Sometimes I sit and think

Huerco S. - A Sea Of Love (Sped Up)

“The relationship between Pulshar and Rod Modell goes back to 2008, when Echospace (Rod & Stephen Hitchell) remixed Nospheratu, a track included in the album Brotherhood (Phonobox, 2008).

This release would go on to foster a friendship that went beyond just music. When Rod travelled to Barcelona, he’d always catch up with Pablo and Sergio to chat and walk around the Raval, making the obligatory stop in Bismilla Kebabish of Joaquín Costa. During these visits, the idea to work on more than just remixes together came up. The collaboration birthed Undercover, a conceptual EP of 5 tracks (digital release) and 3 on vinyl. One song, 5 covers.

Undercover speaks to sound’s affect on emotions. Like waves in the ocean, each unique track comes from the same source. From the strongest and most powerful waves of a storm to the quiet and gentle tides, this is forty-seven minutes of pure pleasure. The feeling of this release is abyssal, dark and very organic, and it takes you on a very special underwater journey aboard Verne´s “Nautilus.”

Deepchord & Pulshar - Undercover Ambisonic Version 2

Ambient 3: Day Of Radiance

Meditation No. 1

The Swiss artists Trauma Duo are signing this new and third release on Seven Villas Voyage, Seven Villas Music’s sub label which is devoted to the publishing and spreading of ambien, drown and downtempo alike sounds. 

Through the tracks on this album called ‘Lucid Dreams’- Sandro Ambrosi and Stefan Willenegger -aka Trauma Duo- take us into a synthesized, dreamy, ambient journey, with reminiscences of the 90’s, and in which everything has been meticulously measured, to the moon and back. We are, undoubtedly in front of a record which is pure music gold. 

These pair of Swiss producers from Bern, who have gotten reunited -thanks to Pablo Bolivar’s call- after a few years break, surprise the profane listener with the wintry, slow and taciturn beauty of their evocative synthetic bid. Both wrapping and charming. 

The melancholic and liquid “downtemper” ‘Sunset Beach’, the floating synthesized clouds in ‘Flowing Structures’, the friendly mist of ‘Something Strange’ and ‘Epic landscape’ and the soft pop-ambient atmosphere in ‘Fly Away’ are, among others, highlighted landscapes from this delicious album which succeeds to takes us through a secret and sensitive virtual space from which, most likely, we will not want to ever come back.

Lucid Dreams

Trauma Duo -  A secret place

Microgravity

Cloudwalker II

Pablo Bolívar, this time releasing under his alias Mind Groove, begins 2017 following the canons with this album, in which he pays tribute to his homeland, Cantabria. In fact, the 10 tracks included in this long play were initially written in his hometown, between the sea and the mountains, between the blue and green. 

‘The sailor and the mountain’ is perhaps, the most special and sensible job within the ambient boundaries of Pablo Bolívar aka Mind Groove, having already published mixes since 1999, adding a different dimensión to the tracks released under his alias Pablo Bolívar, more oriented to Deep, house and club sounds. Therefore, the release comes together with a wonderful tale, written by X. Balboa, in which a finnish sailor plays the main character. It should be read slowly and carefully, while listening to the tracks in the album. This way, the merely musical and geographical aspects transcend towards a wider, rounder, almost perfect experience. 

‘The sailor and the mountain’ is a trip around the sound and vital bowels of Mind Groove. From the first track to the last one, the deep, spiritual and emotional character of his bet are truly noticeable. The content of the album is escapist, ambient oriented, extremely downtempo, naturalistic and truth-spreading. The eleven cuts included in the present record develop around a wild Winter-tale atmosphere .’The last dreamer’ (feat.García Smith), ‘Natikha’ and ‘Shadows’ seem –from its honest composition- to stop the time; whereas ‘Tigers come at night’ takes us to a more luminous place, which at times seems softly clubby. The slight lowness of the piano in ‘Inside you’ (feat. Pablo Bolívar) contrasts with the friendly, fragile and twilight touch of tracks such as the one naming the album, and in which Manuel Obeso has collaborated. Delightful and intimate, in any case. 

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http://www.avantroots.com/opium-vol-2-a-phase-in-the-slow-walk-various-artist

It has already been three years since the first volume of Opium, ambient reference which opened the Avantroots catalog.

After an excellent acclaim, both, by critics and fans, we think that the second volume ought to live up to its predecessor, so we took it´s mapping at ease.

During this time, we have been compiling tracks by artists like Adapt, Fabel, Sendo, Urenga, Imugem Orihasam, Horizontal Excursions, Hirotaka Miyamoto, Savi G, Telescope Thieves… from all over the world, UK, USA, Japan, Spain, Germany, Ukraine…, artists that connect with our idea of “Slow Walk”, inspired by Eadweard Muybridge´s motion studies.

Something like an exciting journey without setbacks, a leisurely unhurried tour in which we discover that being firmly connected to the ground is sometimes the best way to fly… or as a friend once said, the soundtrack for the main character of The Straight Story by David Lynch, if the tractor had a CD player.

We’re departing: it is not necessary to fasten seat belts.

Ocean's Secret (VA Opium Vol 2.) [ Avantroots ] --preview--

http://www.discogs.com/Pablo-Bolivar-Playing-At-Home/release/2180953

Pablo Bolivar / North Bay

Taken from 'Suso Saiz - Nothing Is Objective'(MFM040)
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Sometimes I sit and think

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