Andrew Pekler

Ekster is thrilled to present it’s first compilation album pressed on a double black 12” 180 grams vinyl, coming out in December 2015. Released in an edition of 400 with printed inner sleeves & download cards included. Mastered by Frederic Alstadt at Ångstrom mastering. Artwork by Victor Robyn.

Track list:

A1: Milan W. — Capella
A2: Hiele — Apax Pernod
A3: Bear Bones Lay Low — Vestida De Fuego

B1: Tito R. — Minuit
B2: RHVR — Cactus Before Sundown
B3: Mittland Och Leo — Trooper
B4: DSR Lines — Uitval

C1: Polysick — Egeria
C2: Lieven Martens Moana — Tradewind

D1: Jack N. Riot — Waking Up Volt
D2: Imdaud — Wentira Kakula
D3: Hantrax — Oh Dear

EXO Compilation preview — EKS007

From the album Sounds From Phantom Islands:
https://andrewpekler.bandcamp.com/album/sounds-from-phantom-islands

Bandcamp

Taprobana

Artist: Andrew Pekler
Album: Tristes Tropiques
Format: LP/DL
Label#: Faitiche14
Release date: November 11th

Faitiche welcomes back an old friend: Andrew Pekler was the musical director of the 2011 album Ursula Bogner – Sonne=Blackbox (faitiche05 lp/cd/book). Known for his albums on Senufo Editions, Entr’acte, Dekorder, Kranky and other labels, Andrew Pekler’s new work Tristes Tropiques is now released by Faitiche. Tristes Tropiques is an album of synthetic exotica, pseudo-ethnographic music and unreal field recordings.  

Find out more about Andrew Pekler’s Tristes Tropiques in the following interview:

Jan Jelinek: You’ve titled your album Tristes Tropiques – a reference to Claude Lévi-Strauss’ famous account of his travels among native peoples in the Mato Grosso. If I remember correctly, the book can be read in two ways: as an ethnographic study of indigenous Brazilian tribes, and as a critique of anthropological methods. What exactly about Tristes Tropiques inspired you? The melancholy travelogue, or the formation of a new, critical school of thought?

Andrew Pekler: Both. Lévi-Strauss’ constant reflection on the purpose of his work and the often melancholy tone of his writing constitute an internal tension which runs throughout the whole book. Tristes Tropiques is many things; autobiography, traveler’s tale, ethnographic report, philosophical treatise, colonial history. But ultimately, it’s the author’s attempt to synthesize meaning from fragments of his own and other cultures that resonated most strongly with me – and led me to a new perspective on how I hear and make music. 

JJ: Listening to Tristes Tropiques I noticed a certain oscillation between references, which is what I really like about it. Obviously, your music alludes to the beloved fairytale kitsch of exotica, but it also repeatedly shifts to a mode of ethno-poetic meditation music that seems to have no beginning or end. Where do you yourself locate the tracks gathered here? 

AP: As a listener and as a musician, exotica music of the 1950s and 60s has always been a constant reference point and inspiration. And perhaps my listening has been ‘ruined’ by exotica, but as I have dug deeper into ethnographic archives of ‘traditional’ music, I’ve come to the realization that all recordings that evoke, allude to, or ostensibly document other musical forms have a similar effect on my imagination: I am most intrigued when I perceive some coincidentally familiar element within the foreign (a tuned percussion recital from Malawi that immediately brings to mind Steve Reichian minimalism, or the Burundian female vocal duet that sounds uncannily like a cut-up tape experiment, etc.). I suppose this album is an attempt to recreate the same kind of listening experience as what I’ve described, just with the electronic means that I have at hand. 

JJ: I know that you perform Tristes Tropiques not only as music, and that there is visual and spatial aspect to the presentation. Can you reveal more about this?

AP: I made an accompanying video – mainly close-up footage, shot in Thailand, of various tropical flora. The video was recorded at very slow speed and this gives the plants, flowers, trees, bamboo, etc. the appearance of rather abstract objects. In live performance, this abstracting effect is further emphasized through real-time modulation of the colors, brightness and other parameters of the video image. There is also an installation version of the video that is meant to be projected on multiple screens / walls and with its own soundtrack of heavily manipulated field recordings captured in the same locations in the jungle.  

JJ: We can get an idea of what this looks like from the beautiful video stills on the back cover of the album.

Andrew Pekler: Theme From Tristes Tropiques / Avian Modulations / Life In The Canopy

Gibbons of Siem Pang Protected Forest recorded by Adrian Stoeger
Andrew Pekler - Untitled / Insect March
Alessandro Brivio - Untitled
Jake Meginsky - Vandals + Waldkautz Balz recorded by Walter Tilgner 
Mike Kitcher - Processed Snippet of "Congo Traditional 1952 & 1957" # 8
Yannick Dauby - 蛙界蒙 + Francis Bebey- Sanza tristesse
Unnamed Aka Pygmy Singer - Dikoboda sombe (Hut song solo) + Morton Feldman - Samoa
Hanno Leichtmann - Primitiva 4
Three Legged Race - Tyrant (loop) + Lieven Martens Moana - A Subtle Landscape + Knud Viktor - Images
Luluwa people of Congo - Wa Kabwala Wa Beena Luluwa + Andrew Pekler - additional sounds 
Andrew Pekler - Synthetic Gamelan & Frogs
Yas-Kaz - Psychopomp + Tor Dietrichson - The Conjurer + Asmus Tietchens - Vektor 2 R
Rupert Clervaux & Beatrice Dillon - Study VII for Samplers and Percussion + Louise Lawler - Birdcalls
Günter Sommer - Hörmusik + Jake Meginsky - Four Zopas
Native Instrument - Live at Atonal 2016 + Cluster - Rote Riki (loop)
Pierre Henry - Continuum + Adam Asnan - Rev Sets 11
Hamza El Din - Song With Tar + Yannick Dauby - A Pattern Which Connects B
Gamelan Son of Lion - Gamelan II
Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Agba'a
Andrew Pekler - Humidity Index / Khao Sok (chopped and screwed)
Gibbons of Siem Pang Protected Forest recorded by Adrian Stoeger

Fourth World Problems II

Synthetic Nocturnal Atmosphere

NO WEAPON IS ABSOLUTE is I'm a Cliche's radio show on NTS 1.
You can check it live on www.nts.live and a few days after on I'm a Cliché's Soundcloud

DJ Sundae played the 1 hour on this one.

Playlist:

Wendy & Carl - The Silent Ocean
Deadline Paranoia - Shri 
Drew McDowall - Convulse
F.U.S.E. - A New Day
Jaures - TRI
New Buildings - Historias Para Largos Recorridos
Svitlana Nianio - Episode 6
Black Tape For A Blue Girl - I Ran To You
Dino J.A. Deane - Liquid Time 
Pram - Water Toy
Pierre Jean Croset - Danse Des Couleurs
Research library - Insomnia

No Weapon Is Absolute:
www.facebook.com/noweaponisabsolute

I’m a Cliche:
www.imacliche.com
www.facebook.com/imacliche
@imaClicheLabel

Cosmo Vitelli:
www.facebook.com/cosmovitelli
@ilcosmovitelli

Dj Sundae:
www.facebook.com/djsundae
@djsundae

NO WEAPON IS ABSOLUTE - DJ Sundae - 07-05-2018 - NTS 1

Pre-Order Vinyl ~ http://bit.ly/ordermiddaymoon

Midday Moon is a survey of ambient and experimental music that emerged from Australia and New Zealand between 1980 and 1995. These recordings are sourced from a rich variety of micro-labels, private pressings, theatre soundtracks and artists’ personal archives.

Curated by Melbourne based DJ and archivalist, Sanpo Disco (a.k.a Rowan Mason), the collection delves deep into the world of outsider music that emerged in Australia and New Zealand in the latter half of the twentieth century, as synthesisers and early workstations began to enter the consumer marketplace.

'Midday Moon' out November 2 thru Bedroom Suck / Remote Control Records (AU/NZ), Omnian Music Group (USA/CAN) and Cargo Records (UK/EU). 

http://bedroomsuckrecords.com

Midday Moon 

Helen Ripley-Marshall - Under the Sun

This record is an extension of a foray into trance ritual music.
It's structured as a companion for film, meditation, vision seeking & sound rest.

It's by nature a nature worship record, combing acoustic percussive improvisation, sensory foley, vocalized staccatos, and a specific brew of physical/metaphysical sound relations....mind hush/thought flush/spirit rush/sun rise.

Inspired by an initiation ceremony of the Bwiti/Fang people of Gabon. This collection relays a fragmented branch of timings of this ceremony. Plus proposes alter paths for the sacred (Mougongo) instrument.

Recoded + Restructured + Reflected as a time capsule.

With fullest respect/blessings to breeze the Bwiti understandings through current climate.

Proceeds of this record will be donated to Tata-Yo (Nganga), Ebando.

http://ebando.org/fr/presentation.htm

Words & Music - Mahbunzi Nahgo Pihndi 
("All the Healing Green Leaves of the Forest")

A1 - Awating (11:02)
B2 - Bwicoming (19:28)

Our inaugural 12" coming soon with distribution via Honest Jons Records.

Big shout out to Will @the-trilogy-tapes for the support.

Mahbunzi Nahgo Pihndi - D Ebando (GMV01 ) - Snippets

Jeli

Artist: Andrew Pekler
Album: Sound From Phantom Islands
Label#: Faitiche20
Format: LP/DL

Faitiche is delighted to present a new album by Andrew Pekler: Sounds From Phantom Islands brings together ten tracks created over the last three years for the interactive website Phantom Islands - A Sonic Atlas. With his 2016 album Tristes Tropiques, Pekler created a highly unique cosmos of ethnographic sound speculations. Sounds From Phantom Islands continues and simultaneously expands this concept: finely elaborated chordal motifs float like fog over fictional maritime landscapes. A masterpiece of contemporary Exotica.

Phantom islands are islands that appeared on historical maps but never actually existed. The status of these artefacts of European colonial expansion from the 15th to the 19th century oscillates between cartographic fact and maritime fiction. Sounds From Phantom Islands interprets and presents these imaginations as a quasi-ethnographic catalog of music and synthetic field recordings. The pieces on this album are based on recordings made for Phantom Islands - A Sonic Atlas, an online interactive map developed with cultural anthropologist Stefanie Kiwi Menrath.

Andrew Pekler: Description Of Rain (Over Frisland)

Voyage au cœur de l'orient, au travers un polar solaire et énigmatique. Lugal Lanbada nous enchante d'un conte porté par des percussions et des sonorités mystiques. 


@lugallanbada 
www.olaradio.fr

Lugal Lanbada • itchy thoughts and forbidden skin(25.09.20)

Мультиинструменталист и аудио-продюссер soundcloud.com/mishasultan теперь ещё и клубный диджей! Во всяком случае фактически, ведь это запись его практически целиком кассетного диджей-сета который он отыграл на нашем вечерочке в Изиче. Внутри целый мир — почти случайная филдуха, переработанная автором во что-то новое, записи совместных сессий с единомышленниками, другие интересные работы и даже не засвеченный ранее апкамин трек с грядущей пластинки на soundcloud.com/digrecs (спасибо что прихватил тест-пресс). Приятного аудио путешествия!

Записано на "Крюк Общения" в Изиче, 15 ноября 2020.

99.9% cassettes mixtape by @mishasultan.
Premiere! Including him upcoming track from @digrecs (thx for test-press, bro!).
From our gig in @yzeech.

autoparty: Misha Sultan (15.11.2020)

SALLAD EGG alias of Sally Evans. Don't ask her where the name came from, she can't really remember. Ms EGG is based in London where she hosts regular club nights under the name ŒUF. She is a long term vocalist and collaborator with the musician Zeta Zeta and a member of the Valley Sound Records family.

MUTANT

SALLAD EGG [17.12.2020]

Sports! w. Rati Eradze [27.01.2021]

(23:00 paris)
59 minutes > #foggy___radio trought Gqom >opium disco and advertising. recorded in an Airbnb in January.

Synthetic Nocturnal Atmosphere

Andrew Pekler

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