Debunking the lonesome ambient producer norm, four piece Island People could also end up being an even rarer beast, an interesting ambient live show, as with more layers than an Alaskan in winter they explore all of the genre's soporific, rhythmic, electroacoustic, darker & post rock nooks & crannies in this captivating listen for Raster.

If you’ve missed the self-titled debut, released by Island People in 2017 on raster, you’re in for a treat! Known for its surgical- precision explorations into post-digital manipulations, the celebrated label and a platform for many groundbreaking sounds has signed a mastering engineer Conor Dalton, Grammy Award-winning producer David Donaldson, musician and DJ Graeme Reedie, and a guitarist Ian “Chippy” Maclennan for a fascinating journey that brought much of their organic and warm sounds to the slightly cold, a little sterile, and desolate space. For their sophomore release, simply titled II, the group push their sounds into a further territory, resembling their home country of Scotland, “made of contrasting lights and harsh elements where time seems to stand still, circling the moment.” Beyond elements brought on from individual contributions, the group has relied on influences experienced together during their tour. Such slight melancholy can be grasped through pieces titled “Far From Shore,” “Stillness,” and “All My Plants Are Dead,” but today I am happy to offer you this exclusive premiere of a track named “Loneliness Has a Purpose,” which you can first experience it here on its own, and then, along the rest of the tracks on the full album.

"Out of the whole album, this track best represents the sound of paths not taken. Of one destination for some still feeling like a journey yet to be taken for others. The narratives we create reveal us all to be unreliable storytellers, it is only in looking back honestly that we can direct the ending. With the feeling of isolation during intense quarantine bringing up a lot of time for introspection, songs like “loneliness has a purpose” reflect on the many directions a life could take, potential futures not chosen and the many decisions that shape a future."
— Island People


I was going to write a bit more about this exciting release, but I feel that I’d be simply paraphrasing the following words, already appearing on the group’s Bandcamp: “The arrangements unfold like the long tracking shots of an early Antonioni film […] gloomy, darker, richer textures have conquered their space…” Yeah, well said. An absolute gem for lovers of surrealist and organic noir-fi as well as pristine, process-oriented production – a culmination of the above four minds gathered in the same unique space! Once again, the physical album is scheduled to start shipping on June 25th.

Loneliness Has A Purpose

TRACK PREMIERE : Island People - Loneliness Has a Purpose

This piece was composed and recorded between November 2013 and April 2014.

A new version of this track is part of the cassette "The Sky Had Vanished" released in July 2015 by Ecstatic Recordings.

https://ecstaticrecordings.bandcamp.com/merch/abul-mogard-the-sky-had-vanished-cassette-2nd-edition-white-cassette


My other works can be found at my bandcamp page:
https://abulmogard.bandcamp.com/


Desires Are Reminiscences By Now

"Life on Laputa Regio" from "Phobos" the debut album by Neel due out mid-October on Spectrum Spools 

"Life on Laputa Regio" by Neel

Title track from the 2020 album Transcender.  A moody atmospheric soundscape featuring brooding synths, pulses and piano.

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Transcender

from the "Labyrinth" LP / CS (NNF340)
Not Not Fun / 2017

MAP THE LABYRINTH: 
https://xyrmusic.bandcamp.com/album/labyrinth
https://midheaven.com/item/labyrinth-by-xyr

X.Y.R. "False Angel Lullaby"

- Rime Trails - Sanctum II
(Forthcoming Shimmering Moods)
- Arve Henriksen - Patient Zero
(Rune Grammofon)
- Kryshe - March Of The Mysterious
(Serein)
- Sage Taylor - waltz in D
(Forthcoming Shimmering Moods)
- Macheteoxidado - Canyon Sequence 1 
(Forthcoming Shimmering Moods)
- Faunethic - AMB Muezzin from city moss at night from a rooftop (Forthcoming Shimmering Moods)
- Omrr - Rotten Poetry (Dronarivm)
- Hotel Neon - 1_57 AM (The Green Kingdom Remix)
(Bandcamp)
- Richard Horowitz - Eros Never Stops Dreaming 
(Freedom To Spend)
- Ross Alexander - Mbale (Discrepant)
- Trislar - Leave (Jungle Gym)
- Waveform Transmission - V2.0-2.1 (Astral industries)
- Cynthia - Mellan två världar (Shimmering Moods)
- Dedekind Cut - Tahoe (Forthcoming Kranky)
- From the Mouth of the Sun - A Breath to Retrieve Your Body (Lost Tribe Sound)
- Giuseppe Falivene - Horizon Pt 2 (Nova Fund Recordings)
- Jay Glass Dubs - Nameless Dub (Anòmia)
- Brainwaltzera - [Take 1] (Film)
- V I C I M - Thirty one (ACR)
- Kj - Cotton (Lost Tribe Sound)
- Gipsi - Incendies (Forthcoming Shimmering Moods)
- Topdown Dialectic - 20170804-05 (Aught)
- IUEKE - Giza (fast ;-) (Antinote)

Shimmering Moods @ Red Light Radio 9.10.2017

INFOS / ORDER 
http://shelter-press.org/cv-jab-zin-taylor-thoughts-dot-travels-surface/
—
Thoughts of a Dot as it Travels a Surface is the title of an album derived from a series of wall drawings begun in 2014 by multi-disciplinary Paris-based artist Zin Taylor. Drawn in simple black-and-white, the large-scale pieces depict linear landscapes populated with rough-hewn objects: potted cacti, sculptural boulders, steaming stone baths. Taylor describes the project as “a psychological backdrop,” utilizing the reductive yet narrative techniques of caricature and illustration to achieve an abbreviated, associative form of visual storytelling. Or in his words: “Think of it as haze collecting along the surface of the wall.”

Upon completion of a particularly ambitious 90-meter panoramic wall drawing, experimental composers Christina Vantzou and John Also Bennett were invited to interpret the work as a musical graphic score. The result was a forty minute live performance in two parts, which was multi-track recorded and then mixed down into a 10-track album. Each piece and title corresponds to a specific section or object in the wall drawing. Vantzou, though based in Brussels, is best known for a string of enigmatic solo recordings for the American ambient imprint Kranky, while Bennett has explored electronic sound design in a variety of capacities, including as one third of Brooklyn synthesizer outfit Forma. Working under their initials – CV & JAB – they attempted to translate Taylor’s elusive gestural lexicon into sound. The results are appropriately minimal, malleable, and mysterious.

Opener “Cactus With Vent” sets the tone: insectoid murmurings and fractured crystalline tones seesaw in and out of focus, eventually disappearing within a wash of churning water. Each composition flows unbroken into the next, much like Taylor’s continuous line, emphasizing fluidity, curvature, and connectivity. “Hot Tub” introduces a mesmerizing synthetic flute-like raga, pirouetting above muted jungle noises and a babbling brook. Subsequent songs skew softer and stranger, alternately meditative (“Large Suess Plant”) and miasmic (“Tombstones”), remote vistas mapped with hieroglyphic frequencies.

The recordings, like Taylor’s nuanced mini-murals, exude a subtle but restless energy, rarely lingering too long in a fixed formation. The whooshing astral synthesizer of “Alfred Hitchcock Haze” dissolves invisibly into the smeared, somber séance of “Rock House With Door,” which in turn evaporates amongst the menagerie of chattering printers, running water, and shepherd tone whispers of “String of Objects With Planter.”

More so than in past projects, here Vantzou and Bennett mask their presence, allowing textures and tonalities to tangle or unspool with minimal intrusion. The effect is naturalistic, impersonal, and intriguing. Even the few passages of relatively emotive classical piano (“Brick With Modern Form,” “Fingers Of Thought”) are played with an air of otherworldly detachment, as though such beauty was materializing purely of its own accord.

Recorded Live at Westfälischer Kunstverein in Münster, Germany May 6th, 2017. Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D+M. Clear purple vinyl housed in reverse board-printed inners and double-width spine jacket. Comes with a 180CM. leporello reproducing the original 9000CM. walldrawing. First edition of 700 copies worldwide.

CV & JAB — ZIN TAYLOR 'Fingers of Thought' (SP092)

Compiled and mixed by Bersarin Quartett (first hour) & Nadia Struiwigh (second hour)


Tracklist Bersarin Quartett (first hour):

NILS FRAHM - harm hymn
BURIAL - endorphin
W - 在扭曲的水中受损的灵魂
STEFAN WESOŁOWSKI - prelude
BJOERK - arisen my senses (lanark artefax remix)
INON ZUR - rebuild, renew (fallout 4-soundtrack)
CHARLESTHEFIRST - beacon
DJRUM - blue violet
GHOST WARRIOR - double vision
PHIL FRANCE - jackal
CATERINA BARBIERI - unreleased (live-recording, helsinki)
SKEE MASK - rev8617
HAWK. - 88glam - 12 (hawk. edit)
CLAUDE SPEEED - no kings
GEWALT - guter junge, böser junge (ensslin research rmx)
CHRIS READ & PUGS ATOMZ FEAT. WES RESTLESS - drum roll
ANDREA - track xl
KLLO - candid


Tracklist - Nadia Struiwigh (second hour):

Aphex Twin - #3 (Original Mix)
Digital Rain - Night Passion (Original Mix)
Rabbit - Fossilized Universe (Original Mix)
Clubroot - Dry Cured (Original Mix)
Hydrangea - Beyond The Invisible (Original Mix)
Answer Code Request - Calm Down (Original Mix)
Tzusing - O.D.D. Metapop Remixes (FMProducer Remix)
b2 - love goes on and on (Original Mix)
Lowfish - Knives (Original Mix)
Blac Kolor - Wide Element (Original Mix)
Alfredo Mazzilli - Njord (Original Mix)
Biome - YOOF (Original Mix)

05.01.2019 · Denovali NTS Radio Special

Through Inland - Vanessa Wagner - was able to gift us with imaginary landscapes, through which the listeners could roam freely in a gently throbbing natural world, and where each note was a step and every sound formed a path… Inland Versions is the electronic extension of the project and includes 6 reworks by GAS, Suzanne Ciani, Vladislav Delay, Marc Melia, Hüma Utku and Nadia Struiwigh 

Your are listening to https://soundcloud.com/nadiastruiwigh rework for Vanessa Wagner´s piano solo interpretation for Philip Glass`s Etude 9. 

Inland Remixes available in 12" and all digital platforms on september 27th 

Preorder on Bleep (clear vinyl version ) -https://bleep.com/release/138667-vanessa-wagner-inland-versions

Pre-order

Vanessa Wagner - Etude 9 Nadia Struiwigh Experimental Edit [Philip Glass]

From 'Slowly Dismantling' on Room40, out on November 1.

With 'Slowly Dismantling,' Los Angeles based artist Yann Novak problematizes understandings of ambience as homogenous and static. 'Slowly Dismantling' deconstructs ambient, pulling it way from the blank and the atmospheric, refusing the perceived luxury of sound within which context is erased. Reflecting on his formative experiences as a queer youth in middle America, he explores the idea of these acoustic and social spaces as zones of liberation within which a spectrum of identity is formed. He creates a series of dense sonic fields that reflect on how the past can be decoded and utilized as a device for contextualizing the future.

Slowly Dismantling

All Things End, Sometimes In Fire

Pre-order available now. Release date: Jan 31, 2020

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Deep Listening, we offer you the definitive double LP combining the classic, complete original 1989 release with selected tracks from the Deep Listening Band’s 1991 album The Readymade Boomerang.

This elegant double LP is packaged in a gatefold sleeve with original and updated recollections from the performers, the recording engineer and a mesostic from John Cage, to which these recordings are inextricably linked.

Recorded in a cistern, this double LP reverberates with brilliant sonic clarity and masterfully improvised performances combining live electronics, vocals, trombone and accordion. Deep Listening is a classic in the fields of improvisation, minimalism, ambient/drone and modern classical.

Listen with attentiveness, listen while lying down, listen with headphones - as recording engineer Al Swanson entices the listener to become a virtual performer in selecting the many different ways to perceive these phenomenal tracks. Whatever you do, listen deeply.

Oliveros - Dempster - Panaiotis "Deep Listening" 2LP - 30th Anniversary & First time on vinyl!

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 : Island People - Loneliness Has a Purpose

Headphone Commute

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