HELM - Chemical Flowers
Format: LP / CD / Digital
Cat.No: PAN 99
Release Date: 17 May 2019
Purchase: bit.ly/2Uxqs9z / bit.ly/2UpJ0bA

Luke Younger returns to PAN with an eight-track album of his most direct work to date. Composed alone at NO studio in the Essex countryside, to start an album with a piece called ‘Capital Crisis (New City Loop)’ seems an intentional misnomer. Long, sustained periods in the rural studio setting see Younger working with an array of fragmented, disassociated sound sources to build upon 2015’s Olympic Mess. It shares a similarly inclined vision of the urban environment, but here Chemical Flowers makes reference to paradoxical notions of authenticity and creative practice by way of questioning the structures around us. Collages are assembled and dismantled, temporal and spatial boundaries fluctuate and movement is an overarching theme.

Surrealist drowned world atmospheres sculpted far enough away from the source of inspiration leave plenty of room for ambiguity. The nocturnal nature of the recording process is self-evident, and pieces like ‘Leave Them All Behind’ tap into a deep psychedelic undercurrent. Confused narratives, emotions and aleatory hallucinations ebb and flow throughout. ‘I Knew You Would Respond’ evokes murky soundtrack terrain with eerie repetitive strings and ambient respite, disrupted periodically by brief bursts of granular noise. It’s one of the records most unnerving moments, possibly as it’s one of the most recognisably human.

The album navigates dense passages with recurring signifiers. Hollow percussion, modulating delay and curious field recordings come and go, maintaining a perpetual state of flux where nothing stays the same for long. The drowned world theatricals return on the swamp-like ‘Lizard in Fear’ whilst string rhythms creep in on the penultimate track to incite momentary electroacoustic harmony. Floating synthesis slowly washes over and the title track unfolds - five minutes of reverb-laced portamento, visions of decay and Editions EG influenced
world-building. Movement is key.

Chemical Flowers features string parts arranged and recorded by JG Thirlwell (Foetus / Manorexia / Xordox). Additional cello played by Lucinda Chua and saxophone by Karl D’Silva. The album is mastered by Rashad Becker, featuring artwork by Johannes Schnatmann & Bill Kouligas.

http://p-a-n.org

Chemical Flowers 

HELM - You Are The Database (PAN 99)

Tracklist:

bbc news
7038634357 - love unbound
amen - light cut through the clouds
britney - gimme more talk vocal
asio otus - spring spreads one green lap of flowers
ariana grande - so into u vocal fx
ida dillian - persona non grata
exploited body - dysphoria
hans zimmer - aurora
sebastian ruslan - seaglopur
abssys - its good to hear your voice
maga - trata de calmarte
rapala700 - believeinme
krolik higher - ritual
bae system - my best summer
kuthi jinani - lure style
t-u - tu wifey me está tentando
marco henri - arena

MIXTAPE #20: SOFJA

Limited edition CD/download out now on Jason Lescalleet's Glistening Examples. Purchase here:

http://meagreresource.com/paper-gestures/

Paper Gestures was originally created as an 8-channel sound work at EMS, Stockholm in 2019. The piece is based upon field recordings made across Norway over a 13-year period including sounds of military exercises with tank fire, a road surface stripping machine, breaking panes of glass, high speed trains, ultrasound recordings of stomach noises, wind whistling through vents on the Oslo underground, sliding wardrobe doors, microwaved popcorn, soap suds, bee hives, hand bells and bicycle races. 

Composed from field recordings made in Oslo, Lillestrøm, Deset, Eidsvoll, Risør, Øysang, Røros and Trondheim, Norway between 2006 and 2018.

Released 27th February, 2020.

Created with the support of EMS and Creative Scotland.

Permea - from 'Paper Gestures' CD (Glistening Examples)

A piece that I had been working on for a year. It never quite found a place within other works on an album, as it seemed unusual for me. 

Elements were incorporated into the DUO live performances. 

But not as an entity on its own. so here it is... 

isolated, dark, but hopeful. 
for these trying and anxious times. 

stay safe.


3particles25

Absention

Taken from the album 'Death is perfection, everything else is relative' released as LP and Digital.

France Jobin 'p (excerpt)' (EMEGO 276)

UNDEX – Concepción Huerta & RSNNC

Tania (Teenager Mosh Theme)

Armenian music guest episode from October, 17th on New York University FM station with a discussion of current situation in Artsakh and Armenia.
The regular radio revolucion focuses on left wing dance folk and experimental music around the world
                    >>> Interview starts on 22:00 minute <<

"Welcome guest Lucia Kagramanyan who came to us from Armenia to discuss the grave subject of the imperialist terror facing the region Artsakh. To relax she also kindly prepared a mix of beautiful Armenian music from different time periods."

radio revolución @WNYU FM w/Lucia Kagramanyan Armenian special

Manual™ é uma série sobre autoralidade.

Episódio por @acavernus

ACAVERNUS é o projeto solo de Paula Rebellato, artista autodidata, co-fundadora da banda RAKTA, residente em São Paulo.

Incorporando linguagem sonora, visual e da escrita, suas criações tem inspiração nos mistérios, trazendo intensidade, encontro, desconforto e beleza como um “abrir de buracos e desenterrar de memórias”.

Nesta sessão, ACAVERNUS utilizou o sintetizador Juno-DI, pedais de efeito e o sequenciador Volca Beats, aliados à sua voz e colagens sonoras numa vibração ritualística.

Manual™ : Acavernus

- Love Change - Microhm [Oris Label]
- Divine Weight - Alex Zhang Hungtai [NON Worldwide]
- Su voz y la creación del universo  - Jaqueline Nova
- Inmaterial Energy Waves (extracto) - Microhm [Voragine]
- Encounter 逢 - Pan Daijing [Noisekölln Tapes]
- Legs Of The Fly - Acronym & Kali Malone [Stilla Ton]
- Yubartas  Canción 03 (parte1) - Ross [Ediciones Éter]
- No Translation - To Resume [Spare Recordings]
- Folding Water - Arp [ Mexican Summer]
- After its own death (parte 1)- Nivhek [Yellow Electric]
- Yubartas  Canción 03 (parte 2) - Ross [ Ediciones Éter]
- Sun - CYPHR [Her Records]
- Audio extracto de Allan Watts
- U said u were - Dis Fig [Purple Tape Pedigree]
- Acid Arrows - BUNGALOVV [Infinite Machine]
- After its own death (parte 2)- Nivhek [Yellow Electric]
- Yubartas  Eoceno 01 (parte1) - Ross [Ediciones Éter]
- Precision - Logic1000 [ SUMAC ]
- Deleted Biosphere - James Ferraro [Self-released]
- Descansé- Dj Python [ Incienso ]
- Sleep Like It's Winter (Parte 1)-  Jim O'Rourke [NEWHERE MUSIC]
- Step Away From Konoyo - Tim Hecker [Sunblind Music]
- Fusion - Dotorado Pro [Enchufada ]
- Moving Target - Arp [ Mexican Summer]
- Passing of Time - Moor Mother [ Don Giovanni Records ]
- Sleep Like It's Winter (Parte 2) - Jim O'Rourke [NEWHERE MUSIC]
- We Send This - Blacksea Não Maya [Principe]
- On Time Out of Time - William Basinski [Temporary Residence Limited ]
- Ollin - Benfika [Inifinite Machine ]

UNDEX – Concepción Huerta & RSNNC

Nicole Luján

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