mehmet ali simayli
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all that is holy is a solo experimental electronics/contemporary composition album by Mehmet Ali Simayli which was released on February 11, 2026 from his label Rubber Commune. It brings together modular synthesizer recordings, made over two years, field recordings from mobile phone voice memos, and different compositional approaches in a DIY-music, childish-architectural manner. all that is holy was reviewed in The Wire magazine on their April 2026 issue by Joseph Stannard.
https://rubbercommune.bandcamp.com/album/all-that-is-holy
sound attitudes carry a simple reminiscence of living things. shared attributions between sounding motions and any motion that is driven by a living energy brings out the fun thing: temperature. as a continuation of the long-time high-temperature legacy called album-releasing, it follows a serious structure of being trapped around resemblance and memory, like many other idiosyncratic ‘album-releasing legacy’ pieces. the initiation of the sound material was recorded between november 2024 and april 2025 from a modular synthesizer rack consisting of 8 modules, in basel, switzerland, and concretized as a thing in july 2025. the core of the material lies in semi-musical collage practices, categorization of material, and the action of improvising-composing. the ad hoc transformation of the tracks morphs between the granularity of the modules, circuit-music, and scrubbing samples, while having drastic polarities between harsh noise, anisong, music jazz, distorted ambient, musique concrète, and low-budget melancholia which someone defined generically as “unexpected territories” after listening. alongside the modular systems, the holy-tunes include field recordings, sibelius playbacks, speech synthesis, traditional songs, and poem fragments which existed as use-and-throw during the process.
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the field recording on track 22 was recorded in yeldeğirmeni, drinking in front of a theater rehearsal space with umut cesur
on track 13 the voice trying to read ‘fictiously’ belongs to nikita, vocalizing a cthuluesque character, recorded for our piece ‘i may swim slowly’ with eren
the voice sample on track 6 is by me; i was fascinated and scared by hearing my own voice through a very good microphone
the session recording on track 23 was from a session i found in my voice memos; i think it was with yann and paul p
the narrator in track 31 is the poetry photo guy in yeldeğirmeni, from a mock interview we did with umut cesur
the session excerpt on track 25 was a random find in my voice memos, with some swinging bachelor friends
track 30 was a small mock-up piece i did using some dead crow photos by yasemin
the guitar feedback recording on track 8 is from some feedback studies with eren from a few years ago
the voice on track 12 comes from the virtual person marie ork’s growl sound from alter ego, sharing a parallel destiny with the la dispute song ‘such small hands’
the laughing young person on track 20 is a small sample cut from a field recording in basel, schifflände tram stop
all the modular samples were recorded from a eurorack consisting of nebulae and mutable instruments modules over a period of more than a year in 2024.
this album was made in basel during a liminal time period in the summer of 2025, while feeling a bit tired.
with all respect to sharing, hanging, caring, heartbreaks, and solitude < 3
credits
released February 11, 2026mastered by can kuman
artwork by yasemin güney erten
produced by mehmet ali şimayli
released by rubber commune