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OUT NOW!

C.LAVENDER "RUPTURE IN THE ETERNAL REALM" CD + DIGITAL

On her third full-length album, C. Lavender delves into her experience with a profoundly impactful Buddhist meditation centered in the sacrifice of the self as a source of liberation. “Rupture in The Eternal Realm” is a musical reinterpretation and compendium to C. Lavender’s experience studying the Tibetan Buddhist meditation practice known as chöd. The practice traditionally involves musical instruments including drums (amaru), trumpets (kangling), bells and chanting. Rather than try to recreate the practice's musical ritual, C. Lavender used it as a point of departure for reflecting on her inner connection with the meditation, one which she continued to dive into throughout the pandemic. The song titles are taken from lines within the traditional chöd chant, which is akin to a musical composition and serves as a visualization guide throughout the meditative process.

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iDEAL255 7". Limited to 100 copies.

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DROR FEILER

MAAVAK - MUSIC & NOISE 1980-2023. Two 10xCD box sets presenting the intense, present, sometimes fragile & often challenging music of Swedish/Israeli composer, musician, artist and activist DROR FEILER, celebrating 50 years of musical, artistic and political actions in Sweden and around the world. These box sets presents his wide range of styles; from noise attacks to orchestral compositions, from chamber music to solo saxophone pieces. Each volume is limited to 300 copies and is mastered and designed by Lasse Marhaug. To be released in Stockholm on October 7th 2023 on Feiler’s new archival label The Celestial Fire which is a sublabel to iDEAL Recordings. 

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Happy to support @sunnofficial in Oslo @blaaoslo in September 🖤 https://www.instagram.com/p/CrS4V8LsvBf/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Incoming on iDEAL… New Mixtape By @s__english / Design by @_philipmarshall https://www.instagram.com/p/CrITdHqMWxi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Now available from @boomkatonline 😛 A precedent of sorts to, erm, Armand van Helden vs Fatboy Slim’s 1999 bout, ‘The Heavyweight Sound Fight’ takes pride of place among iDEAL’s hall of oddities with one of the zaniest recordings by three international leaders of the avant-garde. Adapting all the pomp and ceremony of a boxing match to ludicrous ends - including a flier depicting each artist with their dukes up - they produced what sounds like a great night out for NYC’s experimental cognoscenti with Charlie Morrow (USA) vs Carles santos (Spain) each backed by a band - Soho Baroque Opera Company with the assistance of the New Wilderness Foundation - while Sweden’s Sten Hanson acts as referee, and Armand Schwerner takes the role of announcer in thick, nasal New York brogue. It’s brilliantly daft and subversive but accomplished in a witty way that maybe escapes too many solemnly po-faced avant-garde conceptualists nowadays, and remains a strange outlier in the history of NYC avant garde and beyond. https://www.instagram.com/p/CqpEcz3Nmfk/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=