Neil Luck
Downturn Fantasies
CD (E255)

Limited edition of 150 copies
Release date: August 2021
https://entracte.co.uk/projects/Neil-Luck-E255

An abandoned title for this album — Under Eye Finger Pressure —
could be a tentative instruction to the listener. Closing your eyes,
then gently pressing the base of your eyeballs through your eyelids
is a good, slightly painful way of generating accompanying visual
phenomena. Direct from the lobes, unmediated colours and shapes
that ease passage into a less concrete way of meeting the world.

Downturn Fantasies

Neil Luck (E255; 2021)

Taken from CM_30 (Music for a performance by Kolja Huneck)

https://machinefabriek.bandcamp.com/album/cm-30-music-for-a-performance-by-kolja-huneck

CM_30 (Music for a performance by Kolja Huneck)

CM_30_II

DANIELLA LJUNGSBERG - AVIKO KNEW

ESSEL

After From 0 to 90, released in 2020 on the British label Phantom Limb, Humbros returns with Druidarium (les albums claus , now - matomah), always with this focus on the mixture, the hybridization of synthetic and acoustic sounds.

Captured in the mass, the eleven pieces are a concentrate of the different mediums and materials explored by the duo during four days of improvisation in the Ateliers Claus studio in December 2020.

Eleven scenes, panoramic or microscopic faux-field-recordings, strewn with stridulations and buzzes, from which sometimes emanate melodies seeming to escape from occult radios, from a deserted hotel hall, or even from a festive parade. Sound environments with different depths, textures and distances made possible by the movement of microphones in space, the use of different types of speakers as well as a multitude of acoustic and electronic percussion played on both sides of the studio .



release date October 14, 2022

Recorded by Christophe Albertijn at les ateliers claus
Mixed by Etienne Foyer
Mastering by scape Mastering / Stefan Betke
Artwork by Valentin Verron
Matomah (former les albums claus) - lac028 - 2022

to order: https://matomah.bandcamp.com/album/druidarium

Druidarium

Humbros - Corso Fleuri

Description :

Initié via les réseaux sociaux et un coup de fil plus tard. Nous y sommes. Juliette, une des trois membres de la bande Grande Rousse Disques, répond présente à l’invitation.

C’est sans hésiter que Juliette a accepté de mixer une heure de musique pour la radio Marseillaise Tikka Radio. 
C’est après avoir fait ses armes dans l’industrie musicale que Juliette se tourne vers le métier de fleuriste. Une transition visiblement sans égratignure pour autant, elle ne perd pas de vue la musique, ni son engagement avec le label Grande Rousse Disque. Elle nous livre ici une sélection collaborative du label de Guérilléros musicaux. Inspirée par le thème des fleurs et de la saison des morts, on retrouve quelque chose entre brume et lumière dorée intitulé « Fleur d’or »


Grande Rousse Disques est un label  Parisien, conduit à trois mains actif depuis 2018, qui se concentre sur des musiques sombres à tendance expérimentale, riche de projets personnels et singuliers. 

Organisé en douce milice leur champ d’action est le territoire français souterrain. En 2022, on le retrouve plus que jamais prêt à lancer des dards emflamés sans regarder derrière. Label qui compte pas moins de 15 sorties et nouvelles toutes prêtes à être disséminées sur le territoire. On a pu croisé ses membres et quelques un.e.s de ses artistes tout récemment lors de leur release party au Sample à Bagnolet.

Artistes avec lesquel le label a collaboré : Rivière De Corps, Sacrifice Seul, Somborn, Sopoorific ect...

Pour écouter la dernière sortie du label :
 https://granderoussedisques.bandcamp.com/album/rivi-re-de-corps-exil-de-laube

@grande-rousse-disques @amuscofficial @lunarrrmaria

Amusc invite Juliette du label Grande Rousse Disques ~ 19.10.2022

Maths Balance Volumes follow up their acclaimed 2020 release A Year Closer with a further and sturdier bucket of songs scraped from the dust of being. Haunted, fragile and beautiful, this is music that explores the ghostly zones of its own creation. The loneliness and vulnerability that unfolds with the opening cut Stay lays the way for exploration of sound and song as simple melodic guitar and organ whilst the subsequent and subsequent Janet’s Song weaves these elements alongside the sound pebbles entering a water. 

This is evocative music made thoroughly by humans with the most basic of tools. Unafraid to step away from their screens Maths Balance Volumes stroll with breezy resistance to the current thread of platform regurgitation. 

Tonight flips the song on its side as a barnstorming melange of concrete hustle made from shakers, animals, humans and beelzebub knows what. Egyptian Wedding sounds like Still House Plants if they operated off the depths of a rotating well. Forming a round is a dusty scratchy heartbreaker that encapsulates the hybrid Smithsonian Folkways label approach that only MBV do. 

There is something enormously human about Maths Balance Volumes take on underground experimental music, one far more so than the human pitched music made in the mainstream today. In the 20th Century it was the other way around. What has happened ? I will let you contemplate that. But for me, in this case explicitly this press scribe is chuffed at the consequence of this reversal. Very happy indeed. 

Released June 30, 2023

Maths Balance Volumes - Stay

maxi berceuse d'enchantements ambient, spoken word, jazz expérimental, avant-garde & cute pop 🌱
@lunarrrmaria

Tracklist:

ssabæ - tous les murs sont des portes

Felicia Atkinson & Sylvain Chauveau - Dans La Lumière

feu doux - milieu humide

Hydroplane - House Warming

Oliver Coates feat. Malibu - Soaring X_1

Marnie Weber - Songs Hurt Me

Paradis Artificiel - Nirvana 2

Midwife - God Is a Cop

Haron - Maangerij

Juliana Barwick - Waving to You

Caterina Barbieri feat. Bendik Giske - Fantasy for Saxophone and Voice 

Lyra Pramuk - New Moon

Sally Decker & Briana Marela - A New Sense

Sofie Birch & Antonina Nowacka - Geor Lu

Ana Roxanne - It’s a Rainy Day on the Cosmic Shore

Perila - Crash Sedative

ssabæ - azurescens

Marnie Weber - The Courtesan

Palmbomen II - Peter Accepts Death

Hinako Omori - A Journey

Maggi Payne - Hikari

Deux Filles - Fleurs Doll

Harold Budd - Rosetti Noise / Chrystal Garden and a Coda

ssabæ - paraéidolie

Isik Kural & Spefy - berceuse

Sieste Ambient  #110 w/ lunar maria

"Soulcaster" is the third solo record by Brooklyn-based composer/performer Joanna Mattrey. Following Live in Accord and various Notice Recordings-curated performances in the Hudson Valley, this album is a further development in our years-long friendship. With "Soulcaster", Mattrey scrapes, scratches, and wails on viola, prepared viola, and a tromba marina, built by Webb Crawford. Mattrey’s love of unique and unusual sounds has inspired her to alter the pure tone of the viola through preparations with styrofoam, plastic toys, chains, and other objects. But the newest sounds in her arsenal come from the tromba marina, which has one primary playing string and thirteen sympathetic strings. Rather than gently coaxing out the harmonics, as the historical playing style suggests, Mattrey employs a raucous and roaring approach.

The title, "Soulcaster", is borrowed from Brandon Sanderson’s book series, "The Stormlight Archive". In the fantasy series, a soulcaster is an instrument that transforms one object or life form into another. Mattrey’s practice connects heavily to the idea of transformation. She uses preparations and objects not only to create new sounds from her instruments, but to embrace the unknown. No matter how many times the same object has been used, depending on the vibrations on a given day, the preparations might bring out totally different sounds. This randomness creates a joyful challenge for Mattrey, who believes that especially during improvisation, music has its own life that activates and guides the sound forward. Mattrey surrenders to this energetic line of sound over the eleven tracks featured on this tape.

NTR076 - Joanna Mattrey - Soulcaster - [Sing Out]

The music of Naarm/Melbourne composer Lisa Lerkenfeldt channels a unique wavelength of foreboding, interstitial electronics, incorporating strategies of musique concréte threaded with veiled currents of melody and hypnosis. Recent recordings for Vienna Press, Longform Editions and Aught Void have demonstrated different depths of process and finesse but her latest, Collagen, captures perhaps the most complete and complex manifestation of her craft to date.

Drawing on a disciplined palette of peach wood combs, contact microphones, piano, strings, and feedback, the album moves in low, looming arcs, ascending to strange purgatories of opaque atmosphere. Lerkenfeldt cites a core aspiration to “elevate the everyday,” transforming common objects into otherworldly sound sources, which colors Collagen with a beguiling tactility, like vibrations traced in sand. The tracks shift in frequency and feeling, alternately heady and bodily, acoustic and synthetic, isolated states of static, light, and undertow skirting the outer rings of ambient, noise, and modern composition.

Although each piece exists in its own rare air the composite panorama they present is striking in its sweep...  more

Credits:
Released August 21, 2020

All music by Lisa Lerkenfeldt
Mastering by Kassian Troyer at D&M
Design by Bartolome Sanson
Scores by Lisa Lerkenfeldt

Collagen

Gates Of Desire

This composite track consists of edits from many different Harry Bertoia compositions included in the Complete Sonambient Recordings box set available on Important Records.
This 11 CD box set contains a 114 page book. Digital downloads are also available directly from the label. 
Purchase the box physically or digitally here: 
http://importantrecords.com/


Harry Bertoia Complete Sonambient Collection - Composite Mix

Station Station est une web radio associative basée à La Station — Gare des Mines
www.stationstation.fr

Depuis 2017, à travers sa webradio, Station Station diffuse une programmation riche de mixtapes musicales et littéraires, de chroniques, d’interviews et de créations sonores. 

Depuis mars 2019, Station Station agrège de plus vidéos et récits journalistiques en écho à la programmation de La Station — Gare des Mines et aux activités du Collectif MU.

Station Station mène l’enquête sur nombre de territoires, ouvrant la porte sur le fonctionnement du lieu et ses enjeux esthétiques, éthiques et sociétaux : créations émergentes, scènes expérimentales, mouvement queer & féministe ou encore pratique contemporaine de la fête…

Sieste Ambient #110 w/ lunar maria

Station Station

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