Die Beobachtung

ruhig

ninnenanne per piccoli mostri

Abstractions

Le Serendiptyque

prrrr

from 'People Do' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
available on all formats at www.denovali.com/johnlemke

Denovali Records is proud to announce the release of John Lemke's debut album in July 2013. As an appetizer we offer the 'Walizka' EP as a digital only release, it contains only tracks not available on the album. We also offer the song 'Traveller', which is also not contained on the album, and a remix by Emperor Echo as a free download.

PEOPLE DO [CD|LP|DIGITAL]

John Lemke is a Glasgow based composer & sound designer, originally from Berlin. Working across a great variety of media he explores music and all things sonic through collaborations, live performance, film sound design and especially his work as a documentary composer for the BBC and Channel 4.

Motivated by fusing elements of his more emotive film composition approach with rhythm and space, John creates a distinctive sound blend on his debut solo album, where percussive, prepared piano collides with abstracted guitar landscapes & disembodied vocal textures to form a danceable, electro-acoustic whole. 

Inside the creaking hollows of an attic treasure begins the uncompromising journey of People Do. Eager to devise a more dance oriented sound on his first full length release with Denovali, and contrasting his more ambient, often orchestral film work, John first found inspiration in the idiosyncratic sound world of his grandmother's piano. With a shimmering past in the silent film era of 1920's Berlin, its very fabric was full of anecdotes. But sampling every string and surface, preparing it with kitchen utensils, let alone playing the instrument itself was only the starting point of the intricately woven narrative of People Do.

With a process including techniques of musique concrète, sound design concepts such as worldising (playing back and re-recording sound through a room) and the use of homemade field recordings from all around Europe, the album is filled with depth and a true sense of voyage. This is also reflected in the various locations the record was conceived and recorded in, ranging from Berlin to Bristol, Helsinki to rural Spain and Glasgow, with guest contributions on viola from Kim Moore (Ex-Zoey Van Goey) and Felipe Sumina (saxophone), only for it to be mastered at Durton Studio by Nils Frahm.

John's dedication to ignoring genre boundaries makes for an album impossible yet needless to categorise, echoing its wide ranging influences, but ultimately existing entirely on its own terms.

For fans of Four Tet, Boards Of Canada, The Notwist, Hauschka, Pole, Aphex Twin, Lali Puna

People Do

John Lemke - Illuminations

Track was written for a performance I did at The Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, opening a bill for Duane Pitre & Eleh, as well as the debut release & performance for their collaboration on Important Records- Pitreleh. Organized/Curated by Jeremy Bible of Experimedia.

Stay/Sea

Ceremonial Magnet (Part I)

Demetrio Stratos - Segmenti due

Demetrio Stratos - Segmenti tre

from 'Walizka' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den201
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/johnlemke]

Working across a variety of media John Lemke explores all things sonic through live performance, sound design and his work as a documentary film composer. The Walizka EP is his latest solo release on Denovali Records.

Three items in a suitcase, a clarinet, a looper and a microphone - is how it all started. 

A free improvisation with friend & collaborator Łukasz Bernacki (on clarinet) sparked John’s desire to bring his compositional and production approach back down to the most basic elements. Creating simple, yet distinctive rhythms only through tapping contact microphones run into noisy guitar amps became the base for the EP’s three tracks, consequently inspiring its live, lo-fi feel. Written and recorded between John’s native Berlin and his adopted home of Glasgow, Walizka (Polish for ‘suitcase’) somehow absorbs the defining atmospheres of both cities in its core.

Previously released digitally as a teaser for John’s debut album, the Walizka EP actually presents newer material, progressing the electro-acoustic nature of ‘People Do’ towards more dub drenched territories. Refining John’s blend of prepared piano and field recordings with hand crafted beats and swampy bass lines, this deeply moody and danceable release bends genres with refreshing ease.

The EP is furthermore enhanced by a second half of remixes by fellow Denovali artists Piano Interrupted, SaffronKeira and Petrels and the ever elusive Everyday Dust. Far from conventional remixes, these pieces fall more in the category of re-imaginations, complementing the EP’s first, more rhythm anchored half with a coherent ambient counterpart.

Written, performed, recorded & produced by John Lemke in 2013
Mastered by Alex Gámez at Störung Studio
Artwork by Łukasz Bernacki

Walizka

John Lemke - Walizka (Piano Interrupted Remix)

Mysteries Of The Deep Podcast, Chapter XXVII. Fading Light by Tdel.

A selection of music to accompany the sunset of a cold and rainy winter day, as viewed from the studio at the time of recording. As the light changed, so to did the sounds chosen.

Tracklist:
1. Andrew Lahiff - Intangible Imbrications
2. Aphex Twin - Blue Calx
3. Warmth - Dopamine (Ambient Version)
4. Ligovoskoi - Labiate
5. Kangding Ray - Antar
6. Sowing Paranoia - Ambient 9
7. Ishqamatics - Universal Cubensis Afterglide
8. Material Object - Indiana Drones Part II
9. Aphex Twin - 19
10. Echo Grid - Sleepwalking
11. Autumn of Communion - Autumn of Communion
12. Commodity Place - Soils
13. Ariel Kalma - Gongmo
14. Neel - Crater Chain Observations
15. No. Inc. - Early Reflections
16. Neel - Travelling on Kepler Dorsum
17. William Basinski - Aurora Liminalis (Part 1)
18. Global Communication - 9:39
19. Outerspace - Crixa 5925
20. William Basinski - Aurora Liminalis (Part 2)
21. Echo Grid - Damage
22. Emeralds - Magic
23. Commodity Place - Multifrequency Behavior...
24. Echo Grid - Through Fog
25. Imaginary Softwoods - Eye Colour
26. Ariel Kalma - Planet Air

https://soundcloud.com/tdel

Mysteries Of The Deep XXVII - TDEL | FADING LIGHT

Marsen Jules releases 24hour long track on USB-flash-drive

Marsen Jules just released a 24 hour long version of his track „The Endless Change or Colour“ on a limited usb-flash-drive. The generative ambient composition was originally released as a 42 min long CD on Taylor Deupree´s label 12k. The piece is based on three samples of different time length which are looped into a sounddesign-set-up that constantly changes on many different layers. This composing technique called phasing, was first used by minimal composer Steve Reich in his composition „It´s gonna rain“ and later inspired Eno to his generative ambient concepts. Using the idea of phasing to the extreme Jules composed a constantly changing environment that creates unique moments over hours. A musical richness of which the CD version could only show an excerpt. With the new 24 hour version Jules wants to give the listeners a chance to explore the deepness and ever constantly changing quality of the piece.

The 1.440 hour long track comes on a limited edition full metal USB flash drive with laser gravure packed in a black magnet-box with silver imprint. The drive contains a 2GB MP3-file in 320kbps. All copies will be hand-numbered. It is currently sold for 39,-€ plus shipping on the artist website.

www.marsenjules.de
bandcamp.marsenjules.de

The Endless Change of Colour - 24 Hour Version (Excerpt)

from 'Nomad Frequencies' [CD|2xLP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den237
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/johnlemke]

An ardent moulder of sound, John Lemke began carving out a very unique music blend on his debut album 'People Do' (2013) and its follow up EP 'Walizka' (2014). Informed by his work as a sound designer & composer for documentary films and his natural inclination towards fusing rhythm with rich textures and emotive melodies, he set out on a musical path that had been long in the making and is ever evolving.

The quest for unusual, inspiring sound sources has always been at the heart of John's process, however the genesis of his second album 'Nomad Frequencies' was rooted in much more inadvertent circumstances. In the summer of 2014, forced to indefinitely evacuate his Glasgow flat and studio due to structural damage from one hour to the next, with nothing more than a laptop and a bag of clothes, John embarked on a six month odyssey of soul searching, couch surfing and spending an extended period of time in his old hometown of Berlin for the first time in years - it was to be an odyssey that would help ferment and distill the ideas of his second album on which work had just begun. 

A year of particular global turmoil and upheaval, combined with John's personal, albeit very minor, 'displacement', caused a lot of questioning, frustration and anger, which somehow found its way onto the new material: a more confrontational, at times aggressive sound, paired on the other hand with a yearning for harmony, balance and space. Other influences came less from the world of music, but rather in visual form, through the densely textural art of Anselm Kiefer and the political, yet poetic musings of film maker Adam Curtis.

Intent on refining his sound toward a more minimal, bolder style, John set out to limit his sonic palate to a handful of carefully chosen elements. At the centre of this new direction remains the muted piano already introduced on his debut, but in a much more purified and raw form. This organic base is adorned by the warm fuzzing and wavering of analogue synthesisers, tape echoes, meditative tuning forks, field recordings from John's 'exile' period and percussion based on his rigid approach to sampling, which started developing on 'Walizka'. The guiding principle of his orthodox style of recording and sampling is to only use home-made sounds by utilising his own field recordings, applying contact microphones or hydrophones to objects and instruments, running them through different kinds of speakers and re-recording the sounds to arrive at a 'lived in' quality, often misunderstood as plainly 'lo-fi'. Touches of viola and woodwinds parts (Kim Moore of WOLF and Andrew Baker respectively) provide melody fragments and subtle details throughout the journey.

With John's healthy disregard for genre boundaries, the array of influences on 'Nomad Frequencies' is vast, but never over-powering. From the meditative tuning fork that starts proceedings on 'Of Elsewhere', the dub echoes to the hints of minimalism, free jazz explosions to the Lynchian atmospherics, all elements serve nothing more than the album's narrative journey between friction and harmony, best appreciated in its entirety. A rhythmic backbone collides with rich ambience and melody, often infectious and jarring at the same time, forging a soulful whole which most likely only reveals its true self after multiple spins.

Nomad Frequencies

John Lemke - Vessel

Jim Perkins - Fragment

Neel [ Prologue ] Italy

This is Neel's live recording set at FullPanda Night in Berlin. 

Giuseppe Tillieci, aka Neel, grew up in Curinga, southern Italy. Neel has always been fascinated by electronic music and the technical aspects behind it. Pushing his curiosity a notch further, he built his first mixer at the age of 13. He developed his own personal taste for experimental sounds at the University of Music in Rome and subsequently in Rotterdam. In that period Neel found his obvious fulfillment in obscure, deep and underground electronics. His set is deep house-techno going through ambient atmospheares and melting with different performance situations, without anything really being defined or predictable.

The man has always had a strong flair for music production, which produced the collaboration with Prologue Music and, in 2011, the first "Voices From the Lake" EP release. The Voices From The Lake project – Neel’s collaboration with Donato Dozzy – grew from both their professional and social history. It’s the result of a long, hot summer in the studio, working side by side. The VFTL project already has an album scheduled for early 2012 as well as an intense live tour focused on the interaction between digital and analogue machines.

Neel’s solo album will be released in 2012 on Canadian label Silent Season in addition to other stuff on Prologue.

http://www.prologue-booking.com
http://www.facebook.com/neeldj
http://www.smkmachine.com 
http://www.facebook.com/SmokeMachineOfficial 
http://www.facebook.com/OrganikOfficial

Smoke Machine Podcast 030 Neel

Resina is the alias of Karolina Rec, a cellist/ composer based in Warsaw, who signed to 130701 having sent in this album as a hugely impressive demo late last year. A very accomplished performer with a background in Polish underground music, this eponymous album is her solo debut and sees a rich, atmospheric re-imagining of a Polish music rooted in a feeling for indigenous nature / landscape and realised via an intuitive, experimental approach to playing.

A fantastic debut release, ‘Resina’ is an immersive and deeply enchanting album, which unveils a unique and striking new talent. 

more info at 130701.com

Resina

Resina - Tatry I

Centres

Drifting to Void on All Sides

First single from upcoming full-length release out December 2016.
Bary Center - "Just Dust"
NB-024

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHRmmC9cvlY

Bary Center - "Dead Savant"

Through The Looking Glass

1 Midori Takada - Mr Henri Rousseau's Dream (Reel-2-Reel to Digital conversion)

Cinderland

high plains 'black shimmer'

SIDE A

Vellichor Chevrolet

The Poetics of Hiraeth take B

Track 8 from the 2017 album Honey Trap, available to download here: www.mothequals.bandcamp.com/album/honey-trap

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Download

Goosebumps

Track 13 from the 2017 album Honey Trap, available to download here: www.mothequals.bandcamp.com/album/honey-trap

Stream it on Spotify(Also available on Apple Music, Tidal, Deezer etc.):
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Human Traffic

Released on 'Beating Heart - South Africa Vol. 3', a 4 track EP featuring Daev Martian X Sio, Throwing Shade, Hunrosa and Thor Rixon. 

Following the debut Malawi album​ last year, the next series of Beating Heart releases focuses on the vibrant sounds of South Africa, sampling field recordings made by Hugh Tracey back in the 1950s, with kind permission from the International Library of African Music.

Profits from the series will be used to support:​ the Women's Legal Centre, a group of female lawyers striving for gender equality across South Africa, particularly for black women, whose work has had a huge impact on the country's laws, and continues to do so; and the Access Music Project in Grahamstown where students will be able to learn production skills through remixing field recordings from the ILAM ​archive, learning about their heritage in the process.

Thanks to previous​ support, the 'Beating Heart - Malawi' album ​(Rudimental, Kidnap Kid, Clap! Clap!, Luke Vibert, Afriquoi & more) ​h​as​ funded the setting up of a sustainable school feeding program in Lilongwe, now feeding 450 kids once a day.

Beating Heart - South Africa

Wonderful Sushi

Site-specific composition developed the acoustics of Silo City's Marine A grain elevator in Buffalo, NY. Composition by Lea Bertucci. Performed by Lea Bertucci, Steve Baczkowski, Bill Sacks and Kyle Ohlsen. This project was developed as part of Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center's Workspace Residency.

Terminus

Post Six / An End of Rooms

An End of Rooms

Premiered by the Quietus: http://thequietus.com/articles/23987-c-diab-for-another-body-i-guess-premiere-injazero-compilation

A stunning new cut from Exit Rumination, the sophomore album by C. Diab on Injazero Records. Artwork by Simon DeBree.

Pre-order

C. Diab - Butterflies

Track 7 from LEYA 'The Fool' [NNA113]
Available May 11th, 2018 on Cassette & Digital formats.
http://nnatapes.com

The Fool

LEYA "666 (feat. Eartheater)"

LYRICS: 
"Everything's spinning, all the time, dripping atoms into night - oh - everything's spinning all the time - everything's spinning."

"Sea - like the blackest night - reminds me of the first fight, when early beasts swam up to feel light beyond the ocean, but every claw and every tooth dragged them back to primordial soup, to the blind depths and dogged tests of the sickly potion"

Stream my music on Spotify(Also on Apple Music, Tidal, Deezer etc.):
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Pyjama shark

Track 11 from the 2021 album, 'Out of darkness, by magic', available to download here: https://mothequals.bandcamp.com/album/out-of-darkness-by-magic

Samples a 1930s recording of a Japanese folk ditty.

Out of darkness, by magic

Safe house

Mysteries Of The Deep Podcast, Chapter V. Cold Is The Void by Eric Cloutier.

http://beyondbooking.com/artists/eric_cloutier/

Mysteries Of The Deep V - ERIC CLOUTIER | COLD IS THE VOID

For the next instalment of the LN-CC mix series, Good Morning Tapes supply some soft piano amidst ambient soundscapes culminating in head swirling raga. It reflects the sensory and meditative spirit of the record label that finds inspiration in nature. Lock in for some essential listening.

GMT05

LN-CC STORE MIX 076 - GOOD MORNING TAPES

Lino Capra Vaccina - 06 - Antico Adagio

The Caretaker conjures a quieter, more introspective spirit, lost in his own mind amidst a low-lit labyrinth of ever-decaying and antediluvian shellac phrases. Sourced from a mysterious collection of 78s, these vague snippets of archaic sonics reflect the ability of Alzheimers patients to recall the songs of their past, and with them recollections of places, people, moods and sensations.

01 - All you are going to want to do is get back there

http://mnmlssg.blogspot.it/2010/05/voices-from-lake.html

Neel-Voices from the Lake

www.leabertucci.bandcamp.com Please buy my music

UPCOMING SHOWS

9/1/25 - Bow and Arrow - Duo with Michael Beharie at Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock NY.  1-9pm
sets by Brandee Younger, Play Time, Evan Shornstein + Celia Hollander
tickets-> https://maverickconcerts.org/event/unexpected-music-ii-independent-production/

9/6/25- Solo at Silence Please, NYC with Matthew Ryals (album release!)

9/10/25 - Duo with Olivia Block at Black Mountain College Museum, Asheville North Carolina. https://www.blackmountaincollege.org/events/lea-bertucci-olivia-block/ 

9/12/25 - Duo with Olivia Block at Sound and Gravity Festival, Chicago

9/14 - Duo with Olivia Block at Allen Gardens Conservatory, Toronto - with Aida Khorsandi @musicgalleryto curated by Tad Michalak

9/20 - Solo at Conflux Festival, Rotterdam, NL

9/24 - Bow And Arrow at Benmarle Winery House Show, Marlboro NY

9/28 - Bow and Arrow, Duo with Michael Beharie at Three’s Brooklyn

10/22 - Record Release Party LS&D Greenpoint Brooklyn, with Ka Baird, Victoria Keddie DJ Shawn O’Sullivan

10/29 - Record Release Upstate at Avalon Lounge with Ka Baird and Keith Fullerton Whitman