Olan Monk - Auto Life
Format: Digital (EP)
Cat. No: CANVAS011
Release Date: 1st October 2021

Watch the video for 'Fameless': https://youtu.be/-xndTe8uWrc

Pre-order Auto Life (EP): canvas-index.bandcamp.com/album/auto-life

‘A farewell to idolatry, where culture is absorbed into nature, like a body back into the fertile soil. Written as a 27 club survivor, lamenting the young dead, no longer young and celebrating the spectral presence of iconised peers. Reflexive and self-aware of the problem of over-identifying with the fictional performance of the solo act in various guises or archetypes: the rockstar or trapstar. Auto Life is a practical attempt at a weird re-hybridisation of otherwise seemingly divergent strands of popular music, conflating stylisations usually segregated by genre.

Auto Life was written as a collection of songs for eventual live performance. Recording music is absurd—an act in which you initially perform to no-one. The inclusion of a sample of crowd noise in ‘Fameless’ is the music studio equivalent of a laugh track being added to the soundtrack of a sitcom—unable to give up on disappearing horizons completely and imagining another context for performance in which an actual audience beyond the performer is present.

Autotune Punk—as a music of antagonism that resists from within, bending the lanes of a machine that flattens out the vocal performance to a given scale. I can still express feeling—even angst—but the machine doesn’t care. Refusing its own funeral, emulating the dead—it’s a Rock simulacrum. A renewably performed myth. I broke the spell. I just heard it as it was. The sacred framing of presence makes the pop idol always-already-dead by turning them into a symbol and an image—undead, un-ageing and endlessly reproducible within a commercialist visual culture.

The music which I would grow up listening to would later become a tool towards first facing, maybe later dismantling—or at least bending—the structures in which music was still being written, performed and recorded into existence. My emulation of and interest in pop—and popular—music is not in irony. I love this music—yet I question the context and conditions through which it has come to exist and continues to change shape. Opening up the horizon of pop to a new kind of strangeness, where the familiarity of the pop song disappears into blissful distortions and mixed signifiers towards a world in-between, otherwise unknown’.

— @olanmonk

Written, performed and recorded by Olan Monk

‘Bruised Fruit’ features an instrumental recording by Jam City, additional production and vocals written and performed by Elvin Brandhi
‘Burnout’ features an instrumental recording by Jam City

Tracks 01–07 mastered by Ali Najafi
Tracks 08 and 09 mastered by Jam City

Artwork by Ewa Awe

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Auto Life

Olan Monk - Fameless

Ewa Awe- Hair

Whisper

original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E935Od_J4fw

Physically Sick

My Sorrow Is Luminous

For this compilation, original recordings and stems of “The Idealist”, a song on Soho Rezanejad’s recent full-length album Six Archetypes, were sent to friends and collaborators. What resulted are 25 wildly variant remixes by a community of artists.

The Idealist Compilation:
https://siliconerecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-idealist-compilation

The Idealist music video:
https://youtu.be/A8bn3zPrzrs

“The Idealist Compilation” by Various Artists was mastered by Miccel Mohr and released on Silicone Records, 2018.

The Idealist Compilation

SKY H1 & Soho Rezanejad - The Idealist

Official Video by Camille Doussy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dM5QpTKKOA

Water for your eyes

"Yoyogi Park" Out Now!

The first single from upcoming Croatian Amor album "All In The Same Breath" out Digitally June 19th and on LP August 14th.

https://smarturl.it/AllInTheSameBreath
https://poshisolation.bandcamp.com/
https://poshisolation.net/

Croatian Amor "All In The Same Breath" 

The different seeds that have been planted throughout the life of Croatian Amor come to bloom on 'All In The Same Breath,' affirming an equilibrium that's all its own. Spiraling through the half-lightelectronics are gentle bumps and breaks that are layered into moments of elevation. A coarse edge remains just an arm's length away, but there is an unmistakable element of celebration throughout the album's 10 tracks. As the syncopated terrains ring out, their perpetual rhythmic motions call a medley of human voices that speak in security. They sing to everyone just as they sing to themselves.

In the years since the seminal Croatian Amor album 'Love Means Taking Action' Loke Rahbek has strode a twofold path. There are the delicate, meditative compositions that he has made with Frederik Valentin; setting acoustic instrumentation against affecting digital treatments, each of their collaborative albums are an exercise in the magnificence of subtle restraint. And with the sharpest of turns you'll find Rahbek's parallel universe of rave-shocked rhythms and kinetic helixes that eddy through genre and tempo with few constraints. Collaborations with Varg²™ have yielded the wildest of this, and remain ongoing, yet the traces were already apparent across much of the previous Croatian Amor album 'Isa' with its treated vocalizations and cascading rhythmic mechanics.

'All In The Same Breath,' arrives as a steady handed synthesis of these divergent instincts. Elaborating the distinct techniques and themes that form the wistful essence of the project, the album's quiet composure is a sign that these familiarities have been set adrift to settle into their own private ecosystem.

Small vessels travel in a perfect array. Light following shadows, following light. Every movement a signal, every second is camouflage.

'All In The Same Breath' is perhaps more than anything an invitation to be open to wonder.

Tracklist:

1. New Morning 02:46
2. Yoyogi Park 03:59
3. Young 04:06
4. A Name For Afternoon 01:02
5. Jonathan 03:14

6. No End To New Moments 02:33
7. Fires In The Dark 03:45
8. All In The Same Breath 02:14
9. Same Light Reflects 04:56
10. The River That Flows In You Also Flows In Me 06:32

Recorded 2019 & 2020 - Croatian Amor is 1989.

Additional production by Malthe Fischer on track 2
Piano by Frederik Valentin on track 10
Mixing assistance Mads Bergland & Malthe Fischer
Mastered by John Hannon
Photo by Jakob Emdal

Posh Isolation 238


”I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.”
- Hafiz of Shiraz

Croatian Amor - Yoyogi Park

Exitloop

Ayin, the indigo goat, the son of the forces of time, became the lord of the knowledge gates, when he lighted up the lamp of the moke with the 26 black diamond delivered by the musk and burned the orchid root.

Samekh, the light-blue hippogriff, the daughter of the reconcilers. She had the heritage of being the bearer of life when one day she received the stanchion of Visnuh. Therefore she headed to the mountain of Apollo, who impressed on her the fate of destroying the dog-headed centaur. As the oracle predict, she burned him in the aloe wood, as a gift for the blue rush, and she saw the temperance, like a breath of wind, spreading allover the earth.

Today Ayin and Samekh, the devil and the temperance, after having gone up the 90.900 steps of the stars, enter the house of Zaddi, the daughter of the firmament, she who dwells between the waters, to manifest theirselves as human, eagle and peacock.



The day of the great conjunction,
when Saturn and Jupiter enter Aquarius, the double negation, the neither neither.
Entering the no-nonsense season,
light a purple candle,
the nights now begins to grow shorter,
the sun enters Capricorn,
marked by the six of swords.



Our aim is the death of the anthropocene.


♅ ♄ ♃  ￼￼♒︎ 

꧁꧂



Written & Produced by Heith
Strings & Artwork by VISIO

21122020 (Strings Of Visio)

@poshisolation
Read more: pw-magazine.com/2021/premiere-frederik-valentin-magic/

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Premiere: Frederik Valentin »Magic« [Posh Isolation]

ccontrary pits angular club structures against yearning woodwind on Mun Sing's Illegal Data imprint.

'Illegal Data Compilation #2' is out February 26th.

Pre-order: bit.ly/2ZpwAQR

@ccntrr
@illegaldata

Premiere: ccontrary - Gasp [Illegal Data]

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https://poshisolation.bandcamp.com/
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