Name: Entropic Shores by The Safety Cupboard in electronic voyage
Duration: 4 min 52 s
Description: Track from our new album, The Froxfield Pentagram.

electronic voyage

We've been a tad quiet recently - half a ton of other musical projects on the go - but here's another exciting new jam session recorded yesterday, on the Solstice!!

The Wizard Of Bryn-Y-Gog

One, gave in, or....

A big old, cosmic jam session channeling brainwaves from imagined Gong, Hawkwind and Faust recordings, captured live for your listening ears!

Orange Coloured Crow

Terry Riley - démo

Ecker & Meulyzer “Carbon” (SUB033)

Digital & CD: https://eckermeulyzer.bandcamp.com/album/carbon

Koenraad Ecker and Frederik Meulyzer make their Subtext debut with Carbon. 

Based on field recordings made at Norway’s Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a secure seed bank located on the island of Spitsbergen, Carbon grapples with the many contradictions that lie at the heart of our shift into the capitalocene. The project began in 2017, when Ecker and Meulyzer scored the performance “Frozen Songs,” a commission by Zero Visibility Dance Company led by Ina Christel Johannesen.

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault was conceived of as an effort to preserve copies of seeds from key crop varieties, ensuring their persistence in the event of large-scale crises. Yet the area is warming faster than anywhere else on earth, causing the permafrost to melt and putting the seed vault at risk. 

Across from the Seed Vault lie the decrepit remnants of Svalbard’s mining activities of the early 20th century; Carbon wrestles with the incongruities nestled in the town’s landscape. Reflecting on dissonances of stasis and change, closeness and distance, enclosure and expanse, as well as cynicism and hope, Ecker and Meulyzer consider the urgency of our situation while trying to sidestep all-too popular depictions of dystopia. In Ecker’s own words, “we don’t have the luxury to afford that kind of pessimism.” 

From close, supple sounds to cold, brutal sonics, Carbon meditates on the many challenging questions and contradictions raised by the Seed Vault and its surroundings—a landscape that embodies and makes visible the many intertwined phenomena that shape our current predicament.

Ecker and Meulyzer, formerly known as Stray Dogs, have released works such as Wasteland, recorded in deconsecrated church in Antwerp, and Kalkar, recorded in the cooling tower of a former power station in Germany. 

Koenraad Ecker works in the fields of electro-acoustic music, field recording, radio plays, stage performance and text. Together with Andrea Taeggi, he is part of the Opal Tapes-affiliated duo Lumisokea. His output encompasses studio albums, audiovisual installations, texts, performances, and sound design for film. 

Frederik Meulyzer is a percussionist active in projects including Belgian jazz band Hamster Axis of the One-Click Panther, contemporary music and theatre company Post uit Hessdalen, and experimental psych-krautrock band Slumberland.

The ecological impact of the production of this record will be compensated through a carbon offsetting program .

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Ecker & Meulyzer - Growth

Track from our new album, The Froxfield Pentagram.

Entropic Shores

'Vollemaankater' by Neugeborene Nachtmusik
Berlin 2019

Vollemaankater

Track from our new drifty, floaty, fuzzy, spacy album The Froxfield Pentagram

Cottonmouth Cinema

Murmuration

from KR077 : die ANGEL - Utopien I . LP / DL out on april 24th 2020

Ilpo Väisänen : electronics & effects
Dirk Dresselhaus : electric guitar & effects
Oren Ambarchi : electric guitar & effects

die ANGEL -  Cargo Cult (feat. Oren Ambarchi)

Ecclesiastical Tan, from our new album February Ghost Particles

1 Ecclesiastical Tan

Galeopsis Versicolor, from our new album The Seventh Infinity!

Galeopsis Versicolor

Misplaced Horizons - Horse Gas

Monaughty Globe

We've been a bit quiet recently - lot's of other musical projects on the go so Horse Gas has been a bit neglected - but jammed this one out a few weeks back - enjoy!

The Unexpected

Experimental music from the heart of Wales.

Entropic Shores

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