Breath, air, wind, life – the soul. Of the things worth honoring, this is high on the list. Celebrate spirit – and remember it is shared.
Featuring improvised clarinet accompanied by Kimiko Ishizaka’s public domain piano performance of Bach’s Prelude No. 1 of the Well-Tempered Clavier (BWV 846).
Vanishing Corridor is the synthesis of American sound experimenters Kingo Sleemer (Western Maryland) and Chris Campbell (St. Paul, Minnesota).
Campbell has been recording dark ambient/sound collage/field-recorded soundscapes as The Creeping Man since 2017, both as self-releases and on various labels (Hrea’m Recordings, Mono Time, Dub Cthonic, Veinte 33, Preston Capes Tapes, Wormhole World, and Shady Ridge Records), most recently finding inspiration via collaborations with like-minded artists.
Kingo has been part of the experimental music collective Halaka since the late 90s, with whom he’s recorded and released many albums in many formats; he has recently recorded and released music as Allele Cog Experiment, HOZ and Experimental College. He is also a co-founder of Pile Records.
The two share an affinity for the absurd, the obtuse, and the off-kilter.
Vanishing Corridor started as a back-and-forth exercise of sound sharing and manipulation, without preconceived themes or intentions.
The project debuts on February 18, 2024 on Mahorka with a beautiful self-titled cassette release.
Artwork by Tod Trexler / Ivo Petrov.
What are we if not the accumulation of our decisions? Illusory though it may be, our will is our being, and our choices become our identity. Take care when making up your mind, as making things up is sometimes all too easy.
Featuring dreamy electric guitar, 808 drum machine, synthesizers, sequencer, pads, voice samples, and effects.
An assembly line of molasses. A turtle riding a jet. A slug with rollerblades. A sloth on a bike.
A slow hurry.
Featuring electric guitar and bass, drum kit, synthesizer, and electric grand with effects.
Square the circle, and circle the square –
Pi may transcend, but it’s out there somewhere.
Round and round, the fruitless proofs go,
Impossible things drive us more than we know.
This carousel-inspired music features square-wave heavy synthesizers, electric piano, a dubious 808, pandeiro, and effects.
If you can talk, you can sing. If you can walk, you can dance. If you can jump, you can fly? Flight has inarguable allure – but is quite a challenge.
Featuring orchestra, piano, and drum kit. A rescoring of “Wing It!”, the Blender Open Movie.
released January 24, 2024
Vocals: James Hardin
Guitar/Bass: Mark Wilson
Drums/Backing Vocals: Archie Falandys
Recorded by Dance Like The Dead
Mixed and mastered by Wes Meadows
FPR-229
All around the orchestra pit
The maestro chased the people;
The maestro thought it was all in fun…
Pop! Goes the weasel.
In the style of Philip Glass, honor of P. D. Q. Bach, and memory of Peter Schickele.
Featuring piano, orchestral strings, brass, low woodwinds, and bagpipes.
“We are all deaf” is the third full length album by ЧЕРНИХОВ | CERNICHOV, a noise/ambient duo based between Brussels and Milan, of US (David Gutman) and Italian (Marco Mazzucchelli) nationality.
“The album’s concept gravitates around the deep and actual contraposition given by the human strive for exploration: on one hand there is the total deafness towards the heartbeat of planet Earth, from a vibrational perspective expressed by the Schuman frequency, a sub bass frequency that can be resumed as the intimate physical expression of how our ecosystem relates in its environment. On the other hand, the exploration’s focus is monopolised by the infinite horizon that the eyes define. The Sputnik satellite becomes the first extraterrestrial exploration means, kept in contact with signals emitted at 40Hz. On these two main frequency inputs, the first as carrier for cross-modulation treatment and the second as a BPM driver, we explored a possible scenario of sonic interactions, ending with what we see as the soundtrack of our personal existence in this 4 dimensional world.”
Released January 14, 2024 as free (cc) digital download and limited digipak CD edition.
Recorded by Marco Mazzucchelli and David Gutman
Produced and Mixed by David Gutman
Mastered by Anacleto Vitolo
Artwork by Marco Mazzucchelli
Slip and slide
from note to note –
I see icy land
and Boats
Sailing through
Uncertainly
Ice, for now –
Not endlessly.
This jazz blues waltz features clarinet, piano, upright bass, and drum kit.
released December 16, 2023
LIL UGLY MANE: All the original music
DJ DESCENTED: Remixing
Full album available for free download at: www.panyrosasdiscos.org/pyr327-alexei-borisov-and-jelena-glazova-entrance-to-hades/
For the once and future Mouse
The Lawyers lawyered hard –
They lobbied both Senate and House,
Ensured his use was barred.
But now the time has come at last
The Mouse is finally free!
All may use him, none must ask –
And pay no lawyer fee!
This mouse-whistling-inspired jazz waltz features tenor sax, upright bass, electric piano, and brush drum kit.
MOWING DOWN ROSES: 9/26/2023, One Guitar, Two Pedalboards, and Two Amps.
THE RED DESERT: 9/27/2023, Amplified Bul-Bul, Looper, and Electric Guitar.
THE CLEAN STORY: 10/9/2023, Effected Vocals and Electric Guitar.
SCREAMING BIRDS OF PYREX: 10/10/2023, Drone Machine and Electric Guitar.
A SMALL THING: 10/11/2023, Electric Guitar.
Little pixels we once liked
Held us rapt with pure delight –
Nostalgia is bittersweet,
And can grow into self-deceit.
This tango-tinged jazz chiptune (and contrafact of “A Child Is Born”) features videogame-sampled bass, drums, keys, guitar, strings, and lead.
I hope you guys like this but, more importantly, I hope it can provide some benefit to the world. I think that music is the only thing in the universe.
Holy cow, what’s broken? Have we taken leave of our senses? Quite the opposite: we know exactly what we’re doing and we sense (sic!) that this album by Lilac Complex (our new addition to the Würfel) will be huge. And we sincerely ask you not to take the title of the album as a call to action – or if you do, then simply delete all the other tracks in your music collection, except for Lilac Complex. Because this release takes no prisoners.
We hear digital-harsh drum’n’bass with a wonderfully outrageous retrofuturistic sound aesthetic. Wait, what does that mean again? Ok, glad you asked. One thing at a time.
„Retrofuturistic“ refers to a vision of the future from times gone by, in this case drum’n’bass from the 90s, as it was celebrated on countless Playstation 1 games. Everything tends to be 12 rather than 32 bit, with small glitches and a certain digital harshness, but getting the maximum sound out of the limited possibilities. Until the chips glow and the computer crashes. Cyberpunk is the word of the hour and the future will be breathtaking. Digital freedom galore.
“Outrageous” is of course an insinuation, because this “looting” in seemingly past worlds of sound is not done here naively reproducing, but with a keen eye and, above all, sharpened ears from the present day. In postmodern arbitrariness, not everything is arbitrary, but only available at the same time and invites you to hunt and collect and then sort in and out. Whatever is needed at the moment.
„Wonderful“ in the end is what has emerged here: a musical time machine. But the journey not only goes back to the 90s but also (yes, why not) into the future. Throw a little industrial, metal, glitchcore and bitcrusher into the maelstrom and let the machine run at maximum until it screeches and gives up the ghost. Only to then beg its owner to please, please not dispose of it. Fortunately for us, her pleas were heeded by Lilac Complex. We can only hope that this old, slightly broken machine (which has only just survived a nuclear explosion) will be started up again in the future. Regardless of whether this future is rosy or rusty.
Briefly about the artist: Lilac Complex lives and works in the south-east of the USA. That’s all that matters at the moment.
⬟ ⭔ ⭓ ⭔ ⬟
Featuring piano, soprano saxophone, drum kit, upright bass, solo cello, and string ensemble.
Full album available for free download here: www.panyrosasdiscos.org/pyr326-jukka-pekka-kervinen-asymmetric-modes/
A bird flies
Beyond human eyes –
We can surmise: much is unseen in trees.
Kaleidoscopes,
(Used as a trope)
Multiply the perception of beauties.
This contrafact of “Blue in Green” features a big band of clarinet, flute, piano, electric guitar, vibes, acoustic bass, brushed drums, saxes, trombones, and muted trumpets.
