The album “Ceiling Inferno.” Produced by Panagiotis Mina of Pyrgatory Studio, and based on the poetry collection “Marvelous Ceiling Inferno” by Christos Kyriakides, the album includes features by Maria Spivak, Veronica Georgiou, Tasos Lamnisos (x.ypno), and Anastasia Dolitsai (Uvglov). For its cover art, it uses documentation of Marina Xenofontos’ painting “Ceiling Inferno.” A film, also made by Xenofontos, doubles as the video-clip for the album’s first track.

Kyriakides’ collection of thirteen off-kilter poems recount his peace-making with death. The points of contact folded together in these poems are auditory, sensual, touch-felt, and intimate. Several of them trail an upbringing and coming of age set in the sidelines of sulen schools and strict parades. Transgressions abound in their verses, but are held tenderly enough to release them from their abjection. Placed on top of the collection, a silver figure of a mask sticks its tongue out: a three-way gesture of contempt, provocation, and conciliation; a calm anticipation of charon’s final obol.

Each of the album’s eight tracks takes its title directly from one of the book’s thirteen poems. Five of the tracks’ vocals reproduce the poem’s verses whole either lyricising them or obscuring them with the use of language games, techniques taken from concrete poetry, and improvisation. For the production, Mina collaborated with Cypriot musicians of differing disciplines, bringing together various styles of beatmaking and composition while also embedding his own influences from drone and noise. The album both calls back to and disperses the original, putting down Mina’s and his collaborators’ interpretations of what they read as latent in the book.

Xenofontos’ painting “Ceiling Inferno” has been hung and photographed. Its documentation is printed as the album’s cover art. Its setting: a castle ablaze, hammer, nails, ladder, and pair of heels without owner, sketch out the tone of the release. The scene can be seen as long forlorn, but also traces a recent evacuation—the intentions of an arsonist. For her film, also titled “Ceiling Inferno”, this scene is restaged and animated; the intensity of the blaze redoubled.

Text by Aris Mochloulis

Artist: Panagiotis Mina / Maria Spivak / @panayotisofficial
Album: Ceiling Inferno
Label: Pyrgatory Studio
Release date: December 9, 2021
Format: digital / vinyl (50 limited edition vinyl lathe cuts)
Buy: https://pyrgatory.bandcamp.com/

PREMIERE: Εργόχειρο — Μαρία Spivak (Pyrgatory Studio, 2021)

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Mads Emil Nielsen + Chromacolor: Constellation
https://arbitraryproject.com/Constellation

April 2022
10" | @madsemilnielsen

10" vinyl

Mads Emil Nielsen: Constellation (arbitrary12)

For the full-length version: https://soundcloud.com/hearingbeings/20220702-still-night-in-a-pine-forest-winter-full-version

2022.07.02 Still Night In A Pine Forest. Winter. (Abridged Version)

After From 0 to 90, released in 2020 on the British label Phantom Limb, Humbros returns with Druidarium (les albums claus , now - matomah), always with this focus on the mixture, the hybridization of synthetic and acoustic sounds.

Captured in the mass, the eleven pieces are a concentrate of the different mediums and materials explored by the duo during four days of improvisation in the Ateliers Claus studio in December 2020.

Eleven scenes, panoramic or microscopic faux-field-recordings, strewn with stridulations and buzzes, from which sometimes emanate melodies seeming to escape from occult radios, from a deserted hotel hall, or even from a festive parade. Sound environments with different depths, textures and distances made possible by the movement of microphones in space, the use of different types of speakers as well as a multitude of acoustic and electronic percussion played on both sides of the studio .



release date October 14, 2022

Recorded by Christophe Albertijn at les ateliers claus
Mixed by Etienne Foyer
Mastering by scape Mastering / Stefan Betke
Artwork by Valentin Verron
Matomah (former les albums claus) - lac028 - 2022

to order: https://matomah.bandcamp.com/album/druidarium

Druidarium

Humbros - Corso Fleuri

SEDE 3302 COLUMBIA –  (Vinyl 7 inch / 45 RPM)

Omkarnath Thakur great Hindustani vocalist sings Kabir Bhajan

These 1964 recordings of Bulgarian village music with kaval flutes, gadulka fiddles, gaida bagpipes and vocal groups–weaving rich sonorities, complex rhythms and fascinating harmonies–are available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2023/01/bulgaria-bulgarie-music-of-bulgaria.html

Music of Bulgaria – Seven Seas  – Ethnic Music of the World Series – GXC-5007

Vintage Bulgarian village music

This  LP of Chadian music released on the legendary first Ocora series, showcasing fascinating polyrhythmic musics performed by Sara ethnic/cultural groups in Southern Chad, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com

Anthologie de la Musique du Tchad – Les Sara – Ocora OCR 36

Chad Tchad - Sara traditional music Ocora 1966

NTR07 - Apparitions [sample]

"A Beaded Gesture" captures Sandy Ewen and Jason Nazary in a bewildering live set recorded at Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce. Ewen’s prepared guitar and Nazary’s drums and percussion share a deeply stimulating dynamic. Ewen has recorded with such diverse folks as Tamio Shiraishi, Roscoe Mitchell, and id m theft able, while Nazary has worked with Travis Laplante, Chris Williams, Notice Recordings alumnus Leo Chang, and the late great Jaimie Branch, among others.

Having admired both their relentless collaborative energies over the past few years, it is with great joy that we present this tightly woven, roiling, playful, and cathartic album from two vital players in New York City’s free improv scene.

Vintage Bulgarian village music

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