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Stormslagne Sjæle

from 'The Last Garden' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den366
available on all formats at http://denovali.com/birdsofpassage

After 3 years, New Zealand based Alicia Merz breaks her silence with her 5th Birds of Passage album ‘The Last Garden’. Alicia doesn’t share much with the public, except through her music, and so this album offers a rare glimpse into her secret world. Lose yourself in a universe of minimalist soundscapes, reinvented shoegaze, and the words of a poet who all too well knows the cold loneliness of the dark, but can find the breathless beauty in it also.

"Birds of Passage is humble and heartbroken. Her warm words are crimson berries that bear fruit in the cold depths of winter, hanging over crooked, bare branches where nothing else survives. Her dove-like vocals soar, but her introverted lyrics blossom with the fondness of love." (Fluid Radio)

"Alicia presents us with an endearing invitation into her fragile world, a captivating journey through the landscapes of her emotional euphoria and agony, a further commitment to musical experimentation… The cold minimalist-drones, distorted field recordings, and sparse instrumentation, illustrate an icy, desolate and dark world. It’s as if we are listening to the sound of winter itself; an audio exposure to the unforgiving elements of winter." (Headphone Commute)

The Last Garden

Birds of Passage - The Creed

A bunch of sounds I have been bustling around these last months. Now they are digital available from my bandcamp.

Artwork by Iñigo Villafranca Apesteguia
Mastered by Shy

The Non - Now

In the blue heavens
Scattered from dust - an ancient blow

Uninvited flames of the altar
Run over the wings
Of the butterfly spool

Meter by meter, loose
Landed on the hands of tower

The sky limits no air
Illusions of ear and throat.

An eternal liminality amidst of the fading blaze - sunset speaks so much of  light. Adorned by the dust-covered sundial, a candle being blown out since the crack of dawn. First, the hour hand and the minute hand - chime rods clang without touch. To remember: the core of arousal. The body / as foliage / as traverses too ceaseless to bring up the rear.

‘Butterfly Tongues More Ancient Than Flowers’ is the grandeur revival of early electronic era in the personal and subtle twists of a rethought perception of time. For the same reason, the matter simply drifts through it—not itself, but its own persistence. Copenhagen based artist - øjeRum maintained the reminiscence of rending impulses and rhythmic formations at the turn of provoking co-existing worlds, laid bare in the sempiternal totality.

Butterfly Tongues More Ancient Than Flowers

øjeRum - Recurring Dream of Coiled Organisms in the Sky

Firefly-blinking electropulse. Human and delicate.

Limited to 250, high quality vinyl and sleeve with download card.

Where ominous, fuzzed-out textures and energetic, geometric electronics meet, you’ll find Brooklyn’s Elika.  The power duo of multimedia artists Evagelia Maravelias and Brian Wenckebach—now expanded into a four-piece with the additions of Khaya Lou (from Mahogany) and Andrew Kwasny—have quietly recorded and released a torrent of adventurous music since 2006, earning recognition the old fashioned way.  It paid off.  Elika have toured internationally, and were recently handpicked to support shoegazers Asobi Seksu and revered dream-electro musician and producer Ulrich Schnauss, who went on to describe Elika as “an incredibly exciting, radical fusion of shoegaze and electronica elements.”

“Every musical note seems as carefully placed as a comma in a novel, and Maravelias’ voice soars through a collection of intelligent lyrics centered on lost love.” – XLR8R

“Firefly-blinking electropulse.  Human and delicate.” – The Village Voice

Elika’s latest—Girls, Be Serious—is a trilogy of 7 inch records that will be revealed, one by one, over the next year.  The records place intense emotional content into an ocean of complex programmed rhythms a la Grimes and M83, with an emphasis on honey-coated vocals and washes of distant, dreamy synths and guitars.

1. Your Secrets
2. Truest Heart

Elika - Your Secrets

Enya - Carribean Blue (Jeffgermita Remix)

Devlish Trio:
@hydramane615
@baker-beatz
@tenngagebeats

DELUSION w/ LOSTMANE (feat. Devilish Trio)

I wanted to upload something new.
Hope you like this tune.

Big announcement soon!
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// LM

Cloud Fountain

foxes and sunflowers

preview from future release "mental journey to b.c."

night drips

The Drop

Iced World

Buchla 200e, Metasonix Wretch Machine, KV-100 & TM-2, Quad 8 Spring Reverb, Electrix Mo-FX, Analogue Systems RS-290 & RS-295, MoogerFooger Ring Mod. 

The Arpeggiator on the 223e is driving the sequence. I change the notes periodically. This whole things was spontaneous and off the cuff besides pre-tuning the synths. 

SuperHighway1000

For the base of this track I used the iPad as controller (yes midi but converted to cv) - for delay i drenched it in oil (40 years old GA-4RE oilcan delay).

For Anneliese Michel.

Patina of Time

"My name is Devin Underwood and I make many different styles of music under the name Specta Ciera (https://soundcloud.com/specta_ciera) . I also create electro/house music as Devroka. I love working with other musicians and have many collaboration releases as well."
More info can be found at http://spectaciera.com

Tracklist:

Eluder - Dusk Invites The Dark
Sleepy Town Manufacture & Unit 21 - Pairwise
Darren Harper - Brush
Porn Sword Tobacco - Evans Sundown Corp.
Krill minima - Submarine Poetry
Mind over MIDI - Linear
Ishq - The Sun Arcs A Smile
Voder - Leaving Cylon Tape Loop

Have a good listening.

Deep Breakfast 048 - Specta Ciera

The brothers Samu and Ville Kuukka from Helsinki, Finland, making music together since they were teenagers, and trying their hand at many styles, came upon a unique sound in 2004 and thus were born The Gentleman Losers (https://soundcloud.com/the-gentleman-losers). Their mix of ambient aesthetics, lo-fi-but-hi-fi production, post-rock leanings, a hint of Americana, and a dark undercurrent, has earned them a cult following – which is way cooler than being a stupid lame-o big name and selling lots of records and tickets and t-shirts and stickers.

Tracklist:

1 Ceremony in Starlight  Mark Isham, Art Lande
2 Glass Shattering  Yoshio Ojima
3 El Conquistador  Daniel Lanois
4 Ayers Rock Bubble Eyes  Wally Badarou
5 The Emigrant Hannu Karjalainen
6 Rabbits in The Path Midori Hirano
7 Installation Tapani Rinne
8 Pleasantly Lost Emilia
9 Nexus On The Beach Roberto Musci
10 Raw Silk Uncut Wood Laurel Halo
11 John Cage 13 Harmonies: No. 10 GreenwichNoel Akchoté
12 Sketch Julien Neto
13 Wind in Black Trees The Gentleman Losers
14 It Tolls for Thee Vito Ricci

Have a good listening.

Deep Breakfast 049 - The Gentleman Losers

Alessandro is an electronic music producer, DJ and record collector based in Switzerland.
For his contribution to Deep Breakfast Series, the man delivers a special 2hr journey into the realms of ambient and experimental music.

~ DB058 by https://soundcloud.com/alessandro_crimi ~

Tracklist:
01. Linkwood - Suspension (Linkwood)
02. AXS - Distant Receptor (Cold Fiction)
03. Clubsessel - Wiesenliegen (K2 O)
04. Space Afrika - sd/tl (Sferic)
05. Aquarium - Swimming (Silver Lake)
06. Gallery Six - Morgunn (Dewtone)
07. Laslo - Maradek (Greta Cottage Woodpile)
08. Skóll - V (Accent Records)
09. DSN. - Code 69 Revisited (Source)
10. Leafar Legov - Family Is Everything (Giegling)
11. Qik - Ensueña (Aula Magna)
12. Saphileaum - Violet Pond (Silent Season)
13. Aquarium - Floating (Silver Lake)
14. DT-90 - Magnetosphere (Space Of Variants)
15. 2030 - Theta (Subosc)
16. Sa Pa - Room With A View (Mana)
17. Earthen Sea - Living Space (Kranky)
18. Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek - Helio (Faitiche)
19. Howes - Cold Storage A.03 (Cong Burn)
20. Submersion & mon0 - Passage Of Silence (Silent Season)
21. Sraunus - Glaxomi III (Kunst Musik)

Have a good listening.

Deep Breakfast 058 - Alessandro Crimi

" Recently I found myself listening to more music that comforts me and serve as sort of an emotional scaffolding. I pulled together some pieces which I find to have a healing quality which I hope to be able to relay to you. ”

~ Deep Breakfast 065 by Night Dives (https://soundcloud.com/divedeep) ~

Tracklist:
01. Laraaji - Ocean Flow Zither
02. Bark Psychosis - Pendulum Man
03. Global Communication - 4 14
04. Windy & Carl - The Smell Of Old Books
05. Hiroshi Yoshimura - ミスト (Mist)
06. Glåsbird - Søvnfjord
07. Glåsbird - Fjernfjord
08. S.hel - Eia Popeia
09. Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Palace Of Time
10. Boris Salchow - Stars
11. Gigi Masin - How To Disappear In A Kiss
12. Bedroom - Apart Worlds (Ft. Yoga)
13. Suso Sáiz - Frogs In Love
14. Marsen Jules - Oeillet En Delta
15. Ju ca - Chasms
16. Melaine Dalibert - Musique Pour Le Lever Du Jour

Have a good listening.

Photo credit: Marcus Chong

Deep Breakfast 065 - Night Dives

“For your pleasure: newest and latest favorites from my rotations, some blasts from the past plus some great stuff you may have not heard of. Melodic classic ambient gems, haunting melodies, nostalgic tones, deep relaxing colors with moving pastels and some tasty guitar sprinkled in of which I’ll share with you. These have influenced me and inspired my love of this beautiful art form.” 
Hipnotic Earth has been releasing ambient albums since 2015 and has some upcoming new albums on Whitelabrecs, Past Inside the Present, Dronarivm and a track on Shimmering Moods. In February, Rare Quiet Day was released on Healing Sound Propagandist, and in May two remixes on Liquid Bloom’s ‘ReGen: Deep Ambient Remixes.’

~ Deep Breakfast 068 by https://soundcloud.com/hipnoticearth ~

Tracklist:
0:00:00 - Adrift by Pleq & Hakobune [https://pleq.bandcamp.com/album/adrift]
0:04:14 - Dissolve by Tear Ceremony [https://tearceremony.bandcamp.com/album/film-decay]
0:08:38 - Falling Hum by Altars Altars [https://altarsaltars.bandcamp.com/album/kind-hums-cassette]
0:16:25 - Gloriously Gentle, Warm & Fuzzy by Halftribe [https://halftribe.bandcamp.com/album/backwater-revisited]
0:20:41 - Still Wandering by vidnaObmana [https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/revealed-by-composed-nature]
0:26:41 - Eight by Nobuto Suda [https://organic-industries.bandcamp.com/album/transitoriness-oi010]
0:32:55 - The Seduction Of Dr. Pasteur by Richard Bone [https://www.discogs.com/Richard-Bone-Serene-Life-Of-Microbes/release/834490]
0:40:05 - Natur - Dub 01 by Dubicity [https://bionika.bandcamp.com/album/natur-dubicity]
0:45:31 - Naiima, An Excerpt by zakè (扎克) & Tyresta [https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/healing-sounds-a-compilation-for-hurricane-recovery]
0:47:29 - Enoch by Bubble [https://bubble9.bandcamp.com/album/01]
0:52:48 - Refresh, Restore by Spheruleus [https://spheruleus.bandcamp.com/album/night-spheres-ep]
0:57:59 - Monsoon I (Anticipation) by Lycia [https://lycia.bandcamp.com/album/ionia]
1:00:59 - Map In Hand, Pt. 4 (Epilogue) by Seaworthy [https://12kmusic.bandcamp.com/album/map-in-hand]
1:05:09 - Quiet Boy by Black Brunswicker [https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/hidden-amongst-the-trees-and-foothills]
1:10:42 - Voyagers by Gallery Six with Lights Dim [https://lightsdim.bandcamp.com/album/young-city-ep]
1:15:00 - It's Not The Same Without You by Slow Clinic [https://audiogourmet.bandcamp.com/album/the-things-i-leave-behind]
1:21:15 - Once In The Summer Morning When The Sun Was High by Murkok [https://www.discogs.com/murkok-Investigation/release/7652409?sort=catno&sort_order=]
1:25:55 - Looking Into The Past by Benn Jordan [https://bennjordan.bandcamp.com/album/pale-blue-dot]
1:30:02 - Song For Staring by Swell Sounds [https://ache-label.bandcamp.com/album/ache-compilation-001]
1:33:38 -  Fern And Robin by Loscil [https://loscil.bandcamp.com/album/endless-falls]
1:40:27 - спускаясь в самую глубь by Blank Embrace [https://blankembrace.com/album/--63]
1:46:40 - Coastal Lows by Halftribe [https://archivesdubmusic.bandcamp.com/album/daydreams-in-low-fidelity]
1:49:34 - Osmund by Stabilo (Speaker Gain Teardrop) [https://stabilo-loadbang.bandcamp.com/album/unknown-tracks-08-12]
1:53:41 - Flam by José Soberanes [https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/the-rising-tide]

Have a good listening.

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Deep Breakfast 068 - Hipnotic Earth

Released by Opal Tapes

Limited Edition Cassette now available for preorder at

opaltapes.bandcamp.com/album/selected-percussive-works-1998-2001-vol-ii

Millions Of Moon Strings Vibrate As The Animals Sing

from 'Daear' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den350
available on all formats at http://denovali.com/lto

Based in Bristol, LTO first made waves as part of mysterious electronic collective Old Apparatus. As a solo producer, LTO has since attracted attention with three albums.

LTO's ambition to create ever more ambiguous and far-reaching sonic environments, whilst retaining something of the familiar and physical, have led him to take inspiration from imagined landscapes of the folklore of his Welsh ancestry and of the planet Mars. Both images of enchanted forests battling enraged giants from the underworld and unimaginably hostile planetary events guide this work of great magnitude.

In 'Daear', LTO explores an expansive sound pallet of swelling synths and noise, ambiguous string instruments, thunderous percussion, unearthly voices and his signature sound the piano, mostly processed beyond recognition. The result is a mysterious and deeply textured journey that could be set in both the distant past and uncertain future, on this planet or beyond.

Praise about LTO:

“haunting and comforting in equal measure. 4/5" – MOJO

“like memory preserved in nostalgic aspic” – The Independent

“a beautiful collection that stands tall alongside the work of his contemporaries” – XLR8R

“Blurring the lines between the organic and machine-made... Takes nebulous sounds and crashes them with the clatter of machine rhythms… Brilliant.”  - Hyponik

“An adventurous blend of hues grey and dark...Staggeringly rich.”  - FACT

"Another great album by a real talent hugely deserving of even more attention. Remarkable. 9/10"  - God is in the TV

øjeRum - Recurring Dream of Coiled Organisms in the Sky

Amulet of Tears