Musik for life

Track 49

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Ambient Music

Deepient

Music IX

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Anthem Falls welcomes ambient electronica artist Abstract Aprils to its roster, with the upcoming release of the EP Moedi. With comparisons to Brian Eno, Robert Fripp and Hammock, the deep ambient blogosphere has described past work as “tranquil,” “rich in organic sounds,” and a “masterpiece of ambient music.”

Inspired by the vast skies and landscape of western Montana, past releases have explored a marriage between ethereal organic layers and experimental electronic sounds.

Moedi, however, marks the start of a new chapter.

A strict limitation was placed on the writing of these songs - everything you hear is entirely made from synthesizers. No microphones, no field recordings, no organics - only electronics - only oscillators and the manipulation of their audio signals. In fact, the word moedi actually translates to “limitations.” 

Ironically, boundaries can open the door to freedoms. The challenge of making the songs interesting under these limitations led to unexpected and unique outcomes. Finding depth may have been more difficult than usual at times, but, with a nod to author Ryan Holiday, sometimes the obstacle is the way.

Experimenting with analog synths such as the Prophet Rev2 and Moog Mother-32, along with vintage synth emulators via the esteemed Arturia Collection series, the journey to this depth comes in the form of imaginative and unexpected layers - be it finding the right plucking sound through synth envelope experimentation and then reversing the recording to create sparkly atmosphere (“Verge”); or, taking a small clip of a few recorded notes and processing it through a granular synth for a 12-minute improvisation, and finally cutting and chopping that ensuing recording up even further (“Bourne”) - to name just a few of the experiments.

And, using only electronic elements, lest the result end up feeling too far apart from a human touch, there were intentional decisions to give the songs life. For example, there’s a steady sub bass line that drives “Reserve,” but rather than playing to a grid, perfectly on tempo, this, along with nearly every other part of the album, was played without a click or rhythmic pulse - but rather, entirely with human feel.

Indeed, even the song titles were limited to one word.

Moedi is a new chapter for Abstract Aprils - one that was not held back by limitations, but rather given its pulse by them. The result is a rich, unique, and enduring ambient offering.

Moedi

Verge

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Gravity

Breathing Sculptures

A little ambient music for you guys. Good listening. =3

Library

The whole of a complex structure, especially the world or universe, contrasted with a small or representative part of it.

Swept Away, like dust.

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Swept - Macrocosm

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Forgiven

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Couriers. A song for daydreaming.
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Let Nothing Be Done Twice. Hope through repetition.
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ENiGMA Dubz - A Night In The Forest

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I Get You (feat. Lizzy Land)

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better days

A field of light extends all around you...

Astral Grove

Telescope EP

Virgil

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revenant - nothing special

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dust (feat. VALENTINE)

hi guys. i wrote this song about a boy i met when i moved to la. everything was going great but then he ended things and i got fired from my bartending job. 

c'est la vie, amirite?

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mess without u

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Seeking a respite from the noise and clamour of New York City, Eric Phillips and some friends moved for a time out to a remote area on the Olympic peninsula. With no fixed plan in mind, this period of adventure and discovery spent in the beautiful Pacific Northwest gradually seeped into an organically evolving musical vision for Kennebec.

In many ways, ‘Departure’ catalogues this time of his move out west. Eventually moving to Portland to find work as a teacher, film composer, and mentorship under Mark Orton (Nebraska, Tin Hat.) Kennebec’s producing of ‘Departure’ began in Spring 2017. It took two long years of patient, daily labour to complete the album, during which time influences such as Studio Ghibli soundtrack composer Joe Hisaishi, cult hip hop artist Nujabes as well as Australia’s Taylor Crawford and Tycho’s ambient electronica began to permeate the soundworld. On February 14th 2020, Night Time Stories, sister label of acclaimed Late Night Tales, will release his much anticipated debut album and Kennebec will become part of an internationally respected roster including Khraungbin, Leifur James and Ash Walker.

He scored parts for classical guitar, ngoni, kalimba, bass, piano and Rhodes all of which he plays himself on ‘Departure’. Phillips began writing violin and viola parts for friend and collaborator Mirabai Peart (Joanna Newsom, Alela Diane, Ryan Francesconi), whose balkan inflections and beautiful tone became a defining sound of the record — and eventually tied the album together. All tracks on the album were mixed by Phillips.

On ‘Departure’, organic beats and soaring string lines envelope the listener with a dreamful kind of optimism. New single ‘Seasons Change’ is a silky myriad of sounds, textures and techniques that melt against a backdrop of subtle electronics, while ‘Kalahari’ glistens with curiosity and adventure as magnetic strings meet with a mosaic of horns. Elsewhere, the melancholic and wistful moods of ‘Wellspring’ provide a moment of reflection before the warm, fuzzy, feel good grooves of ‘Quest’, embellished by flutes and sax, venture into more overt atmospherics and fluid modulations.

“Recording ‘Departure’ was an amazing learning experience for me as a producer, composer and musician. It was a concentrated period of time in my life that was fully dedicated to focusing in on my craft. To me, the songs sound like journal entries — they bring me back to those specific times and places, but I also write music in an active, intentional way to try and summon the better parts of myself day to day to come to life and fruition. I have to be doing something new and experimenting to be inspired musically and I also wanted the music to be evocative of that sense of discovery in an almost physical sense — a sense of journey, motion and exploration of new spaces. The passing of time, setting out,” says Phillips.

He adds, “I wanted to make something bold and ambitious that sounded fresh and different. I think I took a big swing with this album, and, while I feel it’s impossible to fully nail the vision and intention, I’m really proud of it and the sense of idealism, even if naive at times. Hopefully it’s just fun to listen to someone take a big swing like that.”

In addition to the Kennebec project, Phillips has enjoyed working on and composing the music for numerous feature films, shorts, national parks films, documentaries (including 2017’s National Geographic ‘From the Ashes’), advertisements and video games. Films Phillip’s has worked on have screened and are set to screen at the Toronto, Napa Valley and Big Sky film festivals as well as National Geographic and more.

Kennebec - Abundance / In The Reeds

You pull me through, through
And I can’t feel a thing
And I can’t feel a thing
And I can’t feel a thing

You, ouh 
You pull me through, through
And I can’t feel a thing
And I can’t feel a thing
And I can’t feel a thing

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Gidexen - Feel

Really stoked to play this one out on my upcoming 2020 tour!! <3

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Dabin - Holding On feat. Lowell

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Once the dust settles, and you have this album, this large piece of your creative heart.. you look back and listen and you wonder, “where did that song even come from?” Or, “how did these three songs mold together like that?” There’s just certain albums, certain creative eras, that are out of your own mind, and you were outside of yourself when writing them.

Hope Lives In Doubt is one of those albums.

The depth, the ambience, the emotion, the textures - there’s a chance here in bringing the listener outside of themselves - to someplace new, yet someplace warmly familiar.

Elah

New happy track from me, hope you like it!
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Beyond the Clouds

We're excited to announce the release of our first ever soundtrack : the score for the feature length documentary 'Chasing the Present' by Icelandic composer and producer @snorrihallgrimsson. 

Co-produced by Ólafur Arnalds, Hallgrímsson’s stunning score makes use of filtered strings and pianos to emphasize the title character's depression. In the soundtrack's beautiful title track, which is available now on spoti.fi/32wNgH1, the filter opens completely to showcase the mind's enormous potential when it breaks free from perpetual anxiety. The soundtrack is out on all platforms : https://orcd.co/chasing-the-present

Chasing the Present

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Snorri Hallgrímsson - Chasing the Present

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Abstract Aprils - Elah

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