p*dis sampler 2017.9

We Move Lightly

GLASS CANDY / DIGITAL VERSICOLOR

Fragile N.4

The Weather Station's S/T album is out October 6, 2017 on Paradise of Bachelors (worldwide), Outside Music (CA), & Spunk (AU/NZ).
Buy from label: http://www.paradiseofbachelors.com/shop/pob-035
Other online options (physical/download/streaming): https://lnk.to/PoB35

On her fourth (and tellingly self-titled) album as The Weather Station, Tamara Lindeman reinvents, and more deeply roots, her extraordinary, acclaimed songcraft, framing her precisely detailed, exquisitely wrought prose-poem narratives in bolder and more cinematic musical settings. The result is her most sonically direct and emotionally candid statement to date, a work of profound urgency and artistic generosity. W/lyrics, color inner sleeve, DL code.

“Timeless... Measured, perceptive storytelling. A singer with an unmistakable & communicative voice, able to convey hope & hurt with equal clarity.” – Pitchfork

“She writes literate songs with unusual precision & sings them in an understated, open-hearted way that lends good poetry the directness of conversation.” – Uncut

“Bob Dylan aside, the singer-songwriter I’ve listened to most over the past year, & to whom I expect to be paying attention for many more to come, is Tamara Lindeman, who, under the name the Weather Station, performs songs notable for a conversational fluency, a diarist’s powers of observation, & a quiet refusal of emotional simplicities.” – Richard Williams, The Guardian

The Weather Station

Buy LP/CD/digital

The Weather Station: S/T – "Thirty" (2017, PoB-035)

Ozaki Koichi / Mundo Transparente 

Track List
1.  History Listening
2. Wild Touch
3. .alpha-
4. silhouette screen
5. extend palette
6. Car Shere
7. in my life, in my dream
8. nde2
9. sunday's shadow man
10. Mundo Transparente

All sound written, Mixed and Mastered by Ozaki Koichi
Desighn and Artwork byYoshinori Noguchi

Label : Hiss Noise Records(HNRCD001)
Price : ￥2000(tax out)
Release : 2017/10/10

Mundo Transparente (Album Sampler)

Y–A–M–L feat. Lavinia Claws (Extended Version)

WATCH VIDEO HERE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4rVbnQvb5M

https://www.omnianmusicgroup.com/products/yaml
https://bottin.bandcamp.com/album/y-a-m-l

mixed by Cristiano Verardo at Waterland Studio, Venice
mastered by John Bonati in NYC
made possible by Sara Tirelli

LYRICS

you are my love and I know you keep me under control
when I run, when I hide you can always see me through
I realize you can spark the most devastating fire
that is why in your eyes I must never stare too long
I'll make your fantasies come true and all I think about is you
because you are my love hunt me down
tie me up and hold my face 'cause you are all I need
love is blind and I can't see
(that is why in your eyes I can never stare for too long)
I'll make your fantasies come true and all I think about is you
nah nah nah nah nah love is blind
and I just can't see that you are my love
and you know how to keep me by your side
but as well satisfy amplify your cruelty
(I will make all your dreams come true
and all I think about is you)

YAML feat. Lavinia Claws (Extended Version)

The second single off Widowspeak's 4th album, Expect The Best, out August 25th, 2017 on Captured Tracks.

Pre-Order: https://Widowspeak.lnk.to/ExpectTheBest

Tour Dates:
09/08 - Boston, MA - Great Scott
09/09 - Burlington, VT - ArtsRiot
09/11 - Toronto, ON - Garrison
09/12 - Detroit, MI - El Club
09/13 - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
09/15 - Minneapolis, MN - 7th St. Entry
09/16 - Madison, WI - High Noon
09/17 - Des Moines, IA - Des Moines Social Club
09/19 - Denver, CO - Hi Dive
09/20 - Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge
09/21 - Boise, ID - Neurolux
09/22 - Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios
09/23 - Seattle, WA - Barboza
09/24 - Vancouver, BC - Biltmore Cabaret
09/26 - San Francisco, CA - Swedish American Hall
09/27 - Visalia, CA - Cellar Door
09/28 - Los Angeles, CA - Pico Union
09/29 - San Diego, CA - The Hideout
09/30 - Phoenix, AZ - Rebel Lounge
10/01 - Santa Fe, NM - Meow Wolf
10/03 - Austin, TX - Sidewinder
10/04 - New Orleans, LA - Gasa Gasa
10/05 - Birmingham, AL - Syndicate Lounge
10/06 - Nashville, TN - The High Watt
10/07 - Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade
10/08 - Asheville, NC - The Mothlight
10/10 - Washington, DC - DC9
10/11 - Philadelphia, PA - Boot and Saddle
10/12 - Kingston, NY - BSP Kingston
10/13 - Brooklyn, NY - Rough Trade

Widowspeak // The Dream

https://planetmu.bleepstores.com/release/85964-antwood-sponsored-content

@margaret-antwood

Antwood (a.k.a. Canada's Tristan Douglas) returns to Planet Mu with his second album 'Sponsored Content'. The album is more reflective than his debut, last year's 'Virtuous.scr'. The relentless mood of the first album has given way to a more melodic, stripped out sound. It still shakes with speed and energy, but with more space, more moments of delicate sadness and strange cyborg pop. What comes to the fore in 'Sponsored Content' is Tristan's gift for melody, coupled with the uncanny feeling that somehow his strange music is an entire ecosystem of it’s own. It's best explained by Tristan himself:

"This record was made during a very challenging year. Some of these challenges were for the best, some were not, most were both, others were neither. The music is inextricably tied to these events, whether I like it or not, and I’ve begun peeking out from behind my self-imposed veil of heavy conceptualization; revealing things about myself that my previous album Virtuous.scr didn’t."   "In the past year, I found that ASMR, which I had previously used as a source of foley in my music, was a fairly effective sleep aid. I’d been using the videos in this way for a few months, when I noticed a popular ASMR YouTuber announced a plan to incorporate ads into her videos; quiet, subtle ads, woven into the content. What bothered me about this was that these ads would target viewers, such as myself, during times of semi lucid vulnerability. This disturbed me, and I unsubscribed."

"Sponsored Content explores this idea of subversive advertisement, at least superficially. It’s obviously about the ubiquity of ads and the commodification of online content. The unlikely placement of ads in the music aims to force the listener to become hyper-aware of being advertised to rather than passively internalizing it. But after the record was finished, it became undeniable that really it wasn’t so much a “concept record” about advertisement; it’s as much about intentionally devaluing the things I’ve invested myself into, and over-complicating my work. When I realized this, I considered taking the ads out, and playing the music straight. But I left the record as it is: honest, flawed, with a little humour, and slightly up its own ass."

"I collaborated with El Popo Sangre (a.k.a. Paulin Rogues) for the visuals after he showed me his short film “Fantasy” which used several tracks from Virtuous.scr. He and his team at UNICORN added a depth to the project I could never have done on my own."

Antwood - Wait For Yengi

New Album from the Moebius Story Leidecker - sessions.
October 6th 2017.

Dieter Moebius (1944–2015) — one half of the legendary duo Cluster and the godfather of electronic krautrock — was one of the most important protagonists of avant-garde electronic music in Germany. The Americans Tim Story and Jon Leidecker are two electronic musicians who could not be more different to one another. Story is known for his warm soundscapes whilst Leidecker has made an name for himself, or rather for his “Wobbly” pseudonym, with experimental adventures in sound. He is also a member of the music and art collective Negativland.

Familiar

Zucken

From the album The Kid out October 6, 2017 on Western Vinyl

Pre-Order The Kid
BLEEP https://bleep.com/release/86790-kaitlyn-aurelia-smith-the-kid
Norman Records https://www.normanrecords.com/records/166212
Bandcamp https://kaitlynaureliasmith.bandcamp.com/album/the-kid
iTunes hyperurl.co/8n4qa5
WV http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv170

In 2017, the musical term “electronic” is nearly obsolete given the ubiquity of computerized processes in producing music.  Even so, the prevailing assumption is that musicians working under this broad umbrella must be inspired by concepts equally as electrified as their equipment.  Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith has demonstrated in her still-blooming discography that this notion couldn’t be further from the truth, and that more often than not, rich worlds of synthesized sound are born from deep reverence of the natural world.  Smith (who by no coincidence, cites naturalist David Attenborough as a contemporary muse) has embodied such an appreciation on The Kid in as direct and sincere a way as possible by sonically charting the phases of life itself.  The album, which punctually follows up her 2016 breakthrough EARS, chronicles four defining cognitive and emotional stages of the human lifespan across four sides of a double LP.

The first side takes us through the confused astonishment of a newborn, unaware of itself, existing in an unwitting nirvana.  Smith’s music has always woven a youthful thread befitting of the aforementioned subject. Here she articulates it in signature fashion on the track “An Intention,” which serves not only as a soaring spire on The Kid, but on her entire output.  There is playfulness here, but it's elevated by an undertone of gravity into something compelling and majestic that is fast becoming Smith’s watermark.  The emotional focus of side two is the vital but underreported moment in early youth when we cross the threshold into self awareness.  The subject is profound enough to fill an entire album, but rarely makes its way into a single track, indicating Smith’s ambition to broach subtler and deeper subjects than the average composer.  This side offers up another highlight in the form of “In The World But Not Of The World” which serves its subject well with epiphanic, climbing strings and decidedly noisy textures over a near-Bollywood low end pulse.

Side three emphasizes a feeling of being confirmed enough in one’s own identity to begin giving back to the formative forces of one’s upbringing, which is arguably the duty that all great artists aim to fulfill.  This side ends with the exploratory album cut “Who I Am & Why I Am Where I Am” recorded in a single take without overdubs on the rare EMS Synthi 100 synthesizer. This humble piece of sound design serves as a contrast to side four’s verdant orchestral moments, all written and arranged for the EU-based Stargaze quartet by Smith herself.  This final side represents a return to pure being, the kind of wisdom and peace that eludes most of us until the autumn of life.  On “To Feel Your Best” this concept is voiced in the bittersweet refrain “one day I’ll wake up and you won’t be there” which Smith intended to be a grateful acknowledgement of life rather than a melancholy resentment of loss. The song has both effects depending on the mood of the listener, and both interpretations are equally moving.

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith belongs to an ilk of modern musicians who are defined by their commitment to creating experiential albums despite the singles-oriented habits of modern listeners, and here she represents her kind proudly.  The subjects on The Kid are not simple to convey, and yet through both emotional tone and lyrical content, Smith does just that. There is a similar gravity to both birth and death, and rarely is that correlation as accurately and enthusiastically mapped as it is here.  As Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith explores her existence through music, she guides us in gleefully contemplating our own.

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - "An Intention"

Artist: Canon Blue
Title: Beholden
Album: Lasso Yo
Release Date: October 6, 2017

Pre-Order:  www.temporaryresidence.com/collections/albums/products/trr292

Lasso Yo is the third full-length from Canon Blue, the alter ego of Nashville producer-songwriter, Daniel James. It’s been over a half-decade since Canon Blue’s previous album, the Efterklang and Amiina-augmented orchestral pop opus, Rumspringa. Six years can feel like a lifetime, and James knows that all too well, and he tells the whole story on Lasso Yo. Conceived during increasingly long periods of isolation caused by increasingly intense bouts of anxiety and depression, Lasso Yo weaves those difficult personal struggles into a lyrically earnest and musically rich collection of songs. Produced, performed, and recorded by James at Taylor York’s (Paramore) house, and mixed by John McEntire (Broken Social Scene, Yo La Tengo, The Sea and Cake), this is not only Canon Blue’s most personal record, but also his most profound. For what was undoubtedly a challenging, cathartic record to make, Lasso Yo achieves a kind of weightlessness that betrays the heavy load it carries. It’s this dichotomy that gives the album a curious magic, an unlikely transcendence spawned by an uncomfortable confrontation between James’ past and present, and the new shape it gives his future.

Lasso Yo

Canon Blue - Beholden

Pre-order 'Two Trains' on LP/CD/DL: http://phonofile.link/two-trains

Introducing Icelandic composer and singer Högni, better known as the front man of indie rock band Hjaltalín and previous member of electronic group GusGus, as the newest addition to Erased Tapes with his solo debut album Two Trains – available worldwide on October 20th 2017.

Amidst destruction on the mainland, the two locomotives Minør and Pionér transported wagons full of rock and gravel to the Icelandic seaside during the construction of the Reykjavík harbour in 1913-1917. The two metallic giants ushered in a new age in Iceland. However, soon after construction ceased the two trains were parked and have never driven since. Now they only serve to remind us of the grandeur of a bygone future. They are the only trains ever to have graced the Icelandic landscape. 

The music in Two Trains embraces the spirit of the original European avant-garde and invokes these concepts in its chugging rhythms, metallic clangs and brooding choral arrangements (men's choruses are a distinctly Icelandic phenomena related to the national/romantic politics of the 19th and 20th century) while the lyrics speak of ominous clouds on the war-ridden eastern horizon and freight cars filled with gravel and dreams.

Words from Högni, July 2017:

“The music on Two Trains is a blue-print of a period in my life where I collided with my own self, and at that point I felt the indifference between the personal and the universal, the absolute consciousness of life’s unconsciousness. Perhaps it’s a feeling that cannot be conveyed, like watercolours that just seem to wash off into the sea. But also a flashing mirage that you can enjoy before you arrive at your last destination."

As time went on, the two trains also began to bear a psychological implication to Högni and came to represent the different incarnations of his persona during a difficult period in his life. As a society we are also quite often faced with a fork in the road and a decision to make, and most importantly the acceptance of one’s self.

Today, the real Minør and Pionér are unemployed, mere relics. Minør is on display near the Reykjavík waterfront and Pionér is parked in an outdoor museum on a hill. But for Högni, with this release, the two trains have ushered in a new chapter in his own life.

The cover art incorporates a distorted portrait photograph taken by Anna Maggy with the help of Sigurður Oddsson’s art direction, using projected features to reflect the idea of duality.

TRACK LISTING

1. Andaðu		
2. Shed Your Skin
3. Komdu með 		
4. Crash
5. Dragðu mig		
6. Óveðursský
7. Break Up		
8. Moon Pitcher
9. Parallel		
10. Enn næða orð

WEBSITE: www.hogni.net

Two Trains

Högni - Komdu með

From the album Exit Index out October 20th on Western Vinyl

Pre-Order Exit Index:
Bandcamp https://grooms.bandcamp.com/album/exit-index
iTunes hyperurl.co/jjt6lf
WV http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv157

Grooms' Exit Index combines the abandon of pop with the unease of American life in 2017, cloaking its hooks in a clamor of samples and distortion, its agitation expressed in its dream-poetry lyrics. The album as a whole is a study in contrasts—light meeting dark, amplifier fuzz surrounding big melodies, sampled friction squaring off with fluidly played basslines. 

Grooms laid down the skeleton tracks for Exit Index, the Brooklyn band's first album since 2015's Comb the Feelings Through Your Hair, at the storied New York recording studio The Magic Shop. 

The heavy processing on the group's guitars helps add to the gloom as well; Johnson, who has co-owned the Brooklyn pedal company Death By Audio Effects since 2008, made a limited-edition distortion pedal to celebrate the album's release. "There's a lot of tremolo on Exit Index," he says, "so I made a fucked-up-sounding trem. I designed it to be dense and possibly confusing at first, where all the controls affect what the other controls do, like a synth. It can tremolo, or it can degrade things like they're on worn-out cassette tapes." Collin Dupuis (Angel Olsen, Lana Del Rey) mixed the album, adding a few finishing touches to intros and song structures while also making the structures Grooms constructs sound even more massive and imposing.

Grooms -  "Turn Your Body"

"I started working on “Desert Stilts” as I was looking into odd metric changes and Baroque rhythms. At the same time I was reading a passage of Gurdjieff’s book ‘Meetings With Remarkable Men’, in which himself and a group of friends are crossing a desert. There is suddenly a terrible sandstorm and the team of adventurers are stopped in their track. After a while they decide, as one does, to walk on stilts. High from the ground, the air is clear and windless and they can walk without any problem across the desert whilst the storm is raging below.
I love this fable for its beautiful metaphoric meaning but also because it is totally absurd and told with great wit and humour. Peace is achieved through determination, light-heartedness and absurdity. I love this combination of the serious and the absurd and I wanted to translate that into music." 
- Angèle David-Guillou

"En Mouvement" is out on LP, CD and download on October 13th 2017.

https://VillageGreen.lnk.to/DHEHh

Buy on iTunes

Angèle David-Guillou - Desert Stilts

The first single off Reptaliens' debut album, FM-2030, out October 6th, 2017 on Captured Tracks.

Pre-Order Physical: https://www.omnianmusicgroup.com/products/fm-2030
Pre-Order Digital: http://apple.co/2fHTyiw

Reptaliens // If You Want

発売日：2017年9月17日（日）
商品番号：IPM-8077
アーティスト：渡邊琢磨
タイトル：ブランク
フォーマット：国内CD
本体定価：2,300円+税
バーコード：4532813730776
レーベル :  Inpartmaint Inc.
ジャンル : AMBIENT / MODERN CLASSICAL / NEW AGE

映画「美しい星」（吉田大八監督）、TVドラマ「ディアスポリス」など、近年、話題作の音楽を数多く手掛ける天才音楽家・渡邊琢磨が、俳優・染谷将太監督の短編映画３作品のためのサウンドトラックを解体・再構築して作り上げた、奇想天外な”アンビエント・アルバム”。

本作『ブランク』は、渡邊琢磨が手掛けた、俳優・染谷将太監督による短編映画３作品『シミラーバットディファレント』（2013年）、『清澄』（2015年）、『ブランク』（2017年8月公開予定）のためのサウンドトラックを解体・再構築し、アーティストアルバムとして作り上げられた作品。
 
染谷監督作品の音楽を制作時、図らずも“持続音が主題の穏慢なもの”が出来上がったため、「映画の雰囲気を音で演出すること」＝「アンビエント・ミュージック（環境音楽）の生成」という着想に興味を持ち、とてもユニークで奇想天外なアンビエント・ミュージックが展開される本作が誕生した。前作『Ansiktet』の延長線上にある、ピアノとストリングスによる幽玄でクラシカルなオーケストレーションを基調に、ジャズ、民族音楽、フィールドレコーディング、ダンスミュージックまでを飲み込んだ、渡邊にしか作り出せない調和と混沌が複雑に入り交じった、イマジネイティブな音の世界が広がる。
 
マスタリングはオーストラリアを代表するサウンドアーティストLawrence English（ローレンス・イングリッシュ）が担当し、渡邊の音楽の世界観により一層の深みを与えている。

2. Walk

“Forbidden Lovers” is the first single from King Garbage’s new album, Make It Sweat. An ode to a friend who stays home with records instead of DJing out, “Forbidden Lovers” ups the funky ante to the album’s catchiest heights, a brilliant showcase of interplay between Vic Dimotsis (drummer / singer) and Zach Cooper (guitar / bass).

King Garbage’s Make It Sweat LP will be available on September 22, 2017 from Styles Upon Styles.

Learn More: http://bit.ly/SUS025-KG

King Garbage – Forbidden Lovers (SUS025)

Elements / OUTATBERO (SRCD069)

Take You Hill
Army Steps
Reduction
By This Here
Yellow
Letkill
Mixed Rapidly
The Eye Goes Before a Fall
H.R.A.R
Reduction (Madegg Remix)
The Eye Goes Before a Fall (Metome Remix)

OUTATBERO are 
Moto Onizuka ,Yoshiaki Kato ,Kotaro Matsumoto ,Takuto Ujiie and Yuta Hoshi

produce : OUTATBERO
record : Koh Itou
mixdown : Moto Onizuka & Koh Itou
remix : Madegg(tr.10) ,Metome(tr.11)
photo : Fábio Petry
mastering : Ken'ichi Itoi

(p) & (c) : 2017-10-22 / shrine.jp

manufacturing : shrine.jp
www.shrine.jp / info@shrine.jp

Army Steps / OUTATBERO

»decadent yet depraved«, the debut album by belief defect, finds shelter and complicity in raster as home and label.

familiar with the underground music scene and how its skeptical nature can also be an obstacle to overcome, belief defect abandon any claim or credit in an attempt to transcend the limits authorship imposes, avoid the boundaries or expectations earned or self imposed and find the clearest, most direct path to their music for themselves and the listener.

at the core of the album is the music that inspired them, the conclusion of countless recordings listened to in their formative years that ultimately result in a life-long devotion to electronic music: from dance floor to primal anger and self-annihilating noise, to transcendental, ambient escapism and intense self-reflexive sonic layering.

the result is a soundtrack for this apocalyptic time, an uncompromising reflection on the state of mankind and its uncertain future — underscored by a sense of religious and secular demise referenced in track titles, samples, and soundscapes scattered throughout the album.

yet, more than a political statement »decadent yet depraved« is an introspective journey, turning each listener into a spiritual soul-seeker staring into the abyss, reaching for some kind of cathartic truthfulness.

sculpture, prosthetics, photography by sarah sitken.

Decadent Yet Depraved

belief defect »unnatural instinct« taken from »decadent yet depraved«

CHROMATICS / CHERRY

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