Tracks I Like

Ambient soundtrack by Jim Graham for film by Tor Even Mathisen
http://youtu.be/PLUbP7Iy7Kk

Our tracks  can be purchased on levetemusic.com and levete.bandcamp.com
Levete™©

Wish

Here's a chill, ambient tune that I made with FL Studio for my new album.  If you want to get the whole album, check it out here:

https://joshzimmerman1.bandcamp.com/album/my-pet-cloud

The Ethereal Solver

The last musical cue in the 'Legend of Korra'. Zhonghu and erhu performed by Hong Wang.

The Legend Of Korra

TREE - #PianoDay

“TREE” is a part of a composition written for Simphonie Cinétique, a collaboration between Ólafur Arnalds and Joachim Sauter. Re-edited and mixed for release in celebration of Nils Frahm’s #PianoDay and features Nils himself on celeste.

Composed, arranged and performed by Ólafur Arnalds
Violin: Viktor Orri Árnason
Celeste: Nils Frahm

Recorded at Durton Studio, Berlin.
Mixed at E7 Studios, Reykjavik.

See more about Symphonie Cinétique here:
https://vimeo.com/70897666

TREE

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Single track from Fables, remastered for piano.

http://www.jakesidwellmusic.com/product/but-a-thread

But A Thread - Piano Version

Recorded by Capellen Orchestra, September 2011
Conducted by Petr Pololanik
Flute: Catherine Dury (recording: Romain Paillot)

Hills of Misty Winds (live recording)

Track 4 from "Retrospect" by Sam Wilfan. Out everywhere now!

Awarded "Independent Track of the Month" by String Buzz:
http://stringbuzzworld.org/articles/top-tracks-of-the-month-february-2017

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Lyrics:

I was outside counting my breaths 
Calming myself and thinking not to go back home 
I ran and ran in silent steps while 
My mind made all this sound 
"What if I could" now spinning round and round 

You've got to let it go 
"Don't let those feelings show" 
The past is never gonna change 
It will only break you 

It will only break you 
It will only break you 
It will only break you 
It will only break you 

You've got to let it go 
"Don't let those feelings show" 
The past is never gonna change 
It will only break you 

Please tell me why I just can't cry 
Tell me why I can't untie 
My ropes knotted in silence 
Afraid to face the waking day 
Fragile in your arms I pray 
Just leave me here 

It will only break you 
It will only break you 
It will only break you 
It will only break you 

Please tell me why I just can't cry (It will only break you), 
Tell me why I just can't cry (It will only break you), 
Please tell me why I just can't cry (It will only break you), 
It will only break you 

I was outside counting my breaths 
Calming myself and thinking not to go back home 
I ran and ran in silent steps while 
My mind made all this sound 
"What if I could" now spinning round and round 

"What if I could" now spinning round and round 
"What if I could" now spinning round and round 

It will only break you 
It will only break you 
It will only break you 
It will only break you

Retrospect

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Missing Moment ft. Syyvve

All Quiet was written, recorded, produced, mixed, and mastered by Caleb Caldwell.

All instruments and vocals by Caleb Caldwell, except:
Lead guitar on "Give Me Your Hand" and "The Monster" by Keegan Valentine.
Vocals on "Little Gavroche" by Noah Perkins and Kolby Birdwell.

Photography by Derek Couts Photography: derekcouts.com

The 18th Of October

Ryan Lee West aka Rival Consoles has announced his fourth full length album 'Persona' will be released on 13th April via Erased Tapes.

The title 'Persona' was inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s film of the same name, specifically a shot in the opening credits of a child reaching out to touch a woman’s face on a screen, which is shifting between one face and another. This powerful image struck Ryan and it inspired the album’s main theme — an exploration of the persona, the difference between how we see ourselves and how others see us, the spaces in between; between states, people, light and dark, the inner persona and the outer persona. 

"My music is generally is generally inward looking. I like finding something about the self within music, that doesn't have to be specific but maybe asks something or reveals something. This record is a continuation on the self through electronic sounds. Like Legowelt once said ‘a synthesiser is like a translator for unknown emotions’, which I think sums up what I am trying to do. I think all these emotions we have make up our persona. So in a way by finding new ones you alter or expand your persona. And that is what I want my music to try to do. I deliberately aimed to be more sonically diverse with this record. I wanted to experiment more. I wanted to create new sounds and new emotions.”

Recorded at his studio in south-east London, ‘Persona’ benefits from Ryan’s exploration of a dynamic production process that combines analogue-heavy synthesisers, acoustic and electric instruments with a shoegaze-level obsession with effect pedals. A greater depth of emotion and confidence can be heard across the album. From the deconstructed movements on ‘Unfolding’ that starts the album with a snap of delayed snares, the apocalyptic drones of the title track and thundering drums in ‘Phantom Grip’ to more  restrained ambient feels of ‘Dreamer’s Wake’, ‘Rest’ and ‘Untravel’. The latter transverses six beatless minutes of undulating melodies representing “a limbo space, a feeling of ennui, of not really ever being known to others and others not ever really being known to you”.

'Be Kind' reveals a musical connection with fellow Erased Tapes artist Nils Frahm, with its minimal approach and improvisational nature. On the more complex sounding ‘I Think So’ Ryan aims to replicate a colour collage with sound. Like a musical kaleidoscope, a flashing and convoluted mass. Written after he saw Slowdive perform live last year, ‘Hidden’ builds from whispers to landscapes of controlled noise. In an interview with XLR8R magazine, Ryan explains: “once you start trying to make a sound loud, then you turn your back on thousands and thousands of sonic possibilities. One of the best things to do is to start a track with a really quiet, weak sound.” Taking this idea to its ultimate conclusion, ‘Fragment’ closes the album as an innocent sounding ambient piece, almost nursery rhyme like, yielding time for reflection on how the persona has changed.

'Persona' follows the success of a series of releases — the ‘Odyssey’ and ‘Sonne’ EPs, long player ‘Howl’, and 2016’s mini album ‘Night Melody’ — that saw Ryan mature into what Pitchfork has called a “forward-thinking electronic musician with his own ideas about sound”. Atypical of instrumental-electronic music, Ryan has achieved a signature sound that’s unmistakably identifiable as Rival Consoles. Going beyond typical electronic music production, Ryan defines it as “songwriting with an electronic palette of sounds”.

The increasingly dynamic live audio-visual show, born from bespoke performances at the Tate and for Boiler Room at the V&A Museum featuring self-programmed visuals in Max/MSP, has propelled him to play around the world. Ryan launches ‘Persona’ at London’s XOYO on 12th April with further dates to be announced.

Persona

Unfolding

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Rival Consoles - Unfolding

Discover the music of the film "Wrapped" composed for the 2019 Berlin International Film Scoring Competition, of which I won the 1st prize.

link of the film : https://vimeo.com/320456129

Découvrez la musique du film "Wrapped" composée pour la Berlin International Film Scoring Competition 2019 dont j'ai remporté le 1e prix.

Lien sur le film : https://vimeo.com/320456129

BIFSC 2019 - 1st Prize Winner - Wrapped

Singer-Songwriter, Producer, and Dreamer.

But A Thread - Piano Version

Jake Sidwell

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