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Label: black truffle

Cat-No: BLACKTRUFFLE084

Release-Date: 21.01.2022

Genre:Ambient/Balearic/Kraut/Electro

Configuration: LP

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Eiko Ishibashi - I Can Feel Guilty About Anything - Part 1 (00:00) Eiko Ishibashi - I Can Feel Guilty About Anything - Part 1 (00:00)	1	Eiko Ishibashi - I Can Feel Guilty About Anything - Part 1
Eiko Ishibashi - I Can Feel Guilty About Anything - Part 2 (00:00) Eiko Ishibashi - I Can Feel Guilty About Anything - Part 2 (00:00)	2	Eiko Ishibashi - I Can Feel Guilty About Anything - Part 2
Eiko Ishibashi - Ask Me How I Sleep At Night (00:00) Eiko Ishibashi - Ask Me How I Sleep At Night (00:00)	3	Eiko Ishibashi - Ask Me How I Sleep At Night

Black Truffle is pleased to announce For McCoy, a new work by Eiko Ishibashi dedicated to the widely loved character of Jack McCoy, portrayed by Sam Waterston in Law & Order. Following on from Hyakki Yagyo (BT064), For McCoy finds Ishibashi further exploring the unique space she has carved out in recent years, bringing together musique concrète techniques, ECM-inspired jazz, lush layers of synths and hints of pop into immersive and affecting structures crafted in her home studio, aided by a group of close collaborators.

Beginning with overlapping layers of descending flute lines, the expansive ‘I Can Feel Guilty About Anything’ (whose two parts stretch out over more than thirty minutes) unfolds with a free-associative logic, embracing dreamlike transitions and unexpected cinematic cuts. As a hovering cloud of synthetic tones and multi-tracked voices fans out from the spare opening moments, Joe Talia’s skittering cymbals settle into a gently propulsive groove, soon joined by melodic fragments performed by Daisuke Fujiwara on multi-tracked saxophone. As the drums cede to field recordings and ominous synth figures, the uncommon meeting of saxophone and electroacoustic techniques call to mind the more spacious moments of Michel Redolfi and André Jaume’s Synclavier-propelled oddity Hardscore or the early work of Gilbert Artman’s Urban Sax. As the piece continues on the LP’s second side, distant dialogue rumbles beneath a surface of processed flutes, blurring into a cavernously reverberant backdrop for stark ascending lines performed by MIO.O on violin. Eventually, the piece settles into a gorgeous passage of abstracted dream pop, where Ishibashi’s multitracked vocal harmonies glide atop synth chords, errant pings and snatches of outdoor sound.

Fragments of melodic material reappear throughout the spacious opening piece, finally stepping to the forefront on the closing track, ‘Ask Me How I Sleep at Night’. Here, over a shuffling groove supplied by Jim O’Rourke on double bass and Tatsuhisa Yamamoto on drums, layers of flutes, saxophones and guitars sound out melodies whose combination of twisting irregularity and soulful immediacy calls up prime Keith Jarrett, while their closely voiced harmonies suggest Kenny Wheeler or even Wayne Shorter’s Atlantis. In a classical gesture of closure, the web of melodic lines eventually leads back to the descending flute figures with which the record began. Presented in an immersive, impeccably detailed mix by Jim O’Rourke and arriving in a sleeve featuring Ishibashi’s beautiful drawings of Jack McCoy, For McCoy is an essential release for anyone following the enchanted and unique path being forged by Eiko Ishibashi.

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Strië & Scanner

Struktura Revisited

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Label: a strangely isolated place

Cat-No: ASIPV034

Release-Date: 31.01.2022

Genre:Ambient/Balearic/Kraut/Electro

Configuration: 2LP

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Cat-No: ASIPV034

Release-Date: 31.01.2022

Genre:Ambient/Balearic/Kraut/Electro

Configuration: 2LP

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Polish composer Olga Wojciechowska and veteran electronic producer Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner, combine on A Strangely Isolated Place to revisit a beloved Strië album - Olga’s more electronic and experimental alias.

With previous releases on Serein and Time Released Sound as Strië, Olga Wojciechowska’s ‘Struktura’ was released in 2015 to a limited audience due to its physical-only format. As Olga’s work becomes increasingly more coveted, through her more recent releases on A Strangely Isolated Place (Unseen Traces & Infinite Distances), and with Struktura praised as one of her finest albums to date, the discussion to breathe new life into the album resulted in a unique pairing with Scanner, an electronic music producer and multimedia artist responsible for some of the most defining works of the genre since the early 1990s.

Blurring the line between harmony and dissonance, Struktura’soriginal recordings paint an eerie, haunting and beautiful picture, conceptualized around abstract art, with intricacies and mystery abound. Here, Strië’s original recordings remain untouched, albeit lovingly remastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri, and it is left toScanner to provide further interpretations of Olga’s original recordings.

Scanner productions can typically traverse a myriad of styles, but here, Robin took a primarily live-hardware approach to the remixes, allowing the rawness of his recordings to add story and depth. Recorded in one take, with no overdubs, the reinterpretations strip the melodies and textures to their original essence, bringing an entirely analog element to Olga’sintrinsically detailed originals.

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LESS-O

Shenanigans EP

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Label: TEMET

Cat-No: TEM004

Release-Date: 10.01.2022

Genre:Ambient/Balearic/Kraut/Electro

Configuration: 12"

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Label: TEMET

Cat-No: TEM004

Release-Date: 10.01.2022

Genre:Ambient/Balearic/Kraut/Electro

Configuration: 12"

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LESS-O - Bumblebee (00:00) LESS-O - Bumblebee (00:00)	1	LESS-O - Bumblebee
LESS-O - Clan D (00:00) LESS-O - Clan D (00:00)	2	LESS-O - Clan D
LESS-O - Meditative Walk (00:00) LESS-O - Meditative Walk (00:00)	3	LESS-O - Meditative Walk
LESS-O - Behind Closed Doors (00:00) LESS-O - Behind Closed Doors (00:00)	4	LESS-O - Behind Closed Doors
LESS-O - A Third (00:00) LESS-O - A Third (00:00)	5	LESS-O - A Third

Straight out blood relative business, TEMET’s anticipated fourth iteration comes courtesy of up-and-coming French producer Less-O - a relatively new name to the scene but whose musical lineage and shared DNA with Simo shall sound no stranger to our listeners’ ears. Raised in a family of music lovers and classical guitar players, Less-O first dabbled in music through the prism of drums, mostly jazz, which have played a big part in the development of his approach towards electronic production (he only picked up a couple of years ago), and obviously runs the length of his debut solo EP, “Shenanigans”, due out 9 November on TEM?T.

Recorded during the recent lockdown that pushed him to explore further ahead his then- dormant potential within the electronic sphere, writing most of the tracks over lengthy night watch shifts, “Shenanigans” champions a sound both dark and subtly elating. The EP fuses an immersive and brooding neo-noir ambience with Jon Hassell-ian brass a la Blues Nile and flooded machinery on ”Bumblebee”, whilst “Clan D” peeps at slowed-and-throwed trap motifs with muted savagery. A shadowy hood joint primed for slo-cruising around the blocks.

Contemporary trip-hop number is on the menu with “Meditative Walk”, laying macroscopic emphasis on faux-organic envelopes and insectoid sounds as ominous riffs and brittle chimes scud across.

Tapping in cross-knit seams of hard-edged bass and future dancehall, “Behind Closed Doors” reels out as a fractured kaleidoscope flush with hypermodern rhythmic shards, cascading bleeps and knee-buckling breaks. The mystique-imbued polyrhythmia of “A Third” rounds off the package with incendiary percussive flair, unleashing a hypnotic symphony of skilfully ordinated dissonance and rattling riptide froth.

Keep your eyes peeled, the Less-O adventure is just getting started.

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funcionário

Lisbon Dreams

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Label: Groovement Organic Series

Cat-No: GOS008LP

Release-Date: 25.02.2022

Genre:Ambient/Balearic/Kraut/Electro

Configuration: LP Excl

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Cat-No: GOS008LP

Release-Date: 25.02.2022

Genre:Ambient/Balearic/Kraut/Electro

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funcionário - Dolphin Bay Vacation (00:00) funcionário - Dolphin Bay Vacation (00:00)	1	funcionário - Dolphin Bay Vacation
funcionário - Maiden Voyage 561 (00:00) funcionário - Maiden Voyage 561 (00:00)	2	funcionário - Maiden Voyage 561
funcionário - Underwater Rescue (00:00) funcionário - Underwater Rescue (00:00)	3	funcionário - Underwater Rescue
funcionário - 562 & 563 (00:00) funcionário - 562 & 563 (00:00)	4	funcionário - 562 & 563
funcionário - Dolphin Bay Dream (00:00) funcionário - Dolphin Bay Dream (00:00)	5	funcionário - Dolphin Bay Dream
funcionário - As Right As Rain (00:00) funcionário - As Right As Rain (00:00)	6	funcionário - As Right As Rain
funcionário - Victory Road (00:00) funcionário - Victory Road (00:00)	7	funcionário - Victory Road
funcionário - Blue & White Postcard (00:00) funcionário - Blue & White Postcard (00:00)	8	funcionário - Blue & White Postcard

Following Chari Chari and Rui Maia's albums, Organic Series releases another collection of beautiful music by funcionário, artistic alias of multitalented Pedro Tavares.
"Lisbon Dreams" is a conceptual album shaped by Pedro that evoques his travels between Setúbal and Lisbon, while studying Fine Arts at the portuguese capital city.
Music wise, "Lisbon Dreams" represents an unfolding new world, full of overwhelming feelings translated into musical landscapes and possibly inspired by contemporary producers like Nuno Canavarro or Susumu Yokota.
But when Pedro talks about his album he likes to quote John Cage: don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.

- For fans of Susumu Yokota or Nuno Canavarro

TRACKLISTS:
A1. Dolphin Bay Vacation
A2. Maiden Voyage 561
A3. Underwater Rescue
A4. 562 & 563
B1. Dolphin Bay Dream
B2. As Right As Rain
B3. Victory Road
B4. Blue & White Postcard

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Jupiter Jax

Lower Your Entropy

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Label: Lonely Planets Rec

Cat-No: LONELY007

Release-Date: 05.01.2022

Genre:Ambient/Balearic/Kraut/Electro

Configuration: MC

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Cat-No: LONELY007

Release-Date: 05.01.2022

Genre:Ambient/Balearic/Kraut/Electro

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