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A synapse-popping electro-acoustic soundwalk around Western Europe's cathedrals, chapels and churches, 𝑪𝒂𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒂 𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒏𝒔 skews recognizable sacred soundscapes, proposing a contemporary mythology that muddles the past, present and future. Following on from his critically-acclaimed 𝑩𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝑩𝒍𝒖𝒆𝒔 full-length, American sound artist Jake Muir familiarizes himself with German and British sonic architectu...

Named after the tendency to impose familiar likenesses, such as faces, on random - usually inanimate - objects, 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒊𝒅𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒂 is Jake Muir's way of interpreting the consonances between so-called “ambient” music and extreme heavy metal. Extracting the headiest, most atmospheric sections from hundreds of death metal and black metal tracks, Muir plays the role of both DJ and electroacoustic composer, co...

mixed by Glyn Maier during Nick Klein's "BRING THE FLOWERS TO THE THEATRE", a program hosted by SARA'S (April 2023 New York, NY) . < > artists included in this mix: Toshifumi Hinata Etelin Arturo Ruiz Del Pozo Harold Budd KMRU Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto Andrew Thomas Wilson Angelo Harmsworth Bloedneus & de Snuitkever Sa Pa Deepchord Maxime Denuc Greg Davis Interior You'll Never Get To Heaven Sam...

“Joe Fujinoki centered the compositions of his latest album 𝑮𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔 𝑻𝒐𝒓𝒔𝒐 around the idea of the fragility of the human body. Fujinoki described the narrative thread of the album as that of “holding the shape of a human body as if it might shatter like glass”. The precariousness of the body, the essence of the body as defined by Fujinoki as the torso, and the object relations between the boundaries...

On 𝑺𝒚𝒓𝒆𝒏, Gafael’s extensive field recording archive of the waters of northern Wales are iteratively processed into hazy, extended chords. The tactility of crashing waves, trickling streams, and coursing rivers is the foundation of the album, functioning as a hermetic reflection of the physicality of littoral ecology and its emotional resonances, centered on the push/pull of danger and seduction....

Intrinsically entwined with the landscapes of Hokkaido, Japan, 𝑾𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝑷𝒂𝒔𝒕 is a meditation on transience and nostalgia. Yuki Aizawa’s first physical release acts as a vessel to preserve and reflect on the fading vestiges of childhood. This emotional core is rooted in Aizawa's memories of vast fields of lavender in Furano, an endless purple horizon acting as a calming yet melanchol...

“Nicholas Remondino’s project LAMIEE. presents his latest album, 𝑳𝑼𝑴, for enmossed. Over the course of 10 electroacoustic excursions, iterative implementations of mechanistic rattling and vibrating expand the utility of the percussive surface of a snare drum. As overtones and harmonics swell in reverberation, Remondino carves an almost ecclesiastical sonic environment built on motors, one prepared...

“Not nostalgia, but memory. Do the warped boleros on water-damaged tape sound the same in Saigon as they do in Havana? Is it the trait of memory or the Romance of dancing cheek to cheek that is the real undercurrent of boleros, or is it the sleeping warmth of memory being invented by the synesthesia of a true listener? I believe these are some of the questions raised and cryptically answered by do...

"How does one listen to the ocean or look into a coming fog with any predictability or sense of measure? Is it foolish to quantify and attempt to time what happens in nature and how we observe it? Carl Ritger believes it futile. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔 title refers to the R Murray Schafer essay on soundscapes and our inability to tune and anticipate what will happen next, sonically and visually, in nature. S...

s cycle is a sun wheel a finger tip knows to hover rotary dials the alphabet and back spells a swing return. This key warns a habit, a rite opening up in practice: flower that comes back as flesh * Wire worms up grows back a hole needless to pierce the night into melting stars of blur. The heat of light shines in the after rain and the sky of an eye forever soars. Pupil echoes a lightning bug’s gl...

originally aired at https://www.dublab.com/archive/peak-oil-w-enmossed-tipping-point-02-28-25 artists in order of appearance: MARV* Glyn Maier** Jake Muir* Ned Milligan Irv Teibel Eduardo Polonio Nick Klein Sumire Yoshihara Kara-Lis Coverdale + LXV bad lsd trips* Beatriz Ferreyra Patrick Gallagher 若山胤雄社中 (Wakayama Taneo’s Bayashi Ensemble) Hiroyuki Onogawa Gafael* Satsuki Shibano plays Erik...

Moody cacophonies, sonic dispatches from Japan, crystalline breakbeats that are more environment than rhythm: Jake Muir’s 𝒆𝒏𝒎𝒊𝒙𝒆𝒅, described by Muir as a “(re)mixtape,” is a mind-bending deep dive into the enmossed archive. Besides reflecting the history of the label, Muir’s mix is a production in its own right. A Los Angeles native based in Berlin, Muir is a DJ and field recordist who “sees mixes...

“On 𝑹𝒆𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝑴𝒂𝒅𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒊, Expugnantis brings to Enmossed a compendium of nine dubs of minimal, crystalline excellence. Reflecting on “foggy” memories of a long car ride from the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg portion of the Great Escarpment, the album texturalizes Expugnantis’s grainy sentimental remembrance. The aquatic production is filtered through cloudy synth pads and plucky percussion. Here the expans...

“[....] This record highlights the Secret Boyfriend that obscures didacticism by highlighting output that opens up for more challenging catharsis and emotive signal processing. It provides an entry to the materialism of a cultural field full of ecstatic complexity and beautiful inconsistency. In these muted moments Secret Boyfriend has given us over his career we have an argument for evolving lang...

Originally posted by Silk House Publishing as "Silk House Sunday 16". Recorded with two turntables with +/- 50% pitch control in darkness facing a coelcerth (bonfire) as the leaves fall at the end of summer 2021 and we present an offering for our departed. Many thanks to Ryan Martin for organizing a fitting ritual for noson galan gaeaf / samhain / halloween with spectacular performances by Allesan...

"...As a rigorous listener, Gallagher has observed a multitude of sonic vocabularies in a relatively rearview acknowledgement of contemporary sound production and distilled them succinctly in his latest offering for Enmossed, titled “e.78”. Gallagher showcases his attention to detail and devotion to the craft of synthesis over two side long sections on the LP. It is clear that Gallagher is aware o...

Enmossed and Psychic Liberation are pleased to present the first vinyl album in their ongoing collaborative series 𝑬𝑵𝒙𝑷𝑳, focusing on new music spanning the globe, utilizing high-end and recycled materials. Transatlantic duo Unt gifts us with 𝑪𝒍𝒊𝒑𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆, synthesizing a multiplicity of genres - ranging from dub techno to screwed hiphop instrumentals, with hints of jazz, avant-garde compos...

A. Campbell Payne dives deeply into the crystalline chimes and resonant bells of FM synthesis for the six tracks of 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒔 + 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔. Swirling polyrhythms and ambiguous modal harmonies convey their feelings during a fitful period of recording during 2020-1. Payne says, “Living between two places[…], going through the motions of travel while not going anywhere new created a restless atmosphere for...

Holding the tension of opposites is a theme running throughout the work of Angelo Harmsworth, and the six pieces comprising Vent are no exception. Inspired by the different and oftentimes clashing forces comprising our weather systems, the New Mexico-born but now Berlin-based musician and producer envisioned his “compositions as micro-ecologies,” wherein “powerful waves push off one another.” The...

The rhythms of sleep are unknown to the sleeper. Usually, only with interruption, or dreams, or through wakeful observation, are we made aware of them. And even then, only somewhat. On this cassette, Zenxen uses his research into the cycles of sleep and rest to explore and recreate the phenomenon of neural oscillations. The tracks sound as if they’re composed of water, vapor, and dust. Trails of p...

Russian Tsarlag and Secret Boyfriend are two of the most distinct and inimitable makers in the canon of the contemporary American “DIY” underground. In 2013, the two artists released an untitled split 12” on Ryan Martin’s (Secret Boyfriend) prolific 𝐻𝑜𝑡 𝑅𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑠 label. It’s a pleasure to host their reunion as a part of the ENXPL series, sharing new work. Russian Tsarlag’s side A is gorgeously trud...

Russian Tsarlag and Secret Boyfriend are two of the most distinct and inimitable makers in the canon of the contemporary American “DIY” underground. In 2013, the two artists released an untitled split 12” on Ryan Martin’s (Secret Boyfriend) prolific 𝐻𝑜𝑡 𝑅𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑠 label. It’s a pleasure to host their reunion as a part of the ENXPL series, sharing new work. Russian Tsarlag’s side A is gorgeously trud...

Tokyo-based producer Sachi Kobayashi composed 𝐼𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑇𝑟𝑖𝑝 as a travelogue: in her words, "[to] help listeners to imagine various aspects of Japan". Primarily recorded at her home studio, Kobayashi leisurely but exactingly dis- and re-assembles minute sounds; magnifying dust motes drifting by a sun-lit window. 𝐼𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑇𝑟𝑖𝑝 also highlights minimalist melodies informed by choral training, adding...

In his book 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑒𝑖𝑟𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒, Mark Fisher wrote about the two notions: While the weird is something present where it doesn’t belong—something from outside found on the inside—the eerie has to do specifically with outside space. Something is eerie when there are unanswered questions about agency: Who or what is responsible for the abandonment of this zone? Who or what is crying out in the di...

Enmossed x Psychic Liberation (ENXPL) is pleased to present the first section of "Micro", a trittico (three-part operatic suite) by Afro-Belgian, Italy-based musician, composer, sound designer and music art therapist Marie Rose Sarri. With extensive academic training and now helming the well-equipped studio FixInTheMix LABS, Marie Rose creates music in "a 360° mode". Sarri expresses a cultivated s...