Nunu

A collection of brain debris from September. Exploration of texture and dynamics in a glitched harsh noise environment. Sampled from future projects, while sitting in my hollow.
Most things about this project has been crudely rushed together, out of spite of my own overthinking.

Full audiovisual: youtu.be/rRyF5unWOd4

Backwards, Through Concrete

GUESTMIX#94: AKAZIE @akazzzi
Read More / Tracklist: https://paynomindtous.it/guestmix94-akazie/
Artwork by ARBRICIAS https://instagram.com/arbricias/
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The 94th contribution to our GUESTMIXES series is presented by Acacia Ojea aka AKAZIE, a multimedia artist and DJ born and based in the northwest of Spain. Her activity as a music selector is mostly focused on the post-club scene, with a great interest in discourses close to deconstructed and experimental electronic music. In particular, her mixes harbor a sonic spectrum full of musical nuances with special attention to rhythmic and digital timbre exploration and percussive electronic music,  with hints of the sounds that inhabit or border the piece of land designated as the Iberian Peninsula. So far, her mixes appeared on radio stations such as Offline Meeting Point (Barcelona), Internet Public Radio (México), and Ma3azef.

With a fine arts education and music training in classical piano and traditional Galician percussion, she developed her interest in sonic arts and expanded her studies in electroacoustics and digital audio synthesis while investigating different approaches to sound production and listening practices. Her background has given her the chance to consider the sonic environment a latent stimulus within her processes of assimilation, creation, and artistic research, while also bringing her to value sound as the primary medium to understand and access the world. Over the recent years, her sonic interventions and performance have been hosted by art centers such as Contemporary Art Fair Art Madrid, Centro de Arte Sonoro de Buenos Aires, and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Vigo in Spain, as well as music festivals among which figure Dantz (Donostia), MMMAD (Madrid), and Sinsal (Galicia).

Today's piece is a 35-minute mixtape featuring cutting-edge tracks crafting a sound journey in the field of contemporary club and experimental, bursting digital electronics. Push the button!

PAYNOMINDTOUS GUESTMIX#94: AKAZIE

-Partition Successfully Linked-
"In my accursed womb, I beseech you, Sisterly Larvae, to mold me into a star. So I may wander beyond the screen's glow."

music by @pearl-lump
artwork by @postmortemtatt

https://formforum.bandcamp.com/

pearl lump - pygmy sized door

Honour - Àlááfíà
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 121
Release Date: 03 November 2023
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/Alaafia

Honour’s debut album is a ligament stretching from Lagos to London and to New York, curling across the diaspora and brushing the darker hues of blues, hip-hop, free jazz, ambient, gospel with Christian mythology and Yoruba folklore. As cinematic as it is painterly, Àlááfíà is a meditation on themes of life, death and love that pulls inspiration from the unexpected poetic profundity of casual conversations, field recordings, literature, ephemera, or personal archives. The result is an impressionistic vision in Black and Blur that both exhausts and implicates language—substantiating a mythos proposed by Fred Moten that sublimates boundaries between everywhere and nowhere; history and the present; the individual and the universal.

Àlááfíà delineates a gothic landscape cut by overdriven beats, swooping orchestral blasts, choral bursts and ear- splitting fuzz, where the fleshly and spiritual realms commune. Dedicated to Honour's late grandmother, the title track began to take form after their last embrace and remains steeped in her influence and spirit—a tape-saturated composition that starts in Lagos and ends in London's smoke-stained cityscape, the song’s dream-like quality developed out of the artist’s grief and PTSD coping with this loss. Beneath the stretched guitar drones and stuttering loops, their grandmother's shared faith bubbles to the surface.

“When Angels Speak of Love,” borrows its title from two works by Sun Ra and bell hooks, respectively. Sculpting echoes of praise music into disorienting spirals perforated with syrupy DJ Screw-inspired breaks and sharp splinters of melancholic guitar, “When Angels Speak of Love” engages a conceptual dialogue with the spirits of both late thinkers, folding them into Honour’s pantheon of ancestral guides. The album’s ninth track, “Giz Aard ($uckets),” is a dirge of regimented drums which anchor this somber melody as it whirls into a blizzard of heartache, uncertain if its consequence will be death or eternal joy.

The album’s sole lyrical offering, “Pistol Poem (Lead Belly),” begins with a darkly humorous bar, “He went thru hell and back/ came back/ 2 get the strap,” that swells into a haunting allegory based on the life of Philip “Hot Sauce” Champion. A modern take on the Blues, Honour’s lyrics reify the artist’s status as a student of both literature and popular culture, crossbreeding the artist’s clever wordplay with additional references to Richard Pryor, Robert Johnson, Kelly Rowland & Bryon Gysin.

Setting core principles of hip-hop, R&B, jazz and gospel music to atemporal soundscapes and compositions, Honour crafts a record that marinates in its own knotty contradictions. The ghosts that sit on the artist’s shoulders have never been more tangible than with this emotive debut.

Built and destroyed by Honour
Additional production by Bridgegroom
Mixed by Honour
Mastered by Jason Goz
Artwork by Honour

Honour - W-I-S (Above Every Other) (PAN 121)

evo-lation four is evo-natura's forth fundraising compilation, featuring gorse panshawe, usof, bod [包家巷], Arigto, Blood of Aza, angel's corpse & SONE URBIA.

Focusing on natural sounds, the project skillfully blends field recordings, drones, and electronics, with each artist sonically reflecting towards the subject.

All the earnings will be donated to Eden Reforestation Projects. (https://www.edenprojects.org/)

Artwork & Cassette Design by Ronja-Elina Kappl
Mastered by Heliopolis Echo Lodge
Curated by Ioannis Nafpliotis

evo-lation four

Cassette / Digital

gorse panshawe - find the time for you

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The 38th release of katharsis and our final release of 2023 is the prodigious compilation "Embracing Darkness, Absorbing Light" featuring a vast array of artist beloved by the label. Throughout the grandiose line-up of the 36 tracks, the listener is absorbed by various differing interpretations of the theme outlined in the title of the album. Some of the invited artist went full into introverted progressions and meditative sounds, while others focused on aggressive rhythms or anthemic melodies. But even though the styles and techniques of the songs differ from each other, the artists seem to have some commonality in their sonic palettes that binds it all together in a mutual love for music as a healing force of nature <3

releases December 29, 2023

artwork by jjjacob
mastering by jjjacob

pre-order:
katharsis-label.bandcamp.com/album/embr…bing-light

Embracing Darkness  Absorbing Light

heart bleeds only in the weekend

leop4rdi - heart bleeds only in the weekend

From Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos
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Available March 22, 2024
 
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Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos

Gate VIII

Ka Baird - Gate VIII

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One hour with wild tracks and unreleased? BLESS

PERMANENT VACATION ep02 ⏤LEBOT

Following her single release A​Я​A on World Canvas, the multidisciplinary artist sasha smirnova presents her debut EP '…​…​…​shared strain'.
Building on the foundation and the sonic materials introduced on AЯA, '…​…​…​shared strain' continues to weave together distortion, sparse processed vocals and fluctuating rhythmic movements, expanding on the synthesis and composition in smirnova's practice.
As the harmonic and rhythmic passages in the songs on '…​…​…​shared strain' drift in and out of the grid and dissolve into each other, they give space and elevate the vocalizations of one another in imaginative ways of developing and exploring sound, sonic structures and their capabilities.

Arranged, produced, and cover art by sasha smirnova
Mixed and mastered by nara is neus

sasha smirnova - missteps

ONE TWO THREE

'Movement Gallery’ by Colorado-based artist Werner Levant showcases a meticulous balance between traditional string instrumentation and more modern elements. In contrast to the noise-heavy releases of the previous year, this ambient offering provides an introspective sonic experience, inviting listeners to explore the depths of their own emotions through the resonance of strings.

At its core, 'Movement Gallery' is a musical experiment that seeks to redefine the listener's perception of conventional instrumentation, specifically focusing on the expressive power of string instruments, the human voice and properties of 'experimentalism'. Its thematic exploration revolves around the transient nature of human emotions and experiences. Each track serves as a sonic vignette, capturing moments of beauty and mystery. The project is a testament to the artist's ability to traverse diverse musical landscapes, demonstrating a mastery of both the experimental and the emotive.

Werner Levant - 'Movement Gallery' EP releases on 27th of March 2024.

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Movement Gallery

Werner Levant - Aurvandils-tá

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Battery acid (super slowed+reverb+echo)

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Null. Void. Invalid. Iniquitous. Unjust. Damnable. Reprobate. Inane. Empty of meaning and effect for all time.

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