Name: Fanfare (for Jon) by Andrew Pekler
Duration: 5 min 17 s
Description: On the occasion of the passing of Jon Hassell.

On the occasion of the passing of Jon Hassell.

Fanfare (for Jon)

During the summer of 2021, Delphine Dora was invited for a residency at the church of St Saphorin (Switzerland), on the occasion of the Jolie Vue Festival. Having the opportunity  to fully explore the organ the days before the actual festival, Delphine improvised a long, long series of tracks, of which you’ll find a small selection on ‘hymnes apophatiques’.
She’s definitely full of respect for the organ, at some moments diving deep in the sound traditionally associated with this rich instrument – the one you’ll recognize from the hours spent in church as a kid. However, at many moments throughout the album the sound is more playful than we’re used to. It’s a fearless approach. The fact that she dares to intervene with her voice quite often really makes her recordings stand out from those of many other artists who have been experimenting with a church organ lately: she definitely has a high regards for the tradition of the organ, but refuses to bow. She’s in charge, not the instrument itself. This way, Delphine manages to bend the sound completely her way. 
It’s an enthralling listen, that not only takes you along all the possibilities of the instrument, but also through Delphine’s entire musical path. And that’s quite a journey.

Hymnes Apophatiques****

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Avizohar
Watershed
Cassette (E258)

Mastered by Yves De Mey

​Release date: May 2022
Edition of 80 copies

Watershed is composer Itzik Gil Avizohar’s debut album, a sonic diary of different scenes, experiences, states of mind and consciousness, recorded in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Naples, Venice, Hamburg and Berlin over the past three years. The album features contributions from double-bass player Erez Meyuhass, London-based noiser Vera Spektor, and the black metal trio Karkait. 

Originally from Jerusalem, Avizohar is a member of the art collective Studio Straus and the industrial duo Kashaiof.

Watershed

Avizohar (E258; 2022)

"Spectral is a collection of tracks using either the Buchla 296 or 296e
Spectral Processor. It was fun taking it into different sonic universes to see 
what it would reveal. Enjoy!" - Todd Barton, 2022

TODD BARTON - SPECTRAL ( excerpt)

My 1 hour contribution for this podcast for Montez Press Radio, NYC.
Thanks to Eric Schmidt and Lili Schulder.

Ex Continent — Edition Erich Schmid Podcast for Montez Press Radio

KASSEL JAEGER 'Shift In Dreams' (SP144)

From the album 'Shift In Dreams', out on Feb. 24, 2023 on Shelter Press
Order: https://kasseljaeger.bandcamp.com/album/shifted-in-dreams

Music composed and performed by François J. Bonnet
Artwork by Eléonore Huisse
Mastering by Giuseppe Ielasi

Shifted In Dreams

KASSEL JAEGER 'Shifted In Dreams' (SP144)

~ IIKKI 020 ~

music : Akhira Sano
photography : David Nissen
album : Shadow's Praise
durations : 37.40 mn (LP) / 43.31 mn (CD)
date : April 20th 2023

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All production by Akhira Sano

Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Artwork by David Nissen
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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edition :
vinyl: limited to 300 copies / marble (crystal, silver and white) LP / hand numbered  / pantone
cd: limited to 200 CD / hand numbered / pantone
book: limited to 500 copies hand numbered / embossed / selective UV varnish / hand stamped 

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pre-order : March 03rd, 2023 / official release : April 20th, 2023

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Links :
https://iikki.bandcamp.com/
https://www.iikki-books.com/
https://www.instagram.com/iikki_laaps/
https://linktr.ee/Akhira_Sano
https://www.davidnissenphoto.com/

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Akhira Sano - Nakazu

Soul Food

American avant-electronic musician and essayist Bret Schneider holds no institutional allegiance to one artistic medium. His background encompasses a wide range of work experiences and reveals a man who is connected to the world around him in complex, alienated ways. His thoughts on music and philosophy are intertwined into a billowing exposition. But when exploring the dark recesses of his more aural works, there is an inherent flexibility. Phasing percussive elements and frayed droning lines all lead to a perpetually shifting feeling for an aural uncanny. As fractured as his music can be, there is a dim spark of rumination that threads through his synthetic machinations.

On his latest release, “Xilinx,” Schneider taps into a primordial electronic noise—the kind that rests just on your periphery, unwinding itself to reveal myriad sordid circuits and disjointed projections. These tracks maintain a wired mania, expressing an unsettling undercurrent of ragged repetition and warbling drones. There’s an unexpected elasticity to Schneider’s cabled rhythms, and they often shift across several temporal lines before turning inward, struggling to illuminate an intimate dissonance or imagine a multi-chambered core. Displaying a raw and unusually concise knowledge of how these sounds might fit together, “Xilinx” is part zoetrope, part post-industrial dreamscape. It is an inquiry into the idea of internal movement, a contorted experiment in musical patterning, and an experiment in self-replication.

Xilinx

Bret Schneider - VaVE1

core is a feedback loop of the fsh-1 frequency shifter, inside the loop is c0 and mmf-1. modulated by r*s dsg. rhythm and pads itb.

something like a patch diagram: https://imgur.com/6oNm0yH

one output of the fsh-1 goes into the c0 delay (the delay is crucial in this patch, most of the sound gets produced here), the output of the delay goes into a limiter and then back in one input of the fsh-1.
another ouput of the fsh-1 goes into the mmf-1 filter in dual bandpass mode, from there the signal goes again into a limiter and into the second input of the fsh-1.
this is now the basic closed feedback loop, i listen to the mix output of the fsh-1.
by playing around with all the settings i get different tones, again, the delay is crucial here, how much feedback is determined by the limiter and general volume controls or frequency controls of all three modules... now to get a rhythmic patterns going i plugged this "bouncing ball" envelope into the second input of the filter, that is enough to only get feedback at the high portions of the envelope eg i get a rhythmic feedback pattern. variations in tone by manual control of the bandpass settings and the delay time plus occasional tweaks at the limiter section for louder or more distorted feedback. the patch is delicate, i tried to replicate it and i wasnt able to come close to these tones, but other great ones:) enjoy modular synthesis!

fsh1

opening track of BÉRANGÈRE MAXIMIN's upcoming album "Land of Waves" . 2xLP / DL

Fanfare (for Jon)

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