BS086 Black Square Cloudcast - Human Transfixed

"why

Do our black faces search the empty sky? 

Is there something we have forgotten? some precious thing

We have lost, wandering in strange lands?" - Arna Bontemps

Photo: "." by Frederic Desmots

00:00 The Ghost Between The Strings - Nothing Will Happen

09:07 Ownsi Lense - Elementum V

13:01 Spit It Out - Almost There (mix on MIG)

23:40 Ostensibly Ossified - Nothing to Do With Anything

27:17 _Voice - Human Error

33:39 Sanmi - Blindman

36:12 Hox Vox - Undead

40:47 Ghazaleh E - Dead Now (Antioch Arrow Cover)

43:23 Muhmood - Sunn

48:37 Hyaena Fierling Reich - Human Transfixed

52:32 Cometa - Violin_C143

BS085 Melophobia - TateLiverpool

sounds recorded inside Tate Modern in Liverpool / UK

a rainy day (8th of October 2011) 

made and intended for cassette use by Melophobia

01 - 01

BS084 Melophobia - TateModern

raw files recorded inside Tate Modern, early in a sunny morning of April 2011...

not much overproduction, but a lot of silence and real echo/ambience...

Tate Calendar : The Unilever Series: Ai Weiwei (ground / Turbine Hall),

Exhibition : Gabriel Orozco.

recording date : 08 April 2011 (Friday), Tate Modern, Bankside London UK

production / mastering date : 12 June 2011, Greece

six tracks running also as a unedited one of total time of 56'32"

another seventh track with heavier production/rework added as bonus (05'49")

made and intended for minidisc use by Melophobia

01 - 01

02 - 02 

03 - 03

04 - 04

05 - 05

06 - 06

07 - 07 (bonus track)

BS083 Sanmi - Junkie

"Dark dance music EP with sound sampled from voice of William S. Burroughs and strings of Bela Bartok."- Sanmi

01 - The Naked Lunch

02 - Bradley The Buyer

03 - Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict

04 - Words of Advice

BS082 Midnight Moodswings & Seiswork - The Dopamine Recursive

"And in the end, the beaches are left spread out into solitude waiting to be praised for their beauty. The cities creep up like hateful religions filled with nothing; but still pulchritudinous enough to entice just about anyone. The streets lie covered in cigarette butts. The pavements are stitched together with one predicament after another. A million homeless dreams holding each other’s hands and never letting go. “WALK ON US TO GIVE US PURPOSE” The million bombs and dreams that we sacredly sit on every day are the only things that define us anymore. Our prayers are like those bombs, only difference being that they implode. Singing out loud into the ocean, nobody sleeps into silence anymore." 

A collaboration record between Seiswork (Belgium) and Midnight Moodswings (USA). The record explores a mix between acoustic instrumentation, natural soundscapes and different forms of electronica.

01 - The Floor Is

02 - A Good Place

03 - Interlude- Numb As Numbers

04 - To Sleep

05 - When You Cannot

06 - Interlude- Alas! Time Never Flies

07 - Tell The Difference

08 - Between Night And Day

09 - Outro- My Problem With Daylight

BS081 Claudio Nuñez - End of a story

"I use the same modus operandi for most of my albums (except the ones that are composed): I lay some free improvised moods (usually on rhythm instruments) that serve as the frame or background for the rest of the piece... I call this process ¨real time compositions¨ as I never have any ideas or plans before the actual recording starts... When I feel that the group or orchestral feelings reflect the mood I stop adding new layers or instruments... On my solo guitar or piano sets & albums I do the same, just once... Sometimes I decide that format for the instrument group that is going to appear on the album (a piano trio, a guitar trio= piano/guitar, bass & percussion), do so that all the pieces are going to feature those elements as in real group or just limit myself to focus on one of my main instruments... Little games that add to the music a little more mystery... or (as in this album) I use any combination randomly..." - Claudio Nuñez

Electric guitar, fretlles bass, percussion & voice by Claudio Nuñez.

Recorded in January 26 & 27 2013 in Caballito, Buenos Aires.

01 - electric dream blues

02 - eternal sorrow dance 

03 - he closed his eyes...

04 - end of a story

BS080 BOOL - I eat phantom

"Style of this album is a Poem core.

Based on the impact of the Japanese sub-culture (anime, music, comedy, game, radio) it was created in a room of small dark home.

It is said to emerge from the magnificent strain of day-to-day trivial matters.

In this album, abstract language has been used in addition to the Japanese.

Even a man speaking in Japanese when listening will not understand half.

I believe that there is value in that kind of chaos." - BOOL

01 - after dark 

02 - cloud of heaven 

03 - Ancient city emerge 

04 - tacon÷tacon 

05 - vivi

BS079 Alexei Biryukoff - Train Chase

"This album is a collection of arriving and departing trains at the station in a small Siberian town Talmenka" - Alexei Biryukoff

01 - chase #001

02 - chase #002

03 - chase #003

04 - chase #004

05 - chase #005

06 - chase #006

07 - chase #007

08 - chase #008

09 - chase #009

10 - chase #010

11 - chase #011

12 - chase #012

13 - chase #013

14 - chase #014

15 - chase #015

16 - chase #016

17 - chase #017

18 - chase #018

BS078 Black Square Cloudcast - back to Avant-Garde IX

“He who has cast off the world has linked it to yellow dust

Your body is like unto a wound, and you are like unto a madman.

This entire world is a yellow arrow which has pierced you through

The yellow arrow is the train on which you ride towards a ruined bridge” - Victor Pelevin "The Yellow Arrow"

Photo: "Untitled" by Jodi DeGerlia

00:00 Aram Saroyan - Crickets [recorded in the wind-off grooves of side two] (1965)

01:55 Dariush Dolat-Shahi - Shabistan (Sehtar and Electronic) (1985)

08:18 Alexander Mossolov - Zavod, Symphony Of Machines (1926-28)

11:14 John Cage - Imaginary Landscape No.1 (1939)

18:43 Lawrence Weiner - Nothing to Lose, Side 1 (1976)

34:38 Walter Steding - Entry (1980)

36:59 Remko Scha - Guitar Mural 1 (featuring The Machines), Side A (1981)

46:22 Victor Pelevin - The Yellow Arrow (1993) 

BS077 Viktar Siamashka & Co - BIOTOPE

"Free music from “the last dictatorship in Europe”. Spontaneous improvisation. Operative composing. Something at the intercrossing of free-jazz, folk, academic and electronic music. All compositions were created together, alive, "here and now" and without the using of phonograms or rehearse fragments." - Viktar Siamashka & Co

Viktar Siamashka – winds, percussion 

Eryk Arlou-Shymus – double-bass 

Maxim Iukin – vocal, percussion

Raman Jarash – big drum 

Recorded 08/11/2012 in anticafe "Fisher House", 

Miensk, Bielarus. 

Art – Viktar Siamashka Sr.

Design - Ales Siamashka.

01 - Biotope (I, II) 

       part I (00:00 - 08:30), 

       part II (08:30 - 16:19)

02 - Risky men

03 - Without M.

04 - Thesis

05 - Dudaryki

BS076 Victor Ivaniv & MOLOTOK Ensemble - BROKEN WITH A HAMMER

BROKEN WITH A HAMMER - is a co-production album. The music of MOLOTOK Ensemble is arranged with original prose and poetry reading by Victor Ivaniv. This album reading is a part of stories from last book of Victor, “Awake Dreamer”, published in New-York`s Ailuros Publishing. The music tracks is original summa of avant-guard and classics for chamber orchestra and a piano pieces. The sharp sound of glass and the scream of violins meets here the bullfrog of storyteller. A bucklet is illustrated by photos of Nikolai Zaikov, Pavel Proskuriakov and Tatiana Suvirko. The mastering is by Alexey Muhmood Biriukov.

01 - Rothko

02 - Znamenki

03 - Sonata For Flute And Cello

04 - Sonate For Glass

BS075 Ak'chamel, The Giver of Illness - The Divine Vine Tapes

Icaro chants and yaje incantations for the spirit's journey to the other realm. All songs by AK'CHAMEL. Recorded to cassette tape.

01 - The Purge

02 - Syrian Rue

03 - Hoodoo Blood Lore 

04 - El Curandero (Native Ghost Chant)

05 - The Man Who Drank God 

06 - Infierno Verde 

07 - Money Burn 

08 - The Rebirth

BS074 Cagey House - This Flag Means be Still

"These tracks are about stasis. 

"Living Grass on I-70" started as a short percussion solo. I slowed it way down--something like 800%--until the sound became really degraded. Then I kept altering the pitch until the sonic degradations became the main voice in the track.

"The Finger Can't See" is an experiment with out of phase repetition, boredom, and annoyance.

"Delicate Clock Runs the Street" is the result of a set of rules that force harmonic motion while simultaneously preventing resolution." 

"The Second Fawn" is an arrangement of a single sample (at different pitches and durations) of a Thor's Hammer virtual synthesizer being turned off in mid-note." - Cagey House 

cover art by Brandi Strickland

01 - Living Grass on I-70

02 - The Finger Can't See

03 - Delicate Clock Runs the Street

04 - The Second Fawn

Free Pussy Riot!

Today is 1-year anniversary of 'Punk Prayer' performance by Pussy Riot. This mix is a tribute to artists who fight for values and principles of gender equality, democracy and freedom of expression.

FREE PUSSY RIOT!

00:00 Евгений Алексеев - Богородица, Путина прогони

03:31 IRREVEREND JAMES and the CRITICAL MASS CHOIR - Punk Prayer

07:24 Checkpoint 303 - Pussy Riot Kropotkin Vodka (Lo-Fi Remix)

10:46 Mukluk - Poutine Extra-Sauce Mix

16:15 Gargle & Expel - Free Pussy Riot remix

19:05 Alice Bag - Free Pussy Riot

20:18 Zorras - Weapons of minor destruction

24:06 Barbara Browning - Punk Prayer (Pussy Riot Cover)

26:01 Obiekt 172 - August 15th 2012 Pussy Riot incantations

32:10 Tresi - Pussy Riot tribute

37:32 Pussy Riot - Punk Prayer (True Womanhood RMX)

41:36 Peaches Rocks - Free Pussy Riot

44:08 Noize MC - Во имя Отца и Сына и Святого Духа

47:14 Барто - Кисья Ересь (feat. КА4) [PUSSY RIOT cover]

51:19 The Implicit Order - Political Stab At Pussy Riot

53:25 Pussy Riot - Путин зажигает костры революций

BS073 Radio for the Daydreamers - Denouement

"The final section of the triptych "Praying for the Be(a)st", "Denouement" continues and concludes the story of our protagonist through all the discrepancies and dilemmas. A realization of the power of existence and dreaming, this record tells the story of that character realizing that without an audience, a catastrophe is short lived. So eventually. it is up to him to stop fueling the fire. 

"To embrace the sunlight, 

that brought me my eyesores. 

My demons and gods. 

are only as mighty as I wish." - Radio for the Daydreamers

01 - The Tender Is Frightening

02 - Dorian, The Apathetic

03 - But Passive Aggression Is All I Have Got 

04 - Lush Black (When Will It Rain Again)

05 - Confusion Is My Birthright

06 - Lower Than Angels

07 - Everything You Can Not C# 

08 - Drawing Teeth On The Moon

09 - But Pessimism Is All I Have Got

10 - Insect Eyes (Please Wake Me Never Again)

11 - The Emotion Incomplete

12 - I See People

13 - We Are Safe And Sound

14 - I Create My Own Demons To Fight

15 - But Life Is All I Have Got

16 - The Surface Is Tension

17 - A Lone Drive Away

18 - Closure (A Reductive Totem)

BS072 pato cós - parede que me toca

"parede que me toca" reunites three works: 

"mirrita": From the sound of the machine, other sounds are perceived as organic. They are not, but the machine is built by man. The silence interrupts the machine. The animal deflagrates. It challenges it but it is not freed from it. The machine is there. So is the human;

"comoção": It begins with a blow that turns into a wave of noise. Another comes. The noise reveals itself human and makes us feel something; 

"cauterização": Reflection on the voracity of human relationships. 

Music and photography by pato cós.

01 - ignaro (i) 

02 - ignaro (ii) 

03 - sem título 

04 - ousa 

05 - comoção (i) 

06 - comoção (ii) 

07 - cauterização (i) 

08 - cauterização (ii)

09 - cauterização (iii)

10 - cauterização (iv)