We’re glad to welcome back AUN to Cyclic Law for their latest opus! AUN’s music as always suggested forays into other dimensions, be it to imaginary worlds, industrial wastelands, through space and time, or via mind altered states. From the ominous dystopian artwork, of a city being drained of its energy by some mysterious black hole, to the first notes of the title track “Fiat Lux” we are once again transported on AUN’s otherworldly travelling path. Ever since the space industrial and power electronics of AUN’s previous Cyclic Law cult release “Black Pyramid”, the world has become even more sinister, but in contrast, “Fiat Lux” exudes even more of AUN’s melancholic hopefulness. The disintegrating chords and densely textured waves, anchored by a left field industrial pulse, invoke occult drug enhanced, future psychedelia. Created in part in their Montreal studio, these tracks were extensively performed live, prior to recording, and refined while on tour breaks in Montpellier, Barcelona and Tokyo. The energy of these cities is definitely at work in these recordings, which also features a French connection of experimental heavy hitters: Witxes, Frédéric D. Oberland and Philippe Petit have helped round out Dumais and Leblanc’ arsenal. FIAT LUX: Let there be light, from light will come darkness.
CD Edition of 500 Copies. 7 Tracks. Running Time 39.00
LP Edition of 250 Copies. 7 Tracks. Running Time 39.00 - Co Produced with La Esencia

Aun - Voodoo - Excerpt

'Silhouettes (I, II & III)' is taken from the new album 'Elaenia', out now on Pluto in the UK & Rest of World, Luaka Bop in N & S America, Inertia in Australia / NZ and Beatink in Japan.

Get ‘Elaenia’:
iTunes: http://found.ee/ElaeniaiTunes
Vinyl: http://found.ee/ElaeniaLP
CD: http://found.ee/ElaeniaCD
Download: http://found.ee/ElaeniaDL
Rough Trade: http://found.ee/ElaeniaRoughTrade

Watch the video for 'Silhouettes' here:
http://found.ee/SilhouettesVideo




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Silhouettes (I, II & III)

from 'Synecdoche' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den240
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/saffronkeira]

In the beginning the universe was full of light. Shining bright and incredibly energetic no solid matter could exist. As the universe expanded, the light became less energetic until the very first hydrogen atom could form. More followed forming molecules which in turn merged into gargantuan molecular clouds until they collapsed under their own weight, giving birth to the first stars, illuminating the universe once again. Being monstrous fusion factories, these stars burned hydrogen to complex chemical elements and eventually exploded leaving even more complex elements behind. After two such stellar cycles, there was enough material in the universe to form all solid matter that we know to exist today. Yet, everything began with the very first atom ...

Synecdoche - the whole consists of parts, and each and every part embodies the whole. This motif is at the heart of Saffronkeiras so named fourth album. Saffronkeira is a project established in 2008 by Eugenio Caria from the island of Sardinia, Italy. With Saffronkeira, Eugenio Caria lives out his passion of being a researcher of the possibility of expression offered by currently available technology. Indeed, in his tracks he experiments a lot with electronics and unconventional elements, which sometimes seem meaningless at first sight, but uncover their significance only on a closer examination. Combining subtle and sometimes even almost invisible rhythms with textures of sound he confidently moves between minimalistic pieces and classic ambient tracks which should please both the analytic ears and the listeners who just want to dive into the music.

Saffronkeira's previous album "Cause and Effect" constituted the first ever collaboration work of Caria and resulted from a close and unique joint work with trumpeter Mario Massa. Synecdoche picks up this collaboration idea, but this time features collaboration with various different artists, namely Mia Zabelka and Siavash Amini & Idlefon, as well as the Denovali artists Field Rotation, Sebastian Plano, Subheim and Witxes. Mixed and mastered by Alex Gámez at Störung Studio, Synecdoche brings Saffronkeira's distinct electronic sound to a next level which is further perfected by the individual and fascinatingly diverse collaborations.

Synecdoche

Saffronkeira - Epifonema (with Witxes)

iTunes: http://apple.co/1SWJ6fq
Spotify: http://spoti.fi/1Z7scyC

Victoria (Blackthread / Witxes Remix)

MIKE WEXLER - SYNTROPY
http://www.three-four.net/releases/TFR037

Having made a reputation for hypnotic and darkly enveloping songs, Brooklyn’s Mike Wexler has persisted through several waves of contemporary folk music without ever being fully absorbed by any of them. Syntropy – his third full length – is the first to convey the entrancing intimacy of his live performances. In a landscape of Americana and ‘American Primitive’-derived guitar music, Syntropy offers the possibility of an alternative strain more attuned to global influence and open to cross-pollination from other genres, disciplines, and art-forms. The deft and singular guitar work on display here borrows as much from the school of Bert Jansch as from the rhythms and chord voicings of Brazilian masters and the rapid, mantric repetitions of minimalism, while the lyrics eschew storytelling in favor of a deeply personal metaphysics. It’s a record preoccupied with ecology, biology, utopian politics, and the through lines that traverse and connect the parallel unfoldings of nature and culture in time, from the earliest organic molecule to the furthest inhabitable world – a grand narrative rendered human by the strangely resonant texture of one of the most unique voices in music.

Enlisting the same core players as 2012's Dispossession (Brent Cordero of Psychic Ills, Jordi Wheeler of Amen Dunes among them), Syntropy was recorded at Guilford Sound – a solar-powered studio on a wooded property near Brattleboro, Vermont. The Vermont woods in summer were the real-world analogue to the record’s imaginary landscape. Acoustic instruments are foregrounded – guitars, piano, conga. Situated within this framework is the continuous sound generated by a host of analogue synthesizers, and on the record’s two instrumental cuts, a Mellotron. Drone here is a passing cloud seen through the intricate branchings of guitar and piano. The music owes as much to Nelson Angelo & Joyce and Thomas Mera Gartz as it does to to Eno, Charlemagne Palestine, Rolf Julius, Annea Lockwood, and the David Behrman of On the Other Ocean. But all of these leanings lean together into something familiar yet strange.

Syntropy – a word that, although it’s had its champions (Buckminster Fuller for one), never quite graduated into scientific parlance. It implies a force at work in the universe that is equal and opposite to entropy, the thermodynamic law according to which everything breaks down, exhausts its energy, tends toward disorder, equilibrium and ultimately, death. There’s a simple reason for this lack of acceptance: there is no such force. No such physical force, anyway. The phenomenon of life, though consistent with entropy, suggests there may be something else here at work.

Syntropy

Mike Wexler - Transfer

Fawkes - Death Is The Goddess

Synchronizing Inner Demon
Suicide
Blatant Snake 
Nemesis 
La Ghoula 

music + art by Sarah Foulquiere
( @SarahFawkes )

type by Collin Fletcher

mastered by Wheez-ie

forthcoming

Fawkes - Death Is The Goddess ( HALC011 )

I. 2c 
II. Flutter
III. Moments in Love

out 04.28.17 https://boomkat.com/products/grafts

GRAFTS

La Rue Principale De Grandrif

Sixth track off Sorcery/Geography 
Released on Humanist Records 
Available here : 
http://witxes.bandcamp.com/album/sorcery-geography

Dead Reckoning

WITXES
We don't spend much time around Soundcloud...

LPs
2018 : Orients (Consouling - 0111)
2013 : A Fabric of Beliefs (Denovali - Den 169)
2012 : Sorcery/Geography (Humanist Records HRV08 / Denovali - Den 168)
EPs 
2014 : Pisces Analogue - split with Dale Cooper Quartet (Denovali)
2012 : Winter Light Burns (FeedbackLoop)
Early works
2010 : Scrawls #01

Buy/stream : http://witxes.bandcamp.com
BOOKING  : booking[at]dvncs.com
BOOKING FR : Kongfuzi Benjamin benjamin[at]kongfuzi-booking.fr
MANAGEMENT / COMMISSIONS / LICENSING : management[at]dvncs.com

Dead Reckoning

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