STROOM

23/07/2024

Imagine a young wild little horse, a foal, playing and jumping in a field. A spirit of nature, a new born bliss.

Imagine this is the second single of a new Merope album that is coming later this year.

🪶

16/07/2024

OUT!

emer - Vasarė (ft Ugnė Uma)
emer - Love Can Be So Easy (ft Ugnė Uma)
STRDIG-098

https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/vasar-love-can-be-so-easy
https://open.spotify.com/album/7jmHWYxRBTkQsYMjxVHswo?si=1wnIaERWS3GKjHEZE39zwA

Idleness of Lithuanian summer, pleasure and light, skin on skin. An ode to ‘Vasarė’ - girl named Summer.
Accompanied by ‘Love Can Be So Easy’: exploring reflections of warmth and heat inside, again, again. Evening light soaks the heart into honey colored syrup. The flux makes you believe that all of it can be so easy, if you wish.

Music written, produced, and mixed by emer

Lyrics and vocals written and performed by Ugnė Uma

Artwork by Saulė Gerikaitė

16/07/2024

OUT!

emer - Vasarė (ft Ugnė Uma)
emer - Love Can Be So Easy (ft Ugnė Uma)
STRDIG-098

https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/vasar-love-can-be-so-easy
https://open.spotify.com/album/7jmHWYxRBTkQsYMjxVHswo?si=1wnIaERWS3GKjHEZE39zwA

Idleness of Lithuanian summer, pleasure and light, skin on skin. An ode to ‘Vasarė’ - girl named Summer.
Accompanied by ‘Love Can Be So Easy’: exploring reflections of warmth and heat inside, again, again. Evening light soaks the heart into honey colored syrup. The flux makes you believe that all of it can be so easy, if you wish.

2 track album

10/07/2024

Messages from the physical warehouse:

🚨:
〰️ CJ BOLLAND - CAMARGUE / TOKYO 〰️
Last copies available! sold out at distribution also.
https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/camargue-tokyo

Pre-order:
ANTON FRIISGAARD - Teratai Åkande
https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/teratai-kande

Recent releases:
PABLO'S EYE - The light was sharp, our eyes were open
https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/the-light-was-sharp-our-eyes-were-open
TEMIR ALCY - TEMIR ALCY
https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/temir-alcy
SISSI RADA - APORIA
https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/aporia
W.A.T. - A LETTER TO MY LOVE
https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/a-letter-to-my-love

Final copies:
DARK ARTS - REFLECTIONS IN A REAR VIEW MIRROR
https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/reflections-in-a-rear-view-mirror
MEROPE - SALOS
https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/salos
MEROPE - NAKTES
https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/nakt-s
PATRICK SELINGER - BUSINESSMAN
https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/businessmen
Songs Of Earth And Sky / Jola Dool / Low Flight / The Conference Of Snakes
https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/songs-of-earth-and-sky-jola-dool-low-flight-the-conference-of-snakes
COLD / JAMES BERNARD - STROBE LIGHT NETWORK / LAPIS LAZULI
https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/strobe-light-network-lapis-lazuli
TARAS BULBA - VENIR LE TEMPS
https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/venier-le-temps
TRii GROUP - INTEREST IN MUSIC
https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/interest-in-music
VAZZ - CLOUD OVER MAROMA
https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/cloud-over-maroma
BETTY ARDEN / SASKIA - FUNNY BELLS / SLOOPY
https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/funny-bells-sloopy
HIELE KINSELLA - THIRD SUMMER OF LOVE
https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-summer-of-love
SMALTS / HUMAN FLESH - PERIODICITEIT / EN DE STAD
https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/periodiciteit-en-de-stad

X

05/07/2024

Big one in Glasgow tonight!!

02/07/2024

OUT!!

CJ BOLLAND - CAMARGUE / TOKYO
STR12-084

https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/camargue-tokyo
https://open.spotify.com/album/1WC5LAnf6HogHZfT8yDCev?si=77LMN5FJT_m0f5-nlegETQ
750 copies (Sold out at distro)

1992 was a wild year. For planet earth. For humanity. People desired for escapism, and some producers just had the jive they yearned for. Endless kick drum excitement under a roof of strings. Up there in clap heaven, the chords fly candid, and all that hi-hat suspense fashions bliss. These dancers met an angel, circulating eternally towards the strobe. Oh, how they wished all that trance never ends in 1993, when CJ Bolland, one of the most influential and successful producers Belgium created in the nineties, dropped “Camargue”. An instant trance techno classic. Atemporal, abnormal, amoral. Raved together with British producer Cisco Ferreira for Belgium’s finest R&S records. Both worked on many sensual club music artworks together. Like “Tokyo”, the B-Site with an A-Note. Tripping fast, more hi-hat ecstasy, techno kicks, somewhere Goa is in there. Those where the 1990ees. Those days in fast pace. Blissed with trance of techno glam.

A.
Written & produced by CJ Bolland & Cisco Ferreira
recorded at Techno Island ,Gent
* original version

B.
Written & produced by CJ Bolland & Cisco Ferreira
recorded at Techno Island ,Gent
* previously unreleased

Illustration by LUCIEN
Typography by Nana Esi
Text by M.L.
Selection by: Ziggy Devriendt

25/06/2024

‘Teratai Åkande’ explores electronic techniques transforming sounds, melodies, and rhythms from balinese gamelan. It’s an interaction and synthesis of acoustic and electronic expressions, exploring an imagined territory between two otherwise separate cultural worlds.

On ‘Teratai Åkande’ the Copenhagen-based producer and electronic musician Anton Friisgaard travels new paths, as he explores gamelan music from his own artistic perspective in close collaboration with Balinese musicians, afliated with Ubud’s acclaimed Gamelan scene.
After experiencing a concert with the Gamelan ensemble ‘Gamelan Salukat’ at Roskilde Festival in 2018, Friisgaard became inspired to contact Dewa Alit from the ensemble. With the aim of bringing forth a unique expression through the meeting of two distinct musical traditions, Friisgaard traveled to Ubud, Bali to record, compose and improvise in close collaboration with artists from the esteemed Gamelan scene in Ubud. The result is ‘Teratai Åkande’, which features Pande Made Gangga Sentana, I Nyoman Suwida, Dewa Badukz, Suryana Putra and Pande Made Gangga of Gamelan Salukat.

Anton Friisgaard (fka Hviledag) is an electronic producer and musician based in Copenhagen. Known primarily for his experimental work with tape loops and ambient soundscapes, he’s become an established figure both in the Danish music scene as well as internationally.

18/06/2024

🚨 Out today!!

wist - eleventh hour
STRDIG-086

https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/eleventh-hour
https://open.spotify.com/album/6SWYqgFA7ijz5S9ADfSbNS?si=QthSK_9sS8umT3BI7QDH-Q

One of the most beautiful albums that came out of nowhere (from my pov) or as boomkat says it:

“évia and tibslc join forces on the diaristic ‘Eleventh Hour’, welding emotionally-charged guitar jams, homespun piano improvisations and haunted, processed chorals to ferric environmental recordings and sunny new age synth twinkles. RIYL claire rousay, Ulla, Tenniscoats or The Humble Bee.”

a glance through a window mirrors the passing day
distortions fade between an open breeze
empty shadows fold over
an essence without end

temporarily sharing a small apartment, we wrote this album during the autumn of last year, while also spending a lot of time outside, in parks, walking around... we felt a stillness in the atmosphere, a gentle reflection.
credits
released June 18, 2024

wist is èvia and tibslc

Recorded over two weeks in Berlin, September 2023.

emery skirt’ noise sample by Anna Lily
Artwork by Kobayashi Chisei
Mastered by Mathieu Savenay

17/06/2024

"Enigmatic Brussels collective Pablo’s Eye reappear with a poetic transition between desert blues, ambient vignettes, adult contemporary, and machine driven hustle on a new LP for Stroom, RIYL This Mortal Coil, To Rococo Rot, Barbara Morgenstern, Daniel Lanois, classic 4AD.

Elusive as a dream, the 4th Pablo’s Eye release on Stroom also appears to be their first original suite for the label after a series of retrospective compilations. ‘The light was sharp, our eyes were open’ was composed, recorded and produced in the group’s native Brussels in 2023, and revolves a line-up familiar to their early Stroom sides that spanned some 30 years of work between a 1989 debut and their 2018-2019 release, here wrapping etheric textures and midnight whimsy around shimmering chorus-pedal slide guitar set to Richard Skinner’s texts, with the addition of Noor-e-Sahar Ali and Ludwig Lepauw lending fresh spice to their current formulation.

In the band’s own words, their music “is a temporary atmosphere, like a taste or a dream…”, and here limns its outlook with a passage from an essay. For 40 minutes that feel twice as long due the richness of mise-en-scene and movement across its 14 parts - the album involves its user in a sort of neo-noir narrative where the track titles are as much cues as the literal narration and evocative music. Read any way, they weave us into a cinéma pour l'oreille that suggests, not tells, and leaves lots to the imagination between their Vini reilly-esque intro and panoramic Hollywood outro, via pieces recalling To Rococo Rot’s art-pop in ‘Red light returning’, a widescreen centrepiece ‘The dog days are long gone’, and reverberating drama of ‘Locked Away’ like some missing piece of the 4AD puzzle."
- Boomkat.com

14 track album

06/06/2024

Big one tonight in LDN!

Rumor has it a handfull copies of Planet Inc. will be available.

💚💙

05/06/2024

OUT 🌐

PABLO’S EYE - THE LIGHT WAS SHARP, OUR EYES WERE OPEN
STRLP-082

https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/the-light-was-sharp-our-eyes-were-open

A group of friends go sailing and one disappears. The others start searching for her. But it gradually becomes apparent that she won’t be found. So the friends return home one by one. Only the missing girl’s lover and her best friend remain.They have begun an affair. As the lovers come together the girl’s disappearance is all but forgotten.

From Michelangelo Antonioni — “Auteur of eerie angst”
(L’Avventura) by Richard Skinner from Vade Mecum Essays,
Reviews & Interviews (Zero books, 2015).

Pablo’s Eye are: Marie Mandi, Luc Laret, Thierry Royo, Richard
Skinner and Axel Libeert.
Guests: Noor-e-Sehar Ali (voice and text on A7), Ludwig Lapauw
(flute on B6).
Composed, recorded & produced at Soundscube, Brussels in 2023.
Texts, titles and poems by Richard Skinner except tracks A7 & B1.

Mastering by Uwe Teichert.
Inserted photo of Mirjam van den Akker by Patrick Robyn.
Artwork & Graphic Design by Nana Esi, design assistance by Aaron
David Neubauer.
Pablo’s Eye are extremely grateful to Ziggy Devriendt.
Special thanks to Noore.
Dedicated to all of you and in particular to Suzanne Rose.
Contact: [email protected] You can find Pablo’s Eye on Instagram & pabloseye.weebly.com
More than anything, Pablo’s Eye is a temporary atmosphere, like a taste or a dream...

05/06/2024

OUT 🌐

PABLO'S EYE - THE LIGHT WAS SHARP, OUR EYES WERE OPEN
STRLP-082

https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/the-light-was-sharp-our-eyes-were-open

A group of friends go sailing and one disappears. The others start searching for her. But it gradually becomes apparent that she won’t be found. So the friends return home one by one. Only the missing girl’s lover and her best friend remain.They have begun an affair. As the lovers come together the girl’s disappearance is all but forgotten.

From Michelangelo Antonioni — “Auteur of eerie angst”
(L’Avventura) by Richard Skinner from Vade Mecum Essays,
Reviews & Interviews (Zero books, 2015).

Pablo’s Eye are: Marie Mandi, Luc Laret, Thierry Royo, Richard
Skinner and Axel Libeert.
Guests: Noor-e-Sehar Ali (voice and text on A7), Ludwig Lapauw
(flute on B6).
Composed, recorded & produced at Soundscube, Brussels in 2023.
Texts, titles and poems by Richard Skinner except tracks A7 & B1.

Mastering by Uwe Teichert.
Inserted photo of Mirjam van den Akker by Patrick Robyn.
Artwork & Graphic Design by Nana Esi, design assistance by Aaron
David Neubauer.
Pablo’s Eye are extremely grateful to Ziggy Devriendt.
Special thanks to Noore.
Dedicated to all of you and in particular to Suzanne Rose.
Contact: [email protected] You can find Pablo’s Eye on Instagram & pabloseye.weebly.com
More than anything, Pablo’s Eye is a temporary atmosphere, like a taste or a dream...

14 track album

28/05/2024

💔

Never again
And let me raise my glass to feeling better
Again
Cause I’m not who I want to be when you’re in front of me
And please don’t make it harder than it has to be
The end
Of endless nights where you keep chasing after me
Pretend
Like nothing happened can’t you see it’s bothering me
You sit and wait
’Til I fall asleep

Milan W. - The Healing.

Out on all platforms.

💔

25/05/2024

Pre-order!

CJ BOLLAND - CAMARGUE / TOKYO
STR12-084

1992 was a wild year. For planet earth. For humanity. People desired for escapism, and some producers just had the jive they yearned for. Endless kick drum excitement under a roof of strings. Up there in clap heaven, the chords fly candid, and all that hi-hat suspense fashions bliss. These dancers met an angel, circulating eternally towards the strobe. Oh, how they wished all that trance never ends in 1993, when CJ Bolland, one of the most influential and successful producers Belgium created in the nineties, dropped “Camargue”. An instant trance techno classic. Atemporal, abnormal, amoral. Raved together with British producer Cisco Ferreira for Belgium’s finest R&S records. Both worked on many sensual club music artworks together. Like “Tokyo”, the B-Site with an A-Note. Tripping fast, more hi-hat ecstasy, techno kicks, somewhere Goa is in there. Those where the 1990ees. Those days in fast pace. Blissed with trance of techno glam.

releases July 8, 2024

A.
Written & produced by CJ Bolland & Cisco Ferreira
recorded at Techno Island ,Gent
* original version

B.
Written & produced by CJ Bolland & Cisco Ferreira
recorded at Techno Island ,Gent
* previously unreleased

Illustration by LUCIEN
Typography by Nana Esi
Text by M.L.
Selection by: Ziggy Devriendt

2 track album

21/05/2024

Merope - Aglala

A new song (/ possible single for a forthcoming album?) by my fav Lithuanian / Belgian group out on all / most platforms!

15/05/2024

👀👀👀

CJ Bolland & Nosedrip will be doing an all nighter during Dekmantel this year...

+

Big CJ announcement on friday

x

14/05/2024

Pablo's Eye' 'The adventure', the second single of '
The light was sharp, our eyes were open' is floating around!

The album will be out, worldwide, June 4th!

14 track album

07/05/2024

OUT, this amazing debut album by Temir Alcy

Temir Alcy - S/T
STRCAS-089

https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/temir-alcy
https://open.spotify.com/album/3xBGUGfJaHA3M9vpxqVO0t?si=kSiJfkvNTP2O3bpbeqxo_A

Temir Alcy (producer Enir Da / co-founder of Dali Muru & The Polyphonic Swarm and multi-instrumentalist Charles Lmx) is at the junction of spherical textures of acoustic clouds and shapeshifting forms of immersive electronic percussive patterns.

- With the collaboration of Michael Holland (Ono Telsa), Eleni Poulou (Keyboardist/vocalist in The Fall / Organza Ray) and Elen Huynh (Choses Contraires) on "Lorsque le jour pleure"
- Spoken Words by Elen Huynh on "Per Quanto"

Mixing: Enir Da
Design and Layout by DTR Durinck
Printed by Risiko Press

30/04/2024

'a glance through a window mirrors the passing day
distortions fade between an open breeze
empty shadows fold over
an essence without end'

🚨 wist - eleventh hour 🚨
STRDIG-086
https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/eleventh-hour

"temporarily sharing a small apartment, we wrote this album during autumn of last year, whilst also spending a lot of time outside, in parks, walking around... we felt a stillness in the atmosphere, a gentle reflection."

releases June 18, 2024

wist is èvia and tibslc
recorded over two weeks in berlin, september 2023.
artwork by kobayashi chisei
emery skirt noise sample from anna lily

30/04/2024

'a glance through a window mirrors the passing day
distortions fade between an open breeze
empty shadows fold over
an essence without end'

wist - eleventh hour
STRDIG-086
https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/eleventh-hour

"temporarily sharing a small apartment, we wrote this album during autumn of last year, whilst also spending a lot of time outside, in parks, walking around... we felt a stillness in the atmosphere, a gentle reflection."

releases June 18, 2024

wist is èvia and tibslc
recorded over two weeks in berlin, september 2023.
artwork by kobayashi chisei
emery skirt noise sample from anna lily

25/04/2024

Sissi Rada will take over NTS this afternoon w' a mix of influences of 'Aporia'.

x

23/04/2024

"We began as an intimate gathering of friends and lovers in the thermal baths of Budapest."

So, just putting out here that, against popular believe, 'Murmur Of The Bath Spirits' was actually a full new album by Dali Muru & the Polyphonic Swarm - FITH, just packaged in a strange way by calling it an audiobook. The person who came up with that idea got fired a couple of months ago and now we are kind of relaunching it (with individual tracks being available online), partly in response of the coming release by Temir Alcy!

https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/murmur-of-the-bath-spirits
https://open.spotify.com/album/5ttoBBe67ssKtPZlSIFLLh?si=50-ZDHYGQDOalkJ7sB6uHQ

"The sound of prehistoric synth lines and jew harps morphed
into amplified galloping hooves. This is all I could do to make
the movie about the al-gayb, the unseen, about the hum—it’s a
road movie at best and a tepid horror at worst (if you define the
horror genre by twists and turns, that is). The nuts and bolts of
the motor that push the narrative forward, as if ej*******ng the
protagonist into the unknown, screeching toward some kind of
break in the action, some solace under the dappled leaves of an
eucalyptus tree. It’s worse than the fragments of a Daphne de
Maurier screenplay, for even within these fragments, you can
find clues, preludes to the mystery solved, sung in chords of
fuzzy synth lines.
"

16/04/2024

Happy to announce a new tape by the instrumental section of Dali Muru & The Polyphonic Swarm!

TEMIR ALCY - TEMIR ALCY
STRCAS-089

Ltd to 200 copies
https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/temir-alcy

Temir Alcy (producer Enir Da - Dali Muru & The Polyphonic Swarm and multi-instrumentalist Charles Lmx) is at the junction of spherical textures of acoustic clouds and shapeshifting forms of immersive electronic percussive patterns.
By intertwining etherionic atmospheres and organic moods to magnetic and hypnotic rhythms, Temir Alcy explores the mysteries of the future and the unknown through a journey of sensory trance, where whispers and melodies of voices strike a vivid contrast between emotions’ fragility and sound’s solidity enhanced by a downtempo, leftfield and erratic kraut’s feel."

releases May 7, 2024

- With the collaboration of Michael Holland (Ono Telsa), Eleni Poulou (Keyboardist/vocalist in The Fall / Organza Ray) and Elen Huynh (Choses Contraires) on "Lorsque le jour pleure"
- Spoken Words by Elen Huynh on "Per Quanto"

Mixing: Enir Da
Design and Layout by DTR Durinck
Printed by Risiko Press

16/04/2024

Happy to announce a new tape by the instrumental section of Dali Muru & The Polyphonic Swarm!

TEMIR ALCY - TEMIR ALCY
STRCAS-089

Ltd to 200 copies
https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/temir-alcy

Temir Alcy (producer Enir Da - Dali Muru & The Polyphonic Swarm and multi-instrumentalist Charles Lmx) is at the junction of spherical textures of acoustic clouds and shapeshifting forms of immersive electronic percussive patterns.
By intertwining etherionic atmospheres and organic moods to magnetic and hypnotic rhythms, Temir Alcy explores the mysteries of the future and the unknown through a journey of sensory trance, where whispers and melodies of voices strike a vivid contrast between emotions’ fragility and sound’s solidity enhanced by a downtempo, leftfield and erratic kraut’s feel."

releases May 7, 2024

- With the collaboration of Michael Holland (Ono Telsa), Eleni Poulou (Keyboardist/vocalist in The Fall / Organza Ray) and Elen Huynh (Choses Contraires) on "Lorsque le jour pleure"
- Spoken Words by Elen Huynh on "Per Quanto"

Mixing: Enir Da
Design and Layout by DTR Durinck
Printed by Risiko Press

9 track album

09/04/2024

Out!

🇬🇷 SISSI RADA - APORIA 🇬🇷
STRLP-080

https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/aporia
https://open.spotify.com/album/146WtM1PzVZIIFS8xRxeoN?si=38gKMBFvQPCXOuyUC4K7TQ

Roland Barthes, in his 1982 book, Structuralism And After, suggests that a diary, instead of presenting its writer with the question: “ Who Am I?’’ , actually declares a far more droll question: “ Am I?”.
It is this question, this unusual dry amusement that is provoked by the absurd habit of keeping notes, setting milestones and authorizing canons in a process such as human life - that in reality is based on the randomness of nature- that harpist, composer and singer - songwriter Sissi Makropoulou also known as Sissi Rada, encapsulates in the title of her new album, “Aporia” a greek word that could be translated as ‘wonder’. And it is this exact process, this ‘’ritual de lo habitual’’ that manifests inconspicuously throughout the ten beautiful songs that Sissi offers in this album.
Her lyrics, nine out of ten in her native greek language, are humble manifestations of the miracle of life, the troubles of love, the thoughts that span through a human mind while performing simple tasks, educated by her love and natural inclination to poetry, read like small vignettes, or marginalia notes on a diary that is of constant flux.
Recorded, mixed and produced by Sissi alone, in her Athens’ home, using a spartan but powerful instrumentation of harp, a Prophet synthesizer, and first and foremost her intimate and enchanting voice,
‘Aporia’ stands out with its simplicity and familiarity, like a page out of a diary, shared with a blush and a witty smile.

Written, performed, recorded, produced and mixed by Sissi Makropoulou
Mastered by Mathieu Savenay
Graphic design by Victor Verhelst

Thank you: Michalis, Bernd, Maria- Christina, Charis, my cuz, Nikolió, Pantelis, some specific greek islands, my studio window and of course Dimitris Papadatos- the most beautiful song I have ever heard.
To you Δ.