Chill ambient

Ambient

This is an older track that was supposed to be on a compilation months ago, but I have no idea what happened with that. So here it is. I added it to Assortments on bandcamp, if you'd like to download it.

Photo by Kevin Dooley
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pagedooley/5192063662/

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From a Height

Taken from the album 'Ett' released as LP and Download

Klara Lewis 'Shine' (eMEGO 190)

Korg PS-3100 synthesizer

Recorded live at Lucky's Comics as part of Music Waste
Vancouver, BC
7 June 2014


Sarah Davachi live / Korg PS-3100 / 7 June 2014 / Lucky's Comics (Music Waste, Vancouver)

Ólafur Arnalds and Janus Rasmussen finally release their unique Nordic electronic sounds in album size.

Pre-order the CD/2LP/DL: http://www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP062
Pre-order the DL via iTunes and receive the album version of 'Thrown' instantly: http://snip.ftpromo.net/kiasmos

After dropping several tracks and performing at select festivals throughout the years, Ólafur Arnalds and Janus Rasmussen dedicated the year 2014 to explore the area in-between Ólafur’s more acoustic, piano-based solo work and Janus’s synth-heavy electro pop, with their collaborative electronic project Kiasmos.

By focusing solely on their self-titled debut album, Ólafur and Janus have been able to combine and further develop their unique sound aesthetics to complete an album driven by their mutual love for electronic music. Made in Ólafur’s newly build studio in Reykjavík, Iceland, a majority of the album was recorded using acoustic instruments next to a variety of synthesisers, drum machines and tape delays. It features a live drummer, string quartet and Ólafur performing on the grand piano, producing an ambient, textured sound, which makes it a perfect home listen and equally danceable record. If you listen closely, you can spot them record the thumb piano, finger snapping and even the sound of the metal grinder of a lighter slowly to replace the usual electronic hi-hat sounds, giving the album a far more intimate and unique atmosphere.

“We decided to start almost completely over with this record, so most of the material is written this year with the idea of making a record that can stand as one piece rather than a collection of songs. I am very excited to get a proper record out exploring a different territory than I am used to. I touch a lot on electronic genres in my own music but never have the opportunity to go full out electronic like we do here.” – Ólafur Arnalds

“The Kiasmos project has been around since 2009, but because of all our other projects we never really got the time to sit down and write all the tracks we always wanted to. So when we early this year finally found the time to sit down and make a full length album there was so much we wanted to try out. The result surprised us a bit, it's deeper and more emotional than we imagined it to be, but that's the beauty of being able to make an album.” – Janus Rasmussen

Kiasmos – s/t will be released on Double-Vinyl, CD and Download via Erased Tapes on October 27th, 2014.

TRACK LISTING: 

1. Lit  2. Held  3. Looped  4. Swayed  5. Thrown  6. Dragged  7. Bent  8. Burnt 

LIVE DATES:	

17.08. HAMBURG (DE) - Dockville Festival			
26.09. BRUSSELS (BE) – Bozar Electronic Arts Festival
27.09. DEN HAAG (NL) – Todays Art Festival

OFFICIAL WEBSITES:  	facebook.com/kiasmos · erasedtapes.com

Kiasmos

Burnt

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Kiasmos - Burnt

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Two versions of tracks taken from Call Super's highly anticipated debut album, ‘Suzi Ecto’. Pressed to 7”, dinked vinyl in a strictly limited run of 300 copies worldwide.

Call Super - Sulu Sekou (7" Version)

Twine

Telegraph

12k is happy to present the debut release on the label from Argentinian composer Federico Durand who has had a series of amazing releases on labels such as Spekk, Own, and Desire Path. Federico and 12k crossed paths on a tour of Japan together in 2014 where the personal friendships among the artists and the label are such a part of what 12k is about. Sharing music and ideas throughout the tour led to an invite to make an album.

It’s no accident that Federico’s music has a dusty air of nostalgia surrounding it. It has always been a very personal affair. Songs inspired family, local life and the world around him are woven by hand with a selection of very physical instruments. He works like a craftsman, piecing together fragments of sound from cassette recorders, small instruments and loopers and creates music that’s as softspoken as he is. No pretenses, no disguises, just the most honest and down-to-earth music that can be made. Broken melodies spinning from tape reels, the sounds of bells and small found objects being played with care... The music is as beautiful as it is introspective, like a small window of antique glass looking right into Federico’s soul.

In his own words:

“A través del espejo in Spanish means “Through the mirror”. I am fascinated with the experience of putting a mirror in front of another: as a miracle, the image turns in a loop that flows into infinity. Loops in the mirror get less clear with each repetition, the color becomes diffuse and greener. When these loops turn into a lullaby we can enter the other side of the mirror: a place of delight and insight.

I always make simple melodies as they are born free. In many pieces, I use cassette recorders as an instrument that play friendly with others such as piano, lyre, toys, bells or effects. I enjoy the possibilities of cutting tape and making loops, reversing, and even using many tape recorders at the same time making air recordings of the sound. The Roland Space Echo or 2880, which are loop-machines themselves, match perfectly with this way of working.

When I see an emboridery I enjoy both the front and back where a mysterious, invisible world suddenly appears. For this reason, I am grateful to the natural sounds made by the machines, the crackle of loops and other sounds that appear while working, as an unexpected gift.

A través del espejo is a dream of beauty, A love of handcrafted music.” 

- Federico Durand

A Través Del Espejo

El jardín encantado (The enchanted garden)

12k is happy to present the debut release on the label from Argentinian composer Federico Durand who has had a series of amazing releases on labels such as Spekk, Own, and Desire Path. Federico and 12k crossed paths on a tour of Japan together in 2014 where the personal friendships among the artists and the label are such a part of what 12k is about. Sharing music and ideas throughout the tour led to an invite to make an album.

It’s no accident that Federico’s music has a dusty air of nostalgia surrounding it. It has always been a very personal affair. Songs inspired family, local life and the world around him are woven by hand with a selection of very physical instruments. He works like a craftsman, piecing together fragments of sound from cassette recorders, small instruments and loopers and creates music that’s as softspoken as he is. No pretenses, no disguises, just the most honest and down-to-earth music that can be made. Broken melodies spinning from tape reels, the sounds of bells and small found objects being played with care... The music is as beautiful as it is introspective, like a small window of antique glass looking right into Federico’s soul.

In his own words:

“A través del espejo in Spanish means “Through the mirror”. I am fascinated with the experience of putting a mirror in front of another: as a miracle, the image turns in a loop that flows into infinity. Loops in the mirror get less clear with each repetition, the color becomes diffuse and greener. When these loops turn into a lullaby we can enter the other side of the mirror: a place of delight and insight. 
I always make simple melodies as they are born free. In many pieces, I use cassette recorders as an instrument that play friendly with others such as piano, lyre, toys, bells or effects. I enjoy the possibilities of cutting tape and making loops, reversing, and even using many tape recorders at the same time making air recordings of the sound. The Roland Space Echo or 2880, which are loop-machines themselves, match perfectly with this way of working.

When I see an emboridery I enjoy both the front and back where a mysterious, invisible world suddenly appears. For this reason, I am grateful to the natural sounds made by the machines, the crackle of loops and other sounds that appear while working, as an unexpected gift.

A través del espejo is a dream of beauty, A love of handcrafted music.”

- Federico Durand

Linternas junto a la laguna (Lanterns beside the lake)

Fenton is the guitar-based side project of Shuttle358 (California-based Dan Abrams). In 2005, he released the debut Pup on the Japanese imprint Plop. Mythic Failures is a download-only release to celebrate the digital re-release of Pup.

Mythic Failures follows shortly after the creation of Shuttle358's latest Can You Prove I Was Born. On Mythic, Dan takes his performances and processing techniques deeper with personal themes of mystery, dissonance, imperfection, and surrender. The guitar, while the main source of sound, is subject to his refined electronic manipulations that leave the ghost of the instrument afloat in a sea of new textures.

Mythic Failures

Osos

Wolf

Harp player sampled in the street, in Cannes, France.
Original sampled on the fly, at the christmas market.


§treet Harp

Sarah Davachi at Holy Oak - June 5th 2016

For this performance The Transcendence Orchestra were-
Anthony Child- Buchla Music Easel, Electro Harmonix 45000 
Strymon blueSky, Strymon DIG.
Daniel Bean- Harmonium, Shruti Box.

Live at Freerotation, Wales 10th July 2016

The Transcendence Orchestra live at Freerotation, Wales 10th July 2016

qu-bit Chord... october garden

Set recorded for the 3rd edition of Club Quarantäne in June 2020, an initiative raising funds for Center for Black Equity in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.

upsammy & Oceanic @ Club Quarantäne

A dream sequence of ambient and drone from the Nairobi DJ and producer.

Read more here: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=740

@kamarujoseph

Resident Advisor podcast

RA.740 KMRU

Jake Muir is a multi-disciplinary artist, now residing in Berlin by way of Seattle and Los Angeles, whose uncanny ability to manipulate sound has given form to two stunning full-length works in "Lady's Mantle" (via @sferic-records) and "Muara" (via @further-records as Monadh). This mix from Jake is pure enchantment, a carefully assembled palette of entropic textures and vaporous, unclassifiable forms touching upon the limits of perception. A collapse into a marine haze, an afterimage of a season abandoned.

@jakemuir

Tracklist:
Liminal - Before and After
Gastón Arévalo - Dive -3
Strategy - Blindspotting
OL - Rep Air
I. M. C. - S / F + Gustavo Lamas - Descubiertos
Tom Opdahl - Naut-O-Pilot + Bellows - Untitled 5
Klara Lewis - Shine
CYGNI - untitled #2 + Sturm - Untitled 3
Vinyl Countdown - Soul Desert
Ahnnu - Sugar In The Dark
Turning Torso - Manifold
Caveman LSD - Untitled 4 + zK - positive disintegration
Graham Dunning - Crude Oil
Gastón Arévalo - Marea
Conoco - Kemikoski
Toshimaru Nakamura - NIMB 53
AshTreJenkins - Snowscope + FDG. - contemplating u
Bill Laswell & Tetsu Inoue - Monochrome Existence Part 4 & 6
Beequeen - Gear
Hank Jackson - oebbbbbbb

Photography by Jake Muir.

Sure Thing Mix 094: Jake Muir

With over 100 physical releases since its inception by Taylor Deupree in 1997, New York-based music label 12k has decisively defined and developed the concept of minimalism in the realms of electronic music for more than a decade. Fusing elements from Ambient and Electro-Acoustic Composition with carefully arranged digital textures and associative micro-noises, the label's aesthetics revolve around a precisely-outlined, yet deeply emotional concoction of the technological and the organic. Eschewing the typical marketing mechanisms of the commercial music industry, Deupree has sculpted a platform whose influence today extends well beyond the confinements of the experimental community. 12k's integral approach, in which the label's instantly recognizable, elegantly spartan artwork enters into an inseparable symbiosis with the music, has created a timeless audiovisual language respected and appreciated all over the world.