There's A Time For Space

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In Session: KOAN Sound & Asa (Influences mix)

New track from Spacehop Chronicles Vol. 1 - video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfujKZL95yY

Light Years From Home

Divine Intoxication

Ascended Vibrations

Cover of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit."

Smells Like Teen Spirit

The poem "I Will Leave Trails in 3 Clouds" is an excerpt from "The Sacred Book of G" (blurb.com/b/5963353-the-sacred-book-of-g)

Poem, voice and video by Gonzalo Bénard (gbenard.com)
Piano piece composed and played by Ben Fehr

I Will Leave Trails In 3 Clouds (Poem by Gonzalo Bénard)

Recorded for Gonzalo Bénard for his art video 'Distichous - Mind vs. Consciousness'

Vimeo Link: https://vimeo.com/134122061
Youtube Link: https://yout.be/IrPex57oeE0

G's Website: www.gbenard.com

Beautiful Storm in the Ocean

Live recording of my set for FUZE, Eugene's premiere fusion partner dance experience. Mr. Moo on violin, beats and samples, Parkpoom Aempoo on clarinet, and Subaqueous on dub effects.

LIVE at FUZE (feat. Subaqueous and Poom)

I Am That I Am (sunrise) ft. Alan Watts

A song for my Grandmother, who passed yesterday.

Out Of Here

Minimal Thoughts Of Reason ~ Dave Tipper

Taken from their forthcoming mini-album 'Ellis' out July 8 on Erased Tapes.

Pre-order the LP/CD/DL here: www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP086
or from iTunes here: http://snip.ftpromo.net/ellis

For the first half of the twentieth century, Ellis Island stood as the gateway to America. For some twelve million people, it was their first encounter with the land they hoped to call home. 

Directed by acclaimed artist JR, ELLIS tells the story of one such migrant. Starring Robert De Niro, the film winds its way through the crumbling hallways of the abandoned Ellis Island hospital complex, now home to JR’s Unframed art installation. It’s a place that reverberates with the hopes and fears of those who passed through it, the echoes especially resonant today.

Entwined with the narrative is a score composed by Woodkid, performed and co-written by Nils Frahm. The delicate piano motifs of Winter Morning I culminate in a crescendo of strings, while the harmonium swells on the B-side are the foundation for De Niro’s narration: an encomium for those who shaped modern America. 

There’s perhaps never been a more fitting time for this story, with all the proceeds going to the Sea Watch initiative, a non-profit charity dedicated to the protection and rescue of civilian refugees. 

Following a screening as part of Nils’s Barbican Weekender, the ELLIS score will be out July 8th, the same week as America’s great federal holiday. It will be available via Erased Tapes as a mini album on CD, vinyl and in digital format containing a 12-page picture booklet.


IN THE ARTISTS’ OWN WORDS:

Nils Frahm: ‘The opportunity to work on JR´s fantastic short film ELLIS came through my good friend Yoann aka Woodkid. We agreed on recording the piano parts in my studio in Berlin and so it happened that JR and Woodkid were guests at Durton studio on a wonderful late summer day in 2015. We managed to record all the crucial elements that day. The music fell in our laps and melted with the images: a wonderful experience. The film has stuck in my head ever since; it moved my heart and changed my soul.

A couple of weeks later I had to cancel a trip to Brussels because of a terror warning; all events got cancelled and I stayed home, having an unexpected day off. I felt rather depressed that day, thinking that the Europe I knew was already gone. I sat down at the harmonium, listened to Robert De Niro’s voice and played for the rest of the day. The result is ‘Winter Morning II,’ the B-side of the ELLIS soundtrack release.

Robert says it all in 17 minutes. We are not facing a refugee crisis. We are facing a crisis because we do not embrace, we do not sympathise and we cannot give up fear. Art can encourage so I hope this project will help fight the fear in all of us.’

Yoann Lemoine, aka Woodkid:  ‘Ellis is my second collaboration with JR after the New York City Ballet piece for Les Bosquets. I initially wanted this piece to sound like it was recorded on an old piano that we found in the ruins of Ellis Island, in the restricted area that is not open to the public, where JR pasted the pictures on the walls for the film Ellis.

I had worked with Nils before and I wanted him to create a sound for this piano part that I composed that was extremely gentle and organic. I wanted the listener to hear the mechanisms, the breathing of the instrument. I wanted it to be imperfect, to sound like a ruin, a trace, an echo, the way the pastings on the walls seem to be ghosts, almost imperceptible.

After a few rehearsals, Nils stripped down my piano parts and we removed almost all orchestration around the piano. He then worked on the extended version that is his interpretation of my piece, with Robert de Niro’s vocals.

Because this film and this recording is historically meaningful, it was important for us to create this piece as an echo to the immigration situation in Europe, and decided to release it in support of Sea Watch.’

Ellis

Winter Morning I

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Woodkid & Nils Frahm - Winter Morning I

a new roel funcken track for a forthcoming release 

here is a video for it : 

https://youtu.be/8CmaRuyXKC4

Roel Funcken_Balaklavskiy Prospex

Woodkid & Nils Frahm - Winter Morning II (with Robert De Niro)

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Time For Space

Songs recorded in single takes using voice and sampled objects within a house for percussion.

Spiritus EP

Rain on Me

GUEST MIX - Ben Fehr and Liam Cutler 

Episode 17 of The Ambient Zone Podcasts, curated and produced by Digitonal featuring GUEST MIX by Ben Fehr and Liam Cutler 
 
1. Digitonal - Paper Unicorn 
2. Silver Mt Zion - 13 Angels Standing Guard ‘Round The Side Of Your Bed – (Constellation) 
3. Disasterpeace - Seeds of The Crown – (Disasterpeace) 
4. Greg Haines - Something Happened – (Denovali Records) 
5. Ben Fehr & Liam Cutler - Lock (Rework/Open)  
6. Carl Stone - Solo – (Felmay Records)  
7. Molly Drake - Poor Mum – (Island Records) 
8. Tim Hecker - Black Refraction – (kranky) 
9. Mark Pritchard - EMS – (Warp Records) 
10. Richard Norris - Echo Chamber – (The Ambient Zone) 
11. Olafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm - W – (Erased Tapes) 
12. Alex Zhang Hungtai - Pierrot – (NON Worldwide) 
13. Thomas Ragsdale - Acolytes – (This Is It Forever) 
14. Colin Stetson - Spindrift – (Colin Stetson) 
15. Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - All Things Beautiful – (Warner Bros) 
16. Zbiegnew Preisner - First Time Outside – (Varese Sarabese Records)

TAZ Podcast

The Ambient Zone // Episode 17 featuring Guest Mix by Ben Fehr and Liam Cutler

Aflevering 57 van de #Stookcast komt van Roel Funcken. Meer informatie over hem vind je op:

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Tracklist:
Rival Consoles - Memory Arc
ARKTKT - Divinity
Plaid Yu - Mountain
Autechre - Second Peng
Esem - lt_ft
Kettel & Secede - Tunes
Humanoid - Post Human (Roel Funcken Remix)
Hanz - Mask
Synkro & Arovane - New Dawn
Sun - One Two
Valance
Drakes - Sky Open To Those Who Have Wings
The Green Kingdom - Untitled 8 (Roel Funcken Remix)
Ital Tek - The Flood
Visceral - Phrasing
Palmskin Productions - The Beast (Autechre Mix)
Scone - Ketayson
Deru - Peanut Butter & Patience
Legiac - Row Glodation

Roel Funcken Stookcast 2018

Initially released circa 2001.. Musik Aus Strom 015.. CD/2xVINYL

There's A Time For Space

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