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CM 005LP
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Collapsing Market host this captivating set of quixotic ambient scenes realized by Ssaliva, a Belgian electronic musician with sterling form for Leaving Records, Ekster, Vlek, and Purple Tape Pedigree (PTP), among others. Pulling together blink-and-miss material from his Bandcamp along with previously unheard works, WYIN coherently highlights a broader period of work than any of Ssaliva's other releases, framing a probing and adventurous spirit at work in its element; modern digital ambient composition. Coming off the back of Collapsing Market's reissue of Tschashm-e-Del, an archival radio play of Persian Classical music conducted by the label's grandfather, Morteza Hannaneh, their first Ssaliva entry keeps the label outlook as mutable as ever with a natural focus on atmosphere and feelings connoting existential angst and solitary psychedelia. It's a product of its contemporary environment, which, more than ever, is bleakly electronic and at the mercy of rabid socio-economics, as symbolized in sleeve's illustration of a financial trader's open palm, contrasting with the front cover's zoomed-in image of blood-spattered textures. In six parts he just about keeps his head above the waves and acres of negative space, firstly buoyed by choral voices in "Danger Came Smiling", then against the discordant fulgurite of "Hell/Home", which both make the sublime timbral relief of a that much more effective, in the same way that the hyperreal, acrid sensation of "For All I Care", the crystalline dimensions of "2drown" and the spiraling, elusive complexity of "B" reflect and express the modern world with an intangible accuracy perhaps best compared to Arca. Vinyl master and lacquer cut by Helmut Erler at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin. Edition of 300.
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EKSTER 012LP
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We Never Happened is the second release from Ssaliva on Ekster. Ssaliva (François Boulanger) works under the aliases Cupp Cave and Kingfisherg. "I am a vessel. A muffled mass. A bulk. Extent. A womb. I move. So I am neither here nor there. Always somewhere in between. To give substance to this frame, I carve out a piece of me. Sometimes a shape, sometimes a form. Into this space I pour the siege of me: words, pictures, you. So we can become me. Viscosity and temperature dictate the time it takes. When it is done, I break the mold I am. I take the cast inside and place it by the others. Choose one and take it home." 180 gram vinyl packed in a pantone printed outer sleeve with drawing by Charles-Henry Sommelette; Comes with printed inner-sleeves and silk screened plastic over-sleeve.
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VLEK 009EP
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Ssaliva has been very active lately with releases on Vlek and Ramp as Cupp Cave. This is Ssaliva's second EP on Vlek. Eight tracks of a vibe that's been dubbed by XLR8R as "soaked in codeine and smoked to the gills." The sleeve was made on a full analog letterpress with original artwork by Dimitri Runkkari (responsible for the critically-acclaimed first Ssaliva cover). Pressed on bright pink vinyl in a limited edition.
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