Very nice! Absolutely one of my favorite! 🖤

"Banegård" is a single from the album "Innemuseum" by Danish composer Cisser Mæhl. 
LP out on 3rd March 2023.

Innemuseum

Cisser Mæhl – Banegård

A moving little piece with a recurrent theme expressed by different string arrangements to a percussion backing.

Midnight Kiss

~ IIKKI 001 ~

artist : danny clay
album : stills 
duration : 40.59 mn
date : 19.09.16 
edition : vinyl, limited to 500 copies + fine art book, limited to 500 copies

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pre-order : September 05th / official release : September 19th, 2016

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Danny Clay : piano, voice, harmonium, viola
Paula Karolak : viola
2015-2016, San Francisco, CA

Mastered by Taylor Deupree
Artwork by Katrien De Blauwer
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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Links :

Danny Clay : 
https://soundcloud.com/dclaymusic
Katrien De Blauwer : 
http://www.katriendeblauwer.com
IIKKI :
http://www.iikki-books.com
https://iikki.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/iikki.books


Danny Clay - Stills (album preview)

Tape loops flowing through Roland Spaece Echo RE-201 + Small modular synth + pedals + Four Track Fostex X-18.

Romero

INFOS / ORDER 
http://shelter-press.org/cv-jab-zin-taylor-thoughts-dot-travels-surface/
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Thoughts of a Dot as it Travels a Surface is the title of an album derived from a series of wall drawings begun in 2014 by multi-disciplinary Paris-based artist Zin Taylor. Drawn in simple black-and-white, the large-scale pieces depict linear landscapes populated with rough-hewn objects: potted cacti, sculptural boulders, steaming stone baths. Taylor describes the project as “a psychological backdrop,” utilizing the reductive yet narrative techniques of caricature and illustration to achieve an abbreviated, associative form of visual storytelling. Or in his words: “Think of it as haze collecting along the surface of the wall.”

Upon completion of a particularly ambitious 90-meter panoramic wall drawing, experimental composers Christina Vantzou and John Also Bennett were invited to interpret the work as a musical graphic score. The result was a forty minute live performance in two parts, which was multi-track recorded and then mixed down into a 10-track album. Each piece and title corresponds to a specific section or object in the wall drawing. Vantzou, though based in Brussels, is best known for a string of enigmatic solo recordings for the American ambient imprint Kranky, while Bennett has explored electronic sound design in a variety of capacities, including as one third of Brooklyn synthesizer outfit Forma. Working under their initials – CV & JAB – they attempted to translate Taylor’s elusive gestural lexicon into sound. The results are appropriately minimal, malleable, and mysterious.

Opener “Cactus With Vent” sets the tone: insectoid murmurings and fractured crystalline tones seesaw in and out of focus, eventually disappearing within a wash of churning water. Each composition flows unbroken into the next, much like Taylor’s continuous line, emphasizing fluidity, curvature, and connectivity. “Hot Tub” introduces a mesmerizing synthetic flute-like raga, pirouetting above muted jungle noises and a babbling brook. Subsequent songs skew softer and stranger, alternately meditative (“Large Suess Plant”) and miasmic (“Tombstones”), remote vistas mapped with hieroglyphic frequencies.

The recordings, like Taylor’s nuanced mini-murals, exude a subtle but restless energy, rarely lingering too long in a fixed formation. The whooshing astral synthesizer of “Alfred Hitchcock Haze” dissolves invisibly into the smeared, somber séance of “Rock House With Door,” which in turn evaporates amongst the menagerie of chattering printers, running water, and shepherd tone whispers of “String of Objects With Planter.”

More so than in past projects, here Vantzou and Bennett mask their presence, allowing textures and tonalities to tangle or unspool with minimal intrusion. The effect is naturalistic, impersonal, and intriguing. Even the few passages of relatively emotive classical piano (“Brick With Modern Form,” “Fingers Of Thought”) are played with an air of otherworldly detachment, as though such beauty was materializing purely of its own accord.

Recorded Live at Westfälischer Kunstverein in Münster, Germany May 6th, 2017. Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D+M. Clear purple vinyl housed in reverse board-printed inners and double-width spine jacket. Comes with a 180CM. leporello reproducing the original 9000CM. walldrawing. First edition of 700 copies worldwide.

CV & JAB — ZIN TAYLOR 'Fingers of Thought' (SP092)

excerpt from a live tape loop, percussion, guitar + modular synth performance at S1, Portland.

180812

~ IIKKI 007 ~

music : Federico Durand
photography : Albarrán Cabrera (Angel Albarrán & Anna Cabrera)
album/book : Pequeñas Melodías
duration : 38.24 mn
date : November 2018

edition : 
vinyl : limited to 300 copies, DDM Cut, 180 gm, hand numbered 
cd : limited to 200 cd (glass mastered) hand numbered
book : limited to 500 copies hand numbered + hand stamped

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pre-order : October 11th, 2018 / official release : November 08th, 2018

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Mastered by Taylor Deupree
Artwork by Albarrán Cabrera
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

Recorded in La Cumbre, Argentina, on tape loops and cassettes with a Sony TCM200-DV, Fostex X-18 & Macbook, using acoustic guitar, music boxes, synthesizer, electric piano, Rhodes piano sampling, Roland Space Echo RE-201, CT5, EHX 2880 and a small modular sampler (Morphagene, Clouds, 2hp LFO, 2hp RND, Bastl Ciao).

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Links :
https://federicodurand.bandcamp.com/
http://albarrancabrera.com/
https://www.iikki-books.com/

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Federico Durand – Pequeñas Melodías (album preview)

Split tape with Cheekbone available now on our Bandcamp:
https://muzaneditions.bandcamp.com/

Hirotaka Shirotsubaki - Midnight Air

My first ever all-modular live set for the June edition of Modular on the Spot - PDX. 
I wanted to try doing something more rhythmic with more upfront melodies for a change.  The main melodies are primarily Make Noise 0-coast being sequenced by Monome Ansible and being resampled in the ER-301.  The drones are all from the 4MS SWN. Textures + wurlitzer samples are coming from a 2hp Play + ER-301.  All the reverb comes from via Audio Damage EOS + Æverb modules. Pamela's New Workout from ALM/Busy Circuits is providing all of the clocks + LFOs.
This live set was recorded directly to a 4MS WAV Recorder module.

190629 (Live Set - Modular on the Spot PDX)

Simple experiments geared towards performance, these pieces were recorded using Monome mlr & Grid, Organelle/Orac, Montreal Assembly CT5, Chase Bliss Audio Mood, and Mutable Instruments' Rings & Clouds.

I hope you'll enjoy!!

Performed/Recorded by D.Harper 6/2020

Mastered by Porya Hatami
http://poryahatami.com/

Poppy botanical by Walter Müller, 1910

Root

Ray 1

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