Raw phone recording of "holsa" with LCollective at a very hot and stormy day in Maastricht, Netherlands in 2019. at Intro in Situ concert series. Thanks to Evelyn Emile.

Germaine Sijstermans (clarinet), Douglas Farrand (trumpet), Teodora Stepančić, (casio), Assaf Gidron (electronics), Gabriela Areal (cello)

"holsa" (2017) with thunder - Maastricht - LCollective 2019

Studio track 1

shifts

US/ROW: geographic-north.com/vinyl/lifetime-of-love
UK/EU: soniccathedral.co.uk/moondiagrams
Digital: geographicnorth.bandcamp.com/album/lifetime-of-love
Catalog #: GN41 & SCR125
Mastered by Heba Kadry at Timeless Mastering

'Lifetime of Love' is the debut album by Moon Diagrams, the solo recording project of Deerhunter co-founder and drummer Moses John Archuleta. Recorded in Georgia (Atlanta and Athens) and Manhattan (East Village) over a 10-year period, 'Lifetime of Love' finds Archuleta processing various stages of love, loss, and regeneration via forlorn outsider pop, minimal techno, and warm, weightless experimentation.
 
Archuleta follows sudden fits of inspiration or moments of chance, letting the unknown happen naturally while still confining himself to a specific set of boundaries. Samples were often taken from thrift store-sourced LPs, removed from their sleeves and chosen at random to find loops and textures. Elsewhere, Archuleta would anonymize digital songs and sound files, erasing track names, and re-recording new versions of the randomized mixes.

'Lifetime of Love' is the result of three extended fugue states, each marked by specific moments of catharsis. In 2007, between the release of Deerhunter’s breakout LP Cryptograms and 2008 LP Microcastle, Archuleta began his earliest solo experiments. The nascent exploration was enough to free himself and create sounds without inhibition. “Bodymaker” and “Nightmoves” are products of Archuleta’s earliest solo recordings, capturing his willingness to venture outside of the taut, mesmerizing drone rock of his main band. The chilling, ambient techno of “Nightmoves” perfectly foils and compliments the broodingly sullen but sincerely beautiful shuffle into the dark.
 
Between 2012 and 2015, Archuleta experienced a reset of sorts, including the collapse of his marriage (a 10-year long relationship), touring support for Ariel Pink and James Ferraro, and a rekindled interest in his solo material. He began actively cutting himself off from a number of personal relationships and experimented with various drugs to begin recording again. Locking himself in his practice space, Archuleta would use only the spare instruments he found laying around in recording sessions. This period yielded a disparate mix of sonic sketches, from eerily bucolic choir recordings (“Playground”), dusty art-pop (“Moon Diagrams”), and infectiously jubilant dance pop (“End of Heartache”).
 
For the final period, Archuleta found inspiration following an extended stint in Berlin, when he had flown out of the US on Christmas day, largely estranging himself from his friends and family. While holed up in the Michelberger Hotel, Archuleta fully intended to finish his debut LP. Instead, he remained in a state of relative isolation, haunting the hotel and taking in the city’s dark energy. After three weeks, Archuleta returned home in Atlanta, without having made much headway on the album. Feeling unproductive, depressed, and marred by jetlag, Archuleta resolved to finish the LP, working in a three-day fury of productivity that resulted in “Blue Ring,” “Ghost and the Host,” “Magic Killer,” and the final edits of 'Lifetime of Love.'
 
Subtly grandiose and quietly epic, the album explores a hopeful and curious beginning, a morose middle, and a bittersweet, optimistic end.

Moon Diagrams - End Of Heartache

Asyl Cahier [ LSI Dream ] Japan

This set was recorded at Nachtdigital Festival (ambient stage) last year.
Listen and dream…

-asyl cahier

www.smkmachine.com

UN #56 Asyl Cahier

We live in a world of transmissions. In a flurry and fluster they shimmer across an ethereal plane, filling our modern world to the brim with information. Our next guest, Antenes, specializes in taking these transmissions to a new dimension with her unorthodox methods of musical composition. Utilizing vintage telephone equipment, she shapes and molds sound as if she were a sculptor. Her work on L.I.E.S., and more recently Silent Season, has been met with a resounding praise and for good reason. Antenes is the ethos of the unknown, the sound that became lost between the cracks. With her skills as a DJ parallel to her music, it was only natural that we ask her to transmit something special for UNRUSH. Enjoy!

Thanks a lot https://soundcloud.com/antenes

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lesantenes
Hand built synthesizer: http://meridian7.net/
Homepage: http://antenes.net/
RA feature: https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/2856

Cover artwork by Joop Schroen
Cover picture by Harald Solberg

Tracklist:

1.Antenes - Telecom Recordings, synthesizer >>> [continuous]
2.Monolake - Gobi - Imbalance Computermusic >>> [continuous]     
3.BLNDR - Temples And Mothership - Natch Elements
4.Earthen Sea - The Time Past - Silent Season
5.Raica - Drone - Further Records
6.SETI - First Fragment - Instinct Ambient
7.MIIA - Search In Destruction - Unreleased
8.Binsy (Miriam Bordoni) – Alti Forni - Cabiria
9.Evan Caminiti - Acid Shadow I - Dust Editions
10.Byron Westbrook - Precipice - Root Strata
11.Jo Johnson - Weaving - Further Records
12.Dan Joseph - Digital Ephemera - Dendroica Music
13.Lea Bertucci - Sustain And Dissolve - NNA Tapes
14.Sky H1 - Huit - PAN
15.Antenes - Chicago, Metra Train, 1000x [version] - Silent Season
16.Last Faith Studio- For Faith (Feat. Sebastian Mullaert) - Last Faith Studio
17.Abul Mogard - Trembling With Tenderness - Houndstooth
18.Antenes – Dream Uncreates Abstracted / Live Excerpts @ Issue Project Room
19.Lawrence English - Negative Drone - Cruel Optimism
20.Richard Lainhart - Mist - The Deep Blue of Twilight [release]
21.Internazionale - Protection Glass (Love Is The Cure) - Posh Isolation

Unrush 027

027 - Unrushed by Antenes

A fresh DJ mix with lots of tracks I like...Tracklist soon at http://www.legowelt.org -> Thanks to all artists that produced the tracks you are all legendary :)

The Masterpiece Society - DJ Mix

/ luces

que atraviesan

una ventana /

angeles rojas y florencia sgandurra, pianos
gabriela areal y violeta garcia, cellos

grabado por sam nacht en estudio libres en enero, 2020

yin&yang

Sounds from a website/composition Teodora Stepančić and I made for Gaudeamus Musiekweek 2020:

assafgidron.com/squares820

squares820

For Alan Turing [2011]

Played by the composer

For Alan Turing [part one]

Teodora Stepancic and Assaf Gidron, playing piano, keyboards and electronics
https://www.facebook.com/stepancic.gidron/?fref=nf

Studio track 1

Stepančić.Gidron