Solitude Solutions Split Single Series Vol.2

Ultrafog / ROTTENLAVA II

Side U:
Hourglass - Ultrafog
Side R:
LCD - ROTTENLAVA II

Available on August 6 2022
CS with DL code
JPY700

KDK-19 SOLITUDE SOLUTIONS 2022

https://solitudesolutions.bandcamp.com/album/kdk-19-hourglass-lcd

Ultrafog - Hourglass

‘Catch Feelings’ marks a decade and some 100 releases in the game with a treasure chest featuring label stalwarts Romance, Celestial, Spivak, Felisha Ledesma (appearing here with Angelo Harmsworth) as well as label owners Not Waving & Primitive World, alongside new faces Raw Deal, Horses, ’93 Til Infinity and ICARUS. - Boomkat

Felisha Ledesma Feat. Angelo Harmsworth - Silver Washed (ECSTATIC Catch Feelings)

‘Blush Study’, taken from the forthcoming album 'Corner Dancer', out via Modern Love on November 10th, 2023.

Produced by Lucy Railton, co-written with Petter Eldh.
Cello, vocals, electronics by Lucy Railton.
Moog, guitar and Polysix by Petter Eldh.  

Artwork by Rebecca Salvadori.

Corner Dancer

Blush Study

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Lucy Railton- Blush Study

JAMES K
"ELEKTRA (Scream Through the Eyes of a Statue)"
CD in jewel case w OBI strip
Edition of 250
Release 19.01.2024

“Why is female sound bad to hear?” - Anne Carson

ELEKTRA (Scream Through the Eyes of a Statue), is a multimedia performance broadly conceptualizing the female voice as an “X-ray to the bones of sound.” It was commissioned by Issue Project Room and performed April 26th, 2018 in Brooklyn, New York.  Taking poet, essayist, and Classics professor Anne Carson’s translation of Sophocles’ tragic play Elektra as a point of departure, James K monstrously externalizes the inner sonic world of female vocalization through a scored collaborative framework interpreting each of Elektra’s “screams” in the Greek tragedy.

The piece develops unique methods of screaming through musical and non-musical objects -- performed through manipulated text, videos, and live contributions from James K (voice, electronics, violin, video) Brooklyn-based musician Eve Essex (alto saxophone, various winds and electronics), electronic producer and performer Dylan Shir (electronics), composer and cellist Leila Bordreuil (cello), and poet/artist Eli V Manuscript (textual alchemy, projections).

Within this collaborative framework, James K scores “the scream” to express the various relations between hysteria and the “gender of sound” -- a blurred and overlapping feminine sound defined by its fragmentation and resistance to scripted narrative. Elektra’s presence is emblematic of a radical alienation that occurs as a standing discrepancy to tragic convention. Amongst society, she is the anti-dialogue, a symbol of protest.

‘my cries are wings, they pierce the cage’

Elektra’s vocalizations pierce through language, revealing a shattered interior of multifaceted reflections constructed against habitual linguistic or vocal expression. In tragic convention, such habitual vocalization takes the shape of the often terse, patriarchal voice of the Greek philosopher -- a didactic, conceptual container in opposition to the expressive “becoming” of Elektra’s cries that riot against fixity. As a tragic character, Elektra is radical and alien for Sophocles and his audience -- an ever-present conviction that demonstrates how female shame has constructed a life-size funeral urn around her.

Through translating a text within layers of translations, a fragmentation of the firsthand into traces, James K mirrors Elektra’s deconstruction of reality into siren shards, offering an experiencing of female sign language as a means of sabotage to the world of normal utterances. By sliding on the edge of convention to sharply abandoning rational speech and sonic construction, K’s piece aims to embody Elektra’s strained and stretching screams, as cuts against the glass; her sabotage bound within the blanket loop. In response to rigid vocalization and fixed sonic understandings, ELEKTRA (Scream Through the Eyes of a Statue) takes the scream as an unruly, emotive sonic experience projecting outwards into objects and audience: to the very bones of sound.

This is a live recording of its single performance. Recorded by Bob Bellerue at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, NY. Mixed by James K. Mastered by Jack Callahan. Performed by James K, Eve Essex, Via App, and Leila Bordreuil. Conceived and scored by James K for four players, and written in collaborative improvisation with the performers. Textual alchemy by Eli V Manuscript. Design and layout by Nicola Tirabasso and James K.

JAMES K - ELEKTRA (iDEAL225 CD excerpt)

»grain« is the third Innode release following on from »Gridshifter« in 2013 and »syn« in 2021.

A new methodology to make the album is applied yet again from the trio of Bernhard Breuer, Steven Hess and Stefan Németh. The approach is more an anti approach where the trio let the process of creation itself steer the development of the recording, without any prior conceptual agenda.

Irregular rhythmic patterns often served as the initial springboard for each piece with Breuer creating a loop either by playing drums or with the aid of a modelling percussion synthesizer. The results often bypass existing formulaic grids. The outfit embraced these anti-precision steps building shapes around the tarnished templates.

The process of building upon the core structures laid forth alters throughout. In the case of »Splitter« you can hear an example of Bernhard´s core loops dominating a skeletal audio sphere. The title of the track »Impactopium« reflects the process of its construction being a conglomeration of individual titles meshed into a whole. The audio is a non-linear compendium of several fragments of individual elements. A conscious method of exploring a more decentralised architecture saw three disparate elements layered randomly on top of each other with some synths added as a sonic seasoning at the later stages.

Elsewhere sonic elements are restructured in unusual ways. One member's contribution is completely stripped away, quiet sounds captured with contact mics are highly amplified, the last track introduces twisted themes of the first track.

The title »grain« refers to the roughness resulting from these explorations. It also takes note of the term grain as used in analogue photography or in the case of audio as a distorted signal, or »noise.« All of these elements, normally eschewed, are here embraced as a thematic thread to instigate the exploratory proceedings.

This is a playbox of inventiveness, a hall of mirrors and an endless search for unusual tactics and fresh results.

Tackling the initial loop tracks from a wide variety of strategic approaches Innode has concocted a strangely cohesive work. From sparse source material to heavy overdubs of overdubs »grain« is a uplifting collection of works from this relentlessly curious and exploratory Austrian outfit. Humans make the work but the random embracing of unexpected processes means the gentleman of the outfit is not fully ruling what becomes of these works.

grain

Splitter

Innode 'Splitter' (EMEGO311)

Live sequence from my hybrid set from the dry event @ Kwia. Mastered by the OG @LudwigWandinger

240626 dryxkwia - live sequence

Sassdestria

Geography of Disorder

Convex Hull

TRACK ID 

2404 - Ben Bondy w/ Stella
Subit QT - Discovery Zone
Are You Happy - Paperwater
Elephant Man - Time Cow w/ RTKA
Daremoshiranai Chiisanakuni 1997 - Susumu Yokota
Juju - Lala&ce
Diamond X - Actress
Mile A Min Interlude - Paperwater
SM_FID - Iceboy Violet w/ Nueen 
Honey pt 1 & 2 - Daemon w/ Cassius Select
Perfect Blue - Nthr1
50 Euro To Break Boost - Skee Mask
Le Tremblement - Aho Ssan
Wildfire - Shygirl (Eartheater Remix)
Aeon II - Kelman Duran
Slower Den - Other Den
RT3 - DJ Plead
01 - Betty Hammerschlag
Staff Only - Ockeroid
4 Days In - Jetty

Are u happy ? ep.01

我要做远方的忠诚的儿子 
和物质的短暂情人 
和所有以梦为马的诗人一样 
我不得不和烈士和小丑走在同一道路上 

trident solo

Speaking is a track from  Florian T M Zeisig's — ‘ZZZZZzzzzzz’, his second album until the date. Coming Out September 2019.

‘ZZZZZzzzzzz’ aims to translate spoken word and percussion-based ASMR recordings and performative videos into music. Using these binaural raw audio materials the project utilizes algorithmic synthesis, filtering, and vocoders to transform the material into immersive harmonic structures.

ZZZZZzzzzzz

ANM046 Florian T M Zeisig — Speaking

In search of strange textures and sounds, Techno and Experimental artist Mentrat Noihr, from Normandy's mystical landscapes and vibrant art scene, delivers his vision of music by dark and intimate interpretation, shamanic beats where frequencies and syncopated convulsions collide with the conscious and unconscious of the listener.

The echoes of his past solo (as Goldthwait) or collaborative (as part of Conformance, with techno expert The Botched Noise Maker Committee) projects, his long time activism through various collectives, and a strong attachment for hardware & modular synths laid the foundation for Mentrat Noihr's distinctive identity and sound.

His productions, a balance between experimental music and hypnotic techno, create unique and dizzying atmospheres, almost uncomfortable, yet often fascinating. On stage, tracks are built up live through modular synth, seamlessly blending heavy beats, industrial vibes, and atmospheric depths.

💥Labels: private playlist with unreleased tracks available. Please DM!

Convex Hull

Mentrat Noihr

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