stunningly beautiful. brings me back to Africa immediately....

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What does it feel like to be immersed in a rainforest, far away from people and surrounded by nature? As daylight starts to fade, this experience is not necessarily a blissful or relaxing one, especially if this is your first time in the Congo basin. Long version at https://youtu.be/X-61RmPgBzA

Nightfall In The Congo Jungle

Arabian Desert is a collection of stereo and quad soundscapes recorded on the Arabian Peninsula in the Empty Quarter, the largest expanse of sand dunes on Earth. Available at https://mindful-audio.com/arabian-desert/

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MAFX024 Arabian Desert Demo STEREO

Atacama Desert is a collection of stereo and quad soundscapes recorded in the barren but amazingly beautiful desert plateau of Western Chile. Get it at https://mindful-audio.com/atacama-desert

MAFX027 Atacama Desert Demo

African Desert: Sahara is a large collection of pristine soundscapes recorded in the remotest parts of the Sahara desert. Available at https://mindful-audio.com/african-desert-sahara/

MAFX028 African Desert Sahara demo STEREO

(m)Egoless [version]

Henrik has been an integral part of the Ambientologist family from the beginning, and it’s with great pride that his work be showcased as an early member of the label family, and more still in offering a rare full length album.

Själ ties everything the Stockholm based cellist has been doing into a consolidated, coherent and above all magnificent work, filled with rich emotion and, in keeping with its namesake, beguiling soul. As one of the most expressive instruments at a composer’s disposal, Henrik allows the cello to do the talking. Slow and deeply stirring arcs, married with sweeter taps of piano, cello plucks and subtle electronics.

You can support the man himself buy purchasing here: bit.ly/34mDmaE

The evocative capacity of television or film scores pervades the album, each track painting up vivid imagery of both the real and the transcendent. Sväva takes the listener on a journey above a rolling desert, while Ren Och Fin paints a pensive picture of medieval Europe that would give Ramin Djawardi a run for his money. Master of atmosphere, anthéne, provides the epilogue with his expansive deconstruction of Kraft.

Above all, Själ is as elegant as it is grounded in immersive feeling and deep, resonant imagery. And in his own words:

The soul communicating with the nervous system.
It gives you thoughts and images in your inner mind.
It can be memories or diffuse pictures. It takes you away from reality.
A musical-tonal floating away of the mind.

If you fancy keeping up with future releases, or even just dive into the mixes and musical meditations/talks, take a peek at the links below:

IG: @ambientologist_yt
Spotify: spoti.fi/2BadMtU
YouTube: bit.ly/2zaNfee
Facebook: bit.ly/2RrZZbA
Bandcamp: bit.ly/2m0t8fd

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Ambientologist
Releasedatum för album:
2019 December 4d.

Kraft (anthéne Remix)

Tawny Owl recorded in southern Sweden (Sep 2019) from 25 meters / 80 ft. by Mats Bentmar using the SCHOEPS Parabolic Dish Set (hand-held) with the SCHOEPS CCM 4 cardioid microphone + SCHOEPS ParabolEQ Plug In, FREE, with parameters quickly set for each recording:
+ Distance (Close to Far Off)
+ Aim Inaccuracy (ON Center to OFF Center)
+ Diffuse/Free Field (Pure Diffuse Field to Pure Free Field)
+ Microphone (CCM 4, CCM 2, CCM 21 or CCM 22)
+ Low Cut (ON/OFF)
+ High Wind Cover (HWC, Windjammer or no windcover)
+ Presets (Sport, Nature, SFX etc.)
NO OTHER POST PRODUCTION.
For more information please visit: schoeps.de/dish
Photo by Mats Bentmar: www.bentmar.com
Telinga Microphones: www.telinga.com

SCHOEPS Parabolic Dish Set: Tawny Owl, 25 m / 80 ft, MONO, SCHOEPS parabolEQ plugin

frozen trough
I cup the warm breath
of my horse
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My response to this week's Naviar Haiku challenge, informed by the hot summer we are having down here in Sydney, Australia.

Enjoy!
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Naviar Haiku challenge #312: https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/189860392413/naviarhaiku312-frozen-trough
Poem: Debbie Strange (http://debbiemstrange.blogspot.com)
Picture: Jonathan Knepper (https://unsplash.com/@jknepp)

Warm (naviarhaiku312)

M.Nomized : synthesizer, marimba, field recording, raga treatments, loops

playing with "Courante" by Marco Lucchi
https://soundcloud.com/marcolucchi/courante-if-you-would-like-to-dance-with-me-please-add-your-sounds

aprile 2020

Marco Lucchi & M.Nomized - Corrente (per una Fata)

A warm night with an easterly wind and full moon and small flocks of Greater white-fronted Goose and Barnacle Goose migrating over a small forest beside the shore near our house in Makholma Finland. Recording from 02.45-03.00
Headphones recommended.

(MKH8020 ab80cm, pointing upward, 24/48, +10dB in post, flac)

Jan Eerala Finland

Arctic Geese migrating - 4/10/2020 - Makholma Night

Wild Rain is a collection of rain soundscapes recorded in 4 rainforests across 3 continents. The library features rain falling on vegetation and forest floor, from sparse drops to moderate and heavy rain. Available at https://mindful-audio.com/wild-rain/

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MAFX021 Wild Rain Demo STEREO

taken from the project 'mineral veins' (dissolves)  natural substances breaking down under environmental pressures, interactions and distortions. 

(recorded using JrF d-series hydrophones & adapted geophones)

mineral veins | Lugnas Dissolve (extract) - headphones / speakers needed

What a strange, odd, mixed-up year it has been.  The yellow spanner of Covid-19 really wrecked a lot of plans. I was all booked to travel to Estonia to record, but it had to be cancelled.   Very noticeable was the sunlight, perhaps it was because there was few jet trails, but when the day was cloudless the sunlight could be absolutely dazzling, it had the strange effect of making it feel like we were living in paradise.     Because of the restrictions I am so glad the woods is only within a moderate cycle distance from my home.  I am very fortunate that I have two fairly good places to record relatively close by.  I even found a wild sand dune area not even five kilometers away,  I hope to record more there in the future.   Disc 1 track 2 is from a much longer recording, it is probably one of the best recordings made during the 2020 season, I had made a few recordings, near the stream, then a bit less close, then a bit further away and another even further away, as I wanted a sound where the stream was a suggestion rather than really dominating the sound picture.  The Blue Tits nested in a cavity block in the wall of my home, there is an vent on the inside of the block, so I only needed to place the microphone up to that to get a fantastic close perspective recording.  
I include two recordings of the Blue tits as they sounded so different when I recorded them a week later.  Sometimes I would get great results by leaving the old Marantz recorder hidden in a bushy place while I go not too far away to record with the new recorder, I love how I had no idea of what it has captured for me, only later when the track loaded on the computer did I get to see if it captured anything worthwhile.  This was the case with Blackbird - alarm calls (Track 3 on disc 2).  I think the peaks came in at about minus six db.  This year was my first time to use Contact microphones and a Hydrophone.    
At the beginning of April my dad Desmond died, he was 89, a great age.  Apart from Covid, we could see he wasn’t going to live much longer, he had been deteriorating noticeably for months up to that.  Why then are the covers for the two discs so strange ?  
A birdsong production should have birds on it !   My dad was big into sun power and indeed wind power even long before it became popular.  Over by my workshop he had placed a few sun power panels on the wall, these were wired into a small room to a panel on the wall with six switches.  I thought it a good way to remember him by including a picture of part of his panel for disc one front cover.  I was going to include the six switches in the picture, but my heart of hearts said no, it didn’t look good, too much scruffy brown, but I include it in the zipped folder (If you are buying it on Bandcamp)so you can see what I am talking about.  I had almost chosen it, as it occurred to me one morning that the six switches are like the levels of lockdown (I hate that term, but I have to use it here) thankfully we didn’t have a level six, maybe that is like in a movie I saw where the authorities came and boarded up a house with the people still inside.  In the end I used the part of the photo with the meter.   
The butterflies . . . Dessie we call him, was always interested in butterflies, that is where I got my interest in nature, as a child he used to bring us for walks up along the canal to see the wild flowers and butterflies.  The picture comes from one drawer of his small collection of Irish butterflies he put together maybe around the late 1940’s or 1950’s ??  Very few of them are even in one piece now, this drawer just looked the part, it was all mixed up and spoiled like the year had been, the summer we never really had, at least not the way we wanted or had planned it.

A Strange Year - Disc One - (Album Sample)

African Desert is a collection of soundscapes recorded in the Namib desert. It covers a variety of locations, from sand dunes and canyons to desert pavement and rocky outcrops. Available at https://mindful-audio.com/african-desert/

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Award winning sound recordist, audio director and expedition leader - Dune: Part Two | Mufasa: The Lion King | Horizon Forbidden West | Wordscapes

MAFX022 African Desert Demo

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