Gentle People - Journey (Aphex Twin Care Mix)

1432 R 001

Debut release from Mikael Seifu, an electronic artist from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 

Mikael Seifu - Dropleton

The Fates - Sheila-She Beats In My Heart

After

Cover of Fern Kinney's 'Love Me Tonight'

promise
               to 
                    Love.

Mixed & Mastered by Ella & Florian Zwietnig of UMA

Love Me Tonight (Fern Kinney Cover)

Lena Platonos - Shadow Of Blood

Artist: MARY OCHER
Album: THE WEST AGAINST THE PEOPLE
Klangbad73CD / LP / Digital Download
Release Date: 10.03.2017
Distribution: Broken Silence, Cargo, A-Musik
www.klangbad.de
www.maryocher.com

Mary Ocher - The Endlessness (Song for Young Xenophobes)

From Kelly Lee Owens' self-titled debut album, out March 24th on Smalltown Supersound!

Pre-order 'Kelly Lee Owens' & Purchase "Anxi" ft. Jenny Hval: 
Superstore (LP): http://smarturl.it/sts293-superstore
Superstore (CD): http://smarturl.it/sts293-superstore-cd
Streaming/Digital - http://smarturl.it/sts293-digi
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iTunes - http://smarturl.it/sts293-itunes

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Kelly Lee Owens - Anxi. (ft. Jenny Hval)

Taken from the Maximum Joy compilation "I Can't Stand It Here On Quiet Nights: Singles 1981-82", forthcoming on Silent Street Records. 

Pre-order 2x12" here:
https://silentstreet.bandcamp.com/album/i-cant-stand-it-here-on-quiet-nights-singles-1981-82

Lyrics: Wrafter; Music: Maximum Joy
Produced by Dick O'Dell, John Walker, Pete Mayburn
Originally released on Y Records (12Y 11, 1981).

I Can't Stand It Here On Quiet Nights (SSR001 - Mastered WAVs)

Maximum Joy - Silent Street / Silent Dub

from the "New Season" CS (NNF338)
Not Not Fun / 2017

TIS THE SEASON:
https://chikissecrets.bandcamp.com/album/new-season
https://midheaven.com/item/new-season-by-chikiss

Chikiss "Baby, Bye"

From the album Anne.  Available November 16, 2018 from Western Vinyl.

Bandcamp https://josephshabason.bandcamp.com/album/anne
iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/anne/1427808233?ls=1&app=itunes
Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/19FD6RN5K3xYFThAHM4fGy?si=0hUO0rFVQAigvSPTvJL_4w
WV http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv182

Joseph Shabason
Twitter https://twitter.com/JosephShabason
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Anne, the second album By Toronto saxophonist and composer Joseph Shabason, is a tonal essay on degenerative illness. Delicately and compassionately woven with interviews of Shabason’s mother from whom the album takes its name, Anne finds its creator navigating a labyrinth of subtle and tragic emotions arising from his mother's struggle with Parkinson’s disease. Across the nine vivid postcards of jazz-laden ambience that comprise the album, Shabason unwraps these difficult themes with great care and focus revealing the unseen aspects of degenerative diseases that force us to re-examine common notions of self, identity, and mortality. 

Shabason’s uncanny ability to manoeuvre through such microscopic feelings is mirrored by his capacity to execute a similar tightrope-walk through musical genres. His music occupies a specific space that is as palpable as it is difficult to pin labels to. On Anne’s second track “Deep Dark Divide” rays of effected saxophone shine behind clouds of digital synthesizer that echoes the sound of jazz in the late 80s, but with a Jon Hassell-esque depth of sensibility that consciously subverts the stylistic inoffensiveness of that era. There is detail and idiosyncrasy beneath Shabason’s dawn-of-the-CD-era sheen that elevates the album far beyond a mere aesthetic exercise.

Still, the sounds on Anne are not so experimentally opaque as to stand in the way of the album’s through-line of sincerity and emotionality. When dissonance is employed it is punctual and meaningful, like on album-middler “Fred and Lil” where a six-minute cascade of breathy textures builds suddenly to an agitated growl, only to abruptly give way to Anne Shabason speaking intimately about her relationship to her own parents. Snippets of such conversations see her taking on something like a narrator role across Anne while the sound of her voice itself is sometimes effected to become a musical texture entwined into the fabric of the songs without always being present or audible.  The subsequent piece “Toh Koh” then drifts into playful disorientation as a lone female voice echoes the two syllables of the title, recalling the vocal techniques of composer Joan La Barbara, or even the light-hearted mantras of Lucky Dragons. From here the album veers back onto its aesthetic thoroughfare with “November” where Shabason lays muted brass textures atop a wavepool of electric chords provided by none other than the ambient cult-hero Gigi Masin, one of Anne’s many integral collaborators.

The serene tragedy of the album distils itself gracefully into the ironically titled album closer “Treat it Like a Wine Bar” wherein flutters of piano and mournfully whispered woodwinds seem to evaporate particle by delicate particle, leaving the listener with a faint emotional afterglow like a dream upon waking. There is a corollary to be drawn here with what it must be like to feel one’s own mind and body drift away slowly until nothing remains, while the collection of memories and abilities that we use to denote the “self” softens into eternity. On Anne, it is precisely this fragile exchange of tranquillity and anguish that Joseph Shabason has proven his singular ability to articulate.

Anne

Joseph Shabason - "Forest Run"

An independent record label based in Austin, TX.

Joseph Shabason - "Forest Run"

Western Vinyl

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