a love story for bugs by @nenuhir

this release was kindly supported by Arts Promotion Center Finland (Taike)

nenúhîr - charms​/​curses

Breakup is a music alias currently hosted by Joni Judén (@celestialtrax, @DeathbyLandscape). Breakup was initiated by Eero Pulkkinen (@buluocean) in 2018 as conceptual communal sound project with only one rule: anyone can be Breakup, there is no ownership over the name. You can be Breakup too </3


Breakup - 4D Printer

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Saint Abdullah––the sound project by NYC-based, Iranian-Canadian brothers Mohammed and Mehdi––returns with 'Mechanical Flirtations', their first release on Helsinki’s True Aether. Revered for their unique blend of auditory storytelling, weaponized sonic alchemy and deeply moving, vivid personal accounts of their Iranian roots and life in our complex current moment, the duo build on their past albums on PTP and Boomarm Nation. 

Featuring John Butcher, Travis Laplante and Sahba Sizdahki 

Album art: 'On The Edge of The Spring' by Parham Ghalamdar. 

Mastered by Jesse Munro Johnson in Portland, Oregon

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Saint Abdullah: Mechanical Flirtations [TRAE007]

To tell the true story of Muki Bu Mudiubi is to tell a story of a journey prophesied by a spiritual healer, initiated by a venomous serpent, embarked upon by a young and restless seeker, and realised between four kindred spirits in a far-away land covered in small bodies of sweet water.

Words (mouth sounds) as an instrument: to implement and to convey. That’s how it’s always been. Muki Bu Mudiubi: When young, they all rapped or sang along to words they didn’t understand. From the towns of Thies, Senegal to Helsinki, Finland, via the Netherlands, London, New York and Joutsa, Finland.

Muki Bu Mudiubi: together with the Wolof-tongued vocalist Zinzin, fashion designer and artist Siiri Raasakka, her wife the rapper-filmmaker Ville Valoton, and the artist known as Celestial Trax complete the group.

As prophesied by a senegalese sage, the snakebite had opened a psychic wound in young Zinzin which would manifest itself in the form of a restless quest. Unknown are the roads connecting the most western point of Africa to the northern territory of Finland and its 168,000 bodies of sweet water. Muki Bu Mudiubi is to keep searching. To die not wondering, and to live wondering: how to make wounds beautiful? The serpent within smiles.

Muki Bu Mudiubi are based in Helsinki, Finland. Damalén balui thi bir. 
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released September 3, 2021

All music by Muki Bu Mudiubi, co-production on 'Aduna' by Alex (@Pink-187)
Mixed and mastered by Joni Judén
Cover art by Siiri Raasakka

Muki Bu Mudiubi

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Muki Bu Mudiubi - Aduna

Helsinki is a wreck
The cashier, the landlord, the tourist, the bystanders
sixteen varieties of insomnia
honestly, i'm dead,
dead tired

catch the once and for all, in your sleep at night
push through dark's canal
or what is the gate

~

music by Running
vocals by Helena Pulkkinen
art by Eeva-Maija Pulkkinen
mastered by jj
words by Kaitlyn D. Hamilton, text by Running

Dead Tired / Maailman kaukaisin ihminen

Running 'Maailman kaukaisin ihminen'

Helsinki is a wreck
The cashier, the landlord, the tourist, the bystanders
sixteen varieties of insomnia
honestly, i'm dead,
dead tired

catch the once and for all, in your sleep at night
push through dark's canal
or what is the gate

~

Tiger on vocals
music by Running
art by Eeva-Maija Pulkkinen
mastered by jj
words by Kaitlyn D. Hamilton

Running 'Dead Tired'

⋰⋱ a response to the conditions of light and humidity, reacting to changes in temperature and pressure fields ⋰⋱ it is the channeling of the force beyond notes, that illuminates the imagined planes of Mugwort Prairie⋰⋱

Scorched Belts of The Earth

Death by Landscape - Pyrosphere (ft. Steve Vanoni)

music and words by Angelica Bryant & Florence Warner
mixed and mastered by joni judén

This project was kindly supported by Arts Promotion Centre of Finland (Taiteen Edistämiskeskus)

Eyes

There's something about me not inviting
but it wants you in, it wants you in
I need you to be brave i cant take a breath
before you make up your mind and body
My body is dried up from waiting
The blood is hot from waiting
For all I know time has stopped
My body is dried up from waiting
The blood is hot from waiting
For all I know time has stopped...

hey would you play an animal if i say thats my way?

I Need Your Power

An Tul - ANIMAL

I do not fear the darkness

God is in the bond

Do not fear the darkness

An Tul - BOND

a love story for bugs

this release was kindly supported by Arts Promotion Center Finland (Taike)

nenúhîr - wild silk

nenúhîr - unwanted gift

nenúhîr - i was adored

nenúhîr - cloud ore

nenúhîr - moulting song

nenúhîr - imaginal discs

♥Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ♥ "𝖇𝖊𝖙𝖙𝖊𝖗 𝖙𝖔 𝖐𝖊𝖊𝖕 𝖖𝖚𝖎𝖊𝖙 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖑𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖓 𝖙𝖔 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖙𝖗𝖊𝖊𝖘" ♥Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ♥

sound works by Orian Arrachart

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soundcloud @orianarrachart
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disturbed soundfield

Orian Arrachart - disturbed soundfield

During their residency at TUO TUO in June 2024, El Hardwick did not necessarily plan to record any songs, however “the land rang with messages” which they couldn’t help but channel:

Land which used to be swamps, drained for agricultural use.
Symphonies of June mosquitoes; singing an elegy for a land that no longer was.
Stories of the wrongness of covering wells from sight; hidden from source.
The never-setting midsummer sun.
Swallows nesting in the roof; the sound of their eggs cracking open on the solstice.
Moss covered monoliths in the forest.
El’s co-resident, Winter, singing an ancient keening song on the solstice,
and the prehistoric cries of the cranes calling in response.

One day El wandered into the forest alone. As they journeyed amongst the tall, spacious pines and birches, they felt certain of which direction they had entered. Yet suddenly they were surrounded by dense bracken, with no clear way out, and no indication of how they got in. Thrashing their arms through branches and thorns, they eventually found themselves in the neighbour’s plot, far away from the house. After returning along the road, they learned from Kaitlyn & Joni about Metsänpeitto: the belief that the forest can hide those who enter it. Those “covered by forest” no longer recognise their terrain, even on familiar grounds. The phenomenon either makes them invisible, or disguises them as part of nature, such as a rock. 

Credits:

El Hardwick - Vocals, harmonium, guitar, synth, field recordings and production.
Memory Play - Double bass.
Mixed by Memory Play.
Mastering by Joni Judén at TUO TUO.
Artwork by El Hardwick.

Thank you to Shireen & Winter for helping edit the lyrics.

https://soundcloud.com/el_hardwick



El Hardwick - Metsänpeitto

Celestial Trax returns with new work of tonal-textural explorations.
On 'Lifecodes' the producer born Joni Judén weaves together a dense quilt of sound, shimmering and surging as it unfolds in free-time. Judén invites the listener down a luminous, harmonically adventurous path, where sound takes creaturely dimensions. The songs blossom and wilt, at times floating in states of ambivalence, at others washing over the listener like waves, bathing them in heavy light.

'Lifecodes' was created in the small village of Pynnölä, Joutsa in central Finland, where Celestial Trax has been living and working since 2020.

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Music by Celestial Trax, recorded and mixed at TUO TUO
Album art and visual concept by Robert Ra linktr.ee/RobertRa



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Celestial Trax - Blue peony

Celestial Trax - Paint sick sun

Celestial Trax - Left demons be

Celestial Trax - Iridescent

Celestial Trax - Beyond

Celestial Trax - Inertia type beat

Celestial Trax - Heavy light

Breakup - NORTH OF HEAVEN

Breakup - SILICONE PETALS

Breakup - JUNKMAIL ORACLE

Breakup - HELL TECH

Breakup - FULLY AUTOMATED LIFE PROCESSOR

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 document of non-linear
narrative

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dedicated 2 the ones who throw us into the flames

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released October 13, 2023

music by Joni Judén & Wille Hyvönen
vocals on '36 Degrees' and 'Serious' by MR 28GRAMS
album art by Vikat
made at TUO TUO (Joutsa, Finland)
support from Arts Promotion Centre Finland

Vikat - rytmi

Vikat - the call

Vikat - Sanat kuvat ja luvut

Streams of the unconscious, Ville Valoton presents MR 28GRAMS: 28 GRAMS IN A JAR (FREESTYLES) reflects upon a collapsing contemporary society. MR 28GRAMS’ freestyle vocals are street prophecies latent with anarchist political satire. VIlle Valoton, with her unique productions on the beat.
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released September 4, 2020

Vocals by MR 28GRAMS

All tracks produced by Ville Valoton (except track 3 produced by Agamwe)

Tracks 2–5 mixed and mastered by joni judén

Album art by Siiri Raasakka

MR 28GRAMS - KEEP CALLIN (FREESTYLE) (orig._mp3)

MR 28GRAMS - WOLFGANG (FREESTYLE)

MR 28GRAMS - KEEP CALLIN (FREESTYLE) (rework)

MR 28GRAMS - UNORTHODOX (FREESTYLE) (Agamwe remix)

MR 28GRAMS - TELETUBBIES (in B&W) (FREESTYLE)

joni judén - heart like spider

made in the heart of winter by joni judén

joni judén - a holy fire (burning down the empire)

"from the deep waters of sleep
i wake up to consciousness 
i feel my heart beating too
it will go on beating for some time"

Celestial Trax - Drowning In A Dream (Bonus)

At the heart of 'Serpent Power', the second full length from Celestial Trax (born Joni Judén), lives an organic entity; its sounds roll over the listener like an unknown weather pattern. The intoxicating textures and strange dimensions are designed to cultivate the imagination away from screens: it is music for the journey inward, an ode to stillness. It models itself after the unpredictable yet harmonious sequencing of the natural world. Stepping away from the exhausting, hyper-saturated cyber-dystopia we've been thrust into, 'Serpent Power' envisions a world where technologies aren't aimed at our brains and our souls in order paralyze and control us. Instead, they’ve been modeled after nature in order to elevate us.

True Aether releases 'Serpent Power' on February 22nd 2019. Available on digital, cassette and limited deluxe edition, which includes a handmade USB capsule made of Finnish juniper, birch, pine, spruce or aspen, hand-crafted in Heinola, Finland. Each deluxe edition package also includes a one-of-a-kind polaroid photograph taken by the artist.


Mastered by Joel Krozer at Six Bit Deep
Album Art by Anita Naukkarinen

Serpent Power

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Celestial Trax - Underwater Garden (Serpent Power [TRAE005])

True Aether is proud to present the new album 'Mechanical Flirtations' [TRAE007] by the Iranian-Canadian brother duo Saint Abdullah (@saintabdullah). Listen to the first single "What A Tale This Is (feat. Travis LaPlante)" 

All profits for this release will go to support those affected by the Christchurch shootings in New Zealand (Victim Support Manaaki Tāngata).

'Mechanical Flirtations' is out June 13 via True Aether. 

Album art: On The Edge of The Spring by the U.K. based, Iranian born Parham Ghalamdar. 

Mastered by Jesse Munro Johnson in Portland, Oregon

http://travislaplante.com/

What A Tale This Is (feat. Travis Laplante) 'Mechanical Flirtations' [TRAE007]

True Aether is proud to present the new album 'Mechanical Flirtations' [TRAE007] by the Iranian-Canadian brother duo Saint Abdullah (@saintabdullah). 

All profits for this release will go to support those affected by the Christchurch shootings in New Zealand (Victim Support Manaaki Tāngata).

'Mechanical Flirtations' is out June 13 via True Aether. 

Album art: On The Edge of The Spring by the U.K. based, Iranian born Parham Ghalamdar. 

Mastered by Jesse Munro Johnson in Portland, Oregon

Landscapes Of A Blind Man 'Mechanical Flirtations' [TRAE007]

Mechanical Flirtations (featuring Sahba Sizdahkhani) 'Mechanical Flirtations' [TRAE007]

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chronicling deep audio transmissions since 2017

in-house label of TUO TUO:  artist-led project space and community in a forest of central Finland

get in touch: tuotuoarts(at)gmail.com / jmjuden(at)gmail.com

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