2nd Fateless Flows Favorites

The Stratos Ensemble in 2013.

Website: http://thestratosensemble.com

Personal:
Dean De Benedictis - keyboards/synth, production
Brock Bowers - drums
Rod MacDowell - Bass
Anjelo Elonte - voilin, acoustic guitar

No Stranger - The Stratos Ensemble

Track from my 2007 Album "Sketches for Winter"
Listen to the whole Album on Spotify: 
https://open.spotify.com/album/5IGZTqPxz8vuLheOvJdbXd

Sketches for Winter -Three

From the new album "A Fender Rhodes Solo" by Jozef Dumoulin, to be released on BEE JAZZ, February 27th, 2014.

Jozef Dumoulin: Fender Rhodes

More info: www.beejazz.com/blog/artiste/jozef-dumoulin/

Jozef Dumoulin is on Facebook: on.fb.me/1eSmFrN

Label Contact : BEEJAZZ
contact@beejazz.com

Jozef Dumoulin - "A Fender Rhodes Solo" - The Entry Point

where do i begin?

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Unkind

Remix by King Unique [http://www.kingunique.com · https://www.facebook.com/KingUnique]

Available for free download at [http://www.denovali.com/mp3store]

Original version of 'Thangen After Dothe' appeared on
'Flailing Tomb' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den232
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/petrels]


Petrels - Thangen After Dothe (King Unique Remix)

One of the first improvised ambient duo tracks by recording artists Dean De Benedictis (from Surface 10, The Stratos Ensemble) and Coco Roussel (from Happy The Man, Kit & Coco, Michael Manring), both of which are current members of The Stratos Ensemble.

On this track Dean plays piano and melodic sound textures generated from voice samples.  Coco plays electronic drum pads that trigger percussion kits.

This track is the first of what will likely be an eventual album  collaboration between Dean and Coco. Stay tuned for more track previews from these two musicians.

Photo by Dean in Patagonia 2008

Dean De Benedictis & Coco Roussel - Ambient Improv 1

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Prenatal Hunters (Floex Revision)

You noticed that void inside everything, didn´t you?

Void Notice EP : http://vonwegen.bandcamp.com/album/void-notice-ep

buy on bandcamp

Void Notice

from 'Nomad Frequencies' [CD|2xLP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den237
available in September on all formats at [http://denovali.com/johnlemke]

An ardent moulder of sound, John Lemke began carving out a very unique music blend on his debut album 'People Do' (2013) and its follow up EP 'Walizka' (2014). Informed by his work as a sound designer & composer for documentary films and his natural inclination towards fusing rhythm with rich textures and emotive melodies, he set out on a musical path that had been long in the making and is ever evolving.

The quest for unusual, inspiring sound sources has always been at the heart of John's process, however the genesis of his second album 'Nomad Frequencies' was rooted in much more inadvertent circumstances. In the summer of 2014, forced to indefinitely evacuate his Glasgow flat and studio due to structural damage from one hour to the next, with nothing more than a laptop and a bag of clothes, John embarked on a six month odyssey of soul searching, couch surfing and spending an extended period of time in his old hometown of Berlin for the first time in years - it was to be an odyssey that would help ferment and distill the ideas of his second album on which work had just begun. 

A year of particular global turmoil and upheaval, combined with John's personal, albeit very minor, 'displacement', caused a lot of questioning, frustration and anger, which somehow found its way onto the new material: a more confrontational, at times aggressive sound, paired on the other hand with a yearning for harmony, balance and space. Other influences came less from the world of music, but rather in visual form, through the densely textural art of Anselm Kiefer and the political, yet poetic musings of film maker Adam Curtis.

Intent on refining his sound toward a more minimal, bolder style, John set out to limit his sonic palate to a handful of carefully chosen elements. At the centre of this new direction remains the muted piano already introduced on his debut, but in a much more purified and raw form. This organic base is adorned by the warm fuzzing and wavering of analogue synthesisers, tape echoes, meditative tuning forks, field recordings from John's 'exile' period and percussion based on his rigid approach to sampling, which started developing on 'Walizka'. The guiding principle of his orthodox style of recording and sampling is to only use home-made sounds by utilising his own field recordings, applying contact microphones or hydrophones to objects and instruments, running them through different kinds of speakers and re-recording the sounds to arrive at a 'lived in' quality, often misunderstood as plainly 'lo-fi'. Touches of viola and woodwinds parts (Kim Moore of WOLF and Andrew Baker respectively) provide melody fragments and subtle details throughout the journey.

With John's healthy disregard for genre boundaries, the array of influences on 'Nomad Frequencies' is vast, but never over-powering. From the meditative tuning fork that starts proceedings on 'Of Elsewhere', the dub echoes to the hints of minimalism, free jazz explosions to the Lynchian atmospherics, all elements serve nothing more than the album's narrative journey between friction and harmony, best appreciated in its entirety. A rhythmic backbone collides with rich ambience and melody, often infectious and jarring at the same time, forging a soulful whole which most likely only reveals its true self after multiple spins.

Nomad Frequencies

John Lemke - The Unwinding

Watch the visionary video of Bextures Teeth by Michel De Klein

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5ArB97LSpY

Read:

igloomag.com/reviews/roel-funcken-mercury-retrograde-schematic


Check out Roel's very impressive back catalogue:

www.discogs.com/artist/Roel+Funcken

roelfuncken.com

www.funckarma.com

catalogue number: SCH-096

2012 Schematic Music Company

schematic.net

Mesmer is a collaboration with Rena Jones renamusic.com

Smart Ambient is a remix for Known Rebel
collab with Cor bolten (Jupiter 4 & Jupiter 8)
beat version previously released on Tympanik Audio
 tympanikaudio.com soundcloud.com/known-rebel

Deer is a remix for Seaming To seaming.co.uk

Gangsta Riddim is a remix for Scanone
previously released on Outside recordings
outside-recordings.com soundcloud.com/scanone



Design by future tenses
Timothée Mathelin aka shift/ futurorg.com
credits
released 04 September 2012
tags
tags: crash course in science electronic miami bass phoenecia schematic dance dub electronic music intelligent music step vaporizer Miami 

04Boose Gumps

Maud Road

Remix of 'A Bevan Rotation' by Bruised Skies, original version appearing on
'Moon Zero' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den238
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/moonzero]

Moon Zero - A Bevan Rotation (Bruised Skies Remix)

+ma: drums, sample, mix, master
https://soundcloud.com/von-wegen : bass, guitar, vox
https://soundcloud.com/tzyurash : rhodes

plusma - dar sono (feat. tzyurash & v.wegen)

Buy on iTunes

Shores

My suggestion for Electronic Jazz Music
2015
Vocal, Flute & some Percussion near the end are sampled from some African Tribal Music recordings.

ஃஃஃஃஃஃஃϒXNG ℱ1LTH666: : Infectious Matterஃஃஃஃஃஃஃ

From the LA based post-jazz ensemble, a remix by Dean De Benedictis.

Simplexity - The Organization of Chaos (Dean De Benedictis remix)

trio SOMA - Tony Takitani

Nice Way To Break The Silence- When Emotions Come Back On Us

A track I wrote a long time ago.

Released also on this compilation:  http://legitliquid.bandcamp.com/album/happiness

I'm working on an LP right now. Have a lot of stuff and demos done. It's something different.

Enjoy.

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The Stratos Ensemble is a progressive jazz band, the brainchild of producer Dean De Benedictis. The Fateless Flows Collective was an organization that Dean once ran, but now is simply the brand canopy that represents many of his extended projects, such as collaborations with original FF members and related material. Dean has decided to merge both his Stratos Ensemble content and his general Fateless Flows content on this particular SC page. 

The company name was originally the name of an electronic music collective Dean ran from 2003-05. From 2007-11 there was a plan to relaunch Fateless Flows as a record label, but it fell through. What remains are video channels on Youtube and Vimeo, and this Soundcloud page. Dean keeps his art and content coming, so he still uses the FF brand to release anything he works on that he also maintains rights control of, be it solo efforts or collaborative. Dean also has a separate SC page for his solo material.

Fateless Flows main image by Michael Jantzen and Dean De Benedictis. 

Dean De Benedictis' website can be found here:
http://deandebenedictis.com/

(Michael Jantzen's website:
http://www.michaeljantzen.com/Welcome.html)

2nd Fateless Flows Favorites

The Stratos Ensemble & Fateless Flows Music