Name: 汀 Nagisa by Shinji Wakasa
Duration: 4 min 32 s
Description: I am currently working on a collection of works about the dead, the concept of the dead, what death is, and Osorezan, a mountain where the dead are worshipped. I am currently working on a book about the dead, the concept of the dead, what is death, and Osorezan, a mountain that enshrines the dead. I plan to release it and exhibit it in the spring.

MIXED SIGNALS II represents the next chapter of Fax and Braulio Lam’s collaboration, which started with their first EP in 2020. Across four tracks, they navigate creative exploration, and wander among the textures, colors, and sizes that sound can possess. 
  
Much like its predecessor MIXED SIGNALS, the sequel EP delivers a meditative ambient swirl, dedicated to finding balance while still moving. And yet, if the first album was to be considered grounded and earthy, MIXED SIGNALS II is determined to challenge gravity—it creates spacious cinematic landscapes that stretch out and up.  

The four tracks are distinctive in their progression: The airy subtleties of the field recordings in ”Fragmented” take off and open up into an expanse of drone, with echoes of feedback further off in the distance. “Porta” twinkles in a dark sky; it wavers slightly in a liminal space of gradual transformation. In “Visions”, there is a hypnotic revelation, with an underlying heartbeat that gently draws one into its ascent. Finishing with the title track, “Mixed Signals II” is a docking; it rotates as it revolves, slowly considering what lies beyond its own orbit. 

This meditative soundtrack is like a hazy black and white image, captured by a telescope or transmitted by a satellite, hinting at what lies far beyond our own limits of perception. The arrangement of acoustic instruments and electric guitars layer with field recordings and synthesizers to create a hypnotic reflection on sound—how it reaches out in the space around it, how it rises, how it looks, and how it feels.  

MIXED SIGNALS II was recorded between Tijuana and Mexicali, in Mexico by musicians Braulio Lam and Ruben Tamayo (a.k.a. Fax). Together, the artists built upon their first collaboration to pass beyond the horizon of instrumental music.

Mixed Signals II

Fax + Braulio Lam —  Visions

Air, in both its stillness and its movements, is what compels INVASIVA, the latest release by multidisciplinary artist Dorian Wood.

In early 2022, Dorian set out to investigate the root of her anxiety—and how her breathing is both affected by, and complicit to, her mental state—during an artist's residency at Loghaven in Knoxville, Tennessee. Upon touring the campus, she learned of the Whittle House, an abandoned cabin on the grounds that had not been inhabited for many years, set apart by the other nearby, fully-restored cabins. In encountering this site, Dorian connected with the idea of isolation as a catalyst for disrepair. She came to understand how separation could trigger a fear of losing self-awareness and the inability to escape. 
 
INVASIVA is a document of the artist meandering physically and mentally between two forms of confinement: "mandated" and "self-imposed". Like an abandoned house, the composition is filled with a stillness that seems both uninhabited and anticipatory. Gradual shifts in tone build an atmosphere of meditation, and droning notes are sustained like a deeply held breath. And yet, despite the fear of quiet isolation which permeates the piece, INVASIVA swells with slow respiration, revels in the wind, and echoes with gentle reminders of outside life. 
 
The work is one that emulates a contemplative state which is constant threat—and perseveres.  Comprised of the recorded stillness within the Whittle House, and sounds captured in the office lobby of Dorian's breathing specialist in Los Angeles, INVASIVA is a quiet, ethereal triumph over suffocating loneliness. It is a piece that is filled with inhalation, anticipation, reflection,  exhalation, release—it is filled with air.

Invasiva

Dorian Wood - Invasiva (excerpt)

FIRST AID meets sine waves ... exploring the 4 quadrant multiplication in the Dual Serge Active Pro+ for some meditative sounds. The VCF2 in SIEGFRIED is used for filtering (VC Resonant EQ is taking a day off).

First Aid Meditation

I am currently working on a collection of works about the dead, the concept of the dead, what death is, and Osorezan, a mountain where the dead are worshipped. I am currently working on a book about the dead, the concept of the dead, what is death, and Osorezan, a mountain that enshrines the dead. I plan to release it and exhibit it in the spring.

汀 Nagisa

Following on from 2021s ‘Sodium Light’, ‘Brick and Air’ is another reflective and reactive collection of pieces that show an active engagement with the environments in which we live. In early 2021 Greig moved his family into a new home in a relatively unexplored area of town and was immediately struck by the aesthetics of the location both in sight and sound. The work that followed was all a reflection of this urban space that Greig and his family found themselves. Inspired by countless walks, a few outside recording sessions and sessions of photographing the new locale, Brick and Air was almost diaristic in its evolution. An ode to distant traffic noise and the hum of air-conditioning outlets behind shopping precincts. 

• All tracks written by Greig Baird for Moss Covered Technology 
• Field recording used on ‘Brick & Air V’ provided by Liam Hawe 
• Mastering - https//www.volume-objects.com
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Releases September 28, 2022

Brick and Air

Brick and Air II

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'Brick & Air II' - Brick and Air - [Audiobulb, 2022]

230101 (dodecalogue 001)

ELISABETH KLINCK, Picture a Frame, LP
Hallow Ground
Vinyl / digital, catalogue nr. HG2303, EAN: 0602343041759
Ltd. white vinyl
Release date: 25 April 2023

Tracklist:
1) Winter Song	(02:28)   - Single release 31. March 2023
2) Kiki			(05:03)
3) Peter's Fever	(04:56)
4) River			(07:15)
5) Awakening	(03:04)    - Single release 18. April 2023
6) For Wilma Nikunne	(01:27)
7) Berceuse		(03:06)
8) Betty's Nap	(04:54)

Credits:
Mastered by Lawrence English
All music written and produced by Elisabeth Klinck and Oscar Claus
Recorded by Oscar Claus and mixed by Peter Desmedt
Cover picture by Grégoire Verbeke
Cover design by Ruth Stofer

Picture a Frame

ELISABETH KLINCK - Winter Song (HG2303)

~ LAAPS 027 ~ [SEQ.04 - LP27]

artists : Russell Burden (Being) & Craig Tattersall (The Humble Bee)
 album : Diagenesis
duration : 44 mn
 date : April 29th, 2023

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 300 copies / green transparent LP / pantone / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 200 copies / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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pre-order : April 07th, 2023 / official release : April 29th, 2023
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All Tracks written and produced by Russell Burden & Craig Tattersall.

Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Artwork by Russell Burden
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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diagenesis: the watery interactions, microbial activities, alterations, compactions, and chemical transformations of sediments slowly converting to rock.
this music was created through a process of exchange - passing tracks back and forth, each layer of sound buried a little deeper beneath the next.

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Links :
https://laaps-records.com/
https://www.leavings.co.uk/

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℗ & © 2 0 2 3 - L A A P S - L A A P S 0 2 7

Russell Burden & Craig Tattersall - Settlings (excerpt)

~ IIKKI 021 ~

music : Akira Uchida
artwork : Masao Yamamoto
album : Kurayami
durations : 40 mn
date : July 07th 2023

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Uchida Akira: Clavichord , Piano , Sax , Recording , Mixing.
Tono Tamami: Sho.
Kosaka Osho: Sutra.

Mastered by Taylor Deupree
Artwork and calligraphy by Masao Yamamoto
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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edition :
vinyl: limited to 300 copies / black LP / hand numbered  / selective UV varnish
cd: limited to 200 CD / hand numbered / selective UV varnish
book: limited to 2000 copies / hand numbered / embossed / hand stamped

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pre-order : May 25th, 2023 / official release : July 07th, 2023

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Links :
https://iikki.bandcamp.com/
https://www.iikki-books.com/
https://www.instagram.com/iikki_laaps/
https://www.akira-uchida.jp/
https://www.yamamotomasao.jp/

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℗ & © 2 0 2 3 - I I K K I - I I K K I 0 2 1

汀 Nagisa

Shinji Wakasa

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