All sorts of nice weirdy, ambient, New Age, psychedelic ley lines converging here. The force is strong.

London’s abundant waterways and parks provide an oneiric muse for Cucina Povera and Ben Vince’s resounding debut full-length collaboration, an engrossing suite of weightless sax, synth and disklavier-bedded, noirish nocturnes that land somewhere between Grouper and Terry Riley. 

Centred around Maria Rossi aka Cucina Povera’s muzzy vocal loops and the faintest melodic motifs, London-based composer and multi-instrumentalist Ben Vince accompanies on saxophone, synth and piano, shrouding Rossi's vocals in swirls of dimly lit psychedelic smoke. As a newcomer to London, Rossi was "caught up in a sort of wondrous overwhelm” - a feeling that seeps through every movement of the almost hour long album. Working mostly at the Roundhouse, the pair find a musical confluence between Rossi's words - "fluid, dreamy, hazy ideations" - and Vince's shadowy renditions.

Vince's plasmic echoes and Rossi's aerial delivery form a poetic union, twisting and painting each sound in pearlescent shades. Rossi's folk roots shine through like cracks of dawn sunlight on 'Sumu Puistossa' ("fog in the park"), reverberating over organ and dream-zone sax; her words tip into muted surrealism thanks to the controlled chaos of Vince's bleak treatments. His grasp of jazz is transfixing: bending sax motifs like ghostly memories of music from another timeline, smudging them into the soundfield. It’s most effective on 'Siellä Näen Kaiken' ("there I see everything"), where sickly, dissonant notes flicker like an almost-extinguished candle alongside motorised furniture music courtesy of a Disklavier.

Born out of wonder, daydreaming innocence and creative discovery, 'There I See Everything ‘ is the sound of two exploratory collaborators swimming into each other's ideas. From the Terry Riley-esque transcendence of '∞' to the sacred incantation of long-form closer 'Pikku Muurahaiskeko' ("little anthill"), the pair expose a new layer of creativity with each turn, gradually zooming out from discreet, vulnerable beauty to encompass a gently orchestrated chaos of sustained, sublime tension.

Cucina Povera & Ben Vince - Sumu Puistossa

Polish composer Aleksandra Słyż joins Warm Winters Ltd. with A Vibrant Touch, her second full-length album. While her debut Human Glory released by Pointless Geometry explored two distinct approaches and techniques, here she finds her unique path forward: finding connections between acoustic and synthetic sounds, creating rich drone structures, slowly but intensely pulsing and resonating within the surrounding space and within each listener.

“I am very much fascinated by the processes related to the body sensations experienced through sound and its movement. I have always perceived sound as a physical phenomenon, travelling as waves of energy, as vibrations which we can literally feel and physically experience,” she shares. “Therefore, from the very beginning I wanted to use recordings of specific acoustic instruments, which in my opinion beautifully represent the motion itself.” Joining Słyż and her modular synthesizer on A Vibrant Touch is a quartet of musicians playing violin (Kosma Műller), viola (Kamil Babka), cello (Anna Szmatoła) and alto saxophone (Marcus Wärnheim).

The three pieces on the album explore the physicality of sound of these instruments – like the way a finger or bow presses down on the string of a cello, or the air pressure in the saxophone when someone blows inside it – as they intertwine with expert navigation of modular synthesizers by Słyż. Drawing on the work of 20th century spectral composers like Grisey or Scelsi, just intonation, drone music and microtonality for inspiration, the Polish composer uses dissonance, tension and pulse with incredible grace and power.

She opens the proceedings with the patient, gliding and stirring piece “Healing”. “The Ruthless Act” is slightly more ominous and grainy, as the cello and modular synthesizer mimic each other's movements to disorienting effect. The final piece “Softness, Flashes, Floating Rage” is a monumental composition lasting almost 26 minutes, a crowning jewel of the album. Słyż and the instrumentalists are exceedingly patient as the piece slowly unravels into a brutal, heart- and ear-shattering climax. It's a testament to her compositional prowess, that a piece of this length is imbued with so much weight and elegance.

A Vibrant Touch

Aleksandra Słyż – Healing

KASSEL JAEGER 'Shift In Dreams' (SP144)

From the album 'Shift In Dreams', out on Feb. 24, 2023 on Shelter Press
Order: https://kasseljaeger.bandcamp.com/album/shifted-in-dreams

Music composed and performed by François J. Bonnet
Artwork by Eléonore Huisse
Mastering by Giuseppe Ielasi

Shifted In Dreams

KASSEL JAEGER 'Shifted In Dreams' (SP144)

ђ๏ฬ ๔๏єร ค รץภՇђєՇเς ɭเợยเ๔ ร๏ยภ๔? เՇ ๔єקєภ๔ร ๏ภ เՇร ς๏๓ק๏รเՇเ๏ภ คภ๔ קг๏קєгՇเєร. 
ђ๏ฬєשєг, เŦ เՇ เร ค ๓๏гє ς๏๓קɭєא รย๒รՇคภςє, รยςђ คร ค รץภՇђєՇเς ๏гﻮคภเร๓, เՇ ςคภ ๓คкє ๒гєคՇђเภﻮ ๏г ђєคгՇ๒єคՇ ร๏ยภ๔ร.

เภ Շђє รץภՇђєՇเς ɭเợยเ๔ ς๏๓קเɭคՇเ๏ภ, ร๏ยภ๔ คгՇเรՇร єאקɭ๏гє Շђє קђєภ๏๓єภ๏ภ ๏Ŧ ฬคՇєг เภ єɭєςՇг๏ภเς ๓ยรเς. ค รเภє เร Շђє รเ๓קɭєรՇ ร๏ยภ๔ ฬคשє. เՇ ςคภ ๒є ยรє๔ Շ๏ ๔єรςгเ๒є Շђє ร๏ยภ๔ร ๏Ŧ ฬคՇєг ๏г ภคՇยгє. 
๒ยՇ เŦ ץ๏ย ﻮ๏ ŦยгՇђєг คภ๔ ՇгคภรŦ๏г๓ Շђєรє ร๏ยภ๔ร, ς๏๓๒เภเภﻮ Շђє๓ ฬเՇђ єคςђ ๏Շђєг, Շђєץ คςợยเгє ยภเợยє, ยภเ๓คﻮเภค๒ɭє Ŧ๏г๓ร, ςгєคՇเภﻮ ค ภєฬ гєคɭเՇץ.

ฬђєгє ร๏ยภ๔ เร ค Ŧ๏г๓ ๏Ŧ ภ๏ภ-๏гﻮคภเς ɭเŦє.

Buy compilation per track:
https://hubs.ninaprotocol.com/slyq

Full Release date: 
31.05.2023

VA - Syntehtic Liquid

Syntehtic Liquid

VA - Synthetic Liquid (Preview)

"////\\" by Second Woman from "S/W" due out April 21, 2017.

"////\\" by Second Woman

JWR034
'You Will Never Know'

The second in a series of compilations selected by friends/family as well members of our own team. Music made for our lost loved ones and for the difficult times. Check out the EP below! 

featuring 
https://soundcloud.com/v3sta_ath
https://soundcloud.com/blissingpersons
https://soundcloud.com/jacobmarley
https://soundcloud.com/max-rollins
https://soundcloud.com/facewashmusic
https://soundcloud.com/entten
https://soundcloud.com/user-976108423-700598082

Mastered by SIM
Artwork by Oskar Jeff aka Dome Zero

For Agnes Jackson

nueen - balance me

"Pulsar Acid" is OUT NOW on SUPERPANG
https://superpang.bandcamp.com/album/pulsar-acid
Watch the video:
https://youtu.be/HrG6n9Wc3KE

*Playback on stereo speakers is recommended, otherwise single stems might not be audible*

Composed and produced by Jung An Tagen & Eric Frye
Software by Marcin Pietruszewski
Mixing and mastering by Jung An Tagen
credits
design: Joe Gilmore
released October 10, 2020

Jung/Frye - "Pulsar Acid"

From 'Magelungsverket', to be released 22nd of January 2021.
https://www.self-titledmag.com/linus-hillborg-magelungsverket-album/

Linus Hillborg - Vårbergsobservatoriet

Melbourne label Daisart gets Huerco S. on remix duties for some grainy, soft-touch downtempo.

'picnic' is out February 11th on Daisart.

Buy: bit.ly/2VzzAbt

@huerco_s
@daisart-press

Premiere: picnic - folds and rips (Huerco S. version) [Daisart]

Seamy Side for bass flute, bass clarinet, piano, cello and electronics

Dialect - Under~Between

From Under~Between.
Available March 19, 2021.

Learn more: https://smarturl.it/rvngnl67

Dialect - Under~Between

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