With a title like “Dying Alone,” one cannot help but immediately get into a somber mood of reflection, melancholy, and sorrow. After all, we are all coffin bound, and many of us are destined to spend our final moments alone. I suppose that the current global situation has only exasperated our loneliness, a prospect that many of us are not welcoming in the very end. I remember having one of our last conversations with my grandmother. I remember her asking, “What happens next?” as I sat there holding her hand. “I don’t know what will come next,” she said as she drifted in and out of lucidity. “I think I know,” I said to myself, but my lips stayed sealed. I think I know, but then again, do I? Titles like “Dying Alone” can bring back repressed memories, stir up emotion, and color the way that I hear the sound. And it’s not the only introspectively titled piece on a new album by Hammock itself titled Elsewhere. And while these thoughts make me sullen and sad, there is a spark in the night that makes me want to reach up, out, and live. To that end, “Elsewhere serves as a gateway to another place, materializes feelings of separation and loss without closure, and calls listeners back to live their lives – not spend them longing to be something or somewhere else.” And that’s just the words – the music by Hammock is a whole other journey. I think it is fair to say that I have covered and picked nearly every album by Marc Byrd and Andrew Thompson for my Best of the Year selections for every single year since I discovered the band in 2006. And I’m sure that I’ve got the 2021 pick right here. So without further ado, I’m honored to exclusively premiere for you a track titled “Dying Alone”.

"Seeking overlooked beauty and prizing reflection in a distracted world, Hammock creates cinematic music for the road less traveled. In stirring works of shimmering post-rock ambience that swell with hope and melancholic nostalgia, the Nashville-based duo of Marc Byrd and Andrew Thompson immerse listeners in living visions of moments long past, animating life’s fond remembrances and scarring losses with gentle lens-flare harmonics, heart-surging neoclassical drama, and pensive silence. A direct challenge to the passive existence of modern life, where everything can be experienced but precious little is felt, Hammock demands, and richly rewards, patience and contemplation."

I've listened to this album more than a dozen times already, and I'm excited for you to hear the whole thing on November 5th, 2021, when it comes out on all of your favorite digital platforms. And yes, the world needs this on vinyl, but I suspect that the pressing is postponed as are all most recent releases. Quick recognition of two appearances on the album as well: Matt Slocum on the cello and Matt Kidd (aka Slow Meadow) on the piano. Oh, and have you noticed that the mixing, mastering, and cover art are done by Taylor Deupree? An amazing package of like-minded folks on this one.

Elsewhere

Dying Alone

TRACK PREMIERE : Hammock - Dying Alone

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333 Hz - The Angelic Code

GG Promises Volumes 1 - 15  
Producer, Benjamin Hill, coproducer IBen Morton, written by Benjamin Hill and Benjamin Morton

Rhythm Gives Rise

made in a little less then 2 hours for some quick practice and atmosphere

with love <3

https://open.spotify.com/track/4GpR2HV8PiKfmYAOuQN8aA?si=7d4ce833be07494a

dashing~reprieval*

Taken from the album 'Taking The Veil', released worldwide on May 24, 2015 on Kitchen. Label

Pre-order on CD + Art Book here:
www.kitchen-label.com/ki015-hior-chr…king-the-veil/

Tracklist:
1 - London Bridges (Feat. Amber Ortolano)
2 - Nest of Autumn (Feat. Sophie Hutchings)
3 - Twice (Feat. Amber Ortolano)
4 - Small Wonders (Feat. Yasushi Yoshida)
5 - Cold Winter Morning (Feat. Lüüp)
6 - Simple is Beautiful (Feat. Field Rotation)
7 - Sailing Away (Feat. Amber Ortolano)
8 - We Are All Snowflakes (Feat. Yoshinori Takezawa)
9 - Oblivion (Feat. Field Rotation)
10 - Can You Hear (Feat. Familiar Trees)
11 - When The Night Comes (Feat. Daphne Farazi)
12 - Between Two Rooms (Feat. Seiji Takahashi)
13 - The Sense We Make (Feat. Halo)
14 - Quiet Inside Your Chest (Feat. Aaron Martin)
15 - The Ghost You Left Behind

“Shadows surrounding, this lucid veil that will not conceal.”

‘Taking the Veil’ is the debut solo album on Kitchen. Label by Berlin-based musician Hior Chronik. Originally from Athens, the new album is a follow-up to his previous work on the label as the duo Pill-Oh in ‘Vanishing Mirror’. The established foundation are intact on ‘Taking the Veil’: the bitterly romantic strings and gentle electronics whisper melting over plaintive piano scores. Hior Chronik has a penchant of producing subtly immense and cinematic compositions which are remarkably chilling in its beauty.

The latest release follows Hior Chronik’s distinctive compositional path with the pairing of a collaborator on each track. This time the instrumental colors are most intimate, honed to evocative perfection with each collaboration bringing its own nuances to a permeable set of motives. Through the contemplative moments, what give it life is the varied scoring which goes from solo piano to string orchestra, opening up a space that shimmers with stirring melancholy. Featuring classically aligned contemporaries such as Field Rotation (Denovali Records), Sophie Hutchings (Preservation), Lüüp (Experimedia) and Japanese composers Yasushi Yoshida (noble), Yoshinori Takezawa (Schole Records) among many others. The biggest change in this new album is the addition of vocals by Amber Ortolano and Fabiola Sanchez (Familiar Trees) on four songs. Figured centrally in the soundtrack as recurring lyrical voicing, the Amber Ortolano and Hior Chronik pairing also produced a rearranged version of ‘Twice’ originally written by Swedish electronic band Little Dragon.

‘Taking the Veil’ is presented in a 16-page art book format, also featuring the New York based Amber Ortolano as a photographer. The subject in the visual narrative of ‘Taking the Veil’ is of young women imprisoned by their flow of thoughts and their dark imagination. The delicate beauty and ambiguous gestures of feminine protagonists serve as powerful metaphors of the veil as the title of the album reflects – They reveal and conceal all at once, reviving emotions conjured by a sense of mystery. The album underlines this atmosphere that probe the consciousness imbued with burnished hues of something half-remembered and half-dreamed. ‘Taking the Veil’ is the best company for late hours and memory searching in a world of mist and shadows.

Released & distributed by Kitchen. Label
Ⓟ & © 2015 Kitchen. Label

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www.kitchen-label.com

Hior Chronik - Oblivion (Featuring Field Rotation)

from 'Ed Carlsen - Elusive Frames' out now

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Music by Ed Carlsen 
Produced, recorded and mixed by Ed Carlsen 
Mastered by Emil Thomsen at ET Mastering 
Artwork by Kevin Townsend

Elusive Frames

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Ed Carlsen - Anew

From album "Fragments".
This album created mainly with Teenage Engineering OP-1, cassette dictaphone, and field recordings. Some tracks I recorded directly from OP-1, others were edited, mixed, and rearranged in a DAW.

Download from bandcamp (name your price): https://valotihkuu.bandcamp.com/album/fragments

I posted some videos for this album on my YouTube channel: youtube.com/valotihkuu

Gear: Teenage Engineering OP-1, Zoom H6, LOM instruments Uši Pro microphones, Sony TCM-200DV Cassette Recorder.

I would greatly appreciate your support, it means a lot for me. All funds will be spent to purchase new studio equipment for future works.

Also, I have Patreon page where I post exclusive content such as field recordings, bonus tracks, sketches, and my ambient patches for Teenage Engineering OP-1. Join me: www.patreon.com/valotihkuu

Fragments

Near the Summer House

This is a prelude to the coming full length album.

Screensaver Prelude

Time Passes By

a.m.

Night Cycles 2

Cedar (Night Cycles Version)

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I'm an American composer creating music for visual media. My compositions have been commissioned, licensed and well-received by film directors, videographers, advertising firms, corporate brands, and sample developers from around the world.

I believe in music - and in its wonderful power to support and elevate life and storytelling.

You can find out more about me and my work at:

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All compositions - © Blake Ewing Music.
All recordings - ℗ Forthwest Music