Somewhere 2 comes from Slovakian artist Adela Mede, author of the spellbinding tape Szabadság that's easily one of the most astounding things we've heard this year. Guided by the potency of her raw vocals, Adela explores folk tradition through a kaleidoscopic buzz of processed electronics, her ineffable vocals shining through in pure lucidity.

Through this mix, Adela continues her exploration of the voice. Repeating vocals chants feed into haunting moments of dissonance, heightening the innate beauty of the unprocessed song that shimmers beneath.

@adelamede

Żegnaj Ziemio Ojczysta - Bogdan Raczynski - Muzyka Dla Imigrantów 
Five Margarets - Ani Zakareishvili - SLEEPERS POETS SCIENTISTS
Soloists - Piotr Kurek - World Speaks 
Ruyina - Katarina Gryvul - Tysha 
Ej okolo Levoči - Puszafalat - Nótázó recepteskönyv
Kyema Mimin - Choying Drolma And Steve Tibbetts
Hubava Milka - Kitka Women's Vocal Ensemble
Sail on Sailor - Kristin Oppenheim - Night Run- Collected Sound Works 1992 - 1995
Nová Krajina - Adela Mede - How We Grow
Volanie - Jonáš Gruska - Spevy
Take Care of Others - Nina Pixel - Müggelsee Observations
face A ( best - nation - friendless ) - Oklou  
Afraid - Nelly Furtado - Loose

Somewhere #2 ~ Adela Mede

Somewhere 3 is delivered by DJ, music producer and TestFM resident Anit Levan.

Anit composes a radiant patchwork of celestial psychedelia, marrying a diverse range of sounds into a rich tableau. This vulnerable and emotional mix sensitively glides through styles; serene ambient-jazz introduces gothic new age and glitchy electronica leads to ethereal classical. Approaching melodies shine through in glimpses, building expansive layers that entangle like cues in a film score. It's a journey that wraps you up in a totally immersive atmosphere, an otherworldly place where we wish we could remain.

@anitlevan

Somewhere #3 ~ Anit Levan

Echo's Disintegration

HYMN *4 empty club*

Bandcamp

Alliyah Enyo - HYMN *4 empty club*

Our guest mix for Jack Rollo's Early Bird Show, originally aired on NTS, 17 February 2023.

Eylül Deniz - Waiting (forthcoming, Müstesna Records)
JON & 宇都宮泰 - 四つの足
Ani Zakareishvili - After
Chantal Michelle - Departure of Light (forthcoming)
Игорь Лень - Здесь...
Félicia Atkinson - L’Après-Midi
Bobby Jewell - Graphene
Delia Derbyshire - Falling
Lucy Duncombe & Feronia Wennborg - Point
Hildegard Westerkamp - Kits Beach Soundwalk
The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa - Endless Experience
perila - wanting is a substance derived from unexpressed
Pefkin - Redshanks (live in Brighton March 2017)
Camille Mandoki - Dreams and Bells
Man Rei - Thirty (forthcoming)

Guest mix for Jack Rollo ~ NTS Radio 170223

Health

Man Rei - I don't want the money

The latest 'Somewhere' installment comes from Chantal Michelle, a postscript to her album 'Broken to Echoes'.

The mix oscillates between heightened sounds in effortless motion, from the harrowing feedback of Eliane Radigue to the enduring rapture of Ryuchi Sakamoto's keys. It's this fluctuating tension that characterizes the record, and through the mix format, Chantal again demonstrates her masterful ability to conjure waves of emotion, pulling us resolutely in one direction before the ripples of opposing tension enfold; an exquisite symphony of conflicting strains.

@chantalmichelle

...
Chantal Michelle - Piano Tuning, P. Iashvili St. 
Nico Niquo - My Home In The Storm 
YL Hooi - Catch 
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Circles
Burning Pyre & Canadian Rifles - Monza
Chantal Michelle  - Amaryllis 
Atsuko Hatano & Giovanni di Domenico - Rinka 
Alister Spence & Tony Buck - And Yet She Turns (excerpt)
Catherine Christer Hennix— Equal Temperament Fender Mix (excerpt)
Eliane Radigue - Stress Osaka (excerpt)
Kassel Jaeger - Dissipation of Light
Ryuchi Sakamoto - 20211201

Somewhere #7 ~ Chantal Michelle

Intimate storyteller Cara Mayer delivers tales of 'stolen kisses' in a sublime daydream of pastoral sounds. Exploring the intersections between overlapping sounds and structured song, Cara intricately blends personal and found field recordings with a unique assortment of curiously charming folk music. A beautifully obscure journey through buzzing and humming streets, in gleeful procession of Cardboard Lamb.

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𝒮𝓉𝑜𝓁𝑒𝓃 𝒦𝒾𝓈𝓈𝑒𝓈
𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘺 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥, 𝘓𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘴 𝘉𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦

"This mix is about stolen songs – music overheard in the street; 
sounds that drift between song and half-song. 

A car playing salsa as it passes you,
a service in St. Peter’s Basilica,
an owl, a cricket;
subway buskers,
restaurant owners,
ice cream trucks,
Christmas markets…

I hope to pay a small homage to the fissure, to blur the boundary between the two; to send a big bright cotton bud to unclog your ears and expand the notion of ‘song’."

- 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘢 𝘔𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳
@cara-mayer-yepez

Tracklist

Somewhere #8 ~ Cardboard Lamb

Lithuanian musician and sound artist Marija Rasa, aka emer, is a master of texture and tone. In her recent album 'sea salt', she creates a mesmerizing palette of rustles, clicks and clangs, that spiral in freefall. Layered vocals are fragmented and compressed into the most minute of spaces, transmitted directly to the ear as whispered messages.

Her somewhere mix takes a cinematic, expansive approach to composition, with Janet Cardiff's potent narration exerted as a guiding tether. Marija expertly weaves through layers of abstracted ambient and dismantled techno, concocting an undulating pace that stretches moments infinitely, resulting in deep, resonating echoes. As the parts come together, fortuitous sounds create a spine-tingling euphoria, glistening in their warm and blissful transience.

@marija-rasa-k

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Jane Cardiff - missing voice track 03 (excerpt)
nimu - Headache Pill
Kassel Jaeger - Meith
Miguel A Ruiz - Transparent
Jane Cardiff - missing voice track 01 (excerpt)
Best Available Technology - 605AM4262013c
Best Available Technology - Dot Ohm 
Jane Cardiff - missing voice track 01 (excerpt)
Steve Roden - Translations & Articulations
tau contrib -  tthrown
Skee Mask - Daytime Gamer (version)
TEREKKE - Live at Het Bimhuis - Side A
Jane Cardiff - missing voice track 03 (excerpt)
x or size - Empast
Bellows - 01 01
Biosphere - Disc
Kareem Lotfy - Fr3sh
perila - 5 am
Pendant - Des Vieux Temples
Jane Cardiff - missing voice track 03 (excerpt)

Somewhere #9 ~ Marija Rasa

The Blue Hour

Man Rei - Call

Slowfoam - Intimation

Chantal Michelle - Excavator

Adela Mede - Holnap

Astrid Øster Mortensen - Winter go on

Anit Levan - Noise dimensions

Velvachell - Firewood (los colores)

Mondlane - Solstice

Our next mix is from Glasgow sound-artist Velvachell, a new solo project by Rachel McDermott of WomenSaid. Her recent installation 'to yourself' at Listen Gallery totally blew us away - an immersive multi-channel environment capturing the frenetic energy of Jilotepec and its neighbouring Mexico City.

The mix uncovers a sonic palette that has informed her sound work. Rachel artfully builds tension through the esoteric murmurs of fragmented vocal drones, distorted field recordings and pensive string instruments. In heightened surroundings, a frenzied energy emerges in the post-punk and industrial sound that has informed her previous work. The diverging of these sounds is totally intoxicating, and captures the potent energy of her exciting new sonic explorations.

@r-m-437721406

Somewhere #11 ~ Velvachell

@caapii roadtrip mix for NTS, 16/08/23

A look at the road as a means of escapism, or a place to say goodbye, inspired by the unrequited love of Mikey in 'My Own Private Idaho'. Across a palette of melancholic shoegaze, ethereal dream pop and downtempo, this mix captures the homesick nostalgia of heartbreak and of running away.

tracklist

Another way of saying goodbye w/ caapi ~ NTS Radio 160823

0-31mins - doyoudre.am
31-60mins - @caapii

for @refugeworldwide
25/08/2023

Between Dreams w/ doyoudre.am & caapi | Refuge Worldwide ~ Aug 23

Somewhere 12 comes from spiritual companion Luis Martin Gonzalez. An untraceable lineage of deep, ritualistic musings that goes deep into the bowels of an enveloping, psychoactive listening environment.

On the surface, ceremonious cycles of sound produce a trance-induced delirium. But as these incantations take hold, the spacious repetitions give way to hypnotic visions of an expansive sonic underworld. Buried in the resonant psychedelic vibrations, a palette of wild, ineffable sounds ripple to the surface in sublime iridescence. A total trip.

@luismartingonzalez

Somewhere #12 ~ Luis Martin Gonzalez

In debut albums for Warm Winters Ltd and Mappa, Rob Winstone has formed a unique sound that's tinged with a beautifully eerie nostalgia, and traced by delicate, microscopic details.

His 'Somewhere' mix draws on this palette, conjuring a selection of blissed autumnal drone works and spacious meanderings for piano. Harnessing restrained composition, he explores the cavernous depths of sparse minimalism, juxtaposing meditative ambient with disruptive noise, to ultimately accentuate the lustrous melodies that characterize his work.

@robwinstone

Somewhere #13 ~ Rob Winstone

from 'The Blue Hour', Somewhere Press, 2023

V/A compilation featuring Dania, Mondlane, Velvachell, santebela, Angelina Nonaj, Anit Levan, Astrid Øster Mortensen, Adela Mede, Chantal Michelle, Slowfoam and Man Rei

Out on cassette and digital formats, with accompanying publication.
Distribution by Boomkat

@santebela
@fru_tto

santebela - If time bends (ft. Angelina Nonaj)

from 'The Blue Hour', Somewhere Press, 2023

V/A compilation featuring Dania, Mondlane, Velvachell, santebela, Angelina Nonaj, Anit Levan, Astrid Øster Mortensen, Adela Mede, Chantal Michelle, Slowfoam and Man Rei

Out on cassette and digital formats with accompanying publication.
Distribution by Boomkat

@dania-detakon

Dania - Lament

Kleingeld is a resident at Radio Tempo Não Pára where her mixes are crafted with rich, emotive narrative. Together with Cardboard Lamb, she curates a monthly series of experimental radio broadcasts, inviting artists from a variety of disciplines to join the programme in an exercise of inquisitive world-building.

Kleingeld tenderly portrays the chaotic emotions that erupt amongst the turbulence of life. Her Somewhere mix is a tale of lost love, confronting the stormy experience of heartbreak and longing. In fluctuating highs and lows, she captures the delirium of escalating change. In Sanneke's words, "it's about spiraling into depths, checking in with the void and checking out with the past"

@kleingeldkleingeld

Somewhere #14 ~ Kleingeld

from 'Transcorporal Portal', forthcoming on Somewhere Press
@slowfoam

Transcorporeal Portal

Video

Slowfoam - Like Phantom Memories in the Slinking Storm

NEY - Gestalt Der Dämmerung (figure of dusk) - excerpt

from 'Transcorporal Portal', out now on Somewhere Press
@slowfoam

Slowfoam - Divine Morpho, Shimmering (feat. RAN PARK)

A. Certo is the alias of Artūras Čertovas, a Lithuanian artist and sonic storyteller. Here he charts frenzied rhythms in a mix of tripped-out, ambient exotica. Centering on polyrhythmic percussion, he invokes altered states through the deep, primordial rumblings of ritualistic drums and the anaesthetized bliss of dreamlike fourth world.

"Recorded in my attic in Brussels during the new moon in the sign of Pisces on March 10, 2024."

@art-ras-e

Somewhere #15 ~ A. Certo

Waves become wings with Somewhere Press.
Originally aired on Refuge Worldwide, 11 April 2024.

Somewhere Press ~ Refuge Worldwide 110424

Our mix for the NTS Early Bird show, 3 May 2024.
Covering for Jack Rollo <3

featuring unreleased/forthcoming music by @floriantmzeisig @sunfear1 @alliyahenyo @man_rei @leaf-miner

The Early Bird Show w/ Somewhere Press ~ NTS Radio 030524

Record label exploring emotive sound work and queering notions of experimental music and print. Sub-label Somewhere Between Tapes. Distro by Boomkat.

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