The 2020 selection for Nieuwe Electronische Waar, the most important talent development project for electronic music in the Eastern part of The Netherlands. A fine selection of eleven of this year’s most promising new production talents will be coached in producing tracks, perfoming live and business matters concerning a career in music. Nieuwe Electronische Waar also releases this compilation album, proudly presenting the best new electronic music from the Dutch provinces of Overijssel and Gelderland.
This year’s selection consists of Mallard, Fentom, Mansamadi, Fjaler, Presethead, Nobuka, Roel Zweers, Nerds With Acid, Mingvs, Hemisphere and Lost Verses.
All participants are offered a diverse, broad and personal development program, supported by partners and coaches from the Dutch electronic music scene. The acts will be assisted in producing and finishing their tracks, mastering music and other technical challenges. Participants focusing on live performance are linked to bookers and/or managers.
The Nieuwe Electronische Waar program also brings participants to network events such as Dance Fair, Muzikantendag, the Amsterdam Dance Event and other events. As part of Nieuwe Electronische Waar, this compilation album is released including tracks by each of the eleven participants. This compilation is available as a free download, on all relevant streaming channels and is promoted towards the international electronic music industry.
‘Sightline’ is Nicolas Tourney’s first work on Vulpiano Records. A monumentally beautiful work in drone, not a second wasted in the subtle totality of its being.
Words from the artist:
Nicolas Tourney is a French experimental musician, sound designer, and owner of the label Snow in Water Records. His electronic works concern perception and act of listening, with the use of various drones, strings and experimental devices.
Sightline sounds like a landscape made of ether and a silence sewn on our lips. By using spectral rotation of an audible rendering of the present, of a sound as pure perception of the moment, the “Eye-world” (an open concept) introduces the listener into the kinematic perspective of exile and overflight. Listening makes “l’attente” (waiting) your place in life.
Slightline is less about exposing a sound shock than getting into it and, through perception, seeks the withdrawal the senses. Perspectives crossed above visions that are games of scales.
Between Drone making (Drone: rise beyond the present and the gravity of the bodies) and Soundscape practice (Soundscape: one word calls for another, a sound seeks to surpass itself in silence), Sightline is like a slow walk, when you listen to a glass surface in its resonance. In the distance, the soundscape stretches to infinity from a constantly redefined vanishing point.
Andreas Davids, maybe better known for his electro-industrial project XOTOX, but also as part of the Natura Est dark ambient duo, presents another result of his love for all that is ambient, abstract and not so abstract electronica.
“7 Jahre vor der Gegenwart” invites you to take a ride on an emotional rollercoaster with many ups and downs, epic moments, dark and light sides. From dark ambient and broken structures to technoid rhythms and sequences – everything that can happen within seven years is packed in this outstanding piece of music.
Andreas Davids says: “7 Jahre vor der Gegenwart has especially been created for my live debut with this project. This music has only been played live once and will never be played live again – this makes the release very special and I hope you all enjoy it”.
released March 25, 2020
created in 2019 by Andreas Davids at Separate Room, MTH
mastered by verschwinden.org
Raised in Ełk – Szyba, Cyd has been creating music under various aliases since around 2001, but his current profile has been revealed around 2015. Cyd is mainly releasing full albums which contain various eclectic electronic music, but also EP’s focused on Techno, House or industrial.
He is a co-owner of @solemnerecords which he maintain with Matt Flack and Clefomat who has released many EP’s in collaboration with cyd.
On stage Karol Kaźmierzewski aka Cyd, is usually performing as a live-act or hybrid. Karol is taking part in various projects as a producer with vocalists and rappers as well.
released March 21, 2020
Written, Produced, Mixed and Arranged by Alexandre Navarro
Artwork : Jennart And photography
TERR112: Bandcamp are waiving their revenue share for March 20th 2020 to show support for artists afflicted by COVID-19.
Terranean Recordings presents a very special release — two pieces from the first ever Luke Lund live performance. Pay what you like.
“Sulkutila (Stupor)” explores the Casio SA-1 tone bank keyboard, emphasizing on subharmonics and resonance with custom analog reverbs and vintage tape compression.
“Contortion (Väännös)” is a composition made ‘out of nothing.’ Sounds from the harmonics of inaudible sine/square/sawtooth waves — both infra and ultrasonic. These are contorted by algorithmic sliding of pitch shift, time scale and noise reduction parameters.
Premiered at the launch party of SOUNDESTzine, October 3rd 2018, Oranssi, Helsinki.
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released March 20, 2020
Sound collage, mixing and mastering by Luke Lund.
Produced at Solace in August 2018.
Mastered by Luke Lund in March 2020.
“Walking into a mosque one enters into the space of a very strong idea. Although these architectures reflect the human universe of the believers, the principles of their construction obey the laws of the creator of the universe. Walking in a valley, into cave or forest presents an equally strong idea, if one listens carefully. The natural world is also created by an unknown, undefinable creator. The creator, singular or plural, incarnate in the creation of spaces like valleys and forests and caves doesn’t speak our language but what we have of the language of architecture and speech is drawn from the resonance and the laws of such spaces. Listening itself becomes an architecture. We reflect on how and when we listen. Simplicity and complexity convolve an infinite interaction.” — Jeffrey Alan Gburek
Music inspired by designs and geometries of sacred spaces
Composed and produced by: Jeffrey Alan Gburek, 2019
released March 19, 2020
also available as limited cassette album edition
Cover photo (public domain): Fatima Masumeh Shrine, Qom, Iran
Cassette artwork design: Ivo Petrov and Angel Draganov
attenuation effect ° 1025 ° 2020
live @ villa, Augsburg, 23.04.18
photography by Felix Montfort
recording, mastering and design by EMERGE
Harald Lillmeyer: electronics
Sascha Stadlmeier: guitars, bass, effects
Seuil Optique, duo of Sig Valax and Nicolas Tourney, offers a unique experience of listening to music in the dark. Immersing the stage and the public in constant darkness, Seuil Optique creates soundscapes where electronic transmissions, acousmatic landscapes and refined drones intersect. By jostling the boundaries between listening, blind manipulation of machines and immersive experience offered to the audience, the two musicians explore new sound tracks, in permanent dialogue with hybrid musicalities and the practice of singular instruments: persephone, field recording, electro-acoustic devices, matrices and samples.
On stage, they use deliberately “open” improvisation strategies and defeat the boundaries between manipulating machines in the dark, harmonics tinged with noise-producing materials and the “eyes closed” hearing experience offered to the public.
Seuil Optique’s third album, Les Habitants, focuses on the practice of electronic improvisation. Recorded in three days and three nights, in Paris, in total darkness, Les Habitants aims to be a place of recognition of gesture as a creative act. No preparation beforehand, no benchmark, no intro or climax, only the interaction between two ways of producing spectral imprints. In this sound dialogue, electronics are the vector of total sincerity: the inhabitants target the listener, bringing them to live the experience of the moment that guides the “non-idiomatic” music of Seuil Optique, in which each sound, each transmitted waveform is dedicated to the inhabitants of the present.
Linear Obsessional is delighted to present a solo album by Jude Cowan Monague (of Montague Armstrong who released the acclaimed “Hammond Hits” on LinOb last year.
“To India” was originally self released as a very limited CDr – this re-issue includes the original CDr packaging as jpg files.
Mixing Jude’s trademark mix of quirky travel reportage, poetry and a fascination with archaic keyboard instruments, “To India” is a joyous collection of songs from this unstoppable and endlessly creative artist.
tracks 1 – 7 – written on an art residency on Goa India
tracks 7 – 9 – written in Mauritius and first published as poems in “The Groodoyals of Terre Rouge” (Dark Windows Press 2013)
Thanks to Rekha Sameer and my fellow artists and to Kiran Groodoyal and her brilliant family
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released March 14, 2020
tracks 1-6 recorded at J.C. Montague’s, London by Matt Armstrong
Jude Cowan Montague – Vocals, Hammond, Fender Rhodes, Min-Moog
Matt Armstrong – Bass, Backing Vocals, Philichorda
Tom Murrow – Drums
tracks 7-9 recorded and mixed at Bark Studios, London by Brian Ono
Jude Cowan Montague – Vocals/Alesis Micron
Matt Armstrong – Bass/Percussion/Vocals
Mark Braby – Vocals
King Elizabeth – The Awakening (VULP-0162)
Picking up from where King Elizabeth left off in 2012 with Miami, The Awakening contains all of the mesmerizing synth hooks and passionate vocal lines you’d hope for. The sultry “Mother” and churning title track “The Awakening” are among my favorites in this dark gleam of brilliance — 7 years in the making! — that Vulpiano Records is delighted to present.
Words from the artist:
It’s been a long journey to get to this point with many songs being written and recorded but never feeling right for the time. A lot of songs were scrapped and others placed on the back burner to come back to with fresh ears. Maybe it was a quest for perfection when perfection doesn’t exist, or just falling out of love with the songs at the time! It’s all contributed to the 7 years it’s taken to complete this record.
I had a new experience with writing and recording songs for this album. I usually have a vision for the album with the songs interconnected in some way. This time, I was just writing one song at a time—the ideas were for the individual songs, I had no greater vision. I had the lyrics and the music in my mind for that song and that song only at the time, then I’d move onto the next.
Over time I realised that the songs that stood out for me fitted together as well as any other album I’ve ever made—if not better. The beauty of this is that each song can really hold its own and doesn’t need a ‘before’ song or an ‘after’ song. The process was lengthy, but then when they all did come together it was an awakening. I hope this album awakens something inside everyone who kindly takes the time to listen to it.
released February 16, 2020
feat Hugin at the guitar
Forgotten on a dying hard drive for years, FAILURES is Salomè’s latest, and last, work.
An utter failure, but we did the best we could.
Credits:
Tracks recorded in Bologna in 2013 and mixed by Salomè Lego Playset and Fabio Iaci in 2018/19.
Mastering by Fabio Iaci.
Salomè Lego Playset is:
Davide Landi (bass guitar)
Elia Dalla Casa (saxophone)
Jacopo Cinti (drums)
Nicola Boari (guitar and voice)
Track 2, Magenta Jealousy Blackened, features John Duncan on voice and his are the lyrics too.
Front photo by Davide Landi.
Back photo by Giancarlo Morieri
Inner photo by Nicola Boari
Art direction by Matteo Linari
Volume I of a II part compilation.
Artists from the past, present, and future of TAR. 20 tracks for 2020.
All new original material from the roster.
100% of the proceeds will be donated to aid local families affected by violence or domestic abuse:
www.peaceoverviolence.org
Original artwork by fvckrender
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released March 11, 2020
