Track number 1 from the upcoming album 'Seafields' available from Dronarivm 260321

Seafields

Hope

'Hope' - Seafields - [Dronarivm, 2021]

Taken from the upcoming album '12 tapes | 10 years'...

Music: Craig Tattersall / Joe Borreson
Mastering: Ian Hawgood 
Design: Craig Tattersall / Joe Borreson / Daniel Crossley
Label: Fluid Audio

'12 tapes | 10 years'

Joe Borreson & Craig Tattersall - Lost In The Post

Written and Produced by Ian Hawgood & Brad Deschamps
Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Photography by Alexander Kopatz
www.go70north.com
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Archives | 2021

Rosales - Nest

One of ambient drone's most recognised names, anthéne graces Ambientologist with his debut vinyl release. Having brought 12"s into the world for so many wonderful artists under his own Polar Seas imprint, it's nothing but an honour to have him as the first vinyl offering of this little label.

Grab yourself a copy here: bit.ly/3CvnwM9

maritime is a showcase of anthéne's patient yet intriguing soundscaping, but this time with an altogether more grounded and directional approach. After an unmistakably calming first half, the album journeys somewhat darker, more introspective, without drawing away from the vastness of its initial input.

A new, more focused sound for anthéne, maritime presents a real cognitive exploration, framed by its subject - the vastness, awe and terror of the ocean.

anthéne - maritime (Album Mini-Mix)

DR-78 : HIPNOTIC EARTH - 'Starfish & Giant Foams' CD / DL

You can stream full album and buy CDs via bandcamp:
dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/starfish-giant-foams

or choose digital retailer of your choice:
dronarivm.lnk.to/Starfish_and_Giant_Foams

Starfish and Giant Foams is a collection of wayward songs, new material and previously unreleased compositions; odds and ends that flow with a cohesive intention to gently coax the listener inward on a journey to imaginary yet parallel worlds. This album marries the past and the future for Hipnotic Earth. Making music here in California in wine country inspires me to tame the harmonic waterfalls and streams of melodic clouds that pass and compose the hours, days and years of our listenings and ongoings; ever called to creativity and patiently dipping into the elixir of life, the magic of music and all that is good.

This is a record that flirts with many and different colors revealing newer sounds for the project. There is Dogstar which is a reunion and delves into a deep love and kinship with rhythm and bass as sparse dubby effects weave within the etheric ambient vocal featherings sung from another language by Taressa Bell; an angel of a voice who adds her own dimensions to the pieces (also heard here on the older unreleased track Rasa). Dogstar was recorded in Oct 2019 and I am full of joy at the result and is a direction I long to explore. There are also nods to a settling static slow-motion sound, tastes of sweeter trance inducing and calming drones that make it so easy to summon concentration when listening: elsewhere, rare and slight sprinklings of piano timbres dance vaguely with harmonic drift. Moon Walk is a brighter meditation, another older experiment with sounds that called for the light of day and the call here is now answered.

Something new. And eclectic. Somethings old. Something newly colored. And something blue. I hope you enjoy these tracks as much as I do.

~ Cosmos 

Music by Cosmos
Ethereal vocals by Taressa Bell
Mastering by Ian Hawgood
Photo by Katrina Mari Errico

Thanks for your love & support!

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HIPNOTIC EARTH - Dogstar (Feat. Taressa Bell)

Sometimes it’s not enough to pick out the right chords, to write out the melody, sprinkle the notes. Sometimes it’s not enough to play the right instruments, hire the orchestra, space out the mics. Take a listen to some “fake Spotify artists” and you’ll know that it’s true. It seems that these copycats have all the ingredients, but the dish still tastes lukewarm. That is because their course is lacking the true soul of a master which they’ve poured into each piece. That’s the ingredient not listed on the recipe. Now take a listen to this gorgeous track by a composer and visual art collective from LA named Sanctuary. It seems, oh, so simple, straightforward, and plain, and yet, when you play it, it beams with emotion, dynamically charged and expanded within. It’s ripe with that ‘something’ that Jóhann possessed – and that is the best compliment I can give to any new recommendation. “Crystalline, emotional orchestral and choral elements blend with intriguing foley. Sometimes intimate, sometimes epic, Sanctuary caresses dark themes with intense visual vignettes and haunting, widescreen music, challenging the audience to join them on an inward journey.” Released on Safari Riot, the collective offers up a debut of two EPs, both volumes out tomorrow, December 3rd. This is incredibly beautiful and cinematic, and I can’t wait for you to enjoy the rest of the pieces. But for now, here’s my favorite, titled “In Absolute.”

"In my mind ‘In Absolute’ is a very visual piece. Much like a close-up shot in a film, slowly zooming out to reveal an intricate scene, ‘In Absolute’ embodies the same feeling. A simple idea ever-expanding. It would not have been possible without the brilliant string and woodwind ensembles we recorded in Iceland last summer."

Sanctuary Vol. 1

In Absolute

TRACK PREMIERE : Sanctuary - In Absolute

I sometimes publish album reviews that somehow turn into special premieres. I also exclusively feature some tracks that somehow turn into album reviews. In either case, it’s irrelevant to bucket this into some special column and make it more about the music, which is the point behind this whole endeavour which I’ve been on for over fifteen years now (damn). So today I am happy to share with you a beautiful rework of a beautiful piece from two beautiful artists. What else do we need more to say? “For Now We See Darkly” is an original track by Frances Shelley, from her album, Songs Of Possibility which I have featured in my Best of 2021 list, Music For Being Together Alone. Exploring loss and its transformation into acceptance and even hope, the original is a muted modern classical piece, featuring Shelley on the piano with reverberated echoed treatments of industrial nature, combining the gentle with the rough for a spanning soundscape. For his rework, London-based composer Adrian Leung focused on the textural ambience of the piece, adding bass, arpeggiated synths, and glitchy elements for a cinematic arc that carries the piano melody into another territory, reimagined through the lens of Drexler and his sonic world. It’s a flattering account of the tale which started with the sounds of Frances Shelley and ended in the space of Drexler’s touch, and my only wish [as usual] is to hear this rework for a prolonged time.

For Now We See Darkly

TRACK PREMIERE : Frances Shelley - For Now We See Darkly (Drexler Rework)

Oscillation

Taken from the upcoming album 'Chapters' on Fluid Audio...

Music: Und_Ne
Mastering: Ian Hawgood
Design: Daniel Crossley

www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com/mailing-list

Chapters

und_ne - Chapter 5

~ IIKKI 011 ~

music : Seabuckthorn
photography : Sophie Gabrielle
album/book : Through A Vulnerable Occur
duration : 38.55 mn
date : March 2020

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All music by Andy Cartwright : Guitars, Saz, Charango, Effects. 
Gareth Davis : Clarinet on 'Through A Vulnerable Occur' and 'Place Memory'. 

Recorded & mixed in Veynes, France between summer 2019 – Winter 2020. 

Mastered by James Plotkin
Artwork by Sophie Gabrielle
Design by sprflxgrfzm

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edition : 
vinyl : limited to 300 copies hand numbered 
cd : limited to 200 cd (glass mastered) hand numbered
book : limited to 300 copies hand numbered + hand stamped

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pre-order : March 02th, 2020 / official release : March 30th, 2020

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Links :
https://seabuckthorn.bandcamp.com/
https://www.sophiegabriellephoto.com/
https://www.iikki-books.com/
https://iikki.bandcamp.com/music
https://www.facebook.com/iikki.books/
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℗ & © 2 0 2 0 - I I K K I - I I K K I 0 1 1

Seabuckthorn - And Bickers Into Colour

Available here:
https://thesisproject.us/projects/thesis-17
&
https://thesisproject.bandcamp.com/album/thesis-17-ceeys-constant-presence

To be released on the conceptual collaborative-minded, boutique label Thesis, is the new joint project by the two neo-classical and contemporary ambient acts of CEEYS, and CONSTANT PRESENCE, the new outing between Peter Broderick [Erased Tapes, Type, Efterklang], and Daniel O’Sullivan [Grumbling Fur, Guapo]. Released during Q3AMBIENTFEST, a sterling three-day event of avant-garde, experimental pop and ambient-classical taking place in Potsdam, Germany during the first weekend of April, the limited edition 10inch EP, enriched with Zen ideology, comes replete with bespoke artwork, exclusive handmade packaging, and laser-etched designs.



CONSTANT PRESENCE, the new mesmerizing project by soundsmith Peter Broderick and multidimensional songwriter Daniel O'Sullivan, has been sporadically performing across the globe since coming together in 2019. This new, recorded body of music will see their release alongside the cello-piano brothers, Sebastian and Daniel Selke aka. CEEYS, who also happen to be the founding partners and curators behind Q3AMBIENTFEST. Looking to celebrate the notions of duology, unity and harmony, the EP features two ambient tracks that are enshrined in the teachings Shunryu Suzuki, a twentieth-century Soto Zen monk who gained popularity in the Western world for his teaching of Zen Buddhism outside of Japan. This nature of dualism becomes ever more pertinent when factoring in the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the bringing together of new and old worlds, and the pairing of Potsdam and Berlin. The East-West divide is something also very admissible to the works of the Selke brother’s, who imbue various elements of their East German upbringing within their recordings and philosophical approaches. Now celebrating its fourth year, Q3AMBIENTFEST is CEEYS’ labour of love, and it was a great honor, love and respect that they can now release something together with the multitalented and accomplished minds that are Broderick and O'Sullivan.



The Thesis Project, now on its 17th release, has set about on uniting two different artists together to create limited, custom designed bodies of music. Uniquely crafted and designed by Gregory Euclide, each 10” jacket for THESIS 17 consists of laser cut-etched designs portraying brutalist architecture and atomic structures glued on top of airbrushed designs that use the homemade Black Walnut Ink that Euclide made himself from the trees on his property, then letter pressed with the THESIS logo. Each record is hand numbered in an edition of 300, and will be made available on the second day Q3AMBIENTFEST, where it is also possible to get the record hand-signed by the artists. During the second day of the festival CONSTANT PRESENCE will share the stage with CEEYS, for a unique performance that juxtaposes the notion of duality and harmony yet further, in a show that will combine professionalism with liveliness, method with lightness of touch, and efficacy with flexibility.

THESIS 17

Nothing Special

Focusing on experimental genres, we aim to provide a space to share in the creative process and spread the experience of inner exploration through musical expression.