Etched Traumas releases ET26 - ET84 (Sep’12 - Jun’15) Rossique introduces us into a world processors, and anything he can field of primordial continua, fragments of record. A deep seance wave work for concrete music and ambient Ονειρομαντία. Experimental soundscapes. He structures his work ambient at its best! building a rich world of field released 16 October 2012 ambient dark ambient experimental oneiromancy séance electronic USA

the wolfgirl liberation – ‘The Lighthouse’ [ET26]

'The Lighthouse' realm consists of highly emotional strings arrangements, resonant sounds, recordings, live and pre-recorded brilliant use of field recordings and sounds. Being a highly exploratory exploratory acoustic and electronic and bold work, there is a constant Katajamäki – ‘Sininen ambient instruments. flow of primal energy which leads to the sublime ambient and evolving Projekti’ [ET29] There's an evolving hope in all tracks soundscape of last track and ends despite the obvious ominous with a surprise. It would be very easy for anyone to ambience. For example in the track expect that this Finnish sonic work is released 09 October 2012 'Planet Earth I Love You' a certain an homage to icy soundscapes and experimental spain avantgarde amount of time and effort are arctic habitats. Contrary to the required before the fragmented rays contemporary electronic experimental field recordings percussion stereotype, Katajamäki's sound is a of light can be visible and help us to solid work of unusual warmth and escape to a relieving land. serenity with its ethereal and occasional dusky pads. The use of the wolfgirl liberation comes from minimal broad electronic and natural the United Kingdom and started elements in 'Sininen Projekti' composing music at the end of the 'teleports' listeners as if they were 90's. His distinctive sound comprises 434 light-years from Earth just like of contradictory elements such as UMi star. breakbeat rhythm patterns, magnificently emotional string released 28 October 2012 arrangements and meticulously ambient abstract Finland crafted field recordings. His goal is the music will take us on journeys and through places. "In my music there is Earhead – ‘Last Days Of always hope, an escape. If we were Earth’ [ET31] just to climb over that wall we would Salem:1976 – ‘Backroom The album comprises of nine be somewhere new." he says. blatantly eschatological tracks.

"However dark it gets there is always Oneiromancy’ [ET28] Album's title itself designates the an exit. We are only ever visiting." apocalyptical scapes of Earhead where ambient bells melt into thick "And it is only after seeing man as released 23 October 2012 warm inauspicious noise layers. We experimental ambient electronic UK hope his unconscious, revealed by his envisage the last days of earth while dreams, presents him to us that we grains of red sand biff stray dogs, shall understand him fully. For as Paco Rossique – birds and people in panic. There is Freud said to Putnam: "We are what ‘Drawing Widows In no exodus because Earhead we are because we have been what devotedly built a totally dystopian Black And White’ [ET27] we have been." ambience.

Salem:1976 constructs his audio Paco Rossique's work titled 'Drawing work using laptop, circuit bent Earhead comes from Turkey and Widows In Black And White'. telephone, tape machines, FX started to make music at the age of and electric instruments. remorphing audio sources of many kinds. released 25 November 2012 experimental body music electro Vox Populi! is a freeform alternative electronic industrial noise Greece music project. Based in Paris, France, their style incorporates elements from psychedelic music, Persian folklore and all sorts of mind elevating sound forms. Their works are varied, as implied by their description, and a first release is dated 1982.

14. He recorded his first analog released 09 December 2012 noises with poor record devices such experimental ambient bricolage as phones etc. While being into cinematic collage deconstruction psychoacoustics and experimental electronic elevation folklore freeform music he experimented with two psychedelic remorphing The Netherlands other music projects, the Plastic Age and the Darkoccult. Today he has a Valley of Capsules – huge musical arsenal consisting of conventional instruments such as ‘Valley of Capsules plays acoustic/electric guitar, piano, synths Vox Populi!’ [ET32] and vocals and unconvetional ones such as tea cups, knives, spoons etc. "All life is an experiment. The more He has a distinctive noise and experiments you make the better." eschatological sound footprint. wrote one of the great American transcendentalist authors, Ralph released 4 November 2012 Waldo Emerson. The project "Valley experimental noise ambient abstract of Capsules plays Vox Populi!" has electronic noise Turkey started at the end of 2009 when Valley of Capsules was approached by Axel Kyrou founding musician of the French/Persian group Vox nobodisoundz Populi! for 'remorphing' their -'Invocation' [ET33] unreleased and/or unfinished tracks

and sounds. Vox Populi! once has The Nobodisoundz project was born been described as 'one of France's in 2008 (with a reference to the best kept secrets' and '... like a misty character of “Nobody “in Dead Man, dream upon timeless beaches where a Jim Jarmusch film). The artist first female phantoms dance about started this sound-making project by bringing comforting company which cobbling together music samples, touches beyond flesh'. As they say sounds, field recordings and the "We know that music can be a way results of his fiddling with audio to get access to higher realms, software. These sounds completed especially when total openness is his works and added an atmosphere islandInvader – ‘utopia the alpha and omega of a musical within and around his paintings, never exists’ [ET31] work, as it is the case here. Valley Of subsequent installations and videos. Capsules and us share the same This endoscopic release is a long musical vision of a utopian world Gradually, these sounds have gained underwater dive in troubled waters. made real, where there are no a more and more important place Time and vision are distorted. boundaries nor limitations of any and have become self-sufficient, no Fragments of electronic genres come kind." 'Valley of Capsules plays Vox longer requiring any other medium. and go. Effortlessly. islandInvader's Populi!' consists of four parts based He looks for dense, heavy, noisy, work is like a visit in purgatory where on material recorded between 1979 squeaky, tense and quiet sinners celebrate life. Body music full and 2002 at Vox Man studio, Paris, atmospheres, which have to of Etched Traumas. France. be both dark and bright at the same

time. Valley of Capsules creates cinematic islandInvader comes from Greece. released 18 December 2012 sound mirrors and collages by The last twelve years - in and out of experimental ambient electronic sanity - she improvises with acoustic industrial noise France within our solar system and on exo- experimental celestial classical planets orbiting other stars. contemporary cosmic dark electro- The names of these organisms is a acoustic electronic experimental 2013 particular source of inspiration to soundscape tamahagane me. There are the Oligotrophs, organisms capable of growth in nutritionally limited environments, there are the Cryptoendoliths, organisms that live within microscopic spaces in rocks, to mention a few. But when we send probes to distant worlds to look for alien extremophiles, aren't we also looking for ourselves? The three tracks of this release explore the human being as an extremophile organism, an organism testing the boundaries of what it is capable of digesting chemically, digitally and psychologically. m is for mason - 'The We entered in 1945 the Nicholas Fair - 'How To Shrine vol.1' [ET34] Anthropocene, the age of The Great Get Lost In Your Acceleration, exponential population Bedroom' [ET36] “There is no need for temples; no growth, expansive global economy and runaway mass-consumption — need for complicated philosophy. Fair comes from Coprus Christi, TX the age of massive human impact on Our own brain, our own heart is our and he is a prolific and talented the Earth mass-consumption — the temple; the philosophy experimental artist. He's been writing age of massive human impact on the is kindness." Dalai Lama and recording short instrumentals for Earth and potentially one of the This is the second release of the thirteen years along with other Florida based artist, m is for mason numerous film score or solo projects, and the first release of 2013 for and bands. With more than 40 Etched Traumas. 'The Shrine vol. I' is releases under various monikers in a three track EP with dark choral cassette, CD, DVD and even VHS ambient sounds dealing with formats his work is still versatile and calmness, serenity and peace of unexpected. The 'How To Get Lost In mind. Your Bedroom' EP comprises of three "m is for mason" is Mason Evans, instrumental tracks with electric 18-year-old producer and musician guitar in a lo-fi aesthetic. Partly from Panama City Beach, Florida. His deliberately and partly due to the works usually include dark vibes, nature of recording media (cassette) laced with relaxing ambiance. m is for and due to its age, a certain warmth mason of noise is being added to the final strives to create his own unique result. Despite the release title, one sound, which is almost impossible to could close his/her eyes and envision replicate. biggest mass-extinctions that has hit the great our planet. American plains in a dry period, as released 01 January 2013 From a distance, the anthropocene depicted in the films of Peter experimental ambient choral endeavour’ might sound like a Bogdanovich. Solitary and darkelectronic USA creaking explorers’ ship from the introspective; this is great music! Renaissance searching for gold and Rene Baptist Huysmans - riches across a vast expanse. Today, released 30 January 2013 corpus christi experimental electric guitar 'Dawn of the we eke out our individualistic lives in megacities, claiming each our own instrumental lofi USA Anthropocene' [ET35] little crevice in metropolitan concrete, we blindly prosper in Gimu – ‘When I Sensed The discovery here on Earth of nutritionally limited environments, extremophile micro-organisms, stuffing our faces with chemically Time Collapse’ [ET37] organisms that thrive in otherwise moderated burgers, and we're extremely hostile environments, was loving it! "Each work of art has a doubled an important breakthrough because it character within an indivisible unity: it extended the possibilities of life released 13 January 2013 is the expression of reality, but it also forms the reality that exists not next instruments and handmade ones, to work, nor before the work, but such as his 'Noise CDtron'. precisely only in the work." Czech philosopher Karel Kosík argued. He records his music live and builds Within this autonomous artistic reality free jazz ambient textures and we are being called to live by Gimu. minimal electro acoustic structures. The rather endoscopic title of this The 'Situation' album is distinguished release could have a double for its generative approach without meaning: a personal definition of collapse and a rupture of the sense of our own time. Gimu's work is definitely ambient one but at the same time override the characteristics and merits of its own genre. By definition ambient works operate with their ambiance qualities as a Kaztalien – ‘Feral background of the listener's time and Field’ [ET38] space. 'When I sensed time collapse' ruptures the spatio-temporal listening The inspiration for this work was a experience, demanding attentiveness vast territory of Central Russia, called and attachment. The four tracks of the "Wild Field". Since ancient this release were written between times, this area was inhabited by 2010 and 2012. Although the tracks nomadic tribes and the tartar being generative at all. On the were composed at different times hordes, whose mounds and burial contrary, Gusev K.P. plays live all the with different emotions involved and grounds in the old settlements can instruments. Being highly exploratory, even using different approaches they be still found. After the beginning of the 'Situation' album is an exciting complement each other. colonization of the Wild Field in the journey into a sonic world, where 17th century the "Tartar wall" was there are no stereotypes or built - a high earth embankment with prejudices and Davis, Parmegiani and length of over 70 kilometers which Eno would be proud of. protected settlers from nomad raids. Despite the fact that today's wild released 2 April 2013 field is under civilization's ambient avantgarde electroacoustic devastating impact and has become electronic experimental free-jazz a faded shadow of its former improvisation modern classical greatness of Nature, it is still able to make a lasting impression on the man who turned in solitude at the vast endless fields, steppes or overgrown shrubs banks of small rivers. Every track is a part of a ritual, a forest or a field landscape. You can feel the catacomb of barrows or the Gimu is no stranger to music. With dripping water in a sacred cave. over 20 years of expansive musical exposure, Gimu's experimental Kaztalien is an ambient project from sound has been influenced by many Tambov, Russia. He creates rich genres. As well as being composed drone ambient textures enhanced of completely original textures. We with field recordings since 2010. cannot describe his music in one word. He has graced us with dark released 27 February 2013 ambient, haunting and beautiful drone experimental folk ambient Russian Audraulic – ‘Synthetic drones, atmospheric subtlety and federation electronic Russia other experimental sounds. Whatever Cogintion’ [ET40] Gimu does, we are always in for something surprising. He keeps his Bitsev – ‘Situation’ [ET39] Audraulic uses both analogue and sounds new yet there is always a digital synths, along with field signature style in his work. Bitsev is the solo project of Gusev recordings (most of which will be K.P. from Russian Federation. Gusev heavily manipulated) to create large released 14 February 2013 K.P. uses 'conventional' electric encompassing soundscapes with the brazil electronic experimental ambient instruments such as the electric focus on an active and mobile mix. electronic noise ambient Brazil guitar or the ukulele, electronic Jez has been influenced by many styles of music. He began by listening All along building a strong sense of Paco Rossique lives and works in Las to and composing Grindcore music communion with nature. Sounds and Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain). He back in the late 80’s. Having played lyrics inspired by the ever-flowing has lived and studied in Madrid and guitar in a few bands, he then cycle of atomic re-arrangement...the Florence (Italy). discovered acid and electronic music. daunting, yet invigorating This radically altered his perceptions experience of being one with a With a career spanning over twenty and opened his mind to new styles of chaotic, hostile, murdering years as an artist, his work include music, including Ambient music and universe...how it all binds a broken paintings, murals, sound art pieces, most importantly Tangerine Dream. mind into wells of despair and struggle, yet invokes courage and Audraulic is an experimental relentlessness in the face of personal electronic outfit created by Jez Mond demise. who lives in Dubai. Audraulic’s sound is a reflection of these styles and is Korpinkorva is an attempt in making therefore quite eclectic, having no auditive sense of the senseless fixed style or genre, but is mostly things within. It is a up-close and dark in its nature. intimate reflective pool which hopefully reflects back when dipped released 22 April 2013 deep enough into. ambient electronic electronic released 08 May 2013 experimental,improvisation,field recordings,vocals Finland sculptures, prints, magazine articles, art-books, illustrations for newspapers and curatorship.

He has composed sound art pieces, such as those for the exhibition "90% Water" with Mónica Aranegui and Jose J. Torres in the Library of the University Carlos III, Madrid 2011, Soundtracks for the "Land for the future: sustainable development" in the Elder Museum of Science and Technology Las Palmas de Gran Utu Lautturi – Canaria and soundtrack "Planning ‘Korpinkorva’ [ET41] the insular Landscape." Special Territorial Plan of the landscape of Immersion. Fire. The surrounding Darkstar83 – ‘Sine Gran Canaria. Biennial of the nature engulfs us. Comes and goes. Diabolo, Nullus Canaries 2009. Have a glimpse on the likely dark chamber of sanity. Nature and human Dominus’ [ET43] released 20 May 2013 avantgarde contemporary electronic escapist scapes. Crow's ear. ‘Sine diabolo, nullus dominus' is the experimental field recordings percussion Immersion in the magnificent second release for Etched Traumas Spain soundscape of Utu. The journey is by prolific Greek artist Darkstar83. cathartic, we endure and we endure N.Roman – ‘After and we endure... The environment is ominous and All’ [ET44] depressive. Subtle noise ambient Korpinkorva is a four-piece audio layers of frequencies in four journey through life plagued by enclosed walls. Sparse repetitive mental disorder. Blending acoustic ritual notes build an imposing instrumentation, organic field atmosphere of an uncomfortable recordings, sung and spoken vocals dream. A dark masterpiece. with noise and sound manipulation, it takes the listener deep into the released 14 May 2013 subconscious of Utu Lautturi. ritual ambient dark ambient noise Greece

Doom, anxiety and desolation merge Paco Rossique – with fragile moments of hope in an esoteric soundscape. ‘Boulevard Canvas’ [ET43] This fourteen minutes work consists acousmatic brazil dark ambient drone a proper deep feel. The final track of dark ambient textures, subtle noise experimental field recordings noise renders the same frosty picture but frequencies and sometimes thick and power electronics, Brazil the addictive synth pattern and the warm bass sounds. Listen to the laidback downtempo beats are the crispness of the work and imagine a optimistic ending to 'What The Swan magnificent celestial dome at sunrise. Saw'.

N.Roman is an experimental and From deep underwater scenery we drone producer, born and living in are relocated to mountain peaks. Valladolid (Spain). He is also very Katajamäki charismatically depicts involved in netlabelism since 2008, such antithetic soundscapes. with EPs released in several netlabels (aka Dubkrauz). released 4 August 2013 ambient experimental finland downtempo released 10 June 2013 electronic soundscapes Finland ambient dark ambient, Spain

Sonvol – ‘Mixtapes’ [ET46]

Sonvol is a noise producer from Slovenia and 'Mixtapes' consists of sounds produced between 2007-2013 in Kranj, Slovenia. Painting: Stojan Knežević.

released 15 July 2013 noise, experimental, electronic, Slovenia Lord Havoc – ‘Futurustic Katajamäki – ‘What The VICTIM! – ‘Ecos’ [ET45] Space Invasion’ [ET48]

On "Ecos", the intention is to explore A cosmic journey into unchartered reverberation in determined empty territoties. Celestial drones, low and spaces. The propagation of tones high frequencies experiments in a and its overlap. The sound of the science fiction lab. places are so important as the sound of the instruments used. The propose Lord Havoc, or Rakun, or Jus, is a of "Ecos" is a dialog between the (dark) ambient artist from Slovenia. two. His ambition to make music comes from life, experimentation, science VICTIM! is an extreme music project fiction and other things. He has been inspired, among other practices, by making it for a few years, mostly power electronics and noise, making experimenting, but occasionally extensive use of field deciding to do more serious music. recordings.VICTIM!’s music is guided Lord Havoc likes to read a lot, is a by affective connections with sounds, Swan Saw’ [ET47] mudder and very interested in similar to the link that you can have science, nuclear stuff and astronomy. with a place, that is filled, as the field The opening track is a deep recordings that fill the tracks. People melancholic ambient work set, which released 25 August 2013 talk, cars pass. Listen to VICTIM!’s is the framework of this EP. music also means reflecting about Encapsulating a huge vintage 70s experimental Slovenia ambient dark the day-to-day in each city, the ambient electronic synthesized feel ambient electronic noise conversations heard, and, deeply, the of underwater sounds, resembling place of subjectivity in all of this, cold breezes, whales-like tones and Tar Miles – ‘Tar Labs pt. which is solved in the other sound sweeping sounds which construct an 1’ [ET49] elements present. inspired work, somewhere between Tangerine Dream and Cluster. In the Tar Miles is the ghost of Thanos VICTIM! is a solo project by Cadu introverted 'As the cold sun sets' Papadopoulos, Hana, who creates Tenório. Katajamäki builds a perfect electronic music in experimental ambience with an open horizon and mode through techno forms. released 24 June 2013 Between Transmat and Metroplex seminal sonic footprint, Tar Miles infuses the latter with an experimental twist. Structural and textural elements are clearly

dr guilty was born in the early 70s somewhere in Italy. First musical experiences date back to the mid 80s -- playing electric guitar in an utterly forgotten noise combo that recorded only 2 tracks. He started identifiable, phat synths, 808-like making electronic music in the early percussion, modulation, low pitched 2000s. vocal samples, while they manifest released 19 November 2013 the starting point for Tar Miles' experimental ambient drone electronic e exploration on composition and xperimental isolationist rhythmic adventure. ambient minimal soundscape Italy

Tar Miles has numerous releases under Hana moniker on digital and physical format. Enjoy ET49! released 24 September 2013 Experimental, Electronic, Techno, Greece

The Electric Poet – ‘Somber Soul’ [ET52]

'Somber Soul' is the amalgam of AVOIDANT – ‘Songbook reversed electric sounds, abstract guitars, ambient pads and Sines’ [ET50] experimental rhythm patterns.

AVOIDANT is the solo project of The Electric Poet hails from the Portuguese artist Nelson P. Ferreira United States and has been and he experiments with long drone recording guitar based loops for and ambient textures. over ten years. Follow him through released 13 October 2013 the wormhole to his weird little ambient drone experimental noise world. Portugal released 16 December 2013 experimental usa ambient electronic dr guilty – ‘untitled’ [ET51] Clouds' distinctive ambient dronology incorporates noise and 2014 natural elements. Listen to the windy frequencies captured outside a Weyland-Yutani Corporation plant.

released 08 January 2014 east coast experimental usa ambient drone drone ambient dronology electronic noise ambient

System Morgue – ‘Grief’ [ET56]

Grief''s musical opus consists of four Dabit Vocem Austria - distinct sonic visualizations of the ‘Bordun’ [ET53] darkest feelings under the skin. A harsh axis builds up with slow and Imagine yourself in an underground consistent frequency storms. post apocalyptic shelter. Electrified Exemplary harsh noise / power signals, heavily mutated everyday electronics from System Morgue. sounds, old phonographic memories System Morgue is a one-man project of the past, cold sonic storms, all the Jaguar Mín – ‘Anhedonia from Moscow, Russia. The music above compose the dystopian and EP’ [ET55] varies from the pure harsh noise to nightmarish palette of Sauermoser. dark ambient and drone with early Aidan Baker, Maeror Tri, Mathias There is not the slightest chance of 'Anhedonia' a collection of Grassow and Klaus Wiese influences hope for those in the shelter. improvised guitar soundscapes by Jaguar Mín. Distant sea memories DabitVocemAustria is a project from released 26 January 2014 and improvised dreamy arpeggios Felix Sauermoser, born in 1977. Felix Experimental, drone, harsh noise, with an exploratory approach, started to using a audiorecorder in electronic synthesize an imaginary guitarscape the age of 8 and first recorded his journey which is about to take place. granny singing. After a lot of eidoscognitio – experiments, he started to make a Harrison Banfield is a new media ‘Understanding The Value noise project and some others. artist and musician based in South Of Sincerity’ [ET57] Wales, producing work under the released 07 January 2014 moniker Jaguar Mín. experimental electronic Folklorism, the revival of older

Harrison is an eclectic musician, currently focusing on sound design, soundscaping and experimental electronic music. He produces an ongoing series of short EPs featuring contrasting styles.

He works mainly with found footage sourced from the Internet and social networks, exploring a range of contemporary issues through the filter of social media- with a particular interest in voyeurism, the human body and advanced capitalism. customs and rituals, has been, in its very sense, the core of escapism to Released 25 January 2014 Red Clouds – ‘Burning The some other time and place. Guitarscape, Ambient, Soundscape, Sky’ [ET54] Disconnected to modern society and Improvisation initially lame, it fails most of the times 'Burning Sky' is the second album of Red Clouds for Etched Traumas. Red to associate itself with the real needs experimental, acoustic, natural, ambient, Inspired by the thoughts of the of human beings. electronic, live instinctual reptilian brain. This work contains 5 soundscapes that explore However, folklorism and its attributed a visionary world where man acts only exoticism, the will to discover new according to their instincts, causing structures of feeling, can be nightmares in the balance between essentialy a more optimistic side of a the ration and the darkest instincts. sterile revival. Full of older patterns Five tracks that musically spanning and forms, attempts at gaining its several electronic genres, with an ear place in the modern world, based on for experimentation. its deeply humanist core. D@P, was born at the end of 2012, with the intention of exploring the The work of eidoscognitio lies cosmos and micro cosmos of man, beyond the untruthful of side of through drawings and visionary folklorism and celebrates a brand, soundscapes, drawing also on the new and humane sonic locus. It electronic music scene of the past 40 reveals the essential need for years! More musical inspirations reconnecting with everything natural were, among others, Kraftwerk, in this 21st world. The artist’s meeting 23RedAnts - ‘We Are Not Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schultze and with real shamans in practice Jean Michele Jarre. triggered the conceptualization of Dead Yet’ [ET58] Everything is produced through the ‘Understanding The Value Of use of a DAW, using only virtual 23RedAnts is the artistic duet of Sincerity’ plugin, iPad, recordings sound fields Macarena Montesinos and Niet F-n. and manipulations of sounds. According to the artist, this work is “a Their work, highly improvised and released 1 February 2014 sonic excursion to a meditative and exploratory, is based on electronic experimental, acoustic, natural, ambient, somehow dreamy sequence of slow and acoustic equipment, such as electronic, live events”. It is ambient music recorded cello, laptop, pedals and other live in episodes. The episodes deal found objects. The quest of new released 12 March 2014 with the understanding of harsh rhythmic patterns along with ambient, electronic feelings, dependence and the painful surpassing cello micro-drones, build process of getting rid of attachments, together a brave and well articulated and finally, the understanding of the outcome. value of sincerity. We are definitely 23RedAnts is a duet that comes not alone, we must respect our from Vigo, Spain. Mainly based on fellows as we care and value free improvisation, the duet moves ourselves. Each episode was in different directions mixing noise, recorded live on a Tascam portable melody, glitch music, silences, field digital recorder, and edited for recordings, loops and irregular continuity of a general panorama. rhythms in always new and surprising ways. eidoscognitio is Alejandro Betancourt, an electroacoustic released 10 February 2014 performer from Venezuela. Alejandro experimental, Spain, electroacoustic, was born in Barquisimeto, Lara and electronic, free improvisation started to compose, play and ΄ perform live on his early 30 s. In his Martin Hoogeboom - work he tends to explore the richness and the always interesting evolving ‘Colony’ [ET60] atmospheres of all soundscapes he can get: Field recordings, sound 'Colony' is a soundscape work based libraries and synthesizer/sampler on sounds of ants. Martin says about generated ones. 'Colony' : His work is heavily influenced by ambient music. He rarely uses rhythm "It might be an ethical concern to fill loops, although he creates the sense an ant's nest with molten aluminium, of a beat using a virtual effect plug-in to let it cool down and to then dig it that allows him to loop a certain up. But this is the only way to get a fragment of his performance. building which looks like it has been designed by an alien architect. released 1 February 2014 D@P - ‘R-Complex’ [ET59] Recent studies have shown that ants alike. Sing: Captured for posterity! Ortuño producer itself and Bloqueos, regularly communicate with each Development! Poster! APF is an open window to creation. other by sound. Most ants have a The band is going to give post rock, natural washboard and plectrum released 1 April 2014 experimental, acoustic and lo fi built-in into their stomach. By experimental, improvisation records especiallly, to all those music rubbing these against each other, lovers around. they create sound. This enables the queen to order her workers. released 4 June 2014 Researchers can record these sounds, experimental, electronic which are the basis of Colony, with the newest audio techniques. I gave sound designer Theo Calis and trumpet player Ed van den Berkel the following instructions for improvisation: autumn forest, cold, blue sky, strong wind, chasing clouds. In the same forest where you are enjoying your walk released 13 February 2014 experimental,soundscape swivelized sounds - ‘_busted’ [ET62]

'_busted' is an experimentation in lo- verãopop - fi noise that often finds itself drifting into melody and inevitably lost all ‘verãopop’ [ET64] together. it is an attempt to capture simplicity simply and results in four Amazing drone ambient work by tracks each uniquely different but portuguese project verãopop. connected by process and emotion. it is a story that details the emotional released 4 June 2014 experimental, drone, ambient journey that was undertaken by the artist and concludes in a conflicting feeling of euphoria and loss.

Free Variety Theatre and released 17 May 2014 Johannes Weinberger - experimental, electronic ‘adipem Syrticas’ [ET61] APF - ‘Asket’ [ET63]

God, take this off. Free Variety After working on different genre Theatre and Johannes Weinberger: a bands for over 12 years, Rolando style of music and improvisation that Lopez gave form to his own vision of combines avant and composition but rock music. Influenced by Youth never both. Sounds very similar but Lagoon, Thee Oh Sees, The Beatles, often differs in that, despite its Julie Dorion and costarican projects distinct departure... doldrums... as a such as Aracnophobia, Begotten, teenager developed into addiction Zopilot!, Los Waldners, Daniel René Baptist Huysmans - (while in hospital) after an inconsequential, but certainly occult, ‘Anthropologies of the accident. Occident. It has a Void’ [ET65] predetermined structure [lie]? This structure may be rejected by many Though harmonious and [untruth]? Composed note-4-note breathtakingly beautiful from a [NO!]? Partially or even completely. distance, the universe is a violent and As a result, it gained limited/great inhospitable place that is not even hardship in Cal-, was rediscovered indifferent to our existence: it very and issued, eventually being well exists despite us, has done so committed to musicians and fans long before us and will do so for a very long time after our demise. Yet, the more our Earth becomes a pale noise elements, lo frequencies and blue dot, the more our concept of cold soundscapes construct the space seems to be imbued with the Ukrainian artist's sonic mosaic. familiar world we directly see around us: a Martian volcano 'the size of Willy Stamati is a post-industrial / France', astronomical ‘forests’, ‘birth’ noise / experimental one-man project and ‘death’ of a star, the search for an from Ukraine. It was established in exo-planet like Earth, perhaps even 2007. The basic aim is sound an alien civilisation like our own. experiments. Inspired by such Space exploration is also an luminaries as Merzbow, Aube, Marco exploration of ourselves. The Corbelli, Maurizio Bianchi, Raison universe is here. Our metaphors aptly d'Etre, Contagious Orgasm and Bad express this dual nature: strangely Sector, Willy Stamati worked his way familiar and familiarly strange at the up from darkwave and neoclassics to This is the second release of same time. post-industrial and noise and created Kaztalien for Etched Traumas titled These drony textures, long and slowly more than 100 albums in different 'September October November'. developing lines with a minimum of styles. The main topic of his music is The work consists of three amazing sonic events and the recursive life in its lowest display, from worst naturalistic folk ambient tracks. application of an audio-effect over human features to faults of Kaztalien is an ambient project from and over again evoke (I hope) our development; the gloomy Tambov, Russia. He creates rich ever so human metaphorical atmosphere of his music call thoughts drone ambient textures enhanced wondering—and wandering—and about doom, despair and realization with field recordings since 2010. where it allows us to dwell. of self-insignificance. The main Kaztalien appeared in the summer of features differing Willy Stamati from 2010 as a single experiment with released 1 July 2014 similar projects are careful selection natural sounds. Later these experimental, soundscape, of musical material, variety of genres experiments evolved into mono- expressionistic, space, textures and styles, its original sound and project «ПБН» - russian acronym of serious intelligent approach to music «no name yet». The summer of 2011 creation. was a period when natural sounds of this project were mixed with released 8 July 2014 synthesizers and low drones. This experimental, noise, DIY new sound became the starting point of «Kaztalien». Main theme and inspiration source of the project is the coexistence of Nature and Civilisation in the modern world.

released 5 July 2014 ambient, folk, experimetal

VeDaKR - ‘Nokia Tapes EP’ [ET66]

Evidence of the urban environment, recordings of modern life, the noise nobodisoundz - that reveals the truth, the VeDaKR's 'Nokia Tapes' are an eclectic ‘Isolation’ [ET69] repository of recorded audio clips for This is the second release of french the archivist of a dystopian future. artist nobodisoundz for Etched Traumas. Dark, dirty ambiances released 8 July 2014 overlaid with field recordings, voices, experimental, noise, DIY soundscapes, strange objects and Kaztalien - ‘September Willy Stamati - ‘A Moment the MKF's electric guitar. October of Absolute released 14 July 2014 November’ [ET67] Stillness’ [ET68] experimental, ambient, field recording, Stamati invites us to a dark realm of electric guitar,noise ambient, noise and mechanical sounds. Archetypical drone textures, REISEBÜRO - ‘A understanding than crushing down to minimal, it’s all the same for Zoran DR (Dominic Razlaff) is an Electronica Hereditary because all is sound. Zoran was & Ambient musician from Monarchy’ [ET70] influenced by 80's and 90's music of Braunschweig, Germany. 'A Hereditary Monarchy' is made of a all genres. He uses Synthesizers, Field classic piano music with distorted Zoran's goal is love and Recordings, Tape Loops & some digi- microphone. Complex and multi-level understanding through sound, tal Effects to create Melancholy, qualities contrast the grand piano accepting the unknown and free Deep, Ambient / Drone Soundscapes melodies. The six movements of this minded creativity. Everything is album merge a decadent interwar sound and sound is all there is, this released 20 October 2014 feeling with an electrified dystopian is Zoran. drone,ambient,electronic ambiance. released 31 August 2014 "...reminds me of the world wars and ambient, drone the hereditary socialization problems of people. Like an innocent person in a war. Like a child who does not understand the world and his parents. It means for me that an end of a classic closed community, the healthy thoughts fighting with the narrow minded scene or a hopeless and neverending sadness." argues Gergely.

The Reisebüro86 is a deep, sensitive and personal approach of the noise- soundart. Always experimental and Room Of Roots - ‘Small totally dark sounds with guitar, Noises’ [ET74] effects, flute, keyboard, looper, microphone and small metal strings Fire To The Stars - ‘Keep and springs and other special Room Of Roots' is the solo project of objects. Normal's Improvised free You Safe’ [ET72] British artist Milo T-M. The pieces on musics fill out his strange and weird 'Keep You Safe' is the debut EP from "Small Noises" were created over 3 visual world. Melbourne/Stockholm six-piece. years, and are really a collection of Making glorious melancholia sonic experiments. The mixture of released 14 July 2014 looped audio and spontaneous experimental, noise, piano suitable for geographical outposts, recording remains a key feature Zoran - ‘…and then there these tracks soothe and despair throughout. Most of the tracks are simultaneously. created to convey a particular emo- was life’ [ET71] tion or a physical space, such as in Twenty two minutes of a sheer released 29 September 2014 "Rooms". Making this music has en- ambient drone journey. sad-noise,pop,electric abled me to grasp the process of recording and mixing, whilst resisting Zoran makes music with computer DR - ‘4 Drones’ [ET73] the urge to use computers for the software using midi keyboard. Fascinating and 'microscopic' creation of effects or sounds. Adding effects or not, it doesn't melodies evolve into a mesmerizing matter, manipulating beyond ambiance. Milo was born in London in 1997 and fondness for small wooden houses :) started showing an interest in music Nobodisoundz comes from France – stands there, containing a at the age of 11, and by 17 it is now and first started this sound-making harmonium. his passion. He is influenced heavily project by cobbling together music They have a sound that is both by electronic and experimental samples, sounds, field recordings earthly and, let's shamelessly use this music, but also includes elements of and the results of his fiddling with devalued term once again, spiritual. ambient and classical styles. His audio software. These sounds com- painting and writing act as parallel pleted his works and added an at- practices, and convey the same mosphere within and around his emotion to the reader or viewer as paintings, subsequent installations the music does to its listener. Much of and videos. He looks for dense, the music he makes explores the thin heavy, noisy, squeaky, tense and line between minimalism and quiet atmospheres, which have to be complexity, whilst retaining a sense of both dark and bright at the same coherence. The fact that none of the time. sounds or effects are created with a computer is very important to Milo, Since 2011, Kristof and Palomo as he believes that the ability to make (Other Matter duo) they are wan- anything you want immediately dering the dreary toxic spaces actually hinders creativity. The sole above, witnessing to the weakness use of acoustic, analogue or circuit of the human mind confronted with, bent instruments allows his recording and ultimately defeated by, the process to be totally spontaneous. darkness, – all darkness. Unfortunately, we are sucked into a He hopes you enjoy his music. world without forests, log cabins and Michel Kristof: electric guitar, elec- harmoniums. But do not despair: our released 20 October 2014 tric esraj, sitar. Born 1966. Solo work hope is placed in positive thinkers experimental,ambient,electronic on guitars and electrified indian in- such as the architect Aad Breed, who

struments as MKF’s Approach. Since lets us live in pyramid cities 2010 in free jazz godfather Sonny (www.piramidestad.nl/en/index.html). Simmons’ Moksha Samnyasin with Which is also pleasant. Thomas Bellier (Blaak Heat Shujaa) and Sébastien Bismuth (Abrahma). Until then, I make forest-music using Guest appearances with Ehécatl. my acoustic guitar and a loop station in my own house. I've been doing Julien Palomo: synthesizers, organ, this for years, and these pieces are piano, tape manipulations. Born almost always the basis of my 1978. Producer for Improvising Be- soundscapes. ings (Sonny Simmons, François They can be heard in their pure form Tusques, Alan Silva, Sabu Toyozumi, for their first time on this Etched Itaru Oki, Giuseppi Logan…). Also Traumas release. performing in post-pop group Ba- booszchka. Sound designer Theo Calis has used his special magic to give these pieces NOBODIotherSOUNDZ- Released 13 November 2014 a warm harmonium-like sound. electronic,electric matter - ‘of rust, grain and guitar,rust,ambient,noise,synthesizer released 15 July 2014 atmospher’ [ET75] soundscapes ‘of rust, grain and atmospher’ album Martin Hoogeboom - is a sonic collage of dark and soulful ‘Where Do We Go From Ophed - ‘Turning The electrified elements. A panorama of distorted pads, electric guitar impro- Here?’ [ET77] Odds’ [ET78] visations and synthesized ambient A mosaic novel based on the Tarot sounds. Where Do We Go From Here? cards. 22 short stories describing an It is a cinematic journey: corrosive optimistic view of mastering one's atmosphere and last transmissions While the political, economic and own individual life by taking control from an underground shelter; a per- ecological perspectives of human over coincidences and occurrences. fect soundtrack for ‘Dead Man's Let- society seem to worsen every day, I We shall not be slaves of the events ters’ (Письма мёртвого человека) occasionally feel the need to retreat happenning in our lives, we should film directed by Konstantin Lo- into a great forest. create our own opportunities and pushansky. A log cabin - preferably a little one, chances. Tomorrow is the because in addition to all my defects consequence of today, a repercussion and neuroses, I have a special odds went on cards VII-Le Chariot and VIII-La justice for the begining and kept XXI-Le Monde for the closing of the 78th release of internationally oriented netlabel, Etched Traumas.

In order to recreated the main concept, this album should be played on random mode.

Ophed is the artistic project of Sylvain Desfossés from Québec, Canada. Aside from his work in the of our own choices, an echo of our music education field, he is a acts. composer influenced by various genres of music, ranging between One by one, the cards were drawn 20th century classical composers to randomly. Each track was made one contemporary popular, popular at a time, the card giving the dance styles and from south parameters to be respected: name, American rhythmic to the simple number, colours, elements and complexity of polyphonic African symbols shown and of course, the music or polyrhytmics of the tribal meaning of the card. Using randomly dances of Indonesia. programmed grain synthetizers, random patterns or arpeggios, He seeks a perpetual fluid motion collected field recordings and various element as he always tries to build a samples from foreign collaborators, consistent shape out of a fluid, a each card was musically painted, never ending energy. He has been giving a personnal interpretation of composing for about 20 years and the card. has worked with visual arts and musical experimentations. Basically Mainly minimalist, the work covers using minimalistic techniques, he different techniques: polyphony, uses random set patterns, reverse polyrhythms, phasings, ostinatos and audio, spoken samples, detune, western musical and oral linguitics distortion, and explores schemes, such as counterpoint, polyrhythmic and polyphonic modal harmony, tonal harmony and soundscapes. For him, music is a different lingual phonemes. Tracks language therefore he gives priority are linked to each other using a to the message he wants to glossary made of footstep sounds, communicate. water sounds, birds singing, bells ringing and voice samples. released 14 December 2014 experimental, electronic The album is an essay on controlled randomness. Some tracks are totally controlled, some are partially controlled and some aren't controlled at all. Several takes were done on the tracks and a final choice was made. The album may be performed live, but the tracks will never sound exactly the same on each performance. The set would also be based on a random draw of the cards, giving each track order in the set. So, any given performance would be different from one to the next.

The listing of the album represents the exact order in which the tracks were written. On the original draw, Neither of instruments is/was mine, leave them out of breath. A primal piano standing in an old house on fire burned out all their shelters. They 2015 west coast of Norway, that I used to were by themselves those who got play during evenings of my stay inspired to descend up to the there looking for specific sonoric boundaries of their animality, without features - first piece is improvised knowing it. And so on the grey an- around two slightly detuned keys, gels trapped inside the oblivion woke second (last on the release) - on up, one by one. Options were simple, lowest and highest pitch, with natur- to fall even deeper or to take flight al ambience of an old piano being with them to become white again. played. credits Roland Ef303 is a machine of my friend (Domas Ruskys), who let me use it for some weeks during my stay at home in Lithuania (also on the west coast). Mainly improvised to see what it sounds with no or mini- mal input - the insides of its looped/ Dædal Sphallðlalia - rewiring buzz in an unstable (mov- ing/slightly swinging on a table) set- ‘Chaosofia’ [ET79] ting. 'Chaosofia' is about chaotic credits considerations about vacuum and darkness. Five minutes of deep, Speech call. Is that not how all harsh noise; we couldn't have a graphomaniacs start? Hearing the better new year start. call. No. Feeling the itch. Better now. Fernando Laub (aka flaub) is a com- Dædal Sphallðlalia was created by The old radio. Tune between FM poser and visual artist mainly orien- Z_n in Rome few years ago. frequencies, but no song. Not a one tated to avant-garde, experimental The project is about noise/harsh damn song. All babble. All pussy, tit, and electroacoustic music. noise and dark ambient/drone pro- love love love, till vomit or ductions. ejaculate. Same thing. That don’t With the aim of compiling sonic sub- The purpose of the act is to express arouse me anymore. So much the stance and creating new devices from his inner self. better. Switch to short waves. Shift old industrial machines and recycled amidst stations, static, find the scrap, he spent several years living released 6 January 2015 beatings, now, some song, at least into an abandoned factory recondi- noise, harsh noise at last. Some play. What else (one tioned as a sound laboratory. Besides needs)? Some rice, some onion, those post-industrial quests he use to some carrot, if that. One don’t need travel around the world documenting much, when one prepares. Turn the sonic and visual material. Combining radio off. all that stuff with the research of new Some tea, cheap tasteless tea, pour synthesis methods his music not only water, all is good. A cigarette, describes pictures, it will transport all is better. Then the sky, less you to a sort of surreal and Sci-Fi cloudy, the better. Waiting. scenarios, images that are quite diffi- Such are waiting times. cult to define. Maybe the mountain, some sea. One needs less, when preparing. Or, released 16 February 2015 abstract electronic avant-garde electroa- even better, not getting wasted. coustic experimental Clean in old cloths. Some little light and far city ambiance. Itch stopping. Yaws - Yaws [ETS01] Not wasted. Not. Known (or not-known) for attention to Martin Rach - ‘Interrupted’ detail in his compositions and a lo-fi [ET80] released 27 January 2015 approach and aesthetic in creating The release combines two sets of noise, ambient music, Yaws makes rhythmic sound- excerpts from improvising on two scapes, exploring long and expand- instruments, piano and roland Ef303 flaub - Wild side of elec- ing improvisations through repetition, static and noise. Taking influence machine, with a looped work in the trical reactions [ET81] middle done for disquiet junto from artists such as HTRK, Deutsch Something like a deafening noise project (www.disquiet.com). Nepal, Coil and Craig Leon, his music arose from inside their deepness and is an incessant, yet subtle perpetual released 31 March 2015 A listener from an outer reality ap- electronic, ambient, experimental proaches the modern metropolis and perceives a version of the contempo- rary urban sound. Noises, words, roars, whispers and melodies merge together to construct the semi-logical language of a bio-mechanical, hyper- organism. This language is the men- tal space in which new narrations may emerge and old cultural symbols can lead to new unpredictable meanings.

groove which intends to tap into a rhythmic continuum which transcends the listener. released 18 February 2015 Lezet - Utterings [ET83.1] electronic, minimal “Utterings” is Lezet’s attempt at fake languages and sound poetry which should in this case lean toward the musical rather than the semantic. This offering is somewhat limited by content creator’s Indo-European language background and the Further on, in this urban, ''post-mod- phonetic peculiarities of his native ern'' space the listener may listen to language (Serbo-Croatian/ Croato- a strange ''song''. The inner voice of Serbian), but the texts and the the city. readings should prove to be interesting and amusing enough in The dual role of voice as both a themselves. sonorous ''object'' and a facilitator of Any actual words used are meaning, narration and verbal com- unintentional. munication is crucial for our under- standing of sound and music. Ipsis- winjer3 - The Orderly Sys- “Utterings” the third installment to sima voce plays with the exchange of tem [ET82] “The Talking Trilogy” (consisting of roles between voice, music and nar- Winjer3 emerged from the Chicago “Hum”,”Histrionics” & ”Utterings”) ration. While the electronic and pre- area of the United States in 2013 with You are cordially invited to record recorded sounds overwhelm the nar- his cosmic blend of experimental your own interpretation/reading of rative and musical part, the voice is electronic, drone, ambient, minimalist the included texts in whatever way reduced to either short musical sig- beat, and rhythmic noise sounds. He you want (sing them, whisper them, nals or distant reminiscence of an- uses a blend of small analog instru- shout them, read them…) and send cient languages and generic vocal ments, virtual approximations of ana- it to us. We would love to be able to gestures so that the end result be- log instruments, assemble an accompanying single comes a kind of abstract, electronic and a receiver of shortwaves to cre- we would subsequently add to this ''opera''. ate his unique sound. Recordings are release as a bonus track/mix generally completed "on the fly" and credits released April 23, 2015 in one take; in order to maximize the released April 23, 2015 improvisation of the recordings. experimental, fake languages, non-music Their Teeth To Points - A sound, poetry, sound art, spoken word, Budget of Paradoxes Winjer3 describes his main influences voice, voice art to be nature, the universe as whole, [ET84] and the phenomena exhibited in Unsample - Ipsissima Voce both. There is a special focus on the The album title comes from an eclec- more disastrous aspects of each in- [ET83.2] tic collection of fringe/alternative fluence, as can be heard in the details scientific theories, published in 1872 that exist within the sounds of Win- The voice of the city by a British mathematician named jer3. August De Morgan. The album can be understood as a kind of alterna- tive science project in itself: both as an effort to make sense of a tumul- audio manipulation, sound collage, tuous life transition, and also be- field recordings, digital synthesis, and cause the five tracks presented here various algorithmic composition rely on custom sound effects and techniques. sound manipulation software which the artist has developed over the last released June 8, 2015 year. The album cover art is by Sean Gadoury. credits

Their Teeth to Points is the main creative outlet for a sound artist based near Toronto, Canada. Their Teeth to Points is an experiment in

We feel like explorers; we travel light years in distance via unheard sounds springing from our lungs. Armed with a DAW, and a poor quality audio recorder, for new situations. There are rules to override, and wires to stretch. Capture the sound of stretching a copper string, an accidental breaking of glass and suddenly we are between mellowness and harshness, sadness and happiness. We are here to make a joyful noise, because all impulses escape prototyping. ‘Our model is sound’, so lets go down and burn up the road. Leave your etched traumas behind.

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