Raising Holy Sparks - A Farewell Too Near A Greeting II

From Emakousma's forthcoming debut album, Island. 

Out November 18th on cassette & digital.

Emakousma - Can't Reach The Pedals

What Uniforms Uninforms

Hoof And Horn

Mid Season

Begin

Two beautiful tracks of "flotation tank ambient" from the Japanese master of the form, Hakobune. Close your eyes and drift away.

Hakobune - A Fluid Photograph (Part 2)

Hakobune - A Fluid Photograph (Part 1)

Inaction
Unmoving, Undoing, Unknowing 
Still. Slow the hands. 
This        reduction     
Making Through Unmaking
Loss, erasure, a vanishing
Not to nothing, never, but to one
Just one, like the rain

Be Honest - Reduction

Be Honest - Inaction

'Poultice' is an hour of deep, immersive noise. Quiet but uncanny, it's bound to raise the hairs on the back of your neck. Bleeping noises, damaged field recordings and nauseous ambient sounds - it's a trippy place for sure. Bleak and bombed-out. It's a sticky kind of gloop: once you get caught, it's hard to pull your head back up. Learn to live with the bumps in the road and you might just begin to enjoy yourself. 

You can stream/order the tape on Bandcamp: http://fallowmedia.bandcamp.com/album/poultice

Or get immersed in an audio/visual remix that's different every time you press play: http://fallowmedia.com/2015/aug/mvestle/

Mvestle - Poultice Pt. 1

Get 'Thru' on Bandcamp: https://fallowmedia.bandcamp.com/album/thru

'Thru' is a three-part album exploring Terren’s interest in digital music processes, specifically the tacit condition of the Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) in contemporary music. DAWs are vital and necessary mediators of virtually all recorded music, yet their status as such is barely questioned. Thru was initially conceived as a conduit through which to interrogate what constitutes DAW practice, or what impact the DAW has had on music and its composition.

'Thru' is not, however, a dry experiment in digital methods – it seeks to probe the subtle auditory cues that emerge from creating and combining sounds ‘in the box’. The results are sharp, clear, and powerful. Split into the trilogy of ‘Thru’/‘FWD’/‘In2’ (commissioned by the Sydney-based radio show Ears Have Ears), the glossy diptych of ‘Vacillate’/‘Vessel’, and the stunning closer, ‘Siliceous’ (which Terren calls “a kind of speculation on the interior lives of rocks and mountains”), these six pieces take divergent paths through the open field of computer-based composition, sometimes restrained and subtle, sometimes brash or overwhelming, always intriguing.
 
At a time when the benefits of restrictive/authentic/immediate analogue tools are constantly extolled, 'Thru' asks us to consider the role of the DAW in music today – what avenues are still unexplored? What kind of communication is encouraged, or even possible, within this environment? What kinds of logic are preferred there? 'Thru' tests the limits of its origins in a way that feels both new and timely.

Thru

Siliceous

Michael Terren - Siliceous

Six tracks of ambient sound, abstract guitar work and processed field recordings.

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Release Date:
28/2/2013

Fallow Records - 2013

Fallow Media

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