From Prism of Dust, coming late April on LP

Ross Gentry - Nobody Wants To Be Here

Initiation of The Blind Seer is a spiritual journey of becoming.
Melodic Ambient. 88 BPM.

Initiation of The Blind Seer

1. War Without End

Hell Yeah have been busy making musical connections and reaching out to like-minded beatmakers once again. This time, it is Pier Paolo Polcari aka Polcari, a founding member of cult Italian band Almamegretta, who steps up with the magnificent new album I Will Try To Imitate The Birds. The eight-track record also features Adriano Viterbini, another Italian music icon and guitarist with the revered Bud Spence Blues Explosion and I Hate My Village as well as Ubjk, San Ignacio and Sergio Dileo.
Label head Marco first got in touch with Polcari after he remixed Italian cultural hero Sergio Messina's cover of 'Fly Away' back in 2021. The pair began sharing music, discussing their favourite reords and, eventually, the natural next step was to work towards the album now served up here.

Polcari is a master of downtempo sounds and, as well as several solo projects that fuse trip hop, folk, dub and world music, he has made a global mark as part of Almamegretta. The revered Naples band formed in the late 80s and has worked with greats like Massive Attack and Adrian Sherwood across more than 15 albums and are currently on a special 30th anniversary tour.

Opener 'Jardino' (Feat. San Ignacio) sets a laidback vibe from the off with gently breaking drums topped with whimsical melodies. 'Vita Nova' is cavernous dub with more lush instrumentals, xylophones and wispy synth motifs making for a world escape and 'Mundo' (Feat. Ubjk) has an air of Eastern melody with delicate pads and glowing keys floating above the pillowy drums. 'The Birds' (Feat. Adriano Viterbini) has fluttering harp strings that bring real beauty to a downtempo groove packed with vocoder vocals, synth smears and organic percussion.

'Orcos Ou Fadas' carries on with a rich blend of strings and percussion, shuffling rhythms and curious moods, 'Raifuki' lurches on moody drums and introverted melodies and 'Ligea' (Feat. Sergio Dileo) brings some romantic Latin rhythms and seductive clarinet while 'Superluna' completes the odyssey with more wavy dub and magnificent collages of melody and percussion.

I Will Try To Imitate The Birds will lift you off your feet and carry you away to a lush world of cathartic, sun-kissed musical pleasure.

"really special. Cut above typical balearic biz" - Ruf Dug

"Wonderfull!!" - Sean Johnston

"A beautifully atmospheric experience from start to finish." - Max Essa

"Fabulous release...All tracks" - Trevor Fung

"When experimental meets Balearic!" - Ilya Santana

"dreamy, hypnotic and lovely" - Chris Todd/Hot Toddy/Crazy P

"excellent album" - Andy Wilson (Cafe del Mar) 

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Polcari - Mundo (feat. Ubjk)

When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.

Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The Lord hath done great things for them.

The Lord hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.

Turn again our captivity, O Lord, as the streams in the south.

They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.

He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.





Psalm 126
King James Bible

Psaume 126 (Snellville)

Second track from my last album called "On Tour"
Get the full album (still a few handmade physical copies left) here:
https://bojanek.bandcamp.com/album/on-tour
Listen and follow on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4Cp9nAfjHsH2Bf2aJmNKqk?si=epkL2f4KRkidTrET2nTQqQ

STORY:
A few months ago I found some old SD cards from my oldfangled ZOOM H4. While exploring them I found some nice ambient recordings from the live performances from my China Tour in 2009 and live-acts in Poland. I decided to use them, to make some new deep-ambient-techno tracks. I love travelling and being "on tour" so most of the tracks were composed while I was on the train or travelling to different cities.

Photo: Wuhan, China 2011 by Piotr Michałowski

On Tour

Old Recording

Spectral Etimasia

The first six minutes of Where We Meet by An Moku & Stijn Hüwels, released 6th November 2020.

Lifelines. Hold tight.

https://slowcraft.bandcamp.com/album/where-we-meet

Written and Produced by An Moku & Stijn Hüwels
Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Artwork by June Murray
Design by James Murray

http://slowcraft.info
http://anmoku.net
http://stijnhuwels.bandcamp.com

Where We Meet

An Moku & Stijn Hüwels - Where We Meet (Edit)

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The Departure

'All Things Good' is the third single lifted from "Starlings & Crows", the stunning album of last year by English ambient-pop artist Chloë March. The song is a delicate and evocative ballad, led by a vulnerable yet strongly flowing melodic vocal over gently propulsive piano. A wish-fulfilment and a spell of love and the healing sensuality of the natural world. Starlings & Crows has been featured in a number of Best of 2020 lists including Textura, Curveball and Mark Griffin.

“A stunningly lovely blend of electronic and orchestral jewel tones, sensitive vocals and diaphanous compositions, this record envelops and holds you to its chest where you can feel its beating heart.” – Mark Griffin

For her fifth album, March drew inspiration from her early childhood in the Warwickshire countryside, nineteenth-century nature poet John Clare, and Lewis Carroll’s fantastical Alice Through the Looking Glass. Throughout the album there’s a palpable sense of wonder at the natural world, shot through with a deep concern for nature’s vulnerability. Starlings & Crows resonates with notions of home on a macro and micro level. 

First single ‘To a Place’ is an elegant waltz built around swooning strings and piano. ‘Landing 1969’ sounds as astral as its subject matter would suggest, pulsing at the same tempo as Buzz Aldrin’s heart-rate as Apollo 11 left earth. ‘Remember That Sky’ is achingly emotive, showcasing March’s innate talent for creating an atmosphere of intimacy without compromising compositional depth. Despite running to a succinct 38 minutes, Starlings & Crows is lush and expansive, while distilled to its crystalline essence.

“The latest album by Chloe March is another heady trip through electro pop... The air is thick with atmosphere throughout and March is a masterful creator of mood… a beautiful sound somewhere between The Blue Nile and David Sylvian” – The Underground of Happiness

Oft compared to singular artists such as Nina Simone, Beth Gibbons and Elizabeth Fraser, Chloë March follows her own independent path, writing, engineering and producing from her home studio in south-east England. Inhabiting musical territory somewhere between art song and folk, dream-pop and electronica, the ambient and the cinematic, March embraces all these influences to create poetic, emotionally charged and intensely atmospheric songs and soundworlds.

More on Chloe March here: http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/chloe-march/

The music of Chloe March is available for licensing (film, tv, web and more) via Hidden Shoal.
www.hiddenshoal.com/licensing

Starlings & Crows

All Things Good

Chloe March - All Things Good

After almost a year off the air, Astral Projections is back on the air my friends! Now you can catch me on intergalactic.fm on the Dream Machine channel.  Permanent schedule to follow.  Today's tracklist:

Jon Hassell - Slipstream
Jonny Nash - Agape
Bill Nelson - The Whole City Between Us
Benedek - Tengu's Mystery
LOG ET3RNAL - LOG 4
Ben Bondy - Jeeem Etanzel
Pablo's Eye - A Long Standing Dream
Jan Van Den Broeke // June11 - A Peaceful Vale
Pontiac Streator - Trizlang Gem ft. Ulla
Suso Saiz - Ya Son Dos Los Cielos
Kona Triangle - Craig y Don Lightshow
MJ Lallo - The Channeled Voice
Suspended Memories - Distant Look
Helene Vogelsinger - Astral Projection

ASTRAL PROJECTIONS 01 - "Astral Projection"

World,

This is the first composition of Dreamscape - Chapter One: "Origins". All parts of this composition are made by MLC Vanamsterdam, Radu Sover, Pablo Garcia-Hernandez, Sada Exposada and Sam Nelson.

It all started the 27th of november 2020 on the Facebook page of the Voltage Modular User Group with this message: "I was wondering: does anyone feel like participating in a project solely based on voltage modular? What I would like to achieve is: "One hour of music - not individual tracks: an experience - made by various musicians all over the world in different styles/genres using only their unique patches designed in Voltage Modular".

The guidlines for contributions were: BPM: 128, Scale: C-HARMONIC MINOR SCALE (C = Root | C D D# F G G# B)and Genre: No-limitations.

We didn't make the hour unfortunately, but 14 minutes. People already said this piece feels like a journey - I have had a lot of fun making this and i would like to thank every one who worked on this project and made this possible.

I hope in future we will create more chapters for Dreamscape.

- MLC Vanamsterdam

Dreamscape - Chapter One: "Origins"

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ASTRAL PROJECTIONS 01 - "Astral Projection"

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