Xquisite Releases present ‘hypocrite 21’ the new release by London based artist great area

through five tracks great area weaves a diary of intimacy, as much with the grey beauty of the city as with any human, time
spent travelling on buses and walking pavements, great area seems to offer these songs as companions. 

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sg5KITdT04

cover art by grey area
mastered by oscar khan

great area - hiding things

@violentquandonaime

helen island - last liasse
Vinyl/Streaming/Digital
- 21.02.24 -

Ghastly and hallucinatory – Last Liasse is a sign of the times, alternative pop record by Helen Island. Within this debut album, the artist captures the saccharine gaze of digital escapism through characteristic filtered high notes, cut-up genres, and processed vocals. Providing a comprehensive overview of Helen Island’s self-distributed initiatives, with the ethos of the Parisian Simple Music Experience collective, the twelve tracks set a solid musical score that resonates with the age to come.

helen island - marian 323

last liasse

helen island - thank you

helen island - blazing

You Never End

C'mon Dive

Happy In The Wrong Way

Just Married

lydia's house- plnt07

Artwork - emmie strang

Next on the plant series is a duo we’re really excited to announce, Lydia’s house⭐️ open their door and invite us in to an eclectic of soothing ethereal sounds.

 We’re met with gorgeous tones of rhythm and blues glistening amongst the walls , whilst different instrumentals warmly fill the rooms with their unique style and blends.  

“Things left as they are, turning back in quiet and sure, heavy, without scattered meaning. Along the sidewalk below dry leaf piles, resting, just —

Those flowers became dirt became flowers again 

Meant a lot holding on, ellipsis 

—

Dry straw broken

Grass whimper 

Coming home”


Cindy Lee - Dreams Of You
Barbara Lewis - Hello Stranger
Aleksandra Zakharenko - Window Talk
Daily Rituals - Honor Fugue
Cancer House - A Hiding Place (Lily’s Mix)
Mark Templeton - Lily of the Valley
Ana Reme - Same Same
Memotone - Distracted by Ants
Perimeter O - Voices
Glint - I’ve seen you before
J - cadence felt between our bodies (with Angelina Nonaj)
Harold Budd - Drita
Ulla & Ultrafog - Dumb Rain
Etelin - Brown’s Pool Behind the Hammock Tree
ML Buch - Dust beam

lydia's house - plnt07

Jazz Lambaux - Music for Fools (GRVTS024) / LP - DIGITAL

A1 - Trend 
A2 - Sexy City in E-Flat Major Feat John Grilp
A3 - America 
A4 - Broken Jukebox in B-Flat Major feat Rachel Coster
A5 - Yesterday 
A6 - Lexus Waltz In B-Flat Major 
A7 - Twilight
A8 - Vox Lesson in F Major

B1 - Paranoid 
B2 - Resurrexion in B-Flat Major
B3 - Rockstar feat zannie 
B4 - Ex-Rockstar in C Minor
B5 - Alien 
B6 - Xorcism in B-Flat Minor
B7 - Music For Fools 
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After several extensive DIY world tours with his partner in pipes Enora Morice (from Wuhan to Baltimore via Ullapool ?!!), jester in chief Jazz Lambaux recently settled and channeled the material he recorded over the past few years into a manifest album for Éditions Gravats (some of which got released as singles via excellent Brussels-based label City Links and video clips directed by Jazz himself).

Almost 40 years after Baudrillard’s America, Jazz Lambaux offers his own fantasy of TV-fed - mostly white - third millennial suburban America. Music for Fools (2022-2024) is an elegy for a demographic with little-to-no property ownership prospects, entangled in a never ending culture war and a meaningless consumption race - a meager solace for a generation raised on Green Day’s American Idiot and Marilyn Manson’s Portrait Of An American Family.

Contrary to what its title suggests, Music For Fools (2022-2024) is not a mere compilation of tracks and skits lazily extracted from Jazz Lambaux’s hard drive to justify a touring habit. Like most of his fellow buffoons, the Mountain Dew-fueled Punchinello is smarter than he’s willing to pretend, and the narration his debut album offered is among the most uncompromising and cinematographic ones we’ve heard in the early 2020’s.

Punctuated by post-modern vignettes echoing Ol’ Dirty Bastard and Eminem’s own deranged comedy skits (special mention to the goofily Kafkaian “Broken Jukebox in B-Flat Major”), the album progresses towards a relatively radiant conclusion, conjuring the dizzying junk of US teenagealia it emerged from, touched by the grace of MTV-friendly gods. Ecstatic pop songs on steroids (“America”, “Yesterday”, “Paranoid”) - summoning the aforementioned acts - alternate with bittersweet ballads (“Twilight”, “Rockstar”), recalling the heydays of campus radios and Tori Amos’s mainstream avant-garde Boys For Pele. But all songs and instrumentals bath in that same hyperreal uncanniness, a grinning paranoid glow that blossomed in the mid-00’s through works like Gregg Araki’s Kaboom, Richard Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly or Korn’s Twisted Transistor video clip… A trip through America’s guilt, led by a French cousin of the Pied Piper of Hamelin.

Jazz Lambaux -  Music for Fools

Belly Up

See (feat. Sophia Al-Maria & Ben Vince)

To do
-Expand the bass line. Some lovely drops and phrase end climbs to find there
-Consider more percussion


Pass for Soul

A nine day trek to Thorung La
Prayer wheels are turning
I never went this far
"You need to train"
Ah I'll be grand
Off on foot in this foreign land

Oh the beauty
Oh the graft
Just path and legs
Bring supply to pass
Sherpa temple balls in the pocket
I'm up that mountain like a rocket

Namaste

Orange suit
They called me jeez
Long hair and beard
Some Irish breeze
Here never ends peace and love
We're at the top
Ah, heaven above

The pass 5416m
The thinnest air for smokey breathers
To north, Tibet
From here, no pain
Just Earth at its best
Awww, innocent sane

No pain
Namaste
No pain

Over the pass to Muktinath
Going down was harder
For the untrained twat
But never a sigh that lasted long
Just look around to recharge the one

The highest I've been
The highest I've felt
Most beautiful scene
Imprinted to self
I found myself above the clouds
I came home with more soul
Himalayan shrouds

Namaste
Above the clouds
Soul endowed
Above the clouds
Soul endowed
Namaste
No pain

Above the clouds
Soul endowed


In 2006, my head wasn't in a good place. I had just come out of a relationship and couldn't find my zen so I decided to leg it to Nepal on my tod to find it. This song is paying homage to the trek I went on around Annapurna. It took 16 days and we walked 15-20 km a day. The highest point you get to is 5416m and it's called the Thorung La pass. You aclimatise at 4800m for a day and then up over the most beautiful place I've ever been and seen. Although there is no rope climbing it's still not easy. In 2014, freak weather took 43 poor souls doing what I got to do safely so this is dedicated to them. Rest in peace 🤍🧬

I found out a lot about myself there man and I'm ever grateful for that! I was 9 years into life with a mobile phone so that disconnection from the world of signal and internet was extremely liberating and I'd highly recommend it.
If life allows, I'll be back there again before I die...

I discovered a strength I didn't know I had. That was largely fed by the strength I saw in the Nepali people that before seeing the way they lived I wouldn't have thought was possible. Elderly people carrying weights of food and supplies that I could barely lift up the mountain with ease. The people are quite removed from material attachment too and generally show a deeper affection because of that. This is something I took home and I think as best as I can try and live nowadays. I don't really do things I don't truly need anymore... I guess musical equipment is the exception although the majority of my gear I have for 20 plus years anyways

I feel very lucky to live in a part of the world that allowed me to to do that trip at all as I'm sure the majority of humans on the planet cannot just make that decision on a whim and leave home for a reset

🇳🇵Never End Peace And Love 🇳🇵

🙏🏾Namaste 🙏🏾

If you're bored...
Here's a 9 minute video of my trip which lasted in total 80 days. I rented a motorbike for most of it and there is the best swing and Bungie jump EVER from a 160 meter high bridge towards the end of the vid. Closest I've ever come to flying as on one of the jumps the rope was tied to my back. So epic and so lucky! Thanks Nepal ✌🏾

https://youtu.be/P99vQE4n6qE?si=Eit88JjIvHLE7pEo

Just Married

Moin

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