Another impro with Pulsar 23, Epinette des Vosges-based noisebox and homemade bansuri.
And a few coughs :-P

16 September

Cold season started. Cocooning with a very modest setup.
Minilogue, Koma Field Kit and Microcosm (in that order) mono through 1 monitor, recorded with the internal stereo mics of my field recorder.
Enjoy!

50 Warm Winter Loops #1 Electrojazz

Pulsar23 with slowed down vinyl (1977): Inde du Nord, le Cachemire et la vallée du Gange, Ràga du soir

2dec2am

RUZIEK

The Anatomy of Melancholy

3:16

Nottingham-based composer and multi-instrumentalist Thomas William Hill returns to Village Green with Grains of Space, his second album for the label following 2017’s multi-textured Asylum For Eve. It will be released on 12-inch vinyl, CD and digitally on May 17th 2019.

Grains of Space started life as a series of minimal loops, recorded using a viola da gamba – a stringed instrument most popular in the Renaissance and Baroque eras – and a loop pedal. Using the negative space within each loop as the primary drive for composing, Thomas began a process of ‘joining the dots’, allowing the silence to dictate the next layer, informing the length, pitch and timbre of notes.

Between the overlap and juxtaposition of multiple layers, Thomas began to see melodies and rhythms emerging from relatively erratic elements:

“I began to see these loops - and recorded music in general - as a kind of fixed perspective that could be exploited. In isolation, a single layer may be no more than one or two notes punctuating four bars of silence, but when laid over multiple variations on that theme, disparate notes start to dance with each other and new connections take form, like constellations or deconstructed sentences.”

Using those recordings as the foundation, Thomas began incorporating a wide variety of other instruments into his palette, including bowed metallophones, gongs, Tibetan singing bowls, African kalimbas and metal tongue drums, as well as drum machines and analogue synthesisers.

From the tense, opening drones of ‘Carriages’ to sparser, more lyrical works such as ‘Curvature’ and ‘Refract’, Thomas again demonstrates profound compositional insight, crafting highly poignant moments rich with harmony and texture. Complementing this, a more developed sense of pulse and rhythm characterises much of the album, such as the propulsive undertow of ‘Willow’ and the tactile, modernist polyrhythms of ‘Furnace’ and ‘Tongue’.

www.villagegreenrecordings.co.uk

Grains of Space

Thomas William Hill - Furnace

Carried

Sparks

Cenes - Sparks

Track from "Skalpel" album, 2004, Ninja Tune

Skalpel - Sculpture ("Skalpel")

The opening track from this wonderful album from strië...to be re-released this month in a double 10" lathe cut package...in an edition of only 40 copies. Originally released by Time Released Sound on CD in 2012.

strië   "õhtul"...   Hällilaul

Late Night Tales: Nils Frahm

Peaks

Two years after the release of his acclaimed Erased Tapes debut, ‘The Transition’, Californian singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist David Allred returns with a solo piano perspective on the album, aptly titled Felt The Transition — out December 18.

"Felt The Transition is a new minimalist solo piano perspective on my experimental chamber folk album previously released in 2018, called The Transition. This music is reinterpreted on my 114 year old upright piano which was very kindly donated to me by my friend Adam Selzer who previously ran a recording studio in Portland called Type Foundry. This piano is very sentimental to me as it was used by a handful of my favorite musicians on their albums over the past 20 years, namely Peter Broderick’s ‘How They Are‘ and ‘Two Balloons’.” — David Allred

Felt The Transition

The Garden (Solo Piano)

Stream & order LP · DL

David Allred - The Garden (Solo Piano)

We live in confusing times.

The world is on the brink of a meltdown.
Patterns you thought you could rely on are diffusing and new patterns arise. From chaos or from silence.
Should we hold on to certainties from the past? Or should we open up to new and unknown possibilities?
I believe my music reflects this dilemma. Sometimes chaotic, sometimes meditative. Sometimes refreshing and sometimes depressing.
But always open for unexpected surprises

Hoboken based piano tuner with a love for sound and its impact on the body and soul.
Warning: Raw material ::x:: 
No DAW! Non sync! No mastering (maybe a tiny little bit to temper extremities)
Organismic mixes with Lenco L75 turntables (stepless range 16-78 rpm!) and electronic/electroaccoustic instruments with all kinds of sound sources.
All tracks are 1-track improvisations and cannot be repeated

16 September

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