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.
released March 28, 2023
Eli Wallis – modular synth, drum machine
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
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.
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
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.
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 *”.
Francisco Sonur is a musician, composer and travel enthusiast (born in La Plata, Argentina) but currently resides in Sydney, Australia. Sonur’s music is a mixture of euphoria and nostalgia, a bowl of hot soup in a harsh winter.
A blend of ambient, cinematic and post-rock sounds, all of the work Sonur has put out to date, tells personal stories from the artist’s past to the present day. Francisco’s sonic storytelling often focuses on the small details of family life, bringing feelings of honestly, innocence, playfulness and nurture directly to the listener.
Francisco’s music can be heard via Giraffe Tapes, Rusted Tone Recordings, Time Released Sound, Shimmering Moods Records, The Ambient Zone, Bruma Del Sur. In March 2023 he debuts on Mahorka with the “Then the light comes all over the land”, coming out as free (cc) digital download and beautiful limited cassette edition.
Released March 4, 2023
Recorded, mixed, mastered by Truz
At Losotrosolo mobile studio
No guides along the way.
Artwork images by Francisco Sonur
Artwork design by Angel Draganov / Ivo Petrov
Another fun, easy listening and delightful album from our Italian maestro ‘Brioskj’. Inspired by a holiday to a warm destination, listen and imagine yourself there during these cold months of winter.
released March 3, 2023
“A life in minor” – no matter, if you feel minor or major – is the latest collection of 27 brand new tracks by Smooth who worked on the last 14 months with lots of love and passion. Dubtechno in many forms and variations, but also influences by other musical genres inbetween.
Expect deep and atmospheric Dubtechno in many facets with intense build-ups and long fading outros to give you a relaxing and calming listening experience. All tracks have been handcrafted with lots of details and put together without interruptions between the tracks, so you can enjoy the music completely in a single flow.
The intention on this release was to give melancholy and the feeling of minor a musical face. There is the background noise of life besides emotions fading like delays and reverbs within the music.
This album needs time to listen to, so please take your time! Overall, you will find over 8 hours of music to explore…
This release can also be downloaded for free. If you feel you would like to support us, you are also welcome!
Ladies & gentlemen, many thanks for listening and have a nice flight!
Dedicated in love to Jaja and Luna!
released March 3, 2023
The Beacon EP is a hark back to Bolus’s 2014 EP “perceived redness of an evening sky” and the track “Pump”, utilizing rhythmic drones and sequenced soundscapes and culminating in a more percussive departure from his usual sound in the final track “Gottingen”.
Once again, these compositions represent Bolus’s take on soundtrack work but this time with actual films in mind:
“Martyrs” was perceived for the 2008 film of the same name, “Black Light” for the “Leviathan Configuration” of the LeMarchand box as it rotates above the labyrinth in Hellraiser II, and “Gottingen” for “A Beautiful Mind”, channelling Bernhard Riemann, a 19th century mathematician and alma mater of the University of Gottingen, Germany.
Welcome to the Outlook Hotel!
Our guest rules are simple.
Once you go in, you may never come out.
We hope you will enjoy your stay with us.
released February 14, 2023
Alex Marmeloid: programming, synths, beats, guitars, voices.
Tricky Shaman: concept, assembling, processing, co-production.
check artist soundcloud: soundcloud.com/dopes-ov-air
OMEGA is a Science Fiction film directed in 16mm by Donald Fox and produced by Alan Singer in 1970.
The film is entirely composed of special effects which gives it great visual interest.
Seized with an irresistible desire to give this film a soundtrack that could support both its narration and its typical atmosphere of the 70s, I set to work and imagined a music in “Berlin School” vein.
A version of this soundtrack synchronized to the film is available here : youtu.be/VDRTpw2o2aU
this soundtrack was recorded to “illustrate” and echo the images as much as possible. So, this work takes on its full meaning when coupled with the film.
released February 12, 2023
All music by Cialyn (cc) A.Pachins 2023. recorded during the year 2022 and early 2023. Artwork from screenshots of OMEGA (public domain)
Your favorite zookeeper is back from the petite&jolie zoo!
We, at Petite&Jolie, are excited to present you the second release of petite&jolie and not only because it’s a wonderful travel through poptronics, melodies of “joie de vivre” and, let’s dare saying so, zoomotions, but also because it’s not everyday we’ll be releasing a double EP.
Indeed, El Zoológico is back at Petite&Jolie with his concept of catching the “essence” of animals through small’n’catchy tunes, classifying them by ecosystems.
Await emotions driven through pitzacattos and fuzzy synths, get ready for cuteness, fasten your belt, and don’t believe what they are saying around you, it’s really cute and fancy animals you see jumping all over your head when you’re listenning to this sweet release from El Zoológico.
Release Date: 2008/02/07
Mixed, effects, artwork collage: Sábila Orbe.
Vocals: Mist Spectra.
Filmy Ghost is an experimental, haunted house, ghostly experimental music project from Rancagua, Chile. Created by Sábila Orbe.
Links:
– https://humanfobia.jimdo.com/filmy-ghost/
– https://archive.org/details/fav-sabila_orbe02
– https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Filmy_Ghost
– https://open.spotify.com/artist/0POUvA4r7hzETPMnrn59My
