Southside - Across Mountains

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Tracklist:
IC Lander - Tap Water Sound
Rafto - Escape
Otilo - Embracing
Sugai Ken - Headwaters Of The Tone River
Igor Dyachenko - Moss pattern
nueen - Illusion
saint-croîx - Kracie
Healion - Vetiver
Phil Stone - Ouroboros (Side a)
picnic - cipher
JIO - 4D4U4ME
Purelink - Maintain The Bliss
unknown field recording - Shuzenji Station, Shizuoka
Maria Moles - II
unknown field recording - 福井散歩 2
piano sketch ”Sakamoto reconstructed”
Tetsu Inoue - Sour cloud
Hiroyuki Onogawa - Memory of the Water
unknown field recording - Shuzenji Station, Shizuoka (2)
piano sketch ”Sunday chord”

Continuity #13 (16/05/21)

Drone + Death Techno. In the first offering on this release, three artists perform extended percussive techniques on found bones and process the acoustic meditation through a series of effects for a surreal and droney meditative sound piece. (See a live video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Mq9SCW7f34 ). For the second behemoth 40 minute offering, Garrote performs improvised electronic drums and bone percussion on top of time stretched bone sounds for a dark ambient & wild piece that swings through genres of dark techno, drone & free improv and atmospheres of trance-like serenity and doom without warning. Almost all sounds on this release came exclusively from found bones on hikes and travels. // Get GARROTE releases only on Bandcamp at www.GarroteMusic.bandcamp.com // www.AuralAtmospheres.org

Bone Trance Bone Dance - Garrote

Austin Davis combines subharmonic tones from an acoustic guitar with crystal singing bowls tuned to 432 hz and live effectualizes the improvised results to create nuanced, richly textural, exotic and healing drone & soundscape pieces. This new work is currently in production phases but get Austin Davis releases everywhere online ++ www.AuralAtmospheres.org

"Heavy Comfort" (Live Experimental Sound Bath) - Austin Davis

Demo 1 of the noise/psych rock cover of Aaliyah's "At Your Best" by Wolf Party ++ https://linktr.ee/AuralAtmospheres

At Your Best (Aaliyah Cover) - Wolf Party

we spent the weekend taking all kinds of field recordings in Round Top, Texas. I loaded one of the field recordings from the storm on night 1 into my tape music machine, and using looping techniques and effects created this 1.3 hour long sound meditation which will likely be chopped up n edited into smaller pieces. The thunder became a slow dramatic drum loop, and the rain and cricket noises morphed, panned, and stretched into interesting drones ontop <3

"storm bathing" - unfinished unedited sound art/meditation from Rabbit Hole 7

We will miss you James Izzo aka Thread aka "The Boy Without Hands"

Coil, "Dark River (the Null Tributary remix by Thread)"

Plain Of Glass

Excerpts from The Henning Christiansen Archie / The Box release, SAVE THE NATURE —– USE FLUXUS, The Box Gallery parking lot, Los Angeles 2LP

Thorbjørn Reuter Christiansen 
Bjørn Nørgaard 
Mai Dengsøe Hansen 
Paul McCarthy 
Mara McCarthy
Chiara Giovando 
Mark Harwood

In November 17, 2019 a six hour performance was undertaken in the car park of The Box gallery in Los Angeles as a part of the Henning Christiansen / Ursula Reuter Christiansen exhibition THEY WON’T SURVIVE WITHOUT THE BIRD SONGS .  Thorbjørn Reuter Christiansen, son of Ursula and Henning, developed a timeline for the performance which was essentially designed to encompass a contemporary community of like minded artists that spans generations and continents harnessing and continuing the work instigated by Henning during his lifetime. The resulting performance included archival recordings taken from the H.C. Archive, which houses a vast collection of compositions, scores and correspondence of the late Christiansen. 

This limited edition 2LP collects edited highlights from the day capturing the unique and somewhat unsettling atmosphere provoked by a diverse range of performances.

Thorbjørn Reuter Christiansen developed a new action where he performed a sound piece on iconic instruments of Henning’s alongside recorded sounds of his father. Father and son re-united again in performance.  The New Sound of the Living Dead.

Bjørn Nørgaard presented two new iterations of some of his historical actions; Homage to Henning and Joseph, Manresa, a piece he first collaborated on with Henning Christiansen and Joseph Beuys at Galerieleri Schmela in Düsseldorf in 1966, and The Cake, a live construction of a monolithic yet impermanent sculpture meant to decay over time. Mai Dengsøe Hansen performed EURASIENSTAB fluxorum organum op. 39, a piece for organ that Henning scored and used as the soundtrack for the film Eurasienstab, with Beuys. 

The BOX gallery founder Mara McCarthy, along with her father Paul McCarthy and Chiara Giovando performed Knock Harder, a 20 min. improvisation that loosely recalls Knocking, a sound scape Henning used repeatedly throughout many of his own compositions. Chiara and Mara can be heard singing and playing a selection of small instruments, while Paul methodically slammed the back door of the gallery with a piece of scrap 2x4 pinewood – a kind of dedication to the monotony of Fluxus. 

Mark Harwood, the founder of the expansive experimental independent label Penultimate Press performed an improvised musical protest incorporating fire, rhythm and chaos alongside field recordings of the civil unrest in Chile that he collected occurred just prior to the opening of this exhibition. Harwood’s contribution speaks to Hennings political activism and dedication. 

Throughout SAVE THE NATURE —- USE FLUXUS all came together to celebrate these great artists and to embody the same spirit of communal collaboration that has so thoroughly been a part of both Ursula and Henning’s lifelong endeavors.

SAVE THE NATURE —– USE FLUXUS, The Box Gallery parking lot, Los Angeles comes as an ultra deluxe set. 2LP’s held together with a printed rubber band, 4 large full colour double sided art cards documenting the performances, a substantial booklet/catalogue about the exhibition and a large poster featuring a drawing by Paul McCarthy made during the performance. This is a co-presentation by The Henning Christiansen Archive and The BOX gallery and is limited to 500 copies worldwide.

SAVE THE NATURE —– USE FLUXUS, The Box Gallery parking lot, Los Angeles

Track from the upcoming DE NOR 2020 compilation LP/DL, out on January 11, 2021!

Aaron Dilloway & Lucrecia Dalt : The Monster Of Yesa

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Tracklist:
jung dj - dilian
Lieven Martens (Dolphins Into The Future) - Ho’okena encounter
Unknown - Shuzenji Station, Shizuoka (field recording)
Mlin Patz - Toyota
Perko - Swirral Edge
Unknown - Fukui Station (field recording)
Nexcyia - Red Water
nueen - Garden
Unknown - Hinohara Rain (field recording)
LOG - LOG 2
perila - wave blanket
b sw - shak124bpm
DJ Fulltono - BC9FW
santebela - uncoded
Unknown - Shrine where deer were enshrined 粟鹿神社 (field recording)
Sofie Birch - Morgenånder
Unknown - Shinjuku underground (field recording)
AV Moves - Sorry Too Much
Polido - João E Santi Sala 1
Theodore Cale Schafer - Bloodletter
Villete - Fields
Monica Brooks - Chug Chug
Unknown - Shuzenji Station, Shizuoka (field recording)
Spirituals - A New Kind Of Quiet

Continuity #11 w/ Sand Circles (21/02/21)

Texas Noise, Psychedelia, Esoteric Oddities, & Contemporary Sound

"storm bathing" - unfinished unedited sound art/meditation from Rabbit Hole 7

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