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I’m honored to be a part of the recently released SEQUENCE1 compilation, which marks the first birthday of the ever-supportive Futuresequence. Topping out at roughly four hours of music and boasting a healthy 42 tracks, this is a truly monumental project featuring some of ambient and electronic music’s finest talents. Head over to Bandcamp to download the release for free, but don’t hesitate to make a donation. Michael and his team are doing an incredible job and are well deserving of your support.

Tracklist:

1. Isnaj Dui – The Balance We Once Had
2. Zvuku – Woodpile
3. Maps & Diagrams – Interchangeable
4. Rafael Anton Irisarri – Milano
5. Spectra Ciera – A New Name
6. Talvihorros – Alpha
7. Western Standards – Quanta
8. Direwires – Slowing Clocks
9. Pleq and Spheruleus – A Journey Through Unfamiliar Places
10. Damian Valles – Court Whisperings
11. Adam A Williams – Sudden
12. Bengalfuel – Hermit Crab
13. Kyle Bobby Dunn – Trisagion of Complete Shit
14. RareBit – The End Isn’t So Bad
15. Anenon – Commons
16. Antonymes – My Salvation
17. Gimu – The Purification
18. Sevendeaths – A Sinking Relief
19. Radere – Good Evening, Ghosts
20. Good Weather for an Airstrike – Aurora
21. RocketNumberNine – Blue and Black
22. Franz Kirmann – Nacre
23. Birds of Passage & Leonardo Rosado – We’ll Always Have Paris
24. Cinchel – Ice and Halo
25. Robert Curgenven – Looking For Narratives on Small Islands
26. Sun Hammer – Tonningsen Bus Stop II
27. Ekca Liena – Mattie Devore
28. Umber – In The Dim Light, Like Moths on The Desert
29. Sun Glitters – Sing
30. Lakker – Glider
31. Arcem – Ion Errand
32. Witxes – The Reason (Avant Take)
33. Listening Mirror – Unicord
34. Savaran – Luminosity
35. ISAN – Pre-Internet Birthday Party
36. Gurun Gurun – Karumi (offthesky remix)
37. Glia – SOCHI’OMSK
38. Keith and Hollie Kenniff – This Time Tomorrow
39. :papercutz – Disintegration
40. Venona Pers – Montjuic
41. Mark Harris – A Place of Safety, All Things Will Change

I’m pleased to announce that my good friend A Setting Sun and I have a track on the newly released SEQUENCE2 compilation, which picks up where SEQUENCE1 left off. The latest in an ongoing collaborative project, ”VII” precedes Lotophagen, our upcoming full-length on Io Records. Details on that will be released soon. The compilation, on the other hand, is now available on Bandcamp as a free download, but please consider making a donation. Since their launch, Future Sequence has become one of the premier resources for electronic and experimental music and they deserve your support.

Tracklist:

1. Maps and Diagrams - Domane
2. Rhian Sheehan - Liber
3. Widesky - ____ is Also Movement
4. Felicia Atkinson - Entomology
5. The Oo-ray - Moonsoon Season
6. Zvuku - Cold
7. Le Berger - CH=CH2
8. Ed Hamilton - Arabesque
9. Hakobune - The Leaf Strewn Path
10. Beautiful Bells - Panic Attack 2
11. Subnaught - Mideast Throb
12. DIAL.81 - Vacant View
13. Marta Mist - Tonnes
14. Pascal Savy - Falling Apart in Slow Motion
15. Echaskech - Tundra
16. Seaworthy - A Favourite Path
17. Hybernation - Occident Express
18. I’ve Lost - In This Cold, Empty Place
19. Guy Gelem - Recent Waves
20. Nobuto Suda - Repetition and Research
21. Damian Valles - Lake Effect
22. Borealis - Skyhall
23. Jannick Schou - we are safe in this room filled with cold sunlight
24. Guy Birkin - Bramble
25. Nils Frahm + Anne Muller - 7fingers
26. A Setting Sun & Radere - VII
27. Saaad - Forget Our Debts
28. Hallock Hill - Found Object 6
29. Nils Quak - Still
30. Get Effect - Under the Lake
31. The Inventors of Aircraft - Leaving Sequence
32. Small Scale Collisions - Walking Through a Cloud
33. Thisquietarmy - Aeronaut
34. Aeroshell - Citizen of Cosmos
35. The Eternal Twilight - Another Quiet Afternoon
36. Michael Oldham - That Distant Morning
37. Josh Mason - Freedom Time
38. Specta Ciera - Sleepy Tea
39. Darren Harper - melting snow, wind thru trees
40. Sima Kim - Tribute to no-one
41. Attilio Novellino - like 50,000 disembodied screams
42. Josco - Fade
43. Ghosting Season - Exercise Us

I’m pleased to announce that my latest release, I’ll Make You Quiet, is out today on Futuresequence. The album marks the label’s inaugural release, and is available for purchase directly from their Bandcamp. You can also pick it up at either Stashed Goods or Experimedia, if you feel so inclined.

From the label:

The iconic rock formations of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains are home to experimental artist Carl Ritger. A far cry from his hometown of Philadelphia, their impressively cinematic yet naturally rugged presence has exerted an influence on the artist in the relatively short time he has lived there. His fourth full-length album as Radere, I’ll Make You Quiet, narrates the scission of emotion generated from moving to new surroundings, a sense of wonderment and intimidation of being in the shadow of the mountains’ grand spectacle whilst intrinsically drawing on the melancholic loss of the past.

To date, Carl has primarily concerned himself with the creation of long-form textured drones. Releases like Maple Drip (Rural Colours), A Season In Decline (Full Spectrum Records) and Lost At Sea, I’m Never Coming Back (Basic Sounds) have all possessed an unraveling nature, unrestricted and formless by definition. I’ll Make You Quiet upsets this rhythm, setting clearly defined boundaries around individual tracks. The result is Carl’s most complete work to date, a leap forward in aesthetic maturity; the manifestation of an accomplished artist who has reached a summit in their career.

Creating a majestic sculptural architecture, given depth and life through his skillful ability to layer worn and distorted sound in moving patterns, Carl also weaves found sounds into the mix. Recordings of a set of house keys, an electric toothbrush and a tape recording of a flock of crows all make their way into these arrangements, as well as his signature processed guitar and electronics. Each track on the album was recorded primarily in single-take sessions, an intimate approach that reflects Carl’s interest with the unpredictable; sounds created out of chance, and an embrace of the temperamental nature of analog tape rather than digitally rendered files.

Futuresequence - who recently released I’ll Make You Quiet - was featured on solipsistic NATION over the weekend. In addition to a rather insightful interview with the founder and curator of Futuresequence, Michael Waring, the podcast also includes a mix profiling the label’s output…complete with advance previews of upcoming releases from Widesky and Zvuku. Download the podcast here.

Tracklist:

1. Radere, “I’ll Make You Quiet”
2. Sun Hammer, “A Dream In Blood”
3. Interview with Michael Waring, founder of Futuresequence
4. Widesky, “_____ Is Also Movement”
5. Zvuku, “Untitled”
6. Radere + A Setting Sun, “VII”
7. Radere, “Good Evening Ghosts”
8. Interview with Michael Waring, founder of Futuresequence

Later this week, Futuresequence will be releasing Good Evening, Ghosts; an addendum of sorts to I’ll Make You Quiet, the recent long-player I recorded for them. I’m thrilled to share this with all of you, not least because it features reworkings of the title track from some of the finest purveyors of frayed drones and textural ambience working today, many of whom I’m privileged to count among my friends. The release will be available as a digital download on Wednesday, March 28th via the Futuresequence Bandcamp shop.

From the label:

Before I’ll Make You Quiet came “Good Evening, Ghosts”; a distillation of the album’s essence and inspiration, the track became a starting point for what was to come.

With a graceful yet mountainous temperament, Radere builds dense swirling patterns of echoing harmonics around surging drones and worn textures. Passing through a series of shifting phrases, “Good Evening, Ghosts” possesses an air of suspense and wonder within its ambient folds.

Such rich material is primed for remix / realignment by other like-minded artists. Benoît Honoré Pioulard, Jannick Schou, Sun Hammer and Anduin expand the unique source, enveloping it within their own approach and style. The result is four distinct artefacts which feel both inherently connected and a departure from Radere’s piece. Completing the release is the full length original track, and a track of raw field recordings which forms the basis for much of the tracks on I’ll Make You Quiet.