this has been one of the most perfect and literal Slumber Sessions; doing exactly what it says on the tin, giving great dreams, day or night.

Would love to know what is playing around 23mins in, it is absolutely beautiful

doze

Alveol & Christoph Kardek - Navigating The Stars

Time for your Wednesday wind-down and this week's soothing sounds come courtesy of Halls. Halls has been in hibernation, carefully crafting his album <a href="https://soundcloud.com/no-pain-in-pop/sets/halls-love-to-give">'Love To Give' </a> but did take a break for a stint of modelling for Hedi Slimane. When its time to chill, this is how Halls likes to do it. Enter his world of relaxation.

"Sleep isn't always soothing - it can be tainted, restless, haunting. Phase one is drifting - phase two is hallucinating - phase three is descent - stage four is resolution. Sounds clash and are discordant, fragments drift closer and slip away from the foreground. These songs are a mix of sounds I associate with sleep.
Halls" 

Watch Halls - Forelsket video <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGqD-fUAfbQ&feature=share">here. </a>


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Final 15 - A Ghostly 15 Playlist Curated by Michael Cina

"Anyone that knows me, knows that my main passion is music. I spend all day listening to music at work and my vinyl collection of 16k pieces greets me when I get home. I knew about Ghostly International before they contacted me in the early 2000’s and we would write off and on. They used to send me big packages of white labeled vinyl, it was decadent.

Late 2007 I got a call from Ghostly asking if I was up for designing a new single for Dabrye. It was a dream come true and I feel like I found a friend who really understood me. I have had the distinct privilege to design over 100 covers for Ghostly, and that is only the half of it.

When they asked me to do a compilation, I was all about it. I wanted to do three or more compilations because I wanted to segment it up into different sections (Ghostly, SMM and Spectral). It is impossible to reduce the entire label to 15 tracks. Ghostly is dynamic, they don’t fit one sound, genre or idea.

So I approached it as a mixtape of sorts. I tried to find a common thread that spoke to me and create a mood around that idea. Some of my favorite tracks are not on here. JDSY 'Horizon Line' makes my head spin. Choir of Young Believers 'Paralyse' takes me to another place. There are so many more.

What you are hearing some songs that have spoken to me over the years in a distinct way. I don’t feel like they are obvious choices but they all are nothing short of amazing. I hope this compilation helps you see a different side of one of the best labels to ever do it." - Michael Cina

The Sight Below - At First Touch

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Call it ambient, call it techno, call it what you will. Norwegian producer Snasen Makes futuristic avant-guarde music thats as delicate and intricate as it is experimental. Due for release on Sellout! Music, his forthcoming Grok EP is the third offering from the man himself and features three tracks that delve deep into the sonic realms of experimentation all the while maintaing a wholesome sense of atmosphere. This mix is meditation music for the mind. Dive in and dream on.

"I have one recurring dream. It happens in different places and with different characters but the subject is always the same: ZOMBIES! Ever since I saw the first remake of Night of the Living Dead as a teenager, I’ve had the undead hunt me in my sleep. It often revolves around my loved ones and almost every time I hold a shotgun (THE quintessential zombie mauling device). Even though my family and friends usually get eaten alive or killed in gruesome ways, I always wake up feeling invigorated and happy. I guess popular culture destroyed me after all."
https://soundcloud.com/snasen

Tracklist:
1. Snasen - Sad Spring
2. Christopher Hipgrave - Everything Slowed
3. Biosphere - Dissolving Clouds
4. Us as Effigies - Brown Rhine
5. Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Partocle 1
6. Belong - October Language
7. Arve Henriksen - Ascent
8. A winged Victory for the Sullen - Steep Hills of Vicodin Tears
9. Nest - Far from Land
10. Stars of the Lid - Apreludes (In C Sharp Major)
11. Biosphere / Deathprod - Trasparenza
12. Snasen - Svartdalen #4
13. Deaf Center - Pale Ravine
14. Colleen - Mining in the Rain
15. Loscil - Pressure
16. Nest - Charlotte
17. Chihei Hatakeyama - Alchemy
18. Deathprod - Cloudchamber
19. Snasen - Drone Theme
20. Opsvik & Jennings - Wrong Place Right Time
21. William Basinski - Watermusic
22. Biosphere - Vibratoire
23. Svalastog - Mouse Tracking
24. Chihei Hatakeyama - Bonfire on the Field
25. Alog - Exit Virtuoso
26. Snasen - Sober Lunch
27. Alog - Sleeping Instruments


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I composed "Tour De Pyrénées” after a trip through them in 2012. The tour lasted five days and nights and I saw some unbelievable, beautiful ‘lost places’. The music represents the ups and downs of driving the car through the mountain pass, the voices of the people, and the landscape. 

Bjorn Rohde - Tour De Pyrénées

Purl - Stillpoint [SSCD17] // June 2015

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Ludvig Cimbrelius, who also records as Alveol, Eternell and Rust, among other aliases, has kept the Purl name for the more ambient side of his dubby techno. He first appeared on the British Columbia imprint with 2010's Deep Ground, and Stillpoint marks his first release for Silent Season since, after racking up a few albums on Dewtone Recordings and Post Global. The label calls the new LP "a magical aural journey of dubby, ethereal, lightly groovy and lush beautiful sounds... music as a doorway to the eternal." 

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01. Havets Sång
02. Baleine
03. Wilderness 
04. Melora 
05. Stillpoint
06. Saraide 
07. Inre Sken 
08. Remnant
09. New Horizons
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Stillpoint
At the center of us is a focal point of consciousness
Perfectly still, yet vibrant with life
This is our natural state
Ever at peace, yet ever expanding
Ever at peace 
In knowing that being can never cease to be
Thus there is no death
Only eternal life
Ever expanding 
In knowing that eternity is never done
We are in continuous motion towards what lies beyond
Across endless new horizons
- Ludvig Cimbrelius 2015

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Produced by Ludvig Cimbrelius
Mastered by Stefan Betke (Pole) of Scape Mastering
Photography by Danthon
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info@silentseason.com
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Endless

Dark Ambient Music inspired by the writings of HP Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos cult. Be scared and enjoy!

CTHULHU MYTHOS - CATACOMBS

Pablo Bolívar, this time releasing under his alias Mind Groove, begins 2017 following the canons with this album, in which he pays tribute to his homeland, Cantabria. In fact, the 10 tracks included in this long play were initially written in his hometown, between the sea and the mountains, between the blue and green. 

‘The sailor and the mountain’ is perhaps, the most special and sensible job within the ambient boundaries of Pablo Bolívar aka Mind Groove, having already published mixes since 1999, adding a different dimensión to the tracks released under his alias Pablo Bolívar, more oriented to Deep, house and club sounds. Therefore, the release comes together with a wonderful tale, written by X. Balboa, in which a finnish sailor plays the main character. It should be read slowly and carefully, while listening to the tracks in the album. This way, the merely musical and geographical aspects transcend towards a wider, rounder, almost perfect experience. 

‘The sailor and the mountain’ is a trip around the sound and vital bowels of Mind Groove. From the first track to the last one, the deep, spiritual and emotional character of his bet are truly noticeable. The content of the album is escapist, ambient oriented, extremely downtempo, naturalistic and truth-spreading. The eleven cuts included in the present record develop around a wild Winter-tale atmosphere .’The last dreamer’ (feat.García Smith), ‘Natikha’ and ‘Shadows’ seem –from its honest composition- to stop the time; whereas ‘Tigers come at night’ takes us to a more luminous place, which at times seems softly clubby. The slight lowness of the piano in ‘Inside you’ (feat. Pablo Bolívar) contrasts with the friendly, fragile and twilight touch of tracks such as the one naming the album, and in which Manuel Obeso has collaborated. Delightful and intimate, in any case.

Tigers come at night

Track from the album 'Something Cooking' by Groove Gecko.

Available at all wonload stores and streaming services worldwide.

Something Cooking

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Sputnik Love (long preview)

Complete soundtrack coming to Bandcamp soon. Game should be released October 2019.

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