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[RALTD] is a collection of spectral works recorded between 2020-2021.
Available on CD & digital — anworecords.bandcamp.com/album/raltd-anwo-05

written & mastered by Flaty
design by ANWO STUDIO
artwork by fornowimautumn

© ANWO RECORDS, Moscow, 2021

RALTD

[ANWO—05] Flaty — RALTD

Ecstatic is thrilled to announce Foreign Body, the latest release from Barcelona-based Dania Shihab, who crafts dreamlike transmissions into the evocative concept of the 'foreign body' in the context of forced migration and cultural loss. 

A tapestry of sounds and emotions, this work is a product of Dania's exploration of her experiences as an Iraqi-born individual who grew up in Tasmania, Australia, an island where her native culture was completely absent. The profound sense of longing for a homeland that has never truly been experienced reverberates throughout, with each track poignantly capturing the complexities of feeling like a stranger in one's own body and society. 

Inspired by her work as an emergency doctor, the artist delves into the idea of removing foreign bodies, and sees forced migrants as 'foreign bodies' within their adopted societies. This release serves as a window into the emotional displacement of forced migrants and the struggle for cultural identity. 

Foreign Body was written and recorded at home in Barcelona, using a 4-track tape recorder, vocal looping techniques, modular synthesis, and collaged samples of Iraqi musicians and poets from the post-Gulf War era into an amorphous cloud of magnetic drones and soft hypnogogic vocal textures to entrance the listener. 

An emotive and evocative release, Foreign Body weaves together sounds and stories to explore a universal human experience. It is a testament to the sublime power of music to communicate emotion.

Dania - Foreign Body

Totally beautiful and rare piano performance from Loren Connors, joined on guitar by long time collaborator Alan Licht. 
Celebrating thirty years of collaboration, Loren Connors and Alan Licht performed for two nights at OTO on May 5 and 6th, 2023. On the second night, with the stage lit in blue, Connors took up a seat on the piano stool whilst Licht picked up the guitar. What followed was the duo’s first ever set with Connors on piano - one of only a few times Connors has played piano live at all - here captured and issued as The Blue Hour. Its spacious warmth came as a total surprise live, but makes complete sense for a duo whose dedicated expressionism takes inspiration from a vast spectrum of emotion.

Both opening with single notes to start, it doesn't take long before a surface rises and begins to shimmer. A run up the keys, the drop of a feedback layer on a sustained and bent note. The two begin to exchange notes in tandem and brief touches of melody and chord hover. After a while, Connors picks up the guitar, stands it in his lap and sweeps a wash of colour across Licht’s guitar. Sharp, glassy edges begin to form, open strings and barred frets darkening the space. When his two pedals begin to merge, Licht finds a dramatic organ-like feedback and it’s hard not to imagine Rothko’s Chapel, its varying shades of blue black ascending and descending in the room.

When Connors goes back to the piano for the second side, the pair quickly lock into a refrain and light pours in. It’s a kind of sound that Licht says reminds him of what he and Connors would do when the duo first started playing together 30 years ago. It’s certainly more melodic than some of their more recent shows, and the atonal shards of At The Top of the Stairs seem to totally dissolve. What is always remarkable about Licht is that his enormous frame of reference doesn't seem to weigh him down, and instead here he is able to delicately place fractures of a Jackson C Frank song (“Just Like Anything”,) amongst the vast sea of Connors’ blues.

Perhaps it's the pleasure of playing two nights in a row together, or the nature of Connor’s piano playing combined with Licht’s careful listening, but the improvisation on The Blue Hour feels remarkably calm and unafraid. There’s nothing to prove and no agenda except the joy of sounding colour together. Totally beautiful. 

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Recorded live at Cafe OTO on Saturday 6th May 2023 by Billy Steiger
Mixed by Oli Barrett
Mastered by Sean McCann
Artwork by Loren Connors
Layout by Oli Barrett
Screenprint by Tartaruga

 Edition of 300 standard LPs, 100 LPs with screenprinted artwork inserts and 200 CDs.

ROKU037 - Loren Connors & Alan Licht "The Blue Hour" [excerpt]

Nodal Red2x Track 9

FLORILEGIO’S MIXTAPE #24
A tapestry of contemporary experimental and underground tracks from Florilegio’s worldwide network of female musicians.
www.florilegio.org
https://www.freeformfreakout.com/florilegio-mixtape-24/

TRACKLIST:
NEW YORK “Rapstar” Rapstar* – Side B (Relaxin Records) 00:06 – 01:01
Violence Gratuite “Iséo” Baleine à Boss (Hakuna Kulala) 01:00-03:58
Pollution Opera (Elvin Brandhi & Nadah El Shazly) “Cairo????” Pollution Opera (Danse Noir) 3:56-08:17
Vanessa Bedoret “Pas” Eyes (Scenic Route) 08:02-13:09
Maria Costa “Transformacion de Color 2” Audrey Poujoula & Maria Costa “ Audria Coscea (Fair Play) 12:53-16:50
Vicky Steiri “Thread” Balm (Alien Jams) 16:32-19:21
Daniela Huerta “Hálito” Soplo (Elevator Bath) 18:47-23:17
John Glacier “Emotions” Like a Ribbon (Young) 22:48-26:13
Kopy “Hole Hole” Heart Fresh (TAL) 26:11-29:20
Jana Rush “Don’t want no dick” Dark Humor (Planet MU) 29:16-31:21
Emma Kate Matthews “Perfect Cyan Bright Square” Antechamber Music 3 (Accidental Records) 31:17-36:46
Felicity Mangan “Digging The Pedospheric Vibes I” Wet on Wet (Warm Winters Ltd) 36:31-39:22
Sarah Belle Reid “Vessel” Mass (Aurora Central Records) 39:15-44:15
Moonilena “Nattrafik” Minnet (Moloton) 44:11-48:21
Hanna Tuulikki “Part T wo Song Of Sorrow” Under Forest Cover (Self-released) 47:55-53:33
Marewrew “Sikata Kuykuy / シ カ タ ク イ ク イ” Mikemike Nociw (Pingipung) 52:35-54:41

FLORILEGIO MIXTAPE #24

GUILT HAUNTS YOU

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