Polish artist Martyna Basta presents Making Eye Contact With Solitude, a suite of intimate, diaristic ambient pieces assembled over the past several months. Created using almost exclusively field recordings and her voice (alongside violin, zither and harpsichord), this collection meditates on domesticity, loneliness, repetitiveness, stubborn patterns of isolated minds and the sonic mysteries all around us. There’s a real gentleness to these spontaneous and confessional improvisations, despite that fact that making them was a way of “making peace with myself and the reality around me” for the Kraków-based artist. The artwork created by costume designer, sculptor and illustrator Julita Goździk and track titles also allude to an interest in rituality, repetitiveness and the cyclical nature of our existence.

Constant listening, instinct and intuition are key to Martyna Basta’s practice. Having studied classical guitar for many years as a child, Basta now focuses her energies on more abstract forms of art as a photographer, musician, member of the PROGREFONIK collective and Radio Kapitał resident. Making Eye Contact With Solitude follows a string of shorter self-releases and is her label debut, and a wonderful introduction to her back-catalogue for many. Slotting in somewhere between the vocal mantras of Cucina Povera, the emotional immediacy of Claire Rousay’s recordings and the carefully crafted sonic environs of Félicia Atkinson, Martyna Basta is carving out a unique corner of the ambient world for herself. 

Pre-order: https://martynabasta.bandcamp.com/album/making-eye-contact-with-solitude

Making Eye Contact With Solitude

Martyna Basta – Awakening

https://formforum.bandcamp.com/album/witching-hour

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Taken from SBKT053: Zaliva-D - 孽儿谣 Misbegotten Ballads
Release date: 23rd November 2022

孽儿谣 Misbegotten Ballads is the long-awaited fourth studio album from Beijing based A/V duo Zaliva-D.

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The years are passed on to the elderly, and the elderly sing to the children. Unfamiliar and uncomfortable.

A song for several lifetimes, then blurred and reduced to a hum.

People who have forgotten where home is, believe in deceptive signposts.

Festive steps backwards, one step to the left, two steps to the right, singing without using the mouth, humming, not knowing who is who.

Faces ingress into kids, laughing and jumping, shouting and pissing. Darkness pours into midnight musume, floating in the water, two eyes, three eyes, not me, not me either.

The river waves all the way. Stars that lead the singing, towards the ripples of the bells, stumbling and untidy.

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Artwork by 周沫 MoZhou
Mastered by Raphael Valensi

孽儿谣 Misbegotten Ballads

Zaliva-D - 嗡嗡症 Weng Weng Zheng

Prepare for your Solstice Ritual 

DJ KITOKO VOL.4

https://nkisi.bandcamp.com/album/dj-kitoko-vol-4

Sacred Vessel (DJ KITOKO VOL.4)

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Various - CRAQUAGES VOL​​​.​​​2 [CCVA002]
CRAQUAGES, 2024
𝓑𝓾𝔂 👉🏾 https://craquages-collectifs.bandcamp.com/album/craquages-vol-2-ccva002

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𝖕𝖗𝖊𝖒𝖎𝖊𝖗𝖊#203 📢 fa:act - Hornets Escape [CRAQUAGES]

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Mastered by Imaabs
Artwork by Eric Hernandez

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Buy : gridrecords.bandcamp.com/album/famille-recompos-e
Stream : li.sten.to/0kqtjop3

Happy Saint Nicholas Day everyone !

Grid celebrates Christmas a bit in advance this year by offering you a special gift : a one-of-a-kind family compilation with Grid producers remixing other Grid producers tracks previously released on the label.

The project started with this simple idea, ending with 12 unpredictable matches, 12 chance encounters. A lovely way to revisit our catalog by the artists themselves, gathered together after 4 years, like catching up at a family dinner. 'Long time, no see !'

Mastered by Krikor Kouchian
Artwork by Unité Services

Basile3 Y Clara! - Respira (Toupaz Remix)

MEDS Flood Series IV
Producer - 00970

~ الياسين ١٠٧ ~

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El viaje

Susan's call

See the full article and tracklist here: https://i-d.vice.com/de_de/article/premiere-lyra-elevate

Lyra is one of the talents in our BEYOND CLUBBING series which explores Berlin night life and portraits people who make the club a safer and more special place. Today we are happy to premiere her first track from her upcoming EP.  

https://soundcloud.com/lyra_songs

premiere: lyra, elevate

https://libraryofmodernsound.bandcamp.com/album/alternatives

Susan's call

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