Dayin "Aching Halo" EP & "Wings Filled With Water" (video)

I'm happy to share a new Dayin digital-only EP, a follower of last year's Mahorka cassette reissue of my previous self-released material. Below you'll find both the Bandcamp link (no other streaming options for this one) and a video I put together for the closing track.

Aching Halo is available on Bandcamp as a name-your-price download.

"When marshes become deserts the ruins of our hands will blossom again."

Thanks for still listening and caring.

ПИКО podcast vol. 2 - MYTRIP

Performing at Cyberian's living room.

Only unreleased music.

ПИКО podcast vol. 2

Valerinne & Mytrip - Kaiwa Official Video

"Kaiwa" by Valerinne & Mytrip now has its own official video made by Alexandru Das. We made this track in two days in Bucharest during the Black Rhino Music Residency and was recorded and produced by Marius Costache at Studio148. 

See the making here.

"Kaiwa" is a part of the "Ahead Is A Barren Land" collaborative EP. Find the last remaining tapes distributed by Amek here. 

The Bandcamp stream is available below.

AMEK X Aftermovie

Amek Collective turned 10 years last May. See how we celebrated it in Sofia.

Shot by bck_.

Mytrip - Night (video)

"Night" is the opening track of "Ahead Is A Barren Land" by Valerinne & Mytrip. 

Out on tape & digital here.

Video by Alexandru Daș

Footage by Angel Simitchiev

Mytrip - She Didn't Drown, She Loved The Sea

Mytrip "Circle of Loss" out on tape & digital via Amek Collective. 

Get your copy here.

Video by Silvana Ilieva.

Leaver & Tim Holehouse - Before The Fire

“Before The Fire” was recorded in 2016 in London during the only day off we had while touring the UK with Tim Holehouse. Writing and recording took three hours and so the tape is full of imperfections but manages to sincerely capture these precious moments spent in Unit9 Rehearsals in London. 

Out via Amek Collective on tape & digital.

This is how it sounds live.

Mytrip - Adaptive (video)

'Adaptive' is the first video from my new Mytrip full-length album 'Filament'.

Out via Amek on 12" vinyl, cassette & digital.

Pre-orders are up on http://mytrip.bandcamp.com.

Distributed by:
Minor Label (DE)
Stashed Goods (UK)

Video by Silvana Ilieva.

Dayin live improv @ Sofia Drone Day 28/05/16

Two portable synths, reverb and delay. One mono out.

 

All videos from the first Drone Day in Sofia find here.

KKIIVV (exhibition, 2015)

A very short excerpt from over 50 minutes of soundscapes (divided in two movements) I've created for KKIIVV - an exhibition by Kostadin Kokalanov and Ilian Iliev presented during НОЩ '15 in Plovdiv. 

 Full info about the exhibition can be found here: http://www.kkiivv.com/portfolio/night15-exhibit/

Motion graphics and animation: Pavel Pavlov

Mytrip & Rosetta Stone @ DA Fest, Sofia Sept 17 (full set)

There's a full recording of the set I played with RosettaStone (live visuals) on Sept 17 during DA Fest. Huge ups to the festival crew and Streamer.bg for capturing and broadcasting this.

Watch it here: http://www.streamer.bg/bg/517/filmpage-go

Mytrip & Yhdarl - Live @ Mixtape 5 08/11/14

Photos by HRB.

All photos: http://iamhrb.com/post/102134121034

Photos by George Chelebiev.

All photos on Facebook.

And here's 15 minutes of our abyss on video.

Yhdarl & Mytrip - a new collab from hell!

As I've been saying here and there, November seems like a month for collabs. To illustrate this I'm adding a short snippet from a "rehearsal" session between Yhdarl (drone doom, Belgium) and me as Mytrip. We're doing shattering and deformed ritual drone with torturing voices and decomposing melodies. Our first show is on November 8th, we're opening for Trysth on their album promo show. The funeral black metal kings Dimholt are also joining the show.

Feast on the video now:

Here's the poster and the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/302679966584280/

Leaver and some upcoming travels

I guess I have to start using this blog not only to show off current works and feedback, but for more everyday writings. Something that's not boring people to death. Will see if I do it, however it feels pretty dead here already, I hope there's still somebody catching up on stuff from time to time.

And as you can guess from the introduction, this one will be again for the good old showing off. After the recent (June 2013) cuts of all bands I had been involved in I was left with quite a lot of time and energy for new music, and it somehow resulted in something new. It's a project called Leaver, it's a duet with Daniel Donchov, a good fellow, who's taken up my place as a bassist in Expectations. The project brings my work in the drone / ambient field together with a taste of singer-songwriter stuff in a pretty interesting and enjoyable, especially for playing live, mixture.

Here's a video with a live sound of our very first rehearsal.

We already have a full record written, artworks prepared. What's left is to be recorded and published. We already have 3, 4 shows scheduled and spanning over what's left of this year and the beginning of the next one. The debut is on November 13 w/ the Polish Drip of Lies, and Torah, a pretty cool sludge duo, also based here in Sofia, Bulgaria. 

131113 Leaver (debut) w/ Torah & Drip Of Lies (PL) @ Sofia

Another show in December will be announced shortly, but the better news are for something happening in March 2014. Info will be unleashed late December.

As to my other activities, I've got a bunch of records I'm pretty proud of coming in the next few months, including the debut mother spit 3" CDr which I was trying to find a home for almost 3 years until I reached the rad people at Aetheric Records. Mytrip is also putting out something new, a quite harsh and extreme split tape w/ Human Larvae on Danvers State Recordings (US). Until then I'll be playing several weekend shows, for currently I'm a busy corporate dude with a day job, investing every coin saved in new gear so I can get back to freelancing as soon as possible!

Here's some posters and events. Hear you soon.

3011 Mytrip & Portable Elephant @ Question Mark, Bucharest

0112 Mytrip & Portable Elephant @ Old School, Rousse

As Far Away As Near (2013)

Watch an excerpt of the video at serapionov.info

'As Far Away As Near' (2013) is another video art piece featuring my music, this time in a collaboration with my buddy Martin Lukanov. The piece is a work by Kalin Serapionov. It's combining various night city landscapes, all filmed at random. Our task in building and structuring the sound was to create an absurd soundscape, merging with the lo-fi urban ambiance, already captured by the camera. 

What we did was play around with a no-input circuit using an almost broken mixing board. Besides all inner sounds emerging in the console I played a lot of synths and various software instruments, and we got their sound destroyed by the mixer as well.

The result? Well you have to hear it. It's sometimes subtle, sometimes piercing your ears with ultrasounds and often it reaches harsh ambient/drone or almost industrial peaks. 'As Far Away As Near' (2013) has already been presented abroad, and from October 2nd until November 2nd it will be shown in ICA Sofia. The opening is on October 1st at 18:00. Details here.

A two-week long life-changer

As you may have noticed the freshly-ended Expectations tour wasn't covered by the usual online diary. Not that it wasn't fine, but at a point you just realize that everybody who's been in a band or is somehow involved in a scene of some sort has already heard all the '12 hours in the van', 'no hot water and shower', 'finally getting some sleep in real beds' mumbo-jumbo. That's why I skipped the stories this time. The tour itself has been pretty life-changing as I had the chance to reconsider my ideas of music and came to the conclusion a big part of what I've been involved in is just not worth it. That's why after the summer Expectations Euro tour ended I decided to call it quits. And I mean to call it quits in general, and leave all bands I've been involved in so far. I won't mention names, as the status of all of them is pretty different. To some I surely don't want to be related ever again, to others I'll keep contributing as a studio collaborator and it's highly possible that I also perform live again, still on an irregular basis. The reasons are pretty clear, just check what music is being mostly played and appreciated in the hardcore/punk/metal scenes. It says it all. 

Piss off, I'm going solo.

What's left for me now, besides tons of reading and messing around with musical theory, are my sound endeavors in the fields of ambient, drone and experimental music, which thankfully are dependent only on my sole ambition to create music, and reflect only my ideology and aesthetics, which I find most appropriate right now. I'm planning to dig deeper in media music (short film, performance, theater, exhibitions, visual music) and soon I'll reveal many common projects with film-makers and alternative artists which have been in the making for the last several months. In September I'm presenting my MA thesis on Ambient music so feel free to wish me luck. And yes, I'll still be booking shows and writing about music, and I'll be more critical than ever.

If you're still curious how the last Expectations tour with me on board went, have a look below. A tour video is in the works as far as I'm aware of so an updated version of this post will follow.

020613 Frenchbulldog Live @ Dirty, Pecs, Hungary

080613 Live @ Sentinel, Bilbao, Spain

160613 Live @ Boat Club Ladja, Belgrade, Serbia

And it's highly advised to check those bands I met on the road, as they were really making something different out of their music.

Les 2 Minutes De La Haine from Tarbes, France

Dearest from Wurzburg Germany

We may have started something new

And while chewing my 'morning' oathmeal and drinking my weak ass 'morning' coffee I thought why don't I update you on something new we've started. It's called Rain Bird, and it will appear live for a first time next month in Sofia. The lyrics are in the video description.

 

Whoever needs words pt. 2

Again a show in Romania. This time a footage of a part of a set I played as Mytrip in Bucharest (14/10/12) during the Drone The Balkans tour. Big ups for Marius over Asiluum for making this happen!

Whoever needs words

Seriously... whatever I've written here can describe this. Hopefully you can feel a bit of it, go look.

Six months later

In the beginning of January 2012 we (Expectations) made an awesome trip which not only resulted in the recording of our debut album (that story) but proved to be the beginning of an awesome friendship and collaboration with our hosts @ Next Dog Studio. So it's pretty much not a surprise we decided to return. And here we are in June 1st, less than half an year since we recorded our album and less than three months since we released it, recording four new tracks to be released in September on a vinyl.

From Sofia to Next Dog is a road we already know. Four hours far from Sofia and we reach the boundaries of our 'it's complicated to be described' country. Around two hours in the car and we're back in the belly of the dog. This time it's warm outside and the next few days could have been so much awesome if we didn't have to record four tracks in less than 24 hours studio time. However the pizzas kept coming and it was pretty clear Next Dog is the best place in the freaking universe. I certainly won't go any further into details. If you wanna take a glimpse of what was it like do it below. Eight minutes is way too much time to be spent with our annoying characters and probably the king of chill Mihai who made this video is definitely a masochist for spending so much time with/for us. 

And the result it is already pretty much done but as we are quite evil people we'll let you hear it in its entirety somewhere around the end of August when our two-week European tour will be just around the corner. For now you can check our previous collab w/ Mr. Marius Costache, we've just recorded new music but this album is still hot. We're just maniacs and crap.