ASIP Releases (Previews)

Merrin Karras’ 2020 foray into extended compositions combining his Berlin School tendencies and expansive ambient is finally pressed-up on transparent smoke 12”. Fully remastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri and featuring revisited art by Noah M / Keep Adding. Now available: https://asip.me/asip033v

Merrin Karras - Silent Planet [2022 remaster] (ASIP033V)

What is the sound of feeling?

In physics, we conceive of sound as waves. Vibrations, undulations, physical manifestations: heard but not seen. Borne by the body, but interpreted in the brain.

Within ourselves, we perceive emotion as waves, too. Rolling in, rolling out: tidal, even. In moments of violet intensity, the depth of our feeling crashes upon us like surf, rip currents on a corporeal beach.

Worlds apart, but waves in kind. For musician and composer Jo Johnson, the veil between is diaphanous indeed. What you hear is what you feel. Listen and uncover.

Written and Produced by Jo Johnson (@werkhouse)
Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studios, NY
Artwork by Candace Price
Design by Gabriel Benzur
Words by Chris Zaldua

Worldwide Distribution: Space Cadets Limited

© Jo Johnson / Mysteries of the Deep
MOTDEP008, 2022
mysteriesofthedeep.net

The Wave Ahead

Orbit

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MOTDEP008 – Jo Johnson | Orbit

Pre-order soon available via Imprec.com

https://soundcloud.com/wanderwelle

After last year’s Black Clouds Above The Bows, Amsterdam-based collective Wanderwelle presents the second entry of their trilogy for Important Records, which is dedicated to telling the story of the climate crisis and its effects on coastal areas around the globe. For this album the artists incorporated the sound of a dying organ, fatally wounded in a climate related event.

RIYL: Oliveros/Deep Listening, Arvo Part, Lambda Sond, Sarah Davachi....

Wanderwelle - All Hands Bury The Cliffs At Sea - LP Sampler - - Available 2.3.23

Max Würden returns with his second album on A Strangely Isolated Place after 2019’s ‘Format’, experimenting with a new style of music creation on ‘Landmark’.  More info and to buy this release: http://asip.me/asipv036

Max Würden / Landmark (ASIPV036) [PREVIEWS]

Icelandic dub techno icon, Aðalsteinn Guðmundsson, known as Yagya, is one of few artists we have encountered that prefer the LP format over EPs. Having consistently released an album every few years for more than 20 years, Yagya is about to release his 9th studio album, "Faded Photographs" later this month. Yagya described the LP as his "most involved and time-consuming project to date" and also pointed out that it "marks an exceptionally confident return to the art of songwriting". The album features vocals from Saint Sinner, Benoit Piolard, Bandreas, but the majority of the tracks on the album contain vocals solely from Guðmundsson himself. 

Today, we are honored to present the opening track from "Faded Photographs" - "The Downpour". The track emits many emotions we have come to expect from Yagya's work, nostalgia, melancholy, even mourning. Featuring strings from Pablo Hopenhayn, the track really gives a taste of what feelings to expect as one embarks on the rest of the album's journey.  Yagya described the album as being "an utterly seamless experience, demanding to be heard as a whole", so it only felt right to premiere the opening track as to not interrupt the intended flow.
"Faded Photographs" comes out on Yagya's own Small Plastic Animals on March 17, 2023

write up by https://soundcloud.com/sabro96


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https://www.facebook.com/yagyamusic/


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Faded Photographs (3SPA)

PREMIERE: Yagya - The Downpour [Small Plastic Animals]

No introduction needed for our good friend Simon. His deep and introspective sounds have been consistent and of immense quality over the last few years, with only more to come...

This recording is from our live stream event with Whispering Signals back in 2021 where Simon provided us with a set of all his own productions, this includes old, new and unreleased gems. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do.

CVMIX003 - Inhmost

Icelandic musician https://soundcloud.com/gunnarjonssoncollider debuts on A Strangely Isolated Place with an expansive trip through six fictional environments, brought further to life through an accompanying full-length video by artist Arna Beth. 

S.W.I.M. will be available to preorder from May 9th with the full album and video release on May 29th, on Blue Smoke 12" + digital, featuring artwork by Arna Beth and Noah M / Keep Adding, and mastered by Franceso Fabris

Gunnar Jónsson Collider / S.W.I.M (ASIPV041) [PREVIEWS]

Isolatedmix 121 comes from the South Koren label collective https://soundcloud.com/oslated and https://soundcloud.com/huinalidub, and choice label DJ S-Pill. More info, download, and short interview: http://asip.me/isolatedmix121

Tracklist:
1. Inhmost - River Crossing [HNL008]
2. Gallery Six - Wish On A Star [HNL006]
3. Vâyu - To Achieve Awareness [HNL015]
4. Earthen Sea - Outcropping [HNL004]
5. Moon Patrol - Inparke [OSL026]
6. Adhémar - Smell Of A Summer Field [HNC001]
7. Lindamann - Blue Hour [HNL017]
8. Javier Marimon - Dem Cics [HNL002]
9. The Vision Reels - Her Form Is Slowly Morphing [HNL016]
10. Daniel[i] - Eubela [HNL010]
11. Segue - Deep Green Dub [HNP001]
12. Launaea - Reflected Life [OSL017]
13. Asllan - Citizen of the World (Soolee Rework) [OSL024]
14. Saphileaum - No Clue Of Life [OSL006]
15. Zemög - Hiking In Chicaque [HNL011]
16. Owl - Forest Shadow [HNL014]
17. Doltz - En [Forthcoming on Huinali Recordings]
18. ABSIS - Static Trip [OSL021]
19. Polygonia - Tanz der Gliederfüßer [HNL012]
20. Einox - Chirico (Romi's Paradox) [OSL016]
21. Sanjib - Without Words [OSL008]
22. Javier Salazar - Acae (Adhémar & Javier Marimon Repitch) [OSL025]
23. Aspetuck - Microscopic Moments Of Focus [OSL023]
24. Modeo - Nobody Sleeps [OSC002]
25. Ryefield Society - Sun Fossils [HNL018]

ASIP - isolatedmix 121 Oslated & Huinali Showcase

isolatedmix 121 - Oslated & Huinali Showcase (Mixed by S-Pill)

Dennis White, Charlie May, and Dave Gardner return to ASIP with their second Volume, featuring 4 long-form tracks spread across a 2LP. Finding moments of melody amongst the wide landscape of abstract sounds and samples is the only glimpse of reality you’ll find down here. http://asip.me/asipv040

Quiet Places / Volume 2 (ASIPV040) [Previews]

Taken from Rod Modell's Ghost Lights LP on Astral Industries, out September 1.

Pre-order: https://astralindustries.bandcamp.com/album/ai-35-ghost-lights
More: www.orbmag.com/music

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Ghost Lights

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Premiere: Rod Modell - Side A

Mercatante is a New York-based electronic musician with self-releases dating back to 2007, appearing on a handful of boutique and independent labels. For his debut appearance on ASIP, Mercatante takes the concept of Ø [a symbol used in mathematics for an empty set or null] and explores the possibilities of starting out from nothing, "specifically, trying to understand how the idea of ‘nothing’ fits into the realm of sound, and at the same time, exist in a world of influence at every turn." This is an album that could easily appear on the celebrated raster label or get a head nod from the Alva Noto crowd. Across the ten surgically precise pieces, Mercante explores the concepts of meticulously placed sonic elements, investigating void and all that negative space. It is at once minimal in its execution and maximal in the presented sound, occupying frequencies evoked by glitchy IDM [is that still a used term?], post-techno and reductionist soundtracks.

"Beginning with open spaces and allowing sonic textures to live and evolve past where you may expect, Ø allows the space between notes to become equally as important as the notes themselves."

Love Of Lies

TRACK PREMIERE : Salvatore Mercatante - Love Of Lies

More info + links to buy: http://asip.me/asipv047

“Music gives us a place to be lost. Washing away thought, place, time, and identity. It’s in the falling into the river, the dream, that we find just who we could be”. 

Classically trained cellist, composer, and storyteller https://soundcloud.com/lihqun (Lih Qun Wong) presents her debut album, ‘Socha’ for A Strangely Isolated Place. Combining a vast instrumental skillset of piano, cello, electronics, and spoken word, she crafts intensely immersive aural-hallucinatory worlds of intricately shifting landscapes. 

A deeply personal work, Socha explores the ‘diaspora of time and space, and why we all feel so displaced.' Piano chapters capture the meeting place between memory and longing, while explorational vocal and cello textures invoke and echo the ancient, the feminine, and the otherworldly. 

Lihla’s voice guides us, weaving through electronics and field recordings of the ‘real world' to set the path for a poetic and deeply haunting journey through the internal psyche that is truly transportive and escapist. 

‘Socha’ is available on transparent smoke 12” and digital. Mixed by Sebastian Lee Philipp and mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri, featuring artwork by Lihla and Visions of Akira.

Lihla / Socha (ASIPV047) [Previews]

More info and buy links: http://asip.me/asipv046 

As a professional sound engineer by day, Colin Dunkerley aka Lapsed Pacifist, spends much of his time traveling and rarely gets to focus on producing his own music. Despite high praise from those who have become familiar with his work over the years, Colin’s previous productions have mainly consisted of shares with friends and DJs in smaller circles through his Negative Neutron alias. 

Colin envisaged a more pronounced and darker ambient style to emerge one day but struggled to dedicate the time. Hypatia came to life over an extended and fragmented period, with field recordings and loops of audio created on the go, later processed through his modular setup. In the autumn of 2022, Colin spent time collating and listening to these many fragments and field recordings, making notes in a book as he wandered around cold, unfamiliar places with headphones on, trying to shape disparate starting points into something thematically connected.  

The title of Lapsed Pacifist’s debut album, Hypatia is a reference to one of the many fantastical descriptions of imaginary places by Marco Polo in the book, Invisible Cities. Written as a dialogue between Mongol emperor Kublai Khan and Marco Polo, the book became the inspiration and a clear parallel for how Hypatia came to be and what it means to Colin today. 

Attaching music to a place and time can become a very powerful and long-lasting memory. Across its eight tracks, Hypatia depicts fragmented glimpses of color and textures –a scrapbook of senses– traversing the optimistic first steps; the first smell of cold air; cityscapes burnt into your head; and the many emotions from exploring new places that stick with you longer than any photograph ever could. 

“The experience of moving between places so frequently can be fascinating but also dislocating and often quite lonely. I have so many small stories about places I’ve been, but I often think they aren’t necessarily real reflections of anywhere, no more real than anything Invisible Cities author Calvino dreamt up”. - Lapsed Pacifist.  

Hypatia is available on transparent Copper smoke 12” + digital, mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri and featuring artwork by Noah M / Keep Adding.

Lapsed Pacifist / Hypatia (ASIPV046) [Previews]

Sun & Smoke is originally a 2-hour self-produced mix uploaded to Youtube and Soundcloud (https://asip.me/3wvukf4) in 2018 by Greek artist, https://soundcloud.com/dj_theef. Consisting of unreleased productions, the set was uploaded as a safe space, with zero expectations of it ever gaining attention or release.

After many late-night listening sessions, ASIP contacted Theef to discuss how a release might come to life. Originally consisting of 21 tracks in total –with two subsequently released on Morevi Records in 2022– ASIP had the honor of curating and sequencing an album from the remaining 19 unreleased productions, finally landing on those that best represented the intention of the original mix and the feelings it evoked upon those first moments of discovery. 

The appeal of Sun & Smoke can be found in its purity. Built with no intention or audience in mind, the album traverses core elements of deep techno, trance and downtempo. Progressive atmosphere building, addictive underlying grooves, and expansive moments of euphoria; as a mixtape, Sun & Smoke is a zero-visibility haze of eyes-closed, body-moving, forward momentum. As an album, each track is now allowed the space to deliver on its own defining atmosphere. 

From the ambient leaning beginnings of Sky Textures and the title track, Sun & Smoke, to the electro tinges of Primal Age, and the metallic swirls and glistening synths in Approaching Stars, the parts now have the chance to become greater than the sum of its original whole. 

Mastered by Giuseppe Tillieci (Neel / Voices From The Lake) with artwork photography by Juan Fernandez (edited by ASIP), Sun & Smoke will be available on Transparent Red/Orange Smoke gatefold 2LP + digital.

Theef / Sun & Smoke (ASIPV048) [Previews]

☆ sampled i want to be with you by sadness

black teeth

sun & smoke
conscious perception
strange nights
approaching stars
machines in love
born in august
ash & dreams
welter
everlast
noxious planet
mass groove
odd entity
endless matter
freed from desire
primal age
long shot
some chords
greatest escape
sky textures
thin ice
last day on earth

composed & mixed by theef
192kbps
recorded somewhere in heraklion, 2018

Sun & Smoke mixtape

Music from A Strangely Isolated Place + 9128.live.

Ambient & electronica music blog, mix series, record label and radio station. Est. 2008.

Gunnar Jónsson Collider / S.W.I.M (ASIPV041) [PREVIEWS]

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