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In November 2020, KMRU self-released Drawing Water. The release contained three supple works of porous resonance and intimate motion, giving way to a very heartfelt body of work that peers directly into the fabric of the everyday; gestures, movement, conversation, rendered graciously into waveform. Now, Vaagner is proud to present a special edition vinyl of Drawing Water via its A Sunken Mall imprint, with the original material spanning the first side of the record in remastered from. For the second half of the record, the label has taped none other than Abul Mogard, who prepared a new piece by reworking various layers from KMRU's original compositions. This new 17-minute-long piece, tilted "Drawing Water On Matching Teal Surfaces" is defined by a continuously cascading and deeply resounding solemnness, which, towards the work's concluding moments, gradually disperses through a subtle downpour of warm pads, delicately rippling through the fabric of the work, before gently dissolving into thin air.
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This is the third and final instalment of Jeremiah M. Carter's album triptych, Vessels. Following Rejoice (ASM 001LP, 2020) and Speak You Also (ASM 004LP, 2022), all three albums were conceived within a six-month period during ferociously exalting creative sessions. The emotional turmoil of the early pandemic is as present on Vessels as it is in the other two albums, yet the final instalment showcases as more distinctive sense of focus, where the earlier albums saw Jeremiah expel a state of uncertainty and trepidation into an intense, almost spiritual form of musical cleansing. Vessels still bears those same hallmarks, yet comes across with an air of refinement and finality. Spanning six pieces, each work feels like an integral part of the albums overarching narrative, fervently nestled amid divinity and humility. By its final piece, which also clocks in as the longest in the entire triptych, we are treated to one of Jeremiah's finest moments, and for a few seconds, it all comes together for one last swansong, forming a sonic distillation of elation and grief, desire and passion.
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From the viscerally punishing and nerve wrecking, to the wistfully sublime, Kevin Drumm's work often yield a ferocious intensity through the timbres of minute details. Now, throughout this series of archival works dating from 2000 to 2022, his mastery is once again on full display. On Battering Rams sinister forces interlope with sanguine glimmers of respite and contemplation, while recurring drones ceaselessly crescendo to near paralyzing effect, only for the albums final moments to offer a lofty reprise of boundless oscillation, dispelling all the pent-up tension into a sanguine state of bliss. Once again underpinning Drumm's genius of turning apparently trivial hums into elongated microtonal worlds that stay etched deeply in your conscious, often long after the works final resonances have already subsided. Edition of 400.
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When we can no longer move forward or look outward, some reflect and seek truth in themselves -- some sharing, through the language of music, what might be impossible to say through words. Amidst the budding tempest of 2020, Jeremiah Carter, hailing originally from Tennessee, found himself embroiled in a near suffocating air of uncertainty and anxious tension, mainly brought upon by the first spikes in a soon-to-be worldwide pandemic. Only having recently relocated to the bustling city of New York, an unprecedented series of events took shape over the following months, isolating and dismaying the citizens around the globe in the process. It was during this time that Jeremiah turned his attention to music, discharging the emotional turmoil surrounding him, into a substantial wealth of newly composed work. Beginning with the album Rejoice, which was completed in the wake of 2020 and released on A Sunken Mall that same year, two more albums took shape in a quasi-self-induced creative tremor, one that soon materialized a wealth of work, forming a triptych of three unique albums, produced within the span of only six months. Finally, presented here is the second stage of the final triptych; Speak, You Also, dedicated to Paul Celan and giving us further insight into the heart of a beloved southerner, who amidst being tangled in the mesh of crisis, passion and communication, gave rise to a momentous yet equally timeless neoclassical body of work. Embossed 350g reversed cardboard sleeve; includes insert.
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New release by Berlin-based Russian, Alexandra Zakharenko, aka Perila. Follows albums on Sferic, Smalltown Supersound, and Boomkat Editions. Coffee rituals, daydreams and isolation make up some of the muses on 7.37/2.11. Comprised out of a selection of soundscapes created by Aleksandra Zakharenko throughout various stages of last year, 7.37/2.11 acts as an auditory journal that chronicles the fluctuating states of vague ambiguity the artists faced during the unprecedented turmoil of 2020. Edition of 400.
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New album by Turkish artist Ekin Fil after releases on Students of Decay, Root Strata, Helen Scarsdale Agency and Longform Editions. Feelings took shape amidst the months of anxious tension that 2020 laid upon us, written and produced by Turkish artist Ekin Fil, it took around one year for the album to manifest in its final form. Yet, underneath the opaque veneer of swooning drones, timeworn chords and verbal lamentations, glimpses of sanguinity and optimism flicker through the fabric of the work, mirroring the perpetual state of uncertainty and isolation we collectively faced in 2020; suspended between minute, optimistic spur and months of dissolute ambivalence. Edition of 300.
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A Sunken Mall is a new label from Vaagner, bringing limited vinyl editions in special packaging.
"In the railroad car a girl on her own. She looks out the window. Outside everything splits in two: tilled fields, woods, white houses, towns, suburbs, dumps, factories, dogs, and children waving goodbye. Lola Muriel appears. August 1980. I dream of faces that open their mouths and can't speak. They try but they can't. Their blue eyes stare at me but they can't. Then I walk along the corridor of a hotel. I wake up sweating. Lola has blue eyes and she reads Poe stories by the pool, while the other girls talk about pyramids and jungles. I dream that I'm watching it rain in neighborhoods which I recognize but have never visited. I walk along an empty passageway. I see faces with eyes that close and mouths that open, though they can't speak. I wake up sweating. August 1980? A girl, eighteen, from Andalusia? The night watchman, madly in love?" --Roberto Bolaño
"Dedicated to the love of the fields we watch while they comb their own hair." All instrumentation, vocals, and compositions by Jeremiah M. Carter, except the violin samples performed by Sarah Viviana Valdez on "A Pale Cloth That Cover The Eyes, written words used by Roberto Bolaño on "Like A Waltz", and the written and spoken words by Kelby Clark on "A Few Freed Memories Layed Bare". Embossed 350g deluxe cardboard cover with hand inserted image, paper insert; includes download code; Edition of 150.
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