Listen to a lush and immersive dusck chorus captured in the East African savanna. Long version at https://youtu.be/pjsDqXcreDw

Dusk in the African savanna

Surfacing by @mmessell is an EP inspired by notions of transitions, cycles & liminalities. Releases 27.11.2021 on @txtcollective.

A video has also been created for one of the tracks as well as the cover-art by queer visual artist and filmmaker, Ingerlise Øllgaard. Her work can be explored further under the alias amplifiedbones on Vimeo.

Purchase: https://texturcph.bandcamp.com/

Credits:
Artwork & video by Ingerlise Øllgaard
Music, mix & master by Martin Messell

Track list:
I 05:56
II 08:12

Additional links:
https://www.instagram.com/textur_cph/
https://www.instagram.com/messellmusik/
https://www.instagram.com/ingerliseoellgaard/
https://vimeo.com/user67157578

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Premiere - Messell - II (Textur)

This was originally issued in a pic disc LP boxset in an edition of 250 as part of the Prints of Darkness exhibition at Edinburgh Printmakers. This exhibition is still touring and LPs can be purchased from Edinburgh Printmakers.

"People Like Us illuminates this dark visual ride with ‘This Is Light Music’, an exclusive full-length picture-disc album in a limited edition of only 250. This record is available as part of a lavish limited edition boxed-set publication which houses the record and a pull-out poster in a gatefold sleeve, and includes essays by People Like Us and co-curator Norman Shaw. This publication is on sale throughout the exhibition, together with specially commissioned t-shirts and badges by the participating artists."

People Like Us - This Is Light Music - "Lavender White"

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https://fxbip.bandcamp.com/album/reach
mastering by Jake Fields

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LLYN Y CWN 'Du Y Moroedd' CD (CSR302CD)

"Du Y Moroedd" (Welsh - the black of the sea) is an album of abyssal dark ambient - environmental soundscapes and atmospheres from above, below and beside the ocean; field recordings made onboard vessels at sea; sounds from submerged recording devices deep underwater; recordings from the coasts of North Wales to Greenland and the Arctic Ocean. 

"The tracks were created onboard the RV Prince Madog whilst conducting research using multibeam sonar to locate, survey and identify shipwrecks from WW1. The multibeam sonar creates images of the seabed using acoustic reflections. It is quite an experience to watch the sonar reveal an unsurveyed wreck and be the first person to "see" the ship for over 100 years; the vessel sitting at the bottom of the ocean waiting in the dark to be discovered. 

Research into the history of each wreck uncovers stories of boats torn in half by torpedoes and mines, U- boats hunted by destroyers and pummelled with depth charges. Many of these sites aren't just wrecks; they are mass war graves. The vital shipping channel to Liverpool passes the North Wales coast, the U boats would sit and wait; listening. When heard from under the water, each ship has its own unique acoustic signature based on the size of the engine, shape of the propeller, curve of the hull, these acoustic tell-tales were used by the U-boats to identify targets. The shipping lane became a shooting gallery of easy pickings and the submarines were able to slip away undetected into the black of the sea. 

The album features recordings from the hull of RRS James Clark Ross whilst ploughing through ice fields off Greenland, from a "sound trap" attached to an anchor as it descended through 80m of water to the seabed, and sounds from onboard the RV Prince Madog with its pitched engine drone. There is also a recording of the bell at Trwyn Du lighthouse, Anglesey, that was made in August 2020, days before the bell was removed to be replaced with a modern fog horn - prior to this, the bell had rung every 30 seconds since 1922" (Benjamin Ian Powell). 

File next to fellow Welshman Lustmord and Sleep Research Facility.

"Ambient soundscapes that thrill and terrify in equal measure" (Electronic Sound Magazine).

Presented in a 6-panel digipak with breathtaking photography by the artist. 

Track Listing:

1. Trwyn Du (4:49)
2. SS Apapa (6:34)
3. Adrift (4:46)
4. Submergence (5:09)
5. Du Y Moroedd (4:11)
6. The Hunt (5:02)
7. Descent (5:51)
8. The Skerries (3:52)
9. Erebus And Terror (5:12)
10. Stratigraphy (31:36)

https://coldspring.co.uk/csr302cd

https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/du-y-moroedd-csr302cd

Listen:  https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/sets/llyn-y-cwn-du-y-moroedd

Watch: 
'Du Y Moroedd' Album Promo: https://youtu.be/r1Jg4cs39O0
'Trwyn Du' Video: https://youtu.be/GcPD_vh2r1o
(Videos by Abby Helasdottir)

LLYN Y CWN:

https://llynycwn.bandcamp.com
https://soundcloud.com/llyn-y-cwn
https://www.facebook.com/llynycwn
https://coldspring.co.uk/llyn-y-cwn

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Out 25th February 2022

LLYN Y CWN Trwyn Du

'Transmutation' is ZZY's new album, the first of 2022, and as the title suggests, it focuses on the transformation and transference of things, emotions and bodies.

This new work reveals an alien universe, in which the concept of gender and the representation of bodies is constantly mutating and changing, breaking any matrix based on an inscribed normativity. It is a way of thinking about the concept of gender, looking at a distant reality, full of alien beings who believe in the transformation of the body and in its constant modification.

In such a complex universe, dichotomy becomes a simplistic thought in explaining the meaning of things and the plurality takes its place. Perhaps, electronic music guided by experimentalism is a way of explaining this complexity: synthesizers, computers and drum machines, at the some way, can generate unexpected sounds, with alien characteristics, as if it were possible to communicate with other creatures that live in the universe.

Produced, mixed and mastered by ZZY

released October 11, 2022 on @detroitunderground

Graphic design / Concept by Christoph Grüenberger

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Transmutation

Artist: Dro, Stepan Gusak
Track name: I Like
Label: Parallel Romance
Catalog Number: PR009
Release Date: 11/12/2025
Format: Digital
Mastering:Anthony Jimenez
Artwork: Rafal Jan

Artist links: https://www.instagram.com/smkdro/
https://www.instagram.com/step_onn/
Label links: https://www.instagram.com/parallelromance/
https://soundcloud.com/parallelromance305

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