TAKEN FROM ALBUM - 
AHRKH - BLISS WAVES (FROM THE HEART REALM)
Released June 21st 2021 on ZamZamRec 
Order: https://zamzamrec.bandcamp.com/album/bliss-waves-from-the-heart-realm

Watch the mesmerising video for BLISS WAVES by NYC Video Artist Grant Worth (Mission Fantastic) here https://youtu.be/6kQ5bFQzqx8 

"Forget your worries, lie back, and rest your mind. Watch the sun gently set on this world as pink-tinged clouds drift by like thoughts in your mind and feel yourself letting go . . . nowhere to go . . .nowhere to be. Nothing matters, nothing exists outside of this moment . . . right here. . . right now." 

ZamZamRec are ecstatic to announce the first vinyl release from AHRKH, the solo project of Gnod’s A P Macarte : BLISS WAVES (FROM THE HEART REALM). 

Recorded during the first UK lockdown in 2020, BLISS WAVES brings us an hour of undulating, swirling, vaporous and transcendent waves of sonic bliss. 

Macarte may be best known for blowing out our senses with his work in the experimental noise collective GNOD, however he returns this time to ZamZamRec under his solo moniker AHRKH with a triad of delicate, transcendental sound works, more closely aligned with the ambient sonic journeys he transports us on via his monthly NTS radio show, Golden Ratio Frequencies.   

Following on Macarte’s 2015’s ZamZam release “Tone Mantra”, and from last year’s deeply meditative “Beams From A Spiritual Panorama” cassette (Golden Ratio Freq), BLISS WAVES (FROM THE HEART REALM) finds the Manchester-based artist and Sound Therapist delving into a more “Nu-Age” sound palette of mystikal aeriferous sound waves, cascading arpeggiators and bliss-out drone tones, resulting in something akin to Laraaji’s ecstatic zithers being dosed in psilocybin and modulated through LSD soaked synthesisers.  

Macarte Says
"...each each evening, I’d have my equipment set up at my window and play with no pressure, no aim, and no intention, watching the sky and clouds change from sunset melting into twilight and fading into night in a gradual, hypnotic, and psychedelic shift of colour and mood, amorphous clouds gently drifting from neon pink to a backdrop of watercolour gradients...I found myself entranced"

As a result the three selections from these sessions presented in this album aptly reflect those feelings, colours and moods in 45 minutes of aural iridescence and heavenly sound.  

Opener “Bliss Waves'' gently drifts into being with undulating cloud swirls that softly intoxicate the listener whilst sub bass binaural oscillations massage the mind into blissed out ecstasy. This is followed by the hypnotic arpeggiated tone clusters of  “Haze Cascade,” spinning out in a swirling daze recalling Oneothrix Point Never’s earlier headier workouts. Closing the journey, and taking up the whole flip side, “Oceanic Boundlessness” (named after a term used in Macarte’s Sound Therapy work to describe a state of consciousness that Transcends time and space) does exactly that, in epic proportions. Prismatic harmonics ring out to infinity, vocal loops phase in and out of existence, whilst deep throbbing and all encompassing sub bass sine waves keep one afloat in a state of heavenly statis that at once feels celestial and timeless.     

Released through french label ZamZamRec, physical copies are materialized on ltd translucent sunset pink 180g Vinyl cut by Mark Ernestus’ Dubplates & Mastering in Berlin, and with considered mastering by LA’s Leaving Records Matthew David “Mindflight” McQueen for heightened Psychoacoustic impact.  BLISS WAVES (From The Heart Realm) is ecstatic music to transcend the earthly boundaries of body and mind.  

Created, Recorded and Mixed by A P Macarte during lockdown daze April/May 2020 UK, using Synthesisers, loops & voice. 

Mastered by Matthew David "Mindflight" McQueen, LA 2021
Cut by D&M Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin

Release date : 21st June 2021 Solstice 
Label : ZamZamRec
Distro : Diff-erant (EU)/ The Business (USA)

Bliss Waves

OFFEN 016 was long time in the making, and we could write a lot about it - from the first time Lena Willikens played it in Warsaw on 30.11.2019 to the quest for Tadi in Shanghai -, but we’ll live it at first words that fantastic sound designer, producer and DJ Tadi Yan wrote about „7 Diamond Lines“: 

„This is a well know Guru Rinpoche Prayer, and has been chanted at least 1800 years. It has seven lines. Almost all the Tibetan people know this and practice it. Guru Rinpoche was like the second buddha to them also known as Padmasambhava. 
This was recorded in Taipei 2013 during the Ushinisha Vijiaya Puja, chanted by a very famous lama Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche.“
credits
released February 12, 2021 

Written and produced by Tadi Yan 
Recorded in Taipei 2013 during the Ushinisha Vijiaya Puja 
Chant By Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche 
inner sleeve art by : Sheng 
design by Patrick Keuthen / Percy 
Mastering by Enrico Mercaldi at Timetools Mastering 
Special thanks to Lena Willikens 
12“ vinyl - 45rpm 

Offen Music 2020


非常荣幸能在宗萨仁波切和其他佛菩萨的加持下完成这首单曲，其内容是莲花生大士的祈请文，也叫金刚七句。莲花生大士是藏传佛教的开山祖师，在我的认知里，他总是和力量，降服，迅捷，有关。和宁静，安全，被动，没太多联系。所以就有了这首曲子。enjoy!

you can get the vinyl or Digital linked below. =) 
thanks for your love! 

https://clone.nl/item63446.html

https://www.discogs.com/release/17550880-Tadi-Feat-DJKR-Seven-Diamond-Lines

tadi Feat. DJKR - 7 diamond lines (original mix)

Darkroom 808 concrète, taken from forthcoming Dale Cornish masterwork 'Traditional Music of South London' [RAVE040] - an album about recent and ancient folklore, urban gay mythology, and trainers.

Mastered by Rashad Becker. Photo by David Keen.

Traditional Music of South London

Great Storm

Dale Cornish - Great Storm [Rave 040]

Tracklist:
- Sam Wilkes - Welcome
- James Place - Known Cry
- PJs - Pink Yellow Green
- Heavenly Music Corporation - Energy Portal 
- Marconi Union - Weightless 
- Kuniyuki Takahashi - You Should Believe 
- Memotone - Sidewise Dub
- Matthewdavids Mindflight - Unfolding Atlantis
- SVB - Synergetic Energy Exchange/Disco is Long Life
- Motion Sickness of Time Travel - Telepathy
- Tres Demented - Demented (Or Just Crazy) 
- John Caroll Kirby - Meditations in Music I
- Ben Vince - What I can See (Feat. Michachu)
- Archangel - Julia (Dean Blunt on Wine Hashish and Molly Version) 
- Nihiloxia - Kadodi 
- Kelsey Lu - Dreams

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flow theory

Effortless Flight I

THIRD TRACK FROM FORTH COMING LP- WITH LIGHT, BY CHRISTOPHER ROBIN DUNCAN. LAND AND SEA #36
COMPRISED OF PROCESSED HARMONICA, THE OCEAN, ELECTRONICS. 
MASTERED BY SIMON SCOTT
DUE OUT JUNE 2020

WITH LIGHT/MOON SIDE TRACK 2

Thom Knoles discusses Truth as that which does not change, how it can be detected in all fields of life, and how by allowing change to form our sense of identity, we succumb to suggestibility.  Vedic Meditation takes our awareness from the field of ever-change into an experience of that which is beyond change, and reveals to us the truth of our own identity, as an implicit statement of pure knowingness.

Produced by Eric Cahan

Truth

00:17 - Norah Lorway - "Wave End" - Future Void (Distant Bloom)
03:18 - Greenhouse - "Overgrowth" - Whelm (Audio. Visuals. Atmosphere)
11:15: - Million Square - Seeps a Light
14:24 - Flocks - Grammar King
21:20 - Brandon Locher - "Horizontal Progressions - EP2
26:13 - Tom Ashbrook - "Collide"
30:23 - Thomas Lemmer - "You'll Be Free"
34:33 - Permaheal - "Coastalsleep"
39:24 - Fog - "Nocturne" - Fogesque (Grezellig)
44:51 - Sparta Philharmonic - "Jonah"
50:15 - Joel Forsberg - "Världen är din"
52:35 - Kris Vango feat. Youka Manuka - "The Empress"
54:47 - Capa Nau - "Moment"
58:21 - Morteza Jahangiri - "Guo Death"
01:03:59 - Home Learning - "Climbing Mount Shutdown" - The Case for Final (Healing Sound Propagandist)
01:10:23 - Piotr Garbaczonek - "Structure" / "Shadow"
01:16:01 - Whettman Chelmets - "Faire Apaiser"
01:18:46 - Andreas Söderström - "Körsbärsblommorna yrde som snö"

Tome to the Weather Machine Podcast 067

The air above a cityscape is never still. At sundown, the seeming emptiness envelops one in melancholy; as the night goes on, all the neon lights, looming structures and dancing smoke silhouettes come along to keep the company. The urban soundtrack put together by Alethe is a reflection of both the cold and the welcoming, the abrasive and the melodic, all of which makes apparent the dualistic allure of the city. The Russian artist's music has been released on tape labels such as Audio. Visuals. Atmosphere., Holy Geometry and Strange Rules. Alethe's mix for Amulet of Tears contains many of his recently favoured works and inspirations.

Amulet of Tears 008: Alethe

Music: @user-994250510

Artwork: @anasisana

Amulet 008: Alethe

Order here:
figureight.bandcamp.com

Nearly three years on from that release (for Bernice a rapid turnaround by comparison to the seven-year gap between their 2011 debut and Puff), the band return with their third full-length, Eau de Bonjourno, out March 5th from Telephone Explosion and figureeight records. It marks their first collaboration with producer Shahzad Ismaily, the acclaimed multi-instrumentalist who has worked with artists as varied as Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, Elvis Costello, Iggy Pop, John Zorn, and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy. While their genre reconstruction remains distinctly Bernice, Dann’s lyrics bring a newfound focus to storytelling in the present moment, compassionately meeting ourselves where we are, and finding joy in spaces that are familiar but ever changing.

Eau de Bonjourno, according to Dann, “openly plays with the shape of a pop song,” drawing on the band members’ backgrounds in jazz, subverting rhythmic formulas, and resting in grooves that sit just outside of predictable. Instead of letting instruments take extended solos, the tone is set on opener “Groove Elation” with brief blurts of synthesized sax, patient passages of space, or clusters of beats, tenderly held together by Dann and Williams’ intimate vocals. The album’s sound is experimental in its truest definition, chopped up like musique concrète and then delicately placed back together with the loving touch of a scrapbook collagist.

Bernice - We Choose You

"Slow burning vocal loops and drone manipulations, scoping internal panoramas of brooding raincloud tones, coruscating half-lit amplifier worship and midnight devotionals, recalling traces of everyone from Loren Conners to Barn Owl”. 
                                                                                                              Boomkat 

AHRKH is the solo project of A P Macarte, multi-instrumentalist member of Salford's critically acclaimed noise experimentalists GNOD (Rocket Recordings). 

Using Modular synthesiser, field recordings and voice, often performing live with video, light manipulation and visual collaborators, AHRKH explores the relationship between sound and consciousness , and it's ability to invoke altered states that touch the intangible within us, offering an opportunity to transcend our present reality.
Highly informed by his own spiritual practice of daily Vedic Meditation, Vedic philosophy and sound's power as a healing tool for inward inquiry, Macarte defines that the goal of his music is to “traverse the infinite expansive panorama within ourselves and discover ultra-dimensional transportation methods via sound".    

Primarily a live performance project performing in the UK, Europe and USA, alongside luminaries, and peers alike, in recent times AHRKH/Macarte has been expanding his sonic scope into the Therapeutic realms of sound, studying at the British Academy of Sound Therapy (BAST), one of the most highly regarding and prestigious institutions in the field, combing his contemporary electronic tools alongside traditional intuitive instruments such as Gongs and Crystal and Himalayan Singing Bowls, lending his sounds to installation works, Yoga classes, live film soundtracks, sleep concerts, meditation sessions and other such immersive sound experiences. 

AHRKH also produces a monthly radio broadcast GOLDEN RATIO FREQUENCIES from highly popular NTS Radio, and runs a "Micro-Label" under the same name serving as a holistic sound facilitator,  providing a platform for music, art and aural ephemera of a “Vibratory” quality. 

AHRKH has performed music and immersive sound events in UK Europe and USA including Supernormal Festival, Temple Sessions London, Manchester International Festival (MIF) and 24 Hour Drone New York.

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