Very much looking forward to see where this label goes!

y yo escucho solo la lluvia 
y solo la lluvia que me entienda 
y tu flor siempre calla en la noche 
y tu flor siempre se cierra en el dìa 
y el aqua me esta mirando 
y el aqua me esta arrastrando 
y tu alma se vuelve en esfera 
y tu mente crece en un circulo 
y al alba yo me convierto en mujer 
y al ocaso me convierto en hombre 
y tu y yo con las manos atadas 
y tu y yo con los ojos perforados 
y la lluvia cae en mi cabeza 
y la lluvia cae en mi cama 
y tus palabras son un cubo 
y tus ideas son cuadrados 
y tu y yo entre los atomos 
y tu y yo en el centro del espejo 
y yo escucho solo al nino 
y yo entiendo solo a la nina 
y el cuarto desaparece 
y la fuente sigue sigue fluyendo 
y ves el oro de la primavera 
y miras el ojo del pajarito 
y yo escucho solo la lluvia 
y solo la lluvia que me entienda 
y yo arribo en aquel monte  
donde se quedan las pesadillas  
de la nina que esta durmiendo

bassæ - c

Third track from Russell Haswell's forthcoming album, 'As Sure As Night Follows Day'. 

Released 18th September 2015 

2LP + CD + Digital

More info: http://www.factmag.com/2015/08/27/russell-haswell-as-sure-as-night-follows-day-diagonal/

DIAG024 Russell Haswell 'Wholly Unaware'

"How To Swallow A Sword"

4. HOW TO SWALLOW A SWORD

Available through the honorable houses of HJ and HW!

DISK13

Sabla - Danzaguida

SABLA - DANZAGUIDA

First release from CAF? with the work of Flammkuch, ARIS 1201, Tissu, FSS, lks, Morizio Lemano, 909 Hz, Mystic V, lks & Tissu.

IR-90

Tissu - how many guns do you own

Full stream of @mariawhorn's haunting "Ave," a cut from her new album on @portals-editions.

More info: https://www.xlr8r.com/news/premiere-hear-a-haunting-ambient-track-from-maria-w-horn

Kontrapoetik

More info

Premiere: Maria W Horn - Ave

Ghostride The Drift - B1

Pelican Company
'Lowlife/Hi-Tech/Occult'

'Let me introduce you to a local legend, Johan Antoni. He has been running the influential synth and music store Jam in Stockholm since the late nineties. Together with Henrik Johansson aka Smyglyssna they call themselves ”Pelican Company”. 

Their first release ”Lowlife/Hi-Tech/Occult” is a distillation of every synth that has passed through Johan's hands, like a microcosmos of genres that weave in to each other and begins to tell a story that will be bigger than the sum of its parts.'

Peder Mannerfelt

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Cat #: PMPC001
Label: Peder Mannerfelt Produktion
Format: Digital

Release date: May 3rd

PMPC001 - Pelican Company - Lowlife - Hi-Tech - Occult

Saint Abdullah // “In God’s Image” // 2xCD on Psychic Liberation // 
Release date: August 21, 2020

Saint Abdullah, composed of Tehran-born brothers Mohammad and Mehdi, have fine-tuned their vision of conceptual, blown-out dub and free jazz with “In God’s Image,” an ambitious twenty-song double CD on Psychic Liberation. The opus by the two Iranians living in New York, is full of mourning and rage, but these affects only scratch the surface of the work’s emotional and formal heterogeneity. 

Like the image gracing its cover—a tiny, dusty peykan, its roof fitted with an image of Ruhollah Khomeini and cone speakers—Saint Abdullah uses DIY minimalism to deliver maximal messaging. On “Problem,” distorted percussion, Shia oration, and a sample of the late Nipsy Hussle meld into a cathartic club burner, while the rhythms and lifted string arpeggiations on “Potion for sorrow” induce hazy cinematics, the duo’s attempt at Persian stoner boom bap. 

Elsewhere are instances of improvised jamming, melancholic twinkling, and pensive restraint. The powerfully eclectic statement by Saint Abdullah includes appearances by saxophonist Travis Laplante, who blows a spiralling noir line over feedbacking cacophony. On another track, Moor Mother delivers a poetic lashing on Western imperialists who rain missiles on hospitals, grieves the bodies piling up as capital gets sucked from the Earth. 

The sample work on “In God’s Image” draws heavily from Iranian documentaries, and includes the brothers’ field recordings from Tehran and New York. Heretical combinations collide senses of antiquity and contemporaneity, resisting the many orientalist reads on Iranian culture and politics. In this struggle, Saint Abdullah conveys many emotional registers, from exhausted depression to righteous indignation. 

Among many things, the image of Khomeini on the cover, which often scandalizes American audiences, represents the overthrow of a 2,500-year-long monarchy. All forms of dehumanization receive the sonic snakebite of Saint Abdullah, and “In God’s Image” resuscitates the revolutionary potential of music that pulls from the traditions of oppressed peoples in both the East and West. 

Psychic Liberation, in operation since 2018, is an experimental music label started in Brooklyn, New York, currently based in The Hague, Netherlands. The label is distributed in North America by Fantastique, and in EU/UK by Boomkat.
Mastered by Glyn Maier
Layout by Sara Abruña 
credits
releases August 21, 2020

psychicliberation.net

Audio by Saint Abdullah
Mastered by Glyn Maier
Layout by Sara Abruña

PLIB007 - SAINT ABDULLAH - A5. Of Us (CIENFUEGOS EDIT)

off-key cover of I`m so tired* by Fugazi

``out here, I can barely breathe,
surrounded by jealousy and greed.
I can`t be reached, only had one call,
trapped underneath, separate from you all.

this time i lost my return,
in spite of what i learned.
I hid my tracks, spit out all my air,
slipped into cracks, stripped of all my cares.

I`m so tired. sheep are counting me.
no more struggle, no more energy,
no more patient, you can write that down.
it`s all too crazy. I won`t stick around.``

*with slight lyrics adjustments, because of dyslexia, speech impediment and because why not;


**I was too tired to rerecord so just added another layer that was done with both the volca and vocoder set in slightly different pitches, hence it`s extremely off-key, but kinda fun in a way somehow imh0

my nye mantra (recording of a live performance for my cat from my couch)

Order: https://shelterpress.bandcamp.com/album/pilled-up-on-a-couple-of-doves

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Pilled Up on a Couple of Doves is the debut full-length by PDP III, who fell into alignment in December of 2018 amid a handful of immersive and improvisatory recording sessions held at Gary’s Electric Studio in Brooklyn, New York. The trio is a collaboration between composer/producer Britton Powell and two Berlin-based artists, the British composer/cellist Lucy Railton and the electronic artist Brian Leeds (Huerco S).

At the outset of these sessions Powell presented a series of compositional sketches anchored around multi-tracked electronics and acoustic percussion. These concepts were then used as the framework for collective improvisation, with the musicians working on instinct and layering as many as eight separate takes across a track. A portion of the record also reflects moments that are purely spontaneous – in-the-moment invention with Railton on electronics and cello and Powell and Leeds working on laptop computers.

The composition process involved little in the way of overt instruction, instead favoring discussion on more abstract notions of feel and energy. As a result, the final product was a bit surprising to all involved. “I don’t think the three of us had any idea how heavy and physical this thing was going to feel,” reflects Powell.

Subsequently reduced, edited, and collaged by Powell over the next two years, Pilled Up on a Couple of Doves presents a succession of alien moods. Gauzy textures are buoyed by extreme low end pressure. Serene industrial hum illuminates the rhythmic beating of waveforms. The sounds frequently evoke opposing emotions -- tenderness and anxiety, claustrophobia and transcendence.

The record culminates in 20-minute closer “49 Days,” where gradually unfurling textures for cello and electronics mirror the overtones of a ringing gong. It’s unsettling, but deeply meditative. A map of liminal space. Music to get lost to. “One thing that’s important in relation to my work with music is to access a place outside of physical space,” says Powell. “To pursue music as a tool to reach a place outside of physical existence.”

“There's something really simple, innocent, and timeless about working with acoustic percussion instruments,” explains Powell. “I think that they allow for a very true examination of sound. It feels vulnerable and really powerful at the same time.

Pilled Up on a Couple of Doves

Walls of Kyoto

PDP III 'Walls of Kyoto' (SP125)

Peder Mannerfelt splits the difference between playful immediacy and daring experimentation. You’re as likely to find him premiering a live show at Berlin’s Atonal festival as pulling apart fabled techno meccas from Berghain to Fabric with synapse-frying precision. One minute he’s being asked to remix Björk, and the next he’s dropping EPs of non-conformist techno for Karenn’s Voam label. 

As a prolific collaborator throughout his career, Mannerfelt has veered from the orchestral tension of Roll The Dice (with Malcolm Pardon) to the anything-goes maximalism of Aasthma (with Pär Grindvik). As a producer, he’s worked on every one of Fever Ray’s acclaimed albums and live shows, as well as projects from alt music heavyweights such as Smerz, Blonde Redhead and Glasser. His Peder Mannerfelt Produktions label has become another outlet for his singular approach, presenting his work alongside similarly experimental operators like Sissel Wincent, Machine Woman, Klara Lewis and Hodge. 

More recently, his PM+ series celebrates the immediacy of club-focused tracks, and Mannerfelt thrives on the energy and community of contemporary club music. What makes him different is his response to that energy, as he pushes the music’s possibilities in wild, unpredictable directions.

PMPC001 - Pelican Company - Lowlife - Hi-Tech - Occult

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