both U82 Masayuki Imanishi “Asphalt/Concrete” & U83 manja ristić and murmer”the scaffold” are OUT NOW !

To start the 2024 schedule, tremendously happy here to be able to present Masayuki Imanishi‘s 2nd work for the Unfathomless series…

U82 Masayuki Imanishi | Asphalt/Concrete CD (special & regular edition)/Digital

Based in Osaka (Japan), Masayuki has pursued his own musical path, constantly remaining in alert to what could be of use in his immediate environment…Keeping record of found sounds, aural textures, fugitive impressions, he transforms them through various manipulations in a very “musique concrete” way…His audio arsenal includes contact microphones, tape recorder, objects, field recordings, radio, etc…He released previously on INI.ITU, the now defunct Philip Sulidae’s label, Hemisphäreの空虚, Moving Furniture, Superpang, Tsss Tapes, to name but a few, and indulged into various collaborations…On “Asphalt/Concrete“, Masayuki probes his surroundings to a great extent, extracting subtle sounds, morphing them into a dazzling soundtrack made of a weave of reframed everyday sounds drifting at the fringes, shaped to percolate our subconscious and break the bonds..…motors make hulls tremble, gurgling water skims metal…A chain of extrasensory riveting sonic elements…”Asphalt/Concrete” unveils a breathing detailed amplified world of significant scoria, acting like some vibrissae capturing inner vibes…This sound universe inhales, sometimes corroded air, or stale breezes from worn out ventilation shafts…an almost liturgical cartography of impalpable ramifications…, a sort of second reading identifying what lies behind, below, and beyond…”Asphalt/Concrete” decomposes our reality, recombining it in evoking aural fragments alternating soft and coarse tones, bringing nevertheless to our minds a sense of peace, in connection to some invisible, erratic laws…Masayuki Imanishi drags you in, deeper than ever, making you travel to some unknown shores, across the rippling waves, the folds – again astoundingly galvanizing…

order your copy via Paypal at usual price for the regular edition of 165 copies : chalkdc@unfathomless.net

(Belgium) : 14 € (inc.shipping costs)
(Europe) : 15 € (inc.shipping costs)
(World) : 16 € (inc.shipping costs)

Special ultra ltd edition of 35 copies – only 7 left ! packaged in black-mass tinted cardboard digisleeve with frame.
It holds a set of 2 double-sided art cards with a different artwork from the regular edition on 350gr satin paper + a set of 3 square photos on Fujicolor Crystal Archive Paper Supreme. Inner sleeve features a a strip of paper mentioning edition number + artist’s name and title (more details forthcoming/ships out on or around April 8)…

order your copy via Paypal for the SPECIAL ULTRA LTD edition : chalkdc@unfathomless.net

(Belgium) : 17 € (inc.shipping costs)
(Europe) : 18 € (inc.shipping costs)
(World) : 19 € (inc.shipping costs)

Duo Bundle Offer (2CDs) at a discounted price till March 31 only ! 
U82 (regular edition) + U69 Masayuki Imanishi “insects are”

(Belgium) : 24 € (inc.postage – SAVE 4€)
(Europe) : 25 € (inc.postage – SAVE 5€)
(World) : 27 € (inc.postage – SAVE 5€)

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And then, as 2nd title, we have this staggering dream collab between manja ristić and murmer (a.k.a. Patrick McGinley)…

U83  manja ristić and murmer | the scaffold CD (special and regular edition)/Digital

Serbian Manja Ristić is probably one of the most active & engrossing interdisciplinary sound artist within the experimental music scene and beyond…no way to list all her accomplishments so far…(you can refer to her official bio for that). Suffice to say that besides being a sound artist, she’s also a violinist, published poet, curator and researcher, and that Korčula (Croatia) where she lives has often been the pivotal point of her sound explorations and practices…she’s really an uttermost sentient being, and this infuses clearly her music. Her discography is consequently quite extended, and hold releases on labels such as Line, Flag Day Recordings, Dasa Tapes, Framework seasonal, to name but a few…Patrick McGinley/murmer‘s ID card is as well furnished, being in activity since long years…American sound artist within Europe since 1996 and relocated in Estonia since 2009, he used to compose music for theatre performances and is clearly a lover of found sounds and objects. For those that don’t know, he co-founded Framework which produces a weekly radio show on London’s Resonance 104.fm…With a peculiar aptitude for catching sounds often escaping our attention, he re-frames them in new context, bringing his audience to a universal awareness of place…murmer‘s work has been a constant search for highlighting small sonic occurrences, and arouse focused listening. His work has been published on labels such as Helen Scarsdale Agency, Gruenrekorder, Drone, Taâlem, ICR, etc…”the scaffold“ is delving into the depths of a mythic well, bringing all its wonders back to the surface along a slow raising, rubbing the components, letting the particles circulate, caressing the air…it creates an halo of diffuse presences lingering like ghosts…manja ristić and murmer join their delicate synergetic actions that induce a phenomenon of ascension…precious gestures, stars within stars, ecstatic faces…stirred gravel, tiny streams of rippling water, wind as punctuation – perhaps a primordial meditation on how to bounce back…”the scaffold“ is like a rite of renascence in a decrepit humid church with all its stained-glass windows broken…rain glides on metal, wood cracks…
One listens and starts to hear an almost redemptive sacred humming,
an hazy incantation erasing all moments of despair, opening the gates, making us feel attuned…”the scaffold” blends disparate voices into a ceremony of regeneration – a path to amazement…

order your copy via Paypal at usual price for the regular edition of 165 copies : chalkdc@unfathomless.net

(Belgium) : 14 € (inc.shipping costs)
(Europe) : 15 € (inc.shipping costs)
(World) : 16 € (inc.shipping costs)

Special ultra ltd edition of 35 copies (SOLD OUT!) only packaged in black-mass tinted cardboard digisleeve with frame.
It holds a set of 2 double-sided art cards with a different artwork from the regular edition on 350gr satin paper.
+ a set of 3 photos on Fujicolor Crystal Archive Paper Supreme…
Inner sleeve features a strip of paper mentioning edition number, artist’s name + title (more details forthcoming/ships out on or around April 8)…

both U80 Gil Sansón “con richard (por la adversidad a las estrellas)” & U81 Jeph Jerman”registro de piedra” are OUT on Friday, October 6 !

After some really harsh months here, so glad to be able to present these new enrapturing couple of titles (the 2nd only for 2023)…

pls check details + audio-samples by clicking on the images here below
streaming in full on Bandcamp also from October 6…

U80 Gil Sansón | con richard (por la adversidad a las estrellas) CD (special & regular edition)/Digital

Venezulean, Caracas based sound artist & composer Gil Sansón has been active for more than 20 years in a relative anonymity, both solo and in long distance collaborations with Bruno Duplant, or Lance Austin Olsen, for instance. Despite this discreet status, his work has received many accolades…actually, maybe the core or main goal of it, is to question and override frontiers…whatever, he has a way of his own, and meticulously crafts his sonic creations, giving them the time to blossom… After a long pending invitation to compose something specific for the Unfathomless series, he has finally delivered a cathartic audio-journey, blending astutely past vivid NY memories, archival material, and recent recordings made in his urban vicinity… With “con richard (por la adversidad a las estrellas)“, we have some sort of vast, reverberating, almost nocturnal opera urbain…remote stray dogs, roaring cars, buzz of the city, elongated or elliptical electric pulses and hisses…a flux of resonances, and subdued motorik rhythms…It sounds all hollow, and paradoxically so all-encompassing…Districts breathe at night…in the background, small looped patterns, cuts and modulations…An always circling, changing, wave after wave continuum… “con richard (por la adversidad a las estrellas)” sucks us irremediably in, making us become a full part of this withdrawn environment… As much as our remembrances crumble, our world steadily disintegrates along a concrete symphony of aural scraps…for sure, a poignant metaphor for decay, but all sublimated in a chorus of veiled hope…a sound design of maximal amplitude, and definitely a revealer…

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order your copy via Paypal at usual price for the regular edition of 175 copies : chalkdc@unfathomless.net

(Belgium) : 14 € (inc.shipping costs)
(Europe) : 15 € (inc.shipping costs)
(World) : 16 € (inc.shipping costs)

Special ultra ltd edition of 25 copies only packaged in thick pure white cardboard digisleeve with frame.
It holds a set of 2 double-sided art cards with a different artwork from the regular edition on 350gr satin paper + a set of 3 square photos on glossy Fujicolor Crystal Archive Paper Supreme. Inner sleeve features a a strip of paper mentioning edition number + artist’s name and title (more details forthcoming)…

order your copy via Paypal for the SPECIAL ULTRA LTD edition : chalkdc@unfathomless.net

(Belgium) : 17 € (inc.shipping costs)
(Europe) : 18 € (inc.shipping costs)
(World) : 19 € (inc.shipping costs)

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U81  Jeph Jerman | registro de piedra CD (special and regular edition)/Digital

Sometimes, even in small niches, introduction is needless, especially with sound artists whose career can only inspire respect…This is beyond doubt the case with Jeph Jerman who has experimented and sharpened his listening along years and years of practice, and wandering…Always auscultating his environment, and probably even deeper since he’s living in Arizona and close to the desert, he records his surroundings, creating and composing with what lies at hand, and the found objects along his expeditions, but also, with damaged tape, discarded bits from past works, sometimes re-playing, and re-recording the sounds themselves in situ…His high skilled and extremely focused improvisational technique has led him to collaborate with lots of like minded artists…He has assiduously self-released tons of material, and has a presence on many independent labels…After the striking “imbrication“, so delighted to welcome him again on the Unfathomless series, with another gripping new work. In “registro de piedra“, Jeph literally captures air and heat, touching the very heart of old stones, squeezing out from those perhaps long preserved memories, paths to unravel…Out in the distance, motors seem to purr…An array of rubbings activate gravel, dust, dried vegetation, signs on the trail…We seem to hear dismembered voices on the altar of this wilderness and the scars of the landscape…Ghost chants of oblivion surge, suspended echoes of the past…”registro de piedra“ renders absences present, awakens what lies asleep…a confluence of elements, a dance of micro-frictions opening plains of possibilities…”registro de piedra” reads its setting, the bumps and cavities, the edges and disfigurements, proposing a global approach of full consciousness…the bedrock of an enlightening experience…

order your copy via Paypal at usual price for the regular edition of 145 copies : chalkdc@unfathomless.net

(Belgium) : 14 € (inc.shipping costs)
(Europe) : 15 € (inc.shipping costs)
(World) : 16 € (inc.shipping costs)

Special ultra ltd edition of 55 copies only packaged in black-mass tinted cardboard digisleeve with frame.
It holds a set of 2 double-sided art cards with a different artwork from the regular edition on 350gr satin paper.
+ a set of 2 photos on matte Fujicolor Crystal Archive Paper Supreme…
Inner sleeve features a strip of paper mentioning edition number, artist’s name + title (more details forthcoming)…

order your copy via Paypal for the SPECIAL ULTRA LTD edition : chalkdc@unfathomless.net

(Belgium) : 17 € (inc.shipping costs)
(Europe) : 18 € (inc.shipping costs)
(World) : 19 € (inc.shipping costs)

Duo Bundle Offer (2CDs) at a discounted price till October 31 only ! 
U81 (regular edition) + U50 Jeph Jerman “imbrication”

(Belgium) : 24 € (inc.postage – SAVE 4€)
(Europe) : 25 € (inc.postage – SAVE 5€)
(World) : 27 € (inc.postage – SAVE 5€)

U78 Standard Grey “peregrination” : a shrine is much closer than you think…

For A Closer Listen Richard Allen auscultates “peregrination“, reckoning it as an intimate pilgrimage, a kind of sonic temple for revitalization …

U79 Bruno Duplant & David Vélez “des-illusions” : an unstoppable yet elating murky flux …

In Vital Weekly 1385, ever honouring his commitments, Frans de Waard gives a big thumb up to “des–illusions“, representing it as a slow dark churning mass of sound in constant motion verging on excellence…

both U78 Standard Grey “peregrination” & U79 Bruno Duplant & David Vélez “des-illusions” are OUT NOW !

In a somewhat disturbed personal context, to be able to present this duo of new titles (the first for 2023, btw) is an even more cathartic & uplifting event……

pls check details + audio-samples by clicking on the images here below
streaming in full on Bandcamp also…

U78 Standard Grey | peregrination CD (special & regular edition)/Digital

Let’s start with a work initially scheduled to appear on Philip Sulidae’s now on hiatus ebullient label, Hemisphäreの空虚…Philip told me it was top notch, and could fit in easily with Unfathomless’ signature, and it did all the way… U78 « peregrination » is doubtless an impacting sensitive work from Standard Grey a.k.a. Christopher Olson, a quite discreet yet experienced fellow and Canadian expatriate living since about 10 years in Nara (Japan) …versed into graphic arts, and of course, experimental and field recording based work, coloured by tape & musique concrète techniques. He’s also the former curator for Muzan editions, and has quite a bunch of releases out on such labels as Falt, Audio.Visuals.Atmosphere, Modern Concern, and Steep Gloss to name but a few… « peregrination »is a plunge into the intangible, and a compendium of his ceaseless wanderings in his past perfused vicinity – a sort of intimate log, holding more than just sketches, but rather elaborate sentient sound narrations taking us by the hand and heart… « peregrination » is activating, it makes old grounds crunch, waking millennial soil spirits…ghost winds roam in the quivering air, while savage cuts rip the glades…much of a procession recounting perhaps an ancient filigree world… Cascades of pulses, bouncing back and forth, hints of disguised distress… Animal instinct, buried streams, a flow of past knowledge running till oblivion… On « peregrination », an erasing breeze pervades and all words fade…
Listening to the smallest of murmurs of a damaged, yet sacred panorama, we step aside, along, then slowly, find a meaning, a purpose… Let yourself glide in, feel the outlines of an immutable landscape full of sense…

order your copy via Paypal at usual price for the regular edition of 180 copies : chalkdc@unfathomless.net

(Belgium) : 14 € (inc.shipping costs)
(Europe) : 15 € (inc.shipping costs)
(World) : 16 € (inc.shipping costs)

Special ultra ltd edition of 20 copies only packaged in black-mass tinted cardboard digisleeve with frame.
It holds a set of 2 double-sided art cards with a different artwork from the regular edition on 350gr satin paper + Standard Grey’s unique “kōfun”acrylic monoprint and watercolor on 247 gm Orion Sirius watercolor paper (all different !), signed, numbered, and name red stamped in japanese on the back. Inner sleeve features a a strip of paper mentioning edition number + artist’s name and title… More details forthcoming…

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order your copy via Paypal for the SPECIAL ULTRA LTD edition : chalkdc@unfathomless.net

(Belgium) : 17 € (inc.shipping costs)
(Europe) : 18 € (inc.shipping costs)
(World) : 19 € (inc.shipping costs)

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U79  Bruno Duplant & David Vélez | des-illusions CD (special and regular edition)/Digital

Very proud also to be able to give body to U79 Bruno Duplant & David Vélez | des-illusions, a release of moving scope… Continuing to pursue his dedicated singular path, french northerner composer and psychogeographer Bruno Duplant uses his talent to blur the lines and create intense fictional evocations, and teams up again for his 6th collaboration with Colombian sound artist David Vélez who is now endowed with a PHD in sonic art…curator as well of the long term, and persistently absorbing Impulsive Habitat label, David has a keen interest in environmental contextualism, acoustics of food and horticulture, and generally in the way we experience sound (as shown with his latest installation « Bones » created with sine waves & field recordings, inviting us to listen through our skull)… Very anxious about the state of this world, both resort to erosive methods, and diverse tattered instrumentation to shape a questioning musical poem of sweeping grandeur… « des-illusions » unfolds an enduring circling yet gradually decaying chant under ominous clouds… A lonesome organ emits a few warning notes tearing the day apart while we hear shards of voices on a background of slowed down, dragging on tones… Percussive clatter, muffled church bell and other urban signals… A devious threnody seeps in, layers of tactile shifting sounds form dust dreams, stars alight in the backyard… The road is long, partially broken, some haunted marimba draws silver-grey furrows, ginned notes let a ringing charm fuse…Imagine a much less minimal and layered William Basinski passing through an old projector…
« des-illusions » decimates the last rays of hope, but deceptive mood never sounded so gorgeous… Could something precious still exist in the crumbs ?…

order your copy via Paypal at usual price for the regular edition of 170 copies : chalkdc@unfathomless.net

(Belgium) : 14 € (inc.shipping costs)
(Europe) : 15 € (inc.shipping costs)
(World) : 16 € (inc.shipping costs)

Special ultra ltd edition of 30 copies only packaged in thick pure white cardboard digisleeve with frame
It holds a set of 2 double-sided art cards with a different artwork from the regular edition on 350gr satin paper.
+ a set of 3 photos on Fujicolor Crystal Archive Paper Supreme.
Inner sleeve features a strip of paper mentioning edition number, artist’s name + title (details tbc)…

order your copy via Paypal for the SPECIAL ULTRA LTD edition : chalkdc@unfathomless.net

(Belgium) : 17 € (inc.shipping costs)
(Europe) : 18 € (inc.shipping costs)
(World) : 19 € (inc.shipping costs)

Duo Bundle Offer (2CDs) at a discounted price till May 22 only ! 
U79 (regular edition) + U33 David Vélez & Bruno Duplant “Moyens Fantômes”
or U79 (regular edition) + U54 Bruno Duplant & David Vélez “our seasons reverse”

(Belgium) : 24 € (inc.postage – SAVE 4€)
(Europe) : 25 € (inc.postage – SAVE 5€)
(World) : 26 € (inc.postage – SAVE 6€)

Trio Bundle Offer (3CDs) at a discounted price till May 22 only ! 
U79 (regular edition) + U33 David Vélez & Bruno Duplant “Moyens Fantômes” + U54 Bruno Duplant & David Vélez “our seasons reverse”

(Belgium) : 34 € (inc.postage – SAVE 8€)
(Europe) : 35 € (inc.postage – SAVE 10€)
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both U76 Eamon Sprod & David Precott-Steed “crawlspace” & U77 João Castro Pinto “faux naturel” are OUT tomorrow, November 14 !

So thrilled to announce the 3rd couple of Unfathomless newies is ready to launch…

pls check details + audio-samples by clicking on the images here below
streaming in full on Bandcamp also…

U76 Eamon Sprod & David Prescott-Steed | crawlspace CD/Digital

first newie up is Eamon Sprod and David Prescott-Steed‘s dazzling encounter with a very specific hollow underground tunnel…
Eamon Sprod, working usually under his Tarab moniker, is an Australian sound artist creating re-contextualized dynamic recordings, carefully combined fragmentary frames of sound, mostly based on found objects, discarded junk and selected leftovers, that, to generate visceral sensations as well as an increased awareness towards explored sites…Although, close to the field recording practice, this is also veering off from it…The result is compositions that stem from the interstices inducing narratives at an angle…Often the wandered space itself becomes the speaker, inside and outside meet…Eamon is currently a doctoral researcher in related matters…
David Prescott-Steed is also from Melbourne/Australia, a writer, a teacher, and most of all a field recordist, versed in urbex, experimental music and sound art…His discography comprises releases such as for Green Field Recordings, and Impulsive Habitat…
Quite natural thus for them to join forces for some common deep tunnel-esque exploration…
Wild heat, night insects, and then, a lid flips up, unveiling an entry to a large duct and dark space…
Steps and their echoes weave the initial rhythm, gradually the setting becomes parcelled via frictions, breaks, clashing resonances…All leads to the capture of a damp shut place…A cascade of drips, vibrations spread surreptitiously into the walls, small detonating/percussive actions bring the tunnel alive…Bodies shape the sounds, and sounds shape our bodies…An ongoing compelling exercise in apprehending the visible & invisible, the intertwined…
Getting seemingly lost, yet newfound, becoming our gestures, becoming the surrounding space…realizing, de-realizing…
Above our heads, other things at play, muffled tones, another bundle of perspectives…
“crawlspace” is incisive, worming its way like a cut inside, opening up derived ways and bias approaches…a suggestive x-ray of the not easily accessible…a sometimes paradoxically phantasmal burst essay, a compendium of subterranean occurrences…”crawlspace” drags us imperturbably into the unlit folds, causing a jolt, a rupture of the anodyne…
much as it ends in fading away, reverberating splashes, it stays beyond comprehension, definitely offbeat, but so ingrained…An unravelling plot…

order your copy via Paypal at usual price for the regular edition of 165 copies : chalkdc@unfathomless.net

(Belgium) : 13 € (inc.shipping costs)
(Europe) : 14 € (inc.shipping costs)
(World) : 15 € (inc.shipping costs)

Special ultra ltd edition of 35 copies only packaged in thick kraft recycled cardboard  digisleeve with frame.
It holds a set of 2 double-sided art cards with a different artwork from the regular edition on 350gr satin paper.
+ extra photos under a form yet to be confirmed + other possible treatments (tbc).
Inner sleeve features a strip of paper mentioning edition number, artist’s name + title.
More details to follow…

order your copy via Paypal for the SPECIAL ULTRA LTD edition : chalkdc@unfathomless.net

(Belgium) : 16 € (inc.shipping costs)
(Europe) : 17 € (inc.shipping costs)
(World) : 18 € (inc.shipping costs)

Duo Bundle Offer (2CDs) at a discounted price till November 30 only ! 
U76 (regular edition) + U18 Tarab “strata”

(Belgium) : 23 € (inc.postage – SAVE 3€)
(Europe) : 24 € (inc.postage – SAVE 4€)
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U77  João Castro Pinto | faux naturel CD/Digital

Let’s welcome João Castro Pinto‘s 2nd opus for the Unfathomless series, which frankly, appears as another major work in his career…
Having forged a rather personal trajectory since the 2nd half of the 1990s in experimental music, he is operating at the intersection of soundscape composition and electroacoustic/acousmatic genre, showing a large scope of vivid interests, and being the receptacle of some serious academic praise, he’s graduated in philosophy, and is completing a phd in science and technology of the arts…He has travelled, performed worldwide, collaborated with many artists, and he’s currently also doing quite a bit of sound work for films and theatre companies. As I know him, I can tell that he’s really devoted to sounds, honing them further and further, and on the path of excellence – definitely not a featherweight…

With water as unifier element, “faux naturel” is a succession of nascent points, points of emergence, stemming mainly from frictions, rubbing of realities…Life blooms from the juxtaposition of crucial vibes & tones…It is about reconciliation on all levels, finding a way in-between in a sort appeased, though so powerful motion…
Perhaps a strive for the essence of things, a festival of sounds inviting us to an hidden harmony, to open the curtain, and grasp what lies within…
“faux naturel” is the key to permanent discovery, a work of total generosity and truthfulness…
A quasi natural chant, and ode to the world in its complex scheme…a soothing aural trip evaluating all the forces at work…simply listen, breathe in, get absorbed into all the distinct, yet tangled up directions, and drift on the waves…
João Castro Pinto could well be one of the ultimate “boatmen”, with a lot to tell…
“faux naturel“ freezes the trembling lines, fixing impermanence, trying to picture something larger than its frame…and close to the end, when bells start to ring in superimposing layers, we know we’re in for some communion, and inches of redemption…

order your copy via Paypal at usual price for the regular edition of 170 copies : chalkdc@unfathomless.net

(Belgium) : 13 € (inc.shipping costs)
(Europe) : 14 € (inc.shipping costs)
(World) : 15 € (inc.shipping costs)

Special ultra ltd edition of 30 copies only packaged in black mass–tinted cardboard digisleeve with frame
It holds a set of 2 double-sided art cards with a different artwork from the regular edition on 350gr satin paper.
+ a set of 3 photos on Fujicolor Crystal Archive Paper Supreme.
Inner sleeve features a strip of paper mentioning edition number, artist’s name + title (details tbc)…

order your copy via Paypal for the SPECIAL ULTRA LTD edition : chalkdc@unfathomless.net

(Belgium) : 16 € (inc.shipping costs)
(Europe) : 17 € (inc.shipping costs)
(World) : 18 € (inc.shipping costs)

Duo Bundle Offer (2CDs) at a discounted price till November 30 only ! 
U77 (regular edition) + U43 João Castro Pinto “Suntria – imaginal sonotopes”

(Belgium) : 23 € (inc.postage – SAVE 3€)
(Europe) : 24 € (inc.postage – SAVE 4€)
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U75 Nicholas Maloney “passage” : unusual harbourscopy…

Up there in Vital Weekly#1344, Frans de Waard pinpoints the less travelled ways within “passage” …often subtle, dense variations around a thorough specific port exploration…all in the form of a fine blend of electronics & field recordings…

U74 Bruno Duplant “nox” : snaking in the nocturnal folds…

In the ever lively Vital Weekly, assiduous Frans de Waard praises “nox” lavishly…another trove in his constant excellent output…elliptic, dark but with iridescences, and definitely fertile…

both U74 Bruno Duplant “nox” & U75 Nicholas Maloney “passage”, OUT NOW !

As often, things took more time than expected for a variety of reasons, but one cannot control everything, and we’ve to accept it – anyway, so happy to launch the second 2022 couple of new significant Unfathomless titles, fords to experience a heightened reality…

pls check details + audio-samples by clicking on the images here below

U74 Bruno Duplant | nox CD/Digital

By now, the hyperactive, self-taught french artist Bruno Duplant shouldn’t need an introduction anymore…He has indeed an impressive «business» card so to say, having collaborated with many musicians, and counting a rather huge list of solo releases…
Field recordings with their ability of fixing memories are often a pivotal point for his compositions adorned with discreet, hazy touches of instrumentation  and permeated with musique concrète ethics… His works decompose the real (things, spaces, moments) rematerializing it in potent unutterable fictions, true cinema for the ears…
So proud thus to present Bruno Duplant’s second opus for the Unfathomless series…
«nox » is the veil, a nocturnal punctuation…
«nox» tears the veil apart, summoning half-dreams…it morphs into a suspended lament, a wordless ceremony…
«nox» is a tableau of light shreds, a reagent for our senses, a white ashen page, the diverted daily life, a vague vision that one can inhabit at will… An amalgam of ephemeral impressions, spirit of places, unclear sensations, filigree silhouettes, all coalescing into a distinct entity… While we travel along the city neon lights and watch the hazardous rain patterns on windows, «nox» is there to remind us we’re all passengers into ever changing territories where each of our traces matter… Expect lonesome piano notes, broken tones of melancholic grandeur, a musical movement cast in the atmosphere of a corroded movie on a bed of whispers and stirring sounds…
Expect the unexpected…

>>> ! TAKE NOTICE : I’ll be off for at least a couple of weeks around end of June/beginning of July – shipping for the regular editions will start as soon as I’m back, shipping for the special editions will occur a week later as these take more time to do !

>>> order via Paypal : chalkdc@unfathomless.net

Regular edition of 165 copies

(Belgium) : 13 € (inc.postage)
(Europe) : 14 € (inc.postage)
(World) : 15 € (inc.postage)

Special ultra ltd edition of 35 copies only
packaged in black mass–tinted cardboard digisleeve with frame. It holds a set of 2 double-sided art cards with a different artwork from the regular edition on 350gr satin paper + a exclusive signed/numbered square photo by Bruno Duplant as well as an additional pair of photos, all on Fujicolor Crystal Archive Paper Supreme.
Inner sleeve features a strip of paper mentioning edition number, artist’s name + title (tbc)…

(Belgium) : 16 € (inc.postage)
(Europe) : 17 € (inc.postage)
(World) : 18 € (inc.postage)

Duo BUNDLE OFFER (2CDs) at a discounted price till August 15 only !
U74 (regular edition) + either, U13 Bruno Duplant “Quelques usines fantômes” or U33 David Vélez & Bruno Duplant “Moyens Fantômes” or U54 Bruno Duplant & David Vélez “our seasons reverse”

(Belgium) : 23 € (inc.postage – SAVE 3€)
(Europe) : 24 € (inc.postage – SAVE 4€)
(World) : 25 € (inc.postage – SAVE 5€)

Trio BUNDLE OFFER (3CDs) at a discounted price till August 15 only !
U74 (regular edition) + 2 titles to be selected among those : U13 Bruno Duplant “Quelques usines fantômes”/U33 David Vélez & Bruno Duplant “Moyens Fantômes”/U54 Bruno Duplant & David Vélez “our seasons reverse”

(Belgium) : 33 € (inc.postage – SAVE 6€)
(Europe) : 34 € (inc.postage – SAVE 8€)
(World) : 35 € (inc.postage – SAVE 10€)

full Bruno Duplant BUNDLE OFFER (4CDs) at a discounted price till August 15 only !
U74 (regular edition) + U13 Bruno Duplant “Quelques usines fantômes” + U33 David Vélez & Bruno Duplant “Moyens Fantômes” + U54 Bruno Duplant & David Vélez “our seasons reverse”

(Belgium) : 43 € (inc.postage – SAVE 9€)
(Europe) : 44 € (inc.postage – SAVE 12€)
(World) : 45 € (inc.postage – SAVE 15€)

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U75  Nicholas Maloney | passage CD/Digital

Second to get the ball rolling, is Nicholas Maloney’s debut for the series…he came under my radar via some intense, evocative/inspiring works, both solo or collab, like «lux clamorque» with Jon-Michael Platt for Green Field recordings…
Mostly using processed field recordings and found sounds, but also sometimes objects, sparse instrumentation shades, and various post-production techniques, he weaves threads of new alluring sonic narratives wishing to share experiences of deep listening challenging our perceptual levels…
Taking an advantage of an exile period in Ireland where he completed an MA, he explored thoroughly the Port of Cork area, composing a perhaps more land-based portrait than what one might have anticipated…aptly titled «passage», we witness an ambulation auscultating often derelict buildings and assorted urban paraphernalia, capturing their sighs and rumbles…
Beyond the enclosures and gates, this audio-trip becomes a revelatory procession…
So, SEE…FEEL, graze the threshold…air, pressure, small sounds appear then swell, dissolve, edifices tremble, the harbour gets activated, breathing at its own pace, giving way to details emerging from the invisible…
AROUND, ALONG, WITHIN, wind injects life, metallic oscillations surge in billows, releasing long buried tones… «passage» is a strange involving score where the inanimate gets a voice, walls leak stories, nature reclaims its rights… «passage» is like crossing a river of no return where one submits to far too long unaddressed inner rhythms…it offers a vision of a rediscovered harmony, but also expels signs of warning… «passage» holds possibly bits of your salvation…

>>> ! TAKE NOTICE : I’ll be off for at least a couple of weeks around end of June/beginning of July – shipping for the regular editions will start as soon as I’m back, shipping for the special editions will occur a week later as these take more time to do !

order your copy via Paypal at usual price for the regular edition of 170 copies : chalkdc@unfathomless.net

(Belgium) : 13 € (inc.shipping costs)
(Europe) : 14 € (inc.shipping costs)
(World) : 15 € (inc.shipping costs)

Special ultra ltd edition of 30 copies only packaged in black mass–tinted cardboard digisleeve with frame. It holds a set of 2 double-sided art cards with a different artwork from the regular edition on 350gr satin paper + a set of 3 photos on Fujicolor Crystal Archive Paper Supreme.
Inner sleeve bears a strip of paper mentioning edition number, artist’s name + title (tbc)…

(Belgium) : 16 € (inc.shipping costs)
(Europe) : 17 € (inc.shipping cost
(World) : 18 € (inc.shipping costs)

 

both U72 Leo Okagawa “minato” & U73 Stéphane Marin “tres fronteras”, out on January 31

A bit behind the times lately, thus it feels so good to be on the rails again and announce enthusiastically the first 2022 couple of new VERY engrossing Unfathomless titles prone to plunge us straight into a nowadays much needed wonderment…

pls check details + audio-samples by clicking on the images here below

U72 Leo Okagawa | minato CD/Digital

First comes a second opus in the series from the quite prolific Tokyoite sound artist Leo Okagawa. Back also to his main love for field recordings transmuted via collage, layering, and dusting with a thin lamination of noises and electrical tones, here he weaves an harbour canvas which goes beyond the sum of its parts…

“minato” bewitches us straight on with its opening siren call and gentle lapping waves, and its false sense of lull slyly evolving in a bass roar of ghost motors and shrieking frictions of metallic containers singing their ode to consumption, only to coalesce in a ballet of resonating subsignals and deep rumble…

“minato” reads like an ECG of various port activities where “breathings” of all sorts expose their own frail language ; this a voyage on unstable bridges underlining the erratic chant of elements and clusters of objects…

a scalpel like port-rait of a huge commonplace infrastructure fed on famous naval past and cargos of memories, the whole sublimated at an elegiac level…
A way of looking differently at, where delicate layout contributes to forge a complete perhaps somehow redemptive story…

pre-order your copy via Paypal at usual price for the regular edition of 170 copies : chalkdc@unfathomless.net

(Belgium) : 13 € (inc.shipping costs)
(Europe) : 14 € (inc.shipping costs)
(World) : 15 € (inc.shipping costs)

Bundle Offer (2CDs) at a discounted price till February 21 only !  >>> U72 + U60 “something veiled”

(Belgium) : 23 € (inc.shipping costs – SAVE 3€)
(Europe) : 24 € (inc.shipping costs – SAVE 4€)
(World) : 25 € (inc.shipping costs – SAVE 5€)

Special ultra ltd edition of 30 copies only packaged in black mass-tinted cardboard  digisleeve with frame.
It holds a set of 2 double-sided art cards with a different artwork from the regular edition on 350gr satin paper + a set of 3 square photos on Fujicolor Crystal Archive Paper Supreme, one of which displaying part of some exclusive artworks Leo created for this release.
Inner sleeve features a strip of paper (none the same) mentioning edition number, artist’s name + title (more details to follow soon)…

pre-order your copy via Paypal for the SPECIAL ULTRA LTD edition : chalkdc@unfathomless.net

(Belgium) : 16 € (inc.shipping costs)
(Europe) : 17 € (inc.shipping costs)
(World) : 18 € (inc.shipping costs)

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U73  Stéphane Marin | tres fronteras CD/Digital

Second title on display, and second opus as well in the series, comes from sound hunter, practitioner and composer, Stéphane Marin who is deeply involved in setting up atypical spaces to present recontextualized sound experiences. He has besides created a company to this end named “Espaces Sonores” in 2008…On its menu are : listening walks, yoga for the ears, sound naps, etc…or as many possibilities to approach sound under a different perspective. Stéphane Marin is also an apologist of field recordings based compositions which serve as a true trigger to something that transcends the ordinary…

Forget all what you have learned and your clichés about the Amazon rainforest and its vast, complex, adjacent territories, as Stéphane has compounded here a condensed form of hallucinogenic journey, not in a numbing but awakening way…

“tres fonteras” equals crossing a threshold, and opening your ears to receive a feedback of vivid visions and amazement…with the morning rise, nocturnal slumber dissolves, at the “base camp”, roosters crow, chickens chuckle, insects chatter, trees and vegetation rustle and emit cracks…seemingly in the distance, afterwards dangerously close, howler monkeys start their impressive vocalisations gradually fading into their environment…from there on, “tres fronteras” turns into all swirls for the senses, using sounds as stimuli to take us on a poetic path of no return…this is the REAL world, and everything else becomes pointless…

“tres fronteras” is a stone thrown at our unconcerned “waters”, a pinch, a slap, an upside- down manoeuvre…most of all, a sound system to activate us, veer us away from the fake…

“Quiet !“, lay down, absorb, feel, and come up if only a notch…

 

pre-order your copy via Paypal at usual price for the regular edition of 170 copies : chalkdc@unfathomless.net

(Belgium) : 13 € (inc.shipping costs)
(Europe) : 14 € (inc.shipping costs)
(World) : 15 € (inc.shipping costs)

Duo BUNDLE OFFER (2CDs) at a discounted price till February 21 only ! >>> U73 + U39 “Invisible(s) Archipelago(s) #1 – Serendib rhythms“

(Belgium) : 23 € (inc.postage – SAVE 3€)
(Europe) : 24 € (inc.postage – SAVE 4€)
(World) : 25 € (inc.postage – SAVE 5€)

Special ultra ltd edition of 30 copies only packaged in black mass–tinted cardboard digisleeve with frame. It holds a set of 2 double-sided art cards with a different artwork from the regular edition on 350gr satin paper + a set of 3 photos on Fujicolor Crystal Archive Paper Supreme.
Inner sleeve bears an ink trace of a plane tree seed (none the same) and features a strip of paper mentioning edition number, artist’s name + title (none the same as well). More details to follow…

pre-order your copy via Paypal for the SPECIAL ULTRA LTD edition : chalkdc@unfathomless.net

(Belgium) : 16 € (inc.shipping costs)
(Europe) : 17 € (inc.shipping costs)
(World) : 18 € (inc.shipping costs)