One of my all time Bill Evans favs & jazz in general. Dangerous to touch a classic on this level, but I think he'd approve..

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Catalog #: GN65
Apr. 16, 2021
LP+DIGI

Matthew Sage is about seeing the big picture, but focused through the most intimate and personal lens possible. Best exemplified on the gauzy, cartographical opus 'A Singular Continent', as well as his impulsively meditative Geographic North debut 'Catch a Blessing', Sage’s imagination yields fully realized sonic suites to worlds both imaginary and referential to his own. 

Now, the Chicago-based composer, producer, label owner, and publisher returns with 'The Wind of Things', a personal and pastoral oblation to the wild and wind-blown waters and mountains, both from Sage’s own memory and writ large. Absent are the processed sounds and filters that have come to define Sage's work; the album finds Sage stripping away the synthesized sounds that alchemied his past work into aural gold, instead favoring an entirely acoustic and natural 
palette.

Sage called upon a myriad of long-time collaborators, who together form the aptly-titled Spinnaker Ensemble (featuring Patrick Shiroishi, Chaz Pyrmek, Nate Henricks, Chris Jusell, Allison Sheldon, Martin Albertz, David Hirsch, Matt Wenzel, and Ang Wilson) to help realize his vision and further the melodic potential of the living and breathing field recordings that permeate the album. Tapping into an intimate sense of self, these field recordings derive from natural places that are significant to Sage. Lakes, mountains, and rivers he grew up boat-racing on and swimming in; tall fields of grass in rural Nebraska near his family’s birthplaces; wildlife on the pond of his in-laws home in Texas; the harbors and beaches of Lake Michigan that he frequents; all serving as places of occupation for these compositions to live in and blow through.

Opener “Cloud Plexus” is a fog-laden float in a calm lake of unrestrained optimism. The serenity soon glissades into “Harbor Dive”, a shimmering and elegant rift of sloshing harmonies. “Launching Mossing Scow” finds its flourish in the flotsam, tinkering with rusted refrains and oblong melodies. The action quickens with “Zephyr: Ponderosa Pollen,” charting a speedy course with only a shoddy sonic sextant as its guide. “Starboard Reach” offers a moment of playful clarity before “Luffing Adrift” and “Sail-Shaped Light,” a murky pool of darkness and light that ripples into the ether.

“Slipping the Mooring/Pond” opens the B-side in an amorphous din of familiar auditory accoutrements that gather into a single, slow-motion blur. “Dazzling Shallow Bay,” “Portside Mark,” and “Tell Tail Tale” play a dreamlike suite of a waterside piano finding its fins and diving below the waves, discovering its blithe buoyancy, and exploring the depths unencumbered by the weight of the world. The hopeful meditation of “Spinnaker on a Southerly” serves as a calm before the (rain)storm that is “Hiked Way Out,” a welcome reflection on past, present, and future maritime melancholia.

The Wind of Things

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M. Sage - "Starboard Reach"

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VIII(Before Your Past Livess - Muzan Editions)

noumenalloom.bandcamp.com/album/driftw…ound-objects - cassette + digital preorder

Entire album created using a Casio CZ-1 Phase Distortion Synthesizer (+ Electric Bass on Tracks 1 + 3). Although the album was recorded more than five years ago now, these tracks feel very beyond time to us. The record sits nicely alongside works from electronic music pioneers like Isao Tomita, Wendy Carlos, Vangelis and others. Music for Interiors.

Written and Recorded by Rob Collier in Fall of 2016
Mastered by Howie Gano at Louisville Recording Arts
Titles by Madison Stubblefield
Design and Layout by Alison Kleiman

Driftwood (and Other Found Objects)

The Shimmer of the Lamps Above

Rob Collier - The Shimmer Of The Lamps Above

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All tracks were written and composed by many friends, in many worlds!
Mastered by Apulati Bien
Artwork by Dieter Durinck
Incoming Call 002

Gibby - Dj - Shrunk

Inspired by the moon, I wrote this tune...

Midsummer Moon

oct-dec ’17
written for Plus-Minus
ded. to Bryn Harrison, Amber Priestley, Sergei Zagny, Laurence Crane;
Matthew Shlomowitz & Plus-Minus

studio recording
Irine Røsnes (vln), Colin Frank (pc), me (kbd/guitar)

1. 0:00   2. 2:21   3. 7:41   4. 16:28

fp was given by Mark Knoop, Tom Pauwels, Serge Vuille & Kasia Ziminska @ City University

art (clockwise from top left): Joseph Albers — Study for Homage to the Square, 1967; Homage to the Square: SP–IV, 1967; Untitled (from Homage au Carré portfolio), 1965; Homage to the Square: Starting, 1968.

Set of four

from Portland expanded (SL12) cassette out now on Santé Loisirs
order:
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@freretuck

[FR]
“ Bienvenue dans la bande son d’un animé imaginaire! Dans cette errance mystérieuse qui fait parler ce qui l’entoure, les atomes discutent et se complimentent timidement, puis le temps se dérègle. Chaque épisode devient une énigme, un jeu, un haïku généreux. Le marécage magique respire, rigole et puis s’endort pour un moment. À la surface de cette potion flottent des lotus qui communiquent par télépathie avec une mangrove. Celle ci souriante et décomplexée leurs raconte ses souvenirs les plus précieux avec des kanjis. Juste à côté dans les herbes tricotées, un criquet somnambule habillé en sorcier rêve de bitcoin. Au loin, les falaises buccales postillonnent de pierres brillantes le marécage, et du bruit des multiples ricochets apparaît une mélodie, harmonieuse et organique. Dans l’invisible les spectres sillonnent les lieux en nous murmurant des mots d’un dialecte inconnu. “
- Loto Retina


[EN]
“ Welcome to the soundtrack of a notional anime! It’s a wandering that gives the floor to what’s around. Atoms are timidly discussing and complimenting each other, time goes out of control. Each episode is a riddle, a game. The swamp is breathing, it laughs and then falls asleep for a while. On the surface of this potion, lotus flowers float, they are doing telepathy with a mangrove nearby. The mangrove smiles and tells its most precious memories without complexes using kanjis. Right next to the swamp, in knitted plants, a sleepwalking cricket dressed as a wizard is dreaming of bitcoins. Far off the mouth cliffs splutters shining stones, the sounds of the many rebounds are generating a melody. Ghosts furrows the scene, murmuring us words of an unknown dialect in the invisible. “
- Loto Retina

frere tuck - dofus (SL12)

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https://sodagong.bandcamp.com/releases


Etelin - "Hui Terra" releases 11/9/18 on digital/physical formats

Etelin - Vixen and Kits

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Lilly Does Whatever She Likes

https://soundcloud.com/dan-hayles

After releasing New Zealand composer, drummer and producer Cory Champion’s acclaimed Clear Path Ensemble jazz album at the start of 2020, we’re proud to bookend the project with a new digital EP of remixes of songs off the album by Kush Jones, Christoph El Truento, AceMo, Glenn Astro, Daniel Hayles, and Champion under his Borrowed CS house and techno alias.

Where the Clear Path Ensemble album was a vivid ode to psychedelia, spiritual jazz, planetary rhythms and celestial oddities, these remixes turn his cosmic compositions into suped-up starcraft. Glen Astro and Kush Jones give ‘Jerry’s Funk’ a series of electro, dub techno and footwork re-rubs. Christoph El Truento and Borrowed CS both reimagine ‘Drip’ for the orbital nightclubs of the future. Mongo Skato rebuilds ‘Future Fatigue’ to a pounding pulse, and AceMo takes ‘Panorama Actual Spectral’ to Saturn and back. Rounding things out Daniel Hayles meditates on ‘Inner Space’ through sparse-but-emotive piano figures.

If you’ve already spent some time on the Clear Path Ensemble mothership, hearing how these considerable talents have reframed Champion’s jazz pieces is a real joy. And if not, start here on the dancefloor, before making your way back into the lounge bar later on.

Inner Space (Daniel Hayles Meditation)

Cosmic Compositions

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