Milkwood January 2020 Playlist

'We Love Our Parents, We Fear Snakes' originated as a sound and movement performance by Marbles Jumbo Radio and Yann Novak inside Johanna Breiding installation of the same name. The installation was created as an intimate gathering space — foyer/drawing room/death room/living room — for queer-identified performers to explore traditionally familial spaces and experiences of mourning.  Breiding invited Marbles and Novak to collaborate on the project and culminating performance because of their mutual experience of loosing their mothers. The project was part of Women’s Center for Creative Work’s Parlor at the Armory residency program.

'We Love Our Parents, We Fear Snakes' is a free download of Novak’s sound performance released on the 10 year anniversary of his mothers passing and is dedicated to Eva Shao-Huai Blum, Andrea Breiding and Ingrid Ann Buslee.

Free Download

We Love Our Parents, We Fear Snakes [excerpt]

Edit of the 20 minutes title track from "Selv I Drømme Lyser Den Første Sne", the new studio album by øjeRum. To be released on 15.06.2018 as a limited coloured 12inch record. Limited to 100 copies.

More info on midirarecords.com

Selv I Drømme Lyser Den Første Sne

øjeRum - Selv I Drømme Lyser Den Første Sne (Edit)

Music with fender rhodes, reel to reel tape machines, feedback, and a one-tone signal generator. 

Release on Manchester's Ono.
https://diskono.jimdo.com

STILLS CD and Digital Download available on Bandcamp -
https://michaelcutting.bandcamp.com/album/stills

SMOKE

The Joy And Agony Of Travel (On A Train Version)

The B side of Dissolution. LP/digital release on Glistening Examples, November 11th, 2016.  25 LPs were special edition, with 35 mm slides embedded in the clear vinyl. Copies of the regular LPs are still available on Forced Exposure
https://www.forcedexposure.com/SearchResult.html?SearchType=Basic&Type=artist&Key=olivia%20block

DISSOLUTION B

Previously unreleased recording.
All rights THET!

Thet Liturgiske Owäsendet - Blood Locations >FREE DOWNLOAD<

Pre-orders available now. Release date: January 18, 2019

Phill Niblock's Music For Cello collects three pieces from the 70's and early 80's, performed by cellist David Gibson. 

This CD includes a 16 page unpublished interview with Phill Niblock. 

Since the late sixties Phill Niblock has been composing long-form acoustic drones with a focus on the rhythms and overtones that rise from closely tuned instruments. His highly original and influential music is an exploration of timbre, microtonality, stability, duration and psychoacoustic phenomenon. 

"3 to 7 - 196 is very direct, aggressive, and gritty. The overtone patterns that are produced by the proximal pitches become more prominent with louder volume. So please, play this piece very loud. This was the first piece of mine in which the musician was precisely tuned, in which I chose exact pitches in hertz. We used a sine wave oscillator and frequency counter for the tuning.

Descent Plus has four cello tones descending one octave over twenty-two minutes, from 300 hertz to 150 hertz. David Gibson played these tones without lifting his bow from the strings, constantly retuning. I made four different scores, manually changing an oscillator to which he was tuning, for each track's recording. For the revision, we added six more tracks, with David playing long tones which were not descending. The second part of the recording was made nearly twenty years later.

Summing II (one of four parts) is mellow and sonorous. David plays two strings simultaneously, one of which is retuned for each successive recording of that pair of tones. This is a mix of an eight track tape. It's better played loud also." - Phill Niblock from liner notes

Phill Niblock - Music For Cello - CD MIX - Pre-Orders available

Tape Loop Orchestra 
Interiors One - The Unseen Observer

ROOM 3

London-based ambient veteran Wil Bolton returns to RTR with his latest album, 'April Spiral' (RTR016). Having appeared on both RTR samplers, it is a privilege to have a full-length album from Wil on the label.

Wil Bolton - April Spiral - Album Sampler

from "boneshaker" [CZSZ028]

coming soon on czaszka.bandcamp.com

http://www.marklyken.com/

Mark Lyken -- boneshaker (excerpt)

From Slow Walking out Aug 30th on limited LP

Moss Covered Technology - Departure Process

Ten Atmospheres - To Clark
Taken from the forthcoming album "Lulu Land"
CD/Digital

Order: https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/lulu-land

releases October 3, 2019

Ten Atmospheres - To Clark

Excerpt from the EP of original music produced for Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd's documentary 'The Eternals', available only as a Bandcamp subscription:

https://aeolian.bandcamp.com/subscribe

Richard Skelton ~ The Eternals (Excerpt)

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

Línia / Pedra / Paisatge / Solc (Line, stone, landscape and groove in Catalan) is a sound composition in two parts, based on the skyline that can be seen from the top of the ruins of the castle of Culla, a small village inland of the Castelló province (Eastern Spain). The first piece (Línia / Pedra) is composed based on the skyline between northeast and southwest. The second piece (Paisatge / Solc) has been composed using the skyline between southwest and northeast.

The line is the voice that describes the landscape. The stone is the central element, a source of history, legacy and shelter for those who live in this hard land. The landscape is all around us, it extends in-clemently into the stratified and muffled horizon. The groove is the drawing of man in this land, a cut on the ground, and the groove where the sound travels in this album.

Both sonic pieces were recorded and composed at the old school at Pla del Sabater nearby Culla, during October 2018. All sound sources used in the production of this work were captured during a period of a week living in residence on that isolated place. Sound sources include field recordings and voice, nothing else.

Weeks after the residency period at Culla, double bass was overdubbed in Valencia by Rafa Ramos. Mastering for the vinyl version was done by Pedro Pina in Barcelona. Four unique vinyl discs enclosed each on handcrafted wooden boxes, which have been left in Culla as artistic objects to be preserved and listened to there in its definitive format. The project is a commission of the Culla City Hall as part of a contemporary art program held on this small village.    
■ Edu Comelles

Línia Pedra Paisatge Solc

wlr069 Edu Comelles - Línia Pedra Paisatge Solc

Edit of the 25minutes track, taken from "Ostwall". Tape out on 28.02.2020

Ostwall

N (83) - Ostwall (Edit)

"ZERO" [mfu/c 019]
available on digital download & cdr - handmade artwork - card wallet.
limited edition of 27 copies.

GRAB YOUR COPY: manyfeetunderconcrete.bandcamp.com

PRE-ORDER: manyfeetunderconcrete.bandcamp.com

all tracks mixed and composed by Vincenzo Nava [dramavinile]

recorded in the Summer of 2019 with a Fostex 4 tracks tape recorder

sounds, guitars, loop, field recording, voice: dramavinile
photo: dramavinile
artwork: dramavinile

manyfeetunderconcrete.bandcamp.com
manyfeetunder.bandcamp.com
dramavinile.bandcamp.com

dramavinile "I" excerpt from "ZERO" out on February 7 2020 [mfu/c 019]

Descendants Of Lost Continent (Sicsic Tapes)

Taken from the album Among the Farthest Hebrides, out on Shimmering Moods Records.

Available here: https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/among-the-farthest-hebrides

Among the Farthest Hebrides

Sanndraigh II

UTR - 139 

Samuel Regan - Acousma (Single) 

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We are happy to welcome back Oklahoma native Samuel Regan for the first single "Acousma" from the upcoming "Behind Veils" LP. Samuel has been attending Mills Collage in Oakland, CA and has also been busy with new aspirations in digital synthesis and sound design while pursuing his degree in electronic music. This work represents another milestone for the artist and we are pleased to share it with all of you. 

Full length album coming summer 2020...stay tuned! 

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*a note from the artist: 

I'm thrilled to present my new full length album, Behind Veils. It's my ninth studio album and first release since early 2018. I share it with more pride than any past work, as a culmination of visions and ideas and a taste of what's to come. 

The music arose from a two-year trip into synthesis and digital signal processing, which seem somehow endowed with infinitude and fraught with illusions of control and choice. They can shape sounds that emerge as living and breathing entities: filling uncanny spaces as geometries viewed from impossible vantage points. The songs guide these artifacts out into the daylight to dance and unfold like gestures in their own language. Their subjects include illusion, ecology, philosophy and psychedelia; the theatrical and the paradoxical - which all seem speak to us from behind a veil. 

I hope the music finds you healthy and well. There are so many challenging days behind and ahead of us - when things get hard, sometime meaning collapses and there's no music, and that's okay. An optimism runs through some of these sounds that won't always resonate, but they'll welcome you back... Sometimes an escape into unreality can be the loveliest medicine. 

-Samuel Regan  
credits
released May 8, 2020 
Behind Veils by Samuel Regan 
composed, performed and produced by Samuel Regan 
Mixed by Samuel Regan 
Artwork Layout/Design by Mark Kuykendall 
“Acousma” mastered by Christopher Davidson


CD/DL: https://unknowntonerecords.bandcamp.com/track/acousma-single

Samuel Regan - Acousma

The Milkwood Project is an experimental electronic music project. Using synthesisers, tape loops, voice, and found sounds to create dramatic soundscapes and thought provoking sound pieces.