Originally appeared on the compilation 'Three Times A Day' (Finger in the Dike) from 1983

Portion Control - Collapsed (1983) (Murray CY Edit)

Body Consonance

BYRON WESTBROOK - What We Mean When We Say Body Language

We release Phil Strucks album NNO on February 23.

Phil is a experimental recording artist, who also works as a photographer, documenting the contemporary, experimental electronic music scene and life around it. His music is based on sampling from odd sound sources, random data streams and the usage of microphones and various synthesizer. Phil ennobles the trivial, honors the silence and creates an experimental collection of raw textural ambiance. It could’ve been a matter of trompe-l’oeil, a mere juxtaposition of audio signs to mimic functionality, but there’s a much more vibrant and fluid quality to his mind-expanding pieces. He is living in Hamburg, Germany.

Text: Baptiste Girou (Inverted Audio)

Phil Struck - Brook

Release date : October 8, 2018

LISTEN/PRE-ORDER : https://wavinghandsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/d-cadanse-12-ep

12" vinyl . Edition of 300 copies. Insert with lyrics included. 

Couteau Latex is a US-Swiss duo formed by Seth Sutton (Useless Eaters, Life Trap) and Lise Sutter (Maraudeur, The Staches). "Décadanse", their first EP, comes after two 7" released by Goner Records, an iconic figure of Memphis's punk scene.

Mostly recorded in 2015 between Switzerland and USA on a 4-track recorder, 'Décadanse' delivers mechanic and melancholic post-punk tunes, interconnecting European minimal synth and US punk traditions. Here, the bass is groovy and leading, the vocals are haunting, half-spoken/half-sung, the sound dusty. If we stoop to make comparisons, Couteau Latex reminds us some of our personal French idols like Deux, singing about the cigarette smoke left at night by a bunch of boys " à la démarche fauve"...

Music and art : Seth Sutton / Lise Sutter
Lyrics : Lise Sutter
Mastering : Frédéric Alstadt

Tracklist :

A1- Décadanse
A2- Une Femme Passe Passe
A3- C'est Une Princesse
B1- Démarche Fauve
B2- Téléportation
B3- La Voiture File

WH018 Couteau Latex - Décadanse 12" EP (PREVIEW)

General Rehearsal

Keith Fullerton Whitman “En la Parc de la Ciutadella”

Taken from the album 'Hence' released on LP and Download.

Hence

Oren Ambarchi & Jim O’Rourke with special guest U-zhaan 'Hence One' (excerpt) (EMEGO 249)

Beautiful dreamlike ambient piece by Birch.

'The Danish imprint Infinite Waves takes a step back with its triple
cassette anthology ‘Still Water’, showcasing the current tides and
sounds at the label. The compilation will be released on October
13.

The rules on Still Water are the same as on the 2017-precursor,
Underwater Gestures. Each of the six artists has been given a tape
side – or a maximum of 20 minutes ¬– to incorporate their own
sound and atmospheric textures, resulting in a triple cassette
release with six different notions of the ‘ambient’ terminology.
By compiling different works of art, Still Water is both a statement
that is larger than the individual works and a manifestation of the
concept and artistic profile at the Copenhagen based imprint. In a
world of easy to digest singles, Still Water is a far-reaching and
weighty body of the work.'

Order via: http://infinitewaves.net/product/various-artists-still-water

https://soundcloud.com/infinitewaves
https://soundcloud.com/sofiebirch

Still Water

Premiere: Birch - Stoke ft Jorn [Infinite Waves]

04 Venera 16

Tyyni is the third album by Finnish-born sound artist and musician Cucina Povera aka Maria Rossi. The second album recorded using a more studio-based scenario – as opposed to last year’s Zoom, a collection of in-situ, spontaneous recordings – Tyyni feels like a slowly unfurling mediation on the clash between nature and mechanical living, a rumination on the complexities of modern life that begin to unveil more about the inner landscape of the artist as it progresses. A Finnish word referring to still, serene weather, the title belies a new note of turmoil in Cucina Povera’s soundworld.  Tyyni represents a more detailed focus on the sculpting of sounds that curl around Rossi’s hymnal vocal performances. It’s a more adventurous work than Rossi’s previous output that goes further into noise elements and vocal abstraction while maintaining the balance and ecclesiastical ecstasy of her debut Hilja.
While tension at the core of Cucina Povera is always prevalent, previously it was organic sounds that were used to counterpoint Rossi’s singing but on Tyyni these are often replaced with aggressive synths and distortion, profane clashes with the seemingly sacred hymns. Whether close mic’d and intoning in a loop or in full flight, Maria Rossi’s voice remains in the foreground, set here against a more synthetic backdrop.  This development builds new worlds for Cucina Povera, a digital environment which brings in a sense of the alien for Rossi’s vocal to duel. The effect is often dazzling. On Salvia Salvatrix, an ode to the medicinal plant used to ward off evil spirits, Rossi’s invocation is encircled by a distorted synth sound tearing at the fabric of the composition. It’s an inspired juxtaposition, leaving the listener to appreciate both sounds as separate and as a duet.  Anarkian kuvajainen embraces a sense of chaos, an accidental transmitting mobile phone’s pulse is swept up gently with looped synth swells as Rossi’s prayer-like vocal rhythmically teases the composition into loops that embrace and then drift apart. Teerenpeli flirts with a minimal beat rendered by sampler and processed, layered field recordings of capercaillies, while Side A ends with one of Rossi’s most beautiful, simple tracks yet recorded. Varjokuvatanssi is an a cappela recording built on top of a wordless glossolalia, a shadowy interplay which foregrounds the solo vocal.
Pölytön nurkka is the most melodic song yet recorded by Cucina Povera. While it still maintains an off-the-cuff performance style, the synthesized chimes and 4/4 beat are smothered by a distorted synthesizer which almost replicates the bravado of an electric guitar feedbacking into the night. Rossi’s subject matter talks of trying to start anew, getting rid of extraneous material, perhaps still feeling powerless to affect positive change. On Haaksirikkoutunut, the protagonist vocal is lost, a vessel rudderless on the ocean, buffeted by waves metaphorical or real, digital, atonal chords gurgling and splashing against the bow, a storm forever brewing on the horizon. Saniaiset recalls Coil in its eldritch, nocturnal tone and digital-bell like synth, Rossi’s half-spoken/half-sung voice attaining a creepy tone before flipping into flight. Album closer Jolkottelureitti uses an escalating, sequenced synth that splinters into both abrasive tones and harmonising chords creating a kosmische effect, reminding the listener of Kluster or synth-era Popol Vuh, all the while elevated by Rossi’s searching vocalising.
 For an artist with such a singularly unique musical language, Cucina Povera is continually teasing new strands and emotive tones from an evolving palette. Most importantly, Tyyni appears to be pulling back the veil to uncover an artist finding a synergy between her own emotional inner world and practice. As such, on her third album, Maria Rossi has found a third way between abstraction and extraneous emotion, personal experience turned inside out to reveal more about the listener.

Cucina Povera - Salvia Salvatrix

TUUM "Dream Time" mix that aired April 28, 2020 on NOODS Radio for Silver Waves. Tracklisting:

Sean McCann - Unfolding Angels
CS + Creme - Snoopy [excerpt]
Remo Seeland - Whoosh Before Laya
Shackleton / Tunes of Negation - The World Is A Stage / Reach The Endless Sea
Eric Holm - Salp
Helm - Lizard in Fear
JAB - Erg Herbe
Priscilla Ermel - Corpo Do Vento
Salvador Ferreras - Jersey St.
Wojciech Rusin - Paolo's Dream
Ka Baird - Teaching Lodge of the Arrows
Mohammad Reza Mortazavi - Taken by the Wind
Sote - Pipe Dreams
Judgitzu - Kelele
Ano Ton - Cloud Ascension (forthcoming Portals Editions)
Afro-Disiak - Tambours D'Eau
Tarawangsawelas - Sekalipun

Cucina Povera - Salvia Salvatrix

Night School Records

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