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Not Knowing (Excerpt)

Colundi 2

Sean McCann - Ten Impressions for Piano & Strings
Edition of 300 LP / Digital Download

Worldwide: Jan 16, 2015
US: Jan 20, 2015

Realized over a four year period, Sean McCann’s Ten Impressions for Piano & Springs is a document of transition and maturation. Slow moving cloud forms over corporeal landscapes, these impressions whisper of McCann’s imminent & decisive lean towards classical & avant-garde musics, culminating in 2013’s Music for Private Ensemble on his own imprint, Recital. Less a final statement on ambient music, more a meditation on change, discovery and process.

rootstrata.com/release/RS97

Sean McCann - Guardian

from 'Tiento de la Luz' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den249
available in February on all format at [http://denovali.com/thomaskoner]

Tiento de la Luz

Thomas Köner - Tiento De La Luz 5

Billow Observatory

Slow Billows

from the "Labyrinth" LP / CS (NNF340)
Not Not Fun / 2017

MAP THE LABYRINTH: 
https://xyrmusic.bandcamp.com/album/labyrinth
https://midheaven.com/item/labyrinth-by-xyr

X.Y.R. "False Angel Lullaby"

II: Plains/Patterns

Nulstil

Postcard 37 comes from anthéne. Also known as one half of North Atlantic Drift, Toronto based Brad Deschamps who has been putting out sublime drones on the likes of Sound in Silence, Assembly Field, Catherdral Transmissions and Polar Seas. On Colour Fields, time seems to stop altogether as fragments of guitar and keyboards meld into a drifting placid mass that shimmers throughout the duration of the entire EP.  Colour Fields has been beautifully mastered by Ian Hawgood.

A limited edition of 60 hand-numbered 3" CDr collectible copies. Available from https://hibernate-recs.uk

Anthéne / Colour Fields (Snippets)

"Who Knows, Who Knew" is taken from the album Lies, Deception and Sin by Niskogradba.

Release date: 18.10.2018
Format: CD/Digital

All tracks sampled, looped and produced by Niskogradba 
between November 2017-March 2018 
Mastered by Roel Weerdenburg

Limited edition of 40, Professionally manufactured high quality CDr's, Handmade packages, hand numbered.
Different colored wallets with envelopes: Brown Kraft, Blue and Red.
Bigger and smaller sleeves, smallest size in transparant bag.
Photo's.

Order: https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/lies-deception-and-sin

Niskogradba - Who Knows, Who Knew (Taken from Lies, Deception and Sin - Out Now)

from 'Calibrate' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den311
available on all formats at http://denovali.com/ricardodonoso

“Quicksilver frequencies, gravelly formants and shimmering, mirage-like washes of tone. Sometimes his sounds feel like signals picked up by a radio telescope, or pure electricity poured through a sieve” Pitchfork

“He displays a resistance towards the boundaries of genre, taking experimental, techno and noise templates and blending them with different range of sounds, delivering some of the most wonderfully eccentric and evocative music in recent memory” Dummy  

“Transcendently dark permutations” The Ransom Note

“A genre-defying electronic explorer” Exclaim

On November 30th Denovali records presents ‘Calibrate’ – the new album by respected underground figure, composer and producer Ricardo Donoso. As has now come to be expected from the questing musician, once again he has endeavoured to do things differently, pushing beyond any comfort-zone parameters. 

‘Calibrate’ proffers the highest of fidelity, with blockbuster sci fi levels of production value and bombast. Donoso channels sonic spirits across fluro pointillism, futuristic industrial tribalism and more serene moments of synthetic reflection.

Having never courted accessibility, Donoso remains as unbending as ever in his approach and unwavering in commitment to his craft. Calibrate takes Donoso’s polymetric abuse and sound design to all new extremes. Conflicting rhythms and swathes of electronic debris move in tandem, to create pieces that expand and contract in on themselves.

A journey through Calibrate is an exercise in instability and failure; its aggressiveness serves as a warning against the urge to seek safety on common ground, and its entire approach seems to display a hostility towards the increasingly homogenized nature of new electronic music. 

The first in a two-part series, ‘Calibrate’ seeks to explore not only the literal connotations of instrument accuracy, gauging and tuning, as represented by the constant flux of machinery and computer noise, but also explores calibration as an adjustment; to take external factors into account, or to allow comparison with other data. With ‘Calibrate’ Donoso continues to question what music is, and what it expects of him. 
Ricardo Donoso is a composer, percussionist and electronic musician from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil who currently resides in Boston. After having studied composition at Berklee College of Music and the New England Conservatory, he has participated in a slew of projects over the years, from holding down the drum chair in avant-metal visionaries Ehnahre, to scoring for recent documentary features such as Greg Barker’s ‘Homegrown: The Counter Terror Dilemma’ (HBO pictures 2016) and the Grand Prize short film winner in Brazilian cinema ‘Casimiro Effect’. Donoso has since collaborated with film makers and video artists on commissions worldwide, creating immersive environments and performances. 
As a solo recording artist, Donoso has released music on esteemed labels such as Denovali, Digitalis, Further Records and Hospital Productions, and continues to tour throughout Europe, Asia and Latin America. He is most concerned with building and manipulating an immersive sound world that blurs the line between light and dark, hope and despair, past and future. Under a chain of progressive rhythms, cinematic textures and elegant melodicism, Donoso’s work pushes through with piercing strength, manipulating a sonic wave through space with nothing but mind-blowing intensity.

Calibrate

Ricardo Donoso - A Vigorous Unfolding

WATCH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtFNNRzoImI

This performance was commissioned by The Henry and Elizabeth Segerstrom Foundation. Many thanks to Spenser Apramian. 

Three first take improvisations for tenor sax, soprano sax, and bass clarinet inside Richard Serra's Connector, Costa Mesa, California, December 18, 2020

Connections - Improvisations Inside Richard Serra's 'Connector' Sculpture

Danish/American/Ambient/Experimental

Boomkat's description (http://boomkat.com/vinyl/601376-billow-observatory-billow-observatory):

"Nearly a decade in the making, 'Observatory' features Jonas Munk (Manual) and Jason Kolb (Auburn Lull) striving for ambient guitar perfection as Billow. Arguably, they've come close to achieving their practically impossible mission, conducting themselves with divine patience and deliberation across 15 achingly blissful scenes at once evoking the humbling beauty of the natural world and the yearning sublimity of more soporific states thanks to near-surgical application of software and hardware effects. Unless you're au fait with the likes of Fennesz or Stars Of The Lid, you might never tell that the guitar is at the heart of this record, yet beneath its phosphorescing, crepuscular drones and plangent sonorities the simple six string generates all the source material. So the world it inhabits is essentially that one between states, simulating a quietly vibrant ecology of sub-aquatic bass rumbles, washed out expanses of mid-range swirl and keening top end whose elusive colours seem to fade and coruscate in the low light. Lovely."

U.S. Pre-orders:  http://felte.bandcamp.com/album/billow-observatory





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