Name: M.Willet - Conversations With The Big Voice Upstairs by Noir Age
Duration: 5 min 36 s
Description: Track selection from the forthcoming Noir Age release by M.Willet, Feeling the Fields (NA061)

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One Belt One Rage 一帶一怒 #2 w/ Jahan Xanlü - 09/02/2024

Silhouettes above rubbles
Tuming into pillars
Monotonous mannequins
Walk away with stamps

Grains of a copy, of a shade
Cloning fragments of tedium
Clustered roots, source-clumsy
Growing into visage

Mumbled echoes from the mist, through the tunnels of revival. The graininess interplay with a subdued mellifluence. A haze of longing sighs and reverberations - threshold between the lane, where distant voices yield to light.   

Night Foundation, the electronic solo project of visual/sound artist Richard Vergez and the founder of the label - Noir Age, explores existential soundscapes, utilizing analogue hardware including vintage synthesizers, found percussion, tape effects, and manipulated wind instruments. 'Change Your Mind' holds the resilience and heralds the breath of new horizon.

Change Your Mind

Night Foundation - Counting the Days

LUDWIG BERGER - SPECIES LONELINESS
Cat #: OUS051
Release date: March 29, 2024
Distributed by Kudos: https://kudosdistribution.co.uk
Label Bandcamp: https://ousooo.bandcamp.com

«I wanted to revisit the sound worlds of 1970s eco-horror films, a time of growing fears about environmental consequences. Today, we no longer fear the revenge of frogs or insects; we are mourning their vanishing. My music channels the eerie, anticipatory dread of those films into a contemporary lament for what’s been lost and a search for what might still be restored.» — @ludwigberger

Leading up to his first ‘fictional’ album «Garden of Ediacara», which will be released on May 3rd via -OUS,  landscape sound artist Ludwig Berger presents the EP «Species Loneliness».

Building on an extensive and acclaimed body of work in sound art, field recordings, installation and performance, as well as music for film and theatre, the EP «Species Loneliness» and the subsequent  album «Garden of Ediacara» mark a shift in Berger’s creative work. But as he enters the realm of ‘fictional’ music by engaging with environmental emotions, he still relies on his far-reaching practice as a close listener and archivist of unheard sounds.

With «Species Loneliness», Berger explores a yearning for interspecies connection on a damaged planet. The six track EP presents a set of muted songs that are haunted by echoes of eco-horror and eco-gothic films of the past century, while interwoven raw field recordings create the space to breathe. The tracks center around the term of «Species Loneliness» — an ecological form of isolation and solitude. It expresses the feeling of homesickness while being at home, arising from the loss of natural habitats and the decline of biodiversity. Through layers of degraded samples, eco-nostalgia runs through the EP, longing for meaningful relationships obscured in the shadows of the Anthropocene.

Ludwig Berger is a landscape sound artist, educator and musician. In his compositions, installations and performances, he enables intimate and playful sonic encounters with plants, animals, buildings and geological entities. In his musical work, Berger produces sonic eco-fictions with processed and synthetic sounds.  He has composed sound and music for award-winning films and theatre pieces and curated the landscape sound festival ‘Sonic Topologies’ in Zurich. He is also founder and curator of the label Vertical Music, which releases field recordings and experimental music. 

Berger holds degrees in electroacoustic composition, as well as musicology, art history and literature. As a sound researcher and teacher at the Institute for Landscape Architecture at ETH Zurich from 2015-2022, he studied the sonic dimension of Japanese gardens, alpine glaciers and urban landscapes, which among other things led to the release of the acclaimed album trilogy ‘Melting Landscapes’, ‘Dammed Landscapes’ and ‘Buried Landscapes’.

CREDITS
Written and produced by Ludwig Berger 
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Album cover by Paulin Rogues

Species Loneliness

Sea of Decay

Buy on Bandcamp

Ludwig Berger - Species Loneliness - 1 - Sea Of Decay

Dogtape VOL.2 : LostSoundbytes (A side)
Separated tracks available here : https://lostdogsentertainment.bandcamp.com/album/dogtape-vol-2

Dogtape VOL.2 : LostSoundbytes (A side)

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Track selection from the forthcoming Noir Age release by M.Willet, Feeling the Fields (NA061)

M.Willet - Conversations With The Big Voice Upstairs

'The Double Face of the Zero' revolves around the progressive crumbling of the human condition, trapped in a Babel of toxic languages, hypnotised by seductive as much as false myths. The traversed architectures are empty or abandoned; inside, only faint echoes of mechanical rhythms reminiscent/incubus of models destined for passive consumption and the reproduction of consensus. Babbling, bare syllables are all that remains of a one-way communication. The new alphabets of communication systems do not need expressive space but consensus time. This journey is closed, however, by a text that is, in its own way, full of hope and that, like a compass, indicates a possible escape route from this mortal spiral of spectacular-media-political consensus. The sound sources from which the work originates are multiple. All electronically processed so as not to show their origin, in order to place themselves in an “other” space. All this not out of sonic sadism but out of a desire to elaborate a sound palette that is as personal as possible. A palette of sounds that tries to place itself outside the fences and categories that delimit even the area of research music, which instead, by definition, should be as model-free as possible.

Limited edition of 50 professionally dubbed tapes
Composed by @danieleciullini
Mastered by Francesco Brini (Spectrum Mastering)
Artwork by Alessio Di Mezza
Duplicated in Milan, 2024

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Cricket Talk w: Casper & Levente [22.03.2024]

crochet disques and notte brigante, transatlantic collaboration :
https://nottebrigante.bandcamp.com/album/nb05t-paloma-flash-bed-songs

the world takes selfies, tweets and spills its guts / a hushed, low-key atmosphere for sunday lovers / lovers of holidays and gentle strolls / gentian bitterness and spring glow / technology manufactures the future in quantity / minimum set-up for maximum vibes :)

a1 - bed intro 00:51
a2 - brigitte blues 02:49
a3 - mode d'emploi 02:34
a4 - interlude 00:39
a5 - bed africa 01:27
a6 - la nuit s'agite 02:45
b1 - bed dub 02:21
b2 - bed exo 02:32
b3 - bed inter cri 00:52
b4 - quelques minutes 02:20
b5 - interlude chelou 00:45
b6 stereophonie 02:31
 
C25 Bed Songs, edition of 50 cassettes

M.Willet - Conversations With The Big Voice Upstairs

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