really well crafted sounds, switching (in a very musical way) between organic and synthetic textures

Cerulian - Eye Sea (Download on Bandcamp)

https://stationarytravels.wordpress.com/2022/09/13/premiere-firebirds-by-snowdrops/

Firebirds

from 'An Excellent Spiritual Serviceman' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den358
available on all formats at http://denovali.com/noiseensemble

After a creative break of more than 10 years the Contemporary Noise Ensemble returns with the brand new album called „An Excellent Spiritual Serviceman”. With the band’s line-up reduced and the sound of the brass section replaced with programmable synthesizers comes an entirely new sound of the band’s music. Leaning towards composition instead of improvisation the music is now less jazzy sounding - with electric bass being used instead of double bass and drums actually being the only strictly acoustical instrument. But then again you can hear a lot of other prerecorded instruments like marimba, vibraphone, Rhodes and upright pianos surrounded by arpeggiated synths and other programmable electronic instruments. The album takes you to a journey through jazz, space rock, funk and electronic music with a destination in a form of a rock song which is as well the title song of the album. The Contemporary Noise Ensemble still impresses with maturity and class.

An Excellent Spiritual Serviceman

Dance Of The Headless Jazz Expert

Contemporary Noise Ensemble - Dance Of The Headless Jazz Expert

Just yesterday I shared the news of a recently released album by Sinemis (that's Sine Buyuka) who is the founder of Injazero Records. And today I'm happy to follow up that announcement with a sequel release to the acclaimed Volutes (2020) by Snowdrops, which is a French-based chamber duo of Christine Ott and Mathieu Gabry. For this follow-up, they are joined by violist Anne-Irène Kempf, who also appears on this seventh and last piece on the album, which I am premiering for you today. Here, the piano, played by Ott, and the Rhodes in the hands of Gabry, create a soft fabric of acoustic harmonies that lift up the veil with strings and lush pads. It's a gentle track, which slowly evolves into an ever-expanding space where it disperses into the ether. "The piece develops a lot around repetitive but evolving motifs played by all three," says Gabry of music on "Mémoires Élementaires". "We are more and more distant from each other, but still connected. The viola played by Anne-irene takes the lead, and the Rhodes dissolves into a deep magma. The phrases slow down, and the reverberated space becomes larger." Perhaps the most cinematic out of the seven tracks on the album, the piece beautifully concludes this sonic painting which is a crossover genre, somewhere between modern classical, post-folk, and electro-acoustic music.

Missing Island

Mémoires élementaires

TRACK PREMIERE : Snowdrops - Mémoires Élementaires

Taken from the album 'd/evolution' released as LP / Download

LCC 'Quarz' (eMEGO 198)

Music from the forthcoming EP by Luke Abbott and Jack Wyllie of Portico. 

Released via Buffalo Temple (BFFT003) on 25th September available on 12" vinyl and digitally.

Isaka

Extract from
KASSEL JAEGER / STEPHAN MATHIEU / AKIRA RABELAIS 'Zauberberg' 
(SP068)

Out on Feb 22 on Shelter Press (LP / DL)

INFO / ORDER http://shelter-press.org/sp068-kassel-jaeger-stephan-mathieu-akira-rabelais-zauberberg/

KASSEL JAEGER / STEPHAN MATHIEU / AKIRA RABELAIS 'Four Szenes From Zauberberg' (SP068)

Yui Onodera / Ray
https://serein.co.uk/releases/yui-onodera-ray

Ray by Yui Onodera is a lithe album of glittering electro-acoustic music which blends impeccable sound design and processing with acoustic instrumentation. The material was originally commissioned for use in a film about John Cage, so it's no surprise to hear the percussive sound of a prepared piano appear regularly throughout the album. Its plucked, staccato strings are contrasted by lush string arrangements and textural washes, argent synthesizer arpeggios add their own precise voice to the mix.

The material for Ray will feature on the film Cage 64 which is to be released in the near future. Our thanks to director Markus Heidingsfelder for letting us release it. The sleeve artwork is a collage of stills from the set design for Europeras (a series of five operas by John Cage) shown at the Ruhrtriennale in Germany, also kindly used with permission.

Ray 1 (demo Ver)

from KR067 C.H.R.O.N.O.S.  LP / DL out on april 26th

C.H.R.O.N.O.S.

AROVANE + PORYA HATAMI - Catenoid

Impromptu performance with Fennesz at Benaroya Hall in Seattle during Decibel Festival 2010.
Recorded by Brian Willoughby.


Fennesz + Irisarri - Live at Decibel Festival 2010

Composed, produced and mixed by unusual shapes
Coverart by Loes Modderman
Masteret by Emil Thomsen
Out on interCourse: https://intercourseintercourse.bandcamp.com/album/phase-contrast
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/5xAaOG9X8ilhncfhgOWsDu?si=NIqjS6uwQPOiKc52LS_Aig

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