Ambient

Zahn | Hatami | McClure - Cyntr

Taken from FCQ004 Charles & The Fury - Resonances

Audio: 192 mp3

FCQ004 Charles & The Fury - With Your Love

Purl & protoU - 'Sub Life' 
Label; Dronarivm 
Cat #.: DR-60
Format: CD (ltd. 150)/ DL
Release date: June 7th, 2019

“Sub Life" grows out of a blend of nature inducted ambiances as the artists conduct an emotional exploration of the natural world. The album draws its energy from primal forces constantly moving, around us and within us. Lush field recordings combined with human voices and instruments evolve into an immersive journey for dreamy minds.'

Mastered by Tobias Hellkvist
Original photo by Magda Kozuba

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Purl & protoU - Sacred Fluids

Taken from Shaw Cuts' compilation, Sentiment Series Vol. 2, out July 22.

Pre-order: https://shawcuts.bandcamp.com/album/sentiment-series-vol-2

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Sentiment Series Vol. 2

Orb Premieres

Premiere: Quiem - Parlance

REMO SEELAND - Hollow Body, LP

A1) Body Innovation (04:20)
A2) Hollow City (07:24) 
A3) Second Coming (04:29)
B1) Pulse Points Green (05:33)
B2) Whoosh Before Laya (08:19)
B3) Night Within (05:04)

Release date - Sept 13th 2019 
Catalogue nr. - HG1903
Format - Vinyl/digital

All music composed and played by Remo Seeland
Recorded in New York, Reykjavik and Zurich

Guests:
Steve Fors, trombone on “Second Coming”
Reinier van Houdt, e-bowed guitar on “Hollow City” and Rhodes organ on “Pulse Points Green”
Norman Westberg, guitars on “Body Innovation” and “Hollow City”

Digital mastering by Jeremy Cox
Vinyl mastering by Rob Viso
Mix and production by Roger Hofmann and Remo Seeland
Inlay Photo by Ralph Kuehne
Artwork and photo by Ruth Stofer

Promotion by Dense Promotion, ed@dense.de 
Distribution by Cargo Records and A-Musik
Released by Hallow Ground

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Remo Seeland’s “Hollow Body” is a suspenseful exploration of the interaction between sound environments and individual perception. It was sparked by an intense physical experience the Swiss artist had during a residency in New York City. “The subway became a sort of ‘atonal symphony’ for me, provoking a full-body experience with the rattling of the overcrowded, airless trains,” the Hallow Ground founder explains. “However, while the old subway is not exactly beloved by everyone, it also represented for me the melancholic meta-level of the moloch above it.” The album, his first under his given name, makes this disparity audible over six tracks in which the visceral and the personal become at once abstract and universal. 

Based on field recordings from both urban and rural environments, “Hollow Body” aims to mirror another of Seeland’s psychosonic encounters. “In the highlands of Iceland, I noticed my pulse lowering and my breathing decelerating,” he says. “Just shortly after that, a single insect’s buzzing seemed so loud to me that I became even more aware of the silence surrounding me.” Silence, perception, order and the curious dialectics of the outside world and the inner workings of the human psyche are the central questions of “Hollow Body”.

Recorded in New York, Reykjavík and Zurich, “Hollow Body” draws extensively on field recordings and sees Seeland collaborating with Hallow Ground-affiliated artists Norman Westberg (Swans, guitar on “Body Innovation” and “Hollow City”) and Reinier van Houdt (Current 93, e-bowed guitar on “Hollow City” and Rhodes organ on “Pulse Points Green”), as well as the Swiss-based US-American musician Steve Fors (Deaf At Sea, trombone on “Second Coming”). The diversity of the source material is mirrored in the stylistic richness Seeland lays out with this LP. From the lush, bass-heavy drones of the opener “Body Innovation” to the downbeat-driven “Second Coming” and, finally, the haunting organ sounds of “Night Within”, “Hollow Body” forms a holistic entity that integrates idiosyncratic compositions into a coherent narrative.

“Hollow Body” was also conceptually inspired by Seeland’s research as a cultural scientist with a focus on Southeast Asian cultures, specifically the anomic tantric cults of India. It thus serves as a mediator between not only the individual experience of site-specific sounds and general ideas of sound production in and about space, but also between different compositional techniques ranging from drones to synthesized vocals and more primitive forms of ritualistic music. Its sonic abundancy is to be understood as a direct result of its underlying idea: at its most challenging, this record also makes the most coherent statements about the order of space, sound and their cryptic relationship with the human body.

Hollow Body

REMO SEELAND - Hollow City (feat. Reinier van Houdt and Norman Westberg) - HG1903

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