Markus Pommer - swing

forse era destino

Fleshout002

Live tape recording honouring its discovery.

https://colorsquadrecords.bandcamp.com/album/magnetic-attraction-live-tape-takes-ep

Magnetic Attraction: Live Tape Takes

hemolithin 086 [Live Tape Takes EP - CSR091]

kalanchoe

An improvisation made in my studio in April 2020 on the modular synth. It is largely based on ethnographic cylinder recordings from the Kodaly archive, made in April 1914. These small fragments are sampled with oscillators controlling the grain, loop size and time points of the samples. Pitch and envelope followers on the samples in turn control these oscillators and other physically modelled sounds. Yannis Kyriakides, Amsterdam, April 2020.

A Ghost Of Spring

Sound demos from the COBALT8 polyphonic extended virtual-analogue synthesiser

The 304

Step Pad

ReturnOfSpread AT

Motherlode

About this release: 

This compilation has been put together in order to raise awareness and/or raise money for the UK charity, Refuge. This means 100% of proceeds from all sales will go to them (after the standard deductions from Bandcamp and PayPal). 

It was 1971 when Refuge opened the world’s first safe house, so this year marks the 50th year they’ve been helping women and children escape a life of abuse and violence; the first to make the point that violence in the home was no longer “a private matter” for society to simply turn a blind eye. 

Refuge’s reputation of helping vulnerable people comes at a time where domestic violence (globally) has increased recently by nearly 30%, according to the UN; this is due in no small part to the government lockdowns brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic. Victims often now find themselves under constant surveillance by their abuser where phones are regularly checked and/or confiscated, making it harder than ever to call or text for help. 

refuge.org.uk 

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The title, Music for Another Sky, is derived from the 1890 poem There is Another Sky , by Emily Dickinson. It’s a poem where Emily is addressing her brother, yet it appears to tap into the same sentiment of hope I imagine considered by many a domestic violence survivor; the hope and possibility of living another life without fear or worry. 

There is another sky, 
Ever serene and fair, 
And there is another sunshine, 
Though it be darkness there; 
Never mind faded forests, Austin, 
Never mind silent fields - 
Here is a little forest, 
Whose leaf is evergreen; 
Here is a brighter garden, 
Where not a frost has been; 
In its unfading flowers 
I hear the bright bee hum: 
Please, my brother, 
Into my garden come! 

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Credits: 

Mastered* by Nathan Moody at Obsidian Sound 
obsidiansound.net. 

*Rodrigo Stradiotto & Karen Vogt - Noctilucent, mastered by Rodrigo Stradiotto 
(instagram.com/r_stradiotto) 

*Rosalina Teche - Slightly Affected, mastered by Francis M. Gri (krysalisound.com/mastering) 

Artwork/cover by J. Nathan Dziedzic 
instagram.com/formandtype 

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Modal Electronics