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Northsilver Guest Mix 7
Blear Moon
November 2022

7th in our Northsilver Imprint Guest Mix series.
Blear Moon checks in with a deeply sublime soundscape that pushes at the boundaries of atmospheric music.

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Tracklist:

1. Ous Mal - Tumma
2. Martin Herterich - Kyrie (For A. Pärt)
3. Epeus Reichenbach - Watch It, You Brazen Altars
4. kesh - 88 Tapes
5. AIR Krew - Types of Crickets
6. Distant Fires Burning - Science Stops...
7. Villages - Answerers
8. Fate Ote - Axiom/Till We Die
9. V. Sinclair - Reverie
10. Marty Hicks - [things take] the time they take

About Blear Moon:

Blear Moon is a scenic name of composer and multimedia artist Vlas Presnetsov, who is currently living in Fethiye of Turkey. Since his early teenage years in mid 2000's Vlas found his belonging in exploration of liminal genres of electronic and instrumental music and small-scale labels. In 2018 He started cassette tape based imprint "secret press", followed by "Immersive love" netlabel in 2022.

Cover by Atmospherics
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Northsilver Guest Mix 7 - Blear Moon

Northsilver Guest Mix 7 - Blear Moon (@blearmoon)

dark and cold and wet

Artist: Ten Atmospheres
Release Title: Escaping
Catalog: EXPBC024
Release: 2023-01-16

Ten Atmospheres - Open Sea (Preview)

Close The Windows

Listening in a very quiet environment, or at a very quiet time, preferably with good quality headphones, at no more than a moderate volume, is very much recommended. These sounds of late summer dawn in Mallee country were widely dispersed. The original recording level was 60 dB, with a further 12 dB gain in post. Listening at a low to moderate volume will more faithfully re-present the original soundscape experience. Please refer to the Playlist description for some background information: https://soundcloud.com/hearingbeings/sets/2023-02-19-quiet-dawn-of-souls-mallee-country-late-summer.

At first light, the dawn songs of Spiny-cheeked Honeyeaters predominate, gracing the early dawn soundscape with a beautiful yet melancholy quality. Also occasional Owlet Nightjar calls (which have continued all through the night), Grey Butcherbirds, a couple of Emu 'drummings', some distant Ravens, amongst others; and, in the distance, briefly, a couple of strays that ought not to have been there at all.  Throughout, the sound of the wind rising and falling, through Mallee woodland of Eucalyptus and Casuarina trees.

Recorded respectfully on the land of the Meru and Danggali peoples.

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2023.02.19 Quiet Dawn of Souls (First Light)

On last ices by Makholma shore with a swell from nearby open water. Four White-tailed Eagles, two Ravens and a few Crows are feasting waste fish left on the ice by a local fisherman 26/2/2023.

MKH8020 + SD702  AB 80cm, 24/48, no processing, +3dB in post.

Icy Swell - 26/2/2023 - with White-tailed Eagle and Raven

[PCLEP 030] Collagist - Vjetnam EP (2023) Teaser

Jon Neher is a musician and artist from Saskatchewan in Canada. He is also renowned for performing as part of Peace Flag Ensemble and indie band Beach Body, as well as work for his own label Fenwood Rail. Jon followed a Classical music education through piano lessons at an early age, progressing into playing Jazz as he got older before he began to explore his own compositions after he had discovered Hardcore music.
Michael Scott Dawson is an artist based in Vancouver, Canada, who was also originally from Saskatchewan. His music has been released on labels including We Are Busy Bodies, Sonder House, and also Jon’s Fenwood Rail imprint. Michael is part of the Peace Flag Ensemble, providing guitar, field recordings and subtle electronics to the sound. His Ambient albums ‘Music For Listening’ and ‘Find Yourself Lost’ have received critical acclaim, not least from Whitelabrecs and this was the starting point for the release of this album, after we got in touch with Michael to show our appreciation; announcing Music For Listening as our favourite record of 2022.
‘I Yield My Time’ is the third collaboration solely between Jon and Michael, who know each other through the music community in Saskatchewan. Their Ambient-leaning debut ‘On Remembering’ was released digitally through Fenwood Rail back in 2019. Their love of music and diverse range of influences inform their work and enable them to experiment with a wide range of ideas and genres. As can be gleaned from earlier in this text, they both perform as part of the Peace Flag Ensemble, a group whose album Astral Plains is due out in July 2023.

This album places Jon’s piano sketches at the fore, with his approach to music composition beginning with improvised sessions on his keyboard before being adapted through chance-based post production techniques. Michael took these piano sounds and processed them through an array of tape machines and pedals. Most of the additional resonances beyond the original piano recordings are actually just new versions of these. Minimal details subtly adorn the pieces, with Michael’s field recordings and modest additional instrumentation inserting frail little soft sounds into the weight and voice of the piano. There is something beautiful in this juxtaposition, as Michael found himself building little movements around the improvisations, like a tiny orchestra of broken sounds.
The album is more about the process and combination of the artists’ respective techniques, than being centred around a specific concept. However, Jon notes that he realised after completing the album that he was thinking a lot about death, with close family members being diagnosed with cancer, the failing health of his grandparents, music industry peers passing at an early age and a choir director who had lent him a Rhodes passed away. There was this weird reckoning with the idea that death can be so much and so little depending on your context, and there are drastic implications on how you might find meaning in your life as a result.
For the listener, time becomes a theme in which to concentrate ones thoughts; whether consciously or subconsciously, as the subduing echoes of delay pedals and fading keys disappear. This record will become a reflective companion, which may direct thoughts and feelings in several directions; whether this be to reflect upon the past, to be present in the moment, or wander into the future, full of hope.

Written and produced by Jon Neher & Michael Scott Dawson
Mastered by Taylor Deupree
Photography by Michael Scott Dawson
Art and design by Andrew Heath

I Yield My Time

wlr139 Jon Neher & Michael Scott Dawson - I Yield My Time

A new beginnings

my version of Koos Kombuis's poem and song Bicycle sonder 'n slot.

lyrics:
Ek bring vir jou blomme
Ek gee jou genot
Ek leen jou my bicycle sonder 'n slot
Ek weet dit is laat
En jou ma-hulle slaap
Maar ek moes net vir jou sê
Ek het jou lief soos die Kaap
Ek het jou lief soos die Kaap

vocals: Michelle Hubsch
production: Alex Coetzee & Michelle Hubsch

Koos Kombuis - Bicycle sonder 'n slot (hübsch's version)

Ploughing aural fields in remote North.

Field recordist, bird watcher and a digitized former darkroom rat living in little Makholma village on the West Coast of Finland by the Baltic Sea - 61N 21E

These recordings are done in AB stereo with omnidirectional microphones. With this technique everything in the field will be equally meaningful, even the silence behind the microphones. That's why you should use headphones!

My recordings are merely like a process than individual tracks, and should be considered in the context of my blog-alike site:  www.baltic.fi

For better quality, the tracks are downloadable as 24 bit flac. For commercial use, please take contact.

You will find my videowork here: https://vimeo.com/holotna/videos 

And pics from the places of recordings: https://holotna.pic.fi/kuvat/


Tekijä on Makholman kalarannan liepeillä majaansa pitävä digitalisoitunut pimiörotta. Intohimona linnut, meri ja vanhat puupurret.

Icy Swell - 26/2/2023 - with White-tailed Eagle and Raven

Jan Eerala

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