Very atmospheric - tense at times, haunting and calm at others. Would make great soundtrack material!

Thoughts, memories, feelings and emotions hidden in noise and fragments of sound.

released July 14, 2022

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Halftribe - The Beauty Of Scars (feat. Marine Eyes)

The first offering of the 'vocal ambient' album series by Ambient Echoes - a collaboration between labels Ambientologist and Echoes Blue.

Download here: https://ambientologist.bandcamp.com/album/anxiety-hope

Seven collaborations touching on Volume 1's emotional spectrum theme - anxiety / hope - and a testament to music's capacity for complex emotive expression.

Ambient Echoes, Vol. 1 - Anxiety / Hope

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Ambient Echoes, Vol. 1 - Anxiety / Hope (Album Mini-Mix)

Track taken from the upcoming album 'At Sea'...

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Phil Tomsett & Aaron Martin - The Surface Of Our Dreams

I wasn't exactly jumping at an opportunity to hear an album by Bob Holroyd, which he titled Football Chants and Nursery Rhymes. After all, it would fall somewhere between "crying babies" and "whistling drunks" for me. But I won't just judge the book by its cover, nor the album by its title or the cover art. This is something I've learned long ago, so it's time to hear the music. And given the fact that Holroyd has been deeply rooted in the world of ambient, neoclassical, and cinematic music, something tells me that this title here is tongue-in-cheek. "The album title derives from a conversation Holroyd had with a musician friend who commented on what type of music people say they like in relation to what they actually buy. This sentiment also extends to record labels which imply they are looking for something new and different yet seemingly release the same kind of music." This is something I could surely get behind. It reminds me of another circulating meme, where one is asked, "what kind of music do you listen to?" then answered with an "everything" and smile. And then they're blasted with some drill'n'bass or breakcore or the like. So Bob is right here - people want to live in echo chambers. But do soundscapes and atmospheric textures sound the same? What is it exactly that I listen for in electronic music? It's the sound of the emotion on the other side and the track's ability to move me in return, thus the artist's talent to convey a feeling. So what's exactly painted with "Big Fields"? Fragility, regret, forgotten pledges.

Football Chants and Nursery Rhymes

Big Fields

TRACK PREMIERE : Bob Holroyd - Big Fields

“I could hear everything, together with the hum of my hotel neon. I never felt sadder in my life.” - Jack Kerouac, “On the Road” (1957)

In chapter 13 of Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road,” we find Sal in a Los Angeles hotel room with his new girlfriend, Terry, soon after they’ve decided to hitchhike back to New York with the $10 they share between them. Staring out the window in a sleepless fit, Sal observes a domestic dispute across the street: the humming neon sign of the hotel is an audible element amidst the police’s questioning, family’s sobbing, and city’s howling sirens, all of them blending together in an oddly poignant moment. 

This idea of sound adding context and emotion to human experiences is the foundation of Hotel Neon. The project formed in 2012 under far less desperate conditions than Sal’s, but it has always been anchored in the practice of recording musical responses to the current moment. The chord progression of “A Lament,” for instance, was recorded in the hours following the breaking news out of Sandy Hook on December 14, 2012. Ever since then, we have continued to create soundtracks for specific settings and situations in our lives.

“Hotel Neon 10: Reworks” is a reflection on the 10th anniversary of our debut self-titled album, which was released on July 30, 2013 in a batch of 100 cassettes. Initially a loose collection of minimal drone experiments with no intention for follow-up after the tapes ran out, Hotel Neon has morphed into the central musical identity for each of us, leading to friendships, experiences, and purpose that we could never have imagined at the time.

This is not simply a remaster or remix; HN10 has been entirely reworked from the ground up. You will notice that some of the essential elements and structures from the original songs come through, but we made a concerted effort to build on those early ideas and present a new album with our current tools, techniques, and experience.

We deeply appreciate your support, and thank you for listening.

Music: Hotel Neon (Andrew Tasselmyer, Michael Tasselmyer, Steven Kemner)
Mastered: Rafael Anton Irisarri
Design Daniel Crossley

Hotel Neon 10: Reworks

Hotel Neon - Dust And Drag

A collection of music some very calm, some energised, to intrigue and bemarvel.
Some orchestral instruments, some electronic, some choral.

Sand 1

Sequenie

Shallow Remixed

Porya Hatami - White Forest (Purl Remix)

This is the second chapter of SKY – a trilogy of releases exploring collective dreams of celestial origin.

released April 28, 2019 

Written and produced by Ludvig Cimbrelius 

Artwork created in a collaboration between Purl and ARIJ MOKA – www.instagram.com/arijmoka 
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Mastered by The Analog Botanist at the White Pillar Workshop, Winter 2019. www.analogbotany.com

A Sky Beyond

I See Planets

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Slow Walking

'Departure Process' - Slow Walking - [Polar Seas Recordings, 2019]

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

TRACK PREMIERE : Bob Holroyd - Big Fields

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