Isabella Koen

ACR Experimental Recommend

isabella first half (@networkerror)

felisha second half

https://www.nts.live/shows/felisha-ledesma/episodes/felisha-ledesma-w-isabella-koen-5th-november-2022

NTS Felisha Ledesma & Isabella Koen: Chainmail Vol. 2

@Itoa returns to @exitrecords with a suite of fast, funky and acid-dipped genre fusionism

More info: https://djmag.com/listen/premiere-itoa-wet-brain

Premiere: Itoa ‘Wet Brain’

We are delighted to have @networkerror for our 67th episode of Syntop Audio. She has melted together experimental sounds with clubby grooves for this mix. The result is a truly exciting and mind-bending journey. Enjoy!

Syntop Audio 67 – Isabella Koen

Train One

Eddie Beatz - Bong(Howie Lee Edit)

Live at RSO for Herrensauna

Recording of Isabella Koen at Draaimolen Festival 2022

TASCAM SD-20M

Isabella Koen at Draaimolen Festival 2022

Track list:
1.	dataforstressload – Sadnoise
2.	FORECAST – LORN
3.	Blika – Blawan
4.	Mans Head – Ansome
5.	Fiend – [KTRM] & Ansome
6.	Espr II – Relapso
7.	Gangstalker – Senate
8.	Wrap Your Arms Around Me – Son Error
9.	Dragon’s Dynamite (Perc Remix) – Ansome
10.	Le Perçant Arcus -ABSL
11.	Sugar and Air – Giant Swan
12.	Copper Mines, New Machines and Future Conspiracy – PTU
13.	Lapin Blanc – ABSL
14.	Sissel & Bass (OnScreenActor Remix) – Peder Mannerfelt
15.	Purple Fucking Head – [KRTM]
16.	Breathe – The Prodigy
17.	Breathe (Mefjus, Kamo & Krooked Remix) – The Prodigy
18.	Bass Symptom (Audio Remix) – Audio, Mr. Frenkie
19.	Time Gap – Current Value

ISEL-250-001 FINAL MIX

The Seven Line Prayer To Guru Rinpoche 莲师七句祈请文

Mantra of Buddha Amitayus

Mantra of Buddha Amitayus 长寿佛心咒

Howie Lee - Island Birdy
Taken from the album Birdy Island, out now
LP/CD/Digital - Mais Um (MAIS042)

"At once fine-grained and expansive, Lee’s work combines traditional Chinese music and historical references with wild electronic experimentation" 
7.6 in PITCHFORK 
"Birdy Island is Lee's most organic work" RESIDENT ADVISOR
Swirling layers of OST-style sound design, dreamy choir vocals and traditional Chinese folk combine across eight dynamic and transportive tracks on Birdy Island, the latest album by Beijing-based producer/artist, Howie Lee, due out in April 2021 on Mais Um. 

Howie’s latest offering is as enchanting as it is boundlessly imaginative. “I’ve always had this concept in my mind about making an album based around an island”. Loosely based around Lee’s own long-formed concept of a floating Sicilian theme park, co-inhabited by both birds and ancestral spirits, Howie remarks: "Birdy Island to me is a palace in the clouds and the birds are worshipped like Gods. Not like a western God though.” Reminiscent of Hayao Miyazaki’s Laputa (in the 1986 film Castle In The Sky), Lee’s Birdy Island has been built by a Chinese investment company seeking to re-sync our relationship with the spiritual and natural world after years of economic collapse and degradation, and who invite Howie to compose the park’s soundtrack. 

On the album’s 2nd single Island Birdy, Lee’s intricate brand of traditional pan-asian exploration meet experimental bass weight sound resurfaces with stripped-back UK Grime sonics and ceremonial taoist music at it’s centrepiece, fusing to create a sound world like no other. Reminiscent of movie or video game soundtracks of decades previous, Island Birdy feels intimate, yet refreshingly unfamiliar. 

From Daoist scripture to 1970s martial arts-themed wuxia novels, Howie’s myriad strands of musical and visual output have often enveloped themes circling modern and ancient Chinese history. Lee’s Socialism Core Value EP series and the dystopian-horror 3D animation for 2017 single Bankers (created and directed by Howie himself), as well as his work with visual artist and video game designer, Teom Chen (the pair have gone on to tour their collaborations across China as part of Lee’s live show), offer a glimpse into the broad social and cultural questions intrinsically entwined throughout his discography.  

Arranged and mixed by Howie Lee
All instruments by Howie Lee (keyboard & prepared piano, yang qin, guitar, bass, drums. percussion, accordion, flute, guan zi + digital instruments)
Choir vocals by Howie Lee, Yehaiyahan, Fishdoll and West by West
Artwork by Coldass @coldass.zhou

www.maisumdiscos.com
www.maisumdiscos.bandcamp.com

Howie Lee - 岛鸟（Island Birdy) [2nd Single - Taken from the album 'Birdy Island', out now]

CONTACT: isabella.koen@gmail.com










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