First single from Vanessa Amara "Music for Acoustic Instruments & Feedback" Out May 28th as Posh Isolation 249

The beguiling yet inviting music of Vanessa Amara has long presented studies and invocations of ambient music and experimental sound practices with a graceful relief. Their  latest album, 'Music for Acoustic Instruments & Feedback,' is a collection of unedited live recordings from 2016-2020. It charts a formal path for creation, and in doing so manufactures their most dazzlingly beautiful album to date.

Vanessa Amara is a duo from Copenhagen. More recently they've forged links to Coomkeen, Ireland. Together, Birk Gjerlufsen and Sebastián Santillana have released a small plenty of recordings, with their 2016 album 'You're Welcome Here' bringing them into a critical orbit with contemporary experimental music and earning them much-deserved recognition. A cluster of releases followed that took their intricately rendered worlds into new constellations and alignments with the suite of instruments that they recurrently call upon. Last year's 'Leopards' and 'Poses' introduced a daring alacrity to the dreamy forms one may associate with Vanessa Amara, suggesting a wealth of silhouettes and wicked suns.

'Music for Acoustic Instruments & Feedback' hints at a similar mischief through its inventive formal strategy, accompanying ideas, and charged theatre, yet it pursues the melancholic kernel at the heart of the project more intently than any previous release.

The album's title is descriptive of the album's process. Utilising an arrangement of microphones, speakers, and tape machines, Vanessa Amara created a system that allowed them to work with acoustic feedback. In the group's own words, "We don’t have a studio or a piano, so instead we work briefly in other peoples' homes or in any room made available to us. Each of these rooms, what is within them and how the instruments resonate there, is what generates the sound." With piano, accordion, pipe organ, carillon, and bells, this system generates an exquisite space of delicately placed harmonics and sweet ricochets.

The track 'Accordion' captures a passing all-terrain vehicle from inside a church—it's these kinds of bizarre juxtapositions that are found at the edges of the album, refracting the heart-aching meditations and formal constraints with a novel spontaneity. However, at the core of the album's making is feedback. As Vanessa Amara explain, "The autonomy of the feedback is critical as it demands an improvisational relationship to the shaping of sound. We wish to trigger a capacity for refusal of perfection forcing awareness. Our hope is that the transparency that we believe improvisation holds a capacity for can at once connect and nourish solidarity, provoking movement as well as continuity in and between our, as well as our audience's, collective and individual labour in life."

The resulting shapes and figments rustle a new wonderous bearing, making 'Music for Acoustic Instruments & Feedback' an elegant transformation in the project's evolution.

Posh Isolation 249 
Mastered by John Hannon

Tracklist
1. Bells 01:11 
2. Piano & Accordion I 07:35 
3. Accordion 06:52 
4. Piano & Two Tape Loops 05:47 
5. Pipe Organ 07:22 
6. Piano & Accordion II 02:19 
7. Cembalo & Carillon 05:27 
8. Piano, Bells & Two Reversed Tape Loops 05:32

Music for Acoustic Instruments & Feedback

Vanessa Amara - Piano, Bells & Two Reversed Tape Loops

• read and written by Hannah Jones

• sound by Aleksandra Zakharenko
http://zakharenko.es/

Hannah Jones – for those forged in water nothing sticks

Listen to the flow of the healing sounds as they surround you and fill you up with joy of wholeness


Healing within

piece by piece 8.23.25

Vu du Dôme released by Editions Gravats the 6Th april 2018

Èlg - Hourra - from "Vu du Dôme" LP - Editions Gravats - 2018

Breeze

RONCE - LOLITA
(DAWN010)
100 limited copies
7inch

@itsronce
Produced by Zoë Villerd
Mastered at Studio Martyrs
Photo by Gabriel Cautain
Design by Hajj
Dawn Records 2019

Ronce - Lolita

Available on July 9 in digital and limited-edition cassette at:
bambooshows.bandcamp.com/

6 months after releasing the first episode of its compilation tapes, Lyon-based label Bamboo Shows is about to deliver the second chapter of the series, featuring 14 artists on a 90-minute cassette to promote audio sophrology, 90’s reminiscences, psychedelic atmospheres and tribal breaks.

Once again, head-honcho @erevandj aimed to present a distinct yet complementary vibe on each side, leaving the exotic and ecstatic atmosphere of the BST001 for a more introspective and darker curation.

Including poetic and melancholic productions from Italian Lamusa II, Swedish Golden Ivy, English Wåveshåper (one of the many projects of Greg Hunter), Russian Misha Sultan, Spanish Entten, German Airchina and local talent Vague Imaginaires, the A-Side highlights dreamy new age, delicate neo-folk and ethereal kosmische-kraut, considerably inspired by the 70s-80s wave.

Yet, this gentle path drawn by the A-Side will slowly lead the listener to some more percussive, tribal and dubby materials as the B-Side shows a twisted and wild tension, aroused by gloomy works from Lyon gems Jonquera & HLM38, Venezuelan Bear Bones, Lay Low, German Vector Trancer, Serbian Andria, British Angel Hunt & Lou Venturini, and will perfectly come to an esoteric end with the closing track by Komodo Kolektif.

Concurrently with this limited release of 150 cassettes, the label is reissuing 50 copies of the BST001, Featuring renowned RAMZi, Niklas Wandt, Star Searchers' Spencer Clark, DJ Ungel & DJ Rasputin and local heroes Eiger Drums Propaganda, Christian Coiffure, Jacques Satre or Lastrack.

& also a limited edition-series of black or white T-shirts with artwork from Dima Rabik to celebrate or collaboration with the Russian Artist on this second release.

Available on July 9 in digital and limited-edition cassette at:
bambooshows.bandcamp.com/

TRACKLIST:
A1. Lamusa II – D'Aria (@lamusalamusa)
A2. Vague Imaginaires – Louis' Boat (@youpidoumusic)
A3. Golden Ivy – Till Jorden (@golden-ivy)
A4. Entten – Fonts Ufanes (@entten)
A5. Airchina – Mothermold (@airchina)
A6. Misha Sultan – 2562 (@mishasultan)
A7. Wåveshåper – Expansion Phase II (@dubsahara)
B1. HLM38 – Une Suze avec Anna (@hlm38)
B2. Bear Bones, Lay Low – Oruguero (@bearboneslaylow)
B3. Angel Hunt & Lou Venturini – Dessert Vents (@greenbelt999)
B4. Jonquera – Président Baker
B5. Vector Trancer – Uranus Crypt Haunt (@vectortrancer)
B6. Andria – Shandumir (@androan97)
B7. Komodo Kolektif – The Reptile (@komodokolektif)

CREDITS:
Mastering: Guillaume Lespinasse
Artwork: Dima Rabik
Design: Loïs Markarian
A&R: Erevan DJ

LINKS:
Bandcamp: bambooshows.bandcamp.com/
SoundCloud: www.soundcloud.com/bambooshows/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/bambooshows/
Web: www.bambooshows.com
Discogs: www.discogs.com/fr/label/1732183-Bamboo-Shows
YouTube: bit.ly/bambooshows-yt
Mixcloud: www.mixcloud.com/bambooshows/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/erevan_bamboo/
Contact: bambooastruth@bambooshows.com

Bamboo Shows Tapes 002

Fonts Ufanes

Download & Buy Tape

A4. Entten - Fonts Ufanes (BST002)

Split release by Piper Spray and Lena Tsibizova — two musicians whose sound can be described as bedroom electronics or low-fi ambient. Lena and Piper Spray are also members of the Air Krew collective along with their third bandmate Sergey Podluzhny, who is on mastering duties for this record.

Following the first track’s title, the album begins with a nostalgic synthesizer melody which pours on the listener like rays of the midday sun, bringing forward recollections of a pleasant half-forgotten time. However, memory not only holds the serene and nostalgic — it can also evoke painful and anxious images or even mislead its carrier by synthesizing new details and meanings.

The album seems to be transforming in a similar pattern. Arrhythmic beats, glitchy effects and faint voices — like spores of the unconsciousness that break through shallow sleep and fill the gaps in memory — gradually come forward, taking over the melodic element. By the second half of the record, the naive nostalgia disintegrates into distant echoes and the sound takes the form of a collage which almost sounds like magnetic tape experiments.

Despite the difference in tone and techniques, the two tracks here are not antagonists. They complement each other, presenting memory mechanisms and the experience of acute reflection in different colors.

Music — Piper Spray, Lena Tsibizova
Mastering — Sergey Podluzhny
Artwork — Lena Tsibizova

Recorded in the wastelands of Kudrovo.

Buy: https://radiosygma.bandcamp.com/album/piper-spray-lena-tsibizova

Piper Spray / Lena Tsibizova

sleepinginamiddaysun

Taken from Maxwell Sterling - Laced With Rumour: Loud-Speaker of Truth
LP/Download [ELP050] 
Ecstatic Recordings, 24/04/2020

Weaving an intricately detailed tapestry of meditative, spiritual jazz and dream electronics, Maxwell Sterling’s astonishing second album ‘Laced With Rumour: Loud-Speaker Of Truth’ blooms in the gaps between Don Cherry, Talk Talk and Kara-Lis Coverdale, gently coaxing us into a trance- like reverie where the real and artificial morph into one pulsing organism.

Originating as a multi-channel installation commissioned by Nottingham Contemporary in 2018, the four extended pieces here were recorded at home in Morecambe Bay and then subsequently placed in a room alongside works by Moki Cherry (spouse of Don, mother of Neneh and Eagle-Eye Cherry), Penny Slinger, and a collection of static musical instruments the piece was intended to complement. As a follow-up to Sterling’s 2017 cult hit ‘Hollywood Medieval’ for The Death of Rave, ‘Laced With Rumour’ works with notably more fluid and gently psychoactive structuring that takes in seemingly disparate influences - from Roman mythology to Nottingham’s Lace industry - that results in a sprawling but intimate world of sound, characterised by aetheric arrangements that effectively elide the disciplines of spiritual jazz, chamber music, and art installation into something altogether new.

Much like Kara-Lis Coverdale’s converging interests in traditional vs hyper-modern, acoustic vs artificial and synthetic modes of sound, Sterling’s work here is fluid and unorthodox, but rooted in a deep understanding of convention which he proceeds to bend and re-shape at will. The album opens with a slowly contemplative and almost solemn drift between ‘Laced’, which features samples of Don Cherry weft into its tingling fray of electro-acoustic timbres, alongside the breezy chamber strokes of ‘With Rumour’, the hallucinogenic qualities of ‘Loud-Speaker’, and the darker revelation ‘Of Truth’, which concludes with a transition from mired murk to tones that channel Maxwell’s refined cinematic nous.

One of those albums that seems impossible to fully absorb in one sitting, listening to ‘Laced With Rumour...’ takes you from a swirl of brushed cymbals into harpsichord shimmers, passages of solo piano brushing up against the deepest subs - like a more bruised and flipped Sakamoto + Alva Noto collab, to Arthur Russell’s ‘World Of Echo’ slowly descending into synthesised madness. It’s a rich and stunning meditation for our time.

Maxwell Sterling - Laced [ELP050]

"i am a room with a big glass window" 
@perila

from a self-released collection "reflections"
https://perilazone.bandcamp.com/album/reflections

perila – everything aligns in gentleness

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