How Much Time it is Between You and Me?

Cradle

Taken from the album 'Behold' released as LP and Download

Oren Ambarchi & Jim O'Rourke: 'Behold A (exceprt)' (EMEGO 176)

How Strange Are Bodies? by Teresa Winter from the tape 'Oh Tina No Tina' on Reckno

Teresa Winter -  How Strange Are Bodies

Weather Clears Up

Step into the world of Whispers in the Breeze, a debut lofi album that blends soulful jazz influences with cozy, chill vibes. With 15 carefully crafted tracks, this collection takes you on a journey through rainy afternoons, sunny escapes, and moments of quiet focus. Each song invites you to slow down and immerse yourself in warm melodies, soothing beats, and heartfelt rhythms. Whether you're studying, relaxing, or simply vibing with the day, this album offers the perfect soundtrack to match your mood. Whispers in the Breeze is more than music—it's a vibe, a feeling, and a peaceful escape.

Raining Knowledge

Veil of Vines

FELICIA ATKINSON 'Hand In Hand' (Shelter Press SP081)

OUT ON MAY 4TH, 2017 on 2XLP / CD / DL
INFO / ORDER : http://shelter-press.org/felicia-atkinson-hand-in-hand/

Distribution : Boomkat (EU/UK/ROW) — Forced Exposure (USA)
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Félicia Atkinson new full length album, ‘Hand In Hand’ is an expanded development of her musical compositions started with the highly-acclaimed
A Readymade Ceremony released on Shelter Press in 2015, and follows her collaborative effort with Jefre Cantu-Ledesma Comme Un Seul Narcisse (Shelter Press, 2016).

Composed over the year of 2016 at EMS during a snow storm and at home in Brittany, Hand in Hand could be considered as the most ambitious body of work recorded by the French musician and artist.

Doubt and Optimism are the two sides of a same coin. Hand in Hand is arid and warm in its whole synchrony and opposition. Days are burning and nights are made of ice. Coyotes are exchanging sounds with rattles snakes while bunnies are hiding. Strident modular sounds are tearing apart minimal beats and drones. The stories told by A Voice to the auditor are no longer fictions and become slowly reality.

Electric waves transmitted by living creatures and machines seem to deliver special sounds and frequencies that only non-human can hear. They grow and vibrate despite of the walls and interdictions. Therefore, the human who is listening to this record might find in it a particular kind of emotion a way to take space in silence, and frame a certain vision of thinking while losing a certain notion of time, acknowledging step by step its universal environment. Plants, galaxies, animals, machines, Hand in Hand.

This record is meant to be a moment of common thinking and listening in its diversity and abstraction. In the same way a sci-fi novel by Philip K. Dick or a sculpture by Guy Mees can be percieved: trivial, sensitive and mysterious at the same time.

The opening track, I’m Following You is a bleached romantic ballad for Fender Rhodes that could be the ending title of a Martian love story, whereas Visnaga praises the resources of a desert plant through asmr voices, field recordings and evasive chords. A House A Dance A Poem is a feminist hymn composed as a pyramidal structure, referring in the same time to the A-frame houses, the yoga position of the triangle, the first letter of the roman alphabet and the feminine sex. In the closing song, No Fear But Anticipation, Atkinson offers an open hearted plea about the existentialist necessity of finding desire even when the times seem too dark to think about it. A telepathic and non-scholastic anthem for Don Delillo, Joan Didion and Jean Paul Sartre. The final Buchla sounds that close the record seem to deliver an unspeakable message that only birds and aliens could transcript.

The echo of the 80’s sci-fi anxious aethetics resonates with today’s transparency of digital sounds in the whole record. The cohabitation of simple midi textures and historical Serge and Buchla signals are convoked and confronted together by A Voice. The human instrument appears here as the epicenter of the recordings, giving to the others instruments a gravitational point.

Joan La Barbara, Robert Ashley or Delia Derbyshire are the main influences of Atkinson in their own way of inviting fiction, composition and abstraction as the essential materials of composition. For Hand In Hand, Félicia Atkinson used different sources for the lyrics and scores of her tracks: house plant instruction books, Desert Magazine old issues, architecture manuals, JG Ballard and K. Dick’s books, as well as her own poetry.

Félicia Atkinson will premiere Hand In Hand for GRM’s festival Presences Electroniques with a 16 channels diffusion. A 7 hours extended version of the record, conceived as an evironmental audio book will be broadcasted for 2 months at La Criée Center for Contemporary Art from April 1 to May 31 in Rennes (FR).

Hand In Hand

Visnaga

FELICIA ATKINSON 'Visnaga' (SP081)

for organ and electronics (Sequential Circuits Pro One, Korg PS3300, Buchla 100 and Serge modular synthesizers, Mellotron M400, processed harmonium)


Recorded 9 March 2012
Mills College Chapel
Oakland, CA, USA


welkin utilizes the mutual acoustic identities of the organ and analog synthesizer to direct the experience of coalescence.  These instruments of common timbre are made to circle about an enclosed and reverberant space, which is darkened to encourage constructed spatial projections.  As the discrepancies in frequency of the merged sound gradually swell and wane, resultant psychoacoustic effects emerge, seeming to pull the sounds apart and push them outwards.  The product is that of an atmosphere; a sensorial coating that encompasses, yet remains invariably out of reach.

welkin: Middle English, 12th century; refers to the vault of the sky, the upper air, the firmament, or the celestial sphere, i.e. the Empyrean.  In archaic cosmology, it was thought to be a set of crystal spheres that enclosed the Earth, to which the planets and stars were attached, so it would have been capable of ringing like a bell if one made enough noise.

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Anna Homler & The Pylon King (Voices Of Kwahn) – Almost Beautiful

Emily A. Sprague - "Your Pond"

Taken from Water Memory / Mount Vision

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Emily A. Sprague - Your Pond

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