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Lou Reed in conversation with Anthony DeCurtis

From the album 'Hiraeth'.

Album available here - http://www.preservation.com.au/product/olan-mill-hiraeth

Olan Mill - Cultivator

Exclusive new track from our new album The Unified Field. 
Out on Denovali Records on October 25th on Vinyl / CD / Digital

Cross Hands

Lou Reed talks to Rolling Stone critic Anthony deCurtis about Andy Warhol the formation of The Velvet Underground. Background, transcript, and context here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/11/11/lou-reed-anthony-decurtis-interview/

Lou Reed on Andy Warhol

Lou Reed at the Kelly Writers House. Background, transcript, and more here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/11/11/lou-reed-anthony-decurtis-interview/

Lou Reed on Laurie Anderson

Lou Reed talks to Rolling Stone critic Anthony deCurtis about adapting literary works to music. Background, transcript, and context here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/11/11/lou-reed-anthony-decurtis-interview/

Lou Reed on Edgar Allan Poe and setting literary texts to music

Lou Reed talks to Rolling Stone critic Anthony deCurtis at the Kelly Writers House. Background, transcript, and more here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/11/11/lou-reed-anthony-decurtis-interview/

Lou Reed on balancing raw force with raw vulnerability

Lou Reed talks to Rolling Stone critic Anthony deCurtis at the Kelly Writers House. Background, transcript, and context here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/11/11/lou-reed-anthony-decurtis-interview/

Lou Reed on Bob Dylan

Café Papantla

The deers cry was recorded in Abbazia di San Pietro (Peruiga) sept 16, 2016 .

Photo: Arvo Pärt in Abbazia di San Pietro (Perugia) 2016 with Adèle Nerelius and Eva Malm Öhrström.
Photographer: Adriano Scognamillo.

The deers cry

A choral concert I conducted in Oslo, Norway;
June 6th, 2011

Arvo Pärt: Da Pacem Domine

In instrumental version of a track from my forthcoming album, "(For Now We See)Through A Glass Dimly". Set for release in March 2016, the full track features the words of Paul Morley spoken by Dutch musician Jan Van Den Broeke. The track also features electronic details by Richard Talbot (Marconi Union).

Little Emblems Of Eternity (Instrumental)

from 'Symmetry'
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available on 3xCD | 4xLP | DIGITAL formats at [http://denovali.com/rd]

Limited collectors edition containing the albums:
Progress Chance
Assimilating The Shadow
As Iron Sharpens Iron, One Verse Sharpens Another

Ricardo Donoso has composed a new paradigm of ambient music, in which concrete textures and digital synthesis expand on an abstract world in constant movement & mutation. Under a chain of progressive rhythm’s, cinematic textures and elegant melodicism, Donoso’s work pushes through with piercing strength, manipulating a sonic wave through space with nothing but pulse and mind blowing intensity.
Although Donoso’s work has coalesced into a much broader and dynamic beast, his early work continues to be a source of inspiration. ‘Symmetry’ now compiles Donoso’s first three albums, lovingly referred to as the “Digitalis Trilogy” which includes Progress Chance, Assimilating the Shadow and As Iron Sharpens Iron, One Verse Sharpens Another in a deluxe 4LP boxset & 3CD edition.
A truly entrancing journey of polyrhythmic counterpoint, the ‘Symmetry’ collection takes in influence from minimalist composers such as Reich & Riley, early techno and trance, and lush and deeply harmonic ambient music. It’s possible to look at the ‘Symmetry’ trilogy as a blueprint to Donoso’s later work in both its musical scope & thematic grandeur. Amidst all of its wide eyed, dreamlike states there is always a rumbling of subtle violence piercing just underneath the surface creating a truly immersive experience.

Assimilating the Shadow

Ricardo Donoso - Renunciation

HIOR CHRONIK – “BLIND HEAVEN”

Worldwide Release date: November 8th, 2019
On 7K! – LP – CD - Digital – Streaming

Seductive drone and post cinematic soundscapes between ambient, indie-neoclassical music. These are the best words to describe the vibes of the new album by the Greek/Berliner composer Hior Chronik, entitled “Blind Heaven” out on November 8th via 7K! - !K7.


There is a dark and cinematic atmosphere that chases throughout the new album by the Greek composer and producer Hior Chronik, a natural sequel to "Out Of The Dust", released on 7K! in 2017. While retaining an ambient and modern-classic dimension, "Blind Heaven" goes in search of new territories to observe and interpret. Sound landscapes made of synthesizers, electronics, strings, woodwinds and above all magical touches of the piano, so minimal as they are brilliant in their being perfectly integrated into the sonic trajectories traced by the Athens-born artist who has lived in Berlin for several years.

“The meaning of everything I do is to share with people something that maybe
will need to listen and make them feel more emotional in their life.
This album is another part of me. It’s my personal demonstration and voice to everything that hurts nature and weak people.”

Track after track "Blind Heaven" reveals itself by involving the listener in a particularly evocative and immersive multi-stage sound journey: Nocturne, crepuscular, foggy, the record moves in neighboring territories without delineating a precise and static form: the sound moves magmatic, it is discovered, it hides, it explodes, it shrinks and once again it frees itself to cross extremely natural and peaceful landscapes, as well as darker, industrial, apocalyptic, noisy and powerful worlds. Storm, then quiet again, but a stillness crossed by splinters and flashes clearly visible in the distance.

“Blind Heaven is the illusion of everyone that live his myth in his own bubble 
without seeing what’s really going on outside.”  

Created between the autumn and winter of 2019 in Berlin, mixed and mastered in Athens by John Valasis (already at the mix for the previous "Out Of The Dust"), "Blind Heaven" confirms Hior Chronik as one of the main names of the scene poised between the electronic-ambient world and that of modern classic minimalism. Proof of this are the prestigious feature of the album: from the Japanese by Erased Tapes, Masayoshi Fujita (vibraphone in "Blanket"), to the Polish pianist Hania Rani, who for a long time accompanied Hior Chronik on tour and whom we see here on the piano in "Words Are Gone", the producer and sound engineer Francesco Donadello, to the modular synths in "One Eternity At The Time", up to the New York artist Amber Ortolano, voice in "Beneath".


CAT Number: 7K016

1.Imitation of life
2.Beneath (feat. Amber Ortolano)
3.Don’t mess with my heart
4.Blanket (feat. Masayoshi Fujita)
5.Words are gone (feat. Hania Rani)
6.One eternity at a time (feat. Francesco Donatello)
7.Through the path
8.Smash and grab  
9.Intimacy of the unknown 
10.Elixir

Trumpet across the album by Christian Grothe

2* Amber Ortolano - vocals
4* Masayoshi Fujita - Vibraphone Arrangement 
5* Hania Rani - Piano
6* Francesco Donatello - Modular Synths

All songs are composed by Hior Chronik
Lyrics on track 2 by Amber Ortolano
Masayoshi Fujita appears courtesy of Erased Tapes
Hania Rani appears courtesy of Gondwana Records

Mixed & mastered by John Valasis
www.johnvalasis.com
Front cover by Narges Aqamiri
https://www.instagram.com/nargesaqamiri/
Back/Inside cover by Hior Chronik.
Layout by Paolo Proserpio
A&R at 7K! Carlo “Jarno” Garrè - www.7k.k7.com

Blind Heaven

The Words Are Gone Feat. Hania Rani

I am so pleased to share with you another new rework as SLOW MEADOW  joins the family with a beautiful and haunting rendition of the East Forest x Ram Dass track, "You're A Guru".

Slow Meadow is Houston multi-instrumentalist Matt Kidd. His releases as Slow Meadow have been celebrated by the New York Observer, NPR, Echoes' John Diliberto, and 6LACK who sampled Lachrymosia for the platinum-selling song Luving U.  With You're A Guru (Slow Meadow Rework), he takes the multi layered Ram Dass teaching into a new liminal space of floating strings and muted piano.  It's stunning.

http://eastforest.org
http://ramdass.org
http://slowmeadow.com

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