Out now on Bandcamp!
https://www.telquelsounds.bandcamp.com

All tracks written, produced, mixed, and mastered by Matthew Gammon
Album artwork by Matthew Gammon

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This world is like a dream, a mirage, an illusion"

Mirage, a 10-track odyssey, weaves through the liminal spaces of lucid dreams and the haunting tension of life in a world overflowing with simulacra. With a masterful blend of psychedelic soundscapes, glitch textures, ambient atmospheres, foley sounds, and melodic hooks, Mirage explores the transient, ever shifting quality of the modern condition.

From the moment the opening track pulses to life, listeners are transported to an otherworldly realm where reality bends and warps like shifting dunes in a desert or fog rolling over a forgotten industrial landscape. Each song is an exploration of fleeting moments and distorted perceptions. The intricate layers of glitch and driving rhythmical sections challenge the listener to confront the noise of modern life, while melodic and drone fragments offering the listener glimpses of solitude and clarity.

Mirage is both a commentary and a reflection—a place to get lost in the chaos of existence and find something beautiful within the confusion. With Tel Quel’s signature blend of ethereal sounds and unrelenting rhythms, the album is both hypnotic and evocative.

Step into Mirage—where dreams and reality converge, and let Tel Quel`s music takes you through a fractured, layered world of sound.

Mirage

ÆONS

In its fifth year, the traditional January 27th release spirals around Mark Vernon’s birthday. Interestingly, the "year one" occurred just a few weeks before we began communicating. As with many occasions, we can wonder whether it was precognition or coincidence...
[read more on Bandcamp]

Happy birthday to the sound wizard Mark Vernon!

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Released January 27, 2025

Recorded, edited, and composed by Manja Ristić.
Field recording of popping algae made by Joana Guerra in Barreiro, Portugal.
Field recordings of bat swarms, various cicadas, and an underwater reef made by Mark Vernon in various locations in Thailand.
Instruments used include violin, EMS Synthi 100, JrF hydrophones, and JrF contact mics.
Locations include Montreal, Canada; Nazare and Barreiro, Portugal; Isle of Arran, Scotland; the islands of Vrnik, Mljet, and Silba, Croatia; Harrachstal, Austria; various locations around Thailand; Lago Miraflores, Panama; and Avala Mountain, Serbia.

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Mastering: Goran Simonoski / La Plant Studio
Cover image: Žarka Radoja, the dunes of Lençóis Maranhenses National Park, Brazil
Cover art: Manja Ristić

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For Mark

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1. Jerohme - Ovalbumin
2. lee - Big Jam Slade
3. love horses - be this horse or uhhhhhhh egg
4. The Simian - clandestine_retrieval
5. Anitta - holivokrizi
6. utopia cloak - egg moon
7. Greystar - Wake Up
8. Dollarstore Keyboard - CRACK
9. Purpledaughter - Kmart Holiday Spirit Tape #235790648

Mastered by Danny Playamaqui
Artwork by Jerohme
Tracklist curation by Purpledaughter

x4records.bandcamp.com/album/--6

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[PCLEP 035] PYR

Tiser [PCLEP 035] Konstantinos Gkoumas  - PYR (2025)

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“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”  ― Guy de Maupassant

Track list and start times:
00:00  Jake Muir – Siren's Call
04:31  Ecclesiastical Scaffolding – Heavy Lies The Afternoon Heat*
10:14  Belial Pelegrim – TAFFETA | 234
16:54  Amby Downs – Garrawang Biderap Black Field Cricket Mating Song (Excerpt)*
21:48  Object Collection – Disappear By Fire
25:26  Pharmakon – Nakedness of Need
31:38  claire rousay & Gretchen Korsmofind – yourself in a hole on the beach
36:06  Erik Griswold & Rebecca Cunningham – Sounding Tides
42:20  Loop(c)y - Afterglow Of Memory
45:36  Ambient Annie – When The Gale Has Passed
52:08  Hari Maia – Static Eyes
58:29  Lost Ether – Mavis and Roland have a Picnic*
1:02:25  Throbbing Gristle – Exotic Functions
1:06:35  Velvet Something Superdark – Those Were The Days
1:11:09  Mat Ward – Caligo Paean (excerpt)
1:25:03  Jake Muir – Spectre's Bonfire
1:31:28  Jimmy Lem – Downstream Procrastination
1:34:43  vheissu77 – hazy rays (naviarhaiku592)
1:39:50  Cadlag – Integral (excerpt)
1:45:44  Deaf Center – Rev (edit)
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* From the recent release “Anthology Of Experimental Music From Australia” from Unexplained Sounds Group
https://unexplainedsoundsgroup.bandcamp.com/album/anthology-of-experimental-music-from-australia

Eclectic current – Memory upgrade required

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