"The CD is scratched.” A saying from the early millennium, it describes the phenomenon of skipping music on a damaged CD, the locked, repetitive groove. For nearly a decade, Fossilized Wilderness has been experimenting with a peculiar modification to CDJ equipment, birthed by long hours sorting through promotional CDs sent to a radio station. In embracing choppiness, a body of abrasive but bright ambient work has been constructed from the refuse of musical commodification.

The CD skip is both rhythm and tone on this LP, but if you expect the monotonous motions of a concept album, don’t: The moods here are just as granular. The six tracks shift from digital euphoria to shoegazing sentimentalism, a balanced mix of terror, plaintiveness, and joy, an impressive feat considering that the scratch of a CD produces potent nostalgia as well as Pavlovian irritation for many—a drive to eject the thing and fix the problem.

For those not growing up with it, the scratched CD is a relic phenomenon, something that happened with an artifact format. But just because it’s an artifact doesn’t mean it’s obsolete. On this LP, Fossilized Wilderness uses a sonic palette of subtly-shifting broken loops to create something new: delirious spectres rising from an ocean of plastic.

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Fossilized Wilderness is Ryan Martin, a pillar of the North Carolina underground music and arts scene. His most active artistic alias is Secret Boyfriend, with numerous cassette, vinyl, and CD releases on labels such as Blackest Ever Black and his own long-running DIY-informed imprint, Hot Releases. 

releases April 5, 2021

mastered :: Nathan Taylor

Fossilized Wilderness - 4 (ENMB07)

A2 from "On The Lands Of Mercy" CS. 
Pre-order at https://male-activity.bandcamp.com/album/on-the-lands-of-mercy
Release : March 22, 2018 on Male Activity

Appropriate Savagery -  Poisoned By Disgust And Boredom [Male Activity]

From Sonja Tofik and Mar-llena's collaborative LP release 'Vilar i dina spår', released on LP in May 2018
@moonilena

Vilar i dina spår

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Mar-llena - Monrepos

Selections from 100 Models of Hegikan Roku is the second in an ongoing series of archival records of the unheard music of Swedish composer, philosopher, poet, mathematician, and visual artist Catherine Christer Hennix, co-released by Blank Forms Editions and Empty Editions. It follows last year’s Selected Early Keyboard Works and anticipates Blank Forms’ publication of Poësy Matters and Other Matters, a two-volume collection of Hennix’s writing.

Upon her return to Sweden from New York in 1971, Hennix sought to form a large ensemble inspired by her encounters with La Monte Young and recordings by the Theatre of Eternal Music. She enlisted her brother Peter Hennix, Hans Isgren, and a dozen Swedish jazz musicians she had previously worked with, naming the group and its pieces of music after the time and days of the week according to the Angus Maclise calendar (e.g. “The Pointed Time Bus”). Frustrated with the jazz musicians’ inability to comprehend and play the intervals of just intonation, she pared the group down to the trio of herself, her brother, and Isgren and christened the live-electronic ensemble The Deontic Miracle. 

In 1976 The Deontic Miracle performed Hennix’s original compositions, alongside works by La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and Terry Jennings, as part of Brouwer’s Lattice at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm. With Hennix on amplified Renaissance oboe, live electronics, and sine wave generators, her brother on amplified Renaissance oboe, and Isgren on amplified sarangi, the recordings presented here of the group’s first and only public concert see them channeling late period John Coltrane and the sopranino and soprano saxophone playing of La Monte Young and Terry Jennings in the Theatre of Eternal Music. With titles taken from Japanese Gagaku, “Music of Auspicious Clouds” and “Waves of the Blue Sea” are expansive drone improvisations, breathing with the pulsating lull of cicadas’ organic sonic latticework. Now accessible for the first time, these recordings by what Hennix has called “the most rejected band ever formed in Sweden” continue to fill gaps of silence from a figure whose work has until recently remained flickering at the margins of some of the most enduring cultural developments of the 20th century.

Catherine Christer Hennix (b. 1948) started her creative career playing drums with her older brother Peter growing up in Sweden where she saw jazz luminaries such as John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy, Dexter Gordon, Archie Shepp, and Cecil Taylor perform at the Golden Circle. Directly after high school, Hennix went to work at Stockholm’s pioneering Elektronmusikstudion (EMS), where she helped develop early synthesizer and tape music. After traveling to New York In 1968, she met Fluxus artists Dick Higgins and Alison Knowles and developed fruitful collaborative relationships with many composers in the burgeoning American avant-garde, including, most significantly, Henry Flynt and La Monte Young. Young introduced Hennix to Hindustani raga master Pandit Pran Nath, and she would later study intensively under him. While Hennix continued to make music performing alongside Arthur Russell, Marc Johnson, Henry Flynt, and Arthur Rhames, she also served as a professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at SUNY New Paltz and as a visiting Professor of Logic (at Marvin Minsky’s invitation) at MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. In recent years Hennix has led the just-intonation ensemble the Chora(s)san Time-Court Mirage. She currently resides in Berlin, Germany, where she is active as a composer and writer.

The Deontic Miracle: Music Of Auspicious Clouds (excerpt)

Ifs = Krzysztof Freeze Ostrowski & Fischerle

Source: https://fasrat.bandcamp.com/album/fasrat-compilation-3

Ifs - Candyflipper

Carla dal Forno - Heart of Hearts (Kallista, forthcoming)
Carla dal Forno - Took a Long Time (Kallista, forthcoming)
Vesu’s - Red Eyed Wood Lizard (Going Good, 2019)
Xvarr - Subliminal Bliss (Twin Womb, 2018)
Fabulous Diamonds - G.B.H. (Alter, forthcoming)
O Yuki Conjugate - Raindance (Final Image, 1987)
Partly Cloudy - Sunlight (Forecast, 1987)
Carla dal Forno - Hype Sleep (Kallista, forthcoming)
Speedbooth - Glintan (Spillage Fete, 2019)
Call Back the Giants - Strange Worlds (Kye, 2011)
Espers - Flowery Noontide (Wichita, 2003)
Index - Yesterday and Today I (Lion Productions, 2010)
Scythe - Harbour Wynd (Romantic Net, 2019)
Ponzi Scheme - Vapour Trails (Ikuisuus, 2019)

NTS Radio - September, 2019

From tape 'House (Unbuilt), by Belarusian composer Kirill Mazhai. Released October 25 2019 through Moloton. @kirill-mazhai

House (Unbuilt)

Kirill Mazhai - 7th Floor

@kabinw
info: https://radio.syg.ma/episodes/guests-98-air-krew
https://airkrew.bandcamp.com

GUESTS 98 – Air Krew

Greg Fox - From The Cessation Of What

From Contact.
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From the Cessation of What

Greg Fox - From The Cessation Of What

Loïse Bulot's original octophonic piece, Zenith, has been commissioned by INA-GRM for Akousma Festival 2019 edition in Paris. Here mixed in stereo, this electro-acoustic composition made of piano strings recordings, exponential speed variations, circular movements and attraction phenomenons depicts surprisingly well the complex sun’s gravitational force on the planets.

ITW & Preview: youtu.be/tOgbSpi9gE0


Written & produced by Loïse Bulot.
Commissioned by INA-GRM.

Mastered by Anders Peterson at GS Mastering & Post.
Artwork & design by Benoît Lefeuvre.

Greg Fox - From The Cessation Of What

RVNG Intl.