C.Lavender
"Rupture in the Eternal Realm"
CD ltd 200

On her third full-length album, C. Lavender delves into her
experience with a profoundly impactful Buddhist meditation
centered in the sacrifice of the self as a source of liberation.

“Rupture in The Eternal Realm” is a musical reinterpretation and
compendium to C. Lavender’s experience studying the Tibetan
Buddhist meditation practice known as chöd. The practice
traditionally involves musical instruments including drums
(ḍamaru), trumpets (kangling), bells and chanting. Rather than try
to recreate the practice's musical ritual, C. Lavender used it as a
point of departure for reflecting on her inner connection with the
meditation, one which she continued to dive into throughout the
pandemic. The song titles are taken from lines within the
traditional chöd chant, which is akin to a musical composition and
serves as a visualization guide throughout the meditative process.
“Rupture in The Eternal Realm” creates a new paradigm in the
grand tradition of women electronic music composers such as
Laurie Anderson, Éliane Radigue, and Pauline Oliveros connecting
forward-thinking music with Buddhist principals.

The album features recordings made on Buchla 200 synthesizer,
Haken Continuum, gongs, voice, brainwave modulating tones, EVI
and field recordings from the Karma Triyana Dharmachakra
Buddhist temple in Woodstock, NY.

released June 12, 2024

Cover design: Robert Beatty
Mastering: Taylor Deupree

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“Free the organ from its dependence on the church and remove it from its sacred immobility.”
“…a phenomenological approach that involves experiencing the limits of sound objects.”  - Pancrace Manifesto

“The talented Pancrace ensemble reminds me of David Munrow and the Early Music Consort.” - Charles Curtis

Music for spatialized midi controlled pipe organ “Organous”, Silbermann pipe organ (1778), Voices, Bird Calls, Baroque Violin, Rattles, Ventilators, Whistles, Uilleann Pipes, Gaïda, Sheng, Rhombus, Pouet-Pouet, Pi Synth, Kastle Synth and AM radio. 
Pancrace is an ensemble comprising French, British and Austrian performers. 

The members being Prune Bécheau, Arden Day, Julien Desailly, Léo Maurel and Jan Vysocky. 

Pancrace has “a unique, fully formed vision that combines improvisation, composition, eclectic instrumentation and a church’s massive pipe organ” (Sarah Hennies).

Pancrace’s latest double LP “Papotier” is the third panel of a tryptic after “Pancrace” (2017) and “Fluid Hammer” (2019). The ensemble knew at some point from their previous LP they would have to go back to church and repent confronting a Silbermann 18th century baroque organ with their custom made modular midi pipe organ : the “Organous”. 

After nearly 18 months of lockdown the quintet finally met in Bouxwiller Alsace a few miles away from Dangolsheim where Pancrace first formed in 2015. During a residency Pancrace had full access to the Protestant church with its humongous Silbermann pipe organ famous for its “human voice” stop. Ironically the album title “Papotier” came up before the covid era. Ironic because a “papotier” is a mask or to be very specific a grotesque face carved in wood, initially rigged to the lower part of the organ casing. There are only very few of these fancy oddities left in France and around the world. 

After months of feeling gagged during lockdown having a “papotier” as an amulet was somewhat liberating and greatly contributed to opening up the Pancrace sessions to the exploration of human voice. Relearning how to breathe, listening to the human membrane, questioning the nature of air all within the confined space of a 14th century church were the essential acts that compose the pieces. One can consider this album as a phenomenological investigation into voice articulation trying to emulate the birth of a vocable like von Kempelen's speaking machine who also used rudimentary organ modules to mimic human babbling. Essentially understanding what a mouth is to us to the point where, when all the pipes are blowing, they make a hell of a noise.

Melville

you are an open tab in my head

…s n…: is a slim suite of popular ballads in the genre of fluctuating sentiment. And how silence can act as an incandescent absence.

Tracklist
Collage: Frank Denyer, Broken Music; Wile E Coyote and The Road Runner In Lickety-Splat; Geir Jenssen, Cho Oyu 8201m Field Recordings From Tibet; Two Cats Murmur Like Avatars of Intimate Exchange
Lee Hazlewood: My Autumn’s Done Come
Collage: Tascam Feedback; Frank Denyer, Broken Music
Patsy Cline: Crazy [Misrembered Pitch Edit]
Collage: Ay-O, Fluxus Song; Tascam Feedback
Doris: Hennessy & Candy Cane
Collage: Ay-O, Fluxus Song; Cackling Witches; downgraded, Chubut province
Doris: half n half Arizona  [Misrembered Pitch Edit]
Collage: Ay-O, Fluxus Song; Cackling Witches; 
DJ Muggs: Shit I’m On Instrumental
Collage: Tascam Feedback; Ay-O, Fluxus Song; Frank Denyer, Broken Music; Abe’s Odysee Menu [Scarborough 1998 Gimme **** Shelter Banjo Kazooie Edit]
Nina Simone: Feelings
Collage: Frank Denyer, Broken Music; Geir Jenssen, Cho Oyu 8201m Field Recordings From Tibet;
Elvis: Love Me
Collage: Tascam Feedback; Ay-O, Fluxus Song; 
Aaron Neville: Tell It Like It Is [Polyphonic Doubt Edit]
Collage: Bernard Gunter, Untitled I/ 92; Ay-O, Fluxus Song; 
Bobby Charles: I Hope

[sic] line III: …s n…

Early in the morning, rain falls on Lake Cernek and insects sing. Sometimes mallard ducks dive into the lake through the bushes. 

October 2024
Samsun/Turkey

Rain and Insects at Lake Cernek - Kızılırmak Delta

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Kasm returns for Part 3 of the 10” vinyl series.
Skam Records are really proud to finally release a Russell Haswell record.
RUSSELL HASWELL is an artist, record producer, free improvisor, computer musician, noise aficionado and curator. 
Trained at Coventry School of Art, graduating in 1992, Russell’s extraordinary conceptual oeuvre resists easy summarisation, focused on the site-specific, performance and methodology of large-scale sound works, sometimes in surround sound. Russell has given solo audio presentations at major Art and Music festivals and events, in art galleries, concert halls, clubs, rock venues, and even squats in 30 countries, and counting. Most recently he has performed at SONIC ACTS, SONAR, Pirelli Hangar Bicocca and Coventry Cathedral. As a curator, Russell has delivered projects for PS1/MoMa, All Tomorrows Parties, Aldeburgh Music, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, and Cafe Oto. He now lives and works in Glasgow.

Recorded in real-time (ADDAC System, ALM/Busy Circuits, Cwejman, Epoch Modular, FANCYYYYY Synthesis, Flight of 
Harmony, Instruo...)

Track listing:
A1 tournament species. A2 indirect reciprocity. A3 implicit vulnerability.
B4 fractured bones. B5 different takes. B6 conclusion.

Check!! Record labels- Mego & Diagonal.
Published by (Mute Song).
Artwork: bhatoptics.com
C&P Skam Records 2025

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Dedicated to Father ❤️
Grief is the moment when the absence of what once was becomes a truth we cannot escape. In loss, we confront the void, yet also the possibility of renewal, an ongoing call to reimagine what remains

"Alain Badiou"

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First single from the forthcoming Nate Young album on Lower Floor, Volume One: Dilemmas Of Identity.
https://lowerfloor.lnk.to/NY-DOI

First release in a new multi-part series of solo releases by the Wolf Eyes frontman. An evolution from the previous Regression material, taking in elements of classic synth soundtracks, ambient and electronic body music, but filtered through a typically off-centre Michigan underground sensibility. 

In the Regression series–Regression (2009), Stay Asleep (2011), Other Days (2012), Blinding Confusion (2013)–Young drew a compositional aesthetic from Italian library music and musique concrète. Since then, Young has been interpreting the traditional musical methods of rhythm and melody into complex synthesizer compositions. These songs were commonly made as a distraction from grief, seasonal depression, and isolation. Sometimes severely ridiculous and unrelenting; other times slow, sparse and strange; this material didn’t fit in with the Regression series. It was archived and unreleased until now. Nate Young Volume One: Dilemmas Of Identity will be released February, 2019 on Lower Floor Music.

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