2017

Half Light

Δήμος Ζαμάνος: ηλεκτρικές κιθάρες, μπάσο, δοξάρια, κλαρίνο. Ντίνος Σαδίκης: φωνή, ακουστική κιθάρα. Κώστας Καλογήρου: τύμπανα.
Ηχογράφηση: Σπύρος Χατζηνικολάου (Studio-Συν Ένα).
Παραγωγή: Αντρέας Χριστοφίλης (Αθήνα - 1989).

04 ΦΕΥΓΕΙΣ

MIRROR MIRROR, the New York based duo of David Riley and Ryan Lucero, bring their avant-pop explorations to RVNG Intl. with the release of Interiors, the ten-song follow up to their debut album, The Society for the Advancement of Inflammatory Consciousness.

Recorded in two parts, Interiors features the production work of Chris Coady (Beach House, Gang Gang Dance, Zola Jesus), who helped realize an expansive sound from Mirror Mirror's home-studio recordings. The other album half, aided by Joshua da Costa's monstrous and metronomic live drumming, was produced by Thomas Asenault and Zeljko McMullen at So Many Fields (Brooklyn, NY).

Interiors deals in themes of secret societies, escapist fantasies, and psychological extremes. "Sublime Objective" opens the album in the mind's eye of an adventurer attempting a daring mountain climb. "Under the Sun" rollicks under ray-baked guitars until it's split in two by a cameo from SSION front man Cody Critcheloe. "Dot Dot Dot" mutates an R&B midi-bass line, before "Sick City" tours an underworld of nightwalkers and plastic shamans. The acid-inflected “Starseed” adapts a futurist Timothy Leary lecture, promising listeners “bread and dope for a thousand years.” Album namesake “Interiors” describes a recluse who shuts out worldly distractions, while the stringed cavalcade of "Open Wide" leads to new psychedelic pop pastures. The album closes with "Overpower / Overjoy," an industrially flourished, whip-cracking serenade of sorts. 

01 Sublime Objective

09 Open Wide

"Lilac" from the album Indigo Sky by Alnilam

Recorded, Mixed, and Produced by Manuel Jimenez at Arimaka Studios, Los Feliz, CA
Mastered by Eric Boulanger at The Bakery, Los Angeles, CA

Lilac

The Past Is Already Here

"40 HOOVES" features CAITLIN MITCHELL on ELECTRONIC DRUMS, and DAVE MCPETERS on PEDAL STEEL

"THE SADDLE OF THE INCREATE" is the 8th full-length album from SUN ARAW, available at www.sunaraw.com/ORDERSADDLE.html

"THE SADDLE OF THE INCREATE” is a romantic comedy of self about the roping and directing of cattle, sung and spoken by many of the characters involved in the roping and directing of some specific cattle (the Cattle of Geryon for what that’s worth).

This is the first released track, which is 40 HOOVES which is more about the unexpected pleasures found in the difficulties of the directing part, after the roping part.  Right before this part was the roping part, where a character called BLUE GENE says this about the herd:



AIN’T THAT A SIGHT!

Parabolas of Leather & Lace

Each Red Cow has Amplitude
and describes a Certain Spiral

It’s complement,
(It’s partner)

well,

Heaven is a Saddle

with a view: of the Sea

HOOOW -AH!

(if you catch my meaning)

Let the Sun hide-away

A Spiral, and it’s Complement: “Boy you look nice tonight.”

40 HOOVES from THE SADDLE OF THE INCREATE (2017)

PAN DAIJING - Lack 惊蛰 (PAN 79)
Format: LP / Digital Label: PAN Cat.No: PAN 79 Release Date: 28 July 2017

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pre-order: pan-daijing.bandcamp.com/album/lack-pan79

Pan Daijing announces her debut album, ‘Lack 惊蛰’, on PAN this July.

Culminating as the purgative ‘finale’ to her improvisational live performances, Pan Daijing’s debut album also offers an insight to her future works. The process was intuitive and raw, born out of her previous explorations. Over the past 2 years, she has composed, recorded and edited different concerts and field recordings across Europe, China, and Canada, forming the basis of the record. Arriving as her first full-length album, ‘Lack 惊蛰’ was crafted from this long, painstaking mental and physical practice.

Daijing’s pieces are created around a very intense and intimate mental catharsis, often expressed through a close physical interaction with strangers in her live sets which seek to engage them in a highly personal way. “When I was finalising this album, they didn’t feel like tracks to me anymore, but more like a psychoanalytical process,” she says. “I saw myself being this absurd, mad person ‘acting’ out the sounds… It’s rather physical, and became like a mindgame. All things came out naturally as part of me.”

The narrative of the album presents a perspective of the world as ‘the theatre of our minds’ - where Daijing sees the record as an ‘opera piece’ in its storytelling and drama.

The release is mastered by Rashad Becker at D&M, featuring photography by Ralf Marsault, and artwork by Bill Kouligas.

Pan Daijing

Pan Daijing - Phenomenon 现象之间

Julia Kent's contribution to Disquiet Vol. 2 out now on iTunes, Bandcamp, Google Play etc...

Disquiet is a benefit compilation of ambient artists, across three volumes, with 100% of the profits going to non-profits that support the environment, investigative journalism, women and minorities. Vol.2 features Ryuichi Sakamoto, Julia Kent, Botany, Raum, Lights & Motion, Rhian Sheehan, Last Days, Sawako, Arms and Sleepers, Christopher Tignor, Mike Lazarev, Daniel Menche.

Available on all major digital retailers (iTunes, Google Play, Amazon Music, Bandcamp etc...)

www.unseen-music.com/disquiet

Julia Kent - Moraine

ALVA NOTO + RYUICHI SAKAMOTO - GLASS [N-044]

VINYL, CD, DIGITAL: http://bit.ly/N44-NOTON-SHOP

The emotional drama of the forty-five minute performance was echoed in the natural environment. A sudden rain storm forced the evening’s guests into the Glass House at the start of the performance. During the performance, the storm cleared into a dramatic red and pink sunset and concluded in nightfall. Rehearsing only one day before, Sakamoto and Nicolai experimented with a keyboard, mixers, singing glass bowls, crotales, and the architecture of the Glass House. Contact microphones were attached to the surface of the Glass House, and using various weighted gong mallets with rubber heads that were gently but firmly dragged along the surface of the glass, Sakamoto and Nicolai transformed the Glass House into an instrument, creating a wistful sounds of contemplation and longing. Similarly, Nicolai played two sets of high and low octave crotales with a horse hair bow. The pair improvised in what could be described as an intuitive call and response manner. This sense of fresh sound experimentation was captured in Derrick Belcham’s film of the haunting soundscape created by Sakamoto and Nicolai at the Glass House. 

GLASS, PERFORMANCE BY ALVA NOTO AND RYUICHI SAKAMOTO 1ST SEPTEMBER 2016, GLASS HOUSE IN NEW CANAAN, CONNECTICUT - A SITE OF THE NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION. ORGANISED BY IRENE SHUM.

@alvanoto

GLASS

N-44 - ALVA NOTO + RYUICHI SAKAMOTO - GLASS

Add extra Sentence

2L8 - A moment!!! (acoustic version)

with Inna and The Farlanders (Inna Zhelannaya on vocals, Grebstel on bass) live in Moscow.

Maslenica

Μινώταυρος

μουσική: Γ.Β. 
στίχοι: Γ.Β.
παραγωγή. Γ.Β.
μίξη: Γιώτης Παρασκευαίδης

φωνή, ινδικό χαρμόνιουμ, κρουστά, κομπιούτερς: Γ.Β.
ακουστική & άταστη κιθάρα, ακουστικό μπάσο, 
μπουζούκι, κρουστά, αυλός: Γιώτης Παρασκευαίδης
φωνητικά: Λεωνίδας Οικονόμου

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Μας καλούν μ’ ονόματα Χριστιανικά
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μας κερνάνε ψυχοτρόπα ντόπα     
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Να χορέψουνε μαζί με τα φρικιά

Στο Λαβύρινθο ξανά 
Θα χαθούμε όλα τα αλάνια
Και με πύρινα στεφάνια
Θα καούμε ως την αυγή 
Άνθρωποι και ταύροι

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Είσαι ακόμα ζωντανός

2017

Trox Jim