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Laurent Fairon – QUIRKS

Laurent Fairon – QUIRKS

Laurent Fairon

“QUIRKS”

Hi, there,

Maybe you’ll fing something to your tastes in my new project QUIRKS:

https://laurentfairon.bandcamp.com/album/quirks

The blurb:
The QUIRKS mini album combines various scattered audio remains –vinyl detritus, found sounds and spoken word– to produce new sound chimeras and audio collages with a life of their own.

The QUIRKS concept and methodology were inspired by a famous US boardgame from the 1980s, where cards of various animal parts combine to create new, imaginary creatures – the cover artwork chosen for this Bandcamp album intended to emulate the mood as well.

This project is also indebted to US provocateurs Bill Buchanan and Dickie Goodman, who pioneered the “break-in” record in the 1950s, or plunderphonics avant la lettre.

L.F.: vinyl, found sounds, loops, artwork

Best,

Laurent Fairon

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posted 12 February 2020

Scenes from Suburbia – Cousin Silas & Candy L

Scenes from Suburbia – Cousin Silas & Candy L
[waag_rel136]

Scenes from Suburbia

“Cousin Silas & Candy L”

For me, it is wonderfully bittersweet to release “Scenes from Suburbia (waag_rel136)” by Cousin Silas & Candy L so close to Candy’s birthday … I’m not sure how old she would have been if she had not lost her battle against cancer and, to be honest, it doesn’t matter … what matters is that the world and our wee community of DIY ambient musicians is considerably poorer for her not being with us.

“Scenes from Suburbia (waag_rel136)” was created in collaboration between the adorably prolific Cousin Silas and Candy, who somehow managed to fit in recording her parts to their album while running a netlabel that I, for one, was equally proud and envious of. Candy’s work ethic was unparalleled, as was her creative expression. The atmospheric expressions contained within this album are truly extraordinary, they are varied and engaging … and serve to remind us how much poorer we are for not having Candy in our midst.

This album was earmarked for release on Candy’s label – Studio 4632 – but wasn’t released due to Candy’s untimely passing. I don’t think I am alone in thinking that Candy would not have wanted it to languish on the digital equivalent of a dusty shelf, Cousin Silas certainly didn’t think so when he offered it to waag. I am proud to give this album a home and hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

A 320kbps version of this release is available here for free with a lossless version available over on Bandcamp for ‘pay what you want’.

– Thomas

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posted 11 February 2020

KiB – The Most Beautiful Flowers In The World

KiB – The Most Beautiful Flowers In The World
[EEM052]

KiB

“The Most Beautiful Flowers In The World”

I was standing between epochs of humans’ growing, between periods of flowers’ maturity. I was trying to hear a sound of stopped time while I was standing between humans and flowers.
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posted 10 February 2020

Fryvolic Art – Milestones Remastered (2020)

Fryvolic Art – Milestones Remastered (2020)
[BM04R20]

Fryvolic Art

“Milestones Remastered (2020)”

“Milestones Remastered” is kind of a “Greatest Hits” compilation (total time about 80 minutes) of 15 fixed and remastered tracks (originally released 2002-2019). Album available on BONImedia and Bandcamp (https://fryvolic.bandcamp.com/album/milestones-remastered).

Fryvolic Art became quite popular using polish vintage DEFIL instruments made in Lubin (1947-2001: Dolnośląska Fabryka Instrumentów Lutniczych w Lubinie) and joining some DEFIL events, like “DEFIL – Memories Factory” exhibition in Lubin or “The Feel of DEFIL” guitar project by BONImedia (4 editions so far).

“Milestones” album is farewell release of Fryvolic Art transforming into new project: Mordor Bistro.

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posted 07 February 2020

Mariano Rodriguez – Huesos Secos

Mariano Rodriguez – Huesos Secos

Mariano Rodriguez

“Huesos Secos”

We are very pleased and grateful to share Huesos Secos (Dry Bones), by Mariano Rodríguez through Carbono Proyecto Records. The idea has been brewing for a long time now, but as we know, in our sound, musical and self-managed projects, if we have anything, it is the freedom to let the processes flow until the ideas and personal planets align.

It’s been already four years since we last published a disc by this guitar artist-craftsman-monk based in Bariloche for a couple of decades. It was Praise the Road, first edited by the American label Grass-Tops Recordings and currently available through his own bandcamp. Anyway, he frequently participates in various compilations that range from the experimental to specific tributes such as the recent one to Jack Rose, another of Mariano’s acoustic guitarists of reference.

In many ways inspired by the logic of the “American primitive guitar” (a term that designates a “transitional” genre according to Wikipedia, to which a legion of guitarists from pioneer John Fahey in the 50-60s, through Leo Kottke, Robbie Basho and the aforementioned Jack Rose until today), Mariano Rodríguez’s music does not focus on the technical deployment of the guitarist, but on the more spiritual or meditative dimension of it. And in connection with all this, although not as conditioning, of course, his deep Christian faith intervenes since his adherence to the theology of Third World liberation. Listen for example to Liberation Theology for beginners, described by him as a Christmas album.

Somehow the tracks that make up Huesos Secos synthesize the mental and sound journey that Mariano started with his family in southern Argentina. This experience was also rooted in half of his life living in Buenos Aires, forming part of different rock and punk bands, and projects with the excellent singer-songwriter Adrián Paoletti among others. But without a doubt his current music is an inseparable part of a Patagonia that he has made his own, resignifying a whole set of influences, which finally act as tools to establish a back and forth movement with his perception of those places of the Argentine interior and its story.

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posted 05 February 2020

Tijana Stanković – Freezer

Tijana Stanković – Freezer
[LOM17]

Tijana Stanković

“Freezer”

Freezer is an album of raw and emotive improvisations by Serbian violinist-vocalist Tijana Stanković. Her chosen theme, the proverbial ‘freezer’, makes for a stark setting, serving as both a musical metaphor and literally the echoey meat freezer in Bratislava where the music was created and recorded. “Freezer is a place of cruelty and hope,” Stanković says. “It is a metaphor – an inner place where thoughts and feelings wait to be addressed.”

Though a dedicated free improviser, Stanković’s background in folk and Ethnomusicology puts her in touch with an ancient emotional syntax. Her key tools – violin and vocals – both yearn with an organic and creaking fragility, tied irrevocably to old cultures. As a means to express, they offer boundless possibilities (something Stanković has long explored in a vast array of collaborative groups, ensembles, and projects), but locker herself in the Freezer, on these recordings Stanković gains access to some potent introverted sonic realms, putting them in stasis to keep them at their most genuine, honest, and revealing. “To freeze,” she explains, ”is to preserve.”

Each of the four lengthy improvisations captured on Freezer takes its aesthetic to a logical endpoint. For example, ‘From dust and shine’ is a trip into gentle bow strokes over jarring and… more
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released February 2, 2020

Vocal, prepared violin and bow by Tijana Stanković
Recorded by Jonáš Gruska in LOM freezer in Petržalka
Mastered at The House of What You See
Cover by Jonáš Gruska and Lucia Kovaľová
Text by Tristan Bath
Released by LOM as LOM17 in 2020

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posted 04 February 2020

TVS – Chrysalism

TVS – Chrysalism
[ST011]

TVS

“Chrysalism”

TVS is a musical project born in 2018 to create an interaction between traditional instruments and electronic music, through live performances and compositions of Ambient Music, Experimental & Dark Ambient Music.

Teresa its a Flutist, Composer and Performer.
After a classical music education, she start to work with contemporary music, interaction with electronic music, instrumental improvisation, creation of sound environments for literary readings and projects involving interaction between various disciplines of art.

Her music combine experimental, atmospheric and synthetic sounds in a Dark Ambient sonority with touches of Deep Techno.

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posted 03 February 2020

Roland Etzin – Augsburg 2019

Roland Etzin – Augsburg 2019
[ACP 1228]

Roland Etzin

“Augsburg 2019”

live @ Ganze Bäckerei, Augsburg, 11.05.19
recording, pre-mastering by EMERGE
final mastering and design by Roland Etzin

ROLAND ETZIN
works in the genres of field recordings and audio art. He is co-founder of the recordlabel Gruenrekorder and the Society for the Advancement of Phonography and Experimental Music. He also is part of the electronic music formation Autumn Appreciation Society.

posted 03 February 2020

Great, Green Stones… – Works from the Absurd Pool in January

Great, Green Stones… – Works from the Absurd Pool in January
[s65046]

Great, Green Stones…

“Works from the Absurd Pool in January”

This mini-album contains created tracks based on field recordings that have been minimally edited with a ‘gate’ effect on Ableton Live. The recordings on this album mainly contain sounds of background noise, the experimentation of blowing into pool noodles to make a horn-like timbre and some other electronic experimental glitches and minimal sounds. This is delivered all in 8 kbps MP3 files, which are all converted to a Mono output. The sample rate of all the files is placed at 12.000 kHz.
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posted 02 February 2020

LUIS MARTE – A PICTURE

LUIS MARTE – A PICTURE
[PT098]

LUIS MARTE

“A PICTURE”

This is a work that combines two different disciplines, one visual and one auditory. By combining the photographs of several visual artists, it is mixed through a conductive thread, so that in this conjunction it achieves the perfect union of two aspects of art, photography and sound.
The methodology used to realize this work was to ask each guest artist for a photograph, allowing absolute freedom in its composition. At the same time the guests were asked to create an ambient sound recording from the place in which the picture was taken, using any medium they had on hand (cell phones, recorders, cameras, etc.)
Then each of those recordings was processed using different techniques. They were passed through tapes, processed with pedals, digitally processed on iPad, looped on tape, even sound degradation was used.
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posted 01 February 2020

Walter Fini + Philippe Neau – white project

Walter Fini + Philippe Neau – white project
[mhrk232]

Walter Fini + Philippe Neau

“white project”

Spectra collide in synergy in “white project” – the essential result of the continuous collaboration between Phlippe “nobodisoundz” Neau and Walter Fini, which began a few years back. The release comprises of 3 compositions that revolve around the deafening and conflicting relationship that man has with nature, the dominant force and protagonist of our doings. The sounds shine through and envelope our daily lives totally, in a deafening, chaotic way. White as the color, which absorbs everything, which contains everything, wrapped in nothing. White is a sheet, where instinctive sound dimensions take shape, where a simultaneously abstract and concrete vision takes us to the ancestral roots of the human being.

released February 1, 2020

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posted 01 February 2020

Various Artist – V​.​Ʌ. 2020

Various Artist – V​.​Ʌ. 2020

Various Artist

“V​.​Ʌ. 2020”

It’s with great pleasure that after one year of silence Ekar records is now presenting a truly eclectic music collection. A compilation that consolidates old collaborations and open the doors to the new ones. A mix of talented artists but above all, beautiful people who do what they do out of love and not out of duty, feeling the freedom to express themselves as they see fit.With this free download compilation Ekar records also renews the goal of spreading creativity and passion without limiting the enjoyment to specific audiences, especially based on monetary reasons. Not a product, but music. Music by individuals for individuals and not for the masses, leaving to the user the freedom and the power to support the label and the artists as they like, based on what the music was worth to them.
If you like what you are listening show us some love!
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released January 31, 2020

Cover artwork created by F. Rosso aka Sherbert H.
Mastered by V. Massucci at Hypertone Studio.

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posted 31 January 2020

STNR – Antigabber

STNR – Antigabber

STNR

“Antigabber”

“Gabber” is a word from the Dutch language spoken in the Netherlands. The word gabber translates to something like “buddy” or “friend”.

The defining characteristics of the gabber genre is fast tempos, with distorted drum machine sounds, typically using the legendary Roland TR-909 drum machine. There is also a specific synth sound used to play the melodies, often called a “hoover” sound, sometimes described as a distorted, grainy, sweeping sound which feels dark and brooding in low frequencies. Other times when the hoover is played on the higher notes of the synthesizer keyboard it often sounds like an aggressive shrieking sound.

ANTIGABBER has nothing to do with that. Gabber is fucking stupid. Fuck all those weed smoking hippies in the Netherlands. Nobody likes that “gabber” bullshit. It’s not the 1990’s anymore. The sound on this album is the truest antigabber you will never hear. I hope you get a epileptic seizure listening to the hyperspeed blasts on this shit. It only slows down just enough to go hyperspeed again.

ANTIGABBER is the first step in achieving my lifelong mission to conquer the world with the ultimate goal of enslaving the human race and force them to build nuclear psychoactive mind controlling chemical weapons with massive destructive power to obliterate the entire earth and end the pathetic lives of all human scum.
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releases February 1, 2020

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posted 31 January 2020