Itsï Ramirez // New Animals CD
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This CD was released in January 2024 by experimental musician Itsï Ramirez from Chicago, USA, on No Rent, an experimental/noise label based in Pennsylvania, in a limited edition of 1 copies.
Contains 5 experimental ambient ~ collage drone songs. Digipak, shrink specification.
Mastered by Glyn Maier.
Below, experimental musiciansCommentary by Bret Schneider.
"In the decadence of electronic music and its consequent race to mystify the mind and aggrandize the senses, it's easy to forget one of its most beautiful aspects: mystification. One of the reasons we love the imposition of electronics on music is because there's something naked about electronics. Almost shamelessly. The divine tonalities are brought to earth and dissected. What is generally considered the "golden age" of electronic music was rather labor-intensive compared to today, more of an educational reference than music for the perfect soul. As such, this dissecting table music often shows scars, either shyly or proudly, and reflects the mesmerizing calmness of the doctor. But what if our attempts to understand our subject matter, music, were also playful? What if there was brightness and joy in the efforts of mad scientists to get to the bottom of musical phenomena? What if, through a process of liberation, we were able to accept that the object is, has been, and never will be anything more than fleeting ephemerality? If the creators of the 21st century do not seek to understand "sound" further, but rather realize that "sound" is a redefined illusion, an evocation that will never be understood, but is loved all the more. What if you already understand? What if our attempts to release were just a swirling rip through the ether of our own creation? What would that music sound like?
Itsï Ramirez uses the latest spectral analysis tools to address this gay post-science of sound. The tones are neatly divided into bottles and bands, deconstructed, separated, scattered into the midnight air, flitting about like moths, flying toward the light in a post-transformational frenzy. Ramirez divides the tone into a cloud of lepidoptera in one introspective gesture of curiosity. Setting himself apart from the horde of excessive technical pedigree and unconvincing musical pretentiousness, Ramirez pursues lightness, ephemerality, and ease. Ramirez pursues lightness and luminous diffusion. Such a bright tonality, free from melancholy, flies to the highest altitudes of the ear canal, tickles the nerve receptors, and a new swan soars over the river of synapses. Elusive animals! Free and uncaptured. But at the same time, she's probably in love with the person she's chasing. It is also anxious and short-lived. Because we are too good at catching, domesticating, dissecting, and exhibiting. The moment you try to grab it, it breaks into pieces, sparkles, and if you're lucky, it might leave an afterimage of something that only existed for a moment. And it makes me think about what a moment is.
These new, unsettling animals are light and lively, as if they were made for escape. Sound: Like a Pandora's box of things we can never grasp, but swirl around our erratic behavior. Could this phenomenon be tamed by a domesticated animal whose world is closed off through repeated techniques? And don't we just love chasing down runaway demons! Animals too gaseous to be kept in cages. It's a delicate creature. But don't be fooled. Delicate does not mean fragility. Nay, on the contrary, a certain individuality, strong enough to draw freely the arabesques that shimmer in the rippling air, knowing the ephemerality of the secrets of tonality, cannot and need not stand. It would be better to call it a wave running away! "
Labels and other worksplease use this form. ///Click here to see more No Rent Records releases available at Tobira.
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Ask us for digital files. CDr in digipack. Edition of 100.
tracklist:
- Josephine 03:36
- A Wink; A Blemish 03:56
- Lepidoptera 07:16
- Bisou 04:27
- Mouthpool 16:00
Text excerpt by No Rent Records:
"[...] Itsi Ramirez takes up this gay post-science of sound, with her modern spectral analysis tools, a just-born-yet dying breed of infant scientists dancing with their psychoacoustic scalpels, slicing at the air & shaping evanescent acoustic citadels. Tonality separated neatly into bins & bands, decomposed, segregated, splayed out for all to hear in the midnight air, flittering like moths, subject of the light they fly towards in post-transformation frenzy. With one introspective gesture of curiosity, Ramirez divides the tone into a swarming cloud of lepidoptera, not a single one of which is a singular animal. Distinguishing itself from the decaying glut of overwrought technical pedigree & cavalcades of unconvincing musical affectations, Ramirez pursues the light, the ephemeral, the easy. It is lightness, manifest in radiant diffusion. Such bright tonality — unfettered from gloom — that flits through the highest altitudes of your ear canal, tickling the neuroreceptors, new swans dancing upon the river of your synapses [...]"
Artist: Itsï Ramirez
Label: No Rent Records
This CD was released in January 2024 by experimental musician Itsï Ramirez from Chicago, USA, on No Rent, an experimental/noise label based in Pennsylvania, in a limited edition of 1 copies.
Contains 5 experimental ambient ~ collage drone songs. Digipak, shrink specification.
Mastered by Glyn Maier.
Below, experimental musiciansCommentary by Bret Schneider.
"In the decadence of electronic music and its consequent race to mystify the mind and aggrandize the senses, it's easy to forget one of its most beautiful aspects: mystification. One of the reasons we love the imposition of electronics on music is because there's something naked about electronics. Almost shamelessly. The divine tonalities are brought to earth and dissected. What is generally considered the "golden age" of electronic music was rather labor-intensive compared to today, more of an educational reference than music for the perfect soul. As such, this dissecting table music often shows scars, either shyly or proudly, and reflects the mesmerizing calmness of the doctor. But what if our attempts to understand our subject matter, music, were also playful? What if there was brightness and joy in the efforts of mad scientists to get to the bottom of musical phenomena? What if, through a process of liberation, we were able to accept that the object is, has been, and never will be anything more than fleeting ephemerality? If the creators of the 21st century do not seek to understand "sound" further, but rather realize that "sound" is a redefined illusion, an evocation that will never be understood, but is loved all the more. What if you already understand? What if our attempts to release were just a swirling rip through the ether of our own creation? What would that music sound like?
Itsï Ramirez uses the latest spectral analysis tools to address this gay post-science of sound. The tones are neatly divided into bottles and bands, deconstructed, separated, scattered into the midnight air, flitting about like moths, flying toward the light in a post-transformational frenzy. Ramirez divides the tone into a cloud of lepidoptera in one introspective gesture of curiosity. Setting himself apart from the horde of excessive technical pedigree and unconvincing musical pretentiousness, Ramirez pursues lightness, ephemerality, and ease. Ramirez pursues lightness and luminous diffusion. Such a bright tonality, free from melancholy, flies to the highest altitudes of the ear canal, tickles the nerve receptors, and a new swan soars over the river of synapses. Elusive animals! Free and uncaptured. But at the same time, she's probably in love with the person she's chasing. It is also anxious and short-lived. Because we are too good at catching, domesticating, dissecting, and exhibiting. The moment you try to grab it, it breaks into pieces, sparkles, and if you're lucky, it might leave an afterimage of something that only existed for a moment. And it makes me think about what a moment is.
These new, unsettling animals are light and lively, as if they were made for escape. Sound: Like a Pandora's box of things we can never grasp, but swirl around our erratic behavior. Could this phenomenon be tamed by a domesticated animal whose world is closed off through repeated techniques? And don't we just love chasing down runaway demons! Animals too gaseous to be kept in cages. It's a delicate creature. But don't be fooled. Delicate does not mean fragility. Nay, on the contrary, a certain individuality, strong enough to draw freely the arabesques that shimmer in the rippling air, knowing the ephemerality of the secrets of tonality, cannot and need not stand. It would be better to call it a wave running away! "
Labels and other worksplease use this form. ///Click here to see more No Rent Records releases available at Tobira.
-------------------------------------
Ask us for digital files. CDr in digipack. Edition of 100.
tracklist:
- Josephine 03:36
- A Wink; A Blemish 03:56
- Lepidoptera 07:16
- Bisou 04:27
- Mouthpool 16:00
Text excerpt by No Rent Records:
"[...] Itsi Ramirez takes up this gay post-science of sound, with her modern spectral analysis tools, a just-born-yet dying breed of infant scientists dancing with their psychoacoustic scalpels, slicing at the air & shaping evanescent acoustic citadels. Tonality separated neatly into bins & bands, decomposed, segregated, splayed out for all to hear in the midnight air, flittering like moths, subject of the light they fly towards in post-transformation frenzy. With one introspective gesture of curiosity, Ramirez divides the tone into a swarming cloud of lepidoptera, not a single one of which is a singular animal. Distinguishing itself from the decaying glut of overwrought technical pedigree & cavalcades of unconvincing musical affectations, Ramirez pursues the light, the ephemeral, the easy. It is lightness, manifest in radiant diffusion. Such bright tonality — unfettered from gloom — that flits through the highest altitudes of your ear canal, tickling the neuroreceptors, new swans dancing upon the river of your synapses [...]"
Artist: Itsï Ramirez
Label: No Rent Records
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