The sound actually makes me visualize ruins. What a beautiful work sir. <3

Wallow

I went to clean out my computer this weekend and found a lot of old projects. Some finished and some not. I felt that these 12 represent a part of Taylormade in one fashion or another, and I want them to see the light of day. No, I am not back. I still make music under a couple of new names that will remain unlinked this project. These pieces all hold a place in my heart finished or not, and date back to 2021 or before.

I hope you all are well.

Separated

Circle, and Back

Luis Miehlich is a composer originally from Heidelberg in Southern Germany, who moved to the small town of Trossingen to study music design in a rural conservatory. He has previously released music through labels such as Archives, Hibernate, Inner Space Travels and also Whitelabrecs with Timecuts in 2019 and the final edition of our Home Diaries series back in 2020. He has also contributed to albums and compilations on eilean rec, Shimmering Mood Records, Ambientologist and El Muelle Records.

Through his studies, Luis has had the opportunity to develop formats for the concert hall and has been able to realise numerous concert projects, bringing together instrumentalists, experimenting with pieces from classical and early music, electronics and visuals. This developed into a further opportunity, in which he had the chance to perform live Ambient sets during a 3-stop mini-tour of japan. These live performances became the backbone of this album.

‘Re-Cartographies’ is based upon a three step process: first the music was sketched out to be played by an ensemble made up of fellow students. It was then rehearsed, developed and finally recorded. Luis then used these recordings to make new ambient pieces, using processing such as granular synthesis, rearranging and looping the material and using spatial effects.

The opening ‘Cartographies’ pieces developed upon the Home Diaries project, adding long silences to the approach to further explore the idea of slowing down time. Then around the same time, still during the Covid-19 pandemic, Luis started sketching small watercolour scores every morning. These later became the base for the two ‘Small Score’ tracks; photographs of these original paintings have been included inside the CD sleeve. These sketches left a lot of freedom to the musicians playing, only notating the contour and structure of the melodies to be played with no set pitches being specified. The charm of the resulting music stems from the fact that everyone interpreted the sketches differently.

At Trossingen, Luis became interested in revisiting these concepts and turning them into a concert programme and this album is made of music recorded in preparation for the concert, which had the subtitle Halbschlafkonzert, which translates to ‘half-asleep concert’. Luis enjoys the state of listening to music whilst almost dozing off to sleep, and wanted to create a stream of music that fits this somewhat subconscious listening-mode. 

Whilst compiling the material for this album, Luis was trying to work with space: The pieces, or blocks, often start out very intimately and end in big ambient spaces. Often, artists will approach ambient music using either synthetic or reverb-led drones, or through more traditional sound sources such as Modern Classical sound. Luis wanted to combine dry chamber music and enveloping ambient in one record and the result is something which feels half-asleep, yet focused at the same time, as Luis aimed to slow down the world.

Credits:
Elisa Wörner - Violin (5-10)
Viola Bürck - Violin (9-10)
Tristan Dorn - Viola (5-10)
Kevin Santana - Cello (9-10)
Haeseong Seo - Alto Flute (9-10)
Manuela Pinto - Clarinet (2-5)
Laura Mingo Perez - Piano (9-10)
Marius Jentschke - Guitar (3-5)
Luis Miehlich - Electronics (1-10) and Piano (1-8)
Franziska Kewes - Vocals, Lyrics and additional Composition (10)

Written and produced by Luis Miehlich
Audio Engineering by Luka Swoboda
Mastered by James Edward Armstrong
Cover art reinterpreted by Harry Towell
Original cover concept by Luis Miehlich
Art and design by Andrew Heath

Re-Cartographies

wlr153 Luis Miehlich - Re-Cartographies

Random Sequence

Track taken from the upcoming album 'These Were Failed Assumptions' released through Fluid Audio...

Music by Tropic of Coldness
Mastered by Alex at quiet details studios
Design by Daniel Crossley

These were failed assumptions

Tropic Of Coldness - Circumstances

Vonleo - Liyoo

First single from Josh Varnedore's upcoming album "the thunder might save us" on Hammock Music label (August 23, 2024).

Delving into cavernous darkness and emerging with glimmering light, Josh Varnedore’s ambient soundscapes reverberate with an ancient, earthen warmth. Reverent and immersed in the natural world, the Ohio-based multimedia artist finds inspiration and more in the hills of Ohio and Arkansas, where he prospects for crystals and natural objects of wood, and bone to incorporate into his music and art. As he works with these elemental and organic materials–Varnedore bows his guitar using a rosined stone core sample from the Union Carbide mine in Arkansas that he estimates to be over one hundred million years old–Varnedore extracts the sounds of rock, soil and once-living matter, giving voice to the story of our slow burning journey with the earth. 

Central to Varnedore’s art is the relationship between enduring objects and ephemeral life, a subject he explores through improvised works of fingerpicked and bowed guitar, field recordings, and a diverse array of sounds created with a vintage sampler. In a collaborative creation with nature, Arkansan quartz will serve as a guitar slide, and a deer jaw found in the woods near his home is another earthen bow that he uses to produce the music he molds like clay. A palpable sense of place imbues Varnedore’s music, which he records in an old schoolhouse, as his songs are touched by the history of rural Ohio and the lives of those who have passed through the 19th century schoolhouse’s doors.   

As he traverses varied sonic terrain, Varnedore taps into voids to establish an immense gravity while threading delicate, weightless patterns from the natural world into shifting webs of harmonized melodies. The resulting songs are both glacial and luminous, golden-hued hums of an unspoken language that pulse and echo and decay and renew. His forthcoming debut project for the renowned Nashville-based ambient record label Hammock Music will be released August 2024.

the thunder might save us

Josh Varnedore - spill through the clouds like a river of light

You Were Always An Island

Vinyl Available Here

Ruins

All music written, recorded, and produced by Hotel Neon [hotelneonmusic.com]
Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studio [blackknollstudio.com]
Released through Archives [archivesdubmusic.bandcamp.com]
Album art by Dalvin Byron [dalvinbyron.com]

Sunfire

The Time Between

Licensing: 
https://www.musicbed.com/artists/alaskan-tapes/43333

Contact: Brady.Kendall@live.com

Ruins

Alaskan Tapes

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