Name: 36 - London by astrangelyisolatedplace in A Strangely Isolated Place (ASIP): Releases
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Description: I have quite a romanticised vision of London; it's hectic and vibrant, but also physically and mentally draining. It’s a city of opposites, both beautiful and ugly, exhilarating yet frustrating. It leaves me with an almost guilty sense of relief when I leave, giving my brain a chance to process my time there.

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A Strangely Isolated Place (ASIP): Releases

Song of the Highest Tower. Inspired by a poem by Arthur Rimbaud. 

Oisive jeunesse 
A tout asservie, 
Par délicatesse 
J'ai perdu ma vie. 
Ah ! Que le temps vienne 
Où les coeurs s'éprennent. 

Je me suis dit : laisse, 
Et qu'on ne te voie : 
Et sans la promesse 
De plus hautes joies. 
Que rien ne t'arrête, 
Auguste retraite. 

J'ai tant fait patience 
Qu'à jamais j'oublie 
[...] 

Oisive jeunesse 
A tout asservie, 
Par délicatesse 
J'ai perdu ma vie. 
Ah ! Que le temps vienne 
Où les coeurs s'éprennent.

All tracks written and produced by Pasquale Riviezzo 

Artwork photo titled "la città che muore" by Bruno _pek_ asip.me/1g3IWBR

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ASIP029 Halo - Song Of The Highest Tower

"When the gate of clouds opens wide, rain starts falling on the inner lands. And an harmony of choirs and voices lifts up, like children, a pure melody of oscillating bells plays inside us. Intensely. Airy. Ethereal. Nature awakening. Deeply immersed in silences and noises." 

All tracks written and produced by Pasquale Riviezzo 

Artwork photo titled "la città che muore" by Bruno _pek_ asip.me/1g3IWBR

ASIP029 Halo - Cloud Gate

"A sequence of places. Indefinite. A continuous flow of emotions that paints a landscape in the air. Here are new colors, new notes. And new atmospheres. It’s all about atmosphere. Intimate. And I cannot define boundaries, or limits. So wide, but so real. Like the fields that unfold while we’re moving, our travel. And they are reflected in our eyes like morning dew in a mirror".

All tracks written and produced by Pasquale Riviezzo 

Artwork photo titled "la città che muore" by Bruno _pek_ asip.me/1g3IWBR

ASIP029 Halo - The Inner Realm

"Departure is how the act of moving from one place to another begins. This is a station of passage, an abandoned station you see through the window while you’re travelling to another town. It’s an isolated place, vanishing in the mist, where few voices are heard and a train is passing by. All is immersed in the ambience of a particular Autumn day; a soft rain starts pouring down while all our feelings are flowing freely."

All tracks written and produced by Pasquale Riviezzo 

Artwork photo titled "la città che muore" by Bruno _pek_ asip.me/1g3IWBR

ASIP029 Halo - An Isolated Railway

I have quite a romanticised vision of London; it's hectic and vibrant, but also physically and mentally draining. It’s a city of opposites, both beautiful and ugly, exhilarating yet frustrating. It leaves me with an almost guilty sense of relief when I leave, giving my brain a chance to process my time there. 

36 - London

Vector Dreams

Track 4 - Voici La Fin

Familiar Nothing

Taken from the forthcoming new album by Jasmine Guffond entitled "Traced". Available early July 2017

Traced

Jasmine Guffond - Post Human

A little ambient piece I wrote yesterday afternoon.. Sorry not to have so much time for composing music until July, but I really wanted to share something with you in a little free time from my studying.

I always thought of ambient music as a way to effectively depict soundscapes with notes and musical colors (frequencies, tones, silences).

I’ll listen to this with closed eyes and I’ll see sounds painting a landscape in the imaginary space. Like emerging from the deepness of your thoughts, and sorrounding you with its presence, because it's you who has been creating it. Music conceals places in its notes.

I called that place "The wastelands", a distant landscape brought back to our time for a little moment, as it were while the wind blew in the cloudy sky and the sun set over the horizon of the open fields.

Just like a dream, at the end you open your eyes and there's no trace left, if not a subtle sensation of having been there, somewhere, sometime...

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Halo - 3.The Wastelands

Shida Shahabi is an Iranian-Swedish pianist and composer, with a background in sound art.  Early Autumn is timed to coincide with the release of Homes, Shahabi's debut album. Mainly featuring an old Swedish upright piano as its sole instrument, Homes delves deep into explorations of intimate piano tones, assured in its imperfections and sparse arrangements. This mix brings together old favorites with new releases in honor of her debut solo release. 

Read more at www.acloserlisten.com

Shida Shahabi presents Early Autumn

New single from @Gigi-Masin, out now on Apollo Records
https://smarturl.it/Masin-Anemone

Gigi Masin - Anemone

Gavin Miller - Akureyri
Taken from the forthcoming album "Bradford Telephone Exchange"

Limited Edition / 50 copies / Hand Numbered / Hand Made Packages / Brown Kraft & White Wallets / Professional duplicated cdr

Release date: 9-3-2020
SHM 120

Gavin Miller - Akureyri

from 'Karma' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den345
available on all formats at http://denovali.com/mansur

MANSUR is the newly initiated project by Jason Kohnen (ex-The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble) joined by Dimitry El-Demerdashi (ex-Phurpa) and introducing Martina Hórvath on vocals. The sound of MANSUR navigates between the waters of musical fantasy and reality - it morphs and blends traditional instrumentation with modern day electronica.

Horváth, El-Demerdashi and Köhnen return to their otherworldly worldbuilding with their debut album ‘Karma’ on Denovali. MANSUR leads the listener into mystical and magical unknowns, that lie far past the realms of material perception.

As astronomer Carl Saga once wrote “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known”.  Universal lessons of life, brought by teachings and teachers of ages. Unimaginary worlds in all our capacities of being created.  MANSUR is the transformational vessel guiding you to these non-physical realms. The realms you seek are already there, its up to you to find them.

Karma

Mansur - Memento Mori

Dutch composer Rutger Hoedemaekers makes his debut solo release with a stunning album that marks the culmination of a decade spent in the hyper-creative studio environment he co-founded in Berlin, including four years working closely alongside Jóhann Jóhannsson. Sonically rich, emotionally deep, and immaculately handled, 'The Age Of Oddities’ showcases a brilliant new talent, its cinematic eloquence bearing witness to Rutger’s experiences composing for film alongside Oscar-winner Hildur Guðnadóttir and Jóhannsson, for whom the album is partly a eulogy.

Whilst paying homage to Jóhannsson, ‘The Age Of Oddities’ sees Hoedemaekers forging his own sound and vision. It’s a bold and forward-thinking record, with a rich, hybrid sound seeing vocals processed and blurred alongside brass parts and a wall of strings shadowed by Rutger’s understated, textural electronics. Beautifully scored, immaculately performed and recorded, the album utilises the power of Budapest Art Orchestra’s 23-piece string ensemble conducted and co-orchestrated by Viktor Orri Árnason, alongside vocals (Kira Kira, Theatre of Voices’ Else Torp and Laura Jansen), horn (Morris Kliphuis), trombone (Hilary Jeffery) and violin (Una Sveinbjarnardóttir and Viktor Orri Árnason), with Hoedemaekers contributing trumpet, piano, keyboard and electronics.

Born out of a shared creative environment during a time of personal as well as social change, ‘The Age Of Oddities’ is a powerful and emotive work that closes a deeply productive yet also dark and heavy period for its creator.  It sees Hoedemaekers finally stepping out into the spotlight after many years working behind the scenes, revealing a hugely talented new composer who is surely one to watch in coming years.

The Age Of Oddities

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Rutger Hoedemaekers - Not For That Hour, Nor For That Place

A longingly beautiful mini-album Out of Time by London-based composer Mike Lazarev...Constructed as a soundtrack to an imaginary film, it is his first for the label and a standout work in his own high grade canon.

Opening with swells of strings and plaintive piano chords, lead single “Out of Time” sets a profoundly expressive tone. Each reverberating note is carefully, gently placed on a canvas awash with purity and stillness, finally building into a rushing river of breathtaking prettiness that culminates in a hanging, dead-stop ending. Later on the record, “Time Becomes” progresses like a Harold Budd piece or a Ryuichi Sakamoto soundtrack work, melting away the ice with dulcet chord changes as single string notes float on a rarefied air. “Outerlude” changes the mood again, its subtly Eastern European melodies and natural piano noises - the chatter of keys and shuffle of pedals - transport us to a haunted, deserted ballroom where a lone ghost pianist laments the weight of a tremendous grief.

“The protagonists of this imaginary film are constantly fighting against the fleeting moments on this plane. But it is less about death than it is about living. And most of all, it is all about time,” Lazarev writes. He is right: Out of Time is elegiac - heartbreakingly sad, even - but behind the melancholy themes lies a powerful affirmation of life, warmth, and the human spirit.

Out Of Time

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