Ambient & Space - part 3

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Marina Herlop - miu
Label: PAN
Cat.No. PAN 128S
Format: DL
Release Date: 10 September 2021
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/miu
Video: https://bit.ly/3k1RoJD

Barcelona-based artist Marina Herlop joins PAN with a striking new single, titled "miu". The artist invites the listener to step into her otherworldly dreamscape and in turn go down a sonic rabbit hole into her garden of forking paths. Resisting attempts to interpret her work, Marina Herlop prefers to create open worlds which nourish and stimulate the imagination. Experimenting freely with konnakol syllables and carnatic rhythms harnessing the processed human voice and electronics, "miu" can be treated as a black box or cenobitic toy which the listener can project their desires and dreams onto.

Composed, produced and recorded by Marina Herlop
Electric bass: Òscar Garrobé, “Garru”
Mix: James Ginzburg, Marina Herlop
Master: Rashad Becker
Artwork by Robert Clark

@marinaherlop

Marina Herlop - miu (PAN128S)

Pan Daijing - Tissues 
Label: PAN
Cat.No. PAN 118
Format: 2xLP / DL
Release Date: 21 January 2022
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/Tissues

Pan Daijing’s exhibition-performance Tissues premiered in the Tanks at the Tate Modern in autumn 2019. A five-part immersion in performance, sound, movement, space, and most of all emotion in its most distilled and conflicted states, Tissues engaged with the conventions of opera and tragedy to present a searing representation of the embattled human psyche in space and time. While the ambitious multi-sensory artwork made use of the range of Daijing’s artistic capabilities, music, particularly the voice, was at its formal and emotional core. The vinyl and digital release of Tissues on PAN serves as a record of that work, in the form of an hour-long, studio-recorded audio excerpt: an invaluable archival document from Daijing’s practice.  
 
Tissues is both a solitary work and a formal study in relation. Composed, directed, designed, written, and performed by Daijing (alongside a cast of twelve dancers and opera singers), the work—its libretto written in a mixture of old and modern Chinese—lingers inside a single human perspective. Daijing conjures states that are by turns delicate and severe, the tension between opposing modes animating the work as it unfolds. And yet, for all its interiority, Tissues foregrounds an intimate relationship with its audience through details like its engulfing visual landscape and its rattling, confrontational narrative arcs. Daijing uses the opera form as a prism through which to question the boundaries of music itself: perhaps, she proposes, music is much more than simply what is heard. It is in the relationship between voice and electronics that this limit is most clearly breached. Across the four parts gathered in this documentation, a counter-tenor, a soprano, a mezzo-soprano, and the artist herself voice a mixture of stunning laments and cries over an instrumental landscape, built out from industrial texture. Meant to be heard in a single listen, rather than track by track, the work unfolds through tender hollows and agitated peaks. At its crescendo, the operatic vocals melt away and the synthesizers themselves seem to howl with grief.
 
Daijing uncovers an essential, sometimes painful, music in all that surrounds us, inviting something like catharsis but also a greater understanding of the thing she and her cast conjure and draw close. A tissue, after all, is both a disposable object one uses to wipe away a tear, and the building block of our fleshy human forms. Daijing reaches and excavates the roiling core of what it is to be alive and full of feeling. 

Music from Tissues, an opera of five acts at Tate Modern, London on Oct 2nd, 4th and 5th, 2019
Composed, written, produced and directed by Pan Daijing. 

Performed by Anna Davidson, soprano ; Marie Gailey, mezzo soprano, Steve Katona, countertenor and Pan Daijing,  additional vocals.
The recording is mixed by James Ginzburg , Jan Urbiks and Pan Daijing, mastered by Rashad Becker. 

@pan-daijing

Tissues

Pan Dajing - Excerpt from Tissues Part Two "A Found Lament"(PAN 118)

from the album "RIP Chrysalis" coming out on Hausu Mountain on 10/20/15

For more info:
hausumountain.com/?page_id=2282

Eartheater - Wetware

02 SRK - Street Talk

Track 7 from LEYA 'The Fool' [NNA113]
Available May 11th, 2018 on Cassette & Digital formats.
http://nnatapes.com

The Fool

LEYA "666 (feat. Eartheater)"

Fantasilandia

Prins

Angel Lust is a collaborative EP between NYC-based artists Eartheater and LEYA. A follow-up to their track, "666," on LEYA's 2018 "The Fool," Angel Lust creeps deeper into their shared vision. LEYA's shadowy instrumentation of detuned harp and layered electric violin is skated by Eartheater's vacillating, ethereal vocals. All four songs sparkle inbristled intensity delivering an unmistakable sound from artists pushing the visceral edge of songwriting.

All music written by Eartheater and LEYA

Harp - Marilu Donovan
Violin - Adam Markiewicz
Voice - Alexandra Drewchin and Adam Markiewicz
Mixing - Kiri Stensby, Alexis Berthelot,  Kellzo
Mastering - Z. Emerson
Cover Photo - Serge Serum

Eartheater & LEYA - Stronger (PAN 111)

Eartheater & LEYA -  Mint (PAN 111)

Eartheater & LEYA - Milky Eye (PAN 111)

Elysia Crampton - ORCORARA 2010
Format: 2LP (July 10) / DL
Cat.No. PAN 101
Release Date: 1 May 2020 
Purchase: https://bit.ly/2WeCpPj

This album follows intergenerational trauma, fugitives of Christian violence in a twilight called Puruma, returning to Mama Cocha, the sea that theorists call Nowhere.

Dedicated to the life of Paul Sousa, who while incarcerated, worked years as an inmate firefighter across the Sierra Nevada of California. Also dedicated to the work of Sage LaPena and Dr. Gretel Mendizabal Nolte. (Includes misreadings of Jimenez, Saenz, Claudel, & Wright).

Not one, not world, not body, not god, not salvation, not zero; only a ceaseless approaching toward, with, and as the great mystery, by Grace, Tatamama. Jallalla.

ORCORARA 2010 was comissioned and released in 2018 by Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, CH for the first floor at the Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement 2018 ‘The sound of screens imploding’.

The album is mastered by Jeremy Cox.

All proceeds go to the American Indian Movement West/ AIM SoCal chapters.

ORCORARA 2010

Elysia Crampton - Grove (ft. Embaci) (PAN 101)

Vanessa Amara “Poses” EP

Vanessa Amara returns after a stretch of silence with Poses. Straying from their previous path of minimal contemporary ambient music, Poses is a patchwork of ideas; a fragmented journey into future folklore, a flux of strategies for new sacred sound worlds, a collage of rushes and crushes, focusing on asking new questions rather than repeating old answers.

Moments of playful absurdity rub shoulders with glimpses of pristine beauty. Poses is fun and flamboyant and at the same time skillfully displays Vanessa Amara’s knack for captivating melodies. 

An unexpected move from a strong young voice in modern experimental music.

“Mostly samples from other people’s music”
Additional pipe organ + guitar by Birk Gjerlufsen Nielsen
Additional piano + accordion by Sebastián Santillana 
Recorded in Søborg, Denmark and Coomkeen, Ireland
Mixed and mastered by Malthe Fischer

Pay what you want 

Abrazos
Vanessa Amara

Posh Isolation 237

Vanessa Amara - I Don't Think We're All Anything

Vanessa Amara - Leopards Two

Vanessa Amara - Dri

Eartheater - Phoenix: La Petite Mort Édition 
Format: DL
Cat.No. PAN 112-R
Release Date: 26 February 2021
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/LaPetiteMort

Last year, Eartheater released her latest album, Phoenix: Flames Are Dew Upon My Skin, via PAN.Eartheater is now sharing a fully reworked version of the album, Phoenix: La Petite Mort Édition, out February 26, 2021 on PAN. Originally conceived as a “sleep” mix for CRACK Magazine, Eartheater re-sculpted her entire album Phoenix into a seamless ambient edit.“This is Phoenix crushing, undressing, and compressing like carbon particles under the weight of boulders folded into silky soil, and decomposing. She is folding over and over and over and over like the rolls of young gummy stone. This is one REM cycle. I suggest listening to Phoenix: La Petite Mort Édition while asleep after climax. You are wet ash smudged across a pillow case.” - Eartheater

Eartheater - Burning Feather (La Petite Mort Edit) (PAN112-R)

Label based in Berlin, est. 2008. http://www.p-a-n.org