Field Haze

When I knew that in this year 2022 the centenary of the birth of the composer Iannis Xenakis is being celebrated, I got the impulse of composing a piece inspired by his music. The result has been the composition that I present here.
In the following links you will find the PDF files with the theoretical introduction:

Explanation in English language:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EhCnCpk1_F1pWaDJq_ukEZ3L5T_6Wcsd/view?usp=sharing

Explicació en català:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xQVWTE6_MzS6bGkNNfhte2Jmh0TNL9E1/view?usp=sharing

Explicación en castellano:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PilJZMRNLupHWXM7ktz8nLPT0AASnyJr/view?usp=sharing

Hyperbolic Paraboloid and Xenakis

A little more up-tempo; experimenting with some guitar processing at 0:50 on some chords I wrote a very long time ago and have recycled several times.

Photo: Paul F.

Highline

The English-speaking alter ego of Jimmy Polioudis, The Vagina Lips, returns with the album Negative Feelings after a 2.5-year recording absence, which actually wasn't an absence at all as he was active all this time with his Greek-language project MAZOHA.

The creative process of the album was adventurous. The audio files for two albums, including the eight tracks of "Negative Feelings", were lost from Jimmy's computer under unknown circumstances and he had to start again from scratch. At a time when he was immersed in negative thoughts and feelings (hence the title of the album) through the recordings he managed to find his inner balance and move on.

Negative Feelings is a pure indie album, faithful to the post punk, shoegaze and 90s American rock influences of The Vagina Lips. The mellowest moments (Intentions, Sad B4 It Was Cool) and the more up-tempo tracks (Get Off The Train, It's Alright, Another Hit, Modern World) are both characterized by intense sadness, but without "blackening" the listener, but instead they take us on a positive, almost dreamlike pattern. There is no shortage of loud and rough sounding moments with tracks like Braindead and Tombstone that grab you by the throat from the first note.

Out on LP and Digital album on December 2nd via Ιnner Ear.

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To αγγλόφωνο alter ego του Τζίμη Πολιούδη, The Vagina Lips, επιστρέφει με το album “Negative Feelings” μετά από 2,5 χρόνια δισκογραφικής απουσίας, που ουσιαστικά δεν ήταν απουσία καθώς όλο αυτό το διάστημα ήταν ενεργό το ελληνόφωνο project του MAZOHA.

Η δημιουργική διαδικασία του album ήταν περιπετειώδης. Τα ηχητικά αρχεία για δύο albums, μέσα σε αυτά και τα οκτώ κομμάτια του “Negative Feelings”, χάθηκαν από τον υπολογιστή του Τζίμη  κάτω από άγνωστες συνθήκες και χρειάστηκε να τα ξαναγράψει όλα από την αρχή. Σε μια εποχή που είχε βυθιστεί σε αρνητικές σκέψεις και συναισθήματα (εξ ου και ο τίτλος του δίσκου) μέσα από τις ηχογραφήσεις κατάφερε να βρει την εσωτερική του ισορροπία και να πάει παρακάτω.

Το Negative Feelings είναι ένα καθαρόαιμο indie album, πιστό στις post punk, shoegaze και 90s American rock επιρροές του Vagina Lips.  Τόσο οι πιο mellow στιγμές (Intentions, Sad B4 It Was Cool) όσο και τα πιο up-tempo  κομμάτια (Get Off The Train, It’s Alright, Another Hit, Modern World) χαρακτηρίζονται από έντονη χαρμολύπη, χωρίς όμως να «μαυρίζουν» τον ακροατή, αλλά αντίθετα μας ταξιδεύουν σε ένα θετικό, σχεδόν ονειρικό μοτίβο. Δεν λείπουν οι  δυνατές και τραχιές ηχητικά στιγμές με κομμάτια όπως το Braindead και το Tombstone που σε πιάνουν από το λαιμό από την πρώτη νότα.

Κυκλοφορεί σε LP και Digital album στις 2 Δεκεμβρίου από την Ιnner Ear.

Negative Feelings

The Vagina Lips - Get off the Train

YO LA TENGO (Matador) - This stupid world - Fallout
 
PONTA PRETA  (le surf records) - Get On My Ride 
NOT SCIENTIST (Kicking Records) - Staring at The Sun - Rattlesnake 
 
The GOLDEN DREGS (4AD) - On grace and dignity - American airlines 
The GO! TEAM (Memphis Industries) - Get up sequences, part two - Whammy-O
 

Doctor Explosion (Slovenly) - Superioridad Moral - Grises
Aretha Franklin (Music On Vinyl)  - Runnin'Out Of Fools - Shoop Shoop Song
 
YO LA TENGO (Matador) - This stupid world - Until it happens 
YO LA TENGO (Matador) - This stupid world - Tonight's episode 
 
BINGO CLUB (Fuzo Music) - Better lucky than beautiful - Always this same old song 
BELLE & SEBASTIAN (Matador) - Late developers - Give a little time 
 
BAD PELICANS (Géographie) - Eternal life now - Flex hang 4 
 
YO LA TENGO (Matador) - This stupid world - Aselstine

#802

#819 (mercredi  05 juillet 2023) - Dernière de la saison  avant les Mixtapes estivales.

Vedette : 

 HIPPIE HOURRAH (Simone Records) Exposition Individuelle - Rorschach 

It It Anita (Vicious Circel) - Don't Bend (My Friend) 
W!ZARD (A Tant Rêver Du Roi Records)Despite 

HOTWAX (Marathon Artists) - A Thousand Times – Rip It Out 
DESPERATE JOURNALIST (Fierce Panda) - Desperate Journalist – Cristina (Ep sorti en 2013 en auto-prod l'album sort lui en 2015 en UK)  
 
HELEN LOVE (Damage Goods) Yeah Yeah We're Helen Love - Debbie Loves Joey 
EARLS OF SUAVE (Trash Wax) The Basement Bar At The Heartbreak Hotel - Ain't That Lovin You Babe 

HIPPIE HOURRAH (Simone Records) Exposition Individuelle – Pinceau au tombeau 
HIPPIE HOURRAH (Simone Records) Exposition Individuelle – Les murs 

The CLIENTELE (Merge Records, 28/07/2023) - I am not there anymore - Blue over blue (3'17)  
POISSON DE L'AUBE (Autoproduction, 19/05/2023) - Moquette bleue - 9H du matin (4'28)  

BIG CLOWN (Swimming Faith Records) – Beat Down – Frogman  

HIPPIE HOURRAH (Simone Records) Exposition Individuelle – Pur sang rouge

#819 -HIPPIE HOURRAH (Simone Records)

MJM193: Goosebumps 3 - The Final Chapter by the MJM Artists.
https://bit.ly/Goosebumps_MJM

Goosebumps is our third and final horrorcore / Halloween themed compilation by several of MJM's label mates, with a 25 track deep playlist.

The project is live on digital platforms and again on cassette tape (See Bandcamp) with over an hour's worth of music, and all artwork by TheRageArt

Goosebumps #3 - The Final Chapter

TAPE/STREAM/DOWNLOAD

Dusty Ohms - Neck Breaker - Goosebumps - The Final Chapter

GOB PSYCHIC (Le cèpe records / Beast Records) - S/T - Respect for authorities 
UNI BOYS (Curration records) - Buy This Now - don’t wanna be like you 
The WHY OR WHYS (Beluga Records) - EP - Dead or Alive 
FAT DOG (Domino) King of the Slugs 
MAD FOXES (ElMuchachoRecords) Inner Battles - Cold Water Swim 
MONO MEN (Dangerhouse Skylab) Stop Draggin'Me Down – Right Now 
Barrence WHITFIED (Folc Records) - Glory – Bad Situation  
GOB PSYCHIC (Le cèpe records / Beast Records) - S/T - HalfDeadHalfHead 
GOB PSYCHIC (Le cèpe records / Beast Records) - S/T - A day At the Office 
TRUNKS (Il Monstro )- We dust - Blood on puppies
SIGNAL FAIBLE (Microcultures Records) - Signal faible – Bocage
WAVERER (Irascible Music) - Soft Type (single) 
FRANCIS OF DELIRIUM (Dalliance Recording) - Blue Tuesday (single) 

 

GOB PSYCHIC (Le cèpe records / Beast Records) - S/T - Private Beach

#828 -GOB PSYCHIC (Le cèpe records / Beast Records)

The Desert Winds of Change

Steve Roach - The Desert Winds of Change, Pt. 5

#837 (mercredi 24 janvier 2024)  

YĪN YĪN (Glitterbeat / Modulor) - Mount Matsu - The year of the rabbit 
 
Chemtrails (PNKSLM) - The Joy of Sects - Detritus Andronicus 
The Mary Veils (PNKSLM) - Esoteric Hex - Esoteric Hex 
 
HOORSEES (Howlin Banana) - Big – Ikea Boy 
DYE CRAP (Le Cépe records) - Life is unfair - Scatterbrain 
   
C.O.F.F.I.N (Goner/Bad Vibrations) - Australia Stops - Factory Man
Civic (ATO) - New Vietnam - Nuclear Son

YĪN YĪN (Glitterbeat / Modular) - Mount Matsu - The perseverance of Sano 
YĪN YĪN (Glitterbeat / Modulor) - Mount Matsu - Tam tam 
 
The NITS (Music On Vinyl / Sony Music) - Tree house fire - The tree 
Gruff RHYS (Rough Trade) - Sadness sets me free - Bad friend (2'54) 
 
The Soft Moon (Sacred Bones) Zero – Zeros 
The KVB (Invada Records) Labyrinths 
 
YĪN YĪN (Glitterbeat / Modulor) - Mount Matsu - Komori Uta

#837 - YĪN YĪN

#839 (mercredi 07 février 2024)  
Vedette : The UMBRELLAS (Tough love, 26/01/24) - Fairweather friend - 

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The UMBRELLAS (Tough love, 26/01/24) - Fairweather friend – Three cheers ! (3'16) 
 
Jay MASCIS (Sub Pop / Modulor, 02/02/2024) - What do we do now - Can't believe we are here (4'00) 
MOVIE STARS JUNKIES (auto-prod) - Boys, life is Chaos  
 
GUSTAF (RoyalMountainRecords) - Package Pt. 2 - StartingAndStaring 
BODEGA (WhatsYourRupture) - Our Brand Could Be Yr Life-Tarkovski 
 
CUT WORMS (Jagjaguwar) - S/T - I'll Never Make It 
ZEROS (Bomp ! Records) - Don't Push Me Around 

The UMBRELLAS (Tough love) - Fairweather friend - Toe the line (2'16) 
The UMBRELLAS (Tough love) - Fairweather friend – When you find out (3'29)   

JOLIE LAIDE (Oscar Street Records) - Jolie laide - Why I drink (2'17)  
Norman WOULD (Autoproduction) - Whenever you land - Bend your heart (Bonus duo) 
 
DEAR POLA (auto-prod) - Ma part du Ciel - Naïve 
PILA PALAU (Mouthwatering Records)- Get a Dog – Parasol 

The UMBRELLAS (Tough love) - Fairweather friend - 10 PM

#839 - The Umbrellas

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