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a recording of an improvisation that took place on March 12th 2014.
Ciro Berenguer on acoustic guitar, homemade Ableton setup with live looping and effects, live recordings of found objects.
Heine Christensen on Op-1, effect chain, acoustic laptop and live looping.

Improvisation 02

Now available on NNA Tapes, as part of "All That is Solid Melts Into Air" http://nnatapes.com/available-releases/lea-bertucciall-that-is-solid-melts-into-air/

Double Bass Crossfade positions two double bassists at opposite corners of the Knockdown Center’s 50,000 square foot main room. The instruments are wirelessly amplified, allowing the performers to slowly move across the room over the course of 40 minutes, meeting in the center and then crossing to each other's original starting positions. A 10-channel sound system is creatively installed in the space. As the performers change their position, the sounds they play will be dynamically routed from speaker to speaker according to their location, creating in their wake a mutable, engulfing sound-field. With James Ilgenfritz and Sean Ali.

Double Bass Crossfade

Taken from the new album "Well Kept Era" out now everywhere via BLOOHA UNLTD.

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"Well Kept Era" was recorded with C-60s, transistor amps, analog mono + polysynths, tape loops, effect units and a reel to reel machine. The pieces unfolded in real-time, no multi-tracking, no overdubs.

Fragments composed, captured and assembled from 2012-14
Recorded straight to tape over the course of 3 weeks in early 2015

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Well Kept Era

Arrows

Tape/WAV/FLAC

Arrows ~ taken from the album "Well Kept Era"

from 'Landscapes of the Unfinished' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den251
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/pianointerrupted]

Recorded partly in Senegal with local musicians playing traditional instruments, "Landscapes Of The Unfinished" is Piano Interrupted's 3rd album for German experimental label Denovali.

This album sees pianist Tom Hodge and “electronician” Franz Kirmann explore a more introspective approach to their sound. The sonorities and recordings the pair brought back from West Africa are deconstructed, mangled and texturised, turned into a pointillist landscape until only a faint and distant souvenir remains.

These beds of pulsating soundscapes and earthy textures serve as base for Hodge’s delicate piano phrases and intricate compositions, interlaced with long-time collaborator Tim Fairhall's fluid double bass playing.

Harsher territories are also visited during the 9 tracks that compose the LP; fuzzy Senegalese radio voices and the distant memory of African percussion collide with distorted bass and buzzing drones or screaming textures battle with screeching double bass sounds and tortured piano strings.

The overall tone of the album reflects the duo’s desire to musically translate the experience of the Dakar trip (where Franz Kirmann grew up), but also to break away from the first two albums' intricate programming and editing and instead go towards a writing and recording experience directly inspired by their live experience. Hodge’s clarinet, an important facet of the Piano Interrupted live show, is captured on record for the first time. 

This surge towards documenting a moment, leaving a trace or examining something concrete is further reflected in the choice of titles (all named after the musicians who took part in the recordings) and also the design, which is for the first time a photograph. Taken by filmmaker Cath Elliott, who travelled with the pair to Dakar to document the process, the album artwork captures one of the numerous half-built structures, infinite and abandoned, surrounding the studio in the suburbs of Dakar, and provides both an unfinished urban landscape and yet when viewed as a single moment in time, one of many compellingly complete landscapes of the unfinished.

Landscapes of the Unfinished

Piano Interrupted - Vieux

In collaboration with film company Lampray & arts platform Norr, we offer Lulin: a 24 minute film and 42 minutes of audio. Pre-orders of the 12" vinyl & film are up now at the @atomnation Bandcamp page. Lulin is out Friday March 18.  atomnation.bandcamp.com/album/lulin

a1 Hon (22:40 minutes)
b1 Byn (20:11 minutes)

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Gidge - Hon (18:39/22:40)

A sample from The Cray Twins' album "The Pier", to be released by Fang Bomb in 2016.

The Cray Twins are Paul Baran and Gordon Kennedy.

“The Pier” is the name given to their introspective, desolate debut album, conceived in collaboration with an impressive range of musicians including Ken Vandermark, Jos Smolders, Lucio Capece and BJ Nilsen.

The Cray Twins are fascinated by how audio systems, electronic and acoustic, are like human systems, and have set out to find the borders areas on this album, regions where things are no longer the same, where sound or the perception of it changes or breaks down. It’s a collaboration irregularity, in order to find the edge.

This is also where the image of the The Pier comes from; the pier as the limit of human extent, our furthest outreach onto the depths, after witch the space opens up to the unknown, the unheard.

Fang Bomb has previously released Paul Baran’s Panoptic (2009) and The Other (2015).

1. Torshavn
2. Duao 1
3. Fianuis
4. The Pier
5. Duao 2
6. Harbour
7. Song from a Black House
8. Seafar
9. Duao 3 (BJ Nilsen Mix)
10. A Boy

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The Cray Twins - A Boy

Millions of hungry shrimp cried out at once, and then...silence.

Mesopelagic Migration

Taken from the upcoming album 'Glade'...

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Hummingbird - Six Points Of Tabligh

Taken from the album 'Get In' released as LP, CD and Download

Pita 'Mfbk (excerpt)' (EMEGO 218)

A NOAA-led study recently recorded these sounds from Challenger Deep--the deepest known point in the ocean.

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Not even a month after dropping his entrancing In Stereo session, ex-Emeralds member Steve Hauschildt returns with more ambient hypnosis. This time, it's a track off the soon-to-drop remix EP for composer and artist Christina Vantzou's no. 3 album. Steve's undertaking brings seven minutes of sheer serenity, slowly soaring and regressing throughout its duration. True magic from the pro himself.

3.5 is out on March 18th.

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Christina Vantzou "Stereoscope (Steve Hauschildt Remix)" - Boiler Room Debuts

The Quiet Song

The Ridge

"The last morning I saw you..."

This piece features ambient-drone trio, Hotel Neon. Piano / strings / Synth and composition by Slow Meadow (Matt Kidd). Guitar and additional synth textures by Hotel Neon.

We decided to do this collaboration to celebrate our shows together this spring. Video promo - youtu.be/tFCfN8w7pi8 

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Slow Meadow: slowmeado.ws

Blue Aubade (feat. Hotel Neon)

Recorded with highly modified Disklavier Pro IV running under Linux and recorded direct to tape [Nagra IV-S]

All sounds from the Disklavier with no overdubs, just lots of different mics and custom wound very large pickups and a few likkle ones.

5 - DISKPREPT4

Piano cover of the incredible piece "On the nature of Daylight" by Max Richter

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