There was a strange orange object on the shore.

Koral

Produced by W.ANNA.W
Mastered by Wim Dehaen 
Artwork by Asdrúbal Gómez

W.ANNA.W - Lily

@mondoriviera is the moniker of Ravenna-based musician and visual artist Lorenzo Camera. Producing music at the crossroad between late-night z-series horror movie soundtracks, 2d modular synthesis digital soundscapes and new-school plunderphonics, after his debut “Il Tempio degli Uomini Granchio” on New Weird Italian label Riforma, and the folk-vaporwave soundtrack for videogame Nott Longa on Artetetra, Mondoriviera is back with 10 new tracks jumping from the golden era of glossy horror VHS to new millennium goblin muzak and sonic delusions.

At the threshold between early 2000s music videos nostalgia, childhood memories and digital drifts, the second album by Lorenzo Camera, aka mondoriviera, explores the sentimental impacts of contemporary archetypes in our imagery with the help of post-vaporwave sounds. [The life of] “Frenton Cantolay", a parody of 'Frampton Comes Alive', the 1976 pop record, is a sonic journey into a contemporary Olympus inhabited by spiritually-corrupted zombies. In this parallel world, zombie celebrities, only apparently outside the afflictions of life, live at the mercy of Fortune, praying to the graces of the Goddess who exists above all world's logic.

Yet every success reveals the arbitrariness of their path; Fortune brutally elevates people to heaven only to eat their heads alive, while the mass keeps working, alienated, just to sustain their futile concatenation of needs. A timeless hero, the zombie Frenton Cantolay attempts to rise from mere worker to superstar, chasing unattainable dreams without accepting that we are not the same in this Olympus.

Echoing pastiches of pastiches of theories and pieces of lost media, mondoriviera's album reflects on the afterlife of 2000s musical archetypes and at the same time tries to open up alternative futures. A glitching pornography of our mediatic times, the zombie is a character that questions our deepest desires and social constructs. Is there an alternative?

The scratchy, phantasmagoric sounds of Mondoriviera create a sense of alienation and possibility. After the psychedelia and Creepshow's imagery already present in Lorenzo's debut record 'Il Tempio degli Uomini Granchio', this album represents a further hallucination, a soundscape for an unrealised deranged metaphysical videoclip, a crooked ballad for a love yet to come. 
credits
releases June 30, 2023

Composed, produced and mastered by Lorenzo Camera
Artwork by Riccardo Redeghieri - Baiu Baiu
Liner notes - Alice Minervini

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Compax

chaque dernier mercredi du mois à 10h, tracks douces sélectionnées soigneusement à destination des matins duveteux : ambient, instruments à cordes, chorales, lullabies, mélodies enchanteresses et secousses émotionnelles pour des petit-déjeuners qui donnent envie de retourner au lit. 
@luluskopi 

tracklist : 

DEVENIR96 - Songuivar Guivajič
Ilyess El Habchi & Orque - Nudibranches
Florist - The Fear Of Losing This
CEP - Sleeping Fish
Aurora - It Happened Quiet (Live At The Current)
Chypho - Metamorph
tal egg - marbleparade 
Régis Turner - labyrinthe miroir
~yann - notre dame limite (demo)
Almond Butyl - Haikux
Spore OST - Under A Microscope
tottomori - Warm mushroom pie
Animal Crossing OST - Taxi Ride with Kapp’n
Daft Punk - Within
Discovery Zone - tru Nature
Mikey Enwright - How Bright You Are
shiner - spirit force 2023
Erika de Casier - The Princess
Super Mario Galaxy OST - Luma
Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights (R3 Music Box Cover)

Spiral, Echo, Reverb ep02 — lülü

Riforma Showcase BATCH 3  13-03-2024

The 40th release of katharsis is the EP “Life is Hard” by Malle Voss coming out on April 10th. Following up on his debut release “Death is Easy” on Blue Tapes from 2022, the artist expands his musical pilgrimage into pure and spiritual affection in chaotic and dark territory. By using emotion in a structural way, the 6 tracks portray deep truths of overcoming struggle and turning nonsense into meaning. The tracks work like dark botanical angel artifacts, each with its rituals and prayers of death motivation and enlightenment through hardship. The range of sentiments covers everything from both beauty and joy to aggression and ecstasy, in its messy-by-design style of maximalist minimalism.

Life Is Hard

Drink These Dusts

Malle Voss - Drink These Dusts

healing vibes w/ cash - 23/03/2024

Yu Chi takes over 4pm sweat - ionne 03.29.24 | VISLA FM

1. Holix - Forest Gateway 100 Bpm

Today is the day. It's like my head is gonna explode. Everything is so loud and noisy I can't bear it. The only place where I can stay peacefully is my home. 
This album is a collection of songs which were made during or after each of my psychoses. 

street

Etrigan Benezar - Act 4000

Radio Raheem is an independent online radio station streaming 24/7 music and visuals from Milan with a cosmic perspective.
The radio, located inside Triennale Design Museum.
The platform aims to support and elevate a genuine and diverse local scene while keeping an eye to the moon and the galaxies far away.

Riforma Showcase BATCH 3 13-03-2024

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