My track for the "Pandemic Support" release, a benefit album to support the Utrecht (NL) based alternative venue ACU.

Reside

Valeria Del Mar - Camara Lenta  02

thunderguitar improv (+ some rattling bones)

7pm RITUAL - Sun (2015)

Taken from the upcoming album 'Spheres' released through Sonic Pieces...

Spheres is not only Tatu Rönkkö´s debut album, but it´s also one of the most unusual entries in the Sonic Pieces catalogue so far. As the de-facto reason for Efterklang starting off their new band Liima, Tatu is one of the most diverse and intriguing percussionists working today.
 
Rönkkö appeared out of nowhere sometime around 2010, performing intense improvised concerts in home-kitchens around Berlin and abroad, using the room and everything in it as his instrument. On Spheres, which includes almost only self-made instruments from everyday objects, he´s taken this idea to the next level. The kitchen and the improvisations around it have been concentrated down to 6 standalone pieces of music, produced in incredible detail. 

The sound hovers in the darklands between tribal experimentations, 90's jungle ambient textures and electro-acoustic endeavours. Pieces like Then remind of a more focused Aphex Twin performing with Konono No1 in the Finnish woods. While the title track Spheres even links the sound all the way back to early Photek with it´s reduced cinematic textures and explosive repetitive beats.
 
All of this says rather little about the actual album as it feels completely its own. Especially the incredible centrepiece Tekoäly featuring Islaja on vocals sounds like nothing else. Rönkkö is a true visionist who manages to balance his mass of sound sources in an expert fashion. Spheres is truly an otherwordly listen.

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Spheres

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Tatu Rönkkö - Tekoaly (feat. Islaja)

'Bow Shock' is the second taster from forthcoming album, 'Staccato Signals', following 'Fossils'. 

While the latter encapsulated Chatwin's innovative marriage of strings with his arsenal of analogue and modular synths, 'Bow Shock' is the album's most prominent example of Chatwin's use of brass - folded and buried within his industrial electronic template, pushing the palette of sound further into the composer's own unique hybrid of electronic and acoustic.

'Staccato Signals' is available on July 6th. Pre-order here: https://VillageGreen.lnk.to/EzFNEWE

Ben Chatwin - Bow Shock

Exclusive track taken from Ben Chatwin’s stunning new offering 'Drone Signals', released through Village Green Records on CD and vinyl format…

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Feeding strings through an array of modular synthesisers and utilising modern sampling andgranular synthesis, Ben Chatwin remoulds his recent ‘Staccato Signals’ album into newmicroscopic electronic textures. ‘Drone Signals’, a companion piece to the original album, is setfor release via Village Green Recordings on 14th September.

Unlike ‘Staccato Signals’ where Ben started with a blank slate and built the music up layer bylayer, finishing with the string quartet, this time the process began with everything on hand. Thetask became dismantling the tracks – stripping them apart to see what was left, letting certainsounds or instruments become the focus, and then rebuilding the arrangements around them.This allowed elements to breathe, yet also to become more static. The less chaotic and moreambient nature of these pieces suggested a related album of versions, a conceptual sibling –‘Drone Signals’.

Using the final element of the previous album, recording the strings, as a starting point to feedinto his machines, Ben developed a central conceptual tool of his previous album – giving upcontrol – even further. The result is a fractured and dissembled interpretation of ‘Staccato Signals’as performed by modular synthesisers.

In this way, ‘Drone Signals’ might best be understood as the aftermath of ‘Staccato Signals’,retaining much that made the latter such a rewarding album – it's mournful beauty, the tense,ambiguous relationship between electronic and acoustic elements, and a delicate if not volatilebalance between elegance and intensity. This time, however, the palette is broader, more static –concerned more with monolithic structures than with sharp edges.

Accordingly, the hectic energy of ‘Hound Point’ and ‘Knots’ from the former melt and decay intothe slow, gradual burns of ‘Nordsjœn’ and ‘Unravel’, while the strings on ‘Black Castle’, prominentand stirring on ‘Staccato’, reappear only in strangled, muted gasps on album-opener ‘BurningWitches’ - occasionally flickering through the smouldering distortion. Where ‘Staccato’ is urgent,dynamic and chaotic, ‘Drone’ is expansive, dispersing its harmonic identity over much widerspaces, requiring more of a vertical listening experience than its predecessor.

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Drone Signals

Unravel

Ben Chatwin - Unravel

Track taken from the upcoming album 'Solos' on Fluid Audio...

Audio: Christopher Whitley
Mastering: James Plotkin
Design: Daniel Crossley

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Solos

The Same Temperature We've Always Been

Christopher Whitley - The Same Temperature We've Always Been

Taken from the upcoming album 'Vibra', forthcoming on Fluid Audio...

- Recorded in Litoranea Salentina (Apulia, Italy) in Aug-Sep 2019

- Fabio Orsi plays: synths, effects, laptop, samples

- Design: Daniel Crossley

- Print design: Craig Tattersall

- Mastering: Fabio Orsi

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Vibra

Fabio Orsi - Vibra

Nocturnal Hekate

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sculpture, animation, music and
other forms of story telling

thunderguitar improv (+ some rattling bones)

Hans de Wolf

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