my God I was afraid billow observatory was a one time thing. 31st will be a beautiful day for you the world of ambient! thank you! 

excellent, been looking forward to more music from you guys

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This track is made up of two resampled trumpet notes with then acoustic trumpet improvised over the top. 

Crystals In The Atmosphere

Release date: 03/02/17

If you would like to review this release, please email info@astralindustries.co.uk

Format: 180g vinyl only//re-mastered by Noel Summerville//original artwork by Theo Ellsworth.

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The material collated on this third release from Heavenly Music Corporation was composed specifically for St. Giga in Japan, a satellite broadcast radio station transmitting ethereal audio harmony 24 hours a day. What made this station otherworldly was its programming; motivated by tidal movements, the aquatic ebbs and flows of each day synchronised to the activity and intensity of the music broadcast.

Lunar Phase

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B4. Cloudless Light

New record, "II: Plains/Patterns", out March 31! CD, download and vinyl (limited to 300 copies). Order here:

https://azurevistarecords.bandcamp.com/

Billow Observatory – the trans-atlantic duo consisting of Detroit's Jason Kolb (Auburn Lull) and Danish producer Jonas Munk (Manual) – are back with a follow-up to the their debut album from 2012.

”II: Plains/Patterns” departs from the first LP’s amorphous ambient haze with a more rigid, albeit subtle, underpinning of rhythm and pulse. The duo’s obsession with “place and space” comes clearly into focus with an album that draws deeply from Munk and Kolb’s individual proximity to the geographically distant, but oddly similar, sounds of Germany and Michigan, past and present.

Traces of shoegaze, modern minimal electronica, and kosmische appear on every track, but are mutated into something mysterious and new. ”Pulsus”, for example, opens the album with a driving teutonic stutter and washes of serene guitar loops that are punctuated by bursts of filtered synth patterns; a combination that seamlessly bridges the gaps between disparate genres and periods of time.

Centerpiece, ”Plains”, expands the ambient formula into an inspired epic in three parts, where swells of processed guitars, distant voices and faint echoes of Detroit techno are weaved together to form a kaleidoscopic whole. And tracks such as ”Vex” and ”Plum” seem to pay as much homage to Slowdive and Eno's Harold Budd collaborations as to the modern minimalism from Cologne or Berlin.

II: Plains/Patterns 

Pulsus

From the new Billow Observatory album "II: Plains/Patterns" out now! 

Get it from www.azurevistarecords.bandcamp.com

Billow Observatory: "Vex"

From the latest Ulrich Schnauss & Jonas Munk collaboration, entitled "Passage", out now on Azure Vista Records!

Get it from: www.azurevistarecords.bandcamp.com

Passage

Ulrich Schnauss & Jonas Munk: "Anywhere But Here"

My contribution to Marco Lucchi’s project, “The concept of work was forgotten”

https://soundcloud.com/musichevirtuali/sets/the-concept-of-work-was
 A 50th anniversary tribute to Terry Riley’s “A Rainbow In Curved Air”

A Rainbow in Curved Air I

Iris

Iris (Single Version)

Part of a TRIPCLUBBING concert (http://www.koelner-philharmonie.de/tripclubbing)

with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra (http://www.mahler-chamber.de)

Remixed by Georg Conrad (georgconrad@gmail.com)

Krzysztof Penderecki - String Quartets I&II (Remix)

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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