JARREN – ROUND & ROUND
2024-09-30Los Angeles’ Jarren returns to Apron Records with a 6 track offering of fresh selections for the summer.
The EP picks up the pieces somewhere between his debut LP “Antera” left off & beyond.
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2024-09-30Mutating out of the collaborative practice established on STROBE.RIP, Amnesia Scanner and Freeka Tet are so back with a new dual record project that explores and explodes norms of music production, songwriting and sonic aesthetics. HOAX is *not* an album and remix released together, but rather, a singular experience unfolding as two mirroring, mutually-reinforcing (or perhaps deconstructing) records.
The Amnesia Scanner “AS HOAX” record administers the liquid drip of devastating ballads, wandering mosh-ups and industrial flood lights that we fiend for. But, as with every AS record it is impossible to mistake the grunged-out doom for nihilism: there is simply too much raw emotion, vulnerable narrative and playful experimentation. With drums and chaos from Freeka on four “ASFT” tracks, AS has delivered perhaps their most prescient, hopeful and soon-to-be-seminal record of their genre-defining career.
TweetPHARMAKON – METHANAL DOLL
2024-09-30By stripping back and exploring new ground, Margaret Chardiet digs deeper and ever more intense with the long awaited return of her Pharmakon project after a five year hiatus. Maggot Mass imagines death as a radical act of recycling, and attacks the human hierarchy that severs us from the Earth with visceral lyrics “Dominate, domesticate, irrigate, and procreate” delivered with disgust and gnashing rips and tears of percussion. Chardiet takes a microscope to the undergrowth as buzzing flies bring about industrial stomps and mangled metallic fervour on ‘WITHER AND WARP’, bass snarling as she growls in unison with nature.
TweetATOMIK ORANGE OG ROLLER BY UVD TOYS
2024-09-30UVD Toys latest edition of Atomik’s renowned Orange figure is a vibrant character celebrated from the streets of Miami to urban landscapes worldwide.
This 4-inch vinyl figure features the Orange character actively pursuing a creative mission, complete with its signature extension roller and a bucket of orange paint, capturing the essence of street art.
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SAMUEL HINDOLO – EUROSTAR
2024-09-30One painting is based on Saïda A Enlevé Manneken-Pis, a seven minute 1913 silent comedy about a leopard that escapes a fairgrounds in Brussels. She soon upends city order. In the titular scene, she knocks down the city’s infamous pissing statue before city officials chase her.
The painting readapts the chase. In one corner is a uniformed figure straddling a flashy yellow-pinkish car while being trailed by Saïda. The scene of the vehicle with its contorted flattened figure is a stark contrast to that of the leopard who shimmers mid gallop at the other end of the image. She is faint and incomplete; her spotty rosettes fading into the body, front legs losing definition. What seems like a vanishing act is not so much a disappearance as
it is her melding with the ground.
Like a moving image, the two scenes form a predicament. The characters are traveling quickly, both towards and
away from each other on a velodrome course brushed in pearly streaks; ostensibly a loop continuing somewhere
outside the frame.
– S.H.
Opposite – Saïda (Two Scenes, One Predicament), 2024
Exhibition runs through to November 9th, 2024
Galerie Buchholz
17 East 82nd Street
NY 10028
New York
SHIRAZEH HOUSHIARY – THE SOUND OF ONE HAND
2024-09-30For her first solo show in Los Angeles for over a decade, the British artist Shirazeh Houshiary presents new and recent works, exploring the origins of life and the mysteries of the cosmos, from a microscopic cellular level, to the stratospheric phenomenon of the aurora borealis. The show’s title relates to a Zen Buddhist teaching that instructs the student to listen to the sound of one hand clapping, in order to open their mind to such a possibility and transcend the constraints of the physical body. Despite not being a Zen practitioner, Houshiary realised that her work revolves around the insistent sound made by one of her hands, making tiny, looping, scratched marks in pencil onto large aluminum surfaces, building up worlds through the silence of her inscribed words.
Opposite – Aurora, 2023
Exhibition runs through to November 2nd, 2024
Lisson Gallery
1037 N. Sycamore Avenue
90038
Los Angeles
