2023_KI

Toxik *X_X*

Finds You Well

Ivory Tower

A Mountain Is an Idea

Double Language

~ IIKKI 020 ~

music : Akhira Sano
photography : David Nissen
album : Shadow's Praise
durations : 37.40 mn (LP) / 43.31 mn (CD)
date : April 20th 2023

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All production by Akhira Sano

Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Artwork by David Nissen
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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edition :
vinyl: limited to 300 copies / marble (crystal, silver and white) LP / hand numbered  / pantone
cd: limited to 200 CD / hand numbered / pantone
book: limited to 500 copies hand numbered / embossed / selective UV varnish / hand stamped 

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pre-order : March 03rd, 2023 / official release : April 20th, 2023

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Links :
https://iikki.bandcamp.com/
https://www.iikki-books.com/
https://www.instagram.com/iikki_laaps/
https://linktr.ee/Akhira_Sano
https://www.davidnissenphoto.com/

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Akhira Sano - Nakazu

LOCODICE

The second single from the upcoming LP, Humid Sun (March 31, 2023)
masahirotakahashi.bandcamp.com/album/humid-sun

Humid Sun 

Sweltering Drive (ft. Joseph Shabason, Bram Gielen, Yamaan)

Erwan Sene  - JUnQ
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 131
Release Date: 14 April 2023
Purchase: PAN.lnk.to/JUnQ

JUnQ, or the Journal of Unsolved Questions, is modeled on a parallel exercise: to sketch music and to score sculptures. Part exhibition, part book and part album release, JUnQ seeks to propose a collaborative language that binds the algorithmic needs of an artificial pop star to the performance of the artist himself. Boundaries between reality and artifice are blurred in a continuous chain of confrontation and sublimation, wherein a romance between analog evolution and digital experimentation is born.

The immersive project released by PAN represents Erwan Sene’s debut album and the multifaceted nature of his approach. Composed like a chorus of fantastical beasts, the album wanders atmospherically through a fogged wood. Sounds are never used for their default function–– they are sculpted, distorted and amplified, becoming hybrids of themselves. A haunting banshee, the monstrous growl of an Orc, Siren songs wafting through the trees–– these and more are recreated with sinuous violins, muffled harpsichord and digital instruments, culminating in a a vibrant “jungle” of sound.

Mixed by James Ginzburg
Mastered by Rashad Becker

Erwan Sene - Siren (PAN 131)

Erwan Sene - Lowghost (PAN 131)

Erwan Sene - Zones (PAN 131)

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Lambo b2b Buffer (@datalifecycle) for Tune4Tune 

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crosses - malibu (@mmmmalibu)
Lovefear - Day Place (@lovefear1)
Amore luxe - ben bondy (@benbondy)
holdingtight - vio.en.vivo (@vioenvivo)
Nevrland - Vlvt (@nevrland)
Technicolor - Simply Funk (@funkopop)
Matter of fact - Lorenzi (@hqlorenzi)
checked on me - TIMM BLUE˚✧₊⁎。(@timmblue)
Guetta - siisyland, global (@siisyland, @global_sodomland)
Flyfox Tail - emeel (@emeell)
The Race - ity (@ity2000)
Steenwas - dj bobo1 (@djbobo1)
Morgan wallen + kashpaint - Last night (autobouncer620 edit) - Huerco S. (@huerco_s)
Backup - ity (@ity2000)
Narcopop - taucontrib (@taucontrib)
Baby Am I Worth Your Time - Money Lang (@moneylang)
Datei Jazz - Laguna Seca (@dunkinonpeople)
Wicker cage - Yoong (@yoong)
Winter Never Came - Synth City (@seedlink_plus)
Fuck High School - Eera/Cedric Madden (@eera0)
Dreams // slowd+reverb - Cartier God (https://on.soundcloud.com/GFLoh)

From Puppy to Prodigy w/ Buffer

Forgotten - Track 15

Lyra

Dominique Lawalrée (b. 1954) is a composer born and based in Brussels. First Meeting is Lawalrée's first archival release to date. Culled from four different albums originally self-published on his private label Editions Walrus, circa 1978-1982, this compilation highlights the composer's unique sense of ambient and minimal composition. Originally considered for release on Brian Eno's Obscure Records, Lawalrée's music is now no longer hidden. 

In this collection, the listener finds the sounds of piano, synthesizers, percussion, wurlitzer, organ, and voice, all performed by Lawalrée. Using these tools Dominique creates miniature themes that gallop across the speakers in slow motion, stretching our normal sense of dynamics and color, effortlessly widening the stereo plane. On “Musique Satieerique,” Dominique pays homage to the influence of Satie with simple repeated piano figures and a lush field of organs and flutes. And on other selections, like “Le Maison Des 5 Elements,” he takes a more wistful, ambient approach, layering keyboard lines, and invoking found/tape sounds to create a hypnogogic world of his own. Childlike in its playfulness and surreal to the bone, the music spins like a carrousel placed inside the Rothko Chapel. Lawalrée’s sense of timbre, tone, and overarching composition is like an impression of a home movie whose charm lies in its knowledge of intimacy, shared by few. An incantation of innocence.

First Meeting

Dominique Lawalree - La Maison Des 5 Éléments

Taken from the self titled album released as 2LP and Download

Oto Hiax 'Creeks' (EMEGO 234)

Picking up from where she left off with last years successful Tools of My Purpose, E-Saggila has returned to BANK employing a more sublime and immersive electronic document. Previously leaning toward noisier and distorted rhythms, she has incorporated more sophisticated elements into writing and production. Dedicated to Sublimity is a product of growth and progression but still reflects the raw elements we’ve heard in her early recordings. Lush and atmospheric elements coincide with the brutality of her live sets and play off one another as a cohesive representation of the E-Saggila project.

Double Language

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