it sound so much like the Vivaldi's Stabat Mater

@lagswitchmusic

Vertige II is the second compilation to be released on Abîme, gathering tracks from ten artists to explore the Vertige concept with a wider spectrum of intents.  

It features contributions from musicians all around the globe, each of them delivering an interpretation of this ambivalent sensation that could be equally seen as a positive or negative feeling if taken in its plurality of meanings.

Ranging from GIL’ dizzying textures in ‘Storm Petrel’ to the sweetness of Fauness’ guitars in ‘Am I ready’, Vertige II finds its coherence when seen as a progression, a back and forth between fear and love, with each track responding to the previous one by being its deforming mirror.

Vertige II puts the emphasis on vocal tracks, but again doesn’t limit itself to a one-sided approach, and that’s how Lil Asaf’s harsh Jordanian rap can be found coexisting with Flagalova’ anthemic pop and Ptwiggs’ shoegaze ‘Forever is not enough’. 

As the successor of our first compilation, this record can be seen as both a continuation and a rupture in comparison with it. The delicate sound palette of the original opus has exploded and expanded into an ecletic collection of pieces, sometimes frightening and overwhelming, and sometimes soothing and reassuring, as is the Vertige.

Lag Switch - Plenilune

Ryong - Unbreakable Bonds [YGK015]
youtu.be/s8xMpekMLdw

1. Split And Tear
2. Horizon
3. Snow That Shapes A Dream
4. Ever And Ever
5. Isolde

Format: Digital/EP
Release Date: 7 May, 2021
'Snow That Shapes A Dream' featuring Eva Tind
Cover by Isak Tind
Mastered by Soda Plains

Ryong - Snow That Shapes A Dream [YGK015]

@nunununu

“𝘈𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘯𝘵, 𝘪𝘵 𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘸 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘱𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘴. 𝘍𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘥, 𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘸𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘥 𝘰𝘯𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘢 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺, 𝘸𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘥.”

With great joy we announce VALLEY001, a compilation of Valley family members that displays the versatility, power and most of all talent their community possesses. On the 2nd anniversary of the Valley Radio mix series we are able to celebrate a great coming together of people, motivated by passion and love. 
In this project Valley shows once again that they move rather like an organism than a static platform. Constructing an ever-evolving state influenced by the creative energy of its digital and social surroundings, Valley’s next shape will always be surprising yet familiarly touching. 
Treat yourself to a great variety of sounds with the debut compilation album and start your adventure of discovering the Valley.
credits
releases May 7, 2021 

Cover art + visuals by Oliva Rawlings 
Mastering by Boudewijn Scholten

Nunu - Lament

In the mix with @ewaawe / full tracklist and Q&A here: https://tankmagazine.com/tank/2021/06/ewa-awe/

TANK mix: Ewa Awe

Tracks by: 
Axel Kolb
Chico Naral
Lumpex
Maria
Syanide
Tapiwa Svosve

Mastering by Tomas Putruele

Commissioned as part of zurich moves! Forever Imbricated

Part of the Flying Lodge anthology

Chico Naral - Ha Eeah (Go!)

Gone Baby Records returns with a new release from South Texan duo Nudo who, in just under 30 minutes, aim to evoke a kind of reverence for the ghostly grandeur of rural and agricultural hubs along the Texan border. The release was recorded across South and Central Texas over the better part of a year. On ‘Acequia’, the nearly 5 minute sprawling sound collage echoes isolation, soundtracking a desolate area which drifts in and out of company. Driven by a subdued piano melody, ‘Acequia’ feels almost haunted by the business of vocal samples and moody synths that scatter in and out of hearing. 

‘Quematrasgos’ by nudo will be released on the 1st July via Gone Baby Records - pre-order here: https://americansouthwest.bandcamp.com/album/nudo-quematrasgos

Premiere: Nudo - Acequia (Gone Baby Records)

33 - 33-69

Format: Digital/Vinyl
Cat.No: CANVAS012
Release Date: 21st October 2022

Pre-order available at https://canvas-index.bandcamp.com/album/33-69

C.A.N.V.A.S. is proud to announce the release of 33-69, the debut album of 33. 33-69 laments and commemorates the interruption of the simplicities, beauties and charm of mortal life in full Baroque splendour, whilst also partaking in the final opportunities for carnal pleasure and orgiastic excesses in the earthly realm.

Through their collaborative project 33, Billy Bultheel and Alexander Iezzi further consolidate a partnership which has taken many forms within a visual, artistic spectrum. Their practice envelops performance art, music and installation, whilst pinpointing, developing and elaborating the most meaningful and poignant marriages of the disciplines. Their differing backgrounds have informed the way that their long collaboration works – Bultheel with his conservatory training, and Iezzi coming from DIY punk and experimental music scenes.

Their debut album 33-69 paints a tumultuous world within which the 33 collaboration is extended to a number of other presences that pierce the stormy skies to torment, delight and enchant. Amongst them are Ivan Cheng, Steve Katona and Dylan Kerr who appear in grace as the broody clouds part to let in some light. As the light recedes, NAKED haunts amongst the shadows on 'The Knife', with an avalanche of metallic noise.

'Thomas The Obscure', with Patrick Belaga's Cello performance, introduces an element of serene, meditative calm before 'Heaven's Blade' cuts through with the ultimate rapturous frenzy. The album ends with 'Speed and Beer’, a dizzying brass-led anthem which conveys a sense of nausea and confusion, surfacing from the shadows.

Bultheel and Iezzi carry with them a wealth of composition and performance experience and skill, boasting impressive trajectories which cross each other frequently. Now based in Berlin but hailing from Belgium and Arizona respectively, have worked together for the past three years, producing musical performances that explore relationships between movement, sculpture and electronic and classical music. This complex and intricate working relationship culminates in the creation of 33-69 as a defiant debut — a dense and finely crafted work which finds unlikely pathways through which to navigate Baroque, Lieder and exuberant club through humour, dread and exaltation.

33-69 was conceived during the first Covid-19 lockdowns and documents the duo’s experiences of pandemic life in Berlin. Recreating that dopamine shot and collaborating towards a sense of community that the pandemic had suddenly folded away. The record is a short but powerful rush of emotional states and bodily desires, translated into cerebral and carnal electronic compositions of EDM, noise and techno. 


Written, produced, recorded and mixed by 33 (Alexander Iezzi & Billy Bultheel)

Additional vocals on sirens by Dylan Kerr

Mastered by Ali Najafi

Design by Leïth Benkhedda & Stelios Ilchuk

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

33 - Thomas the obscure (Patrick Belaga)

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https://soundcloud.com/opalbeau

artwork by usof (linktr.ee/usofusofusofusof)

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Evita Manji - Body/Prison
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 136S
Format: DL
Release Date: 05 December 2022
Purchase: PAN.lnk.to/Body_Prison

'Body/Prison' the first single of Evita Manji's forthcoming debut album 'Spandrel?' is out now.

In evolutionary biology, the term spandrel refers to the features of an organism that aren't developments for survival, and seemingly possess no obvious purpose. The word is taken from an architectural label for the triangular spaces in the corner of an arch: small aesthetic elements that provide symmetry and demarcate boundaries. Musician and vocalist Evita Manji asks an opaque question on their debut album, wondering in the face of immense loss what elements of ourselves might be for endurance, and what might just be decoration. Their tracks, pieced together from the vapors of contemporary club music, baroque pop, and experimental sound design, are a way for Manji to examine their relationship with the world at large and within, disassembling systems of control and highlighting interconnectedness.

Manji has been an ethereal presence on the scene for the last few years, collaborating with numerous artists as both a sound artist and a creative director. Last year, they launched their own platform myxoxym, where they debuted two singles from "Spandrel?" and assembled an ambitious fundraiser compilation featuring Rainy Miller, Palmistry, Cecile Believe and others, raising money for Greek wildlife fund ANIMA. Performing across the world at festivals such as Unsound, Lunchmeat, and Rhizom, Manji has also appeared at clubs in Berlin and London, and was picked to represent the Shape+ platform in 2022. These experiences teem through "Spandrel?", helping them weave a complex artistic tapestry that seeks to look far beneath the surface of existence, attempting to balance the doom of global climate meltdown with themes of self-actualization, love, and bodily autonomy.

The album opens on the title track, an introductory précis that prepares listeners for what they're about to hear. Manji's vocals hum with a plugged-in sense of cybernetic melancholia, filtering the world's barrage of rhythms and harmonic themes into lithe, clubwise pop that's buoyed by their advanced sonics. From there, we're wrenched into the sadness of atmospheric lament 'Pitch Black', a meditation on death that submerges deep bass beneath layers of choral bliss, evoking the church and the dancefloor without sacrificing the power of each polar element. Their darkness is pushed from the inside to the outside on 'Oil/Too Much’, a commentary on the oil industry from the perspective of the animal kingdom that doubles as a neon-hued expression of contemporary depression. But it's on 'Body/Prison’ where Manji sounds most naked, speaking honestly about their life's darkest moments and confessing their deepest feelings over searing trance-inspired synths and grotesque percussion.

"Spandrel?" is an album that takes time to unravel, and Manji's themes resonate through history that's older than pop music. It's tragic, romantic, and poetic, and resolutely refuses to turn away from the era's most urgent concerns.

Production, writing, composition: Evita Manji
Mix: Evita Manji
Master: Enyang Urbiks
Artwork: Spyros Droussiotis

Spandrel?

Evita Manji - Body/Prison (PAN 136S)

Taken from SBKT023: Scintii – Aerial / Paperbags
Release date: November 30th 2018

https://soundcloud.com/scintii

Mixed and mastered by Alexis Chan
“Terminals” produced by Soda Plains
“Aerial / Paperbags“ produced by Scintii & Soda Plains

Cover photos by Shuwei Liu
Styled by Dre Romero
Make up & Hair by Regia Lu
Assistant: Jaya
Special thanks: Shushu/Tong

“Aerial / Paperbags” is the second EP from Scintii, aka Taiwanese producer/vocalist Stella Chung. The music is inspired by travels, dreams, stories and films of unsaid emotions. The production merges her influences of club music, memories of her father playing classical music while driving, as well as focusing on exploring her vocal abilities. The release also marks her first time working closely with another producer, Alexis Chan aka Soda Plains.

Tracklist:

1. Prologue
2. Deux
3. Terminals
4. Aerial / Paperbags

Scintii

Taiwanese producer/vocalist Scintii (aka Stella Chung), bears a diverse background in both studio composition and pop music which she studied whilst residing in London for several years.

Since her move to Shanghai in 2017, Scintii has become a core member of the thriving club scene in the city. She has played for i-D, Diskotopia on RBMA Radio Tokyo, NTS & Radar Radio. She recently played a number of London shows, including events at Southbank Centre, and headlining at Corsica Studios.

Mica, her first release, is inspired by the form and body of minerals, pensively underpinning dark, elusive, cut-up pop vocals with crystalline synths and rhythms from UK grime to the dembow for an enrapturing and refreshing sound. Her second EP Aerial / Paperbags is due late November this year, along with a few vocal collaborations with high profile artists.

Aerial / Paperbags

Scintii - Aerial / Paperbags

A Magdalena's apathy compilation featuring music from 0111001101110100, DJ LOSER, DJ巫女, EVITA MANJI, HAJJ, HUMAN HOST, JAK3, JULIEN ANDREAS, PENELOPES FIANCE, RNR D3MON, XIAO QUAN. 
Picture of the artwork from HAO.
Limited copies, and if interested in grabbing one dm DJ LOSER here : https://www.instagram.com/00djloser/ , or mail at : themortalreminder@gmail.com

Scintii - Aerial / Paperbags

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