The noise travelled through the empty rooms, one by one rattling the walls with might and power before faintly disappearing onwards into the next. It was a sequential system and as the music echoed and bounced between each space a crowd of wanderers desperately followed trying to keep up and stay within earshot of the magnificent sounds. There was wild drums, racing percussion, a rising tonality and warwhoops which chattered and rattled between the lofty walls. 

Plein Soleil blurs the lines between experimental dub, polyrhythms and beyond on a new mini album for Zèbres, the Lyon based experimental imprint. This release comes highly recommended, sounds built for home listening as much as they'll echo and thunder on a big system.

PREMIERE: Plein Soleil - José [Zèbres]

Preorder : https://wheretonow.bandcamp.com/album/slow-drift

Artist : Orlando FitzGerald
Title : Slow Drift
Cat : WTN69
Format : Limited, hand stamped & stickered LP with unique Tyre Print PVC sleeve / Digital
Release Date : 09.09.22

Mastered by Rashad Becker
Sleeve design by Liam Cosford

Where To Now? are proud to present the new album from Irish born, NY based Orlando FitzGerald. Previously recording as ‘Orlando’, FitzGerald has released music via ‘Local Action’, ‘Gobstopper’, and All City affiliated label ‘First Second’. Where Orlando’s previous works have focused on the dance floor, here we see a pivot towards a Cello led sound which embraces experimentation, space, and solitude.

FitzGerald's approach to music is born from punk, and he carries this DIY approach towards the weighty world of the Cello. With no formal training FitzGerald instead takes an intuitive approach, quietly seeking out expression and treating his sounds to create a unique basin of tension, warmth, and paced release. With percussive contributions from Matthew Byas (of Phony Ppl), restrained Sax skronk from the brilliant Kate Mohanty, synth work from Evan Shornstein (also known as Photay), and vocals from none other than NY Post-Punk legend Anna Domino, FitzGerald has created a cinematic record that moves between worlds of unnerving dread, and lush, hopeful melancholy.

‘Slow Drift’ opens with the unsettling ‘Infinite Life’, where layered Cello and Sax murmur set the scene and accompanying bass rattle evokes the feeling of mechanical motor drift. This melding of the mechanical and organic will become a central theme to the album. ‘Anticipate The Heat’ follows, with the album's most Jazzwise moment - where Byas' scattered hand drums punctuate Mohanty’s mellow flutters.

‘Wind’ is where we find Orlando at his most cinematic and melodic, presenting a serene, bubbling movement where hushed picking and restrained playing recalls the quiet ambience of Helios, or the melancholy of Bruce Langhorne at his most desert swept, staring into an endless horizon.

‘Unfolding’ opens with Anna Domino’s unmistakably fragile, sensual, and affecting vocals, for which the Cello compliments in call and response fashion, allowing Anna’s vocals to lead, creating a moment which appears to explore themes of regeneration, loss, and hope - which again, is refracted and responded to by Orlando.

Next we have a triptych of ‘Grid’ movements, which continue to explore the above themes, drifting between meditative minimalism and abstract discordance with hypnotic effect - Orlando approaches these pieces with such considered interplay, fully embracing space, silence, and cyclical repetition to create a devastatingly emotive, and desolate landscape, which continuously attempts to regain focus, yearning for stillness.

Finally the album ends with "One" a meditation on wholeness and unity where moody, yet serene guitars balance wailing cello.

Orlando FitzGerald - Unfolding (Ft. Anna Domino)

A. Campbell Payne dives deeply into the crystalline chimes and resonant bells of FM synthesis for the six tracks of 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒔 + 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔. Swirling polyrhythms and ambiguous modal harmonies convey their feelings during a fitful period of recording during 2020-1. Payne says, “Living between two places[…], going through the motions of travel while not going anywhere new created a restless atmosphere for performing this music,” which is reflected by cyclic structures both within and between tracks.

In contrast to the sparkling timbres of 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒔 + 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔, subtle compositional instabilities imply an underlying unease. But as a complete suite, it is intended as “an aide in processing feelings of dread, anxiety, and hopelessness”, and Payne continues: “I encourage you to listen to this while on a hike or in other contemplative, open settings.”

releases October 17, 2022

recorded and mastered by A. Campbell Payne
insert photo by A. Campbell Payne
all proceeds to Fund Texas Choice (Austin, TX) - fundtexaschoice.org 

buy: https://enmossed.bandcamp.com/album/trails-stations

Trails + Stations

A. Campbell Payne - Field (ENMB-09)

Au cœur de l'heliopolis, une voix hypnotique et anachronique s'élevait : celle de Black Zone Myth Chant. Paru aux Éditions Gravats et Vastechoses, il nous dévoilait un live singulier où se mélangeaient expérimentations électroniques, grooves syncopés, lignes de basses dub et sons industriels.

◐ Infos : @high-wolf-bzmc @editions-gravats

☼ Pic : @yamounozor (IG)

𓁏𓁈𓀥𓀬𓁏𓁈𓀥𓀬𓁏𓁈𓀥𓀬𓁏𓁈𓀥𓀬𓁏𓁈𓀥𓀬𓁏𓁈𓀥𓀬𓁏𓁈𓀥𓀬𓁏𓁈𓀥𓀬𓀬𓁏𓁈𓀥𓀬𓀬𓁏𓁈𓀥𓀬𓁏𓁈𓀥𓀬𓁏𓁈𓀥

Black Zone Myth Chant (live extract) @ 𝐶𝑦𝑟𝑐𝑎́𝑑𝑖𝑎

https://disquesdelaspirale.bandcamp.com/album/parasite-jazz

Parasite Jazz - π Dub

Side A from the forthcoming N/A 7" release, Inertia by Little Annie meets @night_foundation

https://noir-age.bandcamp.com/album/inertia

A multidisciplinary artist, and avant-garde icon in her own right, Little Annie leaves little room for an introduction that is worthy of her prolific career. She has remained relevant for over four decades through her innate spirit of experimentation and the multiplicity of her genre-bending collaborations with artists traversing the globe such as Adrian Sherwood, Swans, Wolfgang Press, Kid Congo, Current 93—the list goes on!

For this release, Noir Age is proud to present a 7” single of new material from Little Annie in collaboration with South Florida-based producer and label owner Richard Vergez, recording here under the moniker of Night Foundation. Annie and Richard met back in 2016 after a gig at the ICA in Miami through their mutual friend—Drew McDowall of Coil.

Sharing a requited spirit for visual art and music, they became fast friends and began collaborating, conjuring what you hear on this release: Inertia.

Releases March 3, 2023

Words by Little Annie
Music by Night Foundation
Mastered by KRAMER
Design by Noir Age

Little Annie meets Night Foundation - Inertia (NA055)

From KR105: hÄK/Danzeisen - same
LP / DL / limited edition tape out on april 28th

hÄK/Danzeisen

hÄK/Danzeisen: Aufwärts

From my 'Start To End' ep on La Beauté Du Négatif.

Jenesis   (La Beauté Du Négatif) (2018)

Out now

Digital: https://tinyurl.com/xsf4yn5j
Vinyl: https://tinyurl.com/kbhntbkv

A5. Champ De Cotons-tiges

Pre-order : https://stereogramme.bandcamp.com/album/interactive-pictures-vol-2

"Stéréogramme returns with the second opus of his “Interactive Pictures” series. Walking the same road as last year, paved with new age, freak folk and leftfield synths, the Paris-based label also ventures to new paths like minimalism, no wave and vocal experimentations. Once again divided in two musical panoramas, this 11-track tape will definitely bring back your happy childhood memories to the surface. First, take a nap with the soothing lullabies of Héron Cendré, Peter Graf York, Les Echos Primitifs, Lamina & Bravo Tounky, only to be interrupted by Ronan Riou’s feverish contribution. Then, hear the spooky, harebrained stories of Aymeric de Tapol, Leoni Leoni, Houschyar, Geier aus Stahl, Zad Kokar and Firmaet Forvoksen. In short, another marvelous line-up gathered by head-honcho Rako, who made its specialty of unearthing spontaneous yet skillful compositions. 
So, stay on the lookout until July 7, 2023 and entertain your inner-child’s fertile imagination via “Interactive Pictures Vol. 2” and its limited-batch of 100 cassettes offered in different artwork versions designed by Structure Bâtons.

Artwork & Design: Structure Bâtons 
Mastering: Michael Francey 
Words : Loïs Markarian 
A&R : Rako

https://soundcloud.com/heroncendre
https://soundcloud.com/petergrafyork
https://soundcloud.com/echosprimitifs
https://soundcloud.com/lalamina
https://soundcloud.com/bravotounky
https://soundcloud.com/aymericdetapol
https://soundcloud.com/leoni-leoni
https://soundcloud.com/houschyar
https://soundcloud.com/geierausstahl
https://soundcloud.com/zad-kokar
https://soundcloud.com/verletzte-kreature

Various Artists - Interactive Pictures Vol. 2 (Previews) - OUT NOW

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Little Annie meets Night Foundation - Inertia (NA055)

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