Taken from the upcoming album '12 tapes | 10 years'...

Music: Craig Tattersall / Joe Borreson
Mastering: Ian Hawgood 
Design: Craig Tattersall / Joe Borreson / Daniel Crossley
Label: Fluid Audio

'12 tapes | 10 years'

Joe Borreson & Craig Tattersall - Lost In The Post

For the 10th episode special, we are glad to invite the harmonic mastermind Benoît Pioulard for a mesmerizing session made of beautifully selected textures and ambient gems. A soothing touch of peace in a time of chaos and turmoil.

Soundcloud: @pioulard
Cover by: Abraham SED

unspoken session N°10 with Benoît Pioulard: A gap for light to breach

Fans of my ongoing ramblings must be already familiar with music by Thomas Meluch who records under the alias Benoît Pioulard. And if for some reason you're not, you can begin with his albums on Kranky, starting back in 2006 and working your way up to the present, to follow a trajectory of this composer, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and photographer. Be sure to also round your journey with this studio feature, in which I profiled Tom back in 2015. He's done a few collaborations, including one with Rafael Anton Irisarri under the Orcas project name. For this gorgeous release on the one and only A Strangely Isolated Place we find Meluch alongside his long-time friend and collaborator, Luke Entelis, as Viul (pronounced 'vell' which rhymes with 'bell'), a New York-based ambient composer who has appeared on Meluch's own imprint, Disques d'Honoré, reserved mostly for his own self-released works, and Past Inside the Present, with Outside The Dream World in 2019. Their upcoming collaborative album is named after a Czech word for "the end" (you know, those final pronounced striking letters, that often roll up when the film reached its peak), capturing the uncertainty of the world amidst the pandemic. And while the pieces originally began as an exchange of sketches and short lo-fi loops, the music that followed is truly engaging. On my favourite track on the album, which I am honoured to premiere for you today, we find the duo painting with wide brush strokes in pastel colours, deep-textured warmth, and hazy memories. And although this piece at first appears to be a repeating, stretched, and saturated tape loop, the more you listen to its slow decay, the more it makes you feel alive.

"The variation in minutia, samples and instrumentation throughout the album cannot be understated amongst its hazy aesthetic and ominous poignancy. It’s one thing to notice the details, but another to unstick the melodies from the closing credits of a dystopian city’s downfall, from the forefront of your mind."

Konec

A Real Place

TRACK PREMIERE : Viul & Benoît Pioulard - A Real Place

From Alva Noto's upcoming album 'Kinder Der Sonne' featuring music composed for the score of the theater piece 'Komplizen' by Simon Stone.

Pre-order: https://noton.info/product/n-058/

More info:
https://noton.info

Kinder der Sonne

Alva Noto - Die Untergründigen

"All things that have form eventually decay."

After last year's tenuous offering "Another Fall," Craig Tattersall (A Humble Bee) returns with a new collaborator in tow, Erik Williamson. Together the duo unveil a body of collaborative work titled 'remnants', showcasing a near hour-long offering of unfaltering melancholy, with each piece engulfing the listener in an abyss of tape-laden hiss, while drifting ever so slightly into aimless reverie.

VAK66 | Abandoned Bees - Monuments

“I could hear everything, together with the hum of my hotel neon. I never felt sadder in my life.” - Jack Kerouac, “On the Road” (1957)

In chapter 13 of Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road,” we find Sal in a Los Angeles hotel room with his new girlfriend, Terry, soon after they’ve decided to hitchhike back to New York with the $10 they share between them. Staring out the window in a sleepless fit, Sal observes a domestic dispute across the street: the humming neon sign of the hotel is an audible element amidst the police’s questioning, family’s sobbing, and city’s howling sirens, all of them blending together in an oddly poignant moment. 

This idea of sound adding context and emotion to human experiences is the foundation of Hotel Neon. The project formed in 2012 under far less desperate conditions than Sal’s, but it has always been anchored in the practice of recording musical responses to the current moment. The chord progression of “A Lament,” for instance, was recorded in the hours following the breaking news out of Sandy Hook on December 14, 2012. Ever since then, we have continued to create soundtracks for specific settings and situations in our lives.

“Hotel Neon 10: Reworks” is a reflection on the 10th anniversary of our debut self-titled album, which was released on July 30, 2013 in a batch of 100 cassettes. Initially a loose collection of minimal drone experiments with no intention for follow-up after the tapes ran out, Hotel Neon has morphed into the central musical identity for each of us, leading to friendships, experiences, and purpose that we could never have imagined at the time.

This is not simply a remaster or remix; HN10 has been entirely reworked from the ground up. You will notice that some of the essential elements and structures from the original songs come through, but we made a concerted effort to build on those early ideas and present a new album with our current tools, techniques, and experience.

We deeply appreciate your support, and thank you for listening.

Music: Hotel Neon (Andrew Tasselmyer, Michael Tasselmyer, Steven Kemner)
Mastered: Rafael Anton Irisarri
Design Daniel Crossley

Hotel Neon 10: Reworks

Hotel Neon - Dust And Drag

Fragmented, glacial mementos presented across 4 sides of tape, with each artist exhibiting work across one side.

This most likely represents the final Winter Olympics compilation, (seeing that these unique tape boxes have become exceedingly rare and expensive). 

Mainstays's like label favorite øjeRum and the elusive Korea Undok Group make a return, while label affiliates Thme, and The Humble Bee, (in conjunction with collaborator Erik Williamson) also add their delicate, winter struck gestures to the compilation.

Again, all pieces have been produced specifically with the tape medium in mind, and thus will only be available in the given format.

VAK72 | VA - Winter Olympics III [Snippets]

Written & Produced by Erik Williamson at In My Room Studio
Additional Piano Recorded at Alchemix Recording Studios
Mastered by Marly Lüske at Alchemix Recording Studios
Digital cover image by Erik Williamson

The Streets Are Quiet, But The Birds Very Loud

The Meantime

Over the past year, a selection of artists have been digging through the depths of their creative pursuits, for material they either cannot finish, or else would like to see adapted. These same artists and more have delved into the resulting repertoire, and emerged with new, repurposed pieces.

Out of this births the first volume of the Sustain Series: a means for artists to make use of old sounds, hoping to bring forward music that might have otherwise not seen the light of day. Thanks to the input from a variety of fantastic musicians, old material can breathe new life, sometimes in more than one form.

Find it here: bit.ly/3nW52x3

In keeping with this 'recycling' of ideas, all proceeds of the compilation here on Bandcamp will go to Conservation International, promoting sustainability and conservation across the world.

www.conservation.org/

It’s ever more important to think sustainably for the sake of our planet, and every effort we make will help curb the cataclysmic events we see shaping in front of us. Give what is feasible in these tough times, but most of all please enjoy this collection of recovered gems.

Donate

Benoît Pioulard - Verses III - IV (Jupi/ter Edit)

Taken from the upcoming album 'All is Memory' forthcoming on Fluid Audio...

“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”

Music: Hotel Neon 
www.hotelneonmusic.com
Mastering: Rafael Anton Irisarri 
www.blackknollstudio.com
Record Label: Fluid Audio 
https://fluidaudio.bigcartel.com

All Is Memory

Hotel Neon - All Is Memory

~ IIKKI 014 ~

music : Observatories (Ian Hawgood & Craig Tattersall)
photography : Miho Kajioka
album/book : Flowers Bloom, Butterflies Come
duration : 40.58 mn (vinyl) 45.10 mn (cd)
date : March 2021

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All music by Ian Hawgood & Craig Tattersall.

Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Artwork by Miho Kajioka
Design by sprflxgrfzm

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edition :
vinyl : limited to 300 copies hand numbered
cd : limited to 200 cd (glass mastered) hand numbered
book : limited to 750 copies hand numbered + hand stamped

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pre-order : February 15th, 2021 / official release : March 25th, 2021

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Links :
https://www.leavings.co.uk/
https://www.folkreels.com/
https://www.mihokajioka.com/
https://www.iikki-books.com/
https://iikki.bandcamp.com/music

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Observatories - Flowers Bloom, Butterflies Come (album preview)

New album, 'The Streets Are Quiet, But The Birds Very Loud' out now https://erikwilliamson.bandcamp.com/releases

The Meantime

Erik Williamson

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