~ LAAPS 012 ~ [SEQ.02 - LP12]

artist : Federico Durand
album : Herbario
duration : 39.52 mn
 date : June 17th, 2021

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 300 copies / green colored vinyl / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 200 copies / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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pre-order : June 07th, 2021 / official release : June 17th, 2021
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Federico Durand: ARP Odyssey, cassette tapes, feedback looper, Sony TCM-459V, Microcosm, El Capistan, EHX 2880, RE-201, sampler, short-wave radio.
 
Mastered by Taylor Deupree.
Artwork by Albarrán Cabrera
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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"Herbario is the Spanish name given to a collection of dried plants and flowers preserved in an album. The collector usually writes with pencil the name of the herb, the place and date of collection, thoughts, and the habitat where the plant was collected from.
 
I live in a place surrounded by mountains and wild gardens which are, to me, a source of inexhaustible beauty. Through them I feel the passage of time: an ancient, circular temporality that follows the course of seasons, dialogues with the dark stillness of the mountain and the moon calendar. Each musical piece of Herbario has the name of my favourite flowers and trees.
 
Through a year of uncertainty, from March 2020 to March 2021, I composed this album in the same way a botanist would have proceeded: collecting and preserving simple, broken and hypnotic melodies.
 
F. D.
La Cumbre, Argentina. "

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Links :
https://laaps-records.com/
https://www.facebook.com/laaps.records/
https://federicodurand.bandcamp.com/

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Federico Durand - Salvia

The North Water (Original Score)

Left On The Ice

Seasick

On Repetitions, New York-based Swiss artist and composer @samuelreinhard brings us close enough to a piece of music that its systematic nature begins to buckle and fade. Across four movements, three pianos pursue their own respective threadbare motifs, which overlap at the hands of a predetermined ratio of duration. What unfolds—at first glance slow, melancholic, deliberate, even plain—is a study of repetition’s in-betweens, populated by unexpected resonances and delicate traces of notes in the process of being played by human hands. The three pianos are not in sync, but are nevertheless in relation, the nature of which shifts with the listener’s orientation and attention. Each piece within Repetitions arrives as a constant whole, containing harmonies and silences that are in a never-ending process of unfurling.
 
Repetitions is a joint release from @hallowground and Präsens Editionen and follows offerings by @Kali-Malone , @lawrence-english , and FUJI | | | | | | | | | | TA  on Hallow Ground, and Robert Turman, @magda-drozd , and Anna Homler on Präsens Editionen.

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Music by Samuel Reinhard

Performed by @vincentyuenruiz , Margaux Oswald and Paul Jacob Michel Fossum
Recorded by Juan Felipe Arce Bayona at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen, Denmark
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu | Schwebung Mastering

Artwork by Jeff Rossi
Layout by Coline Houot
Typeface by Kaj Lehmann

This release was made possible with the generous support of the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, Kultur Stadt Bern, Swisslos Kultur Kanton Bern, Burgergemeinde Bern, and Migros Culture Percentage.

© & ℗ Hallow Ground & Präsens Editionen 2022
HG2205 / PE-029

Samuel Reinhard - Repetitions (for Three Pianos) III

Recording of Tornado Sirens in the distance tonight in Atlanta GA. The sounds of the strong winds and rain can be heard moving through the trees creating for a eerie atmosphere.  

Short recording made with the Neumann RSM-191 A/S and Sound Devices 702 Digital Recorder at 24-bit 96khz. Recorded at Midnight April 27th 2011. 



Eerie Recording of Tornado Sirens.

Monochrome

Love Of Tomorow

Svarte Greiner - Knive (2017 re-issue) coming oct. 6th. on Miasmah

11 years since it´s inception, the surreal and darkly romantic Knive still sounds like a mystery and something that´s hard to pin down. Svarte Greiner´s debut album feels like a trip into the forest at midnight, with all the sounds and impressions that comes with it. Spiritual, horrific and fragile in essence, it´s melancholic core is hard to shake off, and feels as present today as it did back then.

While starting off the sub genre of “Accoustic doom” back in 2006, it´s difficult to say what else to name it now, with it´s inspiration and elements from countless genres. The record flows through the dissonant cello´s and washed out vocals of “Ocean out of Wood” past the introverted church organs of “The Black Dress”, distorted guitars and wooden beats of “The Dining Table” to the operatic finalé of “Final Sleep”. Everything scattered with field recordings from crows, branches, walking, sleeping, rain, wind and who knows what. Knive stands on many feet, wherever they may be.

Erik K Skodvin´s path as Svarte Greiner have since been dwelling more and more into this world, picking each element apart to focus on them, stretching them out or cutting them down, looping, experimenting and flooding with reverb - trying to make time stop and night fall. But for now a re-visit to where it all started seems appropriate.

Knive

Svarte Greiner - Ocean out of Wood

”Outer Soundscapes” is consisted of 5 songs full of high range ambiences and drones,which will remind you of some kind of trip through the unknown galaxies, far away from the earth. I really like the basic idea behind this project, cuz you can play these tracks to the hardline fans of noise or,on the other hand, you can still impress all the folks who are into ambient and drone music. Even the rookies who are simply out of this kind of experimentation will enjoy in the tracks such as: ”Secrets Of Zaibatsu Technology”, ”Cosmic”, ”Lost In Endless Space”, ”Fading Through Supernova” & ”Outer Voices”. You can even feel the darkness, emptiness and constant feeling of the unknown while listening to this material. 
... from http://deadtones.wordpress.com/

Artwork [Cover] is product ov neue urform. 
Editions limited to 20 copies.

Marko Jovich-Cosmic

[BD013] 12“ LP & digital
Tomoko Sauvage – Fischgeist (LP)
This is a preview of three songs. You can purchase the whole album (LP & digital) on Bandcamp.

Label: bohemian drips
Release date: October 16th 2020
Genre: Ambient, Sound Art, Experimental

Fischgeist was recorded in a former water tank in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg in August 2019. The nineteenth-century brick building consists of five layered circles, with a spiral staircase in the middle leading up to an exit to a hilltop. Inside, it's humid and cold, the temperature always around 8–10 ℃. The building’s acoustics produce a long reverberation that lasts up to 20 seconds.

‘One day between recording sessions, a man, a passerby, wanted to look inside the building. He told me that it used to be full of fish. For a second I imagined a huge round aquarium with loads of fish swimming around in circles. Then I realized that he meant dead fish were kept there, to be sold on markets during the GDR era. But the image of fish swimming in the space stayed with me.’

In conversation with the space of the water tank, Tomoko Sauvage searches beyond the limits of her self-invented ‘natural synthesizers’: porcelain and glass bowls, filled with water and amplified with hydrophones.

While she continues to develop some of the classic techniques heard on her previous album Musique Hydromantique (Shelter Press, 2017) – hydrophonic feedback (Kinetosis Study) and ‘fortune biscuits’ (porous pieces of terracotta that emit tiny singing bubbles) (Deluge) – here new elements are combined with delicate gestures to make curious noises: stroking bowls’ surfaces to imitate the voices of sea mammals (Metamorphosis), drawing dots and circles by rubbing stones against stones underwater (Exit) …

The underwater amplification of quasi-inaudible sound is even more magnified in the air by the echo of the water tank. Not only tiny bubbles, but also micro-movements of the bones and veins of the hand holding the sonorous objects in the water, are intensely amplified – sounding like a tempest on the opening Deluge.

Sauvage's longtime research into hydrophonic feedback develops with her new obsession with natural harmonics and sympathetic resonance. In Flying Vessels, the percussive notes of struck bowls resonate and turn into feedback loops before decaying, fueled by electric signal gain. Kinetosis Study is a sonic etude on fluid dynamics – the flow velocity, pressure and density of manually shaped water waves directly controlling the aquatic synthesizer's parameters.

August, when the mid-summer Ghost Festival is held, is traditionally known as the Ghost Month throughout East Asia. The spirits of the dead visit their living families, who welcome them with feasts, dancing and music. Miniature lantern-laden boats are released in rivers, to help lost ghosts find their way home.

Animated by formless matter – water, electricity, sound – Fischgeist celebrates a phantasmagoric journey, as the souls of aquatic lifeforms find their way out of the labyrinth of the water tank.

[Tracklist]

Total Runtime: 35:59

Side A (20:36)

A1: Deluge (6:48)
A2: Metamorphosis (6:59)
A3: Flying Vessels (6:49)

Side B (15:23)

B1: Kinetosis Study (12:22)
B2: Exit (3:01)

[Credits]

Composed, performed and mixed by Tomoko Sauvage
Recorded and produced by bohemian drips prior to Speicher festival, Berlin, August 2019 | Binaural recording with a KU 100 dummy head microphone
Mastered by Andreas Kauffelt in Berlin
Cover drawings by Baien Mōri (1798–1851)
Back cover photo by Richard Berger

© Tomoko Sauvage and bohemian drips – all rights reserved
www.bohemiandrips.de | www.o-o-o-o.org

A1 – Deluge

Through Passages Of Clay

Präsens Editionen was founded in 2011 to give home to zweikommasieben Magazin. Ever since a bunch of magazines, books, zines, records, tapes and oddities have been published.

zweikommasieben is a Swiss magazine that has been devoted to the documentation of contemporary music and sounds since the summer of 2011. The magazine features artist interviews, essays and columns as well as photography, illustration and graphics. In addition zweikommasieben curates and organizes a variety of events—for example Ebbing Sounds, a symposium that initially was held in the summer of 2018 in San Francisco, or the biennial London-based festival Oto Nove Swiss.

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