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Salétile - Saturno 3 - Atm​ó​sfera 0 (KEROXEN LP, 2024)

Salétile return to the Keroxen tenfold with their second long play of 60’s inspired psychedelia and neo shoegaze tunes.

With its members hailing from a particular area of northern Tenerife with its ever present “panza de burro” —a layer of insistent low clouds overcasting the region—, the tone and feel of Salétile’s music had to be naturally clouded and sombre. A periphery sound from the periphery then, a local approach of a popular sound with a calm and serene attitude.

Emerge!

Salétile are Daniel García, Elsa Mateu and Ruymán García
Master by Daniel García�
Artwork by Gustavo García

Discrepancies #96 on Resonance Extra archived here for your back listening pleasure.

A special guest mix from Bruno Silva AKA Ondness this month, taken from a theatre piece he worked on.

Picture by Sara Vitória

Tracklist:
G. S. Sultan - Expression Vael
Boredoms - Okinawa Rasta Beef (Mockin' Fuzz)
Ale Hop & Laura Robles - Son de los diablos
Beatriz Ferreyra - UFO Forest + - 01 UFO Forest

––– Ondness Guest Mix –––
Scraps from A Infinda Apetência da Luz do Sol with voices from Sol City 2 drifting by

!!Tour alert!!

This July and August LAGOSS will hit the far east like a sneaky Island comet, blink and you'll miss it.

Their joined by the very talented AKANE (Japan and Kuala Lumpur only) and turntablist extraordinaire dj sniff (Kyoto & Tokyo only)

To celebrate the occasion LAGOSS pressed a limited edition tour tape, now available ina small preview batch from our bandcamp only.

https://lagoss.bandcamp.com/.../platano-tapes-2024-tour-tape

Otherwise come and see them blasting their live, post tropicalia nut loops in an island near you.

FULL DATES BELOW

JULY Japan
25th Osaka @ Environment 0g
26th Kyoto @ Soto
27th Kasai @ Tobira Records
28th Nagoya @ Spazio Rita
31st Tokyo @ Forestlimits

AUGUST Malaysia & Indonesia

4th Kuala Lumpur @ Moutou
10th : Bandung @ Hallway
11th : Jakarta @ TBA
12th : Yogyakarta @ Artspace Wae
15th : Semarang @ Hysteria
19th : Yogyakarta @ Mes56
24th : Bali @ Citranala

Salétile - Saturno 3 - Atmósfera 0 (Keroxen, 2014)

On Pre-Order now / Out 12th July 2024

Salétile return to the Keroxen tenfold with their second long play of 60’s inspired psychedelia and neo shoegaze tunes.

With its members hailing from a particular area of northern Tenerife with its ever present “panza de burro” —a layer of insistent low clouds overcasting the region—, the tone and feel of Salétile’s music had to be naturally clouded and
sombre. A periphery sound from the periphery then, a local approach of a popular sound with a calm and serene attitude encompassing influences as diverse and timeless as classical music, 1950s R&B, 1960s pop, hip-hop, dub, 1990s English shoegaze, concrete music, slowcore or math rock.

A loopy pot of sources from a hermetic band that is not afraid of pushing their many influences to the foreground. Emerge!

Featuring bespoke comic artwork by Gustavo Garcia

Salétile are Daniel García, Elsa Mateu and Ruymán García

🐳 OUT NOW 🐬

SUN ARAW - CETACEAN SENSATION (Limited Vinyl edition)

Composed of hydrophone recordings of whales and dolphins sourced during a summer in Galicia, ‘Cetacean Sensation’ paints an impressionistic and sensory floating canvas that expertly escapes both academic-like documentarian purposes and any new-age spa vibrations one could associate with such subject matter.

Processing those raw recordings into alluring collages that flow gracefully between moments of clear eco-location and submerged impressions of wildlife social dynamics. By the third track - Dance of the Minke - we’re introduced to this ringing MIDI tone that evokes a CD-ROM era of mystic educational programs and click-and-deploy strategies that still feel very much like an unfulfilled future, conjured again by ‘Spider Crab Elegy’s sparse keyboard pads and sound effects that give way to this properly elegiac tentative melody. ‘The Spider Crab Point’ ends the album on a more uneasy vibe, with synth tones pointing towards no particular direction, confounding and strangely inviting at the same time. As sensations often do.

Listen back to last weeks Discrepancies 2.0 Episode 4 on Stegi Radio, Athens.

https://stegi.radio/show/a-thousand-strings-2024-06-13

Entitled A Thousand Strings show this a preview like episode of recent and upcoming releases on the Discrepant and associated labels, including exclusive upfront sneak peaks of releases for 2025 and beyond.

Picture: Garajonay, La Gomera Island 2018

Tracklist:
Gonçalo F Cardoso - Réplica(s)
GAF canary islands & the Love Supreme Arkestra -Ocean Drive
Porest - Fist Dumplings
Tiago Sousa - A Thousand Strings
Banha da Cobra - Chacho
Niagara - Música para 10m2 de Relva Sintética
Vica Pacheco - Detrás del Teide
Ergo Phizmiz - 3min04secs

Discrepancies #95 archived here. Acousmatic vibes and musique concréte set pieces. Innovators and new-schoolers massage our eardrums into the deepest recesses of sound mangling. Radiophonic mass pieces, trips to the Italian coast and fears of drowning all make an appearance. Classic avant-garde? More like gourmet music sounds, old and new

Photo: View from Maus Hábitos toilet, Porto 2018

Tracklist:
Anne Gillis - Usinage en chambre des machines
Sote - Lips Seeking the Forbidden
Keith Fullerton Whitman - GRM (Redactions) (Part #2)
Ákos Rózmann - Kyrie eleison - Orgelstycke IV
Luc Ferrari - Presque Rien No.1B
C-drík - Year 2040, France is the last country on Earth to ban plastic bags
Pierre Henri - Après La Mort 1 (Fluide Et Mobilité D'un Larsen)
Dariush Dolat-Shahi - Zahab (Tar and Electronic)
Halim El-Dabh - Wire Recorder Piece (1944)
Suzanne Ciani - Yukon
Delta Derbyshire - The Sea
Anne Gillis - Ondulatoires

GAF & The Love Surpreme Arkestra (KRXN040, Keroxen)

After the resounding success of their last album “Garden Island,” released in 2021, the octet hailing from Tenerife is back with a new album titled “Ganzfeld.”

While “Garden Island” drew inspiration from the philosophy of César Manrique and his groundbreaking ecological work on the island of Lanzarote, for this new album, Gaf & The Love Supreme Arkestra turn their creative gaze to the lowland areas of northern Tenerife aka Isla Baja (the low island). Here, they envision a retro-futuristic soundtrack for a misty coastal drive, filled with humid atmospherics and expansive jams featuring their trademark blend of avant-jazz, psychedelia, and freestyle rock.

Evoking a natural synergy to the proceedings, this new work presents the octet in a more ethereal tip than its predecessor. Saxophones, trumpet, bass, guitar,
synths and marimba come together with added winds (Herreño and Vietnamese flutes) to create a wide spectrum of auditory escapism that, were it not for the
band’s aforementioned natural instincts could result into a nightmarish vision.

Another standalone work from a band that rejects banality, constant in their pursue of experimentation at the edge of the Atlantic ocean. Drive on!

Out 21st June on Keroxen.

Niagara - Música para 10m2 de Relva Sintética

Out Friday 24th May on Sucata Tapes

»Música para 10m2 de Relva Sintética« (Music for 10 square meters of synthetic grass) includes a live recording of the Niagara performing at in Lisbon on 9th April, 2020. The recording is taken directly from the concert, without any additional production or mixing.

The set begins with strong nods to US minimalism before evolving into a quirky new age affair. Later, vocal experiments and some dreamy synth excursions set the tone. The gentle sound of water splashing is almost constant, for where there is grass, there must be watering.

Listen back to Discrepancies 2.0 Episode 3 of my new Radio show on Stegi Radio, Athens.

https://stegi.radio/show/each-mile-a-dry-river-2024-05-09

Discrepancies 2.0. will only showcase music from the Discrepant label (old, past and future) as well as its sub-labels like its the case on this one, dedicated to Souk Records, the weird beats sister that's been blasting all kinds of upbeat weirdness since 2018.

Picture: Aerial view of Borneo Island, Malaysia 2016

Tracklist:
Muqata'a - Tib Al Huroof طب الحروف
Ross Alexander - Amazigh Rue - Toubkhal Stepper
Only Now - Captivity
Serpente(Bruno Silva) - Ritos de Poeira
Grup Ses - Interlude
Grup Ses - Malikane
Ross Alexander - Each Mile A Dry River - Night At The Wadi Draa Dub
Muqata'a - Thakira Jama'iya
Romperayo - La Segunda Parte de la Reforma Agraria
Only Now - Perpetual Slaughter
3Phaz - Labash
3Phaz - Sharayet
CHÚPAMEELDEDO - Amo A Mi Familia

Each Mile A Dry River w/ Gonçalo F. Cardoso (Discrepant)

OUT TODAY on Vinyl + Digital

Tupperwear - Pentagonono (KEROXEN, 2024)

Forget ‘stylish’ electronic trends, tupperwear are back with PENTAGONONO.

Geometric shapes, proportions, and divisions of vibrating elements are transmitted through the air, internalised by
humans, and transformed into music. Enter the taga nano!

Artwork by Aristides García

On Pre-order now

NIAGARA - Música para 10m2 de Relva Sintética (Tape+ Digital)

A Llve recording of an ad hoc performance by the band at MAAT museum in Lisbon, 9th April 2020.

The recording is taken directly from the concert, without any additional production or mixing.

Out 24th May 2024 on limited tape edition and digital (link in comments)

Discrepancies #94 archived here. A return to the freestyling roots that defined this show's origins 8 years ago, records pulled randomly, a bunch of new stuff - not necessarily new releases but recent listenings down at Discrepant HQ.

Photo: A rock in Santo Antão Island, Cabo Verde 2023

Tracklist:
Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling & Andreas Werliin - I
Fiesta En El Vacío - Rosal
Meitei - Kawanabe Kyosai [Pt. I]
Rafael Toral - Spectral Evolution
Memotone - Forest Zone
Andrew Pekler - Mirror Structures
Xexa - Libelula
Rafael Toral - Spectral Evolution
Jon Hassel - Hex
Joel Vandroogenbroeck - Papyrus Of Ani
M. Sage - Bendin’ In
Memotone - Lonehead
Jake Muir - Cruisin ‘87

''In 2014, noise maverick Spencer Clark recorded this psychedelic tribute to the visionary biomechanical designer. Its far-out electronic sketches are rich with visceral detail and dripping with horror.'' Sam Goldner reviews Spencer Clark's H.R. Giger's Studiolo on Pitchfork

H.R. Giger’s Studiolo: H​.​R. Giger’s Studiolo Vol​.​ 1 & Vol​. ​2 Read Sam Goldner’s review of the album.

Album of the Day: O Morto & Ayoub ElAyady - Lila (Sucata Tapes / Discrepant)

*Featured in Staff Picks - March 2024: https://theatticmag.com/news/2460/staff-picks-_-march-2024.html

Lila is the Arabic word for night and is also the name of the liturgic ceremony manifested in a trance, as a process of healing and therapy, through a ritual of sensory immersion conducted by music (gnawa), incense, colour and dance. From sunset to dawn, seven colours are revealed, associated with different rhythms and stages of ecstasy. In LILA, Ayoub ElAyady, Khalid Boulhamam and O Morto summarily travel through the seven colours of the nocturnal ritual in all its scope – using both the form of tradition and electronic manipulation.

''Sound is a prayer that creates a change, whether gradual or rapid, in the behaviour of living things, to face the demands of the time, as humans struggle to live according to what they believe.”

The new album by Indonesian instrument maker and composer, Wukir Suryadi, also known as one half of Senyawa, is out now!

''In a way it’s always going to be an alien being, its too idiosyncratic, too deeply imbued with the tics and penchants of its creator. Yet so few humans create music like this, draw these kind of connections, and structure their sounds in such a profoundly moving yet deeply eccentric way. If you’re willing to embrace uncertainty, confusion and wonder, then HR Giger’s Studiolo is a fascinating and fantastic journey to undertake – just be aware there aren’t too many guard rails.'' Bob baker Fish for Cyclic Defrost about the recent reissue of HR Giger's Studiolo

HR Giger’s Studiolo – Vol.1 & Vol.2 (Pacific City Discs/ Discrepant) Originally issued as a double cassette in 2014 under the moniker Typhonian Highlife, HR Giger’s Studiolo is a really peculiar, at times overwhelming and quite demented suite of music. It’s th…

OUT TODAY

HR Giger's Studiolo - Vol.1 & 2 (2XLP Gatefold)

An edit-reissue of this gargantuan double cassette released back in 2014 under the Typhonian Highlife moniker, ‘H.R. Giger’s Studiolo’ finds netherworld voyager Spencer Clark at a particularly beguiling conjunction of his labyrinthine-esque soundworld.

With complete disregard for linear timelines and trajectories, ‘H.R. Giger’s Studiolo’ finds both inspiration in the swiss master’s vision and the Cenobite iconography previously explored by Clark on Fourth World Magazine’s ‘Pinhead in Fantasia’. The CD Head Cenobite picture adorning the cover makes the connection more than apparent.

A sprawling, two and half hour excursion on the tape version, here properly edited down to the wax container, the first two volumes of ‘H.R. Giger’s Studiolo’ are some of Clark’s most mystifying recordings. A baroque odyssey through an hermetic maze of alien voices, warping sound effects, oneiric keyboards and a quasi-orchestral sense of space and dynamics, ‘H.R. Giger’s Studiolo’ feels like an hallucinatory fever dream still unlike everything else, either from before or after. Time doesn’t apply here, anyway.

Artwork by Spencer Clark
Mastered by Rashad Becker

O Morto & Ayoub ElAyady - Lila tape on the Attic's Best of March 2024

https://sucatatapes.bandcamp.com/album/lila

The Attic: Staff Picks - March 2024 Here's a recap of some releases from last month.

Sunday listening with Episode 2 of my new Radio show on Stegi Radio, Athens.

https://stegi.radio/show/and-the-morning-after-2024-04-11

Discrepancies 2.0. will only showcase music from the Discrepant label (old, past and future). The subtitle of this second episode, And the Morning After, is borrowed from a Charbel Haber track on an album released in 2016 (Of Palm Trees & Decomposition) a standalone work of ambient soundscapes with the electric guitar at its core, as always, you should go and seek it out.

Picture: Classroom in Lake Bunyonyi, Uganda, May 2015

Tracklist:
Felix Blume - Fog Horns
KINK GONG - Soundscape China pt1
Tasos Stamou - Boating
Cédric Stevens - Stardust
The Hour of the Wolf - The Hour of the Wolf
Charbel Haber - And the Morning After
Yannick Dauby - Penghu Experimental Sound Studio Vol2 (excerpt)
CALHAU - Naãnosim
KORAY KANTARCIOĞLU - Lamba Pr 03
EOSIN - For Beniko (Excerpt)

And The Morning After w/ Gonçalo F. Cardoso (Discrepant) A selection of lesser known tracks from the Discrepant catalogue. Delving deep into field recordings, sound art and drone soundscapes releases on the label covering the last 10 years or so.

OUT TODAY on KEROXEN

Resonance - Valediction (Vinyl + Digital)

Synthesizers, Tape Recorders and Analog Machines come together into an enchanting atmospheric album reminiscent of Eno´s, Jarre´s or Vangelis´ space-romantic compositions.

BUY: https://tinyurl.com/y46twd2m
LISTEN: https://tinyurl.com/2pjyr9vp

Resonance is the artistic alias of Javier Pérez Rodríguez (Javier Book) , a Canary Islands based producer who began his musical activity in the late nineties, blending cinematic experimental music with dancefloor sounds. After releasing several club-focused releases in recent times, he now presents this new departure – a synth based album for a soundtrack to a non-existent film featuring dreamlike compositions, filled with long, immersive passages that effortlessly blend elements of electronic, ambient, and progressive rock music.

Out Now

Hanno Leichtmann - Outerlands (Discrepant, CREP109)

A quietly influential figure among electronic and experimental circles since the late 90s, Berlin based sound artist Hanno Leichtmann has been developing a sprawling and idiosyncratic vision both as a creator and curator.

Centered around the Villa Aurora Organ, an intriguing and mostly unknown instrument built in 1928/29 by the Artcraft Organ Company in Santa Monica, California, 'Outerlands' presents a deeply personal approach to the instrument's particular properties, very much in line with Discrepant's ethos. Consisting of a pipe organ, a wall mounted marimba and a two octave tubular bells/chimes ensemble, remotely controllable by MIDI, the Villa Aurora Organ's rich palette of sounds is translated into 12 short tracks capable of conveying the mesmerising spirits of minimalism, exotica and devotional music.

Links to listen, buy etc below

Episode 1 of my new Radio show on Stegi Radio, Athens.

https://stegi.radio/show/unexpected-warmth-2024-03-14

Discrepancies 2.0. will only showcase music from the Discrepant label (old, past and future). The subtitle of this first episode, An Unexpected Warmth, is borrowed from a Bosaina track on an album released in 2017 and probably still one of my favourites on the label, you should go and seek it out.

Picture: Teide view, Tenerife, October 2023

Tracklist:
Andy Moor & Yannis Kyriakides - Minores
Vica Pacheco - Taciturno
Bosaina - Unexpected Warmth
Bosaina - A Hundred Other Longings
Mutamassik - Giulia Loli - Long Beards
Akane (Krol Gama Mach) - Nigh-Time Birds
Shela - Viagem a Granada
Malayeen - Najwa
Alexandre Centeio - Lingua Franca
Grup Ses - Planet Ses Part 1
O Morto - Ali Baba

Unexpected Warmth w/ Gonçalo F. Cardoso (Discrepant)

ANNOUNCING

HR Giger's Studiolo - Vol.1 & 2 (out on 19th April 2024)

An edit-reissue of this gargantuan double cassette released back in 2014 under the Typhonian Highlife moniker, ‘H.R. Giger’s Studiolo’ finds netherworld voyager Spencer Clark at a particularly beguiling conjunction of his labyrinthine-esque soundworld. With complete disregard for linear timelines and trajectories, ‘H.R. Giger’s Studiolo’ finds both inspiration in the swiss master’s vision and the Cenobite iconography previously explored by Clark on Fourth World Magazine’s ‘Pinhead in Fantasia’. The CD Head Cenobite picture adorning the cover makes the connection more than apparent.

A sprawling, two and half hour excursion on the tape version, here properly edited down to the wax container, the first two volumes of ‘H.R. Giger’s Studiolo’ are some of Clark’s most mystifying recordings. A baroque odyssey through an hermetic maze of alien voices, warping sound effects, oneiric keyboards and a quasi-orchestral sense of space and dynamics, ‘H.R. Giger’s Studiolo’ feels like an hallucinatory fever dream still unlike everything else, either from before or after. Time doesn’t apply here, anyway.

Artwork by Spencer Clark
Mastered by Rashad Becker

Strange episode this week (ep92), I found my Ivor Cutler records and decided to play them randomly with recent purchases as well as some other bits and bobs picked at random from from my collection, the effect is weirdly relaxing, sparse, fluid. Like a swim!

Photo: View of Teide from Bajamar, Tenerife, 2024

Yes-Kas - Jungle Book
Ivor Cutler - I, Slowly
Ivor Cutler - For Sixpence
Jon Hassell - Favela
Ivor Cutler - A Barrel Of Nails
Giuseppe Ielasi - 02
Ivor Cutler - Time
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Something Blue
Ivor cutler - Get away from the wall
Arthur Russel - Fuzzbuster #10
Ivor Cutler - Mother's Love
Alvarius B - The Dinner Party
Ivor Cutler - Phonic Poem
CZN - Liz Business
Señor Coconut - What is Coconut
Ivor Cutler - The Railway Sleepers
Hala Strana - Lament
Ivor Cutler - A Nuance
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Time Forest
Ivor Cutler - The Purposeful Culinary Implemements

Surprise drop today, a mixtape like version of O Morto's epic Lila a collaboration with Moroccan musicians Ayoub ElAyady and Khalid Boulhamam.

Lila is the Arabic word for night and is also the name of the liturgic ceremony manifested in a trance, as a process of healing and therapy, through a ritual of sensory immersion conducted by music (gnawa), incense, colour and dance. From sunset to dawn, seven colours are revealed, associated with different rhythms and stages of ecstasy.

Listen: https://www.discrepant.net/product/o-morto-lila/
Support: https://sucatatapes.bandcamp.com/album/lila

On Pre-Order, Out 29th March 2024

Hanno Leichtmann - Outerlands (Vinyl + digital)

Hanno Leichtmann comes to Discrepant with a beautiful album of organ tones, drones and odd signature arpeggios.

A quietly influential figure among electronic and experimental circles since the late 90s, Berlin based sound artist Hanno Leichtmann has been developing a sprawling and idiosyncratic vision both as a creator and curator. With a keen sense for charting new territories, Leichtmann’s work spawns a multitude of languages that go from delicate ambient excursions to techno explorations or abstract sceneries on numerous sound installations.

Centered around the Villa Aurora Organ, an intriguing and mostly unknown instrument built in 1928/29 by the Artcraft Organ Company in Santa Monica, California, 'Outerlands' presents a deeply personal approach to the instrument's particular properties, very much in line with Discrepant's ethos. Consisting of a pipe organ, a wall mounted marimba and a two octave tubular bells/chimes ensemble, remotely controllable by MIDI, the Villa Aurora Organ's rich palette of sounds is translated into 12 short tracks capable of conveying the mesmerising spirits of minimalism, exotica and devotional music.

/// Out today \\\

Alexandre Centeio - Panorama (LP + Digital)

Part of a (very) loose but somewhat like minded kaleidoscope where one can trace something like a Portuguese hauntology, centred around labels like Russian Library or Prisma Sonora Records, Alexandre Centeio joins Discrepant with the surefire release of 'Panorama'. A multi-instrumentalist and sound artist based in Porto, Centeio - who is also part of Stellarays and The Murmurous Playground - delivers his second album under his own name after 2022's 'Movanta'.

Signalling a departure from the intimate synth driven beautifully soothing landscapes of 'Movanta' while still working within a realm where space and memory play a significant part of both escapism and connection, 'Panorama' opens itself up to a "surrealistic soundscape filled with real and dreamt sound", perfectly illustrated by Ruca Bourbon’s artwork. A sonic fiction conjured from a variety of sources - hand drums, disembodied voices, scraps of unknown realities, skewed loops, oneiric collages, flutes, spectral synths - that float freely between disruption and continuity but within their own internal logic. A very particular and hallucinatory one at that, mind ya. Collapsing notions of time and geography in an aural canvas totally aligned with Discrepant's ethos. 'Panorama' indeed.

Mastered by Rashad Becker
Artwork by Ruca Bourbon

This banger is out today...slightly delayed when everything stopped making sense, it's time to stand up and resist!

To paraphrase the ever righteous Dave Watts:

''The Resistance is Fertile. ... this little document has got the weight of history running through it's circuitry. To the future that is possible....''

Muqata'a - La Lisanah La (EP) OUT TODAY on Vinyl

WEB: http://tinyurl.com/4dyvu4ds
Bandcamp: http://tinyurl.com/4594pn8s