c'è in giro da tempo una nuova 'musica assoluta', astratta, che sta fra la cosiddetta 'ambient music' e la 'drone music', nei pressi dei cosiddetti 'soundscape' o, meglio ancora, degli 'innerscape' .. a volte ha tratti più 'cameristici', o addirittura per strumento solista, a volte è più 'sinfonica' .. a volte usa solo sonorità 'sintetiche', a volte invece anche strumenti 'tradizionali' .. ha antecedenti illustri, sia nella cosiddetta musica 'classica', diciamo storica, sia nella 'popular music' e nel jazz .. a quella soprattutto io guardo

https://www.facebook.com/notes/marco-lucchi/musica-assoluta/10155811583217624/

dedica speciale a Florian Fricke

"musica assoluta" (marzo 2020)

Lend Me Your Radio - Mar 20

EPSILONIA_BSF_20200409

ambient

special

Editions Mego 2019 / 2020 / 2021

chill

#08 dream

Chimera

Taken from the album 'Suisse Redux' released as LP and Digital

François J. Bonnet & Stephen F. O'Malley 'assembled by Jim O'Rourke (excerpt)' (EMEGO 298)

Taken from the album 'Sky Dice / Mapping the Studio' released as LP and Digital

Marcus Schmickler 'Sky Dice / Mapping the Studio (excerpt)'  (EMEGO 296)

Taken from the album 'All Skies Sounded' released as 2LP, CD and Digital

The Transcendence Orchestra 'Satsuma Felt Slow' (EMEGO 304)

Taken from the album 'Irreal' released as CD and Digital

Irreal

BJ Nilsen 'Short circuit of the conscious thought' (EMEGO 305)

Taken from the album 'Piano Muisc 1-7' released as LP, CD and digital.


Editions Mego is proud to welcome Powell to its roster with a bizarre and strangely emotive new LP of synthetic computer works entitled Piano Music 1-7.

Via his own Diagonal Records imprint, his work on XL Recordings and, most recently, the opening of audio/film platform A Folder [afolder.studio], Powell has firm footing in the contemporary electronic landscape. During a wry and obstinate musical life he has twisted myriad synthetic forms into shapes that explore and expand upon the districts of post-punk, techno, noise + computer music, and in the the last year alone he has released four albums of hi-def abstractions, each inspired by a formalisation of music proposed by Iannis Xenakis. 

As an extension of this intense period of work/research/play with stochastic functions [using probabilities to compose music], various processes emerged that Powell then began to apply to more traditional musical events. Where ordinarily in his work the probabilities and relationships are used to define parameters such as wave-shape, folding, FM, filter modes etc., he now began to use them to create musical formations and visual scores that could be played back using any software/MIDI instrument [one of these can be seen on the rear cover of the LP release]. While mapping out this cartography of relations, he used a basic Grand Steinway sampler as a placeholder instrument; the longer the process went on, though, the more he began to embrace the acoustic properties of the synthetic piano and make it the bedrock for this new constellation of work. 

Piano Music 1-7, subtitled ‘Music for Synthetic Piano and Assorted Electronics’, consists of seven different synthetic islands strung together into a single composition. All were composed using the aforementioned processes that allowed Powell to play a piano, even if he never learned to do so with his hands. After all, ’In writing electronic music,’ Robin Mackay once wrote, ‘you also have to direct the invention of new tools.’

At times the piano skips gleefully over shadowing synthesis, whilst at others the synthetic sheets swarm and envelope the keys. The interplay between the two create a fantastical alternate reality, a cosmic machine in which time is eroded, shrunk and expanded, like a wax upon which operations and relations are inscribed or engraved. Many of the pieces express a playfulness or optimism verging on vitalism, as bundles of piano notes dance and interpolate with a never-repeating range of electronic gestures. The feel is of a brightly coloured flower-bed in various stage of bloom. This interplay of the [artifical] acoustic and the electronic builds on the pioneering processes developed by David Behrman in works such as Leapday Night, and Piano Music 1-7 could also be posited as a modern take on Conlon Nancarrow’s investigations for player piano. Similarly, the razor-sharp sonic properties and unfolding of non-human events recall the computer works of Xenakis and the surgical precision of Mego mainstay Florian Hecker.

Recorded in late 2020, these new Powell works propose not just a bold and bright vision of electronic music but serve also as a map with which, for 35 minutes at least, we can navigate our way out of the current milieu. As the artist himself remarks in the sleeve-notes, ‘. . . What emerged from this fog or soup [for me] were ideas and processes that felt affirmative and life giving — sensations I had always hoped to convey in my music. Perhaps the optimism or positivity I felt at these musical events unfolding, these clusters and knots tumbling in different directions across time, can also be felt by you.’

Music for Synthetic Piano and Assorted Electronics

Composed and recorded by Powell, 2020
Mixed by Powell and Tobin Jones at The Park Studios, London
Mastered by Russell Haswell

Art direction by Guy Featherstone
Photography by John Cronin

Powell 'Piano Music #1' (EMEGO 301)

"Arms and Legs"
From the forthcoming release: "Motormouth: Bob Ostertag Plays the Buchla 200e"
http://www.bobostertag.com/

"Arms and Legs" - Bob Ostertag

Marco Lucchi : synth and tape

morphing the central part of "Birth of Liquid Plejades" by Tangerine Dream
(Florian Fricke on Moog synth)

second track of the album "Kosmische"
http://www.batenimnetlabel.net/BN_LP019_10_16.html

27 agosto 2016

a tribute to Florian Fricke

https://marcolucchi.bandcamp.com/track/il-giardino-di-tutte-le-delizie free download

"Chiudiamo alla grande con un altrettanto grande e doveroso tributo a Florian Fricke e ai Tangerine Dream. Un'ora e zero cinque minuti di sospensione temporale sulle "note di una sola nota", un piccolo capolavoro di avanguardia tedesca ricreato da un maestro modenese in una calda estate settembrina del 2016. Il sempre prolifico Marco Lucchi ipnotizza e i Tangerine senz'altro ringraziano.
METEMPSICOSI ORFICA"

Mirco Salvadori - ROCKERILLA n. 434, Ottobre 2016

Il Giardino di Tutte le Delizie

Wide Open Spaces

People Like Us / Matmos / Wobbly -  Dolly Pardon (from Wide Open Spaces LP)

Tashi Wada with Yoshi Wada and Friends - Fanfare

Learn more: https://smarturl.it/frkwys14

©2018 RVNG Intl. // www.igetrvng.com

FRKWYS Vol. 14 - Nue

Tashi Wada with Yoshi Wada and Friends - Fanfare

Roman Flügel returns to his experimental roots on new album for Lovefingers' @esp-institute, opening with 'Theme I', falling somewhere between wistful ambient and melancholic drone.

Read more & buy: http://www.stampthewax.com/2018/10/18/premiere-roman-flugel-theme-i/
Listen on Youtube: http://bit.ly/flugel-themeI

[ESP076] Themes

Listen on Youtube

Roman Flügel - Theme I (STW Premiere)

Sea Smoke - Black Space White Cloud, Ultra Eczema

Vaagner and Vienna Press presents (A Declaration)⁣⁣
⁣⁣
Amethyst⁣⁣
Beton Tåge⁣⁣
Burning Pyre⁣⁣
Body of Intrigue⁣⁣
Canadian Rifles⁣⁣
Civilistjävel!⁣⁣
Ceramic Flowers ⁣⁣
Fortunes Brine⁣⁣
Isorinne⁣⁣
J. Carter⁣⁣
Korea Undok Group⁣⁣
Lisa Lerkenfeldt⁣⁣
Moss Harvest⁣⁣
O. Vaupel ⁣⁣
Rosewater⁣⁣
Սայաթ-Նովա 
Sorim Byeon ⁣⁣
Summer Rites⁣⁣
⁣⁣
–––––––––––––––––⁣⁣
⁣
Available 1.12.19.⁣

Summer Rites _ Jeux

A monthly collection of audio experiments and listening objects with sound artist Matt Burnett from Berlin.

Resonance Extra - 24/7 sound art, radio art and global music. Listen on DAB+ in Brighton, Bristol, Cambridge, London and Norwich or via http://extra.resonance.fm

Listening Experience #31 - Der Winterschlaf / Hibernation - Thursday the 26th of December 2019

After inaugurating sferic with the ’Synthetic Space’ LP in 2017, Echium now leads the way with a remarkably refined, even meticulous grasp of sound design steering away from purely “synthetic space” to imaginary spaces that smudge the listener’s perceptions of artificial and organic texture, tone and spatial dynamics

As part of the next wave of artists innovating within dub techno and experimental ambient zones, Echium looks to loosen up its strictures while playing deep within its unfathomable dimensions, literally urging a dematerialisation of mindsets and musical structures...

Edition of 300 copies on translucent orange vinyl, housed in hi gloss sleeve.
Mastered & cut by Stefan Betke at scape mastering.
Distribution : Boomkat
Vinyl & Digital out March 2020.

A1. Collapsed Senses
A2. Overlapped Fluidity
A3. Considered Instances
A4. Yellow-flowered
A5. Melt

B1. Glacial Rust
B2. Sunken
B3. Multiple Frameworks
B4. Adaptive Senses : Reflection

https://boomkat.com/products/disruptions-of-form

https://sferic.bandcamp.com/album/disruptions-of-form

@echium_air

Echium - Disruptions Of Form (sferic005) [Preview]

from the album 'allegiance and conviction' available 3/27

Allegiance and Conviction

windy and carl 'moth to the flame'

Taken from the album 'Ingrid' released as one sided LP and digital

Klara Lewis 'Ingrid (excerpt)' (EMEGO 270)

oberlin - grauer morgen, ungewisse bilder_medley

Movement 2 from my 2020 exhibition 'La morte mi troverà vivo' (death will find me alive). The whole piece can be found on bandcamp  or my website including catalogue essays and photos/video 
https://nomatesensemble.bandcamp.com/album/la-morte-mi-trover-vivo  
https://www.matward.net/la-morte-mi-trover-vivo
Childhood Garden is built from a field recording taken at the childhood home of Luigi Russolo in Portogruaro and was one of three pieces i took to and played at Luigi Russolo's grave as a form of 'calling ' to his spirit.

Childhood Garden-Portogruaro (La morte mi troverà vivo -mov.2)

there again

Taken from album 'in cobalt aura sleeps' released as LP and Digital

Kassel Jaeger  Jim O'Rourke 'in cobalt aura sleeps 2 (excerpt)' (EMEGO 272)

Track from the new album "A Figure of Loss" releases 24 April 2020. Preorder now from Midheaven and Boomkat

A Figure of Loss

Cautery

MIDHEAVEN

A FIGURE OF LOSS : CAUTERY

Pango 2 3

Excerpt from a live performance at Paris Gaîté Lyrique. Released on the 2020 Compilation, "Music For Containment".

Sinking (live Variations)

Quand tout semble aller bien c'est qu'on a oublié le détail qui réduira nos chances à néant!!

Fyszoboltk

opening track of BÉRANGÈRE MAXIMIN's upcoming album "Land of Waves" . 2xLP / DL

BÉRANGÈRE MAXIMIN - Day 41

We conceive the world around as reality… as a solid state of being… but it is not… it is a stage set… a construct… a frame… a bubble in which we float…

Only very few things can make cracks in this construction… and shake our belief in this static world… but the current virus going round the world (2019-2020) is one of those things able to puncture holes in our bubble… and show an alternate reality beyond the stage set…

So… welcome to the new reality… the next reality… or the more real reality as the reality perceived before… accept uncertainty… and accept fear… accept loss… accept the now... and accept this as a new standard…

A moment of recognition like this asks for contemplation… sit back… think…read… listen to music…

This free digital compilation was curated for this specific moment and consists of some (but not including all) of my personal favourite tracks taken from vinyl records I released in the last few years. Several of the artists on this compilation have a bandcamp page where you can get the complete release the track featured here is taken from. Please support these artists if you can...

Below is the tracklisting... the complete compilation can be listened and/or downloaded here...

01 Ô Paradis - Tiempo
02 Europ Europ - Desert Moon Over Me
03 Zosima - White Nights
04 Neugeborene Nachtmusik - God is a Crocodile
05 Monocorpse - On the other side of the mirror
06 Vitriol - So are Venom!
07 Unhuman - Seven days
08 Sturqen - Ruina
09 Leroy Se Meurt - Lağım
10 TWINS - Wait For Harm
11 RADKO - Cherno PPP

08 Sturqen - Ruina

WIP has a double meaning: Wata Igarashi Productions / Work In Progress. That’s the basic idea: to use this as a platform for sharing my music. WIP is meant as a direct way to express myself and present what I am feeling and working on. For now, WIP will be digital only and exclusive to Bandcamp.
 
Originally, I planned to start with a series of techno releases, but that is not what I am feeling like now. And so WIP01 is composed of two calmer and more reflective tracks. ‘Clear’ was made during cherry blossom season in Japan; the warmth and beauty of the start of spring inspired me. ‘Flow’ is very simple, I used just five oscillators and wanted to create a feeling of flow, getting lost in frequencies as they modulate organically.
 
I hope you enjoy WIP01 and I am looking forward to sharing more music with you here in the future. Take care during these challenging times,

Wata
_________________

WIPは”Wata Igarashi Productions”と”Work In Progress”という２つの意味があり、自分がその時々に感じた事や表現したい音をよりダイレクトにアウトプットする場として作りました。現時点ではWIPはBandcampでのデジタルリリースのみとなります。

元々レーベルのスタートはテクノEPと思っていましたが、実際今はそんな気持ちではなく、WIP01はビートが無い今の自分を反映したアンビエント方向の２曲で構成する事にしました。”Clear”は自粛中でありながらも暖かくなり桜が舞う春にインスパイアされて作った曲。”Flow”はとてもシンプルで、５つのオシレーターのみが使われています。倍音がオーガニックに変化する音の流れに漂い没入できるサウンドスケープを目指しました。

今後この場で音楽をシェアできればと思います。
大変な時期ですがお気をつけて。

Wata

WIP01

Clear

During these quiet days I have been spending a lot of time in my studio and want to share some of what I have been producing. At this moment, I have been enjoying making more ambient and cosmic tracks, and through these exploring different production techniques and energies. This is what you can find across these four tracks. WIP02 really conveys my feeling now, I hope you enjoy them.
Thanks for listening and take care,
Wata

この静かな日々の間、本当に多くの時間をスタジオでの音楽制作に費やしており、この期間生まれたいくつかの楽曲がWIP02となりました。現在、自分はよりアンビエントやコズミックなトラックを作ることを楽しんでおり、これらを通して、これまでとは異なる新たな制作技術とエネルギーを探求しています。WIP02は今の自分の気持ちをストレートに表現した作品です。楽しんでいただけたら幸いです。
まだまだお気をつけて。
Wata

Flow II

Unfold

Taken from the album 'Feeling The Spirit' released as LP, CD and Digital

The Transcendence Orchestra 'The Golden Jaws Of The Celestial Vice' (EMEGO 282)

Independent record company based in Vienna.
For Spectrum Spools go here: https://soundcloud.com/spectrumspools