https://hkcr.live/shows/ia-w-okay-vivian-01-04-2021

IA w/ Okay Vivian - 01/04/2021

koto 80 bpm sep 8 take 1 s&p

Black&Roll track with an extended intro. Wanted to create something with a track that goes faster all the way. Wanted to do black metal. Didn't quite get there. (You might not agree with me about what is blackened, that's ok. I define black(-ened) as something with an inversion theme.). 

Lyrics:
Aamuinen kaste, minä herään huutoon
kaukaiseen huutoon läpi metsämaan 
Vainottu mieli, viipyy muisto yössä,
tulisijaan karkaa unen kaiku viimeinen

Pirtin porstuassa, säilyy öinen viileys
ullakolta – katonrajasta: jotain rapinaa
Miten linnut heräävät? 
Ei siitä tiedä kertoa.
Tätä mietin portailla,
kun pohjatuuli käy kahvissa.

Savupiipun päähän
silmä suuntaa katseen
valvemieli empii
taipua totuutta kohden

Olenko mies vai koira?
Villieläin vai muuta?
Vaellan totuutta kohden
Vaellan totuutta kohden

Suohaukka lentää yli vuoren
Sitä etsii, jok’ ei sitä huomaa
Näin sen, taivasta vasten
läpi lehväin, silmä näki sen

Onni sen olkoon myötäinen
sus peuran löys ja rämeensilmän mutaisen
pupillin, syvän ja ahnaan
nyt syvään puhki nahkan oksat painaa

kaukaisen huudon yli metsän
petolintu syöksyn aloittaa ja
jäniksen turkki välikautinen
kynsi käyrä tiukka ote ja 

susi peuran kaulaan
hampaat upottaa
mättään läpi maan syvä
katse kurottaa 

kanervikkoon karvaa ja verta
kanervikkoon karvaa ja verta
kanervikkoon karvaa ja verta
maahan lyövät siivet raskaat 

maahan lyövät siivet raskaat

verenhimo vetää pohjaan

Maailma on puhdas – ilman meitä
Maailma on puhdas – ilman meitä
Maailma on puhdas – ilman meitä
Maailma on puhdas – ilman meitä

Ilman meitä

from the "Alone In The Dark" compilation 
https://hotreleases.bandcamp.com/album/alone-in-the-dark

Glochids - Rust Pipe

Out Now: https://noumenalloom.bandcamp.com/album/safari-explorer-kent-install

Kent Install is the debut record from Safari Explorer, a solo project by Dilian, musician/producer based in Brooklyn, NY. Safari Explorer is an exploration / exercise in creating pop melodies that pull influence from Cumbia, he often heard growing up in Mexico City, and from Dilian’s worldwide travel.

The album doesn’t function as a concept album, instead focusing more on found meanings in novel combinations and a pop approach. Recorded mostly on 4 tracks and with minimal gear, the album is an emotional tour of Dilian’s interior world + a world where access is immediate and global in the data age.

All songs composed by Safari Explorer (pka Dilian)
Noumenal Loom 2020

Kent Install

New Vibrations

Safari Explorer - New Vibrations

Yolabmi - Rebirth - (Senglar Birth Full Version)

Take it easy bud
available on lxvlxv.bandcamp.com
8/7/2020

Take it easy bud

Mosquito Climb

Scattered

abrasive dubs, cross genre chops, critical perspective,
re-orchestrated conversations, slowed to (perfection)

w/ @mary_2 (@spiritual_combat) + @valclipp

initially aired via https://offcenter.online

Community Podcast #17 w/ Mary

Taken from Hypnagogic Surge (GEN043). Presale is on!
To be released on November 22 on tape & digital on Genot Centre.

Produced by https://soundcloud.com/amselysen.
Mastered by @wimdehaen. 
Album cover by eurasiandesert.
Limited edition of 55 C29 tapes with on-body printing pro-dubbed by Headless Duplicated Tapes.

HYPNAGOGIC SURGE (GEN043) by AMSELYSEN is a dense setup of signal interferences, of jacked up, spliced, reconstructed digital snippets, of outbursts whose amplitude overcooks the microphone's defenseless circuitry. Anxious with unreleased energy build-ups, the music is always pregnant with a double quality, something like a dagger made from ice, the possibility to shatter or crumble into a thousand shards combined with the looming threat of clean rupture posed by the blade's edge. Digital distortion is used here to unmask materials, to frontally attack them and expose their shimmering metallic face; pitch-time processing dilemmas get dodged by exploding into the high frequency gleam embedded but hidden in their algorithms. Completely removed from the "Lo-Fi" paradigm seeking warmth or nostalgia, the present degradation-reconstructions result in newly audible chirp figures, the sparkle of aliasing and the descent into the grainy territory of microscopic sound events. From a more panoramic perspective, these tracks are continually transforming contraptions, with looping frames accelerating, doubling, halting or stuttering, overloading, seemingly struggling to buffer, sometimes mixing with immiscible materials to form a glistening suspension of new sound material.

// Hakeem Lapointe (Amselysen) about the album 
"Stemming from confusion, indignation, and feeling disoriented, Hypnagogic Surge appeals to dream-like lenses that reinterpret the everyday world; words lose clarity and are reduced to phonemes and their perceived energy, well-known advert jingles and hit songs are obfuscated and develop into undecipherable melodies, feelings ranging from relief to aggression flash quickly into succession without rhyme or reason. In the awareness gaps of the dream state, information is made up and averaged into confusing erroneous approximations — here translated in the poised presence of aural artifacts such as bad mp3 bit rate shimmer, 1/8in inlet pops, bad aliasing and interpolation, unshielded cable radio interference, fake stereo, inverted polarizing, etc 
Amselysen’s nightmarish interpretation of the hypnagogic state is heavily informed by tropes surrounding hardcore music, only this time the tropes are removed from their context and reimagined before reappearing into the album, thus resulting in a hyperreality; a simulacra of hardcore, intensity and dynamism. Remediating genres like punk, techno, metal, rap and noise through distant mimicry and radical sampling, Hypnagogic Surge approaches liminal reverie with a garish maximalist attitude."

// Amselysen artist bio 
Amselysen is Montreal-based intermedia artist Hakeem Lapointe’s latest musical project. It focuses on approaching experimental electronics with a critical lens, bridging the gap between conceptual spaces typically reserved to institutional practices and accessible aural aesthetics. Usually described as an outsider artist, never privy to the music academia and alien to most of the underground scene, Lapointe sheds all concerns for musical conventions and pursues their own sonic obsessions, which commonly sit in the leftfield genre. Their current work process ponders on indeterminacy, plunderphonics, hyperrealities, cultural foraging, and hypnagogia. 
Works, outside of their own visual practice, include scores and sound design for short films, performances and installations in various exhibitions, including the After Hours at the McCord presented under Kent Monkman - Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience.

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