Posts Tagged ‘noise’

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 urbainremote stray dogs, roaring cars, buzz of the city, elongated or elliptical electric pulses and hissesa flux of resonances, and subdued motorik rhythmsIt 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“con richard (por la adversidad a las estrellas)sucks us irremediably in, making us become a full part of this withdrawn environment… As much as our remembrances crumble, our world steadily disintegrates along a concrete symphony of aural scraps…for sure, a poignant metaphor for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 hopea sound design of maximal amplitude, and definitely a revealer

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 landscapeGhost chants of oblivion surge, suspended echoes of the past…”registro de piedra renders absences present, awakens what lies asleepa confluence of elements, a dance of micro-frictions opening plains of possibilities…”registro de piedrareads its setting, the bumps and cavities, the edges and disfigurements, proposing a global approach of full consciousnessthe 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€)

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

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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 spiritsghost 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 purposeLet 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 cloudsA 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 tonesPercussive 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€)
(World) : 36 € (inc.postage – SAVE 12€)

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