The new EP comes from Ilya Kozhevnikov. 4 tracks and a remix by label owner Markus Masuhr. Ilya takes us to distant worlds full of dreamy ambient melodies that drift through the dub sky like light clouds. The tracks come along deeply relaxing and with a touching warmth and let us forget reality for a moment in these uncertain times.
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all tracks by Ilya Kozhevnikov
Mastering and Artwork by Markus Masuhr
Insectorama 126
Post Apocalyptic from Lithuania comes here with his new album “The Art Of Being” and gives us an unbelievable journey over 54 minutes that has it all. Deepest echoes and delays that never want to end and settle like thick clouds over space and time. 9 tracks that go deeper than you’ve known before, and you want to delve even deeper into his carpet of sound, which is so sensitive and floating that you can’t escape it to embark on this journey with him.
Fog settles over the dense forest. A certain silence spreads, which is traversed by deep echoes and so floats through the leaves of the trees. You look through the clearings down into the gorge and here it echoes back on the rock walls. Driving winds spread the sound throughout the area, weaving it into a dense cloud of pads and chords.
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Insectorama 125
All Tracks by Post Apocalyptic
Mastering and Artwork by Markus Masuhr
whispers from the cradle
Running highway through the night-time-cold, morning rainbow in a narrow snow-edged road, slim curves claiming skills and then the mountains, as seen from above
hearth at the heart of the earth
Labouring the harvest at the core of it all, something introspectivally experimental will burn, not by guilt but for one last bloom
far out camp
Dubious map of our own reality, whisking through the wind the directions of divine fatality
around and about
Way off the passing tunnel, there is a moment in time for the glimpse of eternity, now is when we all meet again
olhar em Van Gogh
Tudo para trazer os corvos da aurora, a distante primavera em sensação de luz pela manhã
Musica Fractal Aeterna
All we know without knowing, unexpected clue, this is a mirror through the eternal archive, where one contemplates the whole journey
cobaia nova
Surge dentro de um (corpo) em todas as direcções e todas as formas, divide-se em coisa enorme que enfrenta tudo e que tudo une
Sou uma cobaia, com todas as forças (do bolor) e não quebra, uma cobaia (dentro de) todas as direcções
O globo em chamas exclusivas, uma cobaia em todos os sentidos, uma cobaia da minha lógica
Sou uma cobaia da minha inteligência, em todos os sentidos e em todas as direcções
Cobaia, em todos os átomos (a) espuma furiosa, a chuva como pedra, sou uma cobaia (a vida é nisto) obrigada ao meu corpo
Sou uma cobaia dentro do meu corpo, uma cobaia a transbordar da minha alma
Que ruge, estoira, vence e quebra, dentro do meu corpo uma cobaia a transbordar da minha alma
Que ruge, estoira, vence e quebra, sou uma cobaia dentro do meu corpo, uma cobaia a transbordar da minha alma
Que ruge, estoira, vence e quebra
Et Caetera: clean air and clean water
This is the ultimate well-being, the turn of a last resource, the tune from a fullfilled drop of a life-time, period. Accept the cycle, it is in the hands of receiving, the clean air, the clean water, etc.
Run Lab Dub
Let us all come to an end but not without an extended moment of joy for being alive, rejoyce with the manifestation of all the invisible sightseeings
Music and art by Akis Karanos
Available on limited edition tape on
kokkala.bandcamp.com/
a tastefully arranged delicate ambient sound journey
These pieces are based on improvisations that were discharged by a guitar and its associated sonic manipulation devices during 2021.
Recorded in Logroño, Prague, Seminole, Myrtle Beach and Moncton.
Bob Murry Shelton – Guitar, Synth, Treatments
Christian Michael Newman – Voice, Treatments, Cover Art
Kris Boudreau – Electric Bass and associated sonic manipulation devices
Lyrics to Vlci by Renata Connors.
Mixed and mastered by Flavigula.
www.zenapolae.com/releases/zen246/zen246__Flavigula__Podel_Smeru__01_Feudal_Fetish.mp3
Continuation of exploration of music for SuperCollider and piano.
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released February 28, 2022
written and produced by Luka Prinčič
recorded at StudioSP3
cover graphics by Pawel Czerwinski (unsplash.com/photos/BnUIZTSlWN4)
Forgetting one’s fear
Ascending in truth
To be pure like a child
with Love as its root
Awakening from shadow
of a long night’s dream
and gaining great courage
To know the Drill
~ LLL
“Reinvention of the Sacred” is a musical consideration of the after-effects of the ‘god is dead’ idea on Western society. Nothing has replaced the ideals represented in the best of spiritual thought, and our behaviours have changed as a result. For some, there is no longer any reason to behave in an ethical manner, nothing to live up to. The vacuum left by the decline in the perceived importance of the spiritual search calls for a reevaluation of what has meaning, what is important.
The music that comprises “Reinvention of the Sacred” is very minimalistic, almost ‘not here’ at times. This approach was taken in an attempt to aurally depict a non-dual continuum, wherein there is no separation between matter and Spirit, profane and divine.
released February 22, 2022
I’m probably not alone in deciding to create a release for 22 February this year. Frustratingly, I spent a month or more chiselling away bits of sound and moulding bits on to sound elsewhere but achieving nothing satisfactory. I sort of gave up.
Late last week I had an idea and was able to try it out on Friday and… EUREKA the dam burst and ideas came flooding through.
I was about two thirds of the way through creating 22222 when I had and idea to create a second track that is 22:22 long and (hopefully) sounds the same played in the traditional fashion or back to front. The trouble was that it was Saturday and I was committed to travelling half way across England to watch a non-league football match!
It wasn’t a case of just knocking up an 11:11 long track, duplicating it and flipping it for the second half. Some of the parts in Completely Contrary Composition run the entire length of the track and do not repeat (go figure).
A couple of very late nights (until 6.45 am on Sunday into Monday) and I completed this release with five and a half hours to spare. :)
An advantage of running the label is that I can put out releases at very short notice, although I had to suspend the “euphoria rule” – we give ourselves 14 days to be sure that a creation is as good as we thought it was when finished it.
Thank you for check this out. I hope that you find it interesting.
Dental Drill
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released February 22, 2022
Field recordings (it’s a pill box being shaken, not the sea breaking on a stony beach), composition, mixing, mastering and artwork: Dental Drill
Mahorka is more than a label, it is also a place where artists meet and collaborate. Sven Lemke (Sven Phalanx, Andreas Davids + Sven Phalanx, Schattenspiel, Schwarzwald) and Marc Ceulemans (Brainquake, Zonevreemd, Toxic Derwish, Psych Krist Kastrator) have both had already outstanding contributions to the catalog when Marc was invited to remix Sven’s “Klangtherapie” for the special remix album (mahorka.org/release/288) and they got to know and meet each other. Since they had many similarities in background and musical preference, they decided to compose and produce something together. This collaboration worked just perfectly and soon they suprised the label with the ten tracks of “From The Oblivion Lounge” album as presented here. From desolate ambient and rough rhythmic experimental to technoid industrial, they made this all sound very different but coherent. We can hear a lot of both of them here, but also something completely different, befitting the harshness of today’s society.
released February 20, 2022
cover artwork: Marc Ceulemans
www.zenapolae.com/releases/zen244/zen244__Stroehm__Keep_a_Stiff_Upper_Lip__01_The_Dawn_of_Day.mp3
Compiled. cover collage by Sábila Orbe.
co-released with Skull Triangle Skull Netlabel:
skulltriangleskull.bandcamp.com/album/vaporwave
Each track composed by the respective artist. Links:
– Corporate Control: archive.org/details/bump196
– Majoris: https://soundcloud.com/majoriss
– M i n i m u m S y s te m R e q u i r e m e n t s: archive.org/details/GRCCN0033017/
– SunWave: archive.org/details/SN005SW
– Humanfobia: humanfobia-official.bandcamp.com/
– Filmy Ghost: humanfobia.jimdofree.com/filmy-ghost/
– Demonic Sweaters: anthillrecordings.bandcamp.com/
– DJ GrandTrance Hooyer Real SuperGood: archive.org/details/AAR00071
– datapoint: datapoint.bandcamp.com/
– 23世紀: archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%2223%E4%B8%96%E7%B4%80%22
– 𝙫𝙖𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙯𝙚𝙙≋ ▓░: https://soundcloud.com/v_a_p_o_r_i_z_e_d
– アロキン: arokin.bandcamp.com/
– White Skywhale: archive.org/details/IBR_1641
– PCのMuseum: fuselab.bandcamp.com/album/fashion
– MP205: archive.org/details/MP205-FloralBeats
– PuzzleJukeBox: https://soundcloud.com/puzzlejukebox
– The Smudge: thesmudge.bandcamp.com/
– aqua.wav: aquawav.bandcamp.com/
– altmu: https://soundcloud.com/altmu
– BVBEL: bvbeltrill.bandcamp.com/
– Yaka-anima: humanfobia.jimdofree.com/yaka-anima/
released February 2, 2022
Few of the music projects of Boban Ristevski (also known as Lefterna) are concentrated and based on exploring mostly the ambient / drone and industrial / noise related kinds of music. With elements of minimalism / improvisation / abstraction, etc.; the music is balancing between the more structured forms and the improvised approach.
Philippe Neau creates mental landscapes (“mental-scapes”, if you want). In his music he makes them up of non-narrative sounds, atonal melodies, worrifying glitches, organic textures, hollow field-recordings, abstract notes, abyssal echoes and whispered distant voices. A “disturbing” atmosphere, tinged brightness and darkness, takes shape and enfolds the listener / viewer.
“Boban contacted me for a collaboration. We exchanged files over the Internet and worked on our own, knowing each other’s work, with the idea of creating something that mixes our sound universes. Maybe some sort of stormy, industrial landscape.
In my head, this collaboration could bring more industrial sounds to my interior landscape, take on a more noisy, metallic dimension.” –Philippe Neau
3 free WAV deep minimal techno & ambient tracks for monoKraK netlabel (www.monokrak.net)
mastering by Pheek (audioservices.studio)
released February 2, 2022
Nahráno v letech 2020–2021.
Mastering Pavel Richter
Cover Photo © Ivo Karásek
Typo Amonit Sharpei
Produkce Ladislav Buchta a Josef Jindrák
My latest release is a collection of rhythmic ambient pieces called “Desert Power”, directly inspired by Frank Herbert’s “Dune”.
I have lost track of how many times I have read the “Dune” series of novels over the many decades I’ve been reading science fiction. Most recently, I had gone many years without cracking one of them open, but my interest was rekindled by the release of the movie “Dune” by Denis Villeneuve. While I can see how the uninitiated might find the movie impenetrable or confusing, for those of us who have read the series many times, it was a revelatory experience, especially for many of us who had difficulty imagining how the Dune universe would look and feel.
Where the Lynch movie took the book in a distinct stylistic direction, the Villeneuve film feels to me more like a direct reflection of the book. Unfortunately, even the Villeneuve version does not touch on some of the key controversial themes in the book, particularly the objectivist and misogynist undercurrents. Probably too much to expect from a Hollywood movie, but I look forward someday to a deeper and more agnostic exploration of the story, something that explains how a feudal paternalistic society that treats women as property could possibly morph into one where women literally rule the universe. Perhaps the second movie will explore some of these issues.
In any event, after I had watched the film five times in a row, over and over again, I found Villeneuve’s distinct vision of the Dune universe to be driving my sudden renewed fascination with the novels. Finally I could imagine how the Dune empire would truly look and feel to those embedded within it. And I found myself suddenly inspired to fit music to these profound questions that Denis Villeneuve and Frank Herbert created in my mind.
This album, which practically wrote itself, was the result. I started on the first bits of it in the days immediately following the movie’s late October release and completed the album less than four months later. For me this is an unbelievably quick turnaround for a full length work. In software engineering, I have found there is a phenomenon where I can become so immersed in the work that I lose all track of time and begin thinking in the language of the computer itself. Hours pass in an eyeblink, and I have many times looked up to see a full work day had passed in a span that felt like mere minutes. I call this “the zone”, which is one of the most exhausting-but-thrilling pure productivity states I’ve ever experienced.
This album is the first time I believe I’ve ever encountered the zone in the realm of creating music. Of course, whether or not the resulting work is better music or not remains to be determined, but the process itself was so personally restorative and renewing that it is hard for me not to look at it as a gift from some abstract higher power. I hope that you enjoy the resulting album as much as the album has helped me personally.
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As always, all Emergent World releases are available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported license. For commercial use or to create derivative works, please contact me.
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For Virginia.
Synthesizers, keyboards, and programming by Darrell Burgan.
Released in January 2022.
Copyright © 2022, Darrell Burgan. Released under a Creative Commons license for free non-commercial use under certain conditions.
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
Please visit me on the net at palancar.net.
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Palancar – Desert Power (1:17:12)
01 – The Hand of God (7:48)
02 – Blown Past Fallen Sands (5:17)
03 – Windtrap (6:56)
04 – Sandwalk (6:08)
05 – 36 Ophiuchi B (7:50)
06 – Voice From The Outer World (4:37)
07 – Preborn (6:42)
08 – Seeing The Now (6:11)
09 – The Emperor’s Blades (4:51)
10 – Traveling Without Moving (4:33)
11 – Cave Of Birds (6:07)
12 – A Net In The Sea Of Time (5:03)
13 – Climbing Mount Syubi (5:03)
