New music from XT (saxophone player Seymour Wright and percussionist Paul Abbott) in the form of an exhilarating, super compressed, reflective re-assembling of a dozen years working together. Re-animating free improvisation with a Chicago house palette, Deorlaf X is made up of frenetic slabs of mutated multiphonics and triggered percussion, suspended in bouts of possessed reflexive quiet. 

Where the duo’s 2019 release Palina'tufa on Empty Editions focused primarily on a response to the real (and imagined) landscapes of Hong Kong, Deorlaf X is located in Dalston, and specifically at OTO. Wrung through Shaun Crook’s studio over three nights, the recordings dug from XT’s archive aren’t simply ‘duo’ - instead they actively draw on their public and social contexts, involving the influence of audience, engineers and other visiting musicians - Ghédalia Tazartès, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Senyawa, RP Boo and others. “A changing cast of OTO guests, audience and emotions hosted each time in a new London. XT structures sound an ongoing attempt to listen and learn about the rich and transformative affordances of the situations we occupy.” 

The resulting record puts a pin through a dialogue between Abbott and Wright, between histories, potentials, fact, fiction, ideas, friends, audiences, and spaces. The heavy use of referencing recalls the footwork or house traditions of sampling across all manner of influences; what’s recalled is primarily the structures of jazz - Ornette Coleman, Charlie Parker, Anthony Braxton - but also Ann Quin, Clarice Lispector, Anna Halprin. What’s created in recall is a kind of diary, a hyper re-membering - a blisteringly warped kind of future music. 

Recorded by James Dunn, Shaun Crook and Paul Skinner. Assembled, mixed and re-recorded 19, 20 and 21 January, 2020 by XT at Lockdown Studio, Cable Street. Engineer Shaun Crook. Sounds/design by XT. Cover painting Leon Kossoff Dalston Junction No.3, June 1973 oil on board, 20.5 x 25 cm. © The Estate of Leon Kossoff.

ROKU026
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ROKU026 - Deorlaf X [sample]

https://noir-age.bandcamp.com/album/m-rka-moln

Mörka moln

Anne Gillis “…” Invadbl

Three Evocations (2021)- M3g

Additional mix by
Engelr Hashim - Evocation III (Engelr Hashim mix)
Grischa Lichtenberger - 3(Grischa Lichtenberger 3 ēvōˈkāSH(ə)ns mix)

https://dingndents.bandcamp.com/album/three-evocations

Three Evocations - Evocation I / II / III / Engelr Hashim mix / 3 ēvōˈkāSH(ə)ns

From yolabmi's Before Your Past Lives, out on Nov.25 on tape and digital:
https://muzaneditions.bandcamp.com/album/before-your-past-lives

"A longtime friend of Muzan, yolabmi's Before Your Past Lives pulls the listener into prehistory (or perhaps pre-existence) with a suite of tracks structured around gently vibrating synths, crisp field recordings, and expertly manipulated samples that fizz and crackle and whirr in rich stereo. Secure your headphones, close your eyes, and think back to before there was a before."

yolabmi - II

Listen to the full mixtape ( 1 hour long) created for Schiev festival here 
on the Facebook page of the festival.
https://t.co/OtcdKndk8U

or on Lyl radio mixcloud  ( only 37 min of the total thought )
https://www.mixcloud.com/lylradio/schiev-festival-2022-take-over-200222-wnebulo/

Mixtape for Schiev Festival ( excerpt)

Elisha Morningstar/Lorenzo Abattoir, Titled

tape loop + casio 

From "Stud Control" https://hotreleases.bandcamp.com/album/stud-control

a collection of tape loop and ambient recordings from summer 2021. Mostly recorded live to computer or tape at Cathedral ii, Cedar Village NC. Mastered by Glyn Maier

Secret Boyfriend - Nightshade

Pipe Dreams was written for the organ in St. Peter’s Köln, which has two sets of pipes at opposite ends of the church. Each rank has separate sounds and stops that can combine to create microtonal intervals. Pipe Dreams is a structured improvisation, exploring antiphony and the specific sounds of that organ, extra-musical as well as musical. The tempos and exact notation are left open; the notation is just a musical skeleton for the actual notes played. Ornamentation occurs when the sound warrants it: i.e., to not only obtain musical results, but to make extra-musical sounds occur. The weather affected the sound and action of this organ, changing every day, so realization changed daily. The melodic material is very simplistic, because that is what created the most interesting resultant sounds. Mary Jane Leach-organ

Pipe Dreams

james strong's Album

APONIA A.D. "Wind beneath a skeleton key" COR ARDENS 2022

collective private commissioning

https://soundcloud.com/cryptotropic
https://threeop.bandcamp.com/album/pace-serpente
https://soundcloud.com/ultraabriight
https://soundcloud.com/queenkopetzky
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