Name: Zora (feat. Lisa Morgenstern) by Aukai
Duration: 3 min 52 s
Description: 3rd single from the upcoming album Game Trails. out Aug 28.

Soothing, powerful and beautiful all in one song

О чем-то несбывшемся.. ☁️🤍



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Debuted on Stereogum here: bit.ly/1DAC8ZQ

What does the future of peace and quiet look like? Is it possible for someone to find serenity in a world where population mushrooms and buildings continuously jockey for the best possible view? With Kael Smith’s (Mombi, Khale) Mute Forest this dichotomy is at the epicenter of his 'Infinity Pools EP' due April 7th via Lost Tribe Sound.

To coincide with visuals courtesy of Gregory Euclide (Bon Iver, Erased Tapes), Smith’s debut EP fuses acoustic sounds, mangled electronics and provocative lyrics across four meditative yet mesmerizing tracks.

Serving as a companion piece to his expansive and sonorous LP, 'Deforestation', due later this year, Smith’s 'Infinity Pools EP' was actually written as a reaction to that material but will be released first.“ 'Deforestation' will in a sense be a prequel to the EP,” explains Smith. “And for listeners who follow along, should provide an interesting reverse narrative,” he concludes.

“Crypt,” the EP’s opener, contains oscillating vinyl-sampled rhythms, chiming electric guitar and gently struck nylon guitar. Following that is the sparce and haunting “Volcanoes Flowing,” which traces a melancholy beat and slow, lovely piano crescendos to its heartbreaking conclusion.

Darker in tone, title track "Infinity Pools" has a commanding presence using ominous electronics and damaged samples of Le Creuset pots being struck. Heavily processed and featuring vocals from Smith’s longtime girlfriend Kelly O’Brien, the track unfurls into a hypnotic groove over the chilling words “You’ll feel like an ember trilling/out in space.”

Washing over the listener to conclude the EP, “Eat the Skin” originally started as an A Winged Victory for the Sullen remix of a song off of their recent LP, 'Atomos'. As the track progressed though, all of the layers performed by AWVFTS were eventually stripped leaving only acoustic guitar and Smith’s voice. “I like to pretend we wrote that song together, hopefully someday they will hear it” desires Smith. He uses the big, cavernous sound of acoustic guitar as base for unhurried, dulcet vocals and airy electronics. “I’ve always loved the big, acoustic sound of Seafood’s “Desert Stretched Before the Sun”“ explains Smith. “I really tried to emulate that deep resonate tone where the acoustic sounds like a tidal wave.”

All songs written, performed, recorded and mixed by Kael Smith (kaelsmithmusic.com)
Kelly O'Brien backing vocals on "Infinity Pools."
Mastering by Taylor Deupree at 12k Mastering
Production assistance on "Crypt" & "Volcanoes Flowing" by Matthew Herron

Original artwork by Gregory Euclide (gregoryeuclide.com)
Copyright 2015 Lost Tribe Sound (losttribesound.com)
Published by Settled Scores 2015 (ASCAP)


Mute Forest - Eat The Skin (from Infinity Pools EP)

My official remix of Max Richter's wonderful Path 5.  Taken from the Sleep Remixes EP released by Deutsche Grammophon.

Sleep Remixes

Max Richter: Path 5 - Digitonal's Theo In Dreamland Mix

Taken from the upcoming album 'Transient Accidents' on Fluid Audio...

- All tracks produced, mixed and arranged by Sara Galán and Edu Comelles. 

- Album recorded during the first weeks of August 2015 at Espai Rambleta in Valencia, Eastern Spain.

- Mastered by Jaume Muntsant.

www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com

Cello & Laptop - On The Verge

Tape (Piano Day 2016)

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"...Magnificent works and pieces...Passages unfold at their own pace and everything occupies its own little pocket of space." - Fractured Air Media
Recorded and mixed by Martyn Heyne at Lichte Studio Berlin
Mastered by Mandy Parnell at Black Saloon Studios, London
Cover Photo: Dan Isaac Wallin
Written and produced by Markus Sieber

Markus Sieber - ronroco, glockenspiel, pump organ
Angelika Baumbach - piano, pump organ

In a lot of ways, Aukai’s self-titled debut is the sound of Markus Sieber bringing his career full circle. Having spent part of the ’90s playing rock music in East Germany, the composer/multi-instrumentalist then shifted his focus to acting, only to have music creep back into his life after a mind-altering move to Mexico.

“This album and project has a lot to do with memories from travel,” explains Sieber, “but also memories from childhood and nature. How did the river smell in summer? I wanted to create a sonic space where music guides the listener into some imaginative inner world.”

Which explains why he came up with the name Aukai in the first place; it’s the Hawaiian word for a seafaring traveler, the sort of person who seeks out the stillness in uncertain waters. In the case of Sieber’s new record, that meant spending a winter holed up in a mountainside cabin around Colorado’s La Plata Canyon. Basic tracks were then cut in a Berlin studio and brought into full relief alongside cellist Anne Muller (Agnes Obel Band, Nils Frahm), violinist Bogdan Djukic, pianist Angelika Baumbach, sound designer Alexander Nickmann, and longtime collaborator Jamshied Sharifi (Laurie Anderson, Sting, Dream Theater). 

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"exquisitely delicate work..." THE INDEPENDENT
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Recorded and mixed by Martyn Heyne at Lichte Studio Berlin
Mastered by Mandy Parnell at Black Saloon Studios, London
Written and produced by Markus Sieber

Anne Müller - cello, Angelika Baumbach - harp,  Jamshied Sharifi - synth, Markus Sieber - guitar

Wind Runner

Taken from my latest album "(For Now We See) Through A Glass Dimly", ‘Elegy (ii)’ features the elegantly dexterous vocals of Joanna Swan (Ilya) and the incisive strings of Christoph Berg (Field Rotation).
The album, as described by Hidden Shoal:
The 10 tracks that comprise "(For Now We See) Through A Glass Dimly" have an emotional potency and compositional dexterity that surpasses the acclaimed body of work that precedes them, drawing you into their evocative world and demanding engagement. The album includes contributions from Christoph Berg (Field Rotation), composer Stefano Guzzetti, James Banbury (The Auteurs), Joanna Swan (Ilya) and writer Paul Morley. Mixed by Stefano Guzzetti and Paul Humphreys (OMD), and mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri (The Sight Below), the album’s depth of sound is awe-inspiring.
For more releases by Antonymes: https://antonymes.bandcamp.com/
This music is available for licensing. Email Cam at Hidden Shoal for more details: cam[@]hiddenshoal.com | www.hiddenshoal.com/licensing

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Elegy (ii)

'Four' is a song by Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm from the album 'Loon' originally released on Erased Tapes Records.

Reworked and performed by CEEYS (Brueder Selke).
Recorded and mixed by Francesco Donadello and Antonio Pulli at Vox-Ton Studio, Berlin. 
Mastered by Sebastian and Daniel Selke at Klingenthal Studio, Potsdam.

This rework is part of a collection of pieces by contemporary composers,
reworked and performed by CEEYS (Brueder Selke).

Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm - Four (CEEYS Rework)

Rachel Grimes -  Earthly Heaven

3rd single from the upcoming album Game Trails. out Aug 28.

Game Trails ( master )

Zora (feat. Lisa Morgenstern)

Christina Vantzou is 1/2 of The Dead Texan (a project shared with Adam Wiltzie of Stars of the Lid). Christina explores similar terrain with "11 Generations Of My Fathers" which is taken from the compilation, 'SMM: Context", due March 1, 2011 of Ghostly International.   

Christina Vantzou - 11 Generations Of My Fathers

Aukai offers a collection of cinematic pieces and ambient acoustic soundscapes dappled with subtle electronic touches written by Markus Sieber bringing together outstanding instrumentalists to collaborate on music that could work in tandem with film, video, theater and the visual arts.

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Zora (feat. Lisa Morgenstern)

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