Name: Allon Kaye — A New Mix in an Old Language by Risiko Press
Duration: 45 min
Description: "45 minutes of prime new wave/post-punk/synth pop, mostly sung and titled in Hebrew, selected and mixed by reputed @Entracte bossman Allon Kaye. A charming exercise in nostalgia as much as a treasure trove for researchers and diggers." (Boomkat) This mixtape is Für Dich Verlag 31; more info and other mixes via http://www.risikopress.com/mixes

DAVID GRANSTRÖM, Empty Room - LP

Release date - April 2th 2021
Catalogue nr. - HG2102
Format - Vinyl / digital
Hallow Ground

hallowground.bandcamp.com

Tracklist:
1) Obsidian 09:22
2) Aeon 10:56
3) Sapphire Visions 04:50
4) Occultations 10:08
5) Transience 04:45

Credits:
All tracks composed, recorded, performed and mixed by David Granström 
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Photography by Aron Mattsson
Cover design by Greenpointless

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On »Empty Room,« David Granström works with slow transformations, cyclical and isometric patterns as well as just intonation as a way to create harmonic stability, allowing his long-form pieces to develop their own unique temporal and spatial qualities. A prolific figure in Stockholm’s experimental drone scene and a collaborator of Hallow Ground label mates Maria W Horn and Mats Erlandsson, the Swedish composer navigates through moments of quietude and crushing volume on these five tracks. Sonically and atmospherically, the pieces on »Empty Room« simultaneously call to mind Fennesz’s most meditative work or the physical experience of seeing Sunn O))) live, blending guitar recordings and synthesised sounds with forceful effects similar to those of Mario Díaz de Leon’s Oneirogen project while still being as moving and delicate as Alessandro Cortini’s solo work. The album is marked by melodies and harmonies that are the product of a peculiar working process that turned the composer into an intent listener collaborating with, rather than simply using technology. 

Having been invited by the self-organising artist group The Non Existent Center for a residency to Ställbergs Gruva, a defunct iron ore mine in Sweden’s Bergslagen region, Granström took his guitar as a starting point for his compositional work that heavily relies on real-time sound synthesis. »I seldomly use the instrument as a sound source in the final compositions and rather transcribe and orchestrate the harmonic structures using sound synthesis,« he explains. »On this album however, I chose to include the actual recordings of the guitar in order to extend the spectra between non-referential synthetic sounds and embodied referential sounds.« Working with precise tunings in order to blend the timbre of the synthesis with the harmonic structures of the composition, he created composite sound objects in which the harmonic elements blend into each other. 

Through the re-amplification of synthetic musical materials from the inside of the abandoned mine, his original compositions were enriched with site-specific sound qualities before he further refined them in a singular working process. Granström works with algorithmic and generative processes, using the SuperCollider programming environment and thus blurring the lines between generative and creative forms of composition. »One of the things that I like about this way of working is that it creates a distance between myself as a composer and myself as a listener of the music that is produced entirely by the system,« he says. Granström’s technologically aided eschewing of the conventions of composing doesn’t make the end result any less personal, however. By listening again and again to the newly generated output, Granström simply took on a different role in the process of finalising the music, with the technology and the sounds becoming his co-authors. 

By creating systems that generate music, he gains a new perspective on (musical) time, says Granström. »There doesn't have to be a fixed length to the music at all,« he explains. »And by writing music with this in mind, my focus tends to shift towards writing cyclical structures that gradually change and transform over time.« Simple parts, in other words, that emerge as the five complex wholes that form »Empty Room,« a record that itself seems to take on different forms with every new listen.

DAVID GRANSTRÖM - Occultations (HG2102)

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From forthcoming LP "Murmurations" available on Cibachrome Editions April 1st 2022 https://leabertucci.bandcamp.com/album/murmurations

A Vast Interiority - Lea B + Ben Vida

'Being Held' by Ekin Fil, from the album 'Feelings' (Vaagner/A Sunken Mall), gets tantalisingly reinterpreted by none other than Jefre Cantu-Ledesma.

download it here: https://vaagner.bandcamp.com/track/being-held-jefre-cantu-ledesma-rework

VAK57 | Ekin Fil - Being Held (Jefre Cantu-Ledesma Rework)

Drain

Taken from the album 'Too' released as LP, CD and Download

Klara Lewis 'Too' (EMEGO 210)

Metamorphoses

LIES-108
Cienfuegos-Autogolpe lp
clipw from the upcoming lp
to be released April 25th 2018

Autogolpe

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"45 minutes of prime new wave/post-punk/synth pop, mostly sung and titled in Hebrew, selected and mixed by reputed @Entracte bossman Allon Kaye. A charming exercise in nostalgia as much as a treasure trove for researchers and diggers." (Boomkat) 

This mixtape is Für Dich Verlag 31; more info and other mixes via http://www.risikopress.com/mixes

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Allon Kaye — A New Mix in an Old Language

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