The Cosmic Call

Rain Over Ether - I Wear Your Skin (isoline. Remix)

I Wear Your Skin (isoline. Remix)

Supernova Symphony

Caught In The Wake Forever is the solo project of Scottish multi-instrumentalist & songwriter Fraser McGowan. 
Treading a path of quiet lo-fi, ambient, folk & modern classical music, Caught In The Wake Forever has had releases on a variety of highly regarded labels such as Archives, Dronarivm, Fluid Audio & Hibernate Recordings. 
From the delicate torch songs of 2011's debut album 'Against A Simple Wooden Cross' to the nocturnal drones of 2016's 'Under Blankets', each recording has dealt with matters of emotional strain and release. 
Caught In The Wake Forever's newest offering 'Waypoints' is the first full length album to step away from this formula. Whilst previous albums drew on deeply personal subject matter to guide the writing process, Waypoints navigates unknown territories using improvisation as its starting point. Recording began with two intense day-long sessions of modular synthesizer and acoustic piano. The resulting hours of improvised material were then gradually shaped over a 4-year period, McGowan relying on his musicianship and intuition to structure the compositions. 

These exploratory pieces retain the abstract textures and sketch-like arrangements from which they were sculpted, finding form with the contemplative melancholy and delicate melodic warmth that characterises Caught In The Wake Forever's music. Seven instrumental works that sound like distant radio signals interspersed with fragments of lonely lo-fi piano, broadcast from an unknown, isolated location. 

Words by Chris Gowers (2019) 

Written & recorded by Fraser McGowan 

Performed by Fraser McGowan 

Rogers Eungblut Upright Acoustic Piano, Yamaha C5 Classical Guitar,
Ibanez Blazer Series Electric Guitar, Korg MS2000, Roland SH101, 
Moog Slim Phatty, Akai S20 Sampler, Make Noise System Cartesian, 
Arturia MicroBrute, Arturia Analog Lab, Harmonium, Pearl Acoustic Drums, AM Radio & Digital Processing 

With 
Colin Morrison 
Ibanez GA5TCE-AM Classical Guitar & Boss RDD-10 Micro Rack Delay (A1 & B3) 

Darren Galloway 
Roland JU-06, Roland Aira TR-8 & Boss DE-200 Digital Rack Delay (B3) 

Yellow6 
Gretsch G6134 Black Penguin Electric Guitar, EHX Platform Compressor & Strymon Flint Reverb (B3) 

Produced by Fraser McGowan & Darren Galloway 
www.connectedbylandscapes.com 

Special thanks to Chris Gowers, Colin Morrison, Darren Galloway, Andrew ‘Woody’ Woods, 
Jon Attwood, Euan & Ali Millar-McMeeken & Agus Mena for making this record possible 

Mastered by Taylor Deupree 
www.12kmastering.com 
Photography by Alexander Kopatz 
www.go70north.com 
Archives58 // ArchivesCD39 
Archives / 2019

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Caught In The Wake Forever - The Houses Here Have Changed Lately

Hollie Kenniff - Field Edge

Sacred Geometry is full of detail and texture. Its emotional depth comes from a connected place. Following my experiences in yoga and plant medicine I began to see the mathematical elegance of nature. To mirror these geometric forms in sound was the source of my creative process.

The first half of the record captures a performance at the 2018 Le Guess Who? Festival in Utrecht, Holland. Voice, guitar, synthesiser and field recordings were processed into a collage of mediative sounds. In the second half of the record acoustic sounds are fused with harder electronic processes. The track Toroids represents my vision for this record (almost) perfectly.

Closer consideration for the mysteries of consciousness has led the music to border on the spiritual. I hope people will find something to meditate on in each of these songs in the same way I have.

- Alex Smalley

releases September 27, 2019

Music - Alex Smalley
Violin on The Golden Ratio - Jane Wild
Piano on Dimensionality - Lucia Adam
Mastering - Porya Hatami
Artwork - Rafael Araujo

Thanx to Maria, Alma, Family Schmidt Smalley, Paul @Shimmering Moods, Bic & Jane, Si & Lee, Lucia, Andy, Rafael, Porya and Dmitry for their love and support. I would also like to thank anyone who is listening to my music. We are all connected.

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The Golden Ratio

Mastering by Ian Hawgood
Photography by Alexander Kopatz
www.go70north.com
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Archives / 2020

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Pepo Galán & Lee Yi  - L'Isolée

Available here:
https://thesisproject.us/projects/thesis-17
&
https://thesisproject.bandcamp.com/album/thesis-17-ceeys-constant-presence

To be released on the conceptual collaborative-minded, boutique label Thesis, is the new joint project by the two neo-classical and contemporary ambient acts of CEEYS, and CONSTANT PRESENCE, the new outing between Peter Broderick [Erased Tapes, Type, Efterklang], and Daniel O’Sullivan [Grumbling Fur, Guapo]. Released during Q3AMBIENTFEST, a sterling three-day event of avant-garde, experimental pop and ambient-classical taking place in Potsdam, Germany during the first weekend of April, the limited edition 10inch EP, enriched with Zen ideology, comes replete with bespoke artwork, exclusive handmade packaging, and laser-etched designs.



CONSTANT PRESENCE, the new mesmerizing project by soundsmith Peter Broderick and multidimensional songwriter Daniel O'Sullivan, has been sporadically performing across the globe since coming together in 2019. This new, recorded body of music will see their release alongside the cello-piano brothers, Sebastian and Daniel Selke aka. CEEYS, who also happen to be the founding partners and curators behind Q3AMBIENTFEST. Looking to celebrate the notions of duology, unity and harmony, the EP features two ambient tracks that are enshrined in the teachings Shunryu Suzuki, a twentieth-century Soto Zen monk who gained popularity in the Western world for his teaching of Zen Buddhism outside of Japan. This nature of dualism becomes ever more pertinent when factoring in the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the bringing together of new and old worlds, and the pairing of Potsdam and Berlin. The East-West divide is something also very admissible to the works of the Selke brother’s, who imbue various elements of their East German upbringing within their recordings and philosophical approaches. Now celebrating its fourth year, Q3AMBIENTFEST is CEEYS’ labour of love, and it was a great honor, love and respect that they can now release something together with the multitalented and accomplished minds that are Broderick and O'Sullivan.



The Thesis Project, now on its 17th release, has set about on uniting two different artists together to create limited, custom designed bodies of music. Uniquely crafted and designed by Gregory Euclide, each 10” jacket for THESIS 17 consists of laser cut-etched designs portraying brutalist architecture and atomic structures glued on top of airbrushed designs that use the homemade Black Walnut Ink that Euclide made himself from the trees on his property, then letter pressed with the THESIS logo. Each record is hand numbered in an edition of 300, and will be made available on the second day Q3AMBIENTFEST, where it is also possible to get the record hand-signed by the artists. During the second day of the festival CONSTANT PRESENCE will share the stage with CEEYS, for a unique performance that juxtaposes the notion of duality and harmony yet further, in a show that will combine professionalism with liveliness, method with lightness of touch, and efficacy with flexibility.

THESIS 17

Nothing Special

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The full, raw audio from a recent live stream improvisation by Andy from Digitonal.

Regular Friday night sessions on twitch.tv/andydigitonal.  In which Andy hooks all his boxes up and sees what happens.

The tracks are quite long as they develop slowly, much in the manner of how I write a lot of music actually. Sometimes they are messy and experimental, sometimes they form into tunes. This one is one of the more tuneful ones so I thought I'd make it publicly available for once.

More stream highlights can be found on the Twitch channel along with video footage of how it's done and a full kit list.

Streams

Live Improvisation Stream - Jan21

Tracklist

01. Ian Hawgood - Fractural
02. Rhucle - Scape
03. Valotihkuu - Song Of The Rain
04. Morimoto Naoki -  Reo
05. Asuna + Tomoyoshi Date + Federico Durand - Lunch before farewell at the soba house
06. Federico Durand - Té de jazmín
07. Green House - Parlor Palm
08. Andrew Lang - Stark Light
09. Andrew Tasselmyer - In Passing
10. Sachi Kobayashi -  Waiting For The Wind To Blow
11. Forest Robots - Sustenance Comes From The Roots, Not The Height
12. James Osland - I Wanted You To See Me, That's Why I Shine Like This 
13. Melodía - Luna (en el hotel Am Bad, Tübingen)

213. Sleep Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Cinematic electronica's chief complainer.  Andy Dobson has been recording as Digitonal since the late 90s.  Part of the late phase of UK melodic electronica, he came to prominence on the seminal Toytronic Records label with a track on the Neurokinetic compilation and a debut album on the label shortly afterwards.  Since then he has recorded for Seed Records, Cactus Island, Uncharted Audio, B12 and Just Music who released Save Your Light for Darker Days in 2008, followed by a retrospective compilation.  Alongside frequent collaborator, Egyptian violinist Samy Bishai, and a flexible array of band members, Digitonal have toured extensively and have been in demand as a live act, known for their improvised sets of great range and beauty.