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

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A sunken cathedral is exactingly excavated by Tokyo-based Joe Fujinoki on his debut album "Watering The Steel Flowers". Glittering shards of glass and metal drifting on deep ocean currents cast vague illuminations upon eroding concrete structures. An occasional glimpse of sunlight filters through the depths, suspended by bubbling hydrothermal vents. Fujinoki creates a series of gestures blurring texture and rhythm, an analog balm for the colloid of post-industrial aches.

Joe Fujinoki is a Tokyo-based musician and synthesist.

WATERING THE STEEL FLOWERS

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ENXPL11 - JOE FUJINOKI - A5. LESS LIGHT

Malvern Brume - The Whorls (Kashual Plastik)

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]

“For Wind Poetry” will be released on November 18th

https://vaagner.bandcamp.com/album/for-wind-poetry-2

Wind Poetry

VAK 62 | yolabmi - Nowhere

KASSEL JAEGER 'Shift In Dreams' (SP144)

From the album 'Shift In Dreams', out on Feb. 24, 2023 on Shelter Press
Order: https://kasseljaeger.bandcamp.com/album/shifted-in-dreams

Music composed and performed by François J. Bonnet
Artwork by Eléonore Huisse
Mastering by Giuseppe Ielasi

Shifted In Dreams

KASSEL JAEGER 'Shifted In Dreams' (SP144)

Double CD available from Imprec.com 

On December 11, 1980 Eliane Radigue performed live on KPFA. Her full performance is included here, remastered, on two compact discs. Upon hearing these performances for the first time in many years Radigue declared them to be the best versions she'd ever heard. 

Included are full in-studio performances of Chry-ptus and the world premiere of parts one and three of Tryptych.

Eliane Radigue Triptych (World Premier) 11 Dec 1980 - Double CD Available Now

Insect March

Out now >> https://theyouthlabel.bandcamp.com/album/hoshina-anniversary-nihon-no-ongaku-yocd3

@Hoshina

Hoshina Anniversary - Nihon No Ongaku / 日本の音楽」- YOCD3

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]

an extract of ensemble piece Bakunawa for gong rods/ toypianos/ harp/ metal tubes/ bassdrum/ tom/ electronics... 
with Giovanni Di Domenico, Vera Cavallin, Joao Lobo, Mathieu Calleja, Christophe Albertijn and Pak Yan Lau.

Bakunawa - extract

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]

off-key cover of I`m so tired* by Fugazi

``out here, I can barely breathe,
surrounded by jealousy and greed.
I can`t be reached, only had one call,
trapped underneath, separate from you all.

this time i lost my return,
in spite of what i learned.
I hid my tracks, spit out all my air,
slipped into cracks, stripped of all my cares.

I`m so tired. sheep are counting me.
no more struggle, no more energy,
no more patient, you can write that down.
it`s all too crazy. I won`t stick around.``

*with slight lyrics adjustments, because of dyslexia, speech impediment and because why not;


**I was too tired to rerecord so just added another layer that was done with both the volca and vocoder set in slightly different pitches, hence it`s extremely off-key, but kinda fun in a way somehow imh0

my nye mantra (recording of a live performance for my cat from my couch)

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]

Electronic music label based in Manchester, UK.

Echium - Disruptions Of Form (sferic005) [Preview]

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