Mike Hovancsek
Texture Studies
Sloow Tapes - CS 90

Late night atmospheric soundtracks for two short movies. 'Aea' is an acoustic improvisation with tons of illustrious instruments and contributions on shamisen and shakuhachi by Lydia Schneider and slide guitar by Mohonbeena Soumalaya Mukherjee. 'Antroposcene' is a meditation of floating electronics on our disastrous pollution of the world. Mike Hovancsek is a former member of Pointless Orchestra and collaborated with Egyptian composer Halim El-Dabh (who composed some of the earliest tape music in 1944). 70 copies.

Mike Hovancsek

The Toads return today with their zippy new single ‘Tale of a Town Split in Two’. It’s a hooky, melodic ride with the Miles’ mordant vocal delivery racing in hot pursuit! June 9th sees The Toads’ excellent debut album ‘In The Wilderness’ released on Upset The Rhythm and Anti Fade.

In The Wilderness

The Toads - 'Tale of a Town Split in Two'

From the album Spirit In The Room available on Western Vinyl August 4, 2023
Listen / buy https://lnk.to/spiritintheroom

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Activity 2023 Tour Dates:
7/13 - Boston, MA - O'Brien's 
7/14 - Washington, DC - Pie Shop
7/16 - Brooklyn, NY - Baby's All Right (Album Release Show)

Spirit In The Room

Activity - "Careful Let's Sleepwalk"

02 Ritournelle

Wake

The Perennial Series is a new division of Lapsus Records and is dedicated to works from established artists in the universe of contemporary electronic music. As the name suggests, timeless music will form the cornerstone of the Perennial Series through pieces that have passed through numerous fashions and trends: musical treasures that have never been pressed to vinyl, decades old discontinued album reissues, or new artist releases that already form part of electronic music culture history. 

The first release in this new series will be from none other than Kettel, one of our favourite artists, and an integral piece of work in understanding IDM over the last 20 years. Reimer Eising needs no introduction. The well-established producer based in Groningen (Holland) has been releasing music for nearly two decades on respected labels including Planet Mu and Clone. 

In 2008 he released the spectacular "Myam James Part I" on Sending Orbs, the record label he has consistently worked with since its inception. The album -which left electronica "headz" speechless- is, in our humble opinion, a masterpiece replete with acid, electro breaks and the purest braindance style. Lapsus will help celebrate its tenth anniversary by having the honour of pressing this work to vinyl for the first time. The release will take the form of a limited edition double LP re-mastered by Xavier Alarcón that will also include "Mukudori", an unreleased track that Reimer composed during the same period, which was discarded for the final album version. 

You cna order your copy at www.lapsusrecords.cat

Myam James Part I (10th Anniversary Edition)

Kettel - Myam James Part I (10th Anniversary Edition) | Perennial Series #01

Oiseaux-Tempête's first original soundtrack for the second feature film by critically-acclaimed Tunisian director Ala Eddine Slim (Festival de Cannes' 51st Director's Fortnight, BFI London, Viennale, Thessaloniki TIFF, ADF Argentina, Geneva GIFF, Rome Medfilm Festival, Marrakech International Film Festival...).

LP | printed insert poster | PRE-ORDER 
translucent orange vinyl 
SRV494 
CD | 8 page digipack | PRE-ORDER 
SR494 
releases February 14, 2020 
>> https://www.subrosa.net/en/catalogue/soundworks/oiseaux-tempete-tlamess.html
>> https://oiseaux-tempete.bandcamp.com/album/tlamess-sortil-ge-o-s-t

Frédéric D. Oberland : mellotron, analog synths & electric guitar 
Stéphane Pigneul : modular system, analog synths & electric bass 
Mondkopf : analog synths & modular system 
Jean-Michel Pirès : drums & percussion

TLAMESS (Sortilège) 
Tunisia / France 2019 
Directed by Ala Eddine Slim 
Producers: Exit Productions (Ala Eddine Slim, Ali Hassouna & Chawki Knis) & Still Moving (Juliette Lepoutre & Pierre Menahem) 
Distribution: Potemkine (France), Hakka Distribution (Tunisia), Sister Distribution (Switzerland) 
International Sales: Be For Films 
Starring Abdullah Miniawy & Souhir Ben Amara 
Director Of Photography: Amine Messadi 
Art Direction: Malek Gnaoui

Original film score composed & performed by Oiseaux-Tempête during Winter & Spring 2019 
Recorded by Benoît Bel at Mikrokosm Recording Studios and by Oiseaux-Tempête at Magnum Diva 
Edited by Ala Eddine Slim & Oiseaux-Tempête 
Mixed by Jean-Charles Bastion at Mer Noir 
Mastered by Jean-Charles Bastion & Gabriel Séverin 
Published by Alter K. 
Still-frames by Ala Eddine Slim 
Colour grading by Romain Barbot 
Artwork by Mountain

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www.oiseaux-tempete.com

Canyons

Ending track on Støvets Vandring Gennem En Solstråle released by Janushoved, 2020

Paw Grabowski - Støvets Vandring Gennem En Solstråle

sample mp3

Passport To Dimension X  [Andromelos2]

"Let's say it's a narrative drift, the last whisper of an Ophelia lost in the shore, some sounds escaping from a broken window, a "vague a l'ame " caught in the syphon, some breads unknotted by mistake.

You know, a one side vinyl is a kind of second-handed moon, shining in the dust of thrift store, belonging to a suburban galaxy: you might need to hitch hike and lose you left shoe to travel in time.

18 mns or so, it's a walk from home until the bridge, 9 subways stations, 25 kisses, an apple crumble baking in the oven, a summer nap, 3 extra minutes before being tired of waiting.

It's a gem, a glass eye, a melting ice cube, a lost tooth, a traveling secret, a kind of chanting ring." 
Félicia Atkinson, august 2013

With Her Own Hands is a limited edition vinyl published for the exhibition L'attraction Minérale, Toulouse, may 2013. Edition of 100 copies.

http://shelter-press.com/main/category/024/

Félicia Atkinson "With her own hands" (SP024)

Butterfly Tongues More Ancient Than Flowers

[wazo-tɑ̃.pɛːt] // Frédéric D. Oberland & Stéphane Pigneul // sometimes Abed Kobeissy - Ali El Hout - Ben McConnell - Ben Shemie - Blackthread - Charbel Haber - Christine Ott - Gareth Davis - Grégoire Couvert & Grégoire Orio - G.W.Sok - Jean-Michel Pirès - Jessica Moss - Mondkopf - Pascal Semerdjian - Radwan Ghazi Moumneh - Sharif Sehnaoui - Stéphane Charpentier - Stéphane Rives - Sylvain Joasson - Tamer Abu Ghazaleh - Youmna Saba

BOOKING // AFX: sylvain@afx.agency

'WHAT ON EARTH (QUE DIABLE)'
2xLP | CD | DL on SUB ROSA & NAHAL RECORDINGS (2022)

'TLAMESS (Sortilège) OST'
LP | CD | DL on SUB ROSA (2020)

'FROM SOMEWHERE INVISIBLE'
LP | CD |  DL on SUB ROSA (2019)

'طرب TARAB'
2xLP | CD | DL on SUB ROSA (2018)

'AL-'AN ! الآن' 
2xLP | CD | DL on SUB ROSA (2017)

'UNWORKS & RARITIES' 
LP | CD | DL on SUB ROSA (2016)

'ÜTOPIYA ?'
2xLP | CD | DL on SUB ROSA (2015)

'RE-WORKS'
LP+DL on SUB ROSA & BALADES SONORES (2014)

'OISEAUX-TEMPÊTE'
2xLP | CD | DL on SUB ROSA (2013)

Canyons

Oiseaux-Tempête

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