Brush of Crystalline

HMOT - 'This Music Greets Death'

Out October 8 on ltd 10" lathe cut vinyl & cassette

First-ever, wistfully playful full length by Stas Sharifullin with contributions by Rupert Clervaux, Perila, Zurkas Tepla, Julia Sharifullina and Nikolay Kozlov. 

Pre-order: https://hmotology.bandcamp.com/album/this-music-greets-death

This Music Greets Death

HMOT - Climb Higher (feat. Perila)

Taken from "Night Blindness" album, out December 3 on all digital platforms and in select shops.

“Thinking is dimmed when familiar forms of reality disappear. This is not a loss. Long periods of inner silence favour clearings, they let the light in, the flooding, the blinding…” (Etel Adnan)

Chantal Michelle - Night Blindness

a new, spectral outdoors
blurred headspace
nervous, metallic pleasure

Mistareez - Cienleng Dub

Primeiro single extraído de 'Selections 2', mais recente EP de usof, editado a 31 de Março de 2022.

ORDER: rottenfresh.bandcamp.com/album/selections-2

usof - definite [FRUIT28]

As a response to the war in Ukraine, Janushoved is releasing a relief compilation in order to raise funds for the people of Ukraine.

All proceeds will go directly to support the work of Red Cross inside Ukraine, helping children and their families with relief, food and medical care.

Janushoved no. 146

Croatian Amor - Kites Over Kyiv's Eternal Flame

she drips

I-kun No

James Hoff - Inverted Birds and Other Sirens 
Label: PAN
Cat.No. PAN 133
Format: Digital
Release Date: 5 August 2022
Purchase: PAN.lnk.to/InvertedBirdsandOtherSirens

James Hoff’s Inverted Birds and Other Sirens was composed after a visit to Chernobyl in 2018. Both works utilize GPS signals recorded within the zone of exclusion as well as orchestral arrangements for woodwinds, brass, and strings. The first piece was the soundtrack for HOBO UFO (v. Chernobyl), an audio-visual work based on a hacked version of Google Street View that PAN released in 2019. The second track is new to this release. 

Chernobyl holds a unique cultural and political position and Hoff’s initial visit was prompted by the site’s complicated ideological function for the west and the slippage between its unimaginable horrors and its recreation and fabrication within popular imagination by the entertainment industry. However, when Hoff was in Pripyat and the exclusion zone he found himself more affected by its ghosts than by the site itself. This realization was profound and prompted him to compose works that were emotionally driven rather than overly conceptually. 

While there, he recorded GPS signals that surrounded the overgrown landscape, the concrete sarcophagus, and the dark tourist attractions that remain after the catastrophe. Once back in his studio in Brooklyn, he deconstructed these recordings, pulling them apart and layering them with conventional chamber instruments in an effort to create a timbre that reflected the complex emotional layers of the exclusion zone and the people who had lived there. The result is a music that moves, as the artist has characterized it, like “melodies walking through a melting landscape.” 

Of course, much has changed since Hoff’s initial visit. The work is now being released in a radically different political context as the horrors of a real-time war are waged around it. Despite this, Hoff feels that the emotional underpinnings of the recordings resonate with our times, or at least his conception of it.

Produced and written by James Hoff
Master by Josh Bonati

James Hoff - Inverted Birds (PAN 133)

Bénédicte live set at Église Saint-Edouard September 22nd 2022.

Photo by Mary Chen.

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