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Elvin Brandhi - OWsT
LP on Xing (XONG collection XX18) out April 2025, order at https://www.soundohm.com/product/owst-brandhi-lp and at https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12211&menu=0
Collector's edition available at https://www.soundohm.com/product/brandhi-owst-art and at https://shop.flash---art.it/products/elvin-brandhi-owst

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Xing presents the new LP OWsT by Elvin Brandhi, eighteenth release of XONG collection - artist records. The release is on white vinyl, in a limited and numbered edition of 150 copies, including a collector's edition of 20 copies, each featuring bespoke talismans, painted by the artist in squid ink, to be worn as patches or kept safe somewhere to ward off misanthropists.

OWsT is a vociferous attempt to Shout The Self Out. Elvin Brandhi, artist and poet propelled by constant nomadic rupture in both art and life, screams her mind to explore the urgent contradictions of self and world, of language and meaning, relentlessly unlearning at the edge of words. In OWsT she extrudes her limbic dissidence keeping a raw tension through chaos, where the fumbling find its stratum of empowerment and can become more than its forlorn wondering:

"LanGuAGE! ContinuES to BE a FRantic FOCUS WHich CAN ONLY BenefIT from Internal ASSAULT. 
I try to OUT all of the words inside the HEAD. 
The struggle to articulate necessitates violence, bursts of inclination, gestures of intent that supersedes the capacity to express coherently. 
OWsT as a pretext for the form to disgorge, comfort zone extinguished awe against a lore. 
I am not I am KNOT. JOWST THE OWST OUT  OWST THE CELL”F OWT!"

OWsT originates from a live recording session at Raum, Xing’s space in Bologna. Recorded on tape and re-manipulated by the artist several times, more than a transcription of the expulsion process (literally ‘oust’, poetically and phonetically ‘owst’) the album is "a retrospective spell where tensions and indecisions, resistances, deviations and relapses constitute the process of the archaeologist attempting to retrieve from sight the mangled contents of what poured out.” Listening to Elvin Brandhi’s music can offer a chaotic and overwhelming experience.

Elvin Brandhi (born Freya Edmondes) is an improvising lyricist, producer and sound artist, originally from Bridgend in Wales, but a citizen of the world, moving between Vienna and Kampala, Berlin, Cairo, Dakkar, Marseille and Newcastle. She had a childhood immersed in music every day, and studied painting and drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Her sound production develops on distorted bases that act as an unstable platform on which she sings and performs her improvised stream of consciousness lyrical trips. Deep furious or nonsense, her spoken word lies on explosive and aberrant beats from field recordings, tape, vinyl, instrument and voice. Since 2013 she has played and collaborated with many improvisers. At each stop of her nomadic journey she collaborates with local artists. She has participated in international festivals. Among her stable collaborations are the low-fi noise pop duo Yeah You with her father Gustav Thomas, the duo BAHK with Daniel Blumberg, the INSIN duo with Bashar Suleiman, the project Avril Spleen with Joseph Jadame, the duo Pollution Opera with Nadah El Shazly, and Bad@Maths. She released the LPs Shelf Life (C.A.N.V.A.S), Villaelvin (Hakuna Kulala), Elvin Brandhi (Krai), and OWsT (Xing/Xong collection). In 2017 she was awarded the PRS Oram Award for Innovative Musicians, with a production commission at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. She was also part of SHAPE platform 2020.
soundcloud.com/elvin-brandhi-1   elvinbrandhi.bandcamp.com

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sound, composition and performance by Elvin Brandhi; elaboration, re-composition from tape recordings and mix by Elvin Brandhi;
live session at Raum (Bologna, 2022) recorded by Pasquale Savignano, Tobia Bandini, mix Pasquale Savignano; master Riccardo Mazza; artwork Xing; printed by handle with care Berlin; 45 rpm.

XX18: Elvin Brandhi - OWsT - O"w - excerpt side A 3

…s n…: is a slim suite of popular ballads in the genre of fluctuating sentiment. And how silence can act as an incandescent absence.

Tracklist
Collage: Frank Denyer, Broken Music; Wile E Coyote and The Road Runner In Lickety-Splat; Geir Jenssen, Cho Oyu 8201m Field Recordings From Tibet; Two Cats Murmur Like Avatars of Intimate Exchange
Lee Hazlewood: My Autumn’s Done Come
Collage: Tascam Feedback; Frank Denyer, Broken Music
Patsy Cline: Crazy [Misrembered Pitch Edit]
Collage: Ay-O, Fluxus Song; Tascam Feedback
Doris: Hennessy & Candy Cane
Collage: Ay-O, Fluxus Song; Cackling Witches; downgraded, Chubut province
Doris: half n half Arizona  [Misrembered Pitch Edit]
Collage: Ay-O, Fluxus Song; Cackling Witches; 
DJ Muggs: Shit I’m On Instrumental
Collage: Tascam Feedback; Ay-O, Fluxus Song; Frank Denyer, Broken Music; Abe’s Odysee Menu [Scarborough 1998 Gimme **** Shelter Banjo Kazooie Edit]
Nina Simone: Feelings
Collage: Frank Denyer, Broken Music; Geir Jenssen, Cho Oyu 8201m Field Recordings From Tibet;
Elvis: Love Me
Collage: Tascam Feedback; Ay-O, Fluxus Song; 
Aaron Neville: Tell It Like It Is [Polyphonic Doubt Edit]
Collage: Bernard Gunter, Untitled I/ 92; Ay-O, Fluxus Song; 
Bobby Charles: I Hope

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Sphene

'a downtempo centric self-inquiry quest by means of binge-shiftin'

https://ab-u.bandcamp.com/album/binge-shiftin

released March 7, 2025

artwork by Mery Khugashvili & Arsen Iy
composed & mixed by @ab_y
mastered by @yeyomf & @qwqwqwqwa

binge shiftin

Broadcasted live at Radio Tempo Não Pára (08.03.2025)

Artist: @stefhanja

Stefhanja @ Radio TNP 08.03.2025

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“Mirrors / Tristesse” is a summer album about love, guilt, freedom and the versions of ourselves we try to outrun. Set against the heat of the Mediterranean coast, these twelve songs move through the first sparks of desire, the jealousy and mischief that follow, the quiet tragedies we don’t see until they’re already behind us, and the melancholy that becomes a permanent companion.

Built from a fusion of French chanson, chamber-folk and intimate indie storytelling, the album draws on the emotional architecture of Mirrors — self-interrogation, memory, the stories we perform — and carries it into the sun-drenched world of Bonjour Tristesse.

From the villa above the sea to the Parisian atelier, from the white suit on stage to the final acceptance of tristesse itself, these songs follow the arc of a summer that begins like a lie and ends like a lesson you never stop learning.

A coastal dream darkened by consequence — a sister album to Mirrors, and a chapter in its shadow.

The Atelier at Père Lachaise

From the forthcoming release 'Volume 3: Dance Of The Weeping Babe'

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