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HOSHINA ANNIVERSARY - HISYOCHI
IMPTNC03
LP & digital - July 22, 2022.

“But when you make music, listen to music, and feel inside your heart, you will find… what you want is peace of mind.”

Hoshina Anniversary offers a new LP of fluid, alchemical dance music in the shape of Hisyochi, on Impatience. Moving well beyond the initial influence of jazz fusion, electronica and his Japanese heritage, Hoshina Anniversary continues to carve deeper into his own cosm, and Hisyochi arguably represents this prolific producer at his most singular, refined and potent yet.

With nowhere to go and little to do, Hoshina was making music at a seemingly unstoppable torrent throughout the pandemic, sometimes sketching close to 100 tracks in any given month. Opening up a session from a previous track, he would erase all but one element, using it as a starting point for a completely new experiment, lending the body of work a subtle yet tangible coherence. Hisyochi was pieced together from a swathe of productions that came out of a particularly fertile period in the first half of 2021, which also birthed his recent release on Patience, Hyakunin Isshu. 

Roughly translating to “somewhere cool to relax during a hot summer” according to Hoshina, Hisyochi transcends seasons but undoubtedly runs hot. Drum patterns are crisp, varied and invariably body-moving, basslines ascend at vertigo-inducing velocity, and dimly-lit jazz-bar piano is often the only element anchoring the sound to terra firma. 

Following the plaintive, palette cleansing introduction of Rakka, Irahu plots the course with a light arpeggiator over a chugging rhythm before a warbly piano line to creeps in the back door. Misebayana is a jolt of gyrating mutant dance, part video game suspense and part footwork for drums and koto, while Kokoro no Heisei (Peace Of Mind) sees Hoshina deliver a salvo to stillness over a meandering, dubby spacewalk. Roman is an invigorating cut of warped dancehall tango, while the closing title track perfectly encapsulates the essence of the record and Hoshina Anniversary in 2022 in one elegant, acidic rinse.

Hoshina Anniversary is Yoshinobu Hoshina, from Hachioji, outside of Tokyo. He’s released records as Hoshina Anniversary on ESP Institute, Alien Jams and Youth, under his Suemori moniker for Osare! Editions and as Shifting Gears for Toucan Sounds, amongst others.

Hisyochi was written, produced and mixed by Hoshina Anniversary. It was mastered by Josh Bonati in NYC, and artwork is by Luca Schenardi.

Distributed by Rush Hour, Amsterdam.   Order enquiries: orders@rushhour.nl
For label enquiries contact info@havesomepatience.com

Hoshina Anniversary - Hisyochi (Previews) - IMPTNC03

@MishaSultan

Aired on the Patience/Impatience show on September 6, 2022, preceding the release of Translucence on Patience on September 9, 2022.

Q+A

Please introduce yourself.
- My name is Misha. I’m musician and sound engineer. Originally I’m from Siberia, but for the last five years I lived in Saint Petersburg. Now I’m in a long journey.

Can you describe your relationship to music throughout your life?
- I remember my passion for music since childhood. My brother and I started jamming together when we were 12-13 years old. Since then I haven’t stopped playing or composing music. I played in a few bands and participated in lots of collaborations over the last 20 years. In Novosibirsk and Saint Petersburg we jammed and recorded improv sessions. So all of this influenced my music.

How does where you’re from influence the way you make and listen to music?
- I don’t know how place actually influences music in the age of globalization but the main thing is that in Siberia there weren’t too many musical strong communities. So we were in some kind of vacuum really far from cultural centers. That’s why we tried to experiment with forms and styles all the time instead of trying to fit in to some community.

In light of what has happened in the last 6 months, how do you feel about your home country and where do you see your future?
- Unfortunately the awful war is still going and people are still dying everyday from bombs. I understood that something wrong was happening with my country more than 10 years ago when p*tin decided to reign forever. The last few years were worse and worse and we went into inland exile. But nobody can predict such horror.
My feelings changed in last half a year from anger and horror to sadness and acceptance.
I really don’t know what will happen in the near future but I’m not very optimistic about my home and world in general.

How did you approach your Patience release, and how did that differ from your usual approach to making music?
- It was a challenge for me. Usually I don’t make really long compositions, so I wanted to make it like a trip so that everything changes smoothly.  

Do you have a favorite longform piece of music?
- First piece from Music for Airports comes to mind :)

What was the idea behind this mix, and what would you suggest as the ideal listening environment?
- The idea was to show new music from my close music friends and music from friendly labels that inspires me. Most people listen to music like a background I guess. So the ideal listening environment is when you're walking or jogging I think.

TRACKLIST
1. Tarotplane - Supermarket Tropicals
2. S A D - Netoa Vi
3. Пурпурный Дядя - Mustang
4. O. G. JIGG - Jesus Is My Jam
5. Md. After Hussain & PAQ - You Fed Me Poison And Called It Honey (Modhu Hoi Hoi Bish Khawaila)
6. Mårble - Boss Latinos
7. Herandu - Untitled 
8. Cole Pulice - Sleep Helix
9. Misha Sultan - Untitled 
10. Foresteppe - Pestrota
11. Amkarahoi - Cookoovo
12. Jaaba - Fall of Babylon

Misha Sultan Mix for The Lot Radio - September 6, 2022

Piper Spray & Lena Tsibizova - Leaving Memory (IMPTNC04) - Previews

LP/Digital - February 17, 2023

Thrilled to announce our first release of 2023, a properly brain melting LP from Piper Spray & Lena Tsibizova (@lenatsibizova), Leaving Memory. 

Pre-orders live on Bandcamp now with 3 tracks available immediately.

Leaving Memory

Piper Spray & Lena Tsibizova - Leaving Memory (IMPTNC04) - Previews

@memotone

LP/digital May 26, 2023.

Bristol multi-instrumentalist, producer and nature freak Will Yates offers a new record from his Memotone alias, an expansive, hypothetical revue titled How Was Your Life?

Launching from terrains recognizable to fans of Will’s extensive, restless discography, How Was Your Life? packs up his penchant for baroque druid folk, homespun electronics and weightless woodwinds and explodes them into glistening, fractal star dust.

Instigated by the purchase of an antiquated Y2K era guitar synthesizer, the record was produced over the first half of 2022, in a large part the result of in-studio improvisation. Where Will’s previous releases under various guises have often been conceived by conceptual frameworks, HWYL? was carved by equipment that offered both possibilities and parameters that Will relished and explored to the nth degree. The Roland GR33 not only provided sublime guitar sounds but also empowered the guitar to convincingly mimic fretless bass, tabla and a vast percussive array, also summoning an artillery of uniquely outre atmospheres over the course of the record. The resulting concoction sounds familiar yet subtly, unshakeably otherworldly, shaping up as perhaps the most honed, energized and beatific Memotone album to date.

Paradise Drips gently lifts off with wobbly guitar, randomized sequences and unidentifiable percussive elements situating us somewhere in an unearthly realm, before Open World zaps the serotonin receptors and gushes with ecstatic warmth, it’s quietly insistent soft disco shuffle and levitational fretless driving towards a totally blissed and very soft “drop”. Forest Zone sees Memotone deep in the green, with a loose, propulsive groove and dancing flutes stumbling into a medieval ritual in the clearing halfway through, and Glow In The Dark deftly bounces between spacey ambience and an undulating no wave vamp. Carved By The Moon is a delightfully melted classical cut, while Canteen Sandwich offers the record’s most explicitly nod to modernity in the form of a nimble drum workout with samurai synths and melodic percussion that heaves towards a genuine peak. Lonehead immediately backs right off, viscerally melancholic clarinet and bubbling fx making for the records most hefty introspective moment, before Walking Backwards simmers all the way down on an wistful arpeggio, rooting back in earthly reality with charmed rhythms and jazzy tunings. Catharsis complete, Memotone is onto the next incarnation.

Will Yates has been making music as Memotone since 2010, releasing music on labels like Black Acre, Disktopia and Accidental Meetings, also releasing music as O.G. Jigg and Half Nelson. He’s worked as a producer, session musician and live performer on a broad spectrum of projects, and recently provided source sounds that made up Batu’s “Opal” on Timedance. 

How Was Your Life? was written, produced and mixed by Will Yates. It was mastered by Chris Wang. Art and design by Hugo Bernier.

Memotone - How Was Your Life? - Previews

Melts In Your Mind is the mercurial new LP by Healing Force Project (@h_f_p), aka Italian producer Antonio Marini.

An amorphous, shapeshifting, intangible proposition, Melts In Your Mind represents Healing Force Project at it’s most fluid and alchemical yet, a melon-twisting amalgam of jazz, dub and acid house tropes mulched and rearranged in inimitable style. Seemingly live and erratic polyrhythms, liquid basslines and expressive roving keys combine with kitchen sink sample hits and rogue licks for a thrilling, constantly shifting, alive sound. It’s music that’s difficult to grasp on first or even fourth listen, and as such continues to reward on repeat. Rather than going somewhere, tracks just go, rarely repeating motifs but riffing on, digging into and working out.

Behavior Of Waves sets the scene discretely enough, a simple bass refrain that is eventually overcome with an urgent rhythm that stumbles over itself into a post-dub cavern. The title track resembles a scramble of disparate earthly sounds - lurking synthesizer, restless popping drums, West African balafon and a muted vocal sample - sucked into the same swirling black hole and dropped into another dimension, completely cohesive. Equator acts as loose-limbed palette cleanser, an unmoored drift gently driven forward by an insistent snare roll and improv piano stabs. Inharmonious Layer stands out on the record for being less reliant on samples and by it’s relatively predictable unfolding, a queasy acid lope from the darkest corner of a deviant dancefloor, while on Diaphonization Marini flexes his aptitude with drum sampling, a bouncing excursion in sampled loops interrupted by unironic jazz cliches, the product of an omnivorous lover of the genre’s high and low. Melts In Your Mind closes on the droning tambura, ethereal pads and scattered rhythm of Two Waves In The Dark, a suitably metaphysical and ultimately peaceful resting place for a record that challenges perceptions from the outset.

Marini has released records as Healing Force Project on Firecracker, Berceuse Heroique, Bedouin and most recently Beat Machine Records. He’s based in Treviso, Italy.

Melts In Your Mind was written, produced and mixed by Antonio Marini. It was mastered by Chris Wang. Art and design by Ginji Kimura.

Healing Force Project - Melts In Your Mind (IMPTNC06) - Previews

Two hours of sublime exploration courtesy twin NY labels Patience and Impatience

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Patience/Impatience @ The Lot Radio 11-21-2023

NY-based online arts resource This Long Century takes the reins of the Patience/Impatience show for two hours of morning glory.

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Patience/Impatience with This Long Century @ The Lot Radio 12-19-2023

@amkarahoi

Uncle Reed In The Purple Mine is the debut record by a new duo, Amkarahoi.

Uncle Reed In The Purple Mine conjures ghosts of 90s chill out tents, aqueous ambient, exploratory turn of the century IDM and echoes of jammy dub. Amkarahoi is named for a remote region of Eastern Siberia an intimidating car and boat journey from the nearest city - several songs are named after rivers - and the record was borne from a largely improvised show in Saint Petersburg, later overdubbed and mixed down in the studio. The combination of heady, melancholic synthscapes, unexpected samples and the loose, spontaneous nature of it’s genesis make for a unique, compelling proposition.

Kirenga alternately swells and submerges ravey pads and shifting kicks, coming up midway for air before plunging again, and Cutima peppers the stereo field with foreboding stabs, collapsing drums and faintly nightmarish ambience before emerging from the darkness with gently plucked erhu. Handa’s simple four note piano loop and cuckoo vocal sample lament blooms into an engulfing E rush, before Mogoul threatens serotonin syndrome with it’s loved up lead and stuttering morning after nostalgia. Chininga ekes out a gentle groove over which is laid a hazy, head nodding shimmer, and on Djegda they finally submit and throw down a speedy breakbeat for some more classically vintage fire twirling shapes. 

Amkarahoi is Nikita Chepurnoi and Sergey Dmitriev. Chepurnoi has released records as Minereed on his own Echotourist imprint, and as part of The Patience and Copacabana on Hair Del. Dmitriev has made music as Purple Uncle for Echotourist, Hair Del and Nazlo. They’re currently based in Armenia (Dmitriev) and Europe (Chepurnoi).

Uncle Reed In The Purple Mine was written, produced and mixed by Nikita Chepurnoy & Sergey Dmitriev. Mastered by Rashad Becker. Art by Susumu Mukai.

RIYL - Vladislav Delay, The Orb, GAS, Global Communication, Biosphere, Seefeel.

LP/Digital March 1, 2024.

Uncle Reed In The Purple Mine

Amkarahoi - Uncle Reed In The Purple Mine (IMPTNC08) - Previews

Taken from "Uncle Reed In The Purple Mine".

LP/Digital out March 1, 2024.

@amkarahoi

Uncle Reed In The Purple Mine (IMPTNC08)

Amkarahoi - Handa

@beat-detectives

Don’t believe your ears - Pepper’s Ghost is the latest offering from NYC project Nuke Watch.

Whatever you think it is - it is not. By the same token it really can be whatever you want - electronica, jazz, improv, noise, new age, ambient - it’s none and all of these. Like the primitive visual illusion it’s named for - Pepper’s Ghost is a projection of a thing, it’s not the thing.

The Nuke Watch method - like that of Aaron Anderson and Chris Hontos’ other primary project Beat Detectives - leans almost entirely on live improvisation, with some advanced studio alchemy in post. Where the Beat Detectives palette draws from club music tropes, Nuke Watch blends recognizable tones (hand drums, woodwinds, keys, fretless bass) with sounds of providence unknown, the line between organic and synthesized instrumentation unintelligibly smudged. What is real and what is projection? It’s hard to say. What do our ears tell us? This is where we arrive at Pepper’s Ghost.

Warped as the sounds may be, the playing belies a crew of deeply expressive, learned improvisers who have their craft honed. Their friendship and psychic connection enhances the ritualistic rhythms, mutant modular synthesis, nimble keyboard runs, absurdist sampling and unidentified skronk. They’re wonderfully complemented across several tracks on this set by Cole Pulice’s levitational, sublime saxophone.

As unhinged as this might all appear, once the mind and music meet on the same wavelength this is profoundly moving, energizing and uplifting Alive Music that recalibrates the sense of what music can be. 

Nuke Watch is Aaron Anderson and Chris Hontos, with an array of friendly guests. They’ve released records as Nuke Watch on The Trilogy Tapes, Commend and Moon Glyph. As Beat Detectives they’ve released records on Not Not Fun, 100% Silk and their own studio imprint NYPD Records.

Pepper's Ghost was written and produced by Aaron Anderson and Chris Hontos. Additional instrumentation on these recordings by Cole Pulice, Leonard King, Eric Timothy Carlson, Chris Farstad and William Statler. It was mixed by Chris Hontos and mastered by Jack Callahan. Painting on the cover is “The Unity Of Being” (2020), by Ry Fyan. Design and layout by Aaron Anderson.

RIYL - Musical illusions, puzzles and magic tricks, downtempo, music of the spheres, good journey, Eddie Harris, Ketron, "world building", orange sunshine, suspension of disbelief.

Nuke Watch - Pepper's Ghost (IMPTNC07) - Previews

For the Patience/Impatience show this month we are blessed with a guest mix from nomadic Russian duo Amkarahoi.

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Patience/Impatience with Amkarahoi @ The Lot Radio 03-12-2024

Timedream @ The Lot Radio 04-28-2024

Nuke Watch @ The Lot Radio 04-28-2024

Genom Grundet is the latest outing by Swedish analogue explorer Ekolali, the inaugural release on new imprint Patience. 

A pulsing, entrancing study in sustain and release that washes over in ecstatic waves throughout it’s 35 minute duration, Genom Grundet is a shimmering summation of Ekolali’s approach and an auspicious blueprint for the virgin NYC-based label. 

Recorded on a modest setup at his almost-off-grid compound in rural Möljeryd, Sweden, Genom Grundent (Through The Shallows) gently bubbles with a sampled stream, baked tape delay, droning broken organ and pitch-shifted rhythm, blooming with vocoder chants and klassic kosmische guitar as the track unfolds. 

Repetitive to the point of rapture, Genom Grundet reveals it’s wonders over repeat meditations. 

Mattias Lagerkvist has previously issued similarly potent musical balms as Ekolali via Bakk and Not Not Fun. 

Patience is a new outlet for artists to explore ideas further and longer than they otherwise might imagine. Inspired by music perpetually on rotation at HQ – with E2-E4 representing the format’s high tide mark – each release will be one artist’s deep dive down one inspirational wormhole - or two different interpretations thereof - spread across two sides of vinyl. 

Set and forget, zone out and tune in.

Genom Grundet

Ekolali - Genom Grundet - PTNC001

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Slow burning since 2019.

IMPTNC08 - Amkarahoi - "Uncle Reed In The Purple Mind"
IMPTNC06 - Healing Force Project - "Melts In Your Mind"
IMPTNC05 - Memotone - "How Was Your Life?"
IMPTNC04 - Piper Spray & Lena Tsibizova - "Leaving Memory"
IMPTNC03 - Hoshina Anniversary - "Hisyochi" 
IMPTNC02 - Tarotplane - "Light Self All Others"
IMPTNC01 - A.R. Wilson - "Old Gold"

PTNC008 - Misha Sultan - "Translucence"
PTNC007 - Hoshina Anniversary - "Hyakunin Isshu"
PTNC006 - Johanna Knutsson - "Dingsbums Homage"
PTNC005 - CV Vision - "Elemente"
PTNC004 - Promoter - "Cogitate"
PTNC003 - John Carroll Kirby - "Tuscany"
PTNC002 - Leo James - "Infinity"
PTNC001 - Ekolali - "Genom Grundet"

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