I am picturing an elegantly rendered room. Something highly contemporary. The shapes and figures modern. Perhaps red velvet, a flat salmon, with a round reed lamp, high gloss white poster bed, and a silver closet door.

At the Monk's wicket gate

from 'Odham's Standard' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den191
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/origamibiro]

Origamibiro is a collaborative project consisting of three core members: musician, soundtrack composer and producer Tom Hill, visual artist and filmmaker The Joy Of Box, and multi-instrumentalist Andy Tytherleigh. Originally started as a solo project for Tom, Origamibiro has since evolved into an audio-visual collective, producing studio music, art objects, interactive installations and hauntingly original live audio-visual performances. Origamibiro like to create work with an array of unorthodox processes and contraptions, found objects, video feeds and multi instrumentalism. Their unique live performances involve treated books, typewriters, found celluloid, paper, eerie wildlife recordings, home movies, sellotape and bespoke visual contraptions. All of these things had been added, adapted, even destroyed as a way to generate images and audio that could evoke a feeling, a response, an understanding or perhaps a question from audiences.

2014 sees the re-release of Origamibiro's entire back catalogue - the albums ‘Cracked Mirrors and Stopped Clocks’, ‘Shakkei’ and ‘Shakkei Remixed’ - through Denovali and also the release of their fourth studio album 'Odham's Standard'. Discussions concerning tone and theme took place much earlier in the writing process this time around and unbeknown to each other, both Tom and Jim were taking an interest in more supernatural aspects of audio and video material generation. Jim had begun to research into spirit photography, where images of deceased spirits are apparently imprinted onto photographic plates through the presence of a medium. Looking for an audio equivalent, Tom began looking into EVP or electronic voice phenomenon whereby hidden voices from deceased spirits appear to present themselves in audio recordings. What is fascinating about this process is not how legitimate the phenomenon actually is but how dependant it is on the decision or need of the viewer or listener to believe it is significant or even personal.

Interestingly, there have been many attempts over the years to debunk or disprove the validity of spirit photography and yet for every court case there are also a number of witnesses willing to passionately testify that not only is the phenomenon real but that it applied directly to them. Arthur Conan Doyle was the creator of the most famous detective in the world and, conversely, a staunch defendant of the validity of spirit photography. In his infamous treatise 'The Case For Spirit Photography' he is both naive and strangely prescient: “Victorian science would have left the world hard and clean and bare, like a landscape in the moon. (however) There is nothing scientifically impossible, so far as I can see, in some people seeing things that are invisible to others. One or two consequences are obvious, the experiences of children will be taken more seriously. Cameras will be forthcoming. These folk who appear to be our neighbours, with only some small difference of vibration to separate us, will become familiar.”


Odham's Standard

Origamibiro - Butterfly Jar

Even The Wind And The Waves Obey Him is featured on both of our new releases - Through The Mist (EP) and Meditations, Vol. 1.&#13;
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Meditations, Vol.1 is a special compilation of reflective tracks, comprising ten instrumental versions of songs from Journeys, Through The Mist, plus a few others! &#13;
http://saltofthesound.bandcamp.com/meditations-vol-1&#13;
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Even The Wind And The Waves Obey Him has also been featured on episode 270 of the excellent Syndae ambient podcast (http://www.syndae.de/12-episode/624-episode-270) and is a part of the Ambient Music FB September compilation album (https://ambientmusicfb.bandcamp.com)&#13;
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MUSICIANS
John Beckmann: music
Dämmerungschor: vocal ensemble 
John Beckmann and Cat Chow: artwork
Lux Astralis, New York: recording studio
Abbey Road Studios, London: mastering

THE KNOWING OF KNOWING

Virgola (nel sogno)

01 autumn

"Prayer" is a fragment of surrender - a quiet offering through piano tones that feel both fragile and infinite. Each note rests like a whispered plea, carrying hope, sorrow, and faith into silence. It is intimate, a sound that bows and rises at once.

Prayer

A Place Called Earth

James Maloney studied music at Oxford University and after graduating in 2011, found his own voice in minimalist composition and songwriting, which led him to the sounds and style present on Gaslight. The album is a vibrant piece of work that is built around an old piano, accompanied by a trumpet, vibraphone, glockenspiel, and subtle electronics. This is a music defined by spacious atmospheres, vibrant tones, and comforting chords, a bold soundworld crafted by Maloney on his debut record that make it a triumphant and original foray into minimalist territories. Maloney adeptly weaves a broad range of styles and influences into his compositions: gentle nods to cinematic orchestrations meet hints of post-rock sonorities, with infusions of mellow jazz and modern classical germs.

Gaslight is released on CD and digital on July 7. Pre-order: http://hcdi.gs/2s5lU8E

Gaslight

Blink

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TRACK PREMIERE : James Maloney - Blink

OFFICIAL VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWMbeySRIXg

This is the fourth and final track from my new album Notes On Belonging coming out on 27th October 2017! This track is the place where I find space and meaning in the form of repetition of three notes. It explores the notion of belonging to a place, physically and spiritually, and a sense of journeying to a place called home. It's both tinged with joy and a sense of longing, of nearly being there but not quite yet. The track explores a sort of counterpoint, where instruments go in and out of phase to emphasise this nearness of things. They delicately tow the line of independent improvisation to colliding in pattern, most noticeable at the end of the track. I wanted to explore themes of indiviuality and freedom in the piece with the hope that inevitably we'd join forces at times.  Buy the CD version of this album here: http://tinyleaves.bandcamp.com/album/notes-on-belonging-2
Joel Pike - Piano, Guitar, Glockenspiel
Faith Brackenbury - Violin

Notes On Belonging

Cynefin

DR-54 : kj - ex (CD, ltd. 150)  / DL
Release page : https://dronarivm.com/2018/09/07/kj-ex/

ex, kj’s third album and dronarivm’s 54th release, is a wandering into the dark side of nostalgia — labyrinthian refrains evoke the mind’s tendency to reach for the past. 

for chris

mastered by rafael anton irisarri
cover photo by emiliano marinucci

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kj - caro (taken from 'ex')

Madeleine Cocolas - Hartigan Blue Bathers

Taken from the album Temporal (released 25th January 2019):
https://music.juliakent.com/album/temporal

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Imbalance

Fault Lines

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A Shifting of Salt

A clip of the 30-minute long bonus track on Fault Lines, available only on Bandcamp [physical or digital].

Processing & mastering by @soularorder

Released via City By Night Records

Bandcamp [Bonus Track]

A Gestalt Refrain for Fault Lines [clip]

The music of Christoph Berg is the soundtrack for many moments in my daily life. He is my beloved mate and friend from Berlin and i did this track to feel much more connected with him. Enjoy. 

Field Rotation - Sleepless rework by Hior Chronik

My Remix for the wonderful Keith / Helios.
Available here: http://unseen.bigcartel.com/product/helios-remixed

Helios - Every Hair On Your Head (Ben Lukas Boysen Remix)

I simply distil from sc into playlists,  mostly from electronic/ambient/contemporary classical genres. there are some great tracks and mixes, and talented musicians behind them. My thanks to all. (I hold sharing to be a creed somehow above copyright..

Latest releases & playlists: https://bigoandtwigetti.co.uk/links
Licensing enquiries/send a demo: info@bigoandtwigetti.co.uk

Madeleine Cocolas - Hartigan Blue Bathers

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