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Dan DiPiero – Cry Babies (Self-Released)

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cry baby pod (dandipiero.substack.com/podcast) is a show about popular music and the people who study it.

After making some bump music for the first season, I decided to try making something more coherent for future episodes.

I’m still not great at ableton but I learned a lot doing this one. The two tribute tracks involved attempts to reproduce music that inspired me as a means of learning the software better.

Proceeds from this album will go to support the emergency relief fund for Hampshire College, and then later something else. More details about the music and the work it supports can be found here: dandipiero.substack.com/p/cry-babies and here: www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/hampshire-college-workers-emergency-relief-fund

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Zi iacchos – Fragments (Self-Released)

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Label Description:

Fragments is a series of short musical pieces conceived as breaths rather than songs.

After the album Ornaments, which was built around text, voice, and symbolic articulation, Fragments moves in the opposite direction:
less language, less structure, less intention.

Each piece is limited in duration (around two minutes), not by constraint, but by necessity.
They are not meant to develop or conclude — they appear, remain briefly, and dissolve.

The voice, when present, is reduced to a single word, a syllable, or a gesture.
Sound is treated as matter: grain, air, erosion, suspension.

Fragments was composed and recorded live, without overdubs, to preserve fragility and immediacy.
It is designed for saturated minds and quiet rooms — a space to breathe, not to explain.

This EP is not a continuation of Ornaments, but its decantation.