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The second foray into Séance Centre's “Speculative Ethnography” series is an icy and tender missive of glacial piano, ambient electronics, samples, treated sax, and drum machine rhythms from snowbound Canadians Joseph Shabason & Vibrant Matter (Kieran Adams).

Shabason and Adams have been collaborating for years, forming the production team behind the celebrated experimental synth pop trio Diana, but their relationship has often been fraught with creative tension. Fly Me to the Moon is their ‘make up’ EP, a redemptive voyage through uncertain times. During lockdown Adams found refuge in routine, practicing drums every morning in Shabason’s Toronto studio. Afterwards, the pair would chat in the alleyway behind the studio, drinking espressos, a daily practice that became an antidote to the chaos of pandemic life. Through this daily ritual a creative spark was reignited and they decided to start exchanging ideas, but rather than working together in the studio as they had in the past, the circumstances required them to collaborate remotely. Through this distanced connection the youthful tension and ego of the past eroded, evolving into a deep trust.

Escaping the gravitational pull of a planet in distress, the duo composed a sonic love letter adrift in weightless ambient electronics, fourth world jazz visions, and cyborg IDM riddim technologies — an ode to a long friendship which has strength because it has travelled through so many galaxies and vortices. Who says you can’t fall in love all over again - ‘Fly me to the moon / Let me play up there with those stars / Let me see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars’.

Fly Me to the Moon is a limited edition pressing with risograph printed insert and designed for future archives.

RIYL: Ramzi, Photek, Mo Wax Headz, Jon Hassell, FSOL, Aleksi Perälä, Nuron, Ismistik

Purchase digital: https://josephshabasonvibrantmatter.bandcamp.com/album/fly-me-to-the-moon

Purchase vinyl: https://www.seance-centre.com/shop/joseph-shabason-vibrant-matter-fly-me-to-the-moon

B1. Joseph Shabason & Vibrant Matter - Winterhaze (32SC)

Substrata [Alternative Versions]

Chukhung (Alternative Version)

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Lavender Milk

Night Sea - Off Grid
Off Grid [Night Sea]

Produced & Mixed by David Grunzweig & Johan Ismael aka Night Sea
Mastered by Taylor Deupree at 12k Mastering
Artwork by Johan Ismael
Released by Night Sea (Self-release) from Berkeley, US
Release Date : December 18th. 2023

Taking the opportunity to explore a hypnagogic and meandering approach to their music, Night Sea presents the longform ambient single "Off Grid". The track was developed by the duo during the pandemic years, when time lacked its reassuring metronomic pulse.

Venturing out beyond the familiar cadence of their previous sequence based work, the piece glacially drifts across three neighboring soundscapes. Each zone is marked by aquatic environmental cues, detailed pops of hyperreal texture, and gently modulating synthesis.

Envisioned as the transition into sleep after a day’s journey across lakes and rivers, the work explores the realm of sonic perceptions as the mind rests in the fog of liminal dreaming.

Night Sea (Berkeley, US)
https://soundcloud.com/nightseaproject
https://www.instagram.com/nightseastudio
https://nightseaproject.bandcamp.com
https://linktr.ee/nightsea

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Off Grid

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Pre-order the new album ‘Migratory’: https://idol-io.ffm.to/migratory

Japanese vibraphonist and marimba player Masayoshi Fujita returns with his new album Migratory, where his sonic explorations into the unknown continue. The record is set for release September 6 and features Moor Mother and Hatis Noit. Fujita has shared the first, synth-lead single from the record, Tower of Cloud.

On the track, Fujita said "'Tower of Cloud' took form when I was preparing a live set for a tour a few years ago, and it evolved as I played in Europe and Thailand. The synth riff gives me a late summer feel and reminds me of cumulonimbus clouds, and I can see a swallow drawing a circle in the sky to the marimba melody.”

Migratory

Tower of Cloud

Masayoshi Fujita - Tower of Cloud

Talkie Walkie

Alone in Kyoto

available as vinyl lp for the first time 10/16

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Disintegration Loops 1.1
A tribute, not an edit.

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William Basinski - Sei A's Disintegration Tribute Mix

Plume

Steam

Zephyr

Chinook

Motoc

It all starts with the sound of the surf, the cry of seagulls and the blowing morning wind from Claudio Gasparini. Its history is steeped in beach romance. You find yourself sitting on the rocks, breathing deep salty sea air, and drowning in your thoughts. Time will pass quickly, though the first track will last only 10 minutes. Next, there will be no less melodic producer Khlev with the track «Ahafia», named in honor of his beloved wife. The track will add some dynamics and development to the compilation. This is a very sensual and melodic techno. After that, we will hear a story from Bitter-Suss, which will heat up the compilation degree to the limit with its dark tech house, which is on the verge of techno. Well, at the end point we will meet the arriving Matija, who as usual will surprise with a kind of minimalistic groove and some fascinating Eastern things, and then smoothly dissolve, leaving only positive emotions and the desire to learn about him, as a musician, more. Have a nice trip.

Produced by Claudio Gasparini (@claudiogasparini), Khlev (@khlev), Bitter-Suss (@bitter-suss), Matija (@matijaweiss). 
Design by Thomas Carmody (@thomascarmody). 
Photo by Velizar Ivanov.

Compilation II

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Claudio Gasparini - Rugiada [YANG025]

Wait stranger, take a look around.
Have you ever noticed how many things are happening around, that everything has its own rhythm, its sense of time and space. And all about that is interconnected. Time... It's what points the way, making you different from whom you were a moment ago. It is worth remembering, it flows in only one direction, and therefore causes such a strong interest.
Let the rhythm of time pass through you and give it free rein. And then it becomes clear that the present moment is something elusive. This is the moment when emotions, events and space merge together, when you catch yourself of thinking that the moment you are living is eternal. But only here and only now.
If you could choose which moment to pause and make it last forever, which one it would be?

In the compilation, the theme of time was used as a foundation. Each participant revealed it in its own way, original and unique. Each of them knows exactly how to stop time and grasp the moment of eternity. Pleasant journey.

Continuation can be found on hello▼strange:
hellostrange.bandcamp.com/album/time

Time

Marcibagoly - Aerosol (R.Hz Remix) [SL04]

Oakland, California based duo, Night Sea releases "Still LP" on Silent Season. Monument premieres track "Manila" from the release, that will be out in May.

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