appears on "Bass Urine"
http://nnatapes.com/available-releases/wanda-group-bass-urine-c20/

Bass Urine

Wanda Group "Wetsuit Women"

Plain (Open)

https://droopingfinger.bandcamp.com/album/locked-in

Adrift

Now available on cassette tape:
https://cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/watts-drooping-finger

Refuse

Solo live improvisation with synthesizer, grand piano and effects in the Thames Tunnel Grand Entrance Hall.

Lots more amazing music from Sarah here:
https://sarahdavachi.bandcamp.com/
http://sarahdavachi.com/index.html

Sarah Davachi live at Bleep43 - 6th October 2016

Taken from the album I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have To Be Destroyed By Me released April 21st.

Order here: https://basichouse-alter.bandcamp.com/

Basic House - Janet Terminal Blue (ALT31)

first track of the debut record 'Leaper' coming out on Opal Tapes on 12 May

Island Of Unknown Joys

from 'All Perfect Days' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den298
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/michaelvallera]

On All Perfect Days, Michael Vallera’s second LP for Denovali, he continues to distill his singular, cinematic approach to sound. Acting as both performer and producer, Vallera constructs a lush, deeply emotional album that jettisons the overt rhythms and explicit drum programming that characterized much of his earlier work. Instead, in its tightly focused reliance on little more than guitar and amplifier feedback, supplemented by piano and synthesizer, the album explores a sparse but rich palette that evokes the ambient works of Harold Budd—although filtered through Vallera’s own sharp-edged sensibility. Recorded with Greg Norman at Electrical Audio and mastered by Daniel Rejmer, All Perfect Days adds to the mounting evidence that Michael Vallera is among the most assured and compelling artists to emerge from Chicago in recent years.

Michael Vallera is a musician and photographer who lives and works in Chicago. Prolific as both a solo artist and collaborator, he has released albums under his own name and as COIN (Opal Tapes), with percussionist Steven Hess as Cleared (Immune Recordings), and with Joseph Clayton Mills as Maar (Umor Rex, Entr’acte). He sings and plays guitar in the experimental rock group Luggage (Don Giovanni Records). An MFA graduate of School of the Art Institute of Chicago, his work has been exhibited in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, and elsewhere.

"head-spinning material that evoke the razor-thin liminal space between here and the hereafter." SPIN

"an intoxicating walk down a road of rhapsodic soundscapes" Secret Decoder

All Perfect Days

Michael Vallera - All Perfect Days

Ekin Fil continues her quietly complex dream-pop oeuvre on Maps. For many years now, this Istanbul musician has been writing mysterious and haunting songs, rich in heavy-reverb effects and an introspective torpor. With each successive album, her songwriting has blossomed through broader instrumentation and more intricate melodic phrasing, though the somber atmospherics and ghostly manifestations remain a judicious constant. Minor-key, tear-stained notes of piano, organ, and guitar veer along elliptical orbits as a soft-whisper lilt of Ekin’s voice narrates more by emotive decree than by literary couplet. 

Maps addresses the distance and dislocation of the self from the bustling center of Istanbul, where Ekin FIl (neé Ekin Üzeltüzenci) had once called her home. Having spent her first winter on a relatively quiet island in the Sea of Marmara (while still in the greater metropolitan umbrella of Istanbul), Maps  is “lonely, different, kind of isolated,” according to Ekin, who also noted that the island had “too much silence around. There is no other choice but to concentrate, I guess.” Her poetics of silence on her previous recordings had been noted as an antidote or a dream capsule of sound in response to Istanbul’s cauldron of politics, culture, and philosophy that has been boiling almost since the beginning of civilization. Maps bends that maritime silence into wind-swept smudges that complement her already spacious compositions.  

The saddest songs of The Durutti Column excised of rhythm and those few plunges into sorrow by Harold Budd make for apt comparisons to Maps, in addition to the drone-on classics of Grouper, Slowdive, and Sarah Davachi.

Maps

Ekin Fil // Nocturnal Arc

artist and musician based in Newcastle upon tyne, solo project from member of AM Grave, Big Fail, Silver Fox and former member of Gravenhurst (Warp records).

Plain (Open)

Rachel Lancaster