In June 2021, an unmarked package arrived at the Psychic Liberation headquarters. The small box, which had no return address, contained three items: a thumb drive, a printed message from a notes app, and a small satchel of what seemed to be carambola seeds. The note reads: “We were raised in the ashes of time. This is a philosophy of live. Made while sailing the seas of chaos on our humble houseboat, a place you’ll come to know. But do not seek us out. We are gone.”


Unwilling to risk a computer virus, or humor what was maybe a prank, the thumb drive sat on a shelf for a number of weeks. Eventually, label head Nick Klein decided to take it to the Royal Library of the Netherlands and open its contents on a computer there, just in case.


The thumb drive was titled jd swift. It’s unclear whether this is the artist’s name, the title of the album, or both. The recording opens with an alien spaghetti western: a chopped voice and wobbly single note, signaling that this is a strange place. The percussion is directionless at first, but warbled samples, including the nostalgic clink of getting a coin in Donkey Kong, give way to mutant structure.


Distorted twinkles, dubby hats, and big paranoid kicks occasionally swirl into lo-fi hurricanes, but mostly this music resides in the calm but weirdly charged eye of the storm.


Though little can be assumed about the context of these sonic creations, they seem to be the result of extended jams. The toolbox includes broken arpeggiations and fuzzed bells, air horns and watery pannings. This is twisted globalism, a nexus of serenity and catastrophe, a series of unrecognizable landscapes that read like field recordings though they are intentional creations. The inscrutability of their delivery captures perfectly the sense that artists are no longer individuals or collectives—they are circuits of larger machinery.


Meandering between sounds, these sui generis recordings don’t quite fit the categories of contemporary electronic music. Junk ambient, marginal acid… it’s a struggle to appropriately describe the sounds. Part of this difficulty comes from the artist’s (or artists’) purposefully self-effacing strategy, a circumventing of the systems that edify and circulate art based on identity, practice, and vision. Indeed, this is one of the reasons PL was strangely attracted to these recordings in the first place.


All eight of the individual pieces that make up jd swift are untitled, but are labelled with the time at which they start in the recording. The first track is titled 0:00. Does this hint at new beginnings, or a stance against time itself? If you find yourself on a coast, keep an eye out for a houseboat. Its occupants may know the answer. 
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releases October 7, 2021

Mastered by Glyn Maier

Graphic Design and Art by Germán Enrique Caceres Cueto

Psychic Liberation, in operation since 2018, is an experimental music label started in Brooklyn, New York, currently based in Berlin, Germany.

DISTRIBUTED IN THE UNITED STATES BY FANTASTIQUE LLC.

JD SWIFT

PURCHA$E

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My spouse is in a band with a mountain cowherd. Together they have just released their second album, which can be found on the Mangel label. NTOAB is delighted to invite you to listen to "ke pàtscht", an uncertain lullaby for empty pockets and light wallets. Achtung - Song in Alsatian 

Out on Mangel : https://mangelrecords.bandcamp.com
On the : 20/10 
IG - https://www.instagram.com/uberspannung_/

NTOAB Jeez is - Überspannung - Ke Pàscht

AKWARD w/ SOPHULATE Muslimgauze Special Mix - 03/11/2023

For the February 2024 edition of Romance Relic's Windbreak show, they invite a Portuguese musician Canadian Rifles (Rui P. Andrade). Known for his musical and curatorial output via the Eastern Nurseries label and musical releases floating between ambient and noise, most recent being a collaborative album with Lisbon-based artist Aires (Bruno Perreira). Canadian Rifles presents a mix reflective of his recent contemporary sonic inspirations.

Windbreak w/ Romance Relic, Canadian Rifles

EM007 - Spivak - Violences

A mesh of sculptural sounds, pop poetics and folklore, referencing a DIY slacker spirit.

The Cyprus based musician and sound-artist is set to release ‘Violences’, a 4-track EP, on Electroménager in March 2024.

@mspivak
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Release date: 14.03.24
Pre-order: electromngr.bandcamp.com

Music composed & produced by Maria Spivak
Quilt by Picnicfatal
Creative direction by Yanni Caloghiris

Violences

EM007 - Spivak - Violences (SNIPPETS)

My name is Manja Ristić, and you are listening to the Framework radio International Women’s Day special.

> https://frameworkradio.net/2024/03/880-2024-03-10/

In this edition you will hear sounds and creators from South Africa, Marocco, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Iran, China, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, and Columbia; Spain, Greece, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, and Slovenia; from UK, Australia, USA, Germany, Italy, and Ireland; with aporee sounds of morning prayer in Ramallah, and bird’s song from Jerusalem – I am taking you for a journey around the Globe presenting the real sonic history of the world, the one told by girls and women. From place to place and from heart to heart, these voices hold the space together, storytelling from the shadows of oppression and discrimination, with wounds inflicted by systematic neglect, poverty, and wars – these authors speak the truth and nothing but the truth.

I am deeply humbled to present works by fierce creators, researchers, mothers, activists, freedom fighters, tribal elders, and one famous nun, life-long expats, and former sex workers; extraordinary versatility, and contemporaneity of their sound, being their common denominator, is what will mark this International Women’s Day Framework mix.

[ artist – release – track ]

Zayaan Khan – Ephesus at Fajr
Li Yilei – Pillow, Mantra and Trance
aporee.maps – Birds of Jerusalem, April 7th 2012
Kei Watanabe – Whisperings – 03 A whole in my heart
Elyse Tabet – seaside – 06 Sequel – live to tell (with Nadine Makarem)
Maria Papadomanolaki aka Dalot – Departures – 11 Unknown Parks, Unknown Cities
Concepción Huerta – The Earth Has Memory – 02 The Crack is Illuminated
Ana María Romano G. – A mundanear que el mundo se va a acabar
Chantelle Gray – On the lower frequencies, I dream
Eruption Duo – Eruption 20 Years – 07 Worms
Hara Alonso – Notions of Hope – 02 Notion 2
Maryam Sirvan and Hadi Bastani – trans.placed – 01 trans.placed
Assoc. Lalla Rkia Ali o Hmad (Timgharin N’Tiznit) – Salamou Alaykoum ⵚⴰⵍⴰⵎoⵓ ⵄⵍⴰⵢⴽoⵓⵎ
Ester Kärkkäinen aka Himukalt – the gun in her mouth
Robertina Šebjanič – Aqua Atmo Adriatic, 10 meters deep
Cynthia Zaven – Untuned 
Gail Priest – elbejée – aötebe 
Manja Ristić – tailless tarantella lifted its head – Vrnik 
Marija Balubdžić Umbra – Derealized – 05 B1 Sreda
Belinda Blignaut and Jacques van Zyl – Mud Rites
aporee.maps – morning prayer in Ramallah
Katharina Schmidt – Another Year – 02 september. the first sweater of the fall
Beatriz Ferreyra – UFO Forest + – 04 Vivencias def
Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru – Jerusalem – 01 Famine Disaster 1974
Manja Ristić – Bunur Bridge, Neretva River – hydrophone
Florconvenas – Donde hundimos nuestros nombres – 01 Para detonar
Stella Veloce – Saturday 
Natalia Beylis & Eimear Reidy – She Came Through the Window to Stand by the Door – 03 Encircled in Moss
Meghan Judge – heterodyne relations – gaia intrudes
Talulah Lotus – Horrorphone 
Manja Ristić – rain from the bag in the big forest
Youmna Saba – Ritha’
Pheobe riley Law – cove – 01 cove
Verónica Cerrotta – Camadas verticales – 01 Camadas verticals
Jasna Veličković – Shadow Study #4A
Ava Rasti – Apranik Records – Eight Night
aporee.maps / Birds of Jerusalem – April 7th 2012

Framework IWD 2024 —— Manja Ristić

PSYCHIC LIBERATION SHOW ON MONTEZ PRESS RADIO MARCH 2024 w/ ANGELO HARMSWORTH, FLORA YIN WONG

info + tracklist: https://radio.syg.ma/episodes/sarab-toufan-5-hertz

سراب / Sarab

سراب / Sarab – Toufan 5.Hertz

featured artists: https://radio.syg.ma/episodes/unline-frequencies-earshot-xiv
https://soundcloud.com/dmitriborn

Unline Frequencies

Unline Frequencies – Earshot XIV

On the occasion of the release of her new album on the Patience/Impatience label, titled "Odd Balade", we are very pleased to welcome one of our best friends Tryphème for the fourteenth installment of crying is softer than you think.

tracklist:
Tryphème - Intro 
Princess Diana Of Wales - Still Beach 
Roy Montgomery - Used To 
Ashan - Wyn
Tomasz Bednarczyk - Feline Fantasia
Steve Hauschildt - Vicinities
Mike Midnight - Smiling In Slow Motion 
Tryphème - In Digital Forest ( Float Like A Butterfly, Sting Like A Bee)
Rick Cuevas - Circles Of The Rain
Egopusher - Bloodred 
Maud Vos - Unearthed ( Tryphème remix ) 
Lali Puna - Fast Forward 
Kenny Morris - Le Testament d’Auguste Rodin 
Sevendeaths - And Another Another
Tryphème - Sandy Family 
Yung Lean & Bladee - Things Happen
Yves Cloutier & Richard Toupin - La Rose Et Le Souffle 

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Noods Radio #14 - crying is softer than you think - Tryphème (28/04/24)

New show alert by Charles aka CS/Z. Playing ambient to beatless or experimental.

CS/Z at WAV | 02-05-24

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

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

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