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…
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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)
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