TIBSLC - Delusive Tongue Shifts - Situation Based Compositions (sferic009)[Preview]

Assembled to accompany a short film from Manchester-born visual artist, poet and filmmaker Tibyan Mahawah Sanoh, Joshua Inyang and Joshua Tarelle’s newest is a cinematic audit of identity and ancestry. In the film, Sanoh works hard to visually illustrate an honest and vulnerable picture of her soul. Inyang and Tarelle respond by doing the same with sound, collaging disparate elements together in a way that should be familiar to anyone who heard "hybtwibt?" or their jawdropping RA mix from earlier this year.

Warped field recordings, overdriven rhythmic pressure, syrupy pads and disorienting vocals are cut and pasted over each other, generating a living, breathing study of the duo's Northern working class Black British reality. Unlike the duo's acclaimed "Somewhere Decent To Live" full-length, elements mutate and transform: mushy noise bends into street sounds, haunted vocals into echoing drill melancholia and muffled howls into shattered digital remnants.

Special Edition 10" & digital out now. 
Gold metallic Pantone printed on reverse board.  Mastered by Stephan Mathieu at Schwebung, cut by LUPO.

Tracklist:

Untitled (To Describe You) [OST] feat. Tibyan Mahawah Sanoh
Version 1
Version 2
Version 3

@space-afrika

Space Afrika - Untitled (To Describe You) [OST] (SFERIC10") [Preview]

Recorded in close proximity to the critically acclaimed ‘Delusive Tongue Shifts…’. TIBSLC distills their sferic debut into a crystal clear, hypersensitive semblance, gliding amorphously just above the dappled phosphorescent landscape of its sibling LP. 

Occasionally dipping a translucent limb into temporal realms, eight homonymous tracks slip seamlessly into each other's liminal space with simultaneously anaesthetising and stimulating effect.



Clear vinyl LP housed in embossed, gloss laminate sleeve & digital - OUT NOW

@tibslc

Mastered by Stephan Mathieu at Schwebung.
3D Render by @frktl 
Photography by @perila.
Custom typography by Benoît Ferran. 

© sferic 2022

TIBSLC - Hypertranslucent(sferic009.5)[Preview]

MBE Series founder Giovanni Napolano continues his research of the Mediterranean, offering up his own personal Porta Del Mediterraneo.

Unfolding along two sprawling 15 min sides, Napolano stitches threads of chopped & screwed folksong with a discrete dub strategy, seamlessly leading the mind down labyrinthine ginnels of his imagination in a sort of uchronic regression session where the ghosts of the past inform the present. In the process it humbly speaks to Naples’ position at the frontier of the current migrant crisis, and necessarily takes a standpoint against Italy’s resurgent, nationalist fascism, revealing the beauty and energy of its indigenous mixture of peoples, rather than erecting borders between them. 

Taking his native Naples as a locus of Mediteranean culture, Napolano plunges the port city’s palimpsest of energies embedded by successive waves of Greek, Northern African & Eastern migration to discover an underlying, rhizomic connection and commonality linked by dub and hip hop as a contemporary iteration of folk music. 

Under its titular, mythical metaphor for the fall of Babylon, and usage in Rastafari culture, ‘Le Macerie Di Babilonia’ imaginatively examines a sense of self via a historic lens, drawing on Napolano’s upbringing in the chaotic port city and his autodidactic research into the rich mosaic of Napolitan heritage, to model how a folk class solidarity and shared character, with its own rules and rituals, has emerged from its syncretic milieu. 

Variously a treatise on provenance; an impressionistic tale of the European north meets a global south; a dub-abstracted, allegoric, ethnomusicological collage; ‘Le Macerie Di Babilonia’ is a fascinating and immersive listen that presents its maker’s dilated world view at its most mesmerising.

Limited Edition LP & Digi out 27th October.

© sferic 2022.

@nplgnn

Giovanni Napolano - Le Macerie di Babilonia (SFERIC11) [Preview]

Bianca Scout - Chances (Pattern Damage, SFERIC12)

@yungwebster7 @nstlgns

additional prod. by @astariii • @smooksss • @kaciefree • @sasmochi • @txxvo • @rxmer • @dielauryn • star • comeinalone

Mastered by @isaacrohr & @tnotsobad
Photography by Ruth Gaëlle Genéus
Design by Will Boyd

© sferic 2023

Yungwebster - Yungwebster (SFERIC14) [Preview]

Zaumne feat. YL Hooi - Sorcières (Parfum, SFERIC13)

Debut LP of rave reduction and ambient techno from mysterious Manchester producer Echium. Backed with remixes from Space Afrika & Perfume Advert.

Edition of 300, out now...

https://boomkat.com/products/synthetic-space

Tracklist:

A1. Blended Textures
A2. Interlude 2.3
A3. Juum
A4. Synthetic Space
A5. Looum

B1. Ethereal 
B2. Activation
B3. Jazz Interlude
B4. Perfume Advert Remix
B5. Space Afrika Remix

Echium - Synthetic Space (sferic001) [Preview]

Ambient duo Space Afrika offer a bird’s eye view of the city centre at night with Somewhere Decent To Live; their keenly anticipated first LP on sferic. Unshackled from dancefloor needs, but still inspired and feeding off its spirit and romance, the pair respectfully acknowledge the undercurrents of Jungle, dubstep, ambient techno and deep house which feed into their home city’s late night economy, dowsing their tributaries back to dub and rendering the findings in a quiet, modestly lush ambient haze with a flawlessly anaesthetising effect.

Tracklist:

A1. uwëm/creātiōn 
A2. sd/tl
A3. bly

B1. u+00b1
B2. gwabh
B3. oread
B4. curve ft. Echium 
B5. drēd


Limited run pressed up on yellow vinyl available from bandcamp or Boomkat.  

https://sferic.bandcamp.com/album/somewhere-decent-to-live

https://boomkat.com/products/somewhere-decent-to-live

Somewhere Decent To Live

Space Afrika - Somewhere Decent To Live (sferic002) [Preview]

Classic ’60s surf-rock channeled into hazy ambient zones... 

LA's Jake Muir constructs a poignant sound world crafted from samples of a well loved American pop group smudged with aqueous field recordings made everywhere from Iceland to the beaches of California. 

In nine succinct scenes, the results loosely limn a wide sense of space and place with its fading harmonic auroras and glinting, half-heard surf rock melodies rendered in an abstract impressionist manner that suggests a fine tracing of in-between-spaces, perhaps describing metropolitan sprawl giving way to vast mountain ranges and oceanic scales. But for all its implied sense of space, ultimately there’s a paradoxically close intimacy to proceedings which feels like you’re the passenger in Muir’s ride, and he patently knows the scenic route...

A1. High Tide
A2. Lapis Lazuli
A3. Shoal
A4. Yaupon
A5. Peacock's Tail

B1. Green Eyes
B2. Buoy
B3. Drifter
B4. Lanterns Below

Limited edition of 300 copies pressed up on clear vinyl. 
Mastered by Lawrence English at Negative Space, cut at D&M Berlin.

https://boomkat.com/products/lady-s-mantle

https://sferic.bandcamp.com/album/ladys-mantle-5

Jake Muir - Lady's Mantle (sferic003) [Preview]

"a distinct new shade of modern, adult, atmospheric emotion and feminine pressure"

Answering a need for sincerity and intimacy in overwhelming times, Berlin's @perila makes her striking solo debut with a blush-worthy suite of sonic erotica, ASMR and sensuous ambient environments...

Tracklist:

A1. Natʼs Poems (with Nat Marcus) 
A2. Mouth Full Of Tahini

B1. Sweat (with Inger Wold Lund) 
B2. XY Object Of Desire 
B3. Message From Another Table

Digital Bonus: Wet

Edition of 300 copies.
Mastered by Lawrence English at Negative Space, cut at D&M Berlin.
Release Date: 18/07/2019

Perila - Irer Dent (sferic004) [Preview]

After inaugurating sferic with the ’Synthetic Space’ LP in 2017, Echium now leads the way with a remarkably refined, even meticulous grasp of sound design steering away from purely “synthetic space” to imaginary spaces that smudge the listener’s perceptions of artificial and organic texture, tone and spatial dynamics

As part of the next wave of artists innovating within dub techno and experimental ambient zones, Echium looks to loosen up its strictures while playing deep within its unfathomable dimensions, literally urging a dematerialisation of mindsets and musical structures...

Edition of 300 copies on translucent orange vinyl, housed in hi gloss sleeve.
Mastered & cut by Stefan Betke at scape mastering.
Distribution : Boomkat
Vinyl & Digital out March 2020.

A1. Collapsed Senses
A2. Overlapped Fluidity
A3. Considered Instances
A4. Yellow-flowered
A5. Melt

B1. Glacial Rust
B2. Sunken
B3. Multiple Frameworks
B4. Adaptive Senses : Reflection

https://boomkat.com/products/disruptions-of-form

https://sferic.bandcamp.com/album/disruptions-of-form

@echium_air

Echium - Disruptions Of Form (sferic005) [Preview]

Keeping the ever-present influence of the sea in focus, Poirier projects himself to a fantasised coastline, imagining a landscape in flux, continuously reconfigured by the movement of water and those that inhabit its space...

A1. Thalassocratie
A2. Longe-côte
A3. Trace palmaire
A4. Le bématiste
A5. Sablage

B1. Hotel Nota
B2. Pénombre
B3. Du rocher
B4. Ekphrasis
B5. Raccordement
B6. Balayage 

Mastered by Stephan Mathieu at Schwebung Mastering.
Release date: August 2020

@romeopoirier

Roméo Poirier - Hotel Nota (sferic 0tel) [Preview]

Moving away from the American surf pop manipulations of his debut 'Lady's Mantle', Jake journeys through a nocturnal city-scape meandering the dimly lit streets via club back rooms and decadent boudoirs; his ode to the endless night and those who take residence under it's cloak.

A psychedelic map of ASMR rattles, drones and tones melting in-and-out of the night with the heaving intensity of an open window on a busy city street, lubricating familiar rumbles with sensual tones, mirroring the blurry high of a low-light encounter.

A1. on occasions of this kind
A2. fleeting touches
A3. reservoir of memory
A4. melting like the stars

B1. red as the print of a kiss
B2. the dimness of the sealed eye
B3. like sweet thoughts in a dream
B4. silent sailing

Limited edition of 500 copies pressed up on transparent red vinyl.
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu at Schwebung Mastering.
Release date: October 23rd

@jake-muir

Jake Muir - the hum of your veiled voice (sferic007) [Preview]

Leipzig based @taucontrib (formally Otilo) debuts on sferic with a suite of paradoxically dense and hyper-intricate zones, smudged to oblivion. Breathing, living, shapeshifting 2021 vacant lounge space.

Edition of 100 copies & digital - OUT FEB 2021.
Artwork : @svyatykh

tau contrib - encode (sferic008) [Preview]

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