I want more of those ... I'm in deep goosebumps! I need to know why I am so reactive also to this.

Today I'm spending time with a new project inspired by the sacred, supernatural, and the occult. Kinn is a London-based artist interested in exploring the outer edges of mysticism with their exquisite palette of dark ambience, atmospheric cinematic, and ghostly noir-fi. The track I am featuring today is taken off the debut album, Anamnesis Landscape, which is formed around the notion that habit is informed by past memories, transpiring through previous existence, and shared by a collective experience. "It is believed by many sects that this knowledge is stored in the Landscape, lending a sense of divinity and sacred value to mundane physical objects." The widespread, carefully treated textures, impeccable timing and control of the aural movement, all mesmerise, conjure, and compel the listener to follow along into the obscure corridors of the unearthly and the metaphysical. "Hypnotic electronics are woven into sullen, brooding drones which find themselves between density and sparsity, challenging listeners to tread the line between comfort and discomfort." Fans of Roly Porter (in particular Kistvaen), Ital Tek (see Bodied), Constantine (I'm thinking Hades here), and, of course, Ben Chatwin (Ghost In The Machine), will find themselves right at home in this forgotten, spectral place. And although I am highlighting today "Black Sinking Clouds," I urge you to check out the album in full. Which, by the way, is about to be available on a "black as night" 180g heavyweight vinyl. Highly recommended.

Anamnesis Landscape

Black Sinking Clouds

TRACK PREMIERE : Kinn - Black Sinking Clouds

Coming soon: Tapes and Topographies "In Muted Forms" 

Limited Edition CD, handmade packages, hand numbered, edition of 50

Written, performed and recorded by Todd Gautreau 
Mastered by Andrea Porcu 
Cover photo by Christopher Sardegna 

Shimmering Moods Records 2021 
SHM 153

Tapes and Topographies - When I Would Watch You Sleep

Tracklist

01.Tomosla - Springs
02. Andrew Heath - Urbania 2
03. Anthéne - Enough
04. Observatories (Ian Hawgood & Craig Tattersall) -The Long Blue
05. Morimoto Naoki - Rainfall
06. Blochemy - Roin
07. The Lifted Index - Truth Like Seeds Of Trees
08. Ian Hawgood - Fractural
09. Valotihkuu - Song Of The Rain
10. Isaac Helsen - Sotterranea
11. Alex Bober - Entrop

227. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Tracklist

01. David Cordero - Arrow‐kt
02. Wil Bolton - Lavender Layer
03. Ishmael Cormack - Lavender Wires
04. Michael Grigoni & Stephen Vitiello - Sheridan, WY
05. Mi Cosa de Resistance - June 44th, 2021
06. Glacis - One
07. Observatories (Ian Hawgood & Craig Tattersall) - I Knew I Was Close When I Saw The Bloom Of Your Light
08. Hiroshi Ebina -  Empty Beach
09. Mount Shrine - Eluded Houses

230. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Tracklist

01. 't Geruis - Quand Le Bois Chante
02. Letna - Sava
03. FernLodge - Leave some day
04. Fabio Orsi - Un filo d'aria
05. Ouvala - Spatial Distributions
06. Andrew Tasselmyer - Possibilities
07. Olli Aarni - Huoneen Yllä
08. Marcus Fischer + The OO-Ray - Fourier
09. Corey Fuller - Shelter
10. Ambalek - Apotropaia

276. Sleepy Sunday Podcast

The Cats Pajamas

Introducing the first Insights mix, aimed at bringing the artist profile to the fore, diving into the sounds that both influence and comprise their own.

In a time of lean-back playlist listening, it's important to give due attention and credit to the composers, musicians and producers that make up our vast musical world. This series hopes to not only showcase music favoured by the artist, but also help connect the dots between their sound and that of the musical network that surrounds them.

In this first edition, Ben Tatlow delivers a wonderfully flowing mix through some of his current favourites, as well as his own projects. Moving cinematic pieces, with particular emphasis on piano composition, as well as some more sparse tracks, all tied together in lush sustain.

Find all the tracks in the Spotify playlist: https://spoti.fi/353HZpV

If you'd like to support Antarctic Wastelands and his latest release, you can do so via these links...

Bandcamp: http://bit.ly/2mTPxLC
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2mx1uqN
Apple: https://apple.co/2nlv5Us

00:00 Faodail - Patchwork
01:53 Salt of the Sound & Jameson Nathan Jones - Peace in the Storm
04:56 Hollingen - Cracks
08:08 Dear Gravity - Syncope
10:58 Antarctic Wastelands - Light, Fragmented
14:56 Good Weather for an Airstrike - Blossom
17:40 Elijah Bisbee - First Nights
20:10 Klangriket & Sjors Mans - Leidseplein
24:28 Narrow Skies - You Won't Find Me (Powlos Remix)
28:21 För Alltid - Aftonland
32:24 Jameson Nathan Jones - Time Will Wait for Me
36:08 Narrow Skies - Winters Past
39:22 Antarctic Wastelands - Into Silence
41:49 Simon Wester & Ricki Ejderkvist - Your Presence
47:50 Ed Carlsen - Hands, Heart

Insights Mix 001 ~ Antarctic Wastelands

I’ve got a brand new name to introduce you to today. Well, perhaps a new name to our “music scene,” with this debut self-release, titled 2 Years Stranger, but not necessarily a new name to music composition. This Bristol-based classical electronic musician has been working on film scores [see, for example, the soundtrack to Douglas King‘s dark comedy, Do No Harm; and the score to Alexander Klaus‘ indie drama, STATIC], documentaries, operas, stage and dance pieces. Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres even studied continuous music for piano with Lubomyr Melnyk and has performed at music festivals alongside artists such as Talvin Singh, Gabríel Ólafs, and Throwing Snow. Listening to her compositions on the debut confirms her well-deserved spot on these pages – if anything, I’m surprised we haven’t heard her of her before. Perhaps the reasons for this introspective, somber, and melancholy first release lie in the events surrounding the last two years of her life. “In 2017, much like so many of us in 2020, Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres found herself in limbo. Her dad had fallen ill with ARDS, a severe type of respiratory failure, and sepsis. As a result, he was induced into a coma, to arrest the immediate failure of his organs. Alexandra found herself alone in her family home, her dad suspended in a state between life and death in France, surrounded by his possessions and a lot of time to ruminate on the fragility of life.” The resulting rollercoaster of feelings was poured into the album, where pure emotion is expressed through a medium devoid of words. 

Today I am premiering a track called “Dance,” which captures an interplay between organic piano keys and synthetic atmospheric treatments, “telling the story of the freedom Alexandra found through reconnecting with her passion for contemporary dance, after being encouraged by her friends to join them for a show.”

“Movement relieves the inner tension,” says Alexandra.  “Focusing on your body makes your mind feel free. You reconnect with yourself and through that connect with other people”.

2 Years Stranger

Dance

TRACK PREMIERE : Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres  - Dance

@Shida-Shahabi provides us with our latest Contemplative Classical Guest Mix with a lovely selection of tracks by Mica Levi & Oliver Coates, Johnny Greenwood, Hildur Guðnadottir & Arthur Russell and much more.

Shida releases her beautiful new EP 'Shifts' via 130701 available on Vinyl and all digital stores too. https://shida-shahabi.bandcamp.com/album/shifts

Tracklist:
Esther Suarez - Noche Desolada
Bo Hansson - Funderingar På Vinden
Arthur Russell - Answers Me
Deep Listening Group - Seven-Up
Mica Levi & Oliver Coates - Pre-Barock
Jonny Greenwood - Time Hole
Jenny Hval - Conceptual Romance
Sarah Davachi - Buhrstone
Viktor Orri Árnason & Yair Elazar Glotman - Life 
Lamine Konte - Mama Tamba
Tujiko Noriko - Rooftop
HVAD & Pan Dajing - Zhao Hua
Hildur Guðnadottir - Bridge of Death

Contemplative Classical Mix

Shida Shahabi - Contemplative Classical Guest Mix

A brand new eclectic Contemplative Mix from composer @BPMoore

Ben says: "I just had the best time making this mix for Contemplative Classical; I hope you enjoy listening. The nights of searching and listening through CDs and vinyl (old and new) was such a cleansing experience, taking me down rabbit holes of memories, feelings and experiences (some) long since forgotten. I love how music is like a link to the past, almost folding time in its process of unlocking memories & feelings. I wanted to include artists in this playlist that have been a huge influence on the music I make today. Some (such as Nine Inch Nails & The Prodigy) I've known and loved since I was a child. Others (like Drexler & Jameson Nathan Jones) are very recent musical obsessions for me and I definitely think they'll have an influence on the music I make in the future."

Track list:
1. 'Ouses, 'Ouses, 'Ouses - The Imagined Village
2. The Garden - Faithless
3. Torsa - Lau
4. Lightness - Drexler
5. Wanderer - Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh and Thomas Bartlett
6. Futurism - Keeno
7. Tamacun - Rodrigo y Gabriela
8. 3 Kilos - The Prodigy
9. Ypsilon - Olafur Arnalds
10. As You Were - Jameson Nathan Jones
11. A Warm Place - Nine Inch Nails
12. Sometimes - Goldmund
13. Avril 14th - Aphex Twin
14. The Mistral Noir - Daniel Herskedal
15. Portrait Gallery - Luke Howard

You can purchase BPMoore's debut album Komorebi here:
https://bpmoore.bandcamp.com/album/komorebi

BPMoore - Contemplative Classical Mix

track 2 from “Prelude” by Dreone
https://dreone.bandcamp.com/album/prelude

Music by @Hilyard
Mastered by @AndrewJKlimek

Prelude

Dreone - Untethered

Here are some original solo piano pieces...  some mixes from my podcast... some exclusive track premieres...  and some tracks from the albums I review on Headphone Commute... Enjoy!

BPMoore - Contemplative Classical Mix

Headphone Commute

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