For our 80th podcast, Ukrainian-born artist and violinist Katarina Gryvul presents a journey through her sonic world. A mix ranging from esoteric and calming sounds to haunting, noisy and dark compositions. Katarina Gryvul will play at the Unsound-produced Ephemera Festival in Warsaw on 19th June at Muzeum Rzeźby w Królikarni, as a part of the sunrise series Brzask.
The track list is below, while the following poem in Ukriainian and English is written by Katarina to accompany the mix.

when the world accidentally
runs out of blood
out of our bodies will grow
tulip stems
viscous
you hear the silence cracking under your steps
like thin ice
sudden winter
words with flat feet
flexible lips
birds like black dots
cutting through
the confined space
and you cannot move
can not m… 

коли світ ненароком
знекровить
з наших тіл проростають соковиті
стебла тюльпанів
в'язко
і тиша тріщить під ногами
мов тонка крига
зима в пів оберту
плоскостопі слова
гнучкі лінії вуст
цятки птахів
розтинають
скутий волею простір
не ворухнутись
нево рух ну..

Tracklist:
Katarina Gryvul - Bezodnya
Katarina Gryvul - Tysha
Katarina Gryvul - Vidsutni 
Kravets - Mogylnyy - Baibakov - Den' Koly Vikna Vidchynemo
Nikolaienko - Troglodytes (feat. Arthur Mine)
Svetlana Nianio - Bila Lisu
Anton Baibakov - Alambari DakhaBrakha (Remix)
S.Nianio & _llkutan & R.Gens - Vitry
Katarina Gryvul - Zvuchy
Cukor Bila Smert' - The Great Hen-Yuan' River
Katarina Gryvul - Govory do mene
Ihor Tsymbrovsky - Троянди поету (Roses to a Poet)
Oleksii Podat - Lazy Heart 1
Konstantin Bessonov - Sun Sets Low on Smear Hill - On Smear Hill
Katarina Gryvul - Rozpad
Sofia Baibakova - Kolyskova
Svitlana Nianio - Untitled 6

Unsound Podcast 80: Katarina Gryvul

https://www.nts.live/shows/summer-of-love-2022/episodes/an-italian-summer-of-love-with-matthew-quaglia-24th-august-2022

Supporter Radio - An Italian Summer of Love // with Matthew Quaglia 240822

Track taken from the upcoming album 'These Were Failed Assumptions' released through Fluid Audio...

Music by Tropic of Coldness
Mastered by Alex at quiet details studios
Design by Daniel Crossley

These were failed assumptions

Tropic Of Coldness - Circumstances

Taken from the upcoming album 'Wave Particles', released through Fluid Audio...

'Wave Particles' is a project that holds special significance for me. It delves into my ongoing fascination with the intricate interplay between nature, consciousness, and technology. Throughout the year, I've had numerous opportunities to explore these themes. I've become particularly intrigued by the role that resonance plays in connecting these elements, fostering a profound sense of interconnectivity within our surroundings.

As we find ourselves at a unique juncture where nature, consciousness, and technology converge. Through this music, I've aimed to capture the threads that bind these elements together - Alex Smalley

Maria Smalley on vocals
Jane Wild plays violi
Alex Smalley plays guitar, process synthesisers and field recordings

Mastering: Alex Smalley
Music: Maria Smalley / Jane Wild / Alex Smalley
Design: Daniel Crossley
Label: Fluid Audio

Wave Particles

Alex Smalley - Duality

Taken from the upcoming album 'Eight Views Of A Summer', released through Fluid Audio...

Credits:

squncr: tape manipulation, field recordings, sampling, electronics, zither, accordion, Hohner Organetta, Yamaha CP70 and Roland Space Echo.

Written and produced by squncr
Mastered by Julien Bayle/Void Label 
Designed by Daniel Crossley

Eight views of a summer

squncr - Perseids

A Temporal Journey Through Daydreams and Nostalgia...

Dreamu, the alias of Madrid-based experimental musician and producer Fran Sarró, presents nrem, his debut album, a 13-track instrumental LP. Inspired by the N-REM (non-rapid eye movement) N1 sleep phase - the transitional state between wakefulness and sleep where reality begins to blur into dreamlike images - nrem delves into this liminal space. Dreamu's landscape is colored by the melancholy of an idealized past that never existed.

The album, recorded primarily on reel-to-reel tape machines and cassettes, employs techniques such as reversed sounds, tape speed changes, and granular synthesis. Its palette is built from processed electric guitars, pianos, samplers, and field recordings.

nrem is the result of a decade-long journey of personal and sonic exploration, crafted within the intimate space of his home studio in Madrid. Surrounded by cables, effect pedals, and tape machines, Dreamu sketched harmonies and textures while navigating an emotional evolution marked by ups and downs, insecurities, and expectations. Composing became a refuge, where those feelings could crystallize into sounds that honestly reflected his vision.

Mastered by Taylor Deupree 
Designed by Daniel Crossley
Released by Fluid Audio

Dreamu - Margarita

A contemplative musical selection by @3six that delves into the essence of ambient and dub-techno music. https://secretthirteen.org/stm-036-36/

Secret Thirteen Mix

💀 ᴛʀᴀᴄᴋʟɪꜱᴛ

STM 036 - 36

And now, looking down on us from heaven, you will find the peace you deserve and you will be reunited with dad, uncles, cousins ​​and some of our friends... I offer these sounds so that all of you can connect and celebrate the beautiful memories of the past. I will never forget you brother, I will never forget you family... In memory of Nacho Galán "Jaula"

Music composed by Pepo Galán, with contributions from Sita Ostheimer, Karen Vogt, Bicyclops, Mark Crocker, Ohmu, Hannah Elizabeth Cox, Lee Yi, Daniel Rosenholm and Mi Cosa de Resistance.

Mastered at Black Knoll Studio (NY) by Rafael Anton Irisarri.

Designed by Daniel Crossley (Fluid Audio)



Pepo Galán - She Lost You (ft. Sita Ostheimer)

The Moorish Shield is a subjective navigation. The main beacon on this poetic and haunted route is a villa from the beginning of the twentieth century, called La Mauresque, located in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, on the French Riviera. Its owners (past and present), its location (nested at the end of the cape, almost invisible…) and the spirit of this place (where, through the ages, the stunning beauty of the landscape always hides a darker dimension…) give matter to sonic explorations, based on field recordings, out of tune pianos, radio interceptions, ghostly tones and tape manipulations. The title comes from a Moroccan symbol placed at the entrance of the villa by its most famous owner: novelist William Somerset Maugham. The main traditional function of such a symbol - central to Maugham’s life - is to protect from the evil eye, while deflecting the evil power back onto the malevolent. The eleven tracks of The Moorish Shield explore this ambivalent relationship between sun and shade and question what a Riviera landscape hides in the Mediterranean bright light, behind the perfectly maintained hedges, through the passing of decades.

Written and produced by squncr
Mastered by Julien Bayle/Void Label
Designed by Daniel Crossley

squncr - Umbrella Pine

Originally, both of these long form tracks served as the basis for sound baths I performed for friends and families. I would hit play and then make some sounds in the physical space, focusing on objects in the environment (rustling the leaves on a bush, hitting a metal fence with a stick, clicking stones, etc). I always intended for these tracks to also be able to hold up on their own, so here we are.  

When is a song done? Don’t we just arbitrarily decide when to call it? I like the idea of this only being part of the “song”, and that the “song” is always changing. After each performance I added little pieces of the fresh live sounds into the pre-recorded mix. There will likely be more performances, so the tracks will change further. This is just where they are now. And I like that.

As I worked on these tracks over the last few years, the theme of impermanence became more clear to me. My father was lying on the grass in my parent’s yard for the first performance. That was in 2020, during the pandemic. Recently, my father passed away, so I’m dedicating these songs to him. He was a landscape architect, and I always loved how that sounded, and I always loved him.

Performed, recorded, and mixed by nat hawks between 2020-2024.

Dedicated to dad.

- padna


padna - vol.1 (sample)

Sonic traces from the 56th Venice Biennale... including sounds by Emeka Ogboh, Camille Norment, Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, Steeve McQueen, Carsten Höller and Måns Månsson, Christian Boltanski, Jeremy Deller, Isaac Julien, Julius Eastman, Sonia Boyce, Theaster Gates, Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho, Vincent Meessen and a live impro by Binelde Hyrcan
photo: Darkwater Record, 2003-2008 by Terry Adkins (1953-2014, USA)

Venetian Walk

This SoundCloud is just an open notebook...