What excitement when two artists that we have published separately with different projects join forces to release a first album together… and even more so when it sounds like an achievement. This is indeed the case of Break On Beacons, where we find at the beats Valgidrà from Rennes and at the synths Innocent But Guilty from Bordeaux (half of Wintermute, among others : indierockmag.bandcamp.com/album/rubber ), two French electronic musicians whose collaboration finds its origin in IBG’s remix and collective projects, in which Valgidrà took part several times. The later has been following the work of IBG for a while, finding common ground in his trip-hop/abstract fiber, while Foolish Records’ founder discovered the music of his new playmate through IRM Netlabel, particularly with the album “Watched Watchers” (indierockmag.bandcamp.com/album/watched-watchers) and the EP “Daily Grinders” recorded with Konejo (indierockmag.bandcamp.com/album/daily-grinders-ep), both released in 2021. From the start, when listening to this joint project whose name evokes the exploration of unmarked paths, the idea of getting off the beaten track and especially the limits that we unconsciously have imposed ourselves, we feel both in familiar territory and at the same time heading towards the unknown in a more cosmic way than expected from the two. We recognize the deep, dark and ethereal textures with subtle melodic patterns of IBG – whose sound seems to have evolved this last year from heavy and radical drone (cf. his brilliant Anteraks project along with Uburgründ from Romania) towards something more aerial, between electronica and trip-hop, and also Valgidrà’s signature beats at the crossroads of abstract groove and dry IDM as well as his sense of rhythmic vocal samples, on the title track for example. And yet, “An uninterrupted flow of images, shapes and colors…” constantly gives the sensation of tending towards unexplored horizons, somewhere between outer space and inner landscapes, an album which casts off towards an “elsewhere” made up of both sonic adventures and introspection, epic times and suspended moments, dreams and disillusionment. In a word : a gem !
Aufnahmen von 2016/17
steel sculpture “Poised” by Moretto (1994)
design by EMERGE
GoH-637: Sado Rituals – The Desert of Unclean Spirits
Sinister, dark ambient noise walling from dry places inhabited by banished demons. Distant winds and demonic howlings meet ever-fluctuating noise textures.
GoH-635: guru bobol – PANDEUCABRE
Seven dreamy, hypnotic compositions made with analogue synthesisers and distant vocals. A captivating, oniric trip into the blurry, mystical dreams. Just check this atmospheric masterpiece!
GoH-639: The Desolation Of The Present – Melancholy
A fantastic space dark ambient trip to the distant, uninhabited lands. The second one from an absolutely talented artist.
Bump. (Bump Badump) Badump. ((Bump Badump) Badump) Badump. (((Bump Badump) Badump) Badump) Badump.
Featuring drum machines (Roland 606, 808, 909), mallet drum kit, electric guitar, synthesizer, voice, and effects.
Various Artists Compilation only with creative commons producers.
Compiled, cover collage: Sábila Orbe.
Each track composed by the respective artist. Links:
– Humanfobia: https://archive.org/details/fav-mist_spectra
– Filmy Ghost: https://archive.org/details/fav-sabila_orbe02
– Geomant:https://soundcloud.com/user-187518543/
– maxstack: https://soundcloud.com/maxstack
– Thomas Biesaart: https://soundcloud.com/thomasbiesaart
– Sonic Kitchen: https://soundcloud.com/sonic_kitchen
– cg19: https://soundcloud.com/thecg19
– Brett Marlar: https://soundcloud.com/brett-marlar
– C.S_Kelly_Music: https://soundcloud.com/cskelly
– KRXXK GOT A KRXXKED HAIRLINE: https://soundcloud.com/407krxxk
– Sebedeus: https://soundcloud.com/sebedeus
The Necrophile Hummingbirds Netlabel presents A SEED IN TIME by Spore Designers.
Composition : HOMO | Recomposition : OresteS
“Timeless Psychoactive Music for Ambient Music Lovers”
In early August 2023, I was having a hard time navigating the Threshold Of Boredom (cf. Sleazy Peter Christopherson). Most of my contacts were on holidays and I was feeling lonelier than ever.
Having too much (?) time on my hands and having just been acquainted with Bull Of Heaven (check them!), I decided to tackle my pathological impatience and gardening disability by creating a sound piece lasting as long as possible (within my possibilities); it ended up as SEED IN PROGRESS, 20 hours long.
I invested, digested and regurgitated a good deal of my released and unreleased music into it, acquiring a small crumb of patience by every sound effect taking, literally, 40 hours to complete, during which I had to go on with the “rest of my life” and wait.
When I made SEED IN PROGRESS available, Orestes kindly offered to rework it into something else, with numerological wisdom, condensing the original 20 hours into 3 hours, 33 minutes, 33 seconds.
Here we are. Here it is. Here we is.
(The original 20-hours SEED IN PROGRESS is freely available from musicforunion@gmail.com. It is very different from this, with much more silence and much less activity, for which i am so grateful to Orestes. All Hail The Necrophile Hummingbirds In Our Souls.)
So these words by HOMO tell all about it, I just answered to the amazing sound piece HOMO did (be sure to check it!), I could add that the essence of creation is that chat through time and space between dreamers, like a being split in so many parts trying to understand what happens. But is it really necessary not to keep silent this, when You can dream of the future ?
(first) Video Art Clip is here https://youtu.be/xz-U1563yTE
This is a Humanfobia Compilation 7 track EP. Witch tracks from different compilations appearances and a couple of exclusive songs.
All tracks mixed, additional sound effects, cover design by Sábila Orbe.
vocals in all tracks, model in the cover: Mist Spectra.
track 2: stems provided by 16bard.
track 3: stems provided by Restricted.
track 4: stems provided by Thomas Park.
track 6: stems provided by Sonic Kitchen.
Humanfobia is a dark experimental, witch house, vaporgoth music duo from Chile.
For more music visit:
humanfobia-official.bandcamp.com/
/open.spotify.com/artist/04WVEhq4UDRTKpWEfMSeZT
archive.org/details/fav-mist_spectra
hearthis.at/humanfobia/
Updates:
instagram.com/mist_spectra/
tumblr.com/mist-spectra
deviantart.com/mist-spectra
Do you remember myspace???
Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, there was a wonderful place called the cyberspace that was like an Eldorado for artists, except you didn’t have to kill its inhabitants to steal their property and land. .
In reality it was more about sharing resources freely, but I won’t tell you the full story of the Internet. Just know that there was a certain idea of a free world that emerged, it was a bit like a second chance for humanity to do not reproduce in virtual reality the errors of the real world. Unfortunately, we can date the death of this utopia with the arrival of Facebook and the massive invasion of settlers that followed. Myspace was therefore a sort of social network for artists and art lovers, to share, discover and collaborate, the ancestor of Soundcloud, and Bandcamp… At one point a horrible mobster called Rupert Murdoch decided to buy it. The artists were surprised to say the least, because as soon as he arrived he decided to show how powerful he was, for him since he owned it, he could do what he wanted with his new toy. He changed everything and removed, among other things, free downloading and triggered a real exodus. Myspace was dead, the website may have continued for a few years as a ghost ship, but nothing more. Today, in theory we should be talking about cicadas, but it doesn’t matter, it’s as if the colony of musical ants had gone crazy. After a first sale to Epic Games with the basic promise of respecting the spirit of Bandcamp, (promises only work for those who believe in them) Bandcamp is sold again, but this time no more promises and the buyer wants to fire the team that has been working for Bandcamp for years. What will the new buyer do with his toy? For him, is Bandcamp anything other than a brand with a huge customer base?
I could also talk about Free Music Archives, it was another very cool place for Creative Commons enthusiasts before it was sold.
Will the community of artists who broadcast their music on Bandcamp wait patiently for the next episode?
Or, following the example of Wire magazine, as many of us use Bandcamp,
Wouldn’t it be really cool to make it a sort of cooperative? Each artist contributing a little money to buy Bandcamp and then it could become a common resource for musicians and music lovers across the planet?
It would be a nice resurrection for the free world utopia ?
Well, I say that… but you will no doubt have noticed the explicit title of this album : No Sales Allowed. We don’t sell our music, both because we don’t want it becomes a merchandise and because we want to show what could be the world if everyone share its best. And for us this resource, this alternative to Bandcamp already exists, it’s called Internet Archive.
Dedicated to those who fight against colonization by commercial society by sharing their creations freely.
Ohmmmm…
Uhmmmm…
Ermmmm…
Hrmmmm…
…
Aha!
Featuring gongs, synthesizers, orchestra, ethnic drums, and shaker.
Visuel : Béa
Director’s cut : Iliaque
credits
released October 20, 2023
Samples :
EE7A – No summer (CC-BY-NC-SA)
www.zenapolae.com/zen184
EE7A – Sacrifice (CC-BY-NC-SA)
www.zenapolae.com/zen184
GoH-371: Vampiir Nazarenii – An eyeless savior
Subterranean drones, metallic, ritual beats, deformed black metal shrieks and whispers to bring visions of ultimate blasphemy. Haunted Black Industrial dressed in sick, harsh, lo-fi sound.
From the land of the Rising Sun comes Overwrite, a beautiful album created by musician Tomoo Kosugi.
Overwrite composed of 10 songs is an album that matured for a year. An album that sounds like music that could be born naturally from the landscape itself. Quiet, cloudy and languid; ambiental and beautiful, but full of details that make the sound experience an unforgettable journey.
It’s a very beautiful and calm album that will stay in your minds for many months, especially now when the seasons are starting to get colder.
GoH-140: Ilya Delire – Nmlss
A concept album from the author of extraordinary “Higanbana” (GoH-084). Masterful work of ambient and drone completed with industrial and noise elements.
