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Eric Andersen - "The Crying Space" 2xCD
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Edition of 200
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Release date: Feb. 14th, 2020

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R65 - Eric Andersen - "Le Chemin Des Larmes" excerpt from The Crying Space 2xCD

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Catalog #: GN63
October 1, 2020
2xCASS+DIGI

The midnight hour crept unto thee with hasty caution, revealing 'A Little Night Music: Aural Apparitions from the Geographic North', our third putrid prowl into Halloween-inspired sounds to torment and tantalize throughout the season. For this bout of distinguished dementia, we culled 31 brand new tracks of haunted hysteria conjured by some of the most alluring ambientists and outer auteurs from around the world. 

Spanning over two hours across two cassettes, 'A Little Night Music…’ unfurls itself in a literary horror structure, appearing and disappearing through a stirring Prologue and Epilogue by London-based cellist Oliver Coates, with each side of the cassettes introducing its Chapter with a chilling dirge courtesy of the inscrutable Geographic North House Band.  

What fills the ensuing pages is a mirthful tale concocted by an assembly exploring a realm all at once mournful and fatalist at its core. Entries from Clarice Jensen, Malibu, and the collaboration of Like a Villain and Christina Vantzou bring about endless glacial landscapes accented by pitch-grey skies. Conversely, transmissions from Michael Valentine West, M. Sage, Gregg Kowalsky, and Austrian ambient stalwart Fennesz explore richly textured mines of foreboding glee. 

Suspicion is the word when considering Zelienople’s eerie horse-carriage clip-clop, Nick Malkin’s neon-lit noir-jazz, or Carmen Villain’s gripping dub excursion. Elsewhere Ki Oni, Takagi Masakatsu, and Mary Lattimore (joined here by Paul Sukeena) provide glimmers of warmth amidst a tortured chill. 

Notable is the resurrection of Lotus Plaza and his solemnly hopeful piano composition, while barren hallucinations courtesy of Alex Zhang Hungtai, Ilyas Ahmed, and Danny Paul Grody set the stage for a third act confrontation from Atlantans Fit of Body and Algiers, providing a one-two serving of sensual unrest and cautionary homily.  

With hope and resolve shimmering through the final moments of our journey, know that all proceeds from the digital and cassette editions go directly toward Feminist Women's Health Center, an Atlanta-based nonprofit providing safe, accessible, and compassionate abortion and gynecological care to all those who need it without judgement.

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Lotus Plaza - "Gossamer"

BYRON WESTBROOK - Electric Blued

TR095 - Nemeton / Rafael Anton Irisarri - '...spin into nothingness'

This month guest in our October Noods Radio residency is P I T https://soundcloud.com/digiborg_pit head of Biodiversita' Records...https://biodiversitarecords.bandcamp.com/

Forest Fire HD		
BELLOWS - untitled 3		
Calum Gunn - ASSUMPTION		
Oliver Coates -Caregiver part 1 (breathing)		
Bjarni Gunnarsson - Blur		
Lucrecia Dalt - Seca		
Paradoxes - PRDXS 1.4		
H036 - 09.Xerotonin		
UAN0001 - Relay Mix		
Yves De Mey - JPSH Geographics		
Taylor Deupree - Canoe		
Forest Fire HD		
Pontiac Streator - Lamp Fest 		
ZULI - Alo_			
Heather Leigh - molly			
Calum Gunn - TWELVES			
Underworld - Shudder_King Of Shake			
Forest Fire HD			
Dylan Henner - I Watched them Jump into the Creek			
Seven Orbits - SandGrainss			
perila - riot_in_a_corn_field			
Calum gunn - LOCUS			
Taylor Deupree - Canoe			
			
P I T - guest mix (1:08:15)			
			
ll nøthing ll - oxygen			
ANKUBU - Delusion _ Extract			
Toxe - Be By The Sea			
Sbrilly Sbratti - Back			
Charity Ssb & Swimful - Plastic Organ			
P I T - Year Of The Snake.jpg			
woopheadclrms - Noisy woman, bad little invitation, fertilizer			
Ipomea - Rauvolfia Serpentina			
Joey LaBeija - Joey's Inferno			
Kim Gordon - Sketch Artist			
Bartuś419 - Toribash			
Noumeno - Non Finirà Mai - Bonjr X Scaglia X Fis X Blessed Initiative (Noumeno Edit)			
DEADLILBOY - Does Death Smell Like Blood (Rituals)			
TRVSHBXVT - FXRTN1T3 (03 Greedo)			
lil Zubin - In the background (Prod. Nedarb)			
No Death - Balc.ony			
Andrea Taeggi - Oculus Cordis			
ziùr - ATØ			
Kelman Duran - Gravity Waves II			
Prayer - Heal
VINÍ & P I T - TEMPESTADE.exe

OOH-sounds w/ P I T - Noods Radio - 25 - 10 - 20

Food, sex, glory to God; in which order? Do you first eat, and then pray to thank Them? Or perhaps coupling takes the top spot for you.

Each of these three fundamentals is about service. What is your way of serving others while you’re in this world? And will we keep doing it ever after? In heaven—if we’ll make it there—will W serve us their mass of resonating frequencies and clipping digital ornaments?

A new release by W is here to go alongside our feasts, orgies, and other acts of devotion. Yes, it’s suited for all kinds of services. You must try it on fried fish, living bodies, or celestial ones.

From right to left and back again from left to right; W spins the middle frequencies into a ritual that helps us to forget ourselves. For a while, heaven and earth exist on the horizon, instead of the vertical.

The sonic horizon reminds us of the beauty of the plain from which nothing arises to compete with God. What's more, the panning offers an exercise in humility: everything is around you, but you’re not the center.

The distorting of those sweet basslines tells you that what you’re hearing is growth and rot, crop and compost, both at the same instance. The distortion invites you to go medieval—think Ars moriendi, the art of dying. Learn from these sounds by reflecting on how they’re ready—but not willing—to leave this plane at any moment.

The sounds that make up Maanpinna follow neither a linear understanding of time, nor a hierarchical understanding of bodies, but an instantaneous one of both. You could call it quantum music, but then why would you do so when you can call it a service?

Of the three acts of services mentioned, sex and God demand the most trust. Can you trust these sounds? You could learn to do so by listening to them on repeat. No: forget the idea of being able to know music, forget beginnings and ends; try living with these sounds forever, always unearthing new aspects.

Commit to the sounds, because why else would they trust you? Touch the wobbly melodies and feel them touching you like nothing has ever done before.

Apart from the sea of sine waves, Maanpinna sometimes gives you bursts, pops, and washes of filtered white noise. They are gestures of good faith made by the music itself towards you. If you didn't trust the sounds before, perhaps now you will.

Those bursts are not pure noise, but cut down to a serving size by W. The modified noise tells you what the dead always tell the living: ‘What I am, you will become.’ The art, in life and audio, is in learning to lose. It’s a lesson that reverberates deep in the bare soundscape of Maanpinna.

It is music made from very few elements. And while reduction has always formed the basis for aural worship, on the hands of W, sounds are never reduced to the level of blasphemy: there's always the noise and the distortion.

- Kaino Wennerstrand

Produced by Eero Pulkkinen (@susiovet).
Mastering by Jaakko Viitalähde.
Artwork by Carmine Laurenza.
AFN005 - A Flooded Need, 2021.

Maanpinna

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