Ego Death

out now on Blitzcat Records, stream the video here: bfan.link/janus

cornet by Harry Furniss

produced by Stu Matthews & James Trevascus at Invada Studios

mixed by Alfie Tyson-Brown at The Louisiana

mastered by Shawn Joseph at Optimum Mastering 

artwork by Kieran Cook & Chris Burton

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Janus

Robert Eggplant - Dog Island (album preview) 
Release date: 4.11.2022
Format: CD/Digital
Mastered by Jeremy Martin 

Limited editions, handmade wallets, hand numbered, only 5 copies left at this moment:

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dog-island

The field recordings were taken in Haleakalā National Park and throughout the Pacific Northwest. I accumulated the recordings from every camping trip and hike I took in 2020 - 2021. 

I recorded acoustic / electric guitars and synthesizers onto tape. I made loops out of the recordings or rerecorded them back to tape. It was important to have the music feel impermanent. I hope that it creates feelings of nostalgia and subtle reminders of disintegration......

Robert Eggplant - Dog Island (album preview)

Lying in fields and ditches, at the edge of old and overgrown graveyards and in lonesome places all over Ireland rest forgotten echoes of our past. Large and unwieldy stones; blocks of granite and sandstone flags which, used in former times as tests of strength, still reverberate with the memory of heroic feats.

The tradition of stone lifting, while well-attested in Scotland, Iceland and other parts of Europe, is a topic about which very little is known in Ireland. For the past year, David Keohan, multiple national European and world champion in kettlebell sport, world record holder, avid strength historian and self-described stone-lifting fanatic, has been (literally) unearthing this little-known aspect of traditional Irish physical culture. Guided by material relating to the practice of stone lifting as found in the archives of the National Folklore Collection, David has been travelling the country identifying lifting stones mentioned in manuscript sources gathered by folklore collectors, and has been talking to locals who remember the lifting of these stones in former times. It has been an honour to assist in shining further light on this topic, and I was delighted to be joined by David for this episode of Blúiríní as he discusses his adventures to date.

Join us as we attempt to set out the scope of the tradition as it existed in Ireland, drawing on NFC collection to examine the occasions on which these stones were lifted, their connection to funeral games and the dead, the role of lifting stones as rites of passage or method of settling dispute as well as their associations with hags, giants and mythical champions.

The richness of our archival collections now serve to assist in the regeneration and reanimation of this once widespread custom, and should serve as a source of inspiration and pride; linking us with the past, with our birthplaces and with those who have gone before us.

David's Instagram: 
https://www.instagram.com/irish_move_athlete/?hl=en

David's YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@davidindianakeohans3566

Two highly recommended and very beautiful Rogue Fitness documentaries were mentioned at the outset of the episode. They are available here:

Stoneland (Scottish stone lifting tradition): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhQlNwxn5oo&ab_channel=RogueFitness

Fullsterkur (Icelandic stone lifting tradition): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79Tcsg2Yac8&ab_channel=RogueFitness

Website here dedicated to the memory of Scotsman Peter Martin (mentioned in this episode). Peter held a special affection for the Gaels, and his research into Gaelic strength culture and traditional stone lifting was without equal: https://www.oldmanofthestones.com/

Blúiríní Béaloidis 38: Stones Of Strength In Irish Tradition (with David Keohan)

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If the music industry is an orchestra, curation is like its conductor — arranging and guiding otherwise disparate artists, scenes, and styles into a dynamic, narrative whole that is much greater than the sum of its parts.

This is an audio narration of our Starter Pack issue on digital music curation, generated using Eleven Labs and trained on Water & Music founder Cherie Hu's voice. Please excuse any mispronunciations or strange inflections — Cherie AI is still a work in progress.

Original article: www.waterandmusic.com/starter-packs-digital-music-curation

Eleven Labs: https://beta.elevenlabs.io/

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Battements means impact or movement of beats and the sound resulting from it; repeating collisions. It can be used for the wings flapping of a butterfly or a bird, the patter of rain at the window, or it can also be heartbeats. I wanted to express the series of shocks you’re receiving when in relation to others, the heartbeats trying to accommodate each other with difficulties; how you can be consumed in that if you don’t set boundaries but also the beauty  that sometimes presents itself from being burned in a relationship.
Layers of synthesizers and infinite delays accumulate until  they overflow at the end, creating an array of raw emotions, evoking the braziers of a burning forest; it’s like when you burn yourself by wanting to melt with another person.It also evokes a difficulty to accommodate to the world and other people, trying to cast in the mold, knowing that it gives you pain; from the beginning there is sadness and rage about being stuck.
Musically, the cello acts freely at first, surrounded by layers of drums complimenting each other; it’s  always improvised and when performed live we’ll never do it the same way,  it’s unpredictable, like our emotions. For this “battement” we wanted the cello to coalesce around the bass frequencies, whilst changing the range all the time throughout; never in the same register, imitating, with a classical music instrument, common patterns of synths movements : sometimes you don’t recognize the cello at all.
The aerial rings synths are made with my modular synthesizer that I played to make some “errors”. This exact sound is the result of improvisation, never the same in live.

Paolo had to be really precise in the cello playing at the end with the fast tempo towards the end (150 BPM). We wanted him to meet the arpeggiation of synths exactly in terms of rhythms; we almost abandoned this idea at one point because it was too fast and needed it to be reproducible many times, but in the end we did it. That track is also evoking a lot of the way we work together with Paolo as my cellist for 6 years. We want to experiment together with the cello sound, with new and sometimes difficult ideas when composing a track; sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t, and that’s a beautiful metaphor for a relationship.

Battements

Nico Bruschi (SidiRum) and Cecilia Gebhard (Barda) are both musicians and producers that acquired the reputation as huge contribuitors on the current rich electronic scene in Argentina. They're both passionate for creating patterns with folk and electronic. 

They joined forces again for their second releasse together with Frente Bolivarista, this time in companion of Dandara, Barrio Lindo and Pigmalião remixes.

The ábum "Los Sueños" presents at first an experimental narrative and slowly you feel the residual spaces being heated by the rhythms until the climax where the listener is invited to a more primitive and tribal electronic.

soundcloud.com/sidirum
soundcloud.com/enlabarda
soundcloud.com/frentebolivarista

Composed and Produced by:
Track 01 y 02 Cecilia Gebhard y Nicolás Bruschi, 
Track 03 Dominik Traub, 
Track 04 Agustín Rivaldo, 
Track 05 Daniel Lucas

Mixed by: Cecilia Gebhard, Nicolás Bruschi, Nahuel Berneri y Estanislao Aquino @ Camarón Brujo
Master by: Estanislao Aquino @ Camarón Brujo
Art: Paula Duró & Alejandro Sordi
Drawing and Layout: Agostina Bruera

Buy on Bandcamp!

SidiRum & Barda - Los Sueños (pt2)

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This is the pain from the attack in somalia. questioning those who terrorize their others. who promised them heaven.

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