I made this piece during the winter months when I spent most of my days alone, digging into archives, collecting some forgotten scraps from old tape loops together and melting them with what felt present at the time, those soundscapes that vibrate most beautifully in deep silence.

It consists of two parts - one corresponding to the setting process, the other to resetting, it tells story of leaving traces and covering them up.

Trace had its very first premiere on May 6 at Rewire festival.

Trace

Silvercoat the throng

Nomad (ft. travis)

Composed during a whirlwind period of touring and sound engineering in 2019, 𝑂𝑛𝑙𝑦 functions as both a tranquil refuge and as a heartfelt appreciation for the source instruments' timbres. Berlin-based Bridget Ferrill crystallizes her professional recording experience and artist residencies into a singular focus on Buchla modular, harp, zither, and viola da gamba. Rather than an exercise in technical mastery, Ferrill's careful arrangements invite us to linger with each instrument; in her words, fulfilling the longing to "listen a little longer, a little slower". Every contour of the instruments is lovingly traced, a warm invite for us to join her in the exuberance of exploring their inner life.

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Bridget Ferrill (USA/DE) is a producer and composer of electronic music whose work plays between pattern and noise, exploring augmented instruments, handmade electronics, and experimental computer music. She has participated in residencies at EMS in Stockholm, LungA in Iceland, and the Dirt Palace in Providence, Rhode Island. Recent projects include composing for Staatstheater Cottbus, engineering and performing electronics for Bendik Giske’s live show, designing the Anglerfish drone synthesizer for Common Ground, and creating multimedia installations with composer Áslaug Magnúsdóttir.

Ferrill is also a live and studio engineer with experience working in studios and venues such as Greenhouse Studios in Reykjavik, Machines with Magnets in Providence RI, and at Real Surreal, her own mixing and mastering studio in Berlin.

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Bridget Ferrill - Viola da Gamba (ENXPL10)

Composed during a whirlwind period of touring and sound engineering in 2019, ???? functions as both a tranquil refuge and as a heartfelt appreciation for the instruments highlighted. Berlin-based Bridget Ferrill crystallizes her professional recording experience and artist residencies into a singular focus on Buchla modular, harp, zither, and viola da gamba. Not merely an exercise in technical mastery, Ferrill's careful arrangements invite us to linger with each instrument; in her words, fulfilling the longing to "listen a little longer, a little slower". Every contour of the instruments is lovingly traced, a warm invite for us to join her in the exuberance of exploring their inner life.

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ENXPL10 - BRIDGET FERRILL - A2. HARP

Bezodyna remix  by Flora Yin Wong (@floraytw). Taken from Katarina Gryvul (@katarina-gryvul) new album Tysha, out February 9, 2022, via Standard Deviation (@standard-deviation)

Read: https://bit.ly/3ghtnvj
Pre-order: https://bit.ly/3GffPuQ

TYSHA (Ukrainian for silence) is the second longplayer of Ukrainian-born, Poland-bread and Austria-based multi-instrumentalist and singer Katarina Gryvul. Following her enigmatic song ”In Coma”, which released in 2020 on Standard Deviation, Gryvul delivers an 8-track long album of blooming, emotional and tactile electronica pop ballads, resulting in an intensely personal journey into the artist's inner world at the most silent time of her life.

In an attempt to deal with her decaying perception of reality and the overwhelming sense of isolation caused by the experience of global pandemic, Gryvul finds refuge in silence. She is mesmerized by the all-consuming absence of sound, and the many ways in which silence can be perceived: silky, enveloping, calm, but also caustic, fractured and sharp. TYSHA was written entirely during the pandemic. Gryvul describes that being surrounded by people during that challenging period started feeling like ”a potential threat” and as something unnatural and artificial.” She says: “It made me feel like I was torn between two realities, virtual and real, and did not belong to any of them”.

TYSHA sounds imminently disturbing, yet soft, with ghostly harmonics, tempis and a wide variety of musical and lyrical influences. The album feeds from ”something that has already vanished” - a feeling of longing in a moment of uncertainty, crystallized in balladic writing and subtle elven-like soundscapes.

Gryvul, who usually works with classical instruments, now explores a more electronic sound with beats and apparent beatgrid structure, referencing the environment in which what once felt natural and organic started feeling artificial and synthetic. Varying in tempo, moods and instruments, TYSHAcreates an emotional journey, exploring different forms of silence, representing the tension between the virtual and the real world and reflecting Gryvul’s feelings of hostility and alienation in contrast with her longing for connection.

The album is supported with remixes by London-based artist Flora Yin-Wong, contributing on ”Bezodnya” with an ethereally soft and lyrically poetic rework and Belgian experimentalist Maoupa Mazzocchetti reinterpreting ”Tysha” as a gloomy, ecstatic and roaring piece for the dance floor.

Artwork photography by Sam Clarke

Art Direction and logo design by RAM

Mastered by UTC+16, Kyiv

Released by Standard Deviation

Premiere: Katarina Gryvul - Bezodnya (Flora Yin Wong Remix) [Standard Deviation]

First single from "Istmo", a new album to be released by Colectivo Casa Amarela in April.

Sal Grosso - Fraga

aircode - Surface Tension

𝘈𝘯 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘴. 𝘑𝘰𝘪𝘯 𝘶𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘦𝘯𝘫𝘰𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴.


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Friday September 1st 2023 Rhizome releases and celebrates the compilation album 'Hypersea'. (Pre-)order via: https://rhz000.bandcamp.com/album/hypersea

The compilation album takes its point of departure with the text ‘Hydrofeminism - Or, On Becoming a Body of Water’ by Astrida Neimanis and contains 18 tracks from the Copenhagen underground scene apart from a track from New York namely Laenz who earlier this year released a double single on the label. In each way the artists have interpreted the text by Neimanis and worked with its topics such as water, fluid borders and feminism. 

Alto Aria about the album: “With the current threat of a watering ban in Denmark, increasing pollution and lack of water all over the world, we zoom in on water with this album. We wish to follow Neimanis’ thread about water and feminism – she teaches us that we and our identity, like the fluid borders of the oceans, always are negotiable and never fixed. With the compilation we celebrate water and its essential role in our lives. Whether it is through the lens of clean drinking water, an identity in flux, dying fish, the western pollution level or something completely different, we wish this album to be a reflection over and a get together around what we all depend on.” 

The album has become a sonic collage of a watery quest, fast footsteps, shifting and fragmented choir pieces, broken beats and hearts, soothing synthesisers, harsh wind, caring bodies, uplifting beats, polyphonic saxophones and long reverbs. Hypersea is curated by Alto Aria and presents works by Hôy la, ilinx, Saltmother, Julia Becker, ill, Angel Wei, Lyra Valenza, Faber, Jason Lee, Bysund, Holger Seidelin, Astrid Nørgaard, KRY, Laenz, Varnrable, Messell, Skarv and Alto Aria. 

Rhizome is a Copenhagen/Berlin based label started in 2020 by Aria Leth Schütze and Mads Krue Bugge. The primary focus of the label is experimental electronic music and alternative release formats. Rhizome has released music by artists such as Alto Aria, Skarv, Swell, Polly, Nemo, ioulus, Laenz, Ida Urd, and ill as well as the compilation album bag/belly/box. So far Rhizome has presented music and artists in Copenhagen at Øen, Alice, Mayhem, and Christianshavns Beboerhus.

https://soundcloud.com/rhz000
https://soundcloud.com/altoaria
https://soundcloud.com/skarv6

Hypersea

Pre-order

Premiere: Alto Aria, Skarv - Bold Coral [Rhizome]

APPX:02

Artist: @vasesound
Album/EP: Variations

Tracklist:
01 Striph
02 Three Trees
03 Gemelos
04 Teser

Music written & produced by Jorge Camacho
Mastered by Ike Zwanikken
Design by Amos Turner & Ike Zwanikken
Release date: 28/09/2020

Released by: APPX: (Appendix.files) subsidiary of INDEX:Records

Contact: indexrecords@cyborgorgy.com

digis & lathes

APPX:02 - Vase - Variations (previews)

From ANM053 Patiño Actually Laughing Out Loud
Release October 30th, 2020

Actually Laughing Out Loud

ANM053 Patiño — Mad Medley

Label ran by @nick-klein
contact: psychicliberation@gmail.com

For the physical and digital purchasing of PSYCHIC LIBERATION/PRIMITIVE LANGUAGES :
www.psychicliberation.bandcamp.com

Distributed in the USA by Fantastique
Distributed in UK/EU by Industrial Coast
Distributed in RU by Stellage Store
Distributed in Japan by Tobira Records
Distributed in South Korea by Rope Editions

ENXPL10 - BRIDGET FERRILL - A2. HARP

PL/PSYCHIC LIBERATION/PAIN LIBERATION

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