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Fljóta & Brombaer - Unknown Passage

Taken from my debut LP "Ichiru".

Stream/Buy the full album (12 tracks LP)-(CD/Digital): 
Bandcamp : modernarecords.bandcamp.com/album/ichiru
iTunes : itunes.apple.com/ca/album/ichiru/id1198539909
Spotify : open.spotify.com/album/4rVHa8DsyPyT12IMpdSQOL

written and recorded by me


""
happy new year :') 
this recording is a 2016 version of "close". well.. kind of.

i want to say a huge thank you to everyone who has been taking your time to listen to my pieces since 2015.  i had an amazing year and learned so much about music, cultures and got to know so many amazing people through sound cloud. this year, i will be more active so i hope you will stay in touch with me and my music.  arigato gozaimasu :')

love,
daigo

Ichiru

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Close (2016)

Watch Rival Consoles go Against The Clock: http://www.factmag.com/2016/09/08/rival-consoles-against-the-clock/

Rival Consoles - Against The Clock

Mashup made  in a sleepless night, two songs merged together and it comes a new, intriguing and fascinating song, I hope you enjoy!  Deep ambient,  for open-minded listeners .

Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto & Jack DeJohnette -  Disturbed Anatolia

Zahn | Hatami | McClure - Cyntr

Taken from FCQ004 Charles & The Fury - Resonances

Audio: 192 mp3

FCQ004 Charles & The Fury - With Your Love

Purl & protoU - 'Sub Life' 
Label; Dronarivm 
Cat #.: DR-60
Format: CD (ltd. 150)/ DL
Release date: June 7th, 2019

“Sub Life" grows out of a blend of nature inducted ambiances as the artists conduct an emotional exploration of the natural world. The album draws its energy from primal forces constantly moving, around us and within us. Lush field recordings combined with human voices and instruments evolve into an immersive journey for dreamy minds.'

Mastered by Tobias Hellkvist
Original photo by Magda Kozuba

Buy CD / DL

Purl & protoU - Sacred Fluids

Taken from Shaw Cuts' compilation, Sentiment Series Vol. 2, out July 22.

Pre-order: https://shawcuts.bandcamp.com/album/sentiment-series-vol-2

@shaw-cuts
@quiem-aka-lachriz

Sentiment Series Vol. 2

Orb Premieres

Premiere: Quiem - Parlance

REMO SEELAND - Hollow Body, LP

A1) Body Innovation (04:20)
A2) Hollow City (07:24) 
A3) Second Coming (04:29)
B1) Pulse Points Green (05:33)
B2) Whoosh Before Laya (08:19)
B3) Night Within (05:04)

Release date - Sept 13th 2019 
Catalogue nr. - HG1903
Format - Vinyl/digital

All music composed and played by Remo Seeland
Recorded in New York, Reykjavik and Zurich

Guests:
Steve Fors, trombone on “Second Coming”
Reinier van Houdt, e-bowed guitar on “Hollow City” and Rhodes organ on “Pulse Points Green”
Norman Westberg, guitars on “Body Innovation” and “Hollow City”

Digital mastering by Jeremy Cox
Vinyl mastering by Rob Viso
Mix and production by Roger Hofmann and Remo Seeland
Inlay Photo by Ralph Kuehne
Artwork and photo by Ruth Stofer

Promotion by Dense Promotion, ed@dense.de 
Distribution by Cargo Records and A-Musik
Released by Hallow Ground

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Remo Seeland’s “Hollow Body” is a suspenseful exploration of the interaction between sound environments and individual perception. It was sparked by an intense physical experience the Swiss artist had during a residency in New York City. “The subway became a sort of ‘atonal symphony’ for me, provoking a full-body experience with the rattling of the overcrowded, airless trains,” the Hallow Ground founder explains. “However, while the old subway is not exactly beloved by everyone, it also represented for me the melancholic meta-level of the moloch above it.” The album, his first under his given name, makes this disparity audible over six tracks in which the visceral and the personal become at once abstract and universal. 

Based on field recordings from both urban and rural environments, “Hollow Body” aims to mirror another of Seeland’s psychosonic encounters. “In the highlands of Iceland, I noticed my pulse lowering and my breathing decelerating,” he says. “Just shortly after that, a single insect’s buzzing seemed so loud to me that I became even more aware of the silence surrounding me.” Silence, perception, order and the curious dialectics of the outside world and the inner workings of the human psyche are the central questions of “Hollow Body”.

Recorded in New York, Reykjavík and Zurich, “Hollow Body” draws extensively on field recordings and sees Seeland collaborating with Hallow Ground-affiliated artists Norman Westberg (Swans, guitar on “Body Innovation” and “Hollow City”) and Reinier van Houdt (Current 93, e-bowed guitar on “Hollow City” and Rhodes organ on “Pulse Points Green”), as well as the Swiss-based US-American musician Steve Fors (Deaf At Sea, trombone on “Second Coming”). The diversity of the source material is mirrored in the stylistic richness Seeland lays out with this LP. From the lush, bass-heavy drones of the opener “Body Innovation” to the downbeat-driven “Second Coming” and, finally, the haunting organ sounds of “Night Within”, “Hollow Body” forms a holistic entity that integrates idiosyncratic compositions into a coherent narrative.

“Hollow Body” was also conceptually inspired by Seeland’s research as a cultural scientist with a focus on Southeast Asian cultures, specifically the anomic tantric cults of India. It thus serves as a mediator between not only the individual experience of site-specific sounds and general ideas of sound production in and about space, but also between different compositional techniques ranging from drones to synthesized vocals and more primitive forms of ritualistic music. Its sonic abundancy is to be understood as a direct result of its underlying idea: at its most challenging, this record also makes the most coherent statements about the order of space, sound and their cryptic relationship with the human body.

Hollow Body

REMO SEELAND - Hollow City (feat. Reinier van Houdt and Norman Westberg) - HG1903

With our next release we welcome back Nicola Fornasari who is one half of La Petite Vague, a project which we’ve almost exclusively supported across Whitelabrecs and our sister label Audio Gourmet. Nicola also records solo work as Xu, with material released through labels such as Eilean, Cathedral Transmissions and most recently, Manyfeetunder.

The next album in the Xu catalog is ‘Embodying Formlessness’, which Nicola created by recording improvisations performed on his daughter Nina’s toy ukulele and then setting these into non-synchronised loops. These were made by using various pedals by experimenting with ‘blind looping’, a technique used to create unpredictable variations of a certain loop. Additional sounds were layered into the compositions by adding minibrute parts which were also fed into effects pedals and these provide an array of high and low frequencies.
The resulting sound throughout the six tracks that encompass this album is one of a tactile minimalism and the sound itself is a representation of the concept.

In the period during which Embodying Formlessness was created, Nicola was studying the Two Truths, fundamental points developed by Buddhist philosopher Nāgārjuna. These consist of Relative Truth, which is the conventional way in which we perceive reality and Absolute Truth, which is the theory that objects and events have no intrinsic existence and no individual identity, except in our thoughts. Both perspectives are true and neither intellectual position is the correct one. So in summary, phenomena are both real and not real; things exist, yet nothing exists.
There is a sentence in the Heart Sutra which inspired the title for this album:
Form is no other than emptiness; emptiness no other than form. Form is exactly emptiness; emptiness exactly form.

Embodying Formlessness sets out a short collection of existential pieces, crafted from the random placement of melodic source material, adorned with subtle electronics. This provides an ideal backdrop to contemplate the theme of the Two Truths, as you try to separate the difference of what is real and what is perceived.

embodying formlessness

wlr063 xu - embodying formlessness

"Drone Works Vol. 3 - A Compilation Of Contemporary Drone And Ambient Sounds" celebrates the third year of DRONE WORKS INTERNATIONAL with 15 amazing artists from all across the world, combining about hundred minutes of complex sound experience.

DWI likes to thank all artists involved. More information about each artist at each track. Please support them and check out their music.

Tracklist:
01. Vinny Vortex - Off The Radar
02. Velo Di Nebbia – Luminoso (Rework)
03. Lofield - Another Tomorrow
04. Logic Moon – Dolor
05. Deep Tremolo Sustain - Off Shore
06. 9VoltDisaster - Footprint
07. Phalioo - On A Dirt Road Guided By A Flashlight
08. Kraut Sounds - In Transition
09. Whalt Thisney - Nothing Alone Is Greater Than Itself
10. Jörgen Kjellgren - Warm Luminous 1
11. Mila Drone - North Beach
12. Polaroid Notes - Dissolve (Drone Rework)
13. Carbonates On Mars - Propranolol Nights
14. Tom Cadillac - Gully Ghosts
15. D.Y.H.M? - Rabbit In The Headlights

Download @ https://droneworksinternational.bandcamp.com/album/v-a-drone-works-vol-3

Release Date: 26th December 2019
Drone Works International DWI 21

Bandcamp

V.A. - Snippets Of Drone Works Vol. 3 (DWI 21)

"My name is Devin Underwood and I make many different styles of music under the name Specta Ciera (https://soundcloud.com/specta_ciera) . I also create electro/house music as Devroka. I love working with other musicians and have many collaboration releases as well."
More info can be found at http://spectaciera.com

Tracklist:

Eluder - Dusk Invites The Dark
Sleepy Town Manufacture & Unit 21 - Pairwise
Darren Harper - Brush
Porn Sword Tobacco - Evans Sundown Corp.
Krill minima - Submarine Poetry
Mind over MIDI - Linear
Ishq - The Sun Arcs A Smile
Voder - Leaving Cylon Tape Loop

Have a good listening.

Deep Breakfast 048 - Specta Ciera

The brothers Samu and Ville Kuukka from Helsinki, Finland, making music together since they were teenagers, and trying their hand at many styles, came upon a unique sound in 2004 and thus were born The Gentleman Losers (https://soundcloud.com/the-gentleman-losers). Their mix of ambient aesthetics, lo-fi-but-hi-fi production, post-rock leanings, a hint of Americana, and a dark undercurrent, has earned them a cult following – which is way cooler than being a stupid lame-o big name and selling lots of records and tickets and t-shirts and stickers.

Tracklist:

1 Ceremony in Starlight  Mark Isham, Art Lande
2 Glass Shattering  Yoshio Ojima
3 El Conquistador  Daniel Lanois
4 Ayers Rock Bubble Eyes  Wally Badarou
5 The Emigrant Hannu Karjalainen
6 Rabbits in The Path Midori Hirano
7 Installation Tapani Rinne
8 Pleasantly Lost Emilia
9 Nexus On The Beach Roberto Musci
10 Raw Silk Uncut Wood Laurel Halo
11 John Cage 13 Harmonies: No. 10 GreenwichNoel Akchoté
12 Sketch Julien Neto
13 Wind in Black Trees The Gentleman Losers
14 It Tolls for Thee Vito Ricci

Have a good listening.

Deep Breakfast 049 - The Gentleman Losers

caduceus ep. (bandcamp digital download ep.)

stabilo-loadbang.bandcamp.com/album/caduceus-ep

:art work

stabilo (speaker gain teardrop

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pulse of rain

Alessandro is an electronic music producer, DJ and record collector based in Switzerland.
For his contribution to Deep Breakfast Series, the man delivers a special 2hr journey into the realms of ambient and experimental music.

~ DB058 by https://soundcloud.com/alessandro_crimi ~

Tracklist:
01. Linkwood - Suspension (Linkwood)
02. AXS - Distant Receptor (Cold Fiction)
03. Clubsessel - Wiesenliegen (K2 O)
04. Space Afrika - sd/tl (Sferic)
05. Aquarium - Swimming (Silver Lake)
06. Gallery Six - Morgunn (Dewtone)
07. Laslo - Maradek (Greta Cottage Woodpile)
08. Skóll - V (Accent Records)
09. DSN. - Code 69 Revisited (Source)
10. Leafar Legov - Family Is Everything (Giegling)
11. Qik - Ensueña (Aula Magna)
12. Saphileaum - Violet Pond (Silent Season)
13. Aquarium - Floating (Silver Lake)
14. DT-90 - Magnetosphere (Space Of Variants)
15. 2030 - Theta (Subosc)
16. Sa Pa - Room With A View (Mana)
17. Earthen Sea - Living Space (Kranky)
18. Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek - Helio (Faitiche)
19. Howes - Cold Storage A.03 (Cong Burn)
20. Submersion & mon0 - Passage Of Silence (Silent Season)
21. Sraunus - Glaxomi III (Kunst Musik)

Have a good listening.

Deep Breakfast 058 - Alessandro Crimi

" Recently I found myself listening to more music that comforts me and serve as sort of an emotional scaffolding. I pulled together some pieces which I find to have a healing quality which I hope to be able to relay to you. ”

~ Deep Breakfast 065 by Night Dives (https://soundcloud.com/divedeep) ~

Tracklist:
01. Laraaji - Ocean Flow Zither
02. Bark Psychosis - Pendulum Man
03. Global Communication - 4 14
04. Windy & Carl - The Smell Of Old Books
05. Hiroshi Yoshimura - ミスト (Mist)
06. Glåsbird - Søvnfjord
07. Glåsbird - Fjernfjord
08. S.hel - Eia Popeia
09. Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Palace Of Time
10. Boris Salchow - Stars
11. Gigi Masin - How To Disappear In A Kiss
12. Bedroom - Apart Worlds (Ft. Yoga)
13. Suso Sáiz - Frogs In Love
14. Marsen Jules - Oeillet En Delta
15. Ju ca - Chasms
16. Melaine Dalibert - Musique Pour Le Lever Du Jour

Have a good listening.

Photo credit: Marcus Chong

Deep Breakfast 065 - Night Dives

Bay Area, CA tape and modular artist r beny is today releasing his new track ‘northern breath’ ahead of the release of ‘Seafoam & Dust’ this Friday. ‘northern breath’ appears exclusively on ‘Seafoam & Dust’ as a bonus track, closing ‘Eistla’.

LISTEN/BUY: https://dauw.bandcamp.com/album/seafoam-dust

r beny - northern breath

“For your pleasure: newest and latest favorites from my rotations, some blasts from the past plus some great stuff you may have not heard of. Melodic classic ambient gems, haunting melodies, nostalgic tones, deep relaxing colors with moving pastels and some tasty guitar sprinkled in of which I’ll share with you. These have influenced me and inspired my love of this beautiful art form.” 
Hipnotic Earth has been releasing ambient albums since 2015 and has some upcoming new albums on Whitelabrecs, Past Inside the Present, Dronarivm and a track on Shimmering Moods. In February, Rare Quiet Day was released on Healing Sound Propagandist, and in May two remixes on Liquid Bloom’s ‘ReGen: Deep Ambient Remixes.’

~ Deep Breakfast 068 by https://soundcloud.com/hipnoticearth ~

Tracklist:
0:00:00 - Adrift by Pleq & Hakobune [https://pleq.bandcamp.com/album/adrift]
0:04:14 - Dissolve by Tear Ceremony [https://tearceremony.bandcamp.com/album/film-decay]
0:08:38 - Falling Hum by Altars Altars [https://altarsaltars.bandcamp.com/album/kind-hums-cassette]
0:16:25 - Gloriously Gentle, Warm & Fuzzy by Halftribe [https://halftribe.bandcamp.com/album/backwater-revisited]
0:20:41 - Still Wandering by vidnaObmana [https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/revealed-by-composed-nature]
0:26:41 - Eight by Nobuto Suda [https://organic-industries.bandcamp.com/album/transitoriness-oi010]
0:32:55 - The Seduction Of Dr. Pasteur by Richard Bone [https://www.discogs.com/Richard-Bone-Serene-Life-Of-Microbes/release/834490]
0:40:05 - Natur - Dub 01 by Dubicity [https://bionika.bandcamp.com/album/natur-dubicity]
0:45:31 - Naiima, An Excerpt by zakè (扎克) & Tyresta [https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/healing-sounds-a-compilation-for-hurricane-recovery]
0:47:29 - Enoch by Bubble [https://bubble9.bandcamp.com/album/01]
0:52:48 - Refresh, Restore by Spheruleus [https://spheruleus.bandcamp.com/album/night-spheres-ep]
0:57:59 - Monsoon I (Anticipation) by Lycia [https://lycia.bandcamp.com/album/ionia]
1:00:59 - Map In Hand, Pt. 4 (Epilogue) by Seaworthy [https://12kmusic.bandcamp.com/album/map-in-hand]
1:05:09 - Quiet Boy by Black Brunswicker [https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/hidden-amongst-the-trees-and-foothills]
1:10:42 - Voyagers by Gallery Six with Lights Dim [https://lightsdim.bandcamp.com/album/young-city-ep]
1:15:00 - It's Not The Same Without You by Slow Clinic [https://audiogourmet.bandcamp.com/album/the-things-i-leave-behind]
1:21:15 - Once In The Summer Morning When The Sun Was High by Murkok [https://www.discogs.com/murkok-Investigation/release/7652409?sort=catno&sort_order=]
1:25:55 - Looking Into The Past by Benn Jordan [https://bennjordan.bandcamp.com/album/pale-blue-dot]
1:30:02 - Song For Staring by Swell Sounds [https://ache-label.bandcamp.com/album/ache-compilation-001]
1:33:38 -  Fern And Robin by Loscil [https://loscil.bandcamp.com/album/endless-falls]
1:40:27 - спускаясь в самую глубь by Blank Embrace [https://blankembrace.com/album/--63]
1:46:40 - Coastal Lows by Halftribe [https://archivesdubmusic.bandcamp.com/album/daydreams-in-low-fidelity]
1:49:34 - Osmund by Stabilo (Speaker Gain Teardrop) [https://stabilo-loadbang.bandcamp.com/album/unknown-tracks-08-12]
1:53:41 - Flam by José Soberanes [https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/the-rising-tide]

Have a good listening.

Support the artist

Deep Breakfast 068 - Hipnotic Earth

Purchase: secretpyramid.bandcamp.com/album/embers
Catalog #: GN62
August 20, 2020
LP+DIGI

Secret Pyramid is the nom de nocturne of Vancouver, BC’s resident ambient explorer Amir Abbey. Having perfected his brand of elegant elegia over the past decade heard on albums released by illustrious imprints as Students of Decay, Ba-Da-Bing!, and Nice Up International and collaborated with the likes of Loscil, Abbey makes his Geographic North debut with 'Embers,' Secret Pyramid’s most sincerely solemn and curiously calming work to date.

Embers’ six pieces find Abbey furroughing a few of his most trusted tools (including Ondes Martenot, sampler, Space Echo, two tape machines, and a computer), while taking a more compositional approach than his past works. This method opened entirely new aural possibilities and allowed Abbey to consider, manipulate, and re-consider each passing tone. The end result is an exquisitely enveloping work of contemporary ambient music that is equally inspired by and spiritually linked to influential French composer Olivier Messiaen, the progenitors of Dub, and a number of ephemeral oddities in between. 

Sonically, 'Embers' reveals some of Secret Pyramid’s most minimal and open works yet. Certain pieces (such as “Pins,” “Particles,” and “Ohms”) employ a single instrument or sound source with only a modicum of manipulation. This “less is more” approach gave each sound actual room to breathe and find a balance of beauty and dissonance, and the magical transition between the two.

Emotionally, the music was created during a particularly turbulent time in Abbey’s life, allowing him to process things musically. In his own words, “It’s a reflection of the impermanent, shifting, and fleeting aspects of our lives, both the good and the bad, that often spark something inside of us. Aspects of our daily existence, and the self (whether our emotions, surroundings, relationships,) that are constantly morphing, disappearing, reappearing, burning out, reigniting, and so forth, metaphorically like flares or embers.”

Secret Pyramid - "Flares"

@AwakenedSouls remix from “Soledad” by @PepoGalan

https://stereoscenic.bandcamp.com/album/soledad