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Paradise Crick

River Turns Woodley (for Frogman)

Timesaver is Xen Model’s third full length album and second release on the Causal Chain imprint. The 9-track LP stays true to the duo’s eccentric sound while delving into the introspective side of their productions. Club-focused head nodders “Pin Cycle”, “Face Forward”, and “Controller” accompany key tracks like “Arm’s Edge Reach” and “Grip Dial”, which channel the duo’s affinity for ambient music. “A Bright Star” spotlights a catchy guitar hook and features close collaborator 11ai. Xen Model’s signature play on halftime structure is engaged in bass-heavy cuts “Ripstream” and “Local Group”. The album comes to a close with a radio edit of their previously released track “Lurch”, which clusters the duo’s myriad styles and influences in an encapsulating statement of the Xen Model sound.

All tracks produced by Xen Model (@xenmodel).
Mixing and mastering by Xen Model.
Released by Causal Chain.
Album art by John Bonetti.

Timesaver

Lurch (Radio Edit)

Xen Model - Lurch (Radio Edit)

Ass Kickin'

The King

I DM U

2003

It's Crazy

It's Crazy (Single Version)

'Seeking' from the forthcoming album 'The Ghost Duets' by Minais B, out Oct 19th 2023

Mastered by Rashad Becker

Minais B - Seeking

Mix from @powerdynamics & @yakayaka

originally aired on March 12th, 2024 on Ola Radio https://olaradio.fr/

𝓼𝓮𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓽 𝓰𝓮𝓽𝓲𝓲 
Akio Suzuki - A record of the space
Lorien... Live!!! - love bites
Wilted Woman - The Worm Should Have a Treat
imryll - come out and play
Topdown Dialectic - 20170804-02
resilient - 1.2
pent - 2_
Chaperone - Miniature Plastic Flower
Pontiac Streator - l'amour toujours
sean mccann, matthew sullivan & jeff witscher - barb

𝓨𝓪𝓴𝓪
Yaka - ???
Deepchord - Immersion I
Yaka - ???
Mikkel Rev - Sphal
Volodymyr Gnatenko - Subra
Mike Midnight - You Are How the Light Gets In
Pupajim - Homeless

Long Thaw 🍂 with secret getii & Yaka

Listen to "Mourners Whirl" by Lau Andersson taken from "The Weeping Siege" out on 10th May via Rhizome

Pre-order: https://rhz000.bandcamp.com/album/the-weeping-siege

Lau Andersson’s debut album, The Weeping Siege, is accompanied by a visual side made by Lau and is a sonic walk where the listener is taken by their hand through known and unknown landscapes. 

Repetitive choir pieces, melodic cellos and fragmented rhythms leaves the listener at a place where language does not seem to reach - a place where language becomes sound, and where meaning is not meaning. From this place you can be without words.

The album makes references to Lyra Pramuk’s alluring vocal use, Arca’s experimental beats and Caterina Barbieri’s harmonic drones. Threads from these artists are bound together by Lau in a hymn which sings today. Lau further draws inspiration from artists such as Maria Horn and Sara Parkman’s album Funeral Folk and the record label XKatedral.

On the album, apart from long passages without words, there’s presented poetic sentences like: “Thee reeds are grieving, With mouths full of greed, Here I shall plant my seed, Behold, o weeping reeds, Only you reach the sea, My mother is the sea, My father the earth”. These small breaks into a lyric universe gives the listener space to think and gives room for the great, which is found in nature.

Lau about the album: “Many of the sketches for the different pieces were recorded with my phone while I was hiking in Georgia and Northern Italy in the summer 2023. The bare, beautiful landscapes and mountains, and the walk with sheep and cows made singing and hymns a natural communication with the elements which have no language.”

Lau Andersson is a Copenhagen-based sound and visual artist. Lau has until now founded the experimental visual animation duo Orgaphine, which has made music videos for for example the Xuri track Kali’s Dance, the ioulus album oddkin and Alto Aria I’ll Be Fine. Lau is educated as an electronic composer from The Copenhagen Conservatory of Copenhagen and has earlier released music under the name Raquin, an album released on Janushoved named Dance Of The Peacock.

Rhizome is a Copenhagen-based label started in 2020 by Aria Leth Schütze and Mads Krue Bugge. The label works with experimental music and alternative release formats and has released music from artists such as Alto Aria, Skarv, ioulus, Swell, Polly, Nemo, Laenz, Ida Urd, ill, Irmgard and Ingri Høyland as well as the compilation albums bag/belly/box and Hypersea. Rhizome has presented music at Øen, Alice, Mayhem, and Christianshavns Beboerhus in Copenhagen and Fitzroy in Berlin.

Links:
Lau Andersson
https://www.instagram.com/andersson_laonardo
Rhizome
https://soundcloud.com/rhz000
https://rhz000.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/rhz000

The Weeping Siege

pre-order / bandcamp

[Premiere] Lau Andersson - Mourners Whirl (Rhizome)

5 GATE TEMPLE joined in the studio by Xterea playing an hour of original heaters. 
Album forthcoming on 5GT in June.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/5-gate-temple/episodes/5-gate-temple-14th-may-2024

5 GATE TEMPLE FT. XTEREA 140524

@huar-huarco
"Pain goes by, don't worry. I wish the timing would have been better. It still hurts sometimes but I try to stay happy…

credits

Produced and mixed by Huar Huarco, Ed Lalo
Mastering by Ed Lalo
Artwork by Huar Huarco

BANDCAMP

Please Don't Go

This is a bluesier, funkier album; I hope you dig it 🌹 It will be in stores soon with Humbly Yours Records 🙏🏻

Greens

bassæ - A

Manager: eva@theblackacre.co.uk
Contact: setfiretoloraine@gmail.com
Bookings:ROTW: katarzyna@annexagency.co.uk // NASA: twalker@outermostagency.com / 
iwhite@outermostagency.com

2003

Loraine James

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