GRFTPS009
@carlos-ferreira-sounds & @almanacs - La Deriva
PRE-ORDER > limited edition cassette / digital - now on bandcamp
https://giraffetapes.bandcamp.com/album/la-deriva

video for "Isabel, no llores" - www.youtube.com/watch?v=op6WMKomMtQ&t=16s

La Deriva

B3. Carlos Ferreira & Almanacs - Isabel, No Llores [GRFTPS009]

From the new album by Chinese-Australian guzheng artist Mindy Meng Wang (and collaborators), 'Phoenix Rising'. Available for purchase here: https://mindymengwang.bandcamp.com/album/phoenix-rising

Mindy Meng Wang & Fia Fiell - Undercurrent 暗涌

Fly IV

From the upcoming album:
Hallow Ground presents: EPIPHANIES
Release date - March 25th 2022
Format - Double-vinyl / digital
White vinyl, gatefold cover, silver stamped, spot-gloss printed
Catalogue nr. - HG2222
Hallow Ground

hallowground.bandcamp.com

Tracklist:

1) Remo Seeland (with Laya Ensemble) - Baldachin
2) A Frei - Peri-Acoustic Feedbacks
3) Maria W Horn - Oinones Death pt. I
4) Amosphère – Withinside

5) FUJI||||||||||TA - Kumo
6) Lawrence English - Outside The City of God (Augustine wept)
7) Samuel Savenberg - The Endless Present
8) Siavash Amini - Spuming Silver

9) Magda Drozd - Suspended Stream
10) Akira Sileas - Excerpt from Piano Study
11) Laurin Huber - Puolipilvistä (Partly Cloudy)
12) Norman Westberg - For Alice

13) Miki Yui - Alternatio
14) Reinier van Houdt - Dream Tract
15) Valentina Magaletti - The Narrower Frame
16) Martina Lussi - Losing Ground

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On Epiphanies, the first-ever "concept-compilation" to be released by Hallow Ground, artists such as Maria W Horn, FUJI||||||||||TA, Lawrence English, Siavash Amini and Norman Westberg, who all have previously released music on the Swiss label, were commissioned to pursue a non-rational creative process in approaching the phenomenon of epiphany through sound. In very different ways, all of the compositions on the compilation draw on the unique emotional powers of certain acoustic instruments, obfuscating the borders between physicality and abstraction. 

The results, whether long-form, short vignettes, profane and concrete sounds or spiritual and abstract pieces, perfectly encapsulate what Hallow Ground as a label has stood for since its inception in the year 2013: challenging not only conventional notions of what music is supposed to sound like but also the listeners’ perception through the power of sound. 

On Epiphanies, Hallow Ground also welcomes artists including Magda Drozd, Akira Sileas and Valentina Magaletti to make their first ever contributions to the label.

For those who greet this compilation with open ears and minds, these 81 minutes will deliver on its title.

Maria W Horn - Oinones Death Pt  I (from EPIPHANIES)

from KR103:  an moku I stefan schmidt:: zwischenraum
imited edition tape / download out on may 13th 2022

zwischenraum

AN MOKU I STEFAN SCHMIDT:: yama

Air, in both its stillness and its movements, is what compels INVASIVA, the latest release by multidisciplinary artist Dorian Wood.

In early 2022, Dorian set out to investigate the root of her anxiety—and how her breathing is both affected by, and complicit to, her mental state—during an artist's residency at Loghaven in Knoxville, Tennessee. Upon touring the campus, she learned of the Whittle House, an abandoned cabin on the grounds that had not been inhabited for many years, set apart by the other nearby, fully-restored cabins. In encountering this site, Dorian connected with the idea of isolation as a catalyst for disrepair. She came to understand how separation could trigger a fear of losing self-awareness and the inability to escape. 
 
INVASIVA is a document of the artist meandering physically and mentally between two forms of confinement: "mandated" and "self-imposed". Like an abandoned house, the composition is filled with a stillness that seems both uninhabited and anticipatory. Gradual shifts in tone build an atmosphere of meditation, and droning notes are sustained like a deeply held breath. And yet, despite the fear of quiet isolation which permeates the piece, INVASIVA swells with slow respiration, revels in the wind, and echoes with gentle reminders of outside life. 
 
The work is one that emulates a contemplative state which is constant threat—and perseveres.  Comprised of the recorded stillness within the Whittle House, and sounds captured in the office lobby of Dorian's breathing specialist in Los Angeles, INVASIVA is a quiet, ethereal triumph over suffocating loneliness. It is a piece that is filled with inhalation, anticipation, reflection,  exhalation, release—it is filled with air.

Invasiva

Dorian Wood - Invasiva (excerpt)

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Native Instrument
12" (E244)

https://entracte.co.uk/projects/native-instrument-e244/

Release date: 14 October 2019
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Native Instrument is the collaborative project of field recordist 
Felicity Mangan and abstract vocalist Stine Janvin Joh. 
Often referred to as insect techno, Native Instrument’s music 
is constructed using electronic and vocal adaptations of wildlife 
audio recordings originating mainly from the Australian and 
North European fauna; mixing the natural rhythms of animal 
calls with digital effects and vocal imitations, Native Instrument 
enlightens a sonic ambiguity between rural nature, electronics, 
and the human voice.

Native Instrument (E244; 2019)

Taken from the album 'Microphone Permission' released as LP and digital.

Microphone Permission

Jasmine Guffond 'Forever Listening' (EMEGO 273)

Pre-Order available now via imprec.com 
Cassette edition of 100 via Cassauna/Imprec

“Rupture” was inspired by the southern Italian folktale of Tarantism,
which is said to be an epidemic provoked by the bite of the tarantula.
It causes extreme spiritual possession. 
Aki Onda composed these tracks using the traditional folk music of the region as underlays, mostly in indirect ways but occasionally directly sampled. 
The tracks were recorded with musicians Tatsuya Nakatani, Gareth Davis and Clifton Hyde. The artwork features eerie and uncanny images of the Japanese
photographer Daisuke Yokota.

1. Rupture 
2. Betrayal

3. Rebirth
4. Growth 

Aki Onda : electronics, field recordings (1-4)
Tatsuya Nakatani : percussion, gongs, bells (1-4)
Gareth Davis : bass clarinet (4)
Clifton Hyde : mandolin (3)

Soundtrack for “Rupture” by Aki Onda
Recorded by Tatsuya Nakatani, Gareth Davis, and Aki Onda 
Edited and mixed by Aki Onda 
Mastered by Michael Fossenkemper



Photography by Daisuke Yokota

Aki Onda - Rupture - Cassette - August 3, 2020

Ned Lagin's Seastones is a pioneering electronic composition interweaving metaphors from nature, science, art and music and the origins of music. Reflecting the technology, science, modern art, new ecological awareness and optimism of the times and culture, Seastones embodies the history of electronic music by taking full advantage of tape music, analog synthesizers and computer technology to create pieces that are dynamic, rich and deep.

Originally released by the Grateful Dead's Round Records in 1975, Seastones' reputation as a gem of electronic music was further enhanced by the celebrity of the musicians who contributed to the source material. Seastones musicians include Ned Lagin (processed piano, clavichord, organ, prepared piano, electric piano, synthesizers), Jerry Garcia (processed electric guitar, pedal steel guitar, voice), Phil Lesh (processed electric bass), David Crosby processed electric guitar and vocals), Grace Slick and David Freiberg (processed vocals), and Mickey Hart and Spencer Dryden (percussion).

This new LP presents two crafted Seastones sets (Sets 4 and 5, 18 tracks) drawn from the entire Seastones composition and contains gorgeous extended processed vocals by Garcia, Crosby, Slick and Freiberg, and beautiful abstract instrumental passages by Lagin and all.

Ned Lagin - Seastones - Seastones 03 - LP available Nov. 3, 2020

I think that The world changes by the situation of a listening person. . . .

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W.E._aa

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