I really enjoyed Vapours. Part of a future release from you and/or Quartetto Maurice, I hope!

Vapours

https://soundcloud.com/o_wojciechowska revives one of her beloved Strië albums alongside new reinterpretations from legendary UK producer https://soundcloud.com/scanner. Now available on Gatefold 2LP split color vinyl. https://asip.me/asipv034

Strië & Scanner / Struktura Revisited (ASIPV034) [Previews]

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Air, in both its stillness and its movements, is what compels INVASIVA, the latest release by multidisciplinary artist Dorian Wood.

In early 2022, Dorian set out to investigate the root of her anxiety—and how her breathing is both affected by, and complicit to, her mental state—during an artist's residency at Loghaven in Knoxville, Tennessee. Upon touring the campus, she learned of the Whittle House, an abandoned cabin on the grounds that had not been inhabited for many years, set apart by the other nearby, fully-restored cabins. In encountering this site, Dorian connected with the idea of isolation as a catalyst for disrepair. She came to understand how separation could trigger a fear of losing self-awareness and the inability to escape. 
 
INVASIVA is a document of the artist meandering physically and mentally between two forms of confinement: "mandated" and "self-imposed". Like an abandoned house, the composition is filled with a stillness that seems both uninhabited and anticipatory. Gradual shifts in tone build an atmosphere of meditation, and droning notes are sustained like a deeply held breath. And yet, despite the fear of quiet isolation which permeates the piece, INVASIVA swells with slow respiration, revels in the wind, and echoes with gentle reminders of outside life. 
 
The work is one that emulates a contemplative state which is constant threat—and perseveres.  Comprised of the recorded stillness within the Whittle House, and sounds captured in the office lobby of Dorian's breathing specialist in Los Angeles, INVASIVA is a quiet, ethereal triumph over suffocating loneliness. It is a piece that is filled with inhalation, anticipation, reflection,  exhalation, release—it is filled with air.

Invasiva

Dorian Wood - Invasiva (excerpt)

Hiroshi Morita - Abstract Poetry [AR011] (album preview)

Limited Edition 💿:
https://atlantearecords.bandcamp.com/album/abstract-poetry

Stream:
https://open.spotify.com/album/2KLtVDKQMrv7y8BZmYKzN8?si=fNEqQhakQPOqqlgXHbshjQ

Artist: Hiroshi Morita
Mastering: Andrea Porcu
Cover artwork: Anthony Asher-Yates

Abstract Poetry

Hiroshi Morita - Abstract Poetry [AR011] preview

Alexandra Spence – “Do jellyfish breathe?”

A reworked version of this piece has been released as the album 'a veil, the sea' as a cassette tape or download on the Mappa label. You can purchase a copy here:

https://mappa.bandcamp.com/album/a-veil-the-sea

During Sydney’s most recent lockdown I submerged* a 15 minute-long piece of cassette tape in seawater collected from a local beach. The cassette tape contained a field recording of waves, and a recording of my voice offering a (non-definitive, and non-hierarchical) list of things found in the Pacific Ocean.

I’ve been thinking about connection with bodies of water, as well as connections between bodies and water, and how we might reimagine our bodily limitations to examine the things that connect us to each other and to our surroundings. The sea has always felt like home, and having lived on both the east and west edges of the Pacific Ocean it has become a place of connection for me.

I’ve been thinking about the Pacific Ocean as a home – not only to marine creatures and sea currents – but to the obscure movements of global trade, offshore data barges, and sunken satellites deactivated and dumped from space. Vast bodies may seem infinite, but nothing is – the depths hold mysterious, beautiful, and troubling things.

…Bottlenose dolphins, ancient artefacts, Lego pieces, approximately 36 species of shark, underwater mines…

Imagining an infinite ocean has led to overfishing, floating plastic-particle gyres, lost whales (as a result of the underwater din of shipping and naval industries), and an international sense of unaccountability.

“… Do jellyfish breathe?” is a kind of sonic traversing of oceanic layers, exploring imaginary landscapes, entwining and encountering unequal forms, such as breath with wave, fish with fishing line, along the way.

*Submerging the tape in salt water is an expansion of an ongoing project in which I bury tape loops 7-second field recordings on tape loops before burying them in the earth at the location in which they were recorded. I imagine this as a collaboration of sorts — I make a recording and the physical variables of each place and location alter it. While the magnetic coating of the tape retains sonic remnants of the recorded sounds of the place, the physicality of the tape ribbon retains material remnants of the place: sand, salt, other, which, in turn, impart audibly on the recording in the form of crackles, scratches, tape-warp, and hiss.

Alexandra Spence - Do Jellyfish Breathe (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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pre-order : May 05th, 2023 / official release : May 29th, 2023
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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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Links :
https://laaps-records.com/
https://www.nedmilligan.com/
https://nedmilligan.bandcamp.com/

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

A Weather Internal

Cold Euphoric

'Cold Euphoric' - A Weather Internal - [Fluid Audio, 2023]

Blue Chemise documents the hermetic soundworld of Australia’s Mark Gomes. “Daughters of Time” follows 2017’s brilliant full-length “Influence on Dusk,” released in micro-edition on Gomes’ own Greedy Ventilator imprint. It is an elegiac set of vignettes recorded straight to dictaphone with minimal post-production. For me these pieces function in a manner akin to Loren Connor’s evocative “airs,” conjuring poignant, intangible senses of longing and nostalgia then disappearing well before overstaying their welcome. Regarding their genesis, Gomes points to a quote from Australian artist Robert Hunter: "It's like I'm external to them. They develop their own assertion and character; their becoming finished is a thing they decide themselves. It's unexplainable." LP/Digital available 9/7/2018 via studentsofdecay.com

Daughters of Time

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Amirtha Kidambi and Lea Bertucci duo
From the forthcoming END OF SOFTNESS EP on Astral Spirits - Pre-orders available June 5th, 2020.
https://kidambibertucci.bandcamp.com/album/end-of-softness

Destroying Angel

Souvenirs cachés / Innermost

Souvenirs cachés

www.leabertucci.bandcamp.com Please buy my music
UPCOMING SHOWS
3.16.22 - Roulette, NYC - solo and duo with Ben Vida
4.5-6.22- Cafe Oto two night residency with Ben Vida
4.17.22 - solo at Presences Electroniques Festival, Radio France, Paris

Vapours

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