TR195 - John Tilbury - 'Metalessness' [excerpt]

Raven Brain is the A side of brand new single AB2106. Recorded live for the Brainrave 2 festival in July 2021.

Artwork by Ingrid Lønningdal. Limited edition 7" postcards available on Bandcamp. Check your streaming platform, more to come.

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AB2106

Raven Brain

This is Nathan McLaughlin’s latest installment of his Echolocation series. Following releases on Digitalis and Gift Tapes, #5 also continues the organic and thoughtful work of his duo Loud & Sad. Focused on tape loops, layers of delay, and some chordal forms, each piece is meticulously and methodically built, with each sonic element given its due. This sense of pacing and care given to every moment is a crucial element of McLaughlin’s work, and it’s deeply attuned here. The pieces reflect the environment in which they were composed, tight-knit and rural; they mass like storm clouds, and then are barely there, leaving just the fluttering of a distant echo. Stretches of silence, and windblown expanses. Rich chords swell into deeply contemplative passages that are gradually stripped away. A gorgeous, hushed set of tape music.

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"Echolocation #5 extends McLaughlin's exploration of the elegiac and the dirge, adding some crunchy, roiling passages as well. Often McLaughlin's loops gather, in small enough increments to avoid overt, ham-fisted drama, a strong sense of the ominous. These tensions, as well as the fine structural drift McLaughlin is patient enough to permit, make the Echolocation series a fluid one, without a start or an end. Echolocation #5 should be heard as an installation in a big-hearted work, issuing from a musician with an immense gift for subtle music. They are sent from a recondite artist who may well disappear before you receive them, so there's no time to waste." - Jesse Goin / Crow With No Mouth

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Mastered by Eric Steiger
Artwork by E. Lindorff-Ellery and N. McLaughlin

NTR017 - Nathan McLaughlin - Echolocation 5 "A1 5.1"

https://xephem.bandcamp.com/album/compiler-level-4

Are We Gawj?

Are we gawj?

tracklist:
M3G - Retrograde6
Limbo - Menu
Emptyset - Aleph
Synalegg - Beating The Odds
Pessimist - B4
Overlook - Ritual
Koichi Shimizu - Primeval
Aho Ssan - Simulacrum II
Roly Porter - An Open Door
Burial - In Mcdonalds
Anthony Linell - Melt to One
Loscil - Lux
Autechre - bladelores 
Atom tm - Rev 3 
Jim Kimchi - Seasonal Dispute
Faugust - Cold Harbour

Objective EP1

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In the past few years, Clarice Jensen has forged her own path. Recently, her focus has shifted to film scoring, successfully recording work for three feature films between 2020 and 2021. At the same time, Clarice continues to serve as artistic director of the American Contemporary Music Ensemble, while continually collaborating with an impressive array of musicians, such as Max Richter, Björk and Stars of the Lid, to name a few.

That being said, it was her 2019 tape release on Geographic North, Drone Studies, that initially caught the attention of a wider audience, with the work showcasing a compelling assembly of deeply immersive drones, and elegantly orchestrated compositions, in which neoclassical elements collide with electric density.

Three years later, the work has lost none of its innovative character and appeal. It also documents a turning point in Clarice's career, one where her classically trained background started to converged and overlap with her interests in improvisational electronics and drone music. As a result, the aptly titled Drone Studies shows Clarice at her most exploratory, introspective, and daring, channeling her areas of interest into a collage of richly textured timbers, and cello movements of sublime tension.

Now for the first time, the original album can be experienced through an expanded vinyl reissue, mastered by Rafael Anton Irissari, and carefully adjusted for vinyl by Ian Hawgood. The new reissue also features an additional track by Clarice called Platonic Solids 2, which was originally conceived around the same time as Drone Studies, and which has now been made available exclusively for the vinyl edition and on the Vaagner Bandcamp.

We hope that this new reissue will aid in introducing Clarice's groundbreaking Drone Studies to a new crowd of listeners through this expanded edition.

Purchase: https://vaagner.bandcamp.com/album/drone-studies

Mastered by Rafael Anton Irissari & adjusted for vinyl by Ian Hawgood
Art and design by O.R
Releases May 6th, 2022

Links:
@vaagner
@clarice-jensen
https://www.instagram.com/vaagner.archive/
https://www.instagram.com/claricejensen/

Objective EP1

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