‘9 Mezzotintsʼ is the latest offering by Japanese composer Yosuke Tokunaga, on the album, each piece presents a singular sound study, Though when experiencing ‘9 Mezzotintsʼ as a whole, the album is bound together by a near mythical silhouette of sonic fragmentation.

On '9 Mezzotins' Yosuke Tokunaga once again inhabits a sonic spectrum entirely his own, occupied by old piano chords, disintegrated string arrangements and distant echoes, while featuring themes ranging from Japanese folklore to classical music and film. 

On ‘9 Mezzotintsʼ time seemingly repeats itself, expands and collapses, as Tokunaga’s unique musical terrain of sound studies bring forth a sprawling environment of details that newly unfurl which each piece.

VAK43 | Yosuke Tokunaga - M EZZOTINTS

Simulacrum Remixed

Simulacrum IV (Ziúr Remix)

From yolabmi's Before Your Past Lives, out on Nov.25 on tape and digital:
https://muzaneditions.bandcamp.com/album/before-your-past-lives

"A longtime friend of Muzan, yolabmi's Before Your Past Lives pulls the listener into prehistory (or perhaps pre-existence) with a suite of tracks structured around gently vibrating synths, crisp field recordings, and expertly manipulated samples that fizz and crackle and whirr in rich stereo. Secure your headphones, close your eyes, and think back to before there was a before."

yolabmi - II

“In the closed circuit screen glow with the hand scripting the events of two people staring from a long distance for a matter of moments that seemed endless, vast, the pen takes to paper and senses apprehension in the author. Leaving things out from the self, the self knows the truth is well-guarded, security and a large key ring with one thumb-drive filled with secrets carefully placed beneath a granite prism, buried in brain cells and matter. Everything left unsaid is sacred and that sacrament is gold-leafed and stoic, crackling voicemail recording leaves out details, nearly telegrammed, a post-it’s worth of vital information. We keep secrets to ourselves so tightly that we hide the secret from the self. Speak the truth, the closed circuit surveillance will manage the details.”

Ryo Murakami | Town

Méryll Ampe "W7E" CD
MAR060
Release Date: November 4th, 2022

A multitude of processes, techniques, and forms unfold and unfurl within the work of Méryll Ampe,
an intermedia artist from Paris working through sound, sculpture, and installation using a wide assortment
of materials. What is immediately striking about Ampe’s work is the vibrant, non-linear approach to
electro-acoustic composition.
Here on the debut for Misanthropic Agenda, Ampe liberally reconfigures / deconstructs / genetically mutates
all sources: hydrophone recordings of vibrations through skin, analog synths, tape machinations,
sequencing programmed through algorithmic variability, and plenty of digital processing.
As Ampe describes it, the music on W7E is "a research with an experimental dimension, guided by notions that
systematically translate a form of ambivalence, between inside/outside, micro/macro. These intentions are
vectors of the dynamics, reliefs, depths and rhythm. My training as a visual artist also leads me to go through
mental images (such as a steep landscape, a boiling organism, an organic matter) which will then find a
sound form, states that I would describe as syncope, sound effluvia, abrasive arrhythmias. I look for a form of
plasticity in the sound medium, and that this energy become a living matter."
This multi-dimensional overlay through composition telescopes in and out of the body (not necessarily always
a human body, it should be noted), through a connectivity with technology that can influence psychological states
of being. The work addresses liminality, transitory slippages, and quantum theories of a particle being the two
separate places at the same time. If that can occur at the atomic level, why not through sound?
W7E stands as a dynamic, polydactyl album reflective of the aesthetics (if not concepts) of Keith Fullerton Whitman,
Francisco Meirino, and Bernard Parmegiani.
- Jim Haynes

links:
https://misanthropicagenda.bigcartel.com
https://misanthropicagenda.bandcamp.com
https://meryllampe.com/

Méryll Ampe "Close To"

First track from the "Flood Management" album, releases on CDs on April 21, Infant Tree
Pre-order: infanttree.bandcamp.com/album/flood-management

On Hold – co-produced with Diana Romanova
Mastered by Taku Unami
Design by deedandreward

2023, Infant Tree

On Hold (from "Flood Management", 2023)

Abrasiv Jam

Live concert at Tyska kyrkan, Stockholm. 3/10/14
Performed by Johan Graden and Marcus Pal.

DISQUIET (heart)

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