A Violent Sky

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K&F Thema

Beautiful original is here... http://mansionsonthemoon.bandcamp.com/track/more-than-nothing-ft-codi

More Than Nothing (enh Remix)

Excited to share my newest collaboration featuring Shigeto (electronics), Jonathan Maron (bass) and Mark Guiliana (drums). They brought so much of themselves to this project. Available 6/23 on Greenleaf Music.

TOUR DATES
April 20 - WROCLAW/Poland
Impart Art Center/Centrum Sztuki Impart

April 21 - PARIS/France
New Morning

April 23 - PRAGUE/Czech Republic
Jazz Dock

April 24 - KRAKOW/Poland
Radio Krakow

April 25 - GETXO/Spain
Escuela de Música Andrés Isasi de Las Arenas

April 26 - SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA/Spain
Teatro Principal de Santiago de Compostela

April 27 - MADRID/Spain
Teatro Lara

April 28 - MIDDELBURG/Netherlands
Schuttershofcafe

April 29 - KÖLN/Germany
Stadtgarten

April 30 - MONTPELLIER/France
Maison pour tous Voltaire

June 25 – Rochester, NY
Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival

June 26 – Ottawa, Canada
TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival

June 30 – Montreal, Canada
Montreal Jazz Festival

July 1 – 2 – Chicago, IL
Constellation

July 3 – Iowa City, IA
Iowa City Jazz Festival

Dave Douglas & HIGH RISK Ft. Shigeto "Cardinals"

Connection (Original Mix)

from 'Nomad Frequencies' [CD|2xLP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den237
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/johnlemke]

An ardent moulder of sound, John Lemke began carving out a very unique music blend on his debut album 'People Do' (2013) and its follow up EP 'Walizka' (2014). Informed by his work as a sound designer & composer for documentary films and his natural inclination towards fusing rhythm with rich textures and emotive melodies, he set out on a musical path that had been long in the making and is ever evolving.

The quest for unusual, inspiring sound sources has always been at the heart of John's process, however the genesis of his second album 'Nomad Frequencies' was rooted in much more inadvertent circumstances. In the summer of 2014, forced to indefinitely evacuate his Glasgow flat and studio due to structural damage from one hour to the next, with nothing more than a laptop and a bag of clothes, John embarked on a six month odyssey of soul searching, couch surfing and spending an extended period of time in his old hometown of Berlin for the first time in years - it was to be an odyssey that would help ferment and distill the ideas of his second album on which work had just begun. 

A year of particular global turmoil and upheaval, combined with John's personal, albeit very minor, 'displacement', caused a lot of questioning, frustration and anger, which somehow found its way onto the new material: a more confrontational, at times aggressive sound, paired on the other hand with a yearning for harmony, balance and space. Other influences came less from the world of music, but rather in visual form, through the densely textural art of Anselm Kiefer and the political, yet poetic musings of film maker Adam Curtis.

Intent on refining his sound toward a more minimal, bolder style, John set out to limit his sonic palate to a handful of carefully chosen elements. At the centre of this new direction remains the muted piano already introduced on his debut, but in a much more purified and raw form. This organic base is adorned by the warm fuzzing and wavering of analogue synthesisers, tape echoes, meditative tuning forks, field recordings from John's 'exile' period and percussion based on his rigid approach to sampling, which started developing on 'Walizka'. The guiding principle of his orthodox style of recording and sampling is to only use home-made sounds by utilising his own field recordings, applying contact microphones or hydrophones to objects and instruments, running them through different kinds of speakers and re-recording the sounds to arrive at a 'lived in' quality, often misunderstood as plainly 'lo-fi'. Touches of viola and woodwinds parts (Kim Moore of WOLF and Andrew Baker respectively) provide melody fragments and subtle details throughout the journey.

With John's healthy disregard for genre boundaries, the array of influences on 'Nomad Frequencies' is vast, but never over-powering. From the meditative tuning fork that starts proceedings on 'Of Elsewhere', the dub echoes to the hints of minimalism, free jazz explosions to the Lynchian atmospherics, all elements serve nothing more than the album's narrative journey between friction and harmony, best appreciated in its entirety. A rhythmic backbone collides with rich ambience and melody, often infectious and jarring at the same time, forging a soulful whole which most likely only reveals its true self after multiple spins.

Nomad Frequencies

John Lemke - Vessel

“Parallax Heart” is an uplifting vocal trance rush about drawing closer as the world slides by. Intimate verses, a euphoric chorus, and a radiant supersaw drop built for peak-time sets

PRISM RUN

‘Loon’ will be released on Erased Tapes as a 12” vinyl as well as digitally on October 2nd. 
Pre-order it here: www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP072
or via iTunes: http://snip.ftpromo.net/loon

Containing five synthesiser-led pieces, ‘Loon’ was recorded in autumn 2014 across five days at Nils’s Durton Studio in Berlin, and continues on from the ambient sounds of ‘Stare’ but with the addition of more percussive elements and dub influences. For this new EP the duo wired an Oberheim 4 Voice and a Korg PS3100 to the mixing desk and performed live takes on both instruments. With all four hands on its pots, all mixes were recorded straight onto 2-track ½-inch tape.

Like on ‘Stare’, their first collaborative affair in 2012, they simply followed what was laying in front of them, and this time they were driven by some new synths, a kick drum and tape effects. Indulging in dub, the tracks where all performed rather than engineered, with Ólafur riding a few elements on faders and Nils bringing effects in and out. After running several mixes, they went for the five strongest moments from this session. The release was announced on a joint website www.arnaldsfrahm.com together with the launch of an intimate 45-minute studio film titled ‘Trance Frendz’, featuring another seven improvisations.

“Nils got some new synths and we thought we’d try them out. We loved them so much that we didn’t actually end up using anything else to make these songs.” – Ólafur Arnalds

“When I was young I was smuggled to Goa parties by my brother. The music played there in the late nineties had a somewhat deep effect on me. ‘Loon’ is almost a blurry memory of these times. In other words, it is what I’d like to remember that music sounded like back then. In fact it sounded probably really cheesy.” – Nils Frahm

Loon

Wide Open

Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm - Wide Open

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Spark

Niklas Paschburg - Spark

Max Cooper - Lovesong - PoppyAckroyd Remix

Taken from my new double EP released by Full Time Hobby Records.

Tourist - A summer outside in Berlin 
Sleeper - A summer at home in Hampshire

Both EPs now available on vinyl and download from your store of choice.

Nachtmusik

Apparat, aka Sascha Ring, will release “Krieg und Frieden (Music for Theatre)”, an album of music based on Sebastian Hartmann’s theatre production of Tolstoy’s War and Peace.

Sebastian Hartmann is considered one of the big innovators of contemporary German theatre, and asked Ring to contribute to this mammoth project, which was commissioned by the renowned German arts festival Ruhrfestspiele in Recklinghausen.

Apparat - Krieg und Frieden - Music for Theatre is out now!

http://smarturl.it/KundFiTunes

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