I’ve got another delicious treat for you this morning courtesy of NAHAL Recordings. If you’re still not familiar with this French label, curated and operated by Frédéric D. Oberland and Paul Régimbeau, allow me to remind you of the duo’s very own project, FOUDRE! for which I have run this track premiere of “Black Swan Theory I“, as well as this “Chimères (pour ondes Martenot)” from Christine Ott, and Oberland’s “E Quindi Uscimmo A Riveder Le Stelle“. Right… So you can say that I’m a fan… Today we’re introduced to Matthias Puech, who previously released with Hands in the Dark, Hisolat, and Obsolete Future, migrating over to NAHAL for his latest exploration of emptiness, an album, appropriately titled, A Geography Of Absence, “sketching cartography of the invisible, as introspective as unpredictable, in a unique sensory whirlwind.” At the heart of this composition are two Eurorack modules made by 4ms – the Ensemble Oscillator, which features Phase Modulation and Wave-Shaping alongside its FM and Additive Synthesis functions; and a Tapographic Delay, manipulating audio into “complex rhythmic structures, meshes of organic textures, and lush harmonic mille-feuilles.” The sound is raw, dark, and full of disquiet, raising the goosebumps along tepid flesh. Slowly guiding you down the empty corridors of lost and forgotten, Puech revives all your senses and enticing for more. Today I am featuring the opening track to his seven-piece LP, hoping to get you excited…

"A researcher in theoretical computer science and an engineer at GRM, Matthias Puech constructs a dialogue between synthetic music and field recording, capturing sounds that surround him and creating his own sonic language with the help of synthesizers he designs and develops. Playing with time, space and matter in an approach similar to that of musique concrète, Puech combines ambient and noise, floating sounds and electroacoustic experimentations, thus shaking up our listening perspective, which finds itself walking through a parallel universe, strata after strata, sequence after sequence."

A Geography Of Absence

Hollow

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Happy Solstice! The Summer Solstice is the day with the longest period of daylight, and has come to mark the beginning of summer. So it seemed fitting to share this solarpunk inspired mix from @JordanChristoff. Back in 2015, Jordan and Patrick Dique (together known as PJS) put together Harvest, a unique installment in our Lost Children mix series. That may have been their earliest release, actually, but Jordan has been prolific in the years since, working with many of our favorite labels: Shimmering Moods, Muzan Editions, Constellation Tatsu, Phinery, Leaving, Past Inside the Present.  In addition to his work with PJS and as a solo artist, he is also part of Anarchist Mountains with his brother, Stefan Christoff.  [I was very lucky to join them for La terre et la force, released earlier this year.] And so I'm very glad to share post global solarpunk. This mix feels like a warm day basking in the sun, gentle and soothing vibes for a peaceful beginning of the summer. 

Read more at https://acloserlisten.com/2021/06/20/jordan-christoff-presents-post-global-solarpunk-mix/

TRACKLIST

PAQ - Karin Solaris

Bubble Keiki - Network Gardening

Mareena & JakoJako - Tagtraum

Celia Hollander - 5:59 PM

One Of Them - Grace Bay

Hipnotic Earth - Float Gently

Rinnovare - Alder Drip

ExMemory - Skyriding

ゆPlateformeゆ - A lodge of blue gold

Mnemonic45 - between two seasons

Joseph Sannicandro + Stefan Christoff - Orbiting Mercury in a Dream

Knower - Finally, I Was Put to Deep Sleep by All My Nature Friends

Ai Yamamoto - Far Away Home Away

Maryam Sirvan - Everywhere's Gone Black

Rodrigo Stradiotto & Karen Vogt - Noctilucent

Panabrite - Hydrothermal

Traipse - Wicker Sky

Patricia Wolf - Closing a Door

Black Brunswicker - At Least we still have dreams

marine eyes - idyll

Jordan Christoff presents 'post global solarpunk' [mix]

from 'The Faded Orbit' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den363
available on all formats at http://denovali.com/saffronkeira

Siavash Amini is a composer from Tehran, Iran. He Has worked with labels like Room40, Hallow Ground, Opal Tapes and Umor Rex for the better half of the past ten years. He has performed at festivals like CTM & MUTEK and many other well known international events. Apart from it Siavash is a co-founder of the “SET experimental art events” and “SETfest” in Tehran, Iran. His work ranges from fragile ambient pieces and brittle IDM (incorporating his distinctive style of atmospheric guitar playing) to noisy drones and bleak modern classical pieces. His compositions have been inspired by films such as Andrei Tarkovsky's The Mirror as well as novels by Dostoyesvky and poems by T.S. Eliot.

Saffronkeira is the Sardinian sound researcher Eugenio Caria being active in the electronic music scene since almost two decades. His most recent work - a cooperation with the Italian jazz trumpet legend Paolo Fresu - earned a lot of praise from the international music press for the pure timelessness of the album.

"Upon hearing a small snippet of sound an image is conjured, not a memory but not unfamiliar. A shell of a memory, thousand events superimposed on each other. While trying to extract points of a narrative to ease the discomfort of this recollection, I try to separate and unfold the image and with it the points of the spectrum which make up the sound, a shell of a narrative. Here is an album based upon an almost entirely imagined/ synthesized happening upon hearing a snippet of sound. It sounded like of a whole story that never happened but yet I felt myself  amongst it’s participants, a sound triggering a false memory. Each sound in Eugenio’s collection of sounds and ideas guided me a to a point in the narrative and it’s construction. He had handed me a portals of some kind to a few scenes of the whole narrative. This is the soundtrack for that false memory from all the perspectives I can think of."

The Faded Orbit

Saffronkeira + Siavash Amini - A Lambent Assembly

"The Days Long" from Duane Pitre's new solo album "Omniscient Voices" - Out Nov 19th, 2021 on IMPREC.

Pre-order available via Imprec.com

Duane Pitre returns to Imprec with Omniscient Voices, an articulate, intense and emotionally resonant set of five pieces for justly tuned piano and electronics.

Omniscient Voices is a uniquely distinct work that follows Pitre's trilogy of releases which culminated with 2015’s Bayou Electric and included the critically acclaimed Feel Free (2012) and Bridges (2013) albums. Where those albums were rooted in long form pieces, Omniscient Voices is a collection of shorter pieces, offering more harmonic variety than previous works, with a unique sound and feel that is still unmistakably the work of Duane Pitre.

In 2019, after a five year period where Pitre did not focus on outward facing music, but instead on his own personal practice, a small idea in the form of a question came to him: would the combination of his latest computer- and electronic-based experiments, used in conjunction with justly tuned piano, produce interesting results; simply put, would it “work”? Concurrently, Pitre was studying a handful of Morton Feldman scores for their focus on tonal clusters, reading a book on Arvo Pärt’s life and work, and contemplating the pulse-based rhythms of Steve Reich and Phillip Glass.

In 2020, with no intention of making a new album, the composer tried to answer this question. The results would spawn five pieces that would become Omniscient Voices. On this new work, Pitre finds himself giving equal priority to both piano and electronics, utilizing his Max/MSP-based generative network to real-time convert precomposed piano motifs, into data, which is then used to communicate with two polyphonic, microtonal hardware synthesizers whose patches Pitre authored; this process generates the electronic component of the album. Pitre also utilizes controlled improvisation to interact with the piano-reactive electronics in a spontaneous and inspired manner, going back and forth between these two pianistic approaches. In all, this approach creates a “musical feedback loop” of sorts.

Despite Omniscient Voices being the culmination of 15 years of hard work and inspiration, this beautiful album somehow materialized in a natural, intuitive and effortless way (like any artist's best work.)

Mastered and cut by Golden and pressed at RTI for maximum fidelity.

Artist's statement:
“When making the pieces that would become Omniscient Voices, I often viewed the piano as human action, a single note becoming a single gesture that has the potential to change the electronic environment, the electronics becoming the environment surrounding that human in the natural world, who then has the power to change their actions based on their surroundings. All actions have consequences. The interconnectedness of everything. Single actions making waves of change.”

RIYL: Arvo Pärt, Morton Feldman, Steve Reich, Phillip Glass

Duane Pitre - The Days Long - from Omniscient Voices - Pre-Order Available

Tracklist

01. Altars Altars - Joanna's Lullaby
02. Marine Eyes - Iidyll
03. Moss Covered Technology - Night #5
04. Stijn Hüwels + Tomoyoshi Date - The White Ruins That Transformed Into A City
05. Ishmael Cormack - Slow Ungive
06. Illuha - Vertical Staves Of Line Drawings And Pointillism
07. Suisen - Sunken Moon

265. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

The Meditations various artists compilation continues its exploration into sounds.

(Pre) Order, last copies available here: https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/meditations-8

Releases January 27, 2022 

Mastered by Andrea Porcu 

Thank you to all artists involved: 

1. Milieu (Brian Grainger) 
milieumusic.bandcamp.com 
2. Reuben Lewis 
reubenlewis.bandcamp.com 
3. Blochemy 
blochemy.bandcamp.com 
4. Luis Miehlich 
woolookologie.bandcamp.com 
5. Darren McClure 
darrenmcclure.bandcamp.com 
6. Valotihkuu (Denis Davydov) 
valotihkuu.bandcamp.com 
7. Rime Trails 
rimetrails.bandcamp.com 
8. Linus Schrab 
linusschrab.bandcamp.com 
9. Line Spectrum (Oleg Puzan) 
10. Lapith Girl (ojeRum / Paw Grabowski) 
oejerum.bandcamp.com 
11. Fallen (The Child of A Creek / Lorenzo Bracaloni) 
thechildofacreek.bandcamp.com 
12. Druzy (Corben & Bradley Thomas Moore) 
druzy.bandcamp.com 
13. PJS ( Jordan Christoff & Patrick Dique) 
pjsmusicsound.bandcamp.com 

Shimmering Moods Records 2022 
SHM 188

Various Artists - Meditations 8 (Preview)

Second full length album Onomatopoeia, released via Shimmering Moods, limited edition CD and digital.

Mastering by Viktor Eidhagen at Rumsklang.

Tracklist:

1. Intonate
2. Shimmering Outskirt
3. Karmical
4. The Space In Between Gets Filled With Debris
5. In Repose
6. Mercurial Passage
7. Pulsar Navigation
8. Micropattern
9. An Interpolated Memoir
10. Shell

Vagantpoesi - Onomatopoeia [Shimmering Moods 2022]

neiro

Gretsch Bariton

I will open the ground beneath you
Let it swallow your voices first
Your words will choke you
Your tongues will blister in smoke

I will turn your blood to fire
Your hearts will beat in agony
Every pulse every scream
Every breath a confession

I will burn your homes from within
The walls will whisper your sins
The air will taste of metal
And your shadows will flee from you

I will make the night eternal
The sun will beg for mercy
The stars will turn away
And leave you blind in heat
in heat

Throne

stortion 8 20 bpm take 1 8525

Taken from Origamibiro's LP Miscellany on Denovali Records, out March 26.

More: www.orbmag.com/music/

@origamibiro
@denovali

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TRACK PREMIERE : Matthias Puech - Hollow

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