Born out of various art performances and installations, INIT states a logical outcome of Berlin based duo Nadia D’Alò and Benedikt Frey. With heavy use of analogue synthesis and drum-machines, INIT rethinks its genre’s sonic approach, unfolding a unique and organic, yet alienating sound, somewhere in the mysterious midst of Acid, Techno, Ambient and Kraut-Rock.
This is INIT’s third album, following two releases on Hivern Discs.
TweetGondwana Records sign LA bassist and composer Seth Ford-Young’s Phi-Psonics project and announce a remastered deluxe-edition of The Cradle featuring bonus material
Phi-Psonics is a meditative, immersive instrumental group from Los Angeles, led by bassist Seth Ford-Young and featuring Sylvain Carton on woodwinds, Mitchell Yoshida on electric piano, and Josh Collazo on drums. Their deeply soulfulmusic draws on jazz and classical influences together with Ford-Young’s own musical experiences, relationships, and his introduction to spirituality, yoga and philosophy at a young age, to create something uniquely its own.
TweetRecorded over the past 3 years with ace engineer Shuta Shinoda in Hackney, East London, the new album captures brilliantly the live intensity of the band whilst adding studio subtleties that make for a deep and rewarding listen.
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Private Agenda’s body of work. Twelve tracks corresponding to twelve
character traits, imagined as personalities in musical form.
What are the dichotomies that define us? Our seen and unseen selves, the façade and the fundamental, the real and the imaginary. The result is musical hyper-realism.
After the recent re-issue of American-Canadian composer Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s acclaimed ‘Keyboard Fantasies’, its otherworldly beauty is now being reworked by a talented group of artists. Bon Iver and Flock of Dimes’s ‘Ever New’ emphasises its emotionality with vocal harmony. Kelsey Lu elaborates pristine instrumentation with her own crystalline sound. Arca’s take on ‘Let Us Dance’ expands fluid dimensions, while with Blood Orange’s version of ‘Sunset Village’ each shimmering timbre unfolds even further. 35 years since Glenn-Copeland’s recording, the collection captures the original’s glowing affect by embracing some of the many spirits it has touched.
Tweet“Holy Scum”. Say it out loud. It’s a name that can’t help but be spat out viciously; a snarling exclamative that fits the bludgeoning sludge and feedback drenched improv rock that its progenitors unleash.
Initially a Manchester-based collaboration between guitarist Peter J Taylor (formerly of Action Beat) Gnod co-founder Chris Haslam on bass and his bandmate Jon Perry – also of Shuck – on drums, the thick gauze of Holy Scum’s jams from deep inside a Victorian mill have been pulled apart in production by one of half of legendary hip-hop duo Dälek, Mike Mare (aka Mike Manteca). In fact, he also provides the growling, guttural vocals that fight the elements around them. This all comes together like a ten-car pile-up on their debut record Strange Desires.
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