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Whilst none of the tracks are new, they have never before been released on the Emporium label (well, not as I recall!).
Album cover by Ian Haygreen, used with thanks.
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Créations sonores de fourthousandblackbirds et Paxillus Succubus Conception visuelle de Paxillus Succubus
Mixé par Paxillus Succubus et fourthousandblackbirds
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Conceptual and collaborative project of fourthousandblackbirds and Paxillus Succubus inspired by the writings of Eugene Ionesco, the songs of Brigitte Fontaine, today’s news and imagined as a play, divided into 3 acts.
Jeux De Carnage deals with the themes of war, legends, the question of man’s place in society, our definition of existence and especially death.
Sound creations by fourthousandblackbirds & Paxillus Succubus
Artwork by Paxillus Succubus
Mixed by Paxillus Succubus & fourthousandblackbirds
fourthousandblackbirds.bandcamp.com
paxillussuccubus.bandcamp.com
www.walnutlocust.com
www.facebook.com/walnutlocust
wl079 – May 28th 2024
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This album is in memory of Norbert Kutz. A valued friend for many years. I’ll miss the guy.
Thanks to Thomas Mathie for the Cover work
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In the artist’s words, TO THE ANCESTORS is “An exploration into synthetic nature”, drawing inspiration from, and conjuring the emotional resonance of, forest bathing, zen garden sitting, and the historical elegance of the Gagaku and Koto music of Edo period Japan. The album seamlessly merges these influences with moods of the environmental music movement Kankyō Ongaku of the 1980s and 1990s and then passed through a filter of modern electronics, digital processes and patch cables resulting in a collection of meditative pieces that evoke a sense of calm, introspection and peace.
Composed between 2018 and 2020, the album’s eight tracks, titled only by their duration, are rich in texture and shimmering with radiance. Utilising modular, analog and digital synthesis, Stefane and Targo conjure sounds that feel both distinctly processed, yet organic in nature, and in doing so, embody the Japanese traditions and practices of Wabi-Sabi. Digital flutes breathe through self-generative CV patched Gewa blocks while fountains of ethereal granular plucked koto like sounds cascade and glide over serene synthesised sparkles, drips, and tweets in a mimicry of the natural world bringing a harmonious meeting of human and machine, nature and virtual landscapes. Through40 minutes, these aural infusions hint at shades of Hiroshi Yoshimura, Midori Takada, Satoshi Ashikawa and other greats of the Japanese ambient golden era.
Prepare your favourite(sic) Temea ceremonial tea, relax and enter a state of serenity. This is environmental meditation music for the digital now-age.
Joshua Stefane, known for his work as Endurance, is a prolific Ontario, Canada born producer and curator currently residing in Nara, Japan. One of the founders of cult ambient cassette tape label Muzan Editions, Stefane has been instrumental in organising(sic) and supporting various events, happenings, and festivals in his adopted home, (such as the annual Moment Festival held in the majestic Tenkawa village) and being a vital, nurturing connector to an international community of forward thinking electronic ambient artists and DJs.
Steve Targo, performing as Inner Travels, and more recently as Nimbudala, is an American, Wisconsin based artist and explorer of inner and outer worlds. He has been creating New Age and spiritual-adjacent visionary music for years, releasing meditative works for cassette tape on labels such as Aural Canyon, Sounds of The Dawn, Fluere Tapes, and Inner Islands. A true purveyor and practitioner of futurist healing sounds.
TO THE ANCESTORS will be available in both digital and physical realms. Physical copies will be released exclusively through bandcamp as a limited edition pro-dubbed C90 cassette, featuring translucent smokey shell, on-body print, 4-panel full-colour inlay and as always, a screen-printed Golden Ratio Spiral acetate, continuing Golden Ratio Frequencies’ tradition of offering quality, visually appealing sonic totems.
Pre- Order available 21 June 2024, with full release and shipping from 5th July 2024.
Composed 2018 – 2020
Inner Travels – Synthesisers
Endurance – Modular Synthesis
Photography – Joshua Stefane
Design & Layout – A P Macarte
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“Improvisational music can be guilty of veering towards the self-indulgent, but that’s far from the case here thanks to a highly assured collection of songs. Strongly recommended. ”
– Reza Mills, Clean Sheets
rezamills.wixsite.com/clean-sheets-record/post/hypnodrone-ensemble-the-problem-is-in-the-sender-do-not-tamper-with-the-receiver
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Canadian experimental guitarists Aidan Baker (Nadja, Caudal, Tavare) & Eric Quach (Thisquietarmy) originally formed Hypnodrone Ensemble in Berlin, Germany in 2014, along with the drummers Felipe Salazar (Caudal), Jérémie Mortier, and David Dunnett, to explore the conjunctions of atmospheric space-rock and shoegaze with motorik, krautrock-ish, propulsive beats to offer immersive, psychedelic, and transportive performances. While these five musicians formed the original core of the group, members have regularly changed over the years and, besides stalwarts Baker and Quach, currently features Angela Martinez Muñoz (nunofyrbeeswax, Tavare), Fiona McKenzie (Halma) and Sara Neidorf (Mellowdeath, Aptera). This line-up, along with bassist Gareth Sweeney (Caudal) and guest vocalist Lane Shi Otayonii (otay:onii, Elizabeth Colour Wheel), toured in Europe in the spring of 2023 with a pause on 1 May for a recording session set up by Heartnoize at Punctum in Prague, CZ.
The result is The Problem Is in the Sender – Do Not Tamper with the Receiver, featuring material from the May 2023 Punctum sessions and to be released on vinyl by Wolves & Vibrancy (DE), CD by WV Sorcerer (FR), and cassette by Katuktu Collective (US) and Cruel Nature (UK)
hypnodroneensemble.bandcamp.com
LP: wolvesandvibrancyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-problem-is-in-the-sender-do-not-tamper-with-the-receiver and Wolves And Vibrancy Big Cartel site.
CD: wvsorcerer.bandcamp.com/album/the-problem-is-in-the-sender-do-not-tamper-with-the-receiver
Cassette (US): katuktucollective.bandcamp.com/album/the-problem-is-in-the-sender-do-not-tamper-with-the-receiver
“[T]hunderous polyrhythmically driven rock ensemble.”
The Wire – May 2022 (Issue 459)
“[A]s experimental as it gets, brimming with space rock synths and drones that enlarge and expand, gradually engulfing the listener.”
Astral Noize
“[D]rones gradually worming their way into the conscience amid a soothing bath of synthesisers(sic) and rock-steady drums; Pink Floyd would be proud.”
Invicta Magazine
Aidan Baker – guitar
Fiona McKenzie – drums
Angela Martinez Muñoz – drums
Sara Neidorf – drums
Lane Shi Otayoni – voice
Eric Quach – guitar
Gareth Sweeney – bass
Recorded at Punctum in Prague, CZ – May 2023
Engineered by Daniel Nulty
Edited and mixed by Aidan Baker
Mastered by James Plotkin
Photography by Leon De Backer
Layout by Eric Quach
hypnodroneensemble.bandcamp.com
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Label Description: Reissue of the 1998 album that started it all. Features six bonus tracks and new artwork from Mikel Elam and Paul Romano. Vinyl features a 12pg booklet with liner notes by John Morrison.
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Having recently dropped two criminally overlooked, experimental dub LPs, with his ‘Dub Over Science’ series, the German producer/bass specialist, now stretches his own parameters of outwardness still further, with these twelve fresh explorations of dub deviance.
For those who feel the fusion of dub techno and ambient drone had creatively ended with the demise of the short lived, Berlin based Chain Reaction label. Ghost Dubs now upgrades, and extends that legendary blueprint’s abstract methodology even further and deeper, floating away upon a wonderfully warm sea of hiss and static bliss. This is dub so atomized that it disintegrates within your eardrums. Its music, where the machines take over and virtually all traces of humanity are erased. But thankfully, the warmest soul still oozes seductively from the pores of Fiedler’s robo riddims. Relentlessly hypnotic, seriously sedated, ‘Damaged’ celebrates the point of departure within it’s mesmerising low end grooves.
Album opener ‘Chemical’, provides an opiated slo-mo skank, which sounds like Plastikman’s ‘Consumed’ era pulsations drenched heavily in sub aquatic fx. A triumph of surface noise surfing and sub woofer testing relentlessness, it provides the perfect intro to this compellingly immersive album. For batty shakers and headtrippers alike, there’s added thrills aplenty, as Ghost Dub’s richter scale tremor rhythms remain impressively massive, and the atmospheric depths of ‘Damaged’ appear tantalisingly(sic) oceanic.
Throughout the duration of the dreamy selection, there is an obsessive balance of bewitching ambience and heavyweight bassbin shaking. The lead single ‘Thin Line’ itself provides a missing link between African Headcharge’s early percussive body probes and Rhythm & Sound’s addictive radiance, with the slightest hint of Burial’s doomed romantic hauntology added for good taste. Alternately, and no less gracefully, ‘Dub Lobotomy’ bizarrely resembles Miles Davis ‘Get Up with it’ chopped, screwed, and relocated to a futuristic Kingston Town. Impressive indeed, Fiedler’s mastery of live dubbing on his mixing desk shines accross(sic) the duration, and gives the album an improvised edge, and sense of peripheral chaos. Elsewhere, spooked steppars(‘Hot Wired’), haunting house (‘True to life’) and 4th World psychogeography(‘Undone’), combine to ensure there is a forever changing mixture of flavours percolating within the admirable consistancy(sic) of the overall sound.
With a tip of the cap, and nod of the head to Pole(‘Second Thoughts’), its no surprise then that PRESSURE would then turn to the great, Berlin based producer Stefan Betke, to master/cut this collection at his infamous Scape mastering room. And a fine job he did too, as high quality sound and levels are definitely maintained throughout.
If you like your melodies submerged, your dub narcotic, your basslines obese, and your beats evaporating, ‘Damaged’ provides the perfect prescription and entry point into Ghost Dub’s spectral soundworld.
Dive in. Enjoy !
Music / Production : Michael Fiedler
Mastered : Stefan Betke (Scape Mastering)
Artwork : The Pathological Puppy
Bass / Drones (‘Circles / Line’) : Fatwires aka John Eckhardt
Copyright Control MIchael Fiedler(Ghost Dubs) 2024
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Swedish musician Erik Jarl has been active since the Fall of 1999, principally as Jarl. He was also a member of post-industrial act IRM, of which Erik was one of the founding members. Jarl’s music has been released on several labels through the years, and he has collaborated with acts like Anemone Tube, Envenomist, and Skin Area. Erik Jarl composes his music through a total analogue approach with the use of synthesizers, analogue sequencers, waveform generators, and oscillators, as well as several echo/reverb and delay units.
Recorded in Spring-Winter 2023 at Norrköping, Östergötland, Sweden by Erik Jarl.
Published by Reverse Alignment in collaboration with Luce Sia.
Mastering by Raffaele Pezzella (a.k.a. Sonologyst).
Artwork by Karolina Urbaniak.
Cd layout by Matteo Mariano.
Cat. Num. RA65.
© 2024. All rights reserved.
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Tracks 1-9 taken from “Dream Circle”
Tracks 10-19 taken from “Recurring (Dream Circle)
Tracks 20-28 taken from “Mandala”
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Nicholas McMaster: guitar, vocals
Colin Marston: synthesizers, guitar, vocals
Mick Barr: bass, guitar, vocals
Lev Weinstein: drums
recorded, mixed and mastered by Colin at Menegroth, The Thousand Caves
released with P2 loggia omerta
Menegroth trees mural and krallice logo by Karlynn Holland
mural photos by Justina Villanueva
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