2024

[Daisy Records Vol 2]
https://daisyrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/daisy-records-volume-two

Lia T & Stina - A Window

Billy Bultheel - The Arcades Project (Snow Cycle)
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 138S1
Release Date: 09 February 2024
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/TheArcadesProject

Billy Bultheel shares 'The Arcades Project (Snow Cycle)', the first single from the upcoming full-length album 'Two Cycles' out via PAN on March 8th.

Written for Trackers by Billy Bulheel / IXVEUTAI by Sophocles, directed by M. Marmarinos at the Ancient Amphitheater of Epidaurus, 2021

Played by Spyros Vergis and Menelaos Moraitis
Recorded by Ilias R. Flammos at Antart Studios, Athens, 2022

Mixed by James Ginzburg
Mastered by Enyang Urbicks

Billy Bultheel - The Arcades Project (Snow Cycle) (PAN138S1)

LAVURN is the debut self-titled album from Lavurn Lee, a singer, songwriter, producer, performer and DJ from the inner suburbs of Toronto. He has also lived and worked in Sydney, Hong Kong and Berlin. His music is an emotionally complex assemblage of processed vocals, filtered pads, surgically programmed drums, haunting melodic fragments and hazy textures. This 13 track album of sparse, emotive and experimental R&B is his second for SUMAC and his first under his own name, following a previous record under the name Fake in 2018. Lavurn was made over three years between Toronto, Berlin and Hong Kong in close dialogue with SUMAC founders DJ Plead and T.Morimoto.

Previously, as Cassius Select, he has established himself as a unique voice in dance music, releasing on cult labels such as Unknown to the Unknown, Accidental Jnr, Hypercolour, Banoffee Pies, Raw Basics and Bruk Records. His side projects include collaborations with vocalists such as VV Pete and Daemon, his previous experimental R&B aliases Guerre and Fake, and BV (alongside Marcus Whale and DJ Plead).


THOUGHTS & REFLECTIONS ON THE MAKING OF LAVURN

“I’m trying to make pop music. Not in the industry sense, but in the way that everyone is making their own type of pop music. It wants to be listenable, so it can create emotions. I come from bedroom song writing in the age of the internet. The lyrical content and sounds reflect my demeanor. Big ego with low sense of self-worth. Constantly posturing. At once both strong and weak. I don’t always trust my abilities. I don’t have the voice to produce contemporary radio R&B. I don’t do traditional harmonies, mine are all over the place.

It's the first time I'm writing about my own life in a literal sense. I spent years writing love songs having never been in a relationship. Whereas this feels very raw as a reflection of my experiences. To me the album sounds insular because it was made that way, in isolation. The vocals are used in a sampled way. A chorus for one track might be chopped and turned into another hook. A verse for one song is half timed and used for the chorus of another. Auto-Tune is used heavily. Some tracks are ‘written’ by pulling different beats, textures and vocals from different tracks and seeing what fits together. I tried to take self-sampling further and further. I was thinking of ways to world-build.

Most of the lyrical content on the album is about dealing with a breakup. But the album doesn’t reflect a break-up because it’s completely one sided. It doesn’t reflect the reality that I was an awful person during the relationship. Really it's an inward study of a reaction to rejection. It’s ambivalent. The attitude is “hey imma do me and improve myself”, while also desperately wanting someone back (for all the wrong reasons). There’s a veneer of self-improvement and healing. But it’s all performance. I used to think all the songs had a kind of toxic intent because of this. Trying to impress someone in a way that would make them want to return to you. In retrospect I understand the songs differently. They’re not perfect. A bit confused in their vulnerability. Maybe quite sweet in a way. I think it’s healthy for me to see the lyrics on the album as directed at myself. It’s an album about self-love. I learnt that making music can be a kind of self-care.” 
credits
released February 16, 2024

Written, recorded, produced and mixed by Lavurn Lee
Mastered by T.Morimoto
Photography by DJ Plead

LAVURN - JK

Xperimental duo games release their debut LP, “Great Illusions” — a collage of subversive recording techniques that explore concrete engineering, corroded rhythms and harmonic distortion techniques.

A soundtrack to imploding stars and black hole soup, distilled into compositions that seep into the subconscious through carefully harnessed sonic entropy.

games = @blacksnakewhip + @vasesound

Great Illusions

games - ahx [INDEX:015]

Self Vortex

'Closer', taken from 'You Said You'd Hold My Hand Through The Fire', 🔥 a collaboration between Iceboy Violet & Nueen 
 Out on 7th June, CD LP/ Digi
Available to preorder now: 
https://iceboyandnueen.lnk.to/holdmyhandthroughthefire

You Said You'd Hold My Hand Through The Fire

Closer

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Iceboy Violet & Nueen - Closer

Taken from paris paris, texas texas by @moreeaze, pardo & @glassglassmusic, out March 29, 2024, via @ooh-sounds.

Pre-order: https://bitly.ws/3gIwe
Read: https://bitly.ws/3gJ94

OOH-sounds family members more eaze, pardo & glass join forces on a celestial album linking ambient neo-folk, fractured electronics and romantic escapism.

Referencing to Wim Wenders' 1984 road-movie drama masterpiece, ‘paris paris, texas texas’ is a strikingly cinematic tapestry of americana, resampled guitars, glistening electronics, subtle field recordings and processed vocals.

The beginnings of this project date back to the summer of 2022 when pardo and glass started recording some improvisations in a small studio with the aim of making an experimental guitar record. Over time, the drafts developed into mesmerizing slabs of guitar textures, simultaneously immense and intimate. No material was better suited for more eaze to add to the recordings her transversal and sensitive approach, linking the past and the present.

Ranging from gentle ambient folk to winding pedal steel passages, from twinkling electronics to distorted drones, ‘paris paris, texas texas’ is an album that’s not just “atmospheric”, it conjures its own unique atmosphere from thin air. Like a snake shedding its skin, the record slowly mutates from track to track - an epiphany, a transformation, a tangible and perceptible moment. Despite its distant trans- Atlantic origins, it evokes a warmth and intimacy that is hard to deny, an emotion that has perhaps been held back for too long. A landmark release in OOH’s catalogue, capturing the magic of its curation and sensibility in one sublime record.

Artwork by incepBOY
https://www.instagram.com/incepboy/

Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi

Released by OOH-sounds

paris paris, texas texas

Premiere: more eaze, pardo & glass - le grand souffle céleste [OOH-sounds]

Heith - medicine boy
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 143S
Release Date: 02 April 2024
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/medicineboy

Heith shares ‘medicine boy’, the first single from the upcoming EP ‘The Liars Tell…’ out via PAN on May 10th.

Heith’s debut album X,wheel marked the beginning of a long journey, the start to a tortuous exploration of consciousness and spirit. The Liars Tell…, on the other hand, feels like a kind of respite, a moment of meditation and pause from the fatigue of dimension-hopping. As if the traveller dismounted their carriage and, standing puzzled on a crossroad, listened to the echoes of distant places. Occupying a liminal space and letting thousand of contradictory tales form the lyrics to one unfathomable song.

Written and produced by Heith
Flute by Leonardo Rubboli
Percussions by Jacopo Battaglia
Mixed & mastered at Tapewave Studio

Heith - medicine boy (PAN 143S)

The first vinyl release from Doyenne Books via Boomkat Editions arrives as an anthology of love song covers - release date: 11th April 2024.

Taking its name from the etymology behind the well known myth of ‘Aphrodite’, meaning: “sea-foam", "risen from the foam" - the fifth release from Doyenne brings together friends, lovers and the broken-hearted under one premise. The commission was to make a ‘love song cover’, in which each artist has had free reign in the interpretation of ‘love’ as well as the style and rendition of their favourite musical pieces on love: Agape (unconditional love), unrequited love, philautia (self love), lost love, mania (obsessive love).

From bygone sea shanties to 90s r’n’b, post-punk, jazz greats, indie pop and 19th century classical, Doyenne label mates Christina Vantzou, Susu Laroche, and Spivak, are joined by a diverse cast of friends new and old. Alex Zhang Hungtai’s deconstructed cover of Sinatra sits beside Aya’s darkened Lovesong, whilst Claire Rousay, Wild Terrier Orchestra’s Jay Glass Dubs and Dania Shihab of Paralaxe Editions take on soft vocal covers of iconic alt bands. Manchester’s Teresa Winter does British folk, and South Korean duo Salamanda rework Debussy.

Cover artwork by Basia Strzezek

SUSU LAROCHE - BLACK IS THE COLOUR [DOYENNE05]

The picture is from Osvaldo Casanova, 'Football Icons' (https://thankyoufortheroses.myportfolio.com/football-icons)

Johan Cruijff's race and kinetic syntax, elusive and unexpected - to take up, in a different way, the image of Benjamin's "Angelus Novus" - were like a "wind blowing from the future". A race that condenses in itself not only the eurythmic whirling of the Oranje, but also the overlapping frames of an entire era, with all its ambiguities, liberating and revolutionary: the masses of Woodstock, Kubrick's lysergic visions from “2001: A Space Odyssey” to “A Clockwork Orange” (not by chance the nickname of Michels' team), the Pink Floyd suites that pulverize the song-form into alien emotional dust [Sandro Modeo].

Johan's acceleration

معازف | مجلة الموسيقى الأولى والأخيرة من نوعها في العالم

Premiere: more eaze, pardo & glass - le grand souffle céleste [OOH-sounds]

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