Happy new year beloveds :)
Here's a 90-minute extended version of the last episode of 2021 .. thanks for all the love & support this year. Enjoy yourselves xo

Fifth World w/ Ian Kim Judd on NTS Radio ~ 12.22.21 (Extended Lockdown Mix)

B3

https://xenoplex.bandcamp.com/album/xenoplex02

EXT REFLECTION

Artist: SG (Andrew Pekler) 
Title: For Lovers Only / Rain Suite  
Cat#: faitiche 33
Release: Oct 6th 2023
Format: LP/DL

SG is none other than Andrew Pekler returning to faitiche with an album of sentimental guitar escapism. For Lovers Only / Rain Suite features ten tracks made using only an electric guitar and a handful of effects pedals (plus some additional recordings of rain) and finds Pekler once again attempting to reconicile his tendencies towards kitsch, experimentation and minimalism.   What does Pekler's pseudonym SG stand for? Sentimental Guitar? Sound Gallery? Shy Guy? Sad Gnosis? Saudade Glamour? Soft Goth? We don't know, but we asked notorious Chicago romantic Sam Prekop for his take on the album – his reply:

It’s a wonder where the rivers go and far, how fast or slow. 

Just seconds to remember, who can forget,
when you are lost. 

I think to recount every step, in both hands, eyes open, the clouds unfold, one two three. 
Every other step, just as well.

Where the moss is soft, you know strong. How many hours, days?
I could have been careful, did I forget? 

Never mind. 
Waking up, in these arms, where the rivers go, slow. 
One two three, one two three.

SG (Andrew Pekler): Sentimental Guitar Dream

Vinyl & digital: https://joaquincornejomusic.bandcamp.com/album/m-s-all-que-ac

"Creating this record took me around 2 years, I was moving quite a bit, without a steady working or living space, travelling and playing live again for the first time since the pandemic. At first there was creative insecurity and many abandoned ideas, I wanted to make something special for YUKU but everything felt dry and soulless. In my head this was supposed to be a dancefloor record, but this idea quickly became an obstruction in my creative flow.

During this time I started learning modular synthesis, and although there was definitely a learning curve this method of making music gave the record direction and refreshed my way to approach composition. It is also very fun to learn. What came out is a collage of sorts that is more honest and reflective of my emotions and those of the people and spaces that I have exchanged with. Thanks to YUKU and the amazing people that took part in this record and in my life in the past two years. Hope you all enjoy."
— Joaquin Cornejo

Incredible artwork from Francisca Wray

M​á​s Allá Que Acá

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Joaquín Cornejo — M​á​s Allá Que Acá

2CD available directly from Imprec.com

American percussionist and composer Michael Ranta is a legendary figure who has worked with some of the most significant names of 20th century music but despite this and impressive body of work of his own, he has remained an obscure figure. Important Records and is pleased to present “Transits, Volume 1” the first in a series of releases by composer/percussionist Sarah Hennies documenting never before heard chamber works mostly composed in the 1970s while Ranta was living in Taiwan. 

Mastered by Tom Eaton at Sounds & Substance.

Based overseas since the late 60s, Ranta is known primarily as a percussionist who worked closely with Harry Partch, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Helmut Lachenmann, Toru Takemitsu and Jean-Claude Éloy but is also an accomplished artist himself with a vast body of work spanning improvisation, electronic music, and composition. The works in the “Transits” series comprise a dozen works of scored compositions for solo and chamber ensembles almost all of which are completely unknown with no known performances or recordings since their original premieres. Volume 1 includes “Mharuva,” a 30-minute marathon tour-de-force for solo marimba, “Seven Pieces for Three Percussionists,” and the 40-minute “Continuum II,” a stunning display of virtuosity for two bass clarinets, percussion, and electronics.


“Transits, Volume 1” features performances by Sarah Hennies, NYC clarinetists Madison Greenstone and Katie Porter, and the Bard College Conservatory Percussion Ensemble.

Micael Ranta - Mharuva (excerpt) - From Transits Vol 1 - Available Nov 22, 2024

Music is a river of energy, emotions, feeling, souls into sounds, the oxygen of us all. 
Music is the real god, elemental: air, wind, space, freedom.

Every set that comes from me is spontaneous. If I am playing my live act, I love to improvise. I really enjoy looking for my edges – to see how my limits ebb and flow, are here and then there.

For the past five or six years, I have been working a lot with Ableton. I like that these sets are always radically different from when I play vinyl (which I both love to play as well as to produce tracks on). When I play live, I remix constantly and the tracks I play are never in their original form.

(Soundz of juju - collective) we run in berlin every monday night a listening session @omniversalearkestra

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Musik Macht Frei 005 w/ San Ho Yi invites Hubble (11.10.24)

From a series of (almost) daily ocean glimpses. The music is composed to a video of the sea (photons captured fresh every day). You can experience the full video version here: https://youtu.be/SI_jUybj01M

Glimpse 1503 (Nov 13 2025)

Vortex

Now in year three, the Slow Alarms project will be entering a final collaborative phase designed to degrade the audio via playback into different acoustic environments.

Slow Alarms

ACCESS

No. 5 Study for SLOW ALARMS

From the split release with Hideki Umezawa "Two Views of Amami Ōshima". 
Full length album: https://andrewpekler.bandcamp.com/album/two-views-of-amami-shima
Limited edition LP via Edições CN: https://edicoescn.bandcamp.com/album/two-views-of-amami-oshima

Amami Remote Extension (Excerpt)

Mix by PICNIC
via https://soundcloud.com/cminuss

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