FA018 - VA - Enter The Decagon
Out worldwide 16.12.22
Distribution via Rush Hour.
Enter The Decagon assembles friends of the label - near and far - for further excursions into the abyss of industrial, folk, jazz and ambient musics.
From Copenhagen hails Kristi Brud (Bride of Christ) extending us a shimmering violin contemplation initially made for the short art film piece "The Abduction of Europa", absorbing a modal ambiance of harmonics rooted in central European renaissance. Recorded in Svalöv in rural Skåne comes a hillbilly folk jazz piece constructed by Joel and Ivar on equal parts violin, flute, piano, upright bass and percussion, recorded somewhere in the misty era of of 2012-2015. Then, an interlude follows, reconstructed from the very early live sets of the label's own Inre Kretsen Grupp, laden with tuned metallic percussions and synthesized bow sounds. Following up, the idiosyncratic local talent Fai Ling offers a piece of Basinski/Hassel-esque horn repetitions in full deterioration. Concluding the A-side of the compilation is the band that never was - the only released material of Prins Emanuel and Golden Ivy's Börringe Kloster project - encapsulating their minimal-maximal approach of low quality sound samples turned in to a wall of sound of rhythm of sorts.
The B-side picks up on different musings in the form of ambient cadence and carefully sculpted soundscapes signed Phillipp Otterbach, who gives us an unraveling journey into kalimba-hampered harmonies carried through a bed of industrial, synthesized sounds. Moonilena follows up with an eerie yet beautiful minimal composition of radio disturbances and repetitive, ear catching melodies.
Breaking the barrier of stillness, local producer and Catholic chant fiend Digge Shim performs a rhytmical, tongue-in-cheek number that pulls widely from both the hymnal traditions of medieval Europe as well as the zonked out ambient trance sounds you'd meet in a mid nineties Goa chill-out tent.
Near the tip of the decagon, we find the Cypriot producer, singer and lyricist Spivak presenting us with a feeling of the-familiar-but-never-heard in the form of an ambient pop breakbeat number with carefully crafted choirs oscillating on top - hauntingly beautiful and equally danceable.
Ending in the best of styles, well-mannered umarel and purveyor of drum-smitten metallic sounds shows us what Moisture is really about - the mental image of finding your true self dancing in purgatory at a never-released Kenneth Anger film set, encumbered with red lights and occult paraphernalia.
A-SIDE
A1 Kristi Brud - Variations of La Folia - The Abduction of Europa
A2 Joel & Ivar - Svalöv 9 juli
A3 Inre Kretsen Grupp - Interlud
A4 Fai Ling - Ikaros Svett (Short Version)
A5 Börringe Kloster - Hommage Á Eva Ramel
B-SIDE
B1 Philipp Otterbach - The Lost Track
B2 Moonilena - Onio
B3 Digge Shim - A Friend In Deed
B4 Spivak - Oauver
B5 Moisture - Blue Tea
Cover by Ivar Lantz
Compiled by Emanuel Sundin
Mastered by Joakim Lindberg, Studio Sickan