Superb! What a beautiful blend of moving and emotional sounds

Part One: Yellow

Taken from the upcoming album 'Chapters' on Fluid Audio...

Music: Und_Ne
Mastering: Ian Hawgood
Design: Daniel Crossley

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Chapters

und_ne - Chapter 5

American composer and producer n-So's new LP Out of the Valley is out now ! The record is a journey through uncharted terrain and deftly explores all of the emotions that accompany us through moments of change : curiosity, wonder, uncertainty, loneliness, determination, hope... the whole expressed by a novel amalgam of infectious analog synth riffs, filtered drum machines and soaring piano melodies. The drama unfolds from the outset, with each of the album's ten tracks flowing continuously from one to the next. Immerse yourself in this sonic universe...

Stream and/or Download 'Out of the Valley' : https://orcd.co/outofthevalley

Out of the Valley

Northern Lights

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n-So - Northern Lights

Winter Wanderers

Due out on limited CD on July 24th

DR-69 : PORYA HATAMI - Kani + Remixes (incl. Darren McClure, Purl, Arovane, Tomotsugu Nakamura, Sven Laux) 

Originally released in 2013 on the Inner Ocean label, Porya Hatami’s “Kani” was a four track EP showcasing his intimate take on modern ambient music. The Iranian artist has issued a large number of albums that imbue pastoral ambient with subtle field recordings and melodies. The melodic aspect of Hatami’s work took centre stage in this release, and shone bright across the four pieces.

So now, seven years later, “Kani” is being given the reissue that it deserves, and will delight those listeners new to it, and those who are rediscovering it again. Besides the original four tracks, there are an additional five remixes by artists working in a similar orbit to Hatami, and some who have collaborated directly with him in the past.

These reworks cover plenty of ground, reimagining the source material into new shapes. Some remixes extend the foggy soundscapes and conjure delicate melodic plucks. Others add mellow pulses that infer rhythm under the washes of sound, while others take these rhythmic ideas much further.  

Original tracks mastered by Jason Corder aka offthesky
Remixes mastered by Porya Hatami
Artwork by Hawar Amini

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PORYA HATAMI - Kani (night) (Arovane Remix)

Work in progress track featuring stacked vocals recorded through a Nagra IV-S, Una Corda piano treated with a 70s BSR 1/4" machine, and Yamaha CS80 synth only.

When The Nagra Sings (demo)

Phil Tomsett is a UK based sound artist, composing organic, ethereal and impressionistic ambient music for labels such as Home Normal and Fluid Audio. As The Inventors Of Aircraft, Tomsett has also put out records on Time Released Sound, Serein, whitelabrecs, Rural Colours, Audio Gourmet Netlabel and hibernate. If the aesthetic of the mentioned imprints evokes a particular sonic response in your awareness, then you shall know what to expect from his new release. Joined by Aaron Martin for the cello accompaniment, and a touch of Ian Hawgood's reel-to-reel analogue mastering, The Sound Of Someone Leaving is a sombre requiem for the empty spaces left behind by a presence fleeting in time. "Absence is powerful. When someone isn’t there anymore the empty space is charged with emotional power. As if the act of vanishing leaves behind an ethereal, supernatural signature." Tomsett impounds that signature with a combination of the layered and looped arrangement of synths, strings, and choral vocals, which draw on the memories, moments, and sense. Today I am sharing with you an exclusive premiere of a title track from the album, which captures the essence of feelings and tone.

The Sound of Someone Leaving will be out on Fluid Audio in September of 2020, packaged as usual, as a beautiful bespoke limited edition, designed by Dan Crossley with illustrations by Craig Tattersall. Pre-order your copy here: https://fluidaudio.bigcartel.com/product/phil-tomsett-the-sound-of-someone-leaving

The Sound Of Someone Leaving Promo mp3

The Sound of Someone Leaving

TRACK PREMIERE : Phil Tomsett - The Sound of Someone Leaving (with Aaron Martin)

Liebeskid - In Your Eyes I Look Bigger (The Öbjektz Remix)

Swedish pianist, Henrik Lindstrand is due to release his third solo album, and I've got an exclusive track premiere for you today! Nordhem is a finale in a trilogy of Leken (2017) and Nattresan (2019), released on One Little Indian Records. I suppose now is a good time to mention that the label's owner, Derek Birkett, has recently changed the imprint's name to One Little Independent in light of a fan letter that outlined why the name and the logo are offensive to the Indigenous People culture. So while OLI has recognized and adjusted its image, the music it spreads through the world is unchanged. The album, and indeed this single, conveys a very innocent and emotional message, through melancholy storytelling that rides the waves of sorrow and joy, mystery and honesty, minor and major chords. It's a beautiful short tune that carries its dialogue through a reticent melody, and I could even see myself playing it in the dark. "Lindstrand communicates emotions through a soothing and intimate universe that seamlessly blends genres into his own ecosystem of sounds from the piano. 'Stora Huset' uses exquisite and elegant simplicity to recall summers spent at a countryside mansion where his mother lived, decorated with moose antlers from a bygone era." I'd love to draw your attention to the entire new album [and the whole trilogy], but for now, here's the track!

Nordhem

TRACK PREMIERE : Henrik Lindstrand - Stora Huset

Bristol based composer Josh Alexander's new EP is out in the world, and we'd love for you to give this sweet thing a spin! Arriving two years after his debut Hiraeth, this record is a stroll through some awe inspiring terrain...

It's available to stream/download now on all digital platforms : https://orcd.co/bmjb

Bright Morning Jetlag Blues

After All

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Josh Alexander - After All

Exclusive track taken from upcoming album 'Chão Vermelho' released through Miasmah Recordings...

'Chão Vermelho' (Red Floor) is a collection of ritualistic, lamenting pieces influenced by the increasingly dry ground of the surrounding area of central Portugal from where cellist and singer Joana Guerra resides.

An environment of experimentation and risk transports us to an apocalyptic scenario in which the extreme dryness of a ground where nothing can grow anymore is accompanied by dramatic, theatrical compositions. As a murmur or a pagan prayer, the pieces evoke the ever imminent possibility of regeneration: “The name of the album is inspired by the area where I live, with muddy soil. It fascinates me a lot, although the drought and its cracks make me feel terrible”, explains Joana. Perhaps because the floor covering the earth, like a skin of deep cracks, attests to the tiredness, the wrinkles, of civilization.

Small blue-metallic flowers, a white animal about to go extinct, rare stones that only exist in two latitudes, the colour red as a warning sign, ecological sound, but also as a sign of renewal, as in women in their blood cycles. All of this makes up the universe of Joana Guerra's 'Chão Vermelho'. And as long as the mycelium feels our presence, perhaps there is hope for this ground and for such a woman who in her cycles of renewal is too earthy to be holy.

All compositions are by Joana Guerra who, in addition to cello and voice, her main instruments, ventures on Portuguese guitar, prepared electric guitar and keyboard. She is joined by Maria do Mar on the violin and Carlos Godinho on percussion and objects, as well as the contributions of Sofia Queiróz Orê-Ibir and Bernardo Barata, respectively bass and voice.

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Chão Vermelho

Joana Guerra - White Animal

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 : Phil Tomsett - The Sound of Someone Leaving (with Aaron Martin)

Headphone Commute

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