MacroAssembler -- Slanted

Marching Men

Loss Function

Puce Mary — The Drought
Format: LP / CD / Digital
Cat.No. PAN 87
Release Date: 5 October 2018 
Pre-order album: bit.ly/2KGmn9f / bit.ly/2KGL7Ot

Building from a reputation of arresting live performances and critically acclaimed releases Puce Mary breaks new ground with The Drought, evolving from the tropes of industrial and power electronics to forge a complex story of adapting to new realities. Remnants of noise still exist, sustaining the penetrative viscerality offered on previous records, however The Drought demonstrates an intention to expand on the vocabulary of confrontational music and into a grander narrative defined by technical and emotional growth.
 
Bringing together introspective examination with literary frameworks by writers such as Charles Baudelaire and Jean Genet, Puce Mary’s compositions manifest an ongoing power struggle within the self towards preservation. The traumatised body serves as a dry landscape of which obscured memories and escape mechanisms fold reality into fiction, making sense of desire, loss and control. The Drought presents both danger and opportunity; through rebuilding a creative practice centred on first person narrative and a deliberate collage of field recordings and sound sources Puce Mary injects an acute urgency across the album seeking resilience.

“To Possess Is To Be In Control” makes use of lyrical repetition as an ambiguity of two selves, or a divided self, attempting to consume one another, while “Red Desert,” named after Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1964 film, portrays the individual subsumed by surrounding environmental forces. The seven-minute epic “The Size of Our Desires” acts as the emotional tipping point of the record; amongst the ominous drone and dense feedback flutters almost-beatific melodies, while the lyrics reveal a romantic call to be swept up in the midst of an increasingly uninhabitable world.

Rather than escape, The Drought dramatises a metamorphosis in which vulnerability is confronted through regeneration. Noise and aggression no longer act as an affront to react against but part of a ‘corporeal architecture’ where space, harmony and lyricism surface from the harsh tropes of industrial music. The Drought chronologises a transformation through a psychological famine, new ways of coping akin to plant survival in a desert – to live without drying out.

The release is mastered by Rashad Becker, featuring art by Torbjørn Rødland 

@pucemary
http://p-a-n.org

The Drought

Puce Mary - Red Desert (PAN 87)

Today we introduce you the world of Orphan Ann through an oustanding LP and their debut on Swedish Moloton. The duo, consists of DIY veteran Anja Enerud (Masskultur collective) and Sofia Al Rammal Sturdza (SARS, Född Död) who have previously released their music on the Danish label Posh Isolation. SARS has also released a joint LP "For Those Who Strive" with Abdulla Rashim on Northern Electronics. They have also been performing their live show at various stages around the world, including MUTEK in Mexico City and Norbergfestival in Sweden.

The album incudes nine narrative tracks, filled with sonic representations of imposing synths and heart-shaking, lo-fi drums, co-creating an obscure post-goth vibe of a world similar to the one of Liquid Sky.  "The Practice of Surrender" is a jungle of humans free of preconceptions and bonds, a prayer to our internal God-like existence. 

Du kommer aldrig nära igen is a dirge and a neo-shamanistic ceremony, an outburst of the fragmented mind. A contemporary exorcism of our broken promises. Deep, plangent and full of agony, depicting the crawling existence and its sorrows.

Release date: January 25th 2019


Read more on: talesofpsychofonia.com

The Practice of Surrender

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Premiere: Ann Orphan- Du kommer aldrig nära igen (Moloton)

Evanescence (A Love Letter) Out 28.2.19 - 13.12 CET

Varg & Bladee - Perfect Violation

Cub Mud - Fatalism I

We are beyond humbled to be able to present the forthcoming album 'Their Arms Surround Me Like Chains Made of Velvet' by the Tennessee native and now New York based artist J. Carter.

By reflecting on love, communication and passion, J. Carter lays bare an
album that feels ardently personal, vulnerable and sincere. Drawing from various sources of inspiration that range from Japanese chamber music to spoken word, folk and classical, the album presents itself as an introspective journey through cultural and musical landscapes that unfold vividly throughout the duration of the work.

Track List:

A1 Introductory Discourse (Placing My Ailments Aside)
A2 Their Arms Surround Me Like Chains Made of Velvet
A3 Contour Defined by Defences (Apropos of the City)
A4 Rejoice (As the Crimson Falls from the Lips)

B1 Interpolation of Lust (Hands Outline Intent)
B2 The Imperfection of Perfection, the Inhumanity of Humanity
B3 The Ropes Become Water As We Roll Together Towards Dawn
B4 Concluding Silence (Hands Made of Heaven)
B5 One Another's Geography

Release Date: 8.4.19

https://soundcloud.com/jeremiahcarter
https://soundcloud.com/vaagner

Their Arms Surround Me Like Chains Made of Velvet

Premiere: J. Carter - Interpolation of Lust (Hands Outline Intent)[Vaknar]

Excerpt from NE63 Anthony Linell — Live in Tehran / اجراى تهران

Total running time 44:20. Cassette only, no digital release.

"Live recording from one out of two shows performed at the Rooberoo Mansion/Paraffin, Tehran in the month of June 2018. Consisting of previously released music, unreleased edits and new work.

Thanks to Azim and Ario for making it happen."

Live in Tehran

Anthony Linell — Live in Tehran / اجراى تهران (Excerpt)

CE-22

Giugno "A Love Like Mine Is Hard To Find"

February 2020

Giugno - This World

Compiled by Hegira.

Music by @amethystnoise, @Anasisana, @autumn-pool,  @bodyofintrigue, @kunuist, J. Campbell, @jeremiahcarter, Nonchalant, Sheer Veil, Szeląg, Una Lasemé, @undveld, V. Sinclair, Victorine Meurent, @zhe-pechorin (A Sunken Mall, @casementexchange, @eastern-nurseries, @holygeometry, Male Activity, @perfectaesthetics, @summer-isle, @vienna-press).

Hegira - and finally the two of them plunged into the dark sea

OSC is an experimental music platform based in London. We aim to seek out and deliver anything that makes you feel simultaneously uncomfortable and overwhelmed by the Sublime. Genre is an ugly word so lets just say anything dark, strained but beautiful goes.

We do listen to everything we are sent, but are not always able to reply.

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