New Mavo album - "Hitaasti Kohti Kaikkea"
"...noisy ambient journey through places that vibrate, distort, shrink and move but stay nonetheless linear. It ponders whether the new gods are the same as the old ones, and if our amulets will work this time around."
mavomusic.bandcamp.com/album/hitaas...
Based on an early demo of "The Nature Of One's Engagement" (2021) from the WW1 album "Varokaa Heikkoa Jäätä"
mavomusic.bandcamp.com/track/the-na...
New Mavo release - "Gods gifted us the Continental Firmament"
youtu.be/7-EhZVTFIiQ?...
#darkambient #noise #soundart
Listen to the viral feel-good hit "Abyss Tapes" (2025) here:
youtu.be/tKVp_05ynM8?...
Impressed by these automatically generated Distrokid ads.
Hello. I've uploaded the first Mavo album, "North East" (2021), to Youtube. Find it below.
youtu.be/hLybfmhmTo4?...
#darkambient #noise #soundart
I do think Spotify also lacks the old "prestige" or allure it once had for small artists, considering it's bit of a shitshow of a platform now with so much bloat, podcasts and AI music.
Surprisingly annoying to send new releases on digital platforms such as Spotify nowadays, with these random demands of further verification etc. (and ofc on YT I'm getting copyright claims on my own stuff). Could just be the distributors I've used. Anyhow, would be neat to have nicer options.
"You May Pay In Spirits, If Blood is too expensive" by Takamaa, from "Brothers, Sisters... It was just the Wind..." (2024)
#noise #soundart #ambient #electronica
"Gallows - East of Vienna" from "The Myth of Mackinder" by Mavo, 2022.
This weird electronica album was trying to do what's natural for the genre: critique geopolitical theory and push for more heuristic postmodern IR theory-crafting. That's what music is about, after all.
#darkambient #elecronica
And sure, lofi DIY projects may sound like horseshit, but they're usually made because someone had an attempt at expressing something. And I have no interest in an expression that doesn't have duct tape all over it. 7/end
Obviously one can get away with gen-AI use, though I wonder why make anything at all, if you don't enjoy making it yourself? Likewise, what exactly is there to enjoy in AI generated content if it bears no intention, no premise and no attempt? /6
Mavo (including its muddy Uralic poetry and photography) is generally done with minimal tools. It lacks high production value and fancy orchestral elements. Whatever is sampled, regardless how buried in the mix, is selected and embedded with intent reflecting the theme of each project. 5/
This also applies to other forms of art, e.g writing, visual arts etc. Particularly in writing I'd find any generative element disruptive to my train of thought. Digital tools may already be exhaustive enough even without AI, but they still generally require someone to fiddle around with them. 4/
Big part of these genres, at least for me, is the DIY aspect of it. The production/composition follows a certain logic of stream of consciousness, which is an important personal factor that has a major effect in how the end product will look like. 3/
Ambient/noise is probably pretty easy prey for gen-AI, including in partial use. Ironically, its greatest barrier may come from the fact that ideally it sounds like shit. I'd imagine for those larger, orchestral soundscapes people can certainly find use in AI. I find issue in this. 2/
Since it's becoming topical now, I thought I may as well briefly discuss my views on AI use in audio production, especially in ambient/sound art, and why I'll not share anything made with AI. It's maybe obvious for most, but I think downtempo stuff can be easily affected by this robotic curse. 1/
"kolme ympäri maailmaa
kirjoittaa runoja samaan aikaan
on taidetta, ja sitten turhuutta
(verta verta verta)
molemmista saa kilpailla"
dzungar.bandcamp.com/track/sit-se...
Hello everyone, and happy new year. Starting immediately with some defiant vibes, here's a small soundscape, "Síyáh-Chál", from "Osiris is a Black God" (2023). Sending support to the people of Persia.
"Niyaman Nimaha" from "Holes Around Immanence" by Mavo, 2022.
#soundart #ambient #darkambient
"Void Alleys" EP by Mavo (2024). Later included in "Kadotus & Autuus." This one was initially digitally released by experimental online label ArrhythNia Records.
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#darkambient #noise #ambient
This thing is soon three years old. Takamaa attempts to merge "harsh noise, bright spaces and tranquil, though distorted, melodies." There has been a few other releases since, but this first EP turned out surprisingly minimalistic despite the pronounced noisiness.
"Demon Tree Lamentation," a new track from the previously mentioned Mavo compilation.
youtu.be/YuhhFVxC0jI?...
#darkambient #ambient #soundart
As Mavo project is going into its fifth year, we've a new compilation ("Dream & Death") of single tracks that were either altered or not included in the previous albums, including a few remasters and two previously unreleased tracks.
mavomusic.bandcamp.com/album/dream-...
#darkambient #soundart
"Väki" by Mavo, 2022.
mavomusic.bandcamp.com/track/v-ki
#darkambient #ambient
"I felt honoured to witness the detachment, and see the end
in her eyes - the end of the outside realm, the end of our streets
the end of Europe, and the end of our serial defeats
- hauntings of this kind are preferred
curses of this kind may save what's about to be deferred"
"Hauntings Of This Kind" by Mavo, 2022.
mavomusic.bandcamp.com/track/haunti...
#darkambient #noise
