Name: WIP - Piano Composition S4 by Dan Abrams in Reading
Duration: 2 min 22 s
Description: Field recordings from the LA River, oboe player on subway platform, piano; processing.

Reading

Infinite Greyscale is delighted to present a new long-form composition by Stara Rzeka. The Polish village of Stara Rzeka and its surrounding countryside were devastated by a huge tornado on the 14th of July 2012. Stara Rzeka is where musician Kuba Ziołek, who adopted the name as one of several artistic projects, spends his summers, and the morning following the storm Ziołek was present to witness the aftermath. 
 
This self-titled piece opens to the crackle of electricity in the air and a distinct impression of menace. The distortion softens, but never truly fades, as it gives way to song; a graceful and melancholy ode to what nature has been divested of in the storm. Eventually this human presence, like the tornado, departs to leave the composition sounding like the land itself; wounded but brimming with life, buzzing and psychedelic. 

The fact that the artist, music, and location all exist under one heading suggests that these elements are interdependent and inseparable. This is music as elegiac at it is sanguine, at perpetual as it is fixed in time, and here Stara Rzeka is all of those things.



Single sided 10”, pressed on dark green vinyl with screen-printed b-side. Numbered edition of 300.  
Handmade artwork by Paul McDevitt and Cornelius Quabeck. Screenprint by Ulrich Schmidt-Novak. 
Includes numbered insert, photograph, and download code.
Mastered & cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, Berlin.


Stara Rzeka – Stara Rzeka IGR05

Purchase here: geographic-north.com/cassette/m-sage/
Catalog #: GN21
Rosso Corsa cassette, limited to 100

Born and raised in Ft. Collins, Co, Matthew Sage established himself as a formidable player in the greater experimental scene as a producer of utterly monumental works of processed ambient music using anything and everything at his disposal as M. Sage, along a bevy of other pseudonyms. From guitar, pedals, cello, field recordings, and severe but tasteful post-production, sound takes shape in a carefully focused but altogether organic way. Sage's acts of grandeur don't simply fall back on piling on just any noise or sound. Tones are sifted out of the ether naturally, separating themselves with the ease of an inherent belonging, best heard earlier this year on the sprawling A Singular Continent LP, wherein Sage created sonic worlds, fabricating entire geographies, geologies, latitudes, and histories. 

With Data in the Details, Sage turns the focus inward, pulling from a series of deeply personal scenes in his final two months in Ft. Collins doing data entry and moving high-end furniture into high-end mountain homes. The resulting two tracks process the experiences in disparate but inextricably linked ways. A-side’s “Data in the Details (heads up extended edit)” routes an amorphous and elusive trail of textured ambient modes. Glitched and muted melodies fold on top of one another in ways only Vladislav Delay previously mastered, while frigid patterns of sound ice over similar to Fennesz’s alluringly processed tones.

B-side’s “Data in the Details (mover isuzu dub edit)” repurposes the ample washes of the original track into more rhythmic and minimal acid-dub. Calling to mind Porter Ricks’ sub-aquatic dubbiness, traversing Jan Jelinek’s mutant, kraut techno, Sage revels in a sort of muted throb that flows through the entire side with both nothing and everything to lose.


02 Data In The Details (Mover Isuzu Dub Edit)

Track from NE15 Född Död - Studie I Närhet, Längtan Och Besvikelse LP

Order here: http://northernelectronics.bandcamp.com
https://clone.nl/item34101.html

Född Död -  I smärtan, fri

04 Psyche

Field recordings from the LA River, oboe player on subway platform, piano; processing.

WIP - Piano Composition S4

Geskia "Priority Minority" from "SFIMT" PFCD48

2015.5.17 release
Geskia "SFIMT" PFCD48
http://www.progressiveform.com

1. Ghost Coast
2. Afterhours
3. Priority Minority
4. Daze Base
5. Croak Stroke
6. Ray Delay  https://soundcloud.com/progressive-form/517out-geskia-ray-delay-from-upcoming-album-sfimt-pfcd48
7. Odd Cloud
8. Fate Rate
9. Frozen Horizon
10. Crack Stack

https://soundcloud.com/progressive-form/geskia-brand-new-7th-album-sfimt-pfcd48-teaser-out-on-517

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haGvvQh5qwI

https://twitter.com/publicrhythm/status/586348172479311872

flau、術ノ穴などからのリリースでも知られる希代のトラック・メイカーGeskiaの通算7枚目となる待望の最新アルバム『SFIMT』！
前作『Silent Of Light』に続きPROGRESSIVE FOrMよりリリース。

本作の特徴は何と言っても収録全10曲にちりばめられたボーカルやボイスの存在であろう。その意味ではGeskia初のボーカル・アプローチなアルバムとも言える。

フィールドレコーディングを始めとした多種多様なボイス素材の声や歌のフレーズを分解し、ピッチを様々にいじったものを再構築してオートチューンで歌わせるという手法を取っており、男性らしく聴こえる声も元は女性の声だったり、その逆もあり、楽曲を構成する楽器の一部として声に性別としての役割はもたせてはいないが、そこには強烈な存在感と魅惑的なメロディー・ラインが奏でられている。

アルバム全体としては、都会的な影の部分や現代的な響きは意識して取り入れており、個人的な憂いや倦怠感などの渇きを都市の生産的で肯定的な躍動感と対比させた部分、またそこから産まれるのはパーソナルな核になる孤独感と多幸感にスポットを当てて表現されています。

WARP、TriAngle Records、Young Turks、Modern Loveといったレーベルのエッセンスとシンクロする現在進行形の音楽に通じたテイストのリスナーにお薦め。


Geskia

2008年、flauからデビュー・アルバム『Silent 77』を発表し、英WIRE紙など世界中のメディアから喝采を浴びる。これまでにflauより『Eclipse323』、術ノ穴より2ndアルバム『President IDM』、EP２作をiTunes Storeでリリースした後、PROGRESSIVE FOrMのコンピレーション『Forma. 3.10』にも参加を果たしている。その後、術ノ穴から3rdアルバム『Alien』、2012年には2枚のアルバムをDynamophone(US)より『Muon』、Home Normal(UK)より『323 sayonara memories』をそれぞれ発表。
2013年2月、通算6枚目となるアルバム『Silent Of Light』をPROGRESSIVE FOrMよりリリースする。
2014年、自身のレーベルであるARKTEKTを開始、Akmar名義で配信リリースをBandcampで行い、downyやMACKA-CHINのリミックスワークなど2つの名義を使い分けている。
2015年2月にはGeskiaとして過去のリミックスワークを集めたコンピレーションアルバムを配信。そして5月、通算7枚目となる待望のアルバム『SFIMT』をPROGRESSIVE FOrMよりリリースする。
http://www.arktekt.com/

amazon

Geskia "Priority Minority" from "SFIMT" PFCD48

"..Ishi finds Gengras continuing to take cues from the latter comparison point: its three tracks flow into each other subtly enough to qualify as passages rather than discrete songs, building and releasing with a patient determination. The music moves unhurriedly from moment to moment in a way that traces the clear outline a strong compositional foundation, producing an atmosphere that's both serene and substantial.
It’s tempting to call Ishi ambient music, but it possesses too much presence to fade into the background. It possesses an insistence that just stops short of dominating your attention. Although Gengras’ current mode relies heavily on slow-attack synth pads, he frequently works in dissonant leads and unexpectedly harsh tones that can disrupt the peaceful mood you might find yourself lulled into. It’s a soothing record, but one that’ll still keep you on your toes." - Miles Raymer, Pitchfork

Threshold

Artist – Sync 24 & Silicon Scally
Title – Jack Out EP
Label – Cultivated Electronics 
Format – 12” Vinyl/Digital 
Catalogue Number – CE019
Release Date – June - 2016
Worldwide Distribution - www.clone.nl

Next in CE's colab series Sync 24 teams up with Carl A Finlow under his Silicon Scally moniker. 

Together the pair turn in 4 tracks of Robotic machine funk showing both artists distinct styles as one. 

CE019 - Sync 24 & Silicon Scally - Jack Out EP

Lounima

her way of looking back

The musical score to a very short play by Jim Winters entitled: The Circle. Steve Norton is performing on bass clarinet and footsteps. Jim Winters plays the hurdy-gurdy. Recorded live on March 20, 2018 in Orono, Maine.

The Circle

Recorded and Mixed by Yoshio Ojima
Recorded at OJIMAS' House , May.2012
Mixed at OJIMAS' House , May.2012

Exhibition "ERIKO HORIKI ~Prayers through Washi~"
http://www.eriko-horiki.com/e/exhibition/exhibition.htm

Music for Eriko Horikis' Exhibition Ver.3 (2012)

The tale of the mythic pentaki mountain has been engraved on a two-sided circular piece of wax.

the north face of the peak is steep, abrasive, and has been the subject of many legends in the region. it is said that whoever would manage to climb it would find a plateau, leading to a place called “the single source of truth”.

considered as the ultimate goal by both psychedelic gurus and database o
ptimization corporations, and as an ideal retirement destination for a couple of lost souls in search for coherence and objectivity, the source diffuses endless loops of haunted voices, apparently sampled from a discarded call center, running low on power, encouraging listeners to shorten cycles, deliver requests and improve user experience.

it is also said that anyone climbing from the south side would never reach the summit or find his way to the plateau, and would always end up on a lower altitude than where he started.

this topographical anomaly is probably the reason why the south face of the pentaki has always been favorited by locals, with its sunny weather and its luxurious vegetation flourishing along the soft downward slope, leading to a slow and peaceful end.

Kangding Ray . The Pentaki Slopes . 12" E.P
r-n 145 . raster-noton

A1 : North
A2 : Plateau ( a single source of truth )
B1 : South

Plateau ( a single source of truth )

Jabberwocky

Morning After

Hey everyone. The music I put on SoundCloud was never released or monetized, but it's been here for many years and still being discovered daily. If you like it, please consider sending something with the PayPal link | Update: One year after posting this, I have received $40. Thank you to those who gave and hope more will consider. Update : Received another $50 from a fan after about 3 more years. I really appreciate it and put the money to use on more gear.

WIP - Piano Composition S4

Dan Abrams

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