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Untitled #10

A recording of the Mammoth Beat Organ, as played by Sam Underwood & Graham Dunning.
From the album "The Blow Vol.5" released by Front & Follow on 22nd February 2019.
https://fandf.bandcamp.com/album/the-blow-volume-5

Dunning & Underwood (Mammoth Beat Organ) - Trapped In A Walled Garden

Taken from the forthcoming Penultimate Press album The Sense of Hearing LP (PP46)

Penultimate Press is proud to present the debut full length from Komare, a UK outfit based somewhere between south-eastern edges of London borough and the Swale.  

Komare is Dominic Goodman and Peter Blundell who also make up two thirds of Mosquitoes. Somewhat of an estranged cousin to Mosquitoes take on re-ruffled rock, Komare resides more as a dub influenced exploration of the outer fringes, creating a thick vibrational delusion. 

Somehow like Zweistein mixing a Robert Ashley record, Komare is an exceptional space and time stretching disorientator.  In the process of rendering reality redundant Komare gleefully lead the listener into a netherworld of holographic, hallucinatory audio. Shades of Monoton and Pyrolator may also be detected as can the impression of intoxicants wafting around the mixing consule. This is a state where humans and machines, though present, are smeared of all traceable attributes. The depths of the journey moves further into a netherworld as the album progresses/disintergrates. 

Not necessarily one for the beauty seekers, Komare is an extremely deep trip concocted by two unbridled creative crusaders.

Limited edition on clear vinyl in a screen printed wrap around sleeve in an edition of 300 copies

The Sense of Hearing

Komare - untitled

The Pains Of Society

No era sólida

Disuelta

「Small Stone」

"In Japan during the Covid-19 lock down we saw a movement. It was created from a woman who raised her voice to say NO via SNS to one of the controversial bills, a revision of the public prosecutor's office law* that was about to go through the Lower House without a fair public hearing. This tiny voice of hers went viral and formed an online demonstration to protect our democracy. It is very rare in Japan for the public to be actively involved in any policies. Alas the bill was temporarily suspended because many finally stood up.

“ When we threw lots of small stones, the mountain got moved a little. However we shouldn’t celebrate yet. We need to be calm and grounded and observe what the government will do.” says Kyoko Koizumi, an actress and a producer whom I respect dearly. Her phrases sums up things that do not change so easily. 


*A proposed legal revision that would raise the retirement age for prosecutors became the centre of controversy this week when it was taken up by the Lower House. Unlike officials in other administrative organizations, prosecutors have wide powers to investigate, arrest and indict anyone, even prime ministers and other high officials. They must remain highly neutral and independent from other authorities and political powers. Since the proposed revision could allow the Cabinet to intervene in the personnel affairs of prosecutors’ offices, many experts fear it could jeopardize the independence of prosecutors and the separation of powers.

「Serene」

The music of Eric Dolphy lives with Breathing.

We never forget the day May 25th 2020 for the world we can freely breath in and out. 

「Two Blue Kites」

June 4th 1989 , it is a very memorable day for me. 

31 years ago I took part in a demonstration for the first time ever in my life. It was a small resistance held in Tokyo. I was with the Chinese people raising my voice out loud in the crowd. I couldn’t do anything but I felt that I had to do something. 

In the beginning of the 90s I was going back and forth between Tokyo and Hong Kong making music. I was offered to make music for a film portrait the night before the Chinese Cultural Revolution called “ The Blue Kite”. The producer of this film invited me to make the music for the film. The film director was banned from making this film in mainland China and he escaped to Japan via Hong Kong. The film was finally completed in Japan. Hong Kong was still in British colony then. This film made my film music career begin. 

June 4th 2020 The Hong Kong government banned the public to organise and attend the candlelight rallies to mark the Tiananmen Square massacre. Despite the harsh policing and the Covid-19 regulation many people (still) defied the ban and tried to attend the commemoration. I was thinking of many of my friends there at the moment.  

I wonder how this little country, Hong Kong, that “brought me up” and “ shaped me who I am today” will be from now. My heart is full of concern for its future.

The film The Blue Kite is still banned in China to this date."

- Otomo Yoshihide



In Japanese / 日本語訳

「Small Stone」

日本では、ステイホームの期間中の5月8日、一人の女性の発言をきっかけに、現

政権がやろうとしていた三権分立をゆるがすようなひどい法案(検察庁法改正案)に対し多くの人々

がSNSを使って異を唱え、それがデモのような効果をもたらし、5月18日国会で

の法案決議を阻止するに至った。

「小さな石をたくさん投げたら山が少し動いた。が、浮き足立ってはいけない。

冷静に誰が何を言い、どんな行動を取るのか見守りたい。」敬愛する女優であり

プロデューサーの小泉今日子が5月19日にSNSで呟いたこの発言は、そのうねり

のことと同時に、しかしそう簡単に現状は変わらないことも表している。

「Serene」

エリック・ドルフィーが作る曲は呼吸とともにある。2020年5月25日は忘れては

ならない日だ。みなが伸び伸びと息ができる世界のために。

「Two Blue Kites」

  6月4日は個人的にも忘れられない日だ。31年前のこの日、わたしは初めてデモに

参加した。東京でおこなわれた小さなデモだった。東京に住む中国人たちと一緒

にわたしも声をあげていた。いてもたってもいられなかったのだ。

90年代初頭、わたしは香港と東京を行き来して音楽をつくっていた。そんな中

1993年、文化大革命前夜の北京を描いた「The Blue Kite」という中国映画の音楽

を作ることになったのが、わたしが映画の世界に入る切っ掛けだった。中国で作

ることを禁じられ、香港経由でフィルムを持って日本に脱出した監督が東京で完

成させた映画で、香港のプロデューサーがわたしを誘ってくれたのだ。当時香港

はまだイギリス領だった。

2020年6月4日、香港では天安門事件31周年の集会が新型コロナを理由に禁止され

ていたにも関わらず、多くの人たちが集まり追悼集会が開かれていた。きっと多

くの友人もそこにいるのだろう。わたしを育ててくれた香港はどうなっていくの

だろうか。「The Blue Kite」は今でも中国での上映が禁止されている。

TR045 - Otomo Yoshihide - 'Small Stones 2 (The Diet May 18th 2020'

Parallel Routes is the new Various Artists by Random Numbers.
14 tracks made by artists we love across Europe:
A Hand (Italy), Accou (Belgium), Anatolian Weapons (Greece), Artis (Nederland), Bss (Nederland), Black Seed (Italy), BXP(Italy), Carcass Identity (Belgium), Exhausted Modern (Czech Republic), Front De Cadeaux (Italy/Belgium), Heap (Austria), Új Bála (Hungary), UVB76 (France), Wang inc. (Italy).

After the first week of lockdown, we were forced to postpone all of our scheduled releases, so we started thinking about a new V.A.
Our inspiration behind it was the mutual support to overcome the lockdown and the discomfort it brought. As such, we started to contact the artists we love asking them to collaborate.
The result is astonishingly homogeneous, even if we were locked in our homes thousands of kilometers away from each other.
As a record label, we recognize the importance of not interrupting our work, to support independent artists during this global crisis.
We may be apart, but we're going in the same direction. We are in Parallel Routes.

https://soundcloud.com/randomnumberslabel

Buy: randomnumbers.bandcamp.com/album/parallel-routes

PRÈMIÉRE: Artis - Nyctibius Grandis [Random Numbers Records]

Naima Karllson treats us to deep searching improvised recordings on 70s organ and vector synth. Originally recorded in Jan 2020 for an installation by Gery Georgieva at Cubitt Artists in London, Naime later reworked the piece, transmuting the material into '[Vital organs] I. In it, slow winding motifs and melodic washes find their feet in a melancholic dirge. Lines of sound open up and unfurl, revealing over time a fragile inner structure. Like the work of her grandparents, Naime's music is rooted in the soil of the earth but gradually lifts itself skywards, finding solace in both the physical and digital world.

The track is accompanied by a video collage by Naime: "The video is a collage of still and moving found images that journey through the organ track on an internal and universal scale. Taking influence from the title, protection and the body are prominent themes. The images search for fluid interconnections between micro and macro bodies in the physical, digital and astral realms such as far-off stars, cell phone devices, Dogon astronomy drawings, bodies of water and our central heart space." - Naime Karlsson

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Naima Karlsson - All instrumentation & video collage 

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50% of the profits of the release will go directly to the Movement for Black Live https://secure.actblue.com/donate/movement-4-black-lives-1


Recorded by Maxwell Sterling
2020

TR037 - Naima Karlsson [Vital Organs]: I. Heart Protector

DEad Minitel Orchestra - Live @ Plateforme

Taken From 
Anthology Of Persian Experimental Music Vol. II
by Unexplained Sounds Group.

Anthology Of Persian Experimental Music Vol. II

Shahin Souri - Discord

new dawn

INDEFINITE PITCH   |   PREMIERE 056

Mickaël Halley - AC333T
Reworks [US014 | UNSE Records]

Composed and mastered by Mickaël Halley
Photography by Mickaël Halley (Analog film / Lisbon, Summer 2020)

Released by UNSE Records from Paris, France
Release Date: November 11 2020

Reworks is a compilation of 4 tracks that are reshaped and compiled on a very Limited Edition vinyl and digital as well. From ambient to downtempo acid-like tracks, each song is made on a hardware set-up only.

"You're Searching For Nothing" & "Music For An Empty Train" were initially edited on my first EP on I Low You Records in April 2020. "Lost Track" is an old recording that was produced in 2018 and edited in September 2020. It was initially recorded for my ambient EP "Panorama" which was edited on Unse Records. "AC333T" is an improvisation on a 4-track tape recorder. It's the only track on this EP with a drum and acid bass-line.

Each track is produced with various modular synthesizers such as Korg MS-20, Behringer Crave, Behringer TD3, Yamaha DX100 and Yamaha MT1X in combination with several effect pedals.

Mickaël Halley
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UNSE Records
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AC333T

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PREMIERE: Mickaël Halley - AC333T [UNSE Records]

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