#tomaga

[lyburnum]

[fiendhop]

Incantation - DJ Muggs

The Communion feat. Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh & David Murphy - Ordnance Survey 

Toi 1338b - Sedibus, The orb 

Drum glow - Moderat 

Merkabah - Meemo Comma 

Just like his dad - Cosmo Vitelli feat. Truus de Groot

Be airborn - Natalie Beridze 

Praise the Sun - Whitesquare 

Intimate immensity - Tomaga 

Chapter 9 - Moritz von Oswald Trio, Heinrich Köbberling, Laurel Halo

[pettybourgeoiz]

[burlveneer-music]

Tomaga - Intimate Immensity - the final album, out today; marvelous rhythms and textures, a Fourth World masterpiece

The last, outstanding release of the London based experimental duo (Tom Relleen and Valentina Magaletti), accomplished just before Tom’s passing in August 2020, is the distillate of two years of new creative enhancement. Mostly recorded at Tom’s “Bunker” – as he called his house in London – during the days off from live performances and challenging collaborations throughout the world, Intimate Immensity collects ten intense tracks that outline a breath-taking epiphanic journey revisiting the multifaceted worlds explored by the band in seven years of non-stop and mostly live activity. The wonderful blue artwork especially created by the acclaimed artists Icinori is a perfect match with the gist of Tomaga’s aesthetics of intimacy that is well expressed by a few lines in the gatefold: “I just found an interesting book by Gaston Bachelard called The Poetics of Space, with chapters on ‘house as universe’, nests, shells, ‘intimate immensity’, ‘the phenomenology of roundness’... I think it ties in with our feelings about bunkers and the urge to partition the universe to create our own spaces, vs cleansing or colonising the everyday to make it empty of anyone else's taste.  I think Tomaga tracks with their individual micro worlds are a bit like that…" – in this way Relleen introduces us into Tomaga’s pulsing universe where space and meaning, articulated by sound, acquire breath and character as an expressive place where you can feel at home. It is a quite similar aesthetics that could be perceived through Derek Jarman’s quotation from Blue (1993) used in the video of Intimate Immensity realised by Noriko Okaku together with some of Tom’s favourite stones collected from different places throughout his life. Blue protects white from innocence Blue drags black with it Blue is darkness made visible Blue protects white from innocence Blue drags black with it Blue is darkness made visible. The dialogical richness of musical influences, that has always been a peculiarity of all Tomaga’s performances, finds its peak here. The sonic spectrum is really wide, ranging from modern composers such as Laurie Spiegel and Pauline Anna Strom who has recently passed away, to the British refined dance aesthetics of Muslimgauze and Ossia. The somewhat deceitful approachability of the ten tracks, their crystal clear and elegant surface, is in fact the outcome of the deep process of transformation that has personally and musically involved the duo during the last two years.

[half-a-tiger]

TOMAGA - “Very Never”, feat. vocals by Cathy Lucas, from the London duo’s final album ‘Intimate Immensity' recorded before Tom Relleen’s passing last August, and released March 26th, 2021 via Hands In The Dark.

Video directed by Ross Adams.

Original footage of Cathy Lucas by Sally Rowlands.

[dustedandsocial]

Avvitagalli  - Avvitagalli  CS [ Music à la Coque, 2021] 

The album "Avvitagalli"! By the band Avvitagalli! Featuring the legendary Valentina Magaletti! (And Efisio Biancofiore and Pino Montecalvo of avant-jazz punks, Bz Bz Ueu!) Two largely instrumental compositions that seamlessly flow from "what's up with these goofy-ass ghosts haunting everyone"-style exploitation movie theme music to grinding no wave noise to fucked up marching band clamor made from scratch. It's actually a fun listen, which is not something you get to say about side-long improvised instrumental pieces that often. Buy it now, do it now:

https://valentinamagaletti.bandcamp.com/album/avvitagalli https://musicalacoque.bandcamp.com/album/avvitagalli https://musicalacoque.bandcamp.com/album/tapes-vinyls-cd

[abelkia]

Cassette du jour Valentina Magaletti & Marlene Ribeiro "Due Matte" (Commando Vanessa) #valentinamagaletti #marleneribeiro #commandovanessa #k7 #cassette #tape #duo #duet #microlabel #underground #tomaga #vanishingtwins #gnod #negrabranca #duematte #drums #girlpower #woman #blackgnod #womenartists #uuuu #raime #landscapes #bass #keyboards #electronic https://www.instagram.com/p/CEll8r9gl0o/?igshid=10a4pz8hor3e5

[dustedmagazine]

Listed: Brian Case

Singer and multi-instrumentalist was a teenager when he got on board the music train with 90 Day Men, and he’s been on it ever since. Based in Chicago, he was second guitarist with garage rockers Ponys and the stern vocal center of Disappears. Currently he leads FACS, a trio that pares Disappears’ dynamic sound to starker, more monolithic essence. Jennifer Kelly said of their debut LP, Negative Houses (Trouble in Mind): “FACS works best in post-apocalyptic desolation mode, rattling over long rhythms to the vanishing point.” He has also worked in the shorter-lived projects Bambi Kino, Acteurs, and Parish School, and records alone. The French label Hands in the Dark has just released Case’s third solo LP,Plays Artificial Paradise,on which he sets his echo-swamped voice within pulsing, clanking synthscapes.

Wipers–Over the Edge

This album came up in conversation recently and I realized I hadn't listened to it in years. Such a great guitar record, really thoughtful music that takes the energy of punk and transfers it into something else. “No One Wants an Alien” is my favorite track.

Jon Hassell / Brian Eno–Fourth World Vol. 1

Great collaboration, totally committed to the idea of what they could accomplish together. There's a great compilation inspired by this album available on Optimo called Miracle Steps.

Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe–Magnamite

Rob and I had a band for a long time called 90 Day Men, we learned so much together about music and life. We were probably never more than 5 ft. apart from each other for about a decade which is pretty insane! I love watching where he's going next with his solo practice.

My Bloody Valentine–Isn’t Anything

I'm always coming back to this record, I think I like it better than Lovelesssince it's not such a masterpiece. The recently remastered version released by the band is definitely worth getting, lots of new sounds and artifacts that were never that clear on any of the other versions. I think I've bought this album 5 times now?

Talk Talk–Laughing Stock

Beautiful and stark, I think most of this was improvised and put together over the course of a year or so? This has been on the record player once a day for a while now, hoping it rubs off on me somehow.

Ice Baths–Self Titled

New London band on Blank Editions. Really interesting guitar stuff and great textures, feel like they're trying to make something new, which I'm always attracted to.

Behavior–Bitter Bitter

L.A. based band that I think shares members with Wand. Punk music with lots of space. Great voice too.

Arthur Russell–World of Echo

This was probably the main inspiration for my new album. I really wanted to strip things down to just voice and synth, be kinda naked and straight forward emotionally.

Tomaga–Greetings From The Bitter End

One of the best bands going, they release something new about every 2 weeks, shipping charges are killing me. Truly wonderful people doing exactly whatever they want, that's really inspiring.

Suuns–Felt

One of my favorite bands, their approach music is really fresh. Lots of electronics that mesh perfectly with the traditional base of the band. I'd recommend any of their albums but this latest is their strongest and most varied.