Back this time as a repressed, visceral, animal reemerging to reclaim its place in an increasingly abstract, digital, binary, landscape.

Sadaken EP - [Earthly Measures]

Edit & Remix

Mysohi EP - [Leveldva, Ṁoscoẉ]

Buy all

Olua LP - [Heimlich Musik, Vienna]

Produce

Phortah shares again his unique, rich and emotive sound, this time on Earthly Measures. Sadaken exhibits further refinement of his familiar melancholic tonality blended with subtle, textural atmospheric elements. These five tracks are pulsing grooves that get heads bopping and hips writhing, in a very unique & intimate way.

Phortah’s vocal improvisations are being cultivated and appears across Sadaken. Phortah says of its effects "it creates that not-quite-human sound which connects with where I feel a lot of us are at: super digitised organisms, yearning for a way back to our earthly nature”.

That image captures Phortah’s sound and journey well: a repressed, visceral, animal nature reemerging to reclaim its place in an increasingly abstract, digital, binary, landscape.

Flute composition by Benn Demole & Karim Salem
Artwork collage of illustrations by William T Cooper assembled by Nicholas Gilchrist aka Phortah.

Sadaken EP

Phortah - Sadi

Phortah shares again his unique, rich and emotive sound, this time on Earthly Measures. Sadaken exhibits further refinement of his familiar melancholic tonality blended with subtle, textural atmospheric elements. These five tracks are pulsing grooves that get heads bopping and hips writhing, in a very unique & intimate way.

Phortah’s vocal improvisations are being cultivated and shows up across Sadaken. Phortah says of its effects "it creates that not-quite-human sound which connects with where I feel a lot of us are at: super digitised organisms, yearning for a way back to our earthly nature”.

That image captures Phortah’s sound and journey well: a repressed, visceral, animal nature reemerging to reclaim its place in an increasingly abstract, digital, binary, landscape.

Flute composition by Benn Demole & Karim Salem
Artwork collage of illustrations by William T Cooper assembled by Nicholas Gilchrist aka Phortah.

https://phortah.bandcamp.com/album/sadaken-ep & 

Socials : Earthly Measures - https://www.facebook.com/EarthlyMeasures & https://www.instagram.com/earthlymeasures/ & https://soundcloud.com/earthlymeasures
Phortah : https://www.facebook.com/phortah & https://www.instagram.com/phortah/ & https://soundcloud.com/phortah

PREMIERE: Phortah - Praise [Earthly Measures]

Australian producer Phortah shares his unique, rich and emotive sound, this time on Earthly Measures. Sadaken exhibits further refinement of his familiar melancholic tonality blended with subtle, textural atmospheric elements. These five tracks are pulsing grooves that get heads bopping and hips writhing, in a very unique & intimate way.

More info here:
https://www.musicamacondo.com/2021/06/premiere-phortah-akaya/

Premiere: Phortah - Akaya

Purchase Here : phortah.bandcamp.com/album/sadaken-ep

Phortah shares again his unique, rich and emotive sound, this time on Earthly Measures. Sadaken exhibits further refinement of his familiar melancholic tonality blended with subtle, textural atmospheric elements. These five tracks are pulsing grooves that get heads bopping and hips writhing, in a very unique & intimate way.

Phortah’s vocal improvisations are being cultivated and appears across Sadaken. Phortah says of its effects "it creates that not-quite-human sound which connects with where I feel a lot of us are at: super digitised organisms, yearning for a way back to our earthly nature”.

That image captures Phortah’s sound and journey well: a repressed, visceral, animal nature reemerging to reclaim its place in an increasingly abstract, digital, binary, landscape.

Flute composition by Benn Demole & Karim Salem
Artwork collage of illustrations by William T Cooper assembled by Nicholas Gilchrist aka Phortah.

Phortah - Enola

Phortah - Landscape

Phortah - Himu (Betelgeize Remix)

Phortah - Himu Feat. Ella Grace

Phortah - Soma

Phortah - Mylo

Our first composition as a duet, finally released <3

bc: https://phortah.bandcamp.com/track/sumi
Hyperfollow: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/phortahandjglck/sumi

Phortah & J Glück - Sumi

"Weekend" written and produced by Phortah. 
Mastered by Finn Rhodes.
Artwork design by Joe Newton.
https://www.phortah.com/

Lyrics:

Every day is like the weekend
And I'm not into finding out the truth
Just give me something
With a very predictable groove

Something to get stuck into

I'll pulse my weight along and
Pretend you're not at home and
Attend the nothing
Just over my shoulder

Dragging a boulder keeps my waking light inside

The temple
A tempest
Not much
Order and contentment

The temple
A tempest
Retention
Lessons

We
Look once more at the screen
We look at the screen
Not noticing we are home

Not aware that I'm at home.

Weekend

Some available. Some unreleased. 
All from the divine mystery of the heart. 

Tracks:
Loki (unreleased)
Hold Space feat. Joe Newton (unreleased)
Tora - Deviate (Phortah Remix) (independent)
Til Morning Part II feat. Lila Swain (Heimlich Musik, Vienna)
Soma (leveldva, Moscow)
Mylo (leveldva, Moscow)
Iduka (with J Glück) (Serafin, Berlin)
Weekend (independent)

I Am Empty Space

Mongo - Choeurs De Femmes Ekonda (Phortah-phied)

Ubud

Artist: Phortah (Australia)
Name: Sensorium Live Set, 2023
Genre: Electronic
Release Date: 08.09.2023
Exclusive: Deep House Moscow

Phortah: https://soundcloud.com/phortah
Home: https://www.phortah.com

photo by: https://www.instagram.com/dericm.creative

CONTACT (DHM):
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Phortah — Sensorium Live Set, 2023

In gratitude to Josh and his team for running a wonderful event and inviting me to get weird there... Plus the weirdos who hit the d floor first and brought the place to life shall also be acknlowledged <3 

Live Versions: (Unreleased until the last 4...)
Though We Dwell Apart
Phantom feat. J Glück
What Follows
Dog Eat Dog
Long Game feat. J Glück
Devil
Cookie
Til Morning Part II feat. Lila Swain
Soma
Ayoca
Surrender

Phortah Live @ Mahico Garden Fiesta November 2023

We always loved the trippy interlude/ending to the original song...

Dedicated to old friends from that time: Wayne "Rexxx" Durack and Shannon Wiseman.

Justin Timberlake - I think She Knows (Phortah Edit)

Vast Fast has been my favourite song by Matthew since we met last year in WA. I got to see it live three times in my short sojourn over there. 

To remix a song you love can be hard. I did my best. It's the quickest tempo I've ever worked at, and it contains as you may ironically expect, some surprise turns. 

Mastered by T.Morris

Echo Omen - Vast Fast (Phortah Remix)

Gratitude and props to my friend and music hero 
https://soundcloud.com/changa-gita

Written by Changa Gita
Remixed by Phortah
Mastered by Finn Rhodes
Artwork design by Phortah

Changa Gita - Todo Esta Dentro De Aqui (Phortah Edit)

Leboriginal (Phortah Remix)
This remix incorporates samples taken from the 2013 Grow The Music Sean Meehan Tour.

Original composition: Sean Meehan, Soraya Touma, Emily Vera and Lizzy Rutten
Vocals: Soraya Touma
Mastering: Finn Rhodes
Artwork: Sam Lee
Cultural Consultancy: Bernard Kelly-Edwards

Leboriginal (Phortah Remix)

Emily Vera - Emerald Dove (Phortah Remix)
This remix incorporates samples taken from the 2013 Grow The Music Sean Meehan Tour.

Original composition, vocals and lyrics: Emily Vera
Mastering: Finn Rhodes
Artwork: Sam Lee
Cultural Consultancy: Bernard Kelly-Edwards

Emily Vera - Emerald Dove (Phortah Remix)

Vocals & Lyrics: https://soundcloud.com/pebbled_k
Flutes: Tessie 2 Locks
Mastering: Re:Creation Studio
Artwork: Phortah

Download

Firewall feat. Pebbled

Thanks https://soundcloud.com/lilaswainmusic for connecting and making this piece possible.
Thanks also to https://soundcloud.com/robertjameswolfe for his regular, solid production advice.
Mastered by Fahad Abdulaal - 2hz Audio.

This is a remix of: https://soundcloud.com/lilaswainmusic/hands-1

Lila Swain - Hands (Phortah Remix)

With love and gratitude to Cinnamon for bringing her voice and power to this track both in my live sets and in the studio. 

Photo of Cinnamon by Phortah
Mastered by Finn Rhodes.

Batur

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Get Phortah's album on Heimlich Musik here: 
Beatport ➟ https://bit.ly/2UHOvh4

Being on the @heimlichaufsc radar for some time, never losing track of Australia’s @phortah has resulted in the very first long play release by Heimlich Musik. Phortah’s debut album “Olua” drifts between the vibrant waves of ten tracks founded on a uniquely emotive sound and compositional style. The album courses a transformative evening, punctuated by a myriad of broken beats and straight four to the floor grooves. Organic performances of strings, vocals, flutes and percussion are featured in combination with analogue and digital synthesis and beat design. (...)

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Phortah feat. Lila Swain - Til Morning (Part II)

Being on the Heimlich radar for some time, never losing track of Australia’s Phortah has resulted in the very first long play release by Heimlich Musik. Phortah’s debut album “Olua” drifts between the vibrant waves of ten tracks founded on a uniquely emotive sound and compositional style. The album courses a transformative evening, punctuated by a myriad of broken beats and straight four to the floor grooves. Organic performances of strings, vocals, flutes and percussion are featured in combination with analogue and digital synthesis and beat design. Phortah’s sound is at once nostalgic and gritty; incorporating also field recordings and noise. Olua journeys between flowing passages contrasted with abrupt and surprising moments. 

The album was recorded and produced on Gumbaynggirr country in Bellingen and on Newry Island, New South Wales, Australia. The power of the surrounding rivers, forests and ocean have greatly influenced the music. Phortah acknowledges the traditional custodians of this land, the Gumbaynggirr people. Lila Swain recorded her vocals in Berlin. Given the spectrum of sound aesthetics, the album format appeared to be the only logical way to release this unique piece of art.

 Nicholas Gilchrist aka Phortah - Instrumental performances (guitars, bass guitar, synths, vocals, percussion), composition and production 

Artwork: Vakat

With deep gratitude to the following contributors: 
Evie Bacigalupo - Violins and co composition on “’Til Morning Part I” 
Lila Swain - lyrics and vocals on the “‘Til Morning” tracks and co composition on “’Til Morning Part I”  Luke Rhodes - Harmonic flute and percussion on “Ayoca” 
Changa Gita - vocals on “Oh Girl” 
James Ring - vocals on “She Waits” 
Millicent Kruger - vocals on “Lexicon”

Olua LP

Phortah - Oh Girl (Original Mix)

Phortah - Tokyo (Original Mix)

Phortah - Til Morning Part I Feat. Lila Swain (Original Mix)

Release Title:  OLUA
Artist: https://soundcloud.com/phortah
Label: https://soundcloud.com/heimlichaufsc
Catalogue No.: HMLLP001
Release-Date: 03.05.2019

Buy Link: https://heimlich.fanlink.to/hmllp001

Being on the Heimlich radar for some time, never losing track of Australia’s Phortah has resulted in the very first long play release by Heimlich Musik. Phortah’s debut album “Olua” drifts between the vibrant waves of ten tracks founded on a uniquely emotive sound and compositional style. The album courses a transformative evening, punctuated by a myriad of broken beats and straight four to the floor grooves. Organic performances of strings, vocals, flutes and percussion are featured in combination with analogue and digital synthesis and beat design. Phortah’s sound is at once nostalgic and gritty; incorporating also field recordings and noise. Olua journeys between flowing passages contrasted with abrupt and surprising moments. 

The album was recorded and produced on Gumbaynggirr country in Bellingen and on Newry Island, New South Wales, Australia. The power of the surrounding rivers, forests and ocean have greatly influenced the music. Phortah acknowledges the traditional custodians of this land, the Gumbaynggirr people. Lila Swain recorded her vocals in Berlin. Given the spectrum of sound aesthetics, the album format appeared to be the only logical way to release this unique piece of art.

Nicholas Gilchrist aka Phortah - Instrumental performances (guitars, bass guitar, synths, vocals, percussion), composition and production 

With deep gratitude to the following contributors: 
Evie Bacigalupo - Violins and co composition on “’Til Morning Part I” 
Lila Swain - lyrics and vocals on the “‘Til Morning” tracks and co composition on “’Til Morning Part I” 
Luke Rhodes - Harmonic flute and percussion on “Ayoca” 
Changa Gita - vocals on “Oh Girl” 
James Ring - vocals on “She Waits” 
Millicent Kruger - vocals on “Lexicon”

✘ Phortah (Nekawa)
https://soundcloud.com/phortah
https://www.facebook.com/phortah
https://www.instagram.com/phortah/


✘ Heimlich Musik (Wien  // Austria)
https://soundcloud.com/heimlichaufsc
https://www.facebook.com/heimlichmusik
https://heimlichmusik.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/heimlichcrew/

PREMIERE: Phortah - Ayoca [ Heimlich Musik ]

Released in support of Tree Psyde 2019, where I was honoured to close the festival on a stage and dance floor set up like nothing I've experienced so far. Rather than dancing in a large clearing in the bush, one needed to step more deeply into the wilderness to find the dance floor <3

Along with supporting art and music, Tree Psyde Productions work to restore native bushland and wildlife habitat. Check out the rest of the compilation where you can buy the tracks and support what they do. 

Thanks and Love to Cinnamon for recording her vocals at Phortah Studios again...

Tree Psyde 2019: The Audio Nest (Compilation): https://tranquilsounds.bandcamp.com/album/tree-psyde-2019-the-audio-nest-24-bit
www.treepsydefestival.com

Pupa [Tranquil Sounds]

In August 2013, a collection of unreleased songs, demos, alternate versions, and in-studio jams by The Mars Volta roughly spanning from 2005 until the Noctourniquet sessions was leaked online. The source of these recordings still remains unknown.

Included in the leak was "y2g" which  sounds like a demo version of Vicarious Atonement, the opening track from Amputechture.  

TMV are one of my biggest influences. I’m grateful to Omar, Cedric and all of the TMV group members and hope this edit does some degree of justice to how much their albums and live shows inspired, moved and healed me over the years <3

Mastered by Finn Rhodes: @smalltalk-6
Original demo: https://soundcloud.com/cvltnation/y2g?in=cvltnation/sets/the-mars-volta-15-unreleased
First leaked at: http://forum.thecomatorium.com/forum/index.php?act=idx
With thanks again to @heimlichaufsc for their ongoing support.

The Mars Volta - Y2g (Phortah Edit)

Unofficial remix. 

With thanks to Jai and the rest of the guys from Tora for supplying stems for this piece. 

Special thanks to Corr for connecting the dots <3  

Mastered by Finn Rhodes.

Original track: https://soundcloud.com/toramusic/deviate-2

More Tora:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/7KGI0OwY8iAL5rI5p47YyK
https://www.instagram.com/toramusic/
https://www.facebook.com/Toramusic

Tora - Deviate (Phortah Remix)

"As if I know what to do
Like I know what is true
As if I know what to do
(A life within, a lie within, alive within)
Yes I'm pretending
I am pretending."

A song about lying and acting like I know wtf is going on. 

In the wake of Olua there have been more upbeat bumpers in production @ Phortah Studios. This one is available through the reliably hard working and supportive crew @tranquilsounds on the second chapter of their inspiring 2020 VA series, check it out here: https://tranquilsounds.bandcamp.com/album/chapter-2-wings-of-a-phoenix-va

Mastered again by one of my dearest allies, Finn Rhodes: @smalltalk-6

Substance [Tranquil Sounds]

Before waking eyes are opened
reunion with the body alive
sound ripples space
earth’s orchestra plays
I can feel every tone from inside.

Artwork by HerbRobert Art.

Tracklist
* = unreleased
Phortah - Purring Intro
Lisa Morgenstern - Deflowering
Antranik Askarian & Khatchadour Khatchaturian - Song of Complaint
Lucid Picnic - Maya Lila
Apparat - EQ_BREAK
M.RUX - Danse Banboy (Edit)
Phortah - Sadi
Iorie - Azalea
Dirtwire feat Emma Lucia - Seem to Freeze (Phortah Remix)
Phortah - She Waits
Stavros - Talabout
Phortah - Morning After
Pigmalião - À Dois (Original Mix)
Indio Toba (Gallardo Edit)
Umeko Ando - Battaki (Ground Remix)
Akasha MX - Tonāntzin (Niju Remix)
GAMA - Surfing on a Dewdrop
Joaquín Cornejo - La Voz de la Nostalgia ft. Wabi Sabi
Nina Simone - Blackbird (jascha & martha acid bird RMX)
Andi Otto & MD Pallavi - Veera Don't Leave (feat. MD Pallavi)
Alex Kaminski - Bagaluten
CFCF - Pleasure Centre (Pharaohs Remix)
Carrot Green - Kalimbas
atom munding - Suffix Order (Nicola Noir Remix)
Ninze - Quiet Alien
Steffen Kirschoff - Native (Arutani Remix)
JAJA - Illmani (Jascha Hagen Remix)
*Phortah feat. Lila Swain - Til Morning Part II (Hudson Remix)
I.F.O. ft. Afrika Bambaataa - Nibiru
ĂVEM - Faint (O/Y Remix)
Caly Jandro & HAFNER -  Pandora
Hosini - Flyga
Nicolas Jaar - Fight
Tora - Deviate (Phortah Remix)
*Phortah - After Sommer
CharlestheFirst - Beyond You
Katuchat - Spleen
Four Tet - Mama Teaches Sanskrit
Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Unomathemba
Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm - 20:17
Acid Pauli - Joan
Visible Cloaks - Wintergreen
Lhamo Dukpa - With God On Our Side (Bob D cover)

Ripples

Out Now: Seem to Freeze(feat. Emma Lucia) [Phortah Remix]

🎧: https://fanlink.to/seemtofreeze-phortahremix

We met Phortah at a bush duf called Bohemian Beatfreaks in the outback of Australia when were down there a couple years ago and were inspired by his unique production styles. 

We invited him to make a remix of Seem to Freeze feat. Emma Lucia from the Electric River ⚡️album and now we're excited to bring it to your ears!

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Seem To Freeze (feat. Emma Lucia)[Phortah Remix]

Channelling loving presence via impeccable sound design while tending to draw spirited and big hearted dancers to the floor.

Phortah's creative essence is somewhat free. He relates with the living tree, soil, sky, ocean and animal more so than with genre labels.

As an avid, exploratory improvisational contemporary and contact dancer, his sound is informed by spontaneous rebellion against conditioned movement, or to at least take the piss out of the "normal".

"I listen to (feel) my animal body from within the living web which flows beyond intellectual capture.

With cues and guidance from nature, I cultivate visionary and feeling faculties as a part of the process. My music and dance practices are a part of this nourishing work. There has been a role for me to share from this place and I am grateful for all of the invitations and opportunities which have come from those who have recognised Phortah's offering. 

Sound wise, I work with various tools to create sensuous, enveloping auras which are often punctuated by saucy grooves. This aural recipe can be nourishing for humans and landscapes. I'm drawn to delving into deeper work with both.

My work with sound is supported first and foremost by a practice of listening." 

Relating with the gumbayngnirr and bundjalung nations on the east coast of Australia.

Phortah has released music with Dirtwire's Swamptronic Records (USA), Heimlich Musik (Vienna), leveldva (Moscow), Earthly Measures and Serafin Audio Imprint (Berlin). 

Part of duo: https://soundcloud.com/agamaaudio

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