apulati-bien (@x_o_l_o_t)
Produced by Apulati Bien
Mastered by Bertrand Härdi
PRMSSS018
℗ & © 2022 Promesses

"'Promesses Vol. 2' is the second compilation of the label including 30 tracks by 44 different artists from all around the globe. This release is built as a long cinematic journey composed of eclectic chapters from ethereal ballads to epic anthems. 'Promesses Vol. 2' is a good testimony of the current label work.

Here is the full list of the artists involved in the compilation: AKA AFK & T9 RJ (prod. Amor Satyr) • Apulati Bien • BEARCAT • Beatrix Weapons • Bertram K. Bak • Brodinski & Modulaw • Clara! (prod. Tera Octe) • Color Plus • Elmoe • Evanora:Unlimited (HiHelga Remix) • enchanted lands • eydn • Feadz • Gaspar Claus & Samos • HNRO • Kanti ft. JLZ • Loto Retina • MAGA • Negro Dinero • Oï les Ox • Ragazza XXI • Ronce • Sassyggirl (prod. EL PLVYBXY) • Slikback & Sébastien Forrester • tommy moisy (prod. abel31) • u o (prod. neophron) • winnterzuko (prod. Neil) • XOLOT • Ytem & De Grandi • Yung Beef (prod. abel31)"

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XOLOT - Resplandor

Taken from SBKT053: Zaliva-D - 孽儿谣 Misbegotten Ballads
Release date: 23rd November 2022

孽儿谣 Misbegotten Ballads is the long-awaited fourth studio album from Beijing based A/V duo Zaliva-D.

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The years are passed on to the elderly, and the elderly sing to the children. Unfamiliar and uncomfortable.

A song for several lifetimes, then blurred and reduced to a hum.

People who have forgotten where home is, believe in deceptive signposts.

Festive steps backwards, one step to the left, two steps to the right, singing without using the mouth, humming, not knowing who is who.

Faces ingress into kids, laughing and jumping, shouting and pissing. Darkness pours into midnight musume, floating in the water, two eyes, three eyes, not me, not me either.

The river waves all the way. Stars that lead the singing, towards the ripples of the bells, stumbling and untidy.

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Artwork by 周沫 MoZhou
Mastered by Raphael Valensi

孽儿谣 Misbegotten Ballads

Zaliva-D - 昏寿锵锵 Hun Shou Qiang Qiang

Ruhail Qaisar - Fatima
Cat. Nr: DN019
Format: DL + 48 page photography & text publication (Urdu / English)
Release Date: January 27, 2023
Buy / stream: dansenoire.ffm.to/fatima

Ruhail Qaisar’s Fatima is a requiem for a dead future. The debut album release by the self-taught artist and producer screams with the trauma and decay of life in his hometown of Leh—a high-altitude plateau region in the contested Ladakh area, extending from the Himalayan to the Kunlun Ranges. Qaisar absorbs this external condition of perpetual conflict between nation states into his internal life and resulting compositions, crossing sound art, noise music and experimental filmmaking. Hauntological drones, power electronics and convulsive post-industrial dissonance create an unnerving sense of fear, anger, and alienation. A broken transistor with a knob tuned to the abyss is bombarded with the cries and bitter laughter of a city’s inhabitants tyrannized, not only by military occupation but the soft-power subjugation of the tourism industry.

Following 2016’s Ltalam EP—released under Qaisar’s now-defunct Sister moniker—Fatima serves to transmit memories carried through the events, local mythos and personal recollections of growing up between the remote agrarian villages of Ladakh and the urban center of its joint capital—Leh. The album was mixed between that area, and a DIY home studio in New Delhi, where the artist amalgamates his collected found sounds and field recordings into unrecognizable hybrids. Discordant pads and atmospherics on the dark ambient of “Daily Hunger” is disrupted by a crashing, pounding reverb, while contributor Elvin Brandhi shrieks towards its horrifying conclusion in the squelching, scratching sound of something soft being chewed.

An anti-lingual conjuring of metaphysical totems in music, Fatima is a seething chronicle of experience through the dynamics of riots, violence, colonization, unemployment, PTSD, and self-abuse. The cycling tumult of “Namgang” hosts a menacing whisper that echoes the hissing fury of something like Einstürzende Neubauten and Lydia Lunch’s “Thirsty Animal,” while a trouncing distorted bass line on “Fatima’s Poplar” circles a voice that barks, "The Western Civilization Show has been discontinued."

The Bunker, New Delhi
Choglamsar Village, Ladakh

Mastering by Rashad Becker
Mixing by Julien Racine
Photography by Rana Ghose
Design by Niels Wehrspann

Fatima

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Ruhail Qaisar - Abandoned Hotels of Zangsti

now on vinyl for Rocky Hill Record's Armenian White Label EP:
https://rockyhill.bandcamp.com/album/various-artists-armenian-white-label-ep

track art: Ali G,
photo: Lara Sarkissian

featured @factmag: http://www.factmag.com/2016/06/02/for-club-use-only-foozool-smutlee/

Lara Sarkissian - lezginka dance scene

@foozool - Azat Ազատ
vocal sample: recording of Geghard Monastery, Armenia choir 10/2016

Club Chai Vol. 1 compilation curated by the founders of Club Chai, @8ULENTINA and @foozool.  
FREE DOWNLOAD OF FULL COMPILATION AVAILABLE ON BANDCAMP:
clubchai.bandcamp.com/album/club-chai-vol-1 
+ dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ozmx9727u6b28b4/AAA0gOhlRASCNrxvvbPyV6Q4a?dl=0

FOOZOOL - Azat Ազատ

@PrisonReligion - RESONANCE IN EXOPLANETARY HYBRIDIZATION (HALC022)

The Resonance in Exoplanetary Hybridization project sees a crew of T-S cleared engineers working to synthesize new life based on the extraterrestrial group Prison Religion’s base code. Research in the form of sonic imprints lay the ground work for the homogenization of species into an inter-dimensional life form. The research results will be published in physical and digital forms via benefactor and sound house Halcyon Veil.

available in digital formats September 28th 2018

Tracklist:

MESSENGER (SWAN MEAT REMIX)
ALICIA KEYS (BONAVENTURE REMIX)
ALICIA KEYS (LEE GAMBLE REMIX)
ALICIA KEYS (MELANIN FREE REMIX)
ANSSS1 (RABIT REMIX)
YABBADABBADONT (MY SWORD REMIX)
YABBADABBADONT (GENG REMIX)
NIBIRU (ENDGAME REMIX)

Artwork by false prpht
Mastered by Al Carlson

PRISON RELIGION - ALICIA KEYS (BONAVENTURE REMIX) (HALC022)

Eternal Care Unit

Xao, 'Embryno' (2019). Courtesy Astral Black, London; Glasgow.

PRE-ORDER HERE:
https://mindrecordsjapan.bandcamp.com/album/b-flex-ion

Full transparent 8" packed in beautiful half silver/half transparent sleeve. Ultra limited edition of 50 copies.
All tracks by NET GALA
Picture by Bakya
Artwork by MOYŌ
Mastering by Paulie Jan
'KIKI' previously released in digital on NBDKNW

MIND CLEAR 019 - NET GALA - KIKI

Following her breakout EP, SiS, Jasmine Infiniti returns with thirteen disruptive club tracks fit for the The Infernal Ballroom. On her meticulously-crafted debut LP, she conjures occult rave incantations with sub-tectonic bass and spectral, seductive harmonies. Audaciously championing R&B, vogue and hip-hop sounds, Jasmine Infiniti’s latest collection of techno-hybrid dance tunes is bound to be the new soundtrack of NYC’s queer underground nightlife. 

Where SiS was an ode to queer solidarity, community and sisterhood, BXTCH SLÄP is as much about personal myth-building as it is about claiming individual space as a queer person. 

BXTCH SLÄP is cunt, unflinching and uncompromising, but it also boasts surprising range—moving briskly between ethereal hardcore house (“HOTT”), the anxious pounding of dark electro (“SPOOKED”), and certifiable techno bangers (“YES, SIR”, “WELLFAIR”). Meanwhile album standout “<3” hovers just above 100 BPM, a defiant statement of sensuality, calmness, and euphoria that’s no less gripping for its dramatic deceleration. Closing number “SHONUFF” clocks in at ten and half minutes; not a second of this adrenaline-rush of an acid techno tune feels wasted. BXTCH SLÄP might be most appropriate for the club, played at dangerously high volumes, but this music certainly takes on a new life after hours, in the moments we spend between the parties, alone and full of desire. 

The Queen of Hell is back and her powers are stronger than ever. 
All hail The Queen!


(Photo IG @shotbyguerilla)

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all music on www.larasarkissian.bandcamp.com
Electronic Composer, DJ  | @clubchai co-founder
Broadcasting on NTS radio

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contactlarasarkissian@gmail.com

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