Music and produced by Life Was All Silence

Falling Wall

Bellbird • Mourning Dove

Those Who Walk Away • The Beginning and the End

Those Who Walk Away • Memorial Environment #6

Umor Rex, catalog UR159. Vinyl LP, digital and streaming 
Release date: Friday february 6, 2026

After Visions, Yamila unveils Noor, her second album under the Umor Rex label. In this new work, the Spanish composer intertwines strings and electronics to sculpt landscapes where listening expands toward territories of dusky beauty.

The album was born under the shelter of a secret ecological community. There, among damp meadows and the song of a blackbird, Yamila feels an ancient urge—to sing to the bees. Inspired by ancestral rituals in which sound served as a bridge between species—to summon herds or soothe the trembling sky—the artist listens to the wind and reimagines that lost practice through a contemporary language: titanic harmonies dissolving into fragile microtones, rhythms that pulse not merely as measure, but as breath that stirs the body.

Her voice merges with the electronics and the resonant strings of Echo Collective, weaving a sonic tapestry that shifts between the monumental and the intimate, the incandescent and the whispering. Noor sings to the living—a prayer to fertilize the earth and return its breath.

Yamila’s music is not simply meant to be heard: it is inhabited, breathed, and felt as a living organism. It is a choreography of air, emotion, and resonance. Noor emerges as both refuge and revelation—a reminder that music can still be epic and radiant, profoundly human, while listening—reverently—beyond the human.




All music and voices by Yamila Ríos. Recorded at Destelheide by Christophe Albertijn. Strings by Trio Echo Collective (Violin: Margaret Hermant, Viola: Neil Leiter), (Cello: Stijn Kuppens), (Arrangements: Pierre Slinckx). Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studio, NY. Photos by Assiah Alcázar. Design & layout by Daniel Castrejón.



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Sin desarraigo

CST191
180gLP / CD / DL
03 April 2026
Constellation

Radwan Ghazi Moumneh & Frédéric D. Oberland • A Dream That Never Arrived

Radwan Ghazi Moumneh & Frédéric D. Oberland • Squeal Of Swine

Glissandro 70 • Bolan Muppets (Dan Bodan Remix)

On the show this time,  it’s the transportive electro-pop of Brooklyn band Nation of Language.
Nation of Language is a trio from New York, Ian Devaney on synths and with “the voice”, Aidan Noell on synths and vocals, and Alex MacKay on bass.  The music recalls the great pop bands of the 80’s, but their captivating songwriting and sonic originality clearly push them forward as one of the great pop bands of right now. Their latest release is Dance Called Memory available on Sub Pop Records.  

Live on KEXP, Episode 512 - Nation of Language

Last weekend after the murder in Minneapolis of protestor Alex Preti at the hands of border patrol agents, singer, songwriter and activist Billy Bragg found himself wondering what he could do from thousands of miles away in the U.K. By chance he stumbled upon his friend Steves’ Instagram page where he had compared Preti’s murder to that of his Jewish grandfathers death in Germany during WW II at the hands of the Nazis. It stuck with Bragg all day. Here’s the rest of the story from one of the biggest Clash fans in the history of band, Billy Bragg.

Billy Bragg Shares The Story Behind City of Heroes for KEXP's International Clash Day

Entidad Animada — Pequeño clima doméstico
Umor Rex © 2026 cat. UR161  + info at www.umor-rex.com


The Buenos Aires–based producer’s second album on Umor Rex can be read on at least two levels. The most direct traces its origin to the influence of environmental music, as well as to some pioneers of electronic music. The album was recorded in a single session, making extensive use of loops that were later edited and condensed into the six pieces that make up Pequeño clima doméstico. This working method responds to a playful approach that runs through Entidad Animada’s musical intentions, which often start from a specific genre or aesthetic and then filter it through his own language.

From a more conceptual perspective, the record proposes music as a tool capable of modifying the perception of a moment. Rather than closed songs, the album functions as a device that allows one to tune a state, transform a space, or alter a mood. In this sense, it engages with the idea of functional music not as a utilitarian background, but as a means to equalize time, slow the pace, and reconfigure the listener’s emotional climate.

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Microcielo

Experimental, Improvise

Life Was All Silence is an instrumental band composed of Leaf on bass guitar, Frank on keyboard and Travis on drum. Starting with lo-fi, improvised home recordings, the trio blends live instrumentation with electro-acoustic, incorporate electronics, loop pedals, sansula, LWAS creates metronomic sound with subtle changes in beat and rhythm. 

During the downtime in the fall of 2010, three members began improvising in their studio and came to an idea to play something atmospheric and minimal. LWAS caught attention from opening slot for Arms and Sleepers and Macbeth. Absent in vocalist, guitarist, the trio liberate spacious and expansive soundscape. Melancholic, fragile and emotional charged live performance brings audience a spiritual music journey.