I Remember You Like the Best Song 

Available February 18 from http://anenon.bandcamp.com and anywhere that you stream music.

All music by Brian Allen Simon
Art by Susan Cianciolo, courtesy Bridget Donahue NYC
Mastering by Yosi Horikawa

I Remember You Like the Best Song (Edit)

Out now: https://hilyard.bandcamp.com/album/a-wake-in-shadows

“A wake in shadows” is a funerary dirge for the lost and an implement of catharsis for the here and now. A warm embrace for cold nights when loneliness scrapes at the frozen windowpanes and shadows of ourselves dance on the periphery of the firelight. In the darkness of a hushed forest and a quiet mind, the leaves fall from whispering trees, their limbs shed bare in the frigid moonlight. In the spring the roots will feed on the past and sing bittersweet life into the canopy with a long sigh of ephemeral recompense.

a wake in shadows

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A Temporal Journey Through Daydreams and Nostalgia...

Dreamu, the alias of Madrid-based experimental musician and producer Fran Sarró, presents nrem, his debut album, a 13-track instrumental LP. Inspired by the N-REM (non-rapid eye movement) N1 sleep phase - the transitional state between wakefulness and sleep where reality begins to blur into dreamlike images - nrem delves into this liminal space. Dreamu's landscape is colored by the melancholy of an idealized past that never existed.

The album, recorded primarily on reel-to-reel tape machines and cassettes, employs techniques such as reversed sounds, tape speed changes, and granular synthesis. Its palette is built from processed electric guitars, pianos, samplers, and field recordings.

nrem is the result of a decade-long journey of personal and sonic exploration, crafted within the intimate space of his home studio in Madrid. Surrounded by cables, effect pedals, and tape machines, Dreamu sketched harmonies and textures while navigating an emotional evolution marked by ups and downs, insecurities, and expectations. Composing became a refuge, where those feelings could crystallize into sounds that honestly reflected his vision.

Mastered by Taylor Deupree 
Designed by Daniel Crossley
Released by Fluid Audio

Dreamu - Margarita

Cy-Ens (CA/QC) @cy-ens
Live at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 25
Nocturne 6 on August 25, 2024
Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio)
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Cy-Ens unveils their latest performance, Synapse, a profound exploration of the nexus between nature and technology through a six-movement suite. Masterfully blending live coding, generative algorithms, and an array of instruments including voice and Theremin, Cy-Ens creates a unique auditory and visual tableau. Synapse emphasizes the harmonious interplay between computational intelligence and human expressivity, inviting the audience into a world where sound transcends traditional confines.

MUTEKLIVE355 - Cy-Ens

Back Home Wishing We Were Back There

rotting teenage romance under the floorboards

Celestial Trax returns with new work of tonal-textural explorations.
On 'Lifecodes' the producer born Joni Judén weaves together a dense quilt of sound, shimmering and surging as it unfolds in free-time. Judén invites the listener down a luminous, harmonically adventurous path, where sound takes creaturely dimensions. The songs blossom and wilt, at times floating in states of ambivalence, at others washing over the listener like waves, bathing them in heavy light.

'Lifecodes' was created in the small village of Pynnölä, Joutsa in central Finland, where Celestial Trax has been living and working since 2020.

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Music by Celestial Trax, recorded and mixed at TUO TUO
Album art and visual concept by Robert Ra linktr.ee/RobertRa



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from 'Sanctuary' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den284
available on all formats from [http://denovali.com/mariodiazdeleon]

Performed by the brilliant TAK Ensemble, “Sanctuary” is a ritualistic masterwork of modern classical music, combining acoustic and electronic elements with visionary intensity.

For the third full length document of his classical works, Mario Diaz de Leon presents his most unified offering to date, distilling the modernistic hellfire of his previous releases to a crystalline essence. “Sanctuary” is an album length piece created in collaboration with TAK Ensemble, a brilliant NYC based quintet devoted to energetic and virtuosic performances of contemporary music. Featuring soprano voice, flute, violin, bass clarinet, marimba, and the composer’s own synthesizer work, the album is a hypnotic and ritualistic journey through realms of angelic and demonic experience.

Since 2002, Mario Diaz de Leon has created a significant body of new works for acoustic instruments and electronics. Following his teenage years playing hardcore punk, metal, and electronic music, Diaz de Leon was inspired by the mystically oriented modernisms of Stockhausen, Scelsi, Messiaen, and Dumitrescu, and soon after developed his signature style while a student at Oberlin Conservatory. His debut album as composer, "Enter Houses Of" was released in 2009 on John Zorn's Tzadik label, and praised by the New York Times for its "hallucinatory intensity". A second album, entitled "The Soul is the Arena", was released in 2015 on Denovali, and was named a notable recording of the year by New Yorker Magazine. Pitchfork wrote that the album "combines his interests seamlessly into music that throbs with snarling exuberance." Both releases were performed by his longtime collaborators in the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE).

He currently leads the metal band Luminous Vault as vocalist and guitarist, whose “Charismata” EP was released on Profound Lore Records in spring 2017. From 2012-2016, his solo electronic project Oneirogen (o-NI-ro-jen) toured internationally and released three full length albums on Denovali. He collaborated with director Zev Deans to create the score for Alien: Biotic, a short film commissioned by Fox as part of the official Alien: Covenant campaign. In 2016, the Los Angeles Philharmonic commissioned and premiered his “Lightmass” for their “Noon to Midnight” festival of contemporary music. He has also collaborated with Nate Young of Wolf Eyes on “Standard Deviance One”, which they recently performed at Tectonics Festival Glasgow with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Born in Minnesota, he has lived in in New York City since 2004, and received a doctorate in music composition from Columbia University in 2013, where he currently teaches.

“21st century chamber music that combines crystalline clarity with the disorienting turbulence of a sonic vortex.” - WIRE Magazine

“Plenty of people can write a one-off ‘amplified’ piece for chamber musicians, but few artists have built a language as stable and rewarding as Diaz de Leon’s.” - Pitchfork

TAK ENSEMBLE
Laura Cocks - flute
Liam Kinson - bass clarinet, clarinet
Charlotte Mundy - voice
Marina Kifferstein - violin
Ellery Trafford - marimba, percussion
with Mario Diaz de Leon - synthesizer

Sanctuary

Mario Diaz de Leon - Sanctuary

Sasha is a trained violinist and choir vocalist who grew up with an addiction to music. Her first ventures into her own productions were a strong mix of distorted electronics, a far cry from her classical background. With the studio foundations in place she started producing a multitude of related genres like drum n bass, ambient and electronic music. Inspired by the dark ambient people in her life she surrounded herself with she slowly drifted into the scene and started turning her productions towards the depths. She has described dark ambient as something that gives her a freedom of thought in relation to the complexity of the world of wonders, a mix between the simple and the difficult.

https://soundcloud.com/protou
https://www.cryochamberlabel.com/artist/protou/

Tracklist

00:00 protoU & Hilyard - Nature Abstractions
05:15 Ari Porki - Low-pressure
08:21 Dronny Darko & Utu Lautturi - Tribal Urbanism
16:45 protoU - Eyes of the Shaman
24:32 Mathias Grassow - The Sleeping Forest
32:05 Dronny Darko & protoU - Riparian Forest [ 300 million years ago ]
36:15 Juta Takahashi - Quiet Rain
45:22 protoU - Stones in Snow
48:54 Ajna & Dronny Darko - The Strange Demeanor of Solitude II (Dronny Darko Remix)
52:00 Oil Texture - Somnium

Have a good listening.

Deep Breakfast 017 - protoU

Night Sea - Still [SSV17]

http://silentseason.com/ssv17/

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@nightseaproject
Written & Produced by Johan Ismael & David Grunzweig (Oakland, CA)
Mastered by Giuseppe Tillieci at Enisslab Studio

Cheishvili - Sampling (homework file)

CES Tbilisi