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Kurr is the first full length record from the icelandic band amiina. Released in 2007.

“In the way that the Cowboy Junkies' classic album The Trinity Session arrived in the
midst of all the pre-grunge noise and clatter at the death of the 1980s, it almost feels
as if there's something quietly revolutionary about this gently overwhelming record.
Either way, a revelation.”
David Peschek, The Guardian

“Utterly original and deceptively relaxing, Kurr is the fullest-sounding minimalist
electro pop you’ve ever heard.”
Chris Whibbs, Exclaim!

“Kurr is a gently rippling stream of enigmatic moods and textures.”
Paul Sullivan, bbc.co.uk

“Whatever the permutations, Amiina's fragile magic can't fail to beguile.”
David Sheppard, BBC Collective

Glámur

Night falls in the cloud forest. Several species of frogs congregate in humid areas, from jungle lakes to the smallest puddle. Recorded in Bale Mountains NP, Ethiopia. Long version at https://youtu.be/8iYSre_njk8

Frogs croaking in the cloud forest

I'm still trying to achieve that hushed, muted, and intimate sound ala Nils Frahm, with his nicely recorded upright and dampened strings... It's harder to do it on my baby grand, because I can't add the felt between the hammers and the strings. This is the closest I can come with a microphone near the keys, so that you can [hopefully] hear the mechanics...

This short impromptu is for Monique Recknagel, founder of Sonic Pieces label which has brought so many smiles to my life...

For Monique

Moon on a daylit sky/aaron embry COVER

Unforeseen (PM 7960) 3:32 30-07-2025

Solo Synth Piano.  Created in Real-Time at Music & Arts, St. Louis MO.

Year of Music: August 4, 2025

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OceanTapping by P C III 2016 Creative Commons on Netlabel Pipe Choir.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Attribution:
Title: OceanTapping
Album: Ad Astra, Vol. 3
Artist: P C III
Source: www.pipechoir.com
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Taken from the upcoming album 'Little Things' by Dalot & Sound Awakener...

'Little Things' is the first full length collaboration between Vietnamese sound artist Nhung Nguyen (Sound Awakener) and Greek sound artist Maria Papadomanolaki (Dalot). The album marks the completion of a 1.5 year-long exploration of common threads and interests between the two artists most notably the quotidian, the minute and the unnoticed often found in the fringes of big cities, busy landscapes and trajectories. It starts from ground-level interactions, field recordings of soundwalks in parks, on the streets, hydrophones in rivers and contact microphones on bridges and delicately moves to the ethereal; building up atmospheres of dreamsequences that differ from track to track. 

‘Little things’ was created by a process of exchange and extraction of draft ideas between the two artists. The creative and personal connection was deep which results in a sense of intuition and mystery throughout the album. Each track has undergone iterative transformations until its final stage, with each artist peeling off layers and sculpting textures and moods prompted by words, memories and places. While, ‘Strangers in the city’ places the listeners in an urban junction, still with their eyes closed, ‘all that fall’ contemplates on the beauty of fallen leaves, autumnal afternoons and the smell of rain. In pieces like ‘a good day to be alone’ the two artists create feather-like motions resembling invisible drizzles of emotions, solitude and dreams filling up an empty, quiet room on a sunny morning. Elsewhere in the album, as in ‘sailing’, darkness supersedes lightness in a long dive into unknown waters. 

The album creates a journey for the listener; a journey of changes between the two artists’ lives; the changes in seasons, life-events, ordinary moments  and creative processes that affected the perspectives and emotional states within which this album was produced. Rainer Maria Rilke has written that ‘the only journey is the one within’. In ‘Little Things’ the two artists offer an adventurous exploration of internal landscapes through sound and memory, the light and shadow encountered within. Nguyen and Papadomanolaki embark in a musical dialogue in an effort to create a new common dialect between them, a place where they can feel both familiar and lost. 

Music: Dalot & Sound Awakener
Mastering: James Plotkin
Design: Daniel Crossley

www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com

Little Things

Strangers In The City

Dalot & Sound Awakener - Strangers In The City

From the album Occasus available April 13, 2018 on Western Vinyl

Bandcamp https://goldmund.bandcamp.com/album/occasus
iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/occasus/1343456707
WV http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv169

Pennsylvania native Keith Kenniff’s output as Goldmund has established him as one of the preeminent composers of minimal piano-based ambient music alongside peers like Hauschka, Dustin O’Halloran, and even Ryuichi Sakamoto, who himself once described Kenniff’s work as “so, so, so beautiful.”  Hyperbolic as it may sound, Goldmund’s newest collection Occasus may be his most exquisite yet. Where his previous recordings trod faithfully and sincerely on paths of dimly lit, polaroid-esque nostalgia, Occasus deepens the undeniable aesthetic that was hard-won over eight previous Goldmund albums, while expanding the palette to include desultory clouds of synthesizer and a tastefully distressed analog sheen.

The word Occasus means downfall, end, or the rising and falling of heavenly bodies. The title is apt in more ways than one: while the emotional tone of the album denotes bittersweet feelings of conclusiveness, it also perfectly soundtracks the quiet moments when we look up to the sky, and humbly relearn the smallness of our lives as cosmic objects churn slowly overhead with bewitching indifference. Occasus feels deeply personal, private, and hushed yet simultaneously grand, colossal, and profound. Remarkably Kenniff is able to capture micro and macro with equal fidelity.

Occasus

Goldmund - "Circle"

Cover of a song by Birds Are Indie (Coimbra, PT) 
Original version available here: http://birdsareindie.bandcamp.com/

Written by Joana & Jeronimo 
Arranged & played by me 
Rhythmic seagulls recorded in Ramsgate, Kent, UK

Words:

Needless to say she’s on the move (I’ll go this way)
Needless to say she’s on her way to him (La da da)
Needless to say she’s on her back (I’ll turn this way)
Needless to say she’s on the run &
Running out of love 

The northern sky was passing by (La da da)
I tried to figure out the colour of your eyes
The northern sky was passing by (La da da)
What do you mean by “What”?
What do you mean by “What do you mean”?

Needless to say she’s on the move (I’ll go this way)
Needless to say she’s on her way to him (La da da)
Needless to say she’s on her back (I’ll turn this way)
Needless to say she’s on the run &
Running out of love 

The northern sky was passing by (La da da)
I tried to figure out the colour of your eyes
The northern sky was passing by (La da da)
I’d like to figure out the touch of your skin
What do you mean by “What”?
What do you mean by “What do you mean”?

Running out of love

Needless to Say [Benoît Pioulard version]

Composer and drummer of Dawn of Midi, Qasim Naqvi, releases his debut album for Erased Tapes on May 3rd. 'Teenages' captures the sound of electronics living, breathing and mutating of their own accord – almost autonomously – with only subtle, sparing but perfectly-judged and masterful guidance.

This album is one singular synergy between Qasim and his machine within a broader milieu of sound, also explored by contemporaries Sarah Davachi, Alessandro Cortini, Caterina Barbieri and also the forefather, Morton Subotnick. At points tonal, textural and rhythmic, over six evolving and growing audio organisms, the album flourishes upwards in stages, from initial micro-sonics to something bigger, brighter and anthemic.

With 'Teenages', Naqvi summoned all the material on an analog modular synthesizer – a voltage-controlled sound generating system comprised of multiple modules. Naqvi built this synth over the course of two years and amassed a collection of works for this album. The album chronicles both Naqvi’s understanding of writing for this type of instrument and the growth of the instrument itself:

“I started with just a few modules. And naturally things had to be layered and pieced together but as the synthesiser and its components grew over time, I was able to create broader and more complex strokes in the moment. And by the time I got to ‘Teenages’, it was possible to create a robust, large-scale piece spontaneously. This is very much an experiential album for me because it was borne out of my direct experience of learning the instrument. And as the synthesiser grew over time with more components, it matured. At times I felt like it was even rebelling against my instructions or surprising me with what felt like its own choices. When everything was finished and I was thinking about track titles, this idea of artificial intelligence came into my head; a machine that reacts to your impulses and is capable of giving you something different from what you ask, and even defying you. It felt like different stages of growth and adolescence, and that lead to the album title, ‘Teenages’.”

Deeply rewarding on close listening, Naqvi has created an inspiring and synapse-stimulating new masterwork, within the analogue/modular cannon.

· pre-order 'Teenages' on LP/CD/DL: https://idol.lnk.to/QasimTeenages

Teenages

No Tongue

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Qasim Naqvi - No Tongue

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Hello everyone, I would like to show you my new album "Pereehali". This is my third album, it was written and recorded in the summer of 2012. After a long writer's block that was caused by a very pretentious and bombastic second album I decided to make a really intimate, solo-piano work. I lived in the countryside during the recording sessions, and every recording was done by me tête-à-tête with my lovely piano in the wooden house. It was a priceless experience working and writing while having a close contact with nature, it helped me a lot to understand the music I compose, to make it more organic, touching and moving.


playing & recording // dmitry evgrafov 
mixing & mastering // martyn heyne 
cover // vika bogorodskaya 
special thanks to nils frahm & dave howell

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