For our seventeenth addition We are graced with the presence of London's own aircode, whose electronic obscurities have been found on such labels as DJ Pitch's 'Tobago Tracks' along with a recent EP on 'Alien Jams'. Julia's productions are truly worthy of being heralded by a label with the word 'alien' in the title - her work is enigmatic and astoundingly unique. It beckons notions of a faraway entity who occupied her mind and attempted to craft their world's music through her eyes using earthly soundscapes.

It is pensive and moving throughout, where aircode has used the absence of space and an unlikely palette of reverb-drenched, distant sounds to accentuate a sense of alienation. Nods to dubstep and UK-influenced genres leak through at times to reinforce the still-present movability and flow that Julia effortlessly melds into the sound design she has mastered. The tracks loop in and out of themselves, where she has broken down each track skillfully into a concise selection of resonances that undergo a perpetual sense of motion that subvert the tropes of contemporary club music. There is an uneasy air of endlessness and repetition throughout; a spiral further and further into an unknown unknown.

Artwork by Alessia Gunawan and Gregorio Nordio
Mastering by Fausto Mercier

Spiralling - EP

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aircode - Concentric

mlybdmncy is the debut project from duo Vesta Payne (Sarah Hartnett of Ghostlore of Britain & Tom Wheatley of Теплота) - presenting a collection of pewter water castings made under the divinatory method of molybdomancy (the ‘reading’ of objects created by casting boiling metal into water). It is historically present in various cultures, including Scandinavia, Turkey and Pagan Britain. Peoples have diversely employed the method to foretell fortune, deduce bewitchment and remedy curses.

The castings are in a limited edition of 50 unique pieces and an accompanying 3 track EP where the sounds of the process were interpreted vibrationally and ‘recast as music’, offering time-linear observation through listening.

Mastered by Amir Shoat

Listen to the full EP here: https://doyenne-books.bandcamp.com/album/vesta-payne-mlybdmncy

Vesta Payne - Supplication (D-004 Preview)

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@SaintAbdullah & @Eomac rekindle their longstanding collaboration in this fiery new release sourced from the multiple cultural references and personal stories of its producers.

In their third installment entitled “Light meteors crashing around you will not confuse you”, the New York-based Iranian-Canadian siblings Mohammad and Mehdi Mehrabani-Yeganeh aka Saint Abdullah & Wicklow-based Irish producer Ian McDonnell aka Eomac continue their exploration of sounds and rhythms through an expansive use of sampling and heavy distorted beats. Passionately curious about diverse vocal and musical cultures as well as their own, the trio began their long-distance collaboration in 2019, releasing their first two albums, “Patience of a Traitor ” (Other People) and “Chasing Stateless” (Planet Mu) in 2022 and 2023 respectively.

The trio recorded the album as the world witnessed the genocide on Gaza, Mohammad notes that all tracks were “recorded within a few weeks in October after the war broke out as we tried to keep our heads above water.” The sound of Saint Abdullah is characterized by a keen interest to challenge cultural perceptions and expectations of diasporic narratives, by foregrounding sounds, field recordings, and sacred and profane music from the multiple worlds they belong to. They pay homage to the distinct influences, however sonically and culturally disparate, that have permeated their records and musical process so far. Together with Eomac, they continue a conversation shaped by their ever-growing sonic heritage and shared musical affinities. The inclusion of field recordings for example, often personal ones, are not ornamental but are integral parts of the whole album in which vocal samples are both used in moments of release or through thrusts of heavy beats, continually mirroring a state of unease.…

Reflecting on the recording process, Eomac notes that: “There is a strong influence and inspiration from hip-hop culture here. The beat-tape in particular. It’s rough, raw; rhythms are direct and not overthought. The beats are heavy and distorted for the most part, often shifting and changing throughout a single track. This brings an intentional “ungroundedness” to the record and a sense of tension.” Echoing this state of unsteadiness, Mohammad writes in a poem during the recording: “Those in the diaspora, are those that have left their home, by force, by will, somewhere in between. Are we the connective tissue that makes things more interesting?” Tracks like 'Bitch, I am Islam’ and ‘Rocknrallah’ relieve some of the sense of disorientation but are no less poignant. In the former, 'Bitch, I am Islam', Mohammad uses old personal recordings of his sisters reciting the Quran or repeating Iranian revolutionary chants like “War war, until victory”, an acknowledgment of the worlds they left behind and the ones that need building. In ‘Rocknrallah’ Abdel Ja7eem Hafeth sings a rendition of the 1933 American standard tune ‘Smoke gets in your eyes’ only to evoke the smoke coming out of Gaza.

The record also features fellow Iranian artists in the diaspora, musician and sound artist based in Paris Cinna Peyghamy and club experimentalist Aria Rostami. Ian Bruner, who worked on the album’s artwork, created a composite of the different elements and motifs that form the album, an image of arduous travel towards the mirage of Americana. In this historic period of grief and anger, ‘Light meteors crashing around you will not confuse you’ musically and conceptually engages world systems and beliefs through the experiences and stories of its producers.

—Rayya Badran

All proceeds UNRWA

Produced by Saint Abdullah & Eomac Featured Artists: Cinna Peyghamy, Aria Rostami, Abdel Ja7eem Hafeth Mastered by Rashad Becker Art by Ian Bruner

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Light meteors crashing around you will not confuse you

Saint Abdullah & Eomac - Overexposure will kill a pornstar

collages for universal etherialism  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/ikura-imprint/episodes/ikura-imprint-13th-march-2024

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Kiosk Radio is an online community radio streaming 24/7 from a wooden shack in the heart of Brussels’ historic “Parc Royal”. 
More info and music: https://kioskradio.com

Lost Program @ Kiosk Radio 07.06.2024

sucked up by the appel d&amp#39;air that is summer
heavy heavy clouds peaking through the mosquito net
I turn on the radio, 2 tranquilizers
aren't going to help to take it
even a half notch down.
My cochlea is now singing its own song..

TRACKLIST
BELOVED TRINKET - blessing
CHI OF DA SUN - my body is mine/fine !
SMERZ - om du sa om du mende det da
POLYPIXA - Полёт
OLIVER FOSTER - red faces
PIGBABY - meep meep said the rat
GUITAR - just like honey
COOLSCHNOCK - première fois
NEW YORK - drama
U O & ARMANCE - j'suis pas un ange
PAZEAMOR - altar poem
DEAN BLUNT - Beefa feat Poison Anna
MHM, MHM - to be reduced
IVAN CHENG - suns hollow
NUDO - de aqui na do salgo
AYMARD - transparency
LUCY LIYOU - visual (hey girl)
CLUB EAT - wow
AJUKAJA - somewhere in time
CHI OF DA SUN - level up

MOANS & GRUNTS w/ Raphaël Massart (02/07/24)

I am always glad that you stop by and take the time to come.
Thank you as always.
A circle of peace.
Waves crashing on the shore. An unchanging loop.
When they are calm, they give a sense of security, and when they crash powerfully, they give courage!
Is the sea breeze whispering something? A repeating loop of peace!
As if inviting us, the waves scrape away the sand under our feet along with our memories of the past, urging us to focus on the present!

Loop of Peace

INTRO

Play It Safe

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Officium & Tzii — "Watching Myself Forget with No Resistance"
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