Hey. Me and my band make experimental music. Just came out with a song called Youth. I think you guys would like it.

How interesting. . . the crescendo seems to never reach the zenith. . . reminds me of Stars of The Lid's 'Artificial Pine Arch Song'.

M. Geddes Gengras - "Ishi" June 24th
180g 12" tip-on _ CD & digital include 40min bonus 'Vigil'
http://www.stonesthrow.com/store/album/mgg/ishi

“No dream, no wildest nightmare, prefigured for Ishi a city crowd, its clamor, its endless hurrying past to be endlessly replaced by others of its kind, face indistinguishable from face.”

- Theodora Kroeber, from Ishi: In Two Worlds


M. Geddes Gengras has inhabited the Los Angeles experimental music scene for the last 7 years, bouncing through various bands, monikers, and a critically acclaimed collaboration with Sun Araw and The Congos. The producer perhaps shines most brightly, however, when left to his own bespoke devices. His solo work is largely based in modular synthesis, comfortably straddling a variety of forms while remaining rooted in a deep affinity for the limitations of analog electronics and a keen ear for timbral manipulation.


Ishi finds the producer diving headlong into beautiful, sprawling ambient explorations and deep, mystical drone. Its title is the name given to “the last wild Indian” in North America, who emerged in 1911 at the age of 49. Hidden all his life in the wilderness of northern California, Ishi spent most of his life completely unexposed to the modern world lurking just beyond his own timeless reality. His only exposure to the “civilized” world came from Gold Rush settlers, whom he watched massacre and disease each and every member of his family and tribe, until he alone remained. When he was found, communication between the miraculous survivor and this strange new world was understandably difficult and frightening— but the knowledge gained through the process proved invaluable.


Sometimes the most effective and direct means of communication and understanding exist outside of human language. Gengras’ highly expressive instrumental record reveals itself via sweeping tonal gestures and striking, intensely colorful washes of heavily processed electronic sound. “Ambient” is insufficient to describe the uniquely evocative soundtrack presented here, a lushly nuanced sound world generated directly from the deeply personal relationship between one man and his meticulously cultivated machines.


“The record is about the schism that exists between the world we live in and those stuck on the margins of it— perpetual outsiders and their quest to understand the torrent of information they are constantly subjected to. I was directly inspired to these pieces by two people in my orbit who died this year, one accidentally and one not, both of whom suffered this affliction and eventually lost their lives to it. The music was a reaction to these losses and a sort of offering of something peaceful but at the same time respectful of the conflict and dissonance of life, with movement always in the distance. I look at it as music for passage between different realms, conscious & un, this world & another, layers of reality... ISHI is a metaphor for that— the man who walks into our world understanding none of it but forced to live in it regardless. This is somewhere in between a prayer and a lullaby for him and for the rest of them, but also something for those of us left behind.” - M. Geddes Gengras

M. Geddes Gengras - Passage

The Strange-Tundra Opera.

Written by strange-tundra composer Xxhe using the sounds of ice, wind, choir, vocal recordings, breathy synthesizers, and orchestral instruments, the Strange-Tundra Opera is not just music, but a grandiosely garmented and glacial tale.

Following creatures made entirely of light whose language can only be sung and is unpronounceable spoken, their language fills the music of the opera ethereally and sometimes painfully.

Composed at the age of seventeen, the music is simple and wind-heavy yet iceic and haunting.



Listen to The Strange-Tundra Opera Part II on SoundCloud: 
https://soundcloud.com/user-790492443/sets/part-2/s-YH5oSt9Qm5c?si=1cfbd0d68ad34116a82f488deb1149c4&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Listen to The Strange-Tundra Opera Part II on Spotify: 
(coming soon)

Listen to The Strange-Tundra Opera Part II on Youtube: 
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs_47zvY8JPH1f8EqJUoOjvDy43eCNz74

Footage from the live show: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN6vndOFyW8

Find Xxhe.
https://linktr.ee/xxhe
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This is my Am, and I Am (descending the mountain as the vermil suns rise)

From "Agua" 
Recorded during the Lanzarote Music Festival, December 1989

Agua

from the album 'the original faces' available 9/4

helen 'violet'

Strands

steve hauschildt 'strands'

Enjoy this first listen from The Orb's upcoming brand-new album 'COW / Chill Out, World!' which is due October 14, 2016 on Kompakt.


COW / Chill Out, World!

out October 14

The Orb - 5th Dimensions

"Only Once Away My Son" by Brian Eno with Kevin Shields

Listen to this track and many others at adultswim.com/singles

Adult Swim Singles 2017

Brian Eno with Kevin Shields - Only Once Away My Son

Tongue

Two for C

First track from the new Jon Hassell album 'Listening To Pictures (Pentimento Volume One)' - Out now:
http://smarturl.it/listeningtopictures

pen·ti·men·to / noun
Reappearance in a painting of earlier images, forms, or strokes that have been changed and painted over.

Forty years since its creation, Jon Hassell's Fourth World aesthetic remains a powerful influence on modern electronic music. Continuing his lifelong exploration of the possibilities of recombination and musical gene-splicing, fragments of performance are sampled, looped, overdubbed and re-arranged into beguiling unexpected shapes. Hassell applies the painterly technique of ‘pentimento’ to the arrangements, teasing out texture by the overlaying of sound upon sound, or a carefully timed reveal of the delicate bones pinning the frame of a track together.

The release of this new album also sees the launch of Jon’s own label, Ndeya (pronounced “in-day-ya”), which will be a home for new work as well as well as selected archival releases, including re-presses of classic sides and some astonishing unreleased music.

FURTHER READING ON JON HASSELL:

Fourth World in the 21st century: https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/2984
Brian Eno on Jon Hassell: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/nov/09/jazz.urban
https://www.jonhassell.com/

Jon Hassell - Dreaming

from "Gave In Rest," Sarah Davachi's new album out September 14th, 2018, from Ba Da Bing Records, Preorder here:https://tinyurl.com/y93h4zbl

Gave In Rest

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Sarah Davachi - Evensong

"Laura" by David Raskin, performed by Erroll Garner in 1954 who is accompanied tonight by me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ark6RNlnjns&feature=related

Brian Eno with Kevin Shields - Only Once Away My Son

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