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Everything Falls Apart
“In fact, the more I try to escape, the less I can breathe. The more I try to hold on, the less I can focus. Something’s leaving me. Parts of me. Everything falls apart.” - Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
Mizu, Tagiru
Released at the occasion of their 2024 Japan tour, it follows their debut LP Troubled Water (TT005 – LP). The album’s title aptly captures the essence of their music. In Japanese, “Tagiru” describes the act of boiling or seething, whether it pertains to water or other liquids reacting to heat or agitation. Metaphorically, it illustrates heightened emotions or situations of intense fervor. This theme of boiling intensity runs through the six tracks, each piece brimming with emotional depth and en…
Troubled Water
*300 copies limited edition* Casimir Liberski, pianist, improviser and composer widely recognized in Belgium as one of the most gifted jazz musicians, joins forces with renowned Japanese drummer and composer, Tatsuya Yoshida, founder of the group Ruins, he is considered a monument in the realm of Japanese avant-garde music. This duo brings together two generations and two distinct worlds of sound to deliver free improvisation and syncretic new music on their debut album “Troubled Water". Ranging…
Carillon sans timbre ni marteau - Vol1
Limited edition Carillion sans timbre ni marteau are compositions preferably to be listen to on repeat.
After A River Flowing Home To The Sea LP released on Bedouin Records in 2020, Maze & Lindholm opens a new series of albums exploring compositional processes focused on cyclical time. Each volume of the new series will be a unique composition that can be listened to as a loop, of variable duration (up to 60 minutes). Radical meditative music on the borders of contemporary ambient, this first vo…
FortyTwo
*300 copies limited edition* Belgian composer Otto Lindholm presents his new LP titled FortyTwo, releasing in early June on Totalism with support from Phantom Limb. Consisting of two complementary entities of equal duration (21 minutes), the album really is one. Together, the two longform pieces are like two sides of one coin, like the two motions of a rocking chair; forwards and backwards. The first piece titled “Reg” explores the simplicity of the stroke with veiled, beautiful melodies, while …
A River Flowing Home To The Sea
*300 copies limited edition* Maze & Lindholm, widely critically acclaimed since their first LP Where The Wolf Has Been Seen – released by Aurora Borealis in 2018 – bring out yet another aspect of their ever fruitful collaboration. While their debut album was constantly balancing between contemplation and anxiety (never quite pitch dark but often on the fence between extremely contrasted moods) the live rendition of their new opus offers a profound sonic meditation. A River Flowing Home To The Se…