Taken from the upcoming album 'Watering a Fake Flower'.

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Open to the Sea are Enrico Coniglio & Matteo Uggeri...

Enrico Coniglio: piano, organ, Yamaha TX7
Matteo Uggeri: rhythms, field recordings, samples, sort of backing vocals

with:

Mattia Costa: drums
Alessandro Sesana: trumpet
Andrea Serrapiglio: cello, drones

Recorded by Enrico Coniglio and Matteo Uggeri in Venice and Milan.
Drums recorded by Gianmaria Aprile at Argolab, Varese.
Cello recorded by Andrea Serrapiglio.
Additional VOG treatments on “I Can Hear…” by Gianmaria Aprile.

Mixed and produced by Matteo Uggeri
Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Artwork by Daniel Crossley

www.fluidaudio.co.uk

Watering a Fake Flower

Open to the Sea - If One Moment Could Be My Entire Life (Pt 1 & II)

"The slow harvest" is a single from the album "Nothing left but silence" by Erik K Skodvin(officially out on 15th September, 2023).

Nothing left but silence

Erik K Skodvin - The slow harvest

Following the 130701 imprint for over two decades has been a rewarding experience. After all, this is the same offshoot of FatCat that brought us the best of Max Richter, Hauschka, Jóhann Jóhannsson, and yes, even introduced the world to Sigur Rós. This is what a label does best - it puts a "label" on its output, essentially a stamp of approval, if you will, of what it is excited to support. And this is why I hungrily continue to consume pretty much everything in its catalogue, especially by artists previously unknown to me. [And, secretly, I hope that you can say the same about the purpose of my words]. Today, I'd like to share with you a track by the Danish composers Emil Friis and Patricio Fraile, who are best known for their film and television scores (again, mostly for the Danish audience). For their collaboration titled The Expected Sounds Of Minor Music, the duo composed eleven vignettes with minimal piano melodies supported by a string quartet and solo cello performed by Joe Zeitlin. "The album's layered and intimate sound, along with its ability to encourage contemplation [...] reflect the duality of life, encompassing both the major and minor moments." This is a perfect soundtrack to wake up to and start a brand new day, bringing forth some optimism, serenity, and hope... even as it's mostly based on minor keys.

The Expected Sounds Of Minor Music

Minor Music

TRACK PREMIERE : Emil Friis & Patricio Fraile - Minor Music

Today, I am happy to share with you a new piece of music that will serve as the opening to the upcoming mini-album that I will self-release later this summer. To be honest, with all these written words for many years, talking about all this music by many of my favourite composers, I'm actually pretty shit at self-promoting myself. This is why I usually leave this "job" to the many wonderful labels to spread the word. And then I amplify and filter. "Saturated Signals" is a continuation of my sonic journey initially explored on Sacred Tonalities, which was put out on the amazing Past Inside The Present in February of 2023. Initially, it was conceived as a bonus or a follow-up track until it evolved on its own, as music usually does. I then invited a few of my dear friends to rework the piece and add their special touch to the heavily layered synthesized and organic textures which I provided as a foundation for this piece. Each distinct interpretation offers a perfect tint of the individual composer's aesthetic to create a collective whole that you can experience as a unified journey in half an hour's time, connected by an interweaving theme. I will share Saturated Reworks with the world in just a couple of weeks, followed by the full mini-album, but first, here's the single.

Saturated Signals

TRACK PREMIERE : Mike Lazarev - Saturated Signals

There is something special about that dark and nostalgic music that seems to be echoing from the past, as if breaking through another dimension of time, trembling through the gritty playback on a warped and dusty tape, fading in and out on a crumbling old photograph, shades of colours long gone... long gone. The music of Black Swan has embraced this noir-fi aesthetic throughout the years, ever since I first heard the debut, In 8 Movements, released in 2010. Immersed in chilling ambience, hauntology, and the ephemera left behind, the music of Black Swan captures the eerie essence of the in-between, exploring the shadowed depths that linger at the periphery. Exactly twelve years ago, I invited this mysterious artist from New York to make me a Halloween-themed mix, which I published here as Music For Masquerade. Today, I am premiering two tracks for you from his upcoming album on Past Inside The Present, titled Ghost, to be released, of course, on Halloween. This is now his ninth full-length release, in which the spirits roam in our world, leaving their voiceprints on abandoned reel-to-reels to be discovered and played back. And as the twenty pieces and vignettes recede and fade away, all we are left with are the memories imprinted on our hearts and minds. The memories of those who are long gone... long gone. As we will be some day.

Read more on Headphone Commute:
https://headphonecommute.com/2024/10/29/black-swan-somewhere-but-here-and-time-loop/

Ghost

Somewhere But Here and Time Loo

TRACK PREMIERE : Black Swan - Somewhere But Here And Time Loop

Deep Sleep Twenty Four

HFTH 60 Te Lucis Ante Terminum VIII (Nancy) Main output (front) (2023_01_07 22_10_32 UTC)

I hope my gentle compositions will help you relax. Let the soft, cushiony synth progressions mixed with tranquil piano improvisation, strings and rich harmonies guide you to place of peace and content. 
Thank you for taking the time to listen to my work which is also my passion.

Redshift

'Peaks' it's our first compilation, with fifteen pieces going from ambient to techno. Including some new and familiar faces on Faint, like Mykja, Araceae, Powlos, Data Domain or SVLBRD.

Mastered by Emanuele Pertoldi.
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Faint / 201

Faru - Ella

Part of 'Wildlife Addendum'.
Forthcoming.

Mastering by Taylor Deupree
Photography by Alexander Kopatz
www.go70north.com
Archives64 // ArchivesCD45
Archives / 2019

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Warmth - The Creek

Berlin-based composer and sound designer Ben Lukas Boysen is constantly experimenting with techniques and processes, crafting compositions that ease across sonic terrains.

Under his previous alias HECQ, he notched up nine albums that navigated everything from ambient to breakcore, now as a close family member of London's Erased Tapes - the left-of-centre electronic label who've become a home for the likes of Nils Frahm, Ólafur Arnalds and Rival Consoles - Boysen continues his established scoring abilities that manifested on his acclaimed album Gravity, and then on his follow up, Spells, in 2016. 

Ahead of the release of Mirage, his third album for the label, Boysen takes the reigns for this week's Monday Is OK mix with an hour of soothing soundscapes and crunchy electronica...

Ben Lukas Boysen: The 'Monday Is OK' Mix

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.

Open to the Sea - If One Moment Could Be My Entire Life (Pt 1 & II)

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