A selection of modern classical, ambient, and electroacoustic instrumental tracks curated from listening throughout the Spring season. 

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Field Journal Companion | Spring 2020

Swoonsome

New Old Lands

36 Ceremony Journey

ambiental

ambiente

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Following well-regarded outings on Phonica Records and Wolf Music, and a superb "Many Shades Of House" compilation released this year, Lausanne-based Lea Lisa joins Smallville Records this June with ‘Poem For The Lost Souls’, accompanied by remixes from Kuniyuki and Session Victim as a special Double-12“ package.

For these tracks, Lea Lisa has worked with several musicians in the studio to transform the warmth and organic feel of real instruments into her musical universe. The original mix of ‘Poem For The Lost Souls’ leads, a jazzy house journey that ebbs and flows through fluttering flute melodies, ethereal chords, wandering piano and funk-infused bass grooves running atop organic percussion and disco tinged drums. On the B Side, the ‘Broken Mix’ follows, as the name would suggest, rhythmically shifting focus towards off-kilter drum breaks alongside the other melodies and again - all the ingredients that make a classic house track.

Opening the C-side on record 2, acclaimed Japanese artist and Mule Musiq regular Kuniyuki steps up to rework ‘Poem For The Lost Souls’, in typical fashion the Sapporo born producer extracts the core grooves from the original and shapes it into something uniquely his own, laden with warmth, soul and dynamics. The duo Session Victim then round out the release on Side D with their interpretation, fusing together the original synth melodies with their own amalgamation of intricately intertwined keys and atmospherics, underpinned by a shuffled rhythm section and bouncy low-end drive.

It’s coming with a gatefold cover-artwork by Stefan Marx for a cherry-blossom glimpse of Yoyogi Park in Tokyo.

Lea Lisa - Poem For The Lost Souls EP

PREMIERE: Lea Lisa - Poem For The Lost Souls (Kuniyuki Remix)

An absolutely beautiful track from the upcoming early December release from Polish composer and violinist, Olga Wojciechowska. From an album of music composed for various theater and film productions.

Olga Wojciechowska,  "Maps And Mazes",   I'm Never Not Thinking About You

A beautifully mysterious track from the upcoming collaborative beauty from Porya Hatami & Uwe Zahn (Arovane). Available in Late July 2016...

Porya Hatami & Arovane..."Kaziwa"   iaan

Tööpuudus

Kñsiraamat

Glottal

Little cinematic improvised piece at piano.
Evening.

Piccolo pezzo cinematico improvvisato al piano. Sera.

Piano tuned at 432Hz.

Intersections

Taken from the album 'Enfolding'.
Release date: October 16, 2018 on Hidden Vibes.

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offthesky - longior aura (obeisance i)

The longest night, rebirth, circles, turning, waves, ebb, flow, dreams. 

Loops. A noisy guitar provides a subtle, background, budget shoreline impersonation.

naviarhaiku272: the falling tide

Taken from the album 'Blood Transmission'.
Release date: May 10, 2019 on Hidden Vibes.

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Dag Rosenqvist - A Single Point

this track is from the album Darshan Soundscape by Darshan Atmosphere.
enjoy the deep relax , meditative, soundscape and open to receive the peace and silence.
all music is in 432 hz frequency
find more music like this on Bandcamp , spotify or any other music platforms...

https://darshanatmosphere.bandcamp.com/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1PSWywCMcY1PH7vFxLQtQe
https://www.facebook.com/DarshanAtmosphere
Enjoy 
Tikki <3

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Darshan Soundscape

Darshan Atmosphere - Open to receive

Marco Lucchi : synth, found sounds, tape and treatments
Andrea Esperti : trombone

for "Mornings" a project by Marco Lucchi

10 luglio 2019

Marco Lucchi & Andrea Esperti - Lazy mornings

Moss-life

With our next release we welcome back Nicola Fornasari who is one half of La Petite Vague, a project which we’ve almost exclusively supported across Whitelabrecs and our sister label Audio Gourmet. Nicola also records solo work as Xu, with material released through labels such as Eilean, Cathedral Transmissions and most recently, Manyfeetunder.

The next album in the Xu catalog is ‘Embodying Formlessness’, which Nicola created by recording improvisations performed on his daughter Nina’s toy ukulele and then setting these into non-synchronised loops. These were made by using various pedals by experimenting with ‘blind looping’, a technique used to create unpredictable variations of a certain loop. Additional sounds were layered into the compositions by adding minibrute parts which were also fed into effects pedals and these provide an array of high and low frequencies.
The resulting sound throughout the six tracks that encompass this album is one of a tactile minimalism and the sound itself is a representation of the concept.

In the period during which Embodying Formlessness was created, Nicola was studying the Two Truths, fundamental points developed by Buddhist philosopher Nāgārjuna. These consist of Relative Truth, which is the conventional way in which we perceive reality and Absolute Truth, which is the theory that objects and events have no intrinsic existence and no individual identity, except in our thoughts. Both perspectives are true and neither intellectual position is the correct one. So in summary, phenomena are both real and not real; things exist, yet nothing exists.
There is a sentence in the Heart Sutra which inspired the title for this album:
Form is no other than emptiness; emptiness no other than form. Form is exactly emptiness; emptiness exactly form.

Embodying Formlessness sets out a short collection of existential pieces, crafted from the random placement of melodic source material, adorned with subtle electronics. This provides an ideal backdrop to contemplate the theme of the Two Truths, as you try to separate the difference of what is real and what is perceived.

embodying formlessness

wlr063 xu - embodying formlessness

You can also listen at Spotify: https://sptfy.com/tulvol_single

Thanks for listening!

Túlvol

Dear, Piano

Dear, Limerence - Affan Rework

caduceus ep. (bandcamp digital download ep.)

stabilo-loadbang.bandcamp.com/album/caduceus-ep

:art work

stabilo (speaker gain teardrop

download

pulse of rain

It’s been a pretty tumultuous week, full of uncertainties, anxiety, and fear. There’s more unknown up ahead, and all we can do it await its arrival. The universe has its way of making a point, and right now, humanity must submit to its will, and plan for unplanned, expected unexpected. Which is why today is a perfect day for something serene, slightly melancholy, and splendidly pure. It’s a short piano piece by a Dutch composer Mink Steekelenburg, who records under the project name Winterdagen. With the release of Clearing, we are also introduced to a boutique London label, Waterway Records, which specializes in music from film and television composers. Indeed, Steekelenburg has already achieved recognition for his film music, including two accolades from the Cannes Media & TV Awards.

"Building from simple arpeggios into something deeply emotive, 'Clearing' is a masterclass in Neoclassical composition. It combines richly detailed piano with sweeping synthesizers, all held together by Steekelenburg's singular melodic sense - melodies that twist and coil to evoke a mood of searching."

The two-track single is released today, March 6th, on Waterway. Let’s welcome this imprint into our family with an assertive round of applause. I am looking forward to hearing more! Check out your buying and streaming options here: https://kud.li/watrec0002

Clearing

TRACK PREMIERE : Winterdagen - Clearing

The Things That End

Home

Soft piano chords float like a vessel deep in space, where lonely sounds are enhanced by distant ethereal resonances… @jacob_david & @thomashaahr have collaborated on 'Indfald' - a graceful piece for piano and electronics that is out now. 

Stream or download here : https://orcd.co/indfald

Indfald

Stream/Download

Jacob David & Thomas Haahr - Indfald

Maps and Diagrams - Kalia

The basic tracks for some of these songs were scattered through other music I had recorded over the last ten years.  Quarantine has given me the time to hear some of this music with fresh ears. In most instances dozens of instrument tracks were stripped away to find some forgotten core that made me nod or smile.  Then I started again.  All new recording has been done since the start of lock down and tries to put a sound on the subtle dislocation of a global disaster that is mostly (for me) expressed in my daily life as an absence, a taking away rather than a presence; a distantly felt thing.  

All tracks recorded and mixed at Shadowbear Studio.  Mastering at Black Knoll Studio.  Photo taken by Csilla Varadi.

Pelican Bay

Here is one of the absolutely lovely tracks from the upcoming release from  composer/musician, Mario Verandi, whose beautiful album is entitled "Remansum". This album will be released on June 28th, 2020...

Mario Verandi, "Remansum"      A Tear in the Desert

Here is one of the absolutely lovely tracks from the upcoming release from composer/musician, Mario Verandi, whose beautiful album is entitled "Remansum".

Mario Verandi, "Remansum"     With Eyes Hidden

Bay Area, CA tape and modular artist r beny is today releasing his new track ‘northern breath’ ahead of the release of ‘Seafoam & Dust’ this Friday. ‘northern breath’ appears exclusively on ‘Seafoam & Dust’ as a bonus track, closing ‘Eistla’.

LISTEN/BUY: https://dauw.bandcamp.com/album/seafoam-dust

r beny - northern breath

Purchase: secretpyramid.bandcamp.com/album/embers
Catalog #: GN62
August 20, 2020
LP+DIGI

Secret Pyramid is the nom de nocturne of Vancouver, BC’s resident ambient explorer Amir Abbey. Having perfected his brand of elegant elegia over the past decade heard on albums released by illustrious imprints as Students of Decay, Ba-Da-Bing!, and Nice Up International and collaborated with the likes of Loscil, Abbey makes his Geographic North debut with 'Embers,' Secret Pyramid’s most sincerely solemn and curiously calming work to date.

Embers’ six pieces find Abbey furroughing a few of his most trusted tools (including Ondes Martenot, sampler, Space Echo, two tape machines, and a computer), while taking a more compositional approach than his past works. This method opened entirely new aural possibilities and allowed Abbey to consider, manipulate, and re-consider each passing tone. The end result is an exquisitely enveloping work of contemporary ambient music that is equally inspired by and spiritually linked to influential French composer Olivier Messiaen, the progenitors of Dub, and a number of ephemeral oddities in between. 

Sonically, 'Embers' reveals some of Secret Pyramid’s most minimal and open works yet. Certain pieces (such as “Pins,” “Particles,” and “Ohms”) employ a single instrument or sound source with only a modicum of manipulation. This “less is more” approach gave each sound actual room to breathe and find a balance of beauty and dissonance, and the magical transition between the two.

Emotionally, the music was created during a particularly turbulent time in Abbey’s life, allowing him to process things musically. In his own words, “It’s a reflection of the impermanent, shifting, and fleeting aspects of our lives, both the good and the bad, that often spark something inside of us. Aspects of our daily existence, and the self (whether our emotions, surroundings, relationships,) that are constantly morphing, disappearing, reappearing, burning out, reigniting, and so forth, metaphorically like flares or embers.”

Secret Pyramid - "Flares"

LFO 20 - 1

Handstitched* update: pre-order 25 October ->  

https://handstitched.bandcamp.com/album/paragraphs

https://vimeo.com/460924638

Emba  – “Paragraphs” is released in two limited editions, a digipak version, limited to 50 copies and a handmade edition, limited to 20 copies. Both editions come with artwork by Genoveva Kachurkova.

Emba is a collaborative project between Tim Diagram, UK and Mathieu Lamontagne who is based in Quebec, Canada.

Thanks for listening x

Emba - Paragraphs [Sampl3r]

@AwakenedSouls remix from “Soledad” by @PepoGalan

https://stereoscenic.bandcamp.com/album/soledad

Soledad

Pepo Galán - Botes (awakened souls remix)

The first six minutes of Where We Meet by An Moku & Stijn Hüwels, released 6th November 2020.

Lifelines. Hold tight.

https://slowcraft.bandcamp.com/album/where-we-meet

Written and Produced by An Moku & Stijn Hüwels
Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Artwork by June Murray
Design by James Murray

http://slowcraft.info
http://anmoku.net
http://stijnhuwels.bandcamp.com

Where We Meet

An Moku & Stijn Hüwels - Where We Meet (Edit)

Sanctuary

Learning To Believe

Taken from the album 'Veiled State'.
Release date: December 11, 2020 on Hidden Vibes.

Hidden Vibes on web:
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