DARK CLOUDS

Slow motion. Shadows drifting. 

A sky that never sleeps. Saigon at night. 

Mystic air. Neon breath rising.

The city moves. But time stretches. 

Clouds heavy, yet graceful. Every note lingers. 

Every echo deepens. A meditation in sound.

Between light and dark. Between silence and pulse. 

A vision suspended. This is not just music. 

It is a feeling... It is Saigon’s night sky.

DARK CLOUDS

Own for keepings

Two Pounder (Version)

Huggle 523 [olops]

16 July 2020

The 2nd in a series of two new releases by French tape-based experimental artist Jérôme Noetinger, who has treated us to countless unforgettable live sets at OTO. For this he presents two pieces in collaboration with Jean-Philippe Gross based on the idea of the exquisite corpse.

"There is a great tradition of exchange and correspondence work in experimental music. In the 80's, there were a lot of cassettes with musicians who had never met each other but were exchanging sounds by mail. Nowadays it's even simpler and more obvious.

The imposed period of confinement - in France between March 17 and May 11 - was ideal for restarting such projects.
With Jean-Philippe Gross, our collaboration is older and we have had the opportunity to play several times as a duo. I have always been impressed by his dexterity, rigour and discipline in the electronic field.

For the first track, a musician created a first sequence lasting between 10 seconds and seven minutes, and sent only the last 10 seconds to the next one who then mixed or pasted his sequence into it, and so on for a total of 16 exchanges.

For the second, the number of exchanges has been limited to 14, with a duration of between 10 seconds and three minutes, but each having a maximum reserve of 10 minutes.

The final result was only filtered and slightly equalized in terms of volume." - Jérôme Noetinger

TR065 - Jean-Philippe Gross & Jérôme Noetinger - Cadavre 1 [sample]

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taken from Simon J Karis 'Piovve' NM039

Simon J Karis returns to Nice Music with Piovve, his first release for the label since 2017’s Madrugada. Following from recent releases for Altered States and Vienna Press, Piovve offers up six tracks demonstrating the development and deepening of Karis’ obliquely emotive approach to electronic murk. Floating on clouds of tape hiss in smeared VHS fidelity, Karis explores a range of formal approaches, from the burbling monophonic synth lines and spoken text of opener ‘Infinite July’ to the four-on-the-floor kickdrum and wistful music-box melodies of half-remembered rave closer ‘Shale Pardon’. In between we’re treated to the drumless motorik propulsion of ‘To Think of You’, which calls to mind Moebius and Beerbohm’s Double Cut in its woozy rhythmic insistence before the mood is hijacked by a distorted devotional vocal sample that abruptly reroutes proceedings from the morose to the ecstatic. The opposite path is travelled in ‘On Ardour’ where jittering synth pads toy with euphoria before descending into pensive gloom. Across these six miniatures – each of which concludes with an abrupt cut to silence – Karis mines a vein where sonic experimentation and emotional reflection meet, crafting something uneasy but ultimately celebratory. -Francis Plagne

For fans of Cluster, Actress

Piovve

Simon J Karis 'Infinite July'

Track commissioned for the exhibition ‘Now Accepting Contactless - Design in a Global Pandemic’ V&A Dundee as part of a mix by David Blamey for British Earways to be played on a loop in the gallery.

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A couple of months before lockdown, the housing block where Tom White lives got covered in scaffolding. Residents were left in a building veiled by translucent white netting for months on end. This composition was made in this specific urban lockdown context: the fridge whirs, birds chirp on scaffold poles, electromagnetic activity & tape loops reverberate on the eardrums, within the home and out into the world.

Composed of archive and site specific sounds. 
London Spring 2020

Medina Vibrations (2020)

You can buy this track at
https://cstcscstcs.bandcamp.com/track/going-back-to-plant/

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People Mover

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OCHI - Going back to plant

Deconstructed_art_club - Little Trolls

You can buy this track at
https://cstcscstcs.bandcamp.com/track/uno/


https://open.spotify.com/artist/53Ch4nZM7NiXXUqww59R18

Pululosz - UNO

You can buy this track at
https://cstcscstcs.bandcamp.com/track/fatamorgana/ 

https://soundcloud.com/cstcscstcs/ming_mecca

Ming Mecca - Fatamorgana

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