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A first preview to Marsen Jules new album "Beautyfear" to be released in January 2014 on Oktaf Records.

With "Beautyfear" on Oktaf Records the German electronic musician Marsen Jules (CCO, 12K, Kompakt) delivers one of his most outstanding albums so far. Mastered by no one else than 12K-labelboss Taylor Deupree and with a coverpicture taken by the highly acclaimed photographer Erik Madigan Heck from NYC, the best conditions are laid for a lasting experience of abstract musical poetry and touching soundscapeism. Jules has never been this dense, subtile and fragile before. All twelve tracks on „Beautyfear“ were created during a week stay in a theatre workspace on one of the hills of Lisbon. The panoramic view over the dusty city in spring seemed to have been the perfect surrounding for this cloudy soundscapes, which at some points remind of Angelo Bandalamentis‘ work for David Lynch‘s "Mullholland Drive". „It‘s an album on the fragility of beauty“, as Jules describes briefly. Music that can neither be described as ambient music or experimental sound art, but more likely delivers a poetic approach to music, live and sound itself. With „Beautyfear“ Marsen Jules makes a great start into 2014 and with the already announced cooperation with Swedish filmmaker Anders Weberg and an upcoming release of his works from a residence at the legendary GRM studios in Paris, one should definitely keep an eye on what is coming next. ﻿

Releasdate: 27.01.2014
Pre-Orders: 01.01.2014
Label: OKTAF www.oktaf.com
Distribution: Kompakt

Marsen Jules - Beautyfear  -  Beautyfear III (First Album Preview)

These Are Just Times And They Will Change

Tracks for Submerge, an interactive digital art installation by Anneka Goss that shows recorded and predicted weather anomaly and atmospheric carbon data from 1880-2100.

All tracks up for free download at this time.

Anneka's work: http://www.annekagoss.com

2020

Artist : Irezumi
Track : Hidden
Album : Thirty

You can buy this album here : 
https://irezumi.bandcamp.com/album/thirty

Be informed about this album here : https://www.facebook.com/irezumimusic/
http://www.irezumi.manuel-m.com/

About this album : 
More personal & intimate than "Endurance", Thirty extracts various passages of Manuel's life.
Depression, doubts, fears, mourning, resilience...He needed to treat 7 years of these different transitions with music, like an asylum for all his emotions.
This album is dedicated to his brother (1972-2015)

Irezumi - Hidden

Like stepping into a Sharper Image catalog

Who even uses a rolodex at this point?

Early Man

Late Dawn

Structures From Silence

Reflections in Suspension (30th Anniversary Remaster, Deluxe)

Rafael Anton Irisarri from "The Shameless Years"
Available in LP & Digital
www.umor-rex.org © 2017 Umor Rex Records

Post-minimalist American composer Rafael Anton Irisarri makes his Umor Rex debut with bold new album, The Shameless Years. Inspired by a troubled socio-political climate, buried melodies punch their way through a bleak cover of noisy drones, periodically veering into some of Irisarri’s most eerily pertinent music to date.

One of Rafael Anton Irisarri’s most thematically and sonically cohesive records to date The Shameless Years came together in a relatively short burst of creativity starting at the end of 2016. Rediscovering some relatively older tools - namely Native Instruments’ Reaktor, Absynth, and Kontakt software - Irisarri combined them with his collection of guitars, pedals, amps, and analogue processing gear, turning his Black Knoll Studio north of NYC into a powerful writing tool. Completed quickly by Irisarri’s standards, let alone during a period of social upheaval in American society, the record faces down several key personal themes. The title, suggests Irisarri, could in fact be seen as a reflection of the era of shamelessness we’re currently living in; a time of fake news and alternative facts.

Two tracks were completely remotely between Irisarri in New York and Umor Rex veteran Siavash Amini from his home in Tehran, Iran. This music came together at the peak of all the anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant rhetoric happening in the USA, not to mention the banning of Iranians from entering the country, explains Irisarri. The diptych with Amini, ‘Karma Krama’ and ‘The Faithless’, seems bathed in additional waves of sorrow and dread. The wash of symphonic stormclouds of synth drones and processed notes on the latter gradually appears and disappears over the course of thirteen mournful minutes.

‘Rh Negative’ marches gigantic guitars through towering valleys of scarred ambient noise dealing with Irisarri’s own heritage, many of his ancestors having come to America to escape poverty and oppression. The refusal of modern America to extend similar sanctuary to refugees escaping turmoil weighs heavily on the composer. Elsewhere an emotional onslaught of notes buried in mounds of greyscale noise on ‘Sky Burial’ aims to deal with Irisarri’s very own mortality – something he was recently confronted with following health scares, an accident, and a near-death experience in 2016. Pushing 40 as this album was being made, the composer is constantly aware that he’s already outlived his own father, who died at the age of 32. Facing down both intolerance and the void, the epic soundscapes of The Shameless Years are a vast cry of emotion from Irisarri. The clock is ticking - gotta make the most out of it while you still can.

All songs written and performed by Rafael Anton Irisarri, except #5 & #6 written and performed with Siavash Amini. Design by Daniel Castrejón, photos by Camilo Christen. Mastered by James Plotkin.

The Shameless Years

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Rafael Anton Irisarri — RH Negative

ASMOROD ~ The Enchantress

from the album 'radio amor' available from kranky 7/06

tim hecker 'i'm transmitting tonight'

We celebrate the summer solstice with this compilation, that includes music from r beny, Steve Pacheco, Pechblende, Mikael Lind, Hotel Neon, Robert Farrugia, Hirotaka Shirotsubaki and Warmth.

Mastering by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Noll Studio (NY) 
Photography Alexander Kopatz 
www.go70north.com 
Archives46 // ArchivesCD27 
Archives / 2018

solstice

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Warmth - Havet

Mount Shrine, "Winter Restlessness", out now on Cryo Chamber.

Bandcamp: https://bit.ly/2MdO8aC
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2Kmieqt

Facebook: facebook.com/mtshrine/ 
Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/mtshrine 
Twitter: twitter.com/mount_shrine

Winter Restlessness

HLER is Heikki Lindgren & Esa Ruoho - an improvised ambient drone duo from Finland.

booking: hlerdrones@gmail.com
to find out what we sound like at gigs: http://soundcloud.com/lackluster/sets/hler 

HLER combines the initials of Heikki Lindgren and Esa Ruoho. It also describes the improvisational creative process of this ambient drone duo from Finland. 
A couple of years ago, Heikki came across a second-hand Peruvian synthesiser. The machine quickly revealed its potential for endless sonic creativity, mainly because Heikki found it almost impossible to recreate the exact same sound twice. He soon introduced the machine to Esa, and together they decided to explore the machine's inherent sonic instability in a live setting.

Each performance follows the same creative process, but with wildly different results every time. Digging in to the Mochika XL's front panel, Heikki begins mining for sound. Esa then processes Heikki's discoveries through his laptop, revealing hitherto undiscovered facets to Heikki's freshly unearthed sonic gems. Then, with the twist of a dial, Heikki introduces something new to Esa, and the whole process continues onwards and upwards.

"We are always surprised by the spaces we find ourselves in, and the directions the sounds take during a performance. We cannot repeat anything in exactly the same way, even if we wanted to! Just turning the Mochika XL synthesiser off and back on, keeping all of the knobs untouched in exactly the same position, leads to a changed sound."

"It has been incredibly rewarding to work as a duo, as the unpredictability of the creative process is so refreshing. Thanks to the unstable nature of the Mochika XL synthesiser and the intuitiveness of Esa’s live processing, each performance is unique. The whole live situation is based on improvisation and the sonic discoveries extracted during the encounter."

File under: organised improvised noise, clicks, hums, drone, "Hey, this sounds kind of like space music from the '70s!", a captured submarine humming in the hangar of a space station, "Are you sure you guys are alright and that the cables work?"

https://hler.bandcamp.com/track/skathi-dusk

HLER: Skathi Dusk

https://rimetrails.bandcamp.com/album/dusk-embers

Dusk Embers III

Abandoned (Too Soon), by Rafael Anton Irisarri
Recorded in Seattle, WA, summer 2009
Published by Walking In Silence (ASCAP)
http://www.irisarri.org/

From fugues unreleased tracks 2009.
Originally released by debruit&desilence as a 100 copies limited edition, october 2009. 

05 - RAFAEL ANTON IRISARRI Abandoned - Too Soon

•͙✧⃝ Dream✩ͯAura✧⃝.•͙͙✩ͯ

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