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Ecstatic is thrilled to announce Foreign Body, the latest release from Barcelona-based Dania Shihab, who crafts dreamlike transmissions into the evocative concept of the 'foreign body' in the context of forced migration and cultural loss. 

A tapestry of sounds and emotions, this work is a product of Dania's exploration of her experiences as an Iraqi-born individual who grew up in Tasmania, Australia, an island where her native culture was completely absent. The profound sense of longing for a homeland that has never truly been experienced reverberates throughout, with each track poignantly capturing the complexities of feeling like a stranger in one's own body and society. 

Inspired by her work as an emergency doctor, the artist delves into the idea of removing foreign bodies, and sees forced migrants as 'foreign bodies' within their adopted societies. This release serves as a window into the emotional displacement of forced migrants and the struggle for cultural identity. 

Foreign Body was written and recorded at home in Barcelona, using a 4-track tape recorder, vocal looping techniques, modular synthesis, and collaged samples of Iraqi musicians and poets from the post-Gulf War era into an amorphous cloud of magnetic drones and soft hypnogogic vocal textures to entrance the listener. 

An emotive and evocative release, Foreign Body weaves together sounds and stories to explore a universal human experience. It is a testament to the sublime power of music to communicate emotion.

Dania - Foreign Body

Jo Johnson has been releasing music and organising events since the early 90s. She is a regular performer at Freerotation festival in the UK, and organises electronic music events with Bleep43 in London. Her debut solo album, Weaving, was released on Further Records in 2014 and has been described as a modern classic.  Her latest solo release, The Wave Ahead, came out earlier this year on Brooklyn-based label, Mysteries of the Deep. Jo also collaborates with pianist and composer, Hilary Robinson, and they have a live album, Session One, on 9128.live (a sub-label of A Strangely Isolated Place).

“It's been a pleasure to spend time listening to someone else’s music rather than my own! I've been writing and playing out much more this year, which has been amazing, but it's not left as much time for listening, so it's been refreshing and inspiring to delve into some of the great music that's been coming out recently. I've created a Buy Music list – please support the artists and labels included by paying for their work, if you can, and helping them to keep making great music." - Jo

Tracklist:

Luke Sanger - Ghosts of the Uranium Forest (Frequency Domain, 2023)
Jo Johnson – Untitled (unreleased, 2023)
Xenia Pestova Bennett - King of Cats (Pomeranian Snout/TakuRoku, 2023/2020)
Bana Haffar -  Save This Manual For The Future (Touch, 2023)
Ryan J Raffa - All At Once (Group Tightener, 2023)
Cate Brooks – Tapeworks I (Café Kaput, 2023)
Imaginary Softwoods – Chalked Outlines Of A Polybius Square (Field Records, 2023)
D1G - Drawing 1 (self-released on Bandcamp, 2022)
Bea Brennan – Everlasting (Old Technology, 2022)
Simon McCorry – Full Circle (Polar Seas, 2021)
Florian Fricke – Spirit of Peace I-III (Celestial Harmonies, 1983)
KMRU – MR4 (self-released on Bandcamp, 2022)
Field Lines Cartographer – Sunrise Through Wires (Castles in Space, 2023)
Jo Johnson – Orbit (Mysteries of the Deep, 2023)
Patricia Wolf – People Moving Freely (i u we records, 2021)

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Buy Music Club: https://www.buymusic.club/list/werkhouse-the-observatory-mix-jo-johnson

Also, Jo recently launched a Bandcamp subscription service. If you love her music as much as we do, please consider supporting her and subscribing. The first offerings to subscribers are two stunning improvisations recorded just recently.

Subscribe: https://jojohnson.bandcamp.com/subscribe

And catch Jo playing at IKLECTIK on 16th June, supporting Luigi Tozzi, Laura BCR, and Luke Carter.

IKLECTIK: https://iklectikartlab.com/luigi-tozzi-live-jo-johnson-live-laura-bcr-dj-luke-carter-dj/

The Observatory - Jo Johnson

niuee is a Berlin-based duo creating immersive and meditative ambient soundscapes, intricately fused with elements of dance music and live instrumentation. Drawing inspiration from diverse musical genres and cultures, their signature sound is characterized by its dreamy and experimental nature, while evoking strong tribal and psychedelic undertones.

https://niuee.bandcamp.com

01. Patricia Wolf - The Grotto (See​-​Through) https://patriciawolf.bandcamp.com/track/the-grotto
02. Laraaji - Bethlehem (Segue To Infinity) https://laraajinumero.bandcamp.com/track/bethlehem-2
03. Blue Chemise - Celeste (Daughters Of Time) https://bluechemise.bandcamp.com/track/celeste
04. Hideo Nakasako - lie down (daydream) https://hideonakasako.bandcamp.com/track/lie-down
05. JahJazz - Dreaming (Espectrum II)https://avantroots.bandcamp.com/track/dreaming
06. Roméo Poirier - Neos Kosmos (Inter​-​Dimensional Music) https://romeopoirier.bandcamp.com/track/neos-kosmos
07. Iasos - Aries (Peaks) https://iasos.bandcamp.com/track/aries
08. niuee - moondance (single) https://niuee.bandcamp.com/track/moondance
09. Rezo Glonti - Plants of Ain Sukhna (Subtropics) https://muscut.bandcamp.com/track/plants-of-ain-sukhna

Photo by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)
Artwork and cover design by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)

Chitra Podcast #12 Ambient Mix by niuee

@minor-science—aka UK-born, Berlin-based musician Angus Finlayson—makes his Balmat debut with 'Absent Friends Vol. III', the third installment in a shape-shifting series across a variety of formats and platforms. And with it, he pushes forward his vision of ambient music as neither static vista or merely mood-setting atmosphere, but rather a dynamic matrix of textures, sensations, and even rhythms.

The first two Absent Friends—a 2014 set for Blowing Up the Workshop, and a 2017 cassette and web player for Whities (now AD93)—were hybrid affairs, part DJ mix and part collage, mostly featuring music made by other people. Then, in 2020-21, Finlayson developed the project into a live show of his own material. Armed with hundreds of bespoke stems created in his studio—idiosyncratic FX chains, feedback loops through cheap rack gear, heavily post-processed field recordings, found voices, etc.—he would improvise on four CDJs, mixer, FX, and live synths, extending techniques he learned as a club DJ into a live context, accompanied by visuals by Stockholm-based artist Paul Witherden.

'Absent Friends Vol. III' is an album of studio versions of the music developed for the live show. But in Minor Science’s world, even a category as simple as “studio versions” is slightly opaque. “Most of these tracks weren’t ‘composed’ in the studio,” Finlayson explains: “The sounds started out as stems and source material for the live show, and might not have been intended to go together—but then through performance, they settled into shapes that worked. I then recreated those performances in the studio.” That organic process of ideation and realization might help explain the unusual coherence of the album, in which sounds and textures flow seamlessly from one to the next, sometimes seeming to stand still, and sometimes looping back. There are virtually no melodies, few recognizable motifs or riffs, yet the eight-track album nevertheless moves with a distinctive logic and a determined sense of purpose, from the frozen-in-time shimmer of the opening “Introduction” through the early cuts’ studies of space and light; from the seemingly autobiographical “Summer Diary” through the rushing trance (yes, trance) arpeggios of “Contingency” and on to the dulcet denouement of the closing “Gather Your Party (Dispersed Mix).”

The album’s underlying themes—reflected in Witherden’s video for lead single “Dread the Evening”, as well as the print that accompanies the limited-edition version of the LP—include psychedelia and togetherness, universal cornerstones of virtually any experience of dance music. “Overall I see this record as almost like a photographic negative of the other release I did this year, 064 on AD93,” says Finlayson. That EP’s two fiercely peak-time-oriented tracks, “Workahol” and “Casheine,” offer “a response, by way of caricature, to the time scarcity, precarity, and hypercompetitiveness that are features of my life right now (and I think many other people’s too),” he says. “Absent Friends Vol. III responds to the same situation in a contrasting way. I like that both have a clock on the cover. Both invite you to consider the passage of time. On the club record, time is finite and ticking away fast. On this one, there are little moments where the secondhand seems to pause.”

Absent Friends Vol. III

Deep Breakfast 221 - Markus Guentner

Live at Mengi 020923

Starseed Activation (Hardware Live) @ Mengi - 020923

17/10/2023

Jules Reidy – I
James Ilgenfritz – Trust Fall
Sean McFarland – Bobby J
Özcan Saraç – Space (I)
Lawrence English & Lea Bertucci – Strata
JJJJJerome Ellis – Fountain #5B
Patrick Shiroishi – if only heaven would give me another ten years
Alma Laprida – Pel​í​cula
CV & JAB – Pottery Fragments
Ava Rasti – Dust Symphony No. 5
Michael Pisaro/Greg Stuart – I
Chris Abrahams / Oren Ambarchi / Robbie Avenaim –Placelessness I

Untempo #65: vieraana Chantal Michelle

Untempo 14/11/2023

Patricia Wolf – Peaceful Night
Lau Nau – Planeetta
Adela Mede – Sing With Me
Sunny Kim, Vardan Ovsepian, Ben Monder – The Totality of Silence
Passed Futurist – Klickkkk klackkkkkk, a dropped pepper
Ross Alexander – Piece 2
Silver Apples & Makoto Kawabata – Dragonfly's First Flight
jiijii – Spellbound
inter alia – Headache
Les Certitudes – Part V
Andrea Penso – Ad Invisibilia

Untempo #68

~ Deep Breakfast 248 by https://soundcloud.com/patriciawolf_music ~

Tracklist:
01. Pablo Diserens - Tidal Dwellers
02. Jonathan Sielaff - Lost Boy Beach
03. Slowfoam - Evapotranspiration
04. Marta Forsberg - Part 1 - Echo
05. Michele Di Martino - The Lost Archive Conspiracy
06. Ian Wellman - The Night The Stars Fell
07. Karen Vogt - The Wilder Things
08. Andy Aquarius - Waters Above, Waters Below
09. James Heather - Oizys (Nailah Hunter Rework)
10. Penelope Trappes - Away From Tidal Waves
11. Niecy Blues - 1111
12. Roy Werner - Whistling on the Roses (with Les Halles)
13. Igor Dyachenko - Depth Camera
14. Prokharchin - Green Grizzly
15. Ka Baird - Gate VIII
16. Methods Body - Torches
17. Alexandra Spence - Wind
18. Adam Wiltzie - Tissue Of Lies

~ Picture by Patricia Wolf at Berlin Botanical Garden ~

~ Check out her Deep Breakfast mix 101 : https://soundcloud.com/deepbreakfastseries/deep-breakfast-101-patricia-wolf ~

Deep Breakfast 248 ~ Patricia Wolf

𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗢𝗠𝗠 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗺𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗺𝗯𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 @𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗼𝗽𝗶𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗶

𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘰 𝘗𝘪𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘗𝘰𝘥𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴: 𝘋𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘉𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘧𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴.
𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 2019 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘤𝘬 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘢 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘴.
𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘦𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘵.
𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘰 𝘩𝘪𝘮𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤 𝘫𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘺’𝘴.
𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵 1 1/2 𝘩𝘳𝘴 𝘸𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘰 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘶𝘴.
𝘌𝘯𝘫𝘰𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘱.

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𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑂𝑀 𝑎𝑠 𝑤𝑒 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑖𝑡, 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑠𝑦𝑚𝑏𝑜𝑙 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑠𝑎𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑, 𝑠𝑦𝑙𝑙𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒, 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑎 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑣𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝐻𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑢𝑖𝑠𝑚. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑙 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑂𝑀𝑀, 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑'𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 "𝑂𝑝𝑒𝑛 𝑀𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑀𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐" 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑠 𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑔𝑢𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑝𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛.

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OMM Transmission 004 || Francesco Piunti

For the release of the Novation Summit I was commissioned to write 64 multi patches and 78 single patches. This demo is a showcase of many of my favorites of the single patches I designed.  Within my sound design I wanted to emphasize patches that utilize complex routings for the Animate and mod wheel controls, along with the new dual filter architecture.

Patricia Wolf's Novation Summit Single Patches Demonstration

patriciawolf.bandcamp.com, bookings: ana [at] lapsusagency [dot] com

Patricia Wolf's Novation Summit Single Patches Demonstration

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