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Posh Isolation 203
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

thank you for listening

cover art by BLNTWTHR
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Tracklist
01. Sample - Storm beach 01
02. Brian Eno - Aragon
03. Dick Mills - Adagio
04. Aphex Twin - Tree
05. Ryuichi Sakamoto / Alva Noto - Second Dream
06. Field recording - Victoria line 01
07. Henry Wolff + Nancy Hennings - Time Ice
08. Sample - meta 03
09. Sample - last breath
10. Henry Wolff + Nancy Hennings - The Silver Eye
11. Brian Eno - Tal Coat
12. Chris watson - Vatnajokull
13. Jerry Goldsmith - The Alien Planet / Main Title
14. Sample - last breath
15. Field recording - rain roof innit
16. Field recording - rainy thundery aug 2020
17. Field recording - speed lift 01
18. Leandro Fresco + Rafael Anton Irisarri - El Reflejo Que El Sol Ha Perdido
19. Field recording - gong 01
20. Burial - In McDonalds
21. Jon Hopkins - Feel First Life
22. Sample - terrence mckenna
23. Julianna Barwick - Inspirit
24. Sample collage -  misc instagram
25. Colleen - Please Gamelan Again
26. Sample collage - misc instagram
27. Monolake - Silence
28. Aphex twin - White Blur
29. Fennesz - Shift
30. Earthaven - By the Little Mississippi River
31. Earthaven - Massasauga Marsh
32. Donato Dozzy - Vapourware 01
33. Sample - metasynth 01
34. Sample - metasynth 04
35. Andy Stott - Leaving 
36. Sample collage - misc instagram
37. Mark Pritchard - ?
38. Sample - din is noise
39. Max Richter - Infra
40. Sample - ram dass - fear
41. John Cage - Dream
42. Leandro Fresco + Rafael Anton Irisarri - Elevado Como Barrilete
43. Robert Henke - [_Flicker]
44. Robert Henke - [Convex]
45. Lorn - I Am A Dagger
46. Sample - misc instagram
47. Brian eno - Shadow
48. Cliff Martinez -  My Name On a Car
49. Hans Zimmer / Benjamin Wallfisch - All The Best Memories Are Hers
50. Daniel Lanois - Space Love
51. Lorn - Replika
52. Lorn - All Directions Are The Same
53. Thomas Ankersmit + Valerio Tricoli - Hunt
54. Bernard Szajner - Spice 
55. Sample - misc instagram
56. Sample - winter storm ambience
57. Mozart - Sequentia Lacrimosa Dies Illa (cm re-tweak)
58. Sample - ufo sighting
59. Stormloop - Snowbound
60. Cliff Martinez - Wrong Floor
61. Cliff Martinez - I Drive
62. Daniel Lanois - Carla
63. Sample - metallic portal 
64. Vivaldi - Winter (cm re-tweak)
65. Henry Wolff + Nancy Hennings - Transmigration 02
66. Brian Eno - Matta
67. Merrin Karras -  Drawn, Quartered
68. Sample collage - misc instagram
69. Sample - sophia - i will destroy humans
71. Allen Bruce Ray - High Spirits Walnut Condor cm flute
72. Jonuzi Me Shoket - Vome Kaba (cm re-tweak)
73. Dead Can Dance - The Host of Seraphim
74. Lunatik Sound System - November Sky
75. Sample - ce5 radar
76. Sample - byron katie - walk in silence
77. Sample - misc instagram
77. Brian Eno - Unfamiliar Wind (Leeks Hills)
78. David Hykes - Current Circulation
79. STL - Loosing Touch With My Mind
80. Sample collage - misc internet
81. Sample - overview effect
82. Robert Henke - Signal To Noise 2
83. Sample - instagram drone
84. Sample - acustica purple demo
85. Jon Hopkins - Campfire
86. Sample - Ekhart Tolle - Resist Nothing
87. Ólafur Arnalds - Brot

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Interview

isolatedmix 102 - Charlie May

Swiss born Nicolas Incerti, aka @faacil2000 is a music producer, dj and artist based in London.
His productions are a subtle blend of electronic music, experimental grime, French trap and UK drill. 

Working instinctively with a strong interest in visual and sonic perceptions he works with pictorial representation. 
Faacil20000 begins his journey travelling around in London fascinated by engine sounds, Motocross aesthetic, heavy bass sample and intense melodies. 

Faacil2000 continues to develop and sharpen his productions whilst collaborating more and more with mc’s and vocalist, various artists and friends without losing his own hybrid sounds.

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