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now avaiable on C O L O R S Q U A D  0 1 1   via Color Squad Records

https://colorsquadrecords.bandcamp.com/album/c-o-l-o-r-s-q-u-a-d-0-1-1

(mastering by Danny Playamaqui)

Turret Rhetorique

Sudany is the first single of Sofie Birch and Antonina Nowacka's collaborative album Languoria. The full album releases 7 November.

Languoria is a collaboration between Denmark’s Sofie Birch and Poland’s Antonina Nowacka. While Birch describes herself as an ambient musician, Nowacka’’s primary instrument is her own voice; they share in common a facility for creating complex, layered work.

Birch and Nowacka were first brought together by Unsound to perform at Ephemera Festival in Warsaw as part of a durational overnight performance. Entirely improvised, the music already felt coherent, with Nowacka’s voice weaving effortlessly through Birch’s ambient soundscapes and field recordings, indicating an immediate, deep connection, a meeting of kindred spirits. The artists were reunited at Unsound Kraków to perform a morning show at a 19th-century synagogue. Here, the music took clearer shape, and the audience glimpsed the birth of works that would eventually take the form of individual tracks on Languoria.

This past winter, the two artists met in Copenhagen to record the album, completing 11 compositions that feel sacred, almost devotional in character. Fusing the melodicism and gentleness of Birch’s sound practice and the abstract, spiritual vocalisations of Nowacka, the album alludes to the wonders of the natural world while also turning its gaze inwards. “When working together, every small decision was very important, and that’s why such simple compositions can hold so much complexity and depth,” Sofie Birch says of their time in Copenhagen together. Contemplative, meditative and awe-inspiring in equal measure, Languoria is a breathtaking collaborative debut. Together, these artists have uncovered a new dimension of their respective practices, creating music that is difficult to categorise, otherworldly, yet strangely comforting. 

All music composed and performed by Sofie Birch and Antonina Nowacka.

Curated by Unsound
Mastered and cut by Stefan Betke at Scape Mastering
Cover artwork by Lera Dubitskaya
Photography by Filip Preis
Layout & design by Paulina Ufnal & Janek Ufnal

Released by Mondoj and Unsound.
Buy it from Mondoj: mondoj.bandcamp.com/album/languoria
Buy it from Unsound: https://unsoundfestival.bandcamp.com/album/languoria

Languoria

Sudany

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Sofie Birch & Antonina Nowacka - Sudany

https://affadisplein.bandcamp.com/album/pierna-talu-cage-your-tornado

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CD available from: IMPREC.com

“an intoxicating sauce of stark and tripped out ritual music... which conspires to keep listeners in a semi-permanent trance state” Julian Cope / Head Heritage

“a heady brew of deep listening music that is almost medieval in mood and wholly reverential in technique” Edwin Pouncey / Wire Magazine

“Razen push the drone potential of medieval instruments like hurdy gurdy as well as shawm and recorders... into realms of total sensory overload” David Keenan / Volcanic Tongue



Razen's Postcards From Hereafter was recorded using a 17th century organ tuned at 398 Hz (meantone) in a Belgian cathedral erected in 1305. The ensemble explored, with rich results, the organ's strict and limiting tuning with an arrangement that included hurdy gurdy, recorders, chalumeau, violone and nyckelharpa.

Razen - Poscards From Hereafter - CD - Release: 3.24.23

Aphex Twin - Wet Tip Hen Ax [45]

Omiya, Saitama City, (JP)
28/01/2024, 11:30 a.m.

A cold winter sunday morning, opening the window of our home studio in the city of Omiya, Japan. We can see our balcony terrace, Japanese pine tree in the garden and the music room of the city’s high school just next to our place.

We don't know how long this tradition has been going on, the sounds of high school brass bands echo through the street everyday and accompany some moments of our daily life in this neighborhood for around 60 years at least. The sounds of brass celebrate our ordinary life and add some pinch of dramatic or cinematic senses in our daily life.　


Microphones : Rode NTG-5 + ZOOM XYH-6 
Recorder : ZOOM H6

Omiya, Saitama City, (JP)  28/01/2024, 11:30 a.m.

Silhouettes above rubbles
Tuming into pillars
Monotonous mannequins
Walk away with stamps

Grains of a copy, of a shade
Cloning fragments of tedium
Clustered roots, source-clumsy
Growing into visage

Mumbled echoes from the mist, through the tunnels of revival. The graininess interplay with a subdued mellifluence. A haze of longing sighs and reverberations - threshold between the lane, where distant voices yield to light.   

Night Foundation, the electronic solo project of visual/sound artist Richard Vergez and the founder of the label - Noir Age, explores existential soundscapes, utilizing analogue hardware including vintage synthesizers, found percussion, tape effects, and manipulated wind instruments. 'Change Your Mind' holds the resilience and heralds the breath of new horizon.

Change Your Mind

Night Foundation - Counting the Days

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Chorus of endemic treefrogs of Taiwan :
莫氏樹蛙 Rhacophorus moltrechti Boulenger, 1908.
台北樹蛙 Rhacophorus taipeianus Liang & Wang, 1978.

Recorded near Jiaping Camp, Yilan County, Taiwan.
13.04.2024 20:40
Sony PCM-D100 + Primo EM272

240413 treefrog chorus, Jiaping, Yilan, Taiwan

Calls of Munjtac deer :
山羌 Muntiacus reevesi (Ogilby, 1839)

Also a chorus of endemic treefrogs of Taiwan :
莫氏樹蛙 Rhacophorus moltrechti Boulenger, 1908.
台北樹蛙 Rhacophorus taipeianus Liang & Wang, 1978.

Recorded near Jiaping Camp, Yilan County, Taiwan.
14.04.2024 04:50
Sony PCM-D100 + Primo EM272

240414 Muntjac deer with tree frogs chorus, Jiaping, Yilan, Taiwan

This LP by the outstanding classical Hindustani vocalist Mallikarjun Mansur of the Jaipur-Atrauli Gharana, featuring his intense and sensual melodious flights, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2024/04/india-inde-mallikarjun-mansur-sings.html

Aphex Twin - Wet Tip Hen Ax [45]

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