Wonderful calm soundscape and awesome string sounds :) Love it! Will check out the video soon.

Gorgeous soundscape!  Feeling of peace and afterlife

Ambient soundscape. High quality track free download: https://alessandrobarbanera.bandcamp.com/track/distances 
Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/JZINoToYr-o I dusted off my dear video camera and filmed places around Assisi countryside, collecting a lot of images from the less traveled points of view, (Proust's pages on Martinville steeples are always a great inspiration).

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Marco Lucchi Mellotron Rework By Henrik Meierkord

100722

King Imagine: bamboo chimes - elotronix - 
Bruno Gussoni: shakuhachi

King Imagine & Bruno Gussoni - Wind In Bamboo Country

Fossil Hunting Collective is musician and sound artist Jamie Jones, from Guelph in Canada who has been active under this artist name since 2019. He has previously released music on labels such as Ambientologist, ROHS, Polar Seas and Rusted Tone Recordings across this project name and as (ph)authers (alongside Hymns57) and Still Harbours (with Brad Deschamps). Followers of our discography may also recall 2020’s contribution to our Home Diaries series, entitled ‘Aperture’. 

‘Cyanotype’ was made primarily, via the beautiful surprises thrown out of various guitar pedals along with re-amped loops played back through old cassette recorders. Whilst virtual plugins are also used throughout the process, Jones places an emphasis on the physical too, with his small body acoustic guitar strung with nylons, a Jazzmaster guitar, a baritone ukulele and reel to reel tape. The sound is a heady blend of melancholy, nostalgic and life-affirming movements, using droning texture, tape decay and loosely performed instrumentation to tell dreamy stories.

The theme for this album was born out of the emotions that Jones pours into his music, as he contemplates the day-to-day struggles of his daughter Hunter, who has been Type 1 Diabetic for the last two years of their life. This autoimmune disease can be life-threatening if not managed correctly and around 95% of Jones’ headspace is occupied with worry, as follows strict procedures to count carbohydrates, weigh out food and monitor blood sugar metrics to ensure that his daughter does not become hypoglycaemic, which could lead to a coma. Controlling this disease is a full-time job and one which Jones carries the weight of at all times. The worry, care and withered energy levels mean that these emotions surface their way into the music, when he sits down in his studio late at night.

The album is a homage to what Hunter must go through each day of their life, living with Type 1 Diabetes.  No child or parent should have to go through this. No child should need to understand how it all works, but they are forced to wonder ‘why me’.  On top of the weight of the emotional trauma, there is a physical trauma that comes with being injected with devices and life-saving medication numerous times a day, until a cure can be found. Jones and his family are keen to remind themselves when they can, that the disease does not define the being, and they still celebrate all the positive splendour life can offer. These tracks are an emotional journey of the day-to-day; there is the good and the bad, days of hope and wonder, days of melancholy and sadness.  Above all, they are not alone in this fight, and they all work together as a unit, protecting their family bond fiercely, like bees.

At an age of around 18 months, Hunter adopted the nickname ‘B’, after being so enthralled with their bee costume for Halloween that they continued to wear on many occasions afterwards. The track titles for this album are all influenced by bee related terminology but also, in some cases there are double meanings, such as ‘Apiary’ (meaning home), ‘Castes’ (members of the family) ‘Mellitus Propolis’ combines Mellitus (Latin for sweet)) used in describing Diabetes Mellitus and Propolis (the resin that bees use to hold hives together).

The album package makes use of the artist’s wife Richelle Forsey, who is a visual artist. Richelle often employs a process using the energy of the sun (ultra violet) to expose a camera-less image on paper coated with iron salts. This is called a cyanotype and the paper undergoes a chemical reaction which fixes the image, thus creating an imprinted monochrome ‘blueprint’.

Cyanotype

wlr121 Fossil Hunting Collective - Cyanotypes

Recorded this performance on the 17th of September with a hybrid setup (hardware modular and vcv).

Modular + VCV live performance

Since 2018 we’ve released five albums from Berlin, Germany based composer Sven Laux, including his most recent collaboration with Fione and solo albums ‘Schachmatt’, ‘ODD’, his Home Diaries edition and 2020 and the extended version, Scattered Fragments of Separation (The Complete Story). Sven’s sound design has found its home in short films, advertisement and in audio branding but he also maintains his discography as an artist, focusing on deeply stirring cinematic themes.

A well-balanced contemporary sound awaits you in this latest edition ‘What Remains’ and you are urged by the title to consider what you think about when something is left over? The record uses a depth of sprawling orchestral timbres, across its at-first cryptically titled tracks, to set out the phases of processing an event. At first there is ‘patience’ and ‘hope’, then there is the passing of the event (‘the goodbye’) followed by ‘what remains’; the now. Memory may serve ‘the return’ and perhaps ‘the cohesion’ and for some, there may be ‘the ending’.

You may choose a past experience to relate with these titles or, you might choose to allow it to relate to the present day. It does not matter whether you think positively about something from the past, or whether you mourn something afterwards in a sad or melancholy way. Whether negative, positive or even indifferent, it is the contemplative environment that each track brings which will allow this record to become a thinking space; a ceremonial framework to process events.

Written and Produced by Sven Laux
Mastered by James Edward Armstrong
Artwork by Zoë Heath
Art and Design by Andrew Heath

What Remains

wlr124 Sven Laux - What Remains

Dawn For The Weary

download the full album at:
https://droneopt.bandcamp.com/album/space-kastles

Space Kastles

from https://oberlin.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-a-corridor

Live In A Corridor

Market Song (album-dl see info)

Musician, composer, sound artist. New album “Oblio” released by ROHS! Lontano series: https://lontanoseries.bandcamp.com/album/oblio

Some reviews:

Oblio [2022]:

- collettivoinconscio
collettivoinconscio.blogspot.com/2023/09/alessandro-barbanera-viaggio-al-termine.html

- SoWhat
sowhatmusica.wordpress.com/2023/01/05/alessandro-barbanera-oblio/

Haunted Houses [2020]:

- a closer listen
https://acloserlisten.com/2020/10/16/acl-2020-music-for-haunted-houses/

- SoWhat
https://sowhatmusica.wordpress.com/2020/09/30/alessandro-barbanera-haunted-houses/

- Rockit 
https://www.rockit.it/recensione/49067/alessandrobarbanera-haunted-houses

-Music Won't Save You
https://musicwontsaveyou.com/2020/12/02/musictosave-009/

- Kathodik
https://www.kathodik.org/2021/02/14/alessandro-barbanera-haunted-houses/

In The Middle Of The Path [2019]:

- Chain D.L.K.
https://www.chaindlk.com/reviews/?id=11424

- Music Won't Save You
musicwontsaveyou.com/2020/01/17/alessandro-barbanera-in-the-middle-of-the-path/

- SoWhat
sowhatmusica.wordpress.com/2019/11/18/alessandro-barbanera-in-the-middle-of-the-path/

- Rockit
www.rockit.it/recensione/45575/alessandrobarbanera-in-the-middle-of-the-path

- Blow Up [#262, 03/2020]
www.blowupmagazine.com/prod/blow-up-262-marzo-2020.asp

- Europa e cultura elettronica
europaeculturaelettronica.blogspot.com/2019/11/alessandro-barbanera-in-middle-of-path.html

- Music Map
www.musicmap.it/recdischi/ordinaperr.asp?id=7397

Bastard Under The Stars [2015]:

- Rockit
https://www.rockit.it/recensione/30766/alessandrobarbanera-bastard-under-the-stars

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