ambiyonce

August 2019

ambient

Catching Fire SloWLY!

Jazzanova - Coffee Talk

121 - Alex Albrecht

You're just as likely to find classically trained pianist Alex Albrecht performing live under some sun-dappled trees as you are in a sweaty warehouse. One half of @albrecht-labrooy and Melbourne-based imprint, @analogueattic, his musical endeavours are imbued with an ambience that is very much a product of environment.

With all previous material arriving on AAR, releases on Butter Sessions and Night Tide signal a step into uncharted territory for Alex Albrecht and Sean La'Brooy. What the future holds is unclear, but featuring some unreleased Analogue Attic material, this ambient blend gives some indication.

Tracklist:
Isao Tomita - The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (Claude Debussy) 
Steve Hillage- Garden Of Paradise
The KLF - Madrugada Eternal
Harold Budd - Faraon​ ​/ Terre Thaemlitz - Terrelovesrobin 
Terre Thaemlitz - Terrelovesrobin​ ​/ Architectural - Sentir 
Jack Burton - Untitled
Andrew Chalk - Last Reflections
Microstoria - Per Formal / The Green Kingdom - Vaporscape
Albrecht La'Brooy - Sydney Radio
Softest - Wish IV
​Rings Around Saturn - Portion 22 (Albrecht La'brooy Bathtime Arrangement)
Mono Fontana - Persistente canción de la memoria 
John Beltran - Collage Revisited
Roman Flügel - All that matters
Lawrence - Panopticon 
Ezekiel Honig - Click & Sleep

If-Only Podcast #14: Alex Albrecht (Albrecht La'Brooy)

https://sequel-label.bandcamp.com/album/append
@ullastraus

[SQ016] Ulla Straus - "Air"

Artist: Milan W.
Title: Envelope
Format: 12 inch vinyl (incl. download)
Release date: 6th of June 2018
Cat no: EKS016
Edition: 500

order here: https://eksterlabel.bandcamp.com/album/envelope

Presenting “Envelope”. Album written, produced & mixed by Milan W. and pressed on 180g vinyl, to be released on the 6th of June 2018. With foil-stamped cover-drawing by Gerard Herman. Mastered & cut by Helmut Erler at Dubplates & Mastering. 


Tracklist:

A1: Slope
A2: Astma
A3: Orchestral
A4: In Limbo

B1: Heraldic Snippets
B2: Slow Runner
B3: Glaasjes
B4: Malady


The harlequin turns the handle. The contraption sucks in air, and breathes. Blows out tone poems. Wordless ballads that soundtrack enchanted scenarios. Issues forth magic. A sorcerer`s apprentice casting its spell. Animating the inanimate. To everything a life. Sets the frozen fluttering. Pirouetting in red shoes. Illuminates what was dark. Astma sings a Gamelan lullaby. Summons comforting angels to a post-Industrial landscape. Glaasjes has Jazz ghosts inhabit an empty bar room. Spirits stealing excuse-me`s under its deserted spot. In Limbo amplifies their whispers. Lead soldiers court jewellery-box ballerinas behind shuttered shop fronts. On Heraldic Snippets, a tin infantry marches. Ten thousand men up to the top, and back down again. Keys make-believing that they are massed brass and fife. 

The bellows pump, and the pipes all the while wheezing. An automaton philharmonic at the bidding of a steam-punk master. Analogue and digital. Clockwork and glitch. Malady finds sounds isolated, extrapolated, mutated. Orchestral`s organ-grinder moves with urgency, and alchemy. Spinning straw into gold. Snare rolls become bubbling mercury. Metallic, yet fluid. Racing at the speed of flight and escape. Slope is the music of water chasing through crystal caves. Slow Runner, a funeral crawl. Shoved into motion by a drama of strings remembered. 

Like the charismatic Rat-Catcher of Hamelin, the harlequin turns the handle, and we bang the cup.  (Text by Robert Harris — banbantonton.com)

Envelope

Milan W. — Envelope (Preview)

One-take synth improvisation, taken from 'All In The Same Room'.
Buy tape + digital at nicemusiclabel.bandcamp.com/album/020-all-in-the-same-room

All In The Same Room

Grapefruit

for ulla <3

@ullastraus
https://exael.bandcamp.com/album/tunic-trax-vol-2

bergamot

La La Land

@fiafiell

Fia Fiell is the moniker of Carolyn Schofield, who channels her virtuosic skill as a pianist and refined understanding of timbre into visceral electronic music that evades the posthumous toe-tag of “ambient”, creating broad and shifting soundscapes that retract and expand, from tender melodies to dense walls of sound.  "Ladder" opens proceedings: the watery figures dance like sunbeams reflected by the sea, the parts forming together like shimmering threads intertwined into a gorgeous filigree.

Smooth Sensation

Fia Fiell - Ladder

Get it on Beatport!
https://www.beatport.com/release/sumatra/2553163

April 19
mobilee 213 - Gullen „Sumatra“
Sumatra
Lydia´s Cove
Mighty Pretty

Sumatra

Get it on Beatport

Gullen - Sumatra

Collage Of Dreams

Beauty Of Life

Alan Dixon - Ambient Braindisk (Excerpt) [Promo]

Taken from @albrecht-labrooy 'Healesville' LP - out July 26th
https://smarturl.it/healesville

Albrecht La'Brooy - Afternoon Carafe

'Crush', out now on Ninja Tune: https://floatingpoints.lnk.to/crushSo

Follow Floating Points -
Spotify: https://found.ee/floatingpoints-sp
Apple Music: https://found.ee/floatingpoints-am
Instagram: https://found.ee/floatingpoints-ig
Facebook: https://found.ee/floatingpoints-fb
Twitter: https://found.ee/floatingpoints-tw
Youtube: https://found.ee/floatingpoints-yt
Bandcamp: https://found.ee/floatingpoints-bc
Soundcloud: https://found.ee/floatingpoints-sc
Songkick: https://found.ee/floatingpoints-sk

LesAlpx / Coorabell

LesAlpx (Extended)

Melbourne-based UK native @edapollo is electronic producer, instrumentalist and visual artist Ed Bidgood

Following on from last years "Daylight" EP release and his recent HypeMachine no. 1 remix for @Koresma, Ed is back with the first new material from his debut full-length album "Endless Cascades" due out this August. The release comes in the form of double A-side single 'Aurora' and 'Silk Spirals' which show the more house-leaning side of Ed's sound. Both tracks blur the lines between the dance floor and chill out, weaving, spiralling and taking the listener on a unique journey through his world.

The track artwork was created by edapollo.

▲∇▲∇ Credit to @edapollo ▲∇▲∇
► Bandcamp: https://edapollo.bandcamp.com/
► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/edapollouk
► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/edapollo/
► Twitter: https://twitter.com/edapolloUK
► Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5BCLvW3qaUm39VjiZ8INmm
► Apple Music: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/artist/edapollo/834994040?app=music&ign-mpt=uo=4

∇▲∇▲ The Playground ▲∇▲∇
► Website: www.theplayground.co.uk/
► Facebook: goo.gl/cfkTW6
► Twitter: @THEPLAY_GROUND

[PREMIERE] edapollo - Aurora

Taken from @albrecht-labrooy 'Healesville' LP - out July 26th
smarturl.it/healesville

Healesville

Albrecht La'Brooy - Healesville (Featuring Badskin & Joseph Batrouney)

Carousel

'Find Sound' is the debut record from Shards, a London based vocal group led by singer, composer and producer Kieran Brunt. Combining voices, synths and percussion, Find Sound is an astonishing exploration of the human voice; using the concepts of sound and light as simple metaphors for gaining understanding. The album’s pieces are intended to be miniature sonic paintings, with each adding to an overall picture of the emotional confusion of early adulthood: the uncertainty, the excitement, the terror and relief.

After collaborating with Terry Riley in 2016, Brunt was asked by the Barbican to form a choral group for Nils Frahm’s Possibly Colliding festival that summer. Following the success of the shows, Frahm invited Brunt to join him in Berlin to collaborate on choral arrangements for his recent album 'All Melody'. Shards have since gone on to collaborate with other notable artists, including Michael Price on his recent LP 'Tender Symmetry'.

Each of the singers in Shards brings a very distinctive musical personality to the group, something which Brunt was eager to emphasise on their debut record. Rather than aiming for a seamless blend or absolute precision when recording, the differences between voices has been intentionally highlighted — celebrating their unique textures and inviting the listener to hear their minutest details up-close.

"The group ended up consisting almost entirely of friends and friends-of-friends. I also tried my best to ask people who weren’t just singers, but who do have other projects and musical interests. As such, we have people in the group who are also composers, instrumentalists, folk musicians and teachers. It’s a vibrant mix, and I’m constantly discovering new things about them the more we make music together.” — Kieran Brunt

Shards is Kieran Brunt, Lucy Cronin, Sarah Latto, Bethany Horak-Hallett, Kate Huggett, Chris Huggon, Jack Lawrence-Jones, Rose Martin, Augustus Perkins Ray, Oli Martin-Smith, Josephine Stephenson and Héloïse Werner.

· pre-order 'Find Sound' on LP/CD/DL: idol.lnk.to/FindSound

Released by:
Erased Tapes Records Ltd

Release date:
30 August 2019

P-line:
℗ 2019 Erased Tapes Records Ltd.

Find Sound

Unrest

Buy LP/CD/DL

Shards - Unrest

Stream everywhere : https://fig.fanlink.to/stampedwithlove
Free Download : https://www.toneden.io/nice-guys-records/post/fig-stamped-with-love


"18 year old gal living in NYC wanting to make music which takes people in a different headspace. Stamped with love is a bop which talks about the moments when leaving things which feel like home to you. This can be a person, place, idea and leaving those behind for something new but still reminiscing and being grateful for the memories that were made."
@corn_woop

(つ▀¯▀)つ Free Download

FIG - Stamped With Love

"Gelato"  from the new album "Favorite Color, Rain" by myself and @JoeNoraa.

Released via @effortlessaudio. 

Preorder a limited edition Blue Vinyl via Qrates at: https://qrates.com/projects/18885-favorite-color-rain 

Full album can be found on all major streaming services here: https://t.co/2LZsvvRyDT?amp=1

Joe Nora & Karavelo - Gelato

Albrecht La'Brooy showcase the breezier side of their label, scattering a number of unreleased and live recordings along the way.

Read RA's Label Of The Month feature here: https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/3547

Analogue Attic - Label Of The Month

Apollo was founded in 1992 as the Ambient division of R&S Records 

Albrecht La'Brooy - Healesville (Featuring Badskin & Joseph Batrouney)

Apollo Records