#3ammelodies

One of these rare moments:
Sometime last week, 1am - just finished watching a movie and it was time to get some sleep. But I don't wanted to, even though I was pretty tired. I wanted to do something, be active. So I sat down and played some notes on my piano.. one thing led to another - 4am.

Open windows, traffic sounds - the city was waking up again already. Microphones hanging out of my window.. yep, that's a passing truck in this track.. it's this time in the morning, when I feel really creative and things can be so easy.

This is The Awakening.

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The Awakening

New songs for my new son James. Free download at music.lowercasenoises.com/album/james

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It Reminded Me Of A Very Old Place

Scott Grooves - Sun Dots

A tranquil piece with atmospheric strings reflecting some of earth's glorius landmarks.

Acheter

Peaks

from 'III' [CD|2xLP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den246
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/bersarinquartett]

Melancholia. Longing. It is difficult to speak about these moods or states of the mind without invoking stereotypes. In ancient medicine, melancholia was considered to be one of the four temperaments, matching the four humours. In fact, melancholia, meaning "black bile" in Ancient Greek, was thought to be caused by an excess of this very body substance. By contrast, in more modern interpretations, literates and Freudians relate many variations of longing to the one primordial longing, the desire to return to one's mother's womb. In this context, the womb is considered to be the place of absolute comfort and cosiness, of total bliss. Thus it should not be surprising that to many of us melancholia is a mood which we like to invoke and to maintain, we like to envelop ourselves in it like in a warm blanket. Our brain and our sensory systems appear to be made for perceiving and emotionally responding to music in a very immediate fashion. Consequently music is the obvious drug for all of us melancholia-addicts. However, there is a thin line between melancholia and sadness, and music which is meant to be melancholic too often crosses this line by far. Only very few artists succeed in avoiding this crossing, and in creating music which is melancholia in its most pure form. It is safe to say that BERSARIN QUARTETT - the electronic music project of Thomas Bücker - is one of them.

After his successfull selftitled debut in 2008 and the sophomore "II" in 2012 - album of the month in many magazines and in numerous "Best of the year" lists - Bücker returns with his third BERSARIN QUARTETT album "III", due for release 6.11.2015 on Denovali Records. Much like his two predecessors, III is a pure paradox. It is the creation of a perfectionist, an adamant control freak. Every element, be it a note, an ambience layer, a string arrangement, a field recording, a baseline, a vocal (Clara Hill on Track 11) or a beat, is meticulously modified and then assigned its place in Bücker's vast but still minimalistic arrangements. Thus, superficially Bücker's pieces seem to radiate a certain mechanical bleakness. However, there is a unique reduced warmth and liveliness emerging from these stainless compositions and transcending them. This transcendence is precisely the point where Bücker ironically looses control over his creations. In contrast to the first two BERSARIN QUARTETT albums, III offers a few darker shades and succeeds even further in narrowing down the arrangements to the absolute essentials without loosing the characteristic grandeur of Bücker's sound. Whereas BERSARIN QUARTETT's debut was merely a description of melancholia in its most pure form, III maybe even goes as far a defining what melancholia really is. It is the only emotion in the vast spectrum of human states of mind which one can bear forever. 

Bersarin Quartett - Sanft verblassen die Geschichten

New single from The Captive Oceans. 

2/20/16

Anew

from 'Ed Carlsen - Elusive Frames' out now

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Music by Ed Carlsen 
Produced, recorded and mixed by Ed Carlsen 
Mastered by Emil Thomsen at ET Mastering 
Artwork by Kevin Townsend

Elusive Frames

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Ed Carlsen - Anew

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INSPIRATION:

Can I give you a quick glimpse into the whirlwind mind of an independent musician?

It’s all about seasons. Last summer and into the fall, I was furiously writing a new Elskavon album, not to mention new Bora York songs with my wife, and Hi-Fi Cali collaborations and singles… For every album I release, which is typically around 9-10 songs, I end up with sometimes more than 50 demos and half-written songs. So there was a lot of writing happening. The ideas kept coming and the inspiration was heavy.

In September, I decided to set a release date for the new album, Skylight - this gives myself a deadline to actually call things done, and to get prepped for a release. From late fall on, leading up to that date (January 26), I was finishing songs, mixing and mastering the audio, working on artwork, studio and promo videos, show prep, social media content, reaching out for press and playlist possibilities, and more. There’s a lot of things on the independent release checklist.

In the midst of all this, I was about to step into a part-time freelance role, something my wife and I had been preparing for about a year. We’re very hopeful and excited about this season of our journey, which just started a few weeks ago. 

There has been a lot of things happening, and I’m grateful every step of the way. But I’m human and I get burnt out, as well. Last week it was tough to find any sort of inspiration whatsoever. And there was a definite setback regarding the new album - something I had been getting used to slipped away. It’s part of the process, and something I was fully aware could be a possibility. But it was still a bit of a punch in the gut.

Read the rest at http://anthemfallsmusic.com/blog/2018/3/28/elskavon-spring-piano-day-2018

Spring (Piano Day 2018)

Chapters

It's always important to be yourself, no matter what.
You are you and that makes you unique.

Lyrics:
Be yourself

Enjoy this one my friends. <3

VIDEOCLIP

Be Yourself (Videoclip link below)

From the the album "Stories From Elsewhere".

http://rhiansheehan.bandcamp.com/

 www.rhiansheehan.com 

Rhian Sheehan - A Thimble Full of Sorrow

• 'Origins' out now on @western_vinyl: https://lnk.to/elskavon-origins
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• @chrisbartels

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