BS078 Black Square Cloudcast - back to Avant-Garde IX

“He who has cast off the world has linked it to yellow dust

Your body is like unto a wound, and you are like unto a madman.

This entire world is a yellow arrow which has pierced you through

The yellow arrow is the train on which you ride towards a ruined bridge” - Victor Pelevin "The Yellow Arrow"

Photo: "Untitled" by Jodi DeGerlia

00:00 Aram Saroyan - Crickets [recorded in the wind-off grooves of side two] (1965)

01:55 Dariush Dolat-Shahi - Shabistan (Sehtar and Electronic) (1985)

08:18 Alexander Mossolov - Zavod, Symphony Of Machines (1926-28)

11:14 John Cage - Imaginary Landscape No.1 (1939)

18:43 Lawrence Weiner - Nothing to Lose, Side 1 (1976)

34:38 Walter Steding - Entry (1980)

36:59 Remko Scha - Guitar Mural 1 (featuring The Machines), Side A (1981)

46:22 Victor Pelevin - The Yellow Arrow (1993) 

BS077 Viktar Siamashka & Co - BIOTOPE

"Free music from “the last dictatorship in Europe”. Spontaneous improvisation. Operative composing. Something at the intercrossing of free-jazz, folk, academic and electronic music. All compositions were created together, alive, "here and now" and without the using of phonograms or rehearse fragments." - Viktar Siamashka & Co

Viktar Siamashka – winds, percussion 

Eryk Arlou-Shymus – double-bass 

Maxim Iukin – vocal, percussion

Raman Jarash – big drum 

Recorded 08/11/2012 in anticafe "Fisher House", 

Miensk, Bielarus. 

Art – Viktar Siamashka Sr.

Design - Ales Siamashka.

01 - Biotope (I, II) 

       part I (00:00 - 08:30), 

       part II (08:30 - 16:19)

02 - Risky men

03 - Without M.

04 - Thesis

05 - Dudaryki

BS076 Victor Ivaniv & MOLOTOK Ensemble - BROKEN WITH A HAMMER

BROKEN WITH A HAMMER - is a co-production album. The music of MOLOTOK Ensemble is arranged with original prose and poetry reading by Victor Ivaniv. This album reading is a part of stories from last book of Victor, “Awake Dreamer”, published in New-York`s Ailuros Publishing. The music tracks is original summa of avant-guard and classics for chamber orchestra and a piano pieces. The sharp sound of glass and the scream of violins meets here the bullfrog of storyteller. A bucklet is illustrated by photos of Nikolai Zaikov, Pavel Proskuriakov and Tatiana Suvirko. The mastering is by Alexey Muhmood Biriukov.

01 - Rothko

02 - Znamenki

03 - Sonata For Flute And Cello

04 - Sonate For Glass

BS075 Ak'chamel, The Giver of Illness - The Divine Vine Tapes

Icaro chants and yaje incantations for the spirit's journey to the other realm. All songs by AK'CHAMEL. Recorded to cassette tape.

01 - The Purge

02 - Syrian Rue

03 - Hoodoo Blood Lore 

04 - El Curandero (Native Ghost Chant)

05 - The Man Who Drank God 

06 - Infierno Verde 

07 - Money Burn 

08 - The Rebirth

BS074 Cagey House - This Flag Means be Still

"These tracks are about stasis. 

"Living Grass on I-70" started as a short percussion solo. I slowed it way down--something like 800%--until the sound became really degraded. Then I kept altering the pitch until the sonic degradations became the main voice in the track.

"The Finger Can't See" is an experiment with out of phase repetition, boredom, and annoyance.

"Delicate Clock Runs the Street" is the result of a set of rules that force harmonic motion while simultaneously preventing resolution." 

"The Second Fawn" is an arrangement of a single sample (at different pitches and durations) of a Thor's Hammer virtual synthesizer being turned off in mid-note." - Cagey House 

cover art by Brandi Strickland

01 - Living Grass on I-70

02 - The Finger Can't See

03 - Delicate Clock Runs the Street

04 - The Second Fawn

Free Pussy Riot!

Today is 1-year anniversary of 'Punk Prayer' performance by Pussy Riot. This mix is a tribute to artists who fight for values and principles of gender equality, democracy and freedom of expression.

FREE PUSSY RIOT!

00:00 Евгений Алексеев - Богородица, Путина прогони

03:31 IRREVEREND JAMES and the CRITICAL MASS CHOIR - Punk Prayer

07:24 Checkpoint 303 - Pussy Riot Kropotkin Vodka (Lo-Fi Remix)

10:46 Mukluk - Poutine Extra-Sauce Mix

16:15 Gargle & Expel - Free Pussy Riot remix

19:05 Alice Bag - Free Pussy Riot

20:18 Zorras - Weapons of minor destruction

24:06 Barbara Browning - Punk Prayer (Pussy Riot Cover)

26:01 Obiekt 172 - August 15th 2012 Pussy Riot incantations

32:10 Tresi - Pussy Riot tribute

37:32 Pussy Riot - Punk Prayer (True Womanhood RMX)

41:36 Peaches Rocks - Free Pussy Riot

44:08 Noize MC - Во имя Отца и Сына и Святого Духа

47:14 Барто - Кисья Ересь (feat. КА4) [PUSSY RIOT cover]

51:19 The Implicit Order - Political Stab At Pussy Riot

53:25 Pussy Riot - Путин зажигает костры революций

BS073 Radio for the Daydreamers - Denouement

"The final section of the triptych "Praying for the Be(a)st", "Denouement" continues and concludes the story of our protagonist through all the discrepancies and dilemmas. A realization of the power of existence and dreaming, this record tells the story of that character realizing that without an audience, a catastrophe is short lived. So eventually. it is up to him to stop fueling the fire. 

"To embrace the sunlight, 

that brought me my eyesores. 

My demons and gods. 

are only as mighty as I wish." - Radio for the Daydreamers

01 - The Tender Is Frightening

02 - Dorian, The Apathetic

03 - But Passive Aggression Is All I Have Got 

04 - Lush Black (When Will It Rain Again)

05 - Confusion Is My Birthright

06 - Lower Than Angels

07 - Everything You Can Not C# 

08 - Drawing Teeth On The Moon

09 - But Pessimism Is All I Have Got

10 - Insect Eyes (Please Wake Me Never Again)

11 - The Emotion Incomplete

12 - I See People

13 - We Are Safe And Sound

14 - I Create My Own Demons To Fight

15 - But Life Is All I Have Got

16 - The Surface Is Tension

17 - A Lone Drive Away

18 - Closure (A Reductive Totem)