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The second single from “Remember Rainbow Bridge” is out now.

'Remember Rainbow Bridge’, the new album by Croatian Amor, is a homage to youth and the delicate metamorphosis that occurs as childhood trips into maturity. Focused on this tender flux, the songs on 'Remember Rainbow Bridge' are infused with the restless energy of adolescence and a dawning sense of mortality. From the sun-kissed title track, to the night burn and wet pavement of ‘Paper Birds’, monumental highs are shuffled with great lows that we perhaps feel most clearly and earnestly in those formative years.

Since the earliest collages committed to tape under the name of Croatian Amor, Loke Rahbek's alias has at every step gravitated towards constant discovery and experimentation. The sound collages are still present while the unity of each song's construction now often conceals the juxtapositions and overlapping edges. Employing a medley of diffuse electronic music traditions, fantastical synthetic worlds are evoked and while ‘Remember Rainbow Bridge’ heavily relies on rhythmic structures to propel the compositions, Croatian Amor continues to tend a highly textured field in his own inimitable way.

'Remember Rainbow Bridge' is a celebration of the liminal space between phases of life, the chrysalis of youth. It is a record about coming to terms with our ever-changing place in the world, its title urging us to see the world with a child’s eye, to never forget the miraculous at play only an arm’s-length away.

“This world as we see it is passing away” Posh Isolation 270
Tracklist :

1. 5:00 am Fountain (03:51)
2. Remember Rainbow Bridge (06:17)
3. Young Adult, Common Nettle (04:08)
4. Paper Birds (04:09)
5. Worthy Contender (04:39)
6. Cup of Humanity (03:16)
7. Alabaster (03:59)
8. So Long Morningstar (05:02)

Credits :

All Music by Croatian Amor
Recorded 2020-2021.
2, 4, 5 Vocals by Maria Leth Schütze
4, 8 Cello by Cæcilie Trier
8 based on a composition by Tobias Elof
Mix, mastering & production assistance Malthe Fischer
Photos made in collaboration with Mikkel Ulriksen & Skjold Rambow Released 2022 with support from Koda Kultur
Croatian Amor is 1989
Posh Isolation 270

Remember Rainbow Bridge

Paper Birds

Croatian Amor - Paper Birds

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Forsaken Emblems

taken from TREPANERINGSRITUALEN - Berliner Ritual (Oktober XI 2013 e.v.) [a+w 019] TAPE
(limited to 100 hand-numbered copies)
some snippets of the complete live performance of Trepaneringsritualen at Endorcism, Berlin (Naherholung Sternchen), 2013.

out on: June 8
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[a+w 019] TREPANERINGSRITUALEN - Berliner Ritual (Oktober XI 2013 e.v.) [Teaser / Snippets]

Berlin-based artist Bride, presents her debut double-single work "Ring cairn", a sample-driven collage drone project, featuring the tracks "Gaze of khaos" and "Stele".

With a sonically touching palette, "Gaze of khaos" explores the bond between processed piano, harsh feedback and spontaneous vocals throughout the progression of the track.

"Stele" blends folk instrumentation and distortion, with sample processing being the key technique in the execution of the piece.

[EVO013]

Artwork by Augustus Brasfield.
Written & Mixed by Bride.
Edited & Mastered by Ioannis Nafpliotis.

Ring cairn

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Bride - Stele

HAUS ARAFNA / Heart Beats Blood Flows

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PAN DAIJING - Lack 惊蛰 (PAN 79)

Format: LP / Digital
Label: PAN
Cat.No: PAN 79
Release Date: 28 July 2017

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pre-order: http://pan-daijing.bandcamp.com/album/lack-pan79

Pan Daijing announces her debut album, ‘Lack 惊蛰’, on PAN this July.

Culminating as the purgative ‘finale’ to her improvisational live performances, Pan Daijing’s debut album also offers an insight to her future works. The process was intuitive and raw, born out of her previous explorations. Over the past 2 years, she has composed, recorded and edited different concerts and field recordings across Europe, China, and Canada, forming the basis of the record. Arriving as her first full-length album, ‘Lack 惊蛰’ was crafted from this long, painstaking mental and physical practice.

Daijing’s pieces are created around a very intense and intimate mental catharsis, often expressed through a close physical interaction with strangers in her live sets which seek to engage them in a highly personal way. “When I was finalising this album, they didn’t feel like tracks to me anymore, but more like a psychoanalytical process,” she says. “I saw myself being this absurd, mad person ‘acting’ out the sounds… It’s rather physical, and became like a mindgame. All things came out naturally as part of me.”

The narrative of the album presents a perspective of the world as ‘the theatre of our minds’ - where Daijing sees the record as an ‘opera piece’ in its storytelling and drama.

The release is mastered by Rashad Becker at D&M, featuring photography by Ralf Marsault, and artwork by Bill Kouligas.

Lack

Pan Daijing - Act of The Empress 皇后之作 (PAN 79)

Taken from 'Delete Beach', Mica Levi’s original soundtrack to an animé by acclaimed artist and Turner prize nominee Phil Collins, released on Demdike Stare’s DDS label. 

Following on from the maverick pop auteur and film composer’s European Film Award-winning score to 'Under The Skin', and her 'Jackie' soundtrack, this is Mica’s first musical accompaniment for animation, by revered designer Marisuke Eguchi, animated by STUDIO4ºC.

Delete Beach

Mica Levi - Interlude 2

Puce Mary — The Drought
Format: LP / CD / Digital
Cat.No. PAN 87
Release Date: 5 October 2018 
Pre-order album: bit.ly/2KGmn9f / bit.ly/2KGL7Ot

Building from a reputation of arresting live performances and critically acclaimed releases Puce Mary breaks new ground with The Drought, evolving from the tropes of industrial and power electronics to forge a complex story of adapting to new realities. Remnants of noise still exist, sustaining the penetrative viscerality offered on previous records, however The Drought demonstrates an intention to expand on the vocabulary of confrontational music and into a grander narrative defined by technical and emotional growth.
 
Bringing together introspective examination with literary frameworks by writers such as Charles Baudelaire and Jean Genet, Puce Mary’s compositions manifest an ongoing power struggle within the self towards preservation. The traumatised body serves as a dry landscape of which obscured memories and escape mechanisms fold reality into fiction, making sense of desire, loss and control. The Drought presents both danger and opportunity; through rebuilding a creative practice centred on first person narrative and a deliberate collage of field recordings and sound sources Puce Mary injects an acute urgency across the album seeking resilience.

“To Possess Is To Be In Control” makes use of lyrical repetition as an ambiguity of two selves, or a divided self, attempting to consume one another, while “Red Desert,” named after Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1964 film, portrays the individual subsumed by surrounding environmental forces. The seven-minute epic “The Size of Our Desires” acts as the emotional tipping point of the record; amongst the ominous drone and dense feedback flutters almost-beatific melodies, while the lyrics reveal a romantic call to be swept up in the midst of an increasingly uninhabitable world.

Rather than escape, The Drought dramatises a metamorphosis in which vulnerability is confronted through regeneration. Noise and aggression no longer act as an affront to react against but part of a ‘corporeal architecture’ where space, harmony and lyricism surface from the harsh tropes of industrial music. The Drought chronologises a transformation through a psychological famine, new ways of coping akin to plant survival in a desert – to live without drying out.

The release is mastered by Rashad Becker, featuring art by Torbjørn Rødland 

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

The Drought

Puce Mary - Red Desert (PAN 87)

Laibach - Das Spiel Ist Aus

Puce Mary — The Drought
Format: LP / CD / Digital
Cat.No. PAN 87
Release Date: 5 October 2018 
Pre-order album: bit.ly/2KGmn9f / bit.ly/2KGL7Ot

Building from a reputation of arresting live performances and critically acclaimed releases Puce Mary breaks new ground with The Drought, evolving from the tropes of industrial and power electronics to forge a complex story of adapting to new realities. Remnants of noise still exist, sustaining the penetrative viscerality offered on previous records, however The Drought demonstrates an intention to expand on the vocabulary of confrontational music and into a grander narrative defined by technical and emotional growth.

Bringing together introspective examination with literary frameworks by writers such as Charles Baudelaire and Jean Genet, Puce Mary’s compositions manifest an ongoing power struggle within the self towards preservation. The traumatised body serves as a dry landscape of which obscured memories and escape mechanisms fold reality into fiction, making sense of desire, loss and control. The Drought presents both danger and opportunity; through rebuilding a creative practice centred on first person narrative and a deliberate collage of field recordings and sound sources Puce Mary injects an acute urgency across the album seeking resilience.

“To Possess Is To Be In Control” makes use of lyrical repetition as an ambiguity of two selves, or a divided self, attempting to consume one another, while “Red Desert,” named after Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1964 film, portrays the individual subsumed by surrounding environmental forces. The seven-minute epic “The Size of Our Desires” acts as the emotional tipping point of the record; amongst the ominous drone and dense feedback flutters almost-beatific melodies, while the lyrics reveal a romantic call to be swept up in the midst of an increasingly uninhabitable world.

Rather than escape, The Drought dramatises a metamorphosis in which vulnerability is confronted through regeneration. Noise and aggression no longer act as an affront to react against but part of a ‘corporeal architecture’ where space, harmony and lyricism surface from the harsh tropes of industrial music. The Drought chronologises a transformation through a psychological famine, new ways of coping akin to plant survival in a desert – to live without drying out.

The release is mastered by Rashad Becker, featuring art by Torbjørn Rødland

@pucemary
p-a-n.org

Puce Mary - The Size Of Our Desires (PAN 87)

Puce Mary - Dissolve (PAN 87)

our visions for H ø R D (@hordmusic) on LRN from his Parallels LP released on AVANT! (@avant), thanks to Modular Mind (@modular-mind) for the harsh mastering

H ø R D - LRN (FUROR remix)

See here for more info: https://www.aqnb.com/2019/07/03/alpha-maid-updates-her-grunge-informed-guitar-music-with-the-political-social-anxieties-specific-to-londons-electronic-scene-in-as-you/?preview=true&_thumbnail_id=81134

Alpha Maid, 'As You' (2019). Courtesy Curl, London.

Nordvargr returns to Cyclic Law with yet another crushing offering that follows in the footsteps of it’s highly acclaimed predecessor "Metempsychosis” and develops the sound even further. Daath was recorded back to back with MZ. 412´s "Svartmyrkr" and the creative maelstrom that infused that masterpiece also can be heard in Nordvargr´s solo efforts. The ambient parts have been put in the backseat in order to make way for heavy percussion, stringed and bowed instrumentation and thundering vocals delivered with serious intent. The title refers to the false sephira which also can be interpreted as the great abyss that needs to be crossed in order to attain higher knowledge; a fitting analogy for the ordeals that took place during the composition of this album as well as a perfect symbol of the new sound and direction of Nordvargr's creative universe.
CD Edition of 500 copies in 4 panel Matt Laminated Digisleeve UPC: 694536562684
Special LP Edition of 100 copies on Black & White Vinyl. UPC: 694536562677
Standard Edition LP of 200 copies on Black Vinyl. UPC: 694536562677

Nordvargr - The Horsemen Ride Out On Foaming Steeds - Excerpt

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Puce Mary - Dissolve (PAN 87)

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