This part makes me laugh for some reason XD

expérimental/ contemporain

first track from forthcoming "HEAL" album, out 01.01.2025
pre-order digital and CD here: https://buttechno.bandcamp.com/album/heal

flutes of doom

Sphene

once the last

London-based Egyptian-French filmmaker and artist Susu Laroche @tsvsvnami (one half of Fertile Crescent with Oxhy, and most recently released a collaborative project with Mobbs on Modern Love) returns with a long-awaited new solo album.

Longtime collaborator of the Doyenne label after tracks on the first cassette as a split with Flora Yin-Wong, and a cover for the 'Venus Rising From The Sea' compilation via Doyenne x Boomkat. Here she hones her signature brooding Middle Eastern melodies, dabke drums and haunted vocalisations into the culmination of a contemporary artefact arriving as a wax-sealed box.

FULL ALBUM / CD & BOOKLET IN WAX SEALED BOX: https://doyenne-books.bandcamp.com/album/d-09-war-against-the-lie

After the discovery of an artefact known only as 'Body 53' in the British Museum - 'human skeletal remains; ribbon; comb; diadem; ear-ring; collar; necklace; bowl; cosmetic sample' - Laroche inquired deeper into the connections to where the body was found, at the Royal Cemetery at Ur in Southern Iraq. Coming across Queen Puabi, a prominent figure in ancient Sumer found at the same grounds, the artist drew parallels between the shadowy figure often cited as a queen, consort, or priestess, with the Sufi female saint, Rabia.

Alongside these mytho-historical documentations, her work with Sufi texts including 'Al Hallaj Tawasin' (Book of the Purity of the Glory of the One) formed the basis of the lyrics embedded in the album. 'War Against The Lie' devises a para-fictional account of a historical law that governed this period of ancient Zoroastrian civilisation in Persia, and a buried demand for truth.

6. Susu Laroche - The Cup

Duo Musette
Baroque cellos: Mia Grubišić & Dora Kuzmin Maković

commissioned by Zeitschleife
Recorded by Benedikt Alphart

last still life (2025)

SSIEGE - Virgo Obscura
Time is Away - turn on Arabic radio oscura
Nekomachi - pre-subscription / カニうまい
agraybé -  Crepuscular Ray
King Softy - Gen Comp
nnirror - chemic travers f8 [al]
yeyo - feel it
99LETTERS - Byakuya
Credo Zone - Clearing Fog
Shinetiac - K2 Spiritual
Pamela_and her sons - untilted ft Deflector
Unknown - ytss;;sssd
Obeth - Told
inkscreen - menthol
av moves - Vowl80
usof - stay longer


sonic arrayz

By Joonas Siren aka Forces:

"In June 2024 I was in the midst of making a new live set for an upcoming concert. Instead of making new tracks, I decided to use archival recordings and experiments from the past 20-22 years that I have stored in six old external hard drives. I wrote a SuperCollider algorithm to select audio randomly from a massive folder, where all the archived audio was copied. The recordings range from early ‘00 Board of Canada inspired electronica, to analog noise/drone recordings around ‘06-09, to ‘11 modular synth improvisations, to all the way forward to unused SuperCollider experiments of recent years.

Using the algorithm was uncanny. I encountered a lot of sounds that I have no memory of ever making. This felt like unearthing deep, hidden sediments of myself.

What do these different layers reveal? Much has changed during these years of music making, personally and historically. The early recordings have a sense of melancholy and longing that I can’t quite access anymore. Still they are distantly familiar. During those years, my gaze was turned inwards to personal struggles and a sense of sadness that I wanted to reflect with my music. Nowadays, I want to focus on more general discourses instead of personal ones.

After the concert, I used the SuperCollider algorithm again to make this album. All the tracks have been chosen by it. The algorithm also provides some additional manipulation like sudden jump-cuts and fx’s while recording. Only some fade-outs and mastering have been edited
afterwards.

I hope that the serendipitous nature of the album reveals something hidden, perhaps interesting, beautiful or meaningful, among the shifting aural sediments of different temporalities."

Full project releases July 18, 2025

Artwork by Ronja-Elina Kappl
Cassette Design by Manu-Sophie Linder
Produced, written, mixed by Joonas Siren
Mastering by Ioannis Nafpliotis

Cassette / Digital

Forces - Catastrophism

Produced and composed by Modest Song 
Mixed and mastered by Maxime Maurel
Artwork by Mona Glassfield 

https://modestsong.bandcamp.com/track/how-much-time-has-passed

© Slowride 002

How Much Time Has Passed ?

Tender / Wading

Tender of Land (Patrick's Version)

Listen / Buy

Goosie

dead plants + living objects + motorised bamboo stick and guitar 

Pierre Berthet+Rie Nakajima

Imaginary Landscapes: New Electronic Music

Black Stucco

becoming sounds - 30 objects 10 minutes is a book and sound project.
http://www.rienakajima.com/becomingsounds.html

becoming sounds - 30 objects 10 minutes

http://www.rienakajima.com/DPLO.html

September 22 2017, Pierre Berthet and Rie Nakajima at Atelier Claus in Brussels
Recorded by Christophe Albertijn

December 09 2017, Pierre Berthet solo at Tectonics Festival in Tel Aviv 
Recorded by Daniel Meir

(mixed by RN)

Dead Plants & Living Objects

12 improvisations on percussion by

Håkon Berre (Norway)
Ted Byrnes (US)
Simon Camatta (Germany)
Kevin Corcoran (US)
Francesco Covarino (Italy)
Chris Dadge (Canada)
Tim Daisy (US)
Will Guthrie (Australia)
João Lobo (Portugal)
Rie Nakajima (Japan)
Claire Rousay (US)
Skyler Rowe (US)

Releases on february 6th, 2019

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TR118 - Rie Nakajima & Akira Sakata - 'Umihiko Yamahiko' [excerpt]

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