Inside the cave

Pocket-sized diary: on weekdays, when I come home from work,
I go directly to my computer and improvise.
These are brief memoirs I’ve picked [gratitude for those moments without post-processing]

Evenings, Tea, Slow Cinema, Longings

Dark ambient soundscapes for your pleasure, relax, chillout and enjoy.

DARK AMBIENT - GEOMETRY OF NAUSEA

Sunk

About The Eyes, That's Where I Live

9T ANTIOPE & SIAVASH AMINI, Harmistice, LP

A1) Blue As In Bleeding (08:57) 
A2) Purple As In Pain (05:30) 
B1) Black As In Burst (07:12)
B2) Silver As In Silence (06:48)

Release date - June 07th 2019 
Catalogue nr. - HG1902
Format - Vinyl/digital

https://hallowground.bandcamp.com

All music by Siavash Amini and Nima Aghiani
Voice and Lyrics by Sara Bigdeli Shamloo 
Mastering by Jeremy Cox
Artwork by Ruth Stofer

Promotion by Dense Promotion, ed@dense.de 
Distribution by Cargo Records
Released by Hallow Ground

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9T Antiope have made a name for themselves in the vibrant experimental music scene of Iran over the past years. Now based in Paris, Sara Bigdeli Shamloo and Nima Aghiani are expanding their stylistic scope and team up with long-time friend Siavash Amini for their debut release on Hallow Ground. After 2017’s »TAR« and »FORAS« the year after 2018, »Harmistice« is Amini’s third LP for the Swiss-based label and his first in collaboration with other artists. Recorded in Paris and Tehran, the four tracks are the result of »all the long hours of speaking online, being kilometres away, it is a love child of those short times we actually got to be physically in one place.« Vocalist and lyricist Shamloo enters a dialogue with Aghiani and Amini’s sound art, which is from restrained but interlocks voice and noise with striking subtlety. »Harmistice« seamlessly blends the visceral with the sublime, the abstract with the oh-too-real.

From the very first second of »Blue as in Bleeding«, »Harmistice« evokes a sense of suspended terror. Shrill frequencies and aleatoric bursts of feedback give way to a hard-hitting bass drum until Shamloo’s voice arises from the chaos with an uneasy clarity. It’s the perfect opening for a record that is built upon stark contrasts like this one. Amini and Aghiani bring together synthetic sounds with acoustic instruments, creating a tangible tension on which Shamloo’s sometimes sensitive, sometimes emotionally detached delivery thrives. »It’s all based on a dream, a nightmare about war,« she says in regards to her lyrics that move between poetic abstraction and first person prose, blurring the lines between lived experience and sinister premonition. »Harmistice« takes inventory after the oneiric damagehas been dealt in real life.

As a whole, »Harmistice« is thus as ambiguous as its title suggests. As an all-too-lucid dream about unspeakable things that are being lent a voice it overwhelms the senses with an unheard-of volume. Drawn from the depths of the subconscious, »Harmistice« may just be the most challenging album in either 9T Antiope or Amini’s discography.

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9T ANTIOPE & SIAVASH AMINI - Blue As In Bleeding (HG1902)

UNISON Mix01 - @idlefon

Featuring music by @alessandrocortini @lawrence-english @danielavery @kingmidassound @fennesz @sarahdavachi @rbeny

Cover Art by Kino (kino.holescapes.com)

Tracklist:

01 - Alessandro Cortini & Lawrence English - Immediate Horizon 1 [00:00]
02 - Daniel Avery & Alessandro Cortini - Inside The Ruins [04:18]
03 - Lawrence English - Hard Rain [09:15]
04 - King Midas Sound / Fennesz - On My Mind [13:42]
05 - Alessandro Cortini - Perdonare [16:08]
06 - Daniel Avery & Alessandro Cortini - Water [18:32]
07 - Sarah Davachi - Untitled, live in Portland [excerpt] [25:08]
08 - Alessandro Cortini & Lawrence English - Immediate Horizon 2 [30:37]
09 - r beny - Glacial Tongues [35:41]

UNISON Mix01 - Idlefon

Idlefon is Hesam Ohadi, a computer musician and sound artist based in Tehran, Iran. His music is mainly associated with the broad spectrum of IDM, Ambient, and Glitch styles. Idlefon tends to make music which is relevant and in harmony with the urban life in his hometown of Tehran.

He is also one of the co-founders and runners of the experimental art label BITROT.

Idlefon - Requiem For Bobby Baccalà

Farzaneh Nouri, aka Pher(@phernoori), is an Iranian musician, composer and sound artist. She graduated from art university of Tehran with a degree in cinema studies.
Farzaneh studied piano, cello and composition in Tehran-based private music schools and in 2012, started exploring electronic music and finally moved to the Netherlands to study Sonology in the royal conservatoire of the Hague.
Pher has performed live in concerts, AV shows, electroacoustic ensembles, and has written music for film and theatre plays. Concerned with interdisciplinary ideas, she works with creative coding, firmware design, and live electronics to compose her pieces.
Her current research is on employing genetic algorithms and evolutionary computation to create an intelligent composition structure.
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Mastered by Remmy for Duality Sound Lab
Artwork by Amir B. Ash

Syntrivi

Boundary-crossing music & non-Eurocentric narrative with Rojin Sharafi - Episode 1

Tracklist: 
1. Tegh - Can’t live apart
2. Tegh - Heat
3. Tegh - Smelled Like Rotting Flesh
4. Tegh - I Think I’m Dead, I’d like to Ask Your Opinion
5. Tegh - Fall
6. Tegh - Melted Organs, Remained Skins
7. Tegh - Can’t live together (with Adel Poursamadi)
8. Tegh - Now She’s Alive, But She Was Dead at That Time

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/tegh
Bandcamp: https://tegh.bandcamp.com

Club Matryoshka and CTM came together for CTM's 22nd festival edition to revisit the Alpha Lebbeus world, 40 years after we first explored the expansive planet together. With this follow-up collaboration, Club Matryoshka expanded on this unique Minecraft world, together with a story-based gameplay narrative co-developed with artist collective Children of Cyberspace. The six-hour journey was soundtracked by live and DJ sets created by a diverse group of emerging artists from around the globe, curated in a collaborative spirit by Club Matryoshka and CTM.

Founded in 2019, Club Matryoshka is an international virtual venue, home and safe haven to underground and unorthodox music mutants. Based in the Philippines and built in Minecraft, Club Matryoshka was founded and developed by a community of gamers, artists, and musicians. similarobjects, dot.jaime, cavill, ahju$$i, JohnPope, and Maengo69 felt a lack of freedom and acceptance in club scenes, both in Manila and abroad, and sought alternative avenues for sharing their work and finding community. The club opened in July 2019, barely a year before COVID-19 would bring in-person events and nightlife to a halt.

CTM 2021: Tegh at Club Matryoshka x CTM

An artist-run festival founded in 2015 with a focus on experimental music and audio visual performances.

UNISON Mix01 - Idlefon

SET Festival

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