A mix featuring tracks from Graphical's catalogue.

1. B1 (excerpt - Mark Templeton + Kyle Armstrong: EXTENSIONS 
2. A1 (excerpt) - Mark Templeton + Kyle Armstrong: EXTENSIONS 
3. Eastern Township (excerpt) - Mark Templeton: Ocean Front Property
4. B1 (excerpt) - Mark Templeton + Kyle Armstrong: EXTENSIONS 
5. Physics At Half Past Nine - Nikolaienko: Sounds of Pseudoscience
6. A1 (excerpt) - Mark Templeton + Kyle Armstrong: EXTENSIONS 
7. Tyre - Mark Templeton: Distorted Tourist
8. A1 (excerpt) - Mark Templeton + Kyle Armstrong: EXTENSIONS 
9. Matter Meets Antimatter  - Nikolaienko: Sounds of Pseudoscience
10. Gentle Story - Mark Templeton: Gentle Heart
11. Gira - Mark Templeton: Distorted Tourist
12. Voices (excerpt) - Mark Templeton: Gentle Heart
13. Curious Cases - Nikolaienko: Sounds of Pseudoscience
14. Alland - Mark Templeton: Distorted Tourist
15. Burning Brush (excerpt) - Mark Templeton - Gentle Heart
16. Half Wave (excerpt) - Mark Templeton - Ocean Front Property
17. B1 (excerpt) - Mark Templeton + Kyle Armstrong: EXTENSIONS 
18. Reporter Missing - Mark Templeton: Ocean Front Property
19. Solo For A - Nikolaienko: Sounds of Pseudoscience
20. Valley - Mark Templeton: Gentle Heart
21. VARIATIONS - Ian William Craig - VARIATIONS: Various Artists on Michael Snow  
22. VARIATIONS - Mark Templeton - VARIATIONS: Various Artists on Michael Snow   
23. Purview of Water - Mark Templeton: Ocean Front Property
24. One Last Encore - Mark Templeton: Gentle Heart

Geographically Yours

15 years of Faitiche.

Tracklisting and download: https://bit.ly/XLR8Rinfluences_JanJelinek

XLR8R Influences Podcast

Tracklist & Download

XLR8R Influences Podcast 24: Jan Jelinek

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

Jake Muir's latest set of soft-focus, sensual electro-concrète, dissolves X-rated gay sleaze flick soundtracks into a shimmering suite of subdued orchestral flourishes and surreal cosmic psychedelia.

After 2020's 'the hum of your veiled voice', a romantic, neo-noir set of nocturnal rattles and lubricated rumbles, Muir began to approach a new concept. Putting together a long-form mix for Honey Soundsystem, he began to consider the eroticized soundscapes of gay subculture outside of the mainstream, looking closely at texture, psychedelia and emotionality.

The idea was to represent queer sexuality in a looser, more experimental manner, grazing the super-sensory pleasure of the bathhouse experience and the illicit joy of cruising without getting too self-serious while doing it. The mix was so popular that Muir followed it up with a weightless sequel two years later, and began developing the concept into a proper album, using more samples of music and dialogue, eventually performing the piece at the esteemed GRM as part of their FOCUS #4 concerts alongside work by Eliane Radigue, Folke Rabe and Chris Watson.

Limited Edition LP & Digi out 28th September.

© sferic 2022.

@jakemuir

Jake Muir - Cruisin' 87 (Bathhouse Blues, SFERIC15)

This month we welcome Tokyo-based electronic sound artist and lyricist, Yumi Iwaki.

Yumi is an extraordinary talent, who layers her voice, acoustic instruments, field recordings, modular synthesisers, and small synthesisers, as if travelling through an imagined landscape.

Her mix takes us through a selection of music she likes to listen to when she wants to relax, but at the same time add something spicy. The flow of sounds take her to different places while in a daze.

Tracklist:

1. Zane Trow - a call from minyon falls [Room40, 2021]
2. IDRA & Hiroshi Ebina - IV [Mystery Circles, 2022]
3. Jonny Nash & Suzanne Kraft - Hanging Glass Structure [Melody As Truth, 2017]
4. Suso Saiz - Scrub Your Ego [Music From Memory, 2019]
5. Ryan J Raffa & Yumi Iwaki  - Rains of Keelung [泊人ANKR, 2023]
6.  |||||||||||||||||||| - Outlook Remains Untouched [self-released, 2021]
7. Valance Drakes & Ivan Shopov - Our Choices Are Prepaid [Etheraudio Records, 2018]
8. Ann Annie - By Morning [self-released, 2022]
9. Carlos Ferreira - Imaginary Soundscape I (Postcard Six) [Past Inside the Present, 2020]
10. Andrew Pekler & Giuseppe Ielasi - Trebizond [Shelter Press, 2021]
11. Bana Haffar - Sit Still [Touch, 2023]
12. Federico Durand - Salvia [laaps, 2021]
13. r beny - alone in the pavillion [self-released, 2020]
14. J Foerster / N Kramer - Four Glass Steps [Leaving Records, 2021]
15. Shuttle358 - Can you prove I was born [12k, 2015]

Mix mastered by Holosuite Mastering
Artwork by Clayton Ciolac

The Observatory - Yumi Iwaki

Dawn

Artist: Giuseppe Ielasi
Title: Rhetorical Islands
Cat#: faitiche 35
Release: Mar 1st 2024
Format: LP/DL

First vinyl edition of the album Rhetorical Islands, originally released by Giuseppe Ielasi in 2012 as a limited-edition CD on his Senufo Editions label, with recordings made in 2011 as a commission for l’Audible Festival, Paris.

The album’s ten tracks have neither titles nor accompanying text, standing for themselves as what Ielasi himself has called “isolated sound worlds”. They are nonetheless unparalleled in their plasticity, acoustic events with a rare degree of tangibility. Ielasi evokes physical objects, some of which seem to have been constructed out of paper and cardboard, others based on a mechanics of elastic materials. Of course these objects are hallucinations, and precisely because Ielasi constructs them so masterfully there’s no need for any further information. Here’s to everyone creating their very own sculptures while listening to Rhetorical Islands!

The front and back cover features 0.058, a work on paper by the artists Thomas & Renée Rapedius. They make sculptures whose form and artistic inspiration are defined by their materials. Like Ielasi’s acoustic islands, their impact derives from self-referentiality, resulting in paradoxical objects that embody both a detailed material study and a potential for free association.

Giuseppe Ielasi: 06

Artist: Mark Templeton
Title: Two Verses 
Cat#: faitiche 37
Release: Sep 27th 2024
Format: LP/DL

Mark Templeton is a Canadian media artist and the founder of Graphical, an audiovisual label dedicated to publishing his own musical and image based experiments. Mark’s audio compositions are constructed from reel-to-reel tape loops and sampled cassettes that are contrasted with contemporary sound techniques. In his published photobooks, he incorporates his own 35mm pictures and found images, focusing on intangible fantasies and realities. During his audiovisual performances, he utilizes digital instruments while projecting his own photographs, VHS footage, Super 8 film, and other sampled video.

Mark Templeton’s reinterpretation of outdated media as musical instruments makes him a compelling artist for the Faitiche label roster. For his debut on Faitiche, he browsed his old hard drives and invited Andrew Pekler to listen through and co-produce a selection of Mark’s unreleased works. The compositions act as a series of snapshots: a look back at a decade of archived sounds, re-envisioned and re-imaged for Faitiche. 

The album contains nine tracks that follow an AB song structure. Each piece begins with verse A, transitions into verse B, and then ends. This simple formula creates a dichotomy that is also present in Mark’s diptych photographs, featured in the artwork. Throughout the album, both juxtaposition and inherent connections are simultaneously at play. One way or another, Two Verses provides a beginner’s guide to Mark Templeton's highly idiosyncratic catalog.

Mark Templeton: Closing/Scene

Aki Tsuyuko – Mirror
John Surman & Karin Krog – Mutual Capacitance
Cosmic Ear – TRACES of Brown Rice
Andrew Pekler – Globestructures
Max Eilbacher – 7 Runs (in Arc Mental Stylings)
MA.MOYO - Love is a Gun
Time Rival - A Single Piece of Leather
Chris Corsano - Kittenish Gnawing, Part 2
Janet Sherbourne - Harum Scarum for Gamelan
Gamelan Pesel - Pesta
Ensemble Nist-Nah - Ghosty Klang
László Hortobágyi - Balinese Gat
Roma Vjazemski - Nhava
Babau - Geoshredder
Raissa Febriani - Hutan Timur
DJ ojo - Tongue Tied
Alien D - Sleepy’s Gambit
Cortex of Light - Karma NRG Drink
Stephen Vitiello with Brendan Canty and Hahn Rowe – Rasun112
Saeko Suzuki – T-8 to S-8
ex_libris – #32 (Walrus)
Al Wooton – Beguine
MAMMO – Migration
Matmos – The Rust Belt
Wino-e – xoxa
La Cienda Honduras – Around
Margeret Dygas - See You Around
Boo Boo, Mace & Nutcase - Digital Rubber
Human Resources - Safe It Fits On Your Plate
Steve Glencross – Axel Schlepp
Lowtec - LOW A2
yingtuitive - exhibition

Autumn Sketch / Feedback + Horns

Andrew Pekler