This is too beautiful and deep, i feel better listening to this and also i cry real tears. You’re incredible

Tracklist

1. Excerpt from film d'amore si vive ‘Franck’
2. Agnese Menguzzato and Soho Rezanejad - My Heart is an Anchor (Voice memo)
3. This Mortal Coil - Another Day (Soho Rezanejad recitation)
4. Dawda Jobarteh - I met her by the river
5. Alfred Deller - Shall I Come, Sweet Love, To Thee
6. Soho Rezanejad and Simon Littauer - Untitled
6. Richard Skelton - Noon Hill Wood
7. Fennesz - Mahler Remix 4 (live)
8. Yair Elazar Glotman and Mats Erlandsson - Interlude IV
9. Rafael Anton Irissari - RH Negative
10. Soho Rezanejad - My Heart is an Anchor (Voice memo)

Soho Rezanejad presents: My Heart is an Anchor Mix

Olan Monk - Auto Life
Format: Digital (EP)
Cat. No: CANVAS011
Release Date: 1st October 2021

Watch the video for 'Fameless': https://youtu.be/-xndTe8uWrc

Pre-order Auto Life (EP): canvas-index.bandcamp.com/album/auto-life

‘A farewell to idolatry, where culture is absorbed into nature, like a body back into the fertile soil. Written as a 27 club survivor, lamenting the young dead, no longer young and celebrating the spectral presence of iconised peers. Reflexive and self-aware of the problem of over-identifying with the fictional performance of the solo act in various guises or archetypes: the rockstar or trapstar. Auto Life is a practical attempt at a weird re-hybridisation of otherwise seemingly divergent strands of popular music, conflating stylisations usually segregated by genre.

Auto Life was written as a collection of songs for eventual live performance. Recording music is absurd—an act in which you initially perform to no-one. The inclusion of a sample of crowd noise in ‘Fameless’ is the music studio equivalent of a laugh track being added to the soundtrack of a sitcom—unable to give up on disappearing horizons completely and imagining another context for performance in which an actual audience beyond the performer is present.

Autotune Punk—as a music of antagonism that resists from within, bending the lanes of a machine that flattens out the vocal performance to a given scale. I can still express feeling—even angst—but the machine doesn’t care. Refusing its own funeral, emulating the dead—it’s a Rock simulacrum. A renewably performed myth. I broke the spell. I just heard it as it was. The sacred framing of presence makes the pop idol always-already-dead by turning them into a symbol and an image—undead, un-ageing and endlessly reproducible within a commercialist visual culture.

The music which I would grow up listening to would later become a tool towards first facing, maybe later dismantling—or at least bending—the structures in which music was still being written, performed and recorded into existence. My emulation of and interest in pop—and popular—music is not in irony. I love this music—yet I question the context and conditions through which it has come to exist and continues to change shape. Opening up the horizon of pop to a new kind of strangeness, where the familiarity of the pop song disappears into blissful distortions and mixed signifiers towards a world in-between, otherwise unknown’.

— @olanmonk

Written, performed and recorded by Olan Monk

‘Bruised Fruit’ features an instrumental recording by Jam City, additional production and vocals written and performed by Elvin Brandhi
‘Burnout’ features an instrumental recording by Jam City

Tracks 01–07 mastered by Ali Najafi
Tracks 08 and 09 mastered by Jam City

Artwork by Ewa Awe

www.c-a-n-v-a-s.com

Auto Life

Olan Monk - Fameless

Vanessa Amara returns with a new full length for Posh Isolation. Fonetica Amara is an adventurous and uncompromising addition to the body of work that is Vanessa Amara. New music from a truly singular voice in Scandinavian experimental music.

“‘Poses’ was in some weird way a return to form for us, being our first structured work since ‘You’re Welcome Here’. It was also the first music Sebastián and I worked on together after I had moved to Ireland. I don’t think we really knew how to go about having a long distance relationship, separated from the practice we had built in Copenhagen.
I only had my computer to work with and without access to the internet I was stuck with sampling from my digital collection of music. ‘Poses’ is almost solely made using the DAW; Logics pitch shifter plug-in and a quite limited source of samples. But it was inspiring to work with music like this. Having a clear compositional focus on orchestrating and organising rather than squeezing out notes from today’s mood. So without thinking much about it we’ve continued to work like this. We were working on ‘Fonetica Amara’ from October 2020 - December 2021.

I’m sitting here writing this because Posh Isolation don’t know what to think of ‘Fonetica Amara’ and have - on a friendly note - compared it to when Darkthrone released ‘Panzerfaust’.

I guess their point being a departure from trying to be genuine about making music, successfully perceived as being bulletproof serious. I want to believe there’s more nuance to seriousness and I wonder if Darkthrone wasn’t being humorous in their earlier material. The most recent Matrix film moved me to shed some secret tears. Surprisingly so. I’ve wondered why.
I recently made my first friend after moving to Ireland almost 4 years ago. I was volunteering during the West Cork Chamber Music Festival and Kevin Terry, who’s a brilliant composer based in Cork City, was down here with a couple of compositions. One night at the pub I was going on about the beauty of humour in music for a good while and Kevin summed it up perfectly by calling it self-awareness. It was that playful self-awareness that got to me while watching The Matrix: Resurrection.

Since ‘You’re Welcome Here’ we’ve been deviating from a path we might previously have started out on. More than anything we try to change, because we can’t let go of that feeling of not understanding, not knowing, not recognising.
We wish to stay curious about our voice, to not become specific, avoid exercising some kind of “disciplinary correctness” and to “want more questions than answers” (Jack Halberstam’s: The Queer Art of Failure).”

-Birk Gjerlufsen Nielsen, 2022

Posh Isolation 271

Fonetica Amara

Pescado

Vanessa Amara - Pescado

The album Verses was released on September 20 2022
Music by Soho Rezanejad and Miccel Mohr

Verses

Soho Rezanejad - Verses

Frederik Valentin & Loke Rahbek  “Together”

“Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean—
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down—
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don't know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”

The Summer Day - Mary Oliver


“Together” is the third collaborative album by Frederik Valentin & Loke Rahbek, following 2020's “Elephant” and 2017's “Buy Corals Online”. The album was originally conceived in response to a commission by the Danish documentary festival CPH:Dox to create an alternate soundtrack to Chris Marker’s sublime documentary travelogue from 1983, “Sans Soleil”. Lo-fi vignettes of guitar and field recordings are presented alongside electroacoustic experiments, as enchanting invitations to rhythmical synthetic worlds, with each finding poise about Marker's meditation on the nature of human memory. With acoustic instruments treated digitally and instrumental performances reinterpreted, “Together” travels the lush path of their earlier works to new destinations.

The album unfolds like a series of postcards, its colours bleached by the sun and its stories told with blurry fragments. Behind the details, the ruling stories are seamlessly enjoyed if not intimately entwined. On bike in the city, swimming in the harbour, birch trees, kissing, first teenage acid trip, experiencing the oneness of life in a messy adolescent apartment. Stargazing eye-to-eye, every face seems familiar. Colourful blankets, being broke, feeling joyous, sandals, a fountain, flowers. Preteens high on soda with joy-blushed skin. Like Marker, Together travels in time to revisit lost emotions.

The inner cosmology of Valentin & Rahbek's work is that of naturalistic reportage just gently sprayed by the crashing tide of psychedelic curiosity. “Together” is about finding the miraculous in the ordinary. It's about trying to find composure in a world where suffering and ecstasy live as next door neighbours. It's about how we are dying even as we tremble with as much life as we've ever felt.

Valentin's long wake of solo works and collaborations include his productions with Yung Lean (as Jonatan Leandoer127) for the album “Nectar”, as well as their joint commission for Sweden's Cullberg Ballet, and most recently includes last year's exquisite double EP “0011001/ 0011000” for Posh Isolation. For more than a decade, Rahbek has been making electronic music as Croatian Amor and a wealth of other monikers. He has been running Posh Isolation with Christian Stadsgaard since 2009.

The cover features the work of Copenhagen-based photographer Halfdan Venlov, portraying the city's youth in a cemetery in central Copenhagen, and forms part of his ongoing series “Under Heaven”. The sunny meeting against unkept headstones and weathered memorials is an evocative companion to the blissful details “Together” encloses.

“Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”

Posh Isolation 272

Together

Frederik Valentin & Loke Rahbek - Together

original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E935Od_J4fw

Physically Sick

My Sorrow Is Luminous

Teresa Winter - Emptiness Is Also An Excess [RAVE031]

Perform and Surrender is a performance presented between 2018-2019 in cities Copenhagen, Vienna, Helsingør, Munich, Montreal, Toronto, St. Petersburg, Tromsø, and Nantes.

1. Perform
2. Surrender
3. Stages I
4. Absence
5. Half the Shore
6. Hera
7. Stages II
8. Sleepless Solitude

Themes composed and performed by Soho Rezanejad
with appearances by Asger Valentin, Astrid Sonne and Cæcilie Trier.

Perform and Surrender

Sleepless Solitude

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Soho Rezanejad - Sleepless Solitude

Exitloop

Originally aired November 2020 on n10.as
@liyohbkn & @ssaliva

⇝⇝⇝Liyo⇜⇜⇜
An Gella - Game Mother
Aske Zidore - Hosjangen
ssaliva - Vntitled
Elysia Crampton - Crest (feat. Fanny Pankara Chuquimia) - 
Loke Rahbek, Frederik Valentin - Scarlett
Rainer Veil - FM2
Sophia Loizou - Artificial Infinite
System 7 - Interstate (Doc Scott Mix)
akash - that's what u said 91
Kelela - The High
Gang Gang Dance - House Jam
Bogdan Raczyinski - Reach For Your Lives
FAUNESS - Dun
Chairlift / Violens - Never Let You Go SGIN
BEA1991 - Modern Comforts
dj problem - continue

⇝⇝⇝ssaliva⇜⇜⇜
Cylob_Skylight
QOW_?
Love-De-Lic_Moon Remix
Physical Therapy_Mind You
Casey MQ_Butterflies edit4
Unreal Tournamen_Foregone Destruction
?_Mad
Expensive Brother_betwixt
Extreme-G 2 (XG2) Soundtrack_Track 7 (Canous)
Tristan_Make It Stick
Réelle_Floating

s.M.i.L.e. Radio 049 : Liyo & ssaliva

Taken from 'Under Stars / Shells In Colour' compilation released by @poshisolation 11th of December 2020

All proceeds go to support organisations working for refugees in Greece:
https://poshisolation.bandcamp.com/album/under-stars-shells-in-colour

https://www.instagram.com/poshisolationworld/
https://www.instagram.com/lyraval_insta/

Enfant Terrible [Posh Isolation]

booking & inquiries
anahita@siliconerecords.net

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