STROOM (2025)

14/08/2025

Brussels: on the 27th of august a very nice evening is happening…

life is beautiful is an improvisation-based gesamtkunstwerk, founded by aloisius, including an 8-person collective, a radio show, a series of happenings, and an independent record label. life is beautiful frequently performs and hosts shows across london, in spaces such as cafe oto & ormside Projects. ��1/2 of the collective (nwakke, bianca scout, jasper maurice & aloisius) will be making their brussels debut at les ateliers claus on the 27th august 2025.

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‘exquisite corpse’ (aka bianca scout, jasper maurice & aloisius, of life is beautiful) will be performing as a trio, fluctuating between free improvisation and art rock renditions of existing songs.

nwakke will perform a solo piece, combining their practices of dance, singing & production.

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obsessive creative-music outbursts from london diy-ers, things touch rap, indie-rock, improvisation, dance, spoken word, … diy-releasing unusual music, like pretty v which went instant on double lp. constantly doing shows in London in any possible place that’s available, trying out, funness.

https://lifeisbeautifulrecords.bandcamp.com/

https://apps.ticketmatic.com/widgets/les_ateliers_claus/addtickets?event=914206465481

13/08/2025

Label featuring floating around the bandcamp homepage!

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Words by Filipe Costa in conversation by Ziggy Devriendt.

01/08/2025

Hello all,

An “important” message regarding my stock / bandcamp availability:

My stock fulfillment is moving abroad (👋🇧🇪) in a couple of weeks and the following titles will not move to the “new” place, which means they will become “unavailable” via this way. Almost all of these titles are sold out at distribution and have just been floating around our cupboards

In alphabetical order:

Anton Friisgaard - Teratai Åkande (STRLP-090)
Benjamin Lew - Le personnage principal est un peuple isolé (STRLP-027)
Cybe - Tropisch Verlangen (STRLP-006)
Dali Muru & The Polyphonic Swarm - Dali Muru & The Polyphonic Swarm (STRLP-053)
Dark Arts - Reflections In A Rear View Mirror (STRLP-035)
Gajek - Cutting Together Apart (STRLP-091)
Merope - Naktes (STRLP-061)
Or Sobre Blau - Piri Piri Samplers + O Terço dos homens (STRLP-079)
Sissi Rada - Aporia (STRLP-080)
Songs Of Earth And Sky / Jola Dool / Low Flight / The Conference Of Snakes (STREP-049)
Strobe Light Network / Lapis Lazuli (STR12-025)
Voice Actor - Fake Sleep (STRLP-070)
Voice Actor, Squu - Lust (1) (STRLP-088)

+ 7”s

ZZ | Organized Pleasure / Satin Wall | Tropical Stumble / Dans les profondeurs (STR7-034)
https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/tropical-stumble-dans-les-profondeurs

ZZ | Paul Lowe | Let’s Work It Out / Make Things Better (STR7-109)
https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/lets-work-it-out-make-things-better

ZZ | Smalts / Human Flesh | Periodiciteit / En De Stad (STR7-045)
https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/periodiciteit-en-de-stad

ZZ | The Fear In My Heart / Cardiocleptomanie (STR7-103)
https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/the-fear-in-my-heart-cardiocleptomanie

16/07/2025

Milan W. - Leave Another Day
STRLP-087

4th repress (grey artwork) is out!

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Written, produced, performed, recorded, mixed & arranged at Studio Van Den Nest, Antwerp in 2024 by Milan W.
Additional Vocals on Face To Face, Ballad & Memories by Martha Maieu
Oboe on Face To Face, Wanda, Ballad & Wrong one by Anse Kuyl
Violin on Wanda & Memories by Michael Lamiroy
Mastered by Mathieu Savenay
Layout by Joke Leonare
* The artwork is a fragment from ‘The Myth’ (1896), a painting by Jos Dirks.

15/07/2025

The second track ‘song passing’ is one of many collaborations with my friend and collaborator Francesca Burattelli. The track was initially something we had used as an instrumental interlude (before the song was added), where the sounddesign got composed on stage by rolling dices, which would indicate the order and combination of layers in the music. This version is a recording from one of these sessions + topped with a recording of improvised vocal that Francesca made in her home studio, which I think sounds absolutely terrific.

Burattelli/Holm boullion cube
Written, recorded and produced by Alexander Holm in collaboration with Francesca Burattelli
Co-produced with Claus Haxholm
Mastered at Twerg Studio

08/07/2025

Beyond excited to announce our main summer ‘25 release:

FLORIAN TM ZEISIG - A NEW LIFE
STRLP-111
Out August 5th, 2025
ltd to 300 copies

A New Life is not an album. It does not belong to a ‘genre.’ Not aesthetic, not ironic, not for consumption. Not intellectual—it is felt. It speaks from coherence—structure beneath the noise. Grief, anger, stillness are not flaws here—they belong. Featuring harp and saxophone by Róisín and Cathal Berkeley. A return to truth. To be human without the mask. Integrated, not performed or bypassed.

releases August 5, 2025

Composed, arranged, recorded, mixed and produced by Florian TM Zeisig
Harp and Saxophone Improvisations & Motifs by Roísín Berkeley & Cathal Berkeley, recorded January 2025 in Berlin
Cello improvisations by Lia Mazzarri, recorded 2017 in London
Mastering by Mathieu Savenay
Photograph by Florian TM Zeisig
Typography by Felix Sandvoß

03/07/2025

a flashback to a specific place where diﬀerent items and lifeforms reacts- and develops
with each other in some sort of genisis-like story

Written, recorded and produced by Alexander Holm
Cello by Cæcilie Trier
Co-produced with Claus Haxholm & Francesca Burattelli
Mastered at Twerg Studio

01/07/2025

Very special one to share today!

Alexander Holm - Head Stroll
STRDIG-105

Alexander Holm plays through a pocket. Field recordings, spoken word and movement blur fiction and memory into sonic ritual. half meditation, half map. Half séance, half game board.
A three track music compilation Head Stroll by Copenhagen based composer/ sounddesigner/performance artist/ Alexander Holm, made between 2020 and 2025. The project explores different form criterias for recording and composing with text, voices, instruments and sounds, e.g. through dice rolling, tracking of lost memories, guided imagery, a.o. The material originates from live shows, performed in both formal venues as well as in more spontaneous settings.

’song passing’ is made in collaboration with Francesca Burattelli.

‘FP20’ is made in collaboration with MK Velsorf.

Cello on ‘one sec laughter’ performed by Cæcilie Trier.

All songs are produced in collaboration with Claus Haxholm & Francesca Burattelli.

Mastered at Twerg Studio.

Artwork made in collaboration with Wilfred Wagner & Simone Syska.

Thanks to Simone, Wilfred, Cæcilie, Francesca, Claus, MK, Ziggy & Max

27/06/2025

PretzHell by ZXY.

Olav Kikkas is an Estonian multidisciplinary artist. He goes under different pseudonyms (one of which is more well-known than the others).

A music video is on view in the Auditorium at the from June 27 to 29 and in the bathroom of in London on the night of Saturday June 28.

26/06/2025

Milan W. World Wide Entertainment.

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16/06/2025

💛💚💘back in stock and kicking in in the best way during this midsommar period!

MEROPE - VĖJULA

Merope’s most experimental full length to date, Vėjula is a celebration of collaboration and playfulness, and features appearances from Shahzad Ismaily, Laraaji and Bill Frisell. Like its predecessors, the duo’s fifth album still roots itself in Lithuanian folk forms, but sprouts out spiritedly from that point into unfamiliar landscapes, muddling ancient themes with contemporary philosophies, concepts and technology. Delicate instrumental sequences and ethereal vocals are woven into a rich tapestry of subtle synth work and evocative field recordings. On ‘Kouma Lil’, Indrė Jurgelevičiūtė and Bert Cools experiment with digital images of the kanklės (a traditional Lithuanian chordophone), and Jurgelevičiūtė’s voice, blurring the boundary between the organic and the artificial, while on ‘Spindulė, French percussionist Toma Gouband adds percussion from his custom-made sounding stones to Jurgelevičiūtė’s gentle words and Cools’ surreal, sensuous electronics. ‘Vėjula’ is an album that reaches into the unknown without loosing its tight grip on the past. Merope are in a new creative phase of their career, and they’ve never sounded quite so universal, or so vital.

released November 12, 2024

Merope:
Indrė Jurgelevičiūtė - voice, kankles, electronics
Bert Cools - guitar, synth, electronics

Shahzad Ismaily - moog, bass, voice, drums on 2 7 8
Laraaji - zither, synth on 2
Bill Frisell - electric guitar on 3
Craig Taborn - juno 60 on 1
Toma Gouband - stones on 5
Gabija and Milda Adomonytės - additional voices on 6,7
Dries Laheye - bass on 1

Music by Merope
Lopšinė, Rana, - lyrics and melody from Lithuanian traditional folk songs

1,5,6,7,8 Recorded at studio granvat by Stijn Cools
2,3,4 Recorded at Figure 8 by Randall Dunn
Mixing by Stijn Cools
Mastering by Uwe Teichert
Produced by Bert Cools
cover artwork by Avinash Veeraraghavan
label Stroom & granvat

13/06/2025

Happy to announce ‘FORMENTERA’ by OKO DJ, the first single from her debut solo album, coming this October 👀👀👀
Link in bio.

Mix & Arrangement:
Additional Production & Guitar:
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Art Direction & Graphic Design:

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