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After cultivating his own sound for over 30 years, de Babalon has continually expanded his sonic trajectory throughout the last few years via a series of noteworthy release on labels such as Alter, A Colorful Storm and AD 93. Now he presents his most encompassing album to date via Vale, an hour long phantasmagoric onslaught showcasing the full spectrum of de Babalon’s radical, menacing and inimitable style.

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Kali Malone’s “Organ Dirges 2016 - 2017" is a collection of isorhythmic canons following the tradition of pipe organ requiems found in early modern music. Malone’s purified organ dirges echo embodied recollections of the piercing numbness of those battled encounters when the armours were stripped down, left with nothing other than will power, yet still standing upright as the columns of Sounion. The soothing and perceptive harmonies resonate to a presence that leans elegantly towards a courageous aftermath and a gleaming salutation. While the dirges themselves have minimal melodic and rhythmic variation, they appear in constant cyclical motion, revealing their refracted selves in a coherent yet unpredictable manner; like a rotating wheel where all spokes are perceptible but at any given moment in a different place.

Kali Malone (b. 1994, Colorado) is an American artist living and working in Stockholm, Sweden since 2012. Her solo works implement unique tuning systems in minimalist form for analog and digital synthesis often combined with acoustic instrumentation - such as pipe organ, string and wind instruments, lute and gong. Malone’s 2017 debut LP “Velocity of Sleep” was released on her own label XKatedral following tape releases put out by Ascetic House, Bleak Environment and Total Black. She is active in the groups Sorrowing Christ, Swap Babies, Upper Glossa with Caterina Barbieri. Her sophomore LP “Cast of Mind” is due spring 2018.

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Kali Malone "Locus Of Repetition"

These tracks are taken from the John Cale 12″ we're releasing for Record Store Day, on which tracks from Cale's Extra Playful EP are remixed by the cream of the contemporary underground including Actress, Maria Minerva, Tim Hecker, Leyland Kirby & Alva Noto. It's cut on white vinyl from the Japanese future in packaging designed by audio satorialists Satomi.  

Tracklist: 
A1. ‘Whaddya Mean By That’ – Maria Minvera's Freaky Cafe Del Mar Mix 
A2. ‘Perfection’ – Actress Reflection Mix 
A3. ‘Catastrofuk’ – Alva Noto Remodel 
B1. ‘Watching & Waiting For You To Begin’ – Leyland Kirby 
B2. ‘Suffocation Raga For John Cale’ – Tim Hecker


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