Felisha Ledesma, exploring a music of presence an ultra subtle inference, Felisha Ledesma’s debut releases ‘Fringe’ on Ecstatic Recordings and ‘Sweet Hour’ on Enmossed x Psychic Liberation shimmer with elusive timbres that occupy a realm that feels lost between worlds - neither electronic nor acoustic, but more a sort of observational sound that radiates togetherness and warmth.

Felisha Ledesma [Reste à la fin, les cendres, curation by Mari] [10.05.2022]

Heith - X, wheel
Label: PAN
Cat.No. PAN 119 
Format: LP / DL
Release Date: 07 October 2022
Purchase: https://pan.lnk.to/Xwheel

Heith’s devout interest in the notion of reality started long before he recorded his latest album. The Italian musician, producer and artist probed the spiritual aspects of sound and its cosmogonic potential already in his previous works released on his own Haunter Records label.
Exploring the textures of consciousness through research into the ritual animism, he kept an omnivorous and universalist approach to cultural and sonic influence. This is central to X, wheel, Heith’s debut album and first release on PAN. It’s a deep dive into his creative and spiritual practice, one where art and life are inextricable.

Written and recorded across different studios in Milan, Rome and Florence between March, 2019, and January, 2020, eleven tracks cycle through a world of stylistic references—from psychedelia, psytrance and freak folk to stoner metal, noise and early electronic music—while remaining firmly a part of a singular vision.

Album opener “Letter 4” staggers along collaborator Leonardo Rubboli’s winding guitar melody, while second track “Dero” cycles into layers of assorted sine wave lines and tonal systems outside of the Western diatonic scales. X, wheel sits calmly at the centre of its own vortex of dissonance and diversity, moving through a spectrum of ideas, moods, and emotional states with uncanny ease. A glimpse of contributor Jesse Osborne- Lanthier’s synth melody briefly surfaces from a cacophonous flood of reverb and distortion on “Stoned Witch”. Aase Nielsen’s lonely saxophone wanders around the nostalgic hypnagogic noir of “Ensemble For Somnambulists”.

Heith draws together an array of philosophies and fictions together into a sonic tableau that exists outside of linear time. As the titular wheel spins, it does not bring about repetition, rather constant change and movement, spiralling into infinity.

The hypnotic nature of the release is translated in the album’s liner notes. It’s a collage of sorts, constructed from Heith’s own diary entries using the non-phonetic alphabet and linguistic experiment called “Angel’s Hair” developed with artist Pietro Agostoni. Together with contributions from ZU drummer Jacopo Battaglia and didgeridoo player Fabio Goldaniga, X, wheel is an exercise in creating new forms of meaning through sound, turning spectral vibration into conscious awareness.

Heith - Stoned Witch (PAN 119)

Gloomy mix of electroacoustics and field-recs from Sheffield's [Sleepsang](https://soundcloud.com/sleepsang) - both unreleased and from local friends (opening 40). 

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clair x - introduction 
purelink - glister dub 
pun collins - mainframe
sega bodega eartheater - fade into you
sport dj - shell of light 
portento - coplas
lovefear - breathe
ssiege - regina
elusin - elskling
dj lostboi - I just wanted to have fun 
organ tapes - pluto
money lang - what now
holly waxwing - 7 golden apples 
chantssss - stasi
mami koyama - love song
herbarium - air temple 
black zone myth chant - kubara
arad acid - torqued light

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I love Fred, and I love Taylor, and we should probably leave her alone. This track is bold and grimey.

AI Taylor Swift w/ Baby Keem & Fred Again - Leave Me Alone - RAW AI EDIT - Mitchell on Fire

how it go (prod. djfrogprod + axon)

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mu tate ~ 5 layers, all blankets

I’m writing the soundtrack to the world I want to live in.

AI Taylor Swift w/ Baby Keem & Fred Again - Leave Me Alone - RAW AI EDIT - Mitchell on Fire

Mitch Sipus