Gustavo Santaolalla - De Ushuaia A La Quiaca

"Comfort Me" is taken from "Prism", the forthcoming album on Preserved Sound by Western Skies Motel.

Comfort Me - Western Skies Motel

"..an exquisitely delicate work that unfolds like buds on the trees in spring."
THE INDEPENDENT,UK
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Recorded and mixed by Martyn Heyne at Lichte Studio Berlin
Mastered by Mandy Parnell at Black Saloon Studios, London
Cover Photo: Dan Isaac Wallin
Written and produced by Markus Sieber

Markus Sieber - ronroco
Alexander Nickmann - fender rhodes, synthesizer, beats

In a lot of ways, Aukai’s self-titled debut is the sound of Markus Sieber bringing his career full circle. Having spent part of the ’90s playing rock music in East Germany, the composer/multi-instrumentalist then shifted his focus to acting, only to have music creep back into his life after a mind-altering move to Mexico.

“This album and project has a lot to do with memories from travel,” explains Sieber, “but also memories from childhood and nature. How did the river smell in summer? I wanted to create a sonic space where music guides the listener into some imaginative inner world.”

Which explains why he came up with the name Aukai in the first place; it’s the Hawaiian word for a seafaring traveler, the sort of person who seeks out the stillness in uncertain waters. In the case of Sieber’s new record, that meant spending a winter holed up in a mountainside cabin around Colorado’s La Plata Canyon. Basic tracks were then cut in a Berlin studio and brought into full relief alongside cellist Anne Muller (Agnes Obel Band, Nils Frahm), violinist Bogdan Djukic, pianist Angelika Baumbach, sound designer Alexander Nickmann, and longtime collaborator Jamshied Sharifi (Laurie Anderson, Sting, Dream Theater).

Here’s what Sieber had to say about its lead single, “Cachoeira,” along with a complete rundown of the record and its cover art:

“Cachoeira”, meaning waterfall in Portuguese, was inspired by my travels to northeastern Brazil, a region rich of rivers and waterfalls. It’s the track on the album which goes farthest into an electronic direction, merging the acoustic and natural sounding layers of the Ronroco, a Latin American string instrument, with Fender Rhodes, synthesizer, and beats. For each piece of the album, I had a particular vision for the instrumentation and musicians I wanted to collaborate with; for “Cachoeira”, I worked with my brother Alexander Nickmann, a Berlin-based sound designer and composer. " 

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Cachoeira

out take bonus track from the recent released album Aukai by Aukai
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Markus Sieber - ronroco
Alex Nickmann - fender rhodes, piano, synthesizer

mixed and mastered by Martyn Heyne

Couldline

Cloudline

Cloudline - Single

The single of my upcoming album 'Branches of Sun' just premiered at BBC6.  
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Markus Sieber - ronroco, guitar, percussion
Alexander Nickmann - vibraphone, synth, beats

Mixed & Master by Martyn Heyne
Written and produced by Markus Sieber / Aukai

Branches Of Sun

Colorado

featuring:
Vocals - Maya Nadir
Piano - Niklas Paschburg
Cello - Chrisitian Pensel

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Singles

Lone Waltz

Brombaer & Fljóta - Lone Waltz

Pigment

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For a ton more info see our FAQ section on the website series home page.  Ala carte orders for 'Mnemosyne' on vinyl/CD/DL, visit here: https://thephonometrician.bandcamp.com/album/mnemosyne

‘Mnemosyne’ is the debut album from Mexico City based multi-instrumentalist, film composer and sound preservationist Carlos Morales, who creates under the name The Phonometrician.

‘Mnemosyne’ is an album that asks what memories would sound like if they were captured through sound. At its core, ‘Mnemosyne’ is album built around finger-picked acoustic guitar, somewhat classical or folk in nature, yet it’s much more than that.  Morales deploys a very specific palette of instrumentation to realize his musical vision, it’s as if a classical guitar is slowly being worn away and devoured by an onslaught of looping, ever-shifting analog sound creatures, scattering for cover when the light hits them too directly and continuously eat away at the strings. Much like rifling through the pages of an aged and tattered diary, warm shuffles of vinyl and airy waves tape saturation emerge only to retreat once more into the darker recesses, leaving the pysche grasping wildly to recall the meaning of their existence.

Artwork by João Ruas (https://joaoruas.com)

Mnemosyne

Here Comes The Storm

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The Phonometrician - Here Comes The Storm (from Mnemosyne)

Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Sahub Shang
Artwork by Hananeh Jalou

Jungle

Scale

To Learn and Grow

Philip G Anderson & Laura Masotto - To Learn And Grow

Independent composer and producer from the Netherlands, deeply passionate about creating original projects and compositions.

Brombaer & Fljóta - Lone Waltz

Brombaer

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