Heart in a Heart 2

Ambient ethereal soundscapes inspired aby Frank Herbert's Dune Universe,

SPICE - ATREIDES

Soul in Starlight

The Dial Records co-founder is back with his first album in 17 years. If you're at all interested in contemporary European electronic music, you'll know that this is a big deal. 

And that's why we're letting you listen to the whole thing right now! Perishable Tactics is a sombre, melancholy affair, that drifts and dips, the musical equivalent of headlights peeking in and out of thick fog. You'll love it.

Perishable Tactics

Carsten Jost - Atlantis II

Out Now!!!!!!!!

https://dauwd.lnk.to/tocv

Theory of Colours - Versions

Murmure (Rouge Mécanique Running Remix)

Our favourite bothy botherers Mac-Talla Nan Creag (comprised of Hoch Ma Toch, Other Lands and Lord Of The Isles) return to Firecracker Recordings, channeling ancient rites, the mysteries of the Scottish landscape and its elements through technologies both old and new for your listening pleasure.

This time round the archaeological work of Forestry Commission Scotland at Dun Deardail in Glen Nevis, and the links between that site and the ancient Celtic myth ‘The Sorrow Of Derdriu’ provided fertile ground for new exploration and response. Accompanying the music once again will be a lush booklet containing some of the stunning imagery that results from the work FCS have done there, all packaged and silk-screened with the usual finesse we've come to expect from Firecracker Recordings and their chief visionary House Of Traps.

Captured in part in a high vaulted medieval church, then in home studios, bouncing ideas back and forth over the internet, MTNC have once again drawn on field recordings, traditional instrumentation, analogue electronics and the simple power of the human voice to create a shimmering and expansive song cycle.

Whereas the first album was borne out of an intense period of field trips and whisky fuelled jam sessions in brochs and had a loose approach overall, the second is perhaps more focussed in its themes relating to the ancient tale - love, war, beauty and tragedy all intertwined - and they arguably go deeper this time, conjuring up something of the Fourth World feel, by way of the Firth Of Forth.

With additional contributions from Professor John Kenny - whose primal Zummoesque playing on a range of horns including a giant conch shell and a replica of the ancient Deskford carynx underpins several tracks on the album - and Eva Sutherland (daughter of Other Lands) who provides a reading from the myth at the very beginning, this is an album that not only carries the heaviness of history but also looks to the light of the future.'

>> Coming in late November 2018 as 2x12", CD and digital. Distributed exclusively worldwide by Rubadub.

FIREC027LP Mac-Talla Nan Creag 'The Sorrow Of Derdriu'

All songs written, played and dubbed straight to tape by Patrick Pulsinger & Sam Irl at Feedback Studio One, Vienna 2019.

Mastered and cut by Mike Grinser at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin.

BB005 B2 Tail Out

Midnight Embassy are Angela Aux & Sam Irl

Angela Aux: Vocals, Bass, Guitar, Gimbri, Percussion
Sam Irl: Rhodes, Synthesizer, MPC, Effects, Percussion
Written and produced by Midnight Embassy between 2015 and 2018 in Vienna and Munich.	
Mixed by Sam Irl. Mastered by Sam Irl & Daniel Meuzard at IML Headquarter, Vienna.
Artwork by Hank Schmidt in der Beek.
Distributed by wordandsound.
© International Major Label

Midnight Embassy

Midnight Embassy - IML011 snippets

‘Driftmachine Plays Marien van Oers’ is a parallel physical output to the concert ‘Massive Trance: Interpreted by Driftmachine,’ which was performed during the 2019 Minimal Music Festival in Amsterdam. The concert performed at Muziek Gebouw aan ‘t IJ as well as the album, takes its cue from a cassette produced in 1983 by the Dutch experimental composer Marien van Oers (1955–2013). The original cassette states Van Oers’ following intentions: “The basic idea of the performance is experiencing a constant repetition of sound (=rhythm), which can result in the spectator taking action through movement or getting into a form of trance.” His percussion based pieces are all but industrial; the self-built instruments and repetitive chanting aim to achieve a physicality that is closer to tribal music. Van Oers has mainly performed as his solo act, Het Zweet, which was active from 1983 to about 1988.
This interpretation of Marien van Oers’ music by modular synth duo Driftmachine is not a blind restaging of Van Oers’ original recordings, but instead actively reinterprets the piece on the level of its composition, performance, and mixing. Taking the piece’s ultimate aim of ‘attaining trance’ as a starting point, Driftmachine accordingly works towards a new coherence that features a repetition of organic syncopations by using two racks of modular systems.
The liner notes detail how this record came to be, analyze the early work of Marien van Oers, and places this project as a curatorial practice of Ongehoord label initiator Jeroen Vermandere.
This is the fourth release of the Dutch label Ongehoord. Previous records compiled material that had solely been released on cassette during the ’80s. ‘Driftmachine Plays Marien van Oers’ is the first album in a series which departs from released and unreleased cassette material, using it as a source of inspiration. Out September 6th. Buy: https://ongehoord.bandcamp.com/

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PREMIERE #576 | Driftmachine - Trance 2 [Ongehoord] 2019

Artist: Smagghe & Cross 
Title: 1819
Label: Offen Music 
Release date: 27.01.2020 
Format: 12“ LP

This second Lp on Offen is an ajar window overlooking the phantasmagoric world of Smagghe & Cross, a remembrance of days that never were. The music is sparse, the past is forever : ghosts of industries are conjured through the English countryside, fading memories play static with an idea of romance, the sun breaks through the iron clouds. A record free of uncouth nostalgia but laced with ethereal melancholia.

1819

A1 Monody - OFFEN 012

PLAVAY. Hydrodance is a sound installation in the form of an audio meditation created by OMMA and curated by Anna Politiko. This work was commissioned by Zuzeum for its inaugural exhibition We Aim to Live. The word 'plavay'(плавай) means 'to swim' in Russian, and reflects a transient state of meditation. 

OMMA says of her work: “Due to the effects of synesthesia (a neurological condition that causes one to experience senses differently – one might hear colours or taste words), I hear water and the blue colour as smooth, sinusoidal waves of sounds, opposite to noisy or sharp vibrations. This whole audio piece delivers different moods and vibrations. I wanted to reveal the phases of nature, all hydro elements: low and high tides, wind, sea birds, and underwater creatures. The piece conveys the feeling of ‘underwaterness’ through sound filters. Some elements of the composition were recorded with Playtronica’s TouchMe device when I was playing with conductivity in the water. ”

The PLAVAY. Hydrodance meditation hour* invites audiences to become entangled with water on a quantum level while surrounded by art. Water flows through us, it unifies all beings. By fostering interconnectedness through meditation, we gain new ways of feeling, seeing, and understanding.

Sound artist OMMA (Olga Maximova) studied jazz piano at Bill Evans Piano Academy in Paris. OMMA has an innovative and playful approach to music. Outside of performing and recording, OMMA is the co-creator of the tech project Playtronica, which turns everyday objects into musical instruments. She has staged solo synesthetic exhibitions in collaboration with Centre Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo, Foundation Louis Vuitton, L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, and Erarta.

PLAVAY. Hidrodance by OMMA

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