In this episode of Artefacts, we explore power electronics and industrial noise by trans artists, revealing how extreme sound can express rage, grief, solidarity, and care.

Mother Mary – Body & Blood

Christian iconography and sacred music are fractured through harsh noise to confront guilt, faith, and trans experience.

https://tshnproductions.bandcamp.com/album/body-blood

Dreamcrusher – Music Makes Me High (Live at Roulette Intermedium)

A visceral live recording capturing Dreamcrusher’s confrontational, immersive performances and their drive toward connection through intensity.

https://dreamcrusher.bandcamp.com/album/music-makes-me-high-live-at-roulette-intermedium

Distraxi & Blockcloudsummoner – Sickening

A collaborative noise release balancing distortion, voice, and abrupt form to explore isolation, gender tension, and transformation.

https://distraxi.bandcamp.com/album/sickening

GITB – A Queer And Present Rage

Harsh noise and raw vocals collide as genderisthebastard confronts contemporary homophobia with clarity, anger, and urgency.

https://eggytapes.bandcamp.com/album/a-queer-and-present-rage

Beli Yo’il – “Gasping For Air Underneath The Flayed Static”

An excerpt from Trans of Noise Compilation No.1, showcasing noise as a tool for catharsis, empathy, and collective presence.

https://transofnoise.bandcamp.com/track/gasping-for-air-underneath-the-flayed-static

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Artefacts: AD Field Recordings

Welcome to Artefacts – your quick guide to recent ambient and drone releases. This episode explores works grounded in the art of field recording.

Mark Vernon – Magneto Mori: Brussels

Field recordings, speech, and tape noise merge into a meditation on memory, decay, and the beauty of imperfection.

🔗 flamingpines.bandcamp.com/album/magneto-mori-brussels

animal visions – animal visions

An intercontinental collage of cicadas, conversation, and domestic intimacy that bridges Liverpool and San Diego.

🔗 dailyrituals.bandcamp.com/album/animal-visions

Eventless Plot – Unlearning Noise

A dynamic exploration of urban sound and perception, encouraging listeners to reconsider what noise can mean.

🔗 discreetarchive.bandcamp.com/album/unlearning-noise

Area 3 – View

Dreamlike synths and archival birdsong blur the boundaries between real and imagined landscapes.

🔗 heart.bandcamp.com/album/view

Meitei – Sen’nyū

A sonic evocation of Beppu’s sacred springs and ancient baths, merging present sound with echoes of Japan’s past.

🔗 meitei.bandcamp.com/album/senny

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Welcome to Artefacts – your quick guide to recently released ambient and drone records.

In this episode, we listen to works by artists from Ukraine. Created amid the ongoing war, these releases reflect resilience, reflection, and the search for peace through sound.

Made during a period of illness, Yurii Popov’s Consonance offers a minimal, looping calm intended as a sonic balm against pain and uncertainty — a quiet act of peace in turbulent times.

🔗 https://58918012.bandcamp.com/album/consonance

Using modular synthesis, processed found sounds, and field recordings from across Ukraine, Trees and Roots is an ode to nature’s resilience and a meditation on belonging and renewal.

🔗 https://gamardahfungus.bandcamp.com/album/trees-and-roots

Combining baroque harmonies and ambient guitar, Stupak’s Book of Sorrow offers a brief escape from the exhaustion of war — a moment of beauty and stillness.

🔗 https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/book-of-sorrow

Synth-driven and cosmic in tone, Solace evokes both the serenity of space and the quiet tension of returning to Earth — a gentle reflection on escape and home.

🔗 https://unusualcosmicprocess2.bandcamp.com/album/solace

Reinterpreting 12th-century music by Hildegard von Bingen, this collaboration merges Ukrainian folk singing and modular synths to create a spiritual and contemporary act of remembrance.

🔗 https://heinali-yasia.bandcamp.com/album/hildegard

That’s all for this week’s edition of Artefacts: Ambient & Drone.

Thanks for listening — and check the show notes for links to all featured releases.

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