this song makes me cry everytime. so powerful. love from switzerland 

Taken from 'Fringe' LP/Download (E064, Ecstatic 03/09/2021)

A gorgeous swell of intimate soundscaping from Felisha Ledesma on this simmering stunner for Ecstatic, despatching two extended, richly absorbing pieces weft from everyday detritius; synths, strings, voicemail, found sounds - hitting a similar spot for us as Ulla’s diaristic 'inside means inside me’ but with a more defined play of sound-as-light that gently and memorably tugs at the earlobes and heartstrings. 

Exploring a music of presence and ultra subtle inference, ‘Fringe’ is the 2nd release by Ledesma, student of Berlin's estimable Universität der Künste, following from a debut for Enmossed x Psychic Liberation earlier this year. Using AMQR - a software synthesiser built by Ledesma together with Ess Mattisson - both pieces here 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. 

Operating at insightful levels of synaesthesia, Ledesma poetically turns ostensibly humdrum sources into clouds of smoke - emails, voicenotes, walking along the water, a poem attached to an email, walking alone in New York during lockdown, going for a swim at sunset in the desert - all turn into a smudge of memory. When ‘Beamsplitters’ opens with a tangible human presence - a voicemail from a friend - it startles with its earthly pull, eventually getting lost in a tangled spool of found sound leaving just a trace of iridescent, intimate reverie. 

On ‘Golden Mirror’ Felisha gently diffracts a lonesome guitar phrase into a humming thizz with a steeply uncanny ability to jog the memory in a similar way to how olfactory stimulus can conjure feelings of nostalgia. It’s a trick familiar from an emergent new realm of lower case composers creating something like submerged, small scale symphonies that work counter to notions of classical excess or anodyne ambient, instead focusing on microcosmic, highly peronalised sort of worldbuilding that’s impenetrable, yet somehow entirely open.

Felisha Ledesma - Golden Mirror [E064]

'CS92' taken from the forthcoming album by TKB.

Artist : TKB
Title : CS92
Cat : WTNCD03
Format : Limited, hand stamped & stickered CD / Digital
Release Date : 20.01.23

Mastered by Rupert Clervaux
Sleeve design by Liam Cosford

“It seems unlikely that Where To Now Records would want to release something made in a shack on a river conservation property outside Melbourne Victoria. I've attempted to make the music that I hear in the dance clubs I dream about. I've never really been to a dance club.. but I'm trying to be sophisticated.”

Club music reimagined in an off grid Australian floodplain, of course this is something we’d want to release. Thankfully the accompanying music to the above sentence submitted by Timothy Brown aka TKB is every bit as intriguing as you might hope. ‘Dream Nightclub’ is a truly downbeat and dubbed journey through murky and swamped fourth world bass ambience, and longing, freeform minimal electronics.

TKB’s drum programming throughout is primitive, minimal, and unnervingly off kilter - shuffling its way through a world which waits… There’s a palpable sense of spirituality lurking low level below Timothy’s electronic works, where ambient scapes move from the deeply minimal, to the lush sublime, to the dense and agitated seamlessly, all underpinned with this submerged experimentalism - conversing with the still oddities which lurk the swamps and plains that consume Timothy’s day to day.

“The floodplain below my house is full at the moment. It's serene with the mountains behind, but as soon as you step outside the air is throbbing with the sound of frogs…”

Seeming to draw influence from the minimal pulse of Jan Jelinek, the fourth world ambience of Jon Hassel, and the open Dub experimentalism of Early On-U-Sound acts like The Missing Brazilians and African Head Charge, TKB has channeled these experimental strands into something truly dreamlike - a submerged trip which is shrouded in a dense fog…

TKB 'CS92'

borrowed

The whisperer

2nd track on 'Intact' (Jj funhouse, 2016)
http://www.jjfunhouse.com/catalogue/jj010

Data

Title track from the new LP, 'Insignia', out in Japan-only on cassette for Ryo Murakami's Depth Of Decay label.

https://depthofdecay.bandcamp.com/album/insignia

Insignia

From Sonja Tofik and Mar-llena's collaborative LP release 'Vilar i dina spår', released on LP in May 2018
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Vilar i dina spår

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Andrea Taeggi—Zimní Král (12" vinyl LP)

The music on this record was made using a vast array of rare analog machines Andrea had the chance to work on at the Willem-Twee synthesis studio in Holland (built with the iconic Studio di Fonologia RAI as a blueprint). Most of the percussive sounds come from an Analog Computer, which has been rarely used only as a music instrument (its main purpose was flight simulation). In fact, during the Cold War times it was also used as measurement tool by civil engineers and even by the army. 
To my knowledge, very few artists have given a new context to the such device, which I have found absolutely unique-sounding and gave me enough inspiration to compose a whole new album focused on it. 

At present, no one has ever officially released music recorded at the Willem-Twee synthesis studio.

The music on this record further explores cyclical, minimal and hypnotic concoctions – a particular  investigation focused on unusual rhythms that Andrea had already started on his well-received ‘Mama Matrix Most Mysterious’, released on Type in 2015. Think walls of subfrequencies, snappy rollercoasters of the mind, labyrinths in hyperspace & snakes eating their own tails.

Zimní Král means “Winter King” in Czech and was the epithet given to Frederick V Elector Palatine (king of Bohemia), the last of a legacy to actively support alchemy as a means of studying reality, the self and their inter-reflections.

All music by Andrea Taeggi
https://andreataeggi.wordpress.com

Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M Berlin

Forthcoming on SM-LL Sept 1st, 2018
http://www.sm-ll.com

Dinergy (SM-LL, Sept 1st)

A1 from 'Envelope' released on Ekster 2018
BUY: https://eksterlabel.bandcamp.com/album/envelope

Slope

The Sacrificial Code

Kali Malone - Litanic Cloth Wrung (from "The Sacrificial Code" iDEAL 2xLP/3xCD)

Lee Evans - Senoi Dream Theory (HP017)
Taken from Aphasic Forest. Out May 8, 2020 on Human Pitch

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Lee Evans - Senoi Dream Theory (HP017)

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catalog:
MOLOTON001 - Sonja Tofik - 'Neuros' CS
MOLOTON002 - Nev Lilit - 'Donnie' CS
MOLOTON003 - Sonja Tofik & Mar-llena - 'Vilar i dina spår' CS
MOLOTON004 - Brödraskapslöftet - 'Hot övergår i handling' CS
MOLOTON005 - Atonet - 'Ido' CS
MOLOTON006 - Hegira Moya - 'Slow Vein' CS
MOLOTON007 - Nev Lilit - 'Adorable Ruin' LP
MOLOTON008 - Sonja Tofik & Mar-llena - 'Vilar i dina spår' LP
MOLOTON009 - Orphan Ann - ’The Practice of Surrender’ LP
MOLOTON010 - Kirill Mazhai - 'House (Unbuilt)' CS
MOLOTON011  - Atonet / Moonilena - 'Boiling Sea' CS (split)
MOLOTON012 - Shahin Souri - 'About This Time' CS
MOLOTON013 - Sänkt - 'Svag' CS
MOLOTON014 - Sonja Tofik - 'Anomi' LP
MOLOTON015 - Linus Hillborg - 'Magelungsverket' LP
MOLOTON016 - Linus Hillborg 'Magelarkiven' Remixes
MOLOTON017 - ASET - Bortom naturens f​ö​rl​å​t
MOLOTON019 - Sabine's Equation - Triton's Cave

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