Name: Matt Uelmen - Harem by hypnothalamus in Stuff
Duration: 2 min 29 s
Description: "Harem" by Matt Uelmen from Blizzard North's Diablo II

Stuff

A new collection of work titled 'Sodium Light' from myself has just been released on Lee Norris's excellent NeoTantra label. The work was inspired by a series of night walks my daughter and I took towards the back end of 2019; pre all the states we find ourselves in at the moment. It's an impressionistic work of night-time cityscapes. Mastered by Fraser McGowan.

Sodium Light

Night #1

'Night #1' - Taken from the release 'Sodium Light' - [Neotantra, 2021]

ASC - Truth Be Told  [SSCD15]

http://shop.silentseason.com

1. Some Other Life
2. The Machinery Of Night
3. Half The Words You Say
4. Hall Of The Gods
5. Behind The Veil
6. Lucent Vessel
7. The Widening Mire
8. Slow Autumn
9. The Certainty Of Tides

++ Album Background ++

After how well-received Time Heals All was, I already knew I was going to write a follow-up.  I had in mind that I would build upon the themes and ideas of the previous album and try to expand upon them slightly, while trying to retain everything that made Time Heals All so special.  Truth Be Told is 9 short stories based around love, depression, fantasy and my ever on-going fixation with science fiction.  I hope you find this album as rich and rewarding as the experience I had making it.
—James Clements

Written, Produced and Mastered by James Clements.

Photography by Danthon.

- - - - 
Silent Season Canada
www.silentseason.com
info@silentseason.com

ASC - Truth Be Told Sampler [SSCD15]

Marsen Jules - The Empire Of Silence 

Buy this now: oktaf.bandcamp.com
(CD inludes download of a 38 minute bonus track)

Ten years after his debut-album “Herbstlaub“ on CCO, german ambient composer Marsen Jules takes us to his “Empire of Silence“. An impressing soundtrack to the epic power and  beauty of nordic snow and ice-landscapes. Thereby he sounds even more elegiac, warm and romantic as ever before. This might be a result of a strict reduction to bittersweet symphonic string-sounds. Sounds which Jules elapses like a prism on the timeline and lets them meander on the slightly on the listeners eardrum. While others are still talking about “modern classic“, Jules is already moving on the particle-layer through the sound-continuum. Diving deeper into the sounds then ever before, he lets the frequencies mirror on the sound spectrum with an impressing precision. Actually there is not much space for “real“ silence on the album. Instead the epic sounds of “The Empire of Silence“ seem to unfold their archaic euphoria best at high volumes. An euphoria that carries everything away and occupies the whole space. For the track titles of the eight gems on this album Jules refers to different Words for snow in Inuit language, of which the legend says there are dozens. While the melancholic openers “penstla“ (the idea of snow) and “tlaslo“ (snow that falls slowly) still travel on soft ways, the album raises to its full euphoria with “kayi“ (drifting snow) and “skriniya“ (snow that never reaches the ground). With its epic magic the nine minute long “katiyana“ (night snow) thrills the listeners attention while “naklin“ (forgotten snow) brings a short inhale. The album finds its peak with the ecstatic glisandi of „chathalin“ (snow that makes a sizzling sound as it falls on water) and finds its finish in the beautiful and lofty “ylaipi“ (tomorrow´s snow). For everyone who is still not satisfied fully after this 55 minute journey through nearly endless stringlisandi, we recommend the 45-minute bonus track which comes as digital download with the cd version on bandcamp.

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Marsen Jules - The Empire Of Silence (Album Preview)

Heritage

Opeth - The Devil's Orchard

Soulmate

The Knife - Marble house

'On Parting' is the first track recorded for the upcoming album, 'Reconciliations'. The album is a self-released follow up to 2014's 'Accidentals', similarly built of four long-playing guitar improvisations and including a remix of each by selected artists and friends.

Slow Clinic - On Parting

When you are lost, help is towards the light.
https://vinnyvortex.bandcamp.com/album/visions-2

Visions

Towards The Light

Free @ Bandcamp

Spheres

Pestilence - Mind Reflections

Pestilence - Soul Search

Pestilence - Spheres

third release so that you remember*

mastering - mmcm.ru

Where There Is Silence Ep

Heavenchord & Amanita Phalloides - Stars

"Harem" by Matt Uelmen from Blizzard North's Diablo II 

Matt Uelmen - Harem

Having recently signed to FatCat’s 130701 imprint, and following closely on from Deutsche Gramophon’s release of Jóhann Jóhannsson’s ‘Last and First Men’ project which Yair co-composed, Yair Elazar Glotman & Mats Erlandsson’s sophomore album ‘Emanate’ is a powerful and stunningly executed extended duration work that utilises a fantastic ensemble cast and continues to explore their ideas of a 'displaced sound’ - combining electronic and acoustic sound sources through both analogue and digital means to create an ambiguous composite work, a music that sounds neither clearly electronic or acoustic, existing instead in some in-between space.

In many ways, the idea of a longform music is unsuited to and out of phase with our times. And yet, there is recent evidence of a reaction against this – witness the rise of the practise of mindfulness and the cultural elements of a ‘slow living’ movement; the huge success of Max Richter’s marathon 'Sleep’ project; and the emergence of an expansive musical niche that draws from drone, electroacoustic and classical traditions and prioritises a more immersive, durational sound worlds - see artists like Kali Malone, Ellen Arkbro, Clarice Jensen, Abul Mogard, William Basinski, Claire M Singer, and labels like Longform Editions and XKatedral. Music here is intended to function not as ambient backdrop to other activities but as a deep listening, intensive immersion.

Aligned with these approaches, Glotman & Erlandsson’s work is suffused with a chromatic density and a tendency towards an edgy darkness that puts it closer to Hildur Guðnadóttir’s ‘Chernobyl’ score or Jóhannsson’s ‘The Miner’s Hymns’. It shares that same brassy, bass heavy weight and glowering, simmering sense of tension as well as a similar, sliding feeling of instability. Its authors cite the influence of  Renaissance vocal polyphony; Giacinto Scelsi’s ‘Pranam II’; György Ligeti’s 1967 piece ‘Lontano’ (heard on the soundtrack to Kubrick’s ‘The Shining’ and Scorcese’s ‘Shutter Island’); as well as American composer Ingram Marshall, and Iceland’s Valgier Sigurdsson. Gorgeously recorded, beautifully focused and measured throughout, ‘Emanate’ is a texturally rich, deep spectrum exploration that flows and unfolds almost seamlessly throughout its fifty-minute span to create an energy field which feels simultaneously static and yet continually shifting.

Emanate

pre-order

Yair Elazar Glotman & Mats Erlandsson - Procession

Lock in for 66' of cinematic, emotional music - courtesy of a truly inspiration label. Enjoy this sonic film!

@denovali

Denovali Records is an independent record label founded in 2005. The program of Denovali covers ambient, electronica, experimental, drone, jazz, modern composition & sound art. 

Since 2007 they have curated and organised international music festivals, and in line with the start of the label activities in 2005, Denovali opened an online record store also featuring records from other record labels.

https://denovali.com

TRACKLIST:

01. Bersarin Quartett - Prolog
02. Dictaphone - Opening Night
03. The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Giallo
04. Saffronkeira - Disorderly of Life
05. Mansur - Pentatonic Ruins
06. Praire - Cut Me Open
07. Matthew Collings - Love
08. Bersarin Quartett - Das ist alles, was wir haben
09. Philipp Rumsch Ensemble - a5
10. Robin Schlochtermeier - Transparence
11. Fogh Depot - Meduse (Dima Ustinov Remix)
12. Petrels - Embroiding the Earths Mantle
13. The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Past Midnight
14. Ricardo Donoso - Forking Path
15. Nanook Of The North - Pingajoq
16. Fogh Depot - Cloud Apiary
17. Saffronkeira - The Field of Repentance
18. Birds Of Passage - Dare I Feel
19. Sankt Otten - Sentimentale Sequenzen
20. David Norland - Half-Eye Outlines

www.loose-lips.co.uk

Loose Lips Mix Series - 286 - Denovali

warm rays
of the Soul
to soothe
and softly awaken
Awareness
of Infinity
bringing about
the gentle collapse
of all
distances
as held
in emptiness
in fullness
in Love
♡
credits
released July 1, 2020

available on CD in extraordinarily beautiful handmade packaging from sound in silence — soundinsilencerecords.bandcamp.com/album/imagined-distances

music by Ludvig Cimbrelius

mastered by George Mastrokostas for sound in silence — soundinsilencerecords.bandcamp.com

original cover photograph by Braden Jarvis — bradenjarvisphotography.visualsociety.com

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