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Psychotic Fragments 5

This is an invitation to experience something new, unnerving because foreign and unusual, it requires the practice of acceptance of the different and the exogenous. It avoid conventions of "the musical" yet, it pleases the brain's desire for the unexpected and opens up new horizons for what sound composition could be like.

Perturbing sounds for the unquiet souls. The world was always in chaos, but there is order to the madness. This edition of Psychotic Fragments drifts through European and Brasilian references, from the study of the phenomenons to the modernist brasilian art. It dives into the awkwardness of sound inviting you to enter a soundscape of unexpected, yet programmed, events.

It progresses through reflections over art towards the experience of duality of the electrical. 

Composed with several programmed machines, it doesn't use samples, it's made on the spot, on one take, be what it may. 



Pintores (Merlau-Ponty)

Joshua Sabin "Terminus Drift" (SUB020)
Vinyl & digital: subtextrecordings.net/SUB020-Joshua-…Terminus-Drift

Subtext's latest signing is Joshua Sabin, a Scottish musician and artist based in Leith, Edinburgh.

Joshua's debut album Terminus Drift explores humans' relationship with environment and space, and how this experience is augmenting us as we further embrace a digital age. Our structures of communication, exploration, and discovery are mediated by technological shifts and we exist in simultaneity between our physical environment and emerging cyberspaces with a blended perception of embodiment and orientation within both.

Sirens reverberating through station tunnels, fluctuating harmonics of subway engines, echoing tannoy systems, piercing screams of electromagnetic fields.

The sonic material of this album is composed exclusively of field-recordings captured in transit through Kyoto, Tokyo, and Berlin, in addition to electromagnetic field recordings captured in Glasgow and Edinburgh. By interrogating the sonic properties of our physical environment, Terminal imagines the sonic landscapes of these dualistically navigable 'cyberspaces' we transiently create and move through interacting with our world.

http://subtextrecordings.net/

Terminus Drift

erminus Drift

Vinyl & digital

Joshua Sabin – Terminus Drift

More info - http://loose-lips.co.uk/blog/nightports-wmatthew-bourne-fragile-years-the-leaf-label

Nightports w/Matthew Bourne

PREMIERE: Nightports w/Matthew Bourne - Fragile Years (The Leaf Label)

https://ftmots.bandcamp.com/album/sleep-stations

From the Mouth of the Sun (aka Aaron Martin & Dag Rosenqvist) return with ‘Sleep Stations,’ an EP of six new songs, out May 18th, 2018 on Lost Tribe Sound. ’Sleep Stations’ rests comfortably alongside 2017’s ‘Hymn Binding’ their third full-length album and their original score for Joshua Z. Weinstein’s feature film, ‘Menashe.’ With ‘Sleep Stations’ the duo assures us that their exquisite palette of classical leaning, electro-acoustics reaped from their previous albums still leaves much to be explored.

In fact, the pieces of ‘Sleep Stations’ were composed during many of the same sessions as ‘Hymn Binding’ and ‘Menashe,’ yet they feel like a natural continuation of From the Mouth of the Sun’s sound, a stepping stone towards the next chapter, if you will. The core sound will be instantly recognizable for those who’ve followed their previous endeavors, comprised of cello, piano, acoustic guitars, lap steel, banjo, ukulele, pump organ, soft humming electronics and warm layer of static.

The title track ‘Sleep Stations’ was originally meant to be included on the album ‘Hymn Binding.’ It acted as a centerpiece and starting point for the music that From the Mouth of the Sun recorded later during the process of scoring the ‘Menashe’ film. The film ended up requiring an extremely spare palette, thus the ‘Sleep Stations’ EP represents a longing for a fuller and more controlled sound that exhibits the dynamic range that From the Mouth of the Sun strive for with their work.

There is a softness and detachment to ‘Sleep Stations’ more so, that seems to give the album an of aerial view of the landscape below. Where ‘Hymn Binding’ felt more grounded in the earth and soil, ‘Sleep Stations’ floats high above, feeling weightless, suspended in slow motion flight.

Arranging ‘Sleep Stations’ as an EP, has allowed Aaron and Dag to tell a shorter story, one that doesn’t have to be such a grand gesture, which is something they’ve wanted to explore for a while now. It’s a beautiful reminder, that a collection of music can still be simple yet deeply affecting, without being overwrought and excessive.
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CASSETTE DETAILS
‘Sleep Stations,’ our 3rd installment in the Dead West Tape Series, arrives on a limited pro-dubbed hi-bias tape cassette, housed in a reverse printed 300gsm heavy stock outer case. The edition (limited to 100) also comes with a download card offering a choice of formats including FLAC, 320K MP3, etc. Mastering was performed by Matthew Collings (aka one half of the duo Graveyard Tapes).
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DEAD WEST TAPE SERIES
Dead West is a series of limited cassette tape releases from the Lost Tribe Sound record label, inspired by the relocation of the LTS headquarters from the dry desert of Arizona to the lowland plains of Wisconsin’s farm country. The Dead West focuses on music built for exploring and soundtracking your environment, whether you're deep in the middle of lush woodlands, or just laying back at home with rested eyes. ‘Sleep Stations’ is the third release in the series. The first two releases in the series come from the composer William Ryan Fritch (Ill Tides) and experimental guitarist Seabuckthorn (I Could See The Smoke).
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credits
releases May 18, 2018

Music & Arrangements by Dag Rosenqvist & Aaron Martin
Mastering by Matthew Collings
Cover Image: NASA/JPL/U of Arizona
Layout & Design by Ryan Keane
© Dag Rosenqvist / Aaron Martin / Lost Tribe Sound LLC
Published by Settled Scores LLC (ASCAP) 2018

About the Birth of Stars

Listen / Purchase: https://lnk.to/marshdrones

The marsh land areas of western Jutland in Denmark can be flat and non-distinct to the visitor who only takes a quick glance at it. But when you are born and raised in those parts, and when you travel away to live, work, raise families, play music, anything to escape the rainy flatlands, you think about that landscape differently. On Marsh Drones, the weirdness of this landscape is reimagined in a kind of giddy, absentminded way, as though they try to recall not only the broad topographical scheme of the land (cultivated, industrialized, farmed, soggy with seawater, a breach of the ditches that pours cold north sea water inland, the farms and waterways overflowing), but only the detailed, grainy realness of sediments and layers of soil, of the hazy and salty light (Saltlys) that wraps the landscape in a kind of palpable inertia.

Many of the ideas on the 'Marsh Drones' emerged from field recordings from the area around the Tønder marshlands recorded by various members of the band. They provided a backdrop to the loops and long guitar session of guitar, bass, synthesizers, and samples that were slowly mangled and rearranged into counterpointing and fugue-like melodies, insistent on repetition while odd atmospheres of distant drones and noise works to modify and shift the composition into new shapes. The music is minimal, restrained, but rich in detail like the landscape it attempts to resonate with. There are remnants of folk music, melodies that are almost recognizable, but dub music and something distinctly digital intersects itself into the woodwork and authenticity.

Cover art by Martin Sønderlev Christensen

Marsh Drones

Klev

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Skyphone - Klev (from Marsh Drones)

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A limited edition of 175 copies as part of Gizeh's 'Dark Peak' series. Housed in a black, gatefold, recycled card sleeve. Each copy is printed and assembled by hand at Gizeh HQ. Download code included. Release 25.10.19
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• FIP "Le mythique Nanook of the north sublimé par Christine Ott & Torsten Böttcher" • NEW YORK MUSIC DAILY "Fans of both Philip Glass and Terry Riley ought to enjoy it." • ICI MUSIQUE, RADIO CANADA "A la fois sobre et éblouissant" • MAGIC RPM "une musique au naturel à la hauteur de ce film des grands espaces. (...) un album magnifique" • TSUGI "Les morceaux collent parfaitement à l’atmosphère du film" • INDIE ROCK MAG "Entre néoclassique et jazz, le spectre est large et le duo en explore une part conséquente des contours. Sombres ou sautillantes, jamais plombantes, les compositions telluriques nous ramènent à des éléments primaires qu’il serait finalement assez urgent de considérer comme actuels. En effet, comment peut-on se projeter sur une planète dont nous refusons de comprendre les besoins ? Le pouvoir de la musique est fort lorsque de tels questionnements s’ajoutent à la beauté intrinsèque des compositions. Christine Ott et Torsten Böttcher accomplissent donc une œuvre à la fois maligne et pleine de justesse." + INTERVIEW AVEC CHRISTINE OTT, "Par les temps qui courent" Marie Richeux, FRANCE CULTURE : "Les images vous font aller dans les recoins de votre univers sonore" www.franceculture.fr/emissions/par-les-temps-qui-courent/christine-ott

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Tape Anthology Vol. 1

Concertino For Tape And Violin - II. Cadenza

A short ambient piano piece off my newest release, "Penumbras".

Quietly

Hello everyone, I would like to show you my new album "Pereehali". This is my third album, it was written and recorded in the summer of 2012. After a long writer's block that was caused by a very pretentious and bombastic second album I decided to make a really intimate, solo-piano work. I lived in the countryside during the recording sessions, and every recording was done by me tête-à-tête with my lovely piano in the wooden house. It was a priceless experience working and writing while having a close contact with nature, it helped me a lot to understand the music I compose, to make it more organic, touching and moving.


playing & recording // dmitry evgrafov 
mixing & mastering // martyn heyne 
cover // vika bogorodskaya 
special thanks to nils frahm & dave howell

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Subtext Recordings is a Bristol founded / Berlin based label curated by James Ginzburg.