A bunch of sounds I have been bustling around these last months. Now they are digital available from my bandcamp.

Artwork by Iñigo Villafranca Apesteguia
Mastered by Shy

Sandstone And Granite

spit spinner

Purchase: bit.ly/daniailyas
Catalog #: GN77
October 22, 2024
LP+DIGI

DANIAILYAS is the collaborative, cross-continental project from Barcelona-based composer Dania Shihab (Paralaxe Editions), and Portland-based avant-gardist, Ilyas Ahmed (Grails member and collaborator with Liz Harris, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, and Golden Retriever). Having both previously issued solo works through Geographic North, a remote one-off collaboration soon manifested into an on-going aural dialogue, yielding the duo’s debut ‘Enough for Me to Remain.’ The album stands as a hallucinatory masterclass, charting into the theater of the uncanny—Dania's transcendent vocal melodies and cathartic synths exquisitely woven between Ilyas' mercurial guitar in some vaporous dance of beauty. A love letter scribed in blood. A bloodletting drenched in hope.


Opener “The World Spins” immediately establishes Dania and Ahmed pairing as a truly exalted engagement—a nascent collaboration with boundless potential and cosmic chemistry. It’s the best of both worlds, with Ahmed’s spidery, open-ended acoustic gestures providing the perfect backdrop to Dania’s double-tracked and echoed lyrics spoken into the darkness. The morbid mise en scène of “Be Where” creaks with diegetic gloom and deeply sullen composure, straddling the physical, astral, and ethereal plane at once. 

Commencing in a blur of solemn acoustic genuflection, “Walking Through Another Door” ambles along with wordless, funereal focus. Vocally, Dania meticulously layers various vocal parts into a unified, mellifluous missive delivered with disembodied elegance and weightlessness. It’s equal parts angelic and grievous, striking a chord of heart and mind. “Breathe and Start Again” continues the emotion into more kaleidoscopic patterns, with a heaving manipulated clarinet motif turning over and over again through its habitual dance and Dania’s spectral coos floating by like storm clouds at dusk.

“The Pilgrim” ushers in an unassuming epic of dust-swept vistas haunted with spirits of yore. Beyond capturing a “cinematic” feeling, the song is essentially “pure cinema,” conjuring aural images that are both historic and timeless. In the song’s final moments, Dania’s refrain “Feeling dark again” enters the weighted darkness, bringing a flash of light and hope amidst the oblique obscurity. Closer “Coming Home” offers the most vulnerable and delicate moments on ‘Enough for Me to Remain,’ creating ample safe space to console and comfort in these weary times.

DANIAILYAS - "The World Spins"

From Jonas Munk's 2012 album Pan, newly reissued on vinyl!

http://www.elparaisorecords.com/releases/jonas-munk-pan-lp-preorder



Jonas Munk: "Current"

Calling_Me

Music from 'SYNDROMES' A Film by Kristoffer Borgli & The Golden Filter

Kill Me

"Sluice Box Tavern" is the first song released from the forthcoming new EP by CONTACT FIELD ORCHESTRA "Mapping The Futures Gone By" [HNR55] on HIT+RUN.

"Mapping The Futures Gone By" furthers CONTACT FIELD ORCHESTRA's exploration of dubby broken percussion and haunting found sounds.   Sirens and lasers accent plaintive woodwind arrangements set against mbiras and bluesy guitars.  Fitting in a time and place that's uniquely it's own, MTFGB is a travelogue to a lucid dream, a mining expedition or a trip to space--somehow nostalgic and familiar, yet somehow not at all.

This 6-track EP is the fourth release from CONTACT FIELD ORCHESTRA with HIT+RUN ("Volume 1", "Volume 2", plus the cassette-only H+R Mixtape from 2012).  CFO has also appeared on Giles Peterson's seminal compilation series "Brownswood Bubblers Vol. 10", and contributed to Ninja Tune's popular "Solid Steel" mix series.  

CONTACT FIELD ORCHESTRA is produced by Southern California musician & artist Damon Aaron.  In 2008 he came across a box of 7" tapes at an estate sale in Altadena that turned out to be field recordings of a turn-of-the century orchestra of ex-miners; recorded almost entirely with hand-made instruments and contact microphones.  This became the source material for this collection of celebrated releases with HIT+RUN.   

"Mapping The Futures Gone By" is available in two very distinct limited-edition green/bronze & green/black heavy-splattered 10" vinyl, each housed in a one-of-a-kind hand silkscreened jackets printed by Hit+Run in downtown Los Angeles. Limited pressing of only 400 copies! 

**RELEASE DATE: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2015**

CONTACT FIELD ORCHESTRA  "Sluice Box Tavern"

cover of Rexy 'Running Out Of Time' by Connan Mockasin. original version can be found on the 1981 album 'Running Out Of Time' to be re-issued on URU/Lucky Number on March 18th, 2016.

Pre-order:
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www.roughtrade.com/albums/100400
http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/prod/REXY-RunningOutOfTimeBonusDiscEdition-LuckyNumber-107723.html

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www.luckynumbermusic.com

Connan Mockasin - Running Out Of Time (Rexy Cover)

Gadfly

Taken from the self titled record on ALTER, released on the 23rd of June.

Order: https://lovetheme-alter.bandcamp.com/album/love-theme

Love Theme - Desert Exile (ALT34)

Endless Revisions LP [LN010] will be out October, 27th 2017 (12inch double gatefold & Digital). Order now - https://lumierenoire.lnk.to/EndlessRevisions

Photo By Noémie Goudal - http://noemiegoudal.com/
Artwork by Hello Dune Lunel - http://www.dunelunel.com/

After twenty years at the center of the electronic scene, the enigma that is Chloé still stands. While Chloé has long transcended her image as the “DJette” behind legendary club night Pulp, headlining the Rex as well as clubs and festivals throughout Europe, Endless Revisions represents yet another deviation from rigid genre classification, deepening the often-linear perspectives on current music. A rich and multi-faceted work, the artist’s captivating third album drifts from one mystery to the other, harkening back to philosopher Theodor W. Adorno’s maxim: “the task of art today is to bring chaos into order.”
Seven long years in the making, the follow-up to One in Other is only the third full-length by the artist, whose high standards translate into scarcity: “I did wait a while to make this album,” she confirms, “because I prefer not to impose deadlines on the full-lengths. To do so would stifle my creativity. Over the past few years, people have come up to me with interesting collaborations. I composed the score for Lidia Terki’s feature Paris La Blanche, worked with the Ircam for a live interactive installation, reinterpreted Steve Reich with percussionist Vassilena Serafimova... These opportunities forced me to leave my studio and encounter other people’s universes, which allowed me to grow. So today, I feel like I have new things to express.”
The time felt right for the producer to come up with a new opus: “the label was born out of a desire for emancipation, for self-assertion. Lumière Noire was the push to finish this new full length.” This third LP serves up Chloé’s music in its finest form – music that eschews the well-trodden paths of delight and seduction in favour of an experimental sensibility that puts motion before emotion. The title, Endless Revisions, refers to the constant work that goes into the gestation of the artist’s inner landscapes before they can be displayed for the audience. This sensory experience also serves as a mirror that she hangs for herself, each resulting track providing another step toward emotional equilibrium.
The idea with this new label, this new album, is to look towards the future.  This album represents who I am now, as I’m opening up to new horizons.”

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