those 'bells' always make me hover between hope and fate....

Bruxelles Belgium  http://musicnoow.com/v/54LkNlUbr4I/brussels-belgium-quickie-tour-across-some-attractions-sights-in-hd-

'Venter' - taken from Ben Frost's forthcoming album A U R O R A, out 26/27 May 2014 on Mute / Bedroom Community. Pre-order A U R O R A here: iTunes -- http://smarturl.it/auroraiTunes
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Ben Frost :: 'Venter'

Korg PS-3100 synthesizer

Recorded live at Lucky's Comics as part of Music Waste
Vancouver, BC
7 June 2014


Sarah Davachi live / Korg PS-3100 / 7 June 2014 / Lucky's Comics (Music Waste, Vancouver)

Taken from the new Ben Frost EP - 
'V A R I A N T' - out on vinyl and download on 8 December 2014 through Mute / Bedroom Community  (U.S release dates - Download 9 December / Vinyl 13 January)

The limited edition EP features remixes of tracks taken from the latest album A U R O R A by British producer Evian Christ (following his critically acclaimed Waterfall EP and work with Kanye West); Downward label boss and techno producer Regis (previous remix credits inc. VCMG, Terence Fixmer), Good by Air affiliated experimental artist Dutch E Germ (previous remix credits inc. Fatima Al Qadiri and Mas Ysa); Australian duo HTRK and raster-noton recording artist Kangding Ray.

V A R I A N T :: EP TRACKLISTING
Venter - Evian Christ TF 12” Mix
Venter - Dutch E Germ Remix
Venter - HTRK Remix
No Sorrowing - Kangding Ray Remix
Nolan - Regis Self Medicating Edit


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Rough Trade - www.roughtrade.com/albums/81850

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Ben Frost :: 'Venter' (HTRK Remix)

Taken from the new Ben Frost EP -  'V A R I A N T' - out on vinyl and download on 8 December 2014 on Mute / Bedroom Community (U.S release dates - Download 9 December / Vinyl 13 January), pre-order here: http://www.roughtrade.com/albums/88102

A film by Trevor Tweeten. 

The limited edition EP features remixes of tracks taken from the latest album A U R O R A by British producer Evian Christ (following his critically acclaimed Waterfall EP and work with Kanye West); Downward label boss and techno producer Regis (previous remix credits inc. VCMG, Terence Fixmer), Good by Air affiliated experimental artist Dutch E Germ (previous remix credits inc. Fatima Al Qadiri and Mas Ysa); Australian duo HTRK and raster-noton recording artist Kangding Ray.

V A R I A N T :: EP TRACKLISTING
Venter - Evian Christ TF 12” Mix
Venter - Dutch E Germ Remix
Venter - HTRK Remix
No Sorrowing - Kangding Ray Remix
Nolan - Regis Self Medicating Edit

Pre-Order V A R I A N T here: 
Rough Trade - http://www.roughtrade.com/albums/88102
Boomkat - http://boomkat.com/vinyl/1126481-ben-frost-v-a-r-i-a-n-t
Bleep - http://bleep.com/release/55179-ben-frost-v-a-r-i-a-n-t

Get A U R O R A here: 
iTunes - http://smarturl.it/auroraiTunes
CD - http://smarturl.it/auroraCD
Standard Vinyl - http://smarturl.it/auroraLP
Coloured Limited Edition Vinyl Boomkat - http://boomkat.com/vinyl/969946
Rough Trade - http://www.roughtrade.com/albums/81850

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Ben Frost :: 'Nolan' :: Regis Self Medicating Edit

Concert excerpts from the Bedroom Community Whale Watching Tour
1. Theory of Machines, AB Theater Bruxelles Belgium 08/11/09
2. Híbakúsja, AB Theater Bruxelles Belgium 08/11/09
3. Leo Needs A New Pair Of Shoes, Effenaar Theater, Eindhoven Holland 09/11/09

Performed by Bedroom Community

Ben Frost Live from The Ancienne Belgique, Bruxelles Belgium 08.11.2009

From Ben Frost's score for "Fortitude", A 12 part TV series created by Simon Donald

Fortitude stars Richard Dormer, Michael Gambon, Sofie Gråbøl and Stanley Tucci

More Information www.sky.com/tv/show/fortitude

"Tainted Love" Written by Ed Cobb ©1964

Performed by Mariam Wallentin & Ben Frost
Produced by Ben Frost & Paul Corley

Mariam Wallentin & Ben Frost- "Tainted Love" (Score excerpt from Fortitude)

from Nº3
Kranky records
www.kranky.net
RELEASED OCT 16, 2015

inspired by Laurie Spiegel's The Expanding Universe
1980
http://www.unseenworlds.net/releases/the-expanding-universe

"Laurie Spiegel" was recorded in Kortrijk, Belgium w. The Chamber Players and in Brooklyn, New York w. synthesist John Also Bennett.

voices: Els Wollaert, Louise Kuyvenhoven, Pieter De Praetere
vibes: Simon Decraene
cello – Harm Garreyn
viola – Pieter De Rydt
violins – Freek Ruysschaert, Robin Van Heghe
synthesizers - John Also Bennett
recording engineer (The Chamber Players)– Chris Lambrechts
mixing Engineer – Francesco Donadello
mastered by – Jason Ward
conductor: Christina Vantzou
2015

Laurie Spiegel

Premiered by the Quietus: http://thequietus.com/articles/23987-c-diab-for-another-body-i-guess-premiere-injazero-compilation

A stunning new cut from Exit Rumination, the sophomore album by C. Diab on Injazero Records. Artwork by Simon DeBree.

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C. Diab - Butterflies

Solastalgia

Rafael Anton Irisarri - Coastal Trapped Disturbance

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Félicia Atkinson  'The Flower & The Vessel '
Shelter Press / SP110

French poet and ASMR auteur Félicia Atkinson has frequently fixated on the elusive interwoven relationship between microcosms and macrocosms – how even the quietest creative act ripples outward in unforeseen ways, a whisper with no fixed meaning. Her latest work pursues this notion in a more literal and lasting fashion, as it was crafted while pregnant on tour, in impersonal hotel rooms in foreign cities. She describes it as “a record not about being pregnant but a record made with pregnancy.” Each day and night, finding herself far from home, she asked herself “What am I doing here? How can I connect myself to the world?” The answer gradually revealed itself: “With small gestures: recording my voice, recording birds, a simple melody.”

In truth there is nothing simple about The Flower & The Vessel. The album’s 11 songs span a vast pantheon of whispering textures, opaque moods, and surreal spoken word, leading the listener through a mirrored hall of beguiling mirages. Atkinson cites a trio of French classical compositions from her childhood as formative influences on this particular collection: Maurice Ravel’s “L'enfant et les sortilèges” (“a scary opera for kids”), Debussy’s “La Mer” (for its union of narration and music) and Erik Satie’s “Gymnopédies” (as an exercise in negative space, irony without cynicism, and “melody with doubt”). There’s certainly a shade of classicism woven within these tracks, however veiled, abstracted, or unorthodox. Melancholic piano motifs repeat then retreat into a radiant frost of shivering frequencies; processed voices recite cut-up poems and interviews over delay-refracted Rhodes and Wurlitzer; iPad gamelan patterns flutter from meditative to melancholic and back again, offset by pointillist patches of delicate software synesthesia.

Although much of Atkinson’s past discography is shaped by speech and the lyricism of language, The Flower & The Vessel ventures farther into silence, absence, and voiceless wilderness. Among her sources of inspiration were “women who wonder, dream, and create vacant spaces in their art,” as well as Ikebana flower arrangements, which reflect her own relationship with listening: “structure combined with everyday noises, selecting them to make a sparse music bouquet.” Field recordings from Tasmania and the Mojave Desert murmur beneath hushed reverberations of gong, vibraphone, marimba, softly processed into an elegant emptiness, alternately eerie and serene.

Her mode of minimalism has long been one of reduction, riddles, and curation, but here Atkinson’s synergy feels close to apotheosis, emotive but ambivalent, a ceremony of expectation and invisible forces. The 19-minute closing collaboration with SUNN O))) guitarist Stephen O’Malley, “Des Pierres,” is one of the album’s few pieces tracked in a proper studio (Music Unit in Montreuil, France) but it broods and burns with the same subliminal majesty as the rest of The Flower & The Vessel: an ember in amber, seeds planted in shifting sands. Atkinson’s voice flickers like a flame, framed by slabs of shadowy feedback. Her process may be personal is but its impact ripples to the edges of existence: “How does the act of creation connect us, not only to history, but to the cosmic? It’s a process of taking, and then giving back. It makes us belong to the world.”

Ben Frost Live from The Ancienne Belgique, Bruxelles Belgium 08.11.2009

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