Ulla - 'Limitless Frame'
Format: Vinyl / Digital
 Release Date: May 10, 2021
Distribution: Rubadub 
Cover photo: Sasha Zakharenko

Being somewhere, while being somewhere else
A place I look for in other places
A moment on repeat
I made this music as a way to hug myself

All music performed and written by Ulla E. Straus

https://soundcloud.com/ullastraus

Pre-order:

https://motionward.bandcamp.com/album/ulla-limitless-frame
https://www.rubadub.co.uk/records/catalog/product/view/id/13471/s/limitless-frame/
https://boomkat.com/products/limitless-frame

MW009: Ulla, 'Limitless Frame'

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infinite change (feat. Perila)

Taken from 'Fringe' LP/Download (E064, Ecstatic 03/09/2021)

A gorgeous swell of intimate soundscaping from Felisha Ledesma on this simmering stunner for Ecstatic, despatching two extended, richly absorbing pieces weft from everyday detritius; synths, strings, voicemail, found sounds - hitting a similar spot for us as Ulla’s diaristic 'inside means inside me’ but with a more defined play of sound-as-light that gently and memorably tugs at the earlobes and heartstrings. 

Exploring a music of presence and ultra subtle inference, ‘Fringe’ is the 2nd release by Ledesma, student of Berlin's estimable Universität der Künste, following from a debut for Enmossed x Psychic Liberation earlier this year. Using AMQR - a software synthesiser built by Ledesma together with Ess Mattisson - both pieces here 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. 

Operating at insightful levels of synaesthesia, Ledesma poetically turns ostensibly humdrum sources into clouds of smoke - emails, voicenotes, walking along the water, a poem attached to an email, walking alone in New York during lockdown, going for a swim at sunset in the desert - all turn into a smudge of memory. When ‘Beamsplitters’ opens with a tangible human presence - a voicemail from a friend - it startles with its earthly pull, eventually getting lost in a tangled spool of found sound leaving just a trace of iridescent, intimate reverie. 

On ‘Golden Mirror’ Felisha gently diffracts a lonesome guitar phrase into a humming thizz with a steeply uncanny ability to jog the memory in a similar way to how olfactory stimulus can conjure feelings of nostalgia. It’s a trick familiar from an emergent new realm of lower case composers creating something like submerged, small scale symphonies that work counter to notions of classical excess or anodyne ambient, instead focusing on microcosmic, highly peronalised sort of worldbuilding that’s impenetrable, yet somehow entirely open.

Felisha Ledesma - Golden Mirror [E064]

SDG - ONS02

Ghostride The Drift - B1

hello sir would you like some coffee?
what are you doing, just standing around handing out coffee at 6am?
well when i was in the service, my dad sent me this book by the guy who started this company 
and every word... i wanted to BE that guy
and the guy who wrote it started this company 
you know... i used to have a corolla

I Was That Book

"a distinct new shade of modern, adult, atmospheric emotion and feminine pressure"

Answering a need for sincerity and intimacy in overwhelming times, Berlin's @perila makes her striking solo debut with a blush-worthy suite of sonic erotica, ASMR and sensuous ambient environments...

Tracklist:

A1. Natʼs Poems (with Nat Marcus) 
A2. Mouth Full Of Tahini

B1. Sweat (with Inger Wold Lund) 
B2. XY Object Of Desire 
B3. Message From Another Table

Digital Bonus: Wet

Edition of 300 copies.
Mastered by Lawrence English at Negative Space, cut at D&M Berlin.
Release Date: 18/07/2019

Perila - Irer Dent (sferic004) [Preview]

Forthcoming due 7.10.2020
Track A2 - Slappy
Debut 12" release

Shakey - Slappy PF010

Taken from the album Caterina Barbieri - Fantas Variations released as 2LP and Digital

Fantas Variations

Bendik Giske 'Fantas for Saxophone and Voice' (EMEGO 279)

Taken from Not Waving & Romance - Eyes Of Fate [E065, Ecstatic]
 
Not Waving combines with Romance on the free-floating grandeur of ‘Eyes Of Fate’ : nine tracks of mythological, Old Testament ambient.

The first new music from Not Waving since 2019 and the first pairing with label mate Romance 'Eyes Of Fate’ explores the fertile territory between secular and religious music that has long fascinated artists, allegories on the divine and existential bliss and terror in equal measure. 

From the curdled invocation of opener ‘I Bowed On My Knees’ to the enrapturing devotional of ‘While My Heart Still Beats’ to the final judgement of ‘Kneel For Mercy’, the album wrenches highly emotive textures utilising a blend of centuries-old chant styles and orchestration consisting of  chamber strings, tape loops and plangent processed sounds.

infinite change (feat. Perila)

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