New music from XT (saxophone player Seymour Wright and percussionist Paul Abbott) in the form of an exhilarating, super compressed, reflective re-assembling of a dozen years working together. Re-animating free improvisation with a Chicago house palette, Deorlaf X is made up of frenetic slabs of mutated multiphonics and triggered percussion, suspended in bouts of possessed reflexive quiet. 

Where the duo’s 2019 release Palina'tufa on Empty Editions focused primarily on a response to the real (and imagined) landscapes of Hong Kong, Deorlaf X is located in Dalston, and specifically at OTO. Wrung through Shaun Crook’s studio over three nights, the recordings dug from XT’s archive aren’t simply ‘duo’ - instead they actively draw on their public and social contexts, involving the influence of audience, engineers and other visiting musicians - Ghédalia Tazartès, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Senyawa, RP Boo and others. “A changing cast of OTO guests, audience and emotions hosted each time in a new London. XT structures sound an ongoing attempt to listen and learn about the rich and transformative affordances of the situations we occupy.” 

The resulting record puts a pin through a dialogue between Abbott and Wright, between histories, potentials, fact, fiction, ideas, friends, audiences, and spaces. The heavy use of referencing recalls the footwork or house traditions of sampling across all manner of influences; what’s recalled is primarily the structures of jazz - Ornette Coleman, Charlie Parker, Anthony Braxton - but also Ann Quin, Clarice Lispector, Anna Halprin. What’s created in recall is a kind of diary, a hyper re-membering - a blisteringly warped kind of future music. 

Recorded by James Dunn, Shaun Crook and Paul Skinner. Assembled, mixed and re-recorded 19, 20 and 21 January, 2020 by XT at Lockdown Studio, Cable Street. Engineer Shaun Crook. Sounds/design by XT. Cover painting Leon Kossoff Dalston Junction No.3, June 1973 oil on board, 20.5 x 25 cm. © The Estate of Leon Kossoff.

ROKU026
OTOROKU
18-22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL
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ROKU026 - Deorlaf X [sample]

Navigating notions of the age-old human obsession with death, Canadian Rifles’ latest venture explores this flirtation across a duo of synth-forward drone compositions. Dwelling on the poetic ideal of collective action as a glass monument over death. "Lessons On Shells" is a work of deep and bold duality, death and glaring beauty inseparably entwined, like blood on snow.

EN24

All music by Rui Andrade
Artwork by Laura Costas

Lessons On Shells

Canadian Rifles — Neither Power Nor Love

Substanzen

BiNO3

Herz Aus Glas - BiNO3

Following on from the 2016 Korea Undok Group compilation LP Penultimate Press is proud to release the follow up, Senescence. Covering material recorded in the last two and a half years, this new cd comprises 50% works previously available on private tiny run cassettes and 50% works made for an abandoned lp. Abandoned being a good word to use again here as this collection of barley-there trace element songs and decaying acoustic snapshots will leave the listener with a sensation not so dissimilar to the feeling abandonment conjures.

Please note there has been zero mastering on this release as we wanted it to sound as shit as possible.

Fixed Ending

𝟙𝟝/𝟙𝟝 (29) Myria Idha (@myriaidha)

Myria Idha, DJ Marseillaise, aime naviguer entre les beats déconstruits et les nappes angéliques. Son style varie selon son humeur, ne rentre dans aucune case. Son but est de casser les codes de la musique électronique et de trouver les sonorités de demain.

Petite Italie - Mansfield.TYA
Agalma V (ft. Kali Malone)Drew McDowall
Travis Scott - Houstonfornication (MC Broken Edit) - Modern Collapse
Nacimiento -Contacto
Zero Crossing Point Karplus - Stuck
Lensk - Waves Without Weight
Hajj - Don't Follow Me I'm Falling (ft. Chams)
Story & Voice: Yaka
Avbvrn - Residue 
holyld - Niflheim Ft. Arté
Corin 'Ex Nilalang' 
Starburst on honey island (Yantan Ministry edit)
The Burning Bridge - yawning portal 
Like The Night - Torus
Para One -  Vertigo

𝟙𝟝/𝟙𝟝 (29) Myria Idha

Released on May 1st 2022!

Egil Kalman is a Swedish musician/composer primarily playing modular synthesizer and double bass. ”Kingdom of Bells Egil Kalman plays the Synthi 100” is his debut record as a solo artist. 

The record was made during a residency at the Contemporary Music Research Center (KSYME) in Athens in 2019. All the tracks were captured straight from the Synthi 100 as stereo recordings and contain no overdubs. The music showcases both the powerful and raw sound of this rare instrument as well as Kalman’s expansive interests as a musician and composer.  

Mind altering just tuned drones with melodies that echoes traditional Scandinavian folk music flow into abstract soundscapes reminiscent of early electronic music pioneers, but still holds a fresh sound and vibe. Deep synth music from the North! 

Egil Kalman’s playing as a syntheist and double bass player can previously be heard in duos with Zoi Efstathiou and Fredrik Rasten as well as in groups such as Miman, Marthe Lea Band and Alasdair Roberts & Völvur.  

His music aims to dissolve the brittle barriers separating traditional Scandinavian folk- and contemporary electroacoustic music via minimalist compositional techniques and soulful improvisations. Utilizing just intonation tunings, hypnotic forms, synthesized sound mimicking the acoustic and vice versa, his music explores qualities intrinsic to traditional Scandinavian folk music in ways where the musical foundation is felt rather than explicitly heard. Kalman can previously be heard in duos with Zoi Efstathiou and Fredrik Rasten as well as in groups such as Miman, Marthe Lea Band and Alasdair Roberts & Völvur.  

The record was mastered by Rashad Becker and the artwork is made by Allon Kaye.

EGIL KALMAN - CLOUDLESS DAYBREAK (from iDEAL213 LP)

releases April 15th, 2022

threeop.bandcamp.com/music

Written and produced by Clovis Lemée and Thomas Pujols aka Othello Aubern
Mastering by Nil Hartman
Artwork by Clovis Lemée

Othello Aubern - Pace Serpente (3OP008)

Drain

cute lil archival piece from 2017, previously unreleased
one take recording

CUTETECH

The first single form the forthcoming “Karadi” is out today. Available through Bandcamp and all the streaming platforms.

Album is ready for pre-orders. The release is scheduled for next week, 24th of February.

https://hurtbythesun.bandcamp.com/album/karadi

Ybalferran - Karadi [Hurt by the Sun]

Serrinha Do Alambari Soundwalk was composed by Martina Lussi during an artistic residency at Silo - Arte e Latitude Rural in Brazil. The work was originally presented on headphones and experienced as a soundwalk through the Brazillian forest around Serrinha Do Alambari. The sound piece contains field recordings including foot steps, breathing noises, snatches of voices and eletro-magnetic interferences. To explore the fluidity between the inner perception of the body and the sounds that surround us, the artist recorded mostly with binaural microphones whilst walking.


Written & produced by Martina Lussi.
Supported by Novas Frequências & Pro Helvetia.

Mastered by Anders Peterson at GS Mastering & Post.
Artwork & design by Benoît Lefeuvre.

Zenith / Serrinha Do Alambari Soundwalk

Martina Lussi - Serrinha Do Alambari Soundwalk

Liminal Spaces out now : https://otiumrec.bandcamp.com/album/liminal-spaces
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Audio — Visual record label based in Paris.
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Martina Lussi - Serrinha Do Alambari Soundwalk

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