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Now, when the borders are clearly defined again, Serenades are launching a series of sound guides that will lead you to different countries of our planet.

The debut release was compiled in our homeland: five Russian musicians set off on their inner trips with a whole set of skills and ideas and came back with some beautiful music stories. We are inviting you to live through their experiences and get an idea of what Russia is like according to this compilation.

Bon voyage and we’ll see you in the next country.

releases December 10, 2021

Artwork by Tony Tantsev.
Mastered by Crystal Limit Studio.

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PREMIERE | X.Y.R. - SERENADE OF SACRED HERBS [SERENADES]

@mick-woc
@remote-town

In the mid 90s in a small granny flat in a then rural Wicklow village a teenage producer kept himself busy making cassette tapes full of beats on his trusty s3000 sampler and an early wooden cased PC running Cubase v1. A world of music later comes this 8 track release for t-woc's home county label Remotetown. Consisting of live set extracts, MPC workouts and straight from desk to tape jams, this collection of tracks are a connection to those days of constant experimentation with limited gear and endless imagination playing out like the flailing limbs seen through a strobe at a slow motion rave.

LIMBS

PREMIERE | T-WOC - TITOS MASK [REMOTE TOWN]

Full stream of Visible Cloaks Rework of Seungmin Cha's "신열 Fever," taken from her EP 신열 Fever on Tonal Unity, out August 19.

Pre-order: https://tonalunity.bandcamp.com/album/fever
More: www.orbmag.com/music

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@seungminchamusic
@visiblecloaks

신열 Fever

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Premiere: Seungmin Cha - 신열 Fever (Visible Cloaks Rework)

SCATTER STARS

Take you by the hand,
to which you are given to us,
accompany the still small steps...
...attentively
stand by your side
and scatter stars for you
on a happy, bright path through life.

✨✨✨

STARGAZE

Underspreche - Invito Alla Danza Part 1 (of 2)

A1) The Lady Of The Knight 
A2) Vicino A Te 

AA1) Enchanting Lure
AA2) In Turbine

After a split single with Muslimgauze and a single of their own on Optimo Trax we are delighted to present the first Optimo Trax album release by Italy’s Underspreche. The album is split across two fours track EPs, released two weeks apart (and also as a complete digital album).

We try to avoid over-hyping our releases but this one is really fully deserving of the hyperbole I am about to bestow on it. Underspreche first sent me some music a few years ago and seeing them grow and develop has been nothing short of astonishing. I think this is some of the most nuanced and advanced music that Optimo Trax has ever released. There are several dance floor destroyers here but also music for more developed / leading-edge floors too, as well as some music simply designed to make one’s mind melt.  It is very rare that I listen to 4/4 music at home but this album has been a constant on my hi fi since it was sent to me.

Super advanced organic sampling, inspired vocalisations, acute psychedelic modular sequences, forward thinking drum programming, this is exactly what I hoped Optimo Trax would be about when I started the label. 

From Underspreche’s souls to yours.

In their words - 

Our idea is to make an album based on our concept of dancefloor. The entire work was inspired by the classical composition by Carl Maria von Weber called "Aufforderung zum Tanz“; we used the Italian version, "Invito alla danza”. 


We wanted to transpose the classical idea of this work (based on the Knight who invites a lady to dance in a salon of a fairy palace) to our world where the dance floor it’s a club, not so different from Weber salon in a certain way! 


Four track 12" EP released on November 18th 2016. Distributed by Kompakt and Rub A Dub. Part 2 and full digital release on December 2nd.

Optimo Trax 026 - Underspreche - Invito Alla Danza (Part 1) 12" EP (sampler)

The label is turning five, and it's celebrating with a 2xLP compilation of unreleased work from artists who have graced the label over the period! 
Exclusives from Tolouse Low Trax, Geena, Iueke, Domenique Dumont, Inoue Shirabe, Raphael Top-Secret and more...

RAPHAEL TOP SECRET - MAURILIA

Abschaum is a rock band from Lyon, incredibly good, which is trying to keep the mystery on their identity. Sacha met them last year when they played an improvised concert at Heart Of Glass, Heart Of Gold, a festival in the middle of France, and felt under the charm of the energy of the band… Few months later they recorded this LP, and what the fuck !! This was just mindblowing !! Macadam Mambo is presenting here one of its best release, in the influence of bands such as Can, Amon Duul 2 or Alain Bashung… 
Abschaum will be on tour from october till the end of the year, so if you have the chance to see them playing don’t miss it!

TRACKLIST : 
A1. La Tête Vide 7 :31
A2. Le Chemin Des Ombres 6 :19
A3. Amour Liquide 4 :13
B1. Moon Tango 11 :10
B2. Dans Tes pas 5 :10
B3. Tempête 3 :39

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MMLP707 - Abschaum "Moon Tango" [PREVIEW] SOLD OUT!

Conny Frischauf - Moves - IML008

DJ Flames - Dickhead Edit

https://soundcloud.com/abstraxion
Buy Release: https://lionsdrums.bandcamp.com/
Youtube Stream: https://youtu.be/vPRXrQfXy2o

In May 2019, Lion's Drums recorded an album at a Kogis' (Kagabas*) village, in the Sierra Nevada mountain of Santa Marta in Colombia.

Kagabas are indigenous people who consider themselves to be the guardians of the Earth and are concerned by the modern world's attempts to destroy it. The mountain - in Colombia - is their home, it is quite literally a microcosm, a mirror of the planet in which every ecological zone is represented. The damaging lifestyles which stems from the capitalistic dogma are affecting their environment and from their vantage point on the mountain they can see how this is straining the rest of the planet. 

Singing is a staple feature of the Kagabas culture, it is considered as a way to connect with the environment. There are for example a song of the monkey, of the deer, snake, laughing or even death - singing is a way for the Kagabas to feel safe around these animals and concepts and to live peacefully among them without fear and without the need to chase them away. As there's no writing, music and singing are a way to pass memory, knowledge and awareness down through generations. 

The ongoing ecological disaster, the uncertainty of the current times and the temptation for many of the youths to leave the mountains for the big city life make this transmission issue all the more critical.

As we exchanged prior to my visit and while I was there, the recording and sharing of these songs was a recurring topic and we agreed to have singing at the core of this musical project. 

Lions's Drums was welcomed to spend a week within their community to record this album. I spent most of the time there with the Máma of the village (Mámas are spiritual and intellectual guides that keep the memory of the civilization) and his son Camilo, with help from Franz who has been working with the Kagabas for about 15 years now as part of the Native organization which he runs.

This album combines songs, field recordings of the village and of its surrounding nature, as well as musical compositions he made in his studio. They liked the result and approved this album to be released. Fully aware of the responsibility the Kagabas have entrusted him with. he decided to self release this album and will give all the benefits to the Nativa organization to support its fight for the replanting of trees and getting land back.

* Widely known as « Kogis », the name they were given to by the « civilised man », they actually call themselves « Kagaba ».

Kagabas EP

Alouatta

PREMIERE: Lion's Drums - Alouatta (hembra)[Lion's Drums]

Animaux is a six track release by Justas Jelisejevas, it’s his second self-released mini-album that revolves around topics of animate reality, visual arts and music.
The idea for the release came into fruition through sonic experiments made in the past while looking for ways to substitute human singing with other sounds. In simple terms animals are the singers and lead
performers in each track.
The instrumental parts of every track are made to support vocalizations of animals and animal voices are chosen to resonate with digital instruments. Animaux explores and interprets wild animals trough electronic music.

https://soundcloud.com/justas_j

Premiere : Jelisejev - Gibbon - Gibonas [Self Released]

Serenades - is ' a story, writing that will be with you. 
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Releases:
SRNDS004 — JUNA - Archetipo EP
Buy & stream: https://fanlink.tv/srnds004

SRNDS003 — Dolphins / Odopt - Split EP
Buy & stream: fanlink.tv/srnds003

SRNDSFRM001 — V.A. Serenades from Russia 
Buy & stream: fanlink.tv/srndsfrm001

SRNDS002 — Anatolian Weapons / LINJA - Split EP
Buy & stream: fanlink.tv/srnds002

SERENADES001 — Da Iguana - Kalim & Marim EP
Buy & stream: fanlink.tv/serenades001

SRNDS001 — V.A. Serenades Vol.1
Buy: https://fanlink.tv/srnds001
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contact:
serenadesshow@gmail.com

Premiere : Jelisejev - Gibbon - Gibonas [Self Released]

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