Recorded after the pandemic. Virtual keyboards, a Triton Le synthesizer, and a Monotribe were used. It belongs to the series of albums born in confinement.

5 Minimo ismo

CVN - BNC BOYS (forthcoming BC005)

Taken from E B U's debut album 'Hinge' -
... Available to preorder now:
ltd edition vinyl: rwdfwd.com
digital: nocorner.bandcamp.com

"Celebrating otherness, E B U casts a universe of her own both sonically and visually. Defying any one genre, she refers to her distinct sound as 'Swamp Pop'. Unnatural sounds and pitches exhale in melodic chants, ominous basslines resound and eerie loops fixate in this macabre ensemble. You are captive in her world. Moments of haunting clarity keep you wondering where she will take you next whilst strange narratives unfold. Her chameleonic visual display is charged with emotion, keeping you suspended in a state of flux as she orbits through the spectrum. Stimulated by human behaviour and existence she questions the very nature of being, and invites the audience to explore through her cathartic performance."

To our ears, her sound captures elements of the radiophonic qualities by electronic pioneers such as Delia Derbyshire, through to unlikely melody and harmony akin to that of Ryuchi Sakamoto or Laurie Anderson. 

It's an explorations of strange places with a weird & wonderful sphere, sonically capturing the colourful intensity of Alejandro Jodorowsky's Holy Mountain, or perhaps sounding like a much more out-there, much more convincingly extra-terrestrial Space lady... These are just vague comparisons though... Essentially, her sound is a total world of it's own. 

Hinge, E B U's debut album, is an outer body experience that will conjure up memories you never had before, images you can't quite place but somehow relate to, and a sense of sweet disorientation as you slip into a whirlpool of shapeshifting melody, harmony and frequency.

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E B U - Homeland

clocked pulse trains connected to resonant filters, and to NIM boxcar integrators, with added sine wave mixture
recorded in one direct track
c HK @ studio 1

Sound Of The Week August 5 2019

"The most negative emotions are neither grief nor anger that cannot be suppressed, but shame.

Shame is the disease of the soul. It is one of the most heartbreaking experiences. Shame is the wound inside. It separates us from ourselves and also separates us from others.

In shame, one's self-consciousness is 'split' - imagine that when we are in the eyes of another person - the self-consciousness of people in shame will have such a split, themselves Always in your own eyes.

Shame is the first and most essential cause of all violence (whether for individual violence or for specific groups of people). Anger, assault, and violence are all coping strategies for shame.

Using seemingly powerful anger to mask the powerless shame. In order to cope with shame, the individual externalizes the internal blame on the self to the outside world and others, and then angers and attacks the outside world and others. This feeling is better to endure than pure shame.

Unlike most emotions, shame does not disappear with time, it lurks in us. It is the least easily recognized and released emotion, it is the most secretive emotion. ”

SHAME by Laughing Ears will be released on FunctionLab on November 19, 2019. Shame, To Cover, Self-loathing, Keep in the dark, combines the four emotions into one EP, showing Laughing Ears' most hidden and bare personal feelings.

Track List:

5.Shame 羞耻 
6.To Cover 遮蔽 
7.Self-loathing 自我厌恶 
8.Keep in the dark 隐瞒

Release date: November 19, 2019
Mixing & Mastering: GUAN
Artwork: Melt Joshua (ig: @melt_j)
Design: GG Lobster
Catalog: FL012

Laughing Ears - To Cover 遮掩

Dilian - Excuse

sarah davachi : perfumes i
linda perhacs : hey, who really cares
dj lostboi : l.t.b.
lyra pramuk : witness
okkyung lee : the crow flew after yi sang
jenny vhal : bonus material
maggi payne : shimmer
ellen fullman : swingen
sheila chandra : la sagesse (women, i’m calling you)
vashti bunyan : glow worms
ctm & jura : journal
alice coltrane : krishna krishna
lucy railton - for j.r.
klein : enough is enough
laurie spiegel : finding voice
esther lamneck & roberto fabbriciani : winds of the heart 1
cosey fanni tutti : ritual awakening
françoise hardy : suzanne
joni mitchell - california

@julienracine

Noods Radio I: Racine

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Thirst idea fire company/SahelSounds of Sahara/Gordon Hempton Solitude/Genggong II David Attenborough/Ocigam Trazom Christina Kubisch/Pierre Mariétan Rose Des Vents IIB Camp 2 Gir Jenssen/ 3 Hour Delay Packed Inside the Plane (Shenzen/Hong Kong) Grzegorz Bojanek/Joe McPhee Graham Lambkin Chance Meeting /Voices From Possessed Children (1978) Okkulte Stimmen/ EX HK. Side B Hans Kruesi+Endless Humiliation The Gerogerigegege/Halim El-Dabh Leiyla Visitations 2/Desert Lizards & Insect Solo G Hempton/Mahalid Destin Manambitamby/Aaron dilloway mudwalk, more Thirst idea fire,K&K Shots/Jeph Jarman Recording of Hail/Arno Peeters Elements/Incident at Ras Oumlil Jos Smolders/ Jag en gök Hans Appelqvist/John Tilbury, Keith Rowe, Kjell Bjørgeengen Sissel/Tom Didn’t Get the Right Gift Mechanical Sterility/Sheep Wind Fence Flute recorded on Dartmoor 1971 David Toop/Tomoyuki Aoki, Harutaka Mochizuki, & Hasegawa-Shizuo Enka Moods/Jem Finer Water and Birds/Birds Pauline Oliveros + Andrew Deutsch/World Trade Center 1999: Processing Sound through a window on the 91st floor, facing North  - Stephen Vitiello

DISSOLVE IN THE PRESENT

Giaderza (16/01/21)

THE HIBERNATION SENTINEL

Philipp Zöhrer is interested in moments and atmospheres of collective ecstasy, in which a dancing audience gets into. Empty rooms, like those created everywhere by the corona epidemic, attract him equally. He takes us to the church ruin of Wachau at the outskirts of the city of Leipzig, where he is currently living. Exclusively for the Kunsthalle Darmstadt, the scenery is accompanied by a compilation of post-punk and wave music, whose melancholic and hypnotic sound takes you back to mythical times.

Curated and documented by Louis Baca and Johanna Weiß.

Philipp Zöhrer @erdball, The Hibernation Sentinel, 2021, videostill, HD video, 30:00 min., © Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Philipp Zöhrer, 2021

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THE HIBERNATION SENTINEL

Philipp Zöhrer interessiert sich als Künstler für Momente und Atmosphären der kollektiven Ekstase, in die zum Beispiel ein tanzendes Publikum gerät. Menschenleere Räume, wie sie durch die Corona-Epidemie überall entstehen, ziehen ihn gleichermaßen an. Er nimmt uns mit in die Kirchenruine Wachau, die in seiner Wahlstadt Leipzig steht. Exklusiv für die Kunsthalle Darmstadt wird die Kulisse der Kirchenruine mit einer Compilation aus Post-Punk und Wave Musik untermalt, deren melancholischeu und hypnotischer Sound in mythisierte Zeiten zurückversetzt.

Kuratiert und dokumentiert von Louis Baca und Johanna Weiß.

Philipp Zöhrer @erdball, The Hibernation Sentinel, 2021, Videostill, HD Video, 30:00 Min., © Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Philipp Zöhrer, 2021

Compilation featuring / Compilation mit:

The Beat Club – Security (Chants I)
Ian Boddy – Living In A Ritual
Casino Shanghai – Le Tombeau D'Edgar Poe
Shazam – Memories
Mark Shreeve – Night Church
Reservé – Destination Pour L'inconnu
In Trance 95 – Desire To Desire
Kym Amps – You Love Me
Vorgruppe – Mensch im Eis

First Friday Podcast 06 – Philipp Zöhrer

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Studio 1-test&measurement instruments, tape machines and analog computers
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all studios interconnected.
Day light; relaxed atmosfear; located in inner city with lots of cafes/restaurants; many years of synthesis and musical body of knowledge available for you.
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Sound Of The Week August 5 2019

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