photo Dan Penschuck
design by EMERGE
Sound_00 is Toni Dimitrov
Lefterna is Boban Ristevski
Music by Nicola Cruciani – Vincenzo Lardo;
Lyrics by Nicola Cruciani
Nicola Cruciani and Vincenzo Lardo:
Vocals , Bass, Guitars, Keyboards, Programming
Track 3 : Vocals by Chiara Della Monica, Simona Della Monica
and Tommaso Cruciani
Sax by Giuseppe Esposito
Track 5: Vocals by Francesca Longo, Rossella Lauriello
Track 8 : Additional Keyboards: Giovanni Armadoro
Graphics by Nicola Cruciani
Produced by Nicola Cruciani and Vincenzo Lardo
Mix and mastering by Vincenzo Lardo
Recorded between June 2019 and July 2021
Surrounded by and giving life to one of the northern-most, temperate rainforests in the world, the Pacific Northwest’s chalak’At’sit (Hoh River) carves its way from the glaciers of Mount Olympus towards the Pacific Coast.
Close your eyes and let the soundscape of chalak’At’sit envelope you in her emerald, verdant embrace. Layered embers of ethereal tones flicker, then quickly disappear across undulating waves of pirouetting idiphonic vibrations. Thus begins a psychedelic trip through exothermic rainforest-scapes and climaxes nestled in lush, majestic reverie.
Headphone listening recommended, for the sonic details.
The immersive audio-visual trip is best viewed in HD on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_b8tHoI4jI
Read more about the Hoh people, their land and the inspiration for this work:
hohtribe-nsn.org/oral-traditions/
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released December 25, 2021
Recording, production & mixing by Ruoho Ruotsi
Mastered by Cem Oral @ Jammin Masters | Berlin
Amuse-gueules Vol. 3 happens after dusk. On a damp night in 1Q84, Aomame nurses her verre à absinthe, at a hotel bar in Shibuya as 10 Sides of Ethel Ennis floats out from the jukebox with a gratuitous level of lusciousness. Meanwhile, El Sapo dreams of endless battles of contrasting memories.
The Amuse-gueules series (‘lil hors d’œuvre appetizers) has been a platform for experimentation, a tabula rasa of sorts, for RR to upend older, unfinished ideas while introducing new ting and refining studio technique. Since Volume 1, I’ve versioned a number of riddims, repurposed long-form spoken word from Chocolat and tucked Ethel Ellis under warp garridge basslines, all while managing to pull off an indisposable slice of “afterburn rave” delectability.
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released December 1, 2021
Late 2009 Felix von Montfort started
uploading free samples for 3 days as
FX666. 12 years and a few projects
later Felix combines them all.
photos by Felix Montfort
design by EMERGE
Recorded for Drone Day 2021 by UbiniqU and fourthousandblackbirds.
Mixed by Albérick.
photo by Wilfried Hanrath
design by EMERGE
Recorded, developed and performed by Coagulant
at PSSR std, north London between July and December 2020
Visual concept, artwork & design by Allen K. Trimble at Spectral/23
All sounds sourced from microphones, sonic soundscapes, cut-up and
feedback.
Coagulant is a conceptual sound art project devised by Fkdrone in 1998, and led by Fabio A. Kubic, It is connected in many areas related to sound experimentation. Its process in the development of electronic manipulation, through microphones, cut-up, environmental soundscape, audio-feedback editing, musique concrète and the structuring of oblique frequencies, rests on hypnotic drones.
