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Wash Of Dying Mellostrings

Ame-Where The Worlds End, Part 1

Artist : offthesky
Title : Light Loss
Label : Dronarivm
Release Date : February 2nd, 2015
Catalogue number : DR-29
Format : CD
Order here: https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/light-loss

'Light Loss' describes a changing of seasons - from fall into winter when the sun hangs low and the day's shy light dominates. It describes the heavy mood and psychological affect that comes with this seasonal evolution and the changing tide of friendship and love alike that occurs through this seasonal shift. 

Stylistically the music therein marks a continuation in offthesky's sonic evolution by introducing darker atonal noise moments coupled with a lighter melodic sound to create a rich dynamic hue. By melding acoustic instrumentation, synth, and composed effects, offthesky weaves a quilt that embraces both a negative and positive landscape. 

offthesky is experimental sound/video artist Jason Corder - from Denver, Colorado. Jason has performed and produced various shades of electronic music for over 15 years. He has toured Europe and Canada and has released on labels from 12k to zymogen. 

composed & mixed by Jason Corder in Denver & California 2012-2014 
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cover art by Russell Burden
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Offthesky - Light Loss (album sampler)

Æther #007 by Alessandro Barbanera
Dronarivm Guest Mixes Series

Mix number 7 in the Æther series comes from Italian sound artist, musician, composer and guitar maker Alessandro Barbanera. 

Over the course of an hour, Alessandro carefully explores the nuances of modern ambient music – often touching on its darker, more mysterious edges, yet never fully descending into shadows or melancholia.

Check out Alessandro's latest album 'In Darkness Let Me Dwell', released by Dronarivm's dark vibes division, Owl Totem Recordings ~ https://owltotem.bandcamp.com/album/in-darkness-let-me-dwell

Tracklist:

00.00. Tape Loop Orchestra – I Was Born When She Kissed Me (excerpt) [from “In A Lonely Place”, Fluid Audio]
03.46. Carlo Giustini – A Letizia [from “Custodi”, ROHS! Lontano Series]
07.47. Dionisaf – March [from “Twelve Months”, Chitra Records]
12.18. Demetrio Cecchitelli – Notturno [from “Jump”, Le Mont Analogue]
16.08. Corrado Maria De Santis – Entangled Uncertainties [from “City of Tethers”, Owl Totem Recordings]
21.22. Francis Gri – Bruma II [from “Bruma”, self-released]
25.05. Federico Mosconi – At Midnight [from “Nocturnal”, Dronarivm]
29.56. Luca Giuoco – Shantih 3 Times [from “Collettivoinconscio vol.1”, Dissipatio / Toten Schwan Records]
33.03. Grotta Veterano & Music For Sleep – If Only Anything Could Change You [from “Endless Vacation”, Fluid Audio]
39.15. meanwhile.in.texas – Almost Blind [from “Heimat”, Secret Press]
42.18. Yugen (Gianluca Ceccarini, Alessandro Ciccarelli, Tetsuroh Konishi) – My Sounds [from “Yugen”, Disasters By Choice]
48.27. Gallery Six – Zansyuu [from “Kisetsu”, Le Mont Analogue]
52.34. Chelidon Frame – In I Reached (feat. A Distant Shore, Asymmetric Cut, Andrea Marinelli) (excerpt) [from “Flatline Voyages”, Difficult Art And Music]
58.24. Macrogramma – Catedral [from “Magnetic Series”, ROHS! Lontano Series]

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Æther #007 by Alessandro Barbanera

Tracklist

01. Aiko Takahashi - Un Beau Matin D’Été
02. Ian Hawgood - And You Were Gone
03. Taylor Deupree & The Humble Bee - Case Study 1
04. Federica Deiana - If
05. Hiroshi Ebina - A White House
06. Blochemy -  Slong
07.  Jason Calhoun + Foresteppe - a four part cure ii
08. Euan Alexander Millar-McMeeken - Sema 
09. Lorenz Weber -  Everything Remains One
10.  Ciro Berenguer - Retorno al mar

419. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

I’ve been mesmerised with the sound of Deaf Center since the very beginning. I think it’s been more than 20 years now since their Neon City EP was released on Type. This is way before I even knew that behind the project was a Norwegian duo who started making music together as friends. This is before I knew their names to be Erik K Skodvin and Otto A. Totland. Before I listened to, admired, and celebrated their solo works on here. And, before I met each one in person, and of course, before we naturally became friends. This is precisely why, when it came to launching Headphone Community and deciding on who I should profile there from the start, I reached out to Erik and his partner Monique Recknagel (who runs Sonic Pieces imprint) to pitch them this idea (it was actually when I visited their mi-so shop in Berlin). This is why Erik is the currently featured artist for the month of May on Headphone Community (join for just $1 for an intimate journey!), and this is why I am premiering this track for you today. It’s been another long period of silence for Deaf Center, but the two long-form pieces on Reverie clearly show that they have not put their collaboration on hold. If anything, it has only evolved into a hypnotic meditation on Otto’s keys and Erik’s strings, guitar, effects, and atmospherics, designed for a very deep listening session. The recordings actually come from a live performance in October 2024 in Rabih Beaini’s studio, Morphine Raum in Berlin, during the 15th anniversary celebration of Sonic Pieces. This is less of an improvisation and more of a dialogue between the two friends who haven’t spoken in a while. It is truly magical, and I only wish I could be there to experience it live.

In “Rev”, deeply effected piano motifs reverberate and echo in the depths of the room, evolving through looping and electronics into a blissful, mesmerising cloud of (dis)harmony. The sound is reminiscent of the 7inch “Vintage Well” mixed with the basic elements of 2011’s “Owl Splinters”. […] The immediate duality of the two performers has rarely been so strongly felt, Totland’s deep melodic feeling is underscored by Skodvin’s abstract ambience and processing. Dark versus light, loud versus quiet – this has always been at the core of what makes Deaf Center a special project.

TRACK PREMIERE : Deaf Center - Rev (excerpt)

Tracklist

01.  't Geruis - Picture Drawn For A Birthday
02. Aiko Takahashi - La Ligne Verte
03. James Osland and Andrew Heath -Enjoying The Passage Of Time
04. Federica Deiana -  Departure
05.  Pye Corner Audio - Beneath The Noise Floor Part Two
06. Francisco Sonur - Albura
07. Far away Nebraska - Echi distanti e un pensiero ricorrente
08.  Giannis Gogos - Fragments
09. Brian McBride - The Stringer to Light Feed Frenzy

421. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Believe it or not, I am not that great at self-promotion. So when it comes to using this very platform, I hesitate and stall. When it comes to shouting into the world about my music, I often feel a bit self-conscious. I'm sure that musicians understand what it takes to finally "release" their work into the world. It's both - a ball of tangled tension and a sigh of great relief. And so today, I finally get over that hurdle by announcing my new album on the esteemed Dronarivm imprint. The roots of Tarnished Tapes and Saturated Signals are deeply intertwined with those of Sacred Tonalities (Past Inside The Present, 2023). In fact, a couple of pieces are complex reworks and further explorations of themes. All of it is still a little hazy, deconstructed, and concealed. Not because I'm hiding something, but because you need to scratch at the layered surface to understand and know the truth. Most of you will have no trouble, as I hope my sounds will resonate with something that you also pushed inside. In the end, my curated journey through deconstructed electronica, cinematic ambience, and modern classical sound fuses into expansive nostalgia, reductionist pianism, and deep emotional atmosphere, hopefully evoking a sense of loss, disintegration, and the fragility of our temporal selves. And now I can move on...

TRACK PREMIERE : Mike Lazarev - The Final Resonance of Light

Tracklist

01.  Hiroshi Ebina - What Would They Say if They Were Still Here
02.  Olli Aarni - Pelkkä valo
03.  Hirotaka Shirotsubaki - Cloudy Sky in November
04.  Runaway Horses - Mirrored Self
05.  Francisco Sonur - Aurora
06.  The Green Kingdom -  Silent Stars Above
07.  Tomoyoshi Date and Bill Seaman - Duet 3
08.  Weareforests -  Dogwood
09.  Pye Corner Audio - Volcanic Rock
10.  't Geruis - Tendresse
11.  Yuri Urano - New Earth

422. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Tracklist

01. Ian Hawgood - No Walls To Contain These Fervent Spirits
02. Hadley Roe -  When I Look Back...
03. Celer -  Melancholy Movement III
04. Betts(JP) - Yosde 03
05. Samuel Regan - Tell Them I've Had a Wonderful Life
06. Lamasz & Thme - Lueurs
07.  Rhucle - In Haze
08. Pruski - Last Particle (feat. Tomasz Mreńca)
09. Aiko Takahashi -  Un Beau Matin D’Été
10.  Dalton Alexander - Modrý (Reprise)

423. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Tracklist

01. Claire Rousay & Gretchen Korsmo - Spiral Branches
02. James Osland - The Last Breath Of Summer
03. Ghost and Tape - Pardinyas
04. The Deccan Traps - Kinder Ascent 
05. Julia Gjertsen and Gustav Davidsson - Into The Night
06. Pye Corner Audio - Memoria Del Agua
07.  Hadley Roe - When I Look Back...
08. Ian Hawgood - Live Texture I
09. Glacis -  To Begin Again
10. Masaya Ozaki - Frá Vatni
11. Darren McClure -Fernlike

427. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Tracklist

01. Crane - Drifting Hours
02. Dalton Alexander -  Nico, Le Petit Chat Noir
03. Adrian Lane - Floating in the Memory Upon the River
04. Hadley Roe - Shadows Fill The Heart
05. Hiroshi Ebina - A Green House
06. Glåsbird - 2007
07. Federica Deiana - Tempest
08. Ishmael Cormack - Always Shifting 
09. Michael Santos -  360 Fade
10. r beny - fragile nowhere
11. Simon McCorry & Wodwo -  By Snail on its Slick of Light
12. Stijn Hüwels -  Décalage 5
13. Slow Heart Music - Solastalgia
14. The Lifted Index - Paresthesia

429. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Tracklist

01. Lake Mary & Daniel Wyche -Deer's Breathe In Every Color
02. Rhucle & morimoto naoki - Kisui
03. Folk Reels - Youth
04. Akira Film Script - O
05. Ghost and Tape - Paredes
06. Richard Ginns - Beneath Our Feet
07. Altars Altars -  Balu
08. América Analógica - Anochece

430. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Opening track from the new ten EP 'East of the Elm' released on limited 3"inch cd postcard available from our new website www.tenband.co.uk.  

East of the Elm

Dutch independent label focused on contemporary ambient / modern classical music.

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