Winter Music 14

07 Precious Dive (Throwing Snow Remix)

Love and Light sent


La Lisa Magdaleno and Russell Laing...

Tell Me...

Here is a glimpse of the new EP by the Stratos Ensemble, called "Thi rx." It is yet another preamble release, and likely the last one, before their eventual double LP release "A Brief History Of The Sky." You can even download this preview/review for free.

Check out the full Thi rx EP for sale on Bandcamp: https://thestratosensemble.bandcamp.com/album/thi-rx-ep

(album preview)

Thi rx EP (preview) - The Stratos Ensemble

'L'Indien' out now @ Heavenly Sweetness.
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VINYL / CD: www.heavenly-sweetness.com/boutique/lindien
iTunes: itunes.apple.com/fr/album/lindien/id868765075
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Video: http://youtu.be/aV1zQgfgtxw

L'Indien

fades into the wind

Give Up The Fear

HIT ME HARD AND SOFT

LUNCH

EgyFluteDrone

Title track from Leafcutter John's new album, Resurrection(Pathway009)

A panoramic sound world of drifting vocals over a densely-processed terrain of mud-caked percussion and guitar, Leafcutter John’s new solo album, Resurrection, is a characteristically unique blend of the electronic and the acoustic, the hi-tech, the human and the homemade.
Resurrection is the sixth Leafcutter John album and his first solo release since 2006’s The Forest and The Sea CD/LP(Staubgold). In the intervening nine years, John has toured from Vietnam to Venice, appeared live with Beck Hansen and Imogen Heap, and provided the score for Crow, a major theatre project by Handspring (creators of War Horse). 

During this time, John has also maintained his permanent role as the unpredictable, electronic antagonist in Polar Bear, the twice Mercury Music Prize-nominated, genre-defying jazz band.
This new record marks fifteen years of releases by Leafcutter John. Born John Burton in Wakefield (Yorkshire, England), his highly original musical voice was first spotted by Mike Paradinas, label boss of Planet Mu Records. Over the course of his first three albums (2000-2003), John established and developed his idiosyncratic London-based studio, and his skills as an inventor of unusual instruments and extraordinary music software.
Resurrection begins with the sound of a single bell, in homage to one of John’s major influences, Bernard Parmigiani’s De Natura Sonorum (1976). From there, the album unfolds over five cinematically varied tracks, “like floating above a world in constant flux,” in John’s own words. In fact, aerial photographs of the Japanese tsunami of 2011 were a direct inspiration for the record.
“I would create complete, fully-formed compositions,” says John, “then later, I’d come back to them, playing the part of
the destroyer, scraping and smearing away elements, weathering, piling up and re-ordering them, as if they’d been hit by a natural disaster.”
Not content with the usual tools available to the electronic musician, John has created innovative new systems and techniques for both live performance and production. This includes a light-controlled instrument that allows him manipulate his live sound through gesture, flickering candles, flashing torches and pyrotechnics. For the track “Gulps,” John coded special software to layer huge swathes of sound. Using a recursive system, he created 7.1 billion layers of a recording of the North Sea, one for each human alive on the planet at the time of writing.
Featuring a guest appearance by Shabaka Hutchings (Sons of Kemet), “Gulps” is a poignant demonstration of John’s
approach: Hutchings’ intimate clarinet is gradually engulfed by a (literal) ocean of sound. This is sculptural sound design
where technological innovation is always at the service of the emotional impact of the music: deeply human at its root, and
mind-expanding in its ambition.

Desire Path Recordings
www.desirepathrecordings.com | leafcutterjohn.com

Credits
Written and produced by Leafcutter John, with Varpu
Kronholm playing additional percussion on “I Know You
Can” and Shabaka Hutchings playing Clarinet on “Gulps.”
“Endless Wave” contains elements of “Forest Of Spades” by
Strings Of Consciousness, used with permission.
Mastered by James Plotkin
Photography by Max Baillie
Design by Chris Koelle, Leafcutter John, and Varpu Kronholm

Distributed by Revolver

Leafcutter John - Resurrection

From "1979: Remixed", on Friends of Friends, released April 29th.

Digital and vinyl restock available here: 
deru.bandcamp.com/album/1979-remixed

All other digital and streaming services here:
fofmusic.lnk.to/1979Remixed

1979 - Remixed

Midnight In The Garden With Ghosts (Remix)

Hello friends! 
We have a gift from one of the most interesting artists of the contemporary Russian dub-techno scene, a surprise release from Heavenchord «Reshapes». 
The reason for the creation of this release was the tracks that are deeply settled in the soul of the author. 
Showing his vision for these tracks through musical experiments, music was continued in different electronic genres. However, while listening to «Reshapes» is felt deep the author's love for dub-techno sound, this is the whole Heavenchord. In the release there are a lot of prolonged, long tracks, this is the time when the author had to haunt his mind, switch to some moments of life to better convey what is happening inside him. 
We want to thank the author and our friend Arthur for the perfect opportunity to release significant for him release on our label. Heavenchord «Reshapes» you can download in the best quality absolutely free on our Bandcamp. 
Have a nice trip!

Reshape by Heavenchord (@nirgoona)
Design by Thomas Carmody (@thomascarmody)
Photo by Anton Darius

Reshapes

Download on Bandcamp

Aphex Twin - Rhubarb (Heavenchord Reshape)

'Fear Of Floating' is the second single from Australian-born, Liverpool-based composer, saxophonist and founder of Immix Ensemble, Daniel Thorne. The track, taken from Daniel's solo debut 'Lines of Sight', is a grand, transposing soundscape that places Daniel’s saxophone front-and-centre, allowing the abstract beauty of his meandering and contorting melody to breathe, amongst the chaotic backdrop of spiralling undulating effects. 'Fear Of Floating' perfectly encapsulates the atmosphere of the record; equal parts magnificent, unnerving, mind-bending and deeply satisfying.     
 
"Although the album wasn't written to follow a specific narrative, I felt it should have the feeling of a journey, leaving a place of chaos and noise and arriving somewhere both serene and unfamiliar. As the final track on the album, I wanted 'Fear of Floating' to be to be the opposite of the album’s beginning ('From Inside, Looking Out') by being much sparser, eschewing large dense textures and instead focusing on a single melodic 'voice' that gets bashed about by its surroundings, before finally washing up somewhere peaceful and alone." — Daniel Thorne
 
Praise for Lines Of Sight, out March 15th on Erased Tapes:
 
“Dizzying compositions that thrive on chaos and control.” Self-titled  

“Analogue and digital, improvisatory and programmed, tactile and gaseous, this ripples between worlds.” DJ Mag
 
Deeply moving, full of otherworldly beauty and rapture, the album is alive, throbbing like a circulatory system, colourful and glowing. It literally dazzles – effectively capturing what the birth (or death) of a planet might sound like.

Every strand is fresh, vital and purposeful. The description ‘seamless’ might suggest a smooth, bland fusion, but here elements overlap in intermittent, undulating layers of mesh. Avant-garde, noise, electronics, ecclesiastical, classical and a touch of jazz come together, each occupying their own space while acquiescing with the whole.

Pre-order 'Lines of Sight' on LP/CD/DL: https://idol.lnk.to/LinesOfSight

Lines of Sight

Fear Of Floating

Daniel Thorne - Fear Of Floating

This was a DJ mix set that Dean De Benedictis (Surface 10) put together for the release of his collaborative album with Frank Prinzen (Orphan) called Lyrus - "Found In." The mix includes artists and pieces that have struck both musicians through the years, and also includes pieces from their collaboration "Found In" and some solo work by both musicians.

To hear Lyrus - "Found In", or buy it, visit the following Bandcamp page by Touched Music:
https://touched.bandcamp.com/album/found-in

PLAYLIST:
(Jagger Intro)
1. Lyrus: "You Solve Me, Sucka'"
2. Kettel: "Boekebaas"
3. Apparat: "You Don't Know Me"
4. Oneotrix Point Never: "Black Snow"
5. Orphan: "We Don't Have To Be Stars"
6. Dntel: "Why I'm So Unhappy"
7. Helix: "Kelly Moran
8. Ithaca: "Cepia"
9. Alfa Mist: "Potential"
10. Radiohead: "Sit Down. Stand Up"
11. Lyrus: "The Unsuckening"
12. Boards Of Canada: "Reach For The Dead"
13. Roel Funcken "Leaved"
14. Lyrus: "skiesthatmissus (Niture Remix)"
15. Dean De Benedictis: "To The Ends Of Elation (Rework)"
16. Tigran Hamasyan: "The Cave Of Rebirth"
17. Autechre: "Nil"
18. Steve Roach: "Inquest"
19. Plaid: "Logic 8 Demo (Surface 10/Dean De Benedictis remix)"
20. Tangerine Dream: "White Eagle"
21. Orphan: "Need To Escape"
(Jagger Outro)

Mix Set 2019

LYRUS - Found In (DJ mix set)

Лід все встелив
Навкруги
Сніг замітає
Всі мої сни
Вітер не втомлюється
Шипіти
Нащо тобі це жарке літо

Зимова (bonus)

'Fearless' taken from the forthcoming Jon Hassell album 'Seeing Through Sound (Pentimento Volume Two)' out July 24 on NDEYA.

Pre-order here: https://ndeya.ffm.to/seeingthroughsound

FURTHER READING ON JON HASSELL:
Fourth World in the 21st century: www.residentadvisor.net/features/2984
Brian Eno on Jon Hassell: www.theguardian.com/music/2007/nov/09/jazz.urban

https://jonhassell.com/
https://jonhassell.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/OfficialJonHassell/
https://twitter.com/ndeyarecords
https://www.instagram.com/ndeya_records/

Jon Hassell | Fearless

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)

Thi rx EP (preview) - The Stratos Ensemble

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