This is an unedited recording of our live performance at the 6th Next Sound festival in Kyiv, in 2018.

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Recorded live in concert at Next Sound, Saturday 6 October 2018
http://nextsound.org/2018/

Venue: Closer, Kyiv, Ukraine
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Unedited stereo recording from the on-stage mixer operated by :zoviet*france: (this is a mirror sound image of what was heard by the audience)

Composed, performed and mixed by :zoviet*france: As with all of our live performances, this was completely improvised

1st edition AAC 320 kbps, released as a free download 8 March 2022

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cover photo: Aerial view of Kyiv Oblast © :zoviet*france:

Live at Next Sound, Closer, Kyiv, 6 October 2018

In the blue heavens
Scattered from dust - an ancient blow

Uninvited flames of the altar
Run over the wings
Of the butterfly spool

Meter by meter, loose
Landed on the hands of tower

The sky limits no air
Illusions of ear and throat.

An eternal liminality amidst of the fading blaze - sunset speaks so much of  light. Adorned by the dust-covered sundial, a candle being blown out since the crack of dawn. First, the hour hand and the minute hand - chime rods clang without touch. To remember: the core of arousal. The body / as foliage / as traverses too ceaseless to bring up the rear.

‘Butterfly Tongues More Ancient Than Flowers’ is the grandeur revival of early electronic era in the personal and subtle twists of a rethought perception of time. For the same reason, the matter simply drifts through it—not itself, but its own persistence. Copenhagen based artist - øjeRum maintained the reminiscence of rending impulses and rhythmic formations at the turn of provoking co-existing worlds, laid bare in the sempiternal totality.

Butterfly Tongues More Ancient Than Flowers

øjeRum - Recurring Dream of Coiled Organisms in the Sky

'For Wind Poetry' releases October, 2022.

Wind Poetry

VAK 62 | yolabmi - Circulation

This month’s Amulet of Tears mix comes from Istanbul-based artist Ekin Fil, which is veiled in reechoing wind, freefalling from misty sky. 

The mix embodies acoustic qualities over tangibility of the spatial structure of turbulence - the sound, which unites phenomena, a vast world in yielding shafts, pliant brims with billows - stream of rush-hour merged into a single point.

Amulet of Tears 033: Ekin Fil

Music: @ekin-fil

Artwork: @anasisana

Amulet 033: Ekin Fil

Artist: Jan Jelinek
Title: SEASCAPE - polyptych (OST)
Cat#: faitiche 31
Release: April 28th 2023
Format: LP/DL

One of the most notorious hatemongers in movie history is Captain Ahab from John Huston’s 1956 classic Moby Dick. His manic monologues cast a spell on generations of viewers. Berlin based musician and sound artist Jan Jelinek has now turned the voice of Ahab into a musical instrument.

Faitiche presents Jan Jelinek's soundtrack for SEASCAPE – polyptych, an audio-visual software developed in collaboration with Canadian new media artist Clive Holden in 2022.
SEASCAPE – polyptych is based on image and acoustic source material from Moby Dick. While Holden works on manipulating film sequences, the voice of Ahab plays a central role in Jan Jelinek’s soundtrack. The dynamic volume and tone of the captain's speech control a synthesizer system that turns Ahabs voice into ten abstract soundscapes.

In this production the voice gives the impulse and controls things but is not the sound of spoken word itself that we hear. Only occasionally can snippets of speech be heard so that syllables or sounds are recognisable. Instead we hear compositions made of hissing, soundscapes and eruptive sounds. The atmosphere is dark and sinister. Still every piece has a clear sonic structure and follows an understandable dramatic composition. This music is abstract but not overwhelming. Quite the opposite, SEASCAPE – polyptych is an invitation to listeners to let themselves be carried by the stream of sonic events.
 
Although part of a media art work, the soundtrack can be enjoyed without any of this connecting superstructure. It works with no previous knowledge. But what happens when one does know that it’s the sonic waves of a human voice that is controlling a network of synthesizers?

If you want to hear Ahab, you will hear a choir of Ahabs in every piece of sound. The subliminal threatening as well as the conjuring Ahab. Finally the Ahab who whips up his crew and tears them with him into their downfall. The majestic „on the quay now, waiting and watching“, the oppressive “drawn towards the whirlpools center” - they are all music as well as sonic discourse.

Jan Jelinek: Drawn Toward The Whirlpool's Center

Amulet of Tears presents Audio. Visuals. Atmosphere. mix by the label travelogues, with a focus on solid ambiances for an eloquent portrayal of unhurried world. Creating an utterly enraptured assemblage that melds relational facets exquisitely & expounds the meanders of filmy soundscapes.

Audio. Visuals. Atmosphere. explores expressive collages between redolent dynamics and lush shapes of crafts since 2015.

Amulet of Tears 037: Audio. Visuals. Atmosphere.

Music: @audiovisualsatmosphere

Artwork: @anasisana

Amulet 037: Audio. Visuals. Atmosphere.

:zoviet*france: - Montag

Recorded live at Wave Gotik Treffen, Volkspalast Kantine, Leipzig, 29 May 2023

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Released as a free download (AIFF 16/44.1) 5 July 2023

© 2023 copyright control

Montag

Anasisana delivers a live set that winds together graceful gradients, lingering melodies and contrasting textures within blending elements and cohesive sounds. Allowing varied patterns to bring a sense of soothing rhythm and a multilayered musical experience in its transitional, boundless slumber, where vague dreaminess flourishes in open spaces.

Amulet of Tears 038: Anasisana LIVE @ B7L9

Music: @anasisana

Artwork: @anasisana

Amulet 038: Anasisana LIVE @ B7L9

Dans la forêt du temps passé

After cultivating his own sound for over 30 years, de Babalon has continually expanded his sonic trajectory throughout the last few years via a series of noteworthy release on labels such as Alter, A Colorful Storm and AD 93. Now he presents his most encompassing album to date via Vale, an hour long phantasmagoric onslaught showcasing the full spectrum of de Babalon’s radical, menacing and inimitable style.

Vale (Master)

VAK71 | Christoph de Babalon - Denn Sie Sind Hünen

Vladislav Delay - Rakka II
Format: LP/DGTL
Cat.No. CR14
Pre-order: http://bit.ly/3dLkry3

In 2020 Cosmo Rhythmatic released ‘Rakka,’ which presented Sasu Ripatti’s glorious return to his most famous alias: Vladislav Delay. Nonetheless, the album contents made it evident that this eventual comeback was not intended as a revival. Ripatti was reactivating the project and a steadfast evolution in its sound, a new approach to both the emotional and environmental characteristics of electronic composition.

The inspiration for this new course was given to Ripatti by a series of ventures into the wilderness of his native Finland, confronting “The raw, undefined, uncontrolled and uncorrupted power that exists within it.” The result is a hyperbolic, extreme ecosystem of sound populated by fast-moving drones, dense clouds on noise, and tectonic bass rumbles with hints of harmony birthed by harsh tonal contrasts. The sheer intensity of the music was only matched by the rigor of its craft.

2021 sees the coming of the second chapter in that very same journey. ‘Rakka II,’ once more on Cosmo Rhythmatic and made of that very same impassioned matter. Tho while on the first one, Ripatti seemed intent to portray the elemental forces as free, unabashed, and unconstrained by musical structures, here he appears to compile some of it in beats and progressions that have something in common with the wildest sides of dance music. It’s like consciousness tuning in with the non-human after struggling with its apparent distance and hostility, accepting its uncoded structures, and finally finding a common language for reconciliation.

As Ripatti puts it, Rakka II is a romantic summer vision full of hope and optimism;  after the brutalist vibes on the first one, the storm has passed and skies are clearing. 
Rakka II is ultimately another masterful achievement in an already stellar career and an unquiet blast of energy for chaotic times.

Vladislav Delay - Rakkn (CR14)

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