Heith - X, wheel
Label: PAN
Cat.No. PAN 119 
Format: LP / DL
Release Date: 07 October 2022
Purchase: https://pan.lnk.to/Xwheel

Heith’s devout interest in the notion of reality started long before he recorded his latest album. The Italian musician, producer and artist probed the spiritual aspects of sound and its cosmogonic potential already in his previous works released on his own Haunter Records label.
Exploring the textures of consciousness through research into the ritual animism, he kept an omnivorous and universalist approach to cultural and sonic influence. This is central to X, wheel, Heith’s debut album and first release on PAN. It’s a deep dive into his creative and spiritual practice, one where art and life are inextricable.

Written and recorded across different studios in Milan, Rome and Florence between March, 2019, and January, 2020, eleven tracks cycle through a world of stylistic references—from psychedelia, psytrance and freak folk to stoner metal, noise and early electronic music—while remaining firmly a part of a singular vision.

Album opener “Letter 4” staggers along collaborator Leonardo Rubboli’s winding guitar melody, while second track “Dero” cycles into layers of assorted sine wave lines and tonal systems outside of the Western diatonic scales. X, wheel sits calmly at the centre of its own vortex of dissonance and diversity, moving through a spectrum of ideas, moods, and emotional states with uncanny ease. A glimpse of contributor Jesse Osborne- Lanthier’s synth melody briefly surfaces from a cacophonous flood of reverb and distortion on “Stoned Witch”. Aase Nielsen’s lonely saxophone wanders around the nostalgic hypnagogic noir of “Ensemble For Somnambulists”.

Heith draws together an array of philosophies and fictions together into a sonic tableau that exists outside of linear time. As the titular wheel spins, it does not bring about repetition, rather constant change and movement, spiralling into infinity.

The hypnotic nature of the release is translated in the album’s liner notes. It’s a collage of sorts, constructed from Heith’s own diary entries using the non-phonetic alphabet and linguistic experiment called “Angel’s Hair” developed with artist Pietro Agostoni. Together with contributions from ZU drummer Jacopo Battaglia and didgeridoo player Fabio Goldaniga, X, wheel is an exercise in creating new forms of meaning through sound, turning spectral vibration into conscious awareness.

Heith - Stoned Witch (PAN 119)

GIL feat. Andrewism - make hay where the sun shines [YGKMXF002]
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLusAFr6vYBf275Woc3uZ4AcCqAINurudK

All music written, mixed and mastered by Gil Schneider
Text written and narrated by Andrew Sage
https://www.youtube.com/c/Andrewism
https://twitter.com/_saintdrew

Format: Digital/Mixfile
Release Date: October 12, 2022
Cover Art by Shyweek

GIL - make hay where the sun shines (instrumental) [YGKMXF002]

Erwan Sene  - JUnQ
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 131
Release Date: 14 April 2023
Purchase: PAN.lnk.to/JUnQ

JUnQ, or the Journal of Unsolved Questions, is modeled on a parallel exercise: to sketch music and to score sculptures. Part exhibition, part book and part album release, JUnQ seeks to propose a collaborative language that binds the algorithmic needs of an artificial pop star to the performance of the artist himself. Boundaries between reality and artifice are blurred in a continuous chain of confrontation and sublimation, wherein a romance between analog evolution and digital experimentation is born.

The immersive project released by PAN represents Erwan Sene’s debut album and the multifaceted nature of his approach. Composed like a chorus of fantastical beasts, the album wanders atmospherically through a fogged wood. Sounds are never used for their default function–– they are sculpted, distorted and amplified, becoming hybrids of themselves. A haunting banshee, the monstrous growl of an Orc, Siren songs wafting through the trees–– these and more are recreated with sinuous violins, muffled harpsichord and digital instruments, culminating in a a vibrant “jungle” of sound.

Mixed by James Ginzburg
Mastered by Rashad Becker

Erwan Sene - Zones (PAN 131)

Outsider pop concerning natural disasters, love lost and found, and the creation of the universe.

All tracks written, composed, and performed by @joshreim

Cover art by Josh Reim

Mastered by @djdirtykkkk

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Josh Reim - Weight of the World

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pieces of me

A single from the first EP by @driptech-project
The EP is set to release in February 2024

DRIPTECH is another project by Tanaad Rasanon (@sss7-o_o7)

Artwork by @pasuth

"Once in a small village, there was an old house known to be haunted. Nobody dared to enter it, except for a curious young musician named Arun. One night, driven by his fascination for the unknown, Arun decided to explore the house. As he stepped inside, the air turned cold, and he could hear faint melodies echoing through the halls. Following these sounds, he found an ancient piano in the attic. When he touched it, the room lit up with ghostly figures, all former musicians, trapped in an eternal concert. They were bound to the piano, forever playing music for an audience that was no longer there.

Arun, feeling a connection with these lost souls, decided to help them. He played a melody so beautiful and pure that it broke the spell, freeing the spirits. As they left, each ghost whispered a secret melody in his ear, gifting him with songs that had never been heard by the living. Arun left the house, inspired and grateful, his life forever changed by the night he played music with ghosts."

- Story by Generative Pre-Trained Transformer 4

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