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Ecker & Meulyzer “Carbon” (SUB033)

Digital & CD: https://eckermeulyzer.bandcamp.com/album/carbon

Koenraad Ecker and Frederik Meulyzer make their Subtext debut with Carbon. 

Based on field recordings made at Norway’s Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a secure seed bank located on the island of Spitsbergen, Carbon grapples with the many contradictions that lie at the heart of our shift into the capitalocene. The project began in 2017, when Ecker and Meulyzer scored the performance “Frozen Songs,” a commission by Zero Visibility Dance Company led by Ina Christel Johannesen.

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault was conceived of as an effort to preserve copies of seeds from key crop varieties, ensuring their persistence in the event of large-scale crises. Yet the area is warming faster than anywhere else on earth, causing the permafrost to melt and putting the seed vault at risk. 

Across from the Seed Vault lie the decrepit remnants of Svalbard’s mining activities of the early 20th century; Carbon wrestles with the incongruities nestled in the town’s landscape. Reflecting on dissonances of stasis and change, closeness and distance, enclosure and expanse, as well as cynicism and hope, Ecker and Meulyzer consider the urgency of our situation while trying to sidestep all-too popular depictions of dystopia. In Ecker’s own words, “we don’t have the luxury to afford that kind of pessimism.” 

From close, supple sounds to cold, brutal sonics, Carbon meditates on the many challenging questions and contradictions raised by the Seed Vault and its surroundings—a landscape that embodies and makes visible the many intertwined phenomena that shape our current predicament.

Ecker and Meulyzer, formerly known as Stray Dogs, have released works such as Wasteland, recorded in deconsecrated church in Antwerp, and Kalkar, recorded in the cooling tower of a former power station in Germany. 

Koenraad Ecker works in the fields of electro-acoustic music, field recording, radio plays, stage performance and text. Together with Andrea Taeggi, he is part of the Opal Tapes-affiliated duo Lumisokea. His output encompasses studio albums, audiovisual installations, texts, performances, and sound design for film. 

Frederik Meulyzer is a percussionist active in projects including Belgian jazz band Hamster Axis of the One-Click Panther, contemporary music and theatre company Post uit Hessdalen, and experimental psych-krautrock band Slumberland.

The ecological impact of the production of this record will be compensated through a carbon offsetting program .

Bandcamp

Ecker & Meulyzer - Growth

Decarab, the beautiful is a seductress who rallies souls.
S/he is a younger demon, rumored to be Lucifer’s offspring. Decarab is often the companion to Schetalim the polygod.
Free download here
https://grimheka.bandcamp.com/album/decarab-the-beautiful

Decarab the Beautiful

'Vollemaankater' by Neugeborene Nachtmusik
Berlin 2019

Vollemaankater

Creatures Of The Night - a dark and ominous soundscape produced by Peter Heckmann in late 2019. This Tribal Techno version features a Techno composition by Stefan Roth and Yel / Ysabell Roth (2001 - Tara Mai Music).

The complete Ethnic Soundtrack series (plus Ethnic Jazz tracks with my wife Yucca Rose) can be found on a Spotify playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/4dDkR4KY1DZl3kCNF0dijp 

Other remixes of the track: 
https://soundcloud.com/taramaimusic/creatures-of-the-night-dance-edit
https://soundcloud.com/taramaimusic/creatures-of-the-night-radio-edit
Full extended Tribal Techno remix (8:25 min - without Trailer voice):
https://soundcloud.com/taramaimusic/creatures-of-the-night-peter-heckmann-collab-extended-techno-remix

Original artwork by Peter Heckmann from the painting series - FCI Terminal Island: https://www.behance.net/gallery/79234577/FCI-Series-The-Grim-Reaper-Riding-On-A-Stormcloud

Creatures Of The Night

Creatures Of The Night (Tribal Techno Mix)

SAY THE WORDS
Written, Performed, Produced & Mastered
by Andrew Borderick Copyright 2020
Re-Mastered by Andrew Borderick OCT 2020
Youtube Link; https://youtu.be/RuuseKt9nVE                                                                                                    

LOOKING DOWN THE WISHING WELL
IT'S IN MY HEART I NEED TO TELL
A MESSAGE OF LOVE IS ALL I NEED

SETTLE DOWN TO FALL ASLEEP
SOMEONES WAITING IN MY KEEP
A VOICE OF LOVE IS IN THE AIR

I JUST CAN'T BREAK IT
I JUST CAN'T SAY THE WORDS

I WAKE UP IN THIS MAGIC WORLD
LOOKING UP THE WISHING WELL
WHATS FALLING DOWN IS ALL I GAVE

I JUST CAN'T MAKE IT
I JUST CAN'T SAY THE WORDS
(break)
LOOKING DOWN THAT WISHING WELL
WATCH MY COIN IT DISAPEARS
A LITTLE LUCK IS ALL I NEED

 I JUST CAN'T BREAK IT
I JUST CAN'T SAY THE WORDS
I JUST CAN'T MAKE IT
I JUST CAN'T SAY THE WORDS

2020 PRO TOOLS

SAY THE WORDS

SAY THE WORDS (see info for video link)

from KR077 : die ANGEL - Utopien I . LP / DL out on april 24th 2020

Ilpo Väisänen : electronics & effects
Dirk Dresselhaus : electric guitar & effects
Oren Ambarchi : electric guitar & effects

die ANGEL -  Cargo Cult (feat. Oren Ambarchi)

Thanks to Insufficient Technology and tlxco_

Firefly

Orchestral with a solid bassline, a bit chaotic. Not your ordinary 'relaxing' classical track.

The track is a fight. The nonstop drumline competes with the delicate sounds of an orchestra. The constant, stronger drum bass represents the power of disease, in this case, coronavirus, COVID-19. The rest of the instruments represent how delicate humans are when faced with such a danger.

The Fight

Passage

Breakthrough - Redit Primate Gtr

it was said to open the doors of perception but in some cases doors were closed permanently.
Original percussive samples courtesy of Atch. 

UnterPitch_The Beauty Of Design

Emerson, Lake and Parsnip

Where's 
the beginning  
When it's all 
forgotten by 
Time 
has no meaning
Day by day 
there is only
Now 
the same feeling
Can't be washed off 
the water's so
Dark 
skies are dreaming
The oceans's cold 
and forever
Alive

Every single day
Every single glance
I went back to the same place
like a little man
caught up in his thoughts
I saw the beam come towards you
do not stop Now

Firefly

Weekend by the sea