Alternate take to the track I called "Nightwalker". Recorded 10/23/24

Ominous

this is me showcasing my art
idc about genres or aesthetics, i make what i want, when i want
heres my different sounds

Lobotomise my life away

[ no escape ]

Lucy Railton / cello

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"...What is it about the telling that provides comfort or consolation? Perhaps it's partly in the curative power of naming, an act that can bring our experience into relief and ward off the depressive forces of nothingness, formlessness, and monstrous plasticity. There are also other forms of telling that are not lexical, and our too-easy separation of sound and speech, music and words, belies the existence of something deeply healing and transformational that grounds and unifies them both." - Sofie Fetokaki  

This music was improvised and recorded on April 31st in the quiet bunker-esque venue, Ausland, just 20 doors down from where I live in Berlin. Additional processes and editing were competed on May 2nd 2020. Special thanks to Cafe Oto, Billy Steiger, Petter Eldh and Sophie Fetokaki for their part in the making of this work.

TR014 - Lucy Railton "First Lament"

A series of bleak, blustery scenes make up Nazanin Noori’s Farce. Noori, who also works as a theater director, conjures glacial storms and buzzing subterranean server farms on this album; but such scenes were far from the artist’s guiding narrative as it was being produced. The two tracks, clocking in at 80 minutes total, were envisioned as an enraged argument (or a "modular heartbreak") unfolding between two groups of people about a pothole in the road, told from the perspective of the road, and then the pothole.

This surreal, mundane plot device is nowhere to be found on Farce in any concrete way. And this is intentional. Noori, inspired by Artaud's concept of the theatre of cruelty, wants listeners to develop their own sensorial world separate from the musician's. When not darkly ambient, the tracks are full of drama and whimsy, as if a spotlight is following a character along a wayward path, into the hands of fate. The emotional hooks in the sound include a sense of desperate desolation, optimistic reprieve, and of course, the sense that ritual repetition is both a curse and a blessing—but they resist obvious imagery. Exactly what kinds of characters or settings get hung on the album's scaffolding is up to the audience. Listening with a hi-fi sound-system is highly recommended.

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Nazanin Noori is an Iranian artist living and working in Berlin, Germany. Her work includes theater and radio play direction, music, and text. She focuses on atmospheric narratives in sound, and works to overcome cultural reliance on sentiment by making dramatic adaptations of non-dramatic texts. She studied theater, film and media sciences at Goethe University in Frankfurt and worked at Deutsches Theater and Schauspiel Hannover. She currently selects Acid Folk for POMP, a sound scenario series on Retreat Radio, and is an artist-in-residence at the Young Academy of the Arts in Berlin.

released August 25, 2020

mastering :: Martijn Comes

all proceeds to Afrorack (Chicago, IL, USA) - www.afrorack.org

FARCE

Nazanin Noori - IMAGINE ALL THAT FALL IN A POTHOLE ON A BEAUTIFUL DAY (ENMX09)

Pour cette nouvelle saison et le seizième épisode de Feng Shit, nous accueillons le duo parisien @dhakira . Amalia Jaulin et Sinan Varis forment un projet peu commun ou Space et sound design se mélangent dans une noirceur atmosphérique et une poésie nébuleuse. Le duo nous offre une heure de leur propres productions sillonants entre dark ambient, glitch et spoken-word. Pérégrinations au travers d'un fin chemin bordé de coquelicots noirs et d'une brume épaisse, où s'agitent des âmes de tous horizons.

For this new season and the 16th Feng Shit's episode, we are welcoming the parisian duo Dhakira. Amalia Jaulin and Sinan Varis own a really special project mixing space and sound design in a dark breeze and  poetic galaxy. The duo drives us into them own music where dark ambient, glitch and spoken-words are struggling. A deep side walk on a little path bordered by black poppy and a thick fog...

https://lyl.live/show/feng-shit/

TRACKLIST
DHAKIRA – El Bosque Del Alma
DHAKIRA – Heat Wave
DHAKIRA –  No One Can Take Our Memories 
DHAKIRA – Extrait de sound design réalisé pour le court métrage “Les voies soutterraines”
DHAKIRA – Larsen du temps 
DHAKIRA – extrait de sound design réalisé pour le court métrage “Les voies soutterraines” 
DHAKIRA – La possibilité d’un après 
DHAKIRA – Sérendipité 
DHAKIRA – Passage d’une confidence présent sur “Babamın Korunması” 
DHAKIRA – I Need To Let It Go 
DHAKIRA – El Dolor Del Mundo
DHAKIRA – Symphonie Neuronale
DHAKIRA –  Linéarité imposée
DHAKIRA – El Dolor Del Mundo (second excerpt)

Feng Shit #16 w/ Dhakira

TR082 - Michael Speers - 'Voice'

From A Year Closer by Maths Balance Volumes

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Charlotte Simon - Chloé

Before the end of this very strange year, we would like to present one last very soothing mix from Nick Klein. Been Home for Months is a collection of audio pooled and arranged for situating the self in the very present. 

Tracklist: 
Arvo Part - Sarah Was 90 Years Old 
SCANT - Debilitate (B SIDE)
Strangulated Beatoffs - It's A Vile, Vile, Vile, Vile World 
Meredith Monk - Do You Be
Oren Ambarchi - Gene 
Pansonic - Hapatus
die Reihe - 106 Kerri Chandler Chords
Chris Fratesi - Untitled
Joachim Nordwall - Control And Energy
Minoru Sato - Asuna
LDSN - 2
LDSN - 4
Balloon Monument - MARCH TAPE SIDE B
Ben Richards - Sky Diver


Nick Klein is an electronic music artist interested in loud volume as form, as well as the sociology and ideology that is present in music subcultures. Netherlands based Klein runs radio programs, a label, and organizes events under the title "Psychic Liberation." He has released on the labels L.I.E.S., BANK, Unknown Precept, Viewlexx, Monorail Trespassing, and iDEAL. 

His latest release Actor-Network Theory on iDeal was recorded in 2018 and is the final record Klein made as a resident in New York, before moving to Den Haag. Taken from a caption on his Instagram, Klein describes the record as a weaving of “disparate sonic narrative[s] of dissociative opiated sleeping-bag retreats and anxiety fueled drum loops... Music for sleeping in a cold basement with a short blanket, coughing up a cigarette at Pier 94 in February, or lamenting the fickle nature of one’s own metabolism.” Actor-Network Theory can be found on iDEAL’s Bandcamp.

NICK KLEIN, BEEN HOME FOR MONTHS, SATELLITE MIX 003

Presented as a re-creation of two live sets performed in 2019, Patrick Gallagher deftly melds field recordings, a "fairly standard" synthesis toolkit, and prepared electric guitar into two peerless electro-acoustic compositions comprising his debut album for ENXPL (enmossed x psychic liberation).

As the album's title implies, "Set In the Bardo" embraces indeterminacy in all respects. An extreme range of timbrel variety and complexity is employed, from pure sine waves to nearly-incomprehensible sonic blasts. With a formal education in mathematics, Gallagher's astute arrangements modulate between smooth glissandos and abrupt interruptions, reflecting the compositional process used: salvaging hitherto-abandoned recordings and live snippets from the artist's archive. Post-processing was eschewed on the album in order to preserve the improvisatory nature of a live performance, giving an organic quality to the album which is often lost in academic compositions.

While "Set In the Bardo" was created in pre-pandemic times, it also functions well at this particular juncture of history. We have been 'set in the bardo' ourselves, and Gallagher has made an engrossing set of pieces - encapsulating and unfolding sonic uncertainties as we venture through trying times. Well worth many listening sessions; high volume and high fidelity during playback are recommended.

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Patrick Gallagher is a sound artist and composer currently residing in Philadelphia, PA. He cut his teeth in the North Carolina avant-garde underground, perfecting his composition processes with numerous live performances as well as releases on Tone Log, Hot Releases, Refulgent Sepulchre, and other independent labels. 

releases January 29, 2021

mastering :: Jack Callahan

cover artwork :: Autumn Casey

design ++ layout :: Robin JM Vanderheyden

a portion of Side A was recorded live at Rhizome (Washington, DC) by Steve Sanford

all proceeds to The Youth Art & Self-Empowerment Project (Philadelphia, PA) :: www.yasproject.com

Set In The Bardo

Patrick Gallagher - Untitled [Set In The Bardo Side B Excerpt] (ENXPL05)

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