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CINDY LEE - A Message From The Aching Sky

In 2015, Women’s former guitarist/singer Patrick Flegel's new band Cindy Lee released two excellent albums "Act Of Tenderness” and “Malenkost” both released digitally and on limited edition cassette. Now, Superior Viaduct/W.25th and Italian label Maple Death are going to release “Malenkost” on vinyl for the first time, including a bonus track called “A Message From The Aching Sky”. Listen to that song above and pre-order the vinyl here (Eu) and here (US).

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Bono / Burattini – Ora Sono Un Lago

Maple Death

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Mai Mai Mai ~ Karakoz

The genocide in Gaza continues despite the ceasefire. In January 2024, braving the heart of the horrifying conflict, Mai Mai Mai sojourned to Bethlehem and Ramallah to record with Palestinian musicians and capture the raw emotions of the region.  Karakoz is the heart-rending result. One need not speak the language to hear the sorrow in “Grief.”  Maya Al Khaldi begins in a whisper as Mai Mai Mai…

Mai Mai Mai ~ Karakoz

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SP* Episode 31: FREE TIME - with Andrea Belfi [podcast]

Andrea Belfi discusses his latest album, Eternally Frozen, a canon-based composition for percussion, electronics, and brass ensemble. Inspired by a visit to LA’s Museum of Jurassic Technology, Belfi draws upon the story of Deprong Mori, a mythological bat that could use its powers of echolocation to phase through solid matter, before being captured by an American researcher, “eternally frozen” in…

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Andrea Belfi — Eternally Frozen (Bow/Maple Death)

Berlin-based Italian drummer and composer Andrea Belfi has a long history of sonic exploration. He creates immersive soundscapes that play with time and texture. On his new work,  Eternally Frozen, Belfi composes for drums, electronics and a three-piece brass ensemble featuring Robin Hayward on tuba, Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø on trombone and Elena Kakailogu on the French Horn. Based on the canon technique, the musicians build cycles of repeating melodic motifs that ebb and flow around Belfi’s percussion. The result is a series of meditative reflections on the human search for higher meaning. Eternally Frozen combines the low end of the brass scale, the atavism of the drum and the modernity of synthesizers to envelop and transport listeners.

Brass sonorities add gravitas and earthiness to the music. On drums and percussion Belfi stays side stage, adding color here, prodding the music along there. When he does settle into a groove, on “Pulsing” for instance, he seems happy to provide unintrusive propulsion rather than percussive pyrotechnics. He provides skeletal structure to muscular horns. The contrast between his crisp style and the slurring of the brass is augmented by subtle electronic hues in the middle and upper registers which threaten but never quite succumb to the anodyne. The adagio “Pastorale” features the Kaleidoskop Ensemble, whose wordless voices entering midway, after beckoning interplay between the brass, evoke most clearly the sacramental music of the past before tailing off in alien squiggle of synthetic noise.

Based on a medieval and religiously focused composition method, Belfi’s work manages to situate those impulses in a secular world by recognizing their universality. If Eternally Frozen doesn’t stop time, it certainly creates an atmosphere of contemplation as earthly as it is ethereal. His instrumentation explicitly grounds the music and emphasizes the struggle to transcend materiality. Exploring that liminal space between the infinite sacred and the temporary world, Belfi allows the listener to escape the quotidian if only for 36 minutes.

Andrew Forell

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07.05., Vienna: CINDY LEE (can)

More than glad to announce, CINDY LEE ‘ll soon be our guest at Venster99, together /w Bruch + a secret suprise act. Mark the date!

https://www.facebook.com/events/148912582299732/

"Describing a world of beauty, escape, sorrow, loss and catharsis usually needs a strong leap of faith and when it comes to music such a feat is almost impossible, modern day consumption is pulling us by the throats and we don’t have time to surrender, we don’t have time to let the fog, the mystery, the universal shine seek into our eyes and creep into our minds. There are exceptions, Cindy Lee is one of them, a rare all-in lifer, flickering candle." – Maple Death

“Cindy Lee is the brainchild of singer/guitarist Patrick Flegel. While some may know Flegel from his time in Canadian experimental indie band Women (Band), Cindy Lee has spent the past four years crafting songs that push and pull in opposing directions – from tales of tragedy laced with haywire distortion to moments of breathtaking beauty.”– Superior Viaduct.

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Stromboli (unreleased shot 2015)

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Havah & His Electro Blue Voice - Split 12′’ (Maple Death)

A split between two Italian bands that I've come to enjoy here and there, Havah gets the A-side on this one with five tracks of darkwave influenced post-punk. Not so much a group as it's the project of Michele Camorani, who is probably better known for work in the screamo/hardcore outfit La Quiete. Having heard the previous couple Havah albums, which are worth checking out by the way, some of the tracks here are surprisingly upbeat...taking on a larger presence of melody than I've really heard on anything prior. Maybe some of the ice has melted, or rather this might have been a way for Camorani to unload some tunes that didn't fit that mold. Who knows, but no matter, I'm a fan of the work being done here with the minimal/thin tone but wrapping it in a dreamlike haze/dissonance. Something I'd certainly be up for hearing more of if he chooses to go in that direction. If not, hey...I was cool with the cold forlorn shit too. The B-side of this is housed by one long nineteen minute track called “Tartlas” by His Electro Blue Voice, that starts off like it's going to be a slow burn churn for a good portion of it, but actually quickly starts taking steps to escalate that into some rolling feedback and then allowing it to jump even further with the swirl of humming/buzzing squalls of electronics. Somewhere in there is some barked vocals by the singer, but the real show is just the mangled mess of noise accumulated here while being backed by a simple bass line and the path it weaves at its various stages, up until about the six minute mark where it essentially drops out and begins the climb all over again. Pretty relentless stuff that has little trouble drumming up interest for the duration of it. For whatever reason I don't really ever pay much attention to split LP's like this, I really don't know why, but I'm pretty happy I sat down with this one. Also dig the cover art, which reminds me of Last House on Dead End Street...although I'm not sure if that's what they were going for. I know the music certainly fits in that same area of sleaze/gutter life. Havah - Gelo (stream) His Electro Blue Voice - Tartlas (soundcloud) BUY IT!