Syrphe

25/12/2024

New releases and some more news.
♪ Noise a Noise 24​.​2: Resistance 2 includes a collaboration between Sarmen Almond and I amongst many other artists such as Leonie Roessler, 2/5bz, tarxun, Alireza Amirhajebi, Amirali Karimi Sahari, d4mnj4r, and many more.
I will play with Sarmen in Mexico City on 30 January, more info about this soon.
https://noise-a-noise.bandcamp.com/album/noise-noise-242-resistance-2
♪ M​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​A​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​D. V includes one of my solo tracks, it's also a massive noise, post-industrial, dark ambient, drone compilation that includes musicians from Malta, Costa Rica, Iraq, Mexico, Italy, Iran, the UK, Belgium, Tunisia, Lithuania and more such as Omar Fadel Hadi, Devil's Breath, Tleilaxu Device, Konfiguracion Dadaista Della Viveza, WILT, Satori, Abu Ama, RDKPL, VIRUS2020, Small Life Form, etc. More than 100 artists.
https://musicanalysisdiscussionsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/m-a-d-v
♪ Alarmen and Spherical Disrupted just release an album that includes a remix by Docteur Moreau (Axiome) as well as some more by the_empath, Darkrad, Autoclav1.1, Mortaja, etc.
https://audiophob.bandcamp.com/album/aquila
♪ I have a few albums under preparation, one is at the pressing plant and will be out in a dozen of days, the others will be out later next year.
♪ I'll play in Berlin on 27, 30 December and12 January, Barcelona on 23 January and will then tour Mexico, Colombia and Ecuador until early April.

19 track album

24/12/2024

Tonight at 20h CET Syrphe at Colaboradio hosted by Freie radios Berlin-Brandenburg- 99.7FM in Potsdam, 88.4FM in Berlin and online https://fr-bb.org/
One hour of music from Uganda, Lebanon, Kenya, China, Colombia, Malaysia, Japan and Indonesia.

FR-BB: Stellungnahme zur Audio-Strategie der mabb Bild: Pi Radio Als Verein der Freien Radios Berlin und Brandenburg sind wir im nichtkommerziellen Lokalfunk Community Radios dezentral in unserer Region mit unterschiedlichen Perspektiven angesiedelt, die sich aus den jeweils lokalen Voraussetzungen....

23/12/2024

Coming soon on Syrphe !
Dora Bleu, Periklis Tsoukalas, Cedrik Fermont - The Dream Border (CD, digital).
Dora Bleu : voice, guitar, word skeletons, drawings.
Periklis Tsoukalas : medusa (baritone electric instrument based on the cümbüş), designed by himself in collaboration with Melike and Simge Güler and luthier Hüseyin Yıldız.
Cedrik Fermont : gongs and metallic percussions, computer, synthesizer.

Recorded by Stefano Tucci at Failsafe Editions in 2021.
Edited, mixed and mastered by Cedrik Fermont at Syrphe in 2024.
Sharon Tan : layout.

06/12/2024

It's Bandcamp Friday. No new release on my side but a new CD will be out soon and more next year.
Meanwhile, you can check all the past releases on Syrphe : https://syrphe.bandcamp.com/ and some of the mastering jobs I recently and less recently did this year and that you may be interested in, some are for a good cause :
- Heidrun Schramm & Nicolas Wiese https://nostalgiedelaboue.bandcamp.com/album/out-of-glass
- Kotra https://kotra.bandcamp.com/album/grit-light
- Muslimgauze https://ishallsinguntilmylandisfree.bandcamp.com/album/rhiza-coil-of-resin
- Jacob Audrey Taves https://honeyfarm.bandcamp.com/album/the-remaining-functionality-of-abandoned-states
- Kaunsel https://honeyfarm.bandcamp.com/album/pixel-geometry
- Jad Atoui, Jawad Nawfal & Sharif Sehnaoui https://rupturedthelabel.bandcamp.com/album/modern-individual
- Muslimgauze https://muslimgauze.bandcamp.com/album/maroon
- Flesh TV compilation (with Dave Philips, Jonáš Gruska, Merzbow, Colin Andrew Sheffield, Sukitoa o Namau, and more) https://fleshtv.world/album

And let's not forget https://vv-va.bandcamp.com/ from Lebanon.

٧٨-٧٧ is a home for elusive, left field, and heady electronic music. What started as a space to share experimental side projects and unreleased collaborations within an intimate circle of musicians in Beirut is organically transforming into a fledgling platform that releases peripheral, outcast,...

26/11/2024

Tonight at 20h, Syrphe at Colaboradio hosted by Freie radios Berlin-Brandenburg 88.4fm (Berlin), 90.7fm (Potsdam) and online at https://fr-bb.org/
from - the show will be uploaded on my Mixcloud later this week (I haven't done it in a while but that will really happen !) - https://www.mixcloud.com/Cdrk/stream/

Cdrk is on Mixcloud. Listen for free to their radio shows, DJ mix sets and Podcasts

22/10/2024

Today 19h-20h CEST, Syrphe at Colaboradio hosted by Freie Radios Berlin-Brandenburg.
88.4fm in Berlin, 90.7fm in Potsdam, and online https://fr-bb.org/
Filipino musician and curator Tengal will be there, there will be an interview and a lot of music from the Philippines, from noise to electroacoustic and electronica.
I'll also play music from Uzbekistan, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Morocco, Macau, Egypt/canada/Ukraine.

FR-BB: Stellungnahme zur Audio-Strategie der mabb Bild: Pi Radio Als Verein der Freien Radios Berlin und Brandenburg sind wir im nichtkommerziellen Lokalfunk Community Radios dezentral in unserer Region mit unterschiedlichen Perspektiven angesiedelt, die sich aus den jeweils lokalen Voraussetzungen....

16/10/2024

Space21 - a festival based in Slemani/Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan and label has recently published a compilation of live session we played during the festival in 2023.
Tracks by the artists and an ensemble with all of us :
Jad Atoui & Anthony Sahyoun (as NP, Lebanon), Bryar Ismael & Moe Ali (Iraqi Kurdistan & Iraq), Emmidio Vasquez (Cyprus/Dominican Republic), Khabat Abas, Hardi Kurda, Sharif Sehnaoui (Iraqi Kurdistan, Lebanon), Sherko Hama Salih & Hardi Kurda (Iraqi Kurdistan) and myself.

The compilation includes post-rock, free improvisation, sound art, and noise music.

If all goes well, I will go back to Iraq soon, in Baghdad this time to play, meet various improvisers, electronic, noise and sound artists and document a bit what is going on there, showing another side of the country that mainstream media tend to ignore.

7 track album

05/10/2024

4-10 November 2024 at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.
There will be several discussions and presentations in English and a concert night. Free access to the discussion panels, concerts : 13€/10€.
4. Always, Already There: Introduction by George Lewis, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
5. The Society of Black Composers Harald Kisiedu, Introduction by George Lewis
6. Decolonizing Electronics Leila Adu-Gilmore, Jessica Ekomane, Cedrik Fermont, Corie Rose Soumah, Christina Wheeler, Moderation: George Lewis
7. African Art Music Today Nyokabi Kariũki, Monthati Masebe, Njabulo Phungula, Moderation: Andile Khumalo
7. Decolonial Electronics (concerts) - International Contemporary Ensemble with Cedrik Fermont, Christina Wheeler, Satch Hoyt, Jessica Ekomane, Corie Rose Soumah
8. Interdiscipline Douglas R. Ewart, Anthony R. Green, Satch Hoyt, Nyokabi Kariũki, Elaine Mitchener, Moderation: George Lewis
8. Composing While Black, Berlin Edition International Contemporary Ensemble Always, Already There concerts : Alyssa Regent, Nyokabi Kariũki, Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson, Leila Adu-Gilmore, Corie Rose Soumah, Hannah Kendall, Andile Khumalo, Charles Uzor, Jessie Cox
9. New Modes of Curation Daniele Daude, Cedrik Fermont, Satch Hoyt, Elaine Mitchener, Moderation: George Lewis
9. Composing While Black I Jessica Ekomane, Anthony R. Green, Hannah Kendall, Monthati Masebe, Njabulo Phungula, Moderation: Jessie Cox
10. Composing While Black II Andile Khumalo, Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson, Alyssa Regent, Corie Rose Soumah, Charles Uzor, Moderation: Harald Kisiedu
10. The Wide-Open Mouth
Com Chor Berlin, conducted by Shelly Phillips, and International Contemporary Ensemble
Always, Already There
Music by : Elaine Mitchener, Njabulo Phungula, Fay Victor, Anthony R. Green, Monthati Masebe, Shelly Phillips

https://www.hkw.de/programme/always-already-there

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04/10/2024

Hello again !

Thanks for supporting https://syrphe.bandcamp.com/ today and all the other days.
A quick note to tell that I'm also taking care of ٧٨-٧٧ (VV-VA), a label that includes Lebanese and Palestinian artists from the Beirut scene, including my friend and collaborator Jawad Nawfal (Munma, Tasjiil Moujahed).

٧٨-٧٧ is a home for elusive, left field, and heady electronic music. What started as a space to share experimental side projects and unreleased collaborations within an intimate circle of musicians in Beirut is organically transforming into a fledgling platform that releases peripheral, outcast, and personal pieces or bundles. - https://vv-va.bandcamp.com/

٧٨-٧٧ is a home for elusive, left field, and heady electronic music. What started as a space to share experimental side projects and unreleased collaborations within an intimate circle of musicians in Beirut is organically transforming into a fledgling platform that releases peripheral, outcast,...

04/10/2024

Hi, today is Bandcamp Friday - nothing newly published but feel free to check our newest and old releases, from sound art to noise to electronica, artists from all over the place : Argentina, Germany, Lebanon, Iraqi Kurdistan, Myanmar, China, Indonesia, Uganda, the DRC, Ukraine, Algeria and gazillions more.
https://syrphe.bandcamp.com/
Have you ever heard post-industrial music from Iran and Romania ? Here you go : https://syrphe.bandcamp.com/album/kozmik-noize

I will write some more news in the coming weeks. I've been recording with various friends this year, so a few albums will see the light this and next year but I'm a bit too overwhelmed to be able to finish to edit some of them right now and must tell that I'm (again) not often in Berlin but I will be back soon.

8 track album

26/09/2024

Sarmen Almond, Klaus Janek, Cedrik Fermont, free improvised music in Dresden, Germany.
Friday, September 27th, 2024. 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Sarmen Almond is a Mexican voice experimenter, singer, electroacoustic musician and improviser.

Klaus Janek is a double bassist, composer and researcher from Bolzano/Italy, who moved to Berlin in the mid-90s. His solo and collaborative works were released in 2019 on an LP edition consisting of 5 albums entitled “almenrauschen”.

Cedrik Fermont is a Belgian-Congolese composer, musician, mastering engineer, author, radio presenter (Radio Staalplaat, Colaboradio), concert promoter, independent researcher and label manager (at Syrphe) working in the field of noise, electronic and experimental music since 1989.

Klaus Janek ist ein Kontrabassist, Komponist und Forscher aus Bozen/Italien, zog Mitte der 90er Jahre nach Berlin. Seine Solo- und Gemeinschaftswerke wurden 2019 auf einer LP-Edition, bestehend aus 5 Alben, mit dem Titel “almenrauschen” veröffentlicht.

23/09/2024

Hi Berlin and Dresden,
We will soon be back and we'll play at Zorrow this Wednesday 25, then Dresden on the 27th (with Klaus Janek - https://hanse3.de/ ) and Berlin again on the 28th (Ira Hadžić & Cedrik Fermont (duo), Sarmen Almond (solo) at KM28 - https://www.facebook.com/events/1153675205729593/ ).
All info here : http://syrphe.com/events_cdrk.html

18/09/2024

Thanks to everyone who attended our concerts in Darmstadt, Liège and the many old friends in Brussels ! Next step :
21 September, Castellana Grotte, Italy.
Sarmen Almond and I will play an music concert for voice, electronics and objets.
Jugodefatuo and Tashi will perform as well.
After that, we'll head to Venice to play on the 22nd, send me a mail if you want to come.
And we'll play a few more gigs in Berlin and Dresden after that.

13/09/2024

Mensen, les gens !
Sarmen Almond en moi/en ik, zullen in Brussel spelen/allons jouer à Bruxelles - 17 Septembre.
Si vous voulez assister au concert, les réservations sont obligatoires, envoyez-moi un message en privé afin de recevoir les instructions.
Als jullie het concert zien, is reserveren verplicht, een privébericht sturen om instructies te ontvangen.
People in Belgium, we will play a concert in Brussels on the 17th, if you want to attend, please, send me a private message, reservations are mandatory.

Mercike !