Follow the voice in the dark

Dark Ambient - Guide Me” is a dark cinematic soundtrack piece shaped by a deep, haunting male voice.
A mysterious, otherworldly presence calls out from the shadows — ancient, patient, and powerful.
Slow-moving air, distant echoes, and a ritual-like atmosphere create a soundscape that feels both spiritual and unsettling.

Guide me

Anderer Traum

So the temperature has dropped and the maledictus month is upon us…  The goblins at Finders Keepers Records couldn't possibly let October pass without our unfaithful hosts Andy "The Vampire" Votel, Pete "The Mutilator" Mitchell and Doug "The Grave Digger" Shipton bringing you our first Finders Kreepers Hallowe'en Radio Spezial.  Cramming the best part of two blood curdling hours with a small selection of their combined, colossal collection of spook music, the inhabitants of the Kreepers Cottage don their best costumes and invite a crooked cast of trick or treat cheats into the warmth to share their scary wares and impose their schizophrenic opinions, horrific half embalmed facts and rotten mispronunciations with a mutating readership of zombified victims.

Featuring apparitions of guests such as the terrible tape worm, Jane "The Cleaver' Weaver and, for this very special one-off occasion, The Prince Of Darkness himself, Mr. Chris Lee!  Defying mortality, betraying reality and pushing the blood-stained boundaries of mindless banality. Catch the Finders Kreepers freak show now or risk feeling pop culturally decapitated for the next 364 painful days.  Audiophiles enter at your own risk.

Finders Keepers Radio Show - Halloween Special

Valerio Tricoli — Clonic Earth
Format: 2xLP / DIGITAL
Cat.No: PAN 71
Release Date: 24th June 2016
http://p-a-n.org/

The experimental Italian composer returns to PAN with a new LP, titled 'Clonic Earth'. His ongoing output for the label has long-presented his electroacoustic sound compositions where since the mid-'00s, he has utilized analogue live sampling and real-time editing of field and studio recordings by means of manipulation of 1/4 inch tape.

Asides from being a founding member of the Italian avant-rock group 3/4HadBeenEliminated, he has worked extensively with various musicians, choreographers and multimedia artists including Thomas Ankersmit, Antoine Chessex, Werner Dafeldecker, Anthony Pateras, and Robert Piotrowicz.
 
His studio compositions, documented on few records, often explore themes of the internal - represented both by the psychological and the physical - and of the occult, which with the use of spoken text makes them often deeply existential works, self-investigations of the psychological, emotional and irrational horror within.

The new record, 'Clonic Earth' is a perturbing, compelling and eventually mind-expanding work, marked by compositional strategies of exploded narratives, psychological insight and oracular literary references, where questions about the boundaries of spatial perception in the decoding processes of acousmatic music are overturned into existential, metaphysical questions. 

Tricoli's allegorical and philosophical universe takes the form of an unhinged mind's landscape swarming with estranged sound objects, and sometimes reminiscent, in the complexity of details and surrealistic effects, of Hieronymus Bosch’s larger paintings. Compared to his previous works, the content of 'Clonic Earth' explores more synthesized and heavily processed sounds, especially vocals, often appearing in the form of a religious, electrified chanting. 

The record is described by its author as a natural consequence of the internal collapse depicted in his previous record, 'Miseri Lares': "As if all the debris left inside my loudspeakers have been ignited to expand into the ether, to find a justification at the principle of Chaos, or Cosmos alike." 

This movement is expressed by references to the theme of fire as original matter in the Chaldean Oracles which, together with the later work of Philip K. Dick, are the main sources for the vocal/text elements of the composition. Fire, intended as the convulsive principle of existence, but also an ontologically terminal element - hence a representation of the infinite decay and a mean of communication with the otherworldly - serves the author a metaphor for the acousmatic listening experience itself: a borderline perception of sounds eternally fixed in their spasmodic disappearance, which could eventually drag us into a different layer of reality, drastically changing, subverting, or expanding the space in which they are diffused. A ritual, somehow, which may link the listener and the perceptive space that he inhabits with whatever lies beyond the loudspeakers, beyond the vibrating surface of the world.

Valerio Tricoli — I. The Hallowed Receiver (PAN 71)

Track from the forthcoming 12" 
Conga Square - Secada Mondatta
due out 11.24.17

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Conga Square-Secada Mondatta PFF01 (preview)

Robert Martin - Divine Light
Upper Astral - Crystal Cave (Back To Atlantis)
David Storrs - Channel For The Light
Celestial Odysseys - Galactic Odyssey
Steven Cooper - Transcendence
David Naegele - Dawning Of The New Age​

NTS Show 43

Sounds of the Dawn NTS Radio May 26th 2018 VALLEY OF THE SUN SPECIAL PART III

Mix Tape by Çaykh 
Mastering: E.K.G. Technik
Layout: Thomas Baldischwyler

Boomkat Product Review: 
Ever since that incredible 'Au Revoir, Mogadishu' mixtape of Somalian obscurities was released back in 2015 we’ve been obsessed with Çaykh’s mixtapes, always offering a haul of impossible to categorise gems from who-knows-where, pulling us deep into the wormhole. This new one for Nina and Tobias' V I S label is predictably another doozy; a snaky knot of hypnotic, outernational gems slipping from amazing Arabic rhythms to etheric disco, intoxicating drone-pop, keening communal rituals and spiritual jazz. Honestly, there are few selectors that dig quite this deep. 

Enviably crammed with rarified, heady and impossible-to-identify goodness, and regularly prone to take the unexpected path, ‘V I S C 09’ is a treat that keeps on giving, opening along multiple axes of exploration while maintaining the cool head of journeyman who knows it’s all about the trip and not the destination. 

A star chart for armchair navigation; a late, late night party induction; or a vessel for vast mental transportation; however you use this mixtape, the effect will be wonderfully absorbing, disorienting and refresh your most neglected chakras. Wormholers - take note.

VISc09 A ÇAYKH 2

Red Light Radio 13 (13.08.19)

[BD013] 12“ LP & digital
Tomoko Sauvage – Fischgeist (LP)
This is a preview of three songs. You can purchase the whole album (LP & digital) on Bandcamp.

Label: bohemian drips
Release date: October 16th 2020
Genre: Ambient, Sound Art, Experimental

Fischgeist was recorded in a former water tank in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg in August 2019. The nineteenth-century brick building consists of five layered circles, with a spiral staircase in the middle leading up to an exit to a hilltop. Inside, it's humid and cold, the temperature always around 8–10 ℃. The building’s acoustics produce a long reverberation that lasts up to 20 seconds.

‘One day between recording sessions, a man, a passerby, wanted to look inside the building. He told me that it used to be full of fish. For a second I imagined a huge round aquarium with loads of fish swimming around in circles. Then I realized that he meant dead fish were kept there, to be sold on markets during the GDR era. But the image of fish swimming in the space stayed with me.’

In conversation with the space of the water tank, Tomoko Sauvage searches beyond the limits of her self-invented ‘natural synthesizers’: porcelain and glass bowls, filled with water and amplified with hydrophones.

While she continues to develop some of the classic techniques heard on her previous album Musique Hydromantique (Shelter Press, 2017) – hydrophonic feedback (Kinetosis Study) and ‘fortune biscuits’ (porous pieces of terracotta that emit tiny singing bubbles) (Deluge) – here new elements are combined with delicate gestures to make curious noises: stroking bowls’ surfaces to imitate the voices of sea mammals (Metamorphosis), drawing dots and circles by rubbing stones against stones underwater (Exit) …

The underwater amplification of quasi-inaudible sound is even more magnified in the air by the echo of the water tank. Not only tiny bubbles, but also micro-movements of the bones and veins of the hand holding the sonorous objects in the water, are intensely amplified – sounding like a tempest on the opening Deluge.

Sauvage's longtime research into hydrophonic feedback develops with her new obsession with natural harmonics and sympathetic resonance. In Flying Vessels, the percussive notes of struck bowls resonate and turn into feedback loops before decaying, fueled by electric signal gain. Kinetosis Study is a sonic etude on fluid dynamics – the flow velocity, pressure and density of manually shaped water waves directly controlling the aquatic synthesizer's parameters.

August, when the mid-summer Ghost Festival is held, is traditionally known as the Ghost Month throughout East Asia. The spirits of the dead visit their living families, who welcome them with feasts, dancing and music. Miniature lantern-laden boats are released in rivers, to help lost ghosts find their way home.

Animated by formless matter – water, electricity, sound – Fischgeist celebrates a phantasmagoric journey, as the souls of aquatic lifeforms find their way out of the labyrinth of the water tank.

[Tracklist]

Total Runtime: 35:59

Side A (20:36)

A1: Deluge (6:48)
A2: Metamorphosis (6:59)
A3: Flying Vessels (6:49)

Side B (15:23)

B1: Kinetosis Study (12:22)
B2: Exit (3:01)

[Credits]

Composed, performed and mixed by Tomoko Sauvage
Recorded and produced by bohemian drips prior to Speicher festival, Berlin, August 2019 | Binaural recording with a KU 100 dummy head microphone
Mastered by Andreas Kauffelt in Berlin
Cover drawings by Baien Mōri (1798–1851)
Back cover photo by Richard Berger

© Tomoko Sauvage and bohemian drips – all rights reserved
www.bohemiandrips.de | www.o-o-o-o.org

A3 – Flying Vessels

Ralph Cumbers makes a very welcome return to Slip with the sweet drive and unguarded lyricism of 'Orezero': a smiling-through-the tears chaser to 2019's majestic '111 angelic MIDI cascade'.

Says Clef:

"'Orezero' is both the prequel and sequel to '111 Angelic MIDI Casacde' in that I'm not sure which ones is Wonderland and which one is through the Looking Glass. So it can stay unresolved as both and neither? Feels like a strange time to be releasing what might be the most joyous Bass Clef record. Certainly 'One Tree Island' and 'Heavy Lifting Light Wave' are two cuts of happiness, but the kind of happiness that acknowledges and incorporates all the unhappiness that came along the way. Other tracks are a more rarefied kind of joy I guess, I find myself stripping back layers on these tracks to an extent I never would have dreamed was possible for me.

These tracks were recorded in 2019 over quite some time, although each track itself takes no more than 3-4 hours and are recorded live. Editing clears the clutter to reveal the intent, not always obvious at the time of recording. I was pushing myself, again, to focus on harmony, and melody, the two things I think I am worst at, rather than returning to rhythm and texture, the playgrounds I always felt most comfortable in.

Instrument restrictions helped as always – most of the sounds heard are from two ROMplers, much-loathed relics of pre-computer music, loaded with largely un-tweakable samples of acoustic instruments, samples you have heard on a billion records, but hopefully stacked in new combinations this time around. Backed up with Microkorg, a resolutely and extremely popular, yet deeply uncool, digital synthesizer.

The tracks here were originally intended for two different records (maybe that’s why the prequel/sequel feeling persists) but thanks to excellent old school A&R in the form of an evolving conversation with Laurie from Slip, together we eventually uncovered one record that I think manages to weave all these threads together. I hope it will bring some smiles to some people."

'Orezero' [SLP059] is available from October 2020 on cassette and/or download. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi. Distributed by Boomkat.

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heavy lifting light wave - Bass Clef

Olta Karawane show continues with Part 2: Marc Ribot, Arto Lindsay, John Zorn, Steve Beresford and other hungry friends of John are waiting for him on the shore.

VISc09 A ÇAYKH 2

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