In a grey and heavy, dusty landscape, the air is filled with dense mental clouds. Unbeknown, from the depths of the watery moon, a spring sprouts, filling the grey desert with turquoise tears, cleansing, purifying, clearing the eyes of the haziness of the mind, until the landscape transforms intro a bright stellar sea. 

Jacopo Barusso - Piano, cosmic soundscape
Bianca Nicolescu - Voice, lyrics

⋆ Inspired by The Star Tarot card. 

Lyrics

Empty clouds
Over waves of silent sands
Empty nothings
Weight heavy on my sky

Queen of rain
Nothing dry in her veins
Pouring waters are glittering
Turquoise diamonds fill
A pond of dreams

Tick tock
Time still stops
Teal tears drop
In this dust

And I think
ah ah
And I think
ah ah
And I think
ah ah
I blink

And the smoke sky lights 
Shining scene
Sparking up flaming fires within
I swim
In a soft dream
Twinkling light stars
Fill the silent sky
With my eyes opening
I grow wings and fly into a fast
Ride to Mars.

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Moondust ⋆ with Jacopo Barusso

We are excited to premiere "In Or Out", a powerful new single by saxophonist Gabriele Pribetti, the first single from his forthcoming second EP.  

On "In Or Out", Pribetti pairs strong compositional chops with free improvising flare.  As ever, Pribetti is back by the deadly percussive sounds of drummer,Joshua "Mcknasty" Mckenzie, with Graeme Flowers on trumpet and flugelhorn, Tomasz Bura on keys and Michele Montolli on double bass.

In Pribetti's own words, "In or Out is the first single from my second EP. I wrote it towards the end of the third lockdown in 2021, when It looked like the world was on its way back to normality. A part of me was craving to be back on stage and to spend time with my friends and family, while at the same time my mind was now so used to isolation that I was almost scared of social interaction. All these strong emotions translate into music through a soothing classical inspired melody opposed to a dark atmosphere and sudden cheeky dissonances."

With a very percussive approach to his instrument and his compositions, Gabriele's music combines his love for jazz and improvisation with his classical upbringing, leaving large spaces to interplay and free instantaneous composition. While his collaborations and his experience as a session musician in London bring everything to life with hip grooves and rumbling synths.

Some of his collaborations include: Stormzy, Wizkid, Bob Geldoff, Jordan Rakei, Daymé Arocena, Imelda May, Kamaal Williams, Mostack, Tiana Major9, Geko, Maleek Berry, Stefflon Don, Sasha Keable, WSTRN, General Levy, Zion Train, Jah9, Channel one sound system, Kiko Bun, Omar Lyefook, Congo Natty, Stylo G, The Pioneers, U-Roy and many others...

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Exclusive Premiere: Gabriele Pribetti "In or Out"

Mattin - Seize the Means of Complexity
LP on Xing (XONG collection XX09) out December 2023, order at https://www.soundohm.com/product/seize-the-means-of-comple
Collector's edition available at https://www.soundohm.com/product/seize-the-means-of-comple-1 and at https://shop.flash---art.it/products/mattin-seize-the-means-of-complexity

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Xing presents the LP Seize the Means of Complexity by Mattin, ninth release of XONG collection - artist records. The release is on white vinyl in a limited numbered edition of 150 copies. The collector's edition consists of 20 copies, each accompanied by a different polaroid portraying fragments from the social media universe.

Seize the Means of Complexity is a call for all social media users of the world to unite: "We are in the asshole of history. Broken individuals struggling with mental health, media obsession, need for attention and legitimation. Burning souls searching for validation, suffering from imposter syndrome in a post-Netflix wasteland. From the ruins of our subjectivity, something can be built; something must be built. To seize the means of complexity, we must comprehend the tools of algorithmic subsumption, and leverage that knowledge to steer their development towards an open-source conception of subjectivity. We should all have access to the codes, technologies, models, and complexities that shape our lives. By embracing noise rather than shying away from it, this adaptive open-source subject could pave the way for a future transcending capitalist realism and its end of history, forging a new form of communism fit for the 21st century."
Seize the Means of Complexity is the recomposition of some materials Mattin used in his interactive performances over the last year: a mass of musical fragments that crystallise as a call for mobilisation. As the title of the album advises, or rather states: to not be crushed by the symptoms that social media produces on us, we must seize the opportunity opened up by the internet in its widest complexity. How can we collectivize the psychosomatic consequences produced by the Meganets? How can we reverse-engineer social media? This new record by Mattin commissioned for Xong collection contains recordings from TikTok and Instagram (hits, pop songs, advertising and voice) that can be heard as a a chorus of fragments from the multitude addressing psychic destabilization and the horizon of paranoia and alienation. This plunderphonia of sounds transmitted by the global media opens the possibility of addressing what it means to be human beyond the liberal individual. Seize the Means of Complexity is a proposition, a sonic stage for something to happen.

Xong is the name of the collection produced by Xing, a vinyl-only record label of works by both Italian and international personalities linked to the variegated worlds of live performativity. The collection explores a geography of artists who present this sonic field as a platform to expand their staged worlds. "The space of the record" is given focus and amplifies their poetics as both a sonic and physical phenomenon. Xong is a unique project that draws out divergent understandings of the performative and live arts, beyond genre and intersecting between different practices. Xong collects a series of original creations that constitute an expanded program. Each physical record is a numbered edition on white vinyl hosting the solidification of the gesture. A wave upon wave, a series of "Music-Non-Music" to actualize both the artists' and listeners' imagination.

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Realised by Mattin at Abject Musik Studio, 2022, Mastered by Rashad Becker, Clunk Studio, Cover by Mattin, Artwork Xing, Printed by handle with care Berlin, Format vinyl (white), Released by Xing in an edition of 150 copies including collector’s edition of 20 copies, each accompanied by a different polaroid portraying fragments of the social media universe, signed by the artist, Cat.n° XONG collection XX09 (2023), Label Xing, Anti-Copyright

Seize the Means of Complexity

XX09: Mattin - Seize the Means of Complexity - excerpt B

Tortoise And Hunter - teaser

Dubby sounds from the jungle, predators ready to attack in a sweaty night. Thanks to the wonderful Jan Sedmak for the artwork!

On A Bench

Fresh remix of "Future 2" from Technoir's latest Ep "Soundstrokes" (available here: https://soundcloud.com/technoirofficial/sets/soundstrokes-ep )

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Technoir - Future 2 (BTaste Mix)

New track composed by BTaste X Alexandros (Technoir).

Thanks to Nina and Jennifer for the artwork.

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Alexandros https://soundcloud.com/alexandros-12
Technoir https://soundcloud.com/technoirofficial


BTaste X Alexandros - Blueprint Of A Night

New Single "Epiphany" Available for Free Download.

Thanks to https://soundcloud.com/borwofficial for the amazing job, Mace (vocals) and Rob (guitars).
Thanks to Nina Alexopoulou for the cover image.
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BTaste

Epiphany (feat Beat on Rotten Woods)

New Single "Epiphany" Available for Free Download.

Thanks to @borwofficial for the amazing job, Mace (vocals) and Rob (guitars).
Thanks to Nina Alexopoulou for the cover image.
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BTaste

Epiphany

Epiphany (Overture)

Rebetiko Anthem

“Why there are all those fences and gates? What are they for?” the track is part of a project presented for the call "13th international design contest triestecontemporanea 2018 - Harbour for Cultures" 
Sound data: live recorded under a hot sun at 16:38, 14 July 2018

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