@marcuswhale

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'when will you be here again?' is the second album from Eora-based artist Grasps, following the 2019 release of their metal/ambient/electronic enmeshment 'Awoken'. On WWYBHA, angels crash to earth, impacts heavy and burns through atmosphere, but not forgetting the fall, the beautiful grace of silk and hair through cool mist and soft clouds. Combining solo works with a carefully curated set of collaborations with Bayang (tha Bushranger), Marcus Whale & Wa?ste (Felix Idle), Grasps pushes extremes of 'genre' throwing all preconceived notions of their music away, in replacement raw emotional sonic outpouring.

This album is about dealing with uncertainty/fear of death, the afterlife, identity & self-worth.

I look to an empty field. It's like a fantasy. I could stop. I could get out and walk over to it. I could smell the grass closer. The hay. The sprigs of corn. I could hear the cicadas louder. I could come closer to it. I think, when will you be here again?

When Will You Be Here Again?

Ex Nihilo (ft. Marcus Whale)

STRUMA+IODINE PREMIERE
Bara & Isa - "BELLSONG" [@jeopardizetapes]
@baraandisa

Viennese label Jeopardize is a low-key umbrella for a wide variety of styles and low-threshold approaches. Its second instalment "VARIOUS ARTISTS 2" gathers takes on ambient, noise and drone music. The full compilation is out on the 6th of June 2024 and will be presented at FLUCC Deck in collaboration with "Enigmatic Serenades". 

Artist: Bara & Isa
Title: BELLSONG
Label: Jeopardize
Catalogue: J02
Format: Tape
Release date: June 6th, 2024
Written & produced by Bara & Isa
Mastering by YBsole

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Bara & Isa is the project of London and Vienna based producers and singer-songwriters Bara Noha and Solo Isa.

With a light touch they combine sound material from various instruments such as
gong, harp, vocals, chimes, synthesizer, voice notes, field recordings, singing bowls, glockenspiel, tuning forks, flute, bells, guitar, electric organ, organ pipes, egg slicers, VSTs, friends and family into emotive compositions that could be listened to with ears, or described as _________________________________________-.

Ever since they released their first EP „pink sphere" in 2021 they have been exploring live performance in London and Vienna (most recently also Düsseldorf, their first gig away from home) and working out the meaning of life.

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„BELLSONG“ is the first of a series of new songs to be released later this year.

S+I PREMIERE: BARA & ISA - "BELLSONG" [JEOPARDIZE]

Sleeping Pills w/ 4QU4 - 16/05/2024

lower your eyelid: a few seconds dream w/ clair x & geo - 30/05/2024

Viennese label Jeopardize is a low-key umbrella for a wide variety of styles and low-threshold approaches. Its second instalment “VARIOUS  ARTISTS 2” gathers takes on ambient, noise and drone music. 

Bogland’s “Exploration of four strings” and emme’s “lucidity” further set the tone for VA2 as a split-premiere on Tender Matter. Both of the introspective pieces present their own venturous spacings and soundscapes. 

The full compilation is out on the 6th of June 2024 and will be presented in  Vienna at FLUCC Deck in collaboration with “Enigmatic Serenades”.

Produced, performed, recorded and mixed by emme 
Mastering by YBsole
Cover artwork by Mara W

PREMIERE: emme - lucidity [Jeopardize]

Viennese label Jeopardize is a low-key umbrella for a wide variety of styles and low-threshold approaches. Its second instalment "VARIOUS ARTISTS 2" gathers takes on ambient, noise and drone music.

Mastered by YBsole
JO2 2024

same - dashboard

MedardZmil - The Heron And The River

SPA presents I DARE YOU II – a continuous blend of textures, chords and soundscapes by Xzavier Stone. Inspired by and following its predecessor I DARE YOU (self-released in 2022), IDY II consists of 18 individual short compositions, fused together into one unyielding soundscape. The 26-minute piece perfectly captures the gloss and sentiment of Stone’s musical world, while showcasing his versatility as a composer. Xzavier Stone has become recognizable by his subtle and deft spins on rap and RnB music and his penchant for playfulness and experimentation. The sonic palette of IDY II ranges from traditional instruments and shimmering textures to soulful sketches and fragmented piano chops, stretched into something that flawlessly integrates into the world of SPA. While the music of IDY I was combined with a room spray, IDY II now comes with incense sticks. The burn time per stick lasts approximately as long as the music plays, thus serving as a timekeeping device. The incense sticks are handmade in collaboration with In'n'out Fragrances and packaged in a gracefully crafted handmade box. Their fragrance consists of galbanum, frankincense, hinoki, coniferous needle woods, white birch tar, honey comb and muscenone. These scents will put you in a gentle trance as you listen to Stone’s classically infected ambient compositions, mutating sound objects and playful harmonic spheres, softly evoking the aromas of RnB and Jazz.

Written, Produced & Mixed by @xzavier_stone 
Additional Instrumentation by Mattia Facchini, Yukari Aotani & Tobias Pfister 
Mastered by Modulaw 
Artwork by Babybrush & Xzavier Stone

II ACKNOWLEDGE

Spiritual Armor (Divine Shield) is a comprehensive and intelligently designed protective field that surrounds you with a multi-layered energetic shield. It provides powerful and lasting protection against a wide spectrum of harmful influences. This field safeguards your energy, consciousness, and spiritual space while integrating a divine intelligence that discerns and filters what enters your energetic field.

Core Layers and Protections
1. Negative Energies and Toxic Emotions
 This field repels low-vibrational energies such as anger, fear, envy, grief, hatred, or anxiety—whether directed at you intentionally or absorbed from your environment. The shield works by transmuting these harmful frequencies before they reach your energy body.

2. Evil Eye Protection
 It neutralizes the effects of the evil eye, whether cast knowingly or unknowingly. This includes energetic envy or malice directed toward your health, success, or well-being. The shield disrupts these energetic imprints and stabilizes your field.

3. Metaphysical and Psychic Attack Defense
 This layer offers active defense against curses, hexes, psychic hooks, implants, energetic cords of control, remote viewing, and other forms of unwanted metaphysical interference. It forms a resilient energetic boundary to keep your aura sovereign.

4. Entity Interference Blocking
 The field prevents the attachment or influence of parasitic and malevolent entities. It severs energetic cords, clears subtle intrusions, and creates an environment that is energetically inhospitable to these beings.

5. Protection from Mental and Energetic Manipulation
 It guards against subliminal influence, mental programming, energetic persuasion, and NLP techniques used with malicious intent. It also filters out manipulative or controlling energies that attempt to bypass your conscious will.

6. Blocking Harmful Informational and Morphic Fields
 One specialized layer is attuned to identify and block morphic fields or informational energy tools that carry harmful, exploitative, or malicious intent. This includes fields that aim to hijack your energy, override your will, or manipulate your consciousness.

7. Divine Discernment Layer
 At the heart of this field is a divine intelligence that evaluates incoming energies with sacred wisdom. This divine layer does not operate on personal bias, but on higher truth. Therefore, what you perceive as harmful and what is deemed harmful by this layer may differ. It blocks only what is truly not in alignment with your highest good, regardless of how it appears on the surface.

How to Use
Recommended usage: 2 to 3 loops per day
Effects last for at least 24 hours, so it is advised to listen daily for continued protection
Ideal times include in the morning, before sleep, or before entering intense or crowded environments

Spiritual Armor (Divine Shield) is your energetic guardian—working silently and powerfully to keep your space clear, your mind sovereign, and your energy untouchable by outside harm.

Spiritual Armor (Divine Shield) | Morphic & Energetic Field

An unsettling meditation on perception in the digital age. Through dark ambient textures, experimental pulses, and fragments of glitch and cinematic sound, Raw Cognition explores how human awareness burrows into the fabric of our hyperconnected society... restless, hungry, and never quite at ease.

In this world, the human body becomes a metaphor for our digital landscape, and the chigger... tiny, invasive, relentless, embodies human perception: feeding on the endless scroll of content, reacting to the invisible hum of online life, and leaving a lingering psychic itch.

Dig Deeper Little Chigger is a journey into the spaces where technology, isolation, and introspection collide.

Deeper Little Chigger #6


In this collaboration, Radboud Mens and I explore the tension between stasis and movement. Operating within the realm of drone and electroacoustic music, we construct a sonic landscape where sustained tones and microscopic events constantly shape and reshape each other. What initially appears static reveals itself to be rich with detail: tiny acoustic shifts breathe life into apparent stillness, inviting focused and attentive listening.

The album emerged from a process where sound research, improvisation, and sound design merge. Self-built instruments, the search for timbre and texture, and recordings of the learning process itself form the foundation of these compositions. Rather than following a traditional musical structure, the result is a sonic field in which the minimal continually transforms depending on the listener’s perspective. This is a layered and handcrafted album that doesn’t narrate, but questions. Marking A Boundary With The Turning Point is not a boundary. It’s an invitation to listen differently.


released June 9, 2025

All music by Ard Janssen & Radboud Mens
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu at Schwebung
Artwork & design by Ard Janssen

Manufactured by Record Industry
Distributed by Clone Distribution

PREMIERE: emme - lucidity [Jeopardize]

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