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One of the brightest Georgian producers joins our mix series with an enchanting mix including his own tracks.  Saphileaum's discography spread across different labels is highly recommended.. Enjoy the mix..

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Avsluta - Ākāsagata
Ākāsagata [ST046 / Secuencias Temporales]

Produced by Lucie Štěpánková aka Avsluta
Mastered by Jorge Eafhm at Secuencias Temporales Studio
Artwork by Scencist
Released by Secuencias Temporales from México City, México
Release Date : May 23th. 2022

Lucie dedicates her creative practice to object-oriented improvisation, performance, interactive installation and theoretical and empirical research in the fields of Deep Ecology and New Materialism.

This ongoing inquiry is a fluid continuation of her studies of Sound Arts and Design at the University of the Arts London from where she graduated in 2018. She then returned as a visiting lecturer of Improvisation and Performative Practice in 2019, inhering the post from her former professor and well-respected writer and musician David Toop.

She regularly performs solo and group improvisations with her ever-growing ensemble of objects, materials and small electronics under her real name and with analog and digital electronics under her electronic music moniker Avsluta in venues across London and around Europe. In the past two years, these two projects have been going through an ongoing process of merging.

Avsluta (London, UK)
https://soundcloud.com/avsluta
https://www.facebook.com/avslutaavsluta
https://www.instagram.com/avsluta_

Secuencias Temporales
https://soundcloud.com/secuencias_temporales
https://www.facebook.com/secuenciastemporales
https://www.instagram.com/secuencias_temporales
https://secuenciastemporales.bandcamp.com

Oslated.
http://www.oslated.com
https://soundcloud.com/oslated
https://oslated.bandcamp.com
https://formaviva.com/oslated

Ākāsagata

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Avsluta - Ākāsagata [Secuencias Temporales]

@ethnoservice | Remix by @avsluta | @littlebeatdifferent | NMA EP [LBDTAPE007] | Cassette & Digital

Snippets - https://soundcloud.com/littlebeatdifferent/ethno-service-nma-lbdtape007-snippets

Release info:
Ethno Service, a moniker for two electronic musicians based in Prague, are here with their debut long-player ‘NMA’. Released via LBD Sounds tape series, it comprises six masterfully crafted original compositions and a couple of remixes, including an uneasy jungle rework by Exhausted Modern’s new alias Oblaka and a spaced-out ambient escapism remix by voodoo priestess Lucie aka Avsluta. It’s not an easy listening affair, broken and sometimes unnerving rhythms blended with duo’s uniquely moody atmosphere, ever morphing and taking you places you didn’t even know existed. Expect percussion-heavy tracks on a lower side of bpm spectrum. You may dive into this album horizontally, or try to find out if it’s still danceable. Is it? Sure it is!

Bandcamp

PREMIERE: Ethno Service - NMA 02 (Avsluta Remix) [LBD Sounds]

Saphileaum live performed and recorded on the second day of Stihia Festival, in front of the dried up Aral Sea in Muynak, Uzbekistan

Image by Ruztamo

Saphileaum (live) @ Stihia Festival, Muynak 07.05.22

Son Of Chi & Arthur Flink - Part Two
The Fifth World Recordings [AI-32 / Astral Industries]

Produced by Hanyo van Oosterom & Arthur Flink
Mastered by Noel Summerville
Artwork by Theo Ellsworth
Released by Astral Industries from London, UK
Release Date : October 21st. 2022
Format - Vinyl & Digital

AI-32 signals the arrival of ‘The Fifth World Recordings’, by Son of Chi (Hanyo van Oosterom) and long-term collaborator Arthur Flink. A tribute to the late Jon Hassell, who passed away in 2021, the album connects a deep running thread that goes back to the source of Chi project. Carrying on from where Hassell left off, the album takes inspiration and references from his Fourth World music concept and the ancient Hopi tradition of Native America. Illuminating the subliminal space of the arising Fifth World, Son of Chi pays respects to an inimitable force in contemporary music.

Hassell’s ‘Dream Theory in Malaya’ forms a touchstone to Hanyo van Oosterom’s musical journey, which soundtracked long, deep and reflective periods living in the cave of the Kallikatsou (Patmos, Greece) back in the early 80s. This period resulted in Hanyo’s track as Chi - ‘Hopi’ - in 1984. Hanyo met Hassell shortly after in 1987 at his “The Surgeon in the Nightsky” concert in Rotterdam - it wasn’t until twenty years later that Hanyo invited him for two magic nights of “Instant Composing Sessions” with the Numoonlab Orchestra (with a host of other artists) at the LantarenVenster, the very same stage where Hassell had performed in 1987 and also where Chi did their first live performance.

Dreamful, mysterious, prophetic, the Fifth World Recordings features the quiet yet elaborate sound of Chi awash with rich instrumentation, field recordings, and old stories by the firelight. Sketches were created with drones, loops, and soundscapes, with which Arthur Flink (also a member of the Numoonlab Orchestra) jammed on trumpet. Channelling Hassell’s idiosyncratic style, floating melodies and lyrical improvisations are parsed into the mix, where Hanyo has processed and manipulated the recordings, also referencing Hassell’s exotic scales and unique harmonics.

Additionally, the wah Bamboo flute at the closing piece is an homage to the works of Chi co-founder Jacobus Derwort (1952-2019). For this piece Hanyo used his first bamboo flute he made at the cave of the Kallikatsou in 1984. Arthur Flink answers in counterpoint with the wah trumpet, almost like the intuitive communication of the nightbirds... 

Son Of Chi (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
https://www.facebook.com/hanyovanoosterom
https://www.facebook.com/chifactory

Arthur Flink (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
https://www.facebook.com/arthur.flink

Astral Industries
https://soundcloud.com/astralindustries
https://www.facebook.com/astralindustries
https://www.instagram.com/astralindustries
https://astralindustries.bandcamp.com

Oslated.
http://www.oslated.com
https://soundcloud.com/oslated
https://oslated.bandcamp.com
https://formaviva.com/oslated

The Fifth World Recordings

Part Two

Son Of Chi & Arthur Flink - Part Two [Astral Industries]

We want to enter a new cycle with this warm and well crafted mix from Sun Drine. 

“give me your hand, and let us walk gently
our heads in the clouds
our bodies are getting warm
we run faster and faster
the pulses rise, and blood rushes in our ears
thoughts are whirling around
chaos—redemption—satisfaction—love
we slow our pace, and our breathing calms
we are landing
smiles left on our lips and beads of sweat on our brows“

https://m.soundcloud.com/sun_drine

Tracklist:
Hollow Memory - Polygonia
Incipient Being - Overshift
Portal Opening (AWB Remix) - Clotur
Dusk - Dycide
Invisible - Forest Drive West
Spinning out - Atomic Moog
Cirrus Apparition - Martinou
Unity - Abstract Man
Those Who Have Left - Doctrina Natura
Vaal - Toki Fuko
Division - Lindamann
Rawness of Terrain (Clotur Remix) - NFEREE
Ubuntu - Masseran
Mage (MTRL) - Epsilon
Serpi - Sunday Bath
Quattro - Oreinoi
Lagoon Tower (Polygonia Remix) - Biocym

ΔLTROVΞ 012 SunDrine

Echo and Rauschen for Ambient Memory
from 23.01.2023 on Radio Graf'hit.

you can hear this also on
https://ambientmemory.lepodcast.fr
https://open.spotify.com/show/0pJVizpcU4at5mM0qjYQhM

Wild Ambience - Early Morning
Atmosphäre & Balsam - Clear Morning
Heavenchord - Field recordings 18 
Ross Alexander - Fresh Ice Cream
Inhmost - River Crossing
Virtual Echo - Tjuguett
FSOL - Long Green Field
Laraaji - Deep Celestial
Ocean Moon - Clear Light
Marquess Evergreen - Calmness Mantra 
Les Halles - Images of Tecopa
Marquess Evergreen - Little Temple (excerpt)
Turn on the sunlight ft. Laraaji - Back to the Sea
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Lullaby of leaves
Tomasz Bednarczyk - April
Wild Ambience - Otters

Compiled between Autumn 2022 & Winter 2022.
Recorded 04.12.2022
©2022/2023 Echo and Rauschen [E©R ]

Grafhit 94.9MHz

Radio Graf'hit ~ Ambient Memory la residence : Echo and Rauschen

Monochrome Premiere :

Artist : @edte-1
Track : Sellenti II (Avsluta's Desert Trip Re-Imagination)
Label : https://soundcloud.com/indefinite-pitch
LP : Organica Reinterpretations
Format : Digital
Release Date : 08.03.2023
Bandcamp : https://indefinitepitch.bandcamp.com/album/organica-reinterpretations

Original tracks on ‘Organica’ produced by Nils Edte
Reinterpretations by Lucie Štěpánková aka Avsluta
Mastered by J. David Lucio S.
Artwork Editing and Layout by Mark Wagner

𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐄𝐑𝐄 : Nils Edte - Sellenti II (Avsluta's Desert Trip Re-Imagination) [Indefinite Pitch]

We can barely imagine a better start to the new year.
For our 21st release "Obsidian" many friends pulled together. The EP features one original track and three remixes. The original track "Obsidian" was co-composed by Sun Drine, Dit:eau, Ben Jarli and TrickyJones.

Friendship, kinship and a common passion for many shades of electronic music made these four creative spirits set foot on an adventurous trail: a spontaneous collaboration.

A studio session makes a fruitful birthday gift, and what started with the sole and humble ambition of having a good time skinny-dipping in synths & sounds, soon evolved into a harmonic workflow that none of them could have anticipated.

An outburst of rhythmic elements in a gloomy atmosphere and a rolling bassline carrying a sparkling/flamboyant breakbeat make Obsidian a tune resembling an obscure igneous rock - petrified lava that preserves its natural force, energy and heat for those special occasions.

As a senior stone mason infamous for his fine sonic carvings, Bernstein transforms the original's dark timbres into a driving and bubbly gem, a shining spherolite in a flowstone cave.
With their fierce and powerful interpretation, ki ya tori take the original to the floor, without further adue.
In the spirit of adept reductionism, avsluta's ambient mix rounds this EP off to a coherent yet versatile whole.

Buy & Stream: https://fanlink.to/LOKD021

Artist: @sun_drine, @benjarli, @ditolove, @trickyjones
Remixes: @bernstein_musik, @avsluta, @kiyatori
Release Title: Obsidian
Catalogue: LOKD021
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Obsidian

Obsidian ( Avsluta's Horizontal Mix ) 

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Sun Drine, Ben Jarli, Dit:eau, Tricky Jones - Obsidian (Avsluta's Horizontal Mix)

We warmly welcome the amazing Sun Drine for our eigth Herbarium Episode. Her plant choice is really outstanding, look what she has to say about it:

'I have chosen the passion flower because it always amazes me that this wonderful plant not only produces the delicious fruit (actually, I think it's berries) passion fruit, but also flowers that look like from another world. In addition, the passion flower has long been used in natural medicine to relieve anxiety disorders and depressive states and also as a sleep aid.
The music in my mix slowly climbs up, like this climbing plant, and every now and then brings forth a psychedelic blossom. While working on the mix, I kept thinking how it is when your mind gets tangled and you lie there sleepless and the difficult stuff gets big. And how incredibly helpful it can be to have a tincture that wraps you up, calms you down and brings relaxation.

Thus, I wanted to envelop people with the mix, slowly climb up with them, through profound levels, past trippy flowers, snacking on a fruit every now and then, to lightness and release.'

Sun Drine created a carefully crafted mix mirroring exactly what she described. Let yourself get immsered by this lovely musical climbing experience.

Artwork by @polygonia

Follow Sun Drine
@sun_drine
https://www.instagram.com/s.u.n.d.r.i.n.e/
https://www.facebook.com/sundrinemusic

Herbarium No 8 - Sun Drine - Passiflora

Indefinite Pitch PREMIERES. Edition 612

Avsluta - Rātri

V/A - Winter Nights
[InirecVA001 | Initiate Records]

Produced by Lucie Štěpánková aka Avsluta
Mastered by Brice Deloose aka Pattrn
Picture by Mod21
Artwork by Leslie Deboeur

Released by Initiate Records from Brussels, Belgium
Release Date: December 23, 2023

Avsluta

https://soundcloud.com/avsluta
https://www.facebook.com/avslutaavsluta
https://www.instagram.com/avsluta_

Initiate Records

https://soundcloud.com/initiate_concept
https://www.facebook.com/initiate.music
https://www.instagram.com/initiate.concept

Indefinite Pitch. Yantai

https://www.indefinitepitch.com

Winter Nights

Rätri

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Indefinite Pitch PREMIERES. Avsluta - Rātri [Initiate]

A:LX - Don`t piano me

"While the Coronavirous lockdown made many things impossible or infinitely more difficult and painful, it also opened up an unprecedented space to think, to reflect and to work in ways that the usual pressures deny. 

On March 17th David Toop and Lucie Stepankova were due to play in a trio with Yifeat Ziv at Café Oto; then on April 9ththey were also booked to play at Iklectik as a duo. Both gigs were cancelled, of course, because of the virus. In support of Iklectik, Lucie and David agreed to record a track together in the only way possible, by exchanging files and passing mixes back and forth across the aether. The feeling of working on this first track was positive so they decided to make a mini-album. One of the elements from the first track was a reading by Lucie of a passage from Kenya Hara’s book, On White, and this preoccupation with colour became a theme for the whole project. Other tracks were inspired by the writings of Himla af Klint on mystical blue, Hokusai on shades of black, François Jullien on the six colours of Chinese ink and Cees Noteboom on the yellow/orange hue of a ceramic bowl. 

Jullien wrote of a transition from ‘physical concretion to spirit dimension’, according to the dilution of the ink. This is how these tracks felt as they emerged between April and June of extraordinary times. When the album was finished it seemed fitting to offer it to Café Oto in a gesture of support and hopefulness for the future of London’s key venues. 

David Toop and Lucie Stepankova have previously played in duos at Café Oto, Iklectik and at the Jhilava documentary film festival. They have also played in trios with Yifeat Ziv at Hundred Years Gallery, Tania Caroline Chen at Iklectik and John Butcher at Hangar Bicocca, Milan." - David & Lucie

TR061 - David Toop & Avsluta - Blue Ether

A tender mosaic captured in soft focus, courtesy of The Something Something's Will Oirson. Recorded during the final act of ISOTOOP's "The Mind-Altering Experiment," an exploratory event which traced the course of an entire summer's evening, Will's morning call is a testament to shared experience, a confirmation of combined existence. Each selection is given room to breathe, space to occupy, and time to endure. It's impossible not to yearn for more. 

Thanks to @willoirson and @isotoop for letting us share this moment.

Photography by Alyce Currier.

Sure Thing Mix 096: Will Oirson

EN:
@segueambient is the name used by Jordan Sauer, an electronic music producer from Vancouver, BC. He creates ambient and dub-techno music with layers of field recordings, acoustic and electronic sounds, creating sonic soundscapes that conjure images of nature and emotions of peace and introspection. He has released numerous solo albums and collaborations with artists from around the world, including three LPs on the Silent Season record label. A high point of his career was the 2013 release of the dub-techno album Pacifica and the following performance at Mutek the following year, captured here in this live recording. In 2020, Jordan was commissioned by Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre to produce Gene Machines - an album based on field recordings and atmospheric sounds from one of the most advanced genetic research labs in Canada.

Presented as part of STREAM ON, a project by MUTEK, with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

FR:
@segueambient est le nom utilisé par Jordan Sauer, un producteur de musique électronique de Vancouver, en Colombie-Britannique. Il crée de la musique ambient et dub-techno avec des couches d'enregistrements en milieu naturel, des sons acoustiques et électroniques, créant des paysages sonores qui évoquent des images de la nature et des émotions de paix et d'introspection. Il a sorti de nombreux albums solo et collaborations avec des artistes du monde entier, dont trois albums sur le label Silent Season. Un point culminant de sa carrière a été la sortie en 2013 de l'album dub-techno Pacifica et la performance qui en a découlé à MUTEK l'année suivante, capturée ici dans cet enregistrement live. En 2020, Jordan a été mandaté par le Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre du Canada pour produire Gene Machines - un album basé sur des enregistrements en pleine nature et des sons atmosphériques de l’un des laboratoires de recherche génétique les plus avancés au Canada.

Présenté dans le cadre de STREAM ON, un projet de MUTEK, avec le soutien du Conseil des Arts du Canada.

MUTEK_Stream On - Segue (CA)

We are very proud to present another chapter of our Podcast Series helmed by our good friend and multi-media artist Andro Gogibedashvili aka Saphileaum. Originating from Tbilisi, Andro's musical output is consistently gaining recognition within the blossoming Georgian electronic music scene as well as internationally. Under his belt are numerous albums and EP's for respected outlets including @silent-season, @annulled_music, @norite or @oslated 🌱🌝🌱

We invite you to sail the mystical rivers of world-music influenced ambient, tribal techno and new age electronics with us in this hour-long fairytale of a mix Saphileaum crafted for us ahead of the release of his upcoming long-player on Good Morning Tapes. A colourful journey oscillating between the ancient and yet to come, exploring the universe of plants and animals and stars, and the inner dreamscapes we all dream day and night ✨🌻✨

Rainbow fungi artwork by @marcomaldarella 🍄

Podcast Series 10 | Saphileaum

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Artist collective & label family.
Based in Basel, Switzerland.
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For showcases or individual artist bookings:
luca@k4bookings.com / @k4bookings
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Alissa / @alissamo
Arutani   / @arutani
Avem   / @avemsdream
Dandara   / @dandaramusic
Digitule   / @digitule
Greto / @greatergreto
Hypnoe / @hypnoenoe
Nico Wilde   / @nico4-wilde
Pawlikowski   / @pawlikowski
Young Kulo / @youngkulo


Artworks by Boris Muscheidt, Jack Young, Andreas Stebler.

Founder at @introspective_electronics
Explorer at @terra-obscura-london
Ambientist at @phonicarecords
Alchemist at @soundofvadin

Booking: info@introspective-electronics.com

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Live
26/01 • Live Ambisonic Improv @ The Baths [London, UK]

DJ
11/01 • Introspective Electronics @ Netil Radio [UK]
16/01 • Kindred Radio [London, UK]
19/01 • Goo Night @ Spanners [London, UK]
02/02 • Cabin Fever * b2b Alicia @ Corsica Studios [London, UK]
03/02 • A.R.X. @ C3 [Milan, IT]
08/02 • Introspective Electronics @ Netil Radio [UK]
10/02 • Amoenus presents: Stone, Nexcyia, mu tate & Avsluta @ The Baths [London, UK] 
07/03 • TBA @ Loki [London, UK]
04/05 • Queens Yard Summer Party @ Hackney Wick [London, UK]
31/05-02/06 • Above Below Festival * b2b Phrex [Chiltern Hills, UK]
05/06-12/06 • KALA Festival [Dhermi, AL]

Curation
21/04 • Introspective Electronics x Experiment Intrinsic @ The Baths [London, UK]

Workshops & Talks
26/01 • Spatial Sound Workshop @ The Baths [London, UK]

Sun Drine, Ben Jarli, Dit:eau, Tricky Jones - Obsidian (Avsluta's Horizontal Mix)

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