Like leaving someone in space and calling and calling and calling...

Noise

from 'Everything Will Change (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den373
available on all formats at https://denovali.com/garymarlowe

“This film is one of those revelatory experiences that make you want to get up and do something.'' (WIM WENDERS)

When a living legend like Wim Wenders ("Paris, Texas"; "The Million Dollar Hotel"; "Buenavista Social Club”) decides to appear as a future version of himself in a movie, there must be something outstanding about it. The idea of the film is brilliant: We see our time through the eyes of our grandchildren, many years ahead. By the means of a fable, disguised as a documentary from the future, we understand that the era we critizise so much will actually be seen as the good old days. A true eye-opener.

Gary Marlowe began playing piano at four, turned into a synthesizer prodigy and much respected “synth god”, shared the stage with Iggy Pop and The Ramones, became a No.1 hit songwriter, and Gold Record winning producer. He is an official Steinway Artist, and has won numerous international awards for his film scores, which combine synthesizers, piano, electronica and orchestra to create unexpected, beautifully human sound worlds.

The choice of instruments was crucial to elevate the overall impression of the movie. Almost mythical organs, like the Farfisa Compact Duo Deluxe (as once used in early Pink Floyd) or a Philicorda, both made in 1967, were brought out as well as vintage synthesizer icons like the Minimoog, the Arp Solina or the monstrous Oberheim OB-8. To help the narrative, Gary Marlowe integrated a new sound aesthetic in the music dramaturgy of the film, with the help of the research teams of manufacturers like Arturia in France, or Bristol-based Modal Electronics, who provided brand new instruments to the artist, to create mesmerizing sounds which no audience has ever heard before.

To maximise the acoustic quality, Marlowe called in one of his favorite mixing engineers, to finalize the score together. Hans-Martin “HM” Buff, formerly personal engineer of Prince, joined the composer again, to carefully mix all those wonderful, delicate or thundering sounds into an exciting musical landscape. A landscape of a fragile future, which is still in our hands to define.

“A science fiction film about exctinction? To me, this is one of the most pressing topics of our time, and it is dangerously late to be addressed. Making and watching this movie is better than signing a hundred petitions.” (Gary Marlowe)

Everything Will Change (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

The Journey

Gary Marlowe - The Journey

taken from their forthcoming sophomore LP, 'Table for Two', available April 20, 2015.

http://bedroomsuckrecords.com/shop/superstar-a-toast-to-lp/

Superstar - Folding Gold

Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld - "The sun roars into view"
from 'Never Were The Way She Was'

available 28 April January 2015 on Constellation:
cstrecords.com/cst113

Never were the way she was

Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld • "The sun roars into view"

hey ! this is my new ost for the game planet warz 5000 ! this is a sad and melancholic theme, hope you'r all fine <3 peace ^^

lithium

Composed, Played & Recorded By Madeleine Cocolas + Monolyth & Cobalt.                                                                                                                Mixed by Monolyth & Cobalt in October 2015.

Madeleine Cocolas : piano                                                                                                                                                                                     Monolyth & Cobalt : strings, breathes on tapes, electronic devices,  effects processors, loop pedal, amplified objects.

Month Seven Project (Madeleine Cocolas + Monolyth & Cobalt)

Release Info: http://ghostly.com/releases/glimmer

For the past decade or so, Polish musician Michal Jacaszek has been exploring a new, resolutely modern chapter in Eastern Europe’s long, storied love affair with classical music. His creations are painstakingly crafted collages of electronic textures and baroque instrumentation, harpsichords being swarmed by woolly static one minute and pulled apart by billowing wind the next. Ambient music—if we can generalize unnecessarily for a second—is rarely so sonically challenging.

Jacaszek’s latest album, Glimmer, is marked by a noticeable tug between melancholy and beauty, like it’s hovering in some gaseous grey area between both, at once both insular and extroverted. “I tried again to create some fragile beauty glimmering behind the veil of reality,” he says. “I built a kind of curtain out of dirts and fuzzes, and used pure sound of clarinet and harpsichord playing beautiful melodies as a contrast to its harshness.” This winking, push-and-pull tension runs deep and constant throughout the 40-odd-minute journey to the end.

To parse an album so deeply experiential and deliberately cohesive track-by-track seems unfair, almost ludicrous. But there are undisputed highlights—the apocalyptic crescendo at the end of “Evening Strains To Be Time’s Vast,” with its crunch of nightmarish noise and bit-crushed distortion; the dizzying, obscenely pretty tangle of Spanish guitar in “As Each Tucked String Tells.” Glimmer is, quite simply, an album that’s easy to get lost in without being easy to ignore. Don’t expect any eyelid drooping while it’s on.

Jacaszek - Dare-gale

"Lost Meadow" by Off World; track 3 of a 9-song bonus album called O TONNE SEIZE featuring 3 non-album tracks from each of Off World, Automatisme and Jason Sharp that accompanies the purchase of the 3-album set by these artists.

Off World • 1 out on Constellation 30 Sep 2016.

cstrecords.com/cst117

0 Tonne Seize

"Lost Meadow" by Off World

"Le Silence 3" by Automatisme; track 6 of a 9-song bonus album called O TONNE SEIZE featuring 3 non-album tracks from each of Off World, Automatisme and Jason Sharp that accompanies the purchase of the 3-album set by these artists.

Automatisme • Momentform Accumulations out on Constellation 30 Sep 2016.

cstrecords.com/cst118

"Le Silence 3" by Automatisme

from 'MYTH I - A Last Dance for the Things we Love' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den262
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/theeyeoftime]

THE EYE OF TIME is the solo-project of French musician Marc Euvrie. Euvrie's musical development is deeply connected with the French DIY punk and hardcore scene, though he has been classically trained as well. He started to play piano being 9 years old, composed his first pieces with 15 and studied cello at the conservatoire after finishing school. Euvrie was involved in several bands before he began to translate his personal reflection of our complex world into music, which initiated THE EYE OF TIME. His extensive self titled debut has been released in spring 2012 and exposed a dark look on the present, past and future. His last albums were promising a glimpse of hope (“Acoustic”) or pitch-black despair (“ANTI”). With “MYTH I : A last dance for the things we love" THE EYE OF TIME will release the first part of a three record album concept MYTH (MYTH II - A need to survive, MYTH III - The final chapter), which will be a synthesis of all his past works.

MYTH is a word with ambiguous meanings in the dictionary, but all these lead to the same conclusion. The Eye of Time's MYTH trilogy is about the path that humanity took over the ages and about how we could tell this epic story. We could decide to see things on the bright side, or to a have a more dramatical (in the literal sense) look on it. Like if one species is looking at another, and in a different era. MYTH is a feedback to the tragical events of our time, to what people have to endure nowadays in order to survive, as well as the refugees travels, and the resistance against capitalism that is growing all over the world. MYTH is also a particular way to see things, to take sides with history. When we talk about ancient political activists and revolutionaries, resistances to the established order, we make the choice to transform it into a myth, a history full of heroes. But the past is the present. And our present will be the past again. It is on us to take action in order to avoid our inevitable end.

Marc Euvrie recorded “MYTH I : A last dance for the things we love" completely on his own. Being away from home, dealing with family issues, his music served him as deep introspection about himself and the world. An introspection impregnated with minimalistic moments, where piano and cello write the story of loneliness and calm. At the same time evolving dramaturgies emerge, driven by rumbling beats, accompanied by both grim and hopeful melodies; just to be aware that irrationality gives birth to our myths and that myths, in turn, affect our very own existence.

The cover artworks of the MYTH album trilogy display pictures of Emin Özmen, a winner of the world press photo award. His work is focused on the situation in Kurdistan, Syria, Turkey and the "refugees". His work has been published by Time magazine, The New York Times, BBC, Guardian, among others.

MYTH I : A last dance for the things we love

The Eye of Time - Mass

Buy Album: https://seabuckthorn.bandcamp.com/album/turns

After 2016’s well-received EP,  'I Could See The Smoke', experimental guitarist Andy Cartwright (aka Seabuckthorn) returns with his new full-length album 'Turns' on vinyl, CD and digital with Lost Tribe Sound.  Cartwright immediately caught our attention with his commanding full-length album 'They Haunted Most Thickly' in 2015. With 'Turns', Cartwright further solidifies his anomalous position within the genres solo guitar music, American primitive, and modern classical. 

The vinyl and CD edition arrive in the ever stunning physically and sonically minded fashion that LTS has become known for. 'Turns' takes form with a lush 180 gram audiophile grade vinyl housed in a heavyweight reverse printed jacket (limited to 500). The lacquer process vinyl edition was masterfully cut by Paul Gold at Salt Mastering in NY. Each edition comes with a Bandcamp download coupon. Plus, 'Turns' introduces a new handcrafted panoramic CD design (limited to 150 editions). 

'Turns' is an album wrought with vertical forms, heavily cinematic in design and scope.  It’s an album built from the earth. With eyes closed, one can easily imagine heavy rusted spires rising and collapsing upon themselves, only to be rebuilt from the rubble in the same instant, ever clawing towards the sky, with the rumblings of massive tectonic plates shifting below.  That said, 'Turns' is far more of a cerebral experience than its predecessors. transitioning seamlessly between hypnotic long-form pieces, minimal harp-like ballads and the primal stomping world-builders that have become Seabuckthorn’s calling card. 

Cartwright wields his minimal, yet powerful arsenal in new and intriguing ways throughout 'Turns', comprised of various twelve string guitars, a well worn resonator guitar and heavy waves of lumbering percussion. Plus, for the first time ever, Cartwright invites an outside player, composer and fellow friend of rustic orchestration, William Ryan Fritch to play double bass on three of the songs. In addition, LTS is honored to have worked with visual artist Gregory Euclide (Bon Iver, Lubomyr Melnyk) on the incredible original cover artwork for 'Turns', and sound engineer James Plotkin who handled the mastering.

Turns

The Trail Already in My Mind

Buy Album

Seabuckthorn - The Trail Already In My Mind (from Turns)

Available now via http://wichelroede.net

CS + Kreme / Yu Su — “Roast Ghost / Little Forest”

An ambient-ambiance tape experience by two promising new acts from different sides of P-Earth.

With their self-titled debut last year on Total Stasis, CS + Kreme’s leftfield, ambient pop took us by surprise and turned out to become one of our favorite, rinsed home-records from 2016. With a handful of gigs so far exclusively in the open air of Melbourne, the duo, consisting of Conrad Standish and Samuel Karmel (also part of F Ingers), team up again for this release to jam together a bubbly, hypnotizing lullaby before venturing off into a warped dreamscape around the 10 minute mark. On the B-side Vancouver-via-Kaifeng resident Yu Su cleanses the body, mind, and soul with Little Forest. Yu, one-half of You’re Me who previously released Plant Cell Division, combines beautiful snares, easy-going percussion, lush synths, and downtempo beats with a clear message: Chill-out...

Tracklist:

A. CS + Kreme — Roast Ghost (Ultra Lavender Mix) @cs-kreme
B. Yu Su — Little Forest (Spring Mix) @bb-yu

This release contains a limited C45 dark clear pro-dubbed cassette tape, two stickers and a FIY (fold it yourself) sleeve. Everything vacuum sealed together in a transparant plastic bag.

Music by CS + Kreme and Yu Su. Flute by Ela Stiles. Mastered by Brandon Hocura. Artwork and design by Fallon. Idea and production by wichelroede. Released on Monday June 5th 2017.

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CS + Kreme — Roast Ghost (Ultra Lavender Mix)

Having spent the past two years working on shorter projects including the EPs Answers at Dawn (Was Ist Das) and Sunspot Loops (Courier Sounds), Fresh Yorkshire Aires graphic scores project and a commission with aerial artists for Bristol's Feel It Festival, Katie English aka Isnaj Dui returns with full-length album Poiesis on Rural Colours.  Already being described by some from the electronica underground as lulling the listener into a subdued state only to be taken by the feeling that you’re about to be hit round the back of the head with a blunt object, Poiesis has lost none of Isnaj Dui’s unnerving calm but has taken on a more expressionistic edge as she (consciously or otherwise) gets her head around the general state of things and tries putting the world to rights. 

The CD comes packaged in a hand-printed sleeve.

This is Rural Colours 083
Released 30 October 2017

Isnaj Dui / Poiesis (Snippets)

Postcard 38 comes from Mind over MIDI aka Helge Tommervag. Based in deepest and darkest Norway, Helge has been working with electronic music since the beginning of the 80's and over the years has graced many labels including Beatservice, Silent Season, Beserk Fabric and diametric. On his postcard EP for us at hibernate, Helge pays tribute to his natural surroundings where strong, chilly winds blow and die down to allow gorgeous atmospheric material to shine through.

A limited edition of 60 hand-numbered 3" CDr collectible copies. Available from hibernate-recs.uk

Mind over MIDI /  Tussmørke (Snippets)

As a little "Thank You!" for the patience during the process of the RESTIVE soundtrack, i thought i celebrate the release with you and this little mixtape, packed with music and artists that inspired me (not only) during the production of the score! enjoy!

After this, maybe you want to give the score a listen too?

Mailorder:
https://mailorder.ant-zen.com/product/id/1998

Release Info Page:
http://hymen-records.com/

Mixtape Tracklist:

1		Illusion Of Safety - lilt
2		Machinefabriek - Licht 
3		Peteris Vasks - Distan Lights (Excerpt)
4		Stuart Dempster - Conch Calling
5		Max Richter - Infra7
6		This Immortal Coil - Red Queen
7 		Thomas Köner - 12 41° 24' N  2° 10' E
8	Arve Henriksen - Chiaro
9	Ben Frost & Daníel Bjarnason - We Don't Need Worlds, We Need Mirrors
10	Nils Frahm - c,e,g
11	Christopher Bissonnette - In Accordance
12	Belong - Remove The Inside
13	Hecq - Introit
14	Marlene Dietrich - Cherche la Rose


RESTIVE Giveaway Mixtape

Taken from the upcoming 2 x CD album 'The Book of Dusts' by Emmanuel Witzthum and E & I

Audio: Emmanuel Witzthum / Craig Tattersall
Poetry: Emmanuel Witzthum
Mastering: Ian Hawgood
Design: Daniel Crossley
Label: Fluid Audio

www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com

The Book of Dusts

Emmanuel Witzthum - Book Of Shadows

from 'Window In' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den332
available on all formats at http://denovali.com/michaelvallera

Window In is Michael Vallera’s third full length offering on the Denovali label, following  All Perfect Days (2018) and Vivid Flu (2017).  

The four tracks that compose Window In are an exercise in density, movement, and space. Raw studio recordings of electric guitar were taken as the foundation, then heavily altered and manipulated through sampling, erasing the trace back to origin of the sound. The result is a series of vignettes that are unattached to a particular source but instead exist in an emotive and internal state.

The Eye of Time - Mass

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