Lend Me Your Radio - Apr 17

Taken from the album 'City Of Women' released as LP / Download

City Of Women 

Loke Rahbek 'A Mess of Love' (EMEGO 237)

"////\\" by Second Woman from "S/W" due out April 21, 2017.

"////\\" by Second Woman

Mirage

Chihei Hatakeyama - starlight and black echo

Argentinian musician Federico Durand returns with his 2nd full length album on 12k following 2016’s A Través Del Espejo (12k1085). Taking his already minimalist composition style Federico challenged himself by using only one synthesizer for this beautiful album of sparse, hypnotic dustiness. His talent for creating works of so much emotion out of so little attest to his concentration when working and his passion for the craft. La Niña Junco is a handwoven gem. Music with a humble origin and a deep resonating soul.  Famed Argentinian artist Lola Goldstein graciously illustrated the album cover, caputuring the idea of memory and object that is so infused with Federico’s work.

“Immersed in the beauty of the very moment, the songs for La Niña Junco were recorded in one take during two days, in a rush of inspiration. I used a small sound palette: one instrument, a Crumar Performer synthesizer along with two looping pedals and Roland Space Echo RE-201. The Crumar was my first synthesizer. I bought it many years ago and then gave it to a friend, who later lent it to my brother. After a very long time, I got it back when we moved to La Cumbre, a small town in the central mountain area of Argentina. As this instrument has a very limited but beautiful oscilator, it was rewarding to make small melodies using only its almost magical sound. I was enchanted to have the chance to play with my Crumar again: in many ways this album feels like returning to an early home. The electric noises of my old, broken keyboard, were an unexpected and musical gift and a humble proof of the passing of time.”

– Federico Durand, La Cumbre, 2017

La Niña Junco

Navidad en el bosque

from the forthcoming album "Invisible Summer"
http://midirarecords.com/md-041-the-star-pillow-invisible-summer/

visit tiny mix tapes to watch the impressive video for "The End Is A Beginning":
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/news/star-pillow-announce-new-album-invisible-summer-premiere-video-end-beginning

Invisible Summer

Midira Shop

The Star Pillow - The End Is A Beginning

out on April 28th
dronarivm.com

"Avifaunal" is the latest album from UK based duo Pausal, the audio and visual art project of Alex Smalley and Simon Bainton. It follows previous releases on labels such as Barge Recordings, Students of Decay, Own Records and Infraction. Individually, Alex has released numerous works under his Olan Mill alias and Simon has released on Hibernate Records. 

Their music has been described as "billowing, vaporous, and cloud-like", "a shimmering haze of humid ambience and sparkling field recordings", "a colourful, yet ghostly, world of slow-moving, rejuvenating sound". Live shows are a complete immersive experience, utilising large scale visuals created by the band. They have performed across the UK and in Europe supporting artists such as Grouper, Mountains, Stars of the Lid, Chihei Hatakeyama and Greg Haines. 

In 2015 the band were asked by Martin Boulton of Touched Music to perform in Pembrokeshire, Wales and set about generating new material for the show. It was also an opportunity to develop a new equipment setup including looped turntable, voice microphones and synths. A local hall was hired for improvisation and practice sessions which provided an interesting sonic space to explore and possibilities to work at far louder volumes, both of which helped shape the eventual live set and the track "Murmuration" as that is represented here. "Spiral", "Scatter" and "Soar" were also edited and assembled from the recording sessions around this time. 

Taken as a whole, the resulting album is a diverse affair but could be said to have more in common with their heavier work to date (such as "Forms", 2012) combined with an appreciation of texture (previously evident on "Sky Margin", 2013) than the ambient material they are perhaps better known for ("Lapses", 2010 and "Along The Mantic Spring", 2014). From the crackling drone fog of "Murmuration I" and darkly psychedelic "Murmuration II" - through to the urgent percussive metallics on "Scatter" and serene synth-scapes of "Soar"; there is a wide ranging sound world here for the listener to experience and just as the title of the record suggests, they are encouraged to allow mind to take flight...

Mastered by Porya Hatami

Avifaunal

Buy CD / DL

PAUSAL - Murmuration III (from 'Avifaunal" CD)

The treated saxophone of Jim Slade vs. the erratic spooling of our tape machine known as Delia - apparently on her last legs. Recorded live at The Social, London, 25.04.7 - unmastered, apart from a tiny bit of hiss reduction. 
Thanks to Sonic Cathedral, Ulrich Schnauss and Richard Norris!

Lend Me Your Radio - Apr 17

Julian / LMYE