Swerve

from the upcoming album 'aSpiritual' by offthesky & Rin Howell... out august 8th, 2021

Music: offthesky & Rin Howell
Mastering: offthesky / Ian Hawgood
Print design: Craig Tattersall
Packaging design: Daniel Crossley
Label: Fluid Audio

offthesky & Rin Howell - Suspension

"Uroboros" is an original, three-part composition by Paweł Szamburski, his commentary on essential rituals and rites of passage in the life of man. Drawing from traditional folk music, the composer is also inspired by the gnostic symbol of a snake biting its tail. Uroboros expresses spiritual and physical oneness of all things and symbolizes the infinite cycle of destruction and rebirth. It is both the point of departure and arrival in Szamburski's musical journey. „Birth”, „Life” and „Death” gain folk music forms of a lullaby, a wedding tune and a funeral dirge. Clarinets, loops, a mother's ticking clock and the „infinite” mode on the Alexander Sky-Fi pedal all contribute to this tale of meaning, simplicity and beauty.
credits
releases August 22, 2021 

All music composed, produced and recorded by Paweł Szamburski 
Mixed by Igor Nikiforow 
Mastered by Marcin Bociński 
Cover art by Stachu Szumski 
Layout by Paweł Ryżko 
Original recordings: Józefa Albiniak (track 1) from the record "Wokół dziecka" (1988 Janów Lubelski) and "Jarzębina" z Kodzudzy (track 2, 3) from Remek Hanaj collection. 
Special thanks to RCKL.

"Śmierć" last part of "Uroboros", second solo album by Szamburski

Musician and composer Sahba Sizdahkhani serves as a unique crossroad of East meets West. Influenced heavily by both 1960’s spiritual free-jazz and Persian Classical Music, he channels the fire-energy and longing for connectivity these two stormy histories represent. At age 12, his self-proclaimed “aha moment” occurred while listening to The John Coltrane Quartet for the very first time. He was hooked and immediately began studies on jazz drum set and classical snare drum.
     As the years passed, however, his ferocious love of jazz and improvisation would open pathways and pointers to his native roots of Persian Classical Music, and eventually, he would begin formal studies on the Iranian santur with master santur player Faraz Minooei.
     Sahba has completed two separate Bachelor of Arts degrees: one at Berklee College of Music, in Jazz performance, and the other at The University of Maryland, in Art History & Archeology. He worked in Paris for several years in textile design but ultimately moved back to New York city to further pursue jazz drumming.
He has composed film scores for Chelsea Winstanley (JoJo Rabbit), Whalerock Industries, maverick avant filmmaker Paul Clipson, as well as a live score performance for the Cinema 16 series in the legendary tunnel underneath the Manhattan Bridge.
Additionally, Sahba has recently recorded with Michael Morley(Dead C) and currently has running musical collaborations with Derek Monypeny, Rob Magill, and Zachary James Watkins + Ross Peacock.
He has shared live bills with a vastly diverse class of artists including Laraaji, C spencer Yeh, Susan Alcorn, Henry Kaiser, Rova Saxophone Quartet, Sunwatchers, Wizard Apprentice, Talibam!, Plankton Wat, Peter Brötzmann, and Don Dietrich (Barbetomagus). He has performed at The White House, Park Avenue Armory, Kennedy Center for the Arts, Basilica Hudson’s 24 Hour Drone Festival, WFMU live performance, “Fire Over Heaven” at Outpost Artist Resources, The Embassy of France, VOA studios, and Garden of Memory Festival at The Chapel of the Chimes.
Sahba’s hazy, atmospheric solo performances with 104-string santour and drums have been described as “a dispatch from antiquity.” And WIRE magazine recently stated “Sahba Sizdahkhani starts playing [his] instrument as if  he's pleading for his life. His playing is breathtaking. . .”
     This particular work, “GANJ,” which translates to “treasure” in Farsi, documents the magical first meeting between a musician and a new instrument. It is the first ever raw, unrefined recording of Sahba on solo santur as opposed to drum set. It was recorded in solitude during the Winter Solstice of 2019 without any prior training or study whatsoever on the mystical 102-stringed trapezoid dulcimer. The consequent emphasis due to lack of any technical skill,  was pure sonics, overtones, resonances, and an homage to minimalist composers such as Terry Riley, La Monte Young, and early Miles Davis. Days after completing this work, Sahba rushed to seek out formal studies of the Persian Classical Radif with his current teacher, Faraz Minooei.

Sahba Sizdahkhani- Ganj Pt. 4 - from Ganj tape on Cassauna

Look Down At Your Hands When You Dream

In his book 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑒𝑖𝑟𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒, Mark Fisher wrote about the two notions: While the weird is something present where it doesn’t belong—something from outside found on the inside—the eerie has to do specifically with outside space. Something is eerie when there are unanswered questions about agency: Who or what is responsible for the abandonment of this zone? Who or what is crying out in the distance?

Katharina Schmidt’s 𝑇𝑒𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑠 𝐶𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑡𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑎𝑙𝑓 𝐿𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡, a single, longform track stretching to a near half hour, deftly captures this spatial sense of the eerie. The evolving drone is like coming upon a ruin, circling it, and being drawn inside. There are no surprises, no sudden horrors, just the strange pull of oscillating waveforms that paint a bleak yet soothing landscape.

In certain kinds of listeners, empty, abandoned spaces produce a pleasurable dejection. Maybe this is because spaces where human life is evacuated represent the end result of capital. (It seems to have withered away, but is in fact off to find another shell for its home.) What we’re left with is something new to inhabit, a new infrastructure for freedom. The subtle changes in Schmidt’s recording have less to do with melody and rhythm, more to do with accumulating color and texture of space. And so the half hour can feel like five minutes, or an eternity—time and scale exist differently here.

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After years of playing drums and piano in various bands, Katharina Schmidt's solo work is influenced by indie, experimental, and improvised music. Exploring interests in storytelling, sonic topographies, and generative techniques, her music uses electronics, field recordings, and self-built interfaces alongside acoustic instruments. From sonifications to lullabies, her work is poised between formal experimentation and narratives cued by literature and pop culture, and can be heard in installations, film music, and radiophonic pieces, as well as releases on labels such as Flag Day Recordings, Slaapwel Records, and Focused Silence.

Katharina holds a master’s degree in Sound Studies from the Berlin University of the Arts and hosts resident shows at Cashmere Radio and SVS Radio.

katharina-schmidt.net
katharinaschmidt.bandcamp.com  

artwork by Stefan Lingg
audio finalized by Glyn Maier

all proceeds to The Homeless Period Project (Greenville, SC, US) - www.homelessperiodproject.org

Tennis Courts in the Half Light

Katharina Schmidt - Tennis Courts In The Half Light [Excerpt] (ENMD03)

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

SDG 15 - Created for SOUNDS SUSTAINABLE
la durabilité pour l’oreille
Nachhaltigkeit für’s Ohr

https://trnstn.ch/trnstn-box/

Life On Land

Pre-order date: 10th March 2022
Release date: 18th March 2022
Format: CD, Digital

Each track was inspired by the experience of the landscapes connecting the body and displacing it into a sound. 

Track1: La Paz (Bolivia)
Track2: Eduardo Avarua Andean National Reserve (Bolivia)
Track3: Machu Picchu (Peru)
Track4: Buenos Aires (Argentina) 
Track5: Atacama Desert (Chile)
Track6: São Paulo (Brazil) 

Tatsuro Murakami is a guitarist and composer, based in Tokyo and São Paulo. Since 2014 he has been studying the roots of Brazilian popular music from Choro and 7-string classic guitar. Besides ambient music, he works with soundtracks for movies, art installations, and his own creations on sound art. 
(tatsuromurakami.com) 

Music by Tatsuro Murakami 
Vocal on track 2 and original photography by Anais-karenin 
(https://anaiskarenin.com)
Mastered by Taylor Deupree

Copyright © 2022 ROHS! RECORDS, All Rights Reserved

The Sound of Living Things

Info release

previews. Tatsuro Murakami - The Sound Of Living Things (Album) | Lᴏɴᴛᴀɴᴏ Series

🌻
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

This is an outtake from our new CD "Revisionist History", released during a time that future historians will most certainly be tempted to revise. 





Passing Resentment

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

Passing Resentment

Fossil Aerosol Mining Project