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Four Immeasurable Minds

november 2014

Weight (Live)

Sunday (Demo) at Quff Cabana Studios

The Four Immeasurable Minds Part 1.MP3

Four Immeasurable Minds Part 2.MP3

Here's a skeleton of a new tune I've been working on. Hope you like it.

Great Escape

Here's a new tune with some practice harmonies. Rough Track, hope you enjoy!

Trying

Artist: STAG HARE
Album: Spirit Canoes

HITD 006
CD – 50 copies
Release date: 13th August 2011

Label: www.handsinthedarkrecords.com

STAG HARE - To Coyoto To Hop

JOHNNY HAWAII - Many Reverbs To Cross

“Now or Never” is the second single off of the second Converse CONS compilation, CONS EP Vol. 2, coming later this fall. The song was partially recorded at Converse Rubber Tracks in Brooklyn, New York. 

Produced by: Black Milk & BADBADNOTGOOD 
Music by: BADBADNOTGOOD
Lyrics by: Black Milk
Vocals by: Black Milk


Black Milk x BADBADNOTGOOD – “Now or Never”

The Four Immeasurable Minds is the newest release and seventh full length from Dallas, Texas based songwriter/composer David Karsten Daniels. It’s title refers to a series of four Buddhist virtues (or ‘sublime attitudes’) and the meditation practices made to cultivate them. Daniels takes each of these virtues--Love, Compassion, Joy, Equanimity--as a title for one of the album’s four tracks. An antidote to negative mental states in an increasingly busy and anxious modern world, the album presents itself as a collection of droning guitars, endlessly looping church organs, wordless vocals and wooden flutes that coalesce and detach over the album’s near 40 minutes. Guitar parts offer themselves again in mirror image, and the album can be experienced in one sitting or on repeat, as a loop. Attending to this music, the listener may have the perception that time seems to slow down, stop or move circularly (rather than linearly). Such elegiac and looping tones reflect Daniels interest in indigenous notions of circular time, while the impromptu iPhone recordings of a father/son nature walk document the Nowness of parenting (attending to a child’s ant bites and stray urine while trying to explain the meaning of the color blue).

The albums of David Karsten Daniels have always seemed to inhabit a private imaginary place where American folk, rock, jazz, ambient and field recordings bleed into each other seamlessly underneath musings on family, death, religion and love undeterred by distance and time. His music, which has been noted for its “rare and ethereal beauty”, tends to suggest a “spontaneous one-take atmosphere” yet boasts “lush production and recordings full of brilliant nuance”. NPR named his previous record, a collaboration with Matthew E. White’s Fight the Big Bull, one of the ‘5 best genre-defying albums of 2010”; DKD’s first foray into film composing, S. Cagney Gentry’s feature film Harvest, will show at film festivals later this year.

The Four Immeasurable Minds is David’s first release on his own smll thngs label. His previous 3 records were released by FatCat, a label to have also released recordings from such acts as Animal Collective, Sigur Ros, Frightened Rabbit and Bjork.

II - Equanimity

III - Joy

IV - Compassion

I - Love

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/tonikmusic
iTunes: http://geni.us/UntilWeMeetAgain
Bandcamp: http://bit.ly/1wLuxnj

Tonik Ensemble is the musical output of Icelander Anton Kaldal Ágústsson. Exploring the vast expanse of the electronic spectrum, his soundscapes are a mix of electronics and more organic live instruments. It is a strong signature sound of contrasts: rich and stripped-bare, minimalist but intricate, finely crafted and yet very instinctive. Together with an ever-evolving cast of talented collaborators, the output is deep, atmospheric yet soulful pseudo-techno. 

Tonik Ensemble will release the single ‘Until We Meet Again’, which comes as a package with additional remixes by Applescal, Olaf Stuut, and fellow Icelander Snooze Infinity, on November 18th. The vocals featured in the single are by Latvian musician Shipsi. Tonik Ensemble will also appear at this year’ Iceland Airwaves Festival from 5-9th November.