Study, Ambient, Relaxing

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Murcof- Ulysses

Exclusive SSS podcast, mixed by Swod.

Check the original post including the tracklist: http://www.seeksicksound.com/sss-podcast-077-swod

SSS Podcast #077 : Swod

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Murcof - Una

The rainforests of Malaysia are some of the richest on the planet. While several national parks have been established in the country, large areas of primary forest still exist outside park borders, and it's these unprotected forests that are facing rapid & systemic destruction.

In March 2014 I spent a week in and around Taman Negara National Park recording the extraordinary sights and sounds of this stunning area. Sadly, only a few kilometres from park headquarters in Kuala Tahan, extensive areas of virgin forest are being logged and cleared for palm oil plantations. It's a story being played out throughout the world, as governments & corporations see forests as having more value dead than alive.

Recorded from a logging access road adjacent to pristine, primary rainforest, this is a sampler featuring some of the unique & beautiful natural sounds of this precious habitat.

Rainforest On The Edge

Rainforest On The Edge - Natural soundscapes recorded in Malaysia's lowland rainforest

Swod - Paintage

Rel : Sekunden 2007.. 320
Swod is the recording project of Oliver Doerell and Stephan Wohrmann, two accomplished musicians who met in Berlin sometime in 1991. Oliver plays guitar, bass and all manner of electronics - he is also a long-time family member of City Centre Offices having recorded an album and an EP under the “Dictaphone” moniker in between composing and performing musical pieces for theatre, installations and film over the last few years. 
http://www.swod-music.de/ 

Swod - Patinage

(Rel: M.= Addiction 2002) .. 320 - One of those rare times that a demo has caused consternation within our City Centre Offices family was when Dictaphone s compelling and unbeleiveably complete debut album reached us some time earlier on this year. The main player behind the dictaphone name is Oliver Doerell, a multi instrumentalist originally from Brussels who now resides in the musical heartland of Berlin. The last 3 years have been spent working on the Dictaphone project, assisted by the saxophone and clarinette playing Roger Döring. Their past has been spent in similar fields, Oliver has composed numerous scores for theatre work, and Roger has a film soundtrack for "Alaska.de2000" which was a major box-office hit in Germany. Their first full length work, M.=addiction is a beautifully crafted work that trancends classification with all its throwbacks to Jazz, Electronica and found sound works. Points of reference ranging from the Cinematic Orchestra through to Boards of Canada and down to a deeply unconscious underground aesthetic, the beauty of this album is in its warmth, its accessability and its undeniably microscopic, home-baked construction. One of the loveliest albums that we´ve released to date, retaining a gloriously widescreen cinematic edge, we are immensly happy that this album is finally available to public consumption, warming up the cockles of any who come in its way. Sublime.
http://www.dictaphone-music.de/oliverdoerellworks.html 

Dictaphone - Esc. meetings

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Helios - Embrace

A beautiful orchestral piece with a lot of choir! Testing out the free Ivy Audio Clare Solo for some of the vocals: http://ivyaudio.com/ClareSolo

An Ancient Sky

This music was inspired by a tree and a squirrel.  The tree was recently cut down and the squirrel lost its home. 

Love of a Tree  ..   Tara Jaff (Harp),..Jehanne Bastoni (Cello)

SWOD
new album " DREI " on City-Centre-Offices ( MORR )
release date : 25.11.11


Swod " DREI " fragments

Swod - Nein

Small CD-sized selection of acoustic-based music. Suits the time of year?
Feedback welcome
1. Swod: Nein
2. Arp: The Rising Son
3. Grouper: Water People
4. Black Moth Super Rainbow: Colorful Nickels
5. Occam: Town Of Introspection
6. Deleted Scenes: Nassau
7. Forest Swords: Hjurt (Pariah Refix)
8. A-Line: The Escapist
9. Part Timer: A Long Inhalation
10. Birds Of Passage: Away With The Night
11. Dankedanke: Quaint
12. Grouper & Ilyas Ahmed: The Edges
13. Anna Rose Carter & Pleq: One Each
14. Larkian & Yellow6: Jazz F2B
15. Dutch East Indies Trading Company: 6 Remnants
16. ThisQuietArmy: The Black Sea
17. John Matthias: All The Time In The World 


Knight's End Road

From the album "Eingya" | CD, MP3 and Flac available at http://unseen.bigcartel.com/

Helios - Bless This Morning Year

Free download of a bonus track that was only featured on the physical CD release of my album "Unleft". You can buy Helios albums as CD/mp3/Flac via my shop: http://unseen-music.com/shop

Helios - The Morning Room (FREE DOWNLOAD)

Wonderful remix by New Zealand-based composer Rhian Sheehan from the forthcoming "Helios - Remixed" album due out on December 1st. 

You can pre-order the release as CD / MP3 or Flac here: http://unseen.bigcartel.com/product/helios-remixed

www.rhiansheehan.com

Helios - Halving The Compass (Rhian Sheehan Remix) (FREE DOWNLOAD)

Beautiful remix from the album "Helios - Remixed" out now!.

You can order the release as CD / MP3 or Flac here: http://unseen.bigcartel.com/product/helios-remixed

www.hammockmusic.com

Helios - The Obesiant Vine (Hammock Remix) (FREE DOWNLOAD)

I composed the score to this new Facebook spot. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10200156550214780&set=vb.20531316728&type=3&theater

http://www.unseen-music.com/

Helios (Keith Kenniff) - Lilt

Helios shop: http://unseen.bigcartel.com/

An as of yet unreleased Helios track. 
For licensing inquiries please contact Keith via unseen-music.com/contact

Helios - Silverlight

from 'Where We Were' [CD|2xLP|DIGITAL]
available from May 2013 on all formats at [http://denovali.com/greghaines]

ON TOUR

21.04.2013 London (uk) - Denovali Swingfest

08.05.13 Eindhoven (nl) - Muziekgebouw
10.05.13 Groningen (nl) - De Oosterpoort
11.05.13 Amsterdam (nl) - Paradiso
12.05.13 Trier (ger) - Synagoge Schweich
13.05.13 Paris (fr) - Café de la Danse

17.05.13 Münster (ger) - Black Box
18.05.13 Utrecht (nl) - Le Guess Who Festival May Day
19.05.13 Essen (ger) - Welterbe Zollverein
20.05.13 Brussel (bel) - Ancienne Belgique Club
21.05.13 Hamburg (ger) - Nachtasyl
22.05.13 Bielefeld (ger) - Nummer Zu Platz
23.05.13 Hannover (ger) - Feinkost Lampe
24.05.13 München (ger) - Einstein
25.05.13 Geneva (ch) - La Graviere
26.05.13 Varano Borghi (it) - La Sauna Recording Studio
28.05.13 Bratislava (slovakia) - Atelier Babylon
29.05.13 Budapest (hun) - Akvárium Klub
30.05.13 Prag (cz) - Palac Akropolis
01.06.13 Gdansk (pl) - Club Zak
02.06.13 Warsaw (pl) - Cafe Kulturalna



Denovali Records is happy to announce the release of Greg Haines' new album WHERE WE WERE on cd, double vinyl and digital, as well as the release of 2006-2012, a collection of Greg's first three albums Slumber Tides, Until The Point of Hushed Support and Digressions as triple cd and 5 x vinyl collector's box in May 2013.


WHERE WE WERE [CD|2xLP|DIGITAL]

“WHERE WE WERE”, the new album from GREG HAINES, may come as a surprise upon first listen. The cascading strings that played such an important role in his prior work have disappeared, and in there place are intricate layers of tape-worn synthesizers. Any recordings of piano have been transformed and affected until their sound is at times barely recognizable. Moments of quiet, slowmoving textures can still be found, but they are nestled between upbeat, rhythmically-driven tracks that at times could even be considered for deployment on open-minded dancefloors. Although taking a year to complete, the nature of this record is born in its spontaneity and impulsiveness. The acoustic instruments such as piano, vibraphone and other percussion that found there way on to the album were not the result of months of composing - rather they were entirely improvised and often left completely unedited and raw. At first the idea was these rough tracks, full of noises and hiss, would later be re-recorded, but as the process drew on, it became clear that these kind of loose, half-thought moments were what defined the album - often “out-oftime” or “out-of-tune”, but always adding another dimension to the hazy, analog world of sound. This hand-crafted approach led to almost everything being constructed in the old-fashioned way; not with mouse-clicks, but with two hands moving dials and everything running to an aged tape machine.

This album is the result of one person sitting alone in a room and creating something entirely personal, without the frustrations of organising large-scale sessions for other players or the laborious work of preparing scores. In fact, the few scored moments that were written were later disregarded, with a whole string session with PETER BRODERICK ending up on the cutting-room floor (sorry, Peter!), along with endless hours of other material. What is left is the condensed diary of a year of exploring old tape delays, analog synths and percussion - some of which played by percussionist/composer SYTZE PRUIKSMA (a member, along with Haines, of THE ALVARET ENSEMBLE, whose debut album was released in December 2012 by Denovali Records), and some of which played and recorded in a midnight daze at Haines' studio in Berlin. Working in this way led to a whole host of other long-term influences feeding into the music that had never found an outlet before. The experiments in dub conducted by the likes of KING TUBBY or LEE PERRY and continued by the likes of RHYTHM & SOUND had a profound effect, as did the iconic work of TONY ALLEN and other African composers. The spaced-out soundscapes found on early TANGERINE DREAM and KLAUS SCHULTZE had always had a subtle influence on Greg's work, but now armed with an arsenal of dusty studio toys, those sounds became warmer, richer and more prominent.

The influences evoked here may at first appear at odds with Greg's previous work, but an affinity between the dense poly-rhythms of Africa and beyond have long been an influence for contemporary composers such as STEVE REICH, and their reach and importance on western music is undeniable. But now the lines have been blurred, and its impossible to say where one “style” or influence stops and another begins – something that was perhaps the only concept for this record. The symphonic synth crescendo of “So it Goes” would not have the same impact if it were not following the head-nodding drive of “Something Happened”. The delicate arpeggios of “Wake Mania Without End II” only exaggerate the unrelenting, rhythmical explosion of “Habenero”, and without starting with the intimate piano of “The Intruder”, the album's cavernous ending wouldn't feel so otherworldly. Its all in there or at least whats left of it after the hiss, the dirt and the degradation of the tape machine destroyed it, reworked it, and spat it back out fullyformed.

Mixed and mastered together with NILS FRAHM at his Durton Studio, Berlin.

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