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Psychic Liberation presents “Friendly CSA Compilations Parts 1 & 2”. A compilation in two parts consisting of artists orbiting the PL canon from around the world in an effort to raise funds for Roots Unbound Friendly CSA.

Roots Unbound (RU) is an abolitionist grassroots organization based in Brooklyn offering nature-based programming centered around food justice, therapeutic horticulture and ecological disinvestment to people in the NYC area with a focus on supporting and uplifting people impacted by the carceral system.

Friendly CSA is a cooperative, agricultural initiative that was mobilized to respond to the food apartheid within New York jails and prisons. Roots Unbound sends care packages of harvested produce that are
chosen by incarcerated folks via a newsletter sent out every month, by growing and collaborating with local New York City land stewards. This CSA is provided at no cost to the recipients, funds raised for this CSA will be used towards packaging, postage, printed materials for newsletters, and a P.O. box.

To find out more information and donate further :
rootsunbound.org

opencollective.com/rootsunbound/donate

releases May 7, 2021

Mastering : Glyn Maier
Image :Nick Klein
Layout : RJM Vanderheyden

Friendly CSA Compilation Part 2

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FAN FICTION - EL SISTEMA ES EL CORRUPTO

Intentions is the first record to be released on new Berlin based experimental label, NIA. The label name is a Swahili word that serendipitously translates to Intentions. The inception of the label came about at a time of peak isolation, prompting label founders, Collo, Delfiné and Loft Garten to assemble a compilation of tracks from artists near and dear as a form of collective practice. Consequently the compilation echoes hyper-melancholia, fragmented orchestral pieces, yearning ambient and experimental sound design laced with bop worthy club moments.

NIA aspires to move with intention to release music rooted in openness and honesty. The platform looks to amplify sound based practices existing to dismantle and decolonise oppressive racist, patriarchal and capitalist structures. The curation of releases gives priority to underrepresented scenes and artists. Through the releases the label aims to form non-verbal communication, aligning collective ideas and practice building on an innovative and diverse approach to music. NIA looks to have a platform for artists to articulate their vision on a project and have it fully actualised collectively.

Mastered by Vaa Mastering, Triskelion mastered by Hyui Ines Rmi, Wisp mastered by GIL

Artwork by John-Michael

Loft Garten - Let's Meet By The Canal

Taken from A/N new album ACIE E R R, out February 25, 2022, via OOH-sounds (@ooh-sounds)

Read: https://bit.ly/3gM90qt
Pre-order: https://bit.ly/3rQofVp

► Under the new moniker A/N, French producer Apollo Noir (@apollonoirisnoir) delves deeper into his music and casts a strong yet versatile sonic alloy of atmosphere, beat, voice and texture.

► ACIE E R R (alliteration, French for steel) is a raw, eloquent and fickle stream of consciousness of openness and transparency.

Coming from steel-city of Thiers, where his family forged a reputation as unrivaled knife manufacturers, A/N does not hide his deep bond with the age-old metal alloy and its making, which here become a structural metaphor in a work that inevitably goes deep into the emotional, the personal and the political.

A sort of ‘romanticism of steel’ sets the narrative mode of the eight tracker where moving chords progressions, pounding beats, synth washes and eerie vocal intrusions alternate grounded physicality and propulsive sways with unfathomable angelic hues and electro-acoustic subtleties.
Making use of a wide range of analog equipment and the invaluable help of drummer Seb Forrester, A/N’s textural sound stream tempers its gleaming chrome finishes by means of sonic shocks and sublime coatings of distorted warmth.

From the bubbling arpeggios of ‘Mentir En Temps De Crise’ and the organic texture of ‘Disparaître’, to the clustered sound particles of ‘Chromé’ and the instant-classic attitude of ‘Avoueur Condamner’ (Andy Stott, Lanark Artefax) ACIE E R R’s contrasting sonic energies bring openness and versatility into focus.

Steel is one of the world's most-recycled materials ☺

Cover-art by Nicola Tirabasso

Mastered by Lupo Lubich

Released by OOH-sounds

Premiere: A/N - Avouer Condamner [OOH-sounds]

A collection of fearless love songs, inspired by Spring and the pains and ecstasies of nesting season. A gallery of lovelorn electronic ballads in the name of heartache. "Wild Love To Grow" is Eastern Nurseries' longest and bravest release to date, as well as the first to be presented physically as a double cassette edition.

"When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light."

EN28

Photo by Toby Ziff
Mastered by Diego Escriche

Schacke - Mutual Secrecy (Part 1)

m : f - 3edge

Starlight

Schultz et Èlg - Field Recordés - 2015

LISTEN or BUY: https://mappa.bandcamp.com/album/sotto

VIDEO teaser / SOTTO 
youtu.be/md6kPU18r6g 

‘Sotto’ is Andrew Oda’s attempt at world building in sound. Meshing method, mind, metaphysical and mundane into massive murals, its triptych of vivid compositions seem to wield electronic sound like a magic paintbrush. Inspired by the paintings of Otto Marseus van Schrieck, Ljubomir Popović, and Nicole Duennebier, ‘Sotto’’s three parts inhabit environments bursting with explosive internal ecologies of synthesized pulsations, yawning drones, tinkling imaginary chimes, and abstract noisy rumblings that flow, ebb and breathe with the infinite complexity cognition meshing with the chaotic order of natural greenery. 

Side A’s two pieces – ’Sotto’ and ‘Spirit’ – are both only made up of synthetic sound, created via computer and other synthesizing methods. The spark came from an attempt to show the process of creation, life and the final union through sonic means, spiralling into a dense lattice of lifeforms, spirits, and objects realised in sound. “The original goal of the project was to convey the idea of this sound visualization for creatures and textures that are fluid, tangled and morphing into and around each other,” explains Oda. 

While imagination and spirit are the subjects of the first two pieces, the final piece of the triptych, ‘Enfold’, emerges into a luscious and staggeringly beautiful material world. Oda turns here to acoustic recordings made in the field, as well as pianos, bells, and flute (performed by Susannah Oda), layering the results into the trembling organic soundscape suggested by Jonáš Gruska’s cover photography. The entirety of ‘Sotto’ is a living and vivid sound world of Oda’s creation – the first in a pegged trilogy of triptychs – brimming with beauty in which to wander and bask. 


released November 2, 2020 

Music by Andrew Oda 

Side A contains only sound synthesis 
Side B contains field recordings, piano, bells, as well as flute recordings from Susannah Oda 

SOTTO was made in Indiana, California and Virginia from 2018-2020 

Cover and photos by Jonáš Gruska 
instagram.com/jonas.gruska/ 

Mastered by Adam Badí Donoval 
abdonoval.com 

Words by Tristan Bath 
tristanbath.com 

Photography by Leontína Berková 
leontinaberkova.com 

Released by mappa as MAP021 in 2020

MAP021 / Andrew Oda - SOTTO

fmvee - who do u love? (QUEESTE006)
queeste.bandcamp.com/album/who-do-u-love

@f_m_v

01 the way you see yourself
02 everythingUneverKnewUwanted
03 thewayothersseeyou
04 Seed Perfuming (LoLo v665)
05 sobbing

fmvee joins Queeste with who do u love?, an EP of fractious songs recorded over a tumultuous four-month period in Los Angeles. Having debuted in 2018 with a set of club contortions touching on jungle and 2-step, the US artist returns with a work of intense self-reflection. Lived experiences are transmuted into an amorphous bricolage of pummelling kicks, synthetic textures, and diaristic details, what they describe as an act of “remembrance.”

Working and living in LA, the “grind” alongside “aspirational partying,” and the confrontation of depression during an intense relationship, informs the EP on levels both sonic and thematic. The slippery rhythm and melodic stabs of ‘the way you see yourself’ embodies a state of flux, also recalling the early experiments of the LA beat scene. Distant jazz drumming fills its peaceful coda before ‘everythingUneverKnewUwanted’ introduces an echo lifted directly from the artist’s life: a trickling courtyard fountain. This first phase of the release finds resolution with ‘thewayothersseeyou,’ a conceptual mirror to its start, and one which carries a notable shift in tone; gleaming percussion has given way to ominous synths.

Despite the EP’s personal nature, collaboration is crucial. ‘Seed Perfuming (LoLo v665)’ is an fmvee original transformed into a cascading breakbeat by New York producer and engineer Loric Sih AKA LoLo, an ecstatic yet familiar form nestled amidst otherwise bruising encounters. ‘sobbing’ follows, a digital-age ballad of original lyrics exploring dependency: emotional, physical, and otherwise. It’s a poignant conclusion to an appropriately hallucinogenic collection, an intoxicating chemistry of love and loneliness conjured through a fine balance of bass, percussion, discord, and harmony.

On behalf of fmvee, a percentage of all profits will be donated to Baltimore Harm Reduction Coalition, a community-based organisation that mobilises community members for the health, dignity, and safety of people targeted by the war on drugs and anti sex-worker policies.

who do u love?

fmvee – Seed Perfuming (LoLo v665)

Maoupa Mazzocchetti and Charmaine Lee zig-zag between psychotic dread and sacramental regeneration of the soul.

'UXY Dosing©' is out now on BFDM.

Buy: bit.ly/3oNkqLY

@maoupa-mazzocchetti
@charmaineleemusic
@bfdmrec

Premiere: Maoupa Mazzocchetti - Rekt II (feat. Charmaine Lee) [BFDM]

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Premiere: Maoupa Mazzocchetti - Rekt II (feat. Charmaine Lee) [BFDM]

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