Weston Olencki cracks into the mythology of old time music from the American south by jumpcutting through its emotional swing. A yearning for and distancing from home, I Went To The Dance uncovers hidden memories and how music can continue to shape us in unexpected ways.

Collaging recordings of the wildfire that burned around him with digitally dissected violin and guitar, Daniel Bachman’s Quaker Run Wildfire (10/24/23/ - 11/17/23) is imbued with a real time feeling of dread to stand as a vital work of unheeding transformation.
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Daniel Bachman

“I always think about music horizontally and vertically at the same time.
Ryuichi Sakamoto Friday.

First Impressions 013 is out! Our free newsletter of initial vibes on new music from:

claire rousay
Ulla + Ultrafog
marine eyes
Tadleeh
Water Damage
Nick Millevoi

and more. Link in bio.

Piotr Kurek has classical voice escape history and hard drives into new signals on The Night We Slept Under an Overhanging Cliff. Within intimate chamber music, this piece merges memory and future tenses into fluid digitised space with rare vision.

Chuck Johnson’s Cypress Suite unravels the harmonic nuances of a pipe organ to explore temporal dimensions. The organ's resonant drones and the interweaving of piano, voice and saxophone reflect an aura of beauty and a point of stillness in an age of hyper flux.
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Chuck Johnson

“Technology is a tremendous liberator.  It blows up power structures.”
Laurie Spiegel Friday.

First Impressions 012 is out! Our free newsletter of initial vibes on new music from:

Still House Plants
Turn On The Sunlight
Jess Ribeiro
John Glacier
Dana Gavanski
b.michaael

and more

Link in bio.

This week’s issue of Futurism Restated is up! Featuring new releases from 9T Antiope, Saint Abdullah & Eomac, Longform Editions, F A X, and more

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very happy to chat to Piotr Kurek for Táto Strana Európyt about his musical beginnings, composing for theatre, his creative process and his new release 'The night we slept under an overhanging cliff'

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On I Went to the Dance, (with Jules Reidy on guitar) Weston Olencki examines and seeks to break his own understandings of growing up in the American South, stretching early Louisiana Cajun recordings to detach them from their histories and unearth hidden emotional resonances.

Thanks so much for Lars Gotrich 🍷🌊 for covering my new wildfire piece today. “Quaker Run Wildfire (10/24/23–11/17/23) for Fiddle and Guitar” is out on Longform Editions

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Daniel Bachman's (Daniel Bachman) Quaker Run Wildfire (10/24/23 – 11/17/23) reflects climate breakdown, using its very elements of destruction to capture a wildfire's ominous presence, offering a haunting vision of the consequences of global heating.

Check out First Impressions, our free newsletter of initial vibes on new music. This week (011) features

Adam Wiltze
Jim White
Ariushi Jain
Marsha Fisher
Olli Aarni 

and more. Link in bio.

Poland's Piotr Kurek, drawn to classically-trained voices, reimagines them on The Night We Slept Under an Overhanging Cliff. With a fantastical touch, he reshapes these age-old sounds into a fresh realm, offering both homage to the past and liberation from it.
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Piotr Kurek

A beautiful review of “The night we slept over an overhanging cliff” Boomkat.com Many thanks! ✨ Longform Editions boomkat.com/products/the-n…

Chuck Johnson blends pedal steel guitar with electronic and chamber music in his latest work, Cypress Suite. Collaborating with Marielle Jakobsons, Kristine Barrett, and Patrick Shiroishi, Johnson explores themes of time and transition, amplifying the organ's atmospheric power.

LE37 is now:

Chuck Johnson's transcendent organ orchestration;
Piotr Kurek's voice odyssey;
Daniel Bachman's haunting wildfire lament
and
Weston Olencki's Southern roots deconstruction.

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Thanks.

With LE 37 here tomorrow, it's time to give thanks to the artists who gave us LE 36, with works transferring ethereal elements into our reality for magical listening experiences:

Iasos
Loris S. Sarid
Li Yilei
Liis Ring

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See you tomorrow.

First Impressions 010 is out! Our free newsletter of initial vibes on new music from:

Pan American & Kramer
The Messthetics
rosalimusic
Kane Pour
more eaze +  pardo + glass
High Llamas

and more.

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