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Title : Day Has Ended
Artist : Aaron Martin / Christoph Berg
Label : Dronarivm
Release Date : September 23
Catalogue number : DR-14
Format : CD, ltd. 250
Release page : http://dronarivm.com/2013/08/28/aaron-martin-christoph-berg-day-has-ended/

Aaron Martin & Christoph Berg’s split called “Day Has Ended” is a piece of quiet, intimate music, interfused with daylight and covered by a soft mist of evening dreams. This album spans the course of a day until the point where night falls.

The first part, created by Aaron Martin, is a water-colour, cool and delicate. The twinkling sun reflected itself in a slow river, transparent silvery clouds sparkle and brush the heads of drowsy trees. The closer to the middle of the album, the lower goes the gentle shadow, saturating. In the second part - Christoph Berg’s one, water-colour turns into gouache. The sound becomes more full, more sensuous, it comes in waves, like breath of a sleeping man.

Just close your eyes, be all ears and you’ll feel – the night is not silent. Sweet tune of twilight and darkness full of echo, humming blue, vague voice of the strings and clear gleaming of bright stars in a velvet sky – that is the night.

It’s a perfect and severely sincere work, slightly bittered with melancholy.

Aaron Martin is a very talented multi-instrumentalist from Topeka, Kansas who has releases on such labels as Experimedia, Preservation, Under The Spire, Sonic Meditations.

Christoph Berg is composer and sound artist currently living and working in Berlin focusing on fragile acoustic chamber music compositions. Also writes electro-acoustic music as Field Rotation. He has releases on Facture, hibernate, Denovali Records, Fluid Audio.

Curated by Bartosz Dziadosz (Pleq)
Cover painting "Where The Sea Once Was" by Richard Moult
Designed by Dronarivm Art

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Aaron Martin - Slow Wake (taken from 'Day Has Ended' split CD)

From 'Display' EP, released via X Novo June 2014 (licensed to Humming Records, out in GSA 04/07/14).

You can buy this track and the EP here - http://smarturl.it/phoriadisplayep

"Display" (Vinyl) available here - http://xnovo.bigcartel.com/product/phoria-display-ep-10-vinyl-xn001

www.phoriamusic.com
https://twitter.com/phoria
www.facebook.com/phoriamusic

Released via X Novo (Digital/Ltd Edition Vinyl):
https://www.facebook.com/XNovoMusic

Artwork by Sophie Giblin:
https://www.facebook.com/SophieGiblinArtist

Lyrics:

I left you all cuddled up
so what did you save them for
I watched them blow away
oh my love's digging in further

now everyone's saving us
so what you breathing for
I watched it flow away
oh my love saved from further

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Emanate

Animation produced and directed by Jim Howells (www.jimhowells.com)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAOdAOaDu9k

From the 'Display' EP, available here - http://smarturl.it/phoriadisplayep

"Display" (Vinyl) available here - http://xnovo.bigcartel.com/product/phoria-display-ep-10-vinyl-xn001


Atomic

Lyrics:

This garden is overgrown but that does not stop
A stone would never grace the guards a lot
Still loved, still rolling a bad eye in all this salt
But that did not stop her sun get her down

You were my first time
You are why I'm staying up
You are why it's undone
This song gave it

I'll savour the light for us and that is so hard
It's only ever mess decipher us
Still loved still further
Hope in her hand you're
But that did not stop her sun get her down

You were my first time
You are why I'm staying up
You are why it's undone
This song gave it

You were my first time
You are why I'm staying up
You are why it's undone
This song gave it
I saved us a night in the sun


From  'Display' EP, released via X Novo June 2014 (licensed to Humming Records, out in GSA 04/07/14).

You can buy the EP here - http://smarturl.it/phoriadisplayep

"Display" (Vinyl) available here - http://xnovo.bigcartel.com/product/phoria-display-ep-10-vinyl-xn001

www.phoriamusic.com
twitter.com/phoria
www.facebook.com/phoriamusic

Released via X Novo (Digital/Ltd Edition Vinyl):
www.facebook.com/XNovoMusic

Artwork by Sophie Giblin:
www.facebook.com/SophieGiblinArtist

Undone

From  'Display' EP, released via X Novo June 2014 (licensed to Humming Records, out in GSA 04/07/14).

You can buy the EP here - http://smarturl.it/phoriadisplayep

"Display" (Vinyl) available here - http://xnovo.bigcartel.com/product/phoria-display-ep-10-vinyl-xn001


www.phoriamusic.com
twitter.com/phoria
www.facebook.com/phoriamusic

Released via X Novo (Digital/Ltd Edition Vinyl):
www.facebook.com/XNovoMusic

Artwork by Sophie Giblin:
www.facebook.com/SophieGiblinArtist



Efforttobreathe

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/0bf5EW1aMSEpvysqe16iUB?si=CD_igLkpTemBuLVyVEKSLw

Epiloog

With a little help from NASA, we present the second track from the compilation Dark Space Matters - 'Lumina'.  More here: http://bit.ly/1rt7cz0

Lumina

Petur Jonsson | Lumina

Reprise for Robin's Cello by Phoria.
Made only from the original strings, stretched and re-arranged.

Phoria - Robin's Cello (Robin's Dream)

Buy Deforestation on vinyl or digital:
Bandcamp: http://smarturl.it/deforest-bc
Norman (UK): http://smarturl.it/deforest-norman
Darla (Distribution): http://smarturl.it/deforest-darla
Spotify: http://smarturl.it/deforest-spotify

Artist Website: http://kaelsmithmusic.com
Artist Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MuteForest

Packaging:
• 180 Gram vinyl in a gatefold tip-on jacket w/resealable sleeve
• Lacquer cut by Roger Seibel at SAE Mastering 
• Mastered for vinyl and digital by Taylor Deupree
• Bandcamp DL code on card: Formats: FLAC, 320K MP3
• Physical copies only receive a free download of the Reforestation EP, including remixes from Kiln, Ten and Tracer, Western Skies Motel, Mombi, Spheruleus, Porya Hatami, plus two bonus songs from Mute Forest.

In a seemingly ceaseless acreage near his childhood home in the Rockies of Colorado, Kael Smith (Mombi, Khale) takes a deep breath and listens critically to the forest. It is not the same sound he remembers as a youth, when he’d disappear for hours deep into these woods. No, the sound he hears today is unfamiliar and vapid. Muted, really.

Since Smith’s departure to the city of Denver; the Mountain Pine Beetle has moved into these woodlands and decimated the trees; devouring their insides and leaving empty husks in its wake. It is among these thinned out swaths a word keeps repeating back to him, over and over, incessantly…Deforestation. 

Painstakingly written, recorded and mixed at his home studio in Denver, 'Deforestation' (Out November 13th on Lost Tribe Sound) sprawls across nine sonorous and meticulously wrought tracks containing elements of minimal electronic, ambient and folk. Large cavernous beats, micro-ambient deconstruction and nylon guitar all swirl into a coherent palate left for Smith’s poignant, intimate words. 

Mastered specifically for vinyl by Taylor Deupree (12k), and with the additional step taken to create lacquers and metal stampers by Roger Siebel at SAE Mastering, 'Deforestation' sees a gatefold 180-gram release from Lost Tribe Sound that, like the material, takes no shortcuts. Both the album’s acetate and test pressing were scrutinized for anomalies on world-class vinyl setups at Arizona’s esteemed high-end audio dealer and vacuum tube specialists, Arizona Hi-Fi. Concluding the deluxe package and connecting intimately with the material within are stark, disintegrating images courtesy of renowned minimalist photographer Christy Romanick (Rivulets, Chihei Hatakeyam).

Deforestation

Various Lake Contents

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Mute Forest - Various Lake Contents

Buy / Stream Album: https://lnk.to/wsmsettlers

Follow WSM on Bandcamp: http://westernskiesmotel.bandcamp.com
 
'Settlers' is the new album from Western Skies Motel in a limited edition of 170 gatefold 180gram vinyl, CD and digital formats.  'Settlers' was mastered for vinyl and digital by Taylor Deupree, with master lacquers cut by Roger Siebel at SAE.  The first 50 Vinyl & CD's ordered come with a bonus EP, 'Generations' mastered by Kirk Marrison of Kiln.

In the dry desert of Arizona that Lost Tribe Sound calls home, a letter is received from guitarist René Gonzàlez Schelbeck who’s eager to share a collection of intimately composed songs, titled 'Settlers'. Upon listening, we are immediately enthralled. There’s a timeworn, arid, and almost badlands quality to Schelbeck’s hypnotic, cyclical guitar style. It seems to perfectly capture the lonely, barren landscape of the American West. 

Yet, there are curious dynamics at play here as Schelbeck, who makes music under the alias Western Skies Motel, is from Denmark and far removed from any upbringing in the rough-hewn Americana style of folk guitar. Conceivably, his music has more in common with the lonesome, calculated tone of Berlin's modern classical scene or the rainy day folk of the UK. Those are intriguing parallels, since the collective mood of Western Skies Motel's music would adapt so well to either environment. 

Words hardly do justice to the rich, immersive experience of 'Settlers'; yet a few may help to set the stage. Schelbeck is a remarkably well rounded instrumentalist, who spent his early days losing his hearing in local punk rock bands. This youthful love for walls of sound and discordant guitar squalls survives in his modern sound palette. However, a more mature approach to these techniques brings moments of palpable tension, adding in uneasy waves of guitar feedback and droning harmonium. 

But ultimately, the truth of what Schelbeck hopes to convey through his music may rest rmly in his subconscious. In hindsight, 'Settlers' is about moving between worlds: not in the dimensional sense, but more as a constant change in form. Each influence and sound Schelbeck incorporates into his music feels native to the delicate ecosystem of these songs and each turn feels as organic and nuanced as that of the natural world. Just as a tree’s leaves wither and fall; a fire sparks and expands only to expend its last bit of fuel, extinguished and left for ash. So true are the parallels we find in our own existence, the complex ritual of growing old and returning to dirt. Decay is inevitable for all life, yet through this it becomes the rich soil for all things proceeding. Western Skies Motel's weighty instrumental mantras may root in this and other meanings yet to be culled. One thing is clear, this music contains signicant power, and, regardless of our conceived themes or geographic locations, it tells a story that is lasting and instantly familiar. 

'Settlers' sees a 180-gram heavy weight gatefold release very similar to the recent Mute Forest debut, 'Deforestation'. The acetate and test pressings were scrutinized for anomalies on world-class vinyl setups at Arizona’s esteemed audio dealer, Arizona Hi-Fi.

Western Skies Motel is building upon a busy year in 2015, having released two very different full-length albums 'Prism' (Preserved Sound) and 'Buried and Resurrected' (Twice Removed).

Settlers

Whirl

Western Skies Motel - Whirl (from Settlers)

Vocals - Tanya Batt
Rhodes Piano, Electronics - Harnes Kretzer
Piano, Electronics - Niklas Paschburg

Produced & mixed by
Harnes Kretzer & Niklas Paschburg

Mastered by
Timothy Fairless

Artwork Image by
Christopher Stoneman

Design by
Melanie Kurhan

Mechanitis (Feat. Tanya Batt)

first excerpt from upcoming 'elephant' by Dag Rosenqvist.

Cello by Aaron Martin
Saxophone by Lisen Rylander Löve
Mastered by Taylor Deupree

order here - https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/elephant

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Dag Rosenqvist - Come Silence (from 'elephant' CD)

Updated version

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Mastered by www.bluedotbrighton.com

Phoria - Loss (Surface Edit)

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Himmelsrandt - End of All Life

The Lost

Otto A Totland - Vates

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Free download EP at <a href=http://badpandarecords.wordpress.com/2012/07/16/badpanda137/>Bad Panda</a>

including remixes by
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http://soundcloud.com/bad-panda-records/origamibiro-isaan
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Origamibiro - Flicker

Scale

To Learn and Grow

Philip G Anderson & Laura Masotto - To Learn And Grow

Phoria - Red

My remix of  https://soundcloud.com/phoriamusic/red


Phoria - Red (Blue / Green Edit)

Lie back, dream of your happy place and ease your way into the week with Phorias Slumber Mix, exclusive to i-D. 

Helios - Coast Off
Jónsi & Alex - Daniell In The Sea
Sol Seppy - Enter One
Nils Frahm - More
Elbow - Lullaby
Justin Bieber - U Smile (800% Slower)
Mt. Wolf - Hypolight
Sigur Rós - Fjögur píanó
Moby - My Weakness
Joanna Newsom - On A Good Day

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