p*dis sampler 2018.08

I first got turned on to the music of Jonas Munk thanks to the Pure Ambient playlist on Apple Music as it included a few tracks off of Jonas's Minimum Resistance album released on his fantastic Azure Vista label. After months of pestering him, I'm very excited to finally share this mixtape!

Enjoy,
Josh

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Tracklist:
1. Gabor Szabo: ”Three King Fishers” [Skye Records]
2. Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions: ”Around My Smile” [Rhymes of an Hour Records]  4:38
3. The Sandals: ”Endless Summer” [Capitol Records]  8:31
4. The Durutti Column: ”Requiem Again” [London Music Stream Ltd.]  11:11
5. Piero Umiliani: ”Nostalgia (synth version)” [Right Tempo SNC]  15:04
6. Slowdive: ”All of  Us” [Sony BMG]  18:25
7. David Sylvian: ”Silver Moon Over Sleeping Steeples” [Virgin Records]  22:06
8. Landing: ”Feel, and the Seas Fill” [K Records]  24:12
9. Michael Rother: ”Fontana di Luna” [Groenland Records]  27:34
10. Iasos: ”Lueena Coast” [Inter-Dimensional Music]  34:00
11. Hiroshi Yoshimura: ”Creek” [Light In The Attic Records]  37:41
12. Devendra Banhart & Noah Georgeson: ”Rise From Your Wave” [Friends Of / Dead Oceans]  42:12
13. JB Dunckel & Jonathan Fitoussi: ”Mirages” [Prototyp Recording]  47:40
14. Ryuichi Sakamoto: ”Solari” [KAB America]  53:48

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We Are Machine - Afterhours 017 - Jonas Munk

Calque

Kiyosumi

What It Takes

I think the collaborative project by Zach Frizzell (zakè) and Damien Duque (City Of Dawn) first saw the light of day back in 2020 when these two ambient artists got together to release Wander on Frizzell's own Zakè Drone Recordings. The duo have also released music as Frizzell & Duque, appearing on these pages numerous times in the last few years, including the addition of Ossa, for the album I picked as one of the best of the year. Last year, Jonas Munk, aka Manual, picked up Agape for his Azure Vista Records, and I have subsequently highlighted the album in my Music For Bending Light And Stopping Time for Best of 2022. All of these opening words, with a brief journey through history, are only here to demonstrate how excited I am about their follow-up release on Azure (co-distributed by Frizzell's Past Inside The Present imprint for the US friends and followers). The title track, "Ash", which I am premiering for you today, is a perfect example of the unhurried, unfurling, and unpretentious ambience that blankets the senses when you need these sounds most. "Their focus offers up the steady ebb and flow of sound, cultivating a profound sense of meditative stasis and explorations of high-fidelity sound." This is the type of slow-evolving minimal music that you want to turn all the way up in volume so that each frequency permeates, saturates, and eradicates all the wrinkles and spikes in your jittery mind. Lovely textures on this one, folks, carefully curated by the mastering touch of James Bernard.

"The music the two create together reflects the expansive landscapes of their native Texas and Indiana. Slowly unfolding melodies that seem to rise like the sun from a Texas horizon and drones that resonate like leaves in an endless Indiana woodland. It's a sound that's both beautiful and slightly haunting – a sound that encompasses the listener and demands attention. This is music to get lost in."

TRACK PREMIERE : zakè & City of Dawn - Ash

Soliton

In Transit

by polo & clairo
spot the clairo : https://soundcloud.com/ccottrill

i can be your home
only for the night if you want
so you dont have to be alone

and if your day was long
ill be there to ask you 
"what went wrong, my dear?"

if your day was long
ill ask you how your day was

and if you seem really tired
ill ask you how your day was

i can be your home (fool)
only for the night if you want
so you dont have to be alone

and if your day was long
ill be there to ask you 
"what went wrong, my dear?"

how was your day? [mellow fellow & clairo]

First track from the new album, entitled "II: Plains/Patterns", out on Azure Vista Records March 31!

CD/DL/LP (vinyl limited to 300 copies!). Preorder here: https://billowobservatory.bandcamp.com/

Billow Observatory – the trans-atlantic duo consisting of Detroit's Jason Kolb (Auburn Lull) and Danish producer Jonas Munk (Manual) – are back with a follow-up to the their debut album from 2012. 

”II: Plains/Patterns” departs from the first LP’s amorphous ambient haze with a more rigid, albeit subtle, underpinning of rhythm and pulse. The duo’s obsession with “place and space” comes clearly into focus with an album that draws deeply from Munk and Kolb’s individual proximity to the geographically distant, but oddly similar, sounds of Germany and Michigan, past and present. 

 Traces of shoegaze, modern minimal electronica, and kosmische appear on every track, but are mutated into something mysterious and new. ”Pulsus”, for example, opens the album with a driving teutonic stutter and washes of serene guitar loops that are punctuated by bursts of filtered synth patterns; a combination that seamlessly bridges the gaps between disparate genres and periods of time. 

 Centerpiece, ”Plains”, expands the ambient formula into an inspired epic in three parts, where swells of processed guitars, distant voices and faint echoes of Detroit techno are weaved together to form a kaleidoscopic whole. And tracks such as ”Vex” and ”Plum” seem to pay as much homage to Slowdive and Eno's Harold Budd collaborations as to the modern minimalism from Cologne or Berlin.

Plains

New record, "II: Plains/Patterns", out March 31! CD, download and vinyl (limited to 300 copies). Order here:

https://azurevistarecords.bandcamp.com/

Billow Observatory – the trans-atlantic duo consisting of Detroit's Jason Kolb (Auburn Lull) and Danish producer Jonas Munk (Manual) – are back with a follow-up to the their debut album from 2012.

”II: Plains/Patterns” departs from the first LP’s amorphous ambient haze with a more rigid, albeit subtle, underpinning of rhythm and pulse. The duo’s obsession with “place and space” comes clearly into focus with an album that draws deeply from Munk and Kolb’s individual proximity to the geographically distant, but oddly similar, sounds of Germany and Michigan, past and present.

Traces of shoegaze, modern minimal electronica, and kosmische appear on every track, but are mutated into something mysterious and new. ”Pulsus”, for example, opens the album with a driving teutonic stutter and washes of serene guitar loops that are punctuated by bursts of filtered synth patterns; a combination that seamlessly bridges the gaps between disparate genres and periods of time.

Centerpiece, ”Plains”, expands the ambient formula into an inspired epic in three parts, where swells of processed guitars, distant voices and faint echoes of Detroit techno are weaved together to form a kaleidoscopic whole. And tracks such as ”Vex” and ”Plum” seem to pay as much homage to Slowdive and Eno's Harold Budd collaborations as to the modern minimalism from Cologne or Berlin.

II: Plains/Patterns 

Pulsus

From Causa Sui: "Live in Copenhagen" 3LP boxset/3CD out now on El Paraiso Records!

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Causa Sui: "Mondo Buzzo" (Live in Copenhagen)

mini-album soon

years ago when i had a chance
i couldve held your hand
but i was young and then i blew every circumstance
yet i still think
i dream of

dancing, dancing
ohh with you, with you
and maybe even share a drink or two while i tell you the truth
that i dont even care what this is for
as long as i get to share the floor
with you with you
with you

in my thoughts and dreams
i do a lil swayin away with you
even if i know it'll never realize

maybe one day i'll wake up
maybe someday it'll be true
maybe that day i'll be
i will be

dancing, dancing
ohh with you, with you
and maybe even love you a little more
while we tango across the floor
and i dont even know when i'll see you again
but i'll just keep living this dream til the end
with you with you
with you

dancing

new single from forthcoming swim good now album via Secret Songs.

"Daylight"
with Daniela Andrade, Ryan Hemsworth, Lontalius & olli

written by Daniela Andrade / Ryan Hemsworth / Jon Jasper-Lawless / Eddie Johnston / Aaron Mohr / Olli Suominen

produced by Ryan Hemsworth, Jon-Jasper Lawless, Lyle Jasper, Aaron Mohr & olli

additional percussion by Lyle Jasper
additional instrumentation by olli 
bass by Jon Jasper-Lawless 
vocals by Daniela Andrade, Jon Jasper-Lawless, Aaron Mohr & Lontalius

engineered by Ryan Hemsworth, Jon Jasper-Lawless, Eddie Johnston, Aaron Mohr & Olli Suominen

mixed and mastered by Darren Seltmann (of The Avalanches)

art by Kelly Zutrau (of Wet)
design by Jakub Blank

exec. produced by Ryan Hemsworth

https://soundcloud.com/swimgoodnow
https://soundcloud.com/danielaandrade
https://soundcloud.com/ryanhemsworth
https://soundcloud.com/lontalius-official
https://soundcloud.com/totototoro

                              

buy / stream

swim good now - Daylight (with Daniela Andrade, Ryan Hemsworth, Lontalius & olli)

swim good now's debut album "Daylight" out June 15 via Secret Songs.

"Previously" 
with Anna Wiebe, Japanese Wallpaper & CLLLAPS

written by Jon Jasper-Lawless / Patrick Magno / Aaron Mohr / Tom Probzanski / Gab Strum / Travis Taylor

produced by swim good now, CLLLAPS, Aaron Mohr & Japanese Wallpaper
featuring vocals by Jon Jasper-Lawless, Anna Wiebe, Zanski
and bass by Travis Taylor
engineered by Ryan Hemsworth, Jon Jasper-Lawless, Patrick Mango, Aaron Mohr, Tom Probzanski & Gab Strum

mastered by Ryan Schwabe
art by Jakub Blank & Jon Lawless

exec. produced by Ryan Hemsworth

swim good now - Previously (ft. Anna Wiebe, Japanese Wallpaper & CLLLAPS)

First track from Carl Weingarten's "Living In The Distan Present", coming out on Azure Vista Records August 10th, 2018! CD and vinyl limited to 300 copies each. Preorder from: https://azurevistarecords.bandcamp.com/

Previously only released on cassette in 1985 on Carl Weingarten's own Multiphase Records, ”Living In The Distant Present” is now available on vinyl, CD and digital for the first time on Azure Vista Records. The album is a rare treat for fans of guitar ambient, tape loops and the experimental side of new age music. When listening to this album one can't help but wonder that had it initially received a wider distribution it surely would have been considered an ambient classic.

Carl Weingarten is one of the unsung heroes of American minimalism. Even though he's been active for close to four decades, his work is just now starting to receive the praise it deserves. On ”Living Ín The Distant Present” showly shifting synth patterns is joined with his signature guitar playing – a tranquil, stretched out sound that blur the lines between played and processed, occasionally sonically closer to violins or flutes than guitars. Incredibly sparse and evocative, there's a tasteful zen-quality to these 12 tracks. Weingarten's compositions appear both timeless and tranquil. Azure Vista Records is proud to bring this lost classic back in print and introduce it to a new generation of experimental music listeners!

File next to: Daniel Lanois, Laraaji, Popol Vuh, Fripp & Eno

Carl Weingarten: "The Fifth Season"

Taken from Billow Observatory's album III: Chroma/Contour on Azure Vista Records, out February 8.

Pre-order: https://billowobservatory.bandcamp.com/album/iii-chroma-contour-2

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III: Chroma/Contour

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