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Living Room 27 ~ @pleasuregallery 

> q. pls introduce yourself

My name is Alec Hamilton. I run pleasure gallery which is mix series and radio show. I also put on music nights here in Bristol, UK. 

> q. is there a story behind the mix?

I wanted to make something quite tender and introspective. I chose tracks that I’ve spent time thinking, wandering and musing to since I first got into electronic music. I’m a big chess nerd and recently watched an old documentary about Garry Kasparov, former world chess champion. I enjoyed how it explores the theme of human vs machine, so I thought I’d throw in some excerpts from it for some extra spice. 

> q. what's the best way to enjoy your mix?

I think it suits time alone, a long journey to see old friends or a lazy Sunday. 

> q. describe a favourite object in your living room...

My friend bought me a signed photo of Jason Statham as a housewarming present. It's so ridiculous but I love it, probably the weirdest gift I’ll ever receive, creates a lot of laughs. 

> q. are you working on any projects right now (music or not music)?

I held my first pleasure gallery event a few weeks ago and I’m looking forward to hosting more of those.

Living Room 27 ~ pleasure gallery

London’s abundant waterways and parks provide an oneiric muse for Cucina Povera and Ben Vince’s resounding debut full-length collaboration, an engrossing suite of weightless sax, synth and disklavier-bedded, noirish nocturnes that land somewhere between Grouper and Terry Riley. 

Centred around Maria Rossi aka Cucina Povera’s muzzy vocal loops and the faintest melodic motifs, London-based composer and multi-instrumentalist Ben Vince accompanies on saxophone, synth and piano, shrouding Rossi's vocals in swirls of dimly lit psychedelic smoke. As a newcomer to London, Rossi was "caught up in a sort of wondrous overwhelm” - a feeling that seeps through every movement of the almost hour long album. Working mostly at the Roundhouse, the pair find a musical confluence between Rossi's words - "fluid, dreamy, hazy ideations" - and Vince's shadowy renditions.

Vince's plasmic echoes and Rossi's aerial delivery form a poetic union, twisting and painting each sound in pearlescent shades. Rossi's folk roots shine through like cracks of dawn sunlight on 'Sumu Puistossa' ("fog in the park"), reverberating over organ and dream-zone sax; her words tip into muted surrealism thanks to the controlled chaos of Vince's bleak treatments. His grasp of jazz is transfixing: bending sax motifs like ghostly memories of music from another timeline, smudging them into the soundfield. It’s most effective on 'Siellä Näen Kaiken' ("there I see everything"), where sickly, dissonant notes flicker like an almost-extinguished candle alongside motorised furniture music courtesy of a Disklavier.

Born out of wonder, daydreaming innocence and creative discovery, 'There I See Everything ‘ is the sound of two exploratory collaborators swimming into each other's ideas. From the Terry Riley-esque transcendence of '∞' to the sacred incantation of long-form closer 'Pikku Muurahaiskeko' ("little anthill"), the pair expose a new layer of creativity with each turn, gradually zooming out from discreet, vulnerable beauty to encompass a gently orchestrated chaos of sustained, sublime tension.

Cucina Povera & Ben Vince - Sumu Puistossa

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forest mind drip

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moody rainy gazing out window mood xxx - Akimat

Having first met as performers at an ambient co:clear gig, slyn invites Akimat (@akiiimatamik0) for the second half of the fourth episode of in Passing tides. Australian now based between Glasgow and Berlin, Akimat is an amazing selector who dibbles both in her textural ambient mixes as well as her more upbeat, dance-floor sets.

in Passing tides 04 ~ Akimat & slyn ~ (16.07.24)

deep gtr

Music Itsuki Doi
https://on.soundcloud.com/gEUxZSqT7feGfn7A8

Reading Sou Nakayama

Sou Nakayama & Itsuki Doi at collisimo 121224hikarilive

poison

B1 on 'Envelope' , Ekster 2018

order: https://eksterlabel.bandcamp.com/album/envelope

Heraldic Snippets

The Sacrificial Code

Kali Malone - Litanic Cloth Wrung (from "The Sacrificial Code" iDEAL 2xLP/3xCD)

Inspired by open spaces (and the objects that interrupt them), META DOOR L is the latest auditory excursion from Perila. Expansive in scope, it extracts beauty from the organic and inorganic alike, tapping into the wonder of the outdoors as it revels in the unique properties of metal—both as a material and a sound source. Building on her work for labels like Sferic, Motion Ward, and Boomkat Editions, META DOOR L is rooted in field recordings extracted from the wilderness outside Tbilisi, where a series of hiking expeditions led Perila to chance encounters with metal tubes, large rocks and the ruins of an old house. In the months that followed, these recordings were patiently processed, degraded and transformed, their misshapen remains welded together by hazy ambient atmospheres and textured soundscapes. From there, the St. Petersburg-raised, Berlin-based artist pushed herself into new creative territory, searching for the innate (and decidedly non-linear) rhythms lurking within her dense sonic stratigraphy. META DOOR L is the hypnotic end result, an immersive listen whose lush tones and guttural rumbles coalesce into something utterly transportive.

Music by Perila.
Mastered by Rupert Clervaux.
Artwork by Oficina de Disseny.
Printing by L'automatica, Barcelona.

Ent I Pse

More Info:
mfetokyo.com/index_en.html#mix

TrackList:
Wayne Phoenix - Place
細井美裕(Miyu Hosoi) - Lenna (Hpl22 Ver.) [feat. Chikara Uemizutaru & Misaki Hasuo] (first section)
ssaliva - so long to my skull
Beatriz Ferreyra - La Ba-Balle du Chien-Chien à la mé-mère (partial section)
浦田恵司 (Keishi Urata) - 月夜の晩に (On A Moonlit Night)
小松千倫 (Kazumichi Komatsu) - Emory
Otro - Dance Of The Young (Augurs Of Spring)
HMOT - Sedate
Walter Zimmermann - I Rossinis Einzug In Wien (Rossini's Arrival In Vienna)
Nour Mobarak - Allophone Movement (partial section)
Angklung - Angroove
Change Ringing Handbell Group - Stedman Cinques
テツ・イノウエ (Tetsu Inoue) & Andrew Deutsch ‎– Installation Sound
福沢もろ(Moro Fukuzawa) - 10 2999年の童話
Global Guaranty Orchestra - Marble Rain
Michel Redolfi - Giving Love Away Berceuses (comp. Robert Ashley)
Robert Ashley - Anecdote With Chorale "Giving Love Away" (final section)
Seigen Ono (小野誠彦) - You Are Here
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Short notes by @visiblecloaks
The idea with this mix is to sequence a tracklist which captures my own mental model of Isozaki’s building. The spiraling of the Boerdijk–Coxeter helix tower represented as the cross changing of English handbell ringing, or the mist of the rock fountain represented as the air of breath - but also to mix contemporary music with work from around the time of the building’s construction to capture the way in which architectural monuments - which always bears the historical legacy of the time in which it was designed and constructed - are continually juxtaposed with contemporary physical reality as we continue to observe, reassess and inhabit them as an objects in time.
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MfE002 Visible Cloaks - Mix for Art Tower Mito

Just before 2020 comes to an end, Berlin-based artist @leozylberberg graces this crazy (!) year  with an oddball of a track: “Sheshells” is a total earworm and at the same time a bit off, maybe. It’s chill, it’s haunted, and it might be the most appropriate end to 2020 one can imagine. “Despite its imperfections, it feels like some sort of antidote to something,” as the Australian artist puts it herself.

Sheshells is published as a digital single. It features an artwork from Paris-based graphic designer and art director Olga Prader’s Ftantasy series. The track is Präsens Editionen’s fourth audio release in 2020, following music by Remo Helfenstein, @samuelreinhard , and @damexlove , that is ranging from gospel and dark ambient-informed lullabies to proper sad-boy-reggaeton-heat.

Zylberberg is a mainstay at @sameheads , Berlin’s most infamous pub / fashion store / club / art space / what not. In 2017, she came to attention with a split tape realized with the wonderful Belia Winnewisser. Earlier this year, the Australian artist published Greatestings on @noisekoelln , a label that came back to life just for this highly limited 10” after a four-year period of inactivity. Zylberberg is part of Balance Crew alongside partner in crime @dane-close .

Sheshells

Buy the Track

L.Zylberberg - Sheshells (PE-022)

@perila track from self-release collection
"decision to longing"
https://perilazone.bandcamp.com/album/decision-to-longing
defrosting dark winter waters into spring brook
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if you accept all sounding sounds atm
you are most likely to enjoy it

perila – can we just be real

Constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones...

i am a room with a big glass window
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2020 – '
https://perilazone.bandcamp.com/music

bookings:
francisco@lapsusagency.com

portfolio: 
https://aleksandrazakharenko.cc

Perila shows on Berlin Community Radio https://www.mixcloud.com/BCR_Radio/playlists/perila/

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