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Invited Andrea Ida on for Ice Exposure show on Noods Radio

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Part I: Luis Martin Gonzalez
Part II: Andrea Ida

Ice Exposure w/ Luis Martin Gonzalez & Andrea Ida   12.02.23 Noods Radio

Today Phase Group are thrilled to present our next release by newcomers to the label, the excellent Hamburg band, Love-Songs. Their new album 'Passive Progressive' will be out on cassette and digital on October 18th.

Love-Songs are the trio consisting of Thomas Korf (electronics + vocals) Sebastian Kokus (Bass) and Manuel Chitka (Percussion) who make cosmic, kraut-inspired electro-acoustic music. Many will be familiar with their previous output on wonderful labels like Kame House and Bureau B.

'Passive Progressive' lands in the form of 8 enthralling tracks that take us through dreamlike and psychedelic echoing territories, where Korf’s modulating electronics and effected vocals ripple over the grooving rhythm section of percussion and bass supplied by Kokus and Chitka. Across the album, the band are joined by a host of guest musicians and friends from Berlin and Hamburg’s underground and experimental music scenes, supplying Trombone, Mbira, Clarinet, Flute and extra synthesisers and vocals to enhance the mind-expanding and unique sound palette of these incredible tracks.

As with most of the material we’ve released on Phase Group, this is music that’s hard to pin down, that lends itself equally well to creating transcending atmospheres in the early moments of a special kind of club set as to soundtracking a mind-bending and deep personal listening experience. We’ve no doubt that the sound that Love-Songs have crafted with Passive Progressive will be enthusiastically received by all sonic voyagers and fans of the label, and we’re over the moon to welcome them to the Phase Group family.

Passive Progressive is available on limited cassette, with double-sided risograph print artwork by Andrija Čugurović. 

Preorder is available now from our Bandcamp.

Passive Progressive

Love-Songs - Passive Progressive (Preview)

Longtime music activists Rawmance and Asymmetrical from Rome have joined forces to create
new music under the name 'La Nuit Je Mens'. Following their debut single “Les Nuits
Magnétiques” on Reach Another System, LNJM will be releasing their first album on the label
later this year. Straight from Rome, the Band presents a one-hour mixtape, strictly on vinyl.

Reach Another System Label w/ La Nuit Je Mens [02.10.24]

B. Rupp - Please Continue

Ocean of Being (ft. Jane Goodall & Ram Dass)

If I Only Could

Exploration sonore, ovni musical, improvision, Chant du Pont Guérisseur , ☳ ج ב 𐤀 ᛒ ब 𓇼 𓁿 𠂇 יד ≒ ∞⁻ ⨁ ⍟ 竹 木 ᚁ ⌇⌇ 生 ⌀ ⟁ Ⰱ 𐰋 ᄋ ☍

Mémoire d'Eau

Keeping the ever-present influence of the sea in focus, Poirier projects himself to a fantasised coastline, imagining a landscape in flux, continuously reconfigured by the movement of water and those that inhabit its space...

A1. Thalassocratie
A2. Longe-côte
A3. Trace palmaire
A4. Le bématiste
A5. Sablage

B1. Hotel Nota
B2. Pénombre
B3. Du rocher
B4. Ekphrasis
B5. Raccordement
B6. Balayage 

Mastered by Stephan Mathieu at Schwebung Mastering.
Release date: August 2020

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