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A M B I E N T  P I L L

January 2021

Qilin House Volume 6

ZEN - 02

'Ambient Archives' will appear in our catalog occasionally from now and, as its name suggests, will be focused on pure ambient music. Our first volume comes with music by Tone Color, Herbstlaub, Logic Moon and Warmth. A wide range of ambient lines, beautiful chords and hazy textures, that speaks for itself.

Tracklist:

01. Tone Color - Natsuku 12:40
02. Herbstlaub - Memory (It Is Called A Day) 05:50 
03. Logic Moon - Like An Ever Flowing Stream 10:14
04. Warmth - Every Day From Now 10:31

Written and Produced by Andy Lomas, Jens Vydt, Tobias Lorsbach and Agustín Mena.
Mastering by Alexandre Lehmann (Zzzzra).

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Warmth - Every Day From Now

Gallery Six - Aug, 1986. I was a boy. All tracks are written, mixed mastered by Hidekazu Imashige. 

01. Gallery Six - Gleam

About The Time is Out Now
From the album: Behind The Picture.
Check out the album 👉 https://nasus.fanlink.to/Behind_The_Picture

"We are a reflection of all that we have experienced and all the people we have shared our lives with. Memories, even if they seem distant, can still have an impact on our present and emotional stability. Sometimes, even the simplest gestures can be influenced by past experiences. Going within ourselves can be an enriching experience, but it can also be easy to get lost in our thoughts and forget how to return to the present".

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About The Time

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Jeremy Greenspan & Borys - But Wait There's More/Tin Beat

available on Jiaolong Records. 

Jeremy Greenspan & Borys - But Wait Theres More

Taken from 'KWIATY' LP by Jacaszek, out March 17, 2017.

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Retailer of your choice: https://Ghostly.lnk.to/jacaszek

KWIATY

Jacaszek - Daffodils

Snufmumriko - Still Early Days 
Taken from the upcoming album At First Light
CD/DIGITAL 
Releases March 17, 2017

PRE ORDER: 
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Professionally manufactured high quality CDr's, limited to 40 copies. 
Handmade artwork, each hand numbered.
Brown kraft wallets with envelopes. 
Wallets 250g paper, outside cover envelope 120g paper.
Photo's.

One of the themes of this album is, I would say, dawn, new beginnings, taking the first steps on a new journey and so on, and many of the sounds used on it were recorded early in the morning. Several feature water, be it rain or a gently burbling forest stream. The recorded sounds were then processed in various ways to create soundscapes which hopefully have something of the life and organic feel of nature in them. A commentator online once described my Snufmumriko music as ”soundscape cloth woven from field recordings” or something along those lines, and i think that’s an apt description. There’s also an almost spiritual dimension to these tracks, and I was often in a very introspective mood as I created them.

Track list:

1. Eos 
2. Exile 
3. Still Early Days 
4. Kingdom of Lost Summers 
5. You Will Know 
6. Wellspring 
7. Cormorant Road 
8. Overflow

All tracks by Ingmar Wennerberg
Mastered by Early Reflections

Snufmumriko - Still Early Days (Out 17.3.2017)

Flow by In Die Ferne. Taken from the  ∞ EP available via Elm Records on the 27/07/2017.

01. In Die Ferne - Flow

This track is quoted from the album 'under the sun'.
Listening to all tracks of the album and purchasing are available on the link below.

https://gallerysix.bandcamp.com/album/under-the-sun

written, mixed, mastered by Hidekazu Imashige 
cover photo, design by Hidekazu Imashige

Swallow

This track is quoted from a compilation "ArtLism.JP vol.9 - supported by PURRE GOOHN".
Streaming the album and purchasing are available on Apple Music, iTunes, Spotify, Prime Music, LINE MUSIC, AWA, KKBOX etc.

ArtLism.JP
http://artlism-jp.tumblr.com

Album trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk-GjSHA5ho

syunsui

Usually I do a million takes when I record a new song. This time I stopped around take 10 to prevent perfectionism taking over.. 
So, it’s not super precise, but hey! I finished something! 
I hope you enjoy it. 

*Alice

Unverzagt

This track is quoted from the album 'Losing Today'. This album is dedicated to Brian Young, known to many of us as Losing Today, who died earlier this year. Brian was a brilliant photographer whose work was used for many album covers. He was a real fan who supported our music, a friend to many in the scene and a lovely guy. He is already missed. 

All proceeds from this album will go directly to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. 

Special thanks to Porya Hatami for his time and the great mastering job.

Cover Photo : Brian Young
Mastering : Porya Hatami
Released from : Dronarivm

Losing Today

Yasuragi

Commemorate Brian

Yasuragi - dedicated to Brian Young

Simply a minimal drone, subtle sonic wallpaper. "Repetition is a form of change." ... an oblique strategy ... stoney.sb.org/eno/oblique.html

Inspired by minimal drone music in general, the subtleties of an oscillator, filter, reverb, or any sound source.

Thanks for listening...

Minimal

Chord Harmonics

Happy Piano Day! The piano is absolutely my favourite instrument, both to play and to sample. I always use it to begin the writing process, just playing around with chords/melodies, even though it may not always be a feature in the final track. This particular jam is a combination of piano and the Casio CZ synthesizer and inspired both entirely and unashamedly by Daniel Lopatin :)

Youtube

Laurence Guy - Piano Skit / Piano Day 2020

Elenor

water stream like dozing off.

written, mixed, mastered by Hidekazu Imashige 
cover photo by Hidekazu Imashige

water haze

kaeru

On October 4th 2019, Penguin Cafe released 'Handfuls of Night', the highly anticipated follow-up to their much applauded 2017 album 'The Imperfect Sea' 

Using gut-stringed violins, viola, cello, bass, percussion, upright and grand pianos, synthesiser, harmonium and more, Arthur Jeffes and his cohorts have crafted a vivid series of panoramic sonic landscapes, that are as rich in cerebral poignancy as they are in emotional depth.

Bookended by the atmospheric ambient piano pieces ‘Winter Sun’ and ‘Midnight Sun’, the album traverses glacial minimalism with ease, combining their signature contemporary classical panoramas, such as the melancholic yet upbeat lead track ‘At the Top of the Hill, They Stood...’ and the colossal cinematic piece ‘Chapter’, with the crystalline folktronica on ‘Pythagorus on the Line Again’ — a re-visiting and continuation of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra’s 1993 Union Cafe song on the principles of harmonics.

'Handfuls of Night' began life after Greenpeace commissioned Jeffes to write four pieces of music corresponding to four breeds of penguins, to help raise awareness for the endangered Antarctic seas . A fundraising evening at EartH in Hackney followed, where Penguin Cafe premiered the four songs named after their feathered counterparts to a sold out audience; the rousing contemporary folk inflected ‘Chinstrap’, the mournful and minimalistic ‘Adelie’, stoic and rhythmic ‘The Life of an Emperor’ and the wistful, string-laden ‘Gentoo Origin’.

“Such is its mastery of slowly uncoiling drama you can almost taste the salt in the breeze" ★★★★ — MOJO⠀
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"Arthur Jeffes' music has a direct clarity. Dramatic swells and sweeps showcase the jaw-dropping landscape. Most importantly, though, the music carries an environmental message, which is a critical issue for this generation" — A Closer Listen ⠀
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"One of their most impeccable moments to date" ★★★★ — Music OMH ⠀
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"Elegiac strides across epic landscapes... Arthur Jeffes is doing the legacy of his father proud" — Prog Magazine ⠀
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"Another winner from this group, with Jeffes and company mixing minimalism, folk music and classical string writing into a charming combination” ★★★★ — All About Jazz ⠀
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"A sensitive, frequently lovely follow-up to 2017’s ‘The Imperfect Sea… Handfuls of Night’ conjures pastoral panoramas and weathered vistas" — DJ Magazine⠀

Handfuls of Night

Midnight Sun

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Penguin Cafe - Midnight Sun

Sacred Geometry is full of detail and texture. Its emotional depth comes from a connected place. Following my experiences in yoga and plant medicine I began to see the mathematical elegance of nature. To mirror these geometric forms in sound was the source of my creative process.

The first half of the record captures a performance at the 2018 Le Guess Who? Festival in Utrecht, Holland. Voice, guitar, synthesiser and field recordings were processed into a collage of mediative sounds. In the second half of the record acoustic sounds are fused with harder electronic processes. The track Toroids represents my vision for this record (almost) perfectly.

Closer consideration for the mysteries of consciousness has led the music to border on the spiritual. I hope people will find something to meditate on in each of these songs in the same way I have.

- Alex Smalley

releases September 27, 2019

Music - Alex Smalley
Violin on The Golden Ratio - Jane Wild
Piano on Dimensionality - Lucia Adam
Mastering - Porya Hatami
Artwork - Rafael Araujo

Thanx to Maria, Alma, Family Schmidt Smalley, Paul @Shimmering Moods, Bic & Jane, Si & Lee, Lucia, Andy, Rafael, Porya and Dmitry for their love and support. I would also like to thank anyone who is listening to my music. We are all connected.

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The Golden Ratio

from my 2020 EP "The Effortless Quiet", available on bandcamp

slowly it blows
11.30.19

The Effortless Quiet

höstvind

"This was an improvisation, a kind of meditation on a simple theme. I was trying to explore mood and colour above anything else" — Ryan Lee West

Listen to it on streaming platforms: https://IDOL.lnk.to/winters-lament

Winter's Lament

Stream · DL

Rival Consoles - Winter's Lament

To mark this year’s 88th day and as an acknowledgement to these unprecedented circumstances we find ourselves in, Piano Day founder, pianist and producer Nils Frahm releases a collection of eight solo piano pieces titled 'Empty'. 

Stream and download 'Empty': https://idol.lnk.to/nils-frahm-empty

Conceived of just before Nils broke his thumb and composed the similarly intimate solo piano album 'Screws', 'Empty' is a soothing vessel of eight simple and serene pieces originally recorded as the music to a short art film he shot with his friend and film director Benoit Toulemonde. Drifting through emotions from the stark and sobering opener 'First Defeat', to the gently euphoric 'No Step On Wing' and the contemplative but hopeful closer 'Black Notes', with its poignant minute of silence, 'Empty' is a comforting score for these turbulent times.

“When I came back from the hospital with a broken thumb and listened to the recordings, I felt they were unfinished. I decided to put them aside and started to work on my small album, 'Screws'. 

Many many other notes of the piano have been struck since these days, and before we all forget about this, I thought it would be a good moment to share these lullabies with you. I hope they help you stay all strong and calm in these days of solitude – despite the hardship, we can discover introspection and reflection unexpectedly. Who knows what it is good for.  
 
Much love, Nils”

Empty

No Step On Wing

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Nils Frahm - No Step On Wing

Brain - The World EP
Produced by Matthew Dear
https://planete.lnk.to/TheWorldEP 

Having made an undeniable contribution to the legacy of electronic music in Detroit over the last twenty years, Matthew Dear arrives at Planet E with a new alias, simply known as Brain. The latest in a legacy of Dear's influential techno projects including False, Jabberjaw and Audion, The World EP finds the veteran producer still moving ever-forward.

Originally debuting on Carl Craig’s acclaimed Detroit Love Vol.2 mix compilation in 2019, the introductory ‘Boss’ is a psychedelic tunnel that takes full advantage of Dear’s nous for detail, as a submissive vocal delivers a number of distinctive requests amid the lustrous texture of the Brain project, both hyper-detailed and deliciously minimal. This same sense of patience and space drives ‘Corrections’, a knotty, rolling masterpiece of digital distortion that unfolds into a valley of spacious breakbeats, before reconstructing itself back to visceral analogue pleasure.

Getting deeper still as the record progresses, ‘Rafe’ takes place in the hinterland between full-throttle rave ecstasy and unadulterated deeperness, as if gasping and exhaling with pleasure and relief. ‘Snake Head’ operates in an upper echelon of tempo that speaks for another variation of electro from Detroit’s community, collapsing into a trancelike passage of outright oddness. 

The World EP will be released in digital form initially during the lockdown period, with a 2x12" vinyl release to follow in September 2020 featuring the additional production, 'Tantricity'. Clocking in at 24mins, this understated epic offers a tumbling, occasionally indescribable journey through passage upon passage of Brain’s ultra-precise and unpredictable world, a euphoric and occasionally unsettling masterclass in suspense and release.

Digital tracklist (15 May 2020):
01 Boss
02 Corrections
03 Rafe
04 Snake Head

Vinyl tracklist (September 2020):
A1 Boss
A2 Corrections
B1 Rafe
B2 Snake Head
C1 Tantricity Pt.I 
D1 Tantricity Pt.II

The World EP

Brain - Boss

Maps and Diagrams - Kalia

Gymnopédie No. 1

L’âme secrète

Dutch producer Danny Wolfers aka @legowelt-official needs little introduction unless you’ve spent the past two decades buried beneath a Mont Blanc avalanche. His enormous collection of synthesizers, as well as his unwavering love for analogue production tools, justifiably places him in the synth music “Hall of Fame”. Since releasing his first material in the early 1990s, Legowelt has incessantly produced music and continues to display seemingly limitless creativity. As a result he has built an unparalleled discography that also includes an assortment of artist aliases.

Legowelt’s new EP ‘System Shapeshift’ will be released on Lapsus sub label C.E.E., specializing in more club-oriented sounds. The label returns to action after a two-year hiatus, during which time its intrepid explorers failed twice to scale the dizzy heights of Nanga Parbat. Now back at sea level C.E.E.’s head honchos have confirmed the release of Legowelt’s new five-track EP, bursting at the seams with 30 minutes of unrelenting old-school techno, synth house and snaking electro bathed in pure acid. The EP is a genuine time bomb, ideal for the most discerning of electronic music lovers.

Artist: @legowelt-official 
Label: @lapsus-records
Buy: https://gate.sc/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flapsus.bandcamp.com%2Falbum%2Fsystem-shapeshift-ep&token=34e518-1-1603368145761

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PREMIERE: Legowelt - System Shapeshift [Lapsus Records]

A glimpse into Holographic Prism – the third chapter of SKY, to be released in January 2021 with a vinyl and CD edition hosted by Past Inside the Present. www.pastinsidethepresent.com

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Source material and sound production by Ludvig Cimbrelius

Reimagined and remixed by Agustín Mena https://soundcloud.com/w_a_r_m_t_h

Artwork by ARIJ MOKA –
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Mastered by The Analog Botanist at the White Pillar Workshop, Winter 2020. www.analogbotany.com

Merope (SVLBRD Ambient Mix)

Night in a draw - Balmorhea remix Balmorhea "All Is Wild, All Is Silent Remixes"  Western Vinyl

Oslated Premiere 346

Jarguna - Altoplano
Animas-k [RITE03 / संस्कार Rites]

Produced by Marco Bili aka Jarguna
Mastered by ROXf_Lab
Artwork by Marco Bili
Released by संस्कार Rites from the World
Release Date : January 27th. 2021

Jarguna (Florence, Italy)
https://soundcloud.com/jarguna

संस्कार Rites
https://soundcloud.com/riteshindi
https://www.facebook.com/Riteshindu
https://riteshindi.bandcamp.com

Oslated.
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https://soundcloud.com/oslated
https://oslated.bandcamp.com

Animas​-​k

Altoplano

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PREMIERE : Jarguna - Altoplano [संस्कार Rites]

Oslated Premiere 348

Owl - Hidden Forest
Infinite Horizon [SSD13 / Silent Season]

Produced by Pierre Nesi aka Owl
Mastered by Adam Gonsalves at Telegraph Mastering
Artwork by Gary Ellis
Released by Silent Season from Vancouver Island, Canada
Release Date : January 27th. 2021
Format - CD and Digital

Infinite Horizon is a deep and introspective journey to unexplored lands. A dense fog settled in the valley. the moon shines through the haze. A glimpse of the decline, the vision blurred, nothing seemed real. After losing cohesion, the body lies down and takes the horizon line of the soul. The sleeper becomes the awakened from the shadows. Lost in the hidden forest, In search of the infinite horizon. It will follow the passage of the two lands between light and dark. A distant transmission keeping the hope of reaching it one day. « The horizon emphasizes the infinite »

Owl (Belgium)
https://soundcloud.com/owlfromdeepspace
https://www.facebook.com/owlfromdeepspace
https://www.instagram.com/pete_owl

Silent Season
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https://shop.silentseason.com
https://soundcloud.com/silent-season
https://www.instagram.com/silentseason

Oslated.
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https://soundcloud.com/oslated
https://oslated.bandcamp.com

Infinite Horizon

Hidden Forest

PREMIERE : Owl - Hidden Forest [Silent Season]

Island of The Hungry Ghosts
A film by Gabrielle Brady
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Aaron Cupples, with field recordings by Leo Dolgan

Format: Deluxe Vinyl edition with booklet & full stream of the film + download / Digital
Cat.No. PAN 110
Release Date: 29 January 2021
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/iothg

Island of the Hungry Ghosts is a hybrid documentary that moves between the natural, human and spiritual worlds. Located off the coast of Indonesia, the Australian territory of Christmas Island is inhabited by migratory crabs travelling in their millions from the jungle towards the ocean, in a movement that has been provoked by the full moon for hundreds of thousands of years. Poh Lin Lee is a trauma therapist who lives with her family in this seemingly idyllic paradise. Every day, she talks with the asylum seekers held indefinitely in a high-security detention centre hidden in the island’s core, attempting to support them in a situation that is as unbearable as its outcome is uncertain. As Poh Lin and her family explore the island’s beautiful yet threatening landscape, the local islanders carry out their “hungry ghost” rituals for the spirits of those who died on the island without a burial. They make offerings to appease the lost souls who are said to be wandering the jungles at night looking for home.

This album presents the original score Aaron Cupples created for the film. Rich in texture and harmonics, the music is characterised by the bespoke instruments and recording techniques employed in its creation. The soundtrack also features sound recordist Leo Dolgan’s vivid field recordings. All captured on Christmas Island, the four pieces recall insect choruses, strange and ominous bird calls, erupting blowholes, fire, ocean, and Buddhist prayers for the dead.

“Drawing on discussions with director Gabrielle Brady, I began to perceive the island itself as the protagonist, with its own ancient rhythms and cycles set against the transitory human stories it endures. It was my intention to give voice to the island through the score. Imagining what this might sound like, emanating from deep within the landscape, I settled on a handmade long-string instrument. This single 13-foot long wire was tuned, bowed, and electromagnetically oscillated to create slowly evolving textures and deep layers of resonance.

From this foundation, the score introduces rhythm inspired by traditional Chinese festival drumming and chanting of Buddhist nuns recorded on Christmas Island by sound recordist Leo Dolgan. Working closely with him, the score is intentionally kept dark in timbre to allow a merging with the intricate nature recordings, which often play simultaneously with the score.

As the film’s narrative unfolds, harmonic movement and finally melody emerge, bringing a theme to the human stories. Their life rhythms and cycles interwoven with those of the island.” – Aaron Cupples

The album is mastered by Rashad Becker, featuring design by N MRE 08. Field recordings by Leo Dolgan.

Island of The Hungry Ghosts (OST)

Aaron Cupples - The Protester (PAN 110)

Written and Produced by Agustín Mena
Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studio (NY)
Photography by Alexander Kopatz
www.go70north.com
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