RELEASE DATE: February 25, 2022

Note: Orders that include a PRE-ORDER title will be consolidated and shipped together when the last pre-order title is in stock. Contact us to make other arrangements.

Musique Plastique and Séance Centre are proud to present Jacques Charlier’s “Art In Another Way”, a 45RPM double LP compilation of the Belgian multi-disciplinary artist’s inimitable chanson regressive recordings from the 1980s.

Throughout a long career in the visual arts, Jacques Charlier has maintained a multi-disciplinary approach that includes forays in poetry, underground comics, acting, filmmaking and music. Besides performing with his punk group Terril (sadly, never recorded), Charlier took inspiration from the minimalist sounds of Philip Glass, Steve Reich, La MonteYoung, John Cage, and Meredith Monk. Throughout the 1970s he performed psychoacoustic pieces in Liège, Antwerp, Eindhoven, Rotterdam, Milan and Düsseldorf, and in the astounding performance art video Desperados Music, filmed by Paul Paquay for Belgian television. Charlier hit a creative stride in the 1980s — armed only with a synth, drum machine, fuzz box, and his custom guitar, with occasional duets with vocalist Martine Doutreleau. He recorded a trove of proto-pop tunes which he self-released on three cassettes (Musique Regressive, Chansons Idiotes and Chansons Tristes) between 1984–1987.

“Art In Another Way” collects selections from these tapes, in addition to an ample supply of previously unreleased material, all mixed and mastered from Charlier’s original 4-track recordings for a wide angle view of his creative range. From the proto-house rhythm of “Jingle – Crepuscule”, to the minimal EBM experiment “Top” and Art Of Noise- inspired “PassingTime”. There are certain resonances within the catalogs of Belgian labels Crammed Discs and Les Disques Du Crépuscule, yet even with these genre-bending precedents, Charlier’s music is idiosyncratic and visionary to the extreme. Accompanying the release is a postcard featuring a behind-the-scenes performance photo and visual score by Charlier.

RIYL: Flying Lizards, Y Records, Young Marble Giants, Ashra, Naffi, Tuxedomoon, Aksak Maboul

Tracklist:

A1. Jingle - Crepuscule (3:09)
A2. L'Amour Dans Les Chansons (5:52)
A3. Samba (4:38)

B1. Vampirella (4:48)
B2. Perki Show (3:36)
B3. Check Up (4:55)

C1. L’Aube (3:09)
C2. L’Hésitation (4:45)
C3. Top (6:05)

D1. Passing Time (1:45)
D2. Tout Va Bien (4:35)
D3. Un Chat Dans Mon Lit (5:32)
D4. Morning (2:21)
D5. End of W.E. (1:39)
*Le Rockeur de Metro (3:28) - Digital Bonus Track

Purchase physical vinyl:
www.seance-centre.com/shop/jacques-c…in-another-way

Purchase digital on Bandcamp:
jacquescharlier.bandcamp.com/album/art-…nother-way

Release by Musique Plastique & Séance Centre
MP010/28SC

Jacques Charlier - Art in Another Way (28SC / MP009)

The first release of Séance Centre's "Speculative Ethnography” series is an EP of Burroughs-inspired analog rhythm-scapes, conjured from the nocturnal Parisian imagination of Shelter (Alan Briand).

Recorded directly to cassette 4-track late at night in Briand’s apartment in Paris with a gathering of temperamental vintage gear, Le Sommeil Vertical captures a somnambulant journey into vibrant analog nether-regions. The hazy sonics harken back to ‘80s DIY cassette culture, but refracted through a prism of fourth world melodics and early IDM rhythm experiments. The tracks are titled after Burroughs’ Cities of the Red Night, and the book acts as a talisman for the album, setting sci-fi surrealism within expansive arid psychic landscapes. The trance-inducing terrain, mapped out in warm 1/4” tape, moves through phased backstreets, AFX-arrondissements, and dub municipalities. This is music on the nod, an elixir for the sleepwalking flaneur.

Alan Briand has been with Séance Centre from the start, as designer and European emissary — a wunderkind of many talents, we’ve always trusted his ears as well as his eyes. We’re pleased to release this mesmerizing EP as a limited edition pressing with risograph printed insert and designed for future archives.

RIYL: Craig Leon, Seefeel, K Leimer, Aphex Twin, Ghédalia Tazartès, & Cabaret Voltaire

Buy Digital: https://shelterparis.bandcamp.com/album/le-sommeil-vertical

Buy Vinyl: https://www.seance-centre.com/shop/shelter-le-sommeil-vertical

Shelter - Le Sommeil Vertical (31SC)

The second foray into Séance Centre's “Speculative Ethnography” series is an icy and tender missive of glacial piano, ambient electronics, samples, treated sax, and drum machine rhythms from snowbound Canadians Joseph Shabason & Vibrant Matter (Kieran Adams).

Shabason and Adams have been collaborating for years, forming the production team behind the celebrated experimental synth pop trio Diana, but their relationship has often been fraught with creative tension. Fly Me to the Moon is their ‘make up’ EP, a redemptive voyage through uncertain times. During lockdown Adams found refuge in routine, practicing drums every morning in Shabason’s Toronto studio. Afterwards, the pair would chat in the alleyway behind the studio, drinking espressos, a daily practice that became an antidote to the chaos of pandemic life. Through this daily ritual a creative spark was reignited and they decided to start exchanging ideas, but rather than working together in the studio as they had in the past, the circumstances required them to collaborate remotely. Through this distanced connection the youthful tension and ego of the past eroded, evolving into a deep trust.

Escaping the gravitational pull of a planet in distress, the duo composed a sonic love letter adrift in weightless ambient electronics, fourth world jazz visions, and cyborg IDM riddim technologies — an ode to a long friendship which has strength because it has travelled through so many galaxies and vortices. Who says you can’t fall in love all over again - ‘Fly me to the moon / Let me play up there with those stars / Let me see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars’.

Fly Me to the Moon is a limited edition pressing with risograph printed insert and designed for future archives.

RIYL: Ramzi, Photek, Mo Wax Headz, Jon Hassell, FSOL, Aleksi Perälä, Nuron, Ismistik

Buy digital: https://josephshabasonvibrantmatter.bandcamp.com/album/fly-me-to-the-moon?label=2781438859&tab=music

Buy vinyl: https://www.seance-centre.com/shop/joseph-shabason-vibrant-matter-fly-me-to-the-moon

Joseph Shabason & Vibrant Matter - Fly Me to the Moon (32SC)

For this month's show, Akash Bansal (Tender Buttons) lights a slow burning candle to melt away the spell of a long winter. He's put together a mix of sounds in bloom– tracks of longing and desire that stir the heart and bring feeling back into the cold body. So crack open a window and let the fresh breeze in.

Laura Allan - As I am (with Paul Horn)
Sally Townes - Slow Burning Candle
Black Sabbath - Planet Caravan (Alternative Version)
Santana - Aquamarine
Seals And Crofts - High On A Mountain
Dave Plaehn - For You (I’d Undo Anything)
JoAnn Tardy - Magic Man
Mike Welch - Dickie Blues
Bevan Gore-Langton - Silver Cloud
Philip John Lewin - Diamond Love
Gary Lawyer - Garden In The Rain (Demo)
Lins & Ford - Lazy Day
Jim Mosey And Futures Past - Don’t Let The Sun Catch You Crying

Séance Centre Radio Episode 34 NTS feat: Tender Buttons (April 2021) NO BANTER

This month’s musical journey comes from San Francisco’s Loveshadow crew member Isaak who has put together a couple hours of dubby expansive waves, a window into what lies on the horizon. Enjoy the trip!

Tracklisting:

inc. no world - sent
blaine l reininger - bay bridge
miko - paradise of the heart
fe - girls lingo
steven brown - voodoo
cudu - apocalypse blues
oracle - soft mad children
luna lazuli - earth
pace - clorophyll fish
die wand an - vaseline
kowalski - liliom
angie bowie - closer to heaven
passport - talisman
romanelli - the pulse
fetisch park -  ball-room
tarwater - seafrance cézanne
'o'rang - mind on pleasure
obatala - kalima
beats in silence - verano
allison moyet - hoodoo (starlight dub)
manu dibango - soul fiesta (chateau flight 2002 re-work)
gianmarco liguori - bronze frog
paul speer - allegro 
luna lazuli - headpulse

Séance Centre Radio Episode 35 NTS feat: Loveshadow (May 2021) NO BANTER

INCANTATIONS is a collection of sixteen visual and sonic experiments centred around the idea of score as spell, curated and produced by Séance Centre’s Brandon Hocura and Naomi Okabe.

A spell and its incantation are distinct, but conjoined by a symbolic, almost umbilical force. A spell is a totem text, a material call for change — a seed, a recipe, an instruction, a potential. The incantation of a spell gives it life, brings breath to body, raises hairs, moves minds. For this project, eight spell-scores were created by visual/text-based artists for a musician/composer to incant. Taking a wide interpretation of what can be considered a score, these works include concrete poetry, collage, painting, drawing, spell-poetry, instructional art, and recipe. The resulting sound works give voice to these evocative “texts”, residing in the liminal space between musical form and magical utterance.

INCANTATIONS EDITIONS:

- The Metaphysical: Digital + Spell Card PDF
- The Liminal: Digital + Spell Card Set (Limited to 200)
- The Corporeal: Vinyl LP + Spell Card Set + Digital (Limited to 300)

PRE-ORDER HERE: https://seance-centre.bandcamp.com/album/incantations

Museum Of No Art - Textile Trance (spell by Mehrnaz Rohbakhsh) from Incantations (30SC)

An imagined journey back to Brandon's hometown (Dundas Ontario), via downtempo IDM, breakbeat, and shoegaze. 

TRACKLIST

Tummy Drums - Stasis
5ive - Entropy
Hydraulic - Night Car 
Adham Shaikh - Tail 
EKKO - Erzuile Phantom
Om - Brother That (Om Beats)
D’Lubb Macken - Lowrider
Genuine - Playground
Aisha Williams - The Love Of
Haruomi Hosono - Heliotherapy
EKKO - Nagin (Lullaby for Treetop Bears) 
Starseeds - Parallel Life
Legion of Green Men - Stars
Silvania - Acuarelas, Spirales y Elefantes
Plasmalamp - Parameter Change
You'll Never Get to Heaven - It's All Over

Séance Centre Radio Episode 36 NTS (June 2021) NO BANTER

End of summer dancehall not dancehall bangers from the always reliable Free Dots from London. 

Tracklisting: 

Janet-Lee Davis - G.H.E.T.T.O.U.T
Tracy Ann Moore - I Wanna Spend My Whole Life (Version)
Ranking Taxi & Sharron Foster - Hurricane Love
Nardo Ranks & Mankind - Nuh Tek Back Chat (Version)
Echo Minott - Hum Bye Yah Yah
Wayne Wonder - Doesn't Know (Version)
Jr Roby - Boy Want De Gun (Version)
Dung Suh Crew ‎– Gangsta Lova (Version)
Grizzly Cat - Georgie Porgy
Selda & Lanty - Let The Music Play
Ghost - Touch Me
Unknown Artist - How Deep Is Your Love
Emerge ‎– Halla Fi Di Jordon Remix
Tanya Stephens - Dr Doo Little
Maree ‎– Come To Me (Freebeat)
Edwin Starr - War (The Buzz Remix)
T.O.K - Bad Mind
Alize - Reggae Rockin da House (Radio)
Ziggy Marley - Good Time
Djate - Baby Come To Me

Séance Centre Radio Episode 39 NTS w/ Free Dots (Aug 2021) NO BANTER

Hard to believe we’re at 40 episodes already. For this milestone Brandon Hocura has put together a mix of electronic and vernacular music from lounges, bar rooms, hotels, high schools, hippie communes, and small towns. This is music from the margins, straight from the heart. Full of dreams, lived experience, wisdom and heartbreak.

Diaz Bros. Plus One - Life of a Fool
Unknown Artist - Thai 45
Rene Ufer - Setuke
Christopher Banks - That’s Life
Jack & Kathy Henderson - My Last Year
Monica Behan - For a Reason
David Gonzalez - Her Love is Like Sometimes
The Spectrums - Keepin’ On
The Dreamers - Love Will Find You
Dean Richard - Aphelia
Cat’s Meow - Maybe You Can Fly
Leon Meau - My Mind
Dave James - Wheels Go Round
Peter Roos - I En Forandrad Varld
Michel - Ocean World
Palm Pizazz - Deliver Me
Nexus - Giving You All My Love
Don Armstong & Victoria Garvey - Japanese Clouds

Séance Centre Radio Episode 40 NTS - Maybe You Can Fly VOL 1(Sept 2021) NO BANTER

Wave Your Moonlight Hat for the Snowfall Train (LP)

Release date: November 19th

Note: Orders that include a PRE-ORDER title will be consolidated and shipped together when the last pre-order title is in stock. Contact us to make other arrangements.

You’ll Never Get To Heaven (Alice Hansen and Chuck Blazevic aka Slow Attack Ensemble) returns with their fourth release Wave Your Moonlight Hat for the Snowfall Train, a collection of ethereal songs that move through the mercurial weather patterns of minimalism and dream pop.

The duo named this album after the closing track on Phil Yost’s 1967 release Bent City, inspired by its prescient use of delay processing in elevating spare beatless arrangements into haunting arrays of sonic afterimages — an approach Hansen and Blazevic explore on this outing in their own way, with a few favoured instruments and a Chorus Echo and Revox in hand. The result is a collection of sparse, lightly dub-infused songs and instrumentals, equally icy and wistful, characterized by melodic fretless basslines, spaced-out harmonics, watery piano and marimba, hushed vocals, and tape echo treatments.

Stylistically, it’s almost as if the duo was imagining what an early This Mortal Coil demo might have sounded like had Ivo enlisted in lieu of the usual cast, with a pared back L’Empire Des Sons as the session band, and June Hardin or a young Julee Cruise on lead vocals. The album evokes an overcast autumnal evening of cloud-watching, an inner journey witness to an expansive spectrum of moods, from nimbus clouds to shimmering sun showers.

RIYL: Broadcast, Weekend’s ‘81 Demos, Chantal Weber, Orquesta de las Nubes, Hydroplane, The Moon and the Melodies, Eberhard Weber

Tracklist:

A1 Setting Sun (2:59)
A2 Pink and Gold and Blue (2:56)
A3 Dust (2:36)
A4 Pattern Waves (3:30)

B1 Eye, Soul and Hand (3:18)
B2 Mad Shadows (2:33)
B3 Eternal Present (2:59)
B4 Predawn Visions (2:28)

Purchase digital on Bandcamp:
https://youllnevergettoheaven.bandcamp.com/album/wave-your-moonlight-hat-for-the-snowfall-train

Purchase vinyl: 
https://www.seance-centre.com/shop/youll-never-get-to-heaven-wave-your-moonlight-hat-for-the-snowfall-train

You'll Never Get To Heaven - Dust (29SC)

For this episode we have a special guest mix from You’ll Never Get to Heaven to celebrate their upcoming 4th release, Wave your Moonlight Hat for the Snowfall Train on Seance Centre. The duo is based in London Ontario - Alice Hansen and Chuck Blazevic (Slow Attack Ensemble). We’re big fans, and very happy to release this album which we’ve been playing on repeat since we first heard it. For this show they have put together a mercurial moody mix moving between introspective Canadian indie pop, Argentinian AOR, unreleased Slow Attack Ensemble, and a beautiful ballad from an LA based avant-garde composer.

Tracklist: 

From Red Down -  Girl Cat (So Thin On Love And Barley)
Tara S'appart - Trees
You’ll Never Get To Heaven - Setting Sun
Sylvia Meyer - La Oscuridad
Hüsker Dü - One Step at a Time
Mirtha Deflipo - En Caso De Vida
Vladimir Cosma - Pavane Spatiale
Loren Connors & Suzanne Langille - Moonyean No. 9
Hydroplane - If You Spoke To Me, I Wouldn't Know What To Say
Hood - Fears Grow
Stillife - Celadon (Live At The Trance Port)
Eric’s Trip - Thouroughly
Hem - Be Completely Full Of......
Lol Coxhill - It Never Entered My Mind
Slow Attack Ensemble - Untitled (Unreleased, 2016)
Mariana Ingold & Eduardo Mateo - La Libélula (Demo)
Jane and Barton -  There Is A Man
Tom Recchion - A Complex Shape In The Sky

@youllnevergettoheaven
@slowattackensemble

Séance Centre Radio Episode 42 NTS w/ You'll Never Get To Heaven (Nov 2021) NO BANTER

RELEASE DATE: February 25, 2022

Note: Orders that include a PRE-ORDER title will be consolidated and shipped together when the last pre-order title is in stock. Contact us to make other arrangements.

Musique Plastique and Séance Centre are proud to present Jacques Charlier’s “Art In Another Way”, a 45RPM double LP compilation of the Belgian multi-disciplinary artist’s inimitable chanson regressive recordings from the 1980s.

Throughout a long career in the visual arts, Jacques Charlier has maintained a multi-disciplinary approach that includes forays in poetry, underground comics, acting, filmmaking and music. Besides performing with his punk group Terril (sadly, never recorded), Charlier took inspiration from the minimalist sounds of Philip Glass, Steve Reich, La MonteYoung, John Cage, and Meredith Monk. Throughout the 1970s he performed psychoacoustic pieces in Liège, Antwerp, Eindhoven, Rotterdam, Milan and Düsseldorf, and in the astounding performance art video Desperados Music, filmed by Paul Paquay for Belgian television. Charlier hit a creative stride in the 1980s — armed only with a synth, drum machine, fuzz box, and his custom guitar, with occasional duets with vocalist Martine Doutreleau. He recorded a trove of proto-pop tunes which he self-released on three cassettes (Musique Regressive, Chansons Idiotes and Chansons Tristes) between 1984–1987.

“Art In Another Way” collects selections from these tapes, in addition to an ample supply of previously unreleased material, all mixed and mastered from Charlier’s original 4-track recordings for a wide angle view of his creative range. From the proto-house rhythm of “Jingle – Crepuscule”, to the minimal EBM experiment “Top” and Art Of Noise- inspired “PassingTime”. There are certain resonances within the catalogs of Belgian labels Crammed Discs and Les Disques Du Crépuscule, yet even with these genre-bending precedents, Charlier’s music is idiosyncratic and visionary to the extreme. Accompanying the release is a postcard featuring a behind-the-scenes performance photo and visual score by Charlier.

RIYL: Flying Lizards, Y Records, Young Marble Giants, Ashra, Naffi, Tuxedomoon, Aksak Maboul

Tracklist:

A1. Jingle - Crepuscule (3:09)
A2. L'Amour Dans Les Chansons (5:52)
A3. Samba (4:38)

B1. Vampirella (4:48)
B2. Perki Show (3:36)
B3. Check Up (4:55)

C1. L’Aube (3:09)
C2. L’Hésitation (4:45)
C3. Top (6:05)

D1. Passing Time (1:45)
D2. Tout Va Bien (4:35)
D3. Un Chat Dans Mon Lit (5:32)
D4. Morning (2:21)
D5. End of W.E. (1:39)
*Le Rockeur de Metro (3:28) - Digital Bonus Track

Purchase physical vinyl: 
https://www.seance-centre.com/shop/jacques-charlier-art-in-another-way

Purchase digital on Bandcamp: 
https://jacquescharlier.bandcamp.com/album/art-in-another-way

Release by Musique Plastique & Séance Centre
MP010/28SC

Art in Another Way (28SC/MP009)

Jacques Charlier - Samba (MP010/28SC)

Jacques Charlier - Perki Show (MP010/28SC)

Jacques Charlier - Top (MP010/28SC)

For Séance Centre Radio Episode 43 er have a very special mix from our friend Mark Johnson. Mark is an inspiration - a phenomenal poet, publisher and bookseller. If you’re in Philadelphia be sure to visit his shop Hiding Place, if not you can find his works and goods online. He is also a collector of personal music and his Soundcloud was a trove of obscure music from invisible 45s to one off rap demos. Sadly the account was taken down, but Mark has made a mix for us of emotive private US 45s ranging from loner folk to holiday soul. What better gift for the season?

Mark would like to dedicate the mix to his sonic feline companion Walker who sadly passed earlier this year. 

Tracklisting: 

1. Dean Rorer - Jack O Lantern
2. Ray Gambio and the Darkest Hour - I'll Be There
3. Sonic - It's Almost Christmas
4. Start - Let's Dance
5. Crystyl Dawn - Crystyl Dawn
6. Joker's Wild - Magical Nights
7. Tommy Maris - After the Tears
8. Paul Mitchell Trio - Now That I Know What Loneliness Is
9. D. Spade and Co. - Just You and I
10. Barbara Soehner - The Sun Has To Shine
11. Jerry Wayne - Knights in Shining Armour
12. Watson Brothers Band -- Slippin On By
13. The Do's and the Don'ts - No One To Talk My Troubles To
14. Lynne Stockfisch - Someone To Talk My Troubles To
15. Isthmus of Sound - Sweet Love
16. Jimmy Brown - The Life I Live
17. Becky Durnning and the Ardee's - Foolish Boys
18. Weldon Myrick - Because I Wanted You
19. E.G.C. - Starless Night
20. Group W - I'll Survive

Séance Centre Radio Episode 43 NTS w/ Mark Johnson (Hiding Place) NO BANTER

For this epsiode we have a perfect mix to kick off the year from Callum Duff and Holden Bigg, two friends from London. The pair have been scouring record fares, charity shops and put together a wonderful selection of private rock, folk and AOR from around the globe which is an homage of sorts to their friendship.

Tracklisting: 

Danny Toan - Come Into My Life
Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Aya Mood
Musiktruppen Guran - Ekorrhjulet
Norma Tanega - Beautiful Things 
Diana Pequeno - Tudo que Eu Quero (All I Want)
Bill Clooney - Barbara From Mountains
S. Hinks - Sands Of Time
Apparition - Astral Spirit 
Terry Durham - Crystal Telephone 
Jo Anne Stokes - Sunshine Journey
Peter Green - Just For You
Mia Martini - Il Viaggio 
Terry Garthwaite - Changing Colors
L.A. County C.O.P.E – Sacramento Playhouse 
Bob Reitman - A Few Thoughts

Séance Centre Radio Episode 44 NTS w/ Callum & Holden NO BANTER

A1. Shelter - Le Sommeil Vertical

The first release of Séance Centre's "Speculative Ethnography” series is an EP of Burroughs-inspired analog rhythm-scapes, conjured from the nocturnal Parisian imagination of Shelter (Alan Briand).

Recorded directly to cassette 4-track late at night in Briand’s apartment in Paris with a gathering of temperamental vintage gear, Le Sommeil Vertical captures a somnambulant journey into vibrant analog nether-regions. The hazy sonics harken back to ‘80s DIY cassette culture, but refracted through a prism of fourth world melodics and early IDM rhythm experiments. The tracks are titled after Burroughs’ Cities of the Red Night, and the book acts as a talisman for the album, setting sci-fi surrealism within expansive arid psychic landscapes. The trance-inducing terrain, mapped out in warm 1/4” tape, moves through phased backstreets, AFX-arrondissements, and dub municipalities. This is music on the nod, an elixir for the sleepwalking flaneur.

Alan Briand has been with Séance Centre from the start, as designer and European emissary — a wunderkind of many talents, we’ve always trusted his ears as well as his eyes. We’re pleased to release this mesmerizing EP as a limited edition pressing with risograph printed insert and designed for future archives.

RIYL: Craig Leon, Seefeel, K Leimer, Aphex Twin, Ghédalia Tazartès, & Cabaret Voltaire

Purchase digital: https://shelterparis.bandcamp.com/album/le-sommeil-vertical
Purchase vinyl: https://www.seance-centre.com/shop/shelter-le-sommeil-vertical

B1. Shelter - Dub of the Scarlet City

The second foray into Séance Centre's “Speculative Ethnography” series is an icy and tender missive of glacial piano, ambient electronics, samples, treated sax, and drum machine rhythms from snowbound Canadians Joseph Shabason & Vibrant Matter (Kieran Adams).

Shabason and Adams have been collaborating for years, forming the production team behind the celebrated experimental synth pop trio Diana, but their relationship has often been fraught with creative tension. Fly Me to the Moon is their ‘make up’ EP, a redemptive voyage through uncertain times. During lockdown Adams found refuge in routine, practicing drums every morning in Shabason’s Toronto studio. Afterwards, the pair would chat in the alleyway behind the studio, drinking espressos, a daily practice that became an antidote to the chaos of pandemic life. Through this daily ritual a creative spark was reignited and they decided to start exchanging ideas, but rather than working together in the studio as they had in the past, the circumstances required them to collaborate remotely. Through this distanced connection the youthful tension and ego of the past eroded, evolving into a deep trust.

Escaping the gravitational pull of a planet in distress, the duo composed a sonic love letter adrift in weightless ambient electronics, fourth world jazz visions, and cyborg IDM riddim technologies — an ode to a long friendship which has strength because it has travelled through so many galaxies and vortices. Who says you can’t fall in love all over again - ‘Fly me to the moon / Let me play up there with those stars / Let me see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars’.

Fly Me to the Moon is a limited edition pressing with risograph printed insert and designed for future archives.

RIYL: Ramzi, Photek, Mo Wax Headz, Jon Hassell, FSOL, Aleksi Perälä, Nuron, Ismistik

Purchase digital: https://josephshabasonvibrantmatter.bandcamp.com/album/fly-me-to-the-moon

Purchase vinyl: https://www.seance-centre.com/shop/joseph-shabason-vibrant-matter-fly-me-to-the-moon

B1. Joseph Shabason & Vibrant Matter - Winterhaze (32SC)

A1. Joseph Shabason & Vibrant Matter - Rust

This month's mix from our very good friend Tony Remple from Musique Plastique is setting the course for warmer climes. Tony made this excellent mix to celebrate our forthcoming collaborative release, a compilation of Belgian multi-disciplinary artist Jaques Charlier’s Musique Regressive. The mix moves between hypnotic new wave, electronic Rai, subaltern soul, and contemporary otherworldly electronics, all sounds that converse with Jacques singular musical vocabulary. A big shout out to Luke Buser, who brought Charlier’s work to our attention, co-curated this release, and spent hours digitizing Charlier’s archive of 4-track cassettes.

Jacques Charlier - L’Aube
Marden Pond - Timeless
Nicolas Gaunin - Apakura
Kems Kriol - Catchupa Guizod
Electric Muezzin - Le Premier Agneau Était Fait En Cochon
Wagon Christ - Hasjit
Siegmar Fricke - Parking In France
Hen - Love Itch
Kamal El Oujdi – La Tgolich Rah Nsani
Slađana Milošević - Pusti Neka Stvari Teku Svojim Tokom
Chaba Zahouania – Touahecht Hbibi
Javier Segura - Quinceañero
Jacques Charlier - Un Chat Dans Mon Lit

Séance Centre Radio Episode 45 NTS w/ Musique Plastique NO BANTER

For episode 46, our designer, friend, and emissary in Paris Alan Briand, who produces under the alias Shelter, has put together a mix of original improvisations -- electronic tekhas which explore taal cycles and expansive drone harmonics from Indian classical music using drum machines and synthesizers. Alan says these works ‘explore human-like emotions in a synthesized world’, something which resonates strongly with the current deluge of media. The mix moves between moods, at times reminiscent of the more introspective downtempo side of IDM -- Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia or The Future Sound of London. At others like Hariprasad Chaurasia’s and Charanjit Singh’s Eternity or Craig Leon's Nommos. We hope this mix offers you a reprieve and opportunity for reflection -- enjoy!

All tracks by Shelter

1. Initiatory Ways
> No. 1
> No. 2

2. Song of Dawn

3. Automatic Cycles
> Genesis
> Question Reponse

4. Three Beaten Pieces
> Live Motif
> Slow Motif
> Dense Motif

5. Worldly Reflection

Séance Centre Radio Episode 46 NTS w/ Shelter NO BANTER

Wherever you are, sit back and relax — Joseph Shabason and Kieran Adams (Vibrant Matter) are taking care of the ambience. The Toronto based duo recently released, Fly Me to the Moon, and this mix of lunar lounge is an ode to the otherworldly atmosphere found on that EP.

Tracklisting: 
Beyond the Sea (La Mer) - Martin Denny
Space (A return to atomic mother) - Hajime Mizoguchi Gente Qui Aun Duerme - Mono Fontana
Descending - Sam Wilkes
You left a space - Lee Gamble
Laraajingle - Audio Active feat. Laraaji
Vilnia - Merope
Fly Me to the Moon - Burning Spear
Dark Eye Tango - Ian OʼBrien
Flirti di Notte - Lorad Group
Angel - Placid Angles
Cristal Bollore - Sun Electric
Looking for a Waterfall - Turn on the sunlight Crepuscolo - Umberto Rosario Balsamo
W - Aurorae
Jenga - Salamanda
Ponta de Areia - Wayne Shorter feat. Milton Nascimento

Séance Centre Radio Episode 47 NTS w/ Joseph Shabason & Vibrant Matter NO BANTER

This week's show features a mix of exotica, private soft rock, Xian and electronic soul put together by Marseilles based architect and DJ Marwan Filali. Marwan also runs the RA/OI label which recently released a fantastic compilation of songs by Joe Sembene and is about to release a reissue of a great and fugitive Italian library record by the Vagal Group.

Tracklisting: 

The Sound Breakers - Marooned
The Bridge - Joy Of Your Love
Patrick Gammon - Driving (Down Pacific Coast Highway)
The Diamond-Zoot Band - Daytona Sunrise
805 - Mad Woman
Eden Ahbez - Eden's Island
David Ireland - Small Talk
Amy Levin - Good To You
Justin Time - Close Your Eyes
Quatres Aventures De Reinette Et Mirabelle - L'heure Bleue by Eric Rohmer 
Gerry Cott - Alphabet Town
Supaslix - Mercury Lady
Terry Vonderheide - Beauty And Time
Reflex - Stop, Think About It
Jones - Close To Myself
The Key Of Creek - Child Of Nature
Just Us - Easy

Séance Centre Radio Episode 48 NTS w/ Marwan Filali NO BANTER

Beverly Glenn-Copeland is already known amongst collectors and music heads for two sought-after albums of folky jazz in the key of Joni. But it was this album, originally self-released on cassette in 1986 that really caught our attention. The album, entirely recorded on DX-7 and TR-707, lies somewhere between digital new-age and (accidentally) early Detroit techno experiments. The inimitable style of BGC here is both peaceful and meditative while simultaneously rhythmic and bass heavy. The album was recorded in the northern Canadian town of Huntsville where BGC was living at the time and is a beautiful fusion of personal vision, technology and place. 

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Recent cassette only mix I made for Noise In My Head. Big thanks to Michael for hosting it!

richard truhlar – portrait of an interview
hearn gadbois – gaht mayh moh8joh3 woykihn
john celono – instrument flying
bruce russell – indigo pool
joanne forman – codex
antonio zepeda – cuando los dioses juegan a la pelota
roberto mazza – artigli arguti
peter griggs – fragments
john di stefano – nuage
philip sanderson & michael denton – maps (love in a cold climate)
short term memory – words
houari benchenet – katrouli el mhaine
jacques charlier - crépuscule
john j lafia – life is short
short term memory – hysteria
john di stefano – culture schlock
smith & erickson – blue skies
tony wells – end collage
pauline oliveros – earth
ellen zweig & gregory jones – sensitive bones

Brandon Hocura - K7 Mix for Noise In My Head

Knotpop is a revelatory lost album of deviant new wave from San Fransisco duo Ixna. Like Brian Eno and The Flying Lizards, the album is a sideways and inverted take on pop music. Jay Cloidt and Marina La Palma were students of David Behrman and Robert Ashley at Mills College, inspired by their infamously irreverent faculty to nudge the avant-garde out of its stuffy tweed and into something more exciting, something clad in denim & leather. Recorded at the Center For Contemporary Music at Mills in 1981, the album combines Cloidt's studio wizardry, sampling abilities and vibrant bass with La Palma’s expressive vocals, and love of made-up and invented languages (Esperanto). Ixna only released one 7" during that time, featuring two songs from this unrealized album, which became sought after over the decades. The discovery of Knotpop will feel like manna from heaven for previous fans, and a welcome addition to the cannon of avant-inverted-pop ur-classics by Suicide, impLOG, Naffi, General Strike, Thick Pigeon and UnknownMix. Concentric Circles is honoured to present Knotpop to the world for the first time. Mastered from the original reels, DMM pressing. 

Release date April 12th
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Release by Concentric Circles

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Ixna - Fun Fun Fun (CC-002)

Gwakasonné is the ecstatic articulation of Robert Oumaou’s artistic and political vision, a unified expression of his interests in American jazz, pre-colonial rhythms, Guadeloupian independence, and Créole poetics. Over the course of three albums, all released in the 80s, Robert piloted a revolving cast of musicians, a venerable who’s-who of Point-a-Pitre avant-jazz pioneers, to deftly intone his creative communal concepts. The songs on Vwayajé are compiled from these three releases, Gwakasonné, Temwen, and Moun, along with an electronic mantra taken from his 2007 solo album Sang Comment Taire. Viewed from our current artistic and cultural landscape, Robert’s work is exceptionally enduring, grounded in its declarations of freedom and foundational use of the Ka (drum) and voice, and prescient in its borderless explorations of protest folk, electronics, ambient atmosphere, music from the African diaspora, and spiritual jazz. The long-form hive-mind expression of the group has parallels with similar explorations by The Grateful Dead, electric Miles, Pharaoh Sanders, and even the Boredoms, but these are only oblique references for a truly peerless sound. Like other conceptual children of Gérard Lockel, the group was part of a progressive movement of like-minded musicians, such as Serge Fabriano, Dao, Erick Cosaque, and Gaoulé Mizik, who embraced Lockel’s modernist ideals, fusing Gwo Ka drumming and tuning systems with contemporary jazz and vanguard recording technologies. Robert’s ecstatic phrasings, embrace of electronic instruments, and daring lyrics set the group apart as the beatific expression of a sagacious soul.

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Tracklist:
A1 Atmosphere (1:58)
A2 W3 (3:49)
A3 Karayib (4:47)
A4 Suzy (4:00)
B1 Vou (4:09)
B2 Siklon (3:47)
B3 Pita (6:13)
C1 Nirvacina (3:39)
C2 Respé (5:08)
C3 Lewoz (4:06)
D1 Rekreasyon (3:38)
D2 Algerie 62 (10:35)

Release date July 5th 2019

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Very deep mix of Algerian music from the 80s and 90s by Parisian impresarios @Maybe-Tonight. 

Tracklisting:

djur djura – identité
cheb hindi – la voca khdah el hbal
khaled – sbabi
abranis – m'liye
cheb kader – raï derli
sahraoui & fadela – daoueh
sahraoui & fadela – hasni
cheb hasni – ya ouaadi
cheba nouria – consulat
cheb tati – el hammam
nacera beloumri – laarouji
houari marsaoui – el houari
abdel ali slimani – ana guelile dub
chab hamid – lala sadia
houari benchenet – dellali
fazil kezal – el mout
idir – instrumental

Séance Centre Radio Episode 20 NTS feat: Maybe Tonight (March 4th 2020) NO BANTER

Epic 3hr session from our good pal Cal aka Phuk Hugh, one half of Modern Art, with his brethren Kool Ty. Open the windows, play this mix LOUD and chant down babylon!

Séance Centre Radio Episode 21 NTS feat: Phuk Hugh (April 1st 2020) NO BANTER

Detroit selector extraordinaire Bill Spencer drops Volume Two of Distant Shores on this month's episode of SC Radio on NTS. Mystic messages guided by the hand of Jah. 

Tracklisting:

Dennis Bovel - Do De Dub
Joy Mack - Reality
Marrie Pierre - Our Tune
Louisa Marks - Keep Away (Version)
Scientist - Quasar
Jackie Mittoo - You Bring The Sun Out (Version)
Love Dub Band - Sweet Dub
Treva - Israel Shepherd (Version)
Mike Brooks - On The Ice
TX-Dub - Not For Dub
Les McNeil - Give Me Everything Now
Creation Rebel - Chattie Mouth
Abacush - (Brixton Riot 1981) Suffera Style
Mankind - These Three Girls
Treva - Simple Things (Version)
Shortie Ranks - Dance In A Skate Land
Black Uhuru - Party Next Door
Paul Thompson - Well This Is My Bed
Walter Bailey - Power To Be Good

Séance Centre Radio Episode 23 NTS - Distant Shores Vol 2. by BILL SPENCER (May 27th 2020) NO BANTER

What is in the Museum Of No Art? Not paintings, but visions. Not sculptures, but empty spaces full of potential. It is within this inverted gallery that Mona Steinwidder traces fabulous forms with voice, sampler, synthesizer, clarinet and effects. Under the moniker Museum Of No Art, she has created an album that floats in a hazy lacuna between realities, rooted in propulsive and deep bass resonance, but also footloose, playfully deconstructing language and mixing in layers of echoing synthetic and organic tones. The fascinating result of these unfettered experiments resonate as an imaginary cadavre-exquis played by DJ Screw, Arthur Russell, Hiroshi Yoshimura, MJ Lallo, Poppy Nogood, and Laurie Anderson.

With a background in fine art and music, over the years Steinwidder has created and released music under the pseudonym Mohna, as part of the experimental pop band Me Succeeds, and collaborates with composer Alexander Schubert and electronic dance music producer Christian Löffler. Recently, shifting her focus more on improvisation and experimental music, she moved to Vienna for six months to concentrate on experimenting with synthesizers, samplers and voice. Her intention was to build a “playground” that would leave space for improvisation and allow for a meditative and intuitive process. This solo exploration allowed her to return home with a new way to play.

“I like this idea of an open and light structure that can grow and transform and leaves space in all directions. Something without a clear beginning and ending. A rough, short note. Today I’m in the mood to sing, but tomorrow I might be in the mood to just float on an ocean of synths or to play a solo on my clarinet. I am a never-ending process and I am many. The Museum Of No Art album is a collection of days and moods, images and circumstances I experienced and immediately recorded in the last year.”

Limited edition of 200 LPs with risograph printed artwork.

Tracklist:

A1 La Grotta (5:39)
A2 Fabulous Youth (8:06)
A3 Minimal Default on a Clear Blue Day (3:33)
A4 A Melting Tree (2:30)

B1 Form and Focus (4:48)
B2 Eternal Explorer (3:31)
B3 A Nameless Person Tries to Describe Herself (3:10)
B4 Three Years Later (The Formation of a New Animal) (5:14)
B5 Subconscious Message (2:26)

Release date: July 17th

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Museum Of No Art -  Fabulous Youth (23SC)

Geography of the Mind, the first in a series of mixes exploring little known territories of Canadian Psych Folk, at least our loosely defined boundaries of those regions.

Tracklisting:

Sue Churchill - You
Jim Lamarche - Make Believe
Ian Tamblyn - Slate Island Song
Gilles Valiquette - T’as Brise Mon Couer
Strange Nursery - Tancha
Len Udow - Beauty Raise the Tree
Brent Ditcomb - Oh Great Provider
Paul Serret - On the Line
Paul Marcano & Lightdreams - Who is the One
Lloyd Chee Choo - James Bay
Michael Hasek - Naja
Brian Davey - Dreams of Ways
Georg & Carole - But For Love
John Lyle - Life is a Breeze
Philip Lewin - King of Queens
Derek MacNeill - Girl in a Field

Séance Centre Radio Episode 31 - Geography of the Mind: Canadian Psych Folk Mix (Jan 2021) NO BANTER

Joris Caloud and Pierre Hubert, who run the always reliable Lorem Ipsum mix and party series sent over 4 hrs of summertime, in the form of electric soul, balearic hip hop, and drum machine AOR. Sit back, have a mimosa and enjoy the flight!

Séance Centre Radio Episode 32 NTS feat: Lorem Ipsum (Feb 2021) NO BANTER

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