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This weeks selection features ten intimate tunes to soothe away those Monday blues. The playlist includes tracks from Oliver Coates, Hania Rani Marty Hicks, Low Leaf and more. From modern classical to digital dub we serve up another eclectic selection. Check out the playlist and make sure to follow us on SoundCloud, Mixcloud, and Tumblr for more music. Sit back, relax and drift away to these mellow sounds.

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Today's Intimate Gathering

pataphysical

woozy

nastlga

We are very honoured to open our circle and join hands with our UK based travellers, Pataphysical. @pataphysicaltransmission

Kindly introduced to us by the friendly crew at @12th-isle, who released their amazing debut album 'Periphera' a year ago, these masters of modern ambience gift us with another selection of sonic mind travellers.

"These are tracks we developed between 2013-2021 and have featured heavily in our live performances, evolving over the years. The live show is the core of our project, creating specific listening environments for the experience of imaginary solutions and possible worlds. We've taken this to marshes, forests, woods, quarries and churches, sometimes with big audiences, sometimes just with a handful of close friends. Recent events forced us to take a pause from live performance and gave us time to compile this record, which reflects the range of moods and tones that feature in the shows. Hopefully we'll be able to return to performing soon. In the meantime we hope you enjoy the sounds. "This world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.” - Pataphysical

Available now via our Online Store & coming soon to Boomkat, Out Of Joint & Commend.

GMT45 Pataphysical - Hapticality (Snippets)

We're very proud to offer Volume 3 in our ongoing "All Welcome" vinyl compilations - celebrating the musical output of another six members of our diverse GMT family.

Available now via our online store & Boomkat.

GMT15 Various Artists - All Welcome 3 (Snippets)

Laura Ingalls - Cannibal Island

✧Sea Urchin✧ are

Leila Hassan: spoken words, lights & textiles
Francesco Cavaliere: music, words & lights

Counting for the next tide. side a ✧ Sea Urchin ✧ c.20

Turmeric

"It Gets More Blue" by Girlpool from the album 'Powerplant,' available now
Order at http://www.girlpoolmusic.com

Official Site: http://girlpoolmusic.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GIRLPOOOL/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/girlpoolband
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/girlpoool/

Girlpool - It Gets More Blue

Sometimes I find great music, and sometimes music simply finds me. In this case, it was a dear friend, Luke Howard, who pointed me to a piece by Marty Hicks which completely captivated me, and now, here we are, premiering a track to a worldwide audience. I have a lot to say about this piece, but, after getting in touch with Marty to bring you “From Afar, Unhindered” he’s had a lot to say himself. So instead of my usual words, you will find the words from the composer here: hcdi.gs/MartyHicks

TRACK PREMIERE : Marty Hicks - From Afar, Unhindered

quella notte, quando la luna brillò

Prairie (live edit w/ malibu voiceover)

ISLE008 (https://soundcloud.com/12th-isle)

Purlo

Le Raccourci is a welcome introduction to the world of modern classical identity Sebastian Gandera. The impressionist landscapes of a sensitive soul self-reflecting, these miniature compositions alternate across a rudimentary set up of piano, field recorder, sampler and four track. Melancholic utterings hastily captured some 100km east of Paris. 

Classically trained by the same teacher as his parents, Gandera first began recording in the confines of his university dorm room, inspired by a C60 from friend and future collaborator Bernard Odot (A Gethsémani). Humbly existing without sparing a thought to music industry or career, Gandera’s personal effects surfaced via the European and US cassette networks from 1988 to 1994. Impressively accomplished for the DIY scene they orbited, these tapes were issued in scant quantities, rendering his pieces as private secrets shared and duplicated in small concentric circles. Aside from a sole, avowedly traumatic performance, the material was never shared in a live context. 

Selected by Sky Girl co-conspirer Julien Dechery, Le Raccourci culls 15 tracks from Gandera’s extensive cassette discography, discarded DAT recordings, and split CD with Lyon toy music project Klimperei. These sentiently charged compositions only hint at his larger catalogue, but act as a compelling cross section of the artist’s oeuvre. The identity is further detailed by archival images, Glen Goetze penned liner notes and original artwork from Perks and Mini’s Misha Hollenbach. 

While Gandera’s nostalgic melodies incidentally parallel with the piano key manoeuvres of Pascal Comelade, Robert Haigh and Dominique Lawalrée, Le Raccourci could only stem from the escapist desires of one Eric Morin.

A1 N’Écrire Que Du Vent 1.19 (ES008)

Following on from the deranged machine mulch of the Cru Servers we proudly announce the second record on the label to emerge from our native south side of Glasgow. Lo Kindre is the solo project of Irish/Luxembourgish bedroom producer, amateur footballer and award-winning bartender Daniel Magee. Crawling out from the undergrowth at the speed of a snail with dreadlocks this six track EP builds upon his previous venture for Optimo Music and manages to enchant in many of the same ways. Chlorophytum ticks all of the right boxes, sitting somewhere between a budding sci-fi homage, drum machine escapism and a fascination with the motorik styles of West Germany and the wider On-U continuum. Lo Kindre's sound has recently developed by way of countless hours spent twiddling with delay units alongside vintage Italian football commentary and murky casks of Tennents. It culminates here in the following six tracks. The seventh 12th Isle now ecstatically morphs from our galaxy into yours.

Pre-order

Lo Kindre - Chlorophytum (ISLE007)

RAMZi & SK collaborative result from some jamming in 2018. SK mix presented here and available soon on 'Numero U Kno' 12" [RHD-036U KNO2] on No 'Label'.
Available in good shops everywhere this May.

Numero U Kno

RAMZi & SK U Kno - Founded (SK Mix)

While being best known for creating deeply immersive live psychoacoustic experiences, the London based Pataphysical have allowed us to use 'Periphera', the fruits of their debut studio work, as the label's eighth musical oblation. It would have been an excercise in futility to try and replicate the immediacy of their live performances on this record, but we feel that across these 8 disparate tracks inner worlds have been rendered real. Through the careful positioning of field recordings and the creation of soundscapes somewhat reminiscent of heyday Mille Plateau the group have held fast to a desire to craft involved and captivating synthesis.

Pataphysical - Periphera LP (ISLE008)

A low frequency dragnet of crestless waves and radar sweeps, London-based experimentalists Pataphysical brings a massively captivating soundscape to 12th Isle.

'Periphera' is out June 16th on 12th Isle.

Pre-order: bit.ly/2ZlaugD

@pataphysicaltransmission
@12th-isle

Premiere: Pataphysical - Energen [12th Isle]

Available from 27 June 2019 on vinyl & digital formats
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The Jibaro philosophy and way-of-___ing, life from land, music from hand, tension and release, hard work and nothing to show.

"The music is calling the shots to me & I just listen." - John McLaughlin

Music for spiritual rituals: can I reach Pedro Albizu Campos?
Music for the bosque - music made by hand from trash and dust, ground relics and artefacts connect the past present and future.

The Rhythm may not include drums, but it should reference the ocean and the mountains - spoken in storms.

The pile may not add value to its individual layers, but there was never time to second guess this attempt at cobble-and-collage.  No Kopyright Infringement intended under fair use of a mortar and pestle.

Buy the farm and bury yourself in mud.

"Yo, múltiple, como en contradicción" - Julia de Borgos

**RIYL**
Eddie Palmieri, Herbie Hancock, Airto, Terje Rypdal, MF Doom, Bill Laswell, Ray Barretto, Eberhard Weber, RZA, Nana Vasconcelos, Lol Coxhill, Fred Frith, Brian Eno, Mongo Santamaria, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Andreas Vollenweider, Varese, Wendy Carlos, Wally Badarou, Irakere, Sakamoto, Bill Vermette, Jack DeJohnette, & countless more.

Bought The Farm (OUEST095)

Mister Water Wet – Bought The Farm (OUEST095 preview)

Imaginary solutions in sound
pataphysicaltransmission@gmail.com

Hapticality LP: https://soundcloud.com/goodmorningtapes/gmv14-pataphysical-hapticality-snippets
Periphera LP: https://soundcloud.com/12th-isle/isle008-pataphysical-periphera

Future:
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Past:
11 Sept 2022 - L’Imbarchino, Torino
29 April 2022 - Cafe Oto, London
20 March 2022 - Fisga, Porto
13 Nov 2021, Poplar Union, London
21 Oct 2021, Sagome, Iklectik, London
6 Aug 2020 - Sound Walk, London
24 Nov 2019 - Cafe Kino, Bristol
9 Nov 2019 - SET, London
17 July 2019 - 51.561894, -0.031807
10 June 2019 - Low Bias, NTS Radio
29 May 2019 - The Old Church, Stoke Newington
26 May 2019 - Mosaique - St Petersburg
27 May 2019 - Test FM Radio
22 May 2019 - Powerhouse, Moscow
12 April 2019 - Dr Vertiz 1304 - Mexico City
22 Dec 2018 - The Psychedelic Society - London 
17 Aug 2018 - A.V.O.U. - Kent 
30 May 2018 - Sound walk - Hackney Marshes 
13 Dec 2017 - Cafe Oto, London 
19 Nov 2017 - Doomed Gallery, London 
26 Oct 2017 - Rosslyn Hill Chapel, Hampstead
13 Oct 2017 - Hessle Audio - Bussey Building
6 July 2017 - 51.561894, -0.031807 
2-3 June 2017 - The Gathering II, Cyprus
25 Feb 2017 - All Hallows Church, Southwark
30 Oct 2015 - British Museum, London
14 Oct 2015 - Rich Mix, London
21 March 2015 - Sunland, Mexico City 
21 Dec 2014 - All Hallows Church, Southwark
21 April 2013 - Silwex House, London