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Andrew Deutsch + Keith Rowe + Yuya Ota - 05 Hardwood Floor (Kannazuki No Uta)

Sonomad is a new project from members of Supreme Beings of Leisure, Ramin Sakurai and Geoffrey Brandin.
Album and tracks are available now on:
iTunes

Sonomad - "Road To Somewhere"
Ramin Sakurai -  Bass, Synths, Rhodes, Organs, Piano, Programming
Geoffrey Brandin - Guitars
Featuring Shana Halligan - Vocals
Greg Cecconi - Drums
Duke Mushroom - Percussion
Carol Robbins Harp

Recorded, Mixed and Produced by Ramin Sakurai

Platinum Graffiti Music (BMI). Avantard Music (BMI). Lady Swank Music (BMI).
(c)(p) 2015 Prismtone Records. All Rights Reserved.

Road To Somewhere (Featuring Shana Halligan)

‘Melt’ is a single long-form track of warm, overlapping tones created with a toy keyboard, a synthesizer, analogue delay and looper pedals, and some minimal laptop processing. Glitches and signal problems were welcomed into the process, shrouding the fragmented yet lyrical keyboard melodies in a gentle mist of fuzz, clicks and hiss. 

Released 15 May 2011 on Rural Colours and part of Subscription Pack 11.

Melt

Fugue / Stephan Mathieu & Janek Schaefer
Cloisters / Loscil
Vletrmx / Autechre
Dune Prophecy Theme / Brian Eno
Monophaser 2 / Alva Noto
The Things I Tell You (Live at the Arnolfini, Bristol) / Biosphere
The Harbinger / Julianna Barwick
Morning Spirit / Pete Namlook & Tetsu Inoue
Golotrok / Diskjokke
White's Dream / Plaid 

01.07.2014 - Sapho

Dekorder presents two new vinyl editions composed and designed by UK sound artist Janek Schaefer, who is known around the world for his wide variety of engaging and unpredictable works for installation, concert and composition. Following his highly acclaimed ‘Lay-by Lullaby’ album on 12k [which Pitchfork listed in the ‘Top 10 under-the-radar releases for 2014’], Janek has created and collated a collection of tracks that showcase both his more ambient works [077], and his highly charged sonorities [078]. A beautiful pair of LP’s that ideally should be experienced together for your home listening pleasure. The tracks were mastered by Stephan Mathieu and cut by Lupo at Calyx Mastering.

 

This is LP1 [077] “Unfolding Luxury beyond the City of Dreams”

A1 White Lights of Divine Darkness (for Sir John Tavener)    7:34    
By chance I composed this for my brother-in-law the day he passed away. In recent years he had seen the white lights of heavens gate, but returned, and became fascinated by what he called God’s divine darkness in this lifetime.

A2 Unfolding Honey    6:06   
A track from my exhibition soundtrack 'Future Beauty, 30 years of Japanese fashion' held at The Barbican Gallery, London. The exhibition featured some amazing folded garments by Issey Miyake, that inspired the unfurling fabric feeling of the composition.

A3 Luxury    3:00    
An orchestral drone piece featuring an old French lady singing to her cats with an extra celestial chorus.

A4 Skyline Ascending    3:28   
A Carpenters LP piano loop is layered again and again over a high sky recording, which was recorded using a helium balloon floating in the clouds over the city, with raindrops.

B1 Coda (for Sir John Dankworth)    5:00          
In my early teens, I used to attend week long music camps, in tents, within the grounds of Sir John Dankworth's home with Cleo Laine. I used to know them, and composed this piece with one of their vinyl's on the day I heard he died. The installation premiered at the Sydney Cooper Gallery in Canterbury, broadcasting a 3 channel version to six 50's radios.

B2 The City of Dreams    8:28    
Theme tune for the opening of “The Mill: City of Dreams” a site specific theatre production in a deserted mill in Bradford. Piano motif recorded live with my twin-arm turntable, additional overlays recorded with Mark Robinson on his old family piano.

B3 Beyond    6:30    
The Carpenter’s return, sliding piano loops through recordings made in Grand Central Station at closing time when the vast hall was deserted, and the full majesty of the acoustic space could be appreciated. Stilettos pass by forming polyrhythm's, as the last train announces it’s departure...

 

Biography

Janek Schaefer has exhibited, lectured, and performed widely throughout Europe [Sonar, Tate Modern, ICA, Strasbourg Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art], USA/Canada, [Walker Art Center, Mutek, Princeton, XI], Japan, and Australia [Sydney Opera House 2003]. His foundsound concerts and installations explore the spatial, social and celestial qualities that sound can communicate, through the twisting of old and new technology. The context of each idea is central to its development and resolution, often exploring themes of appropriation, accident, & alteration.

Janek studied Architecture at the Royal College of Art where he worked with Brian Eno, creating “Recorded Delivery” in 1995, and discovered how important sound is in perceiving space, and place. In 2008 he won the British Composer of the Year Award in Sonic Art, and a Paul Hamlyn Award. The Bluecoat Gallery in Liverpool exhibited a Retrospective of his career to date in 2009. He is represented by the Agency gallery, London, and is a Visiting Professor at Oxford Brookes Sonic Art Research Unit. He lives and works in Walton-on-Thames.

Janek Schaefer - Coda (for Sir John Dankworth)

Janek Schaefer - Luxury

Janek Schaefer - Unfolding Honey

Janek Schaefer - White Lights Of Divine Darkness (for Sir John Tavener)

http://www.meditations.jp/index.php?main_page=product_music_info&products_id=16089

Janek Schaefer - Inner Space Memorial [For J.G.Ballard] (Excerpt)

Steve Peters | Atrium

SHM Podcast #42: Experimental sound artist Porya Hatami with his second podcast for Shimmering Moods. 

Porya Hatami is based in Sanandaj, Iran, working in the field of ambient/minimal, his compositions explore the balance between electronics and environmental sounds, utilizing processed acoustic and electronic sources and field recordings.

He did a excellent remix for Dimitar Dodovski's track "In Every Direction" available here: https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/in-every-direction

More Porya Hatami:

http://noise.poryahatami.com
http://www.poryahatami.com/contact.htm
https://soundcloud.com/poryahatami
https://twitter.com/poryahatami

Track List:
1 - Pinkcourtesyphone - Wistful Wishful Wanton -  Foley Folly Folio - 00:00
2 - Janek Schaefer - Boulevard Peripherique-  Alone At Last- 04:35
3 - Giuseppe Ielasi - untitled 04 - Aix - 13:32
4 - Vladislav Delay - third quarter - The Four Quarters - 17:10
5 - Coh -  Super Suprematism 9 -  Super Suprematism - 23:40
6 - Andrew Pekler - sleepless -  Nocturnes, False Dawns & Breakdowns - 26:07
7 - Pjusk - demring - Solstov - 30:05
8 - arovane and porya hatami - resonanCe  - resonance - 35:33
9 - jon hassell - maarifa street - maarifa street_magic realism 3 - 41:43
10 - philip jeck - ark - An Ark For The Listener - 48:08
11 - motion - The Guessing - motion-picture - 51:55
12 - mokira - lord, am i going down- persona - 58:11
13 - oval -  line extension - 94 diskont - 1:05:10

Enjoy!


SHM Podcast #42: Porya Hatami - Mixed Selections II

Yan Jun | Rain Out (feedback excerpt)

Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier- The First Forest

Death in Death Valley - S/T

Derek Holzer - Metallophone Drift

Radian - Helix

Nicolas Dick - Faer

ATRL - Part 2

Exclusive track for the Time Released Sound compilation TRUST.
http://timereleasedsound.com/releases/trust-2/

Persimmon

A sampler of tracks from 'Time Lapse' (Hibernate Recordings, HB22)

Now on Hibernate, Wil Bolton presents 'Time Lapse', which is the debut CD release under his own name. This combines the warm and emotive electronic melodies of his Cheju output with the more minimal drones and field recordings-based sensibility of his sound art work. Melodies are still integral to the music but are more subtle, fragmented, and submerged among beds of droning ambient textures and environmental sounds.

Sound sources include electric guitar, classical guitar, chime bars, vintage keyboards, 4 track tape recorder, loopers and pedals. These analogue and acoustic sounds are combined with laptop electronics and processing. Field recordings give each piece a strong sense of place and atmosphere, with environmental sounds recorded in sites including: a café in King's Lynn; a Berlin train station; a lake in Porthmadog, North Wales; Liverpool Cathedral; an electrical substation; Mureung Valley, South Korea.

For further information and to purchase, please visit www.hibernate-recs.co.uk

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Howard Berdach