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Morning Spring

All Pervading

All Pervading (Glimpse)

Subtle Thoughts

Storm Mother

Twin Color (vol. I)

All These Worlds Part. II

Track 9 from the Sanoi album 'Augenblick'
https://ffm.to/augenblick-side-a

Known for his textured approach to sound design, Sanoi steps into a new creative space with this introspective exploration of nostalgia, emotion, and atmosphere.

Sanoi blurs the boundaries between ambient soundscapes, downtempo grooves, and lo-fi beatwork, creating an experience that feels both cinematic and deeply personal.

Produced by Sanoi
Written by Jonas Fischer
Mastered at Kog by Chris Chetland

Augenblick

We All Float Up Here

12_suffering

Lamp

This classic minimal music album is now available again on vinyl for the first time since the 70s.

https://www.aguirrerecords.com/collections/aguirre-records/products/terry-riley-persian-surgery-dervishes-2xlp

Californian composer Terry Riley’s In C, first issued on vinyl in 1968, is widely acknowledged as a Minimalist landmark that altered the course of twentieth-century music. His influential album A Rainbow In Curved Air, which appeared the following year, is a vivid fusion of rock and raga, jazz and psychedelia realised through overdubbing on an 8-track machine which had recently been installed at the studios of Columbia Records.  

By the early 70s Riley had come to feel that scores were a distraction. Faithful interpretation of an already written piece was a deviation from the true purpose of making music, which was spiritual quest. Fortunately, some of those live performances, personal journeys towards a state of transcendence, were captured on tape. Persian Surgery Dervishes, issued initially on the French label Shandar, features two such concerts for electric organ and reel-to-reel delay, one recorded in Los Angeles on 18th April 1971, the other in Paris on 24th May 1972.

At the start of that decade Riley became a dedicated student of the great Hindustani singer Pandit Pran Nath. Looking into North Indian classical tradition he found correspondences to modal and cyclic ideas that he was already working on. In 1971, as a way to learn more, Riley himself started teaching Indian music at Mills College, in Oakland. That experience fed directly into his solo keyboard performances, but other influences were also shaping the music heard on Persian Surgery Dervishes. Personal research into ancient Persian culture and the poetry of Rumi lit up his imagination, while the repetitive swirling of Sufi devotional music from North Africa, which Riley had first encountered in Europe during the early 60s, reverberates through these performances. Jazz, as conceived by such masters such as Bill Evans and John Coltrane, is also present as an enduring source of inspiration. 

The Californian version of Persian Surgery Dervishes starts with low dark tones, dense and brooding like a huddled human figure, deep in introspection. But as the improvisation unfolds Riley’s buoyant spirit asserts itself, spiralling out in ecstatic coils, as though liberated from the grip of body consciousness. The Parisian concert conveys a different mood, brighter and more open in texture, more relaxed from the outset and breathing with greater freedom as it takes flight. 

Echoes of Terry Riley’s inspired music have spread far and wide - into progressive rock, New Age and ambient soundings, film soundtracks, blissed-out electronica and dance-floor trance. His fluent and hypnotic keyboard playing can be heard as part of a continuum, transmitting energies from ancient and distant musical sources into the living here and now. Persian Surgery Dervishes is a significant part of that picture, a mesmerising record of a vital stage in Riley’s ongoing quest for connection with the universal mind and the sublime music that flows ceaselessly from it. 

“Music is my spiritual path. It’s my way of finding out who I am.”  Terry Riley, in 1976

Terry Riley - Persian Surgery Dervishes - Performance 02 Part 1

Artist: Delta Rain Dance
Title: Trancemission/Transmission
Catalogue Number: DELTA1
Label: Delta Rain Dance
www.deltaraindance.com

Trancemission over; Transmission begins. Delta Rain Dance is an
experimental artist and label project delving into contemplative, and
melancholic states, with a record that blissfully glides between
ambient, and delicate-percussive, electronic states. A hybrid puzzle
of melodic cuts, DJ tools and drum tracks, that can be mixed together
to create new amalgamations of the source material.

'Trancemission/Transmission’ showcases a musical narrative that
transcends genres and moods, switching between flashes of dubbed
techno, abstract percussive electronica, and stark downtempo vibes.
'Trancemission/Transmission’ is a record structured around
progressions, heavy on sound design and imagination. It takes the
listener into different astral planes, from tranquil moments of
temperate melodies, to off-kilter periods of electro. Ghostly radio
transmissions, dubbed out Rhodes, underwater frequencies, and
broadcasts from beyond the digital ether. It is a modern take on
'Music for Airports', albeit written for a post-millennial audience,
one that grew up on Dilla, Vatican Shadow, Grouper and Digital
Mystikz. Drum tracks, locked grooves, and sparse sketches of melody
and reverb soaked harmonies. Delta Rain Dance has produced a body of
work that exists in two halves; the trancemissions operating as
celestial, ambient skits; moments of dreamlike serenity, while on the
flip, carefully programmed beats infer moments of Detroit, dubstep,
and IDM, gently providing the framework to the album’s intricate,
grainy basslines, and saturated overtones. The two halves of the
record can be mixed together, and like a puzzle that needs to be
solved, tracks fit together perfectly, creating an interactive
musical game, in which the DJ can create new sonic interpretations of
the album.

Words by Dan Cole ( https://thedancolereview.com/ )

Socials:
Bandcamp: deltaraindance.bandcamp.com
FB: https://www.facebook.com/deltaraindance/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/deltaraindance/
SC: https://soundcloud.com/deltaraindance

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A3. Trancemission Four

Release date: 15/04/19 (01/04/19 on AI Bandcamp)

If you would like to review this release, please email info@astralindustries.co.uk

Format: 180g vinyl//mastered by Noel Summerville//original artwork by Theo Ellsworth.

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Belgian artist Bernard Zwijzen, aka Sonmi451, has for over a decade now been quietly making some of the most luscious ambient we’ve heard here at AI-HQ. We are delighted to announce him as part of the Astral family with this six-track EP - Nachtmuziek - sit back, tune in and drift away.

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A1. Probe

It hurts that the trembling light playing peekaboo from behind the leaves and repelling autumn is less important for some people than what they are going to wear that day. It hurts that we never found those several minutes to observe how a single leaf does finally succumb to autumn, falling right in the center of a puddle left after the rain we didn’t bother to observe either. It hurts that we always hurry God knows where, that we have so many contacts in our phones yet we call absolutely no one, that we talk to each other less and less, especially about things that worry us, things we’d like to share. It hurts that we love less and less and find ourselves bragging about how much we’d love to love. Painful and unexpected as these days may be, they should bring an important change, something that would make us take better care of each other, of nature’s every inch and of ourselves, of what we say and do or don’t do, of people whose loss hurts us, leaving wounds difficult to close.

Endless thanks are in order for @sebastianmullaert for this mix, something truly eternal for us.

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illustration by: Khoren Matevosyan

"homard" project

Sebastian Mullaert - "The Woods of Admittance” for RAMBALKOSHE

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Bookings and all label enquiries: info@astralindustries.co.uk

Please, no demos.

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Artists: Deepchord, Wolfgang Voigt, The Chi Factory, Heavenly Music Corporation, Waveform Transmission, Sonmi451, Atom™, J.Derwort, Shorelights, Multicast Dynamics, LF58, The Abyss Within Us, Monolake, The Humble Bee, Son of Chi, Lucid Dreams, Mystic AM, Dialog, Sa Pa, Toki Fuko, Rod Modell, Ear to Ear, Pianeti Sintetici, Marco Shuttle.

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AI-01: Deepchord - Lanterns
AI-02: Wolfgang Voigt presents Rückverzauberung live in London
AI-03: Chi - The Original Recordings
AI-04: Wolfgang Voigt & Deepchord - Colours of Time, re-interpreted
AI-05: Chi Factory - The Bamboo Recordings
AI-06: Heavenly Music Corporation - Lunar Phase
AI-07: Chi Factory - The Kallikatsou Recordings
AI-08: Waveform Transmission - V 2.0-2.9
AI-09: Chi Factory - Red Lantern at the Kallikatsou
AI-10: Deepchord - Immersions
AI-11: Heavenly Music Corporation - In a Garden of Eden
AI-12: Chi Factory - The Mantra Recordings
AI-13: Sonmi451 - Nachtmuziek
AI-14: Dots - Dots
AI-15: J.Derwort - Bamboo Music
AI-16: Shorelights - Bioluminescence
AI-17: Multicast Dynamics - Ancient Circuits
AI-18: Chi Factory - Travel in Peace
AI-19: LF58 - Alterazione
AI-20: Waveform Transmission - V 3.0-3.9
AI-21: The Abyss Within Us - Life in a Circle
AI-22: Wolfgang Voigt presents Rückverzauberung Exhibition
AI-23: Monolake - Gobi. The Vinyl Edit 2021
AI-24: The Humble Bee - A Miscellany for the Quiet Hours
AI-25: Son of Chi & Radboud Mens - The Transition Recordings
AI-26: Multicast Dynamics & Sid Hille - Metamorphosis
AI-27: LF58 Live at Brancaleone
AI-28: Lucid Dreams
AI-29: Son of Chi & Clara Brea - The Wetland Remixes
AI-30: Mystic AM - Cardamom & Laudanum
AI-31: Dialog - Dialog
AI-32: Son of Chi & Arthur Flink - The Fifth World Recordings
AI-33: Sa Pa - Atmospheric Fragments
AI-34: Toki Fuko - Spirit Medicine
AI-35: Rod Modell - Ghost Lights
AI-36: Ear to Ear - Live Recordings
AI-37: Pianeti Sintetici - Space Opera
AI-38: LF58 - Radials
AI-39: Marco Shuttle - Sonidos y Modulaciones de la Selva
AI-40: Wolfgang Voigt - Rückverzauberung im Tunnel
AI-41: ???

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