@yogev-freilichman's 'Hyper Green Wave', taken from the neurotic and angry EP 'Force Close'. Forthcoming on @a-flooded-need.

More: https://ins-rt.net/audio/yogev-freilichman-hyper-green-wave

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Premiere: Yogev Freilichman - Hyper Green Wave

The Psychologist

Fuel for the Flames

From KMRU & Aho Ssan's Limen LP

Vinyl & digital album: https://kmruahossan.bandcamp.com/album/limen

Released on April 29th, 2022

Last year, Kenyan sound artist Joseph Kamaru (aka KMRU) and French digital alchemist Niamké Désiré (aka Aho Ssan) were invited by Berlin Atonal to collaborate on a project for the festival's Metabolic Rift edition.

The duo had already been working together, but the offer provided the momentum to shift the conversation into another gear. Initially, they looked for thematic connections within their individual practices that might match Kamaru's meditative soundscapes with Désiré's crumbling cyberpunk expressionism, and surprisingly for two artists renowned for their grasp of minimalism, it was the opposite that drew their attention. Watching the world shift as it reacted to the spiraling pandemic, Kamaru and Désiré were moved to experiment with volume, physicality, and intense emotionality.

“I never made something so extreme," Désiré says of the duo's first recording, 2021's 'Ruined Abstractions', an extended composition that matches dense, powerful low-end drones with fractal digital fuzz and smokestack bruit. It set the mood for a back-and-forth that resulted in their seismic debut full-length, "Limen", described by the two acclaimed artists as an attempt to scrutinize the yin and yang of destruction and creation.

Cacophonous, concrete crunches fanfare the album's opening piece 'Resurgence' - the result of their Berlin Atonal commission - but the track refuses to languish in wrecking ball devastation. Instead, powerful synthesized harmonies ring from beneath the rubble, before stifling everything in a humid fuzz of dense, emotionally-charged cinematic electronics.

Influenced by the prescient post-apocalyptic mood of Katsuhiro Otomo's "Akira" and the mythological phoenix, an immortal bird said to be reborn from the ashes of its dying predecessor, "Limen" is an album that sonically snapshots the anxious, floral beauty of an explosion or the colorful intensity of a raging fire. It's rooted in concepts of duality - the idea something unsettling can be viewed from a different angle and re-interpreted.

On the album's epic, 21-minute centerpiece 'Ruined Abstraction I + II', swirling electromagnetic interference paints a haunted parallel vista that dissolves slowly into subtle, orchestral tones and booming, widescreen thuds.

Almost angelic closing track 'Rebirth' meanwhile is the most unashamedly beautiful composition Kamaru and Désiré have written together, but its choral bliss is doused in petroleum noise and saturated distortion.

"Limen" is an album that seeks to lift a veil of silence from the world, replacing it with maximalist bombast and vivid passion. It's a dynamic piece of work that finds its creators pushing themselves to the limits, deconstructing history as it detonates around us. 

All tracks written and produced by Joseph Kamaru
and Niamké Désiré; mastered by Joker

Published by Multiverse Media Publishing
© & ℗ Subtext / Multiverse LTD 2022

http://subtextrecordings.net/

Limen

KMRU & Aho Ssan - Rebirth

Tedium is modernity in the waiting phase. A longed-for moment of stasis.
A compilation of 23 tracks that shows us a rather wide spectrum including diverse manifestations of modern electronics. Boredom and neurosis that hold hands and become a chameleon-like whole.

Sometimes this combination draws its essence from obscure ambient demotivating, other times steals the body of enormous noisy and granular flows.

An emblematic sound vessel capable of containing everything from the sharpest electro-acoustic resonances to the most deformed deteriorations of hip hop imagery.

released May 27, 2022

Curated by A Flooded Need and Eks.
Artwork by NMR.
Mastered by Guido Marziale at KU Studio.
FLOOD01 - A Flooded Need, 2022.

Tedium

Dreamwork

Sara Persico & Xavier Lopez - Dreamwork

Sthlm Drone Society I is the beginning of a new XKatedral tape series featuring generative music originally presented inside the Mimer mining facility in Norberg, Sweden by the collective Sthlm Drone Society. This first edition is a split release by Mats Erlandsson and Maria W Horn utilising bowed piano strings, metal plates, phase modulated sine waves and field recordings of the reverberating mine itself.

Edition of 100
C60 XK07
2016

Minutiae

RASHAD BECKER - Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol II

Format: LP / Digital
Label: PAN
Cat.No: PAN 74
Release Date: 02 December 2016

p-a-n.org/

purchase:
site: http://bit.ly/2gTtKLE
bandcamp: http://bit.ly/2gTt1dJ

Rashad Becker's new full length album, 'Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol II', due for release next month on PAN is a newly developed continuation and exploration of work since his highly-acclaimed first 
volume.

Incorporating more instrumental-sounding components, the record moves through both fluid and dissonant sounds which take on different structural and sculptural challenges through carefully-layered compositions. 

Following 'Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol I', the new album expands in various elements, distorted and warped, focusing in on the tension and energy of synthesized sounds that appear to exist hauntingly physically.

Known for his unrivalled attention to sonic detail across his work, Becker's unique techniques and expressive manipulations of sound are laid bare in an exhilarating new form, stylistically distinctive and uncompromising. 

The album is mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, featuring artwork by Bill Kouligas.

traditional music of notional species vol.II

Rashad Becker - Dances VII (PAN 74)

Mats Erlandsson and Maria W Horn meet as Dufwa in heavy synthesis wielding insect field recordings sourced from the catalonian countryside.  Dufwa’s debut release, Fältinspelningar från Terres de l’Ebre (Field recordings from Terres de I’Ebre), defies the standard conception one might have about field recording music. By means of intricate digital processing, Dufwa scrapes the natural source-bonding from their collected insectoid recording and sonically stretches them on a continuum between drone, noise and generative music.

Dufwa - Atypi

Full stream of @mariawhorn's haunting "Ave," a cut from her new album on @portals-editions.

More info: https://www.xlr8r.com/news/premiere-hear-a-haunting-ambient-track-from-maria-w-horn

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Premiere: Maria W Horn - Ave

UCC Harlo “United” LP - SUB028
Vinyl & digital: http://bit.ly/UCCHarlo-United

Release date (vinyl & digital):
March 22, 2019 

In United, her debut LP as UCC Harlo, classically-trained musician Annie Gårlid distills hauntological pop, sound art, medieval and baroque music, and left-field club production into a series of ecclesiastical-wave ventures.

Written over six years in Germany, United began on train commutes during Gårlid’s stint as a violist in an opera orchestra near Cologne and developed further during her time in Berlin. Through gestures such as reframing music by Bach and Magister Zacharias through DAW experimentation and field recordings, United proposes sonic reconciliations between the old and the new. 

United also reflects the idea that sound and music always exist in broader, complex contexts loaded with historical and environmental information and mediated by internal emotional landscapes. For Gårlid, this acknowledgement is a metaphor for our urgent need to be attentive to non-human agencies and voices. United acts as a means of claiming a right to obscurity and of “sounding” ambivalence, doubt, and messiness in an age that demands transparency and clarity. 

Annie Gårlid is a New York-based writer, musician and musicology researcher concerned with our ever-shifting, tenuous relationships with ecology, technology and care. 

Creating and discovering links between the old and the new, Gårlid operates equally in the realms of experimental, club and early music. She is a member of the Holly Herndon Ensemble and the band Songs, has collaborated with Caterina Barbieri, Bill Kouligas and Emptyset, and has performed with ASMR-artist Claire Tolan. She works regularly with an array of composers and artists, and performs as a viola player and singer in both Europe and the USA.

@uccharlo

United

Ave Giove

Vinyl & digital

UCC Harlo - Áve Giove

Welcome to Mold. Damp corners of a lonely room, kept barely heated by an oil stove, trap themselves in snares of darkness. The crushing of packed snow beneath chained tires, as a truck slowly crawls its way down a buried road. Down, down, down; there is nothing but the momentary glint of pitiless forms as the headlights pass by. 


Recorded live on New Year's day in Yellowknife, this serves as official documentation of the sole performance of Funky Doodle. For those who remember it, now it remains. 


Funky Doodle is comprised of James K, Draveng, and Dj Richard. 
All tracks are taken from this live performance.

To be released late April

Funky Doodle - A1 (Live From Yellowknife)

Taken from Kets to the Fields 31:
V / A "Japonsime"

Angelo Harmsworth _ Untitled

Subtext Recordings is a Bristol founded / Berlin based label curated by james ginzburg.

UCC Harlo - Áve Giove

Subtext Recordings

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