Posted in Uncategorized, tagged experimental, field recordings, musique concrete, philip sulidae, sound art, soundscape, U66 review, Vandemonian Verplaatsing on August 10, 2021|
Second review addressing philip sulidae‘s “Vandemonian Verplaatsing” from the always dedicated Richard Allen for A Closer Listen. There in he points out that without real context this clever assemblage of sounds seems to map a new world of possibilities, being kind of self-fertilising as well as perhaps an apt metaphor for that feeling of constant surrounding instability …
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged experimental, field recordings, musique concrete, philip sulidae, sound art, soundscape, U66 review, Vandemonian Verplaatsing on August 2, 2021|
First report in regarding new philip sulidae‘s opus for the Unfathomless series comes from Frans de Waard (as often) with a watchful plunge into “Vandemonian Verplaatsing” where he concludes to something that exceeds the sum of its parts, and beyond the traditional field recordings approach…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged dry, experimental, field recordings, musique concrete, philip sulidae, simon whetham, sound art, U66, U67, Unfathomless, Vandemonian Verplaatsing on January 9, 2021|
A late report to officially announce the availability of the last couple of Unfathomless titles for 2020, although it straddles 2021 as well since Monday, December 28…
Avoid procrastinating on these, especially for both discounted philip sulidae & simon whetham bundle offers which will expire at the end of this January, or for both U66 (6 copies remaining as I type this) and U67 special editions ltd respectively to 30 & 40 copies only…
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U66 philip sulidae | Vandemonian Verplaatsing CD/Digital
So enthusiastic to welcome again Philip Sulidae in the Unfathomless catalog. When he’s at the helm, one knows the audio-journey will be multilevelled, rich, and replayable ad infinitum. With several years of practice, his very specific brew of musique concrete tinted field recordings, and vast array of assemblage techniques and recording methods always lead to the advent of complex, riveting sound pieces challenging and enlarging our perceptive threshold…
On “Vandemonian Verplaatsing“, he kind of exorcises his recent move from Australia (Sydney), to Tasmania (Hobart) by sketching an intangible map, a ghost psycho-cartography questioning reality through displacement. Layers end up blended, distorted, remodelled to form a new language of strange scriptures and spectral traces. Emerges a quasi tactile landscape abounding in life, faint signals, indecipherable fragments condensing in a beaming mass of energy aural projections…
…”Vandemonian Verplaatsing” could be about making junction between your own fictive spaces and real visited places – a way of sublimating, escaping the grinding daily routine…
…Stir the dust, feel the air around, learn from the accidents and this uneven but so fertile ground…
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 square photos on Fujicolor Crystal Archive Paper Supreme.
Inner sleeve features a strip of paper bearing artist’s name, title, edition number.
There will probably be some additional piece of art too (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)
BUNDLE at a discounted price January 31 only ! : 2 CDs : U66 + either previous U19 “History of Violence” or U48 “Ramshead” (pls precise which title you want with your order) :
(Belgium) : 23 € (inc.shipping costs – SAVE 3 €)
(Europe) : 24 € (inc.shipping costs – SAVE 4 €)
(World) : 25 € (inc.shipping costs – SAVE 5 €)
full philip sulidae BUNDLE at a discounted price January 31 only ! : 3 CDs : U66 + either U19 “History of Violence” and U48 “Ramshead” :
(Belgium) : 33 € (inc.shipping costs – SAVE 6 €)
(Europe) : 34 € (inc.shipping costs – SAVE 8 €)
(World) : 35 € (inc.shipping costs – SAVE 10 €)
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U67 simon whetham | dry CD/Digital
After close to 10 years since “mall muzak” (U07), and looking how far he has come in sound exploration, we could only secretly hope for Simon Whetham‘s return in the Unfathomless series, and this is the day ! It’d be far too long to expose Simon’s curriculum vitae, or try to give a complete overview of all what he has been involved in so far. Unrepentant traveller in the pre-Covid years, he has honeyed his sound art into contact with the world, ever questioning his own sound practice. Always in love with the raw sound phenomenon itself, he hunts down less apparent sonic features, often examinating them within a site-specific context. More recently, he he has shown a lot of interest in dismantling daily, disused objects, and manipulating their components to extract sonic traces, the aura of sounds itself.
on “dry“, beyond the man/nature confrontational aspects, and environmental implications, Simon invites us to step into the physical properties of water under artificial hydraulic conditions.
At times soft, subdued, then virulent, the experienced flow is highly dynamic, full of transitions, tonal disruptions, coalescing in a sort of semi underground litany of vibrational resonances fed on metallic sighs, matter against matter rubbings…a clearly invigorating trip where the loss of landmarks and disorientation leads to a paradoxical self-consolidation…
Following the flux and its delineations becomes rapidly a magnetic occupation of re-centering
From the open to the closed, we adapt our reality, remembering the force of life, feeling stronger…
…“dry” pushes you, sets you literally in motion – a revitalizing soundtrack…
order your copy via Paypal at usual price for the regular edition of 160 copies : chalkdc@unfathomless.net
(Belgium) : 13 € (inc.shipping costs)
(Europe) : 14 € (inc.shipping costs)
(World) : 15 € (inc.shipping costs)
Special ultra ltd edition of 40 copies only packaged in thick kraft recycled cardboard digisleeve with frame + 10 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 Fujicolor Crystal Archive paper Supreme.
Inner sleeve features a strip of paper bearing artist’s name, title, edition number, and download code for an additional exclusive bonus track of about 16 mins.
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)
BUNDLE at a discounted price January 31 only ! : 2 CDs : U67 + either previous U07 “mall muzak” or U17 David Vélez – Simon Whetham”Yoi” (pls precise which title you want with your order) :
(Belgium) : 23 € (inc.shipping costs – SAVE 3 €)
(Europe) : 24 € (inc.shipping costs – SAVE 4 €)
(World) : 25 € (inc.shipping costs – SAVE 5 €)
full simon whetham BUNDLE at a discounted price January 31 only ! : 3 CDs : U67 + U07 “mall muzak” and U17 David Vélez – Simon Whetham “Yoi” :
(Belgium) : 33 € (inc.shipping costs – SAVE 6 €)
(Europe) : 34 € (inc.shipping costs – SAVE 8 €)
(World) : 35 € (inc.shipping costs – SAVE 10 €)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged best of 2018, experimental, field recordings, philip sulidae, Ramshead, U48 review on December 20, 2018|
Richard Allen has listed “Ramshead” in A Closer Listen top 10 “field recording & soundscape” category, comparing it to an overactive movie – one that doesn’t leave you intact…he also sprinkles some deep praise along the way onto the Unfathomless series…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ATTN magazine, interview, Jack Chuter, philip sulidae, Ramshead, U48 on April 12, 2018|
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged experimental, field recordings, philip sulidae, Ramshead, U48 review on April 12, 2018|
Detailed listening report from Jennifer Hor for The Sound Projector where she lays a finger on what vibrates at the very heart of “Ramshead“…a permanent sense of mystery that points out to something else within a language of its own…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged experimental, field recordings, philip sulidae, Ramshead, U48 review on March 26, 2018|
Nathan Thomas for the ever classy Fluid Radio writes a concise, perceptive report about his immersion within Ramshead,
trying to pierce its strange appeal, and its special way of working on our senses…Abandon your rational approach, and just “feel” the sounds…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged experimental, field recordings, philip sulidae, Ramshead, U48 review on March 10, 2018|
A Closer Listen‘s team leader Richard Allen heaps praises on Ramshead for its continual enthralling & meticulous editing, a soundtrack which gets hooks into you and only gets better in the course of time…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged experimental, field recordings, philip sulidae, Ramshead, U48 review on February 27, 2018|
Frans de Waard begs for more of this weird “diagonal” trip …when organic matters and various perceptual states form a whole new story…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged experimental, field recordings, in Aulis, musique concrete, philip sulidae, Ramshead, sound art, U48, U49, Yiorgis Sakellariou on February 10, 2018|
…First two titles of the new year are HERE, making the whole Unfathomless series verging on the 50 references now >>>
[Remember a digital purchase is surely fine, but a physical one is altogether another story – an object has a life of its own… ]
check all info by clicking on the images here below
U48 Philip Sulidae | Ramshead CD
…curled up in Sydney’s recesses, Philip Sulidae has worked on the fringes of field recording, musique concrete, and dark cinematic ambience for years…along his already long course, he has refined his straightaway singular approach, applying subtle electronic treatments, and varying methods to his sound captures to ultimately forge fascinating quasi audio-tactile pieces prone to make us drift into zones of great mystery like in the best David Lynch sequences…
“Ramshead” is a perceptual encounter of sometimes arid, sometimes fertile granular uncommon beauty…
…when the collecting of field recordings within an unusual australian mountainous & sub-mountainous landscape of epic proportion leads , through a transformative process, to an inner journey of the highest order – this is probably Philip Sulidae at his best yet, his audio scraps and intricate textural composition have never sounded so vivid thanks to James Plotkin’s sharp dynamic mastering…”Ramshead” spreads into subterranean stirrings, crackle of matter, elemental compost, close to the primal effervescence of life itself…
order your copy via Paypal at usual price : chalkdc@unfathomless.net
(Belgium) : 13 € (inc.shipping costs)
(Europe) : 14 € (inc.shipping costs)
(World) : 15 € (inc.shipping costs)
bundle offer till the end of February : U19 “History of Violence” + U48 “Ramshead” >>>
(Belgium) : 23 € (inc.shipping costs)
(Europe) : 24 € (inc.shipping costs)
(World) : 25 € (inc.shipping costs)
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U49 Yiorgis Sakellariou | in Aulis CD
…Yiorgis Sakellariou has scoured many seas since 15 years, channeling his experimental/electro-acoustic intense sound compositions towards his audience with sheer passion either through theatre, films, workshops or performances in pitch black…
Focusing to be deeply in tune with the environments he explores, Yiorgis gives voices back to specific loci, setting off a close bound with them…
…diving into the ancient history and allegories of his own land, Yiorgis came up with this haunting soundscape inspired by the ruins of a temple dedicated to Artemis…building a bridge between the past and the present, and permeating himself with this decrepit holy ground, he managed to capture something quasi-supernatural…
a definitely powerful contemplative work…
…air is hot, stones breath, frontiers fall, antique voices are freed…
order your copy via Paypal at usual price : chalkdc@unfathomless.net
(Belgium) : 13 € (inc.shipping costs)
(Europe) : 14 € (inc.shipping costs)
(World) : 15 € (inc.shipping costs)
bundle offer till the end of February : U24 “Klaipėda” + U49 “in Aulis” >>>
(Belgium) : 23 € (inc.shipping costs)
(Europe) : 24 € (inc.shipping costs)
(World) : 25 € (inc.shipping costs)
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