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Bogatir – Decomposition (Self-Released)

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decomposition was recorded during the autumn of 2023. inspired by the season and its various manifestations of decay, the album came together through hours of introspection, reflection, prediction, predication, hyperfixated porings over media from and about experimental artists, a deep delve into the behaviors of magnetic tape, observations of nature interacting with and juxtaposed against fabrication, experimentation with tape loops, analog synthesizers, digital synthesizers, drifting, phasing, found art, scanning, speeding, slowing, stretching, condensing, reversing, repeating, recording, analog deterioration, digital degradation, drones, microcasettes, arrangement, disarrangement, agreement, disagreement, composition, and decomposition.

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released December 21, 2023

decomposition:

written and performed by Max Platitsyn
engineered and recorded by Max Platitsyn
mastered by Caeleigh Featherstone

guitar on “dissolution” and «титры» written, performed, and recorded by Sweet Teeth

educational video and audio sample on “danse decomposition” from «Коррозия металлов, способы защиты от неё»

«что же будет с родиной и с нами?» is a cover of the song «Что такое осень» by the band ДДТ. lyrics by Yuri Shevchuk (Юрий Шевчук).

inspired by Emil Cioran, Philippe Soupault, Harold Budd, Renaldo & The Loaf, Eugeniusz Rudnik, Gavin Bryars, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Jon Brion, Colin Stetson, Emile Mosseri, Leonard Bernstein, Milton Babbitt, Puce Mary, Sofia Gubaidulina, Delia Derbyshire, Solmaz Sharif, and more.

artwork and design by Max Platitsyn – decomposition triptych, distorted scans of a postcard of H.N. Werkman’s print Composition (1925)

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SUMMORE – New Pain (Self-Released)

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In September 2022, after playing at an intimate venue in Columbus,Ohio the duo stopped for a late night bite at a Waffle House. As they sat parked in their car eating, a drunk driver lost control, and blasted the duo from one side of the parking lot to the other within a second. In an instant, their lives were changed.

They have not stopped. In spite of everything, they found enough strength through their recovery to chronicle their harrowing experience on their second LP, New Pain. Despite their physical and emotional injuries, they continue to persevere in their musical journey.

It has only just begun.

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released August 27, 2023

SUMMORE is: Julie Rose & Justin Rose

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Confusion – Limbic Psalms (Very Much Recordings)

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experimental, electro-pop, and ambient artist, Confusions (ben turner), explores digital and analog music-making processes.

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released January 5, 2024

All pieces and lyrics composed and performed by Benjamin Turner.

Recorded and engineered by Benjamin Turner.

Additional recording and engineering at Oranjudio Studio, by Joey Gurwin for tracks 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, & 16, thanks to Music Columbus.

Mixed and produced by Joey Gurwin and Benjamin Turner.

Pre-mastering steps by Joey Gurwin.

Mastering by Benjamin Turner.

Album artwork by Brian Rogers. Variation on a photo by Mitchell Multimedia.

Featured performances and contributions:

01- Noncredible – Caleb Miller: tape saxophone

02 – It’s Not Mine – Noah Fisher: space echo

04 – Ppl B4 – written by Stew Johnson (guitar), Sam Johnson (cello), Benjamin Turner (synthesizer/production).

06 – Another Green Man – Brendan Youngquist: advice
Rachel Scott: advice

07 – It’s Not Mine – Caleb Miller: saxophone

08 – String – Joey Gurwin: midi toms

09 – Dialectics – Brendan Youngquist: advice

14 – Quarry – Niki Weber: soundscape contributions / advice

15 – A Place to Say It’s Real – Eric Stratton: sampled performance

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Dylan Houser – There Is A Light That Always Goes Out (Self-Released)

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There are demons of unknown origins idling away on unlit suburban street corners at night.

Instruments used: electric guitar, acoustic guitar in standard tuning, ostrich guitar, keyboard, synthesizer apps, shortwave radio, voice, kalimba, pedals, some sort of percussion, microcassette recorder

Special thanks to Dr. Jaggers and all of the generous customers who tip their delivery drivers well and giving me the opportunity to visit destinations hitherto unknown to me in the dead of night.

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