Ventil Records

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NEW RELEASE

Martina Claussen & Katharina Klement
ALCHEMICAL ALLURES
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»Alchemical Allures« is the first album by the duo Claussen/Klement, founded in 2019.

With a unique instrumentation of voice, objects, zither and electronics, the artists have created a soundscape composed of field recordings, vocal and instrumental elements as well as electronically generated sounds and noises.

All the tracks on this album were recorded during a residency at the Center National de Création Musicale GMEA in Albi-Tarn in July 2022.

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RENT - Kill A Phantom
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New Release by Rent out now!
Available via bandcamp.

Rent ist the pseudonym of artist and ecologist Katrin Euller. Rent’s sounds refer to industrial ecosystems, interconnections, dark landscapes and their stories and the stories of those who inhabit these places. At the same time, it is the processes of sound creation itself that emerge in Rent’s compositions: sounds influence each other, reinforce each other, cancel each other out, dissolve and become noise, sound like the city, a car alarm for example. Then everything gets lost in the fog again.

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schtum - SKULPTUR

New digital RELEASE today!

Available via Bandcamp >> find Link in Bio

SKULPTUR captures a live performance of the Viennese duo in a studio environment. Equipped with electric guitar and bass, they introduce live re-sampling techniques and heavy use of stereo panorama effect pedals to weave layers of fluid rhythmic structures. This sculpture of sound is constantly morphing but never ceases to exist. Blasting clouds of distorted harmony, schtum are reimagining their own narrative of epic storytelling.

Credits:
Music by Manu Mayr & Robert Pockfuß
Recorded & produced by schtum
Mastering by Daniel Lercher
Cover Art by schtum

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We are pleased to present our new artist-in-residence program in cooperation with Westbahnstudios.

This year, four great international artists will spend some time in Vienna to work on new projects: Yuko Araki, Mark Fell, Mariam Rezaei & Victoria Shen. The residency always ends with a performance by the respective artists at the Westbahnstudios.






Our first guest is none other than Mark Fell, who has been residing and experimenting at Westbahnstudios together with Studio Dan for some time now.

The final performance of his stay will already take place in two days on May 31, 2024 from 8 pm in the Westbahnstudios. We are also very pleased that the second concert of the evening will be contributed by Stefan Juster alias Jung an Tagen.

PROGRAM
31.05.2024 - WBS - Preysinggasse 5, 1150 Vienna
20:00 doors
21:00 performances by MARK FELL & STUDIO DAN, JUNG AN TAGEN

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Curated and organized by Isabella Forciniti, Peter Kutin & Ursula Winterauer





Kindly supported by SKE, MA7 Musik & BMKOES.

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KŒNIG - For Anton
Works for Marimba, Amplified Cymbal & Synthesizer

Happy to announce new Kœnig Album!
Available via Bandcamp.



Credits:
Music by Lukas Koenig
Marimba Recorded by Lukas Koenig and Pablo Herrasti
Glitches+Clicks by Pablo Herrasti (4, 5, 7)
Organ by Kit Downes (4)
Mixed and Sonically Optimized by Markus Wallner
Photo by Lukas König
Cover artwork by Camp Comfort
Produced by Lukas Koenig

Lukas König on his release:
The process initially began with the purchase of a Marimbaphone by my grandfather Anton Koenig for me in 2004 whence deciding between Classical Percussion or Jazz Drums for my studies.

Since I ultimately chose the latter, this alien object was awkwardly lingering around my various apartments and rehearsal rooms in Vienna for almost 20 years. In 2022, I picked it up and started practicing with 4 mallets and a knowhow of morphing rhythms and ideas. Moreover, the composing process began to sample all the moments, where the 3 Freeze pedals bled into each other and created roomy drones. These “Freezes“ were again sought out and produced with my not-long-ago-created “amplified cymbal” sounds and a bunch of synthesizers, like the Prophet5, to create an album-length piece of music. At the end of the process, I wanted to dedicate this to my grandfather, who taught me drums, and so much more about music and life.

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INGRID SCHMOLINER - MNEEM

available as fine art pigmentprint & download

The composer and pianist Ingrid Schmoliner writes and plays music the allure of which cannot be resisted. Her pieces are ecstatic cascades of sound which unite formal strictness and psychoactive effects. Her new work MNEEM is a musical monolith.It is a breathtaking one hour plus tour de force through complex uptempo pattern, played on the prepared grand piano.

MNEEM is available as a high quality fine art pigment print on Photo Rag Baryta paper, size 30,7 x 30,7 cm (vinyl sized) with download code as well as a digital release.
There are 15 different prints that are only available twice in this edition.
All the stones were collected by the artist from rivers and the sea on her travels. Those are stones that accompany Ingrid Schmoliner with beauty/haptics/ depth and consciousness. On each print it is written from which water and landscape those stones were found.

Composed & performed by Ingrid Schmoliner
Recorded by Alexander Yannilos
Mixed & mastered by Martin Siewert
Photographs by Maria Frodl
Graphic works by Hannah Mayr
Poem written by Andrew Choate

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VENTIL RECORDS 2023

Recap of last years releases:

▫️PLF - ParziFoooooooooooL (lp/dl)
▫️KUTIN - The Slowest Urgency
▫️BILLY ROISZ - Bajo (lp/dl)
▫️KŒNIG - 1 Above Minus Underground (lp)

These wonderful releases were realized last year, thanks to & Billy Roisz. Love working with you!

Available via bandcamp 🤍

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Debut Album by TEARING is out today.

The collaboration between Lens Kühleitner (Lan Rex) and Manu Mayr began in spring 2022. From an initial meeting, a shared vision for a new joint project quickly emerged.

In their work, the two musicians deal with the hyperreality and artificiality of sounds. They draw on the rich potential of their diverse musical roots and skillfully move from ethereal clearness to sophisticated sound collages. TEARING irresistibly pulls the listener into an immersive space, takes them by the hand and inevitably releases them back into silence.

Composer/Lyricist/Producer all tracks
Lens Kühleitner & Manu Mayr

Recorded & Mixed by Manu Mayr
Mastered by Q***r Ear Mastering
Logo Design by Irene Landa
Layout by Lens Kühleitner

DL on all digital platforms
Available via Bandcamp

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Happy to welcome TEARING (Lens Kühleitner & Manu Mayr) on Ventil Records with ‘all sides find insides’ out on January 12th 2024.

Composer/Lyricist/Producer all tracks
Lens Kühleitner & Manu Mayr

Recorded & Mixed by Manu Mayr
Mastered by Q***r Ear Mastering
Graphics by Irene Landy
Layout by Lens Kühleitner

Pre-order via link in bio 🦋

If you happen to be in Berlin Thursday night join us for a Ventil Records Night at !

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doors 21:00
concerts 21:30

live
ISABELLA FORCINITI
GISCHT
KOENIG
KUTIN+LUDWIG WANDINGER

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THE GRAND AND GLORIOUS PARTY
10th & 12th August 2023, , 21:00

We are celebrating our 8th year of existence and as part of this we’re joining an extraordinary & insane project for which the term seems to be accurate.

>>> Tickets & Info via link in bio

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following artists on stage or involved:




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takeya
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We are pleased to announce an album submission of the new duo TEARING. Their album “all sides find insides” will be released later this year.

For now you can listen to the single INVERT or pre-order the whole album via our bandcamp shop.

CREDITS
Composer/Lyricist/Producer
Lens Kühleitner .rex.1 & Manu Mayr
Mixed by Manu Mayr
Mastered by

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New album BAJO by Billy Roisz is out now!

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Billy Roisz has been a driving force in the experimental music scene for many years. She is widely known and has earned critical acclaim for her artistic work, which ranges from cinematic to pure audio-works, as she presents with this new album. Her last solo-release »Walking The Monkey« dates back to 2012 (Editions Mego) and now she unveils her successor: »BAJO«

A sonic exploration of double bass from a nosey and refreshingly innocent point of view.

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composed, performed, mixed & produced by billy roisz
additional recording & mixing support by dieter kovačič
mastered by martin siewert

paintings by billy roisz
graphic design by

FRAGILITY OF SOUNDS made it in The WIRE Magazine's top 50, very close to top ten to be exact, thank you !!

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https://ventil-records.bandcamp.com/album/fragility-of-sounds

The music released on this album was composed and performed over the years 2019–2021 within the framework of the artistic research project »On the fragility of sounds«.
This project listened into intersections of contemporary composition, music theatre, and feminist practice from a unique position: from the position of the artist themselves while being at work.

>> Susanne Kirchmayr / Electric Indigo

>> Elaine Mitchener

>> Elisabeth Schimana

>> Séverine Ballon

>> Pia Palme

>> Sonja Leipold

>> Molly McDolan & Ana Inés Feola

>> Rosie Middleton

>> Schallfeld Ensemble

As the title indicates, possible themes for this compositional exploration were interactions, relationships, and interferences between sounds and space, movement, bodies, cultures, and politics. What are we exploring when we approach sounds as fragile?

The artists Electric Indigo a.k.a. Susanne Kirchmayr, Elaine Mitchener, Elisabeth Schimana and Séverine Ballon were invited to compose and realise music around the fragility of sounds - alongside the initiator and main researcher of this project, composer/performer Pia Palme. All of them were informed about the theme and chose their unique, individual approach. They were free to determine the format and duration of their piece while observing their own process.

Book >Sounding Fragilities. An Anthology< by Irene Lehmann & Pia Palme >>
https://www.wolke-verlag.de/musikbuecher/lehmann-palme-sounding-fragilities/

More Info on the project >>
www.fragilityofsounds.org

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https://www.yearendlists.com/2022/wire-top-50-albums-of-2022

Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2022 The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2022

Elaine Mitchener's Track "Owner's Manual: Version 1 Form" from the recently released compilation "FRAGILITY OF SOUNDS" is featured on The WIRE Magazine's office playlist, thank you! 🫧

full compilation on our Bandcamp >>
https://ventil-records.bandcamp.com/album/fragility-of-sounds


Pia Palme Electric Indigo Rosie Middleton Schallfeld Ensemble

Office Ambience 466 - The Wire Stream a selection of tracks we listened to during the making of our December 2022 issue

A few days left to relisten!

musikprotokoll Ö1 Pia Palme Elaine Mitchener Electric Indigo

>FRAGILITY OF SOUNDS< Compilation on Bandcamp >>>
https://ventil-records.bandcamp.com/album/fragility-of-sounds

https://oe1.orf.at/programm/20221117/698245/Pia-Palme-und-Susanne-Kogler-ueber-feministisches-Komponieren

Pia Palme und Susanne Kogler über feministisches Komponieren | DO | 17 11 2022 | 23:03 musikprotokoll 2022. Sounding Fragilities

Recommendation for Wednesday, November 2nd !
FRAGILE SOUNDINGS | Music & Discourse | 19:30
Echoraum | Sechshauser Straße 66

Susanne Kogler (discourse) · Pia Palme (media composition, video) · Electric Indigo (live performance) · Veza Fernández (workshop on voice) · Elaine Mitchener (live performance) · Séverine Ballon (Violoncello, live)

An evening focusing on the compilation "fragility of sounds" (Ventil, 2022) and the book "Sounding Fragilities. An Anthology" (Irene Lehmann & Pia Palme, Verlag Wolke 2022) as results of the PEEK project "On the fragility of sounds" (2019-2022).

http://ventil-records.com/fragility-of-sounds

https://www.wolke-verlag.de/musikbuecher/lehmann-palme-sounding-fragilities/

More info >>
https://echoraum.at/sounding-fragilities/

(c) Pia Palme

The last weekend of this year’s UNSAFE+SOUNDS Festival is ahead! Join us today at Zacherlfabrik for a very special U+S x Ventil Records Cooperation:

Finally we are celebrating the release of FRAGILITY OF SOUNDS with concerts by Pia Palme, Sonja Leipold and Electric Indigo, presenting pieces from this mesmerizing compilation 🧡

After that amazing Rojin Sharafi will provide us with one of her versatile live sets >>>

18:30
Fragility of Sounds I.: Pia Palme & Sonja Leipold (live)

19:30
Fragility of Sounds II.: Electric Indigo „Brittle“ (live)

Join us already for the discourse program starting from 16:00, and after the concerts at Zacherlfabrik the U+S experience is traveling further to !

For more infos, also about tomorrow morning’s afterhour, follow and check the website unsafeandsounds.com

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You can find FRAGILITY OF SOUNDS as well as ROJIN SHARAFI - KARIZ on our Bandcamp

The compilation FRAGILITY OF SOUNDS is out now >>

https://ventil-records.bandcamp.com/album/fragility-of-sounds

The music released on this album was composed and performed over the years 2019–2021 within the framework of the artistic research project »On the fragility of sounds«.
This project listened into intersections of contemporary composition, music theatre, and feminist practice from a unique position: from the position of the artist themselves while being at work.

>> Susanne Kirchmayr / Electric Indigo

>> Elaine Mitchener

>> Elisabeth Schimana

>> Séverine Ballon

>> Pia Palme

>> Sonja Leipold

>> Molly McDolan & Ana Inés Feola

>> Rosie Middleton

>> Schallfeld Ensemble

As the title indicates, possible themes for this compositional exploration were interactions, relationships, and interferences between sounds and space, movement, bodies, cultures, and politics. What are we exploring when we approach sounds as fragile?

The artists Electric Indigo a.k.a. Susanne Kirchmayr, Elaine Mitchener, Elisabeth Schimana and Séverine Ballon were invited to compose and realise music around the fragility of sounds - alongside the initiator and main researcher of this project, composer/performer Pia Palme. All of them were informed about the theme and chose their unique, individual approach. They were free to determine the format and duration of their piece while observing their own process.

Book >Sounding Fragilities. An Anthology< by Irene Lehmann & Pia Palme >>
https://www.wolke-verlag.de/musikbuecher/lehmann-palme-sounding-fragilities/

More Info on the project >>
www.fragilityofsounds.org

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Andra Nicolayi wrote this nice article displaying a big part of Vienna's experimental music scene for Bandcamp Daily, check it out !

https://daily.bandcamp.com/scene-report/vienna-electronic-experimental-scene-report?utm_source=notification

Idklang Subletvis Anfang Von Ende Shilla Strelka Rojin Sharafi Lukas Koenig Audrey Chen Julien Desprez Tony Renaissance Dino Spiluttini Sounds Q***r? Ashida Park Ursula Winterauer Peter Kutin and many more

New, Weird Vienna While the mainstream view of the city's music scene might be stuffy and conservative, the electronic avant-garde in Vienna is thriving.

That was our two days festival cooperation Parken + Ventil Records - Thanks to everyone making this happen, all the artists and audience coming around ! 🤍

Rojin Sharafi & HUUUM / Paul Ebhart / Misonica/ Andrea Ida / Andreas Trobollowitsch, Alexander Kranabetter, Martin Eberle / Christina Vantzou / Kisling / BOBBY WOULD / Fabian Lanzmaier / Subletvis/Mo Nahold / Susanna Gartmayer / Inou Ki Endo/Shilla Strelka / Zacherlfabrik

Photos by David Višnjić

FRAGILITY OF SOUNDS - OUT NOW

>> https://ventil-records.bandcamp.com/album/fragility-of-sounds

The music released on this album was composed and performed over the years 2019–2021 within the framework of the artistic research project »On the fragility of sounds«.
This project listened into intersections of contemporary composition, music theatre, and feminist practice from a unique position: from the position of the artist themselves while being at work.

As the title indicates, possible themes for this compositional exploration were interactions, relationships, and interferences between sounds and space, movement, bodies, cultures, and politics. What are we exploring when we approach sounds as fragile?
The artists Electric Indigo a.k.a. Susanne Kirchmayr, Elaine Mitchener, Elisabeth Schimana and Séverine Ballon were invited to compose and realise music around the fragility of sounds - alongside the initiator and main researcher of this project, composer/performer Pia Palme. All of them were informed about the theme and chose their unique, individual approach. They were free to determine the format and duration of their piece while observing their own process.

In cooperation with the composers, the ensemble Schallfeld, based in Graz, Austria performed, premiered, and recorded the commissioned ensemble works featured on this album. Due to the pandemic crisis, composers had to communicate online at times, and some of the works could not be performed in public.

In this singular research setting, the artistic process of the composer/performers themselves was at the core of this exploration. Anchored to the Center of Gender Studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, the project was conducted by Palme in collaboration with the musicologist and cultural worker Christina Fischer-Lessiak, with funding by the FWF Austrian Science Fund (PEEK AR537) and additional monies from the Mariann Steegmann Foundation and the Land Steiermark (Province of Styria). Further research associations included the theatre scholar Irene Lehmann. Palme also composed pieces for music theatre, such as WECHSELWIRKUNG (2020), which are not covered in Ventil’s album.

One could say, the processes of the artists Palme, Schimana, Mitchener, Kirchmayr, and Ballon, composing and realising their music, served as living case studies for »On the fragility of sounds«. It was central that the composers themselves would reflect on their own practice and observations. Interviews, panel discussions, lectures, and concert talks offered platforms for communication, discourse, and exchange.

The book »Sounding Fragilities. An Anthology« (Lehmann & Palme 2022) published by Wolke offers insights into the field of exploration and the research findings, featuring over twenty contributions by composers, performers, musicologists, and theatre scholars—including, for example, Malik Sharif, Chaya Czernowin, Liza Lim, Gérman Toro Pérez, Suvani Suri, and Veza Fernández. Artist Susanne Kirchmayr wrote her essay »The development of Brittle. On the delicacies of minerals« about her work as composer/performer for this anthology.

credits

Elaine Mitchener - Owner’s Manual (2020/2021)
for ensemble
realised by Schallfeld in two versions Form and Free
conducted by Leonhard Garms
performed by Schallfeld Ensemble:
Szilárd Benes (cl), Lorenzo Derinni (vln), Francesca Piccioni (vla), Myriam Garcia Fidalgo (vlc), Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka (db), Maria Flavia Cerrato (pft)
recorded, mixed and mastered by Stefan Warum

Elisabeth Schimana - Virus #3.5 Schatten (2020/2021)
for bass clarinet, double bass, piano, electronics
performed by Elisabeth Schimana (elec) & Schallfeld Ensemble:
Szilárd Benes (bcl), Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka (db), Maria Flavia Cerrato (pft)
recorded, mixed and mastered by Stefan Warum

Séverine Ballon - Au travers des paupières closes (2020/2021)
for vcl solo, vln, vla, vlc, db
performed by Séverine Ballon (vlc solo) & Schallfeld Ensemble:
Lorenzo Derinni (vln), Francesca Piccioni (vla), Myriam Garcia Fidalgo (vlc), Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka (db)
live-recorded and mastered by Stefan Warum

Electric Indigo - Brittle (2021)
for electronics
performed and recorded by Electric Indigo
mastered by Martin Siewert

Pia Palme - Kreidebleich (2019-21)
for harpsichord with optional video
performed by Sonja Leipold (hpd)
recorded, mixed and mastered by Lukas Turnovsky, Treehouse Studios Vienna


Pia Palme - More Radically (2019)
for mezzo, bass recorder and spoken voice
Text and concept by Pia Palme
realised by Rosie Middleton (mezzo) and Pia Palme (bass recorder & voice)
recorded, mixed and mastered at Banff Centre of the Arts Studios

Pia Palme - Eins & Doppelt (2019/2020)
for two oboe da caccia instruments
performed by Molly McDolan and Ana Inés Feola (oboe da caccia)
recorded, mixed and mastered by Christoph Amann, Amann Studios Vienna

Pia Palme - Weiterung (2021)
for ensemble with brec solo & spoken voice
Text by Pia Palme
performed by Pia Palme (bass recorder, spoken voice). Séverine Ballon (vlc) & Schallfeld Ensemble:
Lorenzo Derinni (vln), Francesca Piccioni (vla), Myriam Garcia Fidalgo (vlc), Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka (db)
live-recorded and mastered by Stefan Warum

Website: www.fragilityofsounds.org

SUBLETVIS >> Not The Whole Truth>Not The Whole TruthRaveonCore feat. Tony RenaissanceEntity< are out on all Platforms and to celebrate the upcoming LP Subletvis premieres a fourth one now, >Talk To Me< out now via KALTBLUT Magazine.

PREORDER HERE >>>
https://subletvis.bandcamp.com/

Artwork by Rebecca Merlic
Art direction and design by A Gesture Of
Photo by Paula Tschira
Mixed and mastered by Dino Spiluttini

https://soundcloud.com/subletvis
https://www.instagram.com/subletvis
https://twitter.com/subletvis
https://www.subletvisions.net

Another new single by Subletvis is hitting today::: Core feat. Tony Renaissance is out now!!

https://subletvis.bandcamp.com/track/core-feat-tony-renaissance
https://soundcloud.com/subletvis/core-feat-tony-renaissance

written and produced by
additional production, lyrics and vocals by
spoken word by
mix & master by Dino Spiluttini
artwork by
released via

Have you listened yet? SUBLETVIS - Raveon // New Single is OUT NOW // >>>
https://subletvis.bandcamp.com/track/raveon-2
https://soundcloud.com/subletvis/raveon

Raveon Credits:
Photo by Paula Tschira
Written & Produced by Subletvis
Artwork in collaboration with ML & Klimentina Li
Mixed & mastered by Dino Spiluttini

Friday, 13.05.2022, 19:30

Vienna’s oldest, currently reborn cinema, the Breitenseer Lichtspiele put a focus on the
cinematic works of the duo kutin|kindlinger -
in order to present their new 5.1 sound-system:

Heat (2020)
Desert Bloom (2016)
GenI # # # (2019)
The Fifth Wall (2017)
+
Sonic body2.0 (2022) by NO1

AFTER SHOW CONCERTS :
Florian Kindlinger plays PULP (AV)
Isabella Forciniti & Peter Kutin (Electronics & lights)

https://breitenseer-lichtspiele.at/event/wenn-klaenge-bilder-schaffen/
http://kutinkindlinger.com
http://isabella.kling.org
http://kutin.xyz

Wenn Klänge Bilder schaffen - BSL - Breitenseer Lichtspiele Ein Kinoabend ganz im Zeichen der neuen Kinotechnik Wir freuen uns über die nun abgeschlossene Modernisierung der Technik in den Breitenseer Lichtspielen. Mit neuem digitalen Projektor, Tonanlage und Leinwand gibt es für unsere Besucher Bild und Ton in bester Qualtiät. Ermöglicht durch Förderun...

SUBLETVIS - Raveon // New Single OUT NOW // >>>
https://subletvis.bandcamp.com/track/raveon-2
https://soundcloud.com/subletvis/raveon

Raveon Credits:
Written, produced & artwork by Subletvis
Mixed & mastered by Dino Spiluttini