NEVER THE SAME

mimic

Lucifer

Silvia Kastel - The Gap
from "Silvia Kastel - The Gap" (nkt007) 
out on noisekoelln.bandcamp.com
Edition of 50 Tapes

Photo by Ben De Biel

Silvia Kastel - THE GAP

Gonçalo Penas - Ego De Espinhos [SUB027]  
Release date: January 18, 2019 
Vinyl & digital pre-order: https://goncalopenas.bandcamp.com/album/ego-de-espinhos

Continuing Subtext’s exploratory electronics and devastating sonics is the expansive Ego De Espinhos, the debut full-length from twenty-two year old Porto, Portugal-based artist Gonçalo Penas.

Described by Penas as a series of “self-exorcisms,” Ego De Espinhos is the cathartic outcome of a highly introspective process. Shaped by opposing forces and instincts, the LP touches on themes that are at once intimate, yet omnipresent. Splendor confronts destruction; id confronts super-ego.

Created solely with digital instruments designed and built by the artist, Ego De Espinhos is the result of Penas’ improvisations. 

@goncalopenas
@subtext-recordings

Ego De Espinhos

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Gonçalo Penas - Ego De Espinhos

Elvin Brandhi - Shelf Life (EP)*OUT NOW*

Format: Digital, Cassette
Cat.No: CANVAS003

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“
Sickness unto death in an age of commodified well-being: approaching death from the point of view of an actualised virtual eternity. The commodification of daily life and the self, preclude the possibility of reincarnation, we do not identify ourselves as a cycle, a movement, an expression of life itself but as a single product that exists in and for itself.
 
The supermarket social network obliterates the surface of material hybridising, detaining all movement to self enclosed unit reductions, excommunicating mutation. Encapsulated in a fixed identity, packaged and promoted, immune to the infection of outsiders. The social contract of a pre-sealed self, branded with calculated sell by date, sentenced to a shelf life of inter-passive exchange.  
 
Shelf Life compiles this synthetic axis, upon which we bide out time smiling.  
Interrupt user: authorise disk-root conflict[ 
”

Elvin Brandhi is welcomed to the index of C.A.N.V.A.S. releases as the first solo release of 2019 and the third commission since the conversion from events series to label in 2018. As a performance nomad whose very practice is simultaneously about engagement with place and a lack of geographic singularity - there could not be a more fitting accomplice to C.A.N.V.A.S.’ effort as a self-publishing artist group to build a collaborative community despite increasing dispersion. This is the solo project of Welsh artist Freya Edmondes - otherwise known for her role as vocalist in father/daughter duo Yeah You - in which performances mesh a collage of electronic sounds with a disruptive stream of improvised vocals. These tracks are as close to studio versions as this fundamentally live practice gets - roaming recordings, sample blasts, club contortions and the ever present voice alchemically infused. In 25’46” of sound, Elvin’s bio-technological monster appears like a Cronenberg body horror - mouths appearing where they shouldn’t - or a living, breathing post-digital Beckett character narrating their own club induced self-destruction. Yet the future shock is fresh - Shelf Life is as fun to listen to as it is completely disarming.

soundcloud.com/elvin-brandhi-1

Mastered by Ali Najafi
Digital Artwork by Firas Shehadeh
Tape Design by AALTAR
In Collaboration with Olan Monk

www.c-a-n-v-a-s.com

Shelf Life

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Elvin Brandhi - IMBRED WAILE / OCDC

READ THE ARTICLE: https://www.paynomindtous.it/sutarti-joshua-sabin-subtext/
@subtext-recordings
@joshuasabin

Edinburgh-based composer and sound designer Joshua Sabin is an experimental artist which has been working since the mid-2010 with extensive sample and field recordings manipulation. He released his debut record, called Terminus Drift, for the now Berlin-based label Subtext Recordings in February 2017. 

Sutarti is the latest Joshua Sabin's work which will be officially made available tomorrow, July the 5th in vinyl and digital formats. While his debut album explored humans' relationship with the environment, space, and ubiquitous digital technologies, Sutarti draws influence from the psychoacoustic features and the compositional structures existing within early Lithuanian folk music. In this record, Sabin taps into the exterminated field recordings archive of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre Ethnomusicology massively editing, distorting, pitching, filtering, and manipulating them to better exploit the emotional impact of the human voice on the listener's conscious (and unconscious) self.

We are very happy to present you the third episode in the overall 40-minutes-long Sutarti record, split into six separate movements. Sutarti: III takes on with more than 6 minutes of archival voices radical recontextualizations, which, at the same time, manifest from Joshua Sabin's very personal, interesting and inspiring artistic research, and also try to directly reflect and recontextualize the universal, ancestral potency of the Voice as humans' primary means to express themselves.

Sutarti 

Joshua Sabin - 'Sutarti: III' [PAYNOMINDTOUS premiere / Subtext Recordings]

After 2017’s 'Life, Intelligence, Joy, Breathing', Mace. is back on angoisse with 'Exor': a new work that finds the italian producer running once again alongside the established economic path of embedded game over, translating new apocalyptic visions without ever losing the synthetic vividness and cinematic sweep that define his approach.

Includes re-works by @corinmusic (Bedouin Records) and @cvntrack (angoisse, Orange Milk) who join Mace.'s call and reconstruct two tracks through their own lens.

"Consider a financial astrologer, a professional investor and a five-year-old child investing £5,000 on the FTSE100.
EXOR is space debris, garbage that reproduces itself, it’s debt’s otherworldly violence, Vergangenheitsbewältigung, our parents unjustified serenity and concern, our 37 pins.

EXOR is the child earning the most."

All tracks written, produced by Mace. 
Mastered by Adam Jankowski
Render and layout design by David M. Romero

angoisse.site
2019 ©

Mace. - Dissolve Fear Into Excited Anticipation

@emetery

https://avyss-magazine.com/2020/04/03/14796/

AVYSS Mix 05 : CEMETERY

TR038 - aircode - 'tunnel vision' [sample]

Instrumentals by SHALT
Vocals by CHAMS @chaams
Mastering by YTEM
Cover by Nicolas C.

CHAMS & SHALT - Lost In The Frame

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