Easter Ceremony Immersion

Ataraxie

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Lex Van Someren – Buddha

For women's choir, piano and string orchestra 
Lyrics: Walt Whitman
Performed by Nidaros Cathedral Girls' Choir & the Trondheim Soloists.

Sheet music by Walton Music.

Sheet music

Song Of The Universal (Nidaros Cathedral Girls' Choir)

TWO LANES - Live from Málaga

Late Night Dream

New single from Brave Wave's upcoming solo album, Heart Beat Circuit. The track "Dusktone" features Manami Matsumae, the legendary composer of Mega Man, Shovel Knight, Mighty No. 9.

Preorder: http://store.bravewave.net/album/heart-beat-circuit

Heart Beat Circuit is an album five years in the making. After completing his Master's degree in music performance in 2010, George "Smoke Thief" Baker began to conceptualize what would take shape into his first album. An image came to him of a futuristic female android who achieves sentience, which opens up a world of new experiences to her and the opportunity to forge a new life.

With contributions from renowned video game composers Manami Matsumae (Mega Man), Saori Kobayashi (Panzer Dragoon Saga), and Takahiro Izutani (Bayonetta), Heart Beat Circuit takes the listener on a futuristic journey through the mind of this groundbreaking composer and that of Krystal, his muse.

Smoke Thief - Dusktone (ft. Manami Matsumae)

吉村弘 (Hiroshi Yoshimura) Dance PM

Gregorio ALLEGRI - Miserere Mei, Deus (+ Lyrics - OXFORD, Choir Of New College)

10 Melt

Physical: Sold Out
Digital: shiningskullstudio.bandcamp.com/album/in-summer
Catalog #: GN35
Barro negro cassette, limited to 100

For nearly two decades, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma has led an ambitious and exploratory trail through a variety of sounds and genres. As a member of longtime underdogs Tarentel, Cantu-Ledesma broadened the horizons, challenged genre constraints, and pushed the boundaries of the entire post rock genre. Later, Jefre established with several experimental bands (the Alps, Portraits, Moholy-Nagy, etc.) and collaborative projects (Raum, with Grouper). But Jefre has also operated a bit behind the scenes, issuing heady sets of experimental music and film through Root Strata, the label he co-runs with Maxwell August Croy.

As a solo artist, Cantu-Ledesma creates deeply emotional sets of drone, noise, tape collage, and field recordings on the likes of Type, Mexican Summer, Digitalis, Students of Decay, and more. 

Jefre now joins Geographic North with In Summer, a cassette that furthers the nostalgia and melancholy portraits of 'A Year with 13 Moons' (2015 Mexican Summer) and 'Songs of Forgiveness' (2014 BARO) for briefer, yet more potent tape loop meditations. 

"Love's Refrain" opens the cassette by plunging into depths of reeling, Cocteau Twins-esque clouds of guitar and patient drum machine. Riddled with static and glorious, hypnotic tape warble, the song perfectly sets the stage for In Summer's emotional arc. "Little Deer Isle" meditates on a series of field recordings and unbelievable calmness.

"In Summer" exists in a rolling simmer of aural infidelity and physical, circumstantial magic. "Blue Nudes (I-IV)" creates a deep and undulating traipse through various vignettes of hope, love, loss, and admiration, while "Prelude" closes things out with a calm, understated but permeating sense of calm optimism.

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - "Love's Refrain"

Arvo Pärt  Vater Unser  Soloist- Heldur Harry Polda

Super Magic Hats "Wish" PFCD66 2017.3.15 release
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1256551164433229&id=141832485905108
http://www.progressiveform.com

01. Sleepless
02. One Year
03. Dark
04. Filter Girl
05. Seashell feat. Mayumi
06. Softly Slowly
07. Point Blank
08. Going Home
09. Slow Ending feat. Rosaline Yuen
10. Leave
11. Past My Best
12. Cruisy
13. Tear

◆『Wish』アルバム紹介  https://pform.thebase.in/items/5602370

キッチュで聴き手の情感に寄り添う温かいサウンドを表現するロンドン育ち／メルボルン在住のミュージシャン兼プロデューサーRob Mastertonによるソロ・プロジェクト"Super Magic Hats"の2ndアルバム。

ドリーム・ポップ・チルウェイヴといったイメージを軸に　一聴するとコケティシュかつスタイリュシュな印象を持つサウンドの中に、温かさ、楽しさ、懐かしさ、物悲しさといった都度の感情から想起される叙情性がより深い音楽性とともに瑞々しく帰結しており、90年代から脈々と受け継がれる良質なダウンテンポ～ブレイクビーツを踏襲した無駄のないプロダクションと相まい、制作に15ヶ月以上をかけたという本作を確かなものとしている。またロンドン～メルボルンなどで培ったであろう80年代以降の多様なサウンドがSuper Magic Hatsの手腕の中で見事に昇華されており、それが本作の世界観を広げ魅力的なものにしている。

ゲストヴォーカルとして、シューゲイズロックポップユニットChelsea Terraceと併行してソロプロジェクトGrayNightlyとしても活動するMayumi、ロンドンとメルボルンを拠点に活動するボーカリスト／作曲家／プロデューサーRosaline Yuenが参加しているほか、M1/4/13でIA、M2でIrohaとIA、M6/7/8/11で初音ミクを起用、日本の音楽にとても詳しい彼が創り出す音楽　はあたかもウルリッヒ・シュナウス×ボーカロイドといった趣きとして感じ取れるかもしれない。

マスタリングは、シアトルを拠点にユニットThe New Lawなどのアーティスト活動と併行してBreakpoint Mastering主宰するAdam Straneyが担当、またアートワークは、絵本や様々なアート作品のみならずイベントや個展でも活動中の人気イラストレーターIzumi Fontanaが担当する。

Public Rhythm
https://twitter.com/publicrhythm/status/837508864408875011

Clubberia
twitter https://twitter.com/clubberia/status/837518166578331648
facebook https://www.facebook.com/clubberia/posts/1319368428086696

All Tracks Produced, Composed, Performed, Arranged and Mixed by Super Magic Hats, 2015-2017, Melbourne, Australia

Except
01, 04 and 13 Vocals by IA
02 Vocals by Iroha & IA
05 Vocals and Lyrics by Mayumi (Chelsea Terrace, Gray Nightly)
06, 07, 08 and 11 Vocals by Hatsune Miku
09 Vocals and Lyrics by Rosaline Yuen
10 Guitar and Piano by Chris Oldfield
11 Rhodes by Chris Oldfield
13 Additional Production by Chris Oldfield

Mastered by Adam Straney (Breakpoint Mastering)
Artwork by Izumi Fontana


◆プロフィール  Super Magic Hats

ロンドン育ち／メルボルン在住のミュージシャン兼プロデューサーRob Mastertonによるソロ・プロジェクト"Super Magic Hats"。
ポップなメロディーを主軸にノイズと実験性を織り交ぜたキッチュなサウンドを展開、一般的な楽器以外の物をも含めたサンプリングをベースに心地よい空間系エフェクトを施し複雑かつ綿密に構築し、聴き手の情感に寄り添う温かい楽曲をプロデュースしている。

これまでに、米シアトルのHush Hushレーベルよりアルバム『Separation』を2016年5月にリリース、4枚のEP『Daydram』（Hush Hush 2015）『Slowly』（Tanukineiri 2015）『Kumori』（Hush Hush 2014）『Super Magic Hats』（Self 2013）、また4枚のシングルをリリースする。

Super Magic Hatsの楽曲「Happy Jazz」と「Hangin'」がオーストラリアとメルボルンの大手ラジオ曲＜Triple J＞と＜Triple R＞で大きく取り上げられたことにより2011年にまずはメルボルンのシーンで注目されることになる。それが発端となり楽曲「Happy Jazz」はBleep.comの未契約トラックを集めた部門で4,000曲の中から最優秀を獲得、英BBCの＜Radio 6＞でもオンエアーされさらに高い評価を得ることとなり、エレクトロニックのニューカマーを収録したBleepのコンピレーションにも収録される。

同年9月からライブ・パフォーマンスも開始、その後シドニー出身のインディー／ダンス・バンドRÜFÜS（RÜFÜS DU SOL）、Warner MusicオーストラリアのアーティストThe Kite String Tangle、米Ghostly InternationalのShigetoらのツアーをサポート・アクトとしてオーストラリアの有名な会場で数多い公演を行う。

そして2017年3月、制作に15ヶ月以上をかけ、より音楽の深さと叙情性を纏わせた秀逸な2ndアルバム『Wish』をリリースする。


発売日　　　： 2017年3月10日(金曜日)
アーティスト： Super Magic Hats（スーパー・マジック・ハッツ）
タイトル　　： Wish（ウィッシュ）
発売元　　　： PROGRESSIVE FOrM
販売元　　　： BRIDGE INC.
規格番号　  ： PFCD66
価格（CD）　： 税抜本体価格￥2,000
収録曲数　　： 13曲
JAN 　　　　： 4582237836127
https://www.amazon.co.jp/Wish-Super-Magic-Hats/dp/B01N37ULGX/

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Super Magic Hats "Sleepless" from "Wish" PFCD66

Despite his status as a key figure in the history of Japanese ambient music, Hiroshi Yoshimura's music remains tragically under-known outside of his home country. Empire of Signs – a new imprint co-helmed by Maxwell August Croy and Spencer Doran – is proud to reissue Yoshimura's debut Music for Nine Postcards for the first time outside Japan in collaboration with Hiroshi's widow Yoko Yoshimura, with more fully licensed reissues of Hiroshi's work to follow in the future.

Working initially as a conceptual artist, the musical side of Yoshimura's artistic practice came to prominence in the post-Fluxus scene of late 1970s Tokyo alongside Akio Suzuki and Takehisa Kosugi, taking many subsequent turns within Japan’s bubble economy afterward. His sound works took on many forms - commissioned fashion runway scores, soundtracking perfume, soundscapes for pre-fab houses, train station sound design - all existing not as side work but as logical extensions of his philosophy of sound. His work strived for serenity as an ideal, and this approach can be felt strongly on Music for Nine Postcards.

Home recorded on a minimal setup of keyboard and Fender Rhodes, Music for Nine Postcards was Yoshimura’s first concrete collection of music, initially a demo recording given to the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art to be played within the building's architecture. This was not mere background music in the prior Japanese “BGM” sense of the word, but “environmental” music, the literal translation of the Japanese term kankyō ongaku [環境音楽] given to Brian Eno’s “ambient” music when it arrived in late 70's Japan. Yoshimura, along with his musical co-traveler Satoshi Ashikawa, searched for a new dialog between sound and space, a new way of listening: sound not as an absolute, but as something that interlocks with a physical environment and shifts the listener’s experience within it. Erik Satie's furniture music, R. Murray Schafer's concept of the soundscape and Eno’s ambience all greatly informed their work,  but the specific form of tranquil stasis presented on releases like Nine Postcards is still difficult to place within a specific tradition, remaining elusive and idiosyncratic despite the economy of it's construction. This record offers the perfect introduction to Hiroshi's unique and beautiful worldview: it's one that can be listened to - and lived in - endlessly.

Music for Nine Post Cards

Hiroshi Yoshimura (吉村弘) - "Water Copy" from Music for Nine Post Cards (EOS01) OUT 11/17/2017

Hiroshi Yoshimura - Green [1986] [Full Album]

00:00 morning star
19:32 paradise 
35:11 starry night

Takashi Kokubo (小久保隆) - Jamaica ～ Waves And Light And Earth (ジャマイカ～波と光と大地) (1993) [Full Album]

Hiroshi Yoshimura

Lisa Gerrard- Redemption

Hiroshi Yoshimura

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