The title-track from the forthcoming Dalot EP Ancestors.

Dalot - Ancestors

Erik K Skodvin - Shining, Burning

Shiva’s Rhythm

Nils Frahm & Olafur Arnalds : An excerpt from Trance Frendz 3

New modal sketches for the Deepchild pres. Acharné project. Hyperreal exploration of faux-piano tonality, artifice and artifact.

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Deepchild pres. Acharné - "Burren Street"

Crumble from the album Rosa Morta. Digital release April 8th 2016.

Craig Armstrong & Scott Fraser - Rosa Morta - 01 - Crumble

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

Order 'I Could See The Smoke' EP on Cassette Tape / Digital here: https://seabuckthorn.bandcamp.com/album/i-could-see-the-smoke

"Returnee" is taken from Seabuckthorn's upcoming EP 'I Could See The Smoke', coming out October 2016 on Lost Tribe Sound.  Seabuckthorn is UK experimental guitarist Andy Cartwright. 

Mastered by William Ryan Fritch

I Could See The Smoke

Returnee

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Seabuckthorn - Returnee (from I Could See The Smoke EP)

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The Dale Cooper Quartet & The Dictaphones are returning with their 4th album called "Astrild Astrild". Like all of the previous albums, the band recorded the seven pieces at home in Britanny during several sessions between 2013 and 2016.

The characteristics of this full-length are classic drone soundscapes mixed with deep tone saxophone parts that became the band's trademark since the release of their debut album in 2006. Slowly paced, the new tracks are following the Quartet's basic structure and classical sound. Apart from that the new full length conceals more live takes including guitars, bass and Rhodes keys and even piano sounds are haunting for the first time at the end of 'Ocho Acenteur'. With these new elements the songs of "Astrild Astrild" are pushed further into a large tunnel of deafening rhythmic parts and field ambiant textures.

Vocals are a major element of the Dale Cooper Quartet & The Dictaphones' DNA since the second album "Metamanoir" (2011). Sometimes breathy, sometimes deep and often mysterious, Ronan MacErlaine, Gaëlle Kerrien and Zalie Bellacicco voices appear in the corners of the songs as ghostly figures or eerie characters.

The new album "Astrild Astrild" is a glimpse of the present live sound of the Dale Cooper Quartet: 50's crooners singers, noisy guitars, atmospheric electronic and hypnotic jazz. All of these elements painted in monochrome black.

Astrild Astrild

Dale Cooper Quartet & The Dictaphones - Tua Oriel Courvite Isabelle

Piano Works is the second installment of Lucy Claire’s ‘Works’ series. It is an eclectic take on what piano music can be. Featuring cellist Ren Ford (Keaton Henson’s Romantic Works) and violinist Marie Schreer (The Royal Northern Sinfonia) and surrounded in atmospheric binaural soundscapes, the piano is far from lonely. The work features a collection of pianos from grands and uprights, to electric keyboards, toy and thumb pianos. It is grounded in the real world but hints strongly at the magical and supernatural, it absorbs, transports, then delivers you back to reality with new perspective.

Nils Frahm & Olafur Arnalds : An excerpt from Trance Frendz 3

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