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UXO – Walter Sallinen & Klaus Maunuksela

You can listen to the preview of this album on this page. Full version is available on all streaming platforms and also on  Bandcamp. Composition and sound design: Walter Sallinen Libretto and dramaturgy: Klaus Maunuksela Sound design, recording and binauralisation: Kaj Mäki-Ullakko Artistic producer: Taavi Oramo Awake Percussion: Petteri Kippo, Lauri Pekkarinen, Jerry Piipponen, Walter Witick Chorus: Sanni Kriikku, Hannes Mikkelsson, Helena Puukka, Juha Pulli, Juho Keränen, Noora Kauppila Cover art : Jaakko Pallasvuo UXO is an abbreviation of unexploded ordnance. It refers to unexploded bombs, grenades and land mines, which remain in the ground, ready to explode even decades after their use. Like unexploded ordnance, modern reality is full of unexplained threats with no single clear cause. We live in...

Last Mountain – Lisa Butel & Brent Cross

You can listen to the preview of this album on this page, or on all streaming platforms and also on our Bandcamp page. A review of this album is available on Loop. Last Mountain is the final release of our trilogy featuring piano samples and voice. It is derived from our personal experiences with parental loss, the awakening of memories on the land with our family who were homesteading settlers and the implications of colonization, changing landscapes and genocide.   Album 3 approaches this knowledge carefully and aims to reconcile past and current wrongs, and to remind us to share love with our loved ones openly while they are still here with us. The foundation tracks for...

Epars dé​saccords par coups de dés – Diar Zasella & Valentin Sismann

You can listen preview of this album on this page, or on all streaming platforms and also on our Bandcamp page. This album is the product of several sessions of radiocacophonic improvisation, scattered fragments of poetry emerging from the noise. - Piezo pickup, sound bodies, MIDI controllers and factory patch (Diar Zasella) - Feedback console, oscillator, piezo, AM and FM waves (Valentin Sismann) Valentin Sismann Valentin Sismann is a composer, filmmaker and sound engineer. He studied at ESRA where he specializes in Sound-Design and in class of electroacoustic composition of the CRD of Pantin. He was one of the winners of the Mixage Fou 2020 contest in category Surround 5.1, was broadcast on Radio Campus in the program...

QDOOI – Spanking Days Are Over

You can listen preview of this album on this page, or on all streaming platforms and also on our Bandcamp page. QDOOI is a project by Belgian producer Spanking Days Are Over. The focus of this album is the translation of momentary snapshots of space and time (both physically and metaphysically) into sound. The somewhat volatile nature of the finished product is a sideshow to the experience and mindset of making it.  All the tracks were produced either by live recording them or by composing them in a single session in the studio. This way of working allows for a free flow of thoughts and ideas, and a very quick decision-making process and results in...

Underground transformations – Lino Strangis

You can listen preview of this album on this page, buy it on our shop or on all streaming platforms and also on our Bandcamp page. In this album, which is the stylistic sequel to Along Rough Paths, the improvisations of various Synthesizers and electric guitar are joined by field recordings especially in 2 tracks which are homages to 2 artists highly esteemed by Strangis (All Them Witchies and Franco Battiato). The composition shows 9 fragments which, although going in independent directions, build a dramaturgy (understood as the writing of the action) of moments that are sometimes disconnected but only apparently. This "electrocaustic drama" embodies the metaphor of the constant, not immediately visible transformations...

Acousmatic works – Edoardo Maria Bellucci

You can listen preview of this album on this page, buy it on our shop or on all streaming platforms and also on our Bandcamp page. The collection “Acousmatic Works” arises from the desire to enclose these four “pure electronic” pieces as a result of a personal growth and evolution in musical expression through the language of acousmatic music. “A bit like a time-varying hiatus resulting from the discovery and study of the history and works by musicians and composers of the last century whom they have corrupted, raped, guided and accompanied my musical horizon and soul”. Edoardo Maria Bellucci Edoardo Maria Bellucci (1995) is an electronic/electroacoustic musician, a professional sound engineer and sound designer...

Triptych – Alla Yanovsky & Josep Manuel Berenguer

You can listen preview of this album on this page, buy it on our shop or on all streaming platforms and also on our Bandcamp page. This work is the result of a series of recording sessions that Alla Yanovsky and Josep Manuel Berenguer carried out at Hangar.org and with the collaboration of the Orquestra del Caos, in Barcelona, ​​during the month of July 2022. Triptych consists of three pieces, Movement for Daxophone & Spanish Guitar, Movement for Flute & Spanish Guitar and Movement for Daxophone, Flute & Spanish Guitar, throughout which Yanovsky and Berenguer improvised together with an ensemble of sixteen virtual music machines that, in turn, improvised from the sound material produced...

Along Rough Paths – Lino Strangis

You can listen preview of this single on this page, buy it on our shop or on all streaming platforms and also on our Bandcamp page. Lino Strangis Lino Strangis is an intermedia artist, director, performer and musician. In addition to creating the music for his video art works, interactive installations and virtual reality worlds, for years he has been engaged in free sound improvisations with many types of musical instruments. He uses many different types of synthesizers and electro-acoustic instruments such as bass and electric guitar as well as home-made instruments. Lino Strangis uses to blend musical and sound elements from different musical genres and modes and engages in various and different...

Lost it – İlk Zamanlar

You can listen preview of this single on this page, buy it on our shop or on all streaming platforms and also on our Bandcamp page. İlk Zamanlar The band is a creative duo from Istanbul, Beyoglu. Epifani Nota is an multidisciplinary artist. Dulger is a painter and a musician. İlk Zamanlar takes the inspiration from İstanbul streets and underground scenes as well as daily life, suburbians, artist struggles, nightlife in the city, personal history, socio-economic conditions in the lands, gender issues, and very subjective worldviews of various current situations, paintings, abstract atmosphere and more. The music journey started at the beginning of the pandemic. In this process, İlk Zamanlar created journeys between genres, passing...

Rio Electrico – Ricardo Cuadros Pradilla

You can listen preview of this album on this page, buy it on our shop or go to our Bandcamp page. Tracks C'est l'amour - 2018 Ricardo Cuadros Pradilla : electric guitar Composer : Patricia Martinez Rio Electrico - 2018 Ricardo Cuadros Pradilla : electric guitar Composer : Manuel Valverde Trigger - 2021 Ricardo Cuadros Pradilla : electric guitar Composer : Alejandro Aguilar Las Fuerzas de la Historia Ricardo Cuadros Pradilla : electric guitar Composer : Santiago Pedernera About the album Rio Electrico is dedicated exclusively to contemporary music for electric guitar. Through four current works by Argentine composers, the multiple possibilities of the electric guitar are explored, from its traditional sounds to expanding the limits of its natural sound. C’est L’amour (2018) A man and his guitar. A metaphor of an...