Sustain Series returns for its third iteration, bringing together ever-more artists for another showcase of recycled music. Reworks and newfound collaborations make up this 27-piece album, demonstrating what can be achieved with ‘one’s trash and another’s treasure’.

 https://bit.ly/amb-sustain3

All Bandcamp proceeds of this album are to be donated to Eden Reforestation Projects, to help continue their work sustaining important local environments, and providing jobs to those that restore and maintain them.

All India Radio & Fionnlagh - Natured State

Hope

Just a Memory

Somehow I feel that artists of all media [and particularly, musicians] have always dealt with the concept of the "end of time". Whether it's through the destruction of our own planet, some unknown apocalypse, or the universe as we may never know it, post the inevitable human existence [it all will end, after all, right?]. These thoughts, and the resulting output, are then brought on by a blip in our own very linear timeline that makes us wake up for a moment from the cycle of being and ask, "Is this it?" Perhaps a bit of existentialism never hurt anyone to refocus their energy on what truly then matters. [What truly matters to you?]. We've all experienced this, especially with our own latest global crisis, which still continues to ripple, mutate, and destroy, even as I type out these words [my friends in Shanghai are particularly distressed]. It's no wonder that so much latest output from musicians across the globe has been reflecting this temporary state of humankind [just check out the themes of the many new posts on Headphone Commute, like this Requiem or We Will Live On]. So I'm not surprised, and indeed, a bit delighted, to be bathed in an expression of human extinction by the Montréal-based Tunisian composer, multi-instrumentalist and sound designer Haythem Mahbouli, with his second album for the Japanese Schole label, titled Last Man On Earth. Across the eight pieces, "the album envisions man's final journey on our home planet and invites its listeners to immerse themselves into his last harrowing conquest." This is a beautifully produced and orchestrated journey, which leaves me aching with memories of Jóhann Jóhannsson again [and I do not just mention his name lightly], with its cinematic tendency to blend elements of electronic and modern classical genres, featuring synthetic and organic instrumentation, including a choir by the Budapest Scoring Orchestra. Today I'm giving you a taste of what you can experience on the entire album with this short track, titled "The Great Flood."

Last Man On Earth

Last man on earth

TRACK PREMIERE : Haythem Mahbouli - The Great Flood

Tracklist

01. Lorenz Weber - Remember It
02. The Humble Bee - Anchored In Scorched Earth
03. Hummingbird - Neerland
04. Innesti - Around this Space
05. Kenji Kihara - Hayama Ambient 043
06. Landtitles - Asunglint
07. Michael Scott Dawson - The Sentimentalist
08. Morimoto Naoki - Soto
09. Samuel Edmund - A Long Way Up
10. Steve Pacheco - Distant
11. Scott Campbell - Serein
12. Darren Harper - Brook

320. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

I believe that music is present in every moment, in every scene. We can feel music relatively easily when those scenes are easy to understand and impressive, of course, but when they are not, for example, I think this is especially true in situations that are too mundane, too ordinary, or seemingly unrelated to music.

I can never hear it, but I think I hear it. Only after it has taken shape as a piece of music do I feel that this is how it must have sounded at the time. And the question of whether it was right or not will never be answered. But by questioning things that are becoming just a shell and looking at things from a different angle, we can gain a new perspective.

Questions always come up and I try to answer them somehow, but they always elude me. So by continuing to create my work, I manage to find my own answers to different questions at different times.

In this day and age, when all that is valued is how easy, quick and simple it is to get answers, it would be nice to have a few more people who are willing to face questions that will never be answered.

Produced by Hidekazu Imashige
Cover Art by Hidekazu Imashige

Angle of Light

The Foreword of a Beautiful Day

Distant Worlds - Nebula

Luminous Mix by Applefish weaves together album Luminous with a selection of five bonus tracks from the Valley View Records label group including reworks.
Enter into a realm where time slows and space expands.

Track list:
1. 0:00 Moonrise - Applefish 
2. 5:44 When Everything Fades - Matt Tondut, We Dream of Eden (Applefish Rework)
3. 10:00 Facing the Storm - Applefish 
4. 14:38 Night Sky - Applefish 
5. 18:16 Unconformity - Bahrambient (Applefish Rework)
6. 21:44 Star Trails - Applefish 
7. 25:17 Star Trails - Applefish (AstroPilot Rework)
8. 29:15 Andromeda  - Applefish (Lauge Rework)
9. 33:21 Astral Solstice - Crows Labyrinth & Pulse Mandala (Applefish Rework)
10. 37:00 Dreamscape - Applefish
11. 41:44 Mz 3 - Applefish, Lauge
12. 44:32 Shade  - Sensitizer & Unusual Cosmic Process (Applefish Rework)
13. 48:52 Call of the Sea - Applefish 
14. 52:58 Rings of Saturn - Applefish, Retland

Also on YouTube: https://youtu.be/vFO4xwDp9aM?feature=shared

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Luminous by Applefish - Ambient Mix 2

"Stills" capture eight personal moments that became a series of ambient tracks. Relaxed and floating textures meet deep dub electronic sounds and subliminal melodies. Something to listen to in a meditative state.

The limited edition CD version includes as a bonus all five tracks from the "Silence" EP, which was released in digital form in September 2021 on the UK label Whitelabrecs. In total, almost 80 min of music.

Tracklist:
1. Ondes / 2. Stills / 3. Focus (Reshape) / 4. Distant Points / 5. Reflections / 6. Media Luna / 7. Low Lights / 8. Scratches In The Sky / 9. Silence (Bonus) / 10. Calm Times (Bonus) / 11. Slow Horizon (Bonus) / 12. Things Will Disappear And Be Forgotten (Bonus) / 13. Weightless Sleep (Bonus)

Kraut Sounds - Electronics, Effects, Piano
Written and produced Jan - July 2023

Release Date: September 1, 2023
Drone Works International DWI 46

Bandcamp

Kraut Sounds - Stills (Album)

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Thank you for support!

Being

Being (Ambient Slowed Version)

Being (Ambient Slowed Version)(Coming out on 17th October)

Sometimes we listen
With open ears and mind. Deep
Change is comin' round

::

Original music & haiku poetry by Bob Weathers

Comin' Round

Solitude

Applefish is the ambient electronica project of UK artist and producer Nik Davies. A&R for the labels Valley View Records, Ambient Soundscapes and Echoes in the Valley, where they have worked with a great part of the ambient community.

Luminous by Applefish - Ambient Mix 2

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