Ether

Taken from 'I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night' LP/Download [ELP063]

Sublime debut of lilting sketches for guitar x synth by manc bosom buds Celestial, quietly resplendent in a classic vein of soft touch Balearic blues and kosmische hues that comes very highly recommended if you’re into anything from The Durutti Column to Vincent Gallo’s classic ‘When’ album or even the instrumental splendour of HTRK at their most diaphanous.

Bathed in moonlight, ’I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night’ is the gorgeous debut by childhood friends Celestial, arriving in the glistening wake of 2021 gems on the same label by Romance, Not Waving, Spivak, claire rousay & more eaze. Convecting a richly sanguine sound gleaned from a Sequential Circuits Sixtrak synth and Fender guitar with the results mottled to frail AGFA tape, it’s the modest and warm soul on display that speaks to a quieter side of the rainy city psyche, picking up a fine thread of etheric inspiration that leads back to The Durutti Column via Ry Cooder’s ‘Paris, Texas’ soundtrack and Iasos’ intoxicating new age, with a fragile, gauzy vision of instrumental songcraft ripe for getting lost in dappled fantasy.

Practically synaesthetic in their spatial sensitivity and psilocybic tactility, the six songs make a real virtue of reverb, echo and tender hiss that swaddles their lyrical phrasing with a cottony texture. Subtly but crucially favouring analogue enigma over digital clarity, their sound unspools with a kaleidoscopic, nostalgic quality surrendered in shimmering waves of bliss and back-of-the-eyes swirl between the hash haze of ‘Endless’ and northern gothic tone of ‘Lonely Weekend.’ Tape hiss resembles drizzle outside in the lowlit langour of ‘Hat Full of Rain’, and we can practically taste the petrichor in ‘The Perfumed Garden’, leading to ASMR levels of synth tingles with an unmistakeable northern melancholy of ‘At The Rivers Edge’, especially in its gloaming coda.

A reel low-key stunner.

Mastered by Alessio Natalizia

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CELESTIAL - THE PERFUMED GARDEN [ELP063]

Taken from 'Fringe' LP/Download (E064, Ecstatic 03/09/2021)

A gorgeous swell of intimate soundscaping from Felisha Ledesma on this simmering stunner for Ecstatic, despatching two extended, richly absorbing pieces weft from everyday detritius; synths, strings, voicemail, found sounds - hitting a similar spot for us as Ulla’s diaristic 'inside means inside me’ but with a more defined play of sound-as-light that gently and memorably tugs at the earlobes and heartstrings. 

Exploring a music of presence and ultra subtle inference, ‘Fringe’ is the 2nd release by Ledesma, student of Berlin's estimable Universität der Künste, following from a debut for Enmossed x Psychic Liberation earlier this year. Using AMQR - a software synthesiser built by Ledesma together with Ess Mattisson - both pieces here shimmer with elusive timbres that occupy a realm that feels lost between worlds - neither electronic nor acoustic, but more a sort of observational sound that radiates togetherness and warmth. 

Operating at insightful levels of synaesthesia, Ledesma poetically turns ostensibly humdrum sources into clouds of smoke - emails, voicenotes, walking along the water, a poem attached to an email, walking alone in New York during lockdown, going for a swim at sunset in the desert - all turn into a smudge of memory. When ‘Beamsplitters’ opens with a tangible human presence - a voicemail from a friend - it startles with its earthly pull, eventually getting lost in a tangled spool of found sound leaving just a trace of iridescent, intimate reverie. 

On ‘Golden Mirror’ Felisha gently diffracts a lonesome guitar phrase into a humming thizz with a steeply uncanny ability to jog the memory in a similar way to how olfactory stimulus can conjure feelings of nostalgia. It’s a trick familiar from an emergent new realm of lower case composers creating something like submerged, small scale symphonies that work counter to notions of classical excess or anodyne ambient, instead focusing on microcosmic, highly peronalised sort of worldbuilding that’s impenetrable, yet somehow entirely open.

Felisha Ledesma - Golden Mirror [E064]

Harry Belafonte - Matilda

To Remain/To Return

Recorded live at Ecstatic Dance Hamburg! 

Get ready to be transported on a musical journey like no other with Sefrijn's latest DJ mix. Sefrijn's music brings together a fusion of genres, ranging from African percussion to electronic beat, shamanic tribal downtempo to melodic heart opening sounds.

Sefrijn's expertly curated selection of music is sure to ignite your senses and take you on an immersive journey that will leave you feeling energized and refreshed. Let the pulsating rhythms of African Percussion, the hypnotic beats of Shamanic music, and the soulful melodies of World Fusion, take you on a journey of self-discovery and expression.

As a seasoned traveler and DJ, Sefrijn knows how to create a vibe that transcends borders and unites people from all walks of life. Sefrijn's music has the power to draw you deeper into the dance, allowing you to let go of your inhibitions and surrender to the rhythms of Ecstatic Dance.

Whether you're looking to dance, meditate, or simply get lost in the music, this mix is the perfect soundtrack for your journey. So get ready to let the music guide you and experience the transformative power of Sefrijn's latest DJ mix.

Ecstatic Dance Hamburg, Germany (feb 2023)

Latyshev - Danza Del Sol EP

Catalog #BNA053

Tracklist:
1. Danza Del Sol (Original Mix)
2. Caballos & Arena (Original Mix)
3. Danza Del Sol (Lama's Dream Remix)
4. Danza Del Sol (Matt Jah Remix)
5. Danza Del Sol (Ksky Remix)

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https://soundcloud.com/ksky

Latyshev - Danza Del Sol (Lama's Dream Remix)

Mostly By Day #028 | With Poyan Shifter

Release: Pedacitos Ep
Artist: @ungunga 
Label: Cosmovision Records
Cat-No.: CMVR031
Release Date: 2024-03-08
➟ Download/Stream: fanlink.to/pedacitos
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➤ About this song :
An old beat that has lived many lives, this time with the magic touch of the incomparable Aurélien Tomasi. This time it was the bed for an ode to my kid. Nassila wrote a heartfelt melody in Arabic and it sings about a little girl (his name is Saya and she didn’t realize, my kid is a boy so it’s very 2023), and it’s nice to have a song with my kid’s name ringing through the speakers.
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Pedacitos

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Oonga, Aurélien Tomasi, Nassila - Saya [Cosmovision Records]

Something Coming this Way

AMBIENT SOUNDSCPES INSPIRED BY THE WRITINGS OF FRANK HERBERT AND HIS DUNE UNIVERSE

SPICE - IN CONTEMPLATION

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The Tale of a New Moon (MOON CUT/Earth)

https://tepememusica.bandcamp.com/releases

@jiony

Primer compilado que estrena la fase de label de Tepeme Música.

Mictlán es un álbum conceptual a través de géneros e interpretaciones de 18 artistas sobre el inframundo según la mitología y cosmovisión prehispánica de los Aztecas.

Mictlán es el inframundo y parte del universo vertical, creado por la pareja de dioses soberanos de los muertos. Sus nueve niveles representan el viaje del Dios Tonatiuh todas las noches en las fauces de los señores de la Tierra. 

Tepeme Monamictlán es el segundo de los nueve niveles y residencia de Tepeyóllotl (dios de las montañas, los ecos y el jaguar). Esta es la región donde dos montañas chocan, produciendo ecos como señal a los muertos para cruzar al siguiente nivel.

Colaboraciones: Tofu Resistance, Kundan Lal, jiony, Gam̈a͇, Da Iguana, Steffen Kirchhoff, INTICHE, Klangstrom, Kusht, Mȁ̲̠̻ͥ̾ra͔̥̩̾͊̑cuyá͊, Ōme, Maugli, Alaix Pulse, Marcelo Berges, Dark But Gray, NILLO, Sarrelangue & Mēnšik

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First compilation that premieres the label phase of Tepeme Música.

Mictlán is a conceptual album through genres and interpretations of 18 artists about the underworld according to the mythology and pre-Hispanic worldview of the Aztecs.

Mictlán is the underworld and part of the vertical universe, created by the pair of sovereign gods of the dead. Its nine levels represent the journey of a god every night in the fauces of the lords of the Earth.

Tepeme Monamictlán is the second of the nine levels and residence of Tepeyóllotl (god of mountains, echoes and jaguar). This is the region where two mountains collide, producing echoes as a signal to the dead to cross to the next level.


Release: Diciembre 10, 2018 


Créditos:

Mastering: Enrique Couttolenc Barcena
https://www.facebook.com/ECBSoundMx/

Artwork: Stella Ismene 
https://www.instagram.com/stellaismene

jiony - Supramundo

Written, recorded and mixed by Janek Sprachta at Einraum Studio Berlin.
Violin played by Susanna Lundgren. 
Mastered by Nils Frahm at Durton Studio, Berlin. 

Novembre

Watching The Snowflakes Fall

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Boards of Canada - In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country

I'm totally excited to be releasing this brand new remix of RISE featuring one of my favorite downtempo producer's DJ Taz Rashid. It's been almost three years since the release of the original "RISE"  music video which brought over 1.2 million followers together to celebrate vulnerability. We are in a time of great divisiveness and I truly believe that the gift of vulnerability and song are the golden bridge that will unite all beings in this great awakening. My prayer is that we continue to wake up to our power and rebuild a world where we lay down our armor and connect heart to heart as we weave this new world together.

Rise (DJ Taz Rashid Remix)

9/22/2020

RISE (DJ Taz Rashid Remix)

Taken from Not Waving & Romance - Eyes Of Fate [E065, Ecstatic]
 
Not Waving combines with Romance on the free-floating grandeur of ‘Eyes Of Fate’ : nine tracks of mythological, Old Testament ambient.

The first new music from Not Waving since 2019 and the first pairing with label mate Romance 'Eyes Of Fate’ explores the fertile territory between secular and religious music that has long fascinated artists, allegories on the divine and existential bliss and terror in equal measure. 

From the curdled invocation of opener ‘I Bowed On My Knees’ to the enrapturing devotional of ‘While My Heart Still Beats’ to the final judgement of ‘Kneel For Mercy’, the album wrenches highly emotive textures utilising a blend of centuries-old chant styles and orchestration consisting of  chamber strings, tape loops and plangent processed sounds.

To Remain/To Return

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