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Vocals and Lyrics by Alison Skidmore.

Taken from the new album 'Never The Right Time' out on April 16th.

A film to accompany 'Hard To Tell' by Rebecca Salvadori is here https://youtu.be/0QsiviK5bGA

Never The Right Time

Hard To Tell

Andy Stott - Hard To Tell

Psychic Liberation presents “Friendly CSA Compilations Parts 1 & 2”. A compilation in two parts consisting of artists orbiting the PL canon from around the world in an effort to raise funds for Roots Unbound Friendly CSA.

Roots Unbound (RU) is an abolitionist grassroots organization based in Brooklyn offering nature-based programming centered around food justice, therapeutic horticulture and ecological disinvestment to people in the NYC area with a focus on supporting and uplifting people impacted by the carceral system.

Friendly CSA is a cooperative, agricultural initiative that was mobilized to respond to the food apartheid within New York jails and prisons. Roots Unbound sends care packages of harvested produce that are
chosen by incarcerated folks via a newsletter sent out every month, by growing and collaborating with local New York City land stewards. This CSA is provided at no cost to the recipients, funds raised for this CSA will be used towards packaging, postage, printed materials for newsletters, and a P.O. box.

To find out more information and donate further :
rootsunbound.org

opencollective.com/rootsunbound/donate
credits
releases May 7, 2021

Mastering : Glyn Maier
Image :Nick Klein
Layout : RJM Vanderheyden

Friendly CSA Compilation Part 1

BUY/DONATE

ALENE MARIE - Waterside Memo

Bečva is a river located in the Eastern part of Czech Republic. In September 2020, several chemical leaks into the river caused the poisoning and subsequent death of 40 tons of wildlife in the waterway – an unprecedented catastrophe. Growing up in Přerov, Bečva was an ever-present part of Tomáš Niesner’s youth and this environmental disaster affected him deeply. In an effort to understand the river better and inspired by Werner Herzog’s ‘Of Walking in Ice’, Niesner set out on a journey from the spring of Bečva to its confluence with river Morava, a journey of over 100km. It was a romantic quest in wholly unromantic circumstances, an attempt to expiate the irreversible.

Bečvou, the album, is a travelogue of sorts, an aural chronicle of this journey. Arranged and composed around field recordings from the river banks, it also features Tomáš Niesner on guitar, zither and modular synthesizer, unlike many of his previous releases where he’d zero in on one instrument. Combining elements of fingerstyle guitar, musique concrete and drone, it’s an elemental tapestry of enveloping textures, shimmering guitar motifs and soaring synth sounds. At one moment reminiscent of the meandering improvisations of East of the Valley Blues, at others calling to mind the ecstatic minimalistic compositions of Caterina Barbieri and oscillating between moods like dread and hope thoughout, Bečvou is Tomáš Niesner’s most complete statement to date, fascinating in both concept and execution.

Pre-order (CS + digital): https://tomniesner.bandcamp.com/album/be-vou

Tomáš Niesner - Chladná Voda

Maps and Diagrams - Occupying Space

Flinch & bones - hymns of woe
Dissolves in mouth
Mopes denounced

Spreading grey
Draft, limestone
No beat after beat
Dread, lone

Lung branches - hold still
Sink below, fleets
As the fossil trails afield
As the rot curves unreeled.

Farewell has merely become a part of life we already live. Standing in front of fading realms, fragil, as it is ephemeral. Fleeting memory, monody, chromatic grief, maladies - from warm skin to cold stones. De-seeding the stasis that allows the uninterrupted heartache to go on.

'Only Autumn Returns' captures bittersweet remembrance as a poignant tribute to the the depth of human transience and the enduring power of impermanence.

Only Autumn Returns

Appropriate Savagery - Sunk Offshore, One Single Oath

~ IIKKI 023 ~

music : The Humble Bee & Offthesky
artwork : Mikael Siirilä
album : Here In, Absence
duration : 38.29 mn
date : February 29th 2024

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craig tattersall : spaces, notes, & tapes
jason corder : arrangement, mixing, synths, percussive textures, glockenspiel, and vibraphone
shilpi gupta : flute
rin howell : voice

Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Artwork by Mikael Siirilä
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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edition :
• vinyl: limited to 300 copies / hand numbered  / selective UV varnish / white inner
• cd: limited to 200 CD / hand numbered, hand-made / selective UV varnish
• book: limited to 500 copies / hand numbered / embossed / selective UV varnish / hand stamped / visible seam / cutting cover pages

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pre-order : February 02nd, 2024 / official release : February 29th, 2024

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Links :
https://iikki.bandcamp.com/music
https://www.iikki-books.com/
www.instagram.com/iikki_laaps/
https://www.leavings.co.uk/
https://offthesky.bandcamp.com/

The Humble Bee & Offthesky - Senses

Background Music for City, and Travelling

Fable - 09 - Temple Of Light

Erik Osvald serves us futuristic droneworks from the heart of Slovakia. The album Be Left to Oneself, takes us on a trip through sleeping cities kept lucid by neon lights. 

Combining deep bass driven subs with serene distorted overlays, this is crystal clear production served with an analogue touch.

Written, Produced, Artwork - Erik Osvald 
Mastering - Simon Heath

Full Album

Keosz - Before The End

https://tetrasystems.bandcamp.com/album/forgotten-time

A5. 森林ミスト

DAVE BALL • JON SAVAGE 'Photosynthesis' CD (CSR217CD)

“We started composing some quasi pop/classical pieces that gradually morphed and evolved into one, hour-long piece. Via digital recording and processing of vintage analogue sound sources (i.e. mini Moog, Sequential Circuits, Prophet 5 synthesizers etc.) the piece gradually took shape.

The title ‘Photosynthesis’ was re-appropriated from the botanical process. Sitting in the garden surrounded by trees and plants on a sunny day, the idea of organisms using sunlight to synthesise nutrients from CO2 and water became an inspiration to us. This idea, juxtaposed with mankind’s destruction of the planet through pollution and war gave us the inspiration to compose this soundscape”.

Dave Ball (Soft Cell, The Grid) and Jon Savage.

Comes in a beautiful 6-panel digipak, cloaked in exquisite flora art.

Tracks:

1. One Night In Helmand Province
2. ATM#1
3. ATM#2
4. Hypodermic
5. Liquid Skyliner – Zeitgeist
6. Passing Cloud Factory
7. The Process
8. Dead Neon

http://www.coldspring.co.uk/discography/csr217cd

Out 2nd September

Barcode: 0641871744763

Photosynthesis

DAVE BALL • JON SAVAGE Dead Neon

https://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/red-moon

Red Moon is Phonotheks second album on Cryo Chamber, continuing the theme of the inevitable death of our planet. 

A sad lonely trumpet echoes between ruined apartment complexes. The ground is dry and dusty, nothing grows here. Where once laughter of children lingered, now only the creak of broken swings remain. The earth is dying. The chosen got on the ships, but not you. 

Red Moon explores a world in flames through use of atonal instrumentation and layered atmospherics. Recorded in Georgia (Europe) it brings the sound of the old world to life as it shines light on the new and dying one. 

Recommended for fans of Experimental Atonal and Dark Ambient

Red Moon

Phonothek - Cry From The Abyss

from 'Relationships Between Inner & Outer Space' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den289
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/moonzero]

The first set of new Moon Zero cuts in two years, ‘Relationships Between Inner & Outer Space’ is a product of fevered displacement that nonetheless achieves a temple-like sense of calm, proportion and permanence. Scheduled for release in November 2017 on Denovali, the record is carpeted in traces of the settings that producer and composer Tim Garratt has found himself since we last heard from him, from Reykjavík to Leipzig with anything from a Dictaphone up to a studio to hand - it bears sounds from a vast number of different spaces, instruments and machines across its four colossal tracks. Paying attention to these rich patterns, they move and wind you in, producing a deep and rewarding catatonia.

While touring the first LP ‘Moon Zero’ (2015) Garratt lost his studio and flat, a relationship came to an end and he briefly moved back to his parents’ in the Midlands. An emotional parabola familiar to anyone experiencing an economically-adrift, prolonged adolescence, it was heavy fuel for the melancholic sound world of Moon Zero. You can make out the origins of the record at the bottom of its multi-story wedges of sound, through dancing, duelling blocks of frequencies. And you can follow (somewhat obliquely, filling in the gaps) the inflections of different processes that these textures and melodic ideas have undergone, as Garratt moves them from machine to machine, speed to speed, room to room, through different combinations of effects. This churning celestial chaos, built painstakingly from detuned instruments, mono synths, field recordings and tape loops, is then meticulously ordered in the editing room.

The first side is in two tracks, each divided into two sweeping musical gestures, ordered by tone into a sequence of light-dark-dark-light and ending in a crescendo pulse with a ‘Loveless’-like shimmer. The flip is also in two long tracks, each one a continuously-building, monolithic tranche. The change at the opening of the third number, ‘Erwood Araf’ is signalled with the entry of an unthreaded melody that repeats and gradually distorts while other caverns of sound open underneath and around it. Then, again on the halfway point, the idea dissolves and a minor key swell aches into frame before breeze block low end is deployed. One of Moon Zero’s go-to sounds, an alloy of bowed cymbal, tape delay and who-knows, invokes the sound and disembodying feel of a train pulling into a station, if that moment could be elasticated and dragged far out. Emitting a chrome-sheen continental modernity, it’s probably the emotional centre of the record and calls to mind Kraftwerk’s ‘Trans-Europe Express’ and ‘Radio-Activity’ albums. Towards its end, on the nine-minute mark, in rides a soaring melody that surely has its roots in Garratt’s Eastern European travels.

Each expansion of the Moon Zero universe has felt like a logical progression along lines set before, becoming ever more inventively structured and ambitious with its sonic palette but never straying from its nucleus of menacing, meditative drone. Fresh from playing Ruhrtriennale Festival alongside Actress, Demdike Stare and Ricardo Donoso amongst others, ‘Relationships Between Inner & Outer Space’ is due to be released in October and Moon Zero will be announcing further shows in due course. This latest installation is the most profoundly affecting Moon Zero work to date; an unparalleled piece of infrasonic, atmospheric manipulation.

Relationships Between Inner & Outer Space

Moon Zero - Sunk Cost

taken from my "Sic Ergo Ludens" album released on Holy Geometry in May 2018
Cat: HG013

Hand-cut collage by Ryan Kent

https://soundcloud.com/holygeometry
https://www.facebook.com/holygeometrytapes/

Sic Ergo Ludens

Zhe Pechorin - In Fieri [HG013]

Treha Sektori - Alterah Ethi Endessiah - Excerpt

"Newborn Limbo" composed in November 2017
"Innerlight" composed January 2016

released November 28, 2017

Mount Shrine - Newborn Limbo

MINÓY 'In Search Of Tarkovsky' CD(CSR273CD)

Minóy (1951-2010), a major figure in DIY noise music, produced some of the most remarkably engrossing, beautiful and imaginative work-of-art albums released on cassette in the 1980's.

Created in 1986, "In Search Of Tarkovsky" is dedicated to the late Russian Director Andrei Tarkovsky ("Solaris", "Stalker", "Andrei Rublev" etc). A unique world of musical expression, with dense audio abstractions where the origin of any particular sound isn't quite discernible. A form of labyrinthian, droning collage electronics, otherworldly and dreamlike, at times nightmarish, at times sad, but always bold and deeply affecting.

Composed after the director's death, it contains many trademarks of Minóy's style: manipulation of shortwave radio, use of spring reverb to get those strangely echoing, claustrophobic environments, and then the howling vocals, piling-up and distorting. Minóy plainly mourns the director's death but in such a unique way there is nothing to compare it to. Two long-form, elaborate pieces (just under 1 hour), essential to Minóy's aesthetic of "cinema of the ear".

This is the first Minóy material ever to be reissued. Unavailable since the original cassette release, these tracks have been remastered from the original archive files and are presented for the first time on CD in a matt-laminate digipak.

Track listing:

1. In Search Of Tarkovsky
2. Memory Undefined (Dream As Truth)

Order via Cold Spring: http://store.coldspring.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=8339

Order via Bandcamp: https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/in-search-of-tarkovsky-csr273cd

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http://coldspring.co.uk/discography/csr273cd

Album Out 13th March 2020

In Search Of Tarkovsky

MINÓY Memory Undefined (Excerpt 1)

Mount Shrine presents us an album filled with radio chatter and warm drones layered on cold textures.

Your shortwave radio crackles with life as it rests on your heavy backpack. It follows your every step across the rough terrain as you narrow your search for the abandoned station. It is up here, far from civilization that the answers linger, lost for years as the stations self sustainability has kept it alive.

Recommended for fans of sedative ambient and for drifting into a place of comfort.

Shortwave Ruins

Bandcamp

Hindmost Flood

Taken from the album "Elegies For The End", released on Cyclic Law in late 2009.

September Dirge

Between a Lie and the Truth

Wintertime isn't like a story, it's more of an inner whirling between the higher and lower notes. Entropy slows down and on snowy forest paths, the quietening call of a future is heard. A sleeping life of the shimmering heart, soft sight journeys into the window - in the anticipation of bloom and return of color. Gentle movements and lurking stillness; and sun, the winter symbol of the steadily warming order on Earth, vanishing just to continue the way through the snow-covered wastelands.

released December 14, 2020 on ΠΑΝΘΕΟΝ Records | ПAN173 

Composed and produced by Blear Moon in November of 2020 in Snezhinsk, Russia 
Mixed and mastered by Nikita Chaikin 
Photography by Alexander Bondar 
Text by Anna Repman 

my socials and other links: 
blearmoon.bandcamp.com 
soundcloud.com/blearmoon 
instagram.com/blear_moon 
secretpress.bandcamp.com 
instagram.com/secret_press

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