A selection of ambient, modern classical, and electroacoustic works for Autumn 2020 (closed Nov 24).

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Field Journal Companion - Autumn 2020

VOLUTES - Injazero Records - October 16th 2020

Contemporary Album of the Month in the Guardian

"Performing on the eerie ondes Martenot alongside strings and piano, Christine Ott takes us deep into the uncanny valley."

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/oct/02/snowdrops-volutes-review-ondes-martenot-christine-ott

Snowdrops - Volutes

Music for Yoga

snowdrops trapezian fields

for work

ambient

Wandering

Christine Ott Works

.: 528hz – The Healing Frequency for DNA repair :.

**UPDATE** - Please see recent research on 528hz: 
https://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?paperID=87146
"Effect of 528 Hz Music on the Endocrine System and Autonomic Nervous System"

There is a special sound and color of love according to Dr. Horowitz, a Harvard-trained award-winning investigator. Broadcasting the right frequency can help open your heart, prompt peace, and hasten healing. “We now know the love signal, 528 Hertz, is among the six core creative frequencies of the universe because math doesn’t lie, the geometry of physical reality universally reflects this music; these findings have been independently derived, peer reviewed, and empirically validated,” Dr. Horowitz says.

The third note, frequency 528, relates to the note MI on the scale and derives from the phrase “MI-ra gestorum” in Latin meaning “miracle.” Stunningly, this is the exact frequency used by genetic biochemists to repair broken DNA – the genetic blueprint upon which life is based! MI – 528 Hz – relates to crown chakra. Dr Puleo suggests an association with DNA integrity.

The regular “C” that we all know of in this culture (which is from the diatonic scale of do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do) is not the 528 Hz frequency “C.

A regular “C” vibrates at a frequency of 523.3 Hz.

The “C” of 528 Hz used for DNA repair is part of an ancient scale called the Solfeggio Scale.

http://www.528hz.ca

528hz - The DNA Healing Love Frequency (Tuning Fork)

After releasing Nils Frahm’s two-track solo synthesiser EP ‘Juno’ in a highly sought after 7” edition, Erased Tapes now re-release the original Juno tracks with guest reworks by Border Community's modular synth wizard Luke Abbott and Warp veteran Clark. Both known for their like-minded use of analogue synthesisers in their music, it makes them the perfect artists to rework the originals. Similar to Frahm’s online project ‘Screws Reworked’, where he invited fans to download his solo piano songs to reinterpret them with their own medium of choice, it’s far from being the typical remix EP. Aptly titled ‘Juno Reworked’, it will be released worldwide in the form of a limited 12" Vinyl and Download.

ORDER HERE: www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP049

LIVE DATES:

10.07. LEEDS (UK) – Opera North Howard Assembly Room
11.07. LONDON (UK) – St. John at Hackney 
25.08. AMSTERDAM (NL) - Grachtenfestival
26.09. SEATTLE (US) – Decibel Festival 
06.10. ESSEN (DE) – Swingfest – Weststadthalle
13.11. BORGERHOUT (BE) – De Roma 
14.11. LEUVEN (BE) – 30CC – Schouwburg
15.11. HASSELT (BE) – Cultuurcentrum
16.11. ROESELARE (BE) – De Spil tickets

OFFICIAL WEBSITES:

nilsfrahm.com · lukeabbottmusic.com · facebook.com/throttleclark · erasedtapes.com

Juno

Juno Reworked

Buy 12"/DL

Nils Frahm - For

ALWAYS A FREE DOWNLOAD!! Please let us know how you feel! UPDATE: SC has a 1000 download limit which we have reached on this track. If you wish to have this track for free, please message us, we would be happy to email it to you or provide you with a link to download free.

Open your heart to the love song of the Universe...
Played by Haley Love and Shylo Love on a keyboard re-tuned to the Ancient Solfeggio Frequencies, (we used a method where high C is 528hz) this song is used for opening, healing and balancing the Heart Chakra.  Our intentions open to divine perfection... for the best possible outcome to be manifested for each listener. The music was played in the key of F, though not preplanned, we asked the all knowing Universe for healing music for the Heart.... then allowed this to flow out through our hands and hearts. Actual recordings of tuning forks in the frequencies of 528 hz and 639 hz play throughout the song along with the OM frequency of 136.1 hz. 

Visualize the colour green and focus on the center of your chest glowing with green light. Feel the love energy flowing into your heart chakra, rotating around and through it, then emanating out in green light rays. Healing your heart center and balancing your connections and relationships. Hear the wind blowing around you and breathe deeply and slowly as the element of the Heart Chakra is Air..after being immersed in the airy love energy yourself and feeling your heart open wide... send this infinite unconditional love energy out into the Earth and Universe, visualize everything and everyone being bathed in a blissful green light breeze.... 

Find coherence of Heart-Mind and chant AHHHH while breathing through your heart and create a powerful field of healing and vibratory resonance with your electromagnetic power generator... your heart! Over 5000x powerful at emitting frequencies then your busy brain.... breathe through your heart... feel the love for someone, something... feel the love for yourself, feel your chest warm and emanate bliss....your heart-mind is pure... genuine... true and all allowing.

Free Chakra Meditation Guide: http://soundlovealchemy.ca/chakra-balancing-meditation/

Special thanks to Patrice Sauve aka JoyOne for being an integral part of the creation of this song.

4th Chakra - Green Open Heart Bliss 528hz & 639hz - REMASTERED

Ground yourself into earths electromagnetic energy field... send your energetic roots deep into the soil, the rock the core of our planet and feel her resonance ring throughout your being.  Harmonize your frequency with that of our mother... our  benefactor of mineral, water, air, plant, animal... all life existing within our vibrational sphere... Focus on red light enveloping your lower body as a womb from Gaia earth... feel the light glow the perinium base chakra and the warm embrace of life.  Grounding OM 136.1hz throughout eases ones vibration back to OM base from wherever it wanders....  Feel your feet firmly on the ground, hear and connect to the life of all things everywhere thriving and balanced, feel the earth shifting, as you shift... into your natural vibratory state of harmonious bliss.

Free Chakra Meditation Guide: http://soundlovealchemy.ca/chakra-balancing-meditation/

1st Chakra - Red Earth Rooted Harmony 396hz - REMASTERED

from 'Tiento de la Luz' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den249
available in February on all format at [http://denovali.com/thomaskoner]

Tiento de la Luz

Thomas Köner - Tiento De La Luz 5

Batu Ozer - Pinus

Purl / Evighet

Carved hollow by the sorrow of seeking 
The heart became a chamber of resonance 
A descent deep into memories revealed 
That attempts to control are but remnants from a dream 
A wound with no identity 
Underneath, nothing was forever free 
And what never began 
Will never end

released April 18, 2016 

Music and words by Ludvig Cimbrelius 

Cover photo by Brian Young

Evighet

Montauk

@armandoletico

What a year! 

We met so many great artists, made a bunch of new friends and had one heck of a summer. 
Watching this community grow bigger made us want to create an appropriate picture of the things that already sprung from it and also of things to come. 

Trying to condense all the creativity that came to life during the past few months, we put together something that reflects our journey and features as many of the directions we're headed in as possible. 

♥ Thank you all for the love and support so far ♥ 

Teil 2 is coming soon!

Mastering by Gianni Competiello (@arutani) 

Artwork by Lucía Paz (www.luciapaz.com.ar) and Jannick Bahl

VAgabunden Teil 1

Bandcamp

Armando Letico — A Sailor's Odyssey

Taken from the soundtrack to 'Tabu'. 
Released via Gizeh Records on December 16th 2016.
http://www.christineott.fr/disques.html

The live soundtrack "Tabu, a story of the south seas",
created in 2012 on the movie by F.W. Murnau & Robert Flaherty
All tracks composed & performed by Christine Ott
with Torsten Böttcher on 2, 6 & 9
Christine Ott : Piano, Ondes Martenot, Percussions
Torsten Böttcher : Hang
 
• • •

1. First Chapter - Paradise
2. Reri
3. Consolation
4. Course Vers La Mer
5. Hitu, La Grande Montagne
6. Sorrow / Lover's Dance
7. The Warning
8. Paradise Lost
9. Oriental Dance
10. Mandat d'Arrêt / La Perle
11. Hitu's Appearance
12. Cursed Lagoon
13. Hitu's Shadow
14. Le Sourire de Matahi / Consolation (Var. I)
15. Comptoir Chinois
16. Consolation (Variation II)
17. Rêve & Perle Noire
18. Tempête / The Tabu 

• • •
 
Christine Ott is giving us, with this new album, her first inspiration to the screen - spontaneous and sometimes fragile. There is indeed a secret link which joins together Reri, daughter of the water, to Christine, sister of the Ondes Martenot. In these pure moments when Ott’s piano becomes a waterfall, a river, an ocean. In these heartbreaking moments when the composer, without ever over-playing manages to simply let go, thanks to a very mysterious and fascinating instrument, the tears that the audience may not always dare to have. [Thierry Méranger, Les Cahiers du Cinéma]

Hitu, La Grande Montagne

We are living in turbulent times at the moment and when Steffen send us this beautiful track he mentioned that he thought of peace on earth while creating it. His aim is to create peace in our hearts for the 6:51 minutes that the track lasts and we believe he succeeded in that. We already enjoyed the track for two weeks now and whenever we listened to it, it had a very calming effect on us and functioned as a little oasis of peace on a stressful day. We hope it can do the same for you. 100% of the revenue from this track gets donated to www.love-foundation.org and you can download it for a voluntary amount here: https://steffenkirchhoffmedicinemusic.bandcamp.com/track/peace-on-earth

Steffen Kirchhoff - Peace On Earth

We're thrilled to share with you some fresh melodies from our very own Daigo Hanada. Following up on acclaimed 'Ichiru' solo album, Hanada returns with a stunning piano led rework of Matt Emery's 'Empire' album title track - out now : https://moderna.fanlink.to/empire-rework

Matt Emery - Empire (Daigo Hanada Rework)
Original song composed by Matt Emery / Recomposed by Daigo Hanada
Piano & additional production by Daigo Hanada

Full Credits:
Original song composed by Matt Emery 
Recomposed by Daigo Hanada 
Piano & additional production by Daigo Hanada 
Mastered by Ian Hawgood 

Cover art by Tyler Hobbs. Design by Pelin Morris.

Matt Emery 'Empire' original song was released September 15th on Injazero Records : http://bit.ly/2fmOZr4

Stream/DL

Matt Emery - Empire (Daigo Hanada Rework)

TAKEN FROM THE ALBUM 'ONLY SILENCE REMAINS'
RELEASED 20.05.16 via GIZEH RECORDS
LP/CD/DL
www.christineott.fr

Only Silence Remains

Danse Avec La Neige

Select your favorite platform:  https://ampl.ink/wPq9o 
Unity, is an emotionally evocative collection that moves the listener through moments that exalt the senses. Through cyclical and minimalist sound, the composer creates visceral experiences that are both ethereal and hauntingly beautiful.
All songs written and recorded by Bruno Sanfilippo at Onix II Studio, Barcelona, Spain
Analog Mastered on a classic SSL desk and Studer A80 reel-to-reel by Ian Hawgood, Warsaw, Poland
www.bruno-sanfilippo.com

Unity

Select your platform

This is a recording of the track 'A Shared Sudden Sun' that is coming out on Hibernate Records early next year. Jonathan Lees from Hibernate played this on the Hibernate show on Resonance Extra aired on the 22nd of October 2018. This is a recording of the show. 

You can also hear the whole show here - 

https://www.mixcloud.com/resonanceextra/hibernate-8-monday-22nd-october-2018/

'A Shared Sudden Sun' - from 'Southern Points' due on Hibernate Records Feb 2019

"Mej" mean fog in Kurdish ! 

The release will be a full digipack with contributions from the following artists:

1. Hakobune 2. Porya Hatami 3. Darren Harper 4. A Bleeding Star 5. Celer 6. Chihei Hatakeyama 7. Tomoyoshi Date

A full seven art cards will also be attached to the release and will be limited to 90 copies for the world. A special edition of 18 copies with a small additional poster, which will be released on the morning of it's actual release date, will also be available.


Porya Hatami - Mej - Taken from F O G B O U N D release on Somehow Recordings

First full length album by Purl. Music made between 2000 and 2005, inspired by the book 'Il Barone Rampante' by Italo Calvino. Originally released as a free download by Eter Records in 2010, now available for free on http://eternell.bandcamp.com/ (200 free downloads / month)

Ombrosa I | free download of Purl's first album 'Cosimo di Rondò'

CHRISTINE OTT 
 Chimères (pour Ondes Martenot)  
LP NAHAL008

PRE-ORDER VINYL / CD
-> https://bigwax.io/collections/nahal-recordings/products/chimeres-pour-ondes-martenot

PRE-ORDER DIGITAL
-> https://nahalrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/chime-res-pour-ondes-martenot

In this unprecedented album, entirely conceived using only the legendary instrument Ondes Martenot, the composer Christine Ott tells a cosmic journey with cinematographic colours, which rubs shoulders with electronic stars and caresses incandescent planets. A sonic and sensual magma produced by Paul Régimbeau (Mondkopf) & Frédéric D. Oberland (Oiseaux-Tempête), radiant, as if weightless.

℗ & © NAHAL Recordings
 Cat.no.NAHAL008 - all rights reserved  
Format: LP Vinyl / Digital
Release Date:   May 22nd 2020

All music composed & performed on Ondes Martenot Dierstein by Christine Ott  
Effects and live processing by Frédéric D. Oberland & Paul Régimbeau   
Recorded & mixed by Romain Poirier at Mer Noir, Paris, between Winter 2018 and Autumn 2019  
Edited, arranged & produced by Paul Régimbeau  & Frédéric D. Oberland 
Mastered by James Plotkin  
Original chemigrams artwork by Fanny Béguély  
Graphic design by Thibault Proux 

Special thanks to Jean-Loup Dierstein, Mathieu Gabry, Loraine Bouchet, Alice Butterlin, Renaud de Foville, Julie Gamberoni.

_____________________________________________________________

PR: alice.nahalrecordings@gmail.com 
LABEL: nahalrecordings@gmail.com

Christine Ott - Darkstar [NAHAL Recordings]

Pétra - Landes (Nico Niquo Remix)

Move energy through your sacral chakra (just below the belly button) focus on Orange light glowing pulsating rhythimically with the beat of life and love ... reflect on your connections, sensuality, sexualtiy and relationships... all is forgiven, allowed to flow, accepted, released... all is love...all moves in unison with the rhythm of life...flowing waters, sun set... reflecing myrads of orange onto the surface... emanating from your belly... orange life energy.

Meditation Guide: http://soundlovealchemy.ca/chakra-balancing-meditation/

May you Love and be Loved..

2nd Chakra - Orange Sensual Sacral Flows 417hz -  REMASTERED

Move energy through your solar plexus chakra with 528hz (MI - Miracle frequency)... feel your power base, understand your infinite possibility... focus on Golden yellow light a burning flame of self mastery and heart-driven direction... You are infinite, electromagnetically powerful, your golden yellow solar plexus light is like a laser holding your intentions and sending them out into the field of possibilities. This is where clear decisions come from, where action energy originates and manifests.  Open up your potential to realize your choices with firey, unapologetic confidence in your connection to divine knowing and direction. Realize goals, complete tasks, direct energy into your optimum path through letting go of what you think ... and allowing the divine fire of what your "gut" knows... to flow.  It's good to be you... you are perfect, whole and complete as you are....

Free Chakra Meditation Guide: http://soundlovealchemy.ca/chakra-balancing-meditation/

3rd Chakra - Golden Sonic Solar Flame 528hz - REMASTERED

OST by Richard Luke for 'In the Company of Insects' a short film by Duncan Cowles. 
Watch the film: https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2020/08/18/in-the-company-of-insects 
Prompted by the death of his grandfather, a filmmaker comes to terms with his feelings of loss by focussing on something smaller. Soundtrack released on 28 August via Highpony.

http://www.richardluke.co.uk
http://www.duncancowles.com

In The Company Of Insects (part III)

"Emmeck" is taken from "In Sight", F.S.Blumm´s first solo album for Sonic Pieces. Handmade LP and CD editions available from August 28th.

In sight

In Sight

F.S.Blumm - Emmeck

Buy/listen: https://christophertignor.bandcamp.com/track/ode-to-joy

Christopher Tignor - "Ode to Joy"

One of the earliest tracks written for this album. Different piano parts
fight against each other to come out on top. 
Much like in a stressful relationship, both parts are as important as the other but they fail to recognize this. A third party arrives later (in the form of synthesizer & organ) to bring unity to both parts and introduce a sense of peaceful harmony.

This all inevitably comes to somewhat of an abrupt ending, fading out
leaving the listener to wonder what’s going to happen next.

Photo by Shane Vaughan

How To Disappear

When Away

When Away [How To Disappear]

Snowdrops - Trapezian Fields

"The combination of strings, Ondes and Mellotron never sounds less than otherworldly. The duo’s name, rightly, paints a picture of wintry splendour and remote, icy expanses." - The Quietus

"On Volutes, like any other spiral form that is defined by the term, so do the duo form tonal spirals of piano and string instruments, including ondes Martenot sometimes embellished by subdued electronics, sometimes left on their own. In either case, the effect is quite mesmerizing and inspiring." - Echoes and Dust

Volutes

Snowdrops - Ultraviolet

Yes, I know that I had just had an exclusive track premiere a day ago, but I've got another one for you, kids, and this one is worth celebrating! As you have already read in the title of this writeup, today, I am sharing a track by Sebastian Plano and Maarten Vos who have paired for a self-release they simply titled "&." Although I can already see how the title will bring the duo unforeseen trouble [electronic media unfriendly to ampersands or HTML escape codes will struggle with the name!], the music will bring trouble to your unprotected heart, piercing its walls with the emotive, sensitive, and poignant. Argentinian cellist, composer, and producer, Sebastian Plano, is, of course, no stranger to my ears. I was very much impressed with his collaboration on Everything (Erased Tapes, 2017) with Ben Lukas Boysen; and mesmerized with his Merkury KX release of Verve in 2019. Dutch Maarten Vos is also a cellist, composer, and producer, whom I have only heard of via his collaboration with Michel Banabila on Home (Tapu, 2017). For their collaborative debut, the duo put together seven pieces after a week-long recording session, "which transcends from cello duos to counterposed piano melodies, synthesizers, and electronics." This beautifully stammering piece resolves into a liquid bliss.

Dense & Density

TRACK PREMIERE : Sebastian Plano & Maarten Vos - Dense & Density

So pleased to share Promise / Sleepy Meadows, a new double single for solo piano by Finnish composer @julia_andersson

You can give this reflective pair of pieces a listen wherever you stream music: orcd.co/promise
 
"...like the winds of reassuring words, whispered in your ear by someone waiting patiently at your side..."

Promise / Sleepy Meadows

Promise

Download

Julia Andersson - Promise

French composer and multi-instrumentalist Christine Ott returns to Gizeh Records for her fourth album ‘Time to Die’, the sequel to the highly regarded ‘Only Silence Remains’ (2016).

‘Time To Die’ is a musical fresco in eight chapters, a sensory journey between the world of the living and the dead, for which the musician weaves a unique dramaturgy between contemporary classical and electro-acoustic music.

The title track picks up the story where ‘Only Silence Remains’ left off ... Like it’s centrepiece; ‘Disaster’, the beloved cinematic text here is read by Casey Brown. Ott seeks to offer strong sensations, without artifice, whether by the power of her compositions on the piano (‘Brumes’, ‘Horizons Fauves’), or by intuitive arrangements mixing her unique practice of Ondes Martenot with a maelstrom of Jupiter8, Monotrons, Timpani and Tubular Bells as on the first track. In addition, Ott captivates us with her harp playing on ‘Chasing Harp’, by her aerial singing on ‘Landscape’, or even on the airwaves on ‘Comma Opening’, which ends a triptych of songs after the versions published on ‘Chimères (pour Ondes Martenot)’ (NAHAL 2020) and on ‘Volutes’ from her side-project Snowdrops (Injazero 2020). These two previous records have been praised by critics, especially in the best records of the year according to The Guardian.

This expressive and spontaneous impetus, leitmotif in her musical production, takes a new form within ‘Time to Die’. Through the notes disseminated in an endlessly reinvented minimalist heritage, the interpretation is the ultimate musical glue allowing the pieces to come to life, thereby making this repertoire and its composer-performer unique. A universe where music - despite the album's title - never dies.

We finally share these few words from the talented American musician and videographer Fredo Viola, with whom Christine has forged long-distance correspondence since the first lockdown. Listening to the record, he wrote her these few words, which he allows us to share here:

"Stunning, terrifying, magnetic, delicate, painful and uncanny... It’s like discovering a bizarre object hanging very low in the sky, something beautiful but unfathomable, just out of reach. The way I see the album is as a series of quite cinematic meditations on the theme of death and dying, changing prismatically, up to that incredibly delicate and beautiful conclusion.” Fredo Viola

PRESSING NOTES
50 — Blue Vinyl + CD - Deluxe edition. Gizeh Store Exclusive. Includes the sheet music for the track 'Miroirs' housed inside a hand-numbered, silkscreened card folder with additional texts from Christine Ott. Heavyweight card sleeve with poly-lined paper inner.

200 — Blue Vinyl - Heavyweight card sleeve with poly-lined paper inner.

CD — Housed in a six-panel digipak with additional artwork featured on the inner sleeve.

CREDITS
All music composed by Christine Ott
—
Christine Ott — Harp, Vocals, Piano, Ondes Martenot, Jupiter8, Percussions, Timpani, Tubular bells, Monotron, Vibraphone / Mathieu Gabry — Mellotron, Keyboards, Vibraphone, Effects, Processing and Arrangements on 1,4,5,8 / Casey Brown — Spoken Voice on 1
—
Recorded in Serpentine Studio Strasbourg, Conservatoire de Strasbourg & Musée Würth Erstein from 2012 to 2019 / Mixed by Benoit Burger in Spring 2020 / Mastered by Lawrence English / Artwork by Renaud Allirand / Layout by Richard Knox / Limited Numbered Vinyl Edition includes the piano score of "Miroirs", transcribed by Rémi Zeller

#pianoday2021

Time to Die

Landscape

Christine Ott - Landscape

Cumbia De Piedra

An independent avant-ambient and experimental electronic label from London & Istanbul. Home to music from Hinako Omori, KMRU, Pétra, C. Diab, Steve Gibbs, Heinali, Matt Emery, Snowdrops, LTO, Tegh & Adel Poursamadi and Sinemis. 

We are unable to accept any demos at the moment, thank you for your understanding.