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For as long as I can remember, I’ve felt there was something truly mysterious about this world, and always wanted to find out just what that is. I think I may have found out some of it, but I also think I’ve only just scratched the surface. That’s kind of what this album is about. Until recently it had always seemed to me as if everything around me was so out of context, nonsensical, random. Finally I am beginning to understand that everything is connected, and I’d really like to keep exploring that, so here is something in context.

Thank you for listening and please take care.
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Depuis toujours, j’ai senti qu’il y avait quelque chose de vraiment mystérieux à propos de ce monde, et j’ai toujours voulu découvrir ce que c’était. Je crois en avoir découvert une partie, mais je pense aussi que je n’ai fait qu’égratigner la surface. C’est un peu l’idée de cet album. Jusqu’à récemment, il m’a toujours semblé que tout autour de moi était hors de contexte, insensé, aléatoire. Finalement je commence à comprendre que tout est connecté, et je voudrais vraiment continuer à explorer tout ça, voici donc quelque chose dans son contexte.

Merci pour votre écoute et prenez bien soin de vous.

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British musician Jo Johnson’s debut solo album for Further Records, Weaving, betokens an exciting presence in the world of minimalist composition. 

“Ancestral Footsteps” opens the LP with cascades of cyclical harp-like sounds, an homage to one of Johnson’s primary inspirations: Alice Coltrane. Channelling rigorous new age and mesmerizing Riley-esque/Reichian minimalism, the piece accrues heft and intensity, with occasional bursts of synthetic, tribal clapping until it fades out with cinematic flourish. The title track gradually alters simple guitar and keyboard phrases, along with a chiming motif that multiplies in a hall of mirrors. The disorientating arpeggios form moiré patterns against colossal bass notes. The mood lightens considerably with “Words Came After Music,” whose sweeping strings and drones could take you to whatever your idea of heaven is. Interestingly, the title of the piece is inspired by an anthropological theory Johnson stumbled across that musical ability predates language in humans. With its sombre, undulating synths and lustrous highs and lows, “In the Shadow of The Workhouse” plumbs profound emotional depths. Epic closer “Silver Threads” starts as an almost silent retreat in the vein of Laurie Spiegel's Appalachian Grove or Eno and Budd's The Pearl with the faint hum and buzz of telegraph wires, until four minutes in a stoic pulse and suspenseful chiming motif arise, buttressed by glowing synth sighs and the LP's only percussive thumps (think Incunabula era Autechre). 

While inspired by the "serious music" of Arvo Pärt, Wim Mertens and others, Johnson’s mandalas of tone mantras offer a playful, DIY sense of adventure, as you might expect from the former guitarist for incendiary punk group Huggy Bear and a long-term co-organizer of London’s Bleep43 techno club night and label. Weaving condenses Johnson's long love affair with free jazz, minimalism and electronic music and this unique ambient composition is invested with powerful emotional resonance.

Words Came After Music

Weaving

In the Shadow of the Workhouse

Taken from the album 'Behold' released as LP and Download

Oren Ambarchi & Jim O'Rourke: 'Behold A (exceprt)' (EMEGO 176)

découvert

Ovheda - Demo x101

Track for EXO compilation, record out on Ekster.(http://www.eksterlabel.com/EKS007-EXO)

Trooper

Taken from the album 'Too' released as LP / CD / Download

Klara Lewis 'Us' (EMEGO 210)

FLOAT launches their new label with first signing Berlin-based artist Andrea Belfi. Titled Ore, the album places drums as its centre of a listening experience where rhythm is combined with electronic textures and haunting sonic details.

Pre Order LP/CD/LTD ETD: www.wearefloat.co.uk/andrea-belfi-ore
Pre Order Digital: http://phonofile.link/ore

26/05/2017

Andrea Belfi - Lead

Tor - Blue Book Remixed out now! - hyperurl.co/BlueBookRemixed
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had the great privilege of joining a stacked roster for this remix album! Tor challenged me to put my twist on the intro to his album, a song that was originally 1:05 in length. enjoy, and download the album now!
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check out Tor - @torsmusic
check out Loci Records - @locirecords

Blue Book Remixed

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Tor - Intro (Edamame's rework)

from the album 'semblance' available on kranky 07/20

Semblance

forma 'three-two'

Elsta lag í heimi (Oldest Song in the Universe) by dj. flugvél og geimskip/ Airplane & Spaceship
Mixed by Finnur Hákonarson and dj. flugvél og geimskip. Mastered in Amsterdam Mastering by Darius Van Helfteren. 
Enjoy!
here is video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XJSGieESNM&lc=z22di5oglna1fhcry04t1aokgjl1a5bx5clgojccacbwrk0h00410

This song is about when you wander home from a party late at night and see an open door, smoke and light coming out from behind the door - you go in: And there is a band playing, that has been playing from the beginning of time - if there was a beginning. The band is playing the song that is our universe!

Elsta lag í heimi (Oldest Song in the Universe)

Pre-order available now via ImportantRecords.com 

ELEH’s Home Age 2 is packaged in a thick, letterpress printed Arigato Pak by Stumptown Printers in Portland, Oregon.  Each package contains an individual piece of art (linocut/screenprint/watercolor) from the artist.  This is a one time CD edition of 480 copies.

ELEH’s Home Age series was composed and recorded over a period of 5 years and it reflects a search for color, form, connection and growth. The handmade artwork contained in each package was created during the same period of time the music was composed and is an integral part of the meaning of Home Age.

For this release Eleh plays modular & analog synthesizers, piano, organ, bass and symphonic chimes. 

Although Home Age is a 2 part set, Eleh’s upcoming Living Space CD/LP for Touch is very much the conclusion of this era of Eleh.

Weaving

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