from the "Soundness of Mind" CS (NNF373)
Not Not Fun / 2021

SOUNDNESS ON:
https://liilasounds.bandcamp.com/album/soundness-of-mind
https://midheaven.com/item/soundness-of-mind-by-liila

Liila "Whale Song For No One"

Nyadungu Trip is an experimental sonic journey featuring the 12 Stringed lyre called Nyadungu . I designed the instrument to represent the Kenyan, luo and Ugandan, Alur cultural Lyres, Nyatiti and Adungu, hence the name Nyadungu. Monrhea and I sampled the sounds of the instrument and experimented with different textures of its sound accompanied by Raia vocals. Drop your feedback in the comment section. We'd love to hear it.😊❤

Nyadungu' Trip Makossiri X Monrhea(Ft. Raia)

Misbegotten Ballads

Mian Ru Er Tiao Tiao

Mt. Fuyu - A Mirror To Weave
Cat. Nr: DN024
Format: DL
Release Date: June 2, 2023
Buy / stream: dansenoire.ffm.to/MtFuyu

A grave and sprawling epic, Mt. Fuyu’s A Mirror to Weave swells with implication. Written, recorded, and produced from the heart of a person who’s lived through life’s struggles much too young, the album is a ferment of ideas and experiences that together capture the sheer strangeness, beauty, and terror of existence. Born in China and immigrating to the United States with his parents in infancy, the Kansas City-based artist—otherwise known as Fu Liu—moved from the coastal province of Shandong to America’s Midwest in the early 2000s. The dot-com crash to follow led to living precariously with his father in Canada, then a short stint in foster care, before settling into a strict regimen of academic and musical pursuits on the family’s return to the US.

This classical jazz education and scholarly background comes through in A Mirror to Weave, where an endless inventory of influences—crossing Coil, The Caretaker, Burial; Mark Fisher, Hito Steyerl, Carl Jung, and more—is steeped in a sublime brew of drone, post-industrial and ambient; hauntology, dub and bass. Rife with the trauma of the past, and the expansive landscapes of the present, opener “Temple” billows with decayed, distended, and eerily pitched vocals, as an arrhythmic pulse grows then crashes in a surge of noise and distortion. The disturbance rumbles through other tracks too, as the subaqueous current of “Swamp Nymphs” roils and fizzes around a crumble of pads and sine waves, while resampled and effects-laden drums charge head-first into the spooky atmospherics of “Ovre” with an erratic urgency.

Although often muted, muffled or restrained, the voice and its whispered words play a central role in A Mirror to Weave. It’s in the existential drift of “Shells”, as Fu Liu’s sweetly sung words (“seen it all/ a black hole”) ripple over a melancholy piano solo; environmental field recordings fluttering delicately just beneath the surface. The audio is taken from the parks, streets, bars, as well as online spaces Fu Liu inhabits, giving the record its heavy sense of grief and alienation. Wandering through the emotional state of pandemic-era estrangement, while also mourning the passing of friends, A Mirror to Weave is a requiem for the worst that’s already been, and an exaltation of the best that’s yet to come.

Mastered by Rashad Becker
Design by Niels Wehrspann and Solène Gonnet

A Mirror To Weave

buy / stream

Mt. Fuyu - Lmn

Welcome to the world of NIHILOXICA. A darker take on traditional Bugandan drumming. Comprised of seven percussionists, one kit drummer combined with an analog synth player. Recorded live in single takes at Boutiq Studios in Kampala, Uganda between the 26th and 29th of August 2017.

All tracks written by Jacob Maskell-Key and Peter Jones alongside Nilotica Cultural Ensemble
All tracks mastered at Declared Sound
Engineered by Ben Beheshty and Pete Jones at Boutiq Studios
Mixed by Peter Jones 
Graphics by Aleczandah

Mwanje Jamiru - Djembe
Kasooma Henry - Namunjoloba (Small Tom Drums)
Aineomugisha Alimansi - Shakers
Isabirye Henry - Bakisimba Drums (Bass Drums)
Kalanda Peter - Binghi
Galabuzi Edward - Engalabi (Long Drum)
Kayondo Herbert - Engalabi
Peter Jones - Synthesizers, Shaker, Cowbell
Jacob Maskell-Key - Drum Kit

Nihiloxica

Nihiloxica - 03 - Endongo

Animals

Dors avec moi

In October, Beijing-based visual artist and producer Howie Lee released his last full-length recording Tiān Dì Bù Rén, a fourteen-track concept album mixing Taoist pith and environmental fatalism into a high-minded manifesto. He now invites artists from all around the world with different backgrounds and genres, to remix tracks from the original album, piecing together yet another adventurous sonic journey.

Featuring Remix Guests：
@mikegao 
@shokuhin-maturi 
@yehaiyahan 
@markredito 
@alexwangt 
@anti-general 
@swimful aka Spectrum Ripper
@melo-luo & @williamarch

明日不可待 Tomorrow Cannot Be Waited (Anti-General Remix)

restons collés

they feed our mind 
with data we reside 
they know that we're not blind 
so they have their ways to hide 
and when we care 
they try to make us scared 

hide for the barking hounds 
put the doggy on a leash 
keep us all on a leash

Track mastered by olomastering https://olomastering.com

Doggy On A Leash

El disco debut de @eezzmmeerraallddaa  es una exploración espectral de las visiones del inconsciente


Luego de sepultar a su banda de cumbia gótica La MiniTK del Miedo hace 4 años y de caer en una profunda crisis personal y creativa, el colombiano Nicolás Vallejo se dedicó a buscar visiones para salir del silencio. Poco a poco, en medio de largas noches de experimentación con máquinas y efectos empezaron a revelarse los fantasmas del sonido que darían forma a Ezmeralda​, su nuevo proyecto.

Producido entre Bogotá y los farallones de Sutatausa, en un estudio improvisado en una pequeña cabaña en medio del aislamiento, su disco debut es una selección de ensoñaciones: imágenes que, de la nada (y hacia la nada, también), se nacen y disuelven en la mente.
  
Peregrinaciones al sol, marchas oscuras de espíritus cumbieros, estados de éxtasis místico alcanzados a través de meditaciones de YouTube, ascensos al cielo de leyendas vallenatas, arcoiris coronando cascadas infinitas en el medio de la selva, noches de tormenta en la Bogotá más melancólica, pueblos tropicales tragados por el tiempo... el álbum es una secuencia de imaginaciones rebajadas una y otra vez, coloreadas por sintetizadores y reverberaciones y ​delays​, y luego pasadas por las máquinas de cinta de su buen amigo Daniel Lofredo Rota –aka ​Quixosis​–, quien les dio un acabado espectral y en estéreo, apenas para escuchar entre dormidos y despiertos.
Patrimonio inmaterial de la nada​ sale en formato digital a través del sello ecuatoriano de ambient + experimental ​También​ este 26 de febrero de 2021.


@eezzmmeerraallddaa

Ezmeralda - Lucerito mirando a la nada

Kenyan-born electronic music producer and DJ Makossiri makes club music that defies genre limitations. Rich in narration and soaked in a cinematic atmosphere, her music is a blend of both hard and hardcore techno, folk-punk, trance, industrial noise, and african polyrhythms mixed with outerwordly sounds, elements of Afro-Futurism and Egyptian mythology.
 bookings : bookingmakossiri@gmail.com


Social Media Links;
https://www.instagram.com/makossiri/

https://www.facebook.com/makossiri

https://twitter.com/makossiri_music

https://www.mixcloud.com/makossiri/

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