Very captivating and smooth, nicely calming!

Magical, effeminate and mysterious music that brings me into blissful harmony with myself. Thank you Kaitlyn, the dedication to your craft is very apparent and worthwhile..

With a symphonic grandeur, a tai chi like fluidity & new age vibrations oozing from it's modular synthesizer heart the new Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith LP for Ghostly International is a thing of electronic & ambient wonder. It's her finest LP yet & she was pretty amazing to start with.  https://kaitlynaureliasmith.bandcamp.com/album/the-mosaic-of-transformation

Many Use Me's...

From the album Voids, available November 4, 2022 on Western Vinyl
Pre-order / stream https://lnk.to/qwWosSOI

Voids

Old Fire - "Don't You Go ft. Bill Callahan"

Momentum or Something

The Further We Go

MAGICAL MISTAKES 
“Peaking in the Pitch Black” 
SINGLE RELEASE: 20th May
LP RELEASE DATE: 1st July 2016
LABEL: THE PLAYGROUND Records

“Incredible electronic music!”
VICE Mag/ NOISEY

“Bell-bathed, slow-swung cut that seems to pull inspiration from the lineage of contemplative beats crafted by the likes of Shlohmo and Mount Kimbie.” 
XLR8R

“Warm, dreamy melodies only to touch down to earth for it’s noisey center before lifting back off into the clouds. worth hearing, and Luebs worth paying attention to!”
FACT

“Magical Mistakes doesn’t need heavy drops or sultry hooks, his tenderly pastoral style of production is infatuating enough as it is.”
The Line Of Best Fit


Magical Mistakes releases upcoming LP “Peaking in the Pitch Black” via The Playground Records on the 1st July. Magical Mistakes has already garnered support from the likes of Vice/ Noisey, FACT Mag, CLASH, XLR8R, Earmilk, The Line of Best Fit, BBC and many more. Currently based in Osaka, Japan, Erik runs the small events and boutique label Perfect Touch, working with labels and artists (Leaving Records, Shigeto, Yosi Horikawa, Obey City etc.) on tours and cross cultural creative projects. “Peaking in the Pitch Black” is the first single to be lifted from the LP which will be released on the 20th May. 

Following the path of other artists, like Bon Iver, Magical Mistakes, (a.k.a Erik Luebs) moved to Shiba-san, one of Japan’s most rural villages, to create his sound. Here he was able to draw inspiration from his environment and also from the lineage of contemplative beats crafted by the vibrant community of Osaka artists, such as Shlohmo and Mount Kimbie. It’s clear when listening to Magical Mistakes that his style strives to combine Eastern and Western influences. His tracks are textural, bell-bathed, slow slung electronic compositions blended with organic instrumentation, Japanese motifs, and ambient sounds, that create an immersive underwater effect.

Magical Mistakes social links:

Website: http://magicalmistakes.com/ 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/magicalmistakes 
Twitter: https://twitter.com/magicalmistakes/
Label: The Playground Records


Magical Mistakes - Annihilated

More info: https://www.xlr8r.com/news/2016/05/premiere-hear-a-new-track-from-johann-johannsson/

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Premiere: Johann Johannsson - They Being Dead Yet Speaketh (Live)

The first piece in a set of introspective anthems for solo piano.

Inner Anthem No. 1 : In

A Score for Darling

Erik K Skodvin & Rauelsson - The Return

Suzanne Ciani
Flowers Of Evil
(Finders Keepers Records, FKR099)

As a genuine vanguard of electronic music composition at the forefront of the modular synthesiser revolution in the late 1960s, Suzanne Ciani’s forward-thinking approach to new music would rarely look to the past for inspiration, which makes this unheard composition from 1969 a rare exception to the collective futurist vision of Ciani and synthesiser designer Don Buchla. In choosing to adapt the controversial prose of French poet Charles Baudelaire, Suzanne would join the ranks of ongoing generations of pioneering musicians like Olivier Messiaen, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Serge Gainsbourg, Etron Fou Leloublan, Celtic Frost and Marc Almond (not forgetting Star Trek’s William Shatner!), all equally inspired by the 19th century writer’s works of “modernité” (modernity), a self-coined term dedicated to capturing the eeting, ephemeral experience of life in an urban metropolis, best exempli ed in his symbolic, erotic and macabre ode to Parisian industrialisation, Les Fleurs du mal (Flowers Of Evil).

In her varied career that would combine art gallery installations, major lm soundtrackings and commissions for Atari, Suzanne Ciani’s earliest experiments remain some of her most challenging, beguiling and timeless… Flowers Of Evil ticks all the above boxes and icks switches that would power-up a new uncharted universe of her own musical modernité. For the many enthusiasts that have already drawn the parallels between Baudelaire’s writings and experimental/ electronic music (a relationship rivalled only by the likes of J. G. Ballard and Aldous Huxley) some might instantly recognise an unconscious sistership between this recording and another 1969 electronic adaptation of Flowers Of Evil by celebrated female electronic composer Ruth White. An interesting distinction of White’s excellent version of Flowers Of Evil (released via Limelight records, home to the likes of Fifty Foot Hose and Paul Bley) is that its dark tone generation and vocal manipulation was created with a Moog synthesiser, the commercially triumphant rival to Suzanne and Don’s Buchla Systems (Buchla and Moog’s historic, simultaneous, neck-and-neck synth developments are well documented.) The fact that Ciani’s version was never intended for commercial release (not unlike her 1975 Buchla concerts, which could easily have taken Morton Subotnick’s Bull by the horns!) is also poetically re ective of the nature of Ciani and Buchla’s alternative perspective. The choice to present this extract from Flowers Of Evil in its intended French language further distances Ciani’s faithful reaction from some of its better-known variations. Having attempted to voice the poem herself, the multilingual Italian-American composer’s French accent did not meet her own standards, resulting in the request for a fellow unnamed French student who lived on campus at Mills College in Oakland to accurately verbalise the section of Baudelaire’s collection entitled Élévation.

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Flowers Of Evil

Suzanne Ciani - Flowers Of Evil (Excerpt)

Recognised as a mystical withdrawn masterpiece created by Irish electroacoustic pioneer Roger Doyle, the album Thalia's short-lived existence on CBS Classics was deemed a commercial failure in the eyes of blinkered major label suits but would further cement Doyle's contemporary concrète credentials - paving the way for a multi-disciplinary genre-bending career at the forefront of independent Irish music and earning him a coveted spot on the indispensable Nurse With Wound List.  With only 200 copies rumoured to have survived the CBS cull, Thalia has become an elusive and highly sought-after feather in the caps of collectors of both outsider electronics and avant-garde tape manipulation, and has long since been respected as one of the most important records in either field to emerge from the Emerald Isle.

Roger Doyle - Thalia Part 1(Excerpt)

A. R. Luciani
Elettroencefalogramma
Dead Cert (VCR014)

In the widening realms of uncovered European outsider art and maligned musical enigmas, the composer most commonly known as A. R. Luciani, along with his indeterminable and mostly uncommercial discography, continues to exist on the extreme outer limits. Despite his unwaning commitment to the Italian production music for the TV and film industry his work remains mostly undocumented in recent excitable books and documentaries.  Meanwhile his advancements in contemporary music, tape music, neo-classical, jazz, electroacoustic and counterpoint composition remains confided to the educational sector while his vast historical concert work remained exclusive to this discipline. If it wasn't for continued interest of owners of library music labels in the early 1970s it is doubtful that we would ever even hear the truly unique music of this Sicilian born (Florence raised) polymath who would eventually share anti-release schedules with the likes of Alessandro Alessandroni and Daniela Casa. For this reason, unlike many indispensable library legends of the era, it's arguable that Luciani should be considered a library musician at all, rather an independent, highly educated, experimental musician who happened to make library records. Library music clearly needed Luciani, rather that Ricardo relying on RIA's gravy train like many disposable artists of the gilded golden era, which is why this first-ever collection of his music, represents just the tip of an iceberg in a very deep ocean. 

www.finderskeepersrecords.com

Elettroencefalogramma

A. R. Luciani - Battery Farm

...AND THEY SAID IT SHOUDN'T BE DONE !!!!

Andy Votel's Midlfe Crisis Disco Mixtape

...and then Bill Withers died !!!??? Here's an 8 minute tribute to Bill Withers using TOO MANY cover versions of USE ME.

Andy Votel - Misuse Me (Bill Withers Tribute)

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The Mosaic of Transformation

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Carrying Gravity

Our Two Skins (Remixed)

Radiator (Lawerence English Remix - Eternal Coda)

The first in a series of three albums from Ryan Crosson to launch new label NFI Recordings.  Recorded between May and December of 2020, Ryan steps away from the dance floor to deliver three albums of his most personal work to date.  The music serves as a real time reflection of thoughts, moods and studio experimentation during the covid-19 pandemic shut down while showcasing his love for alternative forms of electronic music as well as cinematic scores and soundtracks.

Notes From Isolation Part I

Anniversary

Ghostly International and Spectral Sound. Of Art & Artifice since 1999.

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Carrying Gravity

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