Name: Lithophone, picancala by The Trilogy Tapes
Duration: 4 min 39 s
Description: From the Togo, Musique Kabiyé LP on Ocora

i like this alot. going to look up some more

Rather a lot more awesome than the "rock-harps" that Sigur Ros' collaborators played in "Hrafnagaldir Odins"

From Endurance's Long-Term Memory, available for pre-order now:https://muzaneditions.bandcamp.com/album/long-term-memory

Endurance - Synapse

Sans En Altérer La Nature

Air, in both its stillness and its movements, is what compels INVASIVA, the latest release by multidisciplinary artist Dorian Wood.

In early 2022, Dorian set out to investigate the root of her anxiety—and how her breathing is both affected by, and complicit to, her mental state—during an artist's residency at Loghaven in Knoxville, Tennessee. Upon touring the campus, she learned of the Whittle House, an abandoned cabin on the grounds that had not been inhabited for many years, set apart by the other nearby, fully-restored cabins. In encountering this site, Dorian connected with the idea of isolation as a catalyst for disrepair. She came to understand how separation could trigger a fear of losing self-awareness and the inability to escape. 
 
INVASIVA is a document of the artist meandering physically and mentally between two forms of confinement: "mandated" and "self-imposed". Like an abandoned house, the composition is filled with a stillness that seems both uninhabited and anticipatory. Gradual shifts in tone build an atmosphere of meditation, and droning notes are sustained like a deeply held breath. And yet, despite the fear of quiet isolation which permeates the piece, INVASIVA swells with slow respiration, revels in the wind, and echoes with gentle reminders of outside life. 
 
The work is one that emulates a contemplative state which is constant threat—and perseveres.  Comprised of the recorded stillness within the Whittle House, and sounds captured in the office lobby of Dorian's breathing specialist in Los Angeles, INVASIVA is a quiet, ethereal triumph over suffocating loneliness. It is a piece that is filled with inhalation, anticipation, reflection,  exhalation, release—it is filled with air.

Invasiva

Dorian Wood - Invasiva (excerpt)

From the Togo, Musique Kabiyé LP on Ocora

Lithophone, picancala

~ IIKKI 020 ~

music : Akhira Sano
photography : David Nissen
album : Shadow's Praise
durations : 37.40 mn (LP) / 43.31 mn (CD)
date : April 20th 2023

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All production by Akhira Sano

Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Artwork by David Nissen
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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edition :
vinyl: limited to 300 copies / marble (crystal, silver and white) LP / hand numbered  / pantone
cd: limited to 200 CD / hand numbered / pantone
book: limited to 500 copies hand numbered / embossed / selective UV varnish / hand stamped 

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pre-order : March 03rd, 2023 / official release : April 20th, 2023

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Links :
https://iikki.bandcamp.com/
https://www.iikki-books.com/
https://www.instagram.com/iikki_laaps/
https://linktr.ee/Akhira_Sano
https://www.davidnissenphoto.com/

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Akhira Sano - Nakazu

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Somi

Minism

Classic ’60s surf-rock channeled into hazy ambient zones... 

LA's Jake Muir constructs a poignant sound world crafted from samples of a well loved American pop group smudged with aqueous field recordings made everywhere from Iceland to the beaches of California. 

In nine succinct scenes, the results loosely limn a wide sense of space and place with its fading harmonic auroras and glinting, half-heard surf rock melodies rendered in an abstract impressionist manner that suggests a fine tracing of in-between-spaces, perhaps describing metropolitan sprawl giving way to vast mountain ranges and oceanic scales. But for all its implied sense of space, ultimately there’s a paradoxically close intimacy to proceedings which feels like you’re the passenger in Muir’s ride, and he patently knows the scenic route...

A1. High Tide
A2. Lapis Lazuli
A3. Shoal
A4. Yaupon
A5. Peacock's Tail

B1. Green Eyes
B2. Buoy
B3. Drifter
B4. Lanterns Below

Limited edition of 300 copies pressed up on clear vinyl. 
Mastered by Lawrence English at Negative Space, cut at D&M Berlin.

https://boomkat.com/products/lady-s-mantle

https://sferic.bandcamp.com/album/ladys-mantle-5

Jake Muir - Lady's Mantle (sferic003) [Preview]

This year London has experienced several weekends of the hottest summer and that moved the Australian sound artist Kate Carr, whose practice is centred on articulating the relationship between people and place through sound, to point her microphone at the city. This volume is based on her recordings during a particularly hot long weekend in a corner of very busy intersection in London, where she resides now. In Heatwave, Carr is interested in both the serious and also the more prosaic aspects of soundscapes related to climate change. She investigated the throbbing summer music from her neighborhood, people’s efforts to keep cool, and the uneasiness which accompanies these everyday activities in this moment of environmental crisis. The way these pieces construct and compensate, with all the tangible sounds that fold into larger moods via multiple instruments, exemplifies her acumen in creating sonic stories that reflect our multi-layered experience of reality.

Humidity - from Heatwave out now via Hasana Editions

Souvenirs cachés / Innermost

Murmureln

On her first solo lp, Roxane Métayer fully explores the sonic possibilities of the violin, field recordings and folk oriented orchestration and melodies. The violin is often taken the melodic lead, but at the same time serves a drone background, but just as much a percussion instrument. In any case: the focus is definately on the sound itself. She’s not afraid to use effects, minimal percussion, whistles and the occasional hushed vocal to expand the sonic palette to a maximum effect, resulting in multilayered, semi-improvised meanderings, gently evolving around a tight core.

Lithophone, picancala

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