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Cardinal Fuzz (Europe) and Feeding Tube Records (USA) are proud to present for you - ‘The Great Mountain’, the debut album from Waterless Hills.

Waterless Hills are drummer Andrew Cheetham (now playing with Richard Dawson, Kiran Leonard, Irma Vep, Yerba Mansa, Desmadrados Soldados de Ventura etc). The recordings feature himself plus two further members of the Manchester Underground wrecking crew - dbh (Kiran Leonard band, Irma Vep band, Jim Ghedi band, his own bad self) on violin; Gavin Clarke (DSDV) on bass – and augmented by Cambridge-based avant-folk musician C Joynes on electric guitar.

The album was recorded in one day direct to 1/4” tape at Hallé St Michaels, Manchester. All tracks were wholly improvised, and the tapes document a slowly-evolving interplay and, at times, ‘on-the-edge’ exchange between the players. The results were eventually shaped into an imaginary soundtrack to an orientalist western loosely themed around Freya Stark's 1935 travelogue 'The Valleys Of The Assassins' and the surrealist occult art of Ithel Colquohoun. The album itself is closely paired with Waterless Hills’ debut release, an 8” lathe of two pieces captured at the same session and released in an edition of 99 copies on All Saints Day 2019 by Sonido Polifonico (www.sonidopolifonico.co.uk). This debut release garnered spins on the BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction, Stuart Maconie’s BBC 6 Music show Freak Zone, and Jeff Conklin’s Avant Ghetto show on WFMU, together with favourable reviews from Byron Coley in Wire magazine.

Recorded direct to 1/4" tape by Patrick Crane at Halle St Michaels, Manchester
Mastered by Dominic Tanner at Bojanic Audio & Mastering

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We’re delighted to announce the release of Night Gestalt's new album "Sudden Rituals Vol. 1" on February 27th, Preceded by 3 singles on the 6th, 13th and 20th February.

In the words of Olof Cornéer the composer/producer behind Night Gestalt:

‘With this album I had a very simple idea, what happens if you mix A with B? I wanted to be the mad scientist and in order to do that I had to let other people in on the creation of the music.

Some of these rituals took place in my studio in Stockholm, some over the internet. It was also a way for me to approach people I have admired for a long time. As a composer/musician/producer it’s really interesting to chat about music with people you think are doing interesting stuff. But to make music together with them is even better. Hopefully that’s how this album sounds in the end too. Playful, welcoming and inclusive. But also dark and psychedelic.'

The creation process started with a collaboration of deep bleeps (from Night Gestalt) and Swedish folk violin from Lisa Rydberg and, as the album progressed, waves of textured synth and strings, ambient brass, acid dub and a collaboration with Persian Setar master Behdad Babaei all underpinned by synth driven bleeps and patterns.

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a collection of songs written over the course of five years, as an incidental meditation on grief, heartbreak, and the roles we all play in the world we inhabit and the worlds we hope to build.

this album is dedicated to all those showing up to do the difficult work of being human, even and especially when that work means having to face the big fears and the big hurts; to all of the wounded places where a lack of presence and care has led to cycles of trauma; to the mysterious forces of dream and beauty that keep us pushing forward and striving toward the light; and to my ancestors, some of whom are pictured on the cover of this album, as they prepared to leave their homeland in Marmara, Turkey at the onset of genocide, and whose gifts traveled magically through space and time into my own body.

the woman on the far right of the photo holding a bouzouki (a traditional Mediterranean folk instrument) is my proyiayia, my great-grandmother, Anthoula Basil.
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all songs written, performed, recorded and mixed by Dana Anastasia in Snoqualmie, WA.
album art by Dana Anastasia
mastered by Camelia Jade Lazenby in Chimacum, WA.

special thanks to all of my Patreon donors and everyone else who contributed mightily to make this project possible... Robert S. Field, William Stone, Caldon Glover, Jac Amari, Anthea Karanasos, Ruairi O'Cumascaigh, Alex Eisenberg, Sarah Wheatley, Damian Cade, Bryan Noyes, and everyone else who's offered encouragement and support to me over the years. I truly couldn't have done this without you <3

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ISLE008.5 shows Parisian artist D.K.'s concern for the nostalgia-tinged 90s electronica and second room IDM that inform not just his compositional practice but also our own tastes here at the label. Recorded live at the intimate South Korean venue The Edge, this limited 12" births fleeting moments in a late night music bar into physical form. Propulsive rhythmic tension, heavy doses of reverb and glassy, cavernous sound design across six movements.

Jazz plays a big part in this weeks show with it's latest beat led mutations sitting comfortably next to more organic fusion endeavours and just for good measure there's some Welsh folk and percussive led, slow house beauties

Benoit B - Vestigia Flammae feat. Elen Huynh (Into The Light)
Knxwledge - Learn (Stones Throw)
On-Ly - Double Edge (La Sape)
Rejoicer - Pre Memory Circle (Stones Throw)
Tim Jackiw - Elara (Bandcamp Self Release)
Collocutor - Pause Reprise (On The Corner)
Majid Bekkas - Chahia Taiba (Act Music)
Web Web - The Upper, Part 1 & 2 (Compost)
Cynefin - Ffarwel I Aberystwyth (Self Release)
Linkwood & Foat - Es Vedra (Athens Of The North)
Koichi Sakai - Wono feat. Afla Sackey, Yoruba Soul Mix (Olindo Records)