release on 2nd May 2025 : www.wabi-sabi-tapes.bandcamp.com
@manja-ristic

Manja Ristić is a Serbian violinist, sound artist, published poet, curator, and researcher. In her work, she sets ecosystems in resonance and translates the human activity that criss-crosses them.

Manja Ristić - Olovo (extract)

From Tender / Wading 
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Available September 26, 2025 

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Tender / Wading

Tender of Land

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Latvian Radio Choir Chamber Singers, cond. Kaspars Putniņš

Words: 'Square Poem' by Lewis Carroll

Art: Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Plane Chants (2025)

Written for Norbert Rodenkirchen. Early flutes, electronics. To be presented in 8-channel sound at the ZKM Karlsruhe on November 20th, 2025

The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity (Excerpt)

~ IIKKI 029 ~

music : øjeRum
artwork : øjeRum
album : Ensomheden Vi Deler
duration : 40.36 mn 
date : September 29th 2025

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Music & artwork by øjeRum

Mastered by Taylor Deupree 
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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edition : 
• vinyl: limited to 200 copies / neon green LP / hand numbered  / neon green pantone (front + back) / white inner 
• cd: limited to 150 CD / neon green pantone / 4-panel matte card package / hand numbered 
• book: limited to 500 copies / hand numbered & hand stamped / neon green pantone on the cover (front + back) / Swiss binding /  coloured edges with neon green pantone / sticker on front cover

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pre-order : September 01st, 2025 / official release : September 29th, 2025

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https://iikki.bandcamp.com/music
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https://oejerum.bandcamp.com/

øjeRum - Bag Tidens Lukkede Hænder

lagyo

https://mnlth.bandcamp.com/album/the-ridge

Foxcall (Blue sky days)

From the video https://youtu.be/duQuEerjcfE

Word Acid

Freman Hrd Wls

As far as we know, or at least can discern from those letters and records published after his tragically early death at the age of 40, the author Franz Kafka had two great love affairs. The second, with journalist and translator Milena Jesenská, has been widely celebrated in the decades since the collected, one-sided Letters to Milena was compiled and published. In it, we see what must be the total store of his warmth and passion – everything lacking in his disorienting, menacing fictions. The Milena letters, strange and hot and highly questionable as they are, remain a source of fascination and inspiration for Kafka fanatics, erotomaniacs and historians alike. 

Unfortunately, their intellectually salacious reputation means those Letters far overshadow an earlier, thicker, darker volume penned by Franz K to his first great love and one-time fiancée, Felice Bauer, a relative of his lifelong editor Max Brod. While Kafka’s real-life story is one of brutal sexual failure and alienation before, during and after these two longer-term relationships, he managed a depth of written intimacy with both of these women most accurately described as harrowing. This tendency to expose himself most in moments of bitter melancholy is far more apparent and striking in the collected Letters to Felice.

This cold zoetrope, which conceals and reveals at accelerated frame-rates, eventually making a complex picture from an endless sequencing of small repetitive gestures, is the scaffold supporting Aris Kindt, the ongoing two-piece ‘post-structuralist pop’ project from Francis Harris and Gabe Hedrick. With Now Claims My Timid Heart, Harris and Hedrick continue the experiment started on Swann and Odette, crafting closed systems that promote a hushed correspondence between their sonic (Basic Channel, drone metal) and literary influences (Kafka, Sebald, Pynchon). 

Their commitment to this insular, architectural thesis resolves itself yet again with a record that manages to be simultaneously alienating and deeply human. This is largely due to the novel and particular ways the band achieves its trademark sound: For Timid Heart (their first record since 2017 as well as their first release on NYC’s Quiet Time Tapes), Harris eliminated much of music’s normal dependence on physical space, instead creating hermetically sealed sonic ‘rooms’ where the songs can live by sending samples and loops through convolution reverb. Each of the eight tracks on Timid Heart is fundamentally, thus, a field recording from an inaccessible world.

Nowhere is this more apparent than on ‘Letters to Felice,’ which contains some of the album’s most Kafkaesque, dystopian atonality, as well as the most obvious influence of storied producer and engineer Phil Weinrobe (Adrienne Lenker, Big Thief), who oversaw mixing for the record. This is about as upbeat as Aris Kindt gets; listening closely and taking into consideration the Rembrandt painting that gave the band its name, one can only hear the ravings of the human heart in a biomechanical sense. Not the stuff of love letters, but the operating table; not throbbing with lust, but electricity. It is the sort of music that begs the listener to remain at a slight remove for their own safety, to avoid going out in the way that desire, once sated, also ceases to be.

Now Claims My Timid Heart is, in this way, both a continuation of and an advancement upon Swann’s speculative emotional landscape; it maintains the band’s mystic sense of intimacy while simultaneously moving it in a more interior, cautiously analytic direction. Like viewing the Aris Kindt of Rembrandt’s masterpiece, or the vulnerabilities of Kafka on the private page, Timid Heart feels at times like getting a peek into an autopsy in progress. Simultaneously raw and clinical, it pulses inside the listener, encouraging retreat – if only into oneself. 


Aris Kindt - Saichh Sequences

Here is a new piece of music for the future cycle. 'Vanishing Lines'  is composed and played as the 9th piece in my series of experiments to try other approaches. You're welcome to listen if you like, if you can. 
The art pic is a detail of my painting ‚Another Language‘ (https://www.axelweis.bplaced.net/wordpress/art).

Video: https://youtu.be/FNRld4qaTwE

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Future IX: Vanishing Lines

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

The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity (Excerpt)

Lea Bertucci