Monday, November 22, 2021
My ' Collab ' album w/ Mean Flow from Thessaloniki ( Greece ) ( . . . ) . . .
He posted it on his Bandcamp !! Some more info - here : - https://meanflow.bandcamp.com/album/mean-flow-boban-ristevski
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Thursday, November 18, 2021
My track ' Sadhguru ' as a part of this compilation ( !! ) ( . . . ) . . .
Please check here : - https://midnightradiocompilation.bandcamp.com/album/midnightradio-compilation-108
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Sunday, November 14, 2021
Friday, November 12, 2021
Thursday, November 11, 2021
' Collab 50 ' by Sound_00 + Lefterna Out Now from OTCRAH Records ( !! ) ; Check check
- https://archive.org/details/otcrah_r93
Sound_00 + Lefterna - Collab 50
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Toni Dimitrov aka Sound_00 is the man behind post global, but also cultural producer and cultural explorer, radio host and radio activist, philosopher and communicologist, poet and mountain climber as well as sound artist, dj, designer, organiser. When at home and not traveling he is doing various projects that keeps him busy, from music that is obviously the main focus of his hectic lifestyle, but also other projects including reading and writing, radio art and field recordings, organizing sound/art events, doing design. His radio programs on radio Kanal 103 are dedicated to contemporary electronic music and political discourse. The Sound_00 sound is natural soundscape from Macedonian mountains.
https://soundcloud.com/sound_00
https://elanvital.bandcamp.com/
Lefterna is the music project of Boban Ristevski, concentrated and based on exploring mostly the ambient / drone and industrial / noise related kinds of music. With elements of minimalism / improvisation / abstraction etc., the music is balancing between the more structured forms and the improvised approach to music.
He's also writing, some kind of essays...
And translating, from english to macedonian.
So far - he has fully translated two books: ' In search of P. D. Ouspensky (the genius in the shadow of Gurdjieff) ' and ' Jung the mystic ' - both from the contemporary american esoteric author Gary Lachman...
They are both ready, given to separate publishers and waiting to be published...
https://soundcloud.com/boban-ristevski
http://mojot-svet-na-okultizam.blogspot.com/
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Sound_00 / Lefterna
Sound_00 aka Toni Dimitrov and Lefterna aka Boban Ristevski have been curving their way into the new experimental music scene with their solo engagement, but also with lots of collaborative releases under their belt. Exploring the dynamics of minimum Vs. maximum, in terms and meanings of noise Vs. drone, they are searching their own way of merging magical meanings and esotheric inspiration with a ceratin styles of music, such as ambient and long-form drone explorations. Their joint project has managed to achieve and release a number of different EP-s for diverse labels such as Ostroga, Etched Traumas, Petroglyph Music, post global recordings, Horror Fiction Tapes, Fall Into Void Recs, HNM Records, Gerpfast Kolektif, Studio 4632 Netlabel, Cian Orbe, Musicnumbers, Singing Birds, Attenuation circuit, Fuck The Industry, Metaphysical Digital, Human Cross Records, CVLMINIS, AOsmosis, Crna Zemlja, 45 Echoes Sounds, Sinnesloschen, Unexplained Sounds Group, Sounds Against Humanity, Throne of Bael, Ampeff, Earthwalker Recordings, The Dark Thursday, Silber Records, Genetic Trance, Obstinacy, Diploma Supplement Label, Warm Milk Recordings, Kalamine Records, The Sketchbook Sounds and four compilations gathering choice of already released tracks released by Attenuation circuit, Winter-Light, Ostroga and Kalamine Records.
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Wednesday, November 10, 2021
My collab track w/ Scott Lawlor - as a part of this compilation ( !! ) ( . . . ) . . .
Please check here : - https://scottlawlor.bandcamp.com/album/scott-lawlor-and-friends-4
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Monday, November 8, 2021
Saturday, November 6, 2021
Something forthcoming ( !! ) / Нешто се крчка ( . . . ) . . .
It's my - ' Collab ' w/ Insectarium !! With a dedication to and inspired by the work of Philip K. Dick !! It's in the making !! ( . . . ) . . .
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Friday, November 5, 2021
Out Now on Bandcamp ( . . . ) . . .
This turned out to sound nice !! It's my ' Collab ' album w/ Mike Benoit, with a title - ' Time Kept Memories ' !! He posted it on his Bandcamp ( with a nice cover artwork ) - but maybe we'll also search for it to be released by a label somewhere . . . As for now - please check here : - https://mikebenoit.bandcamp.com/album/time-kept-memories
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Out Now from Midira Records - It's my ' Collab ' album with James Wyness ( !! ) . . .
Please check here :
- https://midirarecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-macedonian-space-programme
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Thursday, November 4, 2021
Another nice review of my collab album with Occupied Head @ The Sound Projector
Please check here :
- https://emerge.bandcamp.com/album/the-secret-teachers
- http://www.thesoundprojector.com/2021/10/23/spirits-having-flown/
Spirits Having Flown
From Skopje in Macedonia the electronic composer Boban Ristevski hails, to regale us with new CD The Secret Teachers (ATTENUATION CIRCUIT ACU 1028) made in collaboration with Occupied Head. Boban has been making a number of file-based releases since around 2017, apparently in the areas of ambient, drone, and harsh noise electronics. This year alone he’s put out five albums for the Attenuation Circuit label awaiting your download click. At least one item in his catalogue makes plain his interest in esoterica and occultism, that is the album The Key To The True Kabbalah, released in 2019 on a Russian label and adorned with cover artworks replete with symbolism and cabbalistic lore.
It’s that aspect which is detectable on today’s release, a record which bravely attempts to tackle the mysteries of the after-life in sound, and draws direct inspiration from the Tibetan Book of the Dead, the Ba from Egyptian mythology (a winged creature which symbolises the movement of the soul after death), and even a smattering of Wiccan belief – the “law of three” has been borrowed from this pagan cult, although perhaps not (as one would hope) to help structure the composition according to a numerological system, but at least it does appear as a track title. Prolific Boban has also recorded as Lefterna, Playing For Oblivion, and Shg. Meanwhile Occupied Head is Dieter Mauson from Hamburg, active since 2011, and one who also favour dark ambient tones and semi-industrial leanings in his electronic creations. He himself doesn’t appear quite so preoccupied with the mysteries of the unknown, although one catalogue title ‘Umbrageous Climes’ is quite irresistible in its suggestion of an alien terrain.
On this record, the duo wish to foster an aura of “an intermediary” zone – every track is intended to place the listener in a vague state of suspension, as we exit the material plane and drift towards the unknown. The musicians do this by deliberately making their sound as strange as possible, using electronic instruments and field recordings in unexpected combinations, seeking out the unfamiliar where they can. The press release makes a connection with the work of Eliane Radigue, the great French electro-acoustic composer, specifically her Trilogie De La Mort which was inspired partly by the Tibetan Book of the Dead and her own meditational practice, and by the tragic deaths in her family, resulting in a piece which now stands as a significant benchmark of minimalist composition. Conversely, Boban Ristevski and Occupied Head are of a younger generation and have entered into this field of work through more contemporary electronica forms. However, this isn’t to deny the strength of their conviction on The Secret Teachers, which contains many moments of genuinely atmospheric and innovative sound-scaping. On today’s spin, we find much to admire in their subtlety and restraint, the patience and care with which these slow-moving vistas have been assembled, and the eerie lightweight feeling they pass on to the listener, indeed making us feel wispy and disembodied, exactly as if we are floating gently over a penumbral landscape. Far from minimal, the tracks accrue layers of detail and textures as they proceed, leading us even deeper into these strange ghostly zones.
Occupied Head did the mastering and mixing, and also provided the cover photos. From 29 January 2021.
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