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Alessandro Cortini - Dell'influenza

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http://www.juno.co.uk/products/abul-mogard-harmionius-thelonious-schleiben-1/555224-01/

Emotional Response starts 2015 with a 4 part split (Schleißen) series aimed at highlighting artists pushing the sonic boundaries of electronic experimentalism.   Starting with Erß001, featuring Abul Mogard and Harmonious Thelonious.

Emotional Response is pleased to announce a special 4 part, split series of LPs that explores the further reaches of ambient, drone and rhythmic percussion, known here as Schleißen.

To start the series is 2 artists long admired by the label. The music of Abul Mogard stayed pretty much under the radar. His lyrical electronic timbres and pulsating drones have been released on 2 solo and 1 joint cassette-only albums on Steve Moore and Anthony Paterra’s (Zombi) VCO Recordings. A big favourite of the label, Dizziness That Shakes Rivers And Mountains is near 19 minutes of pure, modular beauty. Play loud for full o.o.b.e. effect.

On the flip, a more well known name in Stefan Schwander’s percussion based project, Harmonious Thelonious. First catching the label’s attention with a series of drum heavy EPs before moving more towards the dance floor on his most recent releases.

On a visit to play the infamous Salon Des Amatuers for the Musiccargo album launch in late 2013, Stefan kindly passed on a CDR of “more experimental pieces” and on hearing these, the idea of Schleißen was first born. 2 pieces of Steve Reich inspired minimalist explorations weld to become an incessant psychoacoustic cycle, melodically deconstructing and reconstructing to create a continuous harmonic movement.

A series then created for the more discerning ear, so empty your mind and (un)listen.


A1. Abul Mogard - Dizziness That Shakes Rivers And Mountains

This track is quoted from EP "
the vanishing point".
Listening to all tracks of EP and purchasing are available on a link below.

https://gallerysix.bandcamp.com/album/the-vanishing-point

written, mixed, mastered by Hidekazu Imashige 
cover photo, design by Hidekazu Imashige

Tidal Shift

A gradual decrease of distance.

Final single from 'Nearly Real' >> https://suncurves.bandcamp.com/album/nearly-real

Sold out tape released 01/07/16 via Auditory Field Theory.

Nearly Real

Orbital Decay

The fifth volume of 'Ambient Archives' comes with music by Shuta Yasukochi, Surroundyou, Slow Clinic and Logic Moon. A wide range of ambient lines, guitars, beautiful piano chords, hazy textures and field recordings.

Written and Produced by Shuta Yasukochi, Surroundyou, Slow Clinic and Logic Moon. 
Mastering by Zzzzra. 
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Shuta Yasukochi - Tape Machine

from 'Sankt Otten + N - Männerfreundschaften und Metaphysik' [CD|2xLP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den263
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/sanktotten]

The German instrumental duo SANKT OTTEN (Stephan Otten, Oliver Klemm), founded in 1999, has been releasing music on Denovali Records since 2009. Their 10th full length album called MÄNNERFREUNDSCHAFTEN UND METAPHYSIK (eng: Male Friendships and Metaphysics) is once again a collaboration record - this time with fellow countryman and experimental guitarist N (Hellmut Neidhardt). The eight pieces on the album are based on freely improvised studio sessions and have all been recorded live, with a few overdubs added by SANKT OTTEN later.

SANKT OTTEN's Denovali labelmate N - for whom this album is release nr. 47 - is well-known for Noise, Ambient and Drone sounds standing apart from classical song writing. The aim of this collaboration was to combine the perspectives of the genres of both partners, with N adding a grave and menacing mood to SANKT OTTEN's Electronica and Kraut Rock and SANKT OTTEN providing the sound walls of N with an unusual dynamics.

The albums starts off with with the guitar drone track EIGENTLICH IST ALLES SCHÖN (eng: Actually Everything is Beautiful), in which the unusual style-clash already clearly manifests itself; the opener literally cuts through the ears of the listener. One of the highlights of the albums, the subsequent 13-minute monster MASSIERE DIE MASCHINE (eng: Massage the Machine), offers salvation. The powerful, but always minimal drumming and the sequencer bass of Stephan Otten constantly drive the track forward and lead to an intricated E-bow battle between Oliver Klemm and N, with their melodic lines closing in on each other.

A further highlight of the album is HEILE WELT (eng: Ideal World), a track reminiscent of the hymnal atmosphere of BRIAN ENO, if only this beauty was not burst open by the feedback-guitar of N. A piece immersed in its own orchestral slowness, with a harmonic twist into the unknown ...

The album closes with the noisy and at the same time meditative ambient song AM ENDE DER FAHNENSTANGE (eng: At the end of the road (fig.)). While recording this impro-drone numerous tracks have been piled up on top of Neidhardt's guitar amps and effects, including a harmonium, additional guitars, synthesizers and a prepared piano the oscillations of the strings of which have been induced by E-bows. A mellotron whispers a fragile melody from the distance and perfects the track ...

Vinyl version: 180g double vinyl, heavy matte gatefold covers, includes sticker & download code
CD: nice 6 panel digipak including a sticker

SANKT OTTEN:
Stephan Otten: Drums, Programming, Synthesizers
Oliver Klemm: Guitar, Synthesizers, Piano
N (47): Hellmut Neidhardt: Amps, Guitar

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