from the Important Records release, Forse 1. Available on limited edition vinyl at www.importantrecords.com

Manca

Pegasi Lake

trust

from the album "Intimate Haze" by @tsone
stereoscenic.bandcamp.com/album/intimate-haze

Music by Anthony Obr (tonyobr.net)
Artwork by Jay Hardin (jayhardin.com)
Mastering by Andrew J Klimek

Intimate Haze

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tsone - Meeting Inside Out

from 'Zwischen Demut und Disco' 
Denovali Records · den301
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/sanktotten]

Zwischen Demut und Disco

Sankt Otten - Ein bisschen Mitschuld bringt dich nicht gleich um

included in Occulto Compilation #6 by Occulto Magazine

occulto.bandcamp.com/album/occulto-…fqg03eR2Ra2lMs

The Toxic Nostalgia Of Your Memory

Listen / Purchase: https://lnk.to/oldcapital

The Old Capital (out on Lost Tribe Sound) is the debut album from Melbourne composers Claire Deak and Tony Dupé. The album is their first recorded collaboration, though Dupé has released two solo albums under the name Saddleback. 

The duo describes themselves as a home orchestra well-suited for late night rambling. Much like traveling in the dark of night, the sound explorations found throughout The Old Capital come into view seemingly out of nowhere. Headstrong rhythms of shuffling organic debris and lumbering stomps help light the path with some brief success, only to be swallowed up by a slow moving fog of droning organs and dampened strings. However with the proper guides, finding ones footing in this shadowy landscape doesn't have to be difficult. Claire and Tony echo this sentiment throughout with a fine balance of both playful and haunting passages. Their confidence reassures us that once our eyes adjust to the dark, it need not be a frightening place. 

A wide variety of acoustic instrumentation weave their way into the music, including: pianos, accordion, harp, harpsichord, pump organs, pipe organ, recorder, flute, trumpet, euphonium, clarinets, stroh violin, viola, wulf fidel, cello, double bass, guitar, charango, mandolin, baritone ukulele, banjo, xylophone, glockenspiel, gamelan, drums and voices. 

Lost Tribe Sound feels incredibly lucky to have stumbled upon the duo's music because of a kind tip from the good folks at the Preserved Sound label. It makes perfect sense that Claire and Tony hail from Australia. This location has turned out many our favorite electroacoustic acts, known for cobbling genres together in ways that leave just enough of the roughhewn framework showing. Comparatively speaking, Brambles, Part Timer, and Thomas William Hill (aka Origamibiro) come to mind.

The Old Capital

From a Rooftop

Claire Deak & Tony Dupé - From a Rooftop (from The Old Capital)

from 'Lieder Für Geometrische Stunden' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den338
available on all formats from http://denovali.com/sanktotten

"There is harmony, geometry, metaphysics everywhere and, in a way, morale as well" Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Everyone knows these moments, hours or days, where one is feeling cornered, it is like running in circles or one is just trying to see something from a different angle. The new album by Sankt Otten - "Lieder für geometrische Stunden" ("Songs for geometrical hours") - offers tracks for these kind of scenes. It's the soundtrack of the ups and downs of life and everyone's entirely personal geometrical hours.

A very gentle and meditativ sequence introduces us to this new creation. Is it a synthesizer or a guitar? Whatever! A floating pad passes and returns, layers and shapes are rising. At the end the interaction of man and technology merges into perfect harmony. We are heading monumentally towards a futuristic world, which is frigid and surreal with a monotonous, sometimes gloomy and dark mood. Also beautiful. "Du hast dem Schicksal die Show gestohlen" ("You upstaged fate") by contrast comes along with a minimalistic attitude. To some extent, sounding like rock music without being rock music. It’s the perfect intersection of Minimoog sequences, acoustic drum sounds, ebow guitars and synthetic strings. Conny Plank would approve. "Wer trifft schon immer den Ton" ("Who always hits the mark"): A rhythm of nested patterns, a subtle arrangement, gentle choirs, pauses, compaction and thinning. Is this already jazz? Greetings from the echo chamber. The machines are trying hard. They deform the beat into geometrical forms, the bass jumps in circles, covering the tracks with ghostly choirs, creating an illusive, cuddly dreamworld. By the way, it’s a long time ago, that rototoms have been heard in electronic music. Great! "Dann doch lieber weisse Wände" ("I'd rather have white walls"), the secret hit on the album? "Die Blumen darfst Du behalten" ("You can keep the flowers"): The pause is breathing, constantly wrapped in the elapsing tone of the night. A guitar in a slow-motion dialog with a synthesizer. Finally both burned up within the interstellar space. That shoud be a title for the next Blade Runner movie.

This exactly 45 minute-long album fits on a C90 cassette side and thus closes properly with warm, analog 80’s electronica. Man and machine are going hand in hand, infused by a hypnotic, motor function 808 beat, encouraging everyone to head-nodding by being almost danceable. Again, the central theme of this release is definitely the minimal, repetitiv drum play of Stephan Otten, whereas Oliver Klemm’s ebow guitar drones hovers the tracks through this album. Sankt Otten do not disappoint. Founded in 1999, the duo from Osnabrück releases since 2009 on Denovali. With their 11th release, they give us a gem of timeless instrumental music. The holy trinity of krautrock, ambient and contemporary electronica, but always sophisticated and unique Sankt Otten. The mastering of the album was made by New York-based Rafael Anton Irisarri. Also the cover layout shows their great taste once again. This outstanding punch artwork was created by graphic designer Daniel Castrejón. The vinyl version comes with a die-cut cover (limited edition of red vinyl). The CD with an elegant cardboard cover with inner sleeve.

Lieder für geometrische Stunden

Sankt Otten - Wenig Worte für ein Ende

from the album Shards of Distant Times released on LP and CD by Karlrecords

Mastered by Helmut Erler at D&M, Berlin
Artwork by kaidoh based on a photography by Giulio Aldinucci

Shards Of Distant Times

Every Forgotten Word

Christopher O'Riley and Matt Haimovitz - Pyramid Song

Title ： Alone by The Sea
Artist ： Chihei Hatakeyama
Label : White Paddy Mountain
Release Date ： 2013/06/12
Country of Origin : JAPAN
Catalog Number:WPMC003
Format(s):  CD

22$（over seas）（inclouds shiping cost)
you can get from here. via paypal
hata@chihei.org


added bonus of Label direct sales 
CDR
Rain Outside my House  / Chihei Hatakeyama   (20min)

■Song List
01．Alone By The Sea
02．Alone By The Sea II
03．Alone By The Sea III
04．In Dreams


chihei hatakeyama was influenced by Fudaraku-tokai.
it is a form of the ascetic practice of sacrifice 
performed in medieval Japan.
A monk undertaking this practice would set out to 
sea in a small, single-sailed (but oar-less and rudderless) 
boat in the hope of arriving at the southern paradise 
of the Bodhisattva of Compassion (Avalokitesvara; Guanyin; Kannon). 
the fudaraku tokai was carried out over twenty times between 
the eleventh and seventeenth centuries.
chihei hatakeyama used only one sound file for making this album.
it is came from old vinyl.
chihei hatakeyama bought it at a small record shop in a bargain sale.




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