Category Archives: Releases

New release: Vacuamoenia’s “Panphonia”

Panphonia is the sound of the everything, a circular whole that comes out and returns in the reality that generated it. Panphonia is an electro-acoustic composition based on field recordings of a particular type of abandoned soundscape: the rural villages built during fascism in Sicily, the Borghi; the composition is born to consider as demiurgical …

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New release: Monty Adkins’s “Moeror”

Music takes place in time, but repetition beguilingly makes it knowable in the way of something outside of time … it feels like a different way of inhabiting a passage — a different kind of orientation. Elizabeth Margulis, On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind During significant events in our lives, time seems to stand …

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New release: Simon Cummings’s “間 (ma)”

Crónica is delighted to present Simon Cummings’s first release in the label, “間 (ma)”, available as a limited release tape or stream and download. The Japanese word é–“ (ma) is one that is difficult to translate easily into other languages. The concept it embodies is a spatial one, specifically the gap between two discrete structural …

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New release: Mathias Delplanque’s “Témoins”

Témoins is Mathias Delplanque’s third release in Crónica, after the acclaimed Passeports (Crónica 048~2010) and Transmissions (Crónica 088~2014). A series of commissioned works, each connected to a location given to me. The sites were used as recording studios for creating multilayered compositions with minimal to none post-production. All instruments were played on site. Roz was …

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