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Katatonic Silentio

PBA – Katatonic Silentio

Artist: Trip Shrubb
Album: Trewwer, Leud und Danz
Label#: faitiche 25
Format: LP/DL
Release: Oct 22nd 2021

Faitiche is excited to present, for the first time on vinyl, a selection from the 84-track (!!) remix project originally released in 2013 as a three-tape set by Trip Shrubb aka kptmichigan aka Michael Beckett. Known to many from bands like Tuesday Weld or The Schneider TM Experience, Beckett remixed his way through Harry Smith’s famous Anthology of American Folk Music – a compilation of American folk, blues and country recordings released in 1952, soon to become key point of reference for the emerging folk revival movement. Having translated the title into the local dialect of the part of Germany where he lives, Beckett began reinterpreting all of its 84 tracks using sampler, effect pedals and loops – sometimes making several tracks in a single day. A colossal undertaking whose results are beyond accomplished and that is summed up in the selection of thirteen tracks on Trewwer, Leud un Danz.
  

Murray Royston-Ward writes about Trewwer, Leud un Danz:

“Total sacrilege... 
A collection of remixes of tracks from Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music which was originally released in its entirety. The album is titled Trewwer, Leud un Danz (sorrow, song and dance) which is drawn from an endangered ‘Low German’ dialect (lippisch Platt) and is poetically approximating Smith’s volumes Ballads, Social Music and Songs.   The hardware employed encompasses analogue, virtual analogue and digital. A primordial soup of electrical fields, striated granulation, micro-circuitry, molecular oscillations and mathematical manipulation; communicating directly with the guitars, zithers, mountain dulcimers, fiddles, jaw harps, banjos, harmonicas and human voices of 1930’s America: itself a reterritorialization of African and European folk traditions that reach back farther and farther into our collective pasts. (…)” 

faitiche 25, 2021
Music by Michael Beckett
Mastering by Rashad Becker
Design by Tim Tetzner
Published by La Chunga
Label image by Giant Fox

Trip Shrubb: Wach Up, Jakob

For its 7th release, Moneda is proud to announce Cathedral, a work by Mihalis Shammas. It features a unique string instrument: the Lyraei, which Shammas designed, engineered and fabricated over the last two years.

The album is comprised of five longform drone compositions, captured over a series of one-take improvisations. They were recorded during isolation, in a period when Shammas, like many other artists, were unable to perform live. In a sense, the recordings capture the intention of those live performances that have been suspended indefinitely, droning away. Hence, our decision to share this work with some restrictions that serve not as a paywall, but as an invitation to enter through the walls of sound and experience the work in its totality, as an imaginary performance would have been.

The ‘Lyraei’ is an eight-string walnut instrument, featuring deconstructed and redesigned string exciters that oscillate according to the waveforms of analog signals; that is, the movements found in traditional analog synthesizers is transposed to the oscillating vibrations that resonate the metallic strings, to create different electric-dependent harmonics. This quality alone sets it miles apart from the more conventional layering of e-bowed guitar strings drone music. Especially, when one considers that the instrument features tuners that can be adjusted in real-time to explore microtonal dissonances and an eight-channel mixer to blend the signals of each string.

It is tempting to keep disseminating the instrument, but as the recordings of the performances reveal, Mihalis Shammas pays equal attention to expression. Already known as a well-versed live performer, in Cathedral, Shammas’ affinity to detail and nuance, make him unavoidably a master of the instrument.

For the artwork, Mihalis’ brother and frequent collaborator Demetris Shammas, takes the fabrication 3d drawings of this instrument a step further and reconceives it as an architectural structure of an imaginary cathedral, faintly reminding us of Lyonel Feininger’s cathedral woodcut on the Bauhaus manifesto, where Walter Gropius called artists to return to craft in the service of a metaphorical cathedral of the future.

In many ways, we think Cathedral pays tribute to that often-forgotten communal ethos found in early Bauhaus theory, one in which art is made in the workshop, with other fellow craftspeople, and, more importantly, for the people. An overarching ethos that Shammas’ work encapsulates where design, craftmanship, artistic expression and engineering, do not stampede for the recognition institutions impose but instead move freely between artist and artisan, architect and engineer, to offer a glimpse of what that ‘cathedral of the future’ might be. 

Released March 17, 2022

Performed, recorded, and mixed by Mihalis Shammas
Mastering by Giuseppe Ielasi
Artwork and design by Demetris Shammas
Artistic direction by Emiddio Vasquez

For more information on the instrument and Mihalis Shammas' work: mihalisshammas.com/Lyraei

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Mihalis Shammas - Ascending (MON007)

[KPL094] Larmorfer Vs Drfct - Process EP

1. Process 101 (Original Mix)
2. Process 202 (Original Mix)
3. Process 303 (Original Mix)

W&P by https://soundcloud.com/drfct and Larmorfer

Larmorfer Vs. Drfct - Process 101 (Original Mix)

Puls of the rain

Release date - 10 June 2019
Format - Digital
Buy on Bandcamp - https://dycide.bandcamp.com/album/mond-2

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Dycide - Young Crescent [IO]

Here's a microbelter to stir up your Sunday stew, giving a taste of what's cooking in the rural techno kitchen. Being a shorter edit, this brew of deep drums, woody samples and airy strings will present itself in a slightly grander form on my next release.

This was produced for Linda Nurk and Jonas Johansson's exhibit Osmos Kosmos, displayed at London Design Festival 2019, and especially for the catwalk that Linda's grown (and even growing), eerie and mesmerising clothes were shown at.

https://www.lindanurk.com/
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Photo by Linda Nurk

Growth (Catwalk Edit)

NTS SHOW 

https://www.nts.live/shows/pandoras-jukebox/episodes/pandora-s-jukebox-7th-september-2020

art: Superstudio 1969

STORY N*43 NTS 7920

Lukas Danys, Lithuanian DJ and visual artist based in Copenhagen.

Lukas Danys [04.11.2020]

A mix of chance impressions and coincident piano sequences.

Her Digital Body - Mix

Factish (french / german faitiche) "(...) is a combination of facts and fetishes, and makes it obvious that the two have a common element of fabrication." Bruno Latour, 1999.

Faitiche is a label by Jan Jelinek.