My track on the latest compilation from Montreal label Causal Chain. The rest of the comp can be found at: https://causalchain.bandcamp.com/album/va-cc003

Oleander

We’ve reached book IV in Rupert Clervaux’s series of “Zibaldone” audio diaries, at which point we find him telling a different kind of story. 

“The first three all had very specific themes, while this one feels a little bit looser and doesn’t have just one thematic thrust,” he tells me, which maybe explains why listening feels a bit like annotating. I’m underlining, emphasizing, drawing arrows from here to there, highlighting symbols and noting motifs, realising, questioning, eureka-ing. An impressionistic meaning’s been encoded in and we’re lucky to be given the space to play that most poetic and boundless of all mental games: narrativization. 

There are no wrong answers, but Rupert offers some clues either way. If there’s any cipher here it’s “something like a meditation on the concept of ‘depth’––in all its connotative forms.” Think below the surface, (the) underground, yawning oceans, being ‘down in the dirt’, soil, roots, rootlessness, pulling at the dregs, collapse, profundity, stable and unstable horizons, distance, perspective, intuition, not to mention relative opposites: to be shallow, to be above, to be beyond. 

It’s got me thinking of Bresson’s “Bring things together that have as yet never been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.” His: “Dig deep where you are. Don't slip off elsewhere.” Rupert has realized these—two favourite goals of mine!—here. 

This is music that catches you at your own periphery, gives pause, has you offering a little “huh” to, asking “I wonder why” to. Again, it’s got me musing on another mindworm, this time from New York publisher and multi-sensory reading room Dispersed Holdings: “Feeling-making-knowing feedback loop; cartography of feeling; water as text, read to know the land beneath and around it, and body as reader.” 

Is it ok to offer up these other contexts out of context? I think so, because Zibaldone IV articulates a similarly swirly tone. Like, we’ve got Rebecca Solnit talking through Kropotkin’s “Mutual Aid” and later calling out to Michael Ruppert a ways away, and “Easy Rider” is playing in the wings. We’ve got Susan Sontag magically contextualizing Mariah Carey with poet Thylias Moss triangulating in order to sketch out (Rupert again) “something a little more interesting than wilful eclecticism or that laboured and patronising kind of pop-savvy.” 

Are we following? Whether yes or no Vanessa Bedoret follows on with a performance of a performance of Moss’s 'Water Road’: to be once or twice removed, via strange transitions, purposeful confusions, and, suddenly, seagulls. We’re on a boat with Ingeborg Bachmann—and how I wish I could actually be! But maybe thanks to this music I can as literature, films, friends, lethargy, coincidences, little mental links, eternal wormholes, lingering notions come together to imagine something better. 

Text by Natalia Panzer 
npanzer.com 

Artwork by Coline Cornélis 

Music by Rupert Clervaux 

with 
Vanessa Bedoret: voice and violin on Thylias Moss #2 
Eben Bull: trumpet and electronics on Mutual Aid and Departure from England 
Isis O’Regan; voice on Departure from England 
Nick Taylor: electronics on Chthonic ’97 
Ben Vince: saxophone and electronics on Chatsworth ’17 

Artwork by Coline Cornélis 

Warm thanks to James Marrs, as always, and Natalia Panzer 

Vanessa recreates and reads an excerpt from ‘Water Road’ by Thylias Moss. Isis reads ‘Departure from England’ by Ingeborg Bachmann (translated by Peter Filkins). This record is dedicated to both poets––with great respect and deep admiration.

02. Simple Food For Our Simple Taste

info: https://radio.syg.ma/episodes/aks-sado-ilia-golitsyn
https://soundcloud.com/iliagolit

Aks Sado

Aks Sado. Ilia Golitsyn

Vaagner is proud to present the third and final installment of Jeremiah M. Carter’s album triptych, ‘Vessels’.

Spanning 6 pieces, each work feels like an integral part of the album's overarching narrative, fervently nestled amid divinity and humility.

By its final piece, 'Vessel X', which also clocks in as the longest in the entire triptych, we are treated to one of Jeremiah’s finest moments, and for a few seconds, it all comes together for one last swansong, forming a sonic distillation of elation and grief, desire and passion. – It’s all here.

Vessels

ASM06 | J. Carter - Vessel X (Falling On Our Faces During the Morning Prayers)

VAK68 | Abigail Toll – A Cut In A Curve

Taken from the SDEM - Vortices - Album
Release Date July 28th 2023.
Audio mastering: Miles Whitaker
Artwork: SODA

Vinyl // CD // Cassette // Digital // Streaming 

Steeped in Northern England's post bleep+bass mutations the album expands & finesses SDEM's dynamic & forward-facing approach.

Vortices

SDEM - SKRUNGE

https://radiopunctum.cz/shows/phonon-swarming

@bydl as guest of October's phonon~ swarming [@phononcrew]
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A collection of sounds which accompanied me through summer or help me to cope with the inevitable end of it. Sprinkled with some occasional field recordings done by phone whenever something caught my ears.

Tracklist:
mʊdʌki - Fluid Balance
BYDL - Berlin I: Birds Outside Villa Kuriosum
alfa00_2409_3 - wind&rainwhispering (May I exist?)
Date Unknown - 05
BYDL - Paths yet to be defined (excerpt)
Cedrik Fermont - Mesmerising Basilisks
Kenji Araki - Haushaltsmontage
Perila - Green
Cody Shaffer - Beat up the ocean
Phone Rec - Viennese Dog Park Ambience
Furchick, Alex Winner, don’t know & Jeremy von Kobra - Noise Cancelling
Clacial Anatomy & 37735i6 - Subscape
Phone Rec - Faulty Intercom
Phone Rec - Croatian Crickets Chirping
Nilotpal Das - Symphony for Archived Posts No. 1
Kate Karr - Planktonic Clouds
Phone Rec - Windy Day at a Viennese Forest
qualchan. - To Live and Die in the Anthropocene
Phone Rec - Melting Snow and Birds
Aphex Twin - Avril 14th Notes Played Backwards Not The Audio
Nulluhreins - Bruchstuecke 1
Macello Basstrojani - My Nippelohr is Bleeding Like An Entzündung
Kobermann - Phosfor Quen
Oto Nagasaki - Die Spur
Ain’t About Me - Indigo Sine Wave

phonon~ swarming 10/23 w/ BYDL

Taken from AST156: Hayden Moon - Death Of A Miner's Cottage c20

Physical / digital available here:
https://alteredstatestapes.bandcamp.com/album/death-of-a-miners-cottage

VAK68 | Abigail Toll – A Cut In A Curve

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