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On the electro-tinged anthem DreamSs, Zylva declares: “I will walk alone towards the sunset, towards the end of time”, and in Berlin - “the city of lonely people” - she learns to embrace the solitude, finding salvation and strength in herself. 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Comprised of live material recorded at Munich’s ZIRKA in late 2022 and over several studio sessions in-between touring duties, ‘Candid’ is a meadow of herbal Electronic, mystic at times, but joyful nonetheless.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 472px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3584308455\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=333333\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/simonpopp.bandcamp.com\/album\/candid\"\u003eCandid Polygonia, Simon Popp\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten, produced and mixed by Lindsey Wang and Simon Popp\u003cbr\u003eRecorded by Andor Bencze, Lindsey Wang and Simon Popp\u003cbr\u003eMastered by Martin Ruch\u003cbr\u003eTypeface EK Modena by Erkin Karamemet\u003cbr\u003eDesigned by Maximilian Schachtner\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormat: 180g vinyl, each record comes with unique print, edition of 300\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2023\u003cbr\u003eLabel: Squama\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Squama Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41034212278357,"sku":"SQCA1427","price":4290.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0491\/5749\/files\/1_ff793388-84ad-48ec-9b24-3c7d375e9dda.jpg?v=1741151309"},{"product_id":"nant","title":"Poeji: Nant","description":"\u003cp\u003eSquama regulars Enji and Popp join forces on ‘Nant’, the debut LP by their newly minted duo ‘Poeji’, transcending the confines of Post-Dub and Downtempo. 2022’s 3-track EP ‘031921 5.24 5.53’, released as a limited run of dubplates, was the first testament to their open approach to writing, which takes only very basic ideas and relies on non-verbal communication to define form and pace. Enji’s vocals are less centre-stage than on her solo endeavors, piercing through reverb plates and guitar pedals while Simon inked his signature set of wooden and metal percussions with chains of tape echoes and analog delay. 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An album of seven tracks, distilled from over seven hours of improvised percussion and electronics. Recorded mostly outdoors––on pedalo boats, up mountains and deep in forests near the namesake Swiss town of Vevey, it is imbued with the soft fascination of birdsong, rushing water and chattering children.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVevey resists genre. As musicians, Sartorius and Nicholls bridge the divide between acoustic and electronic soundscapes. Sartorius’ raw, organic percussion interweaves with Nicholls’ keyboard-triggered samples and harmonic landscapes, creating a dialogue where the lines between rhythm, melody and noise dissolve. Clay Kin identify their outfit as an audio-visual collective, with visual artist Lou Zon (Louise Boer) rounding out the group, creating videos to accompany both the recorded music and the live experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 373px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2103802493\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=333333\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/claykin.bandcamp.com\/album\/vevey\"\u003eVevey Clay Kin\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormat: 180g vinyl, Printed innersleeve, Colored vinyl\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2025\u003cbr\u003eLabel: Squama Recordings\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Squama Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41654405660757,"sku":"SQVE1593","price":5720.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0491\/5749\/files\/1_8bf665b6-3932-48e3-ab5f-1d8ffad527e5.jpg?v=1756281475"},{"product_id":"music-for-video-stores","title":"Martin Brugger: Music For Video Stores","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn his debut album producer and Squama co-founder Martin Brugger hovers through Ambient, (upbeat) Downbeat and unfulfilled build-ups.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConceptualized as a blank soundtrack, the music was sent to fellow artists who shared their visual and verbal associations which became the source for the artwork and tracktitles, effectively making the album a collective effort.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvident in all of his recent projects is Brugger‘s passion for working and thriving within closely set limits.\u003cbr\u003eThe only audio sources in the process of making the album were his record player and a Dave Smith Prophet 08 synthesizer. 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Solemn slowness has become a signature trait of the Munich-based duo and it makes listening to their new record a healing retreat from the frantic chatter of the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 406px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=277586152\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=333333\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/matthiaslindermayr.bandcamp.com\/album\/nozomi\"\u003eNozomi Masako Ohta, Matthias Lindermayr\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRecorded by Noël Riedel\u003cbr\u003eMixed and Mastered by Martin Ruch\u003cbr\u003eLacquer Cut by Sidney Claire Meyer\u003cbr\u003eProduced by Martin Brugger\u003cbr\u003eDesigned by Maximilian Schachtner\u003cbr\u003ePhotography by Daisuke Tomizawa\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormat: 180g vinyl LP in Nagoaka Style innersleeve, Risograph printed publication, Photo Print\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2025\u003cbr\u003eLabel: Squama\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Squama Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42151908966485,"sku":"SQMN1777","price":6050.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0491\/5749\/files\/1_7f713092-73fa-4d65-a5c3-9f148195f2bd.jpg?v=1771753325"},{"product_id":"trio-black-vinyl","title":"Simon Popp: Trio (Black Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003eRhythm has always been more than just for timekeeping. 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Popp and his collaborators take a similar approach: three distinct drummers, three different temperaments, three personal styles. Fused together into a single expressive instrument.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Often it feels like one big setup played by three people,’ says Popp, describing the sessions. ‘The same way the stone on the album cover is one stone made of three parts.’ Popp’s musical journey to this project was a slow unfolding. Inspired first by his uncle, a drummer, he began playing at age nine. 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On ‘Wallride,’ for example, the mobile absorber walls of Popp’s studio were struck with sticks to produce deep thudding tones that drive the track forward. ‘High High Low’ is built around a tiny motif — two highs, one low — that the trio playfully bends, stretches and overlaps. ‘Birkenschlag’ plays with asymmetry, using an 11\/8 pulse to dance around the beat rather than sit directly on it. On ‘OiOOiOiiOi,’ a sequence of right and left strokes becomes an obsessive mantra, played together by the three players like a ritual phrase. ‘Eggplant’ layers two distinct grooves beneath a third freer voice, producing a loose, floating tension.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDespite the technical precision and percussive detail, there is nothing rigid or academic in Trio. 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On ‘Wallride,’ for example, the mobile absorber walls of Popp’s studio were struck with sticks to produce deep thudding tones that drive the track forward. ‘High High Low’ is built around a tiny motif — two highs, one low — that the trio playfully bends, stretches and overlaps. ‘Birkenschlag’ plays with asymmetry, using an 11\/8 pulse to dance around the beat rather than sit directly on it. On ‘OiOOiOiiOi,’ a sequence of right and left strokes becomes an obsessive mantra, played together by the three players like a ritual phrase. ‘Eggplant’ layers two distinct grooves beneath a third freer voice, producing a loose, floating tension.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDespite the technical precision and percussive detail, there is nothing rigid or academic in Trio. 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The album is filled with a global spirit, venerated not only with the traditional beating of drumheads, but wood blocks, singing bowls, tuned gongs, temple bells, metal pipes, tongue drums and piezo-amplified electronic textures.\u003cbr\u003eThe use of electronics and processing throughout the record adds a subtle shimmer. Echo, delay and saturation are used not to distance the listener but to deepen the atmosphere. These effects serve as a kind of golden thread, binding the natural and synthetic, the ancient and the modern, the individual and the collective. Like in Kintsugi, what might have remained separate is made whole, its joins not hidden but celebrated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album is a celebration of timbre, texture, and touch, its sound palette drawn from across continents and traditions. Human beings at all points of time, across all cultures and continents have used music to celebrate, mourn, worship and bond. 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