RAAR #75 - Blue Monday

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Choons August 2019

p*dis sampler 2019.09

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Nym - Et Moi

Sekunder, eoner

Jordeliv

So We Went Electric

Original choreography: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh3ZdMzT6D0

Deliberation (modern contemporary dance)

Due to popular demand, here is Lone Digger from our last album I

Official Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbQgXeY_zi4

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Lone Digger - Single

Lone Digger

Dusty In Memphis

The Windmills Of Your Mind

Joe Goddard – Music Is The Answer from ‘Electric Lines’, the debut solo album out April 21, 2017.

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Electric Lines

Music Is The Answer (feat. SLO)

‘Echoes From Mamori’ was originally commissioned by my friend Adnan Yildiz who was curating a show called There Is No Audience in Montehermoso, Spain in 2009. They wanted to have a theme song running on loop in the exhibition space. I’d just been in the Amazon recording sounds for the Darwin theatre piece with Hotel Pro Forma and thought it could be fun to make something dancey with the animal sounds I’d collected. The track features frogs that sound like birds, fed into my sampler and played on a keyboard, resulting in fun arpeggios and melodies. I think it might also feature some birds I recorded in the forests around Berlin. ‘Echoes In Mamori” was only made available as a CD handed out at the exhibition so it's nice to see it finally get a proper release via Rabid Records.

Echoes from Mamori

Gullah Geechee Personnel:
Jovia Armstrong
Keith Beber
Carolyn Ferrari
Craig Huckaby

Gullah Geechee (Original)

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Neil Cowley Trio - Weightless (Rival Consoles Remix)

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Booty Swing

Tashi Wada with Yoshi Wada and Friends - Fanfare

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Tashi Wada with Yoshi Wada and Friends - Fanfare

Slackwax - Nightout

Stare

The Weight

Broken Hearted Kota

Salerosa

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Rone - Parade

from the album 'equivalents' available aug16

equivalents

loscil 'equivalent 7'

Full stream of Sateq's remix of "Spiral," taken from Kamran Sadeghi's forthcoming EP on CL Series, out June 19.

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Under The Peace Flag

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REMO SEELAND - Hollow Body, LP

A1) Body Innovation (04:20)
A2) Hollow City (07:24) 
A3) Second Coming (04:29)
B1) Pulse Points Green (05:33)
B2) Whoosh Before Laya (08:19)
B3) Night Within (05:04)

Release date - Sept 13th 2019 
Catalogue nr. - HG1903
Format - Vinyl/digital

All music composed and played by Remo Seeland
Recorded in New York, Reykjavik and Zurich

Guests:
Steve Fors, trombone on “Second Coming”
Reinier van Houdt, e-bowed guitar on “Hollow City” and Rhodes organ on “Pulse Points Green”
Norman Westberg, guitars on “Body Innovation” and “Hollow City”

Digital mastering by Jeremy Cox
Vinyl mastering by Rob Viso
Mix and production by Roger Hofmann and Remo Seeland
Inlay Photo by Ralph Kuehne
Artwork and photo by Ruth Stofer

Promotion by Dense Promotion, ed@dense.de 
Distribution by Cargo Records and A-Musik
Released by Hallow Ground

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Remo Seeland’s “Hollow Body” is a suspenseful exploration of the interaction between sound environments and individual perception. It was sparked by an intense physical experience the Swiss artist had during a residency in New York City. “The subway became a sort of ‘atonal symphony’ for me, provoking a full-body experience with the rattling of the overcrowded, airless trains,” the Hallow Ground founder explains. “However, while the old subway is not exactly beloved by everyone, it also represented for me the melancholic meta-level of the moloch above it.” The album, his first under his given name, makes this disparity audible over six tracks in which the visceral and the personal become at once abstract and universal. 

Based on field recordings from both urban and rural environments, “Hollow Body” aims to mirror another of Seeland’s psychosonic encounters. “In the highlands of Iceland, I noticed my pulse lowering and my breathing decelerating,” he says. “Just shortly after that, a single insect’s buzzing seemed so loud to me that I became even more aware of the silence surrounding me.” Silence, perception, order and the curious dialectics of the outside world and the inner workings of the human psyche are the central questions of “Hollow Body”.

Recorded in New York, Reykjavík and Zurich, “Hollow Body” draws extensively on field recordings and sees Seeland collaborating with Hallow Ground-affiliated artists Norman Westberg (Swans, guitar on “Body Innovation” and “Hollow City”) and Reinier van Houdt (Current 93, e-bowed guitar on “Hollow City” and Rhodes organ on “Pulse Points Green”), as well as the Swiss-based US-American musician Steve Fors (Deaf At Sea, trombone on “Second Coming”). The diversity of the source material is mirrored in the stylistic richness Seeland lays out with this LP. From the lush, bass-heavy drones of the opener “Body Innovation” to the downbeat-driven “Second Coming” and, finally, the haunting organ sounds of “Night Within”, “Hollow Body” forms a holistic entity that integrates idiosyncratic compositions into a coherent narrative.

“Hollow Body” was also conceptually inspired by Seeland’s research as a cultural scientist with a focus on Southeast Asian cultures, specifically the anomic tantric cults of India. It thus serves as a mediator between not only the individual experience of site-specific sounds and general ideas of sound production in and about space, but also between different compositional techniques ranging from drones to synthesized vocals and more primitive forms of ritualistic music. Its sonic abundancy is to be understood as a direct result of its underlying idea: at its most challenging, this record also makes the most coherent statements about the order of space, sound and their cryptic relationship with the human body.

Hollow Body

REMO SEELAND - Hollow City (feat. Reinier van Houdt and Norman Westberg) - HG1903

"Skin Game" is the first single from DIIV's forthcoming album, 'Deceiver', out October 4th, 2019.

Deceiver

DIIV // Skin Game

Premiering on @selftitledmag

http://www.self-titledmag.com/2019/07/22/petra-aunis-album-injazero-records/


Pétra is a new collaborative music project from Brian Allen Simon (aka Anenon) and Chantal Chadwick.

The duo’s debut album ‘Aunis’, released 20th September via Injazero Records, incorporates electronic and acoustic instrumentation which draws the listener into dream-like soundscapes and blends ambient sounds, modern composition, and abstract vibrations.

Primarily written, performed, produced, and recorded on the volcanic island of Nisyros, Greece in late 2018, Pétra means ‘stone, rock’, and the name of the project was inspired by a chance encounter with the photography of Daniel Boudinet as well as the geological formations of Nisyros. With additional work on the album completed in Loire, France and Mexico City, Mexico, the music is a site-specific reaction to all locales and was arranged in a free-form variety of methods with an improvisational energy being the driving force.

Compositions such as the reverberating ‘Aunis’ rely on ethereal sounds and deep repetition while the fluid ‘Landes’ is a weightless moment of sonic beauty and emotional depth.

Elsewhere, the reactionary ‘Fuzz’ and the meditative, hazy sound explorations of ‘Obsidian’ are hauntingly beautiful, while ‘Tavel’ is reminiscent of the melodic repetition of minimalist pioneers like Steve Reich. 

Los Angeles native Brian Allen Simon, aka Anenon, is a multi-instrumentalist and producer who has received critical acclaim for his work from the likes of Pitchfork, The Wire, The Guardian, and more. 

Since his 2012 debut ‘Inner Hue’, Simon has continually and consistently proven his status as an innovator by co-curating an ambient music series at The Museum of Contemporary art in Los Angeles, and releasing critically acclaimed records such as 2016’s ‘Petrol’ and 2018’s ‘Tongue’. An officially sanctioned remix for Ryuichi Sakamoto in 2018 has only cemented this status further.

Chantal Chadwick is a musician, dancer, and founder of Assortment, an agency that supports artists working in photography, motion, and sound with an independent publishing branch for fine art books. 

Prior to founding Assortment, she was co-owner of a small gallery in New York City focusing on emerging contemporary artists. She has been quietly making music under the name Bed for close to a decade, but Pétra will be her first release. She is currently working between Mexico City and Los Angeles.

Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studio.
Cover by Em Kei at Oddd Studio.

Pétra - Aunis

Erased Tapes present 'Handfuls of Night' — the highly anticipated follow-up to Penguin Cafe’s much applauded 2017 album 'The Imperfect Sea' — inspired by the Antarctic, Arthur Jeffes’ journey following in Scott’s footsteps and our penguin friends that reside there.

Using gut-stringed violins, viola, cello, bass, percussion, upright and grand pianos, synthesiser, harmonium and more, Arthur Jeffes and his cohorts have crafted a vivid series of panoramic sonic landscapes, that are as rich in cerebral poignancy as they are in emotional depth.

Handfuls of Night began life after Greenpeace commissioned Jeffes to write four pieces of music corresponding to four breeds of penguins, to help raise awareness for the endangered Antarctic seas . A fundraising evening at EartH in Hackney followed, where Penguin Cafe premiered the four songs named after their feathered counterparts to a sold out audience; the rousing contemporary folk inflected ‘Chinstrap’, the mournful and minimalistic ‘Adelie’, stoic and rhythmic ‘The Life of an Emperor’ and the wistful, string-laden ‘Gentoo Origin’.

“This record started with a core of pieces I wrote specifically about penguins in the Antarctic for a project with Greenpeace in autumn 2018. There are four native Antarctic penguin species – each with their own individual characteristics and natures. I carried on from there to envisage a whole anthropomorphised world, where these penguins had narratives and adventures that we soundtracked”, says Jeffes. But both the album and Penguin Cafe as a project have origins that reach further back:

“In 2005 I was asked to join an expedition re-creating Scott’s last Antarctic trip in 1911 for the BBC, using the same Edwardian equipment. I’m no explorer but I was keen, especially as there’s a family link – Scott was married to my great grandmother before she married my great grandfather. 

Antarctica by this stage being a protected environment, we swapped to the Arctic circle where we spent 3 months on the Greenland ice sheet, first dog-sledding and then man-hauling just short of 1000 km at 10,000 feet, across ice fields and glaciers. 

I had lots of time to ponder my life back home. It was then that I decided to get my Master of Music degree and focus on composing music, and also then that I realised that even in the most remote silent places, music can still be a huge part of one’s internal world and imagination.  Whilst on the expedition. I spent days playing things back in my head and also writing new things, which I would then try and write down at the end of the day.”

Handfuls of Night’s tones, textures and melodies evoke otherworldly expanses, which at different junctures are either foreboding, awe inspiring or peaceful. There’s subtly morphing rhythmic repetition throughout, somewhere between minimalism, krautrock and the piano-cascades of label peer Lubomyr Melnyk. Jeffes creates a kinetic, circling motion, which drives the album forward in the form of a musical trip that mirrors the physical journey it was inspired by.

Penguin Cafe was founded by Arthur Jeffes in 2009, after bringing together a talented and disparate group of musicians including members of Suede and Gorillaz, to perform his father Simon Jeffes’ legacy of world-renowned Penguin Cafe Orchestra music, ten years after his untimely death in 1997. A full biography is available here.
Handfuls of Night is out this autumn amid a string of UK live dates, before taking the album on a worldwide tour in 2020 with more dates to be announced.

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Handfuls of Night

At the Top of the Hill, They Stood...

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Balance presents Sunsetstrip

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Premiere: Hernan Cattaneo & Soundexile - Glide - Balance Music

First single from the latest audio/visual project, Yearning for the Infinite, Perpetual Motion was written for that moment at the end of the night when all the experiments and madness is over and we just need a nice warm chord sequence to send us home in a good mood. 

The name comes from its role in my new visual show, where it plays that same closing role in the story of humans “yearning for the infinite”. Set to drone footage of people in their endless pursuit of life in Mexico City, combined with epic scientific visualisations of different infinite structures. It’s all part of a project commission from the Barbican, which has spawned this new album and live visual experiment.

For tickets to the show, head to my site https://shop.maxcooper.net/tickets

And big thanks to Renick Bell for the "yearning for the infinite" human!

Yearning for the Infinite

Perpetual Motion

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It's been almost precisely a year since Jonathan Kaspar debuted on André Hommen's These Eyes imprint with his well-respected "Panem EP". Now he's back with yet another outstanding two-track release.

A-side "Villose", already on high rotation throughout the summer, comes with a heavy synth-line and paired up extra-ordinary sounds and breaks. Whilst the slightly more restrained B-side, "Pavid" pairs perfectly with the earlier or later hours through the night.

In the midst of a crazy summer touring schedule including all kinds of festival dates and on the cusp of a Kompakt debut forthcoming shortly, Jonathan Kaspar has clearly made massive strides since the last EP. We are more than thrilled to welcome him back to These Eyes for his second EP.

Jonathan Kaspar - Villose (Snippet)

Carl Oesterhelt "Eleven Pieces for Synthesizer"
LP & Digital © 2019 Umor Rex Records
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Umor Rex presents Eleven Pieces for Synthesizer, a collection of synth instrumentals by German composer Carl Oesterhelt. Oesterhelt has been recording a mixture of straddling kosmische and classical traditions for years on his own reel tape machine, overdubbing stacks of analogue gear to create a compelling body of work that brings fresh emotional depth and rhythmic experimentation to the syntax of the modern synthesizer.
 
Born in Munich in 1968, Carl Oesterhelt has worked in a variety of fields throughout a long and impressive career. His discography includes tenures with Neue Deutsche Welle legends FSK, intellectual disco outfit Merricks, and German legends The Notwist. His solo work has travelled even further and wider, taking in contemporary classical and chamber music, music for exhibitions and radio plays, not to mention notable collaborations with saxophonist Johannes Enders and legendary founding member of Faust, Hans Joachim Irmler. 
 
Oesterhelt augments his own analogue arsenal with synthesizers borrowed from musician friends, resulting in almost fifteen different synthesizers –some in fruitful states of disrepair– which feature on the album. Opener “La chapelle de Francis Lai” pays tribute to the French film composer with a synthesized church organ procession, disintegrating kraut-funk-noir which emerges on “Poro Secret Society”. Then, eerie sound effects mash with minimal techno rhythms on “Makonde Pattern”, and –most surprisingly– Oesterhelt turns his keys into a sub-Saharan drum ceremony on “Trinidad Pattern”. The sheer range of Eleven Pieces for Synthesizer is an impressive achievement unto itself. Yet it is Oesterhelt’s instincts as a composer which make these (largely improvised) recordings so compelling. Tensions build and emotions stir throughout each piece with a proficiency perfected through his work for the stage.
 
Musically associates, and directly connected to a heritage of German electronics, Eleven Pieces for Synthesizer touches upon similar ground to the likes of Musik von Harmonia in its pulsations, Klaus Schulze’s sonically adventurous Cyborg, and Tangerine Dream at their earliest and most primitive. The hypnotic ritualism of early African field recordings, or the spiritual regality of European organ music also convey key reference points in the formulation of this collection. Oesterhelt’s compositions here have taken the musically primitive and the emotionally raw, and woven them into a rich synthetic soundworld all of his own.

Eleven Pieces for Synthesizer

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Carl Oesterhelt — Simple Theme

Illusion Of Time

Kiasmos

Held

Psychedelic Sanza (1982-1984)

Forest Nativity

Conceived, mixed and selected by @emotionalmusicofficial

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TRACKLIST:

1) blaktone - Last Train (Ambient Mix)
2) Trentemøller - Moan (Tim Engelhardt Remix)
3) Billie Eilish - idontwannabeyouanymore (Samantha Loveridge Edit)
4) Mind Against - Isolate (Original Mix)
5) Bell Towers - Want You (Need You) (Adam Port Remix)
6) Kadosh (IL) - Footprints (Original Mix)
7) Grimes - New Gods (Tale Of Us & Âme Remix)
8) Thodoris Triantafillou, Dekard - Penny (Original Mix)
9) Tale Of Us, Fideles - Vanishing (Original Mix)
10) Fritz Kalkbrenner - Golden (Fideles Remix) 
11) Ivory (IT) - Triumphant (Original Mix)

Photographer: Daniella Berber (https://www.instagram.com/_____daniella___)
Model: Maria Kudina (https://www.instagram.com/mariiafishii.91)

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EMOTIONAL #84

Exclusively featured on the fifth volume of the ‘Chill Executive Officer’ album series, TRIBU’s ‘Children Of The Sun’ oozes wonder from the get-go. With melancholic piano chords at the helm and near-hypnotic rhythms taking over, this record is a sonic exploration that takes you places you never even knew existed.

Children Of Sun

Children Of Sun (Vijay & Sofia Edit)

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