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Voices From The Lake are Donato Dozzy and Neel, a duo that has redefined techno in both the live arena and the album format. Their debut full-length album for Prologue was widely heralded as a masterpiece for the way it displayed an incredible ear for sound design while painting vivid, multi-layered landscapes of slowly unfolding rhythm and texture. When playing live in serene environments like Japan's Labyrinth Festival, the pair explore experimental underwater sounds, African drumming, and minimalism while keeping the dancefloor in motion. 
 
In July of 2012, Voices From The Lake came from Rome to Brooklyn to present a special night of music at The Bunker in the back room of Public Assembly.  This was one of the greatest nights of music in the history of The Bunker.  Their tremendous six-hour set consisted of two separate live sets, and back-to-back DJ sets.  None of the music from the either of the hour-long live sets had been released, so we immediately got on them about their plans for the tracks.  We agreed on our favorite segments, and they produced live studio tracks based on those excerpts.  A few Voices From The Lake tracks have come out since the album, but this is their first full release since 2012. 

Mastered by Neel at EnissLab
Cut at Dubplates and Mastering
Pressed at Brooklyn Phono


Velo di Maya

A1 - Velo di Maya (Clip)

Voices From The Lake : 06 - Meikyu

This Is You

I composed "Tour De Pyrénées” after a trip through them in 2012. The tour lasted five days and nights and I saw some unbelievable, beautiful ‘lost places’. The music represents the ups and downs of driving the car through the mountain pass, the voices of the people, and the landscape. 

Bjorn Rohde - Tour De Pyrénées

Voices From the Lake Donato Dozzy & Neel - Drop 1

Voices From the Lake Donato Dozzy & Neel - Drop 3

Voices From the Lake Donato Dozzy & Neel - Drop 4

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'Transition', the collaborative release of Immix Ensemble and Vessel focuses on the theme of technology. Musical instruments are a somewhat technological anomaly in that they are rarely updated after their conception, often only receiving minor tweaks over the course of hundreds of years. As such, each instrument provides us with a snapshot of the cutting edge technologies of a particular time and place – in this sense, the instrumentation used by Immix provides us with snapshots of technologies that can be traced back as far as 1500BC. 

Taking these snapshots as a starting point, each movement in 'Transition' features one or two instruments, and, thematically, explores a significant invention or discovery that took place at around the same time as the invention and development of these instruments. Collaborating with Vessel updates this technological chronology by including the tools of the digital age.

Immix is lead by Australian-born composer and sax player Daniel Thorne. The now Liverpool-based artist has a genuine passion for exploring and creating music in a diverse range of forms; composed and improvised, acoustic and electronic, and the various shades in-between. Founded in 2014, the idea behind Immix has been to galvanise the innovative musical voices from across the country.

With the addition of Vessel, the moniker of Bristolian electronic composer Sebastian Gainsborough, Immix found a valuable first partner in exploring forward-thinking composition that slips between the cracks of traditional and contemporary styles. A stalwart of the UK experimental electronica community, Vessel's solo work has received critical acclaim for it’s post-industrial, visceral tone, using a sonic palette derived from the creation of home-made instruments, aiding in the creation of his signature nonreplicable sound.

As the first in this series, March 18, 2016 will see the release of 'Transition' on 12" vinyl and download, followed by a string of live performances by the collaborators. Future episodes will bring further collaborations by Daniel Thorne’s ensemble with other forward-thinking artists and ensure Immix continues to evolve and expand.

TRACK LISTING:  	

A1. What Hath God Wrought?
A2. De Revolutionibus
B1. Scope
B2. Battle Cry

ABOUT THE ARTWORK:  

The artwork was created by Liverpool-based visual artist Sam Wiehl and includes images taken from the Immix Ensemble & Vessel live AV show.

WEBSITES: 

www.immixensemble.co.uk · www.twitter.com/immix_ens · www.erasedtapes.com

Immix Ensemble & Vessel - Scope

A. Sleepless (Voices From The Lake Remix)

Order 'I Could See The Smoke' EP on Cassette Tape / Digital here: https://seabuckthorn.bandcamp.com/album/i-could-see-the-smoke

"Returnee" is taken from Seabuckthorn's upcoming EP 'I Could See The Smoke', coming out October 2016 on Lost Tribe Sound.  Seabuckthorn is UK experimental guitarist Andy Cartwright. 

Mastered by William Ryan Fritch

I Could See The Smoke

Returnee

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Seabuckthorn - Returnee (from I Could See The Smoke EP)

'Slow Morning' is the new work by maltese artist Robert Farrugia. The album comes in a 6-Panel CD with pictures by Brian Young.

Written and Produced by Robert Farrugia.
Mastering by Rob Small.
Cello on 'Haze' by Matthew Farrugia.
Photography by Brian Young  |  www.instagram.com/losingtoday 
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Robert Farrugia - Coastal

Taken from the upcoming album 'The Epiphanies' by Bill Seaman...

The Epiphanies...

Composing memory
The backs of my hands
Headlights slowly turning, illuminating the branches
Skin (slow)
The folds of eros
Slow motion in darkness
Quietly touching
Slow moving fog
A quiescence of obsolescence
Dark wet trees and angled lines of light
The collapse of time
Hidden memories and breathing
Luminous silent stasis
An epiphany of epiphanies

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Seaman – Piano, non-location recordings, ebow guitar, DX7IIE, mellotron, samples, sample arrangements and Ableton Live abstractions. Production.
Owen Sidney Richardson — Contrabass and Electric Bass guitar library 
Craig Tattersall  — Synth Bass library  
Robert Ellis Geiger  — Trumpet, Cornet, Flugelhorn library  
Jonas Braasch  — Horn library 
Ciompy Quartet – Violin library 
Daniel Howe – Distant Guitar on 14
Design by Daniel Crossley
Photography by Nieves Mingueza
Mastered by James Plotkin

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I often work by making libraries of particular kinds of sounds or asking people to contribute a library. With the contributed library I often give the players simple verbal instructions, or sing notes I am interested in including. With the piano, I sit down and do a series of improvisations. I then go though these and edit my favorite parts, building a series of fragment libraries, some with little or no abstraction, some greatly abstracted with Ableton Live. I compose in a very sculptural manner with Ableton, dragging things in from the libraries and trying things out often exploring chance related juxtapositions. I often shift the time and transpose individual samples to make them work with the other material. I build up structures, cut/copy/paste complex layered sections, erase sections that are not working, loop things, and slowly construct a track going though many iterations. I often later cut away at the built up tracks, and edit the piece down, further articulating a structure. I often finish with having between 20 and 50 tracks. In the final set of passes I fully articulate the psychoacoustic space, working with panning, eq, distortion, delay, abstraction, and reverb. I further edit and structure the parts that begin to “work”. Along with the piano I make Libraries of DX7IIE sounds, electronic beats, mellotron, electronic micro-rhythms, non-location recordings from noises found on the internet, orchestral abstractions, midi instrument libraries— violin, cello, woodwinds, and I also employ highly abstracted piano. Additionally I build libraries of ‘abstract’ guitars, playing alternate instruments through synthetic and or real amps. This overall method allows me to work very quickly and intuitively. In this case, the music is more sparse than many of my other recordings.

The Epiphanies started with some long titles like An Epiphany Related to the Back of the Hand. I later came to the notion of just titling the album The Epiphanies, and making the titles shorter. When I searched the title I was excited to see that James Joyce had done a series of short poems with the same overarching name. - Seaman 2017

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- Special Thanks – Craig Tattersall, John Supko, Daniel Crossley and Fluid Audio

- This album is dedicated to the memories of Rick Tear, Ranulph and Aartje Glanville, Otto Piene and David Bowie.

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www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com
www.billseaman.com
www.nievesmingueza.com

The Epiphanies

Bill Seaman - An Epiphany Of Epiphanies

The Universe expands. Not just in size, but in depth, in complexity, in diversity, in ingenuity, in richness... and in love. Love is the expansive glue that holds it all together. 

— 

music by Ludvig Cimbrelius 

art by Anton Novikov ∣ endlesstrains 
www.flickr.com/photos/endlesstrains/ 
endlesstrains.bandcamp.com

Patterns

One of the beautiful tracks that comes on the new Time Released Sound Around The World Ambient Music Program release. Available in both a limited edition CD version, and an extended digital version with three bonus tracks!

The Time Released Sound Around The World Ambient Music Program...Benoît Pioulard - VII

Taken from the upcoming Margins album 'I Tired For Hours', forthcoming on Fluid Audio...

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Margins

Track taken from the upcoming album 'Call Me When You Can' by Ned Milligan & John Atkinson.

Ned Milligan- chimes
John Atkinson- processing 
Recorded, composed, and constructed in 2019
Mastered by Taylor Deupree

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Voices From The Lake : 06 - Meikyu

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