Leaving [2017]

I Remember Being Beautiful

Revealing the fate of first users to interface with ÆOS software, DÆMON shares their record of the unforeseen powers and limitations of the new technology.
credits
released November 23, 2018 

Written by Jahsiri Asabi-Shakir 
Produced by JÆCE 
https://soundcloud.com/jaecexd
https://soundcloud.com/daemondaemon
Mastered by Jesse Osborne Lanthier 
Artwork by S A Mayer

Buy Album

100%

Tujiko Noriko - Kuro (OST)
Format: LP / CD / Digital
Label: PAN (ENTOPIA)
Cat.No. PAN 89
Release Date: 26 April 2019 
Pre-order album: bit.ly/2TNq3yB / bit.ly/2F3mN9Q

Written and directed by Joji Koyama and Tujiko Noriko, Kuro tells the tale of Romi, a Japanese woman living in the suburbs of Paris with her paraplegic lover Milou. Tending to Milou by day and working in a karaoke bar by night, Romi reminisces about a time she and Milou once lived together in Japan with a mysterious ailing man named Mr. Ono. Weaving together personal history, anecdotes and myths, her stories soon turn ominous.

When we first decided to ‘split’ the film into what might be described as two parallel layers — the narrated story and the visual story — we found that it opened up an ‘in-between’ space, a space where what is heard and seen continually wrestle with one another. We envisaged that the true setting of the film would emerge from this friction, as something imagined and projected by the audience. After a few screenings we were struck by how some audience members would refer to scenes or events in the film that, for us, did not take place… We both thought of the music of Kuro as a score to this space in-between.

-Joji Koyama

Composed and recorded during the editing of the film in Berlin, the Kuro OST by Tujiko Noriko (with contributions from Joji Koyama, Sam Britton and Will Worsely), is a crucial and integral part of the film, acting not only as a glue to bind the layers of the film together, but along with the sonic palette of the film’s sound design, evokes it’s claustrophobic atmospheres and moments of haunting beauty.

I tried to think of the pieces in abstract terms, like moods and atmospheres. In a way, the process was quite similar to how I usually make music, in the sense that I have images in my head. Of course in this case there were actual images and a lot of them very close to me, but I didn't want to get overly conscious about them either—I didn't want to get stuck by trying to be too specific.

-Tujiko Noriko

The music, which in the film is largely heard in tandem to the narrating voice of Tujiko Noriko (who also stars as Romi), is presented and arranged here as a separate piece in its own right.

Written and produced by Tujiko Noriko. Mixed by Sam Britton and Will Worsley at Coda to Coda, London.
The album is mastered by Rashad Becker at D&M, Berlin featuring photography by Joji Koyama and layout by Bill Kouligas and Johannes Schnatmann.

ENTOPIA is the latest offshoot series from PAN seeking to amplify and redefine our ideas of what a soundtrack can be. The series will survey critical works across the spectrum from musical composers on PAN and beyond, commissioned for the worlds of film, art, performance, installation works, theatre, dance and fashion.

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

Kuro (OST)

Tujiko Noriko - Karaoke Theme (PAN 89)

Tujiko Noriko, Sam Britton, Will Worsley - Gondola Song (PAN 89)

"@hydropsyche is hollowed out club music for the post-anthropocene. The debut album Scree, inspired by ancient history and the vestiges of our own time explores evolving polyrhythmic melodies and composition within a pre-defined tonal structure. 
In the future, our civilisation is detectable as a sediment layer of aluminium. The instruments this music was made on, the speakers it was played on, and the club it was played in will all be the same matter, and the humans that listened to it a layer of carbon beneath."

Artwork by Lilian Hardouineau 
Mastering by Lorenzo Targhetta

Scree EP

U - 020

Hydropsyche - U - 020

HOB16: Result by @unitedstatesof0

Artwork by @quintano644

Download

UNITEDSTATESOF - 'Result' (HOB16)

Black Notes

Quantum Natives - Nu Horizons
(QNKK001)

BUY HERE (all proceeds go to refugee charities)
https://quantumnatives.bandcamp.com/album/nu-horizons

01 - https://soundcloud.com/mono-fee - Welcome Horizons 												
02 - https://soundcloud.com/user-177536999 - stale cupcakes 										
03 - https://soundcloud.com/emamouse2 - kk waltz 													
04 - https://soundcloud.com/waxwickwarlock- kk soul 														
05 - https://soundcloud.com/currance-evans - K.K. Disco 											
06 - https://soundcloud.com/crownshyness - KK aria 												
07 - https://soundcloud.com/wormworld- K.K. Rider													 	
08 - https://soundcloud.com/taggerung-1- kk marathon 												
09 - https://soundcloud.com/wa-ste222 - DJ K.K. 												 		
10 - https://soundcloud.com/potdl - Space K.K. 												
11 - https://soundcloud.com/cobweaver - K.K. Adventure (Aircheck) 									
12 - https://soundcloud.com/beneluxenergy - Comrade KK 											
13 - https://soundcloud.com/nohit - kk fusion												 		
14 - https://soundcloud.com/speakermusic - KK D&B (Remix)											
15 - https://soundcloud.com/iruuuu - comrade k.k. oh fallada da du hangest (ein pfred klagt an)  
16 - https://soundcloud.com/ornine - KK Jongara (Ashpool Bushi) 									
17 - https://soundcloud.com/x-o-xio - kk lullaby 												 		
18 - https://soundcloud.com/enchantedlands - spring blossoms 										
19 - https://soundcloud.com/dasychira- KK Dirge 												 	
20 - https://soundcloud.com/opalbeau - KK Lullabye 												
21 - https://soundcloud.com/yikii - Wild World (Happy Tree Friends version) 						
22 - https://soundcloud.com/lawrencelek - KK Metal 												
23 - DJ Kimchi - Hypno K.K. (Corneal Abrasion mix) 							
24 - https://soundcloud.com/jkaching - Steep Hill

BUY + DONATE

Crown Shyness - KK Aria

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