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As time runs out on our @opal-tapes merchandise collaboration, we offer a glimpse into what the future holds for the label with a sneak peek at the upcoming vinyl album 'Peculiar', by Japanese musician @kentarohayashi.

Peculiar

Kentaro Hayashi - Odyssey [Opal Tapes]

Silvercoat the throng

Reciprocal capture (ft. Speaker Music)

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Lucy Liyou’s music carries with it deeply personal poetry, in a literal and metaphorical sense, conveyed using sound collage, noise, field recordings, and abstracted pop tendencies. When Notice first heard Lucy’s music, we were struck by its incredible honesty, vulnerability, and originality. For her first collaboration, A Need/A Want, she is joined by Philadelphia-based guitarist and lyricist Yska. Bizarre shards of Yska's electric guitar permeate Lucy’s deft and supple production techniques as the sounds contained throughout the two pieces produce moments of confusion, bliss, and catharsis. Using text-to-voice and largely unprocessed singing, the duo's lyrics present a refreshing and striking potency: “I’ve only been there once; and only for a little while; she walked like lavender; swaying, leaning…”. Music this honest and also so carefully crafted is a true treasure, and A Need/A Want is a testament to musicians honing their visions in a very unique way.
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NTR068 - Lucy Liyou - Yska - A Need - A Want - "A Need"

pop - Untitled

https://www.nts.live/shows/nkisi/episodes/nkisi-31st-august-2022

NKISI w/ Patience Pearl 310822

Beats 2023

Kill Tony

Buy the compilation here - https://manchesterwithlove.bandcamp.com/
A 226 track compilation of Manchester music raising funds for the Red Cross I Love Manchester Emergency Fund.

Manchester came together in the hours, days and weeks after the attack. Manchester With Love is a collective contribution from the city’s music community, showing the city’s diversity through music, from seminal bands through to the newest up and coming producers.

http://truantsblog.com/2017/interview-manchester-love/

Sleep Running

Head Shrinker

Conked Out

From Meemo Comma - "Neon Genesis: Soul Into Matter²" out March 19th
https://meemocomma.bandcamp.com/album/neon-genesis-soul-into-matter

On "Neon Genesis: Soul Into Matter²" Meemo Comma (a.k.a. Lara Rix-Martin) takes Kabbalistic text and Jewish prayer and guides them through twinkling ambient synths, breakbeats and cranking industrial noise, full of strange wonder and drama. You can hear soft synths transmuted into choirs of seraphim and moments of occulted dancefloor rapture, from Aramaic chanting and ravey breakbeats to readings from the Zohar. It is quite beautiful at times.

Jewish mysticism is at the root of Western esoteric beliefs and therefore has formed the structure of many films and books that explore the question of humanity. Inspired by the visuals of Evangelion and nineties anime soundtracks such as Ghost In The Shell (and its later Stand Alone Complex series), the new Meemo Comma album is a soundtrack to an imaginary anime that, like its real counterparts (e.g. Full Metal Alchemist), takes the beautiful parts of Kabbalah and sets them to science fiction stories.

When asked about the themes that inform her new album, Lara Rix-Martin says "Judaism is filled with many tales and teachings that prevail in science fiction to this day - whether consciously or not. Sci-Fi is the genre best equipped to explore the immensity and challenges of human experience. Something that Judaism has also been attempting for over three thousand years."

"I watched Ghost in the Shell when I was 14 and it was so striking, visually and sonically.  The soundtrack has acted as a backdrop to explore my Jewish identity. I have been reading the Talmud since last year, discovering a deeper love for Jewish stories and teachings. There are some beautiful, hopeful ideas in Kabbalah too, which were a central inspiration to this album such as the idea that the first human was non-gendered and just this form made up from the qualities of HaShem (God) who performed 'Tzimtzum', contracted their form using their Ein Sof (eternal light) to create 'Adam Kadmon' whose form split into all human souls." 

Lara playfully subheads her album: “In the year 5781 humanity is ever closer to becoming a singular consciousness. A team of humans are forming an android, Adam Kadmon (CODENAME: UNIT KADMON). First, humans have to gain higher consciousness guided by the Sefirot.“ While you don't have to know about these influences to enjoy the music, it stands true that the intention is an irreverent love letter to the way grand myths are birthed into the future through new forms, retaining their beauty and elegance.

Conked Out

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