absolutely wonderful, evocative and beautiful:)

Christine is a great pianist who fills us with free harmonies and sonorities between meditative and sumptuous. This is a great concert who shows its great capabilities.

from KR093:  MimiCof - Distant Symphony
LP / tape / DL out on june 10th 2022

Distant Symphony

MIMICOF - Distant Symphony I (excerpt)

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2022 élan vital recordings 

Manja Ristic / Toni Dimitrov - Dystopian 001

1. Manja Ristic - Nothing Has To Happen, Fortress Europe
2. Toni Dimitrov - Against Civilization

🏴 'Dystopian 001' is split release between the sound artists Manja Ristić and Toni Dimitrov, and it is part of the new 'Dystopian series', showcasing a more abstract, darker, obscure and politically infused side of the sound of élan vital artist roster. Inspired by everyday life in the last several years living in realized dystopian visions and darkest predictions, the sound on this series will be the soundtrack for our daily dystopian reality. We are all aware that the future of our civilization is not bright, but that doesn't mean we are not living in an exciting epoch.

🏳️ Part one brings two longer pieces, presenting the dark side of the mystical long form experimentations by the Serbian violin and field recordings diva Manja Ristić and the latest field recordings experiments of the sound art naturalist Toni Dimitrov. Through this joint release the artists are trying to explore the potential for change of the society, resulting in a mature, expressive and complex album. 

Composed and arranged by Manja Ristić & Toni Dimitrov 
Mastering LaPlant Studio Belgrade
Cover drawings by Dorian Dimitrov
Design by Toni Dimitrov

Release date 27th March 2022
 https://elanvital.bandcamp.com/album/dystopian-001

Manja Ristic - Nothing Has To Happen, Fortress Europe (excerpt)

Alaban

release on 3 February 2023 : https://wabi-sabi-tapes.bandcamp.com/
@msalgar / @anilthecellist

The whole play of Merve Salgar and Anil Eraslan is to create this crystalline bridge where the listener melts in the contrast between simultaneity and agitation, between orthodox forms and contemporary contents.

Merve Salgar & Anil Eraslan - V

Get it here: 
https://repeatle.bandcamp.com/album/wf1-2023

Christian Hutchinson-Berg (Kite, Yvonne) and Andreas Tilliander (Mokira, TM404) have known each other forever but very rarely collaborated musically. Until now. Here is Wind & Fire with our debut tape WF1. 

Each cassette is a duplicate of the previous one where cassette number 001 is the master, 002 a copy of 001, 003 of 002, 004 of 003 et cetera. 
In this way, every cassette is unique and the sound is slowly degrading, getting more distorted and weird with each new copy. 
A nod to Alvin Lucier’s I Am Sitting In a Room or perhaps even more to the The Cure cassettes we taped from and to our friends as kids. The cover art is treated the same way. 

Limited edition of 100 copies. Act fast.

Wind & Fire - WF103 (taken from WF1 out Feb 3rd 2023)

this is a very similar patch as Untitled VI, except that now there are three voices instead of one: SMR, piston honda (which is also in the rosie efx loop from time to time, which is a bad habit/crutch that i lean on way too often) and e350. SMR is droning and fluttering into clouds, while the piston honda and e350 are both hitting an optomix before going into rings for some reverb. there is also a field recording churning in the background inside the disting, which i am randomly and manually controlling the playback speed on. 

i could listen to this for hours (and did)

Untitled VII

Excerpt from #Concertzender Live program broadcasted on september 2018 : https://www.concertzender.nl
Recorded April 1st 2018 in Utrecht, @ TivoliVredenburg
Live event for Piano Day, curated by Fluister
http://www.fluister.org
Tracklist : 
00:00 Horizons fauves
06:03 No memories
10:03 Solitude Nomade
16:24 Raintrain

Christine Ott - Piano Day - Live in Utrecht

Vegetal Negatives is a game of sonic mutations, mimicry, inversions, and association inspired by a text called "On pataphotograms", by the French writer René Daumal – a quasi-metaphysical essay that toys with breaking the conceived separateness of natural forms through poetic imagination. 

The four electroacoustic compositions on the album combine and arrange field recordings, electronic feedback, Buchla and ARP synthesizers, bowl gong and harmonium, textures of detailed acoustic sound, and sustained tones with gentle microtonal beating into a precise musical narrative. She juxtaposes recordings of rooms and empty vessels, natural and artificial climates, spontaneous and staged events. Ahti draws upon Annea Lockwood's ideas about associative movements between sounds based on shared characteristics and sonic energy. Her approach to field recordings is neither diaristic, documentaristic, nor purely acousmatic, but rather it starts out from somewhere in between these notions: the sounds hover between abstraction and the deeply familiar, moving into a realm of poetic metaphor where they are set in relation to each other, fleetingly mirroring or shadow-dancing. Acoustic environments mutate into synthetically derived shadow forms. 

The opening track, "Coastal Inversion”, moves from a seemingly familiar seascape into an ocean of wavelike synthetic staccato patterns, turning itself inside-out on the shore, before diving back into a sea of resonance. ”Rooftop gardens” arranges a series of largely unprocessed field recordings into a dream-logic sequence of upward movement towards the clouds. On the other side, ”Symbiogenesis” brews a slow evolution of wet, airy and earthy sounds and resonant friction. The closing track, ”Chora”, imagines a meditative space of breath: filter resonance posing as organ pipes against a backdrop of breezy industrial hoovers merges halfway with a harmonium improvisation that foregrounds the frictions of the wooden instrument itself, just before filtering out into resonant harmony. 

Releases March 29, 2019 via Hallow Ground 

Marja Ahti: composition, production, field recording, Buchla 200 and ARP 2600 
Recorded at EMS, Stockholm, WORM, Rotterdam, and on locations in Greece, Alaska, Finland and Sweden. 
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi 
Designed by Ruth Stofer

Vegetal Negatives

Coastal Inversion

Artist: X-TG
Track: XPad
This track is taken from the second X-TG show - at Porto Casa Musica in Portugal on November 5th 2010.
This X-TG performance replaced the previously cancelled Throbbing Gristle show... due to Genesis P-Orridge refusing to perform with TG.

• PLEASE NOTE - THIS TRACK IS LIMITED TO 1000 FREE DOWNLOADS •

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X-TG 'XPad' Live at Porto Casa Musica

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