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Michael Tee – Segment 4

Michael Tee – Segment 4

Michael Tee

“Segment 4”

I made this for my partner Cheralyn, in my shed. Quiet music and sonic incense to assist falling asleep and turn off the infernal internal dialogue. There are no surprises. It also works as a colour in the room whilst working in the home office. It’s like looking at something that doesn’t exist.

Built using Generative Music app ‘Trope’ to create evolving loops. With a little post-production, real time synths and fuzzy imbrication.

Warning, do not play this loud. It was designed to play on repeat with the volume so low you can just about hear it. It sounds like crap played loud, too woolly … or if you want it loud play it through a distortion pedal etc. and send me back a copy of your recording [michaeltee11@gmail.com] and I will listen to it as I pay homage to the ‘cult of meditation, feedback and distortion’ complete with a human sacrifice / blood eagle.

According to wikipedia, new research suggests that the ability to tear out a person’s lungs through their back is anatomically possible. Please don’t do blood eagles at home, leave it to the experts, or risk not getting your rental bond back.

Originally released on Bandcamp on March 26, 2022

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posted 29 April 2023

Various Artists – INTENT 2023: Eunoia

Various Artists – INTENT 2023: Eunoia
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Various Artists

“INTENT 2023: Eunoia”

The INTENT compilation series provides a platform for electronic and experimental music artists to share their work and set goals for the coming year, encouraging and inspiring creativity, innovation, and artistic vision from all corners of the globe. Since its launch in 2019, INTENT has become a powerful resource for artists aiming to realize their ambitions and monitor their progress over time. We are proud to continue providing INTENT as a compilation that goes beyond the ordinary, providing a truly transformative and ever-evolving experience.

In order to tackle the challenges ahead and make progress in life, it’s important to replenish and strengthen your inner resources. This is where “Eunoia” comes in. Providing you with a soothing aural landscape of pure ambient electronica, it will help to revitalize you, restoring balance and providing a sense of calm and peace. Let its dreamy ambiances take you away to a place of harmony and balance, restoring your peace of mind and setting the stage for your success in 2023.

More about INTENT: github.com/linfri/INTENT

Compiled by Nierika Productions in January 2023.
Image by Robert Richarz from Unsplash (January 2018)
Text, mastering and graphic design by LR Friberg.

All tracks were created and produced by the artists involved.

Pete Swinton (Indonesia): peteswinton.bandcamp.com
Wayne DeFehr (Canada): www.waynedefehr.com
Wilfried Hanrath (Germany): wilfriedhanrath.bandcamp.com
Daniel Prendiville (Ireland): www.reincheque.net
Deborah Fialkiewicz (UK): t.ly/-If9
Tone Tone (France): discogs.com/artist/6923928-Tone-Tone-2
LR Friberg (Sweden): linktr.ee/linfri
alfa00 (Ireland): alfa00.bandcamp.com
Nimbostrata (Sweden): linktr.ee/linfri
ElectroFurnace (UK): electrofurnace.bandcamp.com

Released by Mahorka on April 23, 2023

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posted 23 April 2023

Compest – R​ü​ckzug

Compest – R​ü​ckzug
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Compest

“R​ü​ckzug”

„Rückzug“ by Compest started as a long hybrid ambience, combining muted synth sounds, a bit of distortion and with a tanpura drone. While working with the sounds, more and more elements offered themselves to be added to the flow of the piece. The tanpura becomes more active, industrial sounds, bells, voices, and after a while a flute become part of the mix.
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posted 19 April 2023

Droomsfeer – Unity

Droomsfeer – Unity

Droomsfeer

Unity

“In a world where reality blurs and dreams come alive, there exists a sound so ethereal, so otherworldly, that it transports you to a realm beyond your wildest imagination. Fluffy clouds drift through the air, carried by the winds of change, painting the sky with colors beyond the spectrum of light. As you close your eyes and surrender to the music, you find yourself floating through a sea of stars, surrounded by the cosmic symphony of the universe. This is a journey through uncharted territory, a pilgrimage to the heart of the unknown. Let the sounds wash over you, let the melodies carry you away, and let your mind soar to the very limits of existence.

This is music like no other, a gift from the cosmos, a reminder of the magic and wonder that exists just beyond the veil. This is the soundtrack to the dreams of humanity, a portal to the infinite, and a celebration of the mysteries from the universe.”

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Unity is a compilation album that contains all of Droomsfeer’s tracks which were created and released between April 2020 and April 2023. The album features around three hours of dreamy and atmospheric music, spread across more than fifty separate tracks.

All tracks on Unity are distributed via the freest form of the Creative Commons licenses. This means that everyone is free to share these works and to create adaptations based on the originals. You have Droomsfeer’s kind permission to copy and redistribute the tracks in any medium or format. You may also remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. However, you must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.

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posted 15 April 2023

James Hoehl – Called Alien Transmission

James Hoehl – Called Alien Transmission
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James Hoehl

“Called Alien Transmission”

Time travel; an elusive concept that tantalizes us with its possibility a seductive mirage, an abstraction that teases us with its potential traveling across time, bearing witness to the genesis of the cosmos or altering the past to shape our destiny? time; a figment of our imagination that we use to impose order on the chaos of the universe an imaginary construct? an enigma that defies our understanding. an enigma that evades our comprehension marooned on this planet. We ponder its genesis, its purpose, its very being. We are adrift in a world of shadows, reverberations and long ambient drones. A trinity of strangeness, a triptych of otherworldliness; lost in a realm of reveries and phantasms. All is not as it appears.
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posted 12 April 2023

Depression Embrace – Вилино коло – Vilje Kolo – Fairy Ring

Depression Embrace – Вилино коло – Vilje Kolo – Fairy Ring
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Depression Embrace

“Вилино коло – Vilje Kolo – Fairy Ring”

Вилино коло – Vilje Kolo, or “Fairy Ring” – is a common toponym. Places with this name were associated with legends that said that fairies used to play there. A fairy ring is a circle or semicircle of grass that differs from the surrounding grass (it is more lush or stunted, a different color). It is often found in a clearing, on top of a hill, or near a spring. It could be marked by a circle of mushrooms in a meadow (a fairy tale). If there was an elevation within this circle, it was said that a bagpiper or some other player was standing on it, while the fairies danced around it. Other similar toponyms indicate the same belief (Vilina Voda, Vilina izvor).

There was a fear of illness and death among the people who would step on the fairy ring. A man who stumbled upon a fairy’s playground (or dinner, found a fairy bathing or enjoying some other kind of pleasure) would be severely punished. The severity of this offense is so serious because fairy rites are mysterious, prohibit the presence of the uninitiated and take place in taboo places. In the legend about the fairy ring, the practice of initiation rites is reflected. A girl is considered a girl from the day she first enters the circle and goes through this important rite of passage. The offender was punished by deprivation of sight or hearing, paralysis, or death.

Forgiveness of sins and healing could only be given to him by the fairy. The trampling of the fairy’s playground and the outcome of this transgression are sung by the Sibinian folk song Janko s vila. For fairies and other demons, the game has a very reasonable strength. Fairies get angry if someone interrupts them in a game uninvited, while, on the other hand, their favorite pastime is to bring someone into the circle and “outplay” them. They would transfer part of their supernatural power to the grass they were playing on, so it became “dangerous” or “miraculous”.

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posted 04 April 2023

Jeff Surak – Strange Lives

Jeff Surak – Strange Lives
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Jeff Surak

“Strange Lives”

photo and design by EMERGE

Surak has been a fixture within the experimental community for many years, curating the sonic circuits festival, programming for Rhizome DC, and running his own zeromoon label. His own work manifests non-linear narratives through lo-fi techniques and archaic technologies. Strange Lives was recorded live in Hamburg and Berlin in the summer of 2022.

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posted 03 April 2023

Adriano Cava – Lineology

Adriano Cava – Lineology
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Adriano Cava

“Lineology”

Adriano Cava is an artist based in Turin, Italy. He is part of the New Weird Italia collective and co-founder of the “screw wave” label Riforma. Adriano plays with tape, electricity and various sonic masses to explore sounding environments.

Adriano Cava’s debut on Mahorka was finalized under the name “Lineology” after a few iterations of the sonic contents, names, sides order and design in discussions with the label.

“These tracks originated from a basic approach to sounds. Focusing only on the frequencies’ “mass”, I warped and sculpted it following irregular imaginary lines.

When some granular samplers, a digital delay and a synth got stuck in a circular resampling chain, they started generating feedbacks, saturation and clipping. Listening to and contemplating this “sonic stalemate” I began to deepen it by stretching and pitching down each texture and each note.

The “magnetic” side replays the same game using an old magnetophone (a Castelli tape recorder borrowed from a friend). Each “digital” track is overdubbed in a singular reel loop and then expanded again, adding few new elements.

Both processes were dark and unconscious. The eight (4+4) tracks, split in two sides of a tape, are still open, intentionally released without a final edit.”

Released March 25, 2023 as free (cc) digital download and limited cassette edition.

SIDE A: Digital Lines I – IV

SIDE B: Magnetic Lines I-IV

Recording, mixing, mastering: Adriano Cava

Cover Artwork: Adriano Cava and Ivo Petrov

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posted 27 March 2023

The ambient drones of Bill Baxter – Reflections and Echoes

The ambient drones of Bill Baxter – Reflections and Echoes

The ambient drones of Bill Baxter

“Reflections and Echoes”

The morning sun warming the frozen winter landscape.
The music slowly drifts and fills your listening space.
Almost 4 hours of continuous deep ambient music to soothe your soul.
Play it quiet or play it loud and let those low frequencies reverberate around you.

released January 2, 2023

All music written, performed and produced by Brin Coleman
at MCos, Manchester, October 2022 to January 2023.
Cover design and photography by Brin Coleman.
Cover photograph: Hollingworth Lake, December 2022.

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posted 20 March 2023

Teeth Of Divine – Струиндол (soundtrack Sessions)

Teeth Of Divine – Струиндол (soundtrack Sessions)
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Teeth Of Divine

“Струиндол (soundtrack Sessions)”

This EP was conceived during the recording sessions for the soundtrack to the short film “Струиндол” (“Struindol”) of the director Zornitsa Georgieva. The recordings are, again, completely spontaneous, following the ideas from Teeth of Divine’s previous album “Act I – Genesis” regarding the “presence-happening-reflection” process.

Recording artists:
Boyan Avramov – vocals, noises, dvoyanka, bells
Alexey Nikolov – electric cello
Asya Andonova – vocals
Yasen Penchev – guitar, drones, mastering

Released March 18, 2023

P.S. “The immediate primal feeling in one present is lost or renewed, disappears or reappears after nothing is the same again.” M. Cenov

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posted 19 March 2023

Antonio Isaac Gomez – Libre Albedrio

Antonio Isaac Gomez – Libre Albedrio
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Antonio Isaac Gomez

“Libre Albedrio”

Libre Albedrío / Free Will is the first installment of a series that the artist has conceived from the resistance to the algorithm of the system and programmed obsolescence, in a hyperconnected world surrounded by noise and saturated with options in a rarefied highly complex environment, this album proposes that the ability to decision continues to be a ray of light, both personal and collective, where we are effectively able to continue choosing what to listen to and when to do it. Highly emotional and contemplative, Libre Albedrío / Free Will is a journey through the hive mind where all of us are connected, taking us from the cyberpunk sky of “Balloons Flying in White Noise” to imaginary landscapes fueled by science on our own planet. As part of the author’s creative axis, this album continues to tell us about the relationship between human beings and the important balance that must be restored with their environment, in this path “Forest of Souls” is based on the swarm behavior observed in the visit of the Monarch Butterfly in Mexico during its great migration. In contrast, “Stochastic Horizon” presents us with the manifestation of the complexity reached by the economic relations of current, highly technified and globalized markets, which, despite being artificial, are extraordinarily similar to the behavior of those swarms of insects. Libre Albedrío / Free Will is also a continuous sonification a work in process, it take us to celebrate life but also to commemorate death, “Little seed star” is the final piece of the album but the beginning of a new stage that for the author represents resurgence and rebirth, not only of the beautiful mountain flower on which it is based (Eryngium proteiflorum, documentary film on whose soundtrack this composition is found) but the possibility of deeply assimilating a cyber spatial form in which he is immersed for the permanent dialogue that he maintains with his audience. Libre Albedrío / Free Will integrates 1Z4K, a cyborg with the same name as its creator who, through the use of artificial intelligence systems and the appropriation of the biosensors of the human that compliments him, generates his own aesthetic experience, the first in a cyborg entity, and who as a result sings for all of us throughout the album in a mysterious way and totally integrated into the total soundscape of the complete work, quite a feat to discover each cyborg chant.

Technically speaking, Libre Albedrío / Free Will is an album composed through modular analog synthesis, avoiding the intervention of notes as a human-machine interface and working much more on the concept of frequencies, a foundation that the author takes to its limit by using sub frequencies, binaural sound, ambisonics and ultrasound for the generation of induced states of consciousness referring to the expressive forms of the complete work additionally enriched with visual artwork and immersive installation available in virtual reality. He uses a lot of analog elements with just a few digital nuances for advanced synthesis techniques like granular and impulse convolution processing.

The album has been recorded completely live and there is an available version in multichannel virtual reality that the author occasionally presents as part of his live sound interventions.

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posted 18 March 2023

Various Artist – Nostress Netlabel Anniversary Compilation Vol.10 – A.A. VV. Lazarus’s indifference to the miracle of resurrection

Various Artist – Nostress Netlabel Anniversary Compilation Vol.10 – A.A. VV. Lazarus's indifference to the miracle of resurrection
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Various Artist – Nostress Netlabel Anniversary Compilation Vol.10

“A.A. VV. Lazarus’s indifference to the miracle of resurrection”

Tenth and last Anniversary Compilation with 8 unreleased tracks.

Entrano a far parte della famiglia Nostress due novità musicali che si presentano con brevi ed efficaci parole: WIRES ON MOON è un duo livornese di musica elettronica composto da Isabella Mentessi e Massimo Ruberti. Dreampop, synthpop, psichedelia:

“…ci piaceva l’immagine dei cavi sulla Luna intesi come il groviglio di cavi audio ed elettrici che invadono ogni studio di musica, che strisciano sul suolo lunare e alla Luna si collegano; c’e’ quindi l’ elemento moderno che si interfaccia con l’elemento arcaico (la Luna) e con tutti i suoi miti, inclusi quelli della fantascienza moderna”;

e FANGU ovvero l’alterego, produttore di musica elettronica sperimentale, di Leonardo Vetrano (già chitarrista di: The Brilliants At Breakfast / Cinema noir / dasES):

“…l‘idea si è sviluppata a cavallo tra il 2020 e il 2021, quando in pieno lockdown, vietato qualunque tipo di aggregazione, ferme prove e concerti con la band, non si fermò la necessità di creare e soprattutto la voglia di farlo con gli amici, anche a distanza. Per questo FanGu, anche se nasce come progetto solista non lo è mai stato, sono così nate le collaborazioni con: Il mio Giardino Prensile (Varcocu); Ottica Siluraro Project (A Tia Taliu); Less (Lù RE); Roof Size (IOCU); Mammut nel Caos (Mantra). Il singolo incluso nel decimo volume della Compilation, “Beddu Cottu e Cataliatu” è stato ideato insieme a Mauro Maniscalco “Maniscalco”, fondatore ed attuale bassista dei dasEs. Infatti la linea di basso elettrico è protagonista del brano, con il suo insistente incalzare, che ne caratterizza la melodia;

“Beddu Cottu e Cataliatu” è un brano che potrebbe essere definito “electro etno rock alternativo” , in parole povere ad una base di musica elettronica sperimentale, con un ritmo incalzante e rimbombante, si è aggiunto il basso di Mauro, che con la sua presenza ed intensità, crea la melodia del brano, il tutto assecondato da un cantato distorto in dialetto siciliano, con un testo che esprime, lo stato di “immobilità” della nostra gente, che vuole tutto già bello pronto ed in cui nessuno o quasi, fa nulla per cambiare lo stato delle cose. Il titolo e ritornello del brano è tratto da una poesia tradizionale natalizia siciliana *”.

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posted 06 March 2023