Name: My First Steps Were Lightning by Pharoah Tickles The Sun
Duration: 5 min 2 s
Description: Wise of practice, clear of mind, we skipped entire episodes of challenge with a taste of no difference, in our eyelessness knowing the stable steps to safe passage through.

Out now

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1. Don_t DJ - Lemon Garlic

Get the whole recording (total length: 42:52) on Bandcamp now:
https://randyedgewood.bandcamp.com/track/expedition-19-sxb2-next

This is maybe the most unexpected show I performed so far. The Next is a little nightclub located in the middle of the historical centre of Strasbourg. It's a neat venue, with a nice staff and a good sound-system, but one can say it's very mainstream music-driven, so the odds to hear experimental, or even electronica stuff there is near zero.

Actually that was quite a challenge for me to adapt my style to this peculiar place. I had to find the right balance between my usual weird no input sounds, and some more musical/danceable elements, so I wouldn't lose the whole audience instantly. Turned out it worked pretty well, as people looked like they were really enjoying the moment. Interestingly, the most receptive were the younger part of the audience. I remember that the deeper we went into the expedition, the larger was the physical separation between the older ones, chatting and smiling in the background, and the younger ones, nervously dancing and headbanging just in front of me.

Thank you very much Nico, Mich-Mich and all the Kollectiv Wolfgang for trusting me and making this weird crossover of genres happen, thank you Ricardo for the great conversation, thank you Flipper for hosting the party, and thank you Crash Server for recommanding my name to the team. It was both a fun and interesting project to work on.

PS: The water sound you can hear in the beginning comes from the entrance of the Next.

Live setup: Reason + MIDI controllers

Expedition 20: SXB2 (Next) [Intro]

A life without dreams is as dry as a life without tears...

5 years of Amulet of Tears

TEARS025

Amulet of Tears

Volunteer Coroner - Colourless World

stream/download the full piece here :
https://bremnar.bandcamp.com/album/the-avenue

The Avenue (excerpt)

Aktæon

my spirit is STRONGER —̳͟͞͞♡

looped from leon bolier
orion stars sourced from pinterest :)

"The Weirdest Black"

Mars

Wise of practice, clear of mind, we skipped entire episodes of challenge with a taste of no difference, in our eyelessness knowing the stable steps to safe passage through.

My First Steps Were Lightning

Tape loops are a closed path, a cyclic river, a ring around a far planet. They’re similar to our memory, continuously reenacting an artefact that belongs to a precise point in time, brought back in a process of recall where that artifact slightly and slowly becomes imprecise and shifted. An unrested repetition carved into an old pavement, in a city where every generation leaves a new mark, a new incision and maintains an endless process of birth and deterioration. Sonus Ruinae’s synthesizers sounds are gently laid on that closed path, put in a locked repetition and engaged into that eternal dance.
While growing up with computer music influences, ranging from glitch to the new century Roman electronic scene, Marta De Pascalis developed her musician skills under the spell of the Italian sound labs sphere, from Gruppo di Improvvisazione to Battiato and other masters that influenced the global movement of sound designers. Her earliest Live performances already showed a special character of improvisation and structure, reduced slowly to become essence, made of synthesis and magnetic tape. Her album Sonus Ruinae is a canvas of harmonics and a sublime place where things are whole, where your first listen is engraved just like that ancient city’s pavement, and Marta endlessly writes beauty on top of it, layer after layer.

All music by Marta De Pascalis
Recorded at WORM Sound Studios in Rotterdam, artist's studio and Big Snuff Studio in Berlin, between 2019 and 2020. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi. Artwork by Lorenzo Mazon Studio.
All rights reserved to the respective owners.
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© + ℗ Morphine Records 2020.

Marta De Pascalis - Sonus Ruinae Part 1

Enshrouded in high-pitched static and elusive fumelike oscillators come "Sundowning", a new mini-album signed by Preston Weippert's most prolific alias, aka Volunteer Coroner. Co-founder of the Colorado-based Trust Collective label, Weippert's music vectors a collection of desolate murals often painted with industrial-grade fuel. A low-resolution picture of oil fields burning from your window seat. Closed eyelids against the sun, into the red.

“Loss as gain- forever in blood”

EN17

Recorded during the Summer of 2020
Volunteer Coroner is P.W.

Sundowning

Volunteer Coroner - A Token Saved From A Previous Life

ambient synth + shortwave theohauntology experiments

My First Steps Were Lightning

Pharoah Tickles The Sun

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