Know your audience, know yourself. Introspect, or obsess – a strange loop come unfurled. A journey, a place, a time to face. Now gnawingly, no notes know – yet.
Featuring improvised clarinet.
The Necrophile Hummingbird netlabel presents Mantra Wave by rADio eNd
“Trance music for tribal music lovers.”
This album is just a solo improvisation recorded at the Cave Haven (Foucherans) in 2022.
I would have enjoyed that someone upgraded or transformed it, but maybe it wasn’t necessary.
Sometimes the raw thread is the real fabric.
I coined the term “Mantra Wave” with this album but already in previous albums I was using it when talking about to keep the whole improvisation instead to reduce it to the essential.
I won’t define it here — you can sense it yourself.
Since my first steps with CorteX, I’ve been trying to create psycho-active music more inspiring than the usual standards.
Since the Yoshiwaku shamanoise tracks, I’ve focused on the power of repetition to carry the listener into trance.
Since Multiple Personality 3, with its overlong ritual tracks, we left behind the notion of “standard tracks” to explore durations usually found only in instrumental minimalism, serial music, or certain techno constellations.
Was rADio eNd simply listening to the Earth, amplifying her voice?
Turn off your brain.
Let the wave wake your soul.
I made the artwork without AI, but disliked it because it looked too much like something made by an AI.
So I asked an AI to update it as if it had been made by a human… Well… Then I only kept the statue to edit my artwork.
The circle closes.
Special thanks to the creator of the Longo dance for the Mbouiiiii!!!!! concept — a joyful reminder that one can free body and mind through vibration, breath, and surprise.
About healers, guides, and those who teach freedom
In France, more than ever, many people claim to heal everything with countless techniques, generally for money.
Some may offer better listening than doctors trapped in the machinery of big pharma — doctors who, despite their knowledge, can truly resolve only part of the world’s illnesses.
But many “healers” are only selling illusions, playing with people’s hopes, offering dependence instead of autonomy.
Fortunately, some too much rare ones genuinely take care.
They show not how to rely on them, but how to stand on one’s own feet.
They guide the person back to their own inner tools — until the guide is no longer needed.
This album is dedicated to those who do not heal minds and bodies, nor fix energies,
but who teach each person how to do it themselves…
and to all those who learn alone, quietly, without any master.
Ten years ago – another time. Simpler? Not really. Earlier, and with different players playing a different game. A new player at the time – Jazzaria – now marking its first decennial. May it see decades to come.
Featuring improvised clarinet.
Searching – stumbling. Seeing – staring. Blankly – blinking. Blinding – blitzing. Being – buzzing. Feeling – futzing.
Featuring improvised piano.
Necessary. Inevitable. Unavoidable. Imminent. Impending. Foreseen and pre-ordained. Inescapable. Irresistible. Undeniable. Unceasing. Meant to be.
Featuring improvised piano.
There’s something strange – and clearly, not good. Life, stifled. Free expression, caged.
The next chapter is unwritten. Consider picking up a pen.
Featuring clarinet.
Supervolcano: An Eruption of Trans-Andean Noise
This record marks an encounter as spontaneous as it is unexpected between two seasoned figures of the Chilean and Argentine sound scenes. Both Óscar Santis and Francisco Ali-Brouchoud have long contributed—almost militantly, through multiple projects—to these niche communities devoted to experimentation and noise, rooted on either side of the Andes, with Valparaíso and Buenos Aires as their epicenters.
The material on this album stands as a clear testament to this ongoing crusade for two very specific reasons: first, it represents the duo’s only performance to date; and second, it was captured live at Estudio Libres, with a small audience sharing the recording space alongside the performers.
These circumstances highlight the importance of intuition, adrenaline, chance, synergy, and deep listening as key elements shaping the outcome of such experiences. Their presence is felt in the atmosphere of introspective tension, suffocating suspense, and explosive catharsis that punctuate the various moments of this free improvisation—later segmented into a series of tracks for this release.
The album title, “Supervolcán”, as well as those of each piece, conceptually allude to the planet’s major volcanic phenomena, particularly so-called “supervolcanoes”: which possess a magma chamber a thousand times larger than that of a conventional volcano and therefore produce gigantic eruptions capable of radically altering the environment where they occur. The sessions evoke fascinating sonic images linked to these geological beasts, which lie semi-dormant along the great Pacific Ring of Fire. The timbral characteristics and frequency range incorporated thus allow them to be easily associated with imagined events such as melting tectonic plates, volcanic radiation, pressurized geysers, rivers of boiling lava, the emission of flammable gases; or even, why not, drilling with heavy machinery, open-pit mega-mining, an environmental disaster in the Andean mountain range, or a hallucination caused by lithium fever.
Miguel Masllorens.
(Buenos Aires, Argentina. October 2025)
Distimed, not displaced – dancing along through technical grace. Wet reeds vibrate all the same, and fingers play a similar game. Sound that matters, sound it out – music will allay your doubts.
Featuring bassoon and clarinet.
Composed during the night air raids. Andy would simply send his loved one off to sleep after the air raid sirens stopped, then go to his studio to record yet another not-so-jolly lullaby.
This album is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit in the face of adversity. It captures the complex emotions and experiences of those living through war, and how they find solace and beauty in the midst of chaos. The kalimba, with its gentle, soothing tones, serves as a beacon of hope and comfort in these dark times.
credits
released September 22, 2024
Near, yet far – clear, yet tar. Square choruses roundly abound, whilst reaching angels fail to see. Grasp this – that explorations are manifold, within and without.
Featuring clarinet and effects.
Unsound Sounds of Porto is a compilation dedicated to experimental music produced in the city of Porto, bringing together artists working in the realms of noise, improvisation, minimalism, and other non-conventional sonic practices. Rather than offering a unified or institutional vision, this collection seeks to open a window onto an underground scene that remains active and constantly shifting, often existing at the margins of established circuits.
It encompasses a wide range of practices — from structured compositions and studio pieces to digital collages, analog and hybrid experimentation, as well as recordings captured in real time. This plurality results in a palette where lo-fi recordings coexist with more refined productions, exploring both the raw materiality of sound and the possibilities of digital manipulation.
As a document, Unsound Sounds of Porto registers a community in transformation; as a listening experience, it proposes a fragmented yet coherent and narrative journey through the many forms of sonic inventiveness inhabiting the city’s interstices.
Curated by: Paulo Couto / ETIKÆTIKETA
Chipmunk! Chipmunk!
Featuring cajon, synthesizer, shaker, flute, water bottle, and vox.
It’s another debut in the MiMi Records catalog. From the Japanese capital, we receive “Structure Out”, an album by Tiger A that is truly a work of art, where piano improvisation and the blend of ambient sounds go hand in hand, creating a unique auditory experience.
The fusion of flowing melodies with ethereal sonic textures induces a state of contemplation, where the boundaries between music and visuals fade away. The production is subtle yet impactful, inviting deep immersion.
This album is a testament to Tiger A’s ability to tell emotional, transcendent stories through his piano. An album to be listened to without any reservations.
To learn, and to make – fingers are frequently waggled. Levers depressed – strings struck – hammers rebounded. Somewhere in there, the millionth note.
Featuring piano.
The most we can readily fit in our head is three things, and so achieving more requires the focus to complete those tasks, and the discipline to proceed to the next. Staying in place requires motion – making progress requires acceleration.
Featuring clarinet.
Semi-structured plans. Partial tonality. Improvised approach. Musical outcomes?
Fingers find things.
Featuring improvised baritone saxophone accompanied by a randomly generated modal sequence of synthesized voice and electric keys. Released on Netlabel Day 2025.
This collection of lost tapes is intended to be a kind of Audio Kaleidoscope. All are total improvisations recorded live by Studio 112 & Ed End (mostly between 2019-2020) at the Cave Haven in Foucherans. Straight after the Shagreen Tape we continued to record more colors. Halas, I have only one life and still so much music waiting to be achieved. So despite ideally we wanted to add a spoken word to one track of each album (and perhaps we lose a few tracks in time) this remains instrumental music. This is a quite trippy collection of bootlegs.
Dedicated to all the lovers of the rainbow LGBTQIA+ struggling for our right to live and be proud of who we are.
Also these 6 improvised albums were part of the netlabel contribution to the netlabel day 2025 https://netlabelday.org/netlabel-day-2025-releases/
Charm, lost – innocent. For want of clasp, the charm descended unexpectedly to locales unforeseen. It joins other once-charming brethren, evolving from expressions of personal joy to memories of the strangeness of circumstances. Retrieval is unlikely, but if you do discover charms, remember from whence they came.
Featuring piano, synth, and arpeggiator.
A reflection on a world of feeling—human, artistic, and political—through the natural dynamic of the master-disciple relationship.
RōSHI explores the ineffable within this bond, emphasizing a chain of transmission where the hidden essence is perpetually renewed.
The installation (Dec 2022):
Music and video engage with Francisco Trabulo’s work in a timeless dialogue, suggesting a continuous, universal essence where death holds no meaning.
The performance (17 Dec 2022):
Ephemeral sonic elements are added to this ongoing flow, marking a unique moment that complements the installation. Life stories intersect, and transmission occurs.
Recorded live at the Vila Nova de Cerveira International Art Biennial, by Marco Lima (Hertzcontrol)
Note/Thanks:
The performance includes excerpts of Francisco Trabulo’s voice from a 2006 academic documentary by Joana Ferreira, Ana Maria Silva, and Bruno Costa (ESE-IPVC), produced within the Olhar o Real workshop – Ao Norte.
“Fim Do Maio Ou O Princípio Da Incerteza” is the latest album release by Anomalia Rodrigues (the project of the multifaceted Paulo Couto) and the artist’s second album with another alter ego on MiMi Records.
Here we have a project of free and experimental improvisation, recorded in a single take with a primitive smartphone and no post-production editing.
This lo-fi work captures the raw and spontaneous essence of sound creation, exploring minimalist textures and dense atmospheres. With six tracks that move between ambient, no-wave, and post-rock. It’s an album that challenges conventions and invites attentive listening.
An album that is a manifesto of artistic freedom and sonic authenticity.
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
Featuring improvised bass clarinet.
