Where we were falling, in a momentous spectrum
Every surface there concealed something once visible
Where the walls were coloured like the past life
You are there now, present in absence
Where we picked ourselves up from the soil we touched
Gathered ornaments from undisclosed fantasies emerged

World Canvas proudly presents Lost Memory 02 - A compilation featuring 11 songs from artists and musicians from different backgrounds and corners of the world.

Cover art by Gabriel Boicel
Additional mastering by Joni Judén

Zaum - Meme Vortex

Keiska - Verkkosaari

All the proceeds of this compilation will be donated to MECA (MiddleEastChildren'sAlliance).

I suppose one day, this key of mine will be in use.
When the roots of the trees have grown over the ruins, of what used to be my city.
When the gunpowder in my chest will fade, as the time goes on.
Until then, I’ll let the dawn fall on.
And wait until I can call a this same old place a home.

Until that moment I’ll browse through the field of trees, with golden appels.
My dream of peaceful days are as sweet as persimmons.
My memory of Omas voice as vivid as the violets, she used to murmur quietly -
No man is free until the we accept kindness, until then we shall be wise and clever and more quiet than the mice, do take my word for it. I’ll save you the trouble and give some peace of mind.

Crying feels as bitter as holding sumac above my eyes,
I try my best to understand that emptiness is what welcomes me, but that does not feel right.
But I still believe that this old key of mine, will kiss a familiar door, at least one last time.

- Elza Hegazi

Forces - The Olive Tree

Finnish ultrapop band Teini-ikä makes their return to World Canvas with their new single release ‘Hei DJ’. Known from their emotionally euphoric melodies and processed vocals, ‘Hei DJ’ extends said aspects into rave-inclined territory. The song’s lyrics describing a hedonistic voyage on a Helsinki-Stockholm cruise ship, the vocals culminate into explosive gabber-inspired kicks which burst at their seams. 
Releasing on the verge of post-lockdown dance music era, ‘Hei DJ’ builds a world of something once experienced and something waiting on the horizon.

Cover art by Gabriel Boicel & Otso Reitala

Teini-ikä - Hei DJ

World Canvas has the pleasure to present Kaino Kim Vieno's song 'Sörnäinen', a vulnerable, balladic expression off of their upcoming debut album.
The single release is accompanied by a music video by Lännen tehtaat, premiering on the online art editorial platform AQNB on the November 17th.

'Sörnäinen' is the first single from Kaino Kim Vieno's upcoming debut album 'For Those Who Wait'.
They produced the track in collaboration with Murrettumeri, during a 5-day album recording session in Turku, during which a bird got trapped in the studio, but finally found its way out.

Produced by KKV & Murrettumeri
Lyrics and mastering by KKV
Recorded at V.R Studio, Turku
Video by Lännen tehtaat
Cover art by Lännen tehtaat & Gabriel Boicel

Kaino Kim Vieno - Sörnäinen

Deliquescent spheres orbiting in a void of golden shimmer
Opening one transfers you to a field of untouched lantanas and amaranths
Watching them makes you dream of a sun rising to its zenith
Tonight there was a fire, which burned like the last remaining stars

Mastered by Joni Juden
Cover art by Gabriel Boicel

Keiska - Pillow City

World Canvas Mix 23 comes from innerinnerlife (Tomasz Szpaderski) whose delicate and tender ambient compositions have been featured on Portuguese labels Eastern Nurseries and surf. On his 2021 EP ‘R U OK?’ innerinnerlife weaved together luscious avant-pop structures which are as well present on his mix for World Canvas. Recently Szpaderski has been producing plenty of new unreleased music, some of which is premiered on the guestmix at hand.

Cover art courtesy of innerinnerlife

Tracklist:
innerinnerlife - ??? (Unreleased) 
 e6c41 - silver vessel glowing
 bambinodj - lost riddim (timbanelly edit) 
 Dawn Dx - Textiles 
Thomas, couture23, Organ Tapes - Helicopters 
Marigold Sun - Dusk
 belmont girl - i remember 
Real lies - Dream On (innerinnerlife edit) 
Yaka - slow reaction  
ATB - Ecstasy (Morten Granau Remix)

World Canvas Mix 23: innerinnerlife

In certain moments we share the same landscape
All the winds on Venus
From time to time, the outline that holds us gives way and permits the overflow
Like a screen door, a vague shape of the interior is visible

Mastered by Jussi Hertz & Henri Nikkilä
Kaino Kim Vieno - European Woman mastered by Queer Ear Mastering

Artwork by Jussi Hertz

Two Heavens - DJ Missoni

Keiska - BB 144

Following Helsinki-based producer Tari’s (Taras Protchenko) collaborations with Allison Data over the recent years, he presents a debut EP and World Canvas label debut in the form of ‘exp./ moments’, a release of three original electronic compositions.
Tari’s musical direction is guided and informed by overarching motifs of sentimentality: The release’s songs bring together harmonies interwoven with voices carrying a sense of disembodiment, while reaching for something in the close vicinity and further in the distance. The EP’s songs display Tari’s sense for sparse yet detailed and determined harmonic and ambient sonic movements, which present themselves as a body of work, reminiscent of a space of scattered lushness and dissolving boundaries.
The release comes with a remix by Tari’s close friends and collaborators Queendyster, Allison Data and Acedia & features an original photography by Boris Protchenko.

Produced by Taras Protchenko
Mixed by Allison Laine
Mastered by Nori Kin
Cover photography by Boris Protchenko

Tari - b2f

Tari - b2f (Queendyster, Allison Data & Acedia Remix)

Vio Lino is a Copenhagen based artist, exploring with the endless combinations of pop, minimalism, pipe organ sounds, noise and all in-between. 

This mixtape is trying to gather fragments of inspiration coming from a varied array of sources, from pop culture to childhood memories such as Justin Bieber to Harry Potter memes, from cover songs to original written material. 

Experimenting with contrasting genres melted together, creating a community of sounds, where all can co-exist in harmony, it is ultimately an ode to songs that have inspired a time of innocence, mixed with some that are relevant to the artist today.
@ekko-doomdale

Tracklist:
Field recordings of Carldutta
Vio Lino - Unreleased
Astrid Schepelern - Projekt 16
Justin Bieber - Baby 800% slowed down
Sole urbina - Carne Mojada De Sueño
yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy - ESTAS AVES ESTÃO SE AFOGANDO NA ONDA DO ESTILO
3,5 - a67a4
Touchscreen - After all these things i’ve done
3castles - NAV x 703 x LC x TSVI BLEND (160) (EMOTIONAL)
MBMK - PERF DR
Compatibility support link: https// - REEFER
Lighyer - Ængle
Hans Zimmer - Organ Variation (slowed and reverved) + field recordings from Carldutta
James K - Subliminal Burn
Suzy Sheer - Blissed
ustulata - ♫_training wheel [01/2022]
freddytheking007 - snape snape severus snape
Christer Falkenström - Bäklandets vackra maja
Mark Gormley - Little Wing

World Canvas Mix 25: Vio Lino

All the proceeds of the release will be donated to Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières, aiding the injured in Gaza.

Recorded in Helsinki during October and November 2023.

You Can't Solve It Alone

pay what you want

Keiska, Murrettumeri & Romance Relic - You Can't Solve It Alone

TWO HEAVENS - UNITED 4 EVER releases on the 12th of January

TWO HEAVENS - I WANT TO LIVE 4 EVER

UNITED 4 EVER is the first official EP by the Swedish producer and designer TWO HEAVENS. The EP was composed utilizing various analog synthesisers, samples and fields recordings recorded in London over the course of past year.
Through walls of sound and blinding lights.

Produced, mixed and cover art by TWO HEAVENS
Mastered by Jussi Hertz

TWO HEAVENS - HIJACKED SHRINE

TWO HEAVENS - ENDLESS POWER-GRIDS

TWO HEAVENS - UNITED STATES OF EUROPE

World Canvas is thrilled to announce the debut release of audiovisual artist sasha smirnova. She presents her upcoming EP with a single release AЯA, introducing some of the primary aspects visible in her sound practice and composition: Disembodied voices surpassing the dichotomy of human and digital intervowen with distored strings & drones and sparse harp and piano passages.
sasha smirnova's debut EP will release during Februrary 2024

Produced, mixed and cover art by sasha smirnova
Mastered by nara is neus

A​Я​A

sasha smirnova - AЯA

Following her single release A​Я​A on World Canvas, the multidisciplinary artist sasha smirnova presents her debut EP '…​…​…​shared strain'.
Building on the foundation and the sonic materials introduced on AЯA, '………shared strain' continues to weave together distortion, sparse processed vocals and fluctuating rhythmic movements, expanding on the synthesis and composition in smirnova's practice.
As the harmonic and rhythmic passages in the songs on '………shared strain' drift in and out of the grid and dissolve into each other, they give space and elevate the vocalizations of one another in imaginative ways of developing and exploring sound, sonic structures and their capabilities.

Arranged, produced, and cover art by sasha smirnova
Mixed and mastered by nara is neus

sasha smirnova - eclipse

Following her single release A​Я​A on World Canvas, the multidisciplinary artist sasha smirnova presents her debut EP '…​…​…​shared strain'.
Building on the foundation and the sonic materials introduced on AЯA, '…​…​…​shared strain' continues to weave together distortion, sparse processed vocals and fluctuating rhythmic movements, expanding on the synthesis and composition in smirnova's practice.
As the harmonic and rhythmic passages in the songs on '…​…​…​shared strain' drift in and out of the grid and dissolve into each other, they give space and elevate the vocalizations of one another in imaginative ways of developing and exploring sound, sonic structures and their capabilities.

Arranged, produced, and cover art by sasha smirnova
Mixed and mastered by nara is neus

sasha smirnova - heart to heart

sasha smirnova - missteps

Following her single release A​Я​A on World Canvas, the multidisciplinary artist sasha smirnova presents her debut EP '………shared strain'.
Building on the foundation and the sonic materials introduced on AЯA, '………shared strain' continues to weave together distortion, sparse processed vocals and fluctuating rhythmic movements, expanding on the synthesis and composition in smirnova's practice.
As the harmonic and rhythmic passages in the songs on '………shared strain' drift in and out of the grid and dissolve into each other, they give space and elevate the vocalizations of one another in imaginative ways of developing and exploring sound, sonic structures and their capabilities.

Arranged, produced, and cover art by sasha smirnova
Mixed and mastered by nara is neus

sasha smirnova - agenda tales

'Movement Gallery’ by Colorado-based artist HÉRISSÉ showcases a meticulous balance between traditional string instrumentation and more modern elements. In contrast to the noise-heavy releases of the previous year, this ambient offering provides an introspective sonic experience, inviting listeners to explore the depths of their own emotions through the resonance of strings.

At its core, 'Movement Gallery' is a musical experiment that seeks to redefine the listener's perception of conventional instrumentation, specifically focusing on the expressive power of string instruments, the human voice and properties of 'experimentalism'. Its thematic exploration revolves around the transient nature of human emotions and experiences. Each track serves as a sonic vignette, capturing moments of beauty and mystery. The project is a testament to the artist's ability to traverse diverse musical landscapes, demonstrating a mastery of both the experimental and the emotive.

HÉRISSÉ - 'Movement Gallery' EP releases on 27th of March 2024.

@herisse

Movement Gallery

HÉRISSÉ - Aurvandils-tá

'Movement Gallery’ by Colorado-based artist HÉRISSÉ showcases a meticulous balance between traditional string instrumentation and more modern elements. In contrast to the noise-heavy releases of the previous year, this ambient offering provides an introspective sonic experience, inviting listeners to explore the depths of their own emotions through the resonance of strings.

At its core, 'Movement Gallery' is a musical experiment that seeks to redefine the listener's perception of conventional instrumentation, specifically focusing on the expressive power of string instruments, the human voice and properties of 'experimentalism'. Its thematic exploration revolves around the transient nature of human emotions and experiences. Each track serves as a sonic vignette, capturing moments of beauty and mystery. The project is a testament to the artist's ability to traverse diverse musical landscapes, demonstrating a mastery of both the experimental and the emotive.

Produced, Mixed, Mastered and Cover Art by HÉRISSÉ

HÉRISSÉ - Cathedra Of Brahm (Excerpt)

HÉRISSÉ - Procession: ÇXI Act III

HÉRISSÉ - Overture / Novo Letifer

Kagami Smile - Regarding the Pit in the Forest releases on April 26th

Produced, mixed and mastered by Kagami Smile
Cover art by Gabriel Boicel

https://worldcanvas.bandcamp.com/album/regarding-the-pit-in-the-forest-2

Regarding the Pit in the Forest

Kagami Smile - 888

Kagami Smile returns to World Canvas with a new album 'Regarding the Pit in the Forest'. A spiritual successor to the artist's previous outing on the label 'Floating Underneath', 'Regarding the Pit in the Forest' shares similar aesthetics regarding composition drifting between delicate and developing ambient textures and harsher elements consisting of beat driven structures and distorted tonalities.

Over the course of 'Regarding the Pit in the Forest' Kagami Smile introduces sonic pieces with underlying aesthetics noticeable within the artist's wide catalogue of releases while displaying new ideas blending glimmering frequencies with murkier undertones, tying together in the ambiguous song titles and album's structure as a whole.

Produced, mixed and mastered by Kagami Smile
Cover art by Gabriel Boicel

Kagami Smile - 999

Kagami Smile - 777

Kagami Smile - 555

Kagami Smile - Brightly Flowing Like Invisible Wind

Kagami Smile - Regarding The Pit In The Forest

World Canvas is a cross-disciplinary platform for unconfined expressions of emotion. We strive to provide a home for artists on the fringes and backlots of contemporary art.
World Canvas is a blank surface, open to host audiovisual explorations, fictional fantasies and outcries of yearning.

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