A bunch of sounds I have been bustling around these last months. Now they are digital available from my bandcamp.

Artwork by Iñigo Villafranca Apesteguia
Mastered by Shy

The Desert Cannot Chill Out

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Glossolalia

Glossolalia (Visible Cloaks Translingual Mix)

music by philip cock & @slipdrifta

mastering @yeyomf

i.d. lrk (edited cut from rupert spira's live qa sesh)

The 51st release of katharsis is the album Afterlife by Danish artist Johan Carøe. The album takes shape through a collection of synth vignettes and spectral landscapes, where fragmented strings and ephemeral pads merge into weightless, hyper-lush forms. Created in a period of both new life and impending loss, Afterlife lingers in the space between presence and absence—a fragile transmission of shifting states, quiet relief, and fleeting sonic imprints. It stands as an isolated relic of a time that no longer exists—a collection of echoes, projecting the paradoxical nature of life and death.

Created in solitude on headphones and a MIDI keyboard in a transitional period in life, the album embodies a raw and intimate catharsis—the word in its truest sense. Without the usual studio space, these pieces emerged through line-in synths, VST textures, and fragments of old recordings—saxophone, cello, violin—stitched together like distant memories resurfacing. The absence of microphones and monitors lends the music an eerily virtual quality—a small life in a small box, a stretched-out portrait of a passing moment. It is introspective yet expansive, a meditation on the transient nature of memory, sound, and being.

releases March 31, 2025

mastering by jjjacob
artwork by jjjacob

Afterlife

Early Song

premiere: Johan Carøe - Early Song

por culpa de otros, bregamos - April15 Deadline

Sacred Arias

Ave Maria (G. Caccini)

Ethereal ambient soundscapes for your pleasure.

SFS - THE END OF SUMMER

The Battle of Passchendaele was a major World War I campaign fought by the Allies against the German Empire on the Western Front from July to November 1917.  It is widely remembered as a vivid symbol of the horrific fighting conditions, particularly the deep mud, and immense casualties for minimal strategic gain. The village of Passchendaele was eventually captured by Canadian troops on November 6, 1917, and the nearby ridge was secured by November 10, when the campaign ground to a halt. The advance was a mere five miles, achieved at an enormous cost of an estimated 275,000 to over 400,000 Allied casualties and around 220,000 to 400,000 German casualties. The ground gained was ultimately abandoned by the British in the face of a German offensive the following year. The name "Passchendaele" has since become synonymous with the brutal and often futile nature of trench warfare during the First World War.

Passchendaele

Bloodletter

Curated by Clarissa Connelly, Erika de Casier, Astrid Sonne, Molina, Fine Glindvad and Smerz

Tracklist:
Haderslev Musikkorps - P.N. Schmidt: Souvenir di Fanö
Lars Skinnebach - Alene mod morgendagen (recited by Clarissa Connelly)
Clarissa Connelly - Guild (excerpt)
Astrid Sonne & Minais B - Unreleased
Victor Jara & Conjunto Cuncumen - Gira Gira Girasol
Coil - Manunkind
Astrid Sonne - Tiden der gik
Molina - Oceano
Tove Ditlevsen - Der bor en ung pige (recited by Lulu Ziegler)
Erika de Casier - No Butterflies, No Nothing
Mark Knopfler - Love and Guilt (Cal)
Deniece Williams - Silly
Jadwiga Rappe; Antoni Wit: Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra - Lutoslawski: 5 Songs - Winter
Joni Mitchell - The Jungle Line
Astrid Sonne - Infirmity of temper
Molina - El Aparecido
Jadwiga Rappe; Antoni Wit: Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra - Lutoslawski: 5 Songs - Church Bells
Clarissa Connelly - Guild (excerpt)
Cathy Berberian & Bruno Canino - Sylvano Bussotti: La Passion selon Sade: O - Atti Vocali
Aqua - Turn Back Time

Smerz on NTS - Fanø Special 21.01.21

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Glossolalia (Visible Cloaks Translingual Mix)

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