2022.03

We are incredibly pleased to announce Tigersushi's new signing, Shoko Igarashi, with a debut single coming out today "AppleBanana".

Shoko comes from a small mountain village in the North of Japan, she has studied Jazz at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston and now lives in Brussels. This is the first extract from her debut album that will be released in 2022.

SHOKO IGARASHI - AppleBanana

Chapultepec Lake, Mexico City

A journey through early-to-mid ‘90s house from veteran DJ and Force Inc. Music Works affiliate Ian Pooley.

Interview: https://www.stampthewax.com/2022/03/16/diggers-directory-ian-pooley/

Diggers Directory: Ian Pooley

Album: Peerless 2165
Year: 1944
Country: Mexico
Notes: Origina audio 

El Torito Jarocho - Hermanos Huesca (Huapango) "1944"

03.01.2016

Brannten Schnüre  - Die Milchlinse. Taken from the album "Muschelsammlung" released on Enfant Terrible / Vrystaete  (Vrystaete06 / 2017).

More information and sound previews here: http://www.enfant-terrible.nl/releases/brannten-schnure-muschelsammlung/

Brannten Schnüre - Die Milchlinse

R A D K O - Brutalista. Taken from the upcoming 7" "Cherno PPP /  Brutalista" on Enfant Terrible (petit enfant 016). More information here: www.enfant-terrible.nl

Cherno PPP / Brutalista

R A D K O - Brutalista

Mac Jr. - Elephant Song (special version)

MARIA W HORN, Epistasis, LP

Release date - Oct 25th 2019 
Catalogue nr. - HG1904
Format - Vinyl/digital

https://hallowground.bandcamp.com

Tracklist:
A1) Interlocked Cycles I 	(10:45)
A2) Epistasis 			(09:31)
B1) Konvektion 			(13:16)
B2) Interlocked Cycles II 	(09:46)

Credits:
All music composed, recorded and mixed by Maria W Horn
Linnea Hällqvist - violin
Knapp Brita Pettersson - violin
Maria Jonsson - viola
Natalia Goldmann - cello
Johanna Niederbacher - cello
Mats Erlandsson - electric guitar
David Granström - electric guitar
Johannes Landgren - organ 
Fredrik Lundqvist - organ

Mastering by Lawrence English
Design by Ruth Stofer

Promotion by Dense Promotion, ed@dense.de 
Distribution by Cargo Records and a-Musik
Released by Hallow Ground

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Following the success of her 2018 solo debut album »Kontrapoetik,« the Swedish composer Maria W Horn returns with »Epistasis,« her most ambitious record to date. The title track, »Konvektion« and the two parts of »Interlocked Cycles« see the XKatedral co-founder explore radical approaches to composition that combine avantgarde methods with electronic means. While »Kontrapoetik« highlighted Horn’s strength as a conceptual and political artist, »Epistasis« is to be understood as an advanced statement by a forward-thinking composer who throughout four pieces channels her influences, ranging from black metal to minimal music, through state-of-the-art technology. 
Originally composed as an audiovisual piece for synchronised multichannel sound and lights and premiered in 2018 at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, »Interlocked Cycles« is a series of pieces exploring a gradual increase in tempo and density using various instruments. It was written to be performed by a computer-controlled upright Disklavier piano while the electronic part was generated within the Supercollider framework using phase modulation synthesis. Navigating between acoustic and electronic sounds, the two parts of »Interlocked Cycles« create a frame for the album by respectively serving as an introduction and coda to Horn’s musical exploration of the notions of authenticity and artificiality.
The nine and a half minute long title track was composed for an eight-voice double string quartet and draws on evolving progressions in F minor that were inspired by the sound and harmonic structures of early nineties doom and black metal music. During the performance of »Epistasis,« which was commissioned by Konstmusiksystrar and premiered by Malvakvartetten at Konserthuset in Stockholm 2018, four parts are played by the string quartet and four parts are played back electronically. Using various amplification techniques, the spectral characteristics of the string instruments are enhanced and distorted and were later on complemented by feedbacking electric guitar overdubs while mixing the piece. The result are densely layered drones that are most unsettling when they are the quietest and reveal their anthemic qualities in their most forceful moments.
The structure of »Konvektion« however takes its cues from a very different field of the musical world. The composition progresses in a way that was inspired by Arvo Pärt’s »Tintinnabuli« technique, where step-by-step diatonic movement interplays with triads to form a complex harmonic function that is still rooted in tonality. Based around four-note chords articulated as dyads and performed by two organists on the same instrument, the duration of each dyad is measured by the individual breaths of the two performers while pitches are predetermined in the score of the piece. The alternating breathing cycles of the performers slowly move the piece forward at a glacial pace. Simultaneously, an electronic part composed of interference tones creating high and low frequency beating patterns gradually unfolds, making »Konvektion« an exercise in minimalism that combines the subtle gravity of Phill Niblock’s work with the visceral theatrality of Anna von Hausswolff’s organ pieces.

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Epistasis

MARIA W HORN - Epistasis (HG1904)

Another classic in the rebound on the original Prescription Records will be out March 2021! USG aka Chez Damier & Ron Trent Featuring Monica Elam - Life 4 Living from 1998. Remastered and highly recommended!

Artist: USG Featuring Monica Elam
Title: Live 4 Living
Label: Prescription Records
Genre: Deep House
Cat: PR-5014
Format: 12"
Release date: 22.03.2021
Tracklisting:
A. Life 4 Living (Vocal Life Mix)
B. Live 4 Living (Dub Mix)

Worldwide exclusive distributed by www.dbh-music.com

2022.03

nathaniel