Fire of its own

le rivadin n'a pas fait dou

weihnachtsferien 2023

Violence (Screaming)

Following on from the 2016 Korea Undok Group compilation LP Penultimate Press is proud to release the follow up, Senescence. Covering material recorded in the last two and a half years, this new cd comprises 50% works previously available on private tiny run cassettes and 50% works made for an abandoned lp. Abandoned being a good word to use again here as this collection of barley-there trace element songs and decaying acoustic snapshots will leave the listener with a sensation not so dissimilar to the feeling abandonment conjures.

Please note there has been zero mastering on this release as we wanted it to sound as shit as possible.

Fixed Ending

Ivan Pavlov aka COH pubblica su Noton il suo disco WYGG, un album che gioca su tessuti ritmici e l'interazione tra elettronica e rumore. La traccia "Gear Chill Spell" traccia un equilibrio tra melodie ricercate e suoni minimali.
Artwork by Carsten Nicolai
Buy Link https://noton.info/product/n_002/

WYGG [While Your Guitar Gently]

CoH-Gear Chill Spell-Noton [PREMIERE]

So solo, Vinyl of the same name of the exhibition, brings together covers a thousand times heard, a thousand times hummed in his head. It is the idea of a faulty and liquid interior.
FACE A
1. MANOIR MOLLE - UNE FOIS DANS UNE VIE (TALKING HEADS)
2. LE DIABLE DÉGOÛTANT - LE TEMPS DU TEMPO (FRANCE GALL)
3. DRAGON DU POITOU - ON NE CHANGE PAS (CELINE DION)
4. LUDU DU - KERFUNKY (LIPPS)
FACE B
1. TATIANA KARL PEZ - I SING A SONG TO THE SIREN (THIS MORTAL COIL)
2. 20CENTS - SOY REBELDE (JEANETTE)
3. MANUEL J GROTESQUE - JE CHANTE (CHARLES TRENET)
4. DALIDA CARNAGE - MATERIAL GIRL (MADONNA)

Manoir Molle - Une Fois Dans Une Vie (Talking Heads)

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Catalog #: GN70
February 17, 2023
CASS+DIGI

Over the past few years, Andrew Osterhoudt has quietly curated a slew of comforting kosmische musik that gazes deep into the stars while peering just as deeply inward. Now, the Brooklyn-based composer sets their sights on more tangible artifacts and nearby nuance with 'Out Together', an earthbound fit of maniacal mindfulness mixed with calm chaos.
 
Constructed on a scaffold of juxtaposed symmetry, the two sides of 'Out Together' foil and compliment each other in delicate harmony. Live collaborations with Ka Baird and John Also Bennett (JAB) colligate with manipulated found sounds from records and digital audio files from old broadcasting sound libraries, recontextualized into moments of ambient turntablism. The search for harmony shines throughout. Take the final tones of A-side closer “Runoff” drifting downstream with bubbly textures and arpeggiated bliss, trying to reach harmony with the initial tones of B-side opener “Frequency.” The latter ultimately spotlights a fortuitous flute duet from Baird and JAB born from Osterhoudt’s own graphic score.
 
The patient pointillism and avant assurance of “Crowds” balances out the opposite side’s “Everyone Arriving, Eventually,” a tone poem of sand-like textures flowing through melodic reeds and other sonic detritus. “Undergrowth” awakens in a steam-drenched run of modulated meditation, focusing on Ka Baird’s singularly enraptured vocal exorcisms which perfectly reflect its B-side counterpart “The Breathing Green,” engaged in a din of rustic psychedelia with waves of buzzing, ember-like tones and unseen fauna.
 
As a whole, 'Out Together' presents a vibrant spectrum of feelings ranging from magnified isolation to zoomed-out, wide-angled euphoria.

Andrew Osterhoudt - "Everyone Arriving, Eventually"

Khidja - The Exchange - (digital bonus)

The Peninsula

Peninsula

PREMIERE COMME DES LARMES – CDL

PREMIERE CDL || PTHGN - Cybernetik [Fides Records] (2023)

Artist » PTHGN - https://soundcloud.com/pthgn

Ep Name »   Binary Operation [FIDES017] 

Label » Fides Records - https://soundcloud.com/fidesrecords

Berlin, Germany

Format: ViNYL  + DIGITAL ALBUM

Release date:  June 28, 2023

BUY HERE  >>> https://fidesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/binary-operation-fides017

American DJ and producer PTHGN joins the Fides Records family with his debut EP Binary Operation, marking the 17th release for the label. 
 
The 5-track Binary Operation EP underscores PTHNG's profound grasp of classic Detroit electro. With his lively basslines, pulsating drum breaks, long and dreamy pads, and unique urban vocal snippets, he crafts timeless dancefloor anthems. His use of retro-futuristic electronic leads and SFX adds an edgy dynamism into the EP, further establishing PTHNG as a fresh force to be reckoned with in the electro scene.


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Binary Operation [FIDES017]

PREMIERE CDL || PTHGN - Cybernetik [Fides Records] (2023)

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Sigh In My Ear

Your First Armadillo

All Life Long (for organ)

Trans-Millenia Music

Rain on Ancient Quays

From 'TRACED', Pattern 04, Sonic Pieces, 2017

Swan Song

Taken from:
Not Glass - Forma /  Ήθος LP & download [Ecstatic Recordings, 10/05/2019]

• Immersive, theatrical collab by Not Waving and Jay Glass Dubs, aka Not Glass
• Inspired by quotes by classical ancient Greek/Latin poet-philosophers Ovid & Heraclitus 
• Mystic kosmiche ambient meets inverted dub and tribal rhythms
• Mastered at vinyl cut at D&M, Berlin 

Not Glass is the wonderfully lofty, classically-rooted debut collaboration between Alessio Natalizia (Not Waving) and his longtime correspondent Dimitris Papadatos (Jay Glass Dubs), paying tribute to Latin and Greek authors Ovid and Heraclitus in a suite of dramatic electronics and cryptic rhythms comparable to a theatrical soundtrack.

Knowingly, ironically pretentious, yet serious with it, ‘Forma’ is the result of years of daily Facebook chats between the London and Athens-based artists where they cemented the album’s concept around key quotes by the legendary poet/philosophers, who hail from their respective homelands of Italy and Greece. The results are in effect a spellbinding attempt to transmute those notions within the collaborative, contemporary framework of their music, using patented palettes of hardware, vocals, and FX to render and reflect core classical mythological and philosophical ideas about drama, love, metaphysics, cosmology and the “unity of opposites”.

On this timeless plane, Natalizia and Papadatos both step outside of themselves to find “what opposes unites”, spaciously consolidating their typical, yet contrasting, rhythm-driven approaches in a reverberant, often beat less sphere of exploration. Removed from their usual handrails, the artists operate at their most open-ended and subtly suggestive, amorphously shapeshifting from gloaming shadowplays of synth and keys to investigate arcane percussive impulses and iridescent ambient whorls.

The result is a perfect, finely shaded marriage of their mutually esoteric, outsider Southern European energies, which intuitively acknowledges and inhabits the paradoxes of their respective styles. The illusively static yet mercurial ebb and flow of the atmospheric intro ‘Fallite fallentes’ sets the scene, where ‘Dum loquor, hora fugit’ invokes a viscous but brittle tangle of wide bass and pointillist rhythms beside a stately cello vignette ‘Ludicrum_χορικόν’ that recalls aspects of Scott Walker’s mystic charm ’Soused’. The rapid arps and slow moving, glassy pads of ‘Pauper ubique iacet’ conjure a sublime tension that becomes diffused into the cavernous, hollow dub dread of ‘Ut ameris, amabilis esto’, possessed with its throaty, processed vocal, and the lonely strings and plasmic electronics of ‘Forma bonum fragile est’ connotes a psychedelic coming-to-terms with their artistic/philosophic duality.

Not Glass - Fallite fallentes / Ἔφη ὡς ἦθος ἀνθρώπῳ δαίμων [ELP042]

Cassette disponible sur Indian Redhead Records et le Syndicat des Scorpions.

Enregistrements au 4 pistes cassette & mixage: Morgane et Florian Adrien
Mastering: Rémi Richarme
Cover: Mona Chancogne

Chant de Mona sur Sedum Pereaki 
Chant + synthé de Léa sur T.E.X.T.O
Chant de Weltschmerz sur Computer nr3 (france gall cover)

B1 - tendresse & k-way

Artist: Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek
Album: Bird, Lake, Objects
Label#: faitiche03
Format: LP/DL

Vinyl repress of faitiche03 & 13 available on July 17th 2020!

Queried on his favourite word in the German language, Masayoshi Fujita will pick ‘getragen’ – without a sliver of hesitation. Further questioning will reveal that he loves the term’s semantic signifiers, its inherent sense of “expansive, deep, quiet and sombre.” And yet, ‘getragen’ leaves plenty of room for interpretation: depending on context, it might also indicate wearing apparel or the state of being carried – two more mundane interpretations that I would rather keep from him.
Does Masayoshi’s own definition, however, apply to Bird, Lake, Objects? Only to a limited extent. Compared to previous Faitiche releases, Bird, Lake, Objects is certainly the most ‘getragen’ of them all. Nevertheless, this is by far not the first association that comes to mind. From a distance, these tracks seem rather introspective, cautious even – and reflect the recording situation: deliberately pared down, reduced to a single microphone in space and a separate track for all other instruments, each movement and action is chronicled by the treacherous mike. This confronted me with some unexpected and unfamiliar problems. For example, we had to swap out the seating in the studio as my favoured chair had a characteristic creak. Other, external influences proved to be beyond our control: fire engine klaxons, street noise and footfall became part of the recordings and their improvisatory nature. Each movement required careful orchestration, fully aware of its irrevocable nature. Space itself was always present and an audible entity, except on "Stripped to RM" (recorded without a microphone or vibraphone track). After extensive deliberations, we decided to forgo the vibes on this piece – a very similar version had already been released in 2008 (on the compilation Enjoy The Silence, Mule Electronic, 2008).

Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek:  I'll Change Your Life

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