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Yellow6
- Reflect
MP3
Album 2018 | Silber 274
32
tracks, 332 minutes
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Whenever
you reach a milestone, it's natural to reflect. Reflect on the past,
your achievements, the possible futures. In 1998 the first Yellow6
record was released, two sides of a 7" single totaling about nine
minutes of music. Twenty years on, comes Reflect - a set of thirty-two
pieces & five & a half hours of music. Not a
retrospective, best of, or greatest hits that you would expect to mark
this anniversary, but essentially five albums worth of new music. For
long time fans, Reflect showcases the process & creativity of
Yellow6, for newcomers it's a perfect opportunity to here a project
continuing to explore & find new sounds after two decades.
: Listen to the track Looking
Glass 7
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Chvad SB
- Intone Drone
MP3 Album 2018 | Silber 275
1 track, 63 minutes
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For
decades Chvad SB has been following his own muse, creating music that
fulfills his personal interests & so he does again in his
latest exploration Intone Drone. Beginning January 17, 2018 &
continued for 15 hours every weeknight after 5pm EST streaming from his
studio to whomever happened upon it via Shoutcast, Chvad was sculpting
a new drone piece. Each passing day a new element was either introduced
into, removed from or changed within the drone. Three weeks later the
drone ended. Unsure at the beginning of the project how long it would
last, on the 21st day it felt complete. For this release, segments of
each 15 hour day were arranged to create a complete remnant for this
first installment of Intone Drone. It's the mixture of meditation
& sleep soundtrack you didn't realize you were looking for,
because the more personal & necessary to be made music is,
somehow the more universal it also is.
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Drone
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Konbanwa
- Live Flaying
MP3 EP 2018 | Silber 276
1 track, 22 minutes
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Led
by Rowland Yeargan, Konbanwa is a project of loose composition
& lots of improvisation. On Live Flaying Yeargan asked
collaborators to show up with cymbals & like-minded instruments
(including glockenspiel, Tibetan bowls, & thunder tubes) while
Yeargan himself played simple synthesizer, floor tom, & cymbal.
Collaborators included Brian John Mitchell, Bryce Eiman, Armani
Mavinga, Will Bridges, Chris Acker, Aya McGee, Tyler Billman, Andrew
Harper, Sarah Dakin, & Keith Aazami. The result is a sound that
mixes world music with no wave, eastern hypnotics with noise, drone
with gamelan. Let the sonic waves shimmer over you.
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Flaying
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Luka Fisher
- Internecine Vampires
MP3 Album 2018 | Silber 273
5 tracks, 18 minutes
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Internecine
Vampires is Luka Fisher's longest EP to date. This record is
a continuation of Fisher's last two records Sleep Gallery
& Mind Drone Business. This release is a
free wheeling exploration of un-winnable situations & social
conflict that drew inspiration from everything from chess, Star Trek,
& Timothy Leary to considering the ways in which social groups
too often fail to connect in meaningful ways. Fisher was also thinking
about how queer & trans individuals are too often placed in the
unwinnable situation of being evaluated on their ability to "pass"
& considered inauthentic in relation to the "authentic"
dominant culture. Rather than repeat these moves ad nauseam we need to
imagine new games & new ways of being. The unwinnable situation
is an invitation to redefine the terms of success; to imagine different
ways of being & of relating to the world & those around
you; to reject simple binaries & to reject the internecine
vampires that lurk within ourselves & our culture. Individuals
are meant to be recognized as just that, individuals. Think on
& drone on.
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track Maru
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