Centrul Isteric (FR: Centre Hystérique; EN: Hysterical Center) is the brainchild of Romanian A/V artist Gili Mocanu, better known for his abstract electronics project, Somnoroase Păsărele, which saw over a dozen recordings released on Baba Vanga (CZ), Anti-Everything (US), Czaszka (UK), OBS (RU), OTA and URUBU (PT). His style is distinctive, utilizing atypical synth sounds and asymmetrical or non-rhythmic elements, with several successful incursions into minimalist ambient/drone as well.
When not orchestrating his own samples as Somnoroase Păsărele, Gili has initially (circa 2009-10) used Centrul Isteric as a side-project for messing around with rhythmic loops extracted from popular music – sometimes matching the BPM while other times not. Over time, the experiment has evolved into long-form spectral explorations (2010-16), and has recently settled into a 3rd approach to “organized hysteria”, as illustrated by KISI. On this 36-minute piece, which utilizes source materials provided by his SP companion, Miru Mercury, only the 3 or 4 opening seconds of each soundpiece are sampled and looped, in such ways that would allow for maximum dramatic effect with each subsequent maneuver. KISI thus marks a shift from previous formless ‘agglutination’ to more considered ‘superordination’ in time and space.
released June 7, 2020
Recorded/edited/mastered by Gili Mocanu, Feb 2020
Artwork by Gili Mocanu / Simina Oprescu
Text & project management by Miru Mercury
At times, a tent appears in the hallways of a giant shopping center announcing a collective desire to elope. The times of cynicism and sitting on the beach chair, believing that nothing was going to melt from its foundations, are over.
The exercise of power is a pressure cooker, using (re)pression. Machinery requires to generate a drowning, and drown every slap made by the oppressed. It represses it with physical and economical violence, and with tons of images alluding to static structures. A majority category, a common point, to agree, but fundamentally unreachable and inaccessible in its totality. And there is a minority counterpart: poor, ugly, violeted, spectator of its own minority but immersed in the dream of being included, someday, by the majority.
But there is a third category, the one who does not want or need to continue playing the rules of a game that was created so that they would lose it. People with defective bodies, physically weak, second-level genres, depressed, shy and mutant, although they don’t stop moving. They require shaking and articulating themselves, know each other and look at each other, and so they realize that they were not so alone, and that they did not need the normality that the repressive images proposed to them. Seek the not obvious and realize yourself as a constant flow, that shakes and makes uncomfortable the status; questions, says and screams, and whose only way to be stopped completely, to be killed, is by condemning it to oblivion. Unfortunately, we have a good memory.
“minoritario” is an album that inserts us in a constant intermittency. Short rhythms and textures that draw a landscape where we are forced to be alert. The challenge of paying attention and perceiving what is around usduring a change of decade where we have the challenge of living with uncertainty every day. Musical pieces that announce the arrival of a momentthat does not stop becoming present, and in turn the challenge of facing what surrounds usto follow our constant march.
César Fuenzalida.
Comunicador Audiovisual.
(Santiago, junio / June, 2020)
This is a compilation of various artists who have united to make a contribution to the memory of George Floyd in the wake of his murder by the Minneapolis Police. We call for justice for George Floyd and all victims of police brutality and systemic racism in the USA and the World.
All proceeds will go to the George Floyd Memorial Fund and the Justice and Equality Fund which raises funds for multiple organizations to fight racial injustice and police brutality.
Marghera
Presentazione dell’album
Marghera è un’esperienza sonora. Marghera è un itinerario musicale ed emotivo che porta a interpretare i suoni, a interiorizzare un messaggio soggettivo, personale, privato. Marghera è un’elaborazione di idee. Marghera è un riappropriarsi di un luogo-non luogo non antropizzato. Marghera è un gioco velato di sfondi.
Tinte malinconiche si alternano a spazi meditativi, tra densità e rarefazione. Suoni scolpiti, dialoghi, rumori, ritmi discreti; luoghi virtuali che diventano intimi, familiari; atmosfere eteree, vibranti, gassose, prodighe di suggestioni a tratti quasi rituali; ambienti sonori in cui abbandonarsi a sequenze di elettronica sofisticata, con tessiture ambient-glitch, o che indagano con pennellate tenui i diversi territori del suono. Un mondo ambient, lievemente pianistico. Un album che gioca sulle immagini, che presenta visioni di spazi esterni e di luoghi interni, da indagare con un punto di vista nuovo. Tutto questo è Marghera. Il resto va scoperto…
Composed, arranged and produced by Chix and Eugenio Petrarca at Strato Dischi Studios, Roma
Mastered by Fabio Pieri at Strato Dischi Mobile, Roma
Chix: drum machine, programming, bass, guitars
Eugenio Petrarca: drum machine, programming
Joana Moher only grants us a one-way ticket on a trip that will be ours alone, everything we find, whether abstract or objective, is something that only we keep inside. On the launching pad, the viewer has to disconnect from what he sees to start feeling what is going on inside him.
Microseconds of life memorized and stored in the depths of our daily lives. Some of which we can unveil in the projections that our thinking makes throughout this experience.
A psychedelic work in abstraction, geometric in error, sublime in mantra. Outdoor and everyday recordings that are stitched and manipulated for the purpose of flashback, retention or repression of our attention as an active receiver of our daily lives.
MAI 2020
Mixed, cover artwork design by Sábila Orbe.
stems, sound designer: Revolution Peak.
Yaka-anima aka Sábila Orbe aka Filmy Ghost is an experimental electronic project from Rancagua, Chile.
websites for more music:
https://archive.org/details/@yaka-anima_noise
https://hearthis.at/yaka-anima/
https://humanfobia.jimdofree.com/yaka-anima
https://www.facebook.com/yaka.anima.noise/
Revolution Peak is an electronic project from Fort Mcmurray, Alberta, Canada.
released May 25, 2020
Artwork by Thomas Wahle
Mastering by Saif Bari @fixedmastering.com
released May 19, 2020
Rituals are the main focus of the Tantras
Mastered by Árni Grétar
