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Lake From The Louvers is a new solo work for concrete sounds, electronics and instruments from Australian composer-performer James Rushford, who has spent the last fifteen years honing his singular approach to composition and performance through solo works and collaborations with artists such as Oren Ambarchi, Crys Cole, Will Guthrie, Graham Lambkin and Klaus Lang.

Created primarily during a stay at the La Becque, an artist residency on the shores of Lake Geneva, Lake From The Louvers draws inspiration from the play of shadow and light on both the surface of the lake and the window through which Rushford viewed this lacustrine landscape. While the lake is itself at times directly audible in the form of field recordings, the image suggested by the record’s title is less directly represented than translated into sonic structures inspired, as Rushford explains, by ‘the passing of shadow through a fixed space’. The movement of light across these two flat surfaces, lake and window, finds its sonic equivalent in these eleven pieces, in which fragments and particles of sound – highly amplified crunches, synthesized squawks and pings, harp notes – ripple across the length of each track. Fixed sets of elements define each piece, often moulded into ephemeral ensembles in which individual voices consistently fade away and reappear.

Rushford’s performances on various keyboards provide the unstable, wavering foundations of many of these pieces, with microtonal tunings adding a woozy, seasick edge to his stately, often stunningly beautiful playing. Each side of the LP ends with an extended keyboard work: the first for groaning, sighing church organ, the second for a psychedelic cloud of detuned synthesizer tones in which harmonic fragments sink into their own melancholic recollection. Elsewhere the record makes use of elements as varied as microtonal harp, skittering drum machines and synthetic marimba, establishing a sound palette remarkable for its breadth, as well as its sparkling, glittering quality. Where many of Rushford’s solo projects have taken the form of long works with a sombre cast, Lake From The Louvers is strikingly bright and accessible, a series of sonic glimpses in which, like a late Monet, the shimmer of light undoes the distinction between image and reflection, foreground and background, surface and depth.

Mastered by Stephan Mathieu, cut at D+M. Printed artwork on inner and outer sleeves by Valle Medina and Benjamin Reynolds (Pa.LaC.E).
Design by Bartolomé Sanson. Released in collababoration with La Becque Editions.

JAMES RUSHFORD 'U+25CF' (SP131)

Aboutface presents – °s
Released on AD 93 03/09/2021

Featuring the poem: The Rub written by Syd Hawes. Narrated by darker. Violin by Taro
Voice canon by darker.
Synths, field recordings, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, flute and composition by Aboutface.

°s is inspired by patterns in urban nature: language; behaviour; seasons, and along with the poem, explores the cyclical psychological peaks and troughs experienced during a pandemic. Live multi-instrumental improvisations apply the fibonacci sequence to create melodies and rhythms that mimic fractal patterns in nature, and are situated within binaural field recordings captured during essential travel in the first pandemic lockdown.

Track 1: 51°30'22.4"N 0°05'17.0"W
Composition, field recording, synths, flute and electric guitar by Aboutface. Section 1 of The Rub narrated by darker.

Track 2: 51°30'59.4"N 0°04'33.1"W
Composition, field recording, synths by Aboutface. Violin by Taro. Section 2 of The Rub narrated by darker.

Track 3: 51°31'12.7"N 0°12'29.9"W
Composition, field recording, synths, acoustic guitar by Aboutface. Voice cannon by darker. Section 3 The Rub narrated by darker.

Track 4: 50°49'30.9"N 0°08'40.8"W
Composition, field recording, synths, by Aboutface. Violin by Taro. Section 4 and 5 of The Rub narrated by darker.

The Fibonacci Sequence: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55…

Aboutface pres. ºs B2. 50°49'30.9"N 0°08'40.8"W

speak all voices

Taken from AST125: ANNA SAVAGE - QUEENS RD. / SATURN AGAIN 7”

Digital / physical available here:
https://alteredstatestapes.bandcamp.com/album/queens-rd-saturn-again-7

Anna Savage -  Queens Rd

Buy/Support: https://humanpitch.ffm.to/salamanda-overdose

Seoul-based producer and DJ duo @Salamanda (Uman Therma and Yetsuby) share new single “Overdose,” their first release with NYC label Human Pitch and follow up to 2021’s Sphere via Métron Records. “Overdose” brims and bubbles over with fecundity like a life-giving spring. Salamanda’s vocals float languidly in the first half of the song, gently slipping past synth warbles that flit by like iridescent minnows. Halfway through, Uman and Yetsuby’s intonations burst through the surface for an ecstatic breath, reaching a cathartic plateau.

Stay tuned for more music from Salamanda on Human Pitch soon.
credits
released February 23, 2022
Music written and produced by Jimin Sung and Yejin Jang
Vocal performance by Jimin Sung and Yejin Jang
Mastered by Tristan Arp
Artwork by Zin Taylor

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Salamanda - Overdose

'Up All Night' is one piece from a folder of unheard electro-acoustic recordings dating from 2019-2022. The ten pieces have been assembled on afolder.studio so that YOU — intrepid supporter of new music and film that you are ☻ — can listen to them outside of the lifeless, zero-quality environments where most music is now consumed [or skipped]. These recordings were lovingly mastered by Russell Haswell and mixed by Powell and Tobin Jones at Park Studios, London. Should you wish to listen to them in higher resolutions [recommended], or just own some music that you buy directly from the artist, you can email the artist direct. He'll send you a unique personalised folder of the music; and you can pay, or not pay, however much you like. Details ➜ https://afolder.studio/af21

Powell ➪ Up All Night [aƒ21]

Artist: Eli Keszler, Roméo Poirier
Title: Remix + 1
Cat#: faitiche 28+
Release: Jan 13th 2023
Format: DL

Roméo Poirier adds another track to his last year's album Living Room: "Les encombres" is anything but what the title suggests. A compelling addition to Roméo's mysterious cabinet of curiosities. 
Eli Keszler remixes "Statuario" - the album's opening track - and transforms it into an atmospheric setting that seems to have sprung from a magical vaudeville act.
Written and produced by Roméo Poirier & "Statuario" remixed by Eli Keszler, artwork by Tim Tetzner, mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi.

Roméo Poirier, Eli Keszler: Statuario (Eli Keszler Remix)

From the forthcoming album SG - For Lovers Only / Rain Suite (Faitiche 33)

SG - Western Affect

Nothin Remains Except Change

ǝɯǝɐ - Hopeless

Multicolor

Taken from the album 'Woodwind Multiples' due for release via Modern Love on July 7th. 2023.

8B4 (1985/2022) is played by Manuel Zurria and is for four bass flutes. It is a revision of 8x4, which was written in 1985 for the DownTown Ensemble and was only performed once, due to its unusual instrumentation: alto flute, English horn (originally bass oboe), clarinet, and voice.

Woodwind Multiples

Mary Jane Leach - 8B4

Bandcamp

NEY - Gestalt Der Dämmerung (figure of dusk) - excerpt

On this tribute tape, Golden Offence Orchestra performs the composition of pioneer American minimalist Pauline Oliveros “To Valerie Solanas and  Marilyn Monroe In Recognition of Their Desperation”. This piece asks the performers to individually choose five pitches and slowly reveal them in long tones. Oliveros gives written directions for the conductor and musicians to engage in  imitation, power play and hierarchical struggles. If anyone becomes dominant, the rest of the group should rise up and absorb that dominance back into the texture of the music, resulting in dense symphonic layers of sustained melancholic tension. Golden Offence Orchestra was active in Stockholm from 2012 - 2014, members heard on this recording include Ellen Arkbro, Elsa Bergman, Isak Edberg, Mats Erlandsson, Marta Forsberg, Lisa Grotherus, Anna Högberg, Kali Malone, Hampus Norén, Marcus Pal, Sara Parkman, and Emma Sildén.
XK09 Edition of 150 tapes.
Released August 25, 2017

Golden Offence Orchestra - Ode to Pauline Oliveros (excerpt)

From the LP "Velocity of Sleep" co-released with XKatedral 2017

Kali Malone "1113"

https://soundcloud.com/pontiacstreator
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https://soundcloud.com/ullastraus

out 5 July 2018
12" & Digital >>>
http://westmineral.ltd/releases/chat-ouest097/

~get in the chat~

Chat (OUEST097)

Pontiac Streator & Ulla Straus – A2 Chat Two – Chat EP (OUEST097)

Andrew Pekler - Encounter

https://jfm3.bandcamp.com/album/magick-moments-2020
Recorded live using SP 404 sampler & analog FX by JFM 2020
@Moskalus video - https://youtu.be/w2arzR-OdEM

Magick Moments

'Impossible Fruit'

From the split release with Hideki Umezawa "Two Views of Amami Ōshima". 
Full length album: https://andrewpekler.bandcamp.com/album/two-views-of-amami-shima
Limited edition LP via Edições CN: https://edicoescn.bandcamp.com/album/two-views-of-amami-oshima

Amami Remote Extension (Excerpt)

Ultra Eczema rarely reissues records: firstly, because we believe it’s hard to improve on a good original (and we would never want to republish anything that isn’t); and secondly, it’s called the Internet and you can find everything on it. Nonetheless, in 2015 we reissued Kraus’ ‘I could Destroy You With A Single Thought’, a CDR from 2004, because it was camping in our all-time favourite records list for a decade and the data on this erratic medium tends to erase itself, much like a troubled past.

‘A Golden Brain’ was published in the first wave of the Covid pandemic via Kraus’ bandcamp as a digital release. And once again we couldn’t help ourselves. This is Kraus at his best: if a bedroom could be a stadium, he would play the main stage!

Limited edition of 300 copies. Includes an insert, download code and a UE sticker.

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