Taken from the album 'Suisse Redux' released as LP and Digital

François J. Bonnet & Stephen F. O'Malley 'assembled by Jim O'Rourke (excerpt)' (EMEGO 298)

Grégoire Bruno: Production, Mix, Synth, Vocals
Gaston Pelouse: Guitar, Bass, Organ
Primate Audio: Mastering
Samuel Biscuit: Artwork

Red Bricks

@feldermelder - Euphoric Attempts
Cat #: OUS030
Release date: October 14, 2022
Distributed by Kudos: https://kudosdistribution.co.uk
Label Bandcamp: https://ousooo.bandcamp.com

«While focusing on the current conditions we find ourselves in and bracing for what seems like the collapse of humanity, I made this collection of music in an attempt to ignite the essential remnants of my inner euphoria, and perhaps yours too» - Feldermelder

«Euphoric Attempts» is a finespun, voluminous manifestation of euphoria, a testimony to creativity, produced at a time when the outside world seems to be slowly disintegrating. The musical language is pure, vast, resilient, and vulnerable. The compositions of Feldermelder have a tonality both strange and familiar, intensified and influenced by classical music, yet distinguished by the coalescence of contrasting styles.

«Euphoric Attempts» relates to the state of our external surroundings but also refers to our inner life: it passes through our memories — through our organism — through our stories, and intends to elude the cold grip of analytical listening, instead retrieving intrinsic truths. The track titles signify a form of homage to our inner individuality, existing in parallel with the severities of the tangible, the external.

For this album, Feldermelder draws together compositions from his extensive archives, focussing on material that reflects the simple joy of making music. As a counterpoint to the abstract complexities and intricate rhythms of his live performances, here Feldermelder creates candid compositions of purity and minimalism, finding a sense of elegance in the details. «Euphoric Attempts» discovers the prospect of liberation and vitality in concealed intimacies, capturing their resemblance in gentle, elaborate, and prodigious movements of sound.

Feldermelder is a Swiss musician, sound designer, producer, and installation artist. He is co-founder of -OUS and part of the audio-visual collective Encor.studio. He has previously released several releases on -OUS, both as a solo artist, and in collaboration with Sara Oswald and Julian Sartorius. Feldermelder’s influences range from pioneering early electronic music to contemporary analogue electronics to classic jazz and beyond. The diversity of the music that inspires him is mirrored in his own work, which illustrates an ever-evolving sound, and indicates that influence is seen as both map and compass, guiding divergent inclinations. 

Credits: 
Written and produced by Manuel Oberholzer
Mastering by VFBM
Cover Picture by Jean-Marc Avila
Graphic Design by Martin Cramatte

Feldermelder - Euphoric Attempts - 11 - Non C'é

Jake Meginsky 
Live at 10 Forward 
May 13 2022

Live At 10F May 13 2022

“Melnā šļauka” / Black hose, 2022 

audio kolāža – Linda Leimane; balss/čells – Evelīna Deičmane / sound collage – Linda Leimane; voice/cello – Evelīna Deičmane, 9’20 min. 

Reālu notikumu stāstījums, ko pavada skaņu celiņi no padomju multiplikācijas filmām, 80. gadu popmūzika un čella spēle. Lai arī brīdinām par skarbo saturu, beigās sliktais un labais transformējoties mijiedarbojas un novērš traģiskās sekas.

Audio darbs iekļauts Evelīnas Deičmanes personālizstādē "Dejorgāns", kas norisinās Kim? Laikmetīgās mākslas centrā Rīgā no 4. novembrim līdz 2023. gada 29. janvārim. 

A narration of real events, accompanied by soundtracks from Soviet cartoons, 1980s’ pop music and cello. Be warned that the contents are difficult, but, in the end, the bad and the good transform, interacting with one another and remedying the tragic consequences.

Audio collage is included in the solo exhibition by Evelina Deičmane Tanzorgan on view at Kim? At the Contemporary Art Centre in Riga from November 4, 2022 to January 29, 2023.

Dejorgāns / Tanzorgan

From O Morto's diptych 'Dans la Gorge d'un Monstre (LP) Ifrits Habitent (tape)'' on Discrepant and Sucata Tapes.

out 10th March 2023

more info here: www.discrepant.net

Dans La Gorge D'un Monstre (masters)

O Morto - The Gorge (from Dans la Gorge d'un Monstre LP)

Hypnotic Lament - vocal improvisation, the cry of the soul, pain, despair and anger of war in Ukraine.

Nobody believed it would have happened and nobody knew it would last so long! 

When the war has started I've already been in a safe place in Turkey, far from the first explosions in my country but still so close in my mind to this madness.
 Even though at that time my decision was to come back to Ukraine, later I realized I can’t live like that and I need to move on.

This improvised song was recorded in my hometown Zhytomyr just after coming back there.  

“Hypnotic Lament" is my reflection on what is happening, it's speechless, but still says something important through my heart and voice. It’s expression of grief & sorrow. Expression of regret & disappointment.

Dedicated to all victims of war

Hypnotic Lament

failing tape loops, synthesizer & field recordings (for P.S.)

Massimo Carozzi is a sound recordist, sound designer and musician based in Bologna, Italy. Since 1994 he has looked into relations between sound and image, sound and script, sound and literature, sound and space. Massimo Carozzi has created sound design for theatre, documentaries, short films, installations. As a musician he collaborated both in studio and on stage with various musicians and sound artists such as Andrea Belfi, Stefano Pilia, Margareth Kammerer, Valerio Tricoli, Claudio Rocchetti, Starfuckers and many others. In September 2000 he founded the group ZimmerFrei whose artistic practice ranges from video art to documentary films, sound and environmental installations, as well as photography, performances, workshops and public art projects. 
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi.

Massimo Carozzi - Echelon

Anne Imhof - Faust
Format: 2xLP / CD / Digital
Cat.No: PAN 98
Release Date: 13 September 2019
Purchase: bit.ly/2NCegzC / bit.ly/2zo1bRY

Deriving from the acclaimed performance and exhibition—staged by Anne Imhof at the 57th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia and awarded the Golden Lion for Best National Participation— the album Faust is part documentation and part elaboration, the sonic capture and extrapolation of the gestures, intensities, and durations of the live event.
Serving as the dramatic backbone of a several-hour long performance seen by thousands over the course of the Biennial, the soundtrack was a product of the collective and its individuals, animating and organising the performers while immersing the audience in the potent images of power and paradise. The music for Faust was written in a band-like process by Imhof and her close collaborators Billy Bultheel, Eliza Douglas, and Franziska Aigner during the months leading up to its premiere at the opening of the German Pavilion in Venice. From the chaos of the performative, the album is constructed out of live recordings and original arrangements, teasing out the most potent strands and weaving them into a new composition of brutal feeling and baroque intricacy, each track a testament to the energy that brought it into being.

Faust is anchored around three pieces—Medusa’s Song, O.W.E.N., and Queen Song—written and sung by performers Eliza Douglas and Franziska Aigner, whose sonorous and elegiac voices imbue the work as a whole with their crushing depths and dolorous moods. Between these urgent vocal interventions march and twist the winding fugues and electronic abstractions of Billy Bultheel, who has dismantled and reassembled the sonic landscapes of the pavilion, crafting new arrangements that couple the forcefulness of the physical encounter with the artifice of the studio. Throughout the album and culminating in its closing act—the brutal chorus of Douglas’ Faust’s Last Song, a pulsing canon of looped and layered voice pierced by black metal screams—the record admits the listener into the inner space of Imhof’s dramatic vision of power, complicity, and vulnerability.

Shifting hypnotically between times and spaces, between cries and calls, between polyphonic antiquity and polyrhythmic complexity, Faust is the record of a lost event and the promise of a new creation. The release of Faust illustrates the centrality of music to Imhof’s artistic practice. Her musical collaborations with Bultheel began in 2013, and this generative constellation expanded to include the contributions of Douglas and Aigner, together scoring Imhof’s Angst (2016) and recently her performance trilogy Sex (2019).

The album comes with an expansive booklet of photography by Nadine Fraczkowski, another long-standing collaborator of Imhof and a prolific photographer, whose images of the performance and portraits of its cast offer intimate views of the work far beyond documentation.

It was mixed by Nanni Johansson at Hansa Studios and Ville Haimala, mastered by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, and designed by Zak Group featuring artwork conceived by Imhof together with Douglas and Fraczkowski. Co-published with German Pavilion 2017 and Galerie Buchholz, Berlin / Cologne / New York.

http://p-a-n.org

Faust 

Billy Bultheel - Of Love (Hraah) (PAN 98)

Taken from album 'Forma' released as LP and Digital

Dejorgāns / Tanzorgan

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