Ouverture de la Méridienne, notre résidence estivale émise depuis le toit du Point Éphémère aujourd'hui à 14h. Des sets à écouter assis, accessibles au public et retransmis en direct sur www.radio-sofa.com

Au programme de cette après-midi délassante :

14:00 @arianekiks
15:00 @mimi-ctw-podcasts
16:00 @peerrine
17:00 Ygal Ohayon (@trashdisco)
18:00 @radio-sofa

200 Quai de Valmy, 75010 Paris

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Cet été, Radio Sofa installe sa Méridienne dans le nouveau booth du Top à @point-eph-m-re, le temps d’une résidence radiophonique estivale. Dans ce studio transitoire, orienté vers des univers phoniques non-dansants, nous recevrons sur six dates invité.e.s et résident.e.s pour des sessions exploratoires à écouter assis. 

La Méridienne entend mêler, quelques après-midi durant, lumière zénithale et poésie sonore. Les sélections de nos convives, ouvertes au public, seront retransmises en direct sur nos ondes depuis les toits puis disponibles à la réécoute. Amateurs et amatrices d’ambiances lancinantes et de rythmes voluptueux, la Méridienne s’ouvre au grand jour le 3 juillet.

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Radio Sofa sets its Méridienne on the roof of the Point Ephémère for a summer radio residency. In this transitory studio, oriented towards non-dancing phonic universes, we will receive guests and residents for exploratory sessions to be listened to sitting down.

La Méridienne intends to mix zenithal light and sonic poetry for a few afternoons. The selections of our guests will be open to public and broadcast live on our airwaves from the rooftop. Lovers of haunting atmospheres and voluptuous rhythms, La Méridienne opens on the 3d of July.

Méridienne : Ariane Kiks (03.07.22)

Music for Whales, an ambient radio transmission. Christina Vantzou, a selection of some of her best musical pieces mixed in a marvelous trip.

Nothing else to say... Whales would not understand us.

All tracks by Christina Vantzou:

1. Your Changes Have Been Submitted
2. Anna Mae
3. At Dawn
4. Super Interlude Pt.2
5. Homemade Mountains
6. Wild Beast Research
7. Percussion in Nonspace
8. Kimona II
9. Surreal Presence for SH and FM
10. The Library
11. 1234
12. Going Backwards to Recover That Which Was Left Behind
13. Phantom Tunnel
14. The Real Thing
15. Little Darlin Seize the Sun
16. Glissando for Bodies and Machines in Space
17. Harp of Yaman
18. Stereoscope
19. Snow White
20. Red Eel Dream
21. Rearview Mirror
22. Valley Drone
23. Tilang

Music For Whales - Christina Vantzou

Ambroos De Schepper and Pepijn Gyssels became roommates when PiP first moved to Brussels in 2021. Both paid close attention to each other’s musical approach and interests. One year later, Ambroos moved out. When he swung by to pick up some boxes, they decided to record something for the fun of it. Between May '23 and November '24 they continued experimenting with textures and improvisations. This collaboration has become the deepening of a friendship and a way to maintain it at the same time.
 
PiP: “Everything we recorded came very organically. Ambroos would just bring his saxophone, a clarinet, some FX pedals or a weird flute. Whatever he felt like on that particular day.”
 
Ambroos: “I liked the idea of working with someone focussing on the physical side of music. Not so much on chords and tonality, but on texture and atmosphere. This gave me a framework with less concrete references, using words like “dark” or “busy”. I could improvise freely and we would try and catch a particular moment.

Released on Zitstill Records, May 11th 2025
Recorded in Brussels, Horebeke, Morocco and elsewhere, between September 2021 - November 2024

Music, mixing and production by Pepijn Gyssels
Saxophone, flute and clarinet by Ambroos De Schepper
Grand piano on “Sans Loup” by Lou Wéry
Harmonium on “Velours de Tendre” by Tijn Driessen
Mastering and lacquer cut by Anne Taegert at Dubplates & Mastering 
Pressing by Objects Manufacturing
Layout and graphic design by Liselotte Van Daele & Otis Verhoeve
Photography by Willem Mevis

Special thanks to: Stijn Cools, Victor De Greef, De Grote Post

Sans Loup

PiP & Ambroos De Schepper - Sans Loup

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Moodified

This but More

Thick Air (Loidis Reconfiguration)

Hot summer rain hits the cracked pavement in uneven rhythms. A neon sign flickers above a café that never seems to close, its warm white light reflected in the wet ground like a fever dream. The air smells of summer and the world hums with an easy tone, as if the city itself is holding its breath. A light flooded film noir-ish scene, that needs a soundtrack like „POOL JAMS“, the new album of INIT, the Berlin based duo, that already caused quite a stir with their albums for Hivern Discs and Optimo Music. This time, they bring their latest creations out on R.i.O. - a label, with whom they are deeply associated. Their fourth longplayer is a playful one. One that brings trip hopping feelings. That has r’n’b grace, without catering regular trademarks of the genre. Dub, trance, drone, is all there too. Yet, nothing is present in pure definition. Rather suggested, interwoven, or newly twisted in a songwriting style, that haunts and
seduces. On top the voice of Nadia D'Alò dances, steps and hums tempting to the grooves she created with her partner in crime Benedikt Frey. Together they fashioned a record, that, as INIT puts it, is „some kind of old photo from an old dry empty pool that got faded by sunlight “. A dreamy, sunny piece of song art, made for endless smoky LA freeway drives, and other adventures that seek for infinite riddance. You can dream it. You can trance it. You can’t escape it, as soon as it rotates in your dream device for sound and vision.

Text ML

INIT - Pinata

Queen Paramount, DJ and graphic designer from Toulouse, draws deeply from a city ingrained with the legacy of both hardcore continuum and english rave. As a passionate digger, they masterfully weave Mark Fisher's cultural theory into electrifying musical sessions. Hosting "Coredump" on Egregore Radio, they deliver insightful commentary while melding UK bass genres like dubstep and jungle along with messy beats and post-club vibes. 



Queen Paramount @ Kiosk Radio 09.08.2025

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Dreams Beyond Boundaries

PiP - mixing, field recordings & listening

* ZitStill Records
** exploring ear candy with Ambroos De Schepper & C Bliss
*** exploring performative practices with CASA MARMELADA program on Waking Life festival (pt)
**** exploring the night with STITCHES (bxl)