Perpendicular

At the heart of this music lies the steel pan — an instrument born in Republic of Trinidad and Tobago in the early 20th century.

During the colonial era, African drumming was banned under British rule, out of fear that rhythms could unify enslaved and marginalized communities. Yet, music could not be silenced.

People turned to bamboo sticks, metal containers, and eventually oil drums, transforming restrictions into invention.
From this resilience emerged the steel pan, the first acoustic instrument created in the 20th century.

The word Creole itself speaks of mixture and convergence: in Republic of Trinidad and Tobago it refers to Creole languages shaped by African, European, and Indigenous influences, and more broadly it names cultures formed where worlds collide.

Reflecting this spirit, Creole weaves the luminous timbre of the steel pan with tribal rhythmic currents, embodying hybridity, memory, and the unbroken force of music.


all instruments, program, artwork
produce and mastered by Setsuya KUROTAKI

releases September 9, 2025

All tracks are copyright protected. All rights reserved.
℗ / © 2025 MNTN rec. under exclusive license to NOiR Inc.

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Creole

"Carried" is the lead single from Agitations, OUT NOW on Janus (@janusberlin).
stream it here: https://soundcloud.com/janusberlin/lotic-agitations-janus004

Art by Kyselina.


Carried

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Vanessa Amara
Manos LP

Out March 16th, 2018 

Cut from the same cloth as last year's double-cassette, 'Like All Mornings,' Vanessa Amara's new album trails shorthand piano pieces and wilted strings through magnificent, electro-acoustic surrounds, often settling into buzzing, syncopated reveries.

'Manos' takes its name from an abbreviated term of endearment. Spoken in this form, it's an affectionate and inclusive gesture from friend to friend, or indeed from gang member to gang member. Vanessa Amara seemingly take their cues from either usage. Their new album feels hesitant to reveal its parts, and is perhaps a document of the limits of what can be revealed, a memorial to its own process as it winds itself in and around its delicately hued landscape.

Though beginning with a morose gait, the album quickly turns over. And revealing its softer self, the clarity of the moving string arrangements hang in the air like fine mist. Everything settles against surfaces as the day breaks, opening up the space, though eventually condensing into the unnerving crescendo of the album's final piece. A recurrent, gentle whirring, much like a gramophone’s needle, tracks through much of 'Manos.' It carefully steadies the listener into a mode of measuring duration, a meditative self-awareness that deliver's Vanessa Amara's world.

Always intricate, and effortlessly tender, 'Manos' is an album as textural as it is melodic, and it is certainly the most exquisite suite of works to have been presented by Vanessa Amara thus far. 

A1 Untitled 1 02:44
A2 20-03-2017  21-12-2016  06-02-2016 06:20
A3 25-04-2016 05:25

B1 Of Hoping 06:44
B2 24-11-2016 04:57
B3 Manos 02:30
B4 Untitled 2 04:42 

Posh Isolation 203

Vanessa Amara - 20 - 03 - 2017  21 - 12 - 2016  06 - 02 - 2016

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oklou - friendless (PREYRA cinemascopic refix)

HOB5: '6eyes' by @henryic

Music and art by Ike Clateman

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Eyeface - '6eyes' (HOB5)

Prayer

Does It heals and protects you,
Even when the lights are dim?

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