From the album Modern Country, out now on Merge Records.

Modern Country

William Tyler "Gone Clear"

We haven't done one of these mixes for a long old time!

A collection of tracks forthcoming on the record label and a few personal favs from the past 12 months.

Headphones advisable...

Enjoy 


Off-Key Sessions: Home

Noah - Back

Premiering on Magnetic Mag: http://bit.ly/2r9j2ti

Bristol-based solo electronic producer LTO @lto-oa returns to Injazero Records following his debut, 2015’s No Pasa Nada EP. 

While plaudits for LTO have tended to focus their praise on No Pasa Nada’s tense and eerie programming, its deep sonics and waves of static, Storybook gives us access to the beating heart within the machine. It is an album not purely of mechanics, but also of human warmth, formed with a colour palette of equal digital and organic materials. There is expression and articulation, delicateness of performance, voices both natural and treated, piano and brass, all deftly placed about a canvas of electronic fabrics.

LTO first made waves as part of mysterious electronic collective Old Apparatus. Their music - anonymous, dark, ghostly, subterranean - was reminiscent of garage and grime scenes, but sheened with a nocturnal miasma and a fierce intellect, obfuscated by deliberate myth-making. And while LTO as a solo producer retains elements of this darkness and beguiling sound-design, Storybook sees him let the light in.

A vision is laid out by album opener ‘Change’. It combines gentle, dulcet synthesis with a percussive line made of table-tennis recordings and Spanish-language voices that softly echo in and out of the space, like Katie Gately remixed into Brian Eno’s ambient records or the poise of Max Richter filtered through Chris Clark’s production lens. These themes wander and weave through the record. They comprise willfully corrupted notions of the ‘single’: broken, distorted vocal pieces that never quite move as expected, yet somehow remains approachable and deeply touching. They comprise fluidity and elasticity, a human-ness that enwraps the mechanical parts, in the same sense as Holly Herndon or Nils Frahm. A highly accomplished pianist (indeed, a piano teacher in his civilian life), LTO’s astute musicality is the foundation stone beneath the magic and abstractions of Storybook.

Injazero Records will release Storybook on 180g vinyl and digital formats on June 23rd 2017. The record was mastered by Taylor Deupree (Dustin O’Halloran, William Basinski, Helios) of 12k Mastering.

Storybook

When

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LTO - When

American and Swedish composers Aaron Martin and Dag Rosenqvist came together in 2011 under the name From the Mouth of the Sun. Their first album "Woven Tide" was released by Experimedia in 2012 and they returned in 2015 for their second album "Into the Well." In 2016, three pieces from Woven Tide played an integral role in David Wingo's score for Jeff Nichols's Warner Bros. feature "Midnight Special." Their third album "Hymn Binding" will be released by Lost Tribe Sound in 2017.

Using a vast array of acoustic and electric instruments, including cello, piano, banjo, pump organ, and guitar, while utilizing analog equipment, Aaron and Dag craft unique musical landscapes full of contrasts, where melodies and ominous textures intertwine.

Released by Wayfind Records, the music for "Menashe" marks the first original score for a full-length narrative film by Aaron Martin and Dag Rosenqvist.

All music by Aaron Martin & Dag Rosenqvist.

Mastered by Matthew Collings.

www.wayfindrecords.com/menashe

a24films.com/films/menashe

Menashe (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Closing

Original soundtrack for the film ‘Aurore’ directed by Guillaume Mazloum (France / 2012 / 16mm / B&W / 10' / L’Orée Collectif / with Valentine Gressel).
Composed, performed and produced by Frédéric D. Oberland. Mixed with the kind help of Erwan Le Mao at Jitterburg studio. Frédéric is playing electric guitar, piano, fender Rhodes, bowed glockenspiel.

Frédéric D. Oberland - Aurore

Tokyo’s flau record label cerebrate their 10-year anniversary with the 'Waltz Compilation'. The album was also called "A dance to draw circle" in Japan, with each artist producing an interpretation of the meaning of the waltz. 

Artists included span the globe from Europe, South America, Australia and Japan: Danny Norbury, Kanazu Tomoyuki, Ensemble 0, Fábio Caramuru, Otto A. Totland, Rayons, Sophie Hutchings, Frédéric D. Oberland, HAU (Henning Schmiedt + aus), Takeo Toyama and MayMay.

Pre-order:

www.flau.bandcamp.com/album/circles
www.flau.jp/releases/circles/

Circles

Grannys Waltz

Otto A. Totland - Grannys Waltz

‘Sparks’ is the first full collaboration of the Black Elk quartet of Ian Hawgood, Tim Martin (Maps and Diagrams), Danny Norbury and Clem Leek. Whilst Ian and Tim take over acoustic, electronic, mixing and compositional duties, Danny is on cello and Clem on piano. ‘Sparks’ will be released July 27th. The follow-up, and connected work, 'Anchor' will be released at the end of the year. 'Sparks' was mastered by Lawrence English.
Photography by Jaime Montefort ©jaimemontefort2012

komu002 Black Elk 'Sparks' (album preview)

Sloe?

A girl playing an upright piano

song from most recent album Bite The Mountain which I recorded in Japan

Balloon

2012年聲子蟲最新專輯《午夜城 a Midnight Town》10月推出，專輯曲序第一首〈一輝〉：
展開一道夜空光輝的進行曲。 

「要以最簡短的方式來說這張專輯最想表達的想法是甚麼，那應該是『願望』這兩個字。對於社會、家人、愛情、朋友、工作等等的願望，雖然無法盡如人意的全部實現，但都會有讓自己值得驕傲的痕跡，只要願意再多走一步，就會離目標更近一點。而我們這次也將一些願望留在這些沒有歌詞的歌曲裡。」 
----------- 聲子蟲

聲子蟲 Bugs of Phonon - 午夜城 a Midnight Town / 一輝 Glow

formed in Tainan/Taiwan, 2008. Three-pieces instrumental band. Some songs are from their 2nd. demo "模樣國/That 's a nation what we saw", 2010.
They had joined Mega-Port Festival 2010, SpringScream09'、10', and performed at live-house (THE WALL, etc..) continually in Taiwan. And they were invited to be opening band for "TOE asia tour Taiwan 2010".
Finally, hope you enjoy it :) .


聲子蟲 Bugs of Phonon - 午夜城 a Midnight Town / 一輝 Glow

Bugs of phonon