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Artist: https://soundcloud.com/lotuswashxb1
Track: Higgs Field
Label: https://soundcloud.com/littlebeatdifferent
Format: Cassette Tape, Digital, LP
Release date: 04/6/21
Purchase: https://littlebeatdifferent.bandcamp.com/

Lotus Wash drops his debut album on LBD Sounds, bringing a whole load of fresh material which came out from his experience as a session musician, and performing his experimental live sets around the Czech Republic. He connects the dots between classically trained musician and modular synth-head, working in Prague’s DIY shop and creative community Noise Kitchen. The album spans across 6 original tracks of pure analogue bliss and live ideas, alongside three remixes from his closest allies, local producers Oliver Torr, Vision of 1994, and Hrtl.
The Field Theory was created during a period of deep fascination with quantum physics, with the tracks being conceptually and aesthetically inspired by some of its phenomena. Acoustically, it’s mostly a slow and dark affair, with Lotus Wash only letting the light in very briefly when the sun is young (Magnetic Moment), keeping the shutter firmly closed for the rest of the record. His music does not rely on banging beats to drive it, instead letting intense grooves do the job from deep underground, just like on earth-shattering album opener Vacuum Fluctuation. He masters his craft of building atmosphere, a skill learnt during multiple collaborations with various Czech theatres. Of course, he lets the steam out occasionally, and always with devastating effect (Higgs Field, Casimir Force), but mostly choses to keep it capped, humming and hissing. When the sky clears, he opts for a minimalistic and hypnotic approach, only to disturb this peace with a killer bassline in one of the album’s highlights – Spooky Action in A Distance – later re-imagined and re-electrified by Oliver Torr. Standard Model is anything but your standard techno, while Hrtl’s remix of Magic Moment flirts with techno too, but on a dubbier and brighter side. Bringing the album to a close is Vision of 1994’s downtempo take on the same track, finally letting you breathe out.

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Recorded at Home Studio.

Open for release proposals. More records on request.

October 2021.

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lucidity in madness 017 w/ anya kislaya

Recorded at (daytime) broadcast in friendly gathering by @crewq & didomik. Tbilisi, Georgia.

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After crafting one of the most impressive label debuts we had for years with his 2019's Non​-​deterministic Polynomial Poems, Vlad @Dobrovolski brings another finest contribution to Klammklang's catalogue. His Natursymphony No.3 titled Vibrant Matters is more than just an exquisitely organised sonic environment. It behaves like a living organism: it moves, it appears to be completely organic on a structural level, and it breathes. Using silence as a framework for anticipation, it inhales and exhales, while the hushed tension shapeshifting into uncannily familiar melodies one can only recognise on a subliminal level.

Like Vlad's previous instalments, Vibrant Matters utilises some bizarre acoustic instruments: coconut, horn and shrub root flutes played by composer himself, and various metallic percussions sounds contributed by Yoshio Machida, a multifaceted Japanese artist known for his sonic experiments and advanced steel pan performing techniques. It also features another special guest appearance from Kurvenschreiber; a fellow collective of Russian sound practitioners bring some results of their synthesizers exploration to the table, resulting a fantastic opening track. In its entirety, the third Natursymphony (incidentally, No.1 and No.2 do not exist yet) is an animated microcosmos of sound and a true adventure for your ears. But more importantly it's just music that perfectly resonates with your heart.

A word to the author himself:

«From a certain point of view, the ancient world was an exciting place to live. It was not only inhabited with people but also many other nature beings. The traditions of the past stirred people's imagination, and their everyday life always had the element of mysticism which sometimes resulted in visions and omens. Even though some of our ancestors lived in straitened circumstances, they never risked to become enlightened, which nowadays is happening by default. Following their rationalistic simplifying eagerness, the people of today want to get rid of anything (super)natural, even the good-natured Brownie – the last survived spirit under the reign of ratio-capitalism.

This way of denying the past is something we will regret for sure. Mentally impotent, like indolent bubbles of protein inflated with information we wander in between football stars, face-polished social media simulacra and status-dependent robots of everydayness. I look back to the world we lost with regret and melancholy. It was the world where farms were full of life with their barns weren't empty; where the forests were still here, not destroyed. Of course the social situation wasn't the best, our ancestors were no angels wearing human clothes. But there were things we keep forgetting: nearness between people, the joy of small things and incidents, a common knowledge that human being is a dust thou art, and so shall it remain no matter how much we shout and rummage into the planet surface. While working on this album, I wanted to grasp and bring some of these special things I remember since I was a kid».

Out June 2nd
dobrovolski.bandcamp.com/album/natursymphony-no-3-vibrant-matters

Natursymphony No.3 – Vibrant Matters

Vlad Dobrovolski – Impetus feat. Kurvenschreiber (from Klamm26)

Experimental ambient electronica from Minsk, Belarus. Vintage gear, mostly. Open for release proposals. More records on request.

Follow https://t.me/abcn37 for ambient reposts.

WAV 96/32 on request.

Gear used: Roland SH-101, Roland Juno-106, Yamaha DX7, Yamaha TG33, Roland TR-606, Akai S3000XL, Korg M1, TOM 1501, Alisa 1377, Polyvox, Roland D50, Roland XP-50, Roland MC-505, Korg ESX-1, Korg EMX-1, x0xb0x, Technics ST-S1L, Horizont Okean-209, Korg Monotron Delay, Shure SM58, 3x LM 1229, DL-301A, Alesis Quadraverb Plus, Alesis Midiverb 2, Alesis Microverb, Yamaha SPX990, Mackie CR-1604, Alesis 3630, RNLA7239, Tascam Portastudio 424 MK3, Akai GXC-725D.

Recorded on TDK D and BASF FE tape.

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