UHF - Tune IN 2LP

Tracklist

A1. Tune IN
A2. Can U Hear The Hum
B1. Breaking Open The Head
B2. Multidimensional Transformation
B3. Sam-Sa-Ra
B4. The Book Of Forbidden Knowledge
C1. Call Of The Wild
C2. The Fifth Science
D1. The End Of Ur World
D2. Gravity’s Rainbow
D3. Searching 4 Spirituality Without Religion
D4. The Emerald Tablet

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Releases December 1 
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Since 2019, Amsterdam-based curator Pieter Jansen has used his yeyeh label as a vehicle for carefully considered (and sometimes unlikely) ‘first time’ collaborations between different experimental and avant-garde artists including Eversines, Carolina Eyck, Greetje Bijma and Oceanic. 

He’s done it again on the imprint’s next release, which is the result of a week-long collaboration between Berlin-based Polish saxophonist/composer/producer Jerzy Maczyński (whose previous collaborative release with Waclaw Zimpel as Jerry&ThePelicanSystem appeared on yeyeh in 2021), celebrated Chicagoan DJ/producer Hieroglyphic Being, and Amsterdam-based electronic artist Rein De Sauvage Nolting (RDS, who originally functioned as recording and mix engineer) – as well as countless hours of intricate post-production. 

Those who attended Dekmantel Festival 2023, where Hieroglyphic Being and Maczyński performed live together as Universal Harmonies & Frequencies for the first time will know what to expect – namely far-sighted and futurist explorations that blur the boundaries between electronic-acoustic improvisation, avant-garde electronica, rhythmic ambient, free jazz and Hieroglyphic Being’s distinctively distorted, next-level Chicagoan rhythms. This act was accompanied by live visuals by Katarzyna Debska/VLF, who later created the artwork and visual language for the record release. 
That performance, which took place at Muziekgebouw/BIMhuis, occurred a little over 12 months after the week-long residency in a rented studio below Volkshotel that laid the foundations for the project. Over five days, Hieroglyphic Being (synthesisers, vocals) and Maczyński (saxophones, vocals) laid down 26 extended improvisations, with Rein de Sauvage Nolting not only acting as recording and mixing engineer, but also contributing artistic input. 

Following the session, Jansen and Rein Sauvage Nolting selected 13 tracks to provide the basis of an expansive double-vinyl album. While some of those spontaneous improvisations remain in-tact on Tune IN, many more were reconfigured, reworked and re-produced by Maczyński and Sauvage Nolting over over many months.Maczyński added more layers of instrumentation, creating a “whole band of reed instruments” using electronic tools – a method he previously utilized on 2021’s Jerry&ThePelicanSystem album, Sariani. 

As a result, Tune IN is an adventurous and experimental album rooted in real-time improvisation that not only reflects its’ creators’ unique musical personalities, but also delivers a genuinely unique and far-sighted collaborative sound. It begins with the stretched-out, slowly building brilliance of the title track – think waves of synth sounds, complimentary reed instrument motifs and spaced-out, effects laden beats – and ends with the hallucinatory exoticism of ‘Emerald Tablet’. 
In between, you’ll find forays into densely layered free-jazz (‘Can U Hear The Hum’), percussion-powered rhythmic cubism (‘Breaking Open The Head’), shuffling dancefloor tone poems (‘Multidimensional Transformation’, where Hieroglyphic Being delivers a typically spiritual spoken word monologue), becalmed ambient jazz (‘The Book of Forbidden Knowledge’), expansive synth-scapes (the Tangerine Dream-do-Sun Ra style ‘The Fifth Style’), dystopian drum machine-powered workouts (‘Searching 4 Spirituality Without Religion’) and countless, impossible-to-pigeonhole cuts that sit somewhere in between. It’s a magical and mystical meeting of musical minds that counts as one of the most expressive and inventive artistic collaborations of recent times.

Tune IN

UHF - Tune IN 2LP [yeyeh005 snippets]

WE FORFEIT are back, again. To get the season going, we’re delighted to present the recording of a top night in Valencia. In the middle of September, Robbie and Chriss shared the cabin of the legendary Killing Time with two jewels of the Valencian scene. Arquiola and Nahuel are members of Mamvt Electonics and the two brought two bags full of electronic gold. We had two hours recorded live with tracks from Aphex Twin, Berceuse Heroique, Hieroglyphic Being, Tin Man, Secret Studio Records, Wolfskuil and more. Thanks a million to Mamvt Electronics and Killing Time, a pleasure.

Gracias a Arquiola, Nahuel, David, todos de Killing y todos de Radio Relativa xxx

Arquiola:

Dj Free of Wit:
Sterac :: Sinosphere ‎(Sino) @steverachmad
2AMFM :: Release Yourself (@secret-studio-records)
DHS :: The House of God (Dub) (High Fashion)
@tinman :: Raver Supreme (Global A)
@random-xs :: Centrifuge (M>O>S)
Planetary Assault Systems :: Function 1 (@peacefrog-records)
Cadans :: Slit (Wolfskuil)
Bradley Strider :: Bradley’s Beat (Rephlex)
@markforshaw :: The Fuck (Jamal Loves His I.B.M. Remix) (Berceuse Heroique) @kemal187

Nahuel:
1. Despina - Tulpa
2. @incaidofficial - Caphalopod
3. @toumbaa - Rashash
4. @alecpace - 7app1ng
5. @scalymoth69 - Trashy
6. Christian Coiffure - 9th Mind (Space Version) @c_coiffure
7. Atrice - Levels @atricemiras
8. Piezo - Cyclic Waves @piezopz
9. Cocktail Party Effect - Safety Button
10. @sisterzo - EMP
11. Sard - Defused
12. @farron - It’s Only 4 Life (@realitycheck-4 Remix)
13. @steevio - Orgiva
14. Octad - Unit 8
15. Reptant - Lizard Eyes @reptant_the_lizard

Radio Relativa #40 -  Mamvt Electronics 16.09.23 @ Killing Time

The third in the Holy TrinTity of issues focusing on Hellenic mythologies. Really can’t promise it won’t become Tetralogy next year. But yeah, it became a tradition to do Grecian olive-hued melange before heading to Crete each June.

This season won’t be an exception. There’s always a moment during a rather long flight to Greece when you can no longer binge on unwatched TV, impersonate working on your laptop or solve puzzles. These selecciones are for that moment. As well as for subsequent imbibing of tsikoudia while taking in Aegean vistas and car rides to the ancient Aptera or one of the Lefka Ori’s gorges.

This time around I was triggered by the story that one Heraklion-dwelling historian once told me. A hypothesis that the myth of Atlantis might have been inspired by the catastrophic volcano eruption and subsequent tsunami around 1500 BC. The one that destroyed most of the cities and villages on Crete and Ancient Thera (modern Santorini). Effectively precipitating the decline of the Minoan civilization.

Long story short, that's a tiny fraction of diverse music that has to do with lost islands/continents, sea-bound mythology, civilization-destroying natural cataclysms and yes, the ever-terrifying story of Atlantis.

I said diverse, but what does it mean? Well, there’s some authentic traditional Greek music (actually Cretan one); some less authentic approximation of the ancient one (Paniagua’s reconstruction of the ‘Hymn to the Sun’); a few thematic extractions from Robert Ashley’s ouvres; some sun-lit jazz-adjacencies (Sun Ra, Hasell, Hosono, Vallon); a bit of olden synthy/proggy library music (Benoît Widemann, Joel Vandroogenbroek); a pinch of avantgarde (George Crumb); a drop of disco and vintage popular fare (John Forde); a dollop of aquatic new age (Toshifumi Hinata, J.D. Emmanuel)… Something like that. I think it worked out ok. Should pair nicely with watermelon and raki.

Full tracklist at:
https://snowsovgethen.com/journal/snows-ov-gethen-hermetic-journals-let-me-take-you-to-atlantis

Hermetic Journals: Let Me Take You To Atlantis

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Monthly show @radio-relativa, mixes on IntergalacticFM, @internetpublicradio and @narr-radio

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