From the Ultimate Collection: Beech Trees compilation released by @gake-tokino: tokinogake.bandcamp.com/album/ultimate-collection-beech-trees

The 18-track compilation includes contributions by @kamarujoseph & @ahossan, @a0n0, @iktsone, @nnirror, @eczem, @rm-francis, @amitdagim, and more. With visuals by @takashiaoki-1.

Ultimate Collection: Beech Trees

FRKTL — Locations For An Immaterial Essence

Retiring to pursue a new project, Al-Mutreb (The Singer, aka The Human Oyster, aka Ja7eem Hafezz) leaves us with the very best and last of what has jeopardized his health, sanity and a number of friendships.

An almost ten-year long journey traces some tracks like Ladyyyyy 2020 (produced by Amjad Shahrour [2017-2020] and appearing on HIZZ’s ‘Kombile 002’) morphing from a dreampop song to an apprehensive doom and gloom track overlaid with the sound of a hospital ventilator. Another track that fell under Al-Mutreb’s incessant urge to butcher is nar el ghera (fire of jealousy, produced by 1800s Internet [2020-2021] and appearing on a fundraiser comp for Gaza on Avon Terror Corps). Starting out with a song about a love ruined by jealousy, to then be devoured by Abul-Loul and 1800s Internet and spat out, mutilated beyond recognition, nar el ghera is inspired by an almost palpable hatred and a desire to self-destruct if it means taking down the enemy.

Al-Mutreb’s voice shapeshifts throughout the album; from self-indulgent romance (Sorry Habibti, produced by 1800s Internet, and appearing first on Bokeh Versions’ NTS show [April/2021]), to intimidation (nar el ghera), to provocation (Al-Mutreb [The Singer], the result of a chance encounter with Amaury [Ulan Bator,Faust] in Napoli, recorded Live at the Hermann Nitsch Museo [Sep/2021]) all the way to a slurred recitement (Uhrob Min El Hob, produced by jinjin [2022]) from two spotty livers in a cloud of tobacco smoke.

Following a long tradition of plagiarists, from Abdel Wahab and Fairouz to Serge Gainsbourg and Nick Cave, Al-Mutreb, borrowing the Mutreb status from the formers and the devil-may-care attitude from the latters, steals proudly, changing the language, context, music and -in most of them- the words to the point where if you were not reading it here you wouldn’t know.

Al Mutreb also repurposes some of his personal field recordings throughout the album; one of which in particular is the little girl we hear in the prelude, which, upon the Mutreb’s request back in 2012, sings about fear in a captivating performance following the humdrum attempts of her colleagues and mentors to do so.

The project of Al-Mutreb Abul-Loul (Abul-Loul, a nickname that translates to The Father/The King of Pearls) culminates in a bodily manifestation of a very real and very rare pearl; a case with hardly any medical literature; the development of a scrotal pearl, removed under general anesthesia, adding to the series of the many unfortunate and absurd occurrings that describe Abul-Loul’s life, and calling for the abortion of this project to make room for a new undertaking. 

Mastered by jinjin
Lyric reinterpretations by Shereen Amarin and Laith Demashqieh

The Very Best and Last of Al-Mutreb (2012 - 2022) Retirement LP

Al-Mutreb Abul-Loul - MARAD Prelude ft. 1800s Internet

Arturas Bumšteinas
So-called Space
Sloow Tapes- CS 30

Continuum-collage piece by Lithuanian composer Arturas Bumšteinas created in 2015 from incidental music sampled from various Lithuanian radio drama's from the 1950's to 2000's. A strange heady brew which juxtaposes music, sound effects, rudiments of vocal expression and various acoustic instruments among others in a compelling cut-up, reminding at times of People Like Us or Dirk Schaeffer's recent work for Peter Tscherkassky's movies. Edition of 70 copies.

Arturas Bumšteinas

This is a mixtape of beats I compulsively wrote over a period of 2 weeks to fight a creative block working on a drone EP (there’s more tracks that didn’t make it on this one and the EP is ready)

It includes collected field recordings over a period of 2 years(e.g a neighbor that blasted “Indian?” music from across a river every evening early summer 2021, a traffic jam on the Saida corniche, a random conversation with a friend about using a device to record his piano jams…) a bootleg of Sheikha Rmitti’s “N’ta Goudami” and an excerpt from an interview with Nahla Chahal talking about the never ending struggle of life.

sssaarry // Soft (mixtape)

꩜ 1 - 291

My brass arrangement of Clairity written by Nitemoves (Rory O'Connor)

Nitemoves - Clairity (Brass Version)

Metamorphoses

for organ and electronics (Sequential Circuits Pro One, Korg PS3300, Buchla 100 and Serge modular synthesizers, Mellotron M400, processed harmonium)


Recorded 9 March 2012
Mills College Chapel
Oakland, CA, USA


welkin utilizes the mutual acoustic identities of the organ and analog synthesizer to direct the experience of coalescence.  These instruments of common timbre are made to circle about an enclosed and reverberant space, which is darkened to encourage constructed spatial projections.  As the discrepancies in frequency of the merged sound gradually swell and wane, resultant psychoacoustic effects emerge, seeming to pull the sounds apart and push them outwards.  The product is that of an atmosphere; a sensorial coating that encompasses, yet remains invariably out of reach.

welkin: Middle English, 12th century; refers to the vault of the sky, the upper air, the firmament, or the celestial sphere, i.e. the Empyrean.  In archaic cosmology, it was thought to be a set of crystal spheres that enclosed the Earth, to which the planets and stars were attached, so it would have been capable of ringing like a bell if one made enough noise.

welkin

Opening tracks from my debut album 'Waking, She Heard The Fluttering', released April 5 2019 on Room40 https://alexandraspence.bandcamp.com/album/waking-she-heard-the-fluttering

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"Her sense of field is broader. it is as if she is trying to capture a whole landscape of sound entire... Sound is sound. It is sometimes exciting, often enigmatic, rarely open to verbalisation. ...we ought to spend more time with Alexandra Spence, with our ears simply and honestly open."
- Brian Morton, The Wire

"Throughout, there’s a real flow to the otherwise disparate sounds, sending any objective significance (such as traffic, a news reader or church bells) into purely subjective, introspective realms. It is topped off perfectly by the closing piece, ‘Sky And Sea Were Indistinguishable’, whose cautious tones are left free to roam beyond ‘the field’. They arc beautifully across the listening space and ultimately fade so slowly that their end is indistinguishable, sealing the communion between artist and listener."
- The Quietus

Waking, She Heard The Fluttering

Begin / Bodies In Place

Bell Metal

bell metal

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 — Locations For An Immaterial Essence

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