Guess what? Let me by Atu is a great song to listen for your break-up.

Atu is a 20-year-old Malawian producer from Ann Arbor, Michigan. Pictures on Silence is his latest work, released on 22 March. The ethereal future sound merge with his R’n’b attitude. The gentle melancholy female voices are sourrounded by some kind of ghostly presence.

Words: Tommaso Bortolanza

Photo: Gregory Crewdson

Los Angeles-based  artist Julia Holter  just announced her third full length work and first album recorded in a studio Loud City Song, set to release on August 19th via Domino Records.

In Domino press page we read “the result is an album of enormous ambition – Holter taking inspiration from Collette’s 1944 novella Gigi and using it as a prism through which to explore her relationship with her hometown of Los Angeles and modern life universally, taking cues from the work of Joni Mitchell and the poetry of Frank O’Hara but forging those touch-points into something resolutely unique”.

Watch here the video for the first single World.

Photo by Slot. K

The sun shines in Venice and we are proud to make a great gift to all eclectic music lovers. Not simply we reached the Detroit-based bedroom-house mogul, lo-fi producer Christian Jay Sienkiewicz aka Coyote Clean Up for an interesting interview but he was so kind to make a special mixtape for EC including incredible post-house gems as he would like to say summer is getting closer. His album 2 Hot 2 Wait is now out via 100% Silk.

EC:  How do you prefer to describe your music? Have you got word, a sentence or an haiku?

EC: Could you please tell us something about your working process? How do you make your music? What are your inspirations?

EC: What are your current listenings and your favorite records ever?

EC: There is a sort of 100% Silk mood?

No dates lined up as of yet.. but the playing in the UK and Europe is one of my #1 goals right now. Putting out new material has been my main focus and I finally feel like I’ve gotten to a point where I’m ready to travel. I’ve been DJing and playing live with this project for quite sometime strictly in Detroit and I’m ready for some fresh faces and fresh dance floors. I hope to see you sooner than later!

Irina Gliudza is a  talented Russian graphic designer  with a solid working experience for magazines and adv agencies, recently resident at Fabrica and she just delivered a new, inspiring project: Making Art from Breaking Up. Check her works and read the interesting chitchat we had with her.

EC: Could you please tell us something about your working process? What are your inspirations?

When I start working on a topic, first of all, I try to understand what my personal attitude towards it is. Later, I usually talk with people around, get different points of view on the same topic and compare them with mine. I believe that more personal projects turn out to be more interesting for the public. That’s why, my feelings are my greatest inspiration. I pay close attention to my reactions and emotions and try to understand exactly why I feel that way.

EC: Are you now working on a specific project or something you are excited to tell us about?

In a few days I am going to International Poster and Graphic Design Festival in Chaumont, France. I will be presenting my personal social project, which was made during my one year internship at Fabrica, The Benetton Group Communication Centre in Treviso, Italy. It’s called «Making art from breaking-up», and it consists of 10 illustrations telling stories about break-ups and revenge on ex-lovers as well as a participatory project. This project transforms the destructive power of failed love into the positive power of creation. All illustrations are based on real-life stories. I am very curious about how it will work out and what kind of reaction I will get from the public.

EC: Have you got a word, a sentence or an haiku to describe your work?

Consistent. At least, I wish it is.

EC: Which is your favorite colour and does it appear often in your works?

I like black and white. Or a combination of black with very intensive colors like magenta or yellow. Very simple, but it works.

EC: Which is the role of music is your life?

I really envy people who can indeed appreciate music, who can feel and understand it. My relationship with music, is not that easy. A while back, I read a phrase that there are two most abstract kinds of art – music and typography. I think I do better with typography. And when I work – I prefer silence.

Repetition, anxiety, minimal spoken-word and what can be considered a sort of slow-motion funk are the main elements which make the new album from Berlin trio Denseland. It seems like David Moss is coming closer and whispering in your ear, using a vocal technique called ‘sprechgesang’ between speaking and singing able to merge suspense into the hypnotic electronic texture .The follower to 2010′s Chunk is out now via German label m=minimal. Stream here three excerpts.

Photo by David Sykes

In the press we read “this album is the result of one person sitting alone in a room and creating something entirely personal, without the frustrations of organising large-scale sessions for other players or preparing scores”. Spontaneity, impulsiveness, improvised piano, vibraphone and percussion sessions, an old-fashioned approach to tell his inner feelings. We are talking about the new upcoming double LP Where We Were (due on summer via Denovali) from the Berlin-based English composer Greg Haines: “moments of quiet, slow moving textures can still be found, but they are nestled between upbeat, rhythmically-driven tracks that at times could even be considered for deployment on open-minded dancefloors”. Stream here some extracts and watch the album teaser.

Photo by Max J. Marshall

You’re sitting on a wooden chair in a hallway outside the recording studio of one of your friends. He’s a dj. You’re reading a futile article on a mag, the article is about how much important is cleaning your wheel rims. A lot of noise’s coming out from the studio. A guy and his girlfriend are arguing about a collection of bottle caps he owns. They suddenly start fighting throwing each other your friend’s long play record. The guy runs fast outside the studio. He stops in front of you. He actively shakes the chair where you’re sitting holding the arms of the chair. Then he runs down the hallway and he disappears behind a corner.
If you’d find yourself in such a situation you will be probably listening to this song.

IAMNOBODI is a Dusseldorf based producer and you can find this track in the 11-track album meanwhile. released on May 5th.

Photo: Ralph Gräf
Words: Tommaso Bortolanza

Photo by Photgrapher Hal

Bubbling emotions from the enigmatic electronic composer Joane Skyler for her debut tape via Reckno. The unexplored soundscape of Boards of Canada having a picnic with Demdike Stare on a glass-table in a nature where birds are replaced by nightmare echoes but today the sun will shine and Stellar Om Source will bring a cheese-cake. Stream here a glitchy clip from side A of her organic composition.

Photo by Jes Cervoni

We are proud to announce EC ‘ll host Taragana Pyjarama live show on May 25 at PopCorn Club in Venice.