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Exclusive track taken from the stunning new album 'Maps'... 

Order your copy here:

www.messagetobears.com/album/maps

'Maps is the third LP from multi-instrumentalist Jerome Alexander, the man behind Message to Bears.

Following on from the success of Folding Leaves, Jerome has created something that encapsulates the folksy ambience of previous releases whilst adding an electronic dimension. Building layer upon layer, songs evolve with a fragile intensity. Vocal melodies are draped over string and guitar arrangements and end up soaring over them, at the same time lending a hook instantly recognisable as Message To Bears and blending harmoniously with the arrangement.

The overall result of Maps is something that is both startling and familiar. You are drawn in, given a map if you will, and invited on a musical journey that nods to Message to Bears' past but also leads to the future.'

Release Date: 12th November 2013

Composed, produced and mixed by Jerome Alexander. Viola and violin performed by Tim Gill. Mastered by Carl Saff.

www.messagetobears.com

Message To Bears - Rather Stay

More info, full EP and HQ download: asip.me/ASIP028

There’s always private pleasure in seeing beauty where others don’t. Sometimes it’s just a case of the personal outweighing the spectacular but in a part of the world as vast and stunning as Yorkshire, the abundance of scenery makes finding that place an infinitely easier coincidence. Ilkley or ‘Heather Spa’ is one such place for 36 aka Dennis Huddleston. A moorland area on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, it’s served as both a place of escape and inspiration.

“It’s a place I’ve visited many times at various stages of my life,” he begins, “coming from Bradford, which has had its fair share of social and economic problems over the years, Ilkley provided an escape from the city and is somewhere me and my friends spent many days and nights. It isn't the largest, nor the most beautiful countryside in England, but it has an undeniable charm that’s felt by everyone who’s visited.”

You feel that connection throughout ‘Heather Spa’. It’s one of familiarity and rejuvenation with the exhale of the strings evoking happiness and a gazing contentment. ‘Heather Spa (Burning)’ is just as poised and gentle with its slow, weaving melodies and whilst it’s more clouded and subdued, it leaves a determinedly resonant impression.

“There was a huge fire in 2006 which destroyed vast areas of the moorland,” Dennis explains. “I had visited it only a few days prior and the lush green land was replaced by charred cinders, completely decimating the landscape. It was quite a sight to behold and there was an undeniable melancholy in the air. Reseeding efforts and the tough will of nature has reversed most of the damage and Ilkley Moor is alive once again.”

The initial inspiration for the ‘Shadow Play’ album, this final instalment of ‘Heather Spa’ marks the culmination of Dennis’ personal trilogy, and helps the ‘Heather Spa EP’ feel like a very natural conclusion to a journey of transition, progression and redemption.

"It's come full-circle in a way,” Dennis muses, “Heather Spa as a concept was the catalyst for my latest album 'Shadow Play' and you can see three distinct yet fully-connected chapters on what is a single story; the inception with Heather Spa, the realisation with Shadow Play, and finally with this EP for the ASIP Places Series, an epilogue. I think they're some of the most emotional pieces of music I've worked on and I hope you enjoy taking this final journey with me, right back at the place where it started."

ASIP028 36 - Dangerous Days

For more information please see http://asip.me/isolatedmix42

Tracklist:

01. todos - 'Intro'
02. Abstract World - 'Mirage'
03. Sigur Ros - 'Varðeldur' / Sigur Ros - 'Ég anda' edit
04. Jon Hopkins - 'The Wider Sun' / King Creosote & Jon Hopkins 'First Watch' edit
05. Kiyoko - 'Something To Think About' / Jon Hopkins 'The River'
06. Devoted Enemies - 'Anx'
07. Nils Petter Molvær - 'A Small Realm'
08. Apparat - 'Tod'
09. Mogwai - 'Letters to the Metro' edit / S O H N - 'Bloodflows' / The XX - 'Chained' (Sasha Beatless Mix) edit
10. Oxia - 'Exaila' 
11. Abstract World - 'Path'
12. Agnes Obel - 'The Curse'
13. Sin Fang - 'Young Boys' (Jonsi Remix)
14. Nathan Fake - Paean (Coda)
15. Pye Corner Audio - 'Toward Light'
16. Moderat - 'The Mark (Interlude) / Boards Of Canada - 'Nothing Is Real' edit
17. Lowb - 'Whealer Dealer Healer'
18. Boards Of Canada - 'Telepath'
19. Daniel Avery - 'Platform Zero'
20. Clark - 'Black Stone' / todos - 'Subway'
21. Cotton Wolf - 'Cassette 98'
22. Alt Fenster - 'Sur Cette Feuille'
23. Borealis - 'Nightfall' (Ben Lukas Boysen remix)

Plus samples & effects.

isolatedmix 42 - todos: Kilchurn Session X

More info and links to buy the tracks featured: http://asip.me/reflection_2013

01. Boards of Canada - Everything You Do Is A Balloon (Warmth remix)
02. Boards of Canada - Reach For The Dead
03. Jon Hopkins - Open Eye Signal
04. Ocoeur - Astral Projection
05. Recondite - Riant
06. Bonobo - Cirrus
07. Oneohtrix Point Never - Zebra
08. Lawrence - In Patagonia
09. Daniel Avery - Naive Response
10. Rival Consoles - Odyssey
11. Nils Frahm - For (Max Cooper remix)
12. Need A Name - Road To Berlin
13. Olafur Arnalds - Only The Winds
14. Nils Frahm - Said and Done
15. Max Cooper - Fragments of Self (Petrels remix)
16. Rhian Sheehan - Thoughts on Nature
17. Hammock - Then The Quiet Explosion
18. Stareaway - The Loss Of Breath
19. Ulrich Schnauss & Mark Peters - Das Volk Hat Kleine Seele
20. Luke Howard - August
21. dalot - Night Owl
22. Lights Dim with Gallery Six - Echoes of The Ongoing Riot
23. Bjorn Rohde - I Began To Float
24. Alveol - Empty Heart
25. Preghost - Cliff Edge Ghost
26. ASC - I Share My Secrets With You
27. Nils Frahm - Over There It's Raining

ASIP - Reflection on 2013

And just like that, new things begin. This morning is another day, sleepily yawning into the autumn sky. It’s all about cycles. It’s all about change. “Everything changes,” a car salesman said to me when I asked about the improvements over the last year’s model during my test drive. I’m sure he knew how right he was. For today’s special podcast I invite you to contemplate this and many other important life lessons as you travel alongside Fingers in the Noise. It’s a journey you’ll enjoy…

"This mix was first and foremost created just for me. The selected pieces helped me relax and relieve the stress of everyday life. I’m also happy that I could share this music, and introduce you to the less known artists. I hope you will enjoy this timeless journey as the sound transports you to a distant landscape and evokes a meditation for a better world."

Full track listing and more details on the mix can be found here:
http://reviews.headphonecommute.com/2014/09/30/fingers-in-the-noise-drone-journey/

As always, please enjoy responsibly and support the featured artists!

Fingers in the Noise - Drone Journey

Invisible Landscapes 019 - Mixed by Jester

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Steve Roach & Jorge Reyes - The Circle Opens
ASC - Satellite's Final Voyage
Hollan Holmes - Pale Blue Dot
Lab's Cloud - Back To The Roots
Chronos - Endless Rotation
Astropilot - Inverted Worlds (Jan Amit Remix)
Astronaut Ape - Dreams
Circular - Complex A
Cosmic Replicant - I Robot

Many thanks to the Labels: Projekt Records, Silent Season, Altar Records, Sentimony Records, Microcosmos Records & Ultimae Records

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Invisible Landscapes 019

Marsen Jules - The Empire Of Silence 

Buy this now: oktaf.bandcamp.com
(CD inludes download of a 38 minute bonus track)

Ten years after his debut-album “Herbstlaub“ on CCO, german ambient composer Marsen Jules takes us to his “Empire of Silence“. An impressing soundtrack to the epic power and  beauty of nordic snow and ice-landscapes. Thereby he sounds even more elegiac, warm and romantic as ever before. This might be a result of a strict reduction to bittersweet symphonic string-sounds. Sounds which Jules elapses like a prism on the timeline and lets them meander on the slightly on the listeners eardrum. While others are still talking about “modern classic“, Jules is already moving on the particle-layer through the sound-continuum. Diving deeper into the sounds then ever before, he lets the frequencies mirror on the sound spectrum with an impressing precision. Actually there is not much space for “real“ silence on the album. Instead the epic sounds of “The Empire of Silence“ seem to unfold their archaic euphoria best at high volumes. An euphoria that carries everything away and occupies the whole space. For the track titles of the eight gems on this album Jules refers to different Words for snow in Inuit language, of which the legend says there are dozens. While the melancholic openers “penstla“ (the idea of snow) and “tlaslo“ (snow that falls slowly) still travel on soft ways, the album raises to its full euphoria with “kayi“ (drifting snow) and “skriniya“ (snow that never reaches the ground). With its epic magic the nine minute long “katiyana“ (night snow) thrills the listeners attention while “naklin“ (forgotten snow) brings a short inhale. The album finds its peak with the ecstatic glisandi of „chathalin“ (snow that makes a sizzling sound as it falls on water) and finds its finish in the beautiful and lofty “ylaipi“ (tomorrow´s snow). For everyone who is still not satisfied fully after this 55 minute journey through nearly endless stringlisandi, we recommend the 45-minute bonus track which comes as digital download with the cd version on bandcamp.

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Marsen Jules - The Empire Of Silence (Album Preview)

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Dusk

harold budd pensive aphrodite

ethernet 'correction'

www.maxcorbacho.com
Max Corbacho returns with a new work, this time as a double album, which again immerse ourselves into touching atmospheric ambient realms of pure beauty. The Ocean Inside is a paradise of lush, cascading long chords, as oceanic waves, back and forth, in an eternal flow of shifting tones and spiraling harmonies. This is music aimed at energy, emotional and mind levels, for listeners who love deep, meditative ambient music. The album is presented in a two disc, deluxe 6 panel Digipack.

This long awaited new album presents an immersive flow of emotional soundworlds and harmonic structures that bring us to the depths of the inner ocean.

With this awesome album Corbacho portrays a very personal and introspective journey divided in two parts: one in his now classical melodic and cosmic style full of beauty and dreams and the other one introducing a deeper and a bit darker scenario surrounded by massive amounts of pads and drones that takes us to the dephts of serenity, like laying in the ground of an infinite ocean. In the end, this album is just an acurated soundtrack of every human soul.

 In Max words:

More than two years ago I started this project from a Eastern concept that has always been present in my work: the analogy that exists between the mind as an ocean, with constantly changing waves at the surface, and the inner stillness and silence at the depths. It is from this seed that brings me to the concept of "Oceanic", the word from which I have been developed each of the parts that make up the album. During the creation of these pieces, I tried to go as deep as I could into this bottomless ocean depths. The Ocean Inside is the record of that dive into the depths, the witness that what matters is not how deep you can go, but the experience of that moment.
http://www.maxcorbacho.com/

The Ocean Inside Disc1 (medley excerpt) - Max Corbacho

The Ocean Inside Disc2 (medley excerpt) - Max Corbacho

This is a preview to a recent work called "The empire of silence" to be released somewhere in the future on Glacial Movements Label.

Marsen Jules - The empire of silence (first preview)

Guest mix for Secret Thirteen Music Journal, featuring some of my recent favourites and a few exclusive upcoming releases on ASIP. Below are direct links (where possible) to each of the tracks and labels.

Read the full introduction here: http://secretthirteen.org/secret-thirteen-mix-055-ryan-griffin-a-stangely-isolated-place/

01. https://soundcloud.com/ametsub – Sun of Madrid [https://soundcloud.com/nothings66, 2012]
02. https://soundcloud.com/billow-observatory/billow-observatory-pankalia [Felte, 2012]
03. https://soundcloud.com/mm_irezumi/diluria-irezumi-remix [Self-released, 2012]
04. https://soundcloud.com/purl/purl-deflektion-towards [https://soundcloud.com/dewtone-recordings, 2012]
05. https://soundcloud.com/samkdc/rq-hounds-sam-kdcs-strung-out [https://soundcloud.com/auxiliarylabel, 2012]
06. https://soundcloud.com/3six/eus-mes-36-remix [Self-released, 2012]
07. Ian Hawgood – A Film By Geskial [https://soundcloud.com/homenormal, 2010]
08. https://soundcloud.com/kiyokomusik – Shinagawa [https://soundcloud.com/auxiliarylabel, 2012]
09. Herrmann & Kleine – Leaving You Behind [https://soundcloud.com/morrmusic, 2002]
10. https://soundcloud.com/modulenz – The Frequent Sea [https://soundcloud.com/astrangelyisolatedplace, forthcoming 2013]
11. https://soundcloud.com/echaskech/echaskech-tundra [https://soundcloud.com/futuresequence, 2011]
12. Roger Martinez pres. https://soundcloud.com/horizontalexcursions – Symphonica Helvetica (excerpt) [https://soundcloud.com/astrangelyisolatedplace, forthcoming 2013]
13. https://soundcloud.com/kitambience – Girl On The Beach Wearing A Skirt (Markus Guentner Remix) [https://soundcloud.com/astrangelyisolatedplace, forthcoming 2013]
14. https://soundcloud.com/astrangelyisolatedplace/aphex-twin-rhubarb-james-devane-acoustic-version [unreleased]
15. Aphex Twin – Rhubarb [Warp, 1994]

ASIP - Secret Thirteen Mix 55

More info including an interview with Rafael > http://asip.me/isolatedmix37

http://www.substratafestival.com/
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-make-another-memorable-substrata-happen

Tracklist:

0:00. Lawrence English – Patterns Review
1:28. Rafael Anton Irisarri – Substrata Hydrophonic Listening
2:15. Yagya/The Sight Below – Sleepygirl
6:52. Markus Guentner – Get Anything Done In This World
16:17. Loscil – Hastings Sunrise
23:09. Mirrorring – Drowning The Call
29:45. Svarte Greiner – Final Sleep
32:57. Tim Hecker – Dungeoneering
37:28. Scanner – 47° 36′ 35″ N, 122° 19′ 59″ W
40:47. Biosphere – Warmed By The Drift
47:11. Jacaszek – Lament
54:01. Nils Frahm – Ambre
57:39. Marcus Fischer – Shape To Shore
63:05. Oren Ambarchi – Stars Aligned, Webs Spun
66:10. Eluvium – Under The Water It Glowed


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