Off «Another Point»
out now on C20 Cassette and digital

via https://offcenter.online

010 / 20 mins runtime

Gliding over glistening landscapes, edges of sharp leaves,
a soft patch of moss, high tree tops.

Green metallic ripples open up into a stream.

Sand torn from the silent grounds beneath.

[upwards, clashing, seamlessly blending]

The earth is bubbling up, smearing across your vision,
bordering on illusions.

Then a crunch, clear image, feeling aroused.

Lena Tsibizova, Piper Spray and Sergey Podluzhny interconnect.
The energy that forms within and gushes out is undeniable.

Recorded in 2019 & 2020 between Vietnam,
Kudrovo RU, Moscow RU & Tbilisi GE

Dubbed to cassette March 2021 in Den Haag NL

All tracks written and produced by @kabinw

Photography by AIR Krew
Design by Luca van Grinsven

Another Point

AIR Krew - Spaces for discussions but ...

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D003 arrives as a split between four experimental sound artists from London/LA, Philadelphia, Krakow, and Portland/Berlin.

TL: 

EBY150822 - https://soundcloud.com/yekate
In Defense - https://soundcloud.com/martyna-basta
Guiding You - https://soundcloud.com/felishaledesma
그posture - https://soundcloud.com/lucytheliyou

Available on Bandcamp now: https://doyenne-books.bandcamp.com/album/doyenne-003-felisha-ledesma-martyna-basta-lucy-liyou-ekaterina-bazhenova-yamasaki

D003: Felisha Ledesma / Martyna Basta / Lucy Liyou / Ekaterina Bazhenova-Yamasaki preview

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Billy Bultheel - Two Cycles
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 138
Release Date: 08 March 2024
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/TwoCycles

Billy Bultheel's debut solo album is an ambitious distillation of the composer's,' sprawling litany of influences and his unique approach to site-specific composition. A compilation of pieces created between 2016 and 2023, the album is a forceful testament to Bultheel's expansive performance practice and collaborations with cutting-edge visual artists like Anne Imhof and James Richards.

Drawing inspiration from industrial music and metal as well as medieval and baroque polyphony, Bultheel devised a way to present this collection of works side-by-side. The record is split into two distinct cycles: the Snow Cycle, which collects Bultheel's electro-acoustic and compositional work, and the Game Cycle, which assembles his electronic productions. These two suites have unmistakable symmetry; Bultheel's traditional compositions are bolstered by his understanding of electronic production, while his electronic pieces are moulded by his knowledge of classical and traditional music. "Two Cycles" is an album that exhibits duality, embodying the dichotomy of Bultheel's roles as both an ensemble composer and an electronic producer.

The haunting opening track of the 'Snow Cycle', 'The Arcades Project', — named after the unfinished compendium of architectural contemplations penned by the eminent German philosopher, Walter Benjamin - places four tubas in strategic towers surrounding the audience, creating an immersive auditory experience. Conversely, 'The Snows of Venice' — named after Alexander Kluge and Ben Lerner collection of short stories and poems — was conceived for two flautists directed to intertwine their melodies as they traversed through knee-high water.

The 'Game Cycle' meanwhile places a strong emphasis on rhythm, crafting a sonic landscape that resonates with overdriven metallic clanks and sharp stabs. Drawing upon his extensive experience in composing for choreography, Bultheel envisions a series of jittery dances that purposefully deviate from conventional timelines. 'Decreation' infuses techno with the visceral qualities of noise music and 'Game Theory' offers an unsettling skeletal barrage of saturated, precisely tuned percussive hits. Bultheel brings 'Two Cycles' to a close with 'Gigue,' a reference to the 6/8 baroque court dance that traditionally marked the conclusion of a dance suite; by merging marching rhythms performed by two percussionists on a single drum set with chaotic and evocative synth leads, he establishes a tantalizing counterpoint.

'Two Cycles' is a musical compilation that explores the themes of locale and landscape, elucidating the intricate dynamics that arise between the musicians and their audience, the ears and the architecture. Considering timbre, density and the psycho-acoustic qualities of communal spaces, from the warehouse to the cathedral, Bultheel draws indelible lines between seemingly distant concepts, merging the celestial with the terrestrial.

The double album cover, one for each side and cycle on the record, features a collage created by the Welsh video artist James Richards that merges medieval iconography with snippets of queer memorabilia.

All tracks written by Billy Bultheel
Mixed by James Ginsburg
Mastered by Enyang Urbicks

Billy Bultheel - Game Theory (Game Cycle) (PAN 138)

from 'Transcorporal Portal', out now on Somewhere Press
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WL//WH is glad to premiere "Homo Demens" from the upcoming debut album "Dans le Nord" from Detlev Holtz (@detlev-holtz)

Inspired by the French philosopher Jean Vioulac, the lyrics see humans as degenerate or dysfunctional animals who consciously act, against their own naturalness.

An indwelling torturous, densely emotive, leftfield synth-laden meandering through shuffling and thudding drum programming, buzzing low ends throbbings, obsessive glassy synth stabs and shivering reedy accordion-like nostalgic melodies, surrounding urgent restless vocals, steadfastly pushing through a ceiling of submersion.
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At a time when experience is bought for want of being lived, Detlev Holtz (half of the very cool wave duo Uberspannung) conveys his determination not to erase the traces of the past.
Coal deposits, mining operations and other coal dust feed his work and transport us to the subsoils of Northern France.
Watch out for "coup de grisou" and remember to keep your head down in the galleries!

A1 - Agneau de Dieu 02:22
A2 - Plateforme Delta-6 02:58
A3 - Dehors les chiens 03:31
A4 - Le courage des oiseaux (cover) 03:19
B1 - Les flaques d'essence 02:58
B2 - Homo Demens 04:39
B3 - Dans les couloirs froids du lycée 02:26
B4 - Retour au pays 02:41

Detlev Holtz's first album "Dans le Nord" is slated for release, in a limited edition of 50 cassettes & Digital, on September 20th, via Notte Brigante (@nottebrigante)

LINK: nottebrigante.bandcamp.com/album/dans-le-nord

Dans le Nord

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WL//WH Premiere: DETLEV HOLTZ - "Homo Demens" (off the "Dans le Nord" LP) [NOTTE BRIGANTE]

BUY VINYL: https://robertrental.bandcamp.com/album/mental-detentions
Robert Rental takes up residence with Dark Entries again for an expanded double vinyl reissue of Mental Detentions. Robert Rental was a Scottish pioneer of DIY electronic music. Along with his illustrious collaborators like Thomas Leer and Daniel Miller, Rental helped shape the countercultural sound of the UK with his timely melding of Krautrock, dub, and punk. Originally from Port Glasgow, he moved to the south of England with Thomas Leer in the late 1970s, and became involved with the local music scene. Robert Rental however released very little of his solo music - the only solo recording from The 1970s is the 7" single "Paralysis" first released on the homemade Regular Records in 1978, and re-released on Dark Entries in 2020.
Mental Detentions was released as a cassette in 1979, the same year as his masterpiece The Bridge, a collaboration with Thomas Leer. Using an assortment of budget electronics - a Roland drum machine, a kid’s Stylophone keyboard, and an Electroharmonix DrQ - Robert takes us on a gauzy, trip, at once expansive and intimate, minimalist and maximalist. “Stuck” is mangled motorik, like Neu! run through a meat grinder, while “Vox” meanders like an 18 minute ambient fever dream. Robert spoke to friends of his frustration at being unable to replicate his sound in a commercial studio - it was these demos' sound that he wanted to create. Sometimes having only access to the most rudimentary of equipment can sharpen one’s craft - necessity is the mother of invention, indeed. This ethic shines in his work, providing a throughline to the now, as the world feels bigger and smaller than ever. 

“Influenced everyone from John Foxx and Art of Noise to ABC. 
Seriously next level day zero DIY electro pop made in a bedsit with hacked together synths and reel-to-reel recorders.” - Boomkat

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