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MAVADO - FUNERAL (for Fannie AKA ANS)

V/A - mono no aware もののあわれ

Format: 2xLP / Digital
Label: PAN
Cat.No: PAN 77
Release Date: 17 March 2017

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

purchase:
site: http://bit.ly/2mQN5AO
bandcamp: http://bit.ly/2n9ToSm

mono no aware (もののあわれ) is the first compilation to be released on PAN, collating unreleased ambient tracks from both new and existing PAN artists.

Featuring Jeff Witscher, Helm, TCF, Yves Tumor, M.E.S.H., Pan Daijing, HVAD, Kareem Lotfy, ADR, Mya Gomez, Sky H1, James K, Oli XL, Bill Kouligas, Flora Yin-Wong, Malibu, and AYYA, the compilation moves through more traditional notions of what is called ’ambient’, to incorporating wider variations that fall under the term.

“Mono no aware”, ‘the pathos of things’, also translates as “an empathy toward things", or "a sensitivity to ephemera”. A term for the awareness of impermanence, or the transience of things. A meditation on mortality and life's transience, ephemerality heightens the appreciation of beauty and sensitivity to their passing. In investigating the passing of time, the boundaries between memory and hallucination become blurred; between fiction and reality. The movement of time transforms into an eternal present.

The album is mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, featuring photography by Molly Matalon and design by Bill Kouligas. A limited version of 100 copies will be released as a special art edition in collaboration with Mount Analog for the LA Art Book Fair 2017, before going on general release.

mono no aware

1. Kareem Lotfy - Fr3sh (PAN 77)

even the night that falls all around us

CIGS AND A VIEW

LUMUMBA X UNKNOWN X IVERSON PRESS CONFERENCE X NÎDIA - I MISS MY GHETTO

SAINT IVERSON

quick late nite thing (..as usual rlly)
lil uzi x 9IN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqGz6s2CLy8&

alone time

untitled

https://ssaliva.bandcamp.com/album/riri-stretchd-editz

close2u ss stretchd_ascent edit

demarco
https://kelmanduran.bandcamp.com/

WAITINGS (version II)

Lo Por

CTM "Red Dragon" 
Posh Isolation 212 
Digital release
Out May 11th, 2018

about / a (feverish) narrative involving / touching upon
Elon Musks (cancelled/) failed robotic lander mission to mars,
Michael Jackson's final moments on stage 
and current personal life (motherhood)

Search as one might for an adequate charm to safely light 'Red Dragon,' Cæcilie Trier's evocations tend to outpace us at every step. The album's fever-dream story flicks through the recent past and the present. Elon Musk's extraplanetary desires cross with maternal notes. Michael Jackson, too, is watched over.

The terse titles that greet us in Trier's solo work are a wry sleight of hand. CTM, standing for Cæcilie Trier Musik, marks the impersonal boundary where intimacies are developed, trampled, and searched through. On her new album for Posh Isolation, produced with Asger Hartvig, aka MC Boli of Boli Group, the drama is composed and enduring, like a plot twist that lasts a life time.

Trier is a Copenhagen based cellist, singer, and composer, with her classical training apparent across her many and varied projects and collaborations. Having received critical acclaim from the earliest moments of her career, Trier's previous album 'Suite For A Young Girl' was nominated for the prestigious Nordic Music Prize in 2017.

'Red Dragon' keeps Trier's voice central to the affairs. The instrumentation wades in and out of focus from stage right and left. And as often as we are caught in the songwriting’s pirouettes and glances around the vocals, the splintering effect of the production impresses an inhuman déjà vu with regularity. This is especially felt in the electronics, sound bites, and digital ephemera that dress the songs. The bareness of the strings and guitars act as a peculiar balance, keeping us close just as we get a sense of the distance from which we are permitted a view.

'Red Dragon' features appearances from Coco O, Frederikke Hoffmeier (Puce Mary), Soho Rezanejad, and Dawda Jobarteh.

CTM - PALOMA Pt. 2

3rd track on 'unplugged vol. 1', first in a cd series by ssaliva.
Cover drawing by Julien Meert.
Find it here: http://www.jjfunhouse.com/catalogue/ssaliva-unplugged-vol-1

unplugged vol.1

ssaliva - fall w me (JJ016)(releasedate: 25.06.2018)

from the forthcoming album, 
@MSYLMA — Dhil-un Taht Shajarat Al-Zaqum
مسيلمة - ظل تحت شجرة الزقوم

credits:

Written and produced by MSYLMA
Track 4 produced by ZULI Track 5 produced by 1127
Acoustic drums on track 8 by Karim El Ghazoly
Track 9 produced by ZULI
Mastering by Al Carlson 
Arabic text design and calligraphy by Islam Shabana
Photos by Madison Dinelle
Design and layout by Jesse Osborne-Lanthier
Released by Halcyon Veil 2019

Dhil-un Taht Shajarat Al-Zaqum

MSYLMA - Fanaa Ghada فناء غادة (HALC027)

In My Dreams (Part1)

1500 followers means me being extremely grateful and therefore releasing this new tune for free download! <3 
artwork by @jesperflinker

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