KATELYN CLARK & MITCH RENAUD, Ouroboros, LP
Hallow Ground
Vinyl / digital, catalogue nr. HG2406
Ltd. vinyl / digital
Release date: 04.04.2025

On Katelyn Clark and Mitch Renaud's »Ouroboros,« astronomical and astrological phenomena, concepts and symbols such as the Great Year or the Eternal Return serve as the starting points for sonic explorations and experimentations. Focusing on a uniquely tempered range of frequencies, from low-end drone rumbles to airy pipe swirls, the duo develops a minimalist and highly evocative sonic universe on their debut album for Hallow Ground.

Working as composers, improvisers and curators in Canada's vibrant experimental and early music scenes, Clark and Renaud began developing »Ouroboros« through extensive improvisation with a reduced setup. Clark, who has worked extensively with historical keyboards since her studies in Amsterdam and Siena, played a small pipe organ modeled after a 14th-century instrument while Renaud brought a modular synthesizer and his interest in feedback systems to the collaboration. Later, the duo further refined their artistic dialog and the sonic interactions of the two instruments through the shared space of a two day recording session in Vancouver. Subtle crackling, acoustic beating and other (psycho-)acoustic effects in five pieces document this encounter, giving the music a profound physicality while hinting at the bodily presence of the two collaborators.

Just as the cyclicality of natural phenomena or the repetition of planetary movements is both a scientific fact and of the cultural imaginary, the sound worlds of »Ouroboros« are fundamentally rooted in time and space while transgressing the idea of a »here and now« through their conceptual links to geological and planetary time. The interplay of portative organ and modular synthesizer, which merge fluidly and in ever-changing ways, leads to a kind of circularity, a timelessness, a no-time. At the same time, the movements and subtle changes undermine the idea of repetition in the negative sense. After all, the Eternal Return, as Gilles Deleuze writes in regard to Nietzsche, is not the return of the same but a repetition of repetition. The only constant is change, the production of new intensities, of new forms of life – and of new frequencies.

Credits:
Music by Katelyn Clark and Mitch Renaud
Recorded and mixed by Aaron Klassen at Monarch Studios in Vancouver
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu (Schwebung Mastering)
Artwork by Laurin Huber

Ouroboros

Katelyn Clark & Mitch Renaud - Ouroboros (HG2406)

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artist : Akhira Sano
album : D-R
duration : 31.24 mn
date : July 28th, 2025

edition :
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Sounds, arrangements and Mixed by Akhira Sano

Mastered by Taylor Deupree
Artwork by Jenni Toivonen
Design by Sprflxgrfzm
 
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Akhira Sano - Demande Un

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artist : Offthesky
album : Nocturnas
duration : 40.28 mn
date : August 28th, 2025

edition :
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Sound and composition by Jason Corder
Vocals by Rin Howell
Created in Thailand and Colorado, 2022 - 2024

Mastered by Offthesky
Artwork by Gaël Bonnefon
Design by Sprflxgrfzm
 
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These compelling tracks recorded in Central Anatolia, Turkey, in 1960, featuring zurna oboes, ud and saz lutes, a kaval flute and a kemence violin, are available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog: 
https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2025/08/turkey-turkiye-en-passant-par-la.html

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01. Blochemy - Nove
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music : Ethan Syann
artwork : Yorgos Yatromanolakis
album : Farewell To The Night
duration : 29.30 mn 
date : November 17th 2025

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Music by Ethan Syann
Composed and recorded between 2013 and 2015

Mastered by James Plotkin
Artwork by Yorgos Yatromanolakis 
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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