Wow, that is a fast tempo for this piece! I like that one taken slowly..

This month's mix comes from London-based composer @mattemery. Having released on notable labels such as @injazerorecords and Fat Cat, Matt's music has taken him across the world, both performing as well as through his music for film and TV. 

We discuss his most recent EP for Injazero, Samurais and the cello in this insightful interview into this young composer's creative process. 

Interview + Tracklist: subtempo.com/mixes/matt-emery

Tracklist + Interview

Subtempo Mix 031 - Matt Emery

This track is quoted from the album 'A Feeling of Weakness'.
Listening to all tracks of the album and purchasing are available on the link below.

https://gallerysix.bandcamp.com/album/a-feeling-of-weakness

All tracks are produced by Hidekazu Imashige. 
Cover art by Hidekazu Imashige

Yodomi

DR-78 : HIPNOTIC EARTH - 'Starfish & Giant Foams' CD / DL

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Starfish and Giant Foams is a collection of wayward songs, new material and previously unreleased compositions; odds and ends that flow with a cohesive intention to gently coax the listener inward on a journey to imaginary yet parallel worlds. This album marries the past and the future for Hipnotic Earth. Making music here in California in wine country inspires me to tame the harmonic waterfalls and streams of melodic clouds that pass and compose the hours, days and years of our listenings and ongoings; ever called to creativity and patiently dipping into the elixir of life, the magic of music and all that is good.

This is a record that flirts with many and different colors revealing newer sounds for the project. There is Dogstar which is a reunion and delves into a deep love and kinship with rhythm and bass as sparse dubby effects weave within the etheric ambient vocal featherings sung from another language by Taressa Bell; an angel of a voice who adds her own dimensions to the pieces (also heard here on the older unreleased track Rasa). Dogstar was recorded in Oct 2019 and I am full of joy at the result and is a direction I long to explore. There are also nods to a settling static slow-motion sound, tastes of sweeter trance inducing and calming drones that make it so easy to summon concentration when listening: elsewhere, rare and slight sprinklings of piano timbres dance vaguely with harmonic drift. Moon Walk is a brighter meditation, another older experiment with sounds that called for the light of day and the call here is now answered.

Something new. And eclectic. Somethings old. Something newly colored. And something blue. I hope you enjoy these tracks as much as I do.

~ Cosmos 

Music by Cosmos
Ethereal vocals by Taressa Bell
Mastering by Ian Hawgood
Photo by Katrina Mari Errico

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HIPNOTIC EARTH - Dogstar (Feat. Taressa Bell)

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Photography by Alexander Kopatz
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Archives | 2021

Gray Acres - Undercurrent

Mischa Blanos is a Bucharest-based composer with a new record on InFiné. Actually, the record is a debut score for this Romanian-Russian pianist, which is created for Alex Bogdan's adaption of the play, The Bald Soprano. Although the track I'm premiering for you today is a pure solo-piano piece, the rest of the music on the soundtrack includes minimal electronics, complex processing, and cinematic textures which include orchestral treatments. The play is "an absurdist exploration of the futility of communication," and as a result, Blanos' music reflects the emotional state of the characters as "communication between them slowly dissolves into abstraction." The result is both, a melodic expression of the intricate harmonies, and the stripped-down dissonance, complimenting each other with tension before the resolve. This is already his fourth record for the label, following on last year's City Jungle (2021), as the French imprint continues to expand its discography and roster with contemporary classical composers and electronica collaborations (see Vanessa Wagner, Gaspar Claus and Secrets Of Elements), so you know that my ears are attuned.

The Bald Soprano

Mrs. And Mr. Smith

TRACK PREMIERE : Mischa Blanos - Mrs. And Mr. Smith

Music following the story of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster and recovery of nature in the area.

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Fukushima

Meditation

A piano melody, some soaring guitar, a Lyra 8 synth…..

Leaving Planet Earth

Taken from the upcoming album 'Psalm Of Solum' released through Fluid Audio...

www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com

Psalm Of Solum

Offthesky - Terra Firma

The latest Contemplative Guest Mix is curated by Montreal based record Label @ModernaRecords. The mix contains new and upcoming releases with some gems from their back catalogue too.

You can listen and purchase all Moderna releases here:
https://modernarecords.bandcamp.com/

Track listing: 
Tom Adams 'Particle VI (Shadow & Light)' - from LP Particles (0:00)

Ed Carlsen 'Words' - from upcoming LP Morning Hour (2:59)

Josh Alexander 'Murmur' - from LP Hiraeth (7:43)

Jacob David 'Intet Forbi' - from LP Omkuld (10:30)

Daigo Hanada 'Under the Starry Sky' - from EP Ouka (13:46)

Manos Milonakis 'Dressing' - from LP Festen (15:50)

Richard Luke 'Silent Story' - from LP Glass Island (17:37)

Snorri Hallgrímsson 'Be Still, My Tongue (Slow Meadow Rework)' - from EP Orbit Reworked (20:30)

Veroníque Vaka 'Minning Um Himinn' - from EP Erlendis (25:15)

Ed Carlsen 'Loose (Lambert Rework)' - from LP The Journey Tapes (Deluxe Edition)(31:14)

Tambour - 'The Nude And The Quiet' - from EP Chapter I (34:34)

Moderna CC Guest Mix

Moderna Records -  Contemplative Classical Guest Mix

@DougThomasOffical curates our latest guest mix with a beautiful selection of tracks which has inspired his new record 'Portraits' a collaboration with @music-affan and released on @ lonelyswallow. The album is a collection of eight modern classical piano sketches by Doug Thomas conceived as “portraits” of his composer heroes. 
On his guest mix you can hear tracks from Tamar Halperin, Jóhan Jóhannsson, Nils Frahm, Bruce Bubaker, Max Richter and much more.

Purchase Portraits here: https://lonelyswallow.bandcamp.com/album/portraits

"I once read that Tarantino stole from every movie he had ever seen. An autodidact composer, I follow a similar approach; each of my projects is an attempt at growing and learning from those who inspire me. This is a playlist with some of the pianistic influences for Portraits and previous projects Angles, Cassiopeia, Ballades and The Seasons. Welcome to my world of nostalgia".

01 Tamar Halperin, “Gymnopédie No. 1” — Inspired Angles (00:00)
02 Gonzales, “Gogol” (03:24)
03 David Greilsammer, “Les Barricades Mystérieuses” — Inspired Portraits (05:27)
04 Youhwa Lee, “Spiegel im Spiegel” — Inspired Cassiopeia (07:38)
05 Jóhan Jóhannsson, “Flight from the City” (17:28)
06 Maria João Pires, “Piano Sonata No. 2” — Inspired Portraits (23:59)
07 Yann Tiersen, “Penn ar Lann” — Inspired Ballades (28:43)
08 Edouard Ferlet, “Harpsichord Concerto No. 5” (32:41)
09 Murray Perahia, “Lieder ohne Worte No. 6” — Inspired Portraits (36:46)
10 Nils Frahm, “Ode” — Inspired The Seasons (39:40)
11 Max Richter, “Written on the Sky” (44:15)
12 Bruce Brubaker, “Metamorphosis No. 2” — Inspired Portraits (46:03)

Contemplative Classical Mix

Doug Thomas - Contemplative Classical Guest Mix

More than a couple of weeks late, but here we are, with the long-awaited vinyl mix, still marking down, bookmarking, and closing off a year we won’t surely miss… but at least there was a lot of awesome music, and as such, thanks to Mike Jedlicka once again, we are celebrating the best it had to give. A fascinating playlist here, with more than a few new artists even to my ears. So yes, I am enjoying it as well! And if you like this beautiful selection, be sure to check out our past archive of Optic Echo Presents mixes, as well as the ongoing Best of 2020 lists, which I intend to finish up this week. Also, I want to quickly point out that this is Mike’s 10th vinyl mix for Headphone Commute which we publish at the end of each year – so yeah, we’ve been at it for a decade now, kids!

Full Tracklisting and more details can be found here: http://hcdi.gs/OEP_2020

Mixes

Optic Echo Presents - Best Vinyl of 2020

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!

Doug Thomas - Contemplative Classical Guest Mix

Headphone Commute

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