Fly IV

From yolabmi's Before Your Past Lives, out on Nov.25 on tape and digital:
https://muzaneditions.bandcamp.com/album/before-your-past-lives

"A longtime friend of Muzan, yolabmi's Before Your Past Lives pulls the listener into prehistory (or perhaps pre-existence) with a suite of tracks structured around gently vibrating synths, crisp field recordings, and expertly manipulated samples that fizz and crackle and whirr in rich stereo. Secure your headphones, close your eyes, and think back to before there was a before."

yolabmi - II

TAPE IS SOLD OUT. BUY DIGITAL : https://stereogramme.bandcamp.com/album/interactive-pictures

At some point, the music came. Inadvertently. A noise, followed by another, followed by another. Resulting in a melody, or a rhythm. Gathering everyone around, suddenly drawn by this weird lullaby, asking the neo-instrumentalists to repeat the enthralling loop, endlessly.
Then, the discovery spontaneously spread across frontiers, across ages. Up to this day, laden down with all the knowledges and influences collected along the road.
Stéréogramme, the newest Parisian label, dedicates its initial imprint to this journey. To the strange and captivating music filled with ancient sounds and atmospheres, yet produced today. As a manifesto of the coming explorations to be released: library, leftfield electronics, freak folk, minimal synth, fourth-world…

A 50-minute cassette compilation to highlight ten worldwide producers, providing two distinct listening experiences. A joyous first part, featuring playful and extravagant contributions from Hipólito, Lyckle De Jong, Charlotte Leclerc, Manoir Molle and Romain de Ferron. Making way for a darker second act, tinged with psychedelic and mental abstractions from Steve Pepe, Chorus Abstracta, Raymonde, Inturist and Bear Bones, Lay Low.

Designed by the infamous Structure Bâtons - as another bond with minimalist and naïve art -, a hundred tapes for just as many cover combinations, thanks to various artworks and stickers.

Release infos:
Limited-edition of 100x C50 cassettes with unique artwork

Credits:
Artwork & Design: Structure Bâtons
Mastering: Michael Francey
Words : Loïs Markarian

Various Artists - Interactive Pictures (Previews)

PREORDER : wheretonow.bandcamp.com/album/heart-music

Artist : Post Moves
Title : Heart Music
Cat : WTN68
Format : Reverse Board Double LP / Digital
Release Date : 08.04.2022

Written & Recorded by Sam Wenc
Mastered by Lawrence English at Negative Space

Sam Wenc is a composer and multi-instrumentalist working with sound, text, and objects. He utilises guitar, pedal steel guitar, vibraphone, electronics, field recordings, and found objects to compose both structured and formless pieces that attempt to blur concepts of what constitutes “folk music”. He has released music on labels such as Noumenal Loom, Obsolete Staircases, Moon Villain, and his own label, Lobby Art. Below are Wenc’s own thoughts on his work and approach, which frankly do a far better job of capturing the essence of his spiritual, minimal, and transcendent pieces than we could…

“‘Heart Music’ was recorded over the course of 2019 and 2020. The initial intention was not necessarily to produce an album, but rather to explore composing from a percussive perspective and trying to avert relying heavily on the pedal steel guitar and guitar as primary modes of composing. The pedal steel guitar lends itself to such a soft sound palette so even in pieces that are highly structured (Always for Pleasure, Going Right to the Praying Mantis), I wanted to avoid the propensity to let the composition amble along, and rather create a brisk, biting percussive component. This can particularly be heard on "Del Mero Corazon", which pulses along with the droning bowing of the banjo and marimacho before drums kick in and later on the vibraphone.

Thematically, much of the music (to me) takes on a somewhat ceremonial feeling and explores the trajectory of exploring intrapersonal contradictions and what it means to navigate a disharmonious public sphere. Films was also a major inspiration for songs and their titles: Wiilka & Phaxsi (named for the characters in the film Wiñaypacha), Always for Pleasure (named for the Les Blanks film) was an attempt at writing something akin to a processional march, "Going Right to the Praying Mantis" & "That's the Boss, Not Some Human!" was a quote of Milford Graves pulled from the film "Full Mantis". On that note, the title of the album, "Heart Music", is in recognition of Milford's exploration of the internal data, knowledge, and ultimately music that is present within our bodies. More so than on previous albums, I felt myself letting rhythm, intuition, and improvisation guide the work, often resulting in longer form pieces that allows myself (and hopefully the listener) to listen deeply, observing moments of tension and harmony tangled, dependent, and resolved by one another.

One other noticeable addition is the introduction of poetry into "Madness is a Fully Instrumented Score" and "Evidence" (both spoken by Anna Jeters of the band Ancient Pools). This was touched on in my last album on the track "David's Death", but by bringing in the voice to create both parallel and perpendicular narratives, it creates another line to follow and bring the listener into a deeper state of listening. I like playing with blurred narratives, homespun ideas of conventional thoughts that are ever changing in a climate where fixed ways of relating to sound and composition can become something new and mangled in its own right.”

If you dig the following then this is most certainly one for you… Susan Alcorn, Alice Coltrane, Phil Cohran, Bobby Hutcherson, Henry Flynt, Jon Gibson, Mind Over Mirrors, Natural Information Society, Johnny Coley, Oren Ambarchi, Tortoise, Yasuaki Shimizu, Califone.

Post Moves 'Going Right To The Praying Mantis'

out on @audiovisualsatmosphere "First Rays & A Lasting Echo Compilation"

download: https://audiovisualsatmosphere.bandcamp.com/album/first-rays-a-lasting-echo

First Rays & A Lasting Echo

the ones that sailed now pile up like sediments over a saltmarsh (lanterne des morts loop / to G.)

One more to round out what has been a very busy year for Mole.

"Nothing had been heard for some time now...not a sound, and the animals had fallen into a deep sleep. The dishes were done, the fire burnt out. There sat an unfinished puzzle on the dining table, a messy pile of scrawled poems on the sideboard and a partially enjoyed novel strewn over the arm of a chair.

Yet in all of this quiet, a faint rumble and clatter began to sound. Not one of mechanical origin but certainly something moving closer...and most certainly in a hurry…"

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All music by The Sprigs
Images by Beverley Gooding
Inspired by Kenneth Graham’s ‘The Wind in the Willows’
Introductory text by The Sprigs
Additional text by Wesley Knowler included in cassette version.

BIS010 - The Sprigs - "Mole's Uninvited Guests"

Wood Sounds

Taken from the album 'Shutting Down Here' released as LP and Digital.

Jim O'Rourke 'Shutting Down Here' (excerpt)(SPGRM 001)

Andrew Pekler - Encounter

From LAL-102 - Red Brut - Cloaked Travels LP.

Following her debut LP (KRAAK, 2018) and a string of tapes and 7-inches, Red Brut drops her second album, Cloaked Travels. It is a joined release by the Finnish labels Ikuisuus and Lal Lal Lal.  

In many aspects, Cloaked Travels is an amazing realisation of what Red Brut does best: molding the absurd, the amateurish, and the crude into beautiful and elegant sound pieces. These eight “songs”, organised in two suites, dwell between abstract avant-garde and pop sensibility. Working with cassette tapes, Red Brut enhances the ambiguous qualities of her sounds with the warm distortion and background hiss typical of the medium. The music leaves the listener to him- or herself, happily lost in small universes that contain many layers of beauty, discomfort, and intimacy.  

Susan Sontag once claimed that diaries, despite secretly kept by the author, are meant to be read by others. Red Brut’s intimate and highly personal take on musique concrète is characterised by a homely feeling: sounds of doors, kids outside her house, a synth that sounds like a house pet, muffled whispers of her voice. Her compositions sound like you are secretly reading her diary. You are in the uncomfortable position of watching someone chasing her own tail, unaware of the fact that she is being the object of our gaze.  

Unaware? Cloaked Travels displays on a certain point the sound of a squeaking door. Over and over until it starts sounding like a wild free jazz solo. Is Verbiesen playing tricks on our minds? Is she actually the Unconsciously Watched? Or is she cloaked as that character, and in fact very well aware that we are peeping into her inner emotional universe; maybe she is even projecting a fake version of what sounds like here day-to-day, intimate environment — making us conscious of our own gaze? Again Sontag comes to mind: she deliberately projected a well-constructed character in both her diaries as in public life.  

Cloaked Travels contains distinct and carefully composed pieces that play upon the tension between the concrete and the abstract. Every song acts like a Cave of Plato: we are unable to see what is actually happening, we only see the shadows of a door moving or the sounds of someone gurgling. The album suggests some fundamental questions: is what we conceive as reality nothing but a derivative of the Ideal? Is there really something behind the shadow, or is the shadow the actual reality?  

- text by Niels Latomme  credits released July 3, 2020

Music & artwork by Marijn Verbiesen. 
Final montage by Michiel Klein. 
Mastered by Samuli Tanner.

Red Brut - Songs for Another World I

From KR023 Cloud Walking Brew
A three-way EP of Sound Sorcery concoctions. Spectral sounds from a sonic sisterhood bound together by the force of the soulful and the uncanny.
@lilvica
https://krutrecords.bandcamp.com/album/cloud-walking-brew

Vica Pacheco - Boca Arriba

Bodymoving
Est. 2008
wheretonowsounds@gmail.com

Post Moves 'Going Right To The Praying Mantis'

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