EINATH is an intuitive and absorbing first-time collaboration between Mexico-based artists Alejandro Morse, Cian, and Eduardo Padilla. Longtime contemporaries familiar with each others’ work, the four tracks on the album amount to an active and considerate conversation: The musicians harness a private shared language of their creative relationship to generate a work of immediacy, bemusement, and prescience.  

In their own words the artists offered some insight into the making of EINATH: 

”Recorded one pale evening just before the outbreak, on top of a partially abandoned building at the edge of León, EINATH rises as a long, focused, and very lucky improvisational composition made without exchanging a single verbal cue, choosing a structure, or arriving at even the most basic understanding on how to go about things and what rules to follow. The results were then slightly edited, adding no overdubs, and presented with the original, organic flow of the live session.”  

Underneath layers of electric and acoustic guitar, modular synth, and digital processing, the resulting drone cultivates a thick, almost premonitory atmosphere—like low-hanging bruised-colored clouds before a heavy rain. All the while, as if to combat the stillness of the city below, underlying melodies steer these organic gestures into a cohesive, exploratory vehicle that descends increasingly deeper into itself. It seeks shelter, waiting, aware of the storm that is brewing. 

Despite EINATH’s in-the-moment composition, its underlying nature still retains the intention and energy shared between the artists, revealing how each of their individual practices connect without strategy to compose a whole greater than the sum of its parts.

Einath

Alejandro Morse + Cian + Eduardo Padilla — Endless Keg

CYCLIC LAW'S 20th ANNIVERSARY LABEL SAMPLER 2CD / DL (200th Cycle)
In celebration of our 20th year as a label, we've gathered 22 artists on 20 tracks, all graciously presenting us exclusive and unreleased material. Featuring AJNA, ASCENDING DIVERS, ASHTORETH, BECKAHESTEN, CURSE ALL KINGS, DESIDERII MARGINIS, FUNERARY CALL, KAMMARHEIT, LEILA ABDUL-RAUF, NERATERRÆ & DØDSMASKIN, NEW RISEN THRONE & CORONA BARATHRI, NORDVARGR, ØJERUM, SHEDIR, SHRINE, SOPHIA, SUTEK HEXEN, TAPHEPHOBIA, VISIONS and VORTEX. We’d like to dedicate this release to our worldwide supporters who’ve made this 20 year venture possible and to all artists involved throughout the years, whom with their unique approach to atmospheric music, have helped create the aural world that is Cyclic Law. Artwork imagery is by our close collaborator and friend Kristina Feldhammer.

Double CD Edition of 500 copies in gatefold Digisleeve with 180x120mm poster, matt lamination. 20 Tracks. Running Time; CD1 56:57, CD2 57:17

Processed Organ Works

øjeRum  - The Land - Excerpt

In the Lens, Solo Andata’s fourth full-length album, was born from recordings found in the interstices of decades-old hard drives, lost email threads from disused accounts, and forgotten samples recorded on cassette dictaphones. These fragments were combined and re-worked with newer elements to create an album very much in the spirit of the band’s debut Fyris Swan (Hefty Records, 2006), an album touched by both folk and jazz and swathed in a dusty, narcotic haze.
Solo Andata’s Kane Ikin and Paul Fiocco have always pushed aside the digital studio in favor of a more haphazard and hands-on workshop vibe to their productions. They prefer near-broken acoustic instruments, cheap microphones and, as can be witnessed by their live performances, tend to turn anything they can get their hands on into a beautiful sound-making object.

While there is a raw and guileless nature to the duo’s sound it is precisely this that makes their music so powerful amidst the over-produced cliches of much modern music. The beauty of their work is how simple instruments and objects can be physically manipulated into creating such rich, layered sound. Dark, swaying, almost-looped melodies from piano, woodwinds and horns wrap themselves in smoky obscurity around remnants of percussion and warm beds of noise and the world around us.

In The Lens is very much a late-night record, reflected in the rain-soaked cover imagery, dripping with half-forgotten memories. Jittery yet calming, rhythmic, yet unhurried, it leads you down its dark corridors to a soft resting space. Ikin and Fiocco have created a new story around the chemistry of their creations that were taking place during the early days of their musical explorations.

In The Lens

Separate Lovers

Gravity

a location

Music with fender rhodes, reel to reel tape machines, feedback, and a one-tone signal generator. 

Release on Manchester's Ono.
https://diskono.jimdo.com

STILLS CD and Digital Download available on Bandcamp -
https://michaelcutting.bandcamp.com/album/stills

SKINT

from DUO
by France Jobin + Richard Chartier
on mAtter, Japan
release date: Dec 16, 2018

DUO is the first collaborative project from minimal composer France Jobin and Richard Chartier.

DUO creates an “intemporelle“ and pervading atmosphere, where sounds intermingle within an intricate and delicate system delineated by spatial and temporal boundaries.

composed by  France Jobin and Richard Chartier.
mastered by Stephen Mathieu 
thank you to Yukitomo Hamasaki and Shuhei Miyagi
design by Richard Chartier

https://www.matter.jp/work/#/duo-france-jobin-richard-chartier/

DUO 1

Whilst compiling øjeRum’s Forgotten Works, Vaknar stumbled across a multitude of discarded compositions that didn't necessarily fit within the context and sonic characteristic of the Forgotten Works compilation, yet the label believed them to be of equal merit and persisted for them to be released in another given way.

After some discussion with Paw two pieces were selected to be presented on a companion release to Forgotten Works, featured on the first ever 10” lathe record released on Vaknar.

VAK15 | øjeRum - Sidste Segl

Daniel Schmidt - "Abies Firma" LP & CD
http://www.recitalprogram.com/abies-firma/
http://www.recitalprogram.com/purchase/
includes CD with extra suite, and 20-page pamphlet.

R70 - Daniel Schmidt - "Fanfare and Lancaran Daniel" from Abies Firma LP

http://elliotbergman.bandcamp.com

Peace Bells is a glimpse into the multi-layered world of artist and musician Elliot Bergman. The cassette, reissued by Leaving Records, was recorded over a weekend at the Felix Art Fair in Los Angeles, in the booth of Shane Campbell Gallery. Over the course of several days, Bergman gave durational performances utilizing his collection of self-made instruments, which he looped and layered into the music you have on this tape. For the past 15 years, Bergman has been building amplified variations on the African Mbira, which he refers to as Metal Tongues. He has also been making Peace Bells, from melted guns and bullet casings. Using this rich collection of instruments as source material, he builds looping and layered soundscapes that evoke comparisons to Moondog, Reich, Bertoia, Eno and Konono No. 1. These rhythmic and otherworldly textures range from minimal and meditative to driving and danceable.

LTD CASSETTE

Elliot Bergman - On The Table

@AwakenedSouls remix from “Soledad” by @PepoGalan

https://stereoscenic.bandcamp.com/album/soledad

Soledad

Pepo Galán - Botes (awakened souls remix)

Music with reel-to-reel tape recorders, acoustic instruments, feedback and tone generators.

SKINT

Michael Cutting

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