Our next offering comes from the Highlands of Scotland as Beira presents her debut, “Scry”.

Beira is a producer from Inverness that draws influence from occultism, mythology, paganism and Wicca.

The blueprint and construction of this release is a little different than usual….

Beira came up with the idea for the “Scry” project whilst doing a deep dive through the Bricolage catalogue looking for inspiration.

Her idea was to take stems/samples from eight different producers on the label and rework them into and alongside some of her own 'WIP' productions that she had been struggling to find further motivation for.

Adding these extra potions to an already simmering cauldron of her own sounds and breathing new life into what she describes as a "dormant elixir".

The result is a fascinating collections of disintegrated and mercurial soundscapes that conjure up all manner of moods but also leave room for the imagination. Atmosphere and woven textures take precedence in the process.

The more ambient numbers that begin the EP bring a raw and abstract tension before the pace picks up and we're introduced to some dark and dubby, bass driven, rhythmic tracks. Hacked apart beats that get stitched back together and swirled around. The surreal and otherworldly tension remains in the second half but now with a late night fire burning and an invitation to dance around it.

There's a strong nod to feminism and Scottish mythology throughout that tells a tale of Witchcraft and days gone by. The perfect soundtrack for the Halloween season.

"Scry" melts, bubbles, froths and crackles. It's a beguiling record from a nascent producer that gives us a peek into the past and the present. Into the potential that's yet to come. Into the future. Into oneself. Thus, to scry.

https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/scry-bc088

Scry

Beira - Yggdrasil (from the "Scry" EP)

s Fut or

From the "Loam" EP

https://fragilex.bandcamp.com/album/loam-gp022

Rhizome

Spirit voices is my fifth release and the first one self-released on my own label ETRNL

it’s a landscape of ethereal, haunting melodies that embraces a mix of influences, from dark emotional industrial techno to dreamy shoegaze, crafted entirely with analog synthesizers

this ep explores the existential thirst for the divine and the mysterious

artificial light shines in the darkness of a deserted house, and the sound resonates through empty rooms from which the spirit has departed

written and produced by Lina Filipovich
mixed and mastered by Lina Filipovich and Leonid Diaghilev
artwork by Margot Anquez Bariseau

angelicbreath

BIOS WRECK is a new Contort Yourself side label! Think of it as CY's unstable sibling, dealing in awkward genres and short runs....ya ken?

For our inaugural release we voraciously present a dusty tape featuring Contort Yourself label boss (and also one half of post punk duo Women's Hour) Murray CY and his misadventures with some quasi electronic not quite post punk under the dubious guise, Model Stress.


"with a mumble and a fumble, communication is the key to model stress, but sadly the key is stuck in the lock.

listen as he takes the smallest of issues and turns them into huge pantheons of insignificance.

hearing is not believing my friends and believing spelled backwards is gniveileb which contains the veil that hides a thousand ancient secrets, and one mundane one which most people actually know.

tears...

but the show must not go on, and so it does..."

WHITE TAPE WITH DOUBLE SIDED COLOUR INSERT

25 COPIES ONLY

OUT NOW!

GET. WRECKED. HERE:
https://bioswreck.bandcamp.com/album/model-stress-ep-bw01

Tape (BW01)

Model Stress EP

Buy Tape + Digital

3. Model Stress -  Scandal (BW01)

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1 Gamajorba (intro edit)
2 Garret's Plea
3 Secret of Heather Ale (synthetic demo) (Robert Louis Stevenson)
4 Contentment (Thomas Paine)
5 The Old Priest (William Butler Yeats)
6 And If (Mihai Eminescu)
7 I Serve A Mistress (Anthony Munday)
8 Convalescent Crescent Groans 
9 Who Cares
10 Nervous
11 Here Comes a New Life 
12 Fate of Sakartvelo
13 Swanheart (Nightwish) 
14 I Fear Thy Kisses (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
15 Lies About Vietnam (Adrian Mitchell)
16 The Twin of Sleep (Robert Graves)
17 Addison’s Ode (Joseph Addison)
18 Blakehead Babyhead (Adrian Mitchell)
19 Friends Who Write, Draw and Carve (Christopher Logue) 
20 There Are No Millers Anymore (Edwin Arlington Robinson)
21 As Phantoms Go (Edwin Arlington Robinson)
22 The Initiation (Manly P Hall)
23 Life Is Not Easy 
24 I Only Ever Have Bad Ones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVqevCB1ZoI

The Initiation(0018)

Jellyfish0004

Dreams by DimDJ - This release would focus on creating lush, hypnotic soundscapes combining Balearic warmth and Italo, melodic pulse. It should embody the feeling of drifting between reality and dreams on a Mediterranean night, mixing elements of coastal life, sunlit nostalgia, and beachside euphoria.
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released November 1, 2024

Dreams

An enchanting sonic journey by Rafael Anton Irisarri, a.k.a. The Sight Below, takes us across soundscapes as expansive as mountains, valleys, and deserts. https://secretthirteen.org/stm-088-the-sight-below/ @the-sight-below @irisarri

Secret Thirteen Mix

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STM 088 - The Sight Below

from the upcoming album 'Removed' on Ash International, UK on May 19, 2017.


In 2000, The Wire wrote of Chartier’s work: “it’s worth stretching the ears in search of Chartier’s sequences of exquisitely sculpted sonic events, as gorgeous detail bodies forth out of the shadows”… the same holds true today.

Formed over the course of 5 years, Removed was a process of removal/erasure.
Only trace elements appear from what was. Their interactions merely a ghost of a composition — subtle echoes across the sound spectrum. A glacially paced progression of discreet relational sonic events and flows.

Inspired in part by the rigorous line drawings of American visual artist Linn Meyers, whose 2011 untitled drawing graces the cover, Removed draws the listener in to follow patterns. Meyers often creates large scale on-site works that transform a space into durational installations of seemingly endless lines. Seen from a distance these lines appear as almost natural ripples in a wall surface, but deeper, upon closer inspection, the delicate echoes and fluctuations of the artist’s hand arise from the density of details.

Chartier’s precise sound compositions work in a similar manner. Austere and shimmering, the two compositions of Removed beg for careful listening on headphones. Or let these 2 compositions play quietly amplified across your space. Either way, a physically captivating dimensional experience.

Removed is a continuing reflection on major aesthetic elements of Chartier’s artistic language as it has evolved through the years. This is Chartier’s first new solo studio album since 2013’s field recording exploration Interior Field  and 2012’s purely digital Recurrence, both released on LINE, US.

Removed 1 (excerpt)

Richard Chartier (b.1971) is a Los Angeles based artist, considered one of the key figures in minimalist sound art. Chartier’s works explore the inter-relationships between the spatial nature of sound, silence, focus, perception, and the act of listening itself. Chartier’'s sound works/installations have been presented in galleries and museums internationally and he has performed his work live across Europe, Japan, Australia, and North America at digital art/electronic music festivals and exhibits. In 2000 he formed the recording label LINE and has since curated its continuing documentation of compositional and installation work by international sound artists/composers exploring the aesthetics of contemporary and digital minimalism.

He is also Pinkcourtesyphone.