Name: Colliding Lines #8 - 17 September 2020 by Resonance Extra in Random sets .. (Indie, experimental, noise etc.) part 3
Duration: 2 h

Random sets .. (Indie, experimental, noise etc.) part 3

Genome 6.66 Mbp w/ Liyo, Munix & ssaliva on Bahui Radio

Following stellar tracks on Eastern Nurseries' 2022 compilation 'Wild Love to Grow' and 'Songs For Sirens' earlier this year, Mirror Organs' label debut "Sunless" sees the London-based producer deliver a strident selection of compositions that shimmer on new horizons of what contemporary ambient music can be.

Known for his previous work on his own imprint Steep Incline, Mirror Organs' second album sees the artist in a moment of transition. Sculpted granular harmonics and glitched-out drum programming encircle one another while spectral disembodied vocals cut through with an uncanny valley sensibility. Sonic blasts and ghostly drones offer dynamic richness throughout the album's opening oeuvre, while the tail-end of "Sunless" conjures an altogether headier atmosphere driven by its dancefloor aesthetic impulses. Cut-up breakbeats introduce a readiness to embrace a stroboscopic point of view, set against a glorious backdrop of youthful, post-rave nostalgia. Playful by design, 'Sunless' markedly bears influence from the UK's rich history of dance music innovation as much as it does from recent European ambient movements - a returnal moment driven by Pooley's first experiences with electronic music in the late '00s.

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Mirror Organs is Bene Pooley
Recorded 2021-2023

Cover image by Bene Pooley
Mastered by Owen Pratt

Sunless

Mirror Organs - Sunless

shimmer w/ didi - 29/11/2023

Pollution Opera - s/t
Cat. Nr: DN027
Format: DL / LP
Release Date: April 24, 2024
Buy / stream: dansenoire.ffm.to/PollutionOpera

Elvin Brandhi and Nadah El Shazly refuse to turn away from the horror. The intercontinental duo’s Pollution Opera album is an uncompromising futurist depiction of our disfigured, dystopian, and dying reality. Facing hell in full defiance, the experimental noise album catapults itself through a volatile compound of breathless shouts, screams, and screeches, in collision with vocal samples, environmental recordings, and acousmatic sounds. Ten tracks cover the spectrum of electroacoustic fragments and vocalizations, treacherously suspended between the roar of engines and synth distortion, of evocative intonations or guttural retching.

First conceived in 2020, Pollution Opera bubbled up organically from a first tandem motorbike ride through El Shazly’s hometown of Cairo. Singing and screaming through the second-loudest city in the world, Brandhi and Shazly found the extreme noise pollution served as catharsis from the suffocating smog that surrounded them. They then took these sonic specimens into studios across years and countries—from the initial recording and sessions in Egypt to Uganda, where their so-called “cacophony carbon orchestra” would carry into simultaneous but separate residencies at Nyege Nyege in Kampala. There, Brandhi and Shazly reprised the role of the motorbike as their “stage,” in a city where motorbikes are the main mode of public transport. They then developed a live A/V performance from video material captured by Arno Mery, collected from their travels, and reworked by Egyptian artist Omar El Sadek during Banlieues Bleues Festival 2023 in France.

The result is what the artists themselves describe as “an uncompromising world-spew, a shameless alloy of love and hate.” Haptic knocking, barking dogs, and human growls trample El Shazly’s famously evocative Egyptian singing style on “CRÎi Me A River.” Breathless vocal cut-ups and samples are bulldozed by arrhythmic acoustic percussion on “Danse Le Flou.” There are moments of respite within all the chaos, however, whether in the heavily pitched, Auto-Tuned opening of “Pollute Bold” or the wonderfully melodic closer of “Crisp Heart”—its derelict rhythmic thrust giving a listener something to dance about.

Both artists lend their unique positioning and idiosyncrasies to Pollution Opera, whether it’s in artist, vocalist, and musician Brandhi’s avant-garde noise music pedigree as both a solo artist and member of father-daughter duo Yeah You, or
singer, composer, and producer El Shazly’s hybrid catalogue combining electronic music with contemporary classical. Together, in asking the question of what a postmodern opera might sound like, the duo offer their existential answer in the true spirit of the often playful and ironic philosophical position by offering no answer at all.

Voice & electronics: Elvin Brandhi & Nadah El Shazly
Violin on ‘Crisp Heart’: Ocen James
Soprano on ‘Attention’: Marie Requa Gailey

Artwork by Omar El Sadek & Niels Wehrspann
Mastering by Rashad Becker

Pollution Opera

Pollution Opera - Bite

Arianekiks is a French, Brussels-based photographer. Along with performing pop ceremonies together with DJ KIT under the moniker “Atopos”, she hosts the radio shows veil01 (Internet Public Radio) and *xwishes (Lyl Radio). Kiks’ endeavours in music and photography are shaped by and crafted as stories of their own. Audiovisual tales rooted in teenage reveries, hypnotic motion and a clash of classical concerns —

Ariane Kiks @ Kiosk Radio 03.05.2024

screwdriver (instrumental)

This is one of the alternative version of the track I did last year for Philip Ullman & Carl Herner video released in September 2019 on AQNB.

Original Video - Carl Herner & Philip Ullman
Music - My Sword
Poetry - Philip Ullman

https://www.aqnb.com/2019/09/19/philip-ullman-carl-herner-share-a-love-poem-to-the-cloud-as-forever-in-your-arms-explores-memory-loss-accumulation/

forever in your arms ft. Philip Ullman (alternative) VIDEO LINK IN DESC

Visual >>What becomes Legends most? by Curtly Thomas aka smallboydanger
Audio >> Cosmic Power by Nkisi

Cosmic Power - Nkisi

Take a walk into the deep end with Kiara Scuro and their guest Jennifer Touch - 2 hours of heavily synthesised EBM, new wave and post-punk chug to ease you out of the evening.

Kiara Scuro w/ Jennifer Touch - September 2020

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Friendzone with Kellam Matthews @ The Lot Radio 09 - 15 - 2020

Colliding Lines present live sessions, cross-genre collaborations and left-field recordings drawn from the London, UK and international experimental scenes; a long-form love letter to recorded audio as soundtrack, as sound art and as storyteller.

Resonance Extra - 24/7 sound art, radio art and global music. Listen on DAB+ in Brighton, Bristol, Cambridge, London and Norwich or via http://extra.resonance.fm

Colliding Lines #8 - 17 September 2020

This weeks broadcast features part two of my travel series. Music strictly for the downtime, for when you really want to zone out & switch off. Smooth selections from Björk, Cleo Sol, Sault, Jill Scott, Khruangbin, Can, Dennis Bovell & more. All of the tracks featured you can also find in my Spotify playlist 'Moxie's Travel Playlist' 🌎

Full tracklist: https://www.nts.live/shows/moxie/episodes/moxie-16th-september-2020

Moxie's Travel Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6dZqUcQwxrdj7IuRLpJCVk?si=KF_lbsovTbusTLA0tVXSFQ

Listen back to part 1 here: https://www.nts.live/shows/moxie/episodes/moxie-27th-march-2019

Every Wednesday 3-5pm (gmt) on NTS Radio

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Moxie on NTS Radio: Home Broadcast 22 'The Travel Episode Part 2' (16.09.20)

VIDEOCLIP BY NIL FERNÀNDEZ PREMIERED ON @aqnb: https://youtu.be/wFvye8UzYEk

Bass guitar - Concrete Fantasies (@concretefantasies)
Additional violin and processing - Candlelight (@candlelight1)
Additional violin - Alma Seroussi

Art by Nil Fernàndez (IG: @nilfernandez)

Pre-order digital album / merch on Bandcamp: https://oottrroo.bandcamp.com/album/portuaria

'Portuaria' out 22/02/2021

Portuaria

Suburbia (Entering) ft. Candlelight, Concrete Fantasies & Alma Seroussi

Sound art, radio art and global music streaming 24/7 via http://extra.resonance.fm and on DAB+ in Brighton, Bristol, Cambridge, London and Norwich.

Colliding Lines #8 - 17 September 2020

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