Exactly two years ago, we packed up our studio gear and took a trip to our creative sanctuary in the Oregon Cascades, where we settled down for a week of writing music in the forested, wintry foothills. We had recently encountered Henri Rousseau's painting The Dream at the MoMA, and the feeling of being enthralled by the piece followed us home.

We acquired a wooden jigsaw puzzle representing the painting and moved between the meticulous piece-by-piece study of the lush world of The Dream and the piece-by-piece building of these songs. With snow falling and the new year approaching, our minds wandered to an imaginary jungle island where reality and dreams intertwine in the humid undergrowth.

2: The Dream

Sage 2: The Dream

tondiue - Pavilion

This is a 4 hour live set of different sub genres of techno with sprinkles of house and bass music the day after Thanksgiving in an intimate space.  Philly, PA.

Live at Bounce House (Philly) November 25 22

8circuit is a new project by secondnature resident Alex Markey. Liquid Link is a set of kinetic, intricately crafted tracks built on deep rhythmic foundations and enriched with his signature atmospheres.

8circuit - Liquid Link [SN012]

Full stream of "Path to Ground" from 8circuit's Liquid Link EP [SN012].

secondnature.bandcamp.com

Liquid Link

8circuit - Path To Ground (full stream)

From the forest floor to the dance floor and back again

cover art by Isabel von der Ahe

releases 5/17/23

sagesounds.bandcamp.com

Sage 3 - Orchid Dance

@sageseattle

From the forest floor to the dance floor and back again.

Bandcamp Pre-order: https://sagesounds.bandcamp.com/album/3-orchid-dance

pi pi pi premiere: Sage - Mind Body Algorhythm

We're so happy to announce the Ground Hum Mix Series. For our initial mix, we've got a very special contribution from Ground Hum's own IVVY featuring tracks from past and future Ground Hum artists.

Typically known for visceral live techno sets, Seattle’s Madi Levine (IVVY) blends their background in jazz and electronic synthesis into hauntingly beautiful atmospheric compositions. Their ambient works are cathartic expressions of healing, navigating the past and hope for the future.

Follow IVVY: @ivvyseattle

Join us for Ground Hum on March 2, 2024.  Tickets are available now at https://groundhum.net

Tracklist:

Arovane - skyline 
Patricia Wolf - under a glass
Lori Goldston - we miss you and wish you well
IVVY - closed gates
Strategy - the wet room
Sarah Bell Reid - underneath 1
Lucy Liyou - some form of kindness
Ben Bondy - aphelion lash 
Piotrek Markowicz - if the sun had a sound it would be huun hurr tu
Hollie Kenniff - quell
Nils Petter Molvaer - presence
Garth Stevenson - the southern sea

Ground Hum Mix Series #1: IVVY

We welcome the summer season with our first volume of Sage edits. We love reinterpreting our favorite artists, and our hard drive is full of ideas for edits and remixes. We hope that listeners share the nostalgia and emotion that these songs evoke for us, while also finding something new to love in our interpretations. 

This EP is a reflection of both of us as individual artists and our combined vision, featuring one track by each of us and one we made together. The tracks we chose to edit hold a special place in our hearts, full of memories of the delight of musical discovery. The Cocteau Twins edit is particularly special and long-held. It was written collaboratively many years ago in the sage field that is our namesake. It was one of the first completed Sage tracks that we hoped to release. It has stayed with us through many eras of our lives together as artists and partners. The artwork designed by Isabel Von Der Ahe is based on the color palette from the cover of Heaven or Las Vegas, an album we and so many of our friends love. We are so thrilled to finally share it and the full EP with you and hope you enjoy it!

Sage 4: Edits

This is a stereo rendering of a quadraphonic looping audio collage I made for a multimedia installation created in collaboration with visual artist Mariko Yoshino. The project was installed in a tent filled with cushions & plants in an open meadow under the stars near Mt. Rainier, Washington and served as a chillout zone for a nearby rave. The sounds are inspired by the piece "Falling" by Delia Derbyshire, the only non-original part of the loop, and are intended to evoke the emotional resonance of dreams and altered states of consciousness.

Falling (2019 Multimedia Installation)

Evening Jazz, Season 2, Mix 2:
1. Joe Pass - Django - For Django (1964, Pacific Jazz, USA)
2. Lucky Thompson & Barney Wilen - Einsames Mädchen am Meer - Four Brothers (2015, Sonorama, Germany) [Recorded November 25, 1960 at Funkhaus Hamburg]
3. Riz Ortolani - International Escort Service - Si può essere più bastardi dell'ispettore Cliff? (2018, Chris' Soundtrack Corner, Germany) [From the original score for the 1973 Italian film, "Si può essere..", dir. Massimo Dallamano]
4. Bobby Forrester - Don't Misunderstand - Organist (1977, Dobre Records, USA)
5. Bruno Nicolai, Nancy Cuomo - Kiss Me Warren Please - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (1966, Parade, Italy) [Taken from the 1966 Italian film "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang", dir. Duccio Tessari]
6. Manfred Burzlaff - Rendezvouz am Funkturm (Live) - Berlin Jazz Soundtracks (2018, Sonorama, Germany) [Previously unreleased soundtrack music from promotional films for the city of Berlin, mostly recorded during the early 1960's at Audio Tonstudio, Ostpreussendamm, and at other unknown studios]
7. Piero Umiliani E Il Suo Complesso - Ma L'Amore No - Ma L'Amore No / La Canzone Del Boscaiolo (1962, Carosello, Italy)
8. Jorge López Ruiz - Hiroshima - B.A. Jazz (1961, VIK, Argentina)
9. The Diamond Five - Parlez Moi De Velours - Montmartre Blues (2010, Sonorama, Germany) [Unreleased hard bop tracks recorded from 1960-1963]
10. The John Coltrane Quartette - Soul Eyes - Coltrane (1962, Impulse!, USA)
11. Krzysztof Komeda - Walking On The Water - Cul-De-Sac / Knife In The Water (Original Soundtracks) (2005, Harkit Records, UK) [From the original score for the 1966 British film, dir. Roman Polanski]
12. Pete La Roca - Lazy Afternoon - Basra (1965, Blue Note, USA)
13. Walter Strerath - Walz for Ellen - Trio, Quartet, Quintet (1969, JG-Records, Germany)
14. Clifford Brown And Max Roach - Delilah - Clifford Brown And Max Roach (1954, Emarcy, USA)

Season 2, Mix 2 (Midnight Rendezvous)

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Falling (2019 Multimedia Installation)

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