02. Chemin De La Croix De La Rivière

Dreams by Philipp Eden – Heökahfs

FEELING IT ⏤ fetva invites Ragemore ⏤ CALLING FETVA TO FADE OUT

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Famitsu | Kivach Radio | 17.09.23

Eternal Delight: Consumed Triumphant X Lilith Nocturna - 30/09/2023

@isaenes

Fresh mix for our series is presented by Isa Enes, an artist and DJ born and raised in the Azores, Portugal, who has recently become an active participant in the club life of Barcelona.

In her work, Isa gives preference to ambient, techno, bass music, dubstep and working with breaks. Her affinity for searching peculiar sounds  makes her DJ sessions generate dynamic and intriguing atmospheres that envelop listeners, inviting them to travel in the infinite sonic universe.

Isa recently played in Berlin a DJ Set at Crack Bellmer, now featured in Resident Advisor magazine as "Mix Of The Day", on August 15th.

ethereal grooves 

ethereal mix 068: Isa Enes

A collection of live recordings from our artists, made during Signal 2023 Festival on our scene there.
@shoom_berez
@signal-live

Shoom Berez Live @ Signal 2023

A potentially surprising release on Editions Mego. Another planned prior to the untimely passing of Peter Rehberg in 2021. 

Melvin Gibbs is the renowned bass player and producer from Brooklyn who’s vast resume includes playing with Sonny Sharrock, John Zorn, The Rollins Band, Dead Prez, Caetano Veloso and Femi Kuti amongst others. A solid resume, no doubt, but what is Gibbs doing on Editions Mego? 

Behind the scenes, those who know Gibbs knew that amongst all this he was also tinkering away at another form of music, one which skirts around the border between music and sound design. The Wave is the first release that reveals this side of Gibbs’ creative output to those outside his inner circle.

The driving force for this output is Gibbs’ multi-decade friendship with acclaimed  American video artist and cinematographer Arthur Jafa. Over the course of time Gibbs and Jafa have had many conversations about music and the connection between film and music. Jafa’s desire to make film that worked the way Black (as in Black/African-American/ Afro-diasporic peoples) music worked inspired Gibbs to study the filmmakers Serge Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov and incorporate their philosophies and tactics when recording his own music. The two discussed sound design which directly informed Gibbs’ choice of music making tools and led to him acquiring Symbolic Systems Kyma software and hardware, incorporating this as a composition tool and sound design and component in his work. These conversations bore concrete fruit through Gibbs’ work for TNEG, the film studio Jafa ran with filmmakers Malik Sayeed and Elissa Blount Moorhead. Gibbs created the soundtrack for their very first project, the short film “Deshotten 1.0” (2009 - directed by Jafa and Sayeed) as well as their Martin Luther King-inspired meditation on Black life “Dreams Are Colder Than Death” (2013, directed by Jafa)  

The bass-forward music, or ‘sonics’ as Gibbs calls it, emerged from an alternative mode of contemplation, a mode that he sees as closer to the mindset of a rootworker, an African-American herbal doctor who cures psychic ailments using means derived from African spiritual practice, entering a forest to find the right plants for a suffering client than a mediator attempting to invoke mindfulness. Gibbs says this practice yields results that suggest an aural form of creation akin to coagulation, a formal movement that gives the sense that a flow of sounds can emit something bearing resemblance to solidifying objects. 

In 2020 Jafa asked Gibbs to work on the soundtrack for a work in progress called “The Wave''. When they got together to work on the soundtrack, Jafa played Gibbs a selection of sounds that included random moments of (probably unwanted) feedback on 70's Miles Davis records, Pop Smoke's Brooklyn drill, the music of Bernard Gunter and Darmstadt-style compositions made with test equipment. Those sounds, filtered through years of conversation with Jafa about Black creativity and the possible evolution of Black music, formed the sonic vocabulary of “The Wave”. 

Over time the sonics evolved and “The Wave” became the piece Jafa calls "AGHDRA". This soundtrack incorporates and expands upon the sonics composed for “The Wave”. Gibbs mentions although the work with Jafa has always skirted these lines of evolution, this side of his vocabulary has been generally neglected, until now, due to his current jazz musician/jazz festival-centric focus and radar. 

The result of this parallel exploration is a deep excursion into a nuanced sound world. The rich tapestry of textures allows one's mind to explore and project within this bed of curious investigation of sound. The bristling, itching, restless, clicking, diving nature of the electronic sound world presented by Gibbs, is abstract and unearthly on the surface but closer listening (which it demands) reveals a very human quality to these austere shapes.

Anamibia Sessions 1: The Wave

Ibo Code

Melvin Gibbs 'Ibo Code' (EMEGO291)

Live at MaerzMusik, Kraftwerk Berlin, March 28 2015.

Phill Niblock: computer
Thomas Ankersmit: Serge Modular analog synthesizer (live and prerecorded)

Phill Niblock & Thomas Ankersmit - Surge (excerpt, live at MaerzMusik)

This album was written from inside the fog.

For the 5 years I've been trying to navigate my way through dissociation (DPDR) a feeling of being disconnected, numb, and watching my own life from a distance.

I wrote these songs as a way to process the pain and isolation. It’s for anyone else who feels stuck in their own head, trying to reach for something better but held back by the weight of their own mind.

This is my attempt to find a way through, if you feel this way, I hope it makes you feel less alone.