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Vinyl available on our Bandcamp: http://whalefall.bandcamp.com.

Hailing from Los Angeles, California, Whale Fall is an instrumental group featuring traditional rock instrumentation interfused with more pastoral strokes of piano, brass instruments, cello, and a touch of analog synth. 

The group's self-titled debut record was written across several years and line-up changes. Released in 2011, the first album eventually became a favorite of music directors at NPR, who featured many of the tracks as interstitial music on the nationally syndicated "Morning Edition" program. The independently produced, self-released record was an expansive and wide-ranging double LP which established the band's sound as well as their dedicated fanbase. Tracks from the record, as well as a newer exclusive track, were featured in the award-winning 2013 documentary Code Black.

Their second release, The Madrean (an extended homage to the American Southwest which the band calls home) was heralded as a more developed, cohesive, and dynamic set of thematically related compositions with profound emotional resonance. The Madrean landed on several year-end "Best of 2014" lists and further solidified the band's reputation as well as its small but ardent cult following. The double LP vinyl edition features a stunning 12-page booklet of manipulated landscape photography which merges with the eight often lengthy, interconnected tracks to evoke the story behind The Madrean.

For their latest self-produced release, Sondersongs, the band honed their focus down to ten tracks clocking in under 45 minutes — their first single LP. Although based in similar musical ground as the first two records, on Sondersongs the band is not afraid to bend the listener's ear more toward further genre references and nods to decades past, with individual tracks shifting seamlessly from plaintive piano pieces and chiming acoustic passages to shimmering dream pop guitar tones, more elaborate horn arrangements, and blaring rock anthems. 

The concept of "sonder" comes from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, which defines it as: 

"The realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own — populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness — an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk."

Sondersongs will soon be available on all relevant (and irrelevant) streaming services with the digital release slated for June 26, 2018. A striking (and limited) white vinyl edition and compact disc release will follow later in the year.

WHALE FALL PERSONNEL
Keyboards, Cornet, Glockenspiel, Melodica / J. Matt Greenberg
Electric & Acoustic Guitars / Ali Vazin
Electric & Acoustic Guitars / Dave Pomeranz
Drums & Percussion / Aaron Farinelli
Bass Guitar & Atmospherics / Erik Tokle

Stationary Travels is a personal music blog covering ambient, electroacoustic, modern classical, post rock & experimental music.  Outside of ST, I enjoy a variety of other genres which you may see mixed in here as well.  Please feel welcome to follow along on Facebook, Twitter, and WordPress (links below).  If you are an artist and would like to submit something for consideration of promotion or review, you can message me to discuss the details. 

 "He who does not travel, who does not read, who does not listen to music, who does not find grace in himself, she who does not find grace in herself, dies slowly" - Martha Medeiros

Madeleine is an Australian born composer who writes electronic, ambient and postclassical music.

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Ambient | Drone | Garbagewave | Boredom
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Fondé en 2015 à Montréal, l'Ordre de l'Infiniment N▲D▲ (NADA) se consacre à la création spontanée d'une musique contemplative et psychédélique s’appuyant sur l'écoute profonde et l'improvisation en groupe. Utilisant principalement des synthétiseurs pour créer un son en constante évolution, chaque performance de N▲D▲ oscille entre le drone et les ondes pures et évoque les états de conscience altérés, le rêve-éveillé, la méditation sonique et le kitsch cosmique. Les membres de ce collectif à géométrie variable préfèrent l’anonymat et se rencontrent à intervalles non fixes, l'indétermination étant au cœur de leur démarche.

Founded in 2015 in Montreal, l’Ordre de l’Infiniment N▲D▲ (NADA) is dedicated to creating spontaneous, contemplative and psychedelic music based on profound listening and group improvisation. Using mainly synthesizers to create constantly evolving sound, each N▲D▲ performance fluctuates between drone and pure waves evoking altered states of consciousness, daydreaming, sonic meditation and cosmic kitsch. The members of this ever-changing collective prefer to stay anonymous and meet at non-fixed intervals of time, indetermination being at the heart of their approach.

Alex Haw runs Fox&Badge, a community and artistic experiment in a collective utopia, yearning towards transcendence.
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Previously: Alex Haw is and artist/architect & director of atmos.

atmos is an award-winning multidisciplinary  art+architecture+design practice (est. 2007) that works internationally across scales and media - from small-scale product-design to large-scale master-plans, with core expertise in public installations and bespoke residential environments. 

Their work centres on innovative sculptural designs that often incorporate cutting-edge digital fabrication and data mapping. They creat work addressing all the senses, with projects that reward close inspection yet abide in the memory, merging meaning and sensuality.

They have exhibited widely and been widely published on TV (BBC, Channel 4), in national newspapers (Financial Times, Sunday Times, Telegraph, Guardian, Independent, etc.) and international design magazines (Icon, Dezeen, Wallpaper, WIRED, Blueprint etc.). 
Haw graduated with a Fulbright from Princeton and a 1st from the Bartlett.

Alex has taught Design Studios at the Architectural Association, Cambridge University, the Royal College of Art and TU Vienna. He graduated on a Fulbright from Princeton University and with a 1st from the Bartlett, UCL. He writes and lectures widely.

He played the lead psycho in Chris Nolan's 1st feature film, Following.
He runs a weekly social exploration of world food (Latitudinal Cuisine). 
http://www.atmosstudio.com

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Tropic Of Cancer is the solo project of Camella Lobo.

Federica Jeanne de Luca 
Visual artist based in Milan | working on visual-audio synaesthesia | album cover artwork | record labels contributor

Projects and collaborations with record labels, musicians, composers:
Marco Tiraboschi (Italy)
Fabio Perletta & Luigi Turra (Italy)
AQRR Mathias Lystbæk Hansen (Denmark)
Vittorio Guindani (Italy)
Sebastian Morawietz (Germany)
The Humble Bee & Offthesky (Colorado, U.S)
Same Waves + Hibernis - John Hughes & Lindsay Anderson (Illinois, U.S)
Voga (Canada)
Andrew Sherwell (UK)
Daliah (California, U.S)
Sound Meccano | Jura Laiva (Latvia)
Antoine Hubineau (France)
Sven Laux (Germany)
Fleur de Chien (France)
Anomali (Germany)
Philippe Lamy (France)

Collaboration with independent record labels:
Da Vinci Publishing (Japan)
AQRR (Denmark)
Laaps Records (France)
Hefty Records (Illinois, U.S)
Whitelabrecs (UK)
Eilean rec (France)
Microrama (France)

For any informations please feel free to contact me by email: info.federicadeluca@gmail.com

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