Name: FRKTL — Ex Ante by SARAH BADR
Duration: 2 min 19 s
Description: Track 1 on Qualia: frktl.bandcamp.com/album/qualia, the second LP from FRKTL.

Feels like Oud, thanks for a smooth track :)

the whole thing grabbed me from the begining, that drone in the back is absolutely haunting 

Absolutely amazing the whole production process is beyond imagination

quality melody,talented melodist for sure

One of those tracks that just stops you in your tracks .. Seriously beautiful x

Slipstream Dreams

Track 1 on Qualia: frktl.bandcamp.com/album/qualia, the second LP from FRKTL.

Qualia

FRKTL — Ex Ante

Mastered by Brendan Zacharias at Cirrus Audio

Balaban - Religious Service

From Sonja Tofik and Mar-llena's collaborative LP release 'Vilar i dina spår', released on LP in May 2018
@moonilena

Vilar i dina spår

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Mar-llena - Monrepos

Download: https://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/regno-maggiore-la-danza-di-sabasaa

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Astroveliero

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Download: Regno Maggiore - La Danza Di Sabasaa

HELM - Chemical Flowers
Format: LP / CD / Digital
Cat.No: PAN 99
Release Date: 17 May 2019
Purchase: bit.ly/2Uxqs9z / bit.ly/2UpJ0bA

Luke Younger returns to PAN with an eight-track album of his most direct work to date. Composed alone at NO studio in the Essex countryside, to start an album with a piece called ‘Capital Crisis (New City Loop)’ seems an intentional misnomer. Long, sustained periods in the rural studio setting see Younger working with an array of fragmented, disassociated sound sources to build upon 2015’s Olympic Mess. It shares a similarly inclined vision of the urban environment, but here Chemical Flowers makes reference to paradoxical notions of authenticity and creative practice by way of questioning the structures around us. Collages are assembled and dismantled, temporal and spatial boundaries fluctuate and movement is an overarching theme.

Surrealist drowned world atmospheres sculpted far enough away from the source of inspiration leave plenty of room for ambiguity. The nocturnal nature of the recording process is self-evident, and pieces like ‘Leave Them All Behind’ tap into a deep psychedelic undercurrent. Confused narratives, emotions and aleatory hallucinations ebb and flow throughout. ‘I Knew You Would Respond’ evokes murky soundtrack terrain with eerie repetitive strings and ambient respite, disrupted periodically by brief bursts of granular noise. It’s one of the records most unnerving moments, possibly as it’s one of the most recognisably human.

The album navigates dense passages with recurring signifiers. Hollow percussion, modulating delay and curious field recordings come and go, maintaining a perpetual state of flux where nothing stays the same for long. The drowned world theatricals return on the swamp-like ‘Lizard in Fear’ whilst string rhythms creep in on the penultimate track to incite momentary electroacoustic harmony. Floating synthesis slowly washes over and the title track unfolds - five minutes of reverb-laced portamento, visions of decay and Editions EG influenced
world-building. Movement is key.

Chemical Flowers features string parts arranged and recorded by JG Thirlwell (Foetus / Manorexia / Xordox). Additional cello played by Lucinda Chua and saxophone by Karl D’Silva. The album is mastered by Rashad Becker, featuring artwork by Johannes Schnatmann & Bill Kouligas.

http://p-a-n.org

Chemical Flowers 

HELM - You Are The Database (PAN 99)

Ritme Jaavdanegi

Roaming Pulse

Mohammad Reza Mortazavi - Roaming Pulses (Latency 018)

Narcissi - Narcissi EP
Cat. Nr: DN017
Format: Digital
Release Date: 22 November 2019

The Southern Russian city of Krasnodar originated as a fortress, built by the Cossacks in the district of Kuban. Today, the region is the key fulcra of a distinct culture, and a carrefour between the Caucasus, the Black Sea, Eastern Europe, and Western Asia. Narcissi—a duo of Krasnodar residents, Eugene and Sasha—use music as a focal point to explore the roots and folklore of their region, from local spiritual legacy and Cossack traditions, to old Slavic and Russian folk songs. It’s an experiment in rethinking the ancient through the prism of our time; of storytelling and singing about today with the wisdom of generations behind you; of decrypting a folklore filtered through countless individuals, every word filled with the meaning and emotion of a single person.

Generating music outside of the computer, Narcissi operate using aging Soviet and Japanese synths, guitar pedals, cheap drum machines, and samplers loaded with videogame snippets and TV sound effects. Rich
soundscapes and stuttering cosmic electronics unfold beneath the duo’s chanting, singing tales of loneliness and horse riders while their keyboards shudder and buzz. An emotional syntax developed and shared across generations finds a home alongside rich blasts of voltage and washes of
synthesized chords.

Narcissi is about who Eugene and Sasha are within the sphere of their roots, and a geographically specific link to a lost universal knowledge. Sometimes it’s sad, hard, and destructive—a heritage of loss, blood, ecological violence, and resistance—yet the beautiful things of inner, meek, ancient, spirits and Saints, they have them too. “Devils we have, but Angels too,” declare Narcissi. “No hypocrisy please, but the good is stronger.”

Design by Niels Wehrspann
Figures from Visitors by Pasha Bezor & Pasha
Blagoveshchensky
PLAGUE.PRO
ANAPA 2019

@narcissi8000

Narcissi EP 

Narcissi - Не для Меня

Barsa-Kelmes

Magicka - Derealized (PΛRΛ Remix)

"Having long admired the work of Tokyo’s Sapphire Slows, Hidden Harmony Recordings is overjoyed to present her remix of Morita Vargas’ ‘Deysa‘ (from the upcoming release of ‘8’). Dappled with hypnotic murmurs percolating beneath synthesized hand-percussion, ‘Deysa‘ mutates further from Vargas’ elegiac vision, seemingly disappearing down glowing, vine-covered corridors. While sharing the same nocturnal yearnings and rhythmic lushness, Sapphire Slows summons a unique, luminescent dialect, like a prism viewed from a new angle.”

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Sapphire Slow remix of Morita Vargas -´Deysa´.

´Deysa´, A4 on Morita Vargas - "8" LP,  released as HH03 by Hidden Harmony Recordings.

12" 180-gram vinyl record, 33RPM, black vinyl.

Edition of 1000 numbered copies
Die-cut outer sleeve, color print inner sleeve + poly-liner sleeve.

https://hiddenharmony.bigcartel.com/product/pre-order-morita-vargas-8-lp-hh03


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Morita Vargas – composer, producer, voices
Mastering - Diego Crisalida
Vinyl mastering, lathe cutting - Matt Colton (Metropolis Labs, London)
Recorded in Buenos Aires, Argentina (Recording period 2014-2018)

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Releases 18.Sep.2020

Premiere: Morita Vargas — Deysa (Sapphire Slows Remix)

Azimuth soundtrack out now.
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Upcoming: 20.10.23 Another Sky (Bristol)
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29.09.23 Another Sky Festival (London)
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09.07.23 IKLECTIKA 2023
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01.12.22 Futur.Shock @ FOLD
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11.11.22 Backslash @ Gessnerallee 8
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17.09.22 Azimuth @ Akusmata Gallery
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15.09.22 Geiger Festival 2022 @ Atalante
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09.04.22 Aliens Are... @ Kunstraum Kreuzberg
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02.10.21 Donaufestival 2021 @ Minoritenkirche
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22.09.21 Nomadic Signals @ ISSUE Project Room
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05.07.21 VIRTUALLYREALITY SS21
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25.05.21 UNUSUAL BUSINESS @ Nusasonic
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19.03.21 COMMON MULTIVERSE @ Currents
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13.03.21 LEAVE NO TRACE Takeover @ Threads
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20.02.21 PASAR ALKISAH Festival @ Worldwide
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23.01.21 CTM Festival 2021 @ Club Matryoshka
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21.03.20 Cycles in 11 exhibition opening performance @ Bait Al Serkal 
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02.02.20 CTM Festival, Hacklab 2020 live performance @ Radialsystem 
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07.12.19 Madeiradig @ Cine Sol 
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22.09.19 Int'l Winners presents FRKTL ◡ Aircode ◡ Dilian ◡ Jaeho Hwang ◡ TZT @ The Glove That Fits 
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31.07.19 Kiezsalon @ Musikbrauerei 
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27.06.19 N1L & FRKTL @ Kauplus Aasia 
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23.02.19 NoDirt NoLife @ UMBO 
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22.02.19 Klappfon @ Solothurnerstrasse 4 
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18.10.18 PUSH Festival @ Gävle Teater 
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02.08.18 Bread&&Butter @ Arena Berlin 
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FRKTL — Ex Ante

SARAH BADR

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