MUNDO URBANO SUNDAY FAVORITES VOL.2
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| "Leg in the air - Parthenon" - Postcard, image by Edgard Alsteens, 1986. |
Happy New Year! I'm back with the 2nd volume of my current favorite listens. Hope you all are doing good, best wishes and lot's of love, M.U. You can also check Sunday Favorites Vol.1 here.
01. Las Cuevas - Tunnel Vision (Jungle Gym Records)JUNGLE GYM RECORDS presents "Tunnel Vision" the official debut of L.A.'s Las Cuevas! Reverb-soaked psychedelic surf jams drift from distant mountain caves and out to sea, a shroomed-up dub odyssey twisting like curls of smoke through space-time and dissipating into the stars... peak Cali vibes, exclusively from JUNGLE GYM! Big Mood!
02. Various Artists - Burning It Up (Australian Reggae 1979-1986) (Austudy Records)
Austudy Records is proud to present its debut release Burning It Up: Australian Reggae (1979-1986). A compilation surveying the influence of Reggae on Australia’s preoccupation with Rock, Pop, and New Wave between the years of 1979-1986. This selection of 8 obscure tracks originally issued on 7” records represents some of the earliest examples of Reggae sounds in Australian recorded music.
Across 8 tracks Burning It Up encounters a psychedelic Dub-Soul stepper in Janie Conway’s Temptation, similarly The Lifesavers provide the compilation’s name-sake in their own spaced-out, improv-riddim. In Sydney Delaney/Venn joins forces with Marcia Hines to deliver a glammed-out anthem while down the road a few ex-pats known as The Nights In Shining dance to an anthem of their own at a disco on the beach.
The mysterious Wide Boy Youth preaches over Roots-Rock from some plastic tropics whilst up north the irrepressible Time Lords Inc. fight the good fight in a loose funk-rock protest. Faded, late-night echoes of Ska wane with The Agents and one of, if not the earliest examples of an Australian dub reverberate gloriously in Jo Jo Zep's hands-on approach to his Oz-Rock-classic.
03. Childese - Minor Eden (Not Not Fun)
The music of St. Petersburg keyboard fantasist Vova Kolbin aka Childese fuses reverie and melancholy in a grainy mirage of tape hiss, field recordings, and cosmic church organ: welcome to "Minor Eden". Inspired by a potently idyllic childhood summer spent in a dilapidated country house with his fisherman father many years ago, the album conjures a mood of longing and wonder, early mornings out on the lake, dawn light streaking the sky. Vova describes his process as a form of magical realism, at the threshold of new age and hypnagogia. This is devotional music in its truest sense, in thrall to times enshrined and things past, to golden ages and paradises lost, the hourglass of youth forever spilling softly in a dream half-remembered. Released December 2, 2022, via Not Not Fun. Design by Vova Kolbin and Britt Brown. Tip!
04. Holsen&Cassiers - Walking in circles (STROOM.tv)
"Walking in circles" is a moving and poetic journey that can sound coldly electronic, seemingly abstract, and heartwarmingly human. Holsen’s unique gentle melodies emerge to the surface and go hand in hand with Cassiers’ fragile bits of songs and words, offering the listener a lead through an etheric dream world. Recorded during a residency and live concert at AB Salon Brussels in January 2020. Cover by Victor Verhelst. releases January 22, 2023, via STROOM.tv.
05. Various Artists - Shadow Wolf Cyberzine Covertape II (Nightwind Records)
A 19-track 'cover tape' compilation with various artists for the SHADOW WOLF CYBERZINE Issue #10 that was released on 30 December 2021.
The Shadow Wolf Cyberzine is an e-zine written in old school haxor style ASCII spanning a broad field of subjects from the "underground electronic music scene". Lots of interviews, articles, D.I.Y manuals, ASCII art, studio tips, and overall weirdness. You can read the cyberzine here: legowelt.org/shadow-wolf-cyberzine-issue-10. The term 'cover tape' stems from when magazines came with a cassette tape full of music or software on the cover back in the 1980s/1990s. Released December 30, 2021, via Nightwind Records. Highly Recommended!
06. Various Artists - Bladder by the Ligh (Obsolete Future)
"Bladder by the Light" is a conceptional compilation between Obsolete Future and the Parisian painter Marion Guillet. Bladder by the Light was shot 35mm on location across the Pacific; including Anacapa Island, Sitka, Diomede, and Niue. The film – destroyed by arson – accompanies Professor Casella Lazarev, a reclusive scholar of Paul Klee’s Notebooks as she struggles to summon her dreams. That is until she peers into a laboratory webcam documenting a kelp forest off the shore of the Channel Islands.
Suspended in shadow and light, the epipelagic species begin to possess the professor, as her own circadian rhythms transpose across an elegiac dreamland where a cast of shades emerge out of the tidal canopy only to sink back into the abyss.
Realizing her life’s work was merely a crutch to access the ‘brood of night’ her dreamlessness previously denied, upon making contact with the seaweed steppe and the parasocial relationships with its inhabitants, Lazarev shifts attention to archiving what the submerged eye captures.
Ultimately the archive’s impartiality distorts, unveiling false awakenings and the undulations of surveillance, the ghosts of reveries, and what the cacophony of memory and remorse tell us about departed strangers.
Alas, the original soundtrack – featured here in its complete form for the first time – is all that remains. Compiled by Conor Walker & Marion Guillet for C92 Type I (Fe2O3). Artwork by Marion Guillet, Mastered by Jack Callahan. Features tracks by Virgo Four, Nick Klein, Dopplereffekt, Toulouse Low Trax, Disemblance, Newworldaquarium, Suburban Cracked Collective, Liquid Soap, and many more. released December 9, 2022, via Obsolete Future. Highly Recommended!
07. Various Artists - Women Invented Noise Vol II (Amplify Iranian Voices) (Industrial Coast)
For the second volume of its great Girls Invented Noise compilation, Industrial Coast has conspicuously renamed it to women. They’re also sending all the proceeds to the Centre for Human Rights in Iran, in support of the protests going on as we speak. This time, the tape holds 16 tracks and you can listen to some of them now – like Bestial Mouths’ incredible “I Am the Spell”. Also contributing are Bridget Ferrill, Nail Club, and Lovozero from Russia. Full Digital album available NOW! Physical cassette release, Friday 9 December 2022. Highly Recommended!
08. Various Artists - ...it wasn't really me (Knekelhuis)
Following up 2021’s compilation 'and felt like...', ' ...it wasn't really me' can be seen as the missing part of a diptych, only separated by the passage of time, yet whole in spirit. Again, a familiar company of singular artists showcases remarkable unity in diversity. Similar to its predecessor, a rustic gloom glues everything together into a seamless whole, enabling the collective to transcend each unique contributor's showcases musical voice elegantly. Features: Lara Sarkissian, SSIEGE, Feloneezy, Spivak, Civilistjävel! and more! Mastered by Amir Shoat and artwork by Keziah Phillips and Steele Bonus. released December 9, 2022, via Knekelhuis. Cool Tip!
09. William Kincaid - Altered Ground (Nation)
This 28-minute documented performance was released on Nation as the next-level sound of Jakbeat in passionate craftsmanship as Kindcaid recorded in one take using a sequencer, with improvised keyboards, electronics & metallic percussion, and guitar playing LIVE! Highly Recommended!
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