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Tokyo-based producer Sachi Kobayashi composed "Imaginary Trip" as a travelogue: in her words, "[to] help listeners to imagine various aspects of Japan". Primarily recorded at her home studio, Kobayashi leisurely but exactingly dis- and re-assembles minute sounds; magnifying dust motes drifting by a sun-lit window. "Imaginary Trip" also highlights minimal (catchy) melodies (<40 BPM) and surgical sound design, making the album as much a hallucinatory inner journey as a terrestrial one - which the b-side highlights with alternate versions of each track: a dream within a dream.
credits
releases September 15, 2021

recorded by Sachi Kobayashi at home - Saitama, Japan, Oct. 2020
audio finalized by Glyn Maier
artwork by Joe Bastardo
design by RJM Vanderheyden

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Imaginary Trip

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ENXPL09 - SACHI KOBAYASHI A4 - WATCH A KAIJU MOVIE

Midori Hirano / @midorihirano

Sonmi451 - Seven Signals In The Sky
Claire Rousay - preston ave
Grey Frequency - Telekinetic
Gesellschaft Zur Emanzipation Des Samples - GonnaDieWithMyHammerInMyHand
FRKTL - Fire Upon The Deep
HÜMA UTKU - Truth From The Deepest Source
james K - I Can Not Remember
SABIWA - Enigma
Svetlana Maraš - Opening
Natalie Beridze - Be Airborn
MARTINA BERTONI - Distant Tropics

Midori Hirano ~ Correspondence Nº32

The scars soften - the silver knife melts. 
Sad-sack and cracked hearts, forever reaching the distorted harmony, 
never ceasing, beyond sight - sentimental, coarse reverie eats into euphony.

Each and all, we believe in our deities; although we may not tell, we worship in fear and in inspiration; although we may not feel it, we have our sacred places; although we may not see our idols, they are true in our dreams. Even as our prayer falls silent, these words of Voltaire will be, for us, forever true: if there were no God, it would be necessary to invent Him.

'Hedonistic Idols' is an album of six works by Volunteer Coroner, the avant-garde noise-and-ambient fusing project of artist and composer Preston Weippert. Through contrasts of harshness and fragility, the album explores truth in faith, and hope in decay.

Hedonistic Idols

Volunteer Coroner - Acts of Devotion

3 X Serum + ODD sound MTS-ESP with a Self Made tuning

trying this new  tuning

Mystery 1

Mix by @dean-de-benedictis(Surface 10)
Friends & Collaborators Ambient Mix
Check out his music here >> https://www.deandebenedictis.com

tracklist:
1. Niture (intro) - “circling overland”
2. Thomas Ronkin - “Ambrosia”
3. Steve Roach - “The Ritual Continues” mixed with “Cloud Motion” mixed with “Light Sound”
4. Mr. Soon - “Echo Canyon” mixed with “Low Mountain”
5. A Produce - “A Smooth Surface” mixed with “Within Reach”
6. Loren Nerell - “Dark Horizon” mixed with “Slow Dream”
7. The Stratos Ensemble (Trio) (Surface 10 Remix)
8. D’Von Charley & Dean De Benedictis - “Windy Ridge 2010”
9. Vic Hennegan & Dean De Benedictis- “Live At The Gatherings 2008”
10. Desensitized - “Ecumenicus Orato (The Umbilical Center)”
11. Niture - “xylophagous”
12. Kronodigger - “The Piano is Dreaming”
13. Abiogenesis - “Animation”
13. Dean De Benedictis - “Flight Back to LA 2015”
14. Ian Boddy - “Underhill” and “Glade”
15. Robert Rich - “Somnium” and “Dendritic”
16. 1000 Hectares & Surface 10 - “Last Light”
17. Zimar Manigold & Mr. Soon
18. The Stratos Ensemble - “Ode To Everyone”
19. D’Von Charley & Dean De Benedictis - “Untitled Storm”
20. Vic Hennegan - “Between The Spaces”
21. Ombient & Chuck Van Zyl -mixed with- Deborah Martin
22. Darren McLure - Remix of "ASMR Tragedy Lines" by Dean De Benedictis
23. Phxezen - "One Can Only Alone"
24. Victoria Lucas - Remix of "VOC Transit" by Surface 10
25. Cavestar - "Aurora"
26. Tony Gerber - "AD DimensionalSlip"
27. Robot Koch - "Crystal Grid"
28. David Helpling & Jon Jenkins - "The Same Sky"
29. David Wright - "Alpha"
30. Steve Hillman - "Stratum"
31. Craig Padilla & Howard Givens - “Being Of Light” -mixed with- "Surface Vespers And Cessnas (Abiogenesis remixing Surface 10)"
32. Bernhard Wöstheinrich - “Wishes Follow - Mandolino Mandelmann”
33. The Stratos Ensemble - “Team Hack”
34. Zenland - “Song”
36. Mike Zentner & Dean De Benedictis - “Warm Torn Zennest”
37. Fred Becker & Jeff Filbert (Enterphase) - “Altarian Meadow”
38. Steve Roach - “Atmosphere For Dreaming”
39. Surface 10 (Dean De Benedictis) - “NeoVoid+”
40. Thomas Ronkin - “Immanent”

Surface10 >>

INDEx Mix #23 - Surface10 - Friends & Collaborators Ambient Mix

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by X4 Records

1. Danny Playamaqui - Milk Moon FM
2. Jerry La Flim - LAST OF THE JUNO CHORDS
3. Quadrawulf - mmountain rivers
4. Jerohme - optimism
5. l̒̒̏oͧ͗ͯv̋̏̔҉̴́͞eͮ̒́ ̈́͐h͊͐̃ȭͪrͮ̀ͮs͗̃̎e̅ͣ̓s̔ͦ̾ - eyes r 4 peepin
6. Lucita Octans - Toxic Slag Heaps
7. Anitta - fd
8. Dollarstore Keyboard - Chordata
9. lee - Unseen
10. Mause - k4_SIDmldy
11. Anitta & Placa Acero - TR BS CR MM
12. WHRK - Dozboks [140]
13. Greystar - Linker
14. Florian Förster - political
15. Rave Liotta - Grover
16. fxbip - Phasma Corollata
17. Isobutane - Fifi and I
18. utopia cloak - Late at night
19. Retape - Yindy

Mastered by Danny Playamaqui

Artwork by Jerohme

Tracklist curation by Purpledaughter

releases April 22, 2022

Hot on the heels of 🛸 comes 🌻

Sowing the seeds in mid-April and hoping for beautiful flowers for better times in the future.

Featuring all of your favourites and some super special guests.
This compilation is pay what you want and all proceeds will be donated to UAnimals: linktr.ee/uanimals

Since 2016, UAnimals has been promoting the humane treatment of animals, their protection from exploitation and abuse. We have managed to ban circuses with animals in two dozen cities, agree to abandon natural fur by several dozen designers, as well as achieve the adoption of several important animal rights laws over recent years.

However, on February 24, 2022, Russia attacked Ukraine and now the main efforts of UAnimals are focused on rescuing animals in this situation. We help shelters financially, we provide them with food and try to evacuate animals to other countries.

Thank you for your support.
Humanity will win!

Quadrawulf - mmountain rivers

A remixed version of a track from the forthcoming Bandcamp reissue of "Very Early Fragments". Simulated x-rays of ancient limestone walls, circa 1971.

Khafra (elongated version)

French composer and multi-instrumentalist Christine Ott returns to Gizeh Records for her fourth album ‘Time to Die’, the sequel to the highly regarded ‘Only Silence Remains’ (2016). 

Info / Listen >> www.gizehrecords.com

‘Time To Die’ is a musical fresco in eight chapters, a sensory journey between the world of the living and the dead, for which the musician weaves a unique dramaturgy between contemporary classical and electro-acoustic music.

The title track picks up the story where ‘Only Silence Remains’ left off ... Like it’s centrepiece; ‘Disaster’, the beloved cinematic text here is read by Casey Brown. Ott seeks to offer strong sensations, without artifice, whether by the power of her compositions on the piano (‘Brumes’, ‘Horizons Fauves’), or by intuitive arrangements mixing her unique practice of Ondes Martenot with a maelstrom of Jupiter8, Monotrons, Timpani and Tubular Bells as on the first track. In addition, Ott captivates us with her harp playing on ‘Chasing Harp’, by her aerial singing on ‘Landscape’, or even on the airwaves on ‘Comma Opening’, which ends a triptych of songs after the versions published on ‘Chimères (pour Ondes Martenot)’ (NAHAL 2020) and on ‘Volutes’ from her side-project Snowdrops (Injazero 2020). These two previous records have been praised by critics, especially in the best records of the year according to The Guardian.

This expressive and spontaneous impetus, leitmotif in her musical production, takes a new form within ‘Time to Die’. Through the notes disseminated in an endlessly reinvented minimalist heritage, the interpretation is the ultimate musical glue allowing the pieces to come to life, thereby making this repertoire and its composer-performer unique. A universe where music - despite the album's title - never dies.

We finally share these few words from the talented American musician and videographer Fredo Viola, with whom Christine has forged long-distance correspondence since the first lockdown. Listening to the record, he wrote her these few words, which he allows us to share here:

"Stunning, terrifying, magnetic, delicate, painful and uncanny... It’s like discovering a bizarre object hanging very low in the sky, something beautiful but unfathomable, just out of reach. The way I see the album is as a series of quite cinematic meditations on the theme of death and dying, changing prismatically, up to that incredibly delicate and beautiful conclusion.” Fredo Viola

PRESSING NOTES
50 — Blue Vinyl + CD - Deluxe edition. Gizeh Store Exclusive. Includes the sheet music for the track 'Miroirs' housed inside a hand-numbered, silkscreened card folder with additional texts from Christine Ott. Heavyweight card sleeve with poly-lined paper inner.

200 — Blue Vinyl - Heavyweight card sleeve with poly-lined paper inner. 

CD — Housed in a six-panel digipak with additional artwork featured on the inner sleeve.

CREDITS
All music composed by Christine Ott
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Christine Ott — Harp, Vocals, Piano, Ondes Martenot, Jupiter8, Percussions, Timpani, Tubular bells, Monotron, Vibraphone / Mathieu Gabry — Mellotron, Keyboards, Vibraphone, Effects, Processing and Arrangements on 1,4,5,8 / Casey Brown — Spoken Voice on 1
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Recorded in Serpentine Studio Strasbourg, Conservatoire de Strasbourg & Musée Würth Erstein from 2012 to 2019 / Mixed by Benoit Burger in Spring 2020 / Mastered by Lawrence English / Artwork by Renaud Allirand / Layout by Richard Knox / Limited Numbered Vinyl Edition includes the piano score of "Miroirs", transcribed by Rémi Zeller

Time to Die

Christine Ott - Time to Die

Songs, artifacts, and debris from an artificial past. Over 30 years of fake resurrection.

Khafra (elongated version)

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