Unreleased songs I made in 2023-2025 period

Broken Bones

from 'Blossoms In Red' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den243
available in October on all formats at [http://denovali.com/ensembleeconomique]

Based in Californian Humboldt County, Brian Pyle wanders the world on his countless travels. Far from being restless, he has his very own Pylesque way of travelling. Much like a Lynchian version of Hemingway, he has an eye for the thin layer between restlessness and relaxation, gloom and serenity. Wherever he goes, he ardently absorbes these nuances, rarefies them and moulds them into a seamless array of glimmering styles, from drone and ambient to shoegaze and post-wave, giving birth to yet another creation of his prolific Ensemble Economique project.
On his by now eleventh album and fourth Denovali release "Blossoms In Red", Pyle combines and perfects elements of his previous output into a cohesive narrative. The opener "From The Train Window, Red Flowers On The Mountain" is a surprisingly scarce ambient piece, which feels like an almost infinitely stretched precious moment of time. Despite being austere, it is warm, sublime and incredibly captivating and after listening to its full 8 minutes, one cannot help but to rewind and replay. Having barely escaped this seductively infinite loop, one encounters the title track "Blossoms In Red" featuring Portland electronic duo Soft Metals. Starting off with a characteristic sluggish programmed beat, one is immediately overpowered by the onset of the towering combination of a warm bassline and a shimmering synth ambience. As the track flows, these elements writhe around each other in a delicately beautiful fashion, absorbing the materialising wailing guitar which almost sounds like an ethereal voice, as well as the occasional melodic and rhythmic accents. The next track sees this guitar return in a rather pure form. "On The Sand", featuring jack-of-all-trades Peter Broderick, is essentially just reduced analogue drums, electric guitar, a simple vibrating bassline and hoarse almost spoken vocals. Slowly and methodically, these constituents form a captivating erotic ritual, much like a beguiling and hypnotic mandala procession of imperturbable blissful individuals on the beach. As proven on numerous occasions, Pyle can easily lead all his trumps in the presence of female lead vocals, and "Blossoms In Red" makes no exception. Indeed, "You, By Candlelight" is easily the best Ensemble Economique track with female vox to date. Pyle manages to embed the vocals just in the right minimal amount of instrumental layers, making the track radiate an elusive tranquility. The fifth and closing track "Nothing Is Perfect" is a classically tinged piano piece with only very little processing and sparse field recording samples. With all pieces of the album, Pyle manages to create tracks which feel like being composed only of two or three layers of sound, that are nevertheless allowed to develop a life cycle which seems incredibly long - track lengths vary from 6:30 to 8:10 - but still feels just right. Thus "Blossoms In Red" is probably Ensemble Economique's most minimalistic album, but at the same time - or maybe just for this reason - his most skilled work.

Blossoms In Red

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Ensemble Economique - You, By Candlelight (feat. J Moon)

From the album Modern Country, out now on Merge Records.

Modern Country

William Tyler "Gone Clear"

Carrion

Jessica Moss shares an excerpt of a work in progress, recently recorded live in her rehearsal space, that offers a lovely preview of new material to which concertgoers may find themselves treated in 2018 (alongside her debut opus Pools Of Light).

"Untitled 3" displays various techniques and influences that lie at the heart Moss's solo music: building stacked slow-burn string themes through live looping, sampling and pitch-shifting that beautifully balance drone and melody, gradually introduce further electronic, oscillation and synthesis textures, and channel folkways tropes from Eastern Europe and the Middle East – in this case, gesturing towards the Klezmer tradition perhaps most explicitly since her work in the mid-2000s with Black Ox Orkestar.

Jessica Moss
Pools Of Light
http://cstrecords.com/cst124

Jessica Moss • "Untitled #3 (excerpt)"

Released 6th December 2018; 
Available from https://evivine.bandcamp.com/track/sabbath-single-edit
Spotify, ITunes etc...

Features guest appearances by Simon Gallup on bass & Peter Yates on Guitar.
Written by Evi Vine, Steven Hill, Matt Tye, David Gb Smith
Produced & Mixed by Dave Izumi @ Echozoo Studios, Eastbourne
Engineered by Phill Brown
Additional Production and Engineering by Christoph Skirl
Mastered by Aneek Thapar


Taken from the new album "Black//Light//White//Dark" released through Solemn Wave Records February 22nd 2019.

LYRICS

LOOSEN YOURSELF
I DON’T MIND
A LITTLE LIE
GOES DEEPER STILL 
WE BUILD A WALL 
CLOSE IN THE PAIN 
I SHED MY SKIN 
IT GOES DEEPER

HOLD IT INSIDE
THAT LITTLE LIE
IT IS ENOUGH 
BEFORE I COME UNDONE 
WHEAT IVE BECOME 
SO INNOCENT 
I’M ALL MESSED UP 
AND IT GOES DEEPER

COME FIND A WAY FRAGILE BUILD A WALL AROUND IT
WE FIND A PERFECT PLACE & I’M WATCHING SEE YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE

ARE YOU LOSE ENOUGH
WE BUILD IT UP
WALK IN THE FIRE
CLOSE ENOUGH
IT GOES DEEPER
WALK IN THE FIRE

HOLD IT INSIDE FOR A LITTLE WHILE
BEAUTIFUL LIE…

Black//Light//White//Dark

Sabbath

Sabbath (single edit)- Featuring Simon Gallup

Poem text and context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/02/07/you-cant-have-it-all-barbara-ras-emily-levine/

POEM TEXT / CONTEXT

Emily Levine reads "You Can't Have It All" by Barbara Ras

Composer and drummer of Dawn of Midi, Qasim Naqvi, releases his debut album for Erased Tapes on May 3rd. 'Teenages' captures the sound of electronics living, breathing and mutating of their own accord – almost autonomously – with only subtle, sparing but perfectly-judged and masterful guidance.

This album is one singular synergy between Qasim and his machine within a broader milieu of sound, also explored by contemporaries Sarah Davachi, Alessandro Cortini, Caterina Barbieri and also the forefather, Morton Subotnick. At points tonal, textural and rhythmic, over six evolving and growing audio organisms, the album flourishes upwards in stages, from initial micro-sonics to something bigger, brighter and anthemic.

With 'Teenages', Naqvi summoned all the material on an analog modular synthesizer – a voltage-controlled sound generating system comprised of multiple modules. Naqvi built this synth over the course of two years and amassed a collection of works for this album. The album chronicles both Naqvi’s understanding of writing for this type of instrument and the growth of the instrument itself:

“I started with just a few modules. And naturally things had to be layered and pieced together but as the synthesiser and its components grew over time, I was able to create broader and more complex strokes in the moment. And by the time I got to ‘Teenages’, it was possible to create a robust, large-scale piece spontaneously. This is very much an experiential album for me because it was borne out of my direct experience of learning the instrument. And as the synthesiser grew over time with more components, it matured. At times I felt like it was even rebelling against my instructions or surprising me with what felt like its own choices. When everything was finished and I was thinking about track titles, this idea of artificial intelligence came into my head; a machine that reacts to your impulses and is capable of giving you something different from what you ask, and even defying you. It felt like different stages of growth and adolescence, and that lead to the album title, ‘Teenages’.”

Deeply rewarding on close listening, Naqvi has created an inspiring and synapse-stimulating new masterwork, within the analogue/modular cannon.

· pre-order 'Teenages' on LP/CD/DL: https://idol.lnk.to/QasimTeenages

Teenages

No Tongue

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Qasim Naqvi - No Tongue

Alone

Droneflower

Space Ghost I

In The Dark Moving

I Need A Placebo (Minimal Recording)

Emerging from London's underground circuit rose a dark siren releasing her debut album "and so the morning comes' in 2011...touring, splitter vans, festivals, moved to Berlin, featured on "The Eden House - Smoke and Mirrors" album, recorded her 2nd album in 2014 and released "Give Your Heart To The Hawks". Moved from London to the South Coast...featured as guest vocalist on albums by The Mission, The Eden House, Michael Ciravalo's "Beauty In Chaos" and Phillip Clemo. 

Toured Europe extensively for 12 weeks with The Mission, toured Scandinavia supporting 'ROME'.

Evi's third album "BLACK//LIGHT//WHITE//DARK' is set for release February 2019 through Solemn Wave Records,

The album was recorded at Echozoo, Eastbourne, produced by Dave Lynch/Izumi, engineered by Phill Brown and Mastered by Aneek Thapar.