Super track, Anna. Great orchestration too.

Absolutely DeVine. Haunting and beautiful Anna. Bad news for us is that we are in London when you play the Dunfanaghy Jazz Festival in Donegal 12/13th Septeber 2014

@hannamia: Thanks Hannah! Very best of luck to you too x

How Fabulous! Wowza! Love, love, love this! <3

Autumn Leaves

K Theory

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remixed by Ben Lukas Boysen
mastered by Martyn Heyne
photo by Miguel Murrieta Vásquez

published for Crowdfunding on Startnext 2016
for the upcoming album 'Chameleon'

Levitation [Ben Lukas Boysen Remix]

Taken from his debut album 'Gravity' re-issued by Erased Tapes on June 10.

Order the LP/CD/DL here: www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP084
iTunes: http://snip.ftpromo.net/gravity
Spotify: http://snip.ftpromo.net/onlyinthedark
Bandcamp: http://snip.ftpromo.net/gravitybc
or any other good record store worldwide

In celebration of their latest signing, Erased Tapes are set to re-issue Ben Lukas Boysen’s compelling debut album ‘Gravity’, alongside new album ‘Spells’ on 10th June 2016.

‘Gravity’ was the first album Ben recorded under his own name, merging programmed piano pieces with live instruments, combining the controllable technical world and the often unpredictable aspects of live improvisation.

From ‘Only In The Dark’ to the two movements of ‘Nocturne’, it’s a serious, solemn listen. And yet, with pieces like ‘To The Hills’ and ‘Eos’, ‘Gravity’ is an exploration of heights, cliffs and vertigoes. With piano lines and choir-like drones, this record suits its title in all its meanings, as the magnetic force takes us deeper towards the core. Marking a new beginning, this debut reveals a touching, and more melodic side to Ben’s body of work, which he previously only hinted at as HECQ.

Friend and fellow Erased Tapes artist Nils Frahm mixed and mastered the album. Ben is not a master pianist like his dear friend, but his sound collages are so meticulously designed that after hearing the result an impressed Nils declared: “from now on, if anyone asks – this is a real piano”.

His intricate, humanised programming – enhanced by drummer Achim
Färber, additional synthesisers played by Nils, and a considerate selection of echoes, delays and compressors – has been used to create a hybrid sound that intends to deceive, question and challenge existing listening habits. Utilising the contrast between reduction and decoration, ‘Gravity’ as well as its successor ‘Spells’ can be seen as a quest to find out how much or how little composition is required to constitute a song. Why the ear can and should be deceived about the authenticity of instruments. What significance these instruments have within this process, and why the personal perception of balance and sound exclude ultimate truths. Linking the two albums are the four movements of ‘Nocturne’, an ever-developing conversation that on occasion flirts with the grandeur of compressed rock drums.

As HECQ Ben has released nine albums since 2003, exploring everything from ambient to breakcore. He has simultaneously established himself as a trusted composer and sound designer, working for a wide array of clients including Amnesty International and Marvel Comics; composing for feature films, games, art installations and convention opening titles.

After embracing this demanding line of work, in 2010 Ben felt the need to explore his roots and early education, which inspired these albums under his own name. Born in 1981 as the third child of opera singer Deirdre Boysen and actor Claus Boysen, his classical music training on piano and guitar began when he was seven years old; the works of Bruckner, Wagner and Bach laid an important foundation. Rediscovering this music shared with his parents – united with the sounds of Autechre, Cristian Vogel and
Jiri.Ceiver to Pink Floyd and Godspeed You! Black Emperor – brought back an understanding of why he wanted to write music in the first place.

“Gravity strips away the cloaked mysteries of electronic music production to expose the tender side of this musician’s mind." — Headphone Commute

TRACKLIST:

01. Only In The Dark
02. Nocturne 1
03. To The Hills
04. You'll Miss Us One Day
05. Gravity
06. Eos
07. Nocturne 2
08. The Behenian Gospel

Gravity

Only In The Dark

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Ben Lukas Boysen - Only In The Dark

Remains

Taken from the debut album, 'Wild Alee', out now.
iTunes: http://bit.ly/wildalee
Spotify: http://bit.ly/taloswildalee
Vinyl: http://bit.ly/wildaleeLP


Written by Talos. Produced by Talos. Recorded + added production by Ian Ring. Mixed by Valgeir Sigurðsson.

Lyrics:

It’s amour before we're lost
we test our peace
it’s your privateness that taunts
right next to me
taste this fatal avalanche 
a monster me
then I fade just like violence
falling, passing, breathe.

With your hounds and wolves
carry me to the sea
give your thousand wounds to me

Maybe we're water and this is all salt
though it never happened it tears us apart, apart
and in that light I cast alone
it feels like I was slipping off
with devils

With your hounds and wolves
carry me to the sea
give your thousand wounds to me

With your hounds and wolves
carry me to the sea
give your thousand wounds to me

Your love is an island
I’m scorched in the sands of it...



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Your Love Is An Island

Island Songs

Particles (Island Songs VI)

Here'a different turn on my musical understandings, lots of grooves, breakbeats and grooves
Enjoy


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