Body Sculptures - "A body Turns to Eden" LP 
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Body Sculptures - A Body Turns To Eden

Varg - Nordic Flora Series Pt.3: Gore-Tex City
2xLP & Digital download

Artwork by Cali Thornhill DeWitt
Mastered by Neel at EnissLab, Rome
Northern Electronics 39

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Clip from the latest Subtext Recordings release by Ellen Arkbro - For organ and brass. For organ and brass is comprised of two works by the Stockholm-based composer Ellen Arkbro. Both works focus on tuning, intonation and harmonic modulation. In previous projects, Arkbro composed for early music ensembles, wrote a series of durational pieces utilising synthetic tones and processed guitars, and, most recently, presented a work lasting 26 days at the Stockholm Concert Hall. for organ and brass looks back to Arkbro’s studies in Just Intonation with La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, and their disciple Jung Hee Choi in New York, as well as with kindred spirit Marc Sabat in Berlin.

The title composition was written for an organ with a specific kind of historical tuning known as meantone temperament. It was only after locating an appropriate instrument—-the Sherer-Orgel dating back to 1624 in St. Stephen’s Church in Tangermünde, Northeastern Germany—-that Arkbro set about recording both for organ and brass and its counterpart, three. “Hidden within the harmonic framework of the Renaissance organ are intervals and chords that bare a close resemblance to those found in the modalities of traditional blues music,” explains Arkbro. “The work can be thought of as a very slow and reduced blues music.” 

The work moves gradually through a series of long, sustained tones played by the organ and in parallel by a brass trio comprised of horn, tuba, and trombone. Arkbro’s treatment of pitch resembles the tuning strategies of La Monte Young. The brass parts were performed by microtonal brass trio Zinc & Copper, a group whose repertoire has included works by C.C. Hennix and Christian Wolff.  http://www.zincandcopper.org/

In Arkbro’s words, “the brass instruments and the organ fall into patterns of interaction in which a new breathing instrument emerges.” three, which follows the 20-minute title work, deploys the same principles of harmonic relativity. In removing the organ from the instrumentation and switching to a different meter, three acts as an intimate counterpoint to the ritual drone cycles of the title piece.  

Ellen Arkbro is currently studying for her Master’s degree in music composition at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. Her work has been performed in Brooklyn, Stockholm, Norberg, Bologna, Gothenburg, Berlin, Birmingham, and Malmö, and on Swedish National Radio.
for organ and brass was recorded in Tangermünde, Germany in September 2016. 
The performers were Johan Graden (organ), Elena Kakaliagou (horn), Hilary Jeffery 
(trombone), and Robin Hayward (tuba).

Ellen Arkbro - For Organ & Brass Clip

Northern Electronics label boss Varg continues to confound with "Blue Line (112 Radhuset)" from his beautiful, unsettling and collaboration-rich album 'Nordic Flora Pt 3: Gore-Tex City', out March 27th. The track premiered on Red Bull Radio's Discreet Music, our weekly deep-dive into all manner of experimental sounds.

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Nordic Flora Pt.3: Gore-Tex City

Varg - Blue Line (112 Rådhuset) with AnnaMelina [Discreet Music Premiere]

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Blue Line 2 (112 Fridhemsplan) [feat. AnnaMelina & Vanity Productions]

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Track from NE57 Varg – Sky City: Even in the Heart of Heaven, Angels Can Still Feel Fear
Out on vinyl and digital May 3rd.

Part curse, part declaration, part Rorschach test, Varg's new collection of EPs is a barely balanced inferno. Side by side, raw club burners arrive from the wretched plateaus levelled out by chaotic neurotransmissions, while sweet and soft anthems take the pain away.

The first EP, Sky City: Even in the Heart of Heaven, Angels Can Still Feel Fear, affirms Varg's deft and agile take on techno. Here minimalism spars with blissed out programming, unafraid to pepper sedate hooks with intricate percussive rufige. With each track's eyes on the raving kru, Varg restates his permit to take it to the floor. It's foreboding, but it always has been—and Sky City: A Weak Heart to Break (Spit) makes this its method. Launching itself under the opening track's dazzling melancholic sweep, the EP loses its way in every direction at once by the last track's glitching gabber meltdown. Fair warning is required for the demonic and cosmically unhinged piece of rhythmic noise that begins the second side.

Artwork by David von Bahr
Mastered by Neel at EnissLab, Rome

NE57

Varg – Death.Toggle / CheatingIntensityBuff_Fearless ft. Fatal & Chatline

John Beltran - Anticipation

Nordic Flora Series, Pt. 1: Heroine

I Think I'd Lie for You

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