Name: Áine O Dwyer - Falcon by Second Language Music in Second Language Music November Bandcamp
Duration: 4 min 10 s
Description: From the album, 'Anything bright or startling?' out now : http://www.secondlanguagemusic.com/SL022.html

Love your voice Aine,so glad you are singing on this!!

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LAURIN HUBER, Dog Mountain, LP

Release date - July 30th 2021
Catalogue nr. - HG2199
Format - Vinyl / digital
Hallow Ground

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Tracklist:
1) Raja (04.59)
2) Nickel (05:50)
3) A Town Is Not A Town (04:54)
4) Storskog-Borisoglebsk (07:32)

Credits:
Composed and recorded by Laurin Huber
Mixed by Rolf Laureijs
Mastering by Lawrence English
Artwork by Michael Bodenmann

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»Dog Mountain« is the second release by the Zurich-based producer and composer Laurin Huber on Hallow Ground. After last year’s »Juncture« saw the Edipo Re co-founder work mostly with synthesizers and programmed rhythms, the four tracks are much more restrained, drawing on tape loops and feedback, recordings of acoustic guitar and synthesizers such as the Korg MS-10 as well as field recordings that relate to the overarching topic that informed the making of the record. While »Juncture« had previously aimed at deconstructing the binaries and dualities that shape our lives and thinking, »Dog Mountain« is dedicated to geographical divisions that result from political processes and social constructions. »›Here‹ means one nation, ›there‹ another,« writes Huber in a literary piece that accompanies the record. »Being in sound, such a separation seems odd.« 

While treating the metaphor of the border as a »membrane, registering and translating the vibrations of its surroundings« and thus as something that is constantly (re-)defined, maintained and defended however, the artist also takes into consideration that »one cannot escape one’s standpoint,« as he puts it. The music on »Dog Mountain« may transcend and overcome certain borders, but it does not deny the realities that they impose on each and every one of us – whether in our political lives or in the realm of sound. This is mirrored in Huber’s engaging in the structural and sonic interplay of repetition and difference. Working with slowly evolving and modulating elements that are exposed to slight shifts, »Dog Mountain« puts a focus on the interaction between small elements that together form a bigger whole which is marked by constant evolution and change. 

Opener »Raja« (»border« in Northern Sami and Finnish) starts off with a two-note melody played on an out-of-tune guitar. Different field recordings and synthesizer sounds drop in and out of the mix until the dynamic shifts and Huber starts playing more notes on his instrument, thus increasing the tension. It’s a meditation on minimalism, but also a piece that mediates between notions of what constitutes the difference between noise and music or referentiality and abstraction in sound. After »Nickel« (named after a Russian monotown near the border to Norway) dedicates itself to explore the friction between hissing white noise and melancholic tape loops, »A Town Is Not a Town« (a phrase taken from the documentary »Kiruna – Rymdvägen«) structurally mirrors the experiment of »Raja« with very different sonic means. 

Closing the record, »Storskog-Borisoglebsk« (the title refers to the northernmost land border between Schengen-Europe and Russia) is the longest and most challenging piece, working with both long-form drones and musique concrète elements. It proposes a synthesis of the opposites that are explored patiently and with much attention to detail throughout this record.

LAURIN HUBER - A Town Is Not A Town (HG2199)

From the album, 'I Lived In Trees,' out now on Second Language Music : 
http://www.secondlanguagemusic.com/


Mark Fry/The A Lords - Ruins Of Stone

This is the second part of the pocket cabbage soup.
I wrote drums with a great desire to make aphex twin nervously smoke.

Cabbage Soup In My Pocket 2

Sibirsky Snickers - Preview CSIMP EP 2

Chakra: Root (Safety) The Sacred Pleasure: The Foundation of VITALITY The Block: Fear / "Stuckness"

The Medicine: We reframe the feeling of being "stuck" not as failure, but as the physics of a Slingshot. The tension you feel is simply the gathering of power for the launch. The arrow must be pulled back to fly forward.

Le Grand Saut. Il faut reculer pour mieux sauter.

Track 1_ The Great Pullback (Le Grand Saut)

A Different River Once

Piano Magic - Exile

GMA13 - Nico Niquo
http://greymatterarchives.club/niconiquo.html
1. Tetsu Inoue - Mood Swing
2. Tetsu Inoue & Carl Stone - %.disk
3. Tetsu Inoue - Zen
4. Tetsu Inoue - O shape
5. Tetsu Inoue - Health Loop
6. Tetsu Inoue & Carl Stone - !.tuning
7. Tetsu Inoue - Wabi
8. Tetsu Inoue - Magnetic Field

GMA13 - Nico Niquo

From the Neptunalia LP compilation (LAL-92 / IKU-054). Edition of 300. Release day hopefully July 23rd.

NEPTUNALIA, a festival of Neptune, celebrated at Rome, of which
very little is known. The day on which it was held, was probably the 23rd
of July. The festival was celebrated with games. Respecting the ceremonies
of this festival nothing is known, except that the people used to build
huts of branches and foliage, in which they probably feasted, drank, and
amused themselves.
From a "Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities" by John Murray, London,
1875.

Side A:
David Edren - Whale Bubbler
H. Takahashi - Deep
Nuslux - Hippocampi
Olli Aarni - Eliksiiri A & B
Ilpo Numminen - Speleothem

Side B:
H. Takahashi - Coral
Non Local Society - Latiaxis Mawae
Kuupuu - Jään alle
Marja Ahti - Silent Floor
Miaux - Rip Current at Avalon Beach

Compiled by Roope Eronen
Cover Art by Leon Sadler
Mastered by Tommi Keränen
Laquer cut at Duplates and Mastering

Lal Lal Lal & Ikuisuus, 2018

Miaux - Rip Current at Avalon Beach

From the forthcoming album, 'I Feel Nothing Most Days,' out 26th April 2019 on Second Language Music.  Pre-order here : https://olivercherer.bandcamp.com/

Oliver Cherer - Weight Of The Water

http://www.recitalprogram.com/gatherings/
Limited CD Edition of 200
8-page color booklet with essays and artwork
OUT ON JUNE 7th
http://www.recitalprogram.com/purchase/

R62 - Anne Tardos - "Seven-Layer Song" from Gatherings CD

Forthcoming on Akuphone (AKU1019)
🕐 Digital: October 11
🕙 Vinyl: November 21

Buy: akuphone.com/catalog/KqTlLEqLa6o#content

The prolific Kink Gong (aka Laurent Jeanneau) returns in a unique duet with one of the most prominent artists of the Chinese avantgardist scene Li Daiguo. Kink Gong and Li Daiguo first met in Chengdu (capital of Sichuan Province, China) while playing the same night at the Jahbar music venue. 

A few months later, as they become neighbors in Cai Cun, a village near the old town of Dali (Yunnan), Kink Gong begins recording Daiguo playing Pipa, Cello and Zheng. He then proceeded to deconstruct these recordings while adding voices that he mainly recorded in Yunnan Province. This fantastic combination of field recordings, experimental folk melodies and electronic treatment leads us to a fourth underground universe reminiscent of Jon Hassell's finest hours. 

Credits:
- Pipa, Cello, Zheng performed by LI DAIGUO and recorded by LAURENT JEANNEAU in Cai Cun Dali, Yunnan, China on 11/11/2011
- Voices recorded by LAURENT JEANNEAU in China and Laos 2006-2013. 
- Recomposed by KINK GONG in 2011-2018. 
- Cover: Yi embroidery, Yunnan, China
- Layout by Akuphone
- Mastered by J-P Bameulle

Format:
- Vinyl with download code
- Digital

Kink Gong & Li Daiguo : Dali China - LP Preview (AKU1019)

Delphine Dora - New Dimensions

From the album, 'I Hunt Alone,' out now on Second Language Music : http://www.secondlanguagemusic.com/SL020.html



Directorsound - I Hunt Alone

From the album, 'Anything bright or startling?' out now : http://www.secondlanguagemusic.com/SL022.html


Áine O Dwyer - Falcon

Originally recorded and released in 1980, "Six of One" beautifully captures the detail in Evan Parker's high frequency split tones for which he is now perhaps better known. Five years on from "Saxophone Solos" and with circular breathing and polyphonics well worn into his live performances, Parker's experimentations here produce sustained passages of brilliant flight. Set into the echoes and resonances of a St Judes On The Hill church, the results are stunning. 

"The recital commences with a split tone line of twining sine waves that expand and contract in telepathic collusion. Pitch dynamics narrow and redefine themselves more emphatically on the second piece where sliding legato rivulets born of Parker’s compartmentalized tonguing create the sonic semblance of up to three separate voices emanating from the single reed speech center. It’s a feat he’s accomplished innumerable times since, but every fresh hearing never fails to open an aperture into a style of improvisatory expression that is at once wholly alien and intensely mesmerizing. There’s also something strangely subterranean about the flood of sounds, like the rush percolating water through an underground aquifer system enroute to unknown tributaries. The third piece trades tightly braided tones for leaner and more linear phrases, but a vaporous trail of phantom notes still clings to the central line. And so it goes, with the illusion of repetition guiding the momentum, though Parker never explicitly repeats himself." - Derek Taylor, All About Jazz

Transferred from the original master tapes and released in an edition of 500.

ROKURE009 - Evan Parker - Six of One "Six Of One"

Independent record label based in London.  2009 - present day.

Áine O Dwyer - Falcon

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