ASMR:Relaxing

~ nervous in spring ~

"Extans mantra is a collection wild soundscapes, spacey ambiances and psychedelic frequencies to get lost in time and space"

004 flows from an open heart, unearthing new and unfounded energies that have yet to be explored. This tale begins with 'อากาศ' as it reinstills the extans vibration through the poetic words of local Thai artist Tulwai. Already awakened to an array of sound, outsized melodies of emotionally driven segments are felt from 'Dakini' through to 'Shin (Subject to space)' and 'Circa Forever'. A final regression culminates in 'Silom'.

Tape Mastering by Abhi Meer.

Extans Mantra (環境) Vol. 4 (SNIPPETS)

✧Sea Urchin✧ are

Leila Hassan: spoken words, lights & textiles
Francesco Cavaliere: music, words & lights

Counting for the next tide. side a ✧ Sea Urchin ✧ c.20

Exael/uon

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ANM035 uon — Nod

sleep in nothingness, 2018 

// sounds heard 
samples from the Guimet's archival LP copy of 'Japanese masterpieces for the shakuhachi' (Lyrichord_MX4205_1989) 
+ artists own field recording of train ride in the monastic region of Koyasan Japan, clarinet, sine tones, voice, amplified objects, sferics, and a google-translate/text-to-speech recording of the album liner notes. // 

In a dream he found himself floating in a boat. Suddenly thick mist rolled down the sky and blocked his view of the moon. On hearing the moving melody of a flute, he reached out for his favourite bamboo flute to accompany the ethereal melody. The music is long and simple, and the listener is expected to forget everything and "sleep in nothingness".
-the dream of a priest named Kyochiku in the 12th Century while meditating at a temple in Nara (as cited in the album liner notes).

composed for performance at the Guimet Museum in Paris on Feb 03 2018, curated by the French label Tsuku Boshi.

sleep in nothingness

buy tape + digital nicemusiclabel.bandcamp.com - also available on Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Google Play, Juno Download and more.

taken from Fia Fiell 'All In The Same Room' NM020

Fia Fiell 'At The First Clear Word'

One-take synth improvisation, taken from 'All In The Same Room'.
Buy tape + digital at nicemusiclabel.bandcamp.com/album/020-all-in-the-same-room

All In The Same Room

Grapefruit

An arrangement of a synth improvisation. Taken from my new album, 'All In The Same Room' on @nicemusiclabel.
Buy LP + digital at https://nicemusiclabel.bandcamp.com/album/020-all-in-the-same-room.

7FO - 泡 / Hou  

from "竜のぬけがら/Ryu no Nukegara"" ---  ［EM Records(Osaka) 12"LP/CD/Digi］Sep.20.2018  

●Info/Vinyl,CD
http://emrecords.ocnk.net/product/189

●Bandcamp/Digital
https://emrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ryu-no-nukegara

●Music video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=sCCwnjk0Wqw
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“Subtle, playful. Softly spoken yet speaks volumes. This is powerful stuff! The absence of music like this is what made me start producing…” (Jackson Bailey/Tapes)

“Fairy-tale of dub new-age heaven. Rainbow scenery is spread out in my brain. It’ s hard for me to get out this world” (H.Takahashi)

泡  /  Hou  - from "Ryu no Nukegara"［12"LP/CD/Digi］

Plants are not plants, but plastic, plastic is not plastic, but form. They do not presuppose a static structure, but generate structure as a result. One vegetable body opens onto another, one articulation gives way to another, entering a transformational metamorphosis which is pulverized into myriad of forms. Plants are erratic geometrical and material sorcerers. They lure gradually and with perseverance, making biosphere the playground for a multiple combination of interchangeable shapes, patterns and models. There is a sensuous, almost sexually bewitchment of form on which green plasticities reside to define life till its most microscopic folds. Cruel viscosities unseal themselves, and the delicate filth of chlorophyllic matter unfurls, causing structures to pollinate. A light bow of a stalk meets the tense muscle of a lower peduncle and inflorescence turns into excess.

xenosemiotics#2  phytoplastia

Healing Song (choir song 2)

neither spores nor verbs

LISTEn or BUY: https://mappa.bandcamp.com/album/bow-down-thine-ear-i-bring-you-glad-tidings

Among the musicians whose work closely reflects the reduced forms in experimental music, perhaps the most interesting is Cristián Alvear, a Chilean guitarist performing formally radical post-Cagean music, as well as Laurent Peter aka @dincise, a composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer, one of the key figures of the eclectic scene in Geneva. The numerous projects in which they participate prove their strictly defined artistic vision and active involvement in networking the music community, so it’s appropriate to consider them as transitory elements between several scenes on different continents. They have collaborated, among others, with Ryoko Akama, Cyril Bondi, Michael Pisaro, Sarah Hennies, Seijiro Murayama, Taku Sugimoto, Lance Austin Olsen and The Pitch.

Bow Down Thine Ear, I Bring You Glad Tidings is a good example of the refinement of the style developed by Alvear and d’incise in recent years. One can observe here how their musical language and range of instrumental techniques in the use of guitar and idiophones got crystallised.

The classical form of a musical piece organized in time and characterized by a set of elements that create a coherent narrative is replaced here by the primacy of repetition, pitch, precise articulation and reverberation. Sounds seem to be clearly rooted in specific acoustic spaces, which allows the space itself to be treated as a real instrument that adds another layer of meaning. Repetitive sound sequences operate in a similar way to the metronome, determining an obsessive rhythmic pattern, a kind of matrix on which all the details are inscribed. The static structure of the pieces allows the music to function as a sound sculpture - breaking time constraints in favour of continuous duration and acting in a multi-perspective way. This material, does not promise any solution, but strictly accompanies the listener and tries to close itself in the continuous present.

At the same time Bow Down Thine Ear, I Bring You Glad Tidings is a clear dialogue with the work of Henry Purcell. The title of the album is a reference to the anthems written by the British composer (Z11, Z2) and the titles of the pieces refer to his sacred songs (Z192, Z342). Apart from a skillful attempt to decontextualize the lyrics (biblical or rooted in the tradition of baroque religious poetry), we can see here not so much an attempt to give the music a metaphysical character, but certainly Alvear and d’incise tend to replicate a similar mode of listening, as in the case of Purcell's compositions - meditative and at the same time oriented to all elements of the musical situation. 


released October 5, 2020

Cristián Alvear: guitar
cristianalvear.com

d'incise: percussion (2 series of "tuned objects"), post-processings recorded in a different space
dincise.net

Recorded at Insub.studio, Geneva, May 2019
Processings recorded at La Senne, Bruxelles, May & September 2019
Edited & mixed by d’incise

Cover art by Nick Hoffman
www.pilgrimtalk.bandcamp.com

Mastered by Adam Badí Donoval
www.abdonoval.com

Words by Paweł Szroniak
www.rozkurz.tumblr.com

Photography by Leontína Berková
www.leontinaberkova.com

Released by mappa as MAP020 in 2020

MAP020 / Cristián Alvear & d'incise - Who can from joy refrain?

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'Your Cells Branches of Spring ' by @okayvivian is a song taken from the forthcoming Okay Vivian's "Saye" Lp. Album out March 8.

Streaming platforms - https://ffm.to/yourcells

Music written, produced and performed by Okay Vivian.

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Okay Vivian is the project of Turkish singer/producer Pervin Güzeldere.
Shifting through experimental minimalist compositions to catchy pop elements;
her music combines ethereal silent spaces with heavy beats, scattered vocals,
breaths and whispers.

Since 2018 she has released two singles and an EP. Performed in Ankara, İstanbul and Berlin
with her live A/V performance ‘Wildflowers That Cannot Move But Can Bend And Twist’.

soundcloud.com/okayvivian​
okayvivian.bandcamp.com​
www.facebook.com/okayvivianm/​
Okay Vivian on Spotify cutt.ly/KkjTbuC

Okay Vivian -  Your Cells Branches of Spring

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booking inquiries 💌 refillmadness@gmail.com

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