First single from Vanessa Amara "Music for Acoustic Instruments & Feedback" Out May 28th as Posh Isolation 249

The beguiling yet inviting music of Vanessa Amara has long presented studies and invocations of ambient music and experimental sound practices with a graceful relief. Their  latest album, 'Music for Acoustic Instruments & Feedback,' is a collection of unedited live recordings from 2016-2020. It charts a formal path for creation, and in doing so manufactures their most dazzlingly beautiful album to date.

Vanessa Amara is a duo from Copenhagen. More recently they've forged links to Coomkeen, Ireland. Together, Birk Gjerlufsen and Sebastián Santillana have released a small plenty of recordings, with their 2016 album 'You're Welcome Here' bringing them into a critical orbit with contemporary experimental music and earning them much-deserved recognition. A cluster of releases followed that took their intricately rendered worlds into new constellations and alignments with the suite of instruments that they recurrently call upon. Last year's 'Leopards' and 'Poses' introduced a daring alacrity to the dreamy forms one may associate with Vanessa Amara, suggesting a wealth of silhouettes and wicked suns.

'Music for Acoustic Instruments & Feedback' hints at a similar mischief through its inventive formal strategy, accompanying ideas, and charged theatre, yet it pursues the melancholic kernel at the heart of the project more intently than any previous release.

The album's title is descriptive of the album's process. Utilising an arrangement of microphones, speakers, and tape machines, Vanessa Amara created a system that allowed them to work with acoustic feedback. In the group's own words, "We don’t have a studio or a piano, so instead we work briefly in other peoples' homes or in any room made available to us. Each of these rooms, what is within them and how the instruments resonate there, is what generates the sound." With piano, accordion, pipe organ, carillon, and bells, this system generates an exquisite space of delicately placed harmonics and sweet ricochets.

The track 'Accordion' captures a passing all-terrain vehicle from inside a church—it's these kinds of bizarre juxtapositions that are found at the edges of the album, refracting the heart-aching meditations and formal constraints with a novel spontaneity. However, at the core of the album's making is feedback. As Vanessa Amara explain, "The autonomy of the feedback is critical as it demands an improvisational relationship to the shaping of sound. We wish to trigger a capacity for refusal of perfection forcing awareness. Our hope is that the transparency that we believe improvisation holds a capacity for can at once connect and nourish solidarity, provoking movement as well as continuity in and between our, as well as our audience's, collective and individual labour in life."

The resulting shapes and figments rustle a new wonderous bearing, making 'Music for Acoustic Instruments & Feedback' an elegant transformation in the project's evolution.

Posh Isolation 249 
Mastered by John Hannon

Tracklist
1. Bells 01:11 
2. Piano & Accordion I 07:35 
3. Accordion 06:52 
4. Piano & Two Tape Loops 05:47 
5. Pipe Organ 07:22 
6. Piano & Accordion II 02:19 
7. Cembalo & Carillon 05:27 
8. Piano, Bells & Two Reversed Tape Loops 05:32

Music for Acoustic Instruments & Feedback

Vanessa Amara - Piano, Bells & Two Reversed Tape Loops

"Hlapov", the latest full-length release by Italian musician Grotta Veterano, is a work of patiently arranged, layered beauty. Presented as four movements of a single suite, "Hlapov" offers a sense of great cohesive narrative, supported by its slow buildups and gravitating drones, blending in elements of choral music and expanding, organic rhythms. Ultimately it is music of quasi-sacred contemplation, a meditative journey of profound scale - a precious ornament.

Your eyes are but two pools of infinite emerald green.

EN22

All music performed, recorded and arranged by Grotta Veterano, 2021

Hlapov

Grotta Veterano - MOV II

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kolya - How I Feel (feat. @bevissthet)

@qwqwqwqwa / @ne-sm

The next guest of our mix series is St. Petersburg based producer qwqwqwqwa, resident of Neoplasm label. Last November he presented his debut album "Fashion Music For Scammers".

ethereal mix 026: qwqwqwqwa

Welcome the undeniable with the dazzling cast! Full pack that cannot be stopped, questioned, or abstained. Dig it, don’t you?

100% of the proceeds go to "Південна ніч" (South night) - a volunteer organization that supplies Ukrainian Army on the southern frontline:
www.instagram.com/pivdenna_nich/

Mastered by Amir Shoat
Cover by OBIES

considered

14/10/2022

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all options - snight recap

https://radiosygma.bandcamp.com/album/3

being inherently independent, experimental music is bound to deny typical vertical principles of power and censorship that we face today even more than ever, yet it can contain a statement of the opposite nature. as we prepared this compilation the russian invasion of ukraine escalated further, leaving us with less words than ever, but a stronger urge to retain a voice. we believe that music communities are able to offer their own responses to societal changes, no matter how quiet or deafening they may sound. 

Σ3 compilation features 16 tracks by our contributors, friends, and members of the team and we really hope you enjoy them for what they are. but the important thing is that beyond a sensitivity to unconventional sound and commitment to international music communities, all featured artists are defined by a belief in human dignity and solidarity with the victims of war. 

all the proceeds from sales will be split between the evacuation initiative helpingtoleave.org and help-freefilmers.network providing humanitarian aid and power generators for at-risk ukrainians
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released November 4, 2022 

mastered by sergei shplv 
artwork by Svyatykh (linktr.ee/svyatykh)

Igor Dyachenko – Saccade

Mixed from Moscow by @eolet

A new mix for the calm series was prepared by the creator of a musical project from Moscow – eolet.

For a long time eolet had been playing the role of a listener and came to writing music only when he reached that very personal point of listening, realizing that that’s it, now I have something to say too. Today we will meet that listener, whose discoveries led him to start own music production.

You could hear his debut performance at Beatriz Gardens at last year's Signal Festival.
This summer, @bea3trizzz launched a label and on October 13 is going to release the first collaboration `Voices` betwen eolet and the creator of the previous calm series mix – @gassenengel.

«The mix invites the listener to take part in a journey of musical domains where the sound is formed of unclear structures and not contrasting outlines, where it tells about phenomena hidden from view in bright light, unfolding in a slow and continuous flow»

Tracklist:
O Yuki Conjugate - Abandonment (parts 1-4)
Amma Ateria - neurogenesis : overcome
夜明けを残す - orchidée
Carla Boregas - A Cidade dos Outros
èvia - cold
Ø - Kesämaa / Summerland  
Marko Paunovic - vatra
Current 93 - Untitled VIII
400 Lonely Things - Oh My Soul
øjeRum - Scanner - Sleeping, I'm Blind to Life (Drifting Variation)
Abul Mogard - Sand
kevin drumm - Old Shoes
Hviledag - Halkidiki (ft. Sofie Birch)
Marta Mist - I've Drawn You A Map
Not Waving & Romance - Kneel For Mercy
KTL - The Phantom Carriage
rab neba - σῶμα πνευματικόν
Secret Stairways - Into The Astral Wind
Manon Lescaut - A Garland For Her Head
Blanket Swimming- Everything Reflected Back (A Short While Upstream)
Genoasejlet - Koret Af De Fortabte
Loscil & Lawrence English - Black
Ken Ikeda - Yayon Yuyon
Ozmotic & Fennesz - Motionless
Olympisk Løft - Livet Giver Sig Til Kende Ved Brydninger
Yosuke Tokunaga - Quadrant s
AITNETNES - Konda
zakè - Mute faces remained transfixed in perpetuity [long]
Mihály Víg - Harang I
Ziyek - Fenja
Kassel Jaeger - Carcosan Cycles
Junii - Nano Uribe + FernLodge - Our once forgotten dreams
Pinkcourtesyphone - wistful wishful wanton (reprise)
Internazionale - I Become


Download link:
https://tinyurl.com/3j2mt7wc

Cover art by @pseudo-art-rose

eolet – W Λ V E S C Λ L M

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sunset rise

excerpt from :: https://enmossed.bandcamp.com/album/hallowed

Emily Berregaard - Yucca (ENM01)

Split release by Piper Spray and Lena Tsibizova — two musicians whose sound can be described as bedroom electronics or low-fi ambient. Lena and Piper Spray are also members of the Air Krew collective along with their third bandmate Sergey Podluzhny, who is on mastering duties for this record.

Following the first track’s title, the album begins with a nostalgic synthesizer melody which pours on the listener like rays of the midday sun, bringing forward recollections of a pleasant half-forgotten time. However, memory not only holds the serene and nostalgic — it can also evoke painful and anxious images or even mislead its carrier by synthesizing new details and meanings.

The album seems to be transforming in a similar pattern. Arrhythmic beats, glitchy effects and faint voices — like spores of the unconsciousness that break through shallow sleep and fill the gaps in memory — gradually come forward, taking over the melodic element. By the second half of the record, the naive nostalgia disintegrates into distant echoes and the sound takes the form of a collage which almost sounds like magnetic tape experiments.

Despite the difference in tone and techniques, the two tracks here are not antagonists. They complement each other, presenting memory mechanisms and the experience of acute reflection in different colors.

Music — Piper Spray, Lena Tsibizova
Mastering — Sergey Podluzhny
Artwork — Lena Tsibizova

Recorded in the wastelands of Kudrovo.

Buy: https://radiosygma.bandcamp.com/album/piper-spray-lena-tsibizova

Piper Spray / Lena Tsibizova

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