Melancholy Lasts [snippet] + Truncate (Japanese version) + Fractured Time [snippet]

ALKA Live @ PhilaMOCA March 10, 2019 Philadelphia

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Brothertiger (Brooklyn)
Summer Heart (Sweden)

Tracklisting: On The Razz- Cursor Miner
Kleine Hausmusik #16 - Geeez 'N' Gosh
Paradise - ALYUSHA and LINDEN JAY
Judge Jury And Executioner - Atoms For Peace
Vessel - Jon Hopkins
Factung Conceal - Quinoline Yellow (Skam Records)
Deconfiguration - Architect (Hymen Records)
Migrade - Deru
Really Good - Substanz-t (Hymen Records)
If Q Was H - Num Num (Toytronic)
Currents (22v Offshore) - Phonem
Trepa N - TBA - Clicks and Cuts (Mille Plateaux (official) ----------------...

... was reminded recently of a wonderful discussion with fellow artist and occult explorer David B. Metcalfe. Reposting it here as I feel much of it is relevant to the alka project as it stands today and we have done much with visual artist Erika Tele to obtain a lot of these goals as envisioned in the article.


Sound and Incantations - Digital Art as Alchemy. Interview With Bryan Michael (Alka) by David Metcalfe, PlanetShifter.com Magazine

As Michelle Ramona Silva points out in her work, DIGITAL ...

In a recent clean up of some files on a hard drive, I came across the stems from This Grey Morning that Roger O'Donnell had sent me awhile back. After a bit of clean-up this moody Italo Disco/Synthwave mix happened... Enjoy!
 

Alka remix of Roger O'Donnell's (of the Cure, Thompson Twins, Psychedelic Furs) and Erin Lang's (of Foundling) lovely and sparkling This Grey Morning track from his MOOG based solo album The Truth in Me.

Cooperate is taken from The Colour of Terrible Crystal, the new album from Alka and the third album release to come from Vince Clarke's VeryRecords label.

This video was created by glitch artist Sara Goodman and you can find out more about her work on her Instagram feed at instagram.com/sci_fi_mascara/.

 The Colour of Terrible Crystal is out now on limited-edition CD and via Digital Download.

 veryrecords.com
ALKA - Cooperate (Official Video) from VeryRecords on Vimeo.

proud to link an original Sara Goodman video creation for our track We Are Free Forms. crystal // worship. From the Vince Clarke VeryRecords release: The Colour of Terrible Crystal.

ALKA - We Are Free Forms (Official Video) from VeryRecords on Vimeo.

alka merch now has a home at magicksquares.bandcamp which includes limited edition glow-in-the-dark 'terrible crystal' shirts and our 1579 codex shirt depicting a glitched Ezekiel's Vision - long attributed to biblical visions of UFOs. Also available are full color, UV coated 4" square stickers, and pins.

   

   
   

2 hours of brand new and forthcoming Oddtronic releases from around the globe feat. guest selections via Coldcut.
Incl: Bernhard Fleischmann, Deft, TYOMA, Crewdson, zillagramwiches, Pye Corner Audio, Boca 45 feat Mohawkestra, Joe Goddard, ZA'ED NA'ES زائد ناقص, Maii Waleed, Foram, Alka, Vince Clarke, Amandra, Sxriptures, Nabihah Iqbal, Detroit Swindle, On-U Sound Records, Bibio, Maya Jane Coles, Jordan Rakei, Tontario, ULTRAMAJIC, Jimmy Edgar, Four Tet, Esem, Aleksi Perala

promo videos from the 'Terrible Crystal' release. All videos compiled by Vince Clarke, except 'Melancholy Lasts' by Nicole Antebi
Buy the full length album for these tracks at the purchase links to the right (top of page).

1 Hymn For The Broken, Swollen And Silent by Gnaw Their Tongues 2 Pain Killer by Hide 3 The Grand Delusionalby Liars 4 Under My Skin by Black Needle Noise with Tara Busch 5 Daemon by Kastle 6 Fallen Through by Chuter 7 Laady X by SAOCOM 8 Snesrotek by Syrette 9 Betablockers by Alka 10 The People's Pyramid by monomorte 11 Isolated by Trevor Something 12 New World Order Fatcats Playing Populous For Kicks by C/A/T 13 Never See Eye To Eye Again (ft Sleepless Droids) by Lucidstatic 14 ...