A selection of ambient, modern classical, and electroacoustic works for Summer 2020.  

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Field Journal Companion | Summer 2020

New & hot: Ambient

Lend Me Your Radio - Aug 20

Best Ambient 2020

An ambient playlist for school, study, or thinking.

Contemplations

Download: http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2014/07/orange-ocean-loscil-remix

Download

Kodomo - Orange Ocean (Loscil Remix)

from the album 'sea island' available 11/17

loscil 'sturgeon bank'

from the album 'sketches from new brighton' available 9/10

loscil 'container ships'

from the album 'grass and trees' available 06/07

Grass and Trees

earthen sea 'existing closer or deeper in space'

from the album 'grass and trees' available 6/7

earthen sea 'shallow,shadowless'

Simulacrum

Simulacrum III

Simulacrum I

Simulacrum IV

Simulacrum II

Intro

A Small Journey For the Mind

Brooklyn based avant-garde trio Sontag Shogun presents It Billows Up Remixed, a comprehensive re-imagining of their 2019 multimedia project by thirteen artists across two volumes, available on all digital platforms starting May 15th and 29th respectively.

Their third full length album, It Billows Up, disregarded traditional songwriting and instead aimed to capture the collaborative techniques and modular compositions the band had developed while on the road into a linear narrative. The group extended the margins of their work by incorporating multimedia interpretations of the record in the form of a limited edition artbook and a short film. Designed by artist Thad Hilga, the artbook featured poetry and prose from the band’s network of creatives, while director Joel Schlemowitz assisted in crafting a hazy, romantic, and haunting video accompaniment to the album’s title track. It Billows Up was both an invitation into Sontag Shogun’s process and opportunity for the structure of their performance to be analyzed through separate mediums.

One year later, Sontag Shogun again opens the door to their world, inviting a global cast of friends and creative partners to re-work the already unconventional It Billows Up through new ears and boundless imagination into two juxtaposed volumes.

The first collection expands on the darker, climatic moments of their record. WNNR (NYC), Automatisme (Canada) and Black Pomade (Portugal) mold the album’s title track and “Cages” from two expansively atmospheric meditations into pulsing circular loops. Chicago’s Excepter (Woodsist) highlights and bolsters Ian Temple’s painterly piano against the haunted soundscapes and surreal foley of Jesse Perlstein and Jeremy Young. New Youngbloods signee Zoe Polanski (Israel), Christian Molenaar (San Diego), and Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch (Fat Cat/London) balance the tonal structure of the first volume by drawing scenes of swirling serenity from chaotic ambience.

Standing as a cathartic compliment to the first volume, the second collection is a deep outward breathe, allowing the subtly of Sontag Shogun’s original songs to unfurl and blossom. New York cellist Julia Kent (The Leaf Label), Strangerfamiliar (Denmark), Slim Vic (Lamour/Sweden), and Portugal’s Síria delicately paint over and around Perlstein’s soaring vocals across twenty-four minutes of patient, supernal reveries. Montreal based composer Nick Schofield (Youngbloods) draws on Sontag Shogun’s use of field recorded vocal samples in his abridged, tranquil version of “Kienast Dans Un Parc”. The collection is concluded in dramatic summary by Orphax (Amsterdam), framing new luminescence around the album’s original structure in his all encompassing twenty minute remix covering the entirety of It Billows Up.

In its initial form, Sontag Shogun’s It Billows Up sought to piece together the sounds of our waking life with thick barricades of interwoven sonic collages. In its latest iteration, those collages are carefully deconstructed and rebuilt to showcase the world’s inhabited by their visionary friends and cultural colleagues.

It BIllows Up Remixed

It Billows Up Remixed, Vol. 1

Medewi, After the Rain (Zoe Polanski Remix)

Healing Is A Miracle

Oh, Memory (feat. Mary Lattimore)

Track taken from Seabuckthorn's upcoming album 'Other Other'...

Audio: Seabuckthorn
Mastering: James Plotkin
Design: Daniel Crossley

www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com
www.seabuckthorn-music.com

Other Other

Meridian

Seabuckthorn - Meridian

No era sólida

Seca

This song was made by using sounds from the beach that I recorded before the pandemic hit.

Watch how I made this song here -
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Stream on other platforms - www.fanlink.to/msqr

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Moseqar - Mawj (out on Spotify)

Omar Raafat - In a Dream 💤
Stream: https://open.spotify.com/track/3OjCBeSGic89ZjuEtn4BFs?si=A7a6uBzrRImJqVq43efaww
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#Ambient #Piano #Classical

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💬 Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
-Rabindranath Tagore

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Omar Raafat - In A Dream

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The Quietest Place in the World. Close your eyes, take a deep breath. Listen to a gentle flow of the river and birds singing. Welcome to the dimensional meditation. Smooth and relaxation pads meet tranquil and deep atmosphere with beautiful sounds of nature. A wide flute melody comes in the second part of the composition and helps you to dive deeply in this mindfulness meditation.

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● Yes, of course! You can use this track in your video at no cost, but for non-commercial purposes only. Your channel and videos won't be affected in any way. If you want to use this music commercially, in this case you need to purchase a license.

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Meditation In Nature - Royalty Free Background Music for YouTube Videos Vlog | Relax Yoga Calm Chill

Ext Sleep - Flieder 💐
Stream: https://open.spotify.com/track/3rSPbRm5HKfqxjNNQZupiK
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#Ambient #Chill #IDM

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💬 Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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💿 Suggested track: https://youtu.be/gD_8MAi9g84

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Ext Sleep - Flieder

Kori - Halfway Home 💫
Stream: https://open.spotify.com/track/7EGln6z3UKo8oHenAfKaYb?si=SxzFTRD4THWiGpj8JjXcMA
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#Ambient #Epic #Cinematic

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💬 Better keep yourself clean and bright, you are the window through which you must see the world.
-George Bernard Shaw

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💿 Suggested track: https://youtu.be/bNAwqTPhkLI

✅ Check out our 24/7 livestream
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🖤 Ambient Releases
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Kori - Halfway Home

A track from the album Progressions out 09/22/20 on Constellation Tatsu.

Anthéne and Andrew Tasselmyer - Progressions, Pt 1 (Reprise)

With Contemplative Figuration we see Broshuda pushing his amorphous, impossible-to-pin-down music in exciting new directions. Stitched together in various European cities over the last few years, it is the artist’s most dynamic and ambitious release thus far, drawing equally from musique concrete, beat research, ambient, tape collage, and spoken word. Episodic in nature, the collection functions well as a sort of impressionistic travelogue, with romantic, hazy atmospheres coaxed from borrowed equipment, serendipitous recording sessions with old friends, and even a drum sequence programmed with Mario Paint, among other curios and sleights of hand. Broshuda deftly wrings bonafide cohesion and balance from these disparate source materials, tools, and locations, as on opener “Kakigori,” which allows a snaking harmonic drone the space to evolve before exploding it into a sort of seething, dubbed out pointillism. Later, “Lied Fuer Hase” concocts a potent, humid atmosphere of beautifully evolving acoustic piano loops and elegant narration. Taken as a whole, Contemplative Figuration is a weightless, transportive record, one that is bursting at the seams with ideas, mischief, and a restless spirit. 

Mastered by Helmut Erler at D&M
Artwork by Alex McCullough and Niall Wynne Lewis

Available 09/25/20 via sodagong.com / sodagong.bandcamp.com

Broshuda - "Obj. Contraire (feat. Elen Huynh)"

Taken from Fé/Vazio [ELP051] out 07/08/20

Properly mazy rhythmic psychedelia from Lisbon’s Serpente who comes back to Ecstatic Recordings pursuing the spirits of Alice Coltrane and Don Cherry via Fourth World gateways and the spiralling broken beat vortices of Anthony Shakir, following on from that killer LinnDrum tribute to Prince’s ‘Parade’ album last summer.

A direct reference to Dischord’s legendary Faith/Void split album, Fé/Vazio draws thrilling, jagged lines between the ground-breaking jazz fusions of the ‘60s-‘70s and the Afro-Futurist pinnacles of ’90 Detroit and UK-based techno and their offshoots; broken beat, jungle, and “IDM”. 

His style broadly collapses the psychedelia of his work as Ondness (Where To Now?, Holuzam, Sucata Tapes) into a more ravishing and arguably vital sound that frames a modern state of mind between dystopian paranoia and utopian freedom.

Like last year’s cultishly acclaimed Parada (Ecstatic Recordings, ELP044), 'Fé / Vazio' comes to restlessly fulfil a physical and spiritual need for this kind of music right now; it sidewinds into chaotic multiples of polymetric rhythms, hypnotic drone and curious folk hooks that somehow gel with a fractious, rhythmelodic coherence that rudely acknowledges all that came before it. 

Track to track Bruno recalls the kaotic harmonies of Derrick May as much as Anthony Shakir’s sleight drum edits in ‘Nível De Fumo’, and the Reinforced cosmic rolige of Colin Lindo (Alpha Omega/Nubian Mindz) or 4Hero - who were no strangers to the promise of spiritual jazz music and the Afro-Latin codes of Brazilian music - in ‘Em Sendo’, while the reticulated hot steppers ‘Visitação’ and ‘Escalpe’ seamlessly bind roots and futurism in a singular, headlong style and the scudding ‘90s techno/IDM tone of ‘Razia’ surely recalls the rhythmic ingenuity and modern blueness of early Autechre. 

It's a record that feels unlocked and cosmically free compared with so much rictus, floor-based music, but with a grit and colour that can’t be denied on (currently imaginary) dance floors.

Buy!

Serpente - Rainhas [ELP051]

Taken from the album 'Vanish' released as LP and Digital

Julia Reidy 'Oh Boy (excerpt)' (EMEGO 288)

Artist: William Basinski 
Title: O, My Daughter, O, My Sorrow
Album: Lamentations
Release Date: November 13, 2020

William Basinski’s reputation as the foremost producer of profound meditations on death and decay has long been established, but on his new album, Lamentations, he transforms operatic tragedy into abyssal beauty. More than any other work since The Disintegration Loops, there is an ominous grief throughout the album, and that sense of loss lingers like an emotional vapor.

Captured and constructed from tape loops and studies from Basinski’s archives – dating back to 1979 – Lamentations is over forty years of mournful sighs meticulously crafted into songs. They are shaped by the inevitable passage of time and the indisputable collapsing of space – and their collective resonance is infinite and eternal.

Lamentations

William Basinski - O, My Daughter, O, My Sorrow

After appearing on our debut compilation, producer and musician Amparo returns to Memoir Music with her new EP, Lost Ghosts. With each track revolving around her close friends and the memories/adventures they've shared, this three song ambient release feels like flipping through a photo album, watching a familiar movie, quietly daydreaming of yesteryear and all that it held. 

🎧 Download / Stream
・https://memoir.ffm.to/lostghosts.pbt

00:00:00 Amparo - Unlisted
00:02:28 Amparo - Midtown Rooftop
00:05:56 Amparo - Scout

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🎥 Video by Matt Newell
・ https://www.cavesrd.com/
・ https://www.instagram.com/cavesrd/

🎨 Illustration by Matt Andres
・https://www.instagram.com/work_the_angle/
・https://twitter.com/Worktheangle

🎶 Mastered by Alex Saltz of APS Mastering
・https://www.apsmastering.com/

✔️ Check out our other channel
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🌙 Listen/Watch

Amparo - Unlisted

adventurous with spiritual artistic sensibilities

Anthéne and Andrew Tasselmyer - Progressions, Pt 1 (Reprise)

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