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Leila Hassan: spoken words, lights & textiles
Francesco Cavaliere: music, words & lights

Counting for the next tide. side a ✧ Sea Urchin ✧ c.20

Hercegovina - Insurgent 1

Artist: Elko B.
Title: I Bambini Di Basilisco
Format: 12 inch vinyl (incl. download)
Release date: 8th of February 2017
Cat no: EKS013
Edition: 500

Pre-order here: https://eksterlabel.bandcamp.com/album/i-bambini-di-basilisco

Introducing Elko B.’s debut on Ekster: “I Bambini Di Basilisco”. Twelve tracks pressed on 180g vinyl with pantone printed sleeves and silk screened (glow in the dark) plastic over-sleeve.

Considering Elko Blijweert's been active in the Belgian music scene for about fifteen years now, it comes as quite a surprise that "I Bambini Di Basilisco"is only his first ever solo album. Known mainly for his virtuoso yet ever idiosyncratic guitar playing, Elko B. treats the listener to much more than just that. With the exception of the heavily guitar-driven western pastiche "Cochon Torrero", the emphasis here lies on dark Carpenteresque synthesizer sounds as well as jolly child-friendly melodies. The twelve pleasantly concise songs, mainly based on compositions Blijweert made as soundtrack material for contemporary dance theatre and children's puppet theatre, beautifully blend together into a whole as the listener is presented with a unique glimpse inside the wide-ranging imagery that is Elko B.'s ever-expanding musical world.


Track list:

A1: Une Fille Dansante
A2: Krokodil
A3: Afrikakat
A4: Crawling Night Bears
A5: Aurelia
A6: Save The Knight

B1: Chyena
B2: Une Fille A La Plage
B3: Nachtelijke Verwelkoming
B4: Cochon Torrero
B5: Karabair (solo)
B6: Basilisco

I Bambini Di Basilisco

Elko B. - I Bambini Di Basilisco (preview)

World Counsellor — Untitled (Wild Rose Country, A1)

From the upcoming Album "Vegetal Negatives"
Release Date 29 March 2019
Hallowground.com
HG1901
Vinyl / Digital

”Let us unfold the animal outward: the bronchia will become a thick foliage, keeping its respiratory function, but in reverse, naturally (CO2 absorption), reversed also concerning color, from the tint of calves’ lungs to its complementary cabbage green. The digestive system will become roots, maintaining its role of drawing in nourishment from the outside environment. […] for each animal form there exists a corresponding vegetal form. The man who would find his vegetal negative and unite with it would restore the integrity of the cosmos.”

Vegetal Negatives is a game of sonic mutations, mimicry, inversions, and association inspired by a text called "On pataphotograms", by the French writer René Daumal – a quasi-metaphysical essay that toys with breaking the conceived separateness of natural forms through poetic imagination.

Marja Ahti (b. 1981) is a Swedish-born artist living and working in Turku, Finland. She has been an active part of the Finnish experimental music scene for more than ten years. Now arriving at her debut LP under her own name, Ahti explores a new formal language and sonic palette that ventures far from the path of her earlier work.

The four electroacoustic compositions on the album combine and arrange field recordings, electronic feedback, Buchla and ARP synthesizers, bowl gong and harmonium, textures of detailed acoustic sound, and sustained tones with gentle microtonal beating into a precise musical narrative. She juxtaposes recordings of rooms and empty vessels, natural and artificial climates, spontaneous and staged events. Ahti draws upon Annea Lockwood's ideas about associative movements between sounds based on shared characteristics and sonic energy. Her approach to field recordings is neither diaristic, documentaristic, nor purely acousmatic, but rather it starts out from somewhere in between these notions: the sounds hover between abstraction and the deeply familiar, moving into a realm of poetic metaphor where they are set in relation to each other, fleetingly mirroring or shadow-dancing. Acoustic environments mutate into synthetically derived shadow forms.

The opening track, "Coastal Inversion”, moves from a seemingly familiar seascape into an ocean of wavelike synthetic staccato patterns, turning itself inside-out on the shore, before diving back into a sea of resonance. ”Rooftop gardens” arranges a series of largely unprocessed field recordings into a dream-logic sequence of upward movement towards the clouds. On the other side, ”Symbiogenesis” brews a slow evolution of wet, airy and earthy sounds and resonant friction. The closing track, ”Chora”, imagines a meditative space of breath: filter resonance posing as organ pipes against a backdrop of breezy industrial hoovers merges halfway with a harmonium improvisation that foregrounds the frictions of the wooden instrument itself, just before filtering out into resonant harmony.

Tracklist:
A1) Coastal Inversion (12:14)		B1) Symbiogenesis (07:22)
A2) Rooftop Gardens (05:44)		B2) Chora (10:47)

Credits:
Marja Ahti: composition, production, field recording, Buchla 200 and ARP 2600
Recorded at EMS, Stockholm, WORM, Rotterdam, and on locations in Greece, Alaska, Finland and Sweden.
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Designed by Ruth Stofer

Vegetal Negatives

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Eric Andersen - "The Crying Space" 2xCD
www.recitalprogram.com/the-crying-space/

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Edition of 200
° Gatefold wallet with insert

Release date: Feb. 14th, 2020

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R65 - Eric Andersen - "Le Chemin Des Larmes" excerpt from The Crying Space 2xCD

'Confinuum' #1 - Sourdure

21. April 2020 - from the series Corona Loops from Discrepant 
Corona Loops is a series of vignettes and random loops done under quarantine.

Loop #21

En Mayo pasado me invitaron a musicalizar una pieza para ARCA, un proyecto de la USACH que rescata videos de valor cultural inconmensurable y los musicaliza en colaboración con productores de música electrónica nacionales.

Mi pieza es de un documental de 1974 sobre la cultura y el pueblo Mapuche que, lamentablemente, nunca se terminó. 

Link del video y perfil de ARCA.tv: https://www.instagram.com/p/CBUQMEFgwz-/

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Last May I was invited to create a musical piece for ARCA, a national video archive of inestimable cultural value, in charge of rescuing old videos of Chile and scoring them in collaboration with local electronic music producers. 

Mine is from a 1974 documentary about the Mapuche people and culture; footage that never saw the light.

Video link and ARCA.tv profile:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CBUQMEFgwz-/

Loop #21

Mike Kitcher