Name: Shawn O'Sullivan & Maoupa Mazzocchetti - Melatonine by Maoupa Mazzocchetti
Duration: 3 min 38 s
Description: Recorded the May 11th 2016 before an ORPHEU party at Maoupa's place - Brussels

fantastic sounds and mix great feel awesome!

There’s a body of water in the woods near Carrboro. Dappled light on the trail leads you to it. Crunch of leaves underfoot. A river feeds the swimming hole where people plunge, naked and alive. On a chair you sit reminiscing about the future. After a dip, you lay on a big smooth rock - let the sun bake you dry. Then you walk further into the woods.

Like coming upon some keyboardists situated at the mouth of a cave, the entreaties on this record are calming but enigmatic, tinged with melancholy and reflection. Recurring motifs are given room to grow—there’s much space, and the progressions percolate, an auditory mapping of emotional crevices. Sentimentalism given a rougher edge. It lures you in; an orb appears, bright and buzzing. It motions for you to continue. As you do, a fragrance floats through the cave and fills your psyche, like a thousand roses hidden in the dark.

On "Keyboard Suite Vol. 1", MARV imbues analog subtractive and FM synthesis with a distinct physicality. Dub studio techniques and rigorously hand-played performances create an 'environmental' keyboard masterpiece strongly connected to the lineage of 1970s-80s private press ambient and electronic recordings-- but elegantly modern sound design and production methods center the album in the present day. A timeless quality pervades "Keyboard Suite Vol. 1", allowing for easy repeats, marinating the subconscious ache of loss with a dreamily resolute hope.

keyboards and effects ~ Geoff Schilling and Nathan Taylor
french horn (A2) ~ Aaron Smithers
mixdown assistance ~ Glyn Maier
audio finalization ~ Nathan Taylor
design and layout ~ Joe Bastardo (www.josephbastardo.com)

all proceeds to Carolina Abortion Fund (Durham, NC) ~ www.carolinaabortionfund.org

ALSO WILL BE STOCKED BY:

Tobira Records (JP)
All Day Records (US)
Commend (US)
Boomkat (UK)
Industrial Coast (UK)

LP details ~
black vinyl, printed center labels
lacquer cut ~ Amy Dragon
recycled black paper jackets ~ Middle Press
silkscreened with water/soy-based ink ~ Goatmother Industrial
recycled plantable seed paper insert ~ Greenfield Paper, debossed with Braille text* ~ Middle Press
custom scent ~ Meadow Maker Apothecary (www.instagram.com/_meadowmakers_/)

*may not be readable due to paper thickness and texture

*ALL LPS WILL BE SHIPPED OUTSIDE OF JACKET FOR SAFETY*

Keyboard Suite I

MARV - Stable Mate (ENM10)

From forthcoming album 'The landscape has become a bed'

Low Flung - Feet submerged

Composed during a whirlwind period of touring and sound engineering in 2019, 𝑂𝑛𝑙𝑦 functions as both a tranquil refuge and as a heartfelt appreciation for the source instruments' timbres. Berlin-based Bridget Ferrill crystallizes her professional recording experience and artist residencies into a singular focus on Buchla modular, harp, zither, and viola da gamba. Rather than an exercise in technical mastery, Ferrill's careful arrangements invite us to linger with each instrument; in her words, fulfilling the longing to "listen a little longer, a little slower". Every contour of the instruments is lovingly traced, a warm invite for us to join her in the exuberance of exploring their inner life.

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Bridget Ferrill (USA/DE) is a producer and composer of electronic music whose work plays between pattern and noise, exploring augmented instruments, handmade electronics, and experimental computer music. She has participated in residencies at EMS in Stockholm, LungA in Iceland, and the Dirt Palace in Providence, Rhode Island. Recent projects include composing for Staatstheater Cottbus, engineering and performing electronics for Bendik Giske’s live show, designing the Anglerfish drone synthesizer for Common Ground, and creating multimedia installations with composer Áslaug Magnúsdóttir.

Ferrill is also a live and studio engineer with experience working in studios and venues such as Greenhouse Studios in Reykjavik, Machines with Magnets in Providence RI, and at Real Surreal, her own mixing and mastering studio in Berlin.

Only

Bridget Ferrill - Viola da Gamba (ENXPL10)

Aboutface presents – °s
Released on AD 93 03/09/2021

Featuring the poem: The Rub written by Syd Hawes. Narrated by darker. Violin by Taro
Voice canon by darker.
Synths, field recordings, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, flute and composition by Aboutface.

°s is inspired by patterns in urban nature: language; behaviour; seasons, and along with the poem, explores the cyclical psychological peaks and troughs experienced during a pandemic. Live multi-instrumental improvisations apply the fibonacci sequence to create melodies and rhythms that mimic fractal patterns in nature, and are situated within binaural field recordings captured during essential travel in the first pandemic lockdown.

Track 1: 51°30'22.4"N 0°05'17.0"W
Composition, field recording, synths, flute and electric guitar by Aboutface. Section 1 of The Rub narrated by darker.

Track 2: 51°30'59.4"N 0°04'33.1"W
Composition, field recording, synths by Aboutface. Violin by Taro. Section 2 of The Rub narrated by darker.

Track 3: 51°31'12.7"N 0°12'29.9"W
Composition, field recording, synths, acoustic guitar by Aboutface. Voice cannon by darker. Section 3 The Rub narrated by darker.

Track 4: 50°49'30.9"N 0°08'40.8"W
Composition, field recording, synths, by Aboutface. Violin by Taro. Section 4 and 5 of The Rub narrated by darker.

The Fibonacci Sequence: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55…

Aboutface pres. ºs B2. 50°49'30.9"N 0°08'40.8"W

Playing music at the ocean, an infinite mirror curls upward towards you. Picturesque and perverse, cracked enamel castings sit in lazy but unsettled sands. Something is just right, having once stirred beneath the surface it now hovers misting at eye level. You can put your hand through it; pushing humidity around like a furry catkins flake in a tepid wind.

BAD LSD TRIPS is a collaboration between artists Domingo Castillo and doris dana. Working through the process of developing sounds during the pandemic, the duo amassed large swaths of recordings on a weekly basis from 2020 and 2021 in Miami, Florida. The debut recording of "bad LSD trips" for the ENXPL series is documentation of improvising and honing a sonic vocabulary that is rooted in the tradition of early industrial, dark ambient and tape music. The backdrop of the recorded effort is a geographical conundrum of a city worn threadbare by candied advertising, tourism, and aesthetics. BAD LSD TRIPS inverts the spectacle of their locale with psychedelic meditations searching for, and occasionally digging inside of, a place of ease.

BAD LSD TRIPS is a collaboration between artists Domingo Castillo and doris dana. Working through the process of developing sounds during the pandemic, the duo amassed large swaths of recordings on a weekly basis from 2020 and 2021 in Miami, Florida.


Limited 125 copies
Copper foil print on recycled paper
Recycled cassette shells and cases 
credits
releases March 29, 2022

Recorded by Domingo Castillo and doris dana
LAZY HIDEAWAY contains elements of Zabelle Panosian - Groung
Audio finalized by Glyn Maier
Source material for design from 'Smiley Face Om'
Design by RJM Vanderheyden

BAD LSD TRIPS

HARD COPY PURCHA$E

ENXPL12 - BAD LSD TRIPS - A1. CONSCIOUSNESS BURNOUT

Inspired by a dream I had in which The Jupiter Experiment astronaut mascot was walking through the unusually quiet streets of an unidentified metropolis.  It was raining, and the scene was lightly blurred as if in a dream sequence of a movie.  There was no sound from cars or people, just the heavy thump of space boots stepping through the standing water on the poorly draining roads.

Perchance to Dream

Blues Alif Lam Mim In the Mode Of Rag Infinity/Rag Cosmosis is a new composition from Catherine Christer Hennix's expanded just-intonation ensemble, the Chora(s)san Time-Court Mirage. The expanded ensemble includes vocalists Imam Ahmet Muhsin Tüzer, Amir Elsaffan and Amirtha Kidambi, an expanded brass section with the addition of Paul Schwingesnschlögl and Elena Kakaliagou, and the additon of Marcus Pal and Stefan Tiedje on electronics. This new piece was recorded live at the Issue Project Room and was mastered by Dubplates + Mastering in Berlin. 
Live At Issue Project Room is packaged in a deluxe letterpressed sleeve and is being issued at the same time as Central Palace Music from 100 Model Subjects For Hegikan Roku, a recording of Hennix's ensemble from 1976, also on Important.

Catherine Christer Hennix / Chora(s)an Time-Court Mirage - Live At ISSUE Project Room -

Recorded the May 11th 2016 before an ORPHEU party at Maoupa's place - Brussels


Shawn O'Sullivan & Maoupa Mazzocchetti - Melatonine

From Solar Phallic Lion EP
Available for Digital Purchase: 
https://scrapesrecordings.bandcamp.com
Coming September 1st
http://scrapes.bigcartel.com/
http://scrapesrecordings.blogspot.com/

SOLAR_PHALLIC_LION

HOGG - Solar Phallic Lion

Mark Fell / Will Guthrie - BERLIN - edit

"Red Velvet Or Nothing" by Belong from the definitive "October Language" LP reissue due out Spring 2018.

"Red Velvet Or Nothing" by Belong

20.04.24 - Marseille - Meta
01.06.24 - Belgrade - TBC
26.07.24 - Dusseldorf - Salon des Amateurs
29.08.24 - Eupen - Meakusma Festival
06.09.24 - Brussels - Botanique
18.09.24 - Liege - TBC
22.11.24 - Taipei - Final

Done
27.03.24 - Paris - Wondrin' Show - Rinse
02.03.24 - Tokyo - Air Building
01.03.24 - Beijing - Zhaodai
25.02.24 - Shanghai - All Club
23.02.24 - Shenzen - Oil Club
01.01.24 - Brussels - Synthygate - Petite Île
24.01.24 - Paris - Wondrin' Show - Rinse
13.01.24 - Paris - La Marbrerie

Booking : 
FR+WW : sidonie@bi-pole.org

Shawn O'Sullivan & Maoupa Mazzocchetti - Melatonine

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