Beautiful poetry for painting this soundscape!

A new collection of work titled 'Sodium Light' from myself has just been released on Lee Norris's excellent NeoTantra label. The work was inspired by a series of night walks my daughter and I took towards the back end of 2019; pre all the states we find ourselves in at the moment. It's an impressionistic work of night-time cityscapes. Mastered by Fraser McGowan.

Sodium Light

Night #1

'Night #1' - Taken from the release 'Sodium Light' - [Neotantra, 2021]

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With this latest edition to the Whitelabrecs discography, we welcome back composer Sven Laux with a collaboration with fellow Berliner and musician Fione. This record began from a chance meeting at a party after Fione had discussed her improvisational piano performances and how it might lend itself to Sven’s orchestral Ambient music. After over a year, Fione recorded a track and sent it to Sven, who added layers of additional texture and detail; enough to be a catalyst from which they produced an album.

Each original piano composition was adapted one by one, piece by piece, into its magical whole. Fione tells us that for her, the music was always about what could have been, a sort of pain that we feel inside of us that we know we can’t change, because it is impossible to turn back time. Instead, we live with what we know we have to deal with, facing every day with the uncertainty that something might change in a minute, an hour or, tomorrow. From here, Tomorrow Everything Could Be Different’s concept can be gleaned as we contemplate the past, present and future and it can be interpreted differently by the listener.

Quiet moments of reflection weave a pensive environment in which you can either concentrate your thoughts, or allow them to evaporate. The music feels at times as if it is containing and conserving its energy, only for swells of strings and fleeting crescendos to release the tension. It’s a release which reveals either negative, or positive energy, depending on its listener. The artwork from painter Maliana Wang reflects the album’s themes by offering what appears to be storm clouds or crashing waves.

We all see the future in different ways. Tomorrow Everything Could Be Different doesn’t tell you what will change, that things will get better, or worse. The clouds may thicken, or they may disappear.

Credits
Written and Produced by Sven Laux and Fiona Mortimer
Mastered by James Edward Armstrong
Painting by Maliana Wang
Art and Design by Andrew Heath

Tomorrow Everything Could Be Different

wlr117 Sven Laux & Fione - Tomorrow Everything Could Be Different

Boarding Time by @atmosphare

Cover artwork by Anthony Asher Yates
Mastering by Seth Bellow

Boarding Time

Atmøsphäre - Boarding Time

Sustain Series returns for its third iteration, bringing together ever-more artists for another showcase of recycled music. Reworks and newfound collaborations make up this 27-piece album, demonstrating what can be achieved with ‘one’s trash and another’s treasure’.

 https://bit.ly/amb-sustain3

All Bandcamp proceeds of this album are to be donated to Eden Reforestation Projects, to help continue their work sustaining important local environments, and providing jobs to those that restore and maintain them.

James Bernard - Growth (Off Land Recycle)

through meditative motifs, deep ambient tones, and a truly centring production style, this stunning EP from housekeys is a journey inwards, reflecting on the self and things that tether us to the present. warm, peaceful, yet simultaneously ever-developing and expansive, exploded views is a 20-minute musical experience that invites the listener to rest, recover, and start again.

stream & download: https://on.slowecho.space/exploded-views

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exploded views

the first three minutes

housekeys - the first three minutes

30 May

A track that evolved from building up layers of synth sequences. Wanted to create something floaty and meditative, but then I twisted it with an electro style beat. Has a vibe that recalls some of my tracks from around ten years ago, as well as the obvious nods to Tangerine Dream :) Though the beat is a bit more Kraftwerk.

Some Synth info:
Moog Mini V (2 instances)  - Doing lower end bass work
ARP2600V - 1 note sequence modulated
Korg Poly 6 - High end plinky sequence
Korg MS20 - Square modulated 1 note sequence
Oberheim Matrix 12 - Pads
Virtual String Synth - Phillacordia pads
Tal Bassline 101 - Lead's/ Synth perc
Virtual CZ - Lead compliment
Spark Vintage Drum Machine's - 606 Drums (edited)

Made in Ableton Live

Sequence_D

Part of ArtLism.JP, Vol. 7
http://artlism-jp.tumblr.com/discography

Warmth - Distance

Written and produced by Greig Baird 
Layout and design by 扎克 
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In the Summer of 2019 Greig Baird and his family moved home and into a new area of a city they have lived for many years. 

The layers and layers of history in this new locale were palpable and inspired Baird to create this small collection of music, ‘Once Hallowed’. 

This new area was home to a Franciscan Friary established in the 13th century and later home to a church, Allhallows-on-the-Wall built in the 19th century. This church was later a corset factory, then later a parachute factory during war time. The last burials in this place were conducted in secrecy by the light of a midnight moon during the cholera epidemic of 1832. The wall outside Baird’s home dates to Roman times and was once the south-western city limit. 

The burial grounds now deconsecrated and long abandoned are also home to the catacombs of the city. Again abandoned long ago, bodies long removed, tales of stolen skulls and grave robbing, and the stone of which they are built are all that remains. The areas wildlife, dog walkers, children playing, students hanging around, drunks falling asleep on abandoned tombs and the city’s drug dealers plying trade all make the place what it is. Often beautiful as the light changes and Falcons fly above, the sounds of the day city form into the nocturnal; sometimes sad as the desperation of people’s modern situations becomes abundantly clear. 

The relics of the past experienced in our present creates something else. Something deeply inspiring, creating an atmosphere deeply felt and not entirely understood.

Once Hallowed

'Waiting (In The Shadow Of The Holy Ghost)' - Once Hallowed - [Healing Sound Propagandist, 2019]

This is a series of sketch-like works that arose out of the need for me to create an atmosphere when working in the studio. A loop would be made then I'd start the prep work for that session. The loop may even inspire the output and work created for that day.

The release is pay what you like and I'd appreciate if you took a moment to go over to Dewtone and check this out.

Many thanks and I really hope you enjoy this small and beautiful release with artwork from photographer Courtney Smith and mastering by Pheek over at audioservices.studio.

Hope you enjoy it.

'Untitled Quiet Loop #5' - Quiet Loops - [Dewtone Recordings, 2020]

Havdis and Oar are two projects by O.A. Jensen
CD 2012 "The Hidden Islands" on  gterma (gterma011) 
 CD 2013 "Nightbreeze" on gterma (gterma033)
 CD 2016 "Novemberlys"  (gterma044)
Album 2020 "Fugløya" (gterma 058)
Album on MixgalaxyRecords (Net-lable)
"Clouds into sea" -free download
http://mixgalaxyrecords.com/releases/mixg021/
http://archive.org/details/MIXG021

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