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)

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/poetas_sonicos
Track: Har
Label: https://soundcloud.com/liopress
Format: 2X12" Vinyl, VA
Film: https://soundcloud.com/aliciacarrera
Release date: 16/4/21
Purchase: https://clone.nl/item64053.html
https://www.discogs.com/es/Various-Zauberstab-Volume-1/release/18020077

Zauberstab V.A. Volume 1 is a compilation of electronic bedroom music made by contemporary artists that belong to similar sonic spheres. 
The A side feels like a holiday in an exotic landscape; the kind of place you don't want to leave. 
The B side then goes in a slightly deeper meditative direction, but not too far, since the sparking disco-infused psych exploration of ’Space Surfari’ will hold you back from falling into the void of the unconscious. What comes next is the sound that would welcome a moonlit night sky. 
The C side slinks into a minimal synth oriented exploration, ending with the intergalactic hopeful drift of ‘Har’.
The last side will provide a comfortable seat on this hypnotic journey. ‘Été 2017’ is an ode to the late summer nights, a mind-driving loop carried by gentle percussive sounds, filled with some bass deepness. The next tracks are the right balance between a hug and a breeze of fresh air for your mind and soul.
At this point you might find yourself wondering if it’s a good idea to open your eyes or just keep them closed for a bit longer and thoroughly enjoy all of the details of this story. But, why not? 
This one is, after all, a record to build beautiful memories with.

Official Video

PREMIERE | Poetas Sónicos - Har [LÍO Press] 2021

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

Upon meeting some years ago in Berlin, Galina & Andreina connected creatively and embarked on a musical voyage. These are studio recordings from Xberg in 2018, at a time when they gave life and animation to a beautiful and young electronic music scene.

Sono I’imperatore is a special three track EP from Eva Geist & Chikiss featuring artwork from Marius Houschyar. 


300 Copies

Release due  12.05.22

Eva Geist & Chikiss Sono I'imperatore (SR005)

Ex Ponto - In A Quarry… - OFFEN 021

Artist: Ex Ponto
Title: In A Quarry...

Track list:
1. In A Quarry...Far, Far Away (15:34)
2. Golden Hours (07:28)
3. Shed 14 (03:38)

Australian musician, composer and producer Ex Ponto aka Ivan Mašić has self-released dozens of albums with improvisation collective, Council of Elders, and experimental no-wave band, Wunderlust.

On his Offen Music debut Ex Ponto is constructing an alternative civilization of grace, post-sarcasm and intuitive response. 

„In A Quarry...Far, Far Away“ is a 15 minutes long wandering with Joseph and August Norster around The Quarry, Beech Forest, Victoria, Australia, January 27, 2020. 
Life affirming „Golden Hours“ is an alternative to the general wait for extinction and completition of a suicide program out there. An ode to the moments when sunlight turns magical.
„Shed 14“ is a personal reminiscence of the legendary club in Melbourne. 

„Ex Ponto respectfully acknowledges the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nations as the sovereign owners of the country where I live and work. I recognise that sovereignty has not been ceded and pay my respects to all Elders, past, present and emerging.“

https://exponto.com.au/portfolio-item/the-sublime/
https://www.theprojects-quarry.com/

Credits:

Field recording on In A Quarry…Far, Far Away taken from a conversation between Joseph and August Norster (father and son) 
The Quarry, Beech Forest, Victoria, Australia, January 27, 2020.

written and produced by Ivan Mašić
mastered by Enrico Mercaldi 
cover photo by Joseph Norster
graphic design by Percy

Offen Music 2022

In A Quarry...

2. Ex Ponto - Golden Hours - OFFEN 021

The Colundi Sequence
51 Resonance Experiments & Sonic Spells
2 DVD + 2CD = £20 + p&p
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FLUORESCENCE

Diamonds

How does it feel on the side 
of the world when the war is on?
we're still looking for a place
but in between the dark void is deep

Uh I'm walking in a graveyard 
I say goodbye
Uh the sunshine is still there
it's a gift, it's amazing grace

Even if we felt in chains 
we were at our best and alive
You're vanishing like dust
when it blows your memories out

Uh I don't forget to thank
for each second that I have
Uh the weapons will now rest
'cause we blend this amazing grace

Religion has destroyed churches
Flashes in the dark
In the sleeplees city of fuzz

From that day we always bring
ematite bracelets and seeds
we meditate and observe
the tiny details of the sphere

Uh no time left to waste
a stranger has come
Uh we stipulate a pact
under the sign of a brand new day

Andrea & Alexander - Amazing Grace (feat. Cid Hohner)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4Oaehf58a8

OUT ON the Various Artists - Destination Earth LP ..   Featuring:  Floris Vanhoof, Orphan Fairytale, Tave Exotic, Liquid Slug, New Root Canal, Superskin, Hantrax, Francesco Cavaliere and more.... available from alien friendly record shops all over the planet..

DE comp B

Tav Exotic - The Connection

As Longitude is a Berlin based duo founded by Eva Geist and Laura ODL, which appeared in the new electronic scene after last year’s brilliant number on Knekelhuis and on the compilation Eine Welt vol 1.
 In As Logitude’s words, “That’s when the animals turned into humans is a psychedelic madness-based track that brings us back to our bestial primitive instincts, when we were still close to animals.” The EP will be out on Macadam Mambo label, 1st December.

As Longitude - That's When The Animals Turned Into Humans

All 5 tracks on ​12" Matas Flores y Algo Más ​were jammed and recorded between late 2018 and early 2019, with Juno 106, Yamaha DX7, Korg Wavedrum and Pearl SC40. 
A1. Self Similar Melodies
https://tulips-de.bandcamp.com/

Sound enthusiast and percussionist Tulips, plays with NASSSAU, as P.VEE with TRJJ (Stroom), and MONTEL PALMER.

Tulips - Self Similar Melodies

Misha Sultan is a professional musician multi-instumentalist and sound engineer with a wide background. He started making music over 20 years ago with his brother and neighbors in the heart of Siberia. Misha’s hometown Novosibirsk is located between Europe and Asia where lots of his inspiration came from.
«The Red Fern Road» is a trip for years and for less than an hour at the same time. While listening to the album you’re going into the void of time and place. But the world that opens up to you when you listen to the music is such a beautiful universe that you want to stay there forever.

https://soundcloud.com/mishasultan
https://soundcloud.com/digrecs

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PRÉMIÈRE: Misha Sultan - Kaleidoscope [DiG Records]

Séance Centre is a label, publisher, and distributor conjuring timeless music from the past, present and future.

For NA distribution contact: info@seance-centre.com
For EU distribution contact: info@rushhour.nl

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