There’s a body of water in the woods near Carrboro. Dappled light on the trail leads you to it. Crunch of leaves underfoot. A river feeds the swimming hole where people plunge, naked and alive. On a chair you sit reminiscing about the future. After a dip, you lay on a big smooth rock - let the sun bake you dry. Then you walk further into the woods.

Like coming upon some keyboardists situated at the mouth of a cave, the entreaties on this record are calming but enigmatic, tinged with melancholy and reflection. Recurring motifs are given room to grow—there’s much space, and the progressions percolate, an auditory mapping of emotional crevices. Sentimentalism given a rougher edge. It lures you in; an orb appears, bright and buzzing. It motions for you to continue. As you do, a fragrance floats through the cave and fills your psyche, like a thousand roses hidden in the dark.

On "Keyboard Suite Vol. 1", MARV imbues analog subtractive and FM synthesis with a distinct physicality. Dub studio techniques and rigorously hand-played performances create an 'environmental' keyboard masterpiece strongly connected to the lineage of 1970s-80s private press ambient and electronic recordings-- but elegantly modern sound design and production methods center the album in the present day. A timeless quality pervades "Keyboard Suite Vol. 1", allowing for easy repeats, marinating the subconscious ache of loss with a dreamily resolute hope.

keyboards and effects ~ Geoff Schilling and Nathan Taylor
french horn (A2) ~ Aaron Smithers
mixdown assistance ~ Glyn Maier
audio finalization ~ Nathan Taylor
design and layout ~ Joe Bastardo (www.josephbastardo.com)

all proceeds to Carolina Abortion Fund (Durham, NC) ~ www.carolinaabortionfund.org

ALSO WILL BE STOCKED BY:

Tobira Records (JP)
All Day Records (US)
Commend (US)
Boomkat (UK)
Industrial Coast (UK)

LP details ~
black vinyl, printed center labels
lacquer cut ~ Amy Dragon
recycled black paper jackets ~ Middle Press
silkscreened with water/soy-based ink ~ Goatmother Industrial
recycled plantable seed paper insert ~ Greenfield Paper, debossed with Braille text* ~ Middle Press
custom scent ~ Meadow Maker Apothecary (www.instagram.com/_meadowmakers_/)

*may not be readable due to paper thickness and texture

*ALL LPS WILL BE SHIPPED OUTSIDE OF JACKET FOR SAFETY*

Keyboard Suite I

MARV - Stable Mate (ENM10)

This song is one of my favourites of all time. Inspired by Midwife and Amulets' cover, which I've spent probably days listening to.

Do You Know How To Waltz (Low cover)

[LLM004]

A1 ... Exo | official video: http://bit.ly/llm004_yt
A2 .. Plus
A3 .. Errors
A4 .. Klint
A5 .. Torn
B1 ... Neoneon
B2 .. Airless / Portals
B3 .. Snake
B4 .. Sensor

Produced by Phil Struck. Mastered by Manes at SALZ. Artwork by Phil Struck. Design by Alex Ketzer. Video by Irwin Barbé and Louise Ernandez. Distributed by Noorden.

© 2017 LL.M. | noorden.org/llm

Klint

[LLM004] Phil Struck - Klint

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Amethyst⁣⁣
Beton Tåge⁣⁣
Burning Pyre⁣⁣
Body of Intrigue⁣⁣
Canadian Rifles⁣⁣
Civilistjävel!⁣⁣
Ceramic Flowers ⁣⁣
Fortunes Brine⁣⁣
Isorinne⁣⁣
J. Carter⁣⁣
Korea Undok Group⁣⁣
Lisa Lerkenfeldt⁣⁣
Moss Harvest⁣⁣
O. Vaupel ⁣⁣
Rosewater⁣⁣
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Summer Rites⁣⁣
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Summer Rites _ Jeux

YATA DSP / BROSHUDA - "Display" Split Release 2020.

Plaque Bristol.

1Light*

Plaque

YATA DSP - Lies & Fiction (Plaque Bristol 2020)

Clarinet Practice — 5/4 — 22/4/2020

It makes less sense to say that Maths Balance Volumes formed in 2002 than to say that, since that year, they have been collapsing into something, again and again. Just as the three members fell together with no plan or allegiance to any style or genre, each track falls together as the broken pieces of songs and sounds meet to make a temporary and frightening whole. Things make their way into a Maths Balance Volumes song when they don’t or won’t work anymore, when they have escaped their owner, or hidden away where nobody is supposed to find them. When things fall together—when the wooden creaks and radio hisses gather for a minute alongside bass lines and melancholy voice—there is a beauty that sounds like it was made by nobody and for nobody.

The city of Mankato, Minnesota has been the steady gathering point for the band since its beginnings. Mankato had always provided an ominous backdrop: built on stolen Dakota land, the city was the site of the largest mass execution in US history, when 38 Dakota prisoners were hanged on in 1862 in a straightforward act of genocide. But in their music of the past twelve years, Maths Balance Volumes has made music in and of a hometown overshadowed and unsettled by its history, music for a world in which things have never been okay. Traditional American folk genres seep in at times, but never as the incarnation of a living popular culture—only as ghosts or unliving effigies.

A Year Closer tells us already in its title what its theme is: approaching death, time ticking away and getting closer with each track of the record. We are told in the first song that our protective mask isn’t working, warned by the storm clouds and a ticking bedroom clock in “Dark Skies.” We hear fears of death approaching in the sad words exchanged by lovers who see they will run out of time, or already have, as in “We Had Time” or the romantic lament of “When I Drink.” In “Work Last Monday,” all of life passes with cold automatism in an “office apartment,” as a narrator broods over early onset dementia, remembers the details of rituals for respecting the dead, and thinks of how a hole is opening up in reality itself. The singer of “Over the Hill” isn’t apparently afraid of growing older and becoming a “man,” but only leaks a few disjointed details of his plans for disappearing, collapsing, turning into a tree, and finding a home. “Angel of Mercy” tries to resurrect the Christian promise of a life after death, anxiously asking if anyone is up there waiting for us after the oblivion of this world. 

But these are just the moments when A Year Closer speaks in words clear and audible enough to be understood. The giddy, agitated voice of “The Price” speaks only to itself in a private language, hidden away in a tin can somewhere. Musically, A Year Closer is a series of pieces that make symphonies out of separate processes of decay and disappearance: unidentified cracking and creaking objects, broken equipment, and lost melodies that seem to have escaped other songs and wandered into the room looking for a place to hide. These are the moments that the listener of Maths Balance Volumes always knows are coming, waits for, and settles in temporarily for a moment of repose. Maybe this is the meaning of A Year Closer: while waiting for the worst, things come together, a “we” with no name but with a rhythm, a tenuous but definite harmony to share as the clock ticks. Even if, when the lights are turned on, it turns out nobody was there. - Paul Buchholz

Taken from PP48 A Year Closer LP coming soon

A Year Closer

Purchase

Maths Balance Volumes - Dark Sky

Written and recorded on unceded Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung land during Winter 2020.

Lisa Lerkenfeldt 'A Garden Dissolves Into Black Silk' (Excerpt) [AV003]

From 'Magelungsverket', to be released 22nd of January 2021.
https://www.self-titledmag.com/linus-hillborg-magelungsverket-album/

Linus Hillborg - Vårbergsobservatoriet

snap
havy valleynights dee
hold on there
reward is coming
send me your dreams
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lockdown 3000 reward is coming

KMRU and Aho Ssan collaborate on a cosmic collision of lacerating sound design and conscious-expanding synth.

All proceeds from the music and painting are donated to Hackney Migrant Centre, a local organisation that provides support to asylum seekers, refugees and migrants in London by offering advice on immigration, welfare, housing and health: hackneymigrantcentre.org.uk

'WFH003' is out December 18th on Hot Desk.

Pre-order: bit.ly/3nyhiDO

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Premiere: Aho Ssan & KMRU - Ruined Abstractions [Hot Desk]

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MOLOTON004 - Brödraskapslöftet - 'Hot övergår i handling' CS
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