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Last year I've hosted a track premiere from Gaspar Claus' release, titled Tancade, appearing later on Headphone Commute's Best of 2021 list, which I also complimented with this studio feature. So you can say that I'm a fan! Now, this Paris-based cellist and composer is back with a new EP, once again, for InFiné. In addition to a piece which previously appeared on the album, titled "2359" and its "Night Blossom Version," which gravitates into an almost dancefloor territory, the release also features two new tracks, one of which I am premiering for you here today. It's one of my favourites and I couldn't just let it pass by. Starting off with a rhythmic staccato that marches toward an optimistic opening it suddenly drops into a melancholic progression of exquisite harmonies which are further picked up by the texture of strings. There is sadness and determinism, slight sorrow and full-on resolve, to keep going, keep feeling, despite all repression that seems to hold back. I can't say for a fact that it's the theme of the melody, but I can say that it's what I feel when it plays. Especially when I play it on repeat. I hope you enjoy!

2359

Amour Constrictor

TRACK PREMIERE : Gaspar Claus - Amour Constrictor

Frédéric D. Oberland (FR — ZamZamRec, IIKKI, NAHAL Recordings)

Des océans opaques, des cieux déguisés de nuées, des continents qui se cherchent : c’est à la surface de cette anatomie de la durée que pérégrine Frédéric D. Oberland, depuis la jeunesse, les groupes et les rêves, au travers de pratiques multi-instrumentistes farouchement autodidactes, vers la litanie pulvérulente du monde.

" Dans les vents solaires qui disperseront la poussière de vos précédentes incarnations, vous reconnaîtrez la clameur. "

« Solstices » est le quatrième opus solo de l’artiste, lui-même en circulation entre les groupes qu’il a cofondés : Oiseaux-Tempête, FOUDRE ! Le Réveil Des Tropiques, FareWell Poetry.

Tape / CD / Digital OUT March 3rd, 2023
Pre-order now via bandcamp > https://zamzamrec.bandcamp.com/album/solstices

Frédéric D. Oberland - Panspermia Pneuma

Euphoria

Infinite Greyscale is delighted to present a new long-form composition by Stara Rzeka. The Polish village of Stara Rzeka and its surrounding countryside were devastated by a huge tornado on the 14th of July 2012. Stara Rzeka is where musician Kuba Ziołek, who adopted the name as one of several artistic projects, spends his summers, and the morning following the storm Ziołek was present to witness the aftermath. 
 
This self-titled piece opens to the crackle of electricity in the air and a distinct impression of menace. The distortion softens, but never truly fades, as it gives way to song; a graceful and melancholy ode to what nature has been divested of in the storm. Eventually this human presence, like the tornado, departs to leave the composition sounding like the land itself; wounded but brimming with life, buzzing and psychedelic. 

The fact that the artist, music, and location all exist under one heading suggests that these elements are interdependent and inseparable. This is music as elegiac at it is sanguine, at perpetual as it is fixed in time, and here Stara Rzeka is all of those things.



Single sided 10”, pressed on dark green vinyl with screen-printed b-side. Numbered edition of 300.  
Handmade artwork by Paul McDevitt and Cornelius Quabeck. Screenprint by Ulrich Schmidt-Novak. 
Includes numbered insert, photograph, and download code.
Mastered & cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, Berlin.


Stara Rzeka – Stara Rzeka IGR05

Purchase here: geographic-north.com/cassette/m-sage/
Catalog #: GN21
Rosso Corsa cassette, limited to 100

Born and raised in Ft. Collins, Co, Matthew Sage established himself as a formidable player in the greater experimental scene as a producer of utterly monumental works of processed ambient music using anything and everything at his disposal as M. Sage, along a bevy of other pseudonyms. From guitar, pedals, cello, field recordings, and severe but tasteful post-production, sound takes shape in a carefully focused but altogether organic way. Sage's acts of grandeur don't simply fall back on piling on just any noise or sound. Tones are sifted out of the ether naturally, separating themselves with the ease of an inherent belonging, best heard earlier this year on the sprawling A Singular Continent LP, wherein Sage created sonic worlds, fabricating entire geographies, geologies, latitudes, and histories. 

With Data in the Details, Sage turns the focus inward, pulling from a series of deeply personal scenes in his final two months in Ft. Collins doing data entry and moving high-end furniture into high-end mountain homes. The resulting two tracks process the experiences in disparate but inextricably linked ways. A-side’s “Data in the Details (heads up extended edit)” routes an amorphous and elusive trail of textured ambient modes. Glitched and muted melodies fold on top of one another in ways only Vladislav Delay previously mastered, while frigid patterns of sound ice over similar to Fennesz’s alluringly processed tones.

B-side’s “Data in the Details (mover isuzu dub edit)” repurposes the ample washes of the original track into more rhythmic and minimal acid-dub. Calling to mind Porter Ricks’ sub-aquatic dubbiness, traversing Jan Jelinek’s mutant, kraut techno, Sage revels in a sort of muted throb that flows through the entire side with both nothing and everything to lose.


02 Data In The Details (Mover Isuzu Dub Edit)

Track from NE15 Född Död - Studie I Närhet, Längtan Och Besvikelse LP

Order here: http://northernelectronics.bandcamp.com
https://clone.nl/item34101.html

Född Död -  I smärtan, fri

04 Psyche

I wrote this piece from a quiet three-note idea and let it breathe. It grows, struggles for a moment, then finds its way home and leaves a little light at the end. If it holds you for four minutes, it did what it should.

My Piano Dreams

Winter Garden is the new Album by Harold Budd, Robin Guthrie and Eraldo Bernocchi which will appear on RareNoiseRecords end of November 2011

Eraldo Bernocchi, Harold Budd, Robin Guthrie - Stay With Me

More info: https://www.xlr8r.com/news/2016/05/premiere-hear-a-new-track-from-johann-johannsson/

@johannjohannsson

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Premiere: Johann Johannsson - They Being Dead Yet Speaketh (Live)

from the album 'physicalist' available 9/23

physicalist

forma 'physicalist'

Spheres

Tatu Rönkkö - Spheres

F.S.Blumm & Nils Frahm - Kugler

The tale of the mythic pentaki mountain has been engraved on a two-sided circular piece of wax.

the north face of the peak is steep, abrasive, and has been the subject of many legends in the region. it is said that whoever would manage to climb it would find a plateau, leading to a place called “the single source of truth”.

considered as the ultimate goal by both psychedelic gurus and database o
ptimization corporations, and as an ideal retirement destination for a couple of lost souls in search for coherence and objectivity, the source diffuses endless loops of haunted voices, apparently sampled from a discarded call center, running low on power, encouraging listeners to shorten cycles, deliver requests and improve user experience.

it is also said that anyone climbing from the south side would never reach the summit or find his way to the plateau, and would always end up on a lower altitude than where he started.

this topographical anomaly is probably the reason why the south face of the pentaki has always been favorited by locals, with its sunny weather and its luxurious vegetation flourishing along the soft downward slope, leading to a slow and peaceful end.

Kangding Ray . The Pentaki Slopes . 12" E.P
r-n 145 . raster-noton

A1 : North
A2 : Plateau ( a single source of truth )
B1 : South

Plateau ( a single source of truth )

C.Diab - Fracture

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Arve Henriksen - Saraswati

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