Melnyk: Corollaries

Lubomyr Melnyk – The Six Day Moment

Initially released in Atlantea Records label last month, this album is a labour of love, an exploration of refusing to abandon an initial idea, by cultivating and persisting even if it did not make sense or I wanted to give up. I learned to love each song, to surrender to the process and to trust its potential, believing that I can serve as an instrument for its beauty to unfold.

The ten songs are crafted to be experienced as one cohesive piece. In the fast-paced rhythm of our lives, we sometimes overlook the importance of slowing down and redirecting our focus inward. My invitation for you is to indulge in the luxury of opening space for yourself by setting a time to relax and listen to this album with the intention of self-care and self-reflection, just to see what happens.

Thank you for listening. May these sounds bring joy, wonder and seeds of creative expression into your life.

With love,

Tierro


Written and produced by Tierro Cosmico
Mastered by Pheek // audioservices.studio
Cover by BsTar & Magic:D

El Viaje De Hypericum

The Sleeper Awakes 

Ben Chatwin - Mirroring

from 'Blossoms In Red' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den243
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/ensembleeconomique]

Based in Californian Humboldt County, Brian Pyle wanders the world on his countless travels. Far from being restless, he has his very own Pylesque way of travelling. Much like a Lynchian version of Hemingway, he has an eye for the thin layer between restlessness and relaxation, gloom and serenity. Wherever he goes, he ardently absorbes these nuances, rarefies them and moulds them into a seamless array of glimmering styles, from drone and ambient to shoegaze and post-wave, giving birth to yet another creation of his prolific Ensemble Economique project.
On his by now eleventh album and fourth Denovali release "Blossoms In Red", Pyle combines and perfects elements of his previous output into a cohesive narrative. The opener "From The Train Window, Red Flowers On The Mountain" is a surprisingly scarce ambient piece, which feels like an almost infinitely stretched precious moment of time. Despite being austere, it is warm, sublime and incredibly captivating and after listening to its full 8 minutes, one cannot help but to rewind and replay. Having barely escaped this seductively infinite loop, one encounters the title track "Blossoms In Red" featuring Portland electronic duo Soft Metals. Starting off with a characteristic sluggish programmed beat, one is immediately overpowered by the onset of the towering combination of a warm bassline and a shimmering synth ambience. As the track flows, these elements writhe around each other in a delicately beautiful fashion, absorbing the materialising wailing guitar which almost sounds like an ethereal voice, as well as the occasional melodic and rhythmic accents. The next track sees this guitar return in a rather pure form. "On The Sand", featuring jack-of-all-trades Peter Broderick, is essentially just reduced analogue drums, electric guitar, a simple vibrating bassline and hoarse almost spoken vocals. Slowly and methodically, these constituents form a captivating erotic ritual, much like a beguiling and hypnotic mandala procession of imperturbable blissful individuals on the beach. As proven on numerous occasions, Pyle can easily lead all his trumps in the presence of female lead vocals, and "Blossoms In Red" makes no exception. Indeed, "You, By Candlelight" is easily the best Ensemble Economique track with female vox to date. Pyle manages to embed the vocals just in the right minimal amount of instrumental layers, making the track radiate an elusive tranquility. The fifth and closing track "Nothing Is Perfect" is a classically tinged piano piece with only very little processing and sparse field recording samples. With all pieces of the album, Pyle manages to create tracks which feel like being composed only of two or three layers of sound, that are nevertheless allowed to develop a life cycle which seems incredibly long - track lengths vary from 6:30 to 8:10 - but still feels just right. Thus "Blossoms In Red" is probably Ensemble Economique's most minimalistic album, but at the same time - or maybe just for this reason - his most skilled work.

Blossoms in Red

Ensemble Economique - From The Train Window, Red Flowers On The Mountain

Order CD + Digital here: https://futuresequence.bandcamp.com/album/subsiding 

Prominent Iranian artist Siavash Amini continues a triptych of works with ‘Subsiding’, an album of instrumental ambient drone. His most full and detailed sound to date illustrates Amini’s ability to bring together modern classical composition with that of controlled noise, granular synthesis, and atmospheric soundscape. Both monolithic and micro sound sculptures coexist within a perfect balance, a mix which makes for an all encompassing listen across the audio spectrum, funereal yet uplifting.

Complete with striking cover photography by Alex Kozobolis, “Subsiding” will be available on glass-mastered CD in digipack sleeves (run of 200) and digital formats.

Subsiding by Siavash Amini

Swimmer among the Stars

Swimmer Among the Stars

Jim Perkins - Swimmer Among The Stars

#pianoday2020

This album is a collection, raw and spontaneous, and the fruit of 15 days of artistic residency in the beautiful setting of La Becque, La Tour de Peilz (CH), in partnership with Françoise Siegfried Meier Foundation and the Montreux Jazz Artist Foundation.

A setting in which I was able to express myself, on grand piano and essentially on prepared piano, with introspection and escape.


This logbook is intended to be raw, spontaneous and representative of the immersive moments I have experienced.
Some improvisations are therefore presented, such as the themes "Memories", "Serenity 1 and 2", "La Becque", or experiments ("overdrive", "rework")
The theme "Mrs. Siegfried Meier" is a tribute.

Memories is also composed for PianoDay 2019.

Sérénité 1

"I think I am the same as an artist and as a person. Music is my way of communication and I see the art, the music as a whole thing, with no borders, divisions, or even genres." - https://soundcloud.com/haniarani

Hania Rani is a pianist, composer and musician who splits her life between Warsaw, where she makes her home, and Berlin where she studied and often works. She has written for strings, piano, voice and electronics and has collaborated with the likes of Christian Löffler, Dobrawa Czocher and Hior Chronik, and released an album with her Polish group tęskno last year. She has performed at some of the most prestigious venues in Europe - from the National Philharmony in Warsaw, to Funkhaus in Berlin, to The Roundhouse in London (where she made her debut at the Gondwana 10thanniversary festival last October) and at festivals such as Open'er, Scope Festival and Eurosonic. Her compositions for solo piano were born out of a fascination with the piano as an instrument, and her desire to interpret its sound and harmonic possibilities in their entirety and in her own way.

'Esja' is her debut solo album and for Rani it is her first, real, personal statement as an artist. "No hiding behind the "collaborations" or "projects" anymore. For the very first time, finally - just me, as I am".

Recorded at Rani's apartment in Warsaw (the piano room has a beautiful reverb and the space has become part art studio and part sound laboratory for Rani) and at her friend Bergur Þórisson'sstudio in Reykjavik, Esja is a series of beautiful melodic vignettes. Sensual, sensitive, rhythmic, atmospheric, free but harmonious, beguiling and hypnotic, collectively they project a sense of unlimited space and time.

Esja

Hawaii Oslo

Hania Rani - Hawaii Oslo (Piano Day 2019)

Taken from Thomas William Hill's upcoming album 'Grains of Space'

The album started life as a series of minimal loops, recorded using a viola da gamba – a stringed instrument most popular in the Renaissance and Baroque eras – and a loop pedal. Using the negative space within each loop as the primary drive for composing, Thomas began a process of ‘joining the dots'.

“I began to see these loops - and recorded music in general - as a kind of fixed perspective that could be exploited. In isolation, a single layer may be no more than one or two notes punctuating four bars of silence, but when laid over multiple variations on that theme, disparate notes start to dance with each other and new connections take form, like constellations or deconstructed sentences.” 

Pre-order here: https://VillageGreen.lnk.to/7YpUIWE

Thomas William Hill - Furnace

"Both Sides Suffer Heavy Losses, But We Faced An Unavoidable Conclusion" is a specially curated selection of our favourite Greek ambient, postrock, postmetal, experimental, shoegaze artists. 
Please listen, share and enjoy. The future for Greek music is bright. 
*Hope, Answers, Fight, Dreamers ... More Hope For Greece*
credits
released 04 November 2012 

Hior Chronik - Starving but happy

from 'Fatalist - The Repetition Of History' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
available on all formats at [www.denovali.com/mailorder]

Fatalist: The Repetition of History

Field Rotation - Valse Fatale

and if a piano did not ring as a piano...
contact : hojde_booking@yahoo.com

UPCOMING:

03/10/2019 - Lyon - Horizons x Convergence invitent Noon & HØJDE
14/09/2019 - Fribourg - Festival Les Digitales
02/08/2019 - Grignan - Festival Vallée Electrique,
28/07/2019 - Moulin - Festival Chateau Perché,
11/07/2019 - Montreux - Montreux Jazz Festival,
04/07/2019 - Vienne - Festival Jazz à Vienne
21/06/2019 - Lyon - Atelier Robert Thouret,
08/06/2019 - Retiers - Festival XXXV,
01/06/2019 - Vernoux en vivarais - Festival Vernoustock,
11/05/2019 - Lyon (Atelier Roebrt Thouret)
14/04/2019 - Lyon (Trait d'Union - Connexion 1)

more soon ...

PAST:

2018

14/12/2018 - Spazio O' (Milan, Italy)
11/12/2018 - Palazzo Trevisan (Venise, Italy)
11/11/2018 - Istituto Svizzero (Rome, Italy)
26/10/2018 - Atelier Robert THOURET (Lyon, France)
01/09/2018 - Les Digitales Festival (Lausanne, Swiss)
11/08/2018 - Redirection Jangala Festival (Stuttgart, Germany)
21/07/2018 - Festival La Vallée Electrique (Montélimar, Drôme)
14/07/2018 - Montreux Jazz Festival - Talent Awards
23/06/2018 - Le Vent se lève 2 (Sarrians, Vaucluse),
16/05/2018 - Art&Vibes Festival (Saint Etienne, Loire),
10/03/2018 - Festival "Le vent se lève" (Sarrians, Vaucluse)
29/03/2018 - PianoDay 2018, Obamo Café (Lyon)

2017

22/11 - Festival Riddim Collision/Nuits Noires (Lyon)
27/10 - Live Set, Obamo Café (Lyon),
23/07 - Harmonic Festival (Trigance, var)
21/07 - La Vallée électrique Festival (Drôme)
02/07 - Karma Atma Festival (Hérault)
08/04 - LiveSet, La Loupika (Lyon), w/ StationEcho
18/03 - LiveSet, Ninkasi Kafé (Lyon), w/ StationEcho
04/03 - LiveSet, La Marquise (Lyon), w/ Lux's Dream

2016

15/12 - LiveSet, La Marquise (Lyon)
25/11 - Piano Décalé Festival (Lyon), w/ Lux's Dream
28/10 - Vallée de Sahmain Festival (Drôme)

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