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Psychic Liberation presents “Friendly CSA Compilations Parts 1 & 2”. A compilation in two parts consisting of artists orbiting the PL canon from around the world in an effort to raise funds for Roots Unbound Friendly CSA.

Roots Unbound (RU) is an abolitionist grassroots organization based in Brooklyn offering nature-based programming centered around food justice, therapeutic horticulture and ecological disinvestment to people in the NYC area with a focus on supporting and uplifting people impacted by the carceral system.

Friendly CSA is a cooperative, agricultural initiative that was mobilized to respond to the food apartheid within New York jails and prisons. Roots Unbound sends care packages of harvested produce that are
chosen by incarcerated folks via a newsletter sent out every month, by growing and collaborating with local New York City land stewards. This CSA is provided at no cost to the recipients, funds raised for this CSA will be used towards packaging, postage, printed materials for newsletters, and a P.O. box.

To find out more information and donate further :
rootsunbound.org

opencollective.com/rootsunbound/donate

releases May 7, 2021

Mastering : Glyn Maier
Image :Nick Klein
Layout : RJM Vanderheyden

Friendly CSA Compilation Part 2

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NAPE - Through A Needle's Eye

ISABELLA - 98

MM'99 - Spine

ASJ - Corporeality

Composed during a whirlwind period of touring and sound engineering in 2019, 𝑂𝑛𝑙𝑦 functions as both a tranquil refuge and as a heartfelt appreciation for the source instruments' timbres. Berlin-based Bridget Ferrill crystallizes her professional recording experience and artist residencies into a singular focus on Buchla modular, harp, zither, and viola da gamba. Rather than an exercise in technical mastery, Ferrill's careful arrangements invite us to linger with each instrument; in her words, fulfilling the longing to "listen a little longer, a little slower". Every contour of the instruments is lovingly traced, a warm invite for us to join her in the exuberance of exploring their inner life.

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Bridget Ferrill (USA/DE) is a producer and composer of electronic music whose work plays between pattern and noise, exploring augmented instruments, handmade electronics, and experimental computer music. She has participated in residencies at EMS in Stockholm, LungA in Iceland, and the Dirt Palace in Providence, Rhode Island. Recent projects include composing for Staatstheater Cottbus, engineering and performing electronics for Bendik Giske’s live show, designing the Anglerfish drone synthesizer for Common Ground, and creating multimedia installations with composer Áslaug Magnúsdóttir.

Ferrill is also a live and studio engineer with experience working in studios and venues such as Greenhouse Studios in Reykjavik, Machines with Magnets in Providence RI, and at Real Surreal, her own mixing and mastering studio in Berlin.

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Bridget Ferrill - Viola da Gamba (ENXPL10)

Composed during a whirlwind period of touring and sound engineering in 2019, ???? functions as both a tranquil refuge and as a heartfelt appreciation for the instruments highlighted. Berlin-based Bridget Ferrill crystallizes her professional recording experience and artist residencies into a singular focus on Buchla modular, harp, zither, and viola da gamba. Not merely an exercise in technical mastery, Ferrill's careful arrangements invite us to linger with each instrument; in her words, fulfilling the longing to "listen a little longer, a little slower". Every contour of the instruments is lovingly traced, a warm invite for us to join her in the exuberance of exploring their inner life.

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ENXPL10 - BRIDGET FERRILL - A2. HARP

Playing music at the ocean, an infinite mirror curls upward towards you. Picturesque and perverse, cracked enamel castings sit in lazy but unsettled sands. Something is just right, having once stirred beneath the surface it now hovers misting at eye level. You can put your hand through it; pushing humidity around like a furry catkins flake in a tepid wind.

BAD LSD TRIPS is a collaboration between artists Domingo Castillo and doris dana. Working through the process of developing sounds during the pandemic, the duo amassed large swaths of recordings on a weekly basis from 2020 and 2021 in Miami, Florida. The debut recording of "bad LSD trips" for the ENXPL series is documentation of improvising and honing a sonic vocabulary that is rooted in the tradition of early industrial, dark ambient and tape music. The backdrop of the recorded effort is a geographical conundrum of a city worn threadbare by candied advertising, tourism, and aesthetics. BAD LSD TRIPS inverts the spectacle of their locale with psychedelic meditations searching for, and occasionally digging inside of, a place of ease.

BAD LSD TRIPS is a collaboration between artists Domingo Castillo and doris dana. Working through the process of developing sounds during the pandemic, the duo amassed large swaths of recordings on a weekly basis from 2020 and 2021 in Miami, Florida.


Limited 125 copies
Copper foil print on recycled paper
Recycled cassette shells and cases 
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releases March 29, 2022

Recorded by Domingo Castillo and doris dana
LAZY HIDEAWAY contains elements of Zabelle Panosian - Groung
Audio finalized by Glyn Maier
Source material for design from 'Smiley Face Om'
Design by RJM Vanderheyden

BAD LSD TRIPS

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ENXPL12 - BAD LSD TRIPS - A1. CONSCIOUSNESS BURNOUT

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link in description, i
live in a fairy tale,
find an archetype, i will do it right
to the world i left behind
i'll be jester right, i'll be just alright

live in a fairy tale,
still i snap back just to pay respect back
to the world i left behind
i'll be just alright, i want your surrender

this could be the last you hear from me,
till i fail, till i fail, till I fail
i'll be okay
can you count on that?
as i'm trying to breathe in the cold
i'll be okay
can you count that?

i was falling back on the match
i was falling back undetached

wallow in your room, seeking someone
i know you so
so well, well

live in a fairy tale,
find an archetype, i will do it right
to the world i left behind
i'll be jester right, i'll be just alright

live in a fairy tale,
still i step back just to pay respect back
to the world i left behind
i'll be just alright, i want your surrender

jesterr

Rooftop Antenna is a collaborative mix series hosted by Caleb Woodward, a.k.a. Neuume.  Episodes are released biweekly.

The second half of this episode features a guest mix by Dawn DX.
Episodes are available for streaming on Soundcloud after the premiere.

Tracklist:
https://soundcloud.com/neuume
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TLoraine James - One Way Ticket to the Midwest (emo)
EASYFUN - Audio (All I Ever Got)
Nobukazu Takemura - Mirrors Like a Lake
Yanokami - Night Train Home
0738256738 - Everytime
Khonnor - Tattletalent (Encore) 
DJ Majesty - Afraid to Cry
Lucy Liyou - Dog Dreams (개꿈)
Mitsuto Suzuki - Split
Yamaneko - Suzuka
Michiru Aoyama - Ultramarin

https://soundcloud.com/dawndx
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iANO - Above (+BBC Broadcast Layer)
Theodore Cale Schafer - It Isn’t So Bad To Be Alone
uon - Superbath (Excerpt)
Lukas Oppenheimer - Guide
ode dyne - healing unit
The Books - A Dead Fish Gains the Power of Observation
Bladee - Merry Go Round (m4 Mix)
Alex DL - III (ESP Remix)
Dawn DX - Worried Your … (Do Not Analyze Me , Thank You)
Dawn Diex (2013) - Candy Forest Wallpaper
The Books - Getting the Done Job

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Rooftop Antenna ep. 3 ft. Dawn DX

Drumloop - I Don't See It

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Jiyoung Wi is a multi-faceted artist from Seoul, Korea currently residing in The Hague, Netherlands. Jiyoung’s work can be situated within fictional literature, improvised music, field recording, with an interest in juxtaposing or disjointing these fields of practice through her sonic and literary methodologies. Jiyoung’s debut album 𝑨𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒑𝒕 𝑨𝒍𝒍 𝑪𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒊𝒆𝒔, is a concise body of work that punctuates a beginning point to her work within the 12” LP format. The recording serves as one of the two releases concluding the three year sonic endeavor that is the ENXPL (Enmossed X Psychic Liberation) series.

Having previously released recordings on compilations for labels like Mirae Arts, Eastern Nurseries, and Psychic Liberation, here Jiyoung hones a cinematic-like structure that exemplifies the biome within her craft. While presently Jiyoung is performing the systematic dismantling of a violin in her live improvisations paired with approachable boutique synthesizers, 𝑨𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒑𝒕 𝑨𝒍𝒍 𝑪𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒊𝒆𝒔 is a pairing of the inimitable Korg MS-20 and field recordings staged or captured by Jiyoung in Seoul and Busan, South Korea.

With three scenes per side, Jiyoung walks us through different geographical and spatial intimacies. Public spaces and intimate conversations are obscured and reconstructed. Glass elevators, an unknown hotel lobby piano recital, office toilet rants, windowside night bus travels, and multiple languages interplay with staged and unstaged conversations to transmogrify themselves into a world of Jiyoung’s view. Money, sex, relationships, and cultural parameters are at once idiosyncratic as well as disorientingly familiar to the listener.

As an extension of the series coined by Jiyoung as 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘍𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, the album feels crisp, pressurized, and at times funny, at other times melancholic. As language, space, and viewing perspective shift, Jiyoung’s succinct album invites the listener to an aural world uniquely of her own viewpoint. While collecting source material relying on the outside world (conversations, elders, the closing track featuring Sungeun Lee), we have a listening experience that deeply illustrates Jiyoung’s perspective. The disjointed experience of someone maneuvering internationally to further develop a practice is encapsulated brilliantly here by Jiyoung with 𝑨𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒑𝒕 𝑨𝒍𝒍 𝑪𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒊𝒆𝒔. Alongside Makoto Oshiro’s 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒅, it is a perfect bookend to the ENXPL series.

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Jiyoung Wi is a writer and musician based in Seoul and The Hague. She writes fiction in-between institutional and non-institutional contexts, and works with sounds in-between clubs and art museums. Her methodology involves building and breaking sonic narratives by arranging and re-contextualizing disparate sound sources ranging from field recordings to fragmented anonymous dialogue.

She approaches sound and text as invisible experiences and phenomena, and is interested in the narrative symptoms that emerge when both are juxtaposed on the same axis. In a series entitled 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘍𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, she explores these symptoms operating within and without the art space. She has been co-organizing an experimental/leftfield listening event 𝘚𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘸 𝘊𝘭𝘶𝘣 𝘚𝘦𝘰𝘶𝘭 since 2019. 

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Voices by Windy Kim, Carl G., Schang09
Piano by Sungeun Lee
Audio finalized by Glyn Maier
Design by Dominique S

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Jiyoung Wi - Walking Tumor (ENXPL22)

Drained song for a prayer

New York City based multifaceted musician and artist Drumloop releases “Limiting Mindset” on 12” LP on Psychic Liberation on May 1st, 2024.

Emerging from the freezing sea, a winged automata ascends over  Mount Erebus and the ice shelves below. Like an arrow aimed at the heavens she flies towards the atmosphere, caught by gravity's kiss. Held, inches from the interstellar sublime, aching for release. Negotiations with divine emissaries. She's accepted into the twinkling astral entropy of soundless void. Breathless in the endless womb of stars. Phantom echoes of the language of unknown metals. Internal depths exposed, exalted and reabsorbed. Returned, whole and warm. Softly descending. Imbued with ultraviolet, embraced by blue depths, returned to the liquid core. Succor for the oceans of grief.

“Limiting Mindset” is sublime. Closer to a sacrament than an album. A divine transmission intercepted by Antarctic listening stations. I am reminded of the depths plumbed by Porter Ricks, of the tundra cool of Thomas Köner’s solo works, the tapestry of Tim Hecker’s emotional fractals and Autechre at their most interstellar. One could draw these comparisons, but Drumloop clearly inhabits her own unique space. A piercing emotional resonance permeates the entire proceeding. It’s like listening to a conversation between fathomless and private internal spaces with the endless astral entropy that surrounds all things. Each song stands beautifully on its own, while remaining integral to the whole. Transmutation as song. You will not leave unmoved.
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Daffy Scanlan is an artist and musician based in New York City. Her work compounds the corresponding passageways between memory, time, and space. Under the moniker Drumloop, she collages language with piano and digital synthesis, creating sonic representations of emotive internal universes.

LIMITING MINDSET

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DRUMLOOP - A2. FORCEFIELD (PLIB040)

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[NOTE] Due to SoundCloud Content ID system the audio file has been pitched up 50 cents

https://evangeline.info

Produced, written and performed by Evangeline
lyrics: https://genius.com/Evangeline-au-end-of-life-lyrics

End-of-life

Caroline, Drift train by Song Min Jung via Perform 2018
Live Performance @ Ilmin Museum of Art, 2018. 12. 16., Seoul

기획, 총괄: 송민정
음악: 위지영
나레이션: 아를
크리스마스 트리: 식물상점
디자인(티켓, 패키지, 전단지): 최수빈
Mimi: 😼
미니트리: Olli
도움: 정구원, 이은새, 김주원, 안초롱, 김홍구, Heikki

Director: Song Min Jung
Sound: Wi Jiyoung 
Narration: Arles
Design: choisubin
Christmas Tree: Singmul Store
Mimi: 😼
Mini Tree: Olli
Help: Jung Guwon, Lee Ensae, Kim Juwon, An Chorong, Kim Honggu, Heiiki

Image: An Chorong (whatsrong.com)

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Caroline, Drift train: Intro ja Outro

Originally composed for livestreaming events during the ongoing lockdown of 2020, Felisha Ledesma presents two extended pieces as a debut album, “Sweet Hour”. Ledesma’s first full length release arrives after much experience in creating collaborative works with artists such as Isabella and Angelo Harmsworth, site-specific installations, and high-profile festival performances.

Both pieces were realized using a new software synthesizer, called “AMQR”, which Ledesma built for personal use in collaboration with Ess Mattisson. Contrary to many digitally-based compositions, a distinctly warm and organic palette pervades these recordings. An almost playful leisurely pace is employed, engaging the listener to listen deeper; the pieces gracefully evolve with special attention to subtle shifts in stereo field and sonic coloration.

The time-of-day titles illustrate the two distinct moods conveyed: "7:00 AM" integrates field recordings and a hardware modular synthesizer, taking the listener through a psycho-acoustic journey exploring various nooks and crannies of subdued auditory rivulets: perhaps a hidden woodland brook, a sunny glen, a crunchy gravel walkway. "2:00 AM" harkens to the memories of nightclubs, opening with a synthesized arpeggio which could lead into a dancefloor-ready stomper. But instead, Ledesma steps back, allowing the arpeggio to develop into an encompassing ASMR-like timbral massage. The two compositions are united in a slightly melancholic grasping for connection; are they unfolding or are they unraveling? Ledesma does not answer the question outright, but instead finds joy in superposition and sublimation - while creating a space for the listener to inhabit, to live in, and to re-connect.

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Felisha Ledesma is a multi-disciplinary artist currently based in Berlin, GER. In Portland, OR, Ledesma co-founded and directed numerous organizations focused on experimental sound and community engagement such as S1 (an artist-run space) and the Synth Library (a lending library for electronic music equipment). Most recently Felisha co-founded Fors (fors.fm), creating "novel instruments that are elegant to use and adventurous in sound" in collaboration with Ess Mattisson and is studying sonic arts at Universität der Künste, Berlin. 

releases January 29, 2021

mastering :: Ess Mattisson

cover artwork :: Felisha Ledesma

design ++ layout :: Robin JM Vanderheyden

all proceeds to Equitable Giving Circle :: www.equitablegivingcircle.org

Sweet Hour

Felisha Ledesma - 7:00 AM [Excerpt] (ENXPL04)

Originally composed for livestreaming events during the ongoing lockdown of 2020, Felisha Ledesma presents two extended pieces as a debut album, “Sweet Hour”. Ledesma’s first full length release arrives after much experience in creating collaborative works with artists such as Isabella and Angelo Harmsworth, site-specific installations, and high-profile festival performances.

Both pieces were realized using a new software synthesizer, called “AMQR”, which Ledesma built for personal use in collaboration with Ess Mattisson. Contrary to many digitally-based compositions, a distinctly warm and organic palette pervades these recordings. An almost playful leisurely pace is employed, engaging the listener to listen deeper; the pieces gracefully evolve with special attention to subtle shifts in stereo field and sonic coloration.

The time-of-day titles illustrate the two distinct moods conveyed: "7:00 AM" integrates field recordings and a hardware modular synthesizer, taking the listener through a psycho-acoustic journey exploring various nooks and crannies of subdued auditory rivulets: perhaps a hidden woodland brook, a sunny glen, a crunchy gravel walkway. "2:00 AM" harkens to the memories of nightclubs, opening with a synthesized arpeggio which could lead into a dancefloor-ready stomper. But instead, Ledesma steps back, allowing the arpeggio to develop into an encompassing ASMR-like timbral massage. The two compositions are united in a slightly melancholic grasping for connection; are they unfolding or are they unraveling? Ledesma does not answer the question outright, but instead finds joy in superposition and sublimation - while creating a space for the listener to inhabit, to live in, and to re-connect. 
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releases January 29, 2021

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