Viridescens

Francesco Cavaliere and Tomoko Sauvage embody a tactile audio visual display, radiating the color green into sounds and painting meditative music. By transforming collected objects into invented instruments and scenography, each motif becomes a dedication to a specific situation, an anecdote or a symbol, sometimes real and other times absurd, that the artists have encountered through their travels and conversations: the Chinese myth about a man wearing a green hat, naming convention of Japanese traffic lights, or even the imaginary chants of frolicking twin dolphins. This inspired the duo’s personal research on experimenting with raw and synthesized idiophones, stage landscape design, spontaneous field recording and organized improvisation.

B 1 Cavaliere - Sauvage - Twin Emerald Dolphins

The illest Raja

delinquent loop

remembering to remember

lyrics ~

Looking into her eyes, as she passes by, i saw someone i used to know, my soul, shattered.

Burning embers on my skin, my soul ruptures from within, i fall for you, i bleed for you.

Chains broken, feel free from the prison within my head, let it go this time, redefine.

Burning embers on my skin, my soul ruptures from within, i bleed for you, i bleed for you. I just need to find myself again, myself again.

cold

Miradasvacas - IV (ISLE016)

Circular patterns morphing through time, loop and ritual form the fabric of Proserpine, the latest work by Leeds-based musician, Teresa Winter. Recorded from a summer to a winter through 2021 and 2022, Proserpine is Winter’s most cohesive, focused music to date: confidently revelling in space, fixating on isolated sounds and giving way to satisfying, swirling waves of vocal and electronic buzz. Proserpine is Teresa Winter’s debut recording for Glasgow-based label, Night School.

On Proserpine, musical patterns revolve and intersect with each other, transmogrifying the music’s narrative. Over-arching themes emerge: continual change, elusiveness. Insubstantiality emerges into concrete reality in the form of recognisable field recordings: the purring of a pet cat, the hum of a live cable. The loops and patterns are sometimes just out of sight, the click and whirl on Child Of Nature is the backdrop to hymnal vocalisations by Winter, who intones spell-like text in conversation with herself. On opener Circles, Winter’s vocal is pre-linguistic, detached syllables falling into flowing streams, before Plume’s field recordings seem to juxtapose nocturnal and diurnal wildlife. "You said I was a Flower Of The Mountain" sings Winter, as James Joyce's Molly Bloom does but the carpe diem desire in Ulysses is dissipated here, spread out by gauzy, droning organs. Here desire is blown up and out, changed into something undefinable but no less powerful.

Change is at the heart of the album. The Roman goddess Proserpine, herself a reimagined version of the earlier Greek goddess Persephone, is always between: between summer and winter, the land of the living and the underworld, constantly emerging into new states of being. It’s a fitting metaphor for Winter’s work. Like an Apple feels like it soundtracks this in-between state, long, trailing reverb smudging synth keys and Winter’s achingly beautiful vocal performance. The effect is stirring but flitting in and out of perception, sometimes Winter’s presence feels of this world, of musical instruments and practises and at others it feels like the music is about to phase into a different plane, a different universe. 

While Proserpine references the myths and cults of the classical, pre-Christian era, Winter’s restless preoccupation with the mechanics of religion informs the album in other ways. Ritual is present through out, either in the mantra-like vocalisations or even the private rituals we are invited to witness: on Fireworks the listener eave drops into the protagonist's private bonfire. On the stunning Lamento, layers of Choral vocal interlock in celestial patterns that recall catholic mass: it’s an overt effect that simulates the ecstasy of religious fervour and also reminds the listener of the use of vocal that runs through Proserpine. Winter’s vocals often echo with the euphoria of obliteration, of disintegrating in an awful bliss. It’s an effect achieved with finality by the closer New Water as the piece begins with voice before burning up in the atmosphere of elegiac violins and enveloping undertows of whirring synth patterns and ghostly pads. Proserpine is forever turning, changing, always elusive and quietly revelator

Teresa Winter - Flower Of The Mountain (from Proserpine, LSSN086)

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Samsuo ~ I Don't (Ever)

FREE PALESTINE
CEASEFIRE NOW

https://paralaxe-editions.bandcamp.com/album/for-palestine

"Hello. My name is Dania and I run the Paralaxe Editions label. Outside of this, I am also an Emergency Medicine doctor and an Arab in the diaspora. Growing up, Palestine was a frequent topic of conversation in my home. What is happening now is not a new conflict. The horrific images we are currently seeing in Gaza are simply the latest manifestation of an oppressive system that dates back decades. I'm usually a private person, but as a doctor, a woman and an Arab whose whole life was uprooted by war and Western imperialism, leaving me displaced from my homeland, I feel compelled to act in the face of a situation that seems increasingly dire by the day.

Looking to make some kind of positive contribution, I've reached out to friends, colleagues and fellow artists from a variety of geographic, social and ethnic backgrounds, asking if they would donate some of their music to a fundraiser compilation.

'For Palestine' is that compilation and I hope that the breadth of the participants involved helps to underscore the severity of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and in Palestine in general.

All proceeds will go to Médecins Sans Frontières. This charity has been chosen as the benefactor as I am not only familiar with their mission statement and field work, but many of my medical colleagues have directly worked with the organisation in different locations around the globe. MSF currently has doctors and staff on the ground in Gaza, and they are actively working to treat patients and get desperately needed supplies across the border.

On top of the music, I've also teamed up with Oficina de Disseny to create a special print. Printed at L'automatica in Barcelona as part of a collective printing effort, 600 posters were produced in total, though a majority have been (and will continue to be) distributed freely at protests in Barcelona. A small quantity, however, are on sale here. Unfortunately, they are available to EU customers only. (Some additional copies will also be available at Paralaxe Editions' showcase at Cafe Oto in London on November 7.)

We ask you to please donate generously to the compilation.

There is no freedom until we're all free."

Curated by Dania.
All tracks mastered by Rupert Clervaux except:
Track 16 mastered by Daphne X.
Track 37 mastered by Emre.
Tracks 1, 5, 7, 12, 20, 25, 29, 30, 32, 33, 39, 40, 44, 46, 51, 53, 54, 57 mastered by Gynn Maier.

Artwork by Oficina de Disseny
Done in collaboration with IF Publications, L'automatica
Printed at L'automatica, Barcelona.

Special thanks to Abdallah Taher, Ailo Ribas, Laura Coromina, Helga Juárez, and my cousin Warda.

Special note: Some artists have elected to use pseudonyms as they have visas that maybe affected by this compilation.

For Palestine

Fight

A collection of tracks made over the past 12 years.

The artists credited for each song are different pseudonyms that I've used to release music since I was a teenager. As much as I've tried to distance myself from those releases to avoid cringing at my younger self, I'm hoping that releasing music under these names allows me to put that discomfort to rest and see younger versions of myself in a more compassionate way.

The music was intended for vocals, but I don't have the experience yet as a vocalist or lyricist to cover the topics I wanted to explore in a mature and tactful way, so this album is being released in a state I consider incomplete. I hope that someone out there may be inspired to use this music for their own vocal projects to tell their stories instead.

Thanks for listening.

Dirty Breeds (2012 - 2024)

Ideological Arrest - A Single Rose Given To The Sea

from my new record Champagne, out now on Nice Setting.

https://other-joe.bandcamp.com/album/champagne

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