from 'S/t' [CD|2xLP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den157
available on all formats at http://www.denovali.com/thealvaretensemble

The Alvaret Ensemble

The Alvaret Ensemble - Ond

limited edition colored vinyl via Temporary Residence Ltd. and Bella Union, as well as digital outlets (also featuring remixes from The Field and A Winged Victory For The Sullen)

Springworlds (Leyland Kirby Remix)

from 'III' [CD|2xLP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den246
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/bersarinquartett]

Melancholia. Longing. It is difficult to speak about these moods or states of the mind without invoking stereotypes. In ancient medicine, melancholia was considered to be one of the four temperaments, matching the four humours. In fact, melancholia, meaning "black bile" in Ancient Greek, was thought to be caused by an excess of this very body substance. By contrast, in more modern interpretations, literates and Freudians relate many variations of longing to the one primordial longing, the desire to return to one's mother's womb. In this context, the womb is considered to be the place of absolute comfort and cosiness, of total bliss. Thus it should not be surprising that to many of us melancholia is a mood which we like to invoke and to maintain, we like to envelop ourselves in it like in a warm blanket. Our brain and our sensory systems appear to be made for perceiving and emotionally responding to music in a very immediate fashion. Consequently music is the obvious drug for all of us melancholia-addicts. However, there is a thin line between melancholia and sadness, and music which is meant to be melancholic too often crosses this line by far. Only very few artists succeed in avoiding this crossing, and in creating music which is melancholia in its most pure form. It is safe to say that BERSARIN QUARTETT - the electronic music project of Thomas Bücker - is one of them.

After his successfull selftitled debut in 2008 and the sophomore "II" in 2012 - album of the month in many magazines and in numerous "Best of the year" lists - Bücker returns with his third BERSARIN QUARTETT album "III", due for release 6.11.2015 on Denovali Records. Much like his two predecessors, III is a pure paradox. It is the creation of a perfectionist, an adamant control freak. Every element, be it a note, an ambience layer, a string arrangement, a field recording, a baseline, a vocal (Clara Hill on Track 11) or a beat, is meticulously modified and then assigned its place in Bücker's vast but still minimalistic arrangements. Thus, superficially Bücker's pieces seem to radiate a certain mechanical bleakness. However, there is a unique reduced warmth and liveliness emerging from these stainless compositions and transcending them. This transcendence is precisely the point where Bücker ironically looses control over his creations. In contrast to the first two BERSARIN QUARTETT albums, III offers a few darker shades and succeeds even further in narrowing down the arrangements to the absolute essentials without loosing the characteristic grandeur of Bücker's sound. Whereas BERSARIN QUARTETT's debut was merely a description of melancholia in its most pure form, III maybe even goes as far a defining what melancholia really is. It is the only emotion in the vast spectrum of human states of mind which one can bear forever. 

Bersarin Quartett - Sanft verblassen die Geschichten

Fifth track of Manos Milonakis's remix release "Sólfar Reworked" by:

Ed Carlsen (www.edcarlsenmusic.com , @edcarlsen) : 

Ed Carlsen is an Italian-born composer/producer based in Copenhagen. He has been making music for 20+ years, first through classical piano lessons in his early childhood and subsequently as a guitarist interested 
in rock, reggae, prog and classical. He studied the guitar at CPM Milano. Seeking to marry his musical knowledge with production techniques, Carlsen pursued studies in Music Technology at the London College of Music. There he gained an interest in sound design and making music for film and visual media. After a long break from playing, in 2015 he once again took up the piano, but with a different approach: rather than learning through the study of other artists, he set to further his development through writing his own songs. This, combined with his newfound interests in sound design, led to his vision for The Journey Tapes.

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Celebrating Record Store Day and given the occasion of Sólfar EP’s 1st anniversary, Manos Milonakis invites friends, composers and producers to rethink-reimagine its’ 5 tracks. Sólfar EP was Manos’s second solo release, after Your Hand in Mine, which he recorded in Iceland with contribution of local musicians.

The 5 pieces of Sólfar EP have been reworked by:
Steve Gibbs, Fragile Balloon, Luke Howard, Hior Chronik, Ed Carlsen.

Sólfar Reworked is out worldwide on 22/04/2017, Record Store Day 2017, in limited handmade CD edition and digital.

You can find it at:
Thessaloniki: Lotus, Noise, Stereodisc
Athens: Underflow
Worldwide: www.manosmilonakismusic.com
Digital release: https://manosmilonakismusic.bandcamp.com

Sólfar Reworked

Sólfar (Ed Carlsen Rework)

Artist : James Maloney
Track : Blink
Album : Gaslight

CD/Digital : http://bit.ly/2rARDgO
Spotify : http://spoti.fi/2tOSPSi
iTunes : http://apple.co/2uRjD1b

All music by James Maloney
Mastered by Tim Debney

Gaslight

CD/DL

James Maloney - Blink

"In the end, the sea always wins."

From the upcoming album, “Costero”, out November 17 on Hammock Music. Stream on Spotify or Pre Order album via bandcamp / itunes and get immediate download of this track:

https://slowmeadow.bandcamp.com/
https://open.spotify.com/album/4U5yx0...
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/cos...

A film by Gabriela Hansen on you tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ics7ZfPL2fs&t=165s
http://www.gabrielahansen.com/

Costero

Lamellophone and the Gulf of Mexico

Purchase

Lamellophone And The Gulf Of Mexico

OFFICIAL VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWMbeySRIXg

This is the fourth and final track from my new album Notes On Belonging coming out on 27th October 2017! This track is the place where I find space and meaning in the form of repetition of three notes. It explores the notion of belonging to a place, physically and spiritually, and a sense of journeying to a place called home. It's both tinged with joy and a sense of longing, of nearly being there but not quite yet. The track explores a sort of counterpoint, where instruments go in and out of phase to emphasise this nearness of things. They delicately tow the line of independent improvisation to colliding in pattern, most noticeable at the end of the track. I wanted to explore themes of indiviuality and freedom in the piece with the hope that inevitably we'd join forces at times.  Buy the CD version of this album here: http://tinyleaves.bandcamp.com/album/notes-on-belonging-2
Joel Pike - Piano, Guitar, Glockenspiel
Faith Brackenbury - Violin

Notes On Belonging

Cynefin

From the album "Eingya" | CD, MP3 and Flac available at http://unseen.bigcartel.com/

Helios - Bless This Morning Year

Chapters

Abitibi: From Algonquin " halfway across river " 

You can download the track in HQ on bandcamp: https://wingsforlouise.bandcamp.com

Support Wings for Louise: 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wingsforlouise/

Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2MweB42

Youtube: https://bit.ly/2Wlonun

Abitibi

From the new EP  'Rest' out on 'Brian Records'. 

Lovingly mastered by Taylor Deupree. 

Bless Those Tired Eyes

Inventions is Mark T. Smith and Matthew Cooper.