I'm bouncing all around the room listening to this. Love it!

Jin jiyan azadi! [i'm listening to the album [reposted by Sarah Badr] but this i'm reposting just because...]

Kamana is a multiformat release inspired by and channeling the culture and traditions of the Aeta, an indigenous group from the Zambales region in the Philippines. 

One of the oldest inhabitants of the region the Aetas are also some of the most fascinating and ancient nomadic and hunter gathering cultures. The release goes from the realms of the real to the imaginary, from transcription to syncretism, from concrete to abstract. 

An (un)real Sonic Exorcism filled with Ancestral Frequencies, Haunted Ghosts and other animistic spirits roaming the Pinatubo forests.

More info at www.discrepant.net

Carlos Casas - Kamana (LP Preview)

Album, OKVLT009, 30th June 2021

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French musicians Alban Mercier(Officium) and Eric Desjeux (Tzii) team up after years of friendship for a 9-tracks collaborative album. Ltd. edition of 70 pro-dubbed tapes and risoprinted cover.

Mixed & mastered by Tioma Tchoulanov. 
Artwork & design by Gaëtan Bizien.
https://okvlt.bandcamp.com/album/watching-myself-forget-with-no-resistance

○ Officium & Tzii — Space Time Beyond

We’ve reached book IV in Rupert Clervaux’s series of “Zibaldone” audio diaries, at which point we find him telling a different kind of story. 

“The first three all had very specific themes, while this one feels a little bit looser and doesn’t have just one thematic thrust,” he tells me, which maybe explains why listening feels a bit like annotating. I’m underlining, emphasizing, drawing arrows from here to there, highlighting symbols and noting motifs, realising, questioning, eureka-ing. An impressionistic meaning’s been encoded in and we’re lucky to be given the space to play that most poetic and boundless of all mental games: narrativization. 

There are no wrong answers, but Rupert offers some clues either way. If there’s any cipher here it’s “something like a meditation on the concept of ‘depth’––in all its connotative forms.” Think below the surface, (the) underground, yawning oceans, being ‘down in the dirt’, soil, roots, rootlessness, pulling at the dregs, collapse, profundity, stable and unstable horizons, distance, perspective, intuition, not to mention relative opposites: to be shallow, to be above, to be beyond. 

It’s got me thinking of Bresson’s “Bring things together that have as yet never been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.” His: “Dig deep where you are. Don't slip off elsewhere.” Rupert has realized these—two favourite goals of mine!—here. 

This is music that catches you at your own periphery, gives pause, has you offering a little “huh” to, asking “I wonder why” to. Again, it’s got me musing on another mindworm, this time from New York publisher and multi-sensory reading room Dispersed Holdings: “Feeling-making-knowing feedback loop; cartography of feeling; water as text, read to know the land beneath and around it, and body as reader.” 

Is it ok to offer up these other contexts out of context? I think so, because Zibaldone IV articulates a similarly swirly tone. Like, we’ve got Rebecca Solnit talking through Kropotkin’s “Mutual Aid” and later calling out to Michael Ruppert a ways away, and “Easy Rider” is playing in the wings. We’ve got Susan Sontag magically contextualizing Mariah Carey with poet Thylias Moss triangulating in order to sketch out (Rupert again) “something a little more interesting than wilful eclecticism or that laboured and patronising kind of pop-savvy.” 

Are we following? Whether yes or no Vanessa Bedoret follows on with a performance of a performance of Moss’s 'Water Road’: to be once or twice removed, via strange transitions, purposeful confusions, and, suddenly, seagulls. We’re on a boat with Ingeborg Bachmann—and how I wish I could actually be! But maybe thanks to this music I can as literature, films, friends, lethargy, coincidences, little mental links, eternal wormholes, lingering notions come together to imagine something better. 

Text by Natalia Panzer 
npanzer.com 

Artwork by Coline Cornélis 

Music by Rupert Clervaux 

with 
Vanessa Bedoret: voice and violin on Thylias Moss #2 
Eben Bull: trumpet and electronics on Mutual Aid and Departure from England 
Isis O’Regan; voice on Departure from England 
Nick Taylor: electronics on Chthonic ’97 
Ben Vince: saxophone and electronics on Chatsworth ’17 

Artwork by Coline Cornélis 

Warm thanks to James Marrs, as always, and Natalia Panzer 

Vanessa recreates and reads an excerpt from ‘Water Road’ by Thylias Moss. Isis reads ‘Departure from England’ by Ingeborg Bachmann (translated by Peter Filkins). This record is dedicated to both poets––with great respect and deep admiration.

02. Simple Food For Our Simple Taste

Deleted a bunch of old stuff to fit a new upload on a free account. This is a recent recording of the Prophet being sequenced through the Cirklon and nothing else. 

The tuning is "Harmonics 14 to 28, Tessaradecatonic Harmonium, José Pereira de Sampaio (1903)"

Moon Wheel — Tessaradecatonic Harmonium

Night Of The Sorcerers (DrumBeats 808 Mix)

ShiVas Heisenberg blue  :::

Awareness & solidarity with #Rojava by female:pressure
www.femalepressure.net/rojava.html

Kurdish inspired danceable music for celebration and driving energy.

Samples from traditional instruments Kemençe, Def and Zirne.

Unmastered version

Ishtar - Rojava compilation via Female:Pressure

Terrace dweller

Recorded Live @ NICA/ Barcelona 2019

Voyage Select V/A VOL.1 :
 https://voyageselect.bandcamp.com/releases

Awakening

This release is available only through our bandcamp page:
https://berceuseheroique.bandcamp.com

Duckett - Sometimes When I am Alone it Feels Like Everyone I know and Love has Died

Nick Klein has released a fine line of killer vinyls through labels like Bank Records NYC, L.I.E.S, Viewlexx and recently the tasty "No Shortage of Rope" on Helm's Alter. His record for us is called "Actor Network Theory" and is a monumental trip touching down in darker ambient stuff and slower techno for that party you need to go to when all this lockdown bullshit is over. Klein is based in Holland nowadays.

300 copies. OUT IN NOVEMBER 2020!!! 
Distro through Boomkat. Digital will be available.

NICK KLEIN - SPIDER IN BROWN POWDER (iDEAL190 LP)

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runs @s-f-x-0101 AV label

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Tunes to hellozoemcpherson@gmail.com
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pic by Lucie Rox / background by Alessandra Leone

Ishtar - Rojava compilation via Female:Pressure

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