A much welcome guest returns for a short stay before heading out again. yolabmi carries the Amulet further, this time telling new stories - ones of strife, challenge and searching for faith. The artist from Japan describes the new mix as one that is particularly sensitive of time, silence and subtraction.

Amulet of Tears 015: yolabmi

Music: @yolabmi

Artwork: @anasisana

Amulet 015: yolabmi

From spring spring, out this Friday on Muzan Editions:
https://muzaneditions.bandcamp.com/album/spring-spring

Miki Yui - Snow

Andrew Sherwell -  The Book of Trinkets (Album Preview)
CD/Digital

Limited to 50 copies, handmade sleeves and wallets, hand numbered...
Only 1 copy left!! 

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-book-of-trinkets

This is an awkward album. Some of this awkwardness is unconscious and unplanned, the by-product of lo-fi techniques and studio ineptitude. Some is planned and conscious, the product of searching for rifts, of searching for “the symbols of the divine that show up in the trash stratum” (Philip K. Dick). Through awkwardness and juxtapositions, glimpses of something else can be seen, a something that is lost in the polished, the tuned, the smooth. Partly because I believe ‘better’ works often come with their own inbuilt responses, by engaging with them they engender a set reaction, so there is simply no room nor stimulus for the listener/reader/viewer’s own interpretation and thoughts. The art has become artifice – merely propaganda or pornography. 

By embracing the rifts, the imperfect, the awkward, and the juxtaposition, we turn our backs on works that are apparently perfect reflections, as comforting and numbing as they are, of a reality that doesn’t really exist anyway. To push further, alongside art, we need other, obsolete modes of thinking, approaches that, well, capitalism has forced out. We need more magic, more religion. Through art, magic, religion, we can push back, think for ourselves and finally see the radical mystery, the Other, the divine behind everything, and that makes life, and by extension, us anything but irrelevant. 

All that from some static and too much reverb. 

Andrew

Releases October 8, 2021 

Music & Artwork - Andrew Sherwell 
Mastering - Stephan Mathieu 
Shimmering Moods Records 2021 
SHM 175

Andrew Sherwell - The Book of Trinkets (Album Preview)

full broadcast

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Ethereal Logic : Planetary Waltz : Tales from an Extraordinary Trip : Slow Life
Pendant : Sometimes I Go About Pitying Myself While I Am Carried By The Wind Across The Sky : To All Sides They Will Stretch Out Their Hands : West Mineral Ltd.
Various Artists : No. 9 : 8, 8.5, 9 • Remixes : FatCAt
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Sulk Rooms : The Witness Is The Unknown Caller : First Vows : See Blue Audio
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Submersion : Infrareal : Egress : Submersion
Grouper : Basement Mix : Shade : Kranky
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Kuniyuki : Earth Beats (Fingers Ambient Mix) : Earth Beats (Live & Larry Heard Remix) : Mule Musiq
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Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement : Blue Ocean Floor : Jellyfish Reproduce Black Magic : Hospital Productions
Pendant : In The Great Night My Heart Will Go Out : To All Sides They Will Stretch Out Their Hands : West Mineral Ltd.
Ethereal Logic : The Lobster and the Crab : Tales from an Extraordinary Trip : Slow Life
Ruffien : N A D A : N A D A : Deeptrax
X.Y.R. : Ancient Spirit : Anciente : Possible Motive
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Panoptique Electrical : Radio In Trouble : Decades (2001-2021) : Sound In Silence
Alva Noto + Nilo, Christian Fennesz, Francesco Tristano, Ryuichi Sakamoto : Improvisation_20171215 : Glenn Gould Gathering : Sony
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Tsunxmi : Kismesis : Broken on reflection : GIVE/TAKE
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Mold Collective is Louise Croff Blake (@dj_bricks), Magdalena Jadwiga Härtelova (@mjhartelova), Diane Barbé (@dianeisadorabarbe), and Madelyn Byrd (@slowfoam)

▣ What is the inspiration and vision behind Mold Collective?

MOLD grew from our mutual needs to talk about art - our own and others' - in the context of our dysphoria with late capitalism.  As earth-lovers, we share a deep motivation to leave things a little better than we found them.  We seek to address the intuition that something is greatly amiss in our reality, while, at the same time, we cultivate a sense of wonder at our planet, our communities, and the complex relationships between ancient and future knowledges.  

If it sounds esoteric, then that's because we're just that type of people.  In each of us is a dynamic range between practical reasoning and amorphous dreamworlds.  We've realized that in harnessing this range together, we find the tools we need to process this very messy paradigm we share as contemporary arts practitioners. 

▣ Can you share a little bit about what you’ve included in this mix and your process?

We tried to pick tracks and sound bits by people that we believe already work towards, which also means inhabit, utopia. These utopias are far from ideal places and that is the point, because as we know, utopia is nowhere, it is a destination that will never be reached. Maybe it is what will be left when Earth will be eaten by the Sun one day...

The songs we chose use poetry, mood, and nostalgic reference to capture the bittersweetness of our utopia.  We also make a point to center BIPOC, queer&trans, and women artists.  Needless to say, our utopia is post-heteropatriarchal, anti-capitalist, and anti-colonial.

As we pooled our music together, we noticed common threads of dissonance as well as resonance; we each found songs to help express the fear and grief surrounding our idealisms.

▣ Can you share some of your individual and collective utopian dreams?

Unsurprisingly, MOLD's shared vision of utopia is tinged with anxiety.  Rather than focus on an escapist fantasy land, we all realize that this idea of 'paradise' will still contain darkness.  Our utopia just isn't flat.  This three-dimensionality is in part due to our understanding that utopia cannot be achieved alone; and in the collective forging process, compromise is necessary.  Conflict is something to neither fear nor avoid.  The difficulty and the dedicated work behind building a better future is part of its beauty and richness.  Eden is boring; MOLD's utopia is complex and lush, where the false barrier between 'human' and 'nature' is dissolved.  We collaborate as a part of a global ecosystem, marrying the weirdness of digital futurism with a return to biophilia. 

Today, we dream of the end of the nation-state, of not having to worry about how to pay our health insurance, of a friend who wants to be a mom feeling like she can do it without the fear of being disregarded and stretched too thin, we dream of the return of Native land, of a world without millionaires (let alone billionaires), of forests, and of public toilets being free.


Tracklist:
Ana Roxanne - Rainy Day On The Cosmic Shore
Diane Barbé - Utopia 
Li Yilei - Wei 
Seefeel - As One 
Chas Smith - Beatrix 
rRoxymore - Home Is Where the Music is
Oneohtrix Point Never - Tales From the Trash Stratum
Zbynek Vostrak - scales of light
DJ Sprinkles - Lost Area (June)
Evil Medved - Recording_74
Sarah Davachi - Sybil 
ssabae - Grillons Fm Sonate 
Nala Sinephro - Space 8 
Joanne Christensen, Arlene Dunlap, Richard Dunlap, Garry Eister, Daniel Lentz - Slow Motion Mirror 
Fuga Ronto - Journey Unknown
Rosicrucian - Knives ov Resistance
Healion - I’ll See It When I Believe It
Spivak - Make It Make Sense
Cibo Matto - Sugar Water 
Golden Ivy - Klappen
Harold Budd - To Begin Then Not Now 
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - Under Your Always Light (Howie Beck, Jason Collett Remix)

Our Tomorrow w/ Mold Collective (Berlin)

Stijn Hüwels Felicity Mangan Nora Sigué Hideki Umezawa
« Reste à la fin, les cendres », vous propose quatre heures d’écoute, composées de sonorités craintives, mélancoliques, apaisées et légères.
Un espace d’expression pour les musiques ambient, minimalistes, instrumentales, drones et expérimentales.
“Remain at the end, the ashes”, proposes four hours of listening, composed of
fearful, melancholic, relieved and light sounds.
A space of expression for ambient, minimalist, instrumental, drone and experimental music.

Artwork by ANIDE: @anide.theatre

Nora Sigué [Reste à la fin, les cendres curated by Mari] [07.12.2021]

Sample from the third track of the 'Broken Lust' CD, available in January on Monorail Trespassing.

Broken Lust

Vasculae - Immolation and Atonement (excerpt)

From Elin Piel's Satsuma Sunday, available for pre-order on tape and digital now.
https://muzaneditions.bandcamp.com/album/satsuma-sunday

Elin Piel - Bliss Tristesse

the crypts

Fragment I: The Sanctuary Within

Ambient Dreamscapes for you to enjoy. Relax, unwind, meditate and chillout

DARK AMBIENT - BECOMING

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