Name: 05. Evil Medvěd - Zyprexa by XYZ project
Duration: 4 min 7 s
Description: Our compilation for 2020. Buy it here: https://xyzproject.bandcamp.com/album/xyztape-various-artists-2020

had a shit few days that made me wanna jump so I made whatever this is and feel a little better but... I am gonna fuck someone's day up unfortunately 

take it slow

Scanners

Shed Light Cast Shadows Pt. 2 [2025]

PRE-ORDER HERE:
https://mindrecordsjapan.bandcamp.com/album/b-flex-ion

Full transparent 8" packed in beautiful half silver/half transparent sleeve. Ultra limited edition of 50 copies.
All tracks by NET GALA
Picture by Bakya
Artwork by MOYŌ
Mastering by Paulie Jan
'KIKI' previously released in digital on NBDKNW

MIND CLEAR 019 - NET GALA - FLOX

Our compilation for 2020. Buy it here: https://xyzproject.bandcamp.com/album/xyztape-various-artists-2020

05. Evil Medvěd - Zyprexa

Buy at: https://zabrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/intercep-o

Evitceles - Coil Dialogue [ZABRA010]

ART CRIME - DISTANCED
(DAWN011)
100 limited copies
7inch
@art crime
Produced by Art Crime
Mastered at Studio Martyrs (vinyl)
Photo by Melchior Tersen
Design by Art Crime & Hajj
Video by Florent Hadjinazarian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfJQfn4pcNU
Dawn 2020

Art Crime - Crash

Channel Gekko - Black Mountain Live Sessions @UNI

releases October 15, 2020
mastering :: Giuseppe Ielasi
artwork and design :: Bill Nace

all proceeds to Junglekeepers (Madre de Dios, Peru ++ Oakland, US) :: www.junglekeepers.com

"Field recording, that cherished technique of electroacoustic artists, gets fresh conceptual treatment with “Eaves Drop” by Horaflora, one of the aliases used by Raub Roy (Oakland, CA). Using a Sennheiser AMBEO binaural headset, he collected a year’s worth of public and private footage, then collaged it with sparse, yet pointed, instrumentation. Straddling diarist and voyeur, Roy evokes and lingers upon questions about field recording in the context of surveillance capitalism—and the purposes of music made in its purview.

There’s kids’ playground babble. The artist striking a piano key on his porch, as a train sounds in the distance. Like rummaging through the NSA’s trash, these sounds are irrelevant to governments or corporations (for now), but fruitful for more generous listeners. The crow caws, the dog barks, the door creaks. And then a firecracker explodes, and you throw off your headphones as it seemed a real firecracker actually exploded just above your right temple.

The realistic yet aestheticized arrangement of sounds in space is where the dynamism of this album lies. There’s a moment of beautiful clarity when we hear a woman singing along to Jazmine Sullivan’s “Bust Your Windows.” Her voice, going along with the song that’s playing in her own headset, cuts through all the noise, making a poignant threat. But then she’s drowned out by some bureaucrat’s intercom as the album flows onward, each cataloged and collaged sound seamlessly shifting into the next arrangement.

Lines between composition and chance blur; the tapping on a snare, the languid strumming of strings could be read as a musician’s self-surveillance. The fact that these are recordings from the Bay Area, where he lives, is not coincidental. Such methods are at the heart of big tech’s empire, and though “Eavesdrop” is not explicitly confrontational regarding such concerns, the album does tap the sense that we, as privacy erodes and mutates, are becoming voyeurs of our own lives."

Eaves Drop

Horaflora - Scrubby Foreland [Excerpt] (ENM06)

Neu BalanÇ Luxxuryproblems - Altø Sax Edit

Presented as a re-creation of two live sets performed in 2019, Patrick Gallagher deftly melds field recordings, a "fairly standard" synthesis toolkit, and prepared electric guitar into two peerless electro-acoustic compositions comprising his debut for the enmossed x psychic liberation (ENXPL) series.

As the album's title implies, "Set In the Bardo" embraces indeterminacy in all respects. An extreme range of timbral variety and complexity is employed, from pure sine waves to nearly-incomprehensible sonic blasts. With a formal education in mathematics, Gallagher's astute arrangements modulate between smooth glissendos and abrupt interruptions, reflecting the compositional process used: salvaging hitherto-abandoned recordings and live snippets from the artist's archive. Post-processing was eschewed on the album in order to preserve the improvisatory nature of a live performance, giving an organic quality to the album which is often lost in academic compositions.

While "Set In the Bardo" was created in pre-pandemic times, it also functions well at this particular juncture of history. We have been 'set in the bardo' ourselves, and Gallagher has made an engrossing set of pieces - encapsulating and unfolding sonic uncertainties as we venture through trying times. Well worth many listening sessions; high volume and high fidelity during playback are recommended.
credits
releases January 29, 2021

Patrick Gallagher is a sound artist and composer currently residing in Philadelphia, PA. Gallagher arose from the North Carolina avant-garde underground, perfecting compositional processes with numerous live performances; as well as cassette and vinyl releases on Tone Log, Hot Releases, Refulgent Sepulchre, and other independent labels.

Set In The Bardo

ENXPL05 -Patrick Gallagher - Set In The Bardo (Side A)

Prague based audiovisual collective and music label. 

Since 2014, founded by Oliver Torr and Marek Silpoch.

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