Artist: Giant Claw
Album: Mirror Guide
Format: Digital / Vinyl
Release: May 7 or 14, 2021

Music by Keith Rankin
Visual art by Ellen Thomas and Keith Rankin
Mastered by Starkey

Artist Statement:

I have been recording Mirror Guide off and on since my previous album Soft Channel came out in 2017, working on pieces in my spare time while co-running Orange Milk Records and trying to make a living as a freelance visual artist. 

I wanted Mirror Guide to feel less frenzied than some of my previous music, and decided to use a hyperreal string sound as a lead instrument the rest of the sounds could orbit around. I improvised long stretches with the digital instrument and picked moments that elicited some emotional response in me as the foundation for each piece. It helped to imagine a small synthetic ensemble playing every additional part, considering the choices an individual might make if they were focused primarily on their instruments’ role within the group. 

In my improvised sessions I also gravitated towards what I called a ‘bouncing ball’ rhythm - later described to me as an exponential rhythmic sequence. After thinking about how genres often center around a core rhythmic pattern I adopted the sequence as another consistent feature for the album. 

In the past I’ve cut up pop acapellas as vocal elements, but on Mirror Guide decided to work with several artists I had come to know from three very different music scenes. I traveled to Pittsburgh for a few days and recorded with vocalist Tamar Kamin (from the band the Van Allen Belt) generating hours of improvised and lightly prepared melodic material that I later edited into several songs. I also incorporated more poetic almost spoken word vocals from Japanese musician and photographer NTsKi and a small segment of screeching moans from fellow Ohioan Diana Gruber. 

More generally I found inspiration from artists like Paul Lansky, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and the range of emotion in the music of Geinoh Yamashirogumi Orchestra, best known for scoring the Akira soundtrack which is a longtime favorite. I was also encouraged to complete Mirror Guide through conversations with the late composer, tape collage pioneer, and friend Noah Creshevsky, who gave me several boosts of confidence after hearing early versions of the music.

Giant Claw - Earther

Bug Matrix ft. Holly Waxwing

Orbweaver

Yeule - Don't Be So Hard On Your Own Beauty (lui:d edit)

taken from "nigdy nie jest dobrze (wojtek)"
https://bffmusicbffmusic.bandcamp.com/album/nigdy-nie-jest-dobrze-wojtek

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§ Ⅰ【260624_Julek】😭
ok, listen up. maybe you can’t be ur best friend. that’s okay i guess but plz think about it sometimes.
ehhh sry to start the bandcamp note like that but this album made me do it.
“nigdy nie jest dobrze (wojtek)” is made of mental health walk sounds, cognitive behavioral sound design, leave me alone atmospheres and high-passed lust for life.
it’s an in-between moment to try having a party within urself, to test some new ideas about urself, and finally to inhale some professional-amateur-cheese-consuming-basses.
heh
yeah
hahah
main tag : me-core♪


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§ ⅠI【240624_Domi】😰
The idea of deeply personal voyeurism is very tempting for me to explore but I find it rly hard to convey in a non-visual medium - it just always lacks somethin. “nigdy nie jest dobrze (wojtek)” somehow makes it work. Maybe because ehh hahah is an observer like me? Heh
With fire-prone snares, rims and stick sounds, he translates big narratives into small stories - stories that are poetic, stories that are introspective, and stories that are goofy. This album feels like a friend who makes my mundane life a bit more fun and helps to enjoy a day while it lasts.
When first hearing it, I had this image of opening a window during a sunny summer day, looking around, grasping all that is happening in my neighborhood.
I cherish that memory, as I cherish this album.

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§ ⅠII【160624_EhhHahah】🥲
this album is for sure a very personal one to me, in the sense that i was making it while discovering that I’m depressed and trying to deal with it - hence the strong melancholic background of the whole thing.
music is certainly an obvious way of expressing emotions for me, but what may be peculiar is that I made most of the songs very spontaneously and in short sessions, without spending too much time on them - it’s a more expressive approach that allows me to more accurately capture the momentary mood. Therefore, i can risk saying that it’s a form of therapy BUT I’d rather not use this term directly, so as not to depreciate real therapy.
The songs are ultimately selected to present a certain spectrum of different inspirations - ambient (“hen daleko rap”), nu-jazz, hip-hop, field recordings. there are also IDM moments, more danceable ones. it’s also a form of searching for one's place and I think the whole thing is about some loss and searching (which may never come, wojtek)

moodboard
「 🙂🙁🤲👂🗣🥒🎺⏳💰 」 

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〉music by ehh hahah
linktr.ee/ehhhahah

〉artwork by 000d1g1m0n
www.instagram.com/000d1g1m0n/

〉master by Fausto Mercier
linktr.ee/faustomercier

🎵°006

ehh hahah - wojtek

TALPAH INVITE S280F

Tracklist : https://lyl.live/episode/kkuurrsseedd-1

KKUURRSSEEDD w/ talpah & S280F (17/07/24)

EYE TO EYE

Murrettumeri - Xaoç

@azzrell @99renko

This two-track EP is the crystallisation of years of collaborative experimentation between ambient/trance producer Azrel and vocalist renko. This dualistic pair of ballads explores the cycle of the night as it mirrors the recurrence of life, hoping one day for change. The pairing of delicate pianos, strings and pads with the raw euphoric power of trance leads and arpeggios creates the emotive atmosphere of the twilight as a base for renko's pained yet sanguine vocals to shine through.

Produced by Azrel
https://www.instagram.com/_azrel._/

Vocals by renko
https://www.instagram.com/r3nk0qq/

Vocal mixing on ‘Tsukuyomi’ and Sanzen’, co-production on ‘Tsukuyomi’ by s7n @s7nhs
https://www.instagram.com/s7nhs

Mastered by Lorenzi @hqlorenzi
https://www.instagram.com/7orenzi/

Artwork by Simon
https://www.instagram.com/evpt_/

Azrel, renko - Sanzen

old mix from 2016 for @jeromemixfileseries

t.A.T.u. - Gomenasai (Acapella)
Palmistry - Adeus
Sentinl - Guardian
Khonnor - I Was Everything You Wanted Until I Quit
大島ミチル [Michiru Oshima] - Collapse
Young Thug - Worth It
DJ Nigga Fox - O Badaah
d'Eon - Dread God
Duster - Echo, Bravo
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Body Within Body
Mount Eerie - Organs (The Place Lives)
Black Kray - Uzi Kiss
Organ Tapes - A Field Guide to the Atmosphere
Ricky Eat Acid - We Could Go Crazy Together in Open Spaces, on Bridges
The Weepies - World Spins Madly On

JEROME Mixfile #027 - day one fam out here living in the end times

Interior proudly presents O.S.T(2.0): @loyaltyxix "Thought, Feeling, Sound", a reconstruction of his live set at LAGR(II)MAL (06.07,24 @ Réplika Teatro, Madrid).


Loyalty XIX ♪

Soundcloud: @loyaltyxix
Bandcamp: https://loyaltyxix.bandcamp.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/loyaltyxix

Dycentra ♪

Soundcloud: @dycentrarecords
Bandcamp: https://dycentrarecords.bandcamp.com/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/dycentra/