TFGC023 - Grischerr - Symbiosis

Release 20.05.2022
Pieter Kock - Facial Recognition (RIO08)

R.I.O. welcomes Pieter Kock aka DJ Peacock, one of the guiding souls behind the Berlin based bar/micro club O Tannenbaum. Musically active since 1986 as singer, guitarist, drummer and noisemaker, Peter already released a string of albums under different aliases like Billie and Ballie, The Hitmachine and Taladu.  Since the early 1990s he narrates haunting sonic stories as a DJ, playing a vast palette of styles - from cosmic and leftfield techno to tape experiments, sound-art, wave, world, jazz, punk, industrial, and all that weird pop music. Last year saw him liberating his first solo recordings under his civil name as a cassette tape named “Flocks & Murders of Entitled Spirits”, dropped by the Berlin/Vilnius based label Musikii. It unreels twelve sensitive tunes, made with the help of online synths and drum computers, Youtube travel- and talk show-videos or samples from Youtube synths- and rhythm box-demonstration videos. Now he refined his idiosyncratic style of music crafting a bit deeper and shares “Facial Recognition” – a gently twisted album that unites hypnagogic pop, library dances, cosmic funk, leftfield grooves and experimental sonic zones under one roof. His seven found sound tunes are layering a rhizomatic veil of unidentifiable web sounds, all transmuted into hazy looped ambiances, that trigger unconscious brain activities with future samples from the past, woven rhythm structures and a simultaneity of moments, derived from myriad world wide web informations. When it’s true, that nothing can have value without being an object of utility, then Pieter Kock managed to give the internet a new rate while using its manyfold informations as a tool to create art. Art, whose originality isn’t defined by the creator’s playful virtuosity. Instead, his sensibility of deciphering unheard rhythms, harmonies, and melodies in an avalanche of prefabricated ideas is his mastery. Pieter Kock transformed them into unfamiliar compositions with a familiar touch, that can evoke the feeling of being synchronous in a world of the many. A data rain without drops, a stream of consciousness without cognizance. Come in, drop out.

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RIO08 Pieter Kock - Facial Recognition

Ex Ponto - In A Quarry… - OFFEN 021

Artist: Ex Ponto
Title: In A Quarry...

Track list:
1. In A Quarry...Far, Far Away (15:34)
2. Golden Hours (07:28)
3. Shed 14 (03:38)

Australian musician, composer and producer Ex Ponto aka Ivan Mašić has self-released dozens of albums with improvisation collective, Council of Elders, and experimental no-wave band, Wunderlust.

On his Offen Music debut Ex Ponto is constructing an alternative civilization of grace, post-sarcasm and intuitive response. 

„In A Quarry...Far, Far Away“ is a 15 minutes long wandering with Joseph and August Norster around The Quarry, Beech Forest, Victoria, Australia, January 27, 2020. 
Life affirming „Golden Hours“ is an alternative to the general wait for extinction and completition of a suicide program out there. An ode to the moments when sunlight turns magical.
„Shed 14“ is a personal reminiscence of the legendary club in Melbourne. 

„Ex Ponto respectfully acknowledges the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nations as the sovereign owners of the country where I live and work. I recognise that sovereignty has not been ceded and pay my respects to all Elders, past, present and emerging.“

https://exponto.com.au/portfolio-item/the-sublime/
https://www.theprojects-quarry.com/

Credits:

Field recording on In A Quarry…Far, Far Away taken from a conversation between Joseph and August Norster (father and son) 
The Quarry, Beech Forest, Victoria, Australia, January 27, 2020.

written and produced by Ivan Mašić
mastered by Enrico Mercaldi 
cover photo by Joseph Norster
graphic design by Percy

Offen Music 2022

In A Quarry...

2. Ex Ponto - Golden Hours - OFFEN 021

Simon Crab's Invisible Cities album explores the outer edges of ambient, electronic, soundscapes, industrial, dub, and beyond.

Recorded at Simon's Hastings studio in 2021.

Additional percussion from Fritz Catlin & David J Smith, vocals by Ksenia Sadovski.

300 Copies 2 x 12" Vinyl

Simon Crab Invisible Cities LP (SR006)

The next instalment in the Phase Group Mix series is delivered by dear friend and contributing artist to the label, Low Bat. 

Low Bat lives amongst the black coal hills of northern France. When he isn’t marking textbooks and exposing Neue Deutsche Welle to the classrooms, the French DJ, musician and teacher keeps himself busy playing with his band Jean Luc, co-running the Yellow Light of Death festival and curating radio as 1/3 of the team behind Tblisi’s Mutant Radio. 

On top of this, he makes up 1/2 of Lowspace, the newest additions to Phase Group, who’s split tape with Lostsoundbytes will be coming out in December

His Phase Group Mix is a masterfully sequenced mad ride through post punk, psych rock, French trip hop, and proto trance. Thanks Louis!

Phase Group Mix - Low Bat

Disciple of the god Apollo, Terpsichore was the Muse of the dance, and it was known to be the most enigmatic of the nine Greek muses. 
She was the mother of the sirens, and she would lure sailors to shipwreck on their island with their music and hypnotic, beautiful singing. 

Terpsichore has been invoked as a metaphor for rhythm and ordered movement in the universe. 
The planets orbit the sun and the sun, with other stars, orbits the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The planets go through the Milankovitch cycles in which their orbits around the sun adjust in very regular, periodic, or rhythmic, ways.

Terpsichore’s influence goes beyond just the humane, as It can also be seen in the observable universe.
She is now the Muse not just of human dance but also the cosmic dance in which the whole universe participates.

Music by Anna VS June, Steve Pepe, Francesca Colombo, Bear Bones, Lay Low, Pannotia, Nixxon, Tassilo Vanhoefen, Yuto Takei, Amerza, Orestt, The Dude Of Stratosphear, Anatolian Weapons, Théo Muller, Konsistent, Vidock & Ghassen Chiba
Design by Vanja Rakic
Label run by Pako Vega
Mastered by Sam Smith at Green Door Studio in Glasgow

Release date 15.03.2023
Availabe on a limited edition cassette(60 copies)& digital in selected stores and Bandcamp
Pre-order: https://soundsofogigia.bandcamp.com/album/terpsichore-dance

Stay curious 🌀

VA - Sounds Of Ogigia - Terpsichore Dance (SOO03) [Snippets]

Menqui [O Tannenbaum 15 Year Anniversary]

Invited Low Bat on for Ice Exposure show on Noods Radio

Music selected in response to this image

Part I: Luis Martin Gonzalez
Part II: Low Bat

Ice Exposure w/ Luis Martin Gonzalez & Low Bat 12.03.23 Noods Radio

Here we go with Pieter Kock of Berlin’s OTannenbaum. 
An album full of polyrhythmic collages, hovering ostinatos and explosions.
PREORDER and more infos HERE: 
https://moonwalkx.bandcamp.com/merch/pieter-kock-planet-of-the-superapes-lp

and HERE:
https://www.instagram.com/moonwalk.x/

Pieter Kock – Planet of the Superapes MWX XX2 *SNIPPETS

Here is another mystery from the universe comming straight out from London! Popping up from nowhere, don’t expect any infos about the person behind, it’s a very well kept secret… actually Tutu Ta reached us by telepathy to propose this sensationnal album for Macadam Mambo. A concentrate of punkish dubby tunes combining ruffness, deepness, darkness, light, humour and serious vocals on very heavy beats and supa loud basslines. It’s raw but so gracefull in the meantime, 12 tracks, 47 min of pure bliss that won’t leave you on your knees, grab it fast it’s high demands style of music ☺

Artwork : Edward Trebilcook / Mastering : Rude 66 / Distribution : Rubadub – 500 copies 

TRACKLIST :
A1. I Smell Blood 3 :07
A2. Move Like Dis 4 :13
A3. Talk Of Da Town 5 :12
A4. Death Hymn 3 :23
A5. Krunk (Woody’s Flute Mix) 5 :33
A6. Lonely Eyes 1 :41
B1. Lost In The Dark 4 :04
B2. Kilburn Market Dub 3 :17
B3. Slum Funk 3 :16
B4. Terkos 4 :52
B5. An Poem 3 :29
B6. Krunk 4 :51

Lonely Eyes

MMLPXX707 - Tutu Ta "Lonely Eyes" LP [PREVIEWS] (Sept. 2023)

TFGC023 - Grischerr - Symbiosis

In the Words of Mark Cremins:
E.P. of low slung and tripped out Cologne style mind melters. Grischerr achieves a live and open sound in these grimy productions which adds to the immersive atmosphere conjured up across all tracks. It's inspiring stuff!
Lucas Croon doses up the psychedelic measures with a flipped version of 'The Man That Never Smiled' topping off the E.P. just nice..

Out in all good recordshops around the world in September.
Distribution via Rushhour Distribution Amsterdam.

@grischgrisch
@lucas-croon

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