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Reblog – Drum & Lace ~ Natura — a closer listen

After a run of acclaimed singles, EPs and film and TV scores (“Dickinson,” “Good Girls,” “I Know What You Did Last Summer”), Drum & Lace (Sofia Hultquist) is finally releasing her debut album.  Natura is confident and catchy, the artist’s vast experience giving her an advantage over most debut appearances. In 2019, we placed the artist’s semi songs in […]

Drum & Lace ~ Natura — a closer listen

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Reblog – Nyokabi Kariũki ~ peace places: kenyan memories — a closer listen

The first major release from Kenyan sound artist Nyokabi Kariũki follows a beguilng pair of videos and a number of works for everything from choir to marimba trio.  peace places: kenyan memories is not only a reflection on her home, but on all homes, echoing the writings of Pico Iyer.  Travel restrictions locked her in Maryland, unable […]

Nyokabi Kariũki ~ peace places: kenyan memories — a closer listen
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NEW RELEASES

experimental, electro-acoustic, electronica, experimental electronic, fieldrecordings

experimental, audiovisual, extreme computer music, frame synthesis, generative, micropop, phonemic pulsar, pulsar scramble

Experimental

electronic, metalcore, electro-industrial experimental, experimental electronic, fusion, jazz fusion, metal, new age, noise, prog, progressive, sound design

electronic, ambient, deep techno, hypnotic, nature, techno

electronic, experimental, turntablism, noise, sound design, theatre, turntables

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LISTENING TO…

Viridescens
by Francesco Cavaliere & Tomoko Sauvage

experimental, ambient, electroacoustic, electronic, modern classical

Francesco Cavaliere and Tomoko Sauvage embody a tactile audio visual display, radiating the colour green into sounds and painting meditative music…For their installation and performance, Cavaliere and Sauvage assemble a green cabinet of curiosities – an instrumentarium combining water, glass, clay, bamboo xylophones, metallophones and synthesizers. Tomoko describes in an interview: “When you are actually surrounded by green musical instruments, it has a calming effect as if you were looking at a forest or mountain.”

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NEW RELEASES

pyr313 dirty electronics ensemble, jon.ogara, and anna xambó – dirty dialogues

Free music improvisation, analogue and digital instruments, acoustic and electronic materials, live coding and DIY sound-making techniques.

experimental, acoustic, alternative, ambient, asmr, contemporary classical, electroacoustic, electronic, field recordings, immersive, improvisation, instrumental, musique concrète, noise, post-industrial, soundtrack

electronics, experimental, field recordings

experimental, ambient, deep listening, electroacoustic, electronic, environmental, experimental. ambient, field recording

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SUMMER CATCH UP…

Apologies if I’ve forgotten anyone’s release

ambient, electronic, experimental

art pop, classical, experimental, expiremental new club, post-industrial, composition, contemporary, electronic, microtonal, orchestral, sound design

experimental, ambient, avant garde, musique-concrete, noise

electronic, house, deep techno, techno

experimental, ambient, dance, electronic

experimental, electronic, techno

electronic, ambient, electronica, experimental, improv, improvised music, lo-fi, loops, noise

electronic, experimental, choral, electroacoustic, folk, vocal

experimental, experimental, no-wave, blues, techno

experimental, afrofuturism, avant-garde, free jazz, noise

alternative, electroacoustics, experimental, radio, sound art

experimental, electronic, live looping, modern classical, pipe organ

electronic, algorithmic composition, field recording, laptop music, music concrete, supercollider

electronic, tech, house, ambient, techno, deep techno, industrial, tribal

ambient, electro-acoustic, minimal, piano

experimental, ambient, field recordings, sound art, soundscape

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Sonae ~ Summer — a closer listen

Summer may not sound like summer, but that’s okay, because the season has just ended in the Northern Hemisphere.  Instead, Sonae‘s album is an ode to a lost summer ~ the summer of 2020 ~ and a warning that future summers may head in the same direction. COVID is nothing compared to climate change, which is the […]

Sonae ~ Summer — a closer listen

Slowly catching up but here’s one that nearly got away but didn’t thanks to ACL : )

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SUNDAY AMBIENCE

Les Chants de Milarepa
by Éliane Radigue
Songs of Milarepa (1983), 139’24

experimental, acousmatic, electroacoustic, electronic experimental, musique concrète

Éliane Radigue (1932-)

“Éliane Radigue was born in Paris. She studied Musique Concrète techniques at the “Studio d’Essai” of the RTF under the direction of Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry (1956-57). She was married to the painter and sculptor Arman and devoted ten years to their three children. She then worked with Pierre Henry, as his assistant at the Studio APSOME (1967-68). She was in residence at the New York University School of Arts (1970-71), the University of Iowa and the California Institute of the Arts (1973) and Mills College (1998). She has created sound environments using looped tapes of various durations, gradually desynchronising. Her works have been featured in numerous galleries and museums since the late 60s and from 1970, she has been associated to the ARP 2500 Synthesizer and tape through many compositions from “Chry-ptus” (1971) up to “L’Île re-sonante” (2000). These include: “Biogenesis”, “Arthesis”, “Ψ 847”, “Adnos I, II and III” (70s), “Les Chants de Milarepa” and “Jetsun Mila” (80s) and the three pieces constituting the Trilogie de la Mort (1988-91-93). Since 2002, she has been composing mostly acoustic works for performers and instruments. Her music has been featured in major international festivals. Her extremely sober, almost ascetic concerts, are made of a continuous, ever-changing yet extremely slow stream of sound, whose transformation occurs within the sonic material itself.“

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REBLOG – Inclusives, Fair_Play & Tsuku Boshi — Tsuku Boshi Records

INCLUSIVES Tsuku Boshi & Fair_Play Digital Album 21.05.2021 > Deezer , Spotify , Boomkat, iTunes…  https://fairplaynetwork.bandcamp.com/album/inclusives Avec des matières sonores de / With sounds byZineb SOULAIMANI, Laryssa KIM, Carol ROBINSON, Sage Pbbbt Avec les compositions de / With compostions by Violaine LOCHU, Vendula GUHOVA, Trihn LO, Sophie ROSE, Sage Pbbbt, Radio Continental Drift, PLYANCI, Nour SOKHON, Méryll […]

Inclusives, Fair_Play & Tsuku Boshi — Tsuku Boshi Records

With contributions from 32 artists –
Violaine LOCHU, Vendula GUHOVA, Trihn LO, Sophie ROSE, Sage Pbbbt, Radio Continental Drift, PLYANCI, Nour SOKHON, Méryll AMPE, MAYCEC, Margaux KINTSUGI, Liew NIYOMKARN, Laure BOER, Laryssa KIM, Katherine WEBSTER, Isa STRAGLIATI, Great Statue, FLEUR, eves, Elise DABROWSKI, Dong ZHOU, CHRA, Chloe SOBEK, Céline MULLER, Cecilia CASTRO, CATENATION, Catherine ROBIN, Carol ROBINSON, Camille LACROIX, Aviva ENDEAN, APOTEK, Aline CLAIR, ++juanitaa++

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REBLOG – Yuko Araki ~ End of Trilogy — a closer listen

Sunday reading and one of the best overviews of Yuko Araki’s work –

End Of Trilogy
by Yuko Araki
2021

dark ambient, electronics, noise, noizu

It is common to read about the mind-obliterating qualities of noise and its negative paths towards selfless meditation, but there is another undercurrent in its stark associations with bodily harm and the possibility to access some sort of outside within: a psychic reality that does not flow into oneness, but that violently multiplies every time […]

Yuko Araki ~ End of Trilogy — a closer listen