ambient

Written and performed by Nikita Bondarev. 
Recorded and mixed at Berdsk, Russia (2011 - 2013). 

Buy on tape: https://klammtapes.bandcamp.com/album/nikita-bondarev-siberian-loner

Available in two editions: "In Black" & "In Blue". 

Nikita Bondarev - Years Without Summer (from Klamm02 - Siberian Loner)

Written and performed by Galina Ozeran & Alexander Dubrovin (guitar). 
Recorded and mixed at St. Petersburg, Russia (2007 - 2014).

Release date: 21 Oct 2014

Galina Ozeran - Seasons (excerpts from Klamm04)

Hertz Donut + Optomix + Valhalla DSP Reverb

I Have Been To Hell And Back, And Let Me Tell You It Was Wonderful

ES-3 + Hertz Donut + Optomix & Valhalla DSP Reverb

Everything Ends Here *blindoldfreak cover*

‘Loon’ will be released on Erased Tapes as a 12” vinyl as well as digitally on October 2nd. 
Pre-order it here: www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP072
or via iTunes: http://snip.ftpromo.net/loon

Containing five synthesiser-led pieces, ‘Loon’ was recorded in autumn 2014 across five days at Nils’s Durton Studio in Berlin, and continues on from the ambient sounds of ‘Stare’ but with the addition of more percussive elements and dub influences. For this new EP the duo wired an Oberheim 4 Voice and a Korg PS3100 to the mixing desk and performed live takes on both instruments. With all four hands on its pots, all mixes were recorded straight onto 2-track ½-inch tape.

Like on ‘Stare’, their first collaborative affair in 2012, they simply followed what was laying in front of them, and this time they were driven by some new synths, a kick drum and tape effects. Indulging in dub, the tracks where all performed rather than engineered, with Ólafur riding a few elements on faders and Nils bringing effects in and out. After running several mixes, they went for the five strongest moments from this session. The release was announced on a joint website www.arnaldsfrahm.com together with the launch of an intimate 45-minute studio film titled ‘Trance Frendz’, featuring another seven improvisations.

“Nils got some new synths and we thought we’d try them out. We loved them so much that we didn’t actually end up using anything else to make these songs.” – Ólafur Arnalds

“When I was young I was smuggled to Goa parties by my brother. The music played there in the late nineties had a somewhat deep effect on me. ‘Loon’ is almost a blurry memory of these times. In other words, it is what I’d like to remember that music sounded like back then. In fact it sounded probably really cheesy.” – Nils Frahm

Loon

Wide Open

Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm - Wide Open

PEREGRINUS UBIQUE
Photozine + CD
To be released on Gazzar(r)a & VoxxoV - Nov 16th 2015

ORDER: 
https://fredericdoberland.bandcamp.com/album/peregrinus-ubique

Scene I -> Scene VI: 40:04

// All tracks composed, performed & realized by Frédéric D. Oberland at Magnum Diva during Summer 2015: field recordings, harmonic pipe, electric guitar & bass, dark energy doepfer, percussion, Altagor's pantophone, error noise box, critter&guitarri pocket piano, vocals, mellotron, soprano sax, bouzouki, Gaveau piano, signal generator, fender rhodes, drum machine
// Mastered by Vincent Villuis
// Photographs by Frédéric D. Oberland
// Graphic design by Max Paskine

//  This opus is the sonic companion of the photozine 'Peregrinus Ubique'. May I recommend you listen to it in the half-light. To open the window and let the world participate.
// Thanks & love to the stunning teams at Gazzar®a (Pamela & Léa), VoxxoV (Mourad & Vincent) and Balades Sonores (Toma & Esther), to my family of friends for their daily support, to Fanny, Stéphane, Andrea, Nicol, to all my bandmates from Oiseaux-Tempête, FOUDRE!, Le Réveil des Tropiques, FareWell Poetry, The Rustle of the Stars, et aux désarçonnés. Cheers to all the people I've met these last years crossing roads and wandering, playing music and taking photographs, and a warm hug to Mother Nature. 

www.fredericdoberland.com

ORDER Photozine+CD

Peregrinus Ubique - Scene VI

12k is happy to present the debut release on the label from Argentinian composer Federico Durand who has had a series of amazing releases on labels such as Spekk, Own, and Desire Path. Federico and 12k crossed paths on a tour of Japan together in 2014 where the personal friendships among the artists and the label are such a part of what 12k is about. Sharing music and ideas throughout the tour led to an invite to make an album.

It’s no accident that Federico’s music has a dusty air of nostalgia surrounding it. It has always been a very personal affair. Songs inspired family, local life and the world around him are woven by hand with a selection of very physical instruments. He works like a craftsman, piecing together fragments of sound from cassette recorders, small instruments and loopers and creates music that’s as softspoken as he is. No pretenses, no disguises, just the most honest and down-to-earth music that can be made. Broken melodies spinning from tape reels, the sounds of bells and small found objects being played with care... The music is as beautiful as it is introspective, like a small window of antique glass looking right into Federico’s soul.

In his own words:

“A través del espejo in Spanish means “Through the mirror”. I am fascinated with the experience of putting a mirror in front of another: as a miracle, the image turns in a loop that flows into infinity. Loops in the mirror get less clear with each repetition, the color becomes diffuse and greener. When these loops turn into a lullaby we can enter the other side of the mirror: a place of delight and insight. 
I always make simple melodies as they are born free. In many pieces, I use cassette recorders as an instrument that play friendly with others such as piano, lyre, toys, bells or effects. I enjoy the possibilities of cutting tape and making loops, reversing, and even using many tape recorders at the same time making air recordings of the sound. The Roland Space Echo or 2880, which are loop-machines themselves, match perfectly with this way of working.

When I see an emboridery I enjoy both the front and back where a mysterious, invisible world suddenly appears. For this reason, I am grateful to the natural sounds made by the machines, the crackle of loops and other sounds that appear while working, as an unexpected gift.

A través del espejo is a dream of beauty, A love of handcrafted music.”

- Federico Durand

ambient

Grahamkelly