When We Were Heroes

I’m really, really excited by this new official Richard Waters’ waterphone made by Brooks Hubbert.  Brooks is an amazing musician and instrument builder who knew and worked with Richard.  This new bass waterphone is so very resonant, responsive and expressive!  It is a dream to play.  What you hear on this demo was performed live without effects or editing.  Enjoy!  You may contact Brooks for more information at waterphoneman@gmail.com  A demo video is available here: https://vimeo.com/133383161


Hubbert-Waters Waterphone demo

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Worktendal (Arrang1)

Positive or negative, only time would tell. Life and death depended on the outcome but at present he remained calm, cool and collected. He had little choice. That plus or minus would determine the very course of his future, his existence, his soul. The hour would come, and soon he would know all. However, for now, he was happy to sit and wait, watching the wall, before an outcome was revealed. 
Flau is a record label of which you might be unfamiliar with. Based in Tokyo, Japan they have been operating since 2006 and have remained low key and under the radar of many. Mid June saw the release of 'Open Close Open' : a four track EP from Robert Lippok. And whilst we aren't in the habit of premiering music which is already out in the open, this seemed like a perfect opportunity to showcase something from the unknown.

PREMIERE: Robert Lippok - + [Flau]

from the tape "Ashenden" on Muzan Editions, Feb. 2018.
https://muzaneditions.bandcamp.com/

Lee Noble — Sanyo Loop

Melodies From Mars 9 (AFX COVER)

CYCLES "Cyclic Law's 10th Year Anniversary Label Sampler" (50th Cycle) 2CD 
To commemorate our 10th year of activity, we’ve collected new and previously unreleased material by most of Cyclic Law’s roster who’s music has been released on the label over the past 10 years. This very special label sampler features exclusive tracks by ALLSEITS, ARCANA, AUN, BEYOND SENSORY EXPERIENCE, DESIDERII MARGINIS, GUSTAF HILDEBRAND, KAMMARHEIT, KARJALAN SISSIT, NEW RISEN THRONE, NORTHAUNT & MULM, PARHELION, SHRINE, SINKE DUS, SOPHIA, SVARTSINN & PSYCHOMANTEUM, THE FLOATING WORLD, THERRADAEMON, TREHA SEKTORI, TRIANGULAR ASCENSION, VISIONS and VORTEX. This compendium stands as an homage to all artists involved throughout the years, and whom with their unique approach to atmospheric music have forged the Cyclic Law Sound. We’d also like to dedicate this release to our worldwide supporters who’ve made this 10 year venture possible. Onward to a new dawn...
 Edition of 1000 copies in 6 panel digi sleeve.  21 tracks. Running Time 2:35:00

Allseits - The Moment Before You Fall Asleep - Excerpt

New album "Catharsis" is available now - displayseries.bandcamp.com/album/catharsis

The sixth entry in the DISPLAYSOLO series finds @my-head composing a sprawling four part epic entitled “Catharsis”. A collection of vignettes that sees moody ambient murmurs surround and envelop shambling rhythms and piercing synth melodies while distant vocal hymns harmonize with mechanical clicks. “Catharsis” is an audio assemblage expressing the primordial with the aesthetics of the new familiar. A series of brief reprieves in tense times.

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Written & produced by my.head
Recorded in Marseille, France during Summer/Autumn 2018
Artwork, design, & mastering by Kastle at Paradox Lost

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Catharsis

Part III: Never Done / Open Wound / Shattered Ones / Of Flesh & Fury

Roblox_J-Excerpt

soundtrack for an art installation about Chernobyl

School №3, Pripyat

Food, sex, glory to God; in which order? Do you first eat, and then pray to thank Them? Or perhaps coupling takes the top spot for you.

Each of these three fundamentals is about service. What is your way of serving others while you’re in this world? And will we keep doing it ever after? In heaven—if we’ll make it there—will W serve us their mass of resonating frequencies and clipping digital ornaments?

A new release by W is here to go alongside our feasts, orgies, and other acts of devotion. Yes, it’s suited for all kinds of services. You must try it on fried fish, living bodies, or celestial ones.

From right to left and back again from left to right; W spins the middle frequencies into a ritual that helps us to forget ourselves. For a while, heaven and earth exist on the horizon, instead of the vertical.

The sonic horizon reminds us of the beauty of the plain from which nothing arises to compete with God. What's more, the panning offers an exercise in humility: everything is around you, but you’re not the center.

The distorting of those sweet basslines tells you that what you’re hearing is growth and rot, crop and compost, both at the same instance. The distortion invites you to go medieval—think Ars moriendi, the art of dying. Learn from these sounds by reflecting on how they’re ready—but not willing—to leave this plane at any moment.

The sounds that make up Maanpinna follow neither a linear understanding of time, nor a hierarchical understanding of bodies, but an instantaneous one of both. You could call it quantum music, but then why would you do so when you can call it a service?

Of the three acts of services mentioned, sex and God demand the most trust. Can you trust these sounds? You could learn to do so by listening to them on repeat. No: forget the idea of being able to know music, forget beginnings and ends; try living with these sounds forever, always unearthing new aspects.

Commit to the sounds, because why else would they trust you? Touch the wobbly melodies and feel them touching you like nothing has ever done before.

Apart from the sea of sine waves, Maanpinna sometimes gives you bursts, pops, and washes of filtered white noise. They are gestures of good faith made by the music itself towards you. If you didn't trust the sounds before, perhaps now you will.

Those bursts are not pure noise, but cut down to a serving size by W. The modified noise tells you what the dead always tell the living: ‘What I am, you will become.’ The art, in life and audio, is in learning to lose. It’s a lesson that reverberates deep in the bare soundscape of Maanpinna.

It is music made from very few elements. And while reduction has always formed the basis for aural worship, on the hands of W, sounds are never reduced to the level of blasphemy: there's always the noise and the distortion.

- Kaino Wennerstrand

Produced by Eero Pulkkinen (@susiovet).
Mastering by Jaakko Viitalähde.
Artwork by Carmine Laurenza.
AFN005 - A Flooded Need, 2021.

Maanpinna

W - Un I

composer, performer, lecturer and analog synthesist who is endlessly fascinated by and exploring sound...

Hubbert-Waters Waterphone demo

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