"Raga Vibrations" is a monthly selection of Indian music curated by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma & Greg Davis.

https://www.nts.live/shows/raga-vibrations/episodes/raga-vibrations-18th-february-2023

Raga Vibrations 180223

Valerio Tricoli - A Circle of Grey
LP on Xing (XONG collection XX11) out September 2023, order at https://www.soundohm.com/product/a-circle-of-grey-lp
and at https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=11790&menu=2
Collector's edition available at https://www.soundohm.com/product/a-circle-of-grey-lp-tape and at https://shop.flash---art.it/products/valerio-tricoli-a-circle-of-grey

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Xing presents the new LP A Circle of Grey by Valerio Tricoli, eleventh release of XONG collection - artist records. The release is on white vinyl, in a limited numbered edition of 150 copies. The collector's edition consists of 20 copies accompanied by a unique cassette tape loop, titled and signed by the artist: 20 short compositions, each developed from a different sonic fragment of the record.

A Circle of Grey is an electroacoustic composition blending philosophical contemplation on transience, impermanence and musical exploration. Its unique sonic palette takes on the refractions of a non-colour and an experience poised between tangibility and abstraction. Primarily utilizing synthesizer sounds and manipulations of found sounds through a Revox B77 tape machine, A Circle of Grey defies easy categorization, as Valerio Tricoli seamlessly integrates a variety of techniques and elements into a dry, broken, deserted but eventually haunting sonic landscape. At its core, A Circle of Grey is characterized by a constant tension between sounds shimmering on the surface of the loudspeakers and sounds moving in the depths of the aural field, as if an imagined reality is experienced through the ever-changing reflections of broken glass. An apparently aimless, timeless wandering on sands of silica and quartz, where all is co-present and distant, asserted and negated, where relics of humanity are found and soon lost. Opting for an evocative, non-descriptive plan, the composition calls for interpretative ambiguity: despite these existential themes, there is also a sense of beauty and hopefulness. Tricoli's use of circularity and subtle variations in timbre and dynamic create a sense of depth and progression aimed to transcend linear time, the movements in the composition continuously folding back on themselves and echoing in the listener's mind.

Xong is the name of the collection produced by Xing, a vinyl-only record label of works by both Italian and international personalities linked to the variegated worlds of live performativity. The collection explores a geography of artists who present this sonic field as a platform to expand their staged worlds. "The space of the record" is given focus and amplifies their poetics as both a sonic and physical phenomenon. Xong is a unique project that draws out divergent understandings of the performative and live arts, beyond genre and intersecting between different practices. Xong collects a series of original creations that constitute an expanded program. Each physical record is a numbered edition on white vinyl hosting the solidification of the gesture. A wave upon wave, a series of "Music-Non-Music" to actualize both the artists and listeners imagination.

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Composed by Valerio Tricoli in 2022/2023, Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi, Cover photo by Bruno Raciti, Artwork by Xing, Printed by handle with care Berlin, Format vinyl (white), Released by Xing in a numbered edition of 150 copies
including a collector’s edition of 20 copies, each accompanied by a unique cassette tape loop (2 min), numbered and signed by the artist, Cat.n° XONG collection XX11 (2023), Label Xing.

A Circle of Grey

XX11 - Valerio Tricoli - A Circle of Grey - excerpt side A

GEORGIA: “All Kind Music” for NTS Radio (09.21.23)

https://soundcloud.com/holysimilaun is an Italian musician and sound designer based in Treviso, Italy.
Its work sonically portrays a constant feeling of powerlessness, focusing on heavy cinematics, minimal-inspired compositions, physical modelling synthesis and non-linear time manipulations, bringing its unique perspective on internal-external human meltdowns.
After its Aphex Twin-approved debut album “En To Pan” and the sophomore album “Ansatz”, Holy Similaun returns, in collaboration with Archipel, with “Arcaskathel” and “Radicor al flort, espert on’ill il erb, aor Raetia”.

Q:"What was a crucial sound experience in your life?"
A:"Definitely noisy (I mean, loud and noise music) gigs with super loud sound systems. In particular, Emptyset in Udine in 2017 and Talpah in Venice last year. 
Also, the gigs organized by the Quarto Mondo and Dirtmor crew in Treviso were one of my main inspirations in sound. 
Currently, I'm more focused on producing experimental than club-driven music, but back in the day, the opportunity to hear heavy bass music with such a massive sound system was an immense gift for my artistic growth."

Links:
https://holysimilaun.com 
https://www.instagram.com/holysimilaun 
https://www.facebook.com/holysimilaun 
https://www.twitter.com/holysimilaun

Tracklist:
Heith - make me wanna stay
S280F - knifework reveals angelic reality
Dedekind Cut - Equity
Amelie Siba - Matches
Flora Yin-Wong - Of The Ferns
Burial - In McDonalds
Vipera - Caspar Too
Coeden - Smokehole (ft. Holy Similaun)
Lea Bertucci - A Visible Length Of Light
Ludwig Wandinger - Motionless Air
Abul Mogard - Where Not Even
Ludwig Wandinger - In
Jenn - Beast, World
Jenn - U???
False Prpht & S280F - Untitled

MNEMOSYNE #053 - HOLY SIMILAUN

Cold Reading

Nectar Dripping

Track selection from the forthcoming N/A release by Robert Eggplant, "Empty Campground."

Empty Campground

Robert Eggplant - No Moon, No Wave

Nuances d'engrais (Live) 30.11.23

🎤🔬 Natalia Beylis 🪗🌿 guest mix for Innerstate 87, threading through folkloric spirit, free jazz and ritual. I am such a fan of Natalia's work, first hearing iconic Cave of a Seashell some years ago while performing together with Dylan Kerr🎈. Her mix will find you surfing in the ether at midnight in Berlin, 6pm in Montréal ~~~ now eternally *here* for all future excursions,

@sunkenhumsounddiary
https://nataliabeylis.bandcamp.com
https://www.nataliabeylis.com
@n10-as

::track list:: 

David Erden – Gamla Krobo
Hood Fair – Environmental Meditation Music 01
L'Hajja Lhamdawya
Matana Roberts – For Standing Rock III
Robert Turman – Flux
Xochimoki – Tua Ra
Nass El Ghiwane
Cormac Begley - Rolling in the Barrel - O'Neill's March - Tralee Jail
Natalia Beylis – Rain Recording No. 23
Fuzzy Hell – Hexagram 28 (Flood)
Jigsaw – Kofu
Matana Roberts – For Standing Rock I

Innerstate 87 w/ Natalia Beylis - 06/12/23

Returning to the @lyl_radio zone today for our last show of the year featuring the Bologna based producer and visual artist O.Cheikh. Expect one hour of ambient swirls and contorted textures.

Follow O.Cheikh
https://omarcheikh.com/
https://www.instagram.com/_omarcheikh/

Follow Tocca il Futuro
www.toccailfuturo.bandcamp.com
www.instagram.com/toccailfuturo/
www.facebook.com/toccailfuturo/

Art by Omar Cheikh
https://www.instagram.com/_omarcheikh/

More info and tracklist
https://lyl.live/episode/futuro-1

TRACKLIST

Tocca il Futuro w/ O.Cheikh - LYL Radio - 7th December 2023

Forty ninth episode of our "States United" show on @n10-as, with guest Reverendo 23 (@nonlocalresearch)

States United 49: Reverendo 23

Rain Multiplex

Independent tape company based in Milan
Monthly radio-show on @lyl_radio
Contact: info@toccailfuturo.com