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Forthcoming & (freshly) released on -OUS

LUDWIG BERGER - GARDEN OF EDIACARA
Cat #: OUS047
Release date: May 17, 2024
Distributed by Kudos: https://kudosdistribution.co.uk
Label Bandcamp: https://ousooo.bandcamp.com

«Music is a form of world building. I love to develop sonic characters and set them into fictional ecosystems with unique textures, acoustics and atmospheres. Each song forms a different landscape, through which a vocal character guides us and tries to tell us its stories.» — @ludwigberger

Ludwig Berger’s ‘fictional’ debut album «Garden Ediacara» unfolds as a musical eco-fiction, guiding listeners through a speculative ecosystem with synthesized vocals. Infused with storytelling techniques from sci-fi and fantasy, the album intertwines melodic songwriting with electroacoustic sound design. Inspired by hydrofeminism and eco-fiction novels, such as «A Door Into Ocean» by Joan Slonczewski, the album delves into the geological period of Ediacara around 600 million years ago — an era so remote it resonates as a glimpse into a possible future. The Ediacaran period was characterised by a peaceful and thriving ecosystem inhabited by soft-bodied creatures without eyes and bones, which were completely wiped out through the appearance of a new species. «Garden of Ediacara» alludes to this period, celebrating both the pleasures of biodiversity as well as mourning its inevitable loss. The narrative unfolds as an exploration of growth and interconnection in the shadow of a coming extinction. The track titles, written by Daisy Lafarge, reveal themselves as a cohesive poem and contribute to the album’s narrative.

Informed by his practice of field recording that focusses on intimate encounters with plants, animals and geological phenomena, as well as his studies in electroacoustic composition, Berger expands his palette for his debut in ‘fictional’ music. The album prominently features a post-human, non-binary death metal voice synthesizer, physical modeling instruments, and microscopic field recordings of plants, insects, as well as aquatic and geological life. With impressionistic strokes, Ludwig Berger crafts vibrant worlds using glassy timbres and more-than-human voices, guiding listeners through emotionally ambiguous terrain, seamlessly oscillating between moments of intimacy and irritation, melancholy and playfulness.

Ludwig Berger is a landscape sound artist, educator and musician. In his compositions, installations and performances, he enables intimate and playful sonic encounters with plants, animals, buildings and geological entities. He is founder and curator of the label Vertical Music, which releases field recordings and experimental music. Berger holds degrees in electroacoustic composition, as well as musicology, art history and literature. As a sound researcher and teacher at the Institute for Landscape Architecture at ETH Zurich from 2015-2022, he studied the sonic dimension of Japanese gardens, alpine glaciers and urban landscapes, which among other things led to the release of the acclaimed album trilogy ‘Melting Landscapes’, ‘Dammed Landscapes’ and ‘Buried Landscapes’.



ALBUM TRACKLIST
1. what seed quests for a coralline mud slump
2. where the body’s distant arrivals 
3. bake airwaves into symbols? 
4. like aurochs who fraternised with syntax of the riverbed
5. we stop short, frothy, outdoing the grass
6. rake a song-gush from the outcrop
7. or the noun of naïve particles
8. leeching off the glow-work of organ rooms  
9. we go candied in the marrow
10. grow dream-bark, a tree

CREDITS
Music written and produced by Ludwig Berger
Cover image by Paulin Rogues
Track list poem by Daisy Lafarge
Mastering by Manuel Oberholzer VFBM

OUS047
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Garden of Ediacara

rake a song-gush from the outcrop

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Ludwig Berger - 06 - rake a song-gush from the outcrop

Till Hurricane Bisect

@mimindru live from the Paris Studio for one hour of eastern electronics and folk

Semnale de bucium (Carpathian horn signals)

SUZANA POPESCU - Măi puiuț de rândunea

MIDNIGHT STAR MEDIA - IV

ВЕЖА ХМАР - Око Долі 

BOGDAN RACZYNSKI - I co dalej

KSIĘŻYC - Mijana

Lălăită (Caval la minor)

GVIDAS KOVĖRA - Dai kas teka , sauliula

Doină la țambal (Little cimbalom song)

SVITLANA NIANIO, OLEKSANDR YURCHENKO - Untitled 1

ANDRZEJ NOWAK - Deep Toned Emotion

NUNO CANAVARRO - Bruma

THE PENNYWHISTLERS - Dumai Zlato

SVITLANA NIANIO - Episode 2

BOGDAN RACZYNSKI - Długa Podróż W Chmurach

VOICE ACTOR - HHBYTL (feat. Yarrow.co)

ВЕЖА ХМАР - Хто Вона

ЦУКОР БІЛА СМЕРТЬ - Процесія Мертвих

FROM NURSERY TO MISERY - One Of These

КИНО - Дерево

Know Your Local w/ Mimindru

"Guns, guns, guns! C'mon, Sal! The Tigers are playing...tonight. I never miss a game." - Clarence Boddicker

· All music composed, performed, recorded and mixed by Cepheid
· Artwork by PNNTWA® LOG©
· Mastering by Cepheid

Arms Dealer

Poison Fist

This June, Latency returned to the gardens of Villa Medici — also known as The French Academy in Rome — with a new series of commissioned soundscapes.

1. Duval Timothy - Go Without
2. Angel Bat Dawid - The Black Queen of Italy Strolls Through Her Garden
3. Mabe Fratti - Jardin de los Espirales
4. Kalia Vandever - Undulating Grace
5. CS + Kreme - Petal

Duval Timothy is a pianist, composer, and music producer who splits his time between London, UK, and Freetown, Sierra Leone. Besides music, his creative pursuits include painting, photography, sculpture, design, food, and textiles. His solo piano pieces lie at the intersection of contemporary minimalism and jazz. Timothy has collaborated with notable artists such as Kendrick Lamar, Solange, Vegyn, and the London Contemporary Orchestra.

Angel Bat Dawid is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and educator based in Chicago. A key figure in the city’s jazz scene and a significant voice against racial discrimination, she has worked with artists like Marshall Allen and Makaya McCraven. Drawing inspiration from the poetry of Margaret Burroughs, the music of Yusef Lateef, and even Mozart, her work spans genres including free jazz, gospel, avant-garde, and hip-hop.

Mabe Fratti is a cellist and composer from Guatemala, now residing in Mexico. Influenced by contemporary classical composer Gyorgy Ligeti and cellist Jacqueline du Pré, her diverse musical journey includes collaborations across progressive metal, krautrock, dream pop, and jazz. Fratti uses cello, voice, and synthesizers to create sound installations, compositions, and free improvisations.

Kalia Vandever is a Grammy Award-winning trombonist and composer based in Brooklyn. Recognised as one of the prominent new voices in jazz, her distinctive approach to the trombone is characterised by a sonorous tone and lyrical improvisational style. Vandever is also known for her work as a side-woman, performing with artists such as Joel Ross, Immanuel Wilkins, Lizzo, and Moses Sumney.

CS & Kreme is a musical duo consisting of Conrad Standish and Sam Karmel, based in Melbourne. Their music transcends style and space, blending heavy dub processing, sweeping post-punk, and chamber music soundscapes into what they describe as ​“horizontal music.” Both seasoned musicians, Standish and Karmel have a rich history of collaborations in successful experimental groups such as F ingers and Bum Creek.

COMPOSER
Duval Timothy
Angel Bat Dawid
Mabe Fratti
Kalia Vandever
Conrad Standish
Sam Karmel

FORMAT
Digital + Streaming

DISTRIBUTION
Honest Jon’s

SOUND
Silas Bieri, Dennis Tousana

COVER ART
Kate Spencer Stewart

Duval Timothy - Go Without

"You ascend the walls you made, oh time it takes to make amends."

‘And Now You Stand Before The Sun’ is a culmination, a closing chapter of the journey that began with 2022’s ‘Like The Reformed’ and succeeded by last year’s ‘Oath (Soon The Storm Will Pass, And We Will Fly Again)’. The record sees Paavo Piekkari and Jonathan Engeldahl fleshing out the microcosm they call Hollowland, resulting in their most mature and fully realised work to date. Beyond the rapturous sonics, there is a deep melancholy woven into the very essence of Hollowland that is present through it all.

At its core the record is about the hope that anguish and sorrow will lead to something beautiful and pure, persistance shed of the often glorified scaly skin of martyrdom. Notions of departing from oneself, to be reborn and catch a glimpse of the coveted silver lining, are explored on tracks such as ‘Ov Your Own Image’, ‘Falls’ and ‘As You Stand Beneath It, The Light Burns Brighter Than Before’. On ‘In Open Arms’ and Purest Form’ the endless cycle reaches its inevitable conclusion of incarnation, chronicling the very moments of becoming. Consider it a sign of stillness, at least for now.

The passing storm won’t be the last, yet we embrace the fleeting moment of light beyond the clouds, using it to release all within.

Written by Jonathan Engeldahl.
Produced by Paavo Piekkari & Jonathan Engeldahl.
Additional production by Allison Laine & Nori Kin.

Mixed & Mastered by Nori Kin.

Artwork by Jonathan Engeldahl & Markus Watkins.

@hollowland-music

And Now You Stand Before The Sun

Hollowland - The Oceans Wait

ANNOYINGF

SIMON GRAB & DAVID MEIER - PORŒS
Cat #: OUS053
Release date: February 7, 2027
Distributed by Kudos: https://kudosdistribution.co.uk
Label Bandcamp: https://ousooo.bandcamp.com

«Groovin’ on the risk of falling apart is our common playground, like surfing on an underwater tightrope through waves of frequencies, riding on broken rhythms.» — Simon Grab & David Meier

Porœs is the first album emerging from the new collaboration between electronic musician and no-input-mixing polymath Simon Grab and multifaceted drummer and composer David Meier, who is also part of the internationally sought-after avant minimal rock band Schnellertollermeier.

Grab and Meier’s cross-genre sound is raw and volatile, morphing between razor-sharp, rolling, crumbling, erratic and fierce states. It balances between Meier’s vibrant organic drumming and Grab’s pulsating bleeps and noises, growling bass lines and dubbed out feedbacks that he extracts from his custom-plugged no-input-mixing setup. Always on the edge of musical tipping points, Grab gradually pushes his circuits into overdrive, only to recalibrate right before everything breaks apart. In defiance, Meier offers an abundance of bold, incisive, stumbling and lighthearted, earthly rhythms and textures that intertwine seamlessly and offer a world of its own to explore.
	Throughout Porœs neither instrument is taking the lead. The two musicians step into a constant dialogue where it seems as if the sound waves are plunged into a perpetual maelstrom, welded into unbreakable bodies and melted into magma-like currents.
	Being fervently hazardous improvisers, Grab and Meier recorded this seven track album in several studio sessions, leading to a result that is confident and precise, but keeps the urgency of live improvisation. The constant sense of risk, of falling out of touch, combined with the intriguing thrill of witnessing an extended moment of equilibrium is what makes Simon Grab and David Meier’s Porœs so captivating.

Simon Grab understands the error as integral part of his method. In a matrix of electronic feedback circuits, he tames the raw noises to find a musical balance within the randomness. Existing systems are always dynamic and never stable. In order to thrive, any system relies on feedback to balance itself out and adapt to the environment. His no-input-mixing album «Posthuman Species» and EP «Extinction» were released on -OUS, as well as his collaboration «[No] Surrender» with drone guitar player Francesco Guidici.

David Meier has been active between minimal music, modern composition, improvisation, jazz and rock music for nearly two decades. His band Schnellertollermeier tours internationally regularly and has played numerous festivals and tours all over the world. He initiated and collaborates with several duos, trios and ensembles, notably his septet Hunter-Gatherer that acts as a vehicle for his rhythmically complex and melodically idiosyncratic compositions. He appears on about 40 recordings to date.

Porœs

Basalt

Simon Gab & David Meier - Basalt

NOÉMI BÜCHI - LIQUID BONES
Cat #: OUS054
Release date: February 14, 2025
Distributed by Kudos: https://kudosdistribution.co.uk
Label Bandcamp: https://ousooo.bandcamp.com

«Sometimes you just need simplicity.» — @noemibuchi

Following her recent album ‘Does It Still Matter’, Noémi Büchi returns to -OUS with ‘Liquid Bones’, a five-track EP that interlaces sound and poetry, inspired by a verse written by her mother, artist Marie-Christine Büchi:

«In the heat
gesticulate elastically
their bodies
disappointing the desire to last.»

With ‘Liquid Bones’, Noémi Büchi lays her focus on simplicity. ‘Liquid Bones’ marks a directional shift in Büchi’s approach: while her previous albums put structure in the foreground and distinguished themselves through high density, the new material seems lighter and even playfully teases the listener with pop elements, albeit without loosing the conceptual depth that has carved out Büchi’s singular position in today’s musical landscape.
	The piano, an instrument Büchi has been embracing for the better part of the past two decades, serves as a recurring theme on the five-track EP. Serving as a form-giving and shape-shifting instrument, Büchi extracts a diverse range of sounds: a leading motif, a voice-like element, percussive patterns, atmospheric textures. These are combined with minimal electronics, orchestral sounds, crisp digital textures and Büchi’s signature method of punctuating the compositions with noise accentuations, thus creating a highly dynamic listening experience. 
	The closing track, finally, introduces Joséphine de Weck’s poetic voice, adding an intimate layer to the EP. Actress de Weck has been the ‘face’ of Büchi’s current audiovisual live show, in which she grants a seemingly intimate view into the actress’ mind. Their track ‘Fair Enough’ expands this collaboration to the next stage.
	As a whole, ‘Liquid Bones’ continues Noémi Büchi’s study of matter, form and structure. By examining their impermanence and transience, Büchi emphasises the temporary nature of being. Everything is in constant flux. 


Noémi Büchi is a Swiss/French sound and sound artist that creates and explores the potential of cross-genre musical structures. Her music is defined by a delicate synthesis of textural rhythms and electroacoustic-orchestral abstraction. She contrasts rhythmic physicality with disruption and playfully emphasizes irregularities, creating an expansive listening experience marked by detail and elevation.

CREDITS
Written and produced by Noémi Büchi
Vocals on track 5 by Joséphine de Weck
Mastered by Manuel Oberholzer, Suoni Speziali (VBFM)
Graphic design by Sharon Ritossa

Noémi Büchi - Liquid Bones - 2 - Gesticulate Elastically

Noémi Büchi - Liquid Bones - 5 - Fair Enough feat Joséphine de Weck

VIOLETA GARCÍA & HORA LUNGA - I'LL WAIT FOR YOU IN THE CAR PARK
Cat #: OUS055
Release date: April 25, 2027
Distributed by Kudos: https://kudosdistribution.co.uk
Label Bandcamp: https://ousooo.bandcamp.com

«The album was created in this back and forth of snapshots - we made most of the decisions impulsively without much questioning. That takes a lot of trust.» — Violeta García &  Hora Lunga

 «I’ll Wait For You In The Car Park», the first full length collaboration between Argentinian cellist, improviser and composer Violeta García and Swiss musician and composer Hora Lunga, is a work of extremes. Drawing from the realities of life on two continents, and embodying moods ranging from stoic desire to violent bursts, the album enciphers so-called ordinary moments from everyday life into an alluring collection of musical scenes. Seemingly inconspicuous moments are condensed into a tale of synchronicity: colliding time zones and seasons, metropolitan rhythms raining down onto a glacier’s ice field, exploring places through street view, the serendipity of loitering at a kiosk. As such, «I’ll Wait For You In The Car Park» brings documentary film essays to mind that carefully observe the private and everyday occurrences.
	Violeta García and Hora Lunga crossed paths by chance in 2023 and began discussing and sharing music shortly afterwards. What started as a loose exchange of ideas, sending back and forth sketches and demos between South America and Europe, grew into several studio sessions in 2024. Being sucked into a «quite extraordinary flow», the two musicians recorded, arranged and intervened on a level playing field, using the studio as a playground to record musical layers and interweave them with field recordings and audio notes gathered over the course of a year. Speaking a kindred musical language, they quickly realized how their ideas clung to each other like two familiar souls, complementing, intertwining and merging. From gauzy and eerie textures, musical miniatures floating through time, howling and screaming strings, to tumbling and thundering basses – the sound of the ordinary shapes a body that vibrates, writhes and breathes.	

Violeta García is a cellist, improviser and composer from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Based in Spain, she tours a lot with her band Blanco Teta. She is a performer in many art forms, including free improvisation, contemporary and trans-media experimental repertoire in violoncello and electronics and collaborations with dancers, film makers and visual artists. After years of studying classical and popular music on violoncello and, later, contemporary composition and improvisation, Violeta has developed her own musical voice needed to emerge beyond outside specific genres.
	Throughout Swiss composer and musician Hora Lunga’s work, the focus lies is on exploring boundaries, both musically and in terms of performance and content. Above all, genre designations lose all meaning, as the music always takes place within a dramaturgically conceived overall framework. In recent years, his projects have ranged from pop music productions to experimental works and sound performances, as well astheatre and film productions. His ensemble WIRREN consists of up to fifteen performers.

CREDITS
Written, recorded, arranged and mixed by Violeta García and Hora Lunga in different places on earth, but mostly in Schlieren
Mastered by Anne Taegert at Dubplates & Mastering in Berlin
Artwork and graphic design by Renata Gelosi and Gaspar Iwaniura Lorge
Cover Photography by Victoria Papagni
Videography by Işıl Karataş

I'll Wait For You In The Car Park

i think i just died a lil bit

Violeta García & Hora Lunga - 01 - i think i just died a lil bit

Violeta Garcia & Hora Lunga - 09 - In This Together

We are the mannequins 
The junk people
The attic people 
The skip people 
The warehouse people
We are not real
And we are hungry

You do not see us
You do not hear us
You do not feel us
But we are here
You do not care
Or even think of us 
But we are here 
We are real


We are the broken people
We are the darkness people
We are the bits people
We are the broken people 
We are the cardboard people 
We are the damaged people
We cannot move
But we are coming 

We can change
We can move
We can feel
We can choose
We have feelings 
We have thoughts
We turn to action
And we act fast

We were the voiceless
We were the forgotten
We were the stolen
We were the young
We were the old
We were you

So first we think
And then we talk
And then we plan
And then we act
And then we move
All around you
Then towards you
And we grab 
You

we are real
And we
Are
Not
Going
Away

we are real
And we
Are
Not
Going
AWAY

Now you are nothing
Now you are empty
Now you are trapped
Now you are forgotten 
Now you are cardboard
Now you are junk people
Now you are nobody

And we are free
We are free
Are we?

(Pizzicato strings solo)

Are We?

Taken from the album 'Paradise 94', to be released by Modern Love on March 23rd, 2018. Cover Photo by Rebecca Salvadori.

Paradise 94

Lucy Railton - Pinnevik

4-track guitar music, consists of an array of pieces for electric guitar augmented by computer and a 4-track tape machine. The music is primarily composed using melodic motifs and canonical structures in which a set of pitches are transposed in octaves and delayed, creating an ever-evolving cyclical polyphony. After the initial recording, the music was re-amplified in the former machine hall of Ställbergs Gruva - a disbanded Swedish iron mine. Now all of the operational machinery is long gone, leaving a large empty hall made of concrete, tile and ice. 

XK13

Mats Erlandsson - A holographic sky

Pre-order/save https://idol.lnk.to/laurel-halo-possessed

Music by Laurel Halo
Additional production by Paul Corley
Mixed by Paul Corley
Mastered by Noel Summerville
Published by Decca Publishing, a division of Decca Music Group Ltd.

P&C Vinyl Factory, 2020

Hyphae

𝘍𝘞𝘋 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘦𝘭 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤. 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢, 𝘭𝘦𝘧𝘵𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘥, 𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵, 𝘴𝘺𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘴, 𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳, 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘴. 𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘺𝘭, 𝘵𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘴 + 𝘥𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭. 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 🖤 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘴.
 To date, -OUS has released music by @noemibuchi (Zurich, CH) @SPIMEIM (Turin, IT), @Feldermelder (Fribourg, CH), @jsartorius (Bern, CH), @Bit-Tuner (Zurich, CH), @Furtherset (Bologna, IT), @jan-nemecek (Belgrade, SR), NHK yx Koyxen (Berlin/Osaka, JP), @senkingmusic (Cologne, DE), Hirsch&Eigner (Cologne, DE /Vienna, AT), @IOKOI (Zurich/Milano, IT), @simongrab (Zurich, CH) and @Tresque (Geneva, CH).

-OUS was founded in 2015 by @ink_ous, @mprfctmprmnntncmplt, Feldermelder and JJ. The label is run out of Switzerland. All releases are distributed through Kudos and are als available via http://ousooo.bandcamp.com

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