various: colliding wind

The ambient/cross-genres record label Concentric Records launches Colliding Wind, the second compilation of its introductory release trilogy. Featuring music by Christina Vantzou, Echium, Etapp Kyle, Jana Winderen, Kareem Lotfy, Soundwalk Collective, Tragic Selector (Daisuke Tadokoro and Terre Thaemlitz), the album is composed of a wide spectrum of ambient, field recording-based, and experimental works, exploring unexpected sonic spaces and evocative landscapes. Colliding Wind is inspired by the powerful force that is produced when a minimum of two beings or elements are combined and acting together. The opening track is Soundwalk Collective's "Running On Emptiness". Commissioned by Sasha Waltz for her three-hour epic choreography "EΞΟΔΟΣ I Exodos", the piece is composed out of moving architectural structures and their echoing resonances. Over the past few years, Etapp Kyle's cavernous and often hallucinatory techno has dovetailed into an obsession with spatial qualities of sound. "10K" was originally recorded in 2017 as a simple piano-leading ambient track during a home studio session. It was developed further only in 2020 after Concentric Records invited Kyle to contribute to the project. Tragic Selector is the duo comprised of Daisuke Tadokoro and Terre Thaemlitz. This piano piece was originally composed for an event with the Japanese Butoh dance ensemble Dairakudakan. The Kareem Lotfy (Arabic: كريم لطفي) is an electronic music producer, graphic designer and visual artist from Egypt, who lives and works in Cairo. "Molten Tactics" offers a palpable departure from his usually lush and visceral ambiance, notably heard on Kelela's AQUAPHORIA mixtape and PAN's mono no aware compilation. Christina Vantzou's "Dvorjacked" is a rework of Dvořák's "American" Quartet - Movement II (Lento). Vantzou uses modular synthesizer called the Morphagene to loop and process the public domain recording. Jana Winderen is an artist who currently lives and works in Norway. "The Listener" is a sound composition created from hydrophones and sound field recordings in and by the River Orne in Normandy. "The Listener" (six channel audio installation) was part of the exhibition Second Nature and the project Nature and Renaturation: A Sensory Overview of a History of Changing Watercourses. As part of the next wave of artists innovating within dub techno and experimental ambient zones, Echium looks to loosen up its strictures while playing deep within its unfathomable dimensions. "Compulsions of Reality" explores the emotions built into daily existence. 180 gram vinyl; includes insert; edition of 200.