Excerpts from Sprækker (Cracks) - dance performance / installation, DK, 2021

Release: arbitrary, TBA, 2022

http://madsemilnielsen.dk/SPRAKKER-CRACKS

Sprækker / Cracks - excerpts

Jo Johnson has been releasing music and organising events since the early 90s. She is a regular performer at Freerotation festival in the UK, and organises electronic music events with Bleep43 in London. Her debut solo album, Weaving, was released on Further Records in 2014 and has been described as a modern classic.  Her latest solo release, The Wave Ahead, came out earlier this year on Brooklyn-based label, Mysteries of the Deep. Jo also collaborates with pianist and composer, Hilary Robinson, and they have a live album, Session One, on 9128.live (a sub-label of A Strangely Isolated Place).

“It's been a pleasure to spend time listening to someone else’s music rather than my own! I've been writing and playing out much more this year, which has been amazing, but it's not left as much time for listening, so it's been refreshing and inspiring to delve into some of the great music that's been coming out recently. I've created a Buy Music list – please support the artists and labels included by paying for their work, if you can, and helping them to keep making great music." - Jo

Tracklist:

Luke Sanger - Ghosts of the Uranium Forest (Frequency Domain, 2023)
Jo Johnson – Untitled (unreleased, 2023)
Xenia Pestova Bennett - King of Cats (Pomeranian Snout/TakuRoku, 2023/2020)
Bana Haffar -  Save This Manual For The Future (Touch, 2023)
Ryan J Raffa - All At Once (Group Tightener, 2023)
Cate Brooks – Tapeworks I (Café Kaput, 2023)
Imaginary Softwoods – Chalked Outlines Of A Polybius Square (Field Records, 2023)
D1G - Drawing 1 (self-released on Bandcamp, 2022)
Bea Brennan – Everlasting (Old Technology, 2022)
Simon McCorry – Full Circle (Polar Seas, 2021)
Florian Fricke – Spirit of Peace I-III (Celestial Harmonies, 1983)
KMRU – MR4 (self-released on Bandcamp, 2022)
Field Lines Cartographer – Sunrise Through Wires (Castles in Space, 2023)
Jo Johnson – Orbit (Mysteries of the Deep, 2023)
Patricia Wolf – People Moving Freely (i u we records, 2021)

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Buy Music Club: https://www.buymusic.club/list/werkhouse-the-observatory-mix-jo-johnson

Also, Jo recently launched a Bandcamp subscription service. If you love her music as much as we do, please consider supporting her and subscribing. The first offerings to subscribers are two stunning improvisations recorded just recently.

Subscribe: https://jojohnson.bandcamp.com/subscribe

And catch Jo playing at IKLECTIK on 16th June, supporting Luigi Tozzi, Laura BCR, and Luke Carter.

IKLECTIK: https://iklectikartlab.com/luigi-tozzi-live-jo-johnson-live-laura-bcr-dj-luke-carter-dj/

The Observatory - Jo Johnson

1. John Cage - Radio Music (00:00:08)
2. Josiah Steinbrick - Interior Districts Of The Spirit World (00:00:48)
3. Jules Reidy - Trances II (00:04:11)
4. Svitlana Niainio & Tom James Scott - Lotus (00:09:55)
5. Cocteau Twins - Otterly (00:14:20)
6. Hermeneia & Zaumne - In The Soil (00:18:09)
7. People Skills - Convent Inventory Man (00:21:50)
8. Guest & Birthmark - Freeze In The Aisle (00:26:25)
9. Disco Inferno - Footprints In The Snow (00:29:49)
10. Actress - Hit That Spdiff (00:34:05)
11. Animal Collective - Loch Raven (00:41:26)
12. Simon McCorry - Resonant Field 02 (00:44:59)
13. Tara Clerkin Trio - Brigstow (00:47:53)
14. Troth - Angel Not So Easy (00:54:30)
15. Silzedrek - Kristopher Kolumbo Inaction Ark (00:58:52)
16. Ot To, Not To - It Loved... (01:00:35)
17. Asha Sheshadri - Whiplash (01:04:32)
18. Matana Roberts - Unbeknownst (01:10:55)
19. Wayne Phoenix - Alone (01:16:37)
20. Christian Mirande - The Sine Duet (01:16:36)
21. Safa - Supersummer (01:18:47)
22. Teresa Winter - Child Of Nature (01:21:05)
23. Doug Wieselman - Fourviere (01:27:55)
24. Kirk Barley - Marionette (01:33:24)
25. Stano - Across The Foggy Dew (01:38:26)
26. Jonnine - As You Sleep By My Feet (01:41:35)
27. Annette Brissett - Betrayed Dub (01:45:32)
28. The 012 - Let's Get Professional (01:48:50)
29. Cedric IM Brooks & The Light Of Saba - Collie Version (01:53:08)
30. The Crystalites - Concentration (01:56:45)

130701 - A Dream Across The Border 51 - Radio Show On 1BTN - 14.01.24

Winter batch 2024 pre-order is out now!
Order here:
https://muzaneditions.bandcamp.com/album/on-thin-air

Ryan J Raffa & Nico Rosenberg - When We Stop To See

LLYN Y CWN - 'Megaliths' CD

Step into the shadows of ancient mysticism as Llyn Y Cwn, the maestro of Welsh dark ambient, unveils the mesmerising odyssey that is "Megaliths". A profound exploration of the sacred resonance embedded within stone circles, capturing years of field recordings from the silent and enigmatic monuments that stand as timeless witnesses to the ebb and flow of existence.

Ben Powell has crafted a sonic voyage that mirrors the sacred spaces marked by stoic pillars of rock, each track representing a specific site. Delving deep into the esoteric significance of stone circles, the album portrays these structures not merely as historical relics but as religious ceremonial sites where the veil between our world and the eternal realm becomes tantalisingly thin.

Extracting ambient soundscapes from burial chambers, Ben has utilised convolution reverbs to replicate the ominous ambiance of these ancient spaces. A veteran of stone circle exploration, Ben's decades-long journey has yielded field recordings that capture the haunting whispers of wind and the solemn caws of crows, enveloping the listener in a ghostly atmosphere that transcends the ordinary.

Guided by the wisdom found in Julian Cope's "The Modern Antiquarian" and Aurbrey Burl's "A Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain", Llyn Y Cwn embarks on a sonic pilgrimage across the country, exploring the remote bleakness of these sites. The album transitions from the cramped, gloomy chambers of tombs to the unroofed, wide rings - a journey from darkness to light, from the dead to the living, and from the grave to the sky.

"Megaliths" is a ritual, a sonic séance that beckons listeners to commune with the ancient energies that saturate these sacred circles - an atmospheric descent into the heart of mysterious realms, where the boundaries between the earthly and the spiritual blur into an indistinguishable, haunting atmosphere. Embrace the darkness, and let the stones speak. The journey begins now.

CD presented in a 6-panel flood-printed digipak with breathtaking photography by the artist. Out 29th March 2024.

Order CD: https://coldspring.co.uk/csr334cd

https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/megaliths-csr334cd

Digital: https://orcd.co/csr334cd

Listen: https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/sets/llyn-y-cwn-megaliths

LLYN Y CWN:

https://llynycwn.bandcamp.com
https://soundcloud.com/llyn-y-cwn
https://facebook.com/llynycwn
https://instagram.com/llynycwnmusic
https://coldspring.co.uk/llyn-y-cwn

LLYN Y CWN Bryn Cader Faner

Kulture Galerie w/ The Jaffa Kid 13-03-2024

Tracklist

01.  Glacis - Under The Bare Sky
02.  Fortresses - Hear
03.  Hirotaka Shirotsubaki - Hanakuma
04.  Anthéne - The Fields
05.  Bauer + Katharina Schmidt - Night Passage
06.  Tomáš Šenkyřík - Mami
07.  Taylor Deupree - Dissipating
08.  Sleepland+duenn - Pond
09.  Paper Armies - Walls

364. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Moments fade, memories shift — “it’s never the same” by instagram.com/ambientbyID10 x instagram.com/lunnorr captures the beauty of change through atmospheric ambient textures and quiet emotion.

✨ https://go.ambiqo.nl/il-itsneverthesame

ID10 x Lunor - it's never the same

The Way it Was

Nothing's like home. A place we can return to, whatever happened, whoever we are. A place that doesn't judge but listens.

There should be a home for everyone. A refuge, somewhere. A quiet place to be tended like a garden. Whether it has walls of air or bricks, or is bordered by skies and mountains, or by flesh and bones. "Will I find my true home inside myself?"

Nothing's like home.

Alessandro Barbanera is an Italian musician and composer based in Assisi. He moves in ambient, drone, and electroacoustic genres, using guitars, synths, tape machines, field recordings, and found sounds, seeking a sound that combines experimentation, artisanal approach, and emotional impact.

Produced, mixed and mastered by Alessandro Barbanera
Cover picture by Alessandro Barbanera
Cover design by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)

Nothing Like Home

Morning Voices (Pink Dawn Rising)

'Peaks' it's our first compilation, with fifteen pieces going from ambient to techno. Including some new and familiar faces on Faint, like Mykja, Araceae, Powlos, Data Domain or SVLBRD.

Mastered by Emanuele Pertoldi.
Faint008 // FaintCD008
Faint / 2018

Blomkraft & SVLBRD - Manaslu

Elm Records is an independent record label specialising in ambient and experimental music.