The Writings

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KӣR is the solo production epithet of WhyBaneWhy, resident DJ of Belgrade’s hallowed halls of techno, Drug§tore. WhyBaneWhy’s sets incorporate a wide range of influences to travel far off beaten paths drawing in influences from techno to new wave, incorporating power electronics, obscure ambient, folk music, twisted echoes found lost deep in wormholes and whatever else it takes to get you feeling thoroughly unsettled, lost and disorientated whilst working up a sweat. KӣR takes all this and pushes it farther using hardware, live. Its visceral music, embracing drone, repetition, rippling soundscapes and obscure sonic horizons, sailing confidently where many others dare not venture. Shaman music, drum led hypnosis. KӣR gifts us with a deep tribal mix, at turns dark and disorientating, others beautiful and light. This is music from the other world coming to take you home. 

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Digital Tsunami 091 - Kӣr Live

I’ve been a long time fan of Dmitry Taldykin‘s Moscow-based Dronarivm label which, thanks to the additional curation from Bartosz Dziadosz (aka Pleq) has always brought us treasures from the depths of ambient and modern classical waters. Many of imprint’s releases have been covered on these pages, so it’s no wonder that I’m excited in sharing the Headphone Commute Podcast platform with the founder to showcase Dronarivm’s upcoming releases in 2019 in this very special mix. Plenty of exciting tracks on here from all of your favourites in the many yet to be announced albums. It’s a like a season preview of all the fantastic finds we’ve got in store for you this year!

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Dronarivm Showcase 2019

Dmitry Taldykin - Dronarivm Showcase 2019

Sven Laux and Daniela Orvin​ - 'The Writings' 
Label; Dronarivm 
Cat #.: DR-59
Format: CD (ltd. 150)/ DL
Release date: April 12th, 2019
Pre-orders start March 29th

Sven Laux is a Berlin-based artist and composer who returns to Dronarivm following ‘Paper Streets’, which was released in 2017. He has also previously released on labels such as Archives, Whitelabrecs and Archipel, producing anything from modern classical to experimental minimal music.

Daniela Orvin is also based in Berlin, a pianist, musician and composer who has to-date released her second album ‘Home’ on Sven’s ‘Seasides On Postcards’ label which to many, became a stand-out recording in 2018.
Around a similar time to the release and creation of ‘Home’, Sven had been creating some tracks for an album and felt that there was something missing. After casting his ears over Daniela’s work, he realised that piano was the missing piece of the jigsaw that he had been searching for in the album he had been culminating. He invited Daniela to his studio, they walked through what had been created up to that point and she became inspired to the point that they began to work together. The process was very intuitive as piece by piece their own styles collided effortlessly into what has become a completed album project.

‘The Writings’ plays out in the exact order in which the tracks had been worked on, providing an accurate account of the studio time in which these stories had been etched. During the process, Sven and Daniela became friends and the concept of the album itself has become about collaboration itself.
Typically when artists work together in tandem, particularly in modern classical or ambient music, the result tends to be loud and powerful, as the two voices compete for the sonic space. This is not so in ‘The Writings’, as the artists showed great restrain between one another, a respect for each other’s expertise. Piano isn’t everywhere on this album, nor are Sven’s ‘hollywood strings’. Both are present, along with many many more wonderful elements. But each is afforded its own time and space, in a truly patient but evocative and enthralling listen, best enjoyed from start to finish.'

Mastered by Tobias Lorsbach
Original photo by Daniela Orvin

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Sven Laux And Daniela Orvin - Friends (from 'The Writings')

Taken from the album Inwards.
https://1631recordings.bandcamp.com/album/inwards

Nil Ciuró -  Even

Daniela Orvin - Unfolding Skyline (from "The Writings")

‘Invisible Forest’ is a reminiscence of fleeting moments of quiet happiness dissolved in everyday life and anxiety. It features such themes as overcoming loss, seeking solace and humble contemplation of every passing second. 
You can buy the whole album here: hiddenvibes.bandcamp.com/album/invisible-forest

Shielded

More kindness, more caring, please! The world needs much more of it! You can find a blog post and linked up tracklist here - 

https://www.mixamorphosis.com/2024/02/be-kind.html

Tracklist

01. Slow Meadow - Palemote (Self Released)
02. Fumio Miyashita - See The Light (Abridged) (Light In The Attic)
03. A conversation with Rickie Lee Jones (Youtube)
04. Umber - All The Ships (Oxide Tones)
05. Birds Of Passage - On Our Hands (Dronarivm) - Proceeds go to Warchild
06. Caught In The Wake Of Forever - Faultless Youth Declined (Dronarivm) - Proceeds go to National Suicide Prevention Helpline
07. Weyes Blood - Everybody's Talking (Mexican Summer)
08. The Green Kingdom - Bell Garden (ambimix) (Rusted Tone Recordings)
09. candysomething - Sellotape (Self Released)
10. Levi Patel - Her Angled Beauty (Self Released)
11. Evan Bartholomew - Medicine / Healing (Newlands Music)
12. Good Weather For An Airstrike - Breathing (ft Inachus) (Hawkmoon Records)
13. William S. Fischer - Chains (Late Night Tales)
14. The Cinematic Orchestra - To Believe (Ninja Tune)
15. Hampshire & Foat - The Solitude Of Certitudes (Parts 1 & 2) (Athens Of The North)
16. Man Watching The Stars - Fields (Self Released)
17. Charles Bukowski on life
18. Agnes Obel - Poem About Death (Late Night Tales)
19. Endless Melancholy - In Transition From Anxiety To Acceptance (Dronarivm)
20. Jonathan Fitoussi - Aquarius (Further Records)
21. Katarzyna Borek - Uranus for Craig Armstrong (Weather Storm) (BITTT)

Be Kind

Sven Laux and Daniela Orvin​ - 'The Writings' 
Label; Dronarivm 
Cat #.: DR-59
Format: CD (ltd. 150)/ DL
Release date: April 12th, 2019

Sven Laux is a Berlin-based artist and composer who returns to Dronarivm following ‘Paper Streets’, which was released in 2017. He has also previously released on labels such as Archives, Whitelabrecs and Archipel, producing anything from modern classical to experimental minimal music.

Daniela Orvin is also based in Berlin, a pianist, musician and composer who has to-date released her second album ‘Home’ on Sven’s ‘Seasides On Postcards’ label which to many, became a stand-out recording in 2018.
Around a similar time to the release and creation of ‘Home’, Sven had been creating some tracks for an album and felt that there was something missing. After casting his ears over Daniela’s work, he realised that piano was the missing piece of the jigsaw that he had been searching for in the album he had been culminating. He invited Daniela to his studio, they walked through what had been created up to that point and she became inspired to the point that they began to work together. The process was very intuitive as piece by piece their own styles collided effortlessly into what has become a completed album project.

‘The Writings’ plays out in the exact order in which the tracks had been worked on, providing an accurate account of the studio time in which these stories had been etched. During the process, Sven and Daniela became friends and the concept of the album itself has become about collaboration itself.
Typically when artists work together in tandem, particularly in modern classical or ambient music, the result tends to be loud and powerful, as the two voices compete for the sonic space. This is not so in ‘The Writings’, as the artists showed great restrain between one another, a respect for each other’s expertise. Piano isn’t everywhere on this album, nor are Sven’s ‘hollywood strings’. Both are present, along with many many more wonderful elements. But each is afforded its own time and space, in a truly patient but evocative and enthralling listen, best enjoyed from start to finish.'

Mastered by Tobias Lorsbach
Original photo by Daniela Orvin

Sven Laux - Fading Light (from 'The Writings')

We’re pleased to welcome back Berlin based artist Sven Laux, responsible for the now out of print Schachmatt which we released in 2018. Sven has been no stranger to the Ambient and Modern Classical scenes since then, with a release on Archives, a collaboration with Daniela Orvin as well as working on his new label Seasides On Postcards.

ODD is the first album Sven has created in his new studio, after moving into a new place following the birth of his daughter. Whilst working on the album, he always had in mind that there are calm parts in life followed by faster parts. He depicts the peaks and troughs of our existence through soft swathes of orchestral ambience interspersed by moments of rhythmic strings and electronic pulses.
Sven draws inspiration from the film soundtrack greats and constantly strives to build a bridge between classical music and Ambient; in ODD he created an entirely digital album but worked hard to program the right timbres to achieve a realistic orchestral sound.

There is a settled feeling to ODD thanks to long passages of repetitive strings and this forms the backdrop of the album as a broadly melancholic listen, laced with emotion from Sven’s own experiences. These are intended to draw the listener into the stories and absorb them. An overwhelming new dawn of possibilities becomes the theme for Sven with his new home, studio and indeed the new life of his baby daughter beginning this chapter.
What does ODD stand for? One Dramatic Day? Opening Doors? Is it a phrase in German? Does it mean anything? It will remain undefined. For us, these seven untitled pieces serve as a cinematic milieu, with the monochrome packaging presented as close-up film reels covered in dust.

wlr057 Sven Laux - Odd

I See Planets

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creating atmosphere 
12.04.19 'The Writings" Sven Laux& Daniela Orvin / Dronarivm 
https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com

19.10.18 ' Home" will be released on 'Seasides on Postcards'
https://seasidesonpostcards.bandcamp.com/album/home
Review on 'A closer listen' https://acloserlisten.com/2018/10/15/daniela-orvin-home/
Album review Irregular Crates :https://irregularcrates.com/2018/10/11/daniela-orvin-home/ 
Chain D.L.K /Album review http://www.chaindlk.com/reviews/?id=10680&fbclid=IwAR2b77swS424d3cGLr67faW-U2RBT0ArNlVHgT0x4nVgV8DgO0qIxY4oWxE
Indie Rock Mag./ Album review http://www.indierockmag.com/article31345.html?fbclid=IwAR0QGEBy-CCpBVGIrN_aGUGpLVwQPexlWcMM7KR2Y5yx4qpH89avfp4EPBc
Album review:  https://coffeeandflapjacks.wordpress.com/2018/10/13/home-daniela-orvin/

My debut EP released on Gravity's Rainbow Tapes, https://danielaorvin.bandcamp.com
a nice Interview in ATTN:Magazine 12/01/18 https://www.attnmagazine.co.uk/features/12932
and a wonderful album review at Baddpressblog 14/01/18
https://baddpress.blog/2018/01/14/daniela-orvin-untitled-2014-2016/

Unfolding Skyline

Daniela Orvin

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