Olan Monk - Auto Life
Format: Digital (EP)
Cat. No: CANVAS011
Release Date: 1st October 2021

Watch the video for 'Fameless': https://youtu.be/-xndTe8uWrc

Pre-order Auto Life (EP): canvas-index.bandcamp.com/album/auto-life

‘A farewell to idolatry, where culture is absorbed into nature, like a body back into the fertile soil. Written as a 27 club survivor, lamenting the young dead, no longer young and celebrating the spectral presence of iconised peers. Reflexive and self-aware of the problem of over-identifying with the fictional performance of the solo act in various guises or archetypes: the rockstar or trapstar. Auto Life is a practical attempt at a weird re-hybridisation of otherwise seemingly divergent strands of popular music, conflating stylisations usually segregated by genre.

Auto Life was written as a collection of songs for eventual live performance. Recording music is absurd—an act in which you initially perform to no-one. The inclusion of a sample of crowd noise in ‘Fameless’ is the music studio equivalent of a laugh track being added to the soundtrack of a sitcom—unable to give up on disappearing horizons completely and imagining another context for performance in which an actual audience beyond the performer is present.

Autotune Punk—as a music of antagonism that resists from within, bending the lanes of a machine that flattens out the vocal performance to a given scale. I can still express feeling—even angst—but the machine doesn’t care. Refusing its own funeral, emulating the dead—it’s a Rock simulacrum. A renewably performed myth. I broke the spell. I just heard it as it was. The sacred framing of presence makes the pop idol always-already-dead by turning them into a symbol and an image—undead, un-ageing and endlessly reproducible within a commercialist visual culture.

The music which I would grow up listening to would later become a tool towards first facing, maybe later dismantling—or at least bending—the structures in which music was still being written, performed and recorded into existence. My emulation of and interest in pop—and popular—music is not in irony. I love this music—yet I question the context and conditions through which it has come to exist and continues to change shape. Opening up the horizon of pop to a new kind of strangeness, where the familiarity of the pop song disappears into blissful distortions and mixed signifiers towards a world in-between, otherwise unknown’.

— @olanmonk

Written, performed and recorded by Olan Monk

‘Bruised Fruit’ features an instrumental recording by Jam City, additional production and vocals written and performed by Elvin Brandhi
‘Burnout’ features an instrumental recording by Jam City

Tracks 01–07 mastered by Ali Najafi
Tracks 08 and 09 mastered by Jam City

Artwork by Ewa Awe

www.c-a-n-v-a-s.com

Auto Life

Olan Monk - Fameless

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

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all proceeds will go towards two charities supporting migrants in the UK and Poland: 

channel rescue

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&

Chlebem i Solą

https://polskagoscinnosc.org/en/kontakt/

cover by Zoë Annesley @a.ploy.within

sweet dreams 

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The Fertile Crescent - Into The Fire

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

'Neo Seven' release date: July 28, 2023.

https://blankformseditions.bandcamp.com/album/neo-seven

https://www.blankforms.org/publications/7038634357-neo-seven

7038634357 - Perfect Night

I want to start all over again.
It's something I can't even talk about with friends.
On the metro late at night,
Where'd I go? I need a guide.
Across from me, I see her cry.
Give her a smoke, and she asks for a light.
Turn on my favorite song, and then my phone died.
I guess this is just getting by.

What I want, I can't decide.
Is it because I'm a Gemini,
Or is it because I'm always high?
I want more, but should I even try?
I'm on the Greyhound just for a ride.
Nowhere to go, nowhere to hide.
Don't have a license; I can't drive.
I guess this is just getting by.

I guess this is just getting by

The second track from "Crypto Poser / The Enigma", a new release by @iiingrate
Originally released on W - I, the precursor to Bloom.

Download: blo-om.bandcamp.com/album/crypto-poser-the-enigma
Spotify: sptfy.com/Fjo

W - I 10
Artwork by Oli XL & Anton Hinge Lenander

Ingrate — The Enigma (W - I 10)

Petina

The closing track on "Expand," the forthcoming compilation to be released by Danish record label @petrola-80.

"Melancholic ambient, bangers for your woozy late night DJ set, mind-bending sonic experimentation and forward-facing alternative pop cuts - Petrola 80 lay it all down for you on March 20th 2020."

Tracklist:
Yangze - Hold Your Horses
Yearling - Resortplex Guide
Basic House - Sweater Shop
Gel - Antiquit
KhalilH20P - 100 Tears 02:59	
Piag3t - Turn Out Tense 03:09	
Rasmus Juncker - Sauna
Francesca Burattelli - Condition
Lighyer - Awakpo
SATNAV - Floe Wichu
jjjacob - Solitary Defeat

Artwork: Laurits Hanak
Master: Valdemar Kragelund
Format: Cassette, digital and T-shirt

The Fertile Crescent - Into The Fire

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