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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
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releases May 7, 2021

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

Friendly CSA Compilation Part 1

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LEACHATE PHASES

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TINNITUSTIMULUS - B3. Lph21 (PLIB009.5)

1. Arcane Device Mixes Merzbow (29:30)
2. Merzbow Mixes Arcane Device (21:50)

Japan's leading noise luminary Merzbow meets American electro-feedback artist Arcane Device as they mix and manipulate each other's work. The result are droning, bubbling sonic textures that are as serene as they are extreme pushing the boundaries and meeting in the middle. Both artists contribute long-form manipulations that inspire contemplation as much as highly caffeinated charges of sonic skullduggery. Sonic textures take center stage on Merzbow & Arcane Device.

David Lee Myers aka Arcane Device has been building electronics and creating feedback based electronic music since the late 70's. He has collaborated with Tod Dockstader, Kim Cascone, Asmus Tietchens among others.

Masami Akita's legendary Merzbow project has established him as an international electronic phenomenon and this collaboration with Arcane Device is being released at the same time as a 20th anniversary reissue of his Merzbeat album and a CD reissue of his 1983 album Material Action, all on Important Records.

Merzbow & Arcane Device CD - Collaborative CD - Available Now

From "Det Totala Raggarkriget" [C71 - Chefsideologens bolag 2014]. Comptape with Alfarmania, Broken Lights, HSV, Treriksröset. Exclusive release for Röset festival.

Alfarmania - Ur vägen

a track to be published by the helen scarsdale agency in 2016. 

Himukalt : This Conflict

'heaven is a place on hell' is the mind-melting debut of Spanish ensemble Forceps. Saxophone monster Polychronidis (of Skullfuck fame) mangles his saxophone and will not stop playing until you cry and Jaula's abstract noise guitar will make you get to that point quickly. 'heaven is a place on hell' is an arousing affair that is both noisy and tender. Spain is truly the place these days!

heaven is a place on hell

NOR018 Forceps - heaven I

From side A of "Final Vision" c60
New Forces Fall 2018 
Edition of 100

Light Along The Riverbed

Jesuve - The Purest Gift \ Squandering Without Reciprocation

Graustich - Blood Patrol

Serration - March Of Lies

Taken from the album 'Ingrid Live at Flykingen' released as Digital.

Klara Lewis 'Ingrid Live at Fylkingen' (excerpt) (EMEGO 270L)

Presenting Fauter - Various Rings. 
On his EP the Helsinki-based artist weaves together atmospheric synth works and distant vocal artifacts.
Also known for his multifaceted dance music alias Viktor Kalima, Various Rings sheds light on the artist's pensive and contemplative side.

produced and mixed by Fauter
mastered by Joni Judén
cover art by Gabriel Boicel

Various Rings

For The First Time

Taken from the CD "Hermeneutics of The Hunt Has Gone Full Circle", out on Narcolepsia and New Approach.

TAETER & SEKTOR 304 - Our Sexual Acts Were Exploratorial Ordeals

CONTROLLED DEATH (MASONNA) / RUDOLF EB.ER 'Death Ceremonies' LP (CSR283LP)

“Death Ceremonies” is the darkest, most primitive death industrial record, soaked throughout with the smell of rotting corpses and burning bodies.

Controlled Death (MASONNA) features Yamazaki’s most compulsive Korg MS-20 drones and obsessive, disturbing vocals, drenched with anxiety and alienation. Dense atmospheres of doom, death and decay build up just to break away in deep paranoia. Rudolf Eb.er (SCHIMPFLUCH) scratches a near-dead violin over horrifying synth tones, celebrating obscure forest rituals, unearthing an archaic actionism and long forgotten witchery – decomposing his raw sounds on dusty magnetic tape.

Maso Yamazaki (best known for his extreme Japanoise project Masonna) and Rudolf Eb.er (Swiss noise-actionists of the legendary Schimpfluch circle) collaborated live and in the studio multiple times during the mid and late 90’s. Both based in Osaka, Japan, a spontaneous meeting brought up their mutual interest in degraded and primitive black metal. Discussing their own latest black brews of sinister side projects gave birth to the idea of the “Death Ceremonies” LP.

Ltd x 400 copies on 180gm vinyl in a 350gsm sleeve.

Track listing:

Rudolf Eb.er:

A1. Ende Leben (Hëxapoda Cëremonia) I (2:35)
A2. Ende Leben (Hëxapoda Cëremonia) II (2:13)
A3. Ende Leben (Hëxapoda Cëremonia) III (2:50)
A4. Ende Leben (Hëxapoda Cëremonia) IV (2:36)
A5. Ende Leben (Hëxapoda Cëremonia) V (2:29)
A6. Ende Leben (Hëxapoda Cëremonia) VI (2:53)
A7. Ende Leben (Hëxapoda Cëremonia) VII (2:17)
A8. Ende Leben (Hëxapoda Cëremonia) VIII (1:39)

Controlled Death:

B1. Death Ceremony I (5:17)
B2. Death Ceremony II (0:50)
B3. Death Ceremony III (4:17)
B4. Death Ceremony IV (1:44)
B5. Death Ceremony V (1:04)
B6. Death Ceremony VI (1:50)
B7. Death Ceremony VII (2:28)
B8. Death Ceremony VIII (2:12)

Order via Cold Spring: http://store.coldspring.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=8852

Order via Bandcamp: https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/death-ceremonies-csr283lp

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http://coldspring.co.uk/discography/csr283lp

Album Out 21st August 2020

CONTROLLED DEATH (MASONNA) Death Ceremony VIII

CONTROLLED DEATH (MASONNA) Death Ceremony I

Excerpt from 'untitled (Recorded Fall 2019)' on We Are One (WAO 003)

no artist "untitled" (excerpt)

download: taklamakan.bandcamp.com/album/crematorium

Crematorium II excerpt

"First, Second, and Third Exposure”
Cruel Intentions [LP, Ascetic House, 202]

release date [LP]: November 24, 2020
available at http://ascetic.house and http://ascetichouse.com

“A rough-hewn pendulum, Cruel Intentions swings between Shredded Nerve’s previous LP and this year's Acts of Betrayal, vacillating between the noisy and the serene through crude loops and environmentally-specific recordings, driven by hope for the future and exhaustion of the day's burden. Like an apartment building collapsing inwards, no listener is safe from the debris of glass, metal, wood and electricity Shredded Nerve employs. While previous works have focused on blunt repetition, Lakes embraces his sounds' desire to sprawl out and infect each other throughout these five pieces. The opener ("Burning Arrival") brings the same sort of twisted backward violin sound found on the Butthole Surfers' "Creep in the Cellar" but manages to further elucidate this terror with discreet scrapings and the gathering of small objects before lumbering up the stairs, arms full of white hot static interference. The errant crackling through heavy tones and cheap, ringing steel, synthesized warping and vitric ritualistic knocks serve to take us further out of ourselves, looking through a thick window as we slowly age. Tension and dread are at this end, but what awaits on the other side?”
— Greh Holger (Hive Mind/Chondritic Sound)

Shredded Nerve is the primary output of multimedia artist Justin Lakes. Drawing from a palette of found sound, electroacoustic amplification, and analog synthesis, his work is composed through the
use of handmade cassette loops which have come to be known as his signature. Originally based in Cincinnati, Lakes has operated out of Brooklyn since 2014 where he co-founded the record store Thousands of Dead Gods and subsequent tape label Dead Gods. In addition to publishing printed materials of collages and flyers, he also runs the limited edition CDr imprint Small Mercies. Cruel Intentions is Shredded Nerve's 2nd LP, a follow up to 2016's In The Shadow Of What Never Was.

Cruel Intentions

Shredded Nerve "First, Second, and Third Exposure" [LP, Ascetic House, 2020]

HIMUKALT 'Knife Through The Spine' CD (CSR289CD)

Primitive, old school industrial, with an obsessive, post-mortem feel. This is the first CD edition of Himukalt’s cult 2018 LP (originally released on Malignant Records), remastered and including bonus material from the same recording sessions.

"There’s something uniquely old school and primitive at work here, capturing the claustrophobic, unsettled and fragmented sound of early Illusion of Safety or mid-late ‘80s industrial on a whole, contemporising it, and filling it in with an obsessive, post-mortem feel. Knife Through the Spine delivers a steady cascade of abstract sounds, festering with grinding pneumatic throb, coarse frequency blasts and sputtering electronic oscillations, with spliced snippets of processed, flanged vocals and a general sense of social anxiety and disaffection. A unique and challenging take on heavy electronics for fans of Puce Mary, She Spread Sorrow, Atrax Morgue".

Himukalt is the Nevada-based project of the enigmatic Ester Kärkkäinen. Presented in a 6-panel digipak.

"For her first vinyl album, Knife Through the Spine, [Himukalt] has fully embraced the early 1990s power electronic scene, creating a dark, disturbing, and at times extremely aggressive record that has a tighter, more specific focus in its sound" (Brainwashed)

Track listing:

1. Nude On Beach (5:32)
2. Staggered, Crushed (6:02)
3. I'm Afraid (8:11)
4. Be Sure Of Your Diagnosis (Version) (5:42)
5. Social Anxiety #1 (5:20)
6. Want You To See Me (The Voyeur Tapes #10) (2:58)
8 7. Social Anxiety #2 (4:08)
8. The American Redhead (9:29)

Order via Cold Spring: https://coldspring.co.uk/csr289cd

Order via Bandcamp: https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/knife-through-the-spine-csr289cd

Watch teaser: https://youtu.be/aiHJ07KRQbQ

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Album Out 12th March 2021

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