ambient soundz..... part one

'CS92' taken from the forthcoming album by TKB.

Artist : TKB
Title : CS92
Cat : WTNCD03
Format : Limited, hand stamped & stickered CD / Digital
Release Date : 20.01.23

Mastered by Rupert Clervaux
Sleeve design by Liam Cosford

“It seems unlikely that Where To Now Records would want to release something made in a shack on a river conservation property outside Melbourne Victoria. I've attempted to make the music that I hear in the dance clubs I dream about. I've never really been to a dance club.. but I'm trying to be sophisticated.”

Club music reimagined in an off grid Australian floodplain, of course this is something we’d want to release. Thankfully the accompanying music to the above sentence submitted by Timothy Brown aka TKB is every bit as intriguing as you might hope. ‘Dream Nightclub’ is a truly downbeat and dubbed journey through murky and swamped fourth world bass ambience, and longing, freeform minimal electronics.

TKB’s drum programming throughout is primitive, minimal, and unnervingly off kilter - shuffling its way through a world which waits… There’s a palpable sense of spirituality lurking low level below Timothy’s electronic works, where ambient scapes move from the deeply minimal, to the lush sublime, to the dense and agitated seamlessly, all underpinned with this submerged experimentalism - conversing with the still oddities which lurk the swamps and plains that consume Timothy’s day to day.

“The floodplain below my house is full at the moment. It's serene with the mountains behind, but as soon as you step outside the air is throbbing with the sound of frogs…”

Seeming to draw influence from the minimal pulse of Jan Jelinek, the fourth world ambience of Jon Hassel, and the open Dub experimentalism of Early On-U-Sound acts like The Missing Brazilians and African Head Charge, TKB has channeled these experimental strands into something truly dreamlike - a submerged trip which is shrouded in a dense fog…

TKB 'CS92'

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A fusion of Asian traditional instruments and modern instruments. Lofi-ish with an RnB vibe and distortion guitar.

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Full quality - https://scrasemusic.bandcamp.com/track/sh-101-mega-process

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The main idea behind this mix was to create a soothing, positive sonic landscape to help me clear my mind. The mix avoids going into abstract or darker territories, and in my opinion has a rather friendly vibe to it.

It seemed like a good idea to share this with my Soundcloud friends. Please enjoy.

Peter Van Hoesen - Prismatic Wish - An Ambient Mix

"How To Swallow A Sword"

4. HOW TO SWALLOW A SWORD

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FUJI||||||||||TA, iki, LP

Release date - April 3th 2020
Catalogue nr. - HG2003
Format - Ltd. Vinyl/digital

https://hallowground.bandcamp.com

Credits:
All music composed, played and Recorded by FUJI|||||||||||TA
Mixed by Makoto Oshiro
Mastering by Lawrence English at Negative Space

Tracklist:
1) keshiki (09:42)
2) nNami (09:20)
3) osoi (10:12)
4) sukima (07:03)

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"FUJI|||||||||||TA has created a work that operates as a beautiful nexus between the material and immaterial qualities of music. 
It is a lived-in dreamscape of deep, rich tonality. A remarkable debut."
(Lawrence English)

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FUJI||||||||||TA, real name FUJITA Yosuke, is a Japanese sound artist. After countless performances in different contexts either solo or along artists such as Yamantaka Eye of Boredoms and the legendary avant-gardist SUZUKI Akio as well as a slew of solo releases, his LP »iki« (»breath«) for the Swiss-based Hallow Ground label is his first in nine years. On these four pieces, Fujita explores the idiosyncratic sound qualities of the pipe organ he has built all by himself in 2009. This - quite literally unique - instrument features only eleven pipes, an air pump called »fuigo« which was modelled after a traditional blacksmith’s one and has no keyboard. Inspired by traditional gagaku, it was designed to evoke rich landscapes rather function as just another musical instrument. While his previous records saw FUJI||||||||||TA explore various modes of abstraction, »iki« is a highly emotive yet meditative album, musically restrained but full of imagination.

»keshiki« immediately sets the mood for this record with a long sustained note that is punctuated by the soft clicking of Fujita’s air pump. Once Fujita carefully starts bringing melodies into play, the interplay of the drone and the discrete rhythmic element gives way to a fuller harmonic whole. »keshiki« is an intimate piece that perfectly displays the artist’s knack for painting a rich sonic picture with only a reduced palette. »nNami« juxtaposes the sounds of two pipes that are out of tune with each other, creating a hypnotic sensation of ebb and flow (»nami« translates to »wave«) that is full of subtle friction. It’s a staggering artistic interpretation of the instrument’s material characteristics. Clocking in at ten minutes, »osoi« (»slow«) is an overall melancholic piece that explores the relationship between different tone colours through minute changes in pace. Finally, »sukima« (»blank space«) is the shortest and the most rhythmic piece of the four. Composed of only staccati, it is a masterful exploration of the harmonic qualities Fujita’s stunning pipe organ has to offer.

Recorded between September and December of 2019, »iki« marks the culmination of FUJI||||||||||TA’s ten-year-long work with the instrument that he had built without any prior knowledge and started to teach himself to play without a manual in sight. It is, in other words, the unique result of a unique musical mind paying his dues to the uniqueness of his own creation; introspective and welcoming at once.

FUJI||||||||||TA - osoi (HG2003)

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We're happy to present this Interflow recorded by NY based Maxime Robillard (@askloveletters) who  produces and DJ under the moniker Love Letters and host an ambient event series called Hypnotic Spa. We highly recommend you to check out some of the mixes through @hypnoticspa 
Enjoy listening

Tracklist:
Patrick Cowley - Bore & Stroke
Views - Found
Molly Nilsson - Some Need Powder
Ana Roxanne - It’s A Rainy Day On The Cosmic
Milan W. - Float
Sugai Ken - Mayorga
Nick Malkin - Into the Light
Ambienti Coassiali - Stanza 1
Vito Ricci - It Tolls for Thee
Beat Happening - Ask Me
Humberto Polar - Fieles
Jun Fukamachi - Untitled
Klara Kormendi - Mouvement De Menuet (Maurice Ravel)
Portishead - Deep Water
CYD - Not So Shallow
Nehoki - Italien
Les Deux Filles - Piroette
Dots - Seaweed
La Funk Mob - Ravers Suck Our Sound & Get Fuck

Interflow | Maxime Robillard // March 2020

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album entirely composed using a single online free software synthesizer - converting images into audio

** the recording is correct at the time of publishing + is expected to contain a large volume of audible latency, noise cutoff, crackle + static.

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Tender Hold (A Loss Of Vision in Computer Times)

Slices In The Park (Pizza Interlude)

if you could open a box to the spirit world, would you do it?

released via Awesome Agency's compilation, Awesome Aid:
https://awesomeagency.bandcamp.com/album/awesome-aid

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Vinyl Edition available now via Second Thoughts Records:
https://secondthoughtsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-turntable-guitars-sampled-instruments

Recorded and produced by Chuck Blazevic, Summer 2017 - Fall 2019.
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu at Schwebung Mastering.
Graphic Design by Simone at Studio-Noi.
Co-released by Second Thoughts Records and Reliable Effects

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