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ryan's rotation ~ monday mix #112 ~ 2-29-16

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Exclusive track taken from the upcoming album 'There Can Be No True Beauty Without Decay' released through Hibernate Recordings.

Full review:

www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2013/09/antonymes-there-can-be-no-true-beauty-without-decay

Pre-order:

www.hibernaterecordings.bandcamp.com/album/there-can-be-no-true-beauty-without-decay-2

Info:

Ian M Hazeldine records under the alias Antonymes, hailing from Hawarden, a small village in North Wales, whose most famous inhabitant was William Ewart Gladstone. He creates atmospheric melodies, using various pianos, celesta, strings, church organ and field recordings, and has had releases on Soundcolours, Cathedral Transmissions, Hidden Shoal, Time Released Sound and Rural Colours.

With a long standing interest in music making and active listening, Hazeldine works with any influences, from his surrounding landscape to the artists he has worked with. His compositions often take on a semi-improvised structure with accidental atmospheres used as a starting point. As well as his own projects, Hazeldine also works with Marconi Union's Richard Talbot, under the name Prospector. He also works as a graphic designer, film maker and photographer, having art directed many of the Hibernate releases including our critically acclaimed vinyl series, and has worked with many other artists and labels including Facture, Field Rotation and Olan Mill.

In late 2009 Antonymes released 'Beauty Becomes the Enemy of the Future' on Cathedral Transmissions of which the CD is now unavailable. Since then he has revisited the album, which has culminated a new release, 'There Can Be No True Beauty Without Decay'. Hazeldine's own reworkings are intertwined with those of friends Ian Hawgood, Isnaj Dui, Offthesky, Field Rotation, Wil Bolton, Spheruleus and James Banbury to create an album of captivating melancholy and beauty. The guest reworkings venture into other, darker territories, where one might be harder pressed to identify the original material.

The sleeve features beautiful images of the North Wales landscape by Richard Outram, fitting the music perfectly.


Releases 31 October 2013
Mastered by Jason Corder (offthesky.com)
Photography by Richard Outram and Ian M Hazeldine
Art Direction by Ian M Hazeldine 

Antonymes - The End Of Everything -ii-

2 hours in. Rough draft. Backing track without vocals. Inspired by the beauty of death. Comment with criticism for my next draft?

Angels (Work In Progress)

Originally recorded for the Dead Albatross awards show in October 2014, for Euplexia's award nomination.  
This track was made using recordings of my flute and various objects in the cellars underneath Dean Clough Mills in Halifax.  

Dean Clough Cellar

After a lot of time, my first solo track for 2015, including a guitar + a turntable + my electronic devices. for now just only one track, but hope you will like it. 

ps : headphones or nice sound system are recommended.



Monolyth & Cobalt - Die Wirbel, Die Prasseln (May 2015)

Produced by Jim James & DMM
Recorded & Mixed by Kevin Ratterman
Additional Recording by DMM
Mastered by Joe Lambert
Photos & Videos Captured by Michael Wilson
Design by Dusty Summers

Dan Dorff, Jr. – Piano, Organ & Keyboards
Dave Givan – Drums & Percussion
Alana Rocklin – Bass
Zak Appleby – Bass
Scott Moore – Violin
Charlie Patton – Cello
Jim James – Guitar & Vocals
Joan Shelley – Vocals
DMM – Piano, Guitar & Vocals

Golden Age

Composed, Played & Recorded By Madeleine Cocolas + Monolyth & Cobalt

Mixed by Monolyth & Cobalt in August 2015.

Month Six Project (Madeleine Cocolas + Monolyth & Cobalt)

Composed, Played & Recorded By Madeleine Cocolas + Monolyth & Cobalt.                                                                                                                Mixed by Monolyth & Cobalt in October 2015.

Madeleine Cocolas : piano                                                                                                                                                                                     Monolyth & Cobalt : strings, breathes on tapes, electronic devices,  effects processors, loop pedal, amplified objects.

Month Seven Project (Madeleine Cocolas + Monolyth & Cobalt)

Last year we were asked to write a tune for the Bond movie Spectre.
Yes we were. It didn’t work out, but became something of our own, which we love very much.
As the year closes we thought you might like to hear it.
Merry Christmas. May the force be with you.

Spectre

Actias Luna - Continuous Piano Recorded Live

let go

Pre-order the album on CD and digitally now at: http://antonymes.bandcamp.com/album/for-now-we-see-through-a-glass-dimly

Hidden Shoal is proud to announce the release of ‘Towards Tragedy and Dissolution’, the stunning new single by acclaimed neo-classical ambient artist Antonymes, taken from the forthcoming album "(For Now We See) Through A Glass Dimly".
 
Sonically minimal yet emotionally formidable, ‘Towards Tragedy and Dissolution’ features the stirring string arrangements of James Banbury (The Auteurs) and Christoph Berg (Field Rotation), which engage in reflective conversation with Ian M. Hazeldine's plaintive piano. Its emotional potency and compositional dexterity draws you into an evocative world, demanding engagement.
 
In addition to James Banbury and Christoph Berg, "(For Now We See) Through A Glass Dimly" also includes contributions from composer Stefano Guzzetti, Joanna Swan (Ilya) and writer Paul Morley. Mixed by Stefano Guzzetti and Paul Humphreys (OMD), and mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri (The Sight Below), the album’s depth of sound is awe-inspiring. It is released by Hidden Shoal on 21st April 2016.

http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/antonymes/

This music is available for licensing. Email Cam at Hidden Shoal for more details: cam[@]hiddenshoal.com | www.hiddenshoal.com/licensing

Towards Tragedy And Dissolution

new track every day. just made this one for gigs

Pixelord - Night Ship

More info: https://www.xlr8r.com/news/2016/02/premiere-hear-a-new-remix-from-mad-professor/

More info

Premiere: Invisible Cities Feat. Ali Love - Sunkissed Memory (Mad Professor - Kiss My Dub)

Last week of Kanye Thursday. This week was all freestyle over "Drive Slow" . It was a fun challenge and I'm glad I chose Kanye. Hopefully you're feelin this last one:)Thanks for listening. Keep sharing and listening<3

Lookout for new original music from me very soon!

Twitter, IG, Snapchat: @artisterenee/Claire Reneé

You Never Know(Kanye Thursday 4)

Breakfast Drugs (Instrumental)

sideshow cars and plastic stars,
a turgid affair,
illuminates the dwindling scars,
they point and stare,

I've been longing for a son like you,
I've been searching for a way out too,
and somebody - somebody's looking for you.


If I find some way out,
Then I will stay,
With heart split two ways down,
Like tears down my face,

We'll find our way out,
Without a map just our hearts,
And when we get out,
We'll topple your house of cards,

Koda - The Last Stand

Pre-order Young Galaxy's new album 'Ultramarine' on limited white vinyl & CD:
shop.paperbagrecords.com/products/ultramarine
2013 Paper Bag Records
Young Galaxy - 'Fall For You'
From the album 'Ultramarine' (out April 23rd, 2013)
Single available digitally March 5th, 2013
https://www.facebook.com/younggalaxy


YOUNG GALAXY - Fall For You

Quadro Verde

Pre-order Young Galaxy's new album 'Ultramarine' on limited white vinyl & CD: 
http://shop.paperbagrecords.com/products/ultramarine
2013 Paper Bag Records
Young Galaxy - New Summer
From Ultramarine
Available Digitally April 2nd, 2013


YOUNG GALAXY - New Summer

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Mattie - Pathfinder (Through the Path EP)

New England Conservatory orchestral conducting major Lio Kuokman leads the NEC Symphony in a performance of selections from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet. Recorded live in Jordan Hall April 10, 2013 by recording engineer Jeremy Sarna.

Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64 - Montagues and Capulets

Arvo Pärt - Spiegel Im Spiegel (Mirror in Mirror)

Antonymes : In Formation

Antonymes music emerges from the adjustments and erasures of ambient, the pace and persistence of minimalism, where music expresses nothing but itself, from the serenity and austerity of Morton Feldman and the profound prettiness of Harold Budd, from the relationship between continuity and repetition rather than of contract and interplay, from secrecy, from quietness, from pause, from thought, from emptiness, from time, from far off, from itself, from where it is set and where it is setting off to.   
 
“My chief aim is to make a piece of music. You make it for yourself firstly, and then if other people want to join in, then there we are.”
 
Antonymes makes music at the edge of, and deep inside, and from above North Wales, which you can think of as a very real place, available to be visited at any time in the solid present, and also as a very strange, fantastic, ultimately unreal place, which is all it has ever been, legend, spirit, mist and fluctuating stillness stretching back to a time and place where it was seemed like the beginning of a dream, one that would always become another dream, and another, and so on. It’s worth mentioning that Antonymes is of North Wales: to take an approach to the music understanding the location where it was made up and produced, to approach the music as if it is the beginning, or the end, of some kind of map, that will take you up mountains, across streams, to the sea, where the tide comes in, and the tide goes out, under the waves, through the woods and into the obscure wilderness that stretches between one patch of land and another, between one village and the next. So: Antonymes, of North Wales, recalling the lines of the great North Welsh poet RS Thomas, “to live in Wales is to be conscious at dusk of the spilled blood that went into the making of the wild sky, dyeing the wild rivers in all their courses.’
 
Formed at some point during 2008 by designer, photographer, conceptualist and musician Ian M Hazeldine, as a group that could contain just himself, and others when it seemed appropriate, Antonymes first album was titled ‘Beauty Becomes The Enemy of the Future’. Released initially on David Newlyn’s Cathedral Transmissions label in December 2009, and as a self-published book in spring 2010. A second 2010 release, ‘31: Before The Light Fails’, was released as a digital download and as a special box, an edition of one, containing music and photography, representing Antonymes fear and suspicion of the herd mentality. The piece consisted of two tracks to be played simultaneously in separate rooms. One review described the work as “a daring and inspired exercise in creating a timeless work of art.” Various pieces by Antonymes have appeared on compilations produced by Soundcolours, Dezordr, Cathedral Transmissions and Audio Gourmet.
 
Antonymes music is made up, something coming from nowhere, with no clear sense of what might happen next, and yet a vague sense of what might happen after that. It begins at the piano, where notes, space and intention, and something of the soul, and the mind catching itself combine over time, until a shape appears, which suggest other shapes, and lines, and something else, an anatomy, the lateral spread of a single surface, and a shadow or two. A composition, the result of a mystical sequence of events involving improvisation, imagination, presentation, communication, intuition and manipulation, has been completed. It is the improvisation, certainly, more of Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley, Alvin Curran and La Monte Young than jazz, the patient, probing occasionally accidental forming of structure, tension and atmosphere around spontaneity and a form of focussed daydreaming, which is a near relation of a form of praying.

Paul Morley, January 2011.