Learnings from abroad

Handpan Impro - Uwe Leonhardt

It’s Carnaby Street, the Marquee… fleeting encounters, Jagger, Bowie, and a few muses. Now, Jody remembers.

Jody

To all - Track 12 of the album Dett by Kevin Verwijmeren. 
Available via Bandcamp and other record stores. 
Pre-order 01/10/2018
Release    23/10/2018

Dett

To All

Caught In The Wake Forever is the solo project of Scottish multi-instrumentalist & songwriter Fraser McGowan. 
Treading a path of quiet lo-fi, ambient, folk & modern classical music, Caught In The Wake Forever has had releases on a variety of highly regarded labels such as Archives, Dronarivm, Fluid Audio & Hibernate Recordings. 
From the delicate torch songs of 2011's debut album 'Against A Simple Wooden Cross' to the nocturnal drones of 2016's 'Under Blankets', each recording has dealt with matters of emotional strain and release. 
Caught In The Wake Forever's newest offering 'Waypoints' is the first full length album to step away from this formula. Whilst previous albums drew on deeply personal subject matter to guide the writing process, Waypoints navigates unknown territories using improvisation as its starting point. Recording began with two intense day-long sessions of modular synthesizer and acoustic piano. The resulting hours of improvised material were then gradually shaped over a 4-year period, McGowan relying on his musicianship and intuition to structure the compositions. 

These exploratory pieces retain the abstract textures and sketch-like arrangements from which they were sculpted, finding form with the contemplative melancholy and delicate melodic warmth that characterises Caught In The Wake Forever's music. Seven instrumental works that sound like distant radio signals interspersed with fragments of lonely lo-fi piano, broadcast from an unknown, isolated location. 

Words by Chris Gowers (2019) 

Written & recorded by Fraser McGowan 

Performed by Fraser McGowan 

Rogers Eungblut Upright Acoustic Piano, Yamaha C5 Classical Guitar,
Ibanez Blazer Series Electric Guitar, Korg MS2000, Roland SH101, 
Moog Slim Phatty, Akai S20 Sampler, Make Noise System Cartesian, 
Arturia MicroBrute, Arturia Analog Lab, Harmonium, Pearl Acoustic Drums, AM Radio & Digital Processing 

With 
Colin Morrison 
Ibanez GA5TCE-AM Classical Guitar & Boss RDD-10 Micro Rack Delay (A1 & B3) 

Darren Galloway 
Roland JU-06, Roland Aira TR-8 & Boss DE-200 Digital Rack Delay (B3) 

Yellow6 
Gretsch G6134 Black Penguin Electric Guitar, EHX Platform Compressor & Strymon Flint Reverb (B3) 

Produced by Fraser McGowan & Darren Galloway 
www.connectedbylandscapes.com 

Special thanks to Chris Gowers, Colin Morrison, Darren Galloway, Andrew ‘Woody’ Woods, 
Jon Attwood, Euan & Ali Millar-McMeeken & Agus Mena for making this record possible 

Mastered by Taylor Deupree 
www.12kmastering.com 
Photography by Alexander Kopatz 
www.go70north.com 
Archives58 // ArchivesCD39 
Archives / 2019

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Caught In The Wake Forever - The Houses Here Have Changed Lately

'Wildlife' is Warmth's fourth ambient album.

Written and produced by Agustín Mena
Collaborations by Pepo Galán and Robert Farrugia 
Mastering by Taylor Deupree 
Photography by Alexander Kopatz 
www.go70north.com 
Archives59 // ArchivesCD40 
Archives / 2019

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Warmth - Dawning (with Robert Farrugia)

Taken from the upcoming album 'Bij Wat Ook Moog' Gebeuren', forthcoming on Fluid Audio...

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Bij Wat Ook Moog' Gebeuren

Gareth Davis / Rutger Zuydervelt / Leo Fabriek - Bij Wat Ook Moog' Gebeuren II

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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Call Me When You Can

Ned Milligan & John Atkinson - Summons

Cat #: DR-68
Format : CD / DL
Release page : https://dronarivm.lnk.to/StalkingtheElusive

This album was conceived in Moscow during the Spring of 2018, when Dmitry Vasilyev organized the concert of Enrico Coniglio and Giulio Aldinucci at дом - Dom Cultural Centre. The album reflects the feelings of some very intensive days made of exchanges of ideas with a multitude of people involved in music (including Dmitry Taldykin of Dronarivm) and moments spent in isolated places out of the metropolis, like a forest not far from an army shooting range.

In this album, the two musicians wave together memories of an immutable past and questions about the present, giving birth to a sort of a requiem overflowing with lyricism. This music enlighten the dawn of a future that now appears more uncertain than ever, with frozen intensity and dramatic strength. As a message entrusted to the stars, it leaves as wondering if we can still change the course of events.

Stalking the Elusive

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At The Airport Cathedral

Due out on limited CD on July 24th

DR-69 : PORYA HATAMI - Kani + Remixes (incl. Darren McClure, Purl, Arovane, Tomotsugu Nakamura, Sven Laux) 

Originally released in 2013 on the Inner Ocean label, Porya Hatami’s “Kani” was a four track EP showcasing his intimate take on modern ambient music. The Iranian artist has issued a large number of albums that imbue pastoral ambient with subtle field recordings and melodies. The melodic aspect of Hatami’s work took centre stage in this release, and shone bright across the four pieces.

So now, seven years later, “Kani” is being given the reissue that it deserves, and will delight those listeners new to it, and those who are rediscovering it again. Besides the original four tracks, there are an additional five remixes by artists working in a similar orbit to Hatami, and some who have collaborated directly with him in the past.

These reworks cover plenty of ground, reimagining the source material into new shapes. Some remixes extend the foggy soundscapes and conjure delicate melodic plucks. Others add mellow pulses that infer rhythm under the washes of sound, while others take these rhythmic ideas much further.  

Original tracks mastered by Jason Corder aka offthesky
Remixes mastered by Porya Hatami
Artwork by Hawar Amini

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PORYA HATAMI - Kani (night) (Arovane Remix)

Reprise 214

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