Éric Normand — Prechording

The new composition from Éric Normand [Rimouski, Quebec] is out now on Tour de Bras and Tone List, on cassette and digital. Prechording is born of collaborative sound sharing, with Normand shaping the four movements using pre-recorded sound techniques unique to the musicians involved.

Composition by Éric Normand

Musicians:
Jameson Feakes (electric guitar)
Lenny Jacobs (drums, cymbals)
Djuna Lee (double bass)
Josten Myburgh (saxophone)
Dan O’Connor (trumpet)

Recorded by Stuart James at Soundfield Studio
Mixed by Dan @ENCODERSound
Mastering by Mario Gauthier
Cover and cassette pictures by Marc Lepage
Designed by Marie-Pierre Morin

Web Rumors — Heaven

Heaven, the new single from Web Rumors (aka Em Burrows), is a real mover and was a delight to work on.

From the artist:

“Inspired by the proto-house and post-disco sounds of early 80s New York and Chicago underground clubs, Heaven aims to capture that heady combination of dance floor euphoria and deep nostalgia.”

Produced by Em Burrows
Mixed by Matt Gio and Em Burrows
Mastered by Dan @ENCODERSound

Jeremy Segal — Plateaux

Plateaux, the new EP for Jeremy Segal, is out now. Jeremy works across many genres and under many guises from synth-pop composition and production, as Segue, to production/engineering for Man Sandal, and Buckland, and performing with Didion’s Bible, Seacrest Gardens, and Web Rumors Ex Machina.

Plateaux continues an ongoing investigation of ambient electronic music, following on from Four Footprints (2020). It’s concise, intentful ambient music. In moments ear-tickling, at other times driving, and the transitional points between these two modes offer a transfixing confluence of detail.

‘Moment,’ from Plateaux is in the RTRFM’s Sound Selection for the week starting September 6th, 2021 (the definitive what’s-good-listening-right-now list from a Boorloo perspective).

Music by Jeremy Segal
Artwork by Daniel Veneklaas
Mastered by Dan @ENCODERSound

orphans — long-sounds

long-sounds, the latest live set from orphans, is out now on Bandcamp. It was recorded at the July 2021 edition of Outcome Unknown, an experimental music series at Maylands Yacht Club, curated and hosted by Eduardo Cossio. The second of the two tracks, ‘influenced by heavy weather,’ drawing on the sonic backdrop created by a pretty intense storm sweeping through Boorloo during the concert.

Recorded by Josten Myburgh
Mastered by Dan @ENCODERSound

Plyanci — the object activates

Out on the New Weird Australia label is the object activates by synthesiser focused, ambient artist Plyanci. Lush, layered synth really details a foreign sonic landscape on this track.

Congrats to Plyanci on getting some international airplay on Adventures in Sound and Music by The Wire Magazine.

Music and mix by Plyanci aka Oz Kesik
Mastered by Dan @ENCODERSound