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Yem Gel, 'Nest Of Opteryx' (2022). Courtesy the Slagwerk, Brussels.

SLA10: 'Endchantment' by @cobweaver

From the unstable vessel, a frictionless plateau or runway is witnessed surfacing soon after you piece together the vision, and you begin to slide along it. Wet birds gyre, forming a huge effigy that tells you your new name, sparrowhawk. A chorus and ensemble waver in and out of view as another vast body begins to emerge from below. From the hazy distance, a corps of wind players approach as a series of depth charges detonate, scattering the birds and sky-borne musicians. A purple-clad bombhead throws a sack of apples in your direction, causing you to tumble roll. On resurfacing, the plateau has reorganised itself into a shifting array of cubes and pipes (zadar sea organ mecha). This continues in crescendo, accumulating drumming box jellies, vibrating rubber tubes that straddle the ocean sky barrier, once-distant churches, and -
Cloud cover lowers.you instantly are approaching the lead mines.a fog soaked November.that robin still calls from the hawthorn. . .

June, cumulonimbus warships idle on the horizon, their gun turrets played by a westerly. From along the promenade a miniature wheeled train arrives, hitting a lamppost and, crumpling into the sand digger, becomes a violent mechanic amalgam that methodically untethers the fishing boats, rips up the groins and compacts the beach huts, using telegraph cables and succulent root systems to tie the pieces together into an enormous raft, which it floats out on the waveless channel. As it slowly gondoliers itself away from shore, it performs a plodding series of rotational movements that increase in complexity and variety, the entire form of the amalgam changing at the apex of each movement, and its the central crux eventually dissolving entirely. 5 chinooks arrive from the nearby base, hovering still as officers launch a tirade of artillery at the beast. The heads of selkies bob up between waves, as they attempt to shift the energy through echoing phrases. Eventually the military win, and the beast sinks defeated. The raft continues its journey toward the horizon, sparking intermittently.

Type: EP
Format: Digital / CD
Releasedate: May 13th 2022
Artwork: Yem Gel
Distribution: Kudos Recordings
A&R: Otis Dehaes
Cat. number: SLA010

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Glued Armor is the lead single from Visited by Strangers, Bungalovv's @bungalovv upcoming album on Genome 6.66 Mbp. The track features multidisciplinary artist Efe Ce Ele @efeceele and is an emotional journey through a fractured yet familiar soundscape. Glued Armor is available to listen now on all streaming platforms.

[GNM029] Bungalovv - Visited by Strangers comes out on March 31, 2023. Preorders for digital/vinyl available on Bandcamp.

Tracklist:

1. Smoke Signal
2. Glued Armor (ft. Efe Ce Ele)
3. Sharing Spells (ft. Avernian) @avernianofc
4. Behind the Storm (ft. Catnapp) @catnapp
5. Last Videocall
6. Forget my Eyes (ft. Okay Vivian) @okayvivian
7. Visited by Strangers

Mixed by HADA @hada00
Mastered by Jesse Osborne-Lanthier @jesseosbornelanthier
Artwork by Rafal Borcz

Bungalovv - Glued Armor (ft. Efe Ce Ele)

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Taken from SBKT055: TRANCE BAND - Entrancing
Release date: 3rd March 2023

In a global landscape that increasingly prioritizes individuality over collaborative expression, TRANCE is a distinctive project. Initiated by Chinese multidisciplinary artist Tianzhuo Chen, best known for his work with Asian Dope Boys, TRANCE is as artistically amorphous as its constantly evolving line-up, that fluctuates as it shimmers across borders and time-zones. In 2019, the project was demoed in Beijing as part of a solo exhibition from Chen, a 12-hour durational performance that examined the altered states of living and dying and pondered the sounds, sensations, bodies and spaces that notion might suggest. On hold for three years due to COVID-19 restrictions, TRANCE was eventually premiered in Hamburg at the Kampnagel Theatre last year where it was presented as a surreal three-day ceremony. This time around the Trance Band was made up of Berlin-based noisemaker and vocalist Dis Fig, Indonesia's Gabber Modus Operandi, musician and MC KIM KHAN, guitarist and engineer Felix-Florian Tödtloff, and Vancouver-based percussionist and producer CITY. Chen directed the show, channeling each artist's unique energy into an alliance that highlighted their independent skills while pushing towards ideas that simply couldn't have been realized discretely.

"Entrancing" is a live documentation of that incendiary Hamburg session, powered by the performative fireworks that came from having the project halted for two years before it was allowed to burst into life once more. Just as with previous iterations of TRANCE, the space was terraformed into an alien landscape that allowed the collective to enact a carnivalesque display that was tightly controlled but creatively boundless. Musical u-turns were accompanied by monumental stage overhauls that reshaped a muddy, fog-filled outdoor riverscape into an arena, or a sweaty nightclub. This theatrical impact can't be visualized as clearly on the record, but musical cues do just enough heavy lifting to provide a tantalizing contour. When the alluring electro-acoustic plucks and resonant sustained string tones of 'There's a Ghost in the Lantern' cascade into cinematic drone metal on 'Ylva's Theme', it's impossible not to be drawn into the TRANCE narrative. Sonic stage lights flicker with uncommon intensity as the nebulous group rewrite their collective personal stories into stirring, synergistic poetry.

"Something changes!" KIM KHAN calls out on 'Soft and Black', cutting through warbling synths and itchy beatbox percussion. The track builds quickly, reaching a sizzling crescendo of buzzsaw noise and acidic electronics. It's a stylistic sea change that channels the group's kinetic energy into a rock show, and CITY picks up the message on 'Trance Genesis', adding rapid-fire drums to a barrage of guitar skronk. 'Shaolin Affliction' glues Trance Band's jagged artistic edges to a vintage metal template, gradually dissolving into throaty post-hardcore, while 'My Fortress' brings the show to a powerful conclusion with Dis Fig assuming the role of grunge balladeer, bellowing into the void over cacophonous live instrumentation. Unbound by musical and artistic conventions, TRANCE peers out from the basement, the gallery and the playhouse to forge an expression that's all of this and something new entirely. It's refreshing, witty, exhilarating and most of all, completely unpredictable.

Entrancing

v1984 & City - Parallel Phrases [digital only]

A great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before me, but it wasn't in the wind.  After the wind there was an earthquake, but it wasn't in the earthquake.  After the earthquake came a fire, but it wasn't in the fire.  After the fire came a gentle whisper.

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7038634357 is the alias of Neo (b. 1995), a musician born and raised in Arlington, VA. Previous releases can be found on Shanghai’s Genome 6.66 Mbp and Brooklyn’s Pastel Voids. They currently live and work in New York City. For more information:  https://waiting-all-my.life/
NO HATE IS A COLD STAR is single released in conjunction with UNSEELIE — UNSEELIE Pt. 2: March 16, 11pm-4am at Secret Project Robot. 

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Cover image: “Poor Thing” by StalkerNitro. https://stalkernitro.deviantart.com/

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