“The seaside encourages and capitalises on transgression,” says Brighton-based cultural commentator Andy Medhurst. “Seaside culture is somewhere [where] the everyday rules of behaviour are put on hold. Compared to the average working week, where most people have to do set things at set times for set rewards, the seaside is a zone where all bets are off. It gives us the opportunity to write our own rules; in some cases, that can mean the usual codes of respectability cease to hold much sway.
“Seaside towns are literally and metaphorically on the edge. They give a very particular perspective. When you look back inland, nothing seems as settled as it once did – and those instabilities can be culturally productive.”

Motto of the Wheel

Teresa Winter - Motto of the Wheel [RAVE031]

JOGMODE An Album by Adam Gallagher and Curtly Thomas. Recorded in London, Bethnal Green 2018-2019

JOGMODE

JOGMODE ~ TrackONE Jm

https://www.nts.live/shows/ikura-imprint/episodes/ikr-imprint-22nd-december-2021

Ikr. Imprint 221121

from "noncommittal music" out 3/4/22
lxvlxv.bandcamp.com

synaptic misfire

Felisha Ledesma, exploring a music of presence an ultra subtle inference, Felisha Ledesma’s debut releases ‘Fringe’ on Ecstatic Recordings and ‘Sweet Hour’ on Enmossed x Psychic Liberation 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.

Felisha Ledesma [Reste à la fin, les cendres, curation by Mari] [10.05.2022]

https://www.nts.live/shows/ikura-imprint/episodes/ikura-imprint-3rd-august-2022

Ikr. Imprint 030822

dj snork - aurorayw

Heith - X, wheel
Label: PAN
Cat.No. PAN 119 
Format: LP / DL
Release Date: 07 October 2022
Purchase: https://pan.lnk.to/Xwheel

Heith’s devout interest in the notion of reality started long before he recorded his latest album. The Italian musician, producer and artist probed the spiritual aspects of sound and its cosmogonic potential already in his previous works released on his own Haunter Records label.
Exploring the textures of consciousness through research into the ritual animism, he kept an omnivorous and universalist approach to cultural and sonic influence. This is central to X, wheel, Heith’s debut album and first release on PAN. It’s a deep dive into his creative and spiritual practice, one where art and life are inextricable.

Written and recorded across different studios in Milan, Rome and Florence between March, 2019, and January, 2020, eleven tracks cycle through a world of stylistic references—from psychedelia, psytrance and freak folk to stoner metal, noise and early electronic music—while remaining firmly a part of a singular vision.

Album opener “Letter 4” staggers along collaborator Leonardo Rubboli’s winding guitar melody, while second track “Dero” cycles into layers of assorted sine wave lines and tonal systems outside of the Western diatonic scales. X, wheel sits calmly at the centre of its own vortex of dissonance and diversity, moving through a spectrum of ideas, moods, and emotional states with uncanny ease. A glimpse of contributor Jesse Osborne- Lanthier’s synth melody briefly surfaces from a cacophonous flood of reverb and distortion on “Stoned Witch”. Aase Nielsen’s lonely saxophone wanders around the nostalgic hypnagogic noir of “Ensemble For Somnambulists”.

Heith draws together an array of philosophies and fictions together into a sonic tableau that exists outside of linear time. As the titular wheel spins, it does not bring about repetition, rather constant change and movement, spiralling into infinity.

The hypnotic nature of the release is translated in the album’s liner notes. It’s a collage of sorts, constructed from Heith’s own diary entries using the non-phonetic alphabet and linguistic experiment called “Angel’s Hair” developed with artist Pietro Agostoni. Together with contributions from ZU drummer Jacopo Battaglia and didgeridoo player Fabio Goldaniga, X, wheel is an exercise in creating new forms of meaning through sound, turning spectral vibration into conscious awareness.

2 Dero - Heith (PAN 119)

Longtime PL friend and collaborator, LXV (Philadelphia, USA) recently traveled Europe for his first overseas tour in his long and fruitful artistic career. Coinciding with it being the inaugural LXV performance in Berlin, it was also the first PL NIGHT at Volksbühne Roter Salon. This board recording annotates another chapter in the tome of LXV and PL's friendship.

Felisha Ledesma [Reste à la fin, les cendres, curation by Mari] [10.05.2022]

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