Donato Dozzy Album, Fahmi Mursyid, and Alessandro Di Puccio Next on Grand River’s One Instrument

Grand River‘s One Instrument has announced its next three releases, including Donato Dozzy‘s “most psychedelic” album to date. 

As the name implies, One Instrument releases music made with just one instrument. Dozzy’s One Instrument Sessions album was recorded entirely with the legendary EMS Synthi AKS synthesizer, all in one take, with no samples and no effects other than the reverb. We can expect a 38-minute journey, split in two parts to fit onto vinyl, produced in his San Felice Circeo studio during an “altered state” night. It will be One Instrument’s fifth release. 

Numbers three and four come in the shape of a mini-album from Indonesian experimentalist Fahmi Mursyid, and a 7″ by Italian Jazz vibraphonist Alessandro Di Puccio. 

Mursyid’s mini-album, limited to 200 pressings, includes six tracks that take the listener on a warm, experimental journey of varying timbres. Mursyid chose to use Indonesian instruments for almost all of the tracks on the 12’’. 

Alessandro Di Puccio’s One Instrument Sessions will be limited to 100 copies. It’s the label’s most minimal work to date, made of three one-take vibraphone tracks recorded 18 years ago.

Grand River (a.k.a Aimée Portioli) released her debut album on Donato Dozzy’s Spazio Disponibile this year, and she’s going to announce her new full-length soon. 

Tracklistings 

Fahmi Mursyid One Instrument Sessions

Out: September 6  

01. Hening (Saron) 

02. Wirama (Kendang) 

03. Denting (Rösler Piano 50’s) 

04. Halaman (Karinding) 

05. Dentum (Bonang) 

06. Alunan (Pan Flute) 

Alessandro Di Puccio One Instrument Sessions 

01. Autumn Jig 

02. Wandering 

03. Transparent Shapes 

Out: November 1 

Donato Dozzy One Instrument Sessions 

01. Slow Train Part 1 (EMS Synthi AKS) 

02. Slow Train Part 2 (EMS Synthi AKS) 

Out: December 6

Kontext “Glitter Wave”

Ukraine label Subself has released its first cassette compilation focusing on both originals and remixes from the label residents, among them Animous, Spigl, and Kontext. “Glitter Wave,” from the latter of these names, real name Stanislav Sevostyanikhin, is a deep and hypnotic jam with smooth vocals. In support of the release, out now, we’re offering it as one of today’s free downloads via the WeTransfer button below, or here for EU readers.  

Tracklisting

A side 

01. Kontext “Glitter Wave”

02. Juho Kahilainen “Soitimella” (Animous Remix)

03. Echologist “Reward” (Spigl Remix)

04. Juho Kahilainen “Exhausted”

B side

01. Animous “Rudra” (RDMA Remix)

02. Subforms “Blowback”

03. Moonbearmatic “Sunshine”

04. Vadim Griboedov “Lustprinzip” (Kontext remix)

Watch a Video of the Making of Ohm Hourani’s New Concept Album

Jazz of the Machine is a new concept album written and recorded by Ohm Hourani, out now on his Anoma imprint. 

The project employs a modular synthesizer to create its own sound patterns, which Hourani then modifies and fine-tunes while matching the patterns with rhythmic structures and further musical explorations by several of Hourani’s collaborators. 

Now, to give further insight into the project and the album’s creation, Hourani has released a video directed by Anthony Sifoni that details the concepts and various challenges experienced while making the record. 

You can watch the video in full below, with the album available here.

Indian Modular Artist Ose Delivers ‘Poignant Meditation on Vulnerability’ with Album Debut

Ose will deliver her debut album via her own Ghunghru sound imprint in September. 

With and Without is described as a “45-minute poignant meditation on vulnerability and an exhilarating exploration of the coming together of two discrete and far-removed worlds.” 

Ose trained as a Hindustani classical vocalist in New Delhi and possesses a deep knowledge of this ancient art. She’s been based in San Francisco for the last eight years but found her way into modular synthesis only a year ago. Using analog synthesizers, drum machines, and her voice, she crafts a lush interplay between Hindustani music and ambient textures, with emphasis on immersion, distorted rhythm, and disorienting glitch. All her previous work has come through Ghunghru. 

The album will premiere in Berlin in July at Golem, an immersive dance performance. The first of its kind, it offers a live showing in virtual reality viewable from anywhere in the world with a VR headset. The entire album will be danced to in the performance. 

Artwork and visuals for the album are by visual artist Aishwarya Vardhana.

Tracklisting

01. I Feel Incomplete Without Sound

02.  Drown Out The Noise With Your Silence

03. Just Like A Dragonfly

04. Is It Love

With & Without LP lands September 5 via Ghunghru. 

The Newcomer Shares New Single Ahead of Album Debut via Astro Nautico

The Newcomer has shared “Love In The End Times,” a new single ahead of his album debut coming later this year via Astro Nautico. 

The Newcomer first made waves across the early 2010s as upstart producer Young Montana?, but slunk back into the shadows shortly thereafter. He recently re-emerged with series of shadowy EPs for cult imprints Opal Tapes and patten’s 555-5555. 

“Love In The End Times” is the first song in a body of work that was born out of an out of body experience—a “fugue state”—where everything became alien to him. In this state, he lost all his music, and so had to build his entire library from scratch again. The track itself is inspired by John Frusciante’s now-deleted home recordings LP from the mid-90s. “There’s a strange charisma to those songs, performed as if no-one would ever hear them, a vibe I channel in my own work,” he says. 

Love In The End Times is available now via Astro Nautico. 

More on the album will come soon. 

Tom Trago Reflects on Amsterdam Studio Nights with Warm and Fuzzy New Single

Tom Trago has shared a new single, Saudade. 

The release title is the Portuguese word for the emotional state of nostalgia or longing for something or someone. It’s a feeling that has hit Trago as a response to his new life on the Netherlands’ North Sea-facing West Coast. While happy in his new home studio, Trago found his mind wandering back to happy days and nights spent jamming with friends in his basement studio beneath Volkshotel in Amsterdam.

Saudade was made during one of those all-night sessions alongside JP Enfant, a DJ-producer known for his residency at De School. 

The A-side “Main Mix” fizzes with excitement. Sentimental, emotion-stirring chords, lilting lead lines, chiming melodies, and ecstatic electronics rise above a chunky, hot-stepping drum machine rhythm. It’s nostalgic but immediate, described as “a musical marriage of two giddy producers living for the moment.” 

On the flip is the “Ambient Mix,” with all immersive synthesizer chords, yearning musical motifs, and seductive melodies. 

Tracklisting

A1. Saudade (Main Mix)

B1. Saudade (Ambient Mix)

Saudade is out now, with clips below. 

Lavender / Hugo R.A. Paris Next on Jacktone with New Album

Next on Jacktone is a new album from Lavender / Hugo R.A. Paris. 

Threaded Habitat follows two popular releases on Jacktone, 2015’s Mystique Youth and 2016’s Horizons Beneath The Surface, which both appeared under his Lavender alias. The transition to Hugo R.A. Paris—his debut under his given name—marks a “more personal shift in approach,” the label explains. 

The album combines ambient textures and techno rhythms to reflect tension between humanity and nature, particularly the cyclical nature of collapse and renewal. It’s said to “capture moments of claustrophobia and bliss,” and was mostly recorded in layers of single takes with minimal processing to preserve its raw emotion and embrace minor imperfections. It comes accompanied by three videos and a sample pack. 

It also marks Jacktone’s first collaborative release with the record store and label Beacon Sound. Beacon Sound is an important node in Portland, where Paris also lives and developed the flagship modular product for leading Eurorack manufacturer 4MS: the SWN (pronounced “swan”.) The album’s closing track was entirely composed on a SWN prototype and recorded in one take. 

Tracklisting:

A1. Hypnosis

A2. Orb of Truth

A3. Nurture

A4. Medieval Vessel

B1. Convent Clustered

B2. Crooked Gears

B3. Heliophagis

Threaded Habitat is available for pre-order today. The handmade vinyl package will be released July 19 through Jacktone and Beacon Sound’s webshops, with worldwide sales beginning August 2. A remix release will arrive later in the Fall.

Peter Ibbetson “Thistle Hotels”

Peter Ibbetson has revealed Control Yourself, a new EP after last year’s Rivals. 

Ibbetson, a London-based producer, and multi-instrumentalist, uses live drums, analogue synthesisers, and drum machines to create a sound that encompasses electronica, house, techno, post-rock, and ambient elements. He cut his teeth touring as part of the live outfits for George FitzGerald and Makeness. 

Control Yourself is a heady mix of analog synthesisers, live drums, and expansive soundscapes that create a multi-textured, layered journey. It draws influence from Boards of Canada, Caribou, Tortoise, Four Tet, LCD Soundsystem, and Aphex Twin. 

“Control Yourself is a reaction to the idea of restricting yourself in creating music, forcing yourself to break away from your creative habits, and open your ears and head to new possibilities,” Ibbetson says. 

In support of the EP, out now, we’re offering “Thistle Hotels” as one of today’s free downloads. The deep track builds to a blissful late night conclusion over six minutes of impeccably layered electronics. Grab it now via the WeTransfer button below, or here for EU readers due to GDPR restrictions. 

Semibreve Adds Kode9, Suzanne Ciani, and More to Complete 2019 Lineup

Semibreve Festival has completed its lineup for the upcoming 2019 edition, taking place in Braga, Portugal between October 25 and 27.

Kode9 and Morton Subotnick, the iconic composer of electronic music best known for his 1967 composition “Silver Apples,” will both make their Semibreve debuts this year. They’ll be joined by Suzanne Ciani, Félicia Atkinson, and also Oren Ambarchi and Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, two of the most brilliant musicians operating in the exploratory electronic music domain nowadays, who will present the world premiere of their new duo collaboration. 

These new names join Alessandro Cortini, who is also set to debut; Avalon Emerson, the Berlin-based American; Deaf Center, who will present the Portuguese debut of their beautiful new record, Low Distance; Turkish electroacoustic composer Ipek Gorgun; and Nik Void, one half of the influential DFA duo Factory Floor, all of whom were announced in May. 

Also joining will be Rian Treanor, who will present a live set based on his new record, ATAXIA, and Scanner, who will perform a world premiere show commissioned by Semibreve. 

This edition will also see various workshops, talks, and exhibitions across the city. 

Semibreve Festival 2019 takes place in Braga, Portugal between October 25 and 27, with more information, including the full lineup and tickets, available here. 

3KZ “Liquid Spirits”

3KZ is the collaboration of Italian artists Nico Campanella (a.k.a Kaelan) and Giuseppe Maffei (a.k.a Z.I.P.P.O), who will together release their new EP on July 15. Existence, Resistance is made up of four tracks of abstract techno and electro, and follows outings on Arts, Insula Records, and Fides. They previously released on Suburban Avenue in 2014. 

A1 “Existance, Resistance” and A2 “Cyber Ninja” are both Drexciya-indebted electro jams, primed for the dancefloor. B1 “Liquid Spirits” is a warped acid trick, and B2 “What’s your Number?” is a dreamy, retro-futuristic electronic journey, with left-field Detroit vibes.

In support of the release, out July 15, we’re offering “Liquid Spirits” as one of today’s free downloads. Grab it now via the WeTransfer button below, or here for EU readers. 

Tracklisting

A1 / 1. Existence, Resistance

A2 / 2. Cyber Ninja

B1 / 3. Liquid Spirits

B2 / 4. What’s Your Number?

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