New EP "The Great Brain Robbery" is coming out on Bricolage April 14th.

Limited edition cassette and digital

Pre order link below. Tape comes with a unique "Fragile X" playing card.
https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/the-great-brain-robbery-bc077

The Great Brain Robbery (bc077)

Tape and Digital

Localmotion

https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Belial Pelegrim has been making music in one form or another for many a year. For the last 7 years, he’s focused his attention to electronic music. His work consists of elements from IDM, Ambient, Prog, Rock, Experimental, and Cinematic genres. Storytelling is huge part of his musical intent, focusing quite a bit on dark and unsettling qualities of the sonic realm. He now lives in a small, rural town in Northern California, living in the perpetual shade of a walnut orchard.

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Bandcamp: https://belialpelegrim.bandcamp.com/
Bandcamp (Weatnu): https://bpweatnurecords.bandcamp.com/music
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7BrPrJ4M1pDAbITaxltgjC
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/belial-pelegrim/983863379
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Tracklist:

01 / IDGlitch - Solieu  (https://soundcloud.com/idglitch)
02 / Hverheij - Starburst  (https://soundcloud.com/hverheij)
03 / Fragile X - Klangfarbenmelodie  (https://soundcloud.com/fragilex)
04 / Mood Exhibit - Nu Citiz  (https://soundcloud.com/r-salchaks-mood-exhibit)
05 / Dark Fidelity HiFi - Progressions  (https://soundcloud.com/richard-jones-215)
06 / Marie Wilhelmine Anders - Variation III (Matratze) (https://soundcloud.com/marie-w-anders)
07 / Time Rival - Ghost Haste  (https://soundcloud.com/timerival)
08 / Belial Pelegrim - Snowbound  (https://soundcloud.com/belial-pelegrim)
09 / Gary Rees - Dust to Dust  (https://soundcloud.com/gary-rees-since-87)
10 / Fake Can Soundtrack (Belial Pelegrim, Carlos Vivanco, Fornicata, Myrh, The Magnetic Dog Sisters
 - Whiskey Dust Spoon  (https://soundcloud.com/fakecansoundtrack)
11 / GrevusAnjl & Belial Pelegrim - Invisible Blue Raincoat 
(https://soundcloud.com/grevusanjl)
12 / Blink Twice - Dialogue  (https://soundcloud.com/blink-twice-archival)
13 / Suncastle - Solobraro  (https://soundcloud.com/suncastle-303)
14 / Minimal Drone GRL - The Orb  (https://soundcloud.com/minimal_drone_grl)

Mutoscope Podcast #008 - Belial Pelegrim

'Vestige'
Leit Motif
See Blue Audio SBA 058

1. Aonaran
2. Seva
3. Before You and I Were Us
4. Roots and the Tree of Life
5. Welcome Home
6. Sweven
7. Anam Cara
8. Veni Vidi Amavi

Release date: 31 January 2025

https://lnk.to/SBA058

See Blue Audio: ambient / electronic / beatless / cinematic / downtempo / eclectic / introspective… Shade rather than light...

For the opening release of 2025, See Blue Audio sees the welcome return of one its artists, but with a little twist. Glaswegian electronic producer Fragile X contributed three EPs in his characteristically dramatic and atmospheric style to the early days of the label, and his musical themes of journey and inner discovery fitted perfectly within the See Blue Audio ethos. Now he assumes his Leit Motif guise with a new eight-track album, 'Vestige', that expands on earlier releases under this name to create a fully formed and immersive sonic world for the fifty-eighth release on See Blue Audio.

In fact, this is the second appearance of Leit Motif on the label; his 'Dawn Chorus' remix of Bagaski's 'Spring Prayer' was an exclusive track on the 'Shade Rather Than Light: Anthology | Two' compilation and a joyous celebration of nature. So where does Fragile X end and Leit Motif begin? It's no secret that they are one and the same artist, but to think of Leit Motif as the more ambient side of the coin would be misleading, even though it was originally conceived as a mix series, 'Microsleep', studying the relationship between music and sleep. Rather consider Leit Motif to be one branch of the musical tree that is producer, remixer, Bricolage label head and radio show host Fragile X.

The word vestige is rich in nuanced meaning: a trace, a reminder, a residue, a fragment or relic of something that has been left behind, an echo from the past perhaps. There's a time-stretching quality to this idea and things may not always be as they seem in the moment. As the artist explains, "This album is influenced by the many thousands of connections we have with so many people throughout our lives, big and small. These connections may be ephemeral and transient, or they may be long lasting and fulfilling. That all depends on the nature of the relationships we create and sustain throughout life, but either way we display a bit of ourselves in each interaction we have and leave behind a trace. A remnant. A vestige."

Across its eight tracks, this concept is explored and imagined in musical form to superb effect. The trademark Fragile X production techniques of swirling and enveloping swathes of sound punctuated by moments of calm for reflection are fully utilised to create a powerful, at times almost theatrical, depiction of our journey through life. Waves crash against the rocks, the shoreline is weather beaten and battered, but then the heavens open and the light pours down.

There's something timeless and mysterious, even mystical, about the audio landscapes of 'Vestige' as there is with life itself. This is also reflected in the track titles. At times the mood can be brooding – 'Anam Cara', for example – while at others tingling with excitement as on 'Welcome Home'. The beatless aesthetic of See Blue Audio is also well represented on tracks live 'Seva' and 'Roots and the Tree of Life'. As 'Veni Vidi Amavi' closes the album, we're left with a sense of the wonder of life and how we are all just microscopic parts in the grand cosmos of existence.

The meaning of 'leitmotif' is a recurring theme in artistic composition and one that could be associated with a particular person, place, idea or situation. This is a pulsating vein that runs throughout the body of 'Vestige', but what it refers to we can leave to our own imagination and individual life stories. As a musical offering, this album also suits the mood as we enter a new year, and one that may well be riven with change, turmoil and dissent. May it give you a little respite.

Photography: R.Cleveland Aaron.

Vestige

'Vestige' (preview) – Leit Motif (See Blue Audio SBA #058)

Independent record label based in Asturias (Spain).

Started in 2022, Mutoscope Records is today home to many artists who produce experimental electronic music. Sounds ranging from IDM, Braindance and Ambient.

Run by Foreign.

> Contact: mutoscoperecords@gmail.com

> Artwork: Black Moon 
https://www.instagram.com/blackmoon.artworks/

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DISCOGRAPHY >>

- MTC001: Veelargo - Sync Phoney EP 
mutoscoperecords.bandcamp.com/album/sync-phoney-ep

- AI005/MTC002: 12" - V/A

- MTC003: Rec_Overflow - ZgZone EP 
https://mutoscoperecords.bandcamp.com/album/zgzone-ep

- MTC004: V/A - Sea Creatures EP (Vol. 1)
https://mutoscoperecords.bandcamp.com/album/v-a-sea-creatures-ep-vol-1

- MTC005: V/A - Sea Creatures EP (Vol. 2)
coming soon...

Drifting in the audio void.  Somewhere between the chaos and the calm.
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Production (Fragile X) 
Label Owner (soundcloud.com/bricolage-g5)
Sleep Research as (soundcloud.com/leit-motif-sleeper)
The visible half of (soundcloud.com/futurendeavours)

Music released on Bricolage, Intellitronic Bubble, Waxing Crescent, Móatún 7, noci miste, Cue Dot, Neo Ouija, Soundtracking The Void, Disintegration State, See Blue Audio, Subplant, Triplicate Records, Tribal Pulse, Light At The End, Unstrung, Gorecki Productions, Neotantra, Soundscape Versions, BFW Recordings and Bath Dub.
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