ambient

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Round About

There's a video for this too ... https://www.instagram.com/p/CfWUvAzAApS/

Delayed Intuitions

Very delighted to present my first collaboration with fellow ambient guitarist Ray aka Wodwo (@user-364196783-552705040), which we started and completed in July 2022 by sending recordings to and fro. Everything you hear is guitar or electric bass.

Ray also posted the tune on his profile: https://soundcloud.com/user-364196783-552705040/germ-wodwo-encym

Enjoy!

Hyphae

Germ [Wodwo & encym] Out now on Bandcamp

I had the pleasure of making this track for the Naviar Haiku challenge for the haiku below.

This was recorded in preparation for the https://soundcloud.com/naviar-records curated Naviar Haiku Fest at Cafe Oto, London, on 7 December.
More details here: https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/naviar-haiku-fest/

Music inspired by this haiku:

The spring sea:
all day long
undulating, undulating.

One of the four great haiku masters, Yosa Buson studied both Japanese and Chinese poetry. He was also an accomplished painter, and most of his poems were accompanied by paintings, resulting in a more diverse and individual set of works than the one by his main historical influence, Basho.

Haiku by Yosa Buson www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/yosa-buson

More about the Naviar Haiku: https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/

The Spring Sea [Naviarhaiku456]

Groundswell

Pathways

video on insta, portrait https://www.instagram.com/p/CmPIAVHgfqQ/

and yt, landscape https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o2YNu5a11U

muterialism

122622004 Dax Enner Cosmos Syntrx Buchla 208c

This is the closing track off of "Hyphae", a collection of tracks I made with fellow ambient guitarist Wodwo (Ray Robinson -- https://soundcloud.com/user-364196783-552705040). 

It all started with discovering each other’s work on Soundcloud and grew into a lively exchange of ideas and sketches. With both being on a quest to take the less obvious sonic route, always searching for the uncommon guitar sound, and their fondness for spacious and slightly unsettling ambient compositions, the sessions were kickstarted with the appropriately titled "Germ", which gestated into what became the first completed track of this long-distance collaboration between Munich and Derby. 

The title for the second track, "Hyphae" came to mind after reading Merlin Sheldrake’s fascinating “Entangled Life”. It seems apt to draw parallels between the massive mycorrhizal fungi hyphae networks (the "Wood Wide Web") that connect different species of plants and transport substances and information between them, and the to and fro of abstract layers of sonic matter that passed between the two musicians. 

The collection closes with "Simulacrum", probing the terrain where a bright major key tonality coalesces with a bit-crushed low-end undercurrent. And despite what your ears might lead you to believe, no keyboards or synths were used in any of this music! 

Hyphae is also available from Wodwo's Bandcamp page: rayrobinson.bandcamp.com/album/hyphae

Released January 27, 2023

Simulacrum  [Out now on "Hyphae" by Wodwo & encym]

øneheart x reidenshi - snowfall

Moored

Absolve

That's my raw acoustic guitar hiding in there somewhere.

2023

Foam

Taken from a series of ambient works from The Unloved album

Heat (Part 1)

This is a live improvisation I did on the SOMA Lyra-8 with reverb and sound effects added later.

Changing Winds

Disquiet Junto Project 0599: Minimal(ist) Blend

How the sounds were created might best be described as follows: 
- Recorded 5 polyrhythmic guitar tracks (in 3, 4, 5 and 7) live, over the entire duration of the track ~3.5 minutes
- Disguised them, only allowing each to come to the fore occasionally
- Added up-front metallic sounds, single hit percussion and a bassy pad
- Mixed those ingredients to allow different aspects to shine in turn.

Thanks @disquiet and @tobiasreber for this inspiring prompt!
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More on this 599th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Minimal(ist) Blend (The Assignment: Make a piece of music that combines self-contained minimalist parts), at: https://disquiet.com/0599/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0599-minimal-ist-blend/

Free Download

Enilpicsid [disquiet0599]

This is a one-pass guitar improv from last night, with no post-editing or mixing whatsoever. I feel the flow works really nicely so decided to post it. Enjoy!

The pic was taken in Stratford, East London, sometime before the Olympics.

Wednesday 11.44PM

The Tree Outside My Window

Track 3 from Seafaring, released May 19th 2017.
https://n5md.com/discography/254/Last-Days-Seafaring

Fading Shore

By popular demand, I made a longer version of https://soundcloud.com/encymlll/33a. 

Basically, this one takes more time developing things, discreetly adding select guitar/OBNE Dark Star sounds while keeping true to the essence of the original recording.

Featured on Resonance FM London: https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/sonic-imperfections-25th-march-2019/?fbclid=IwAR2X0iKykGsyyIofsfWA09Q43j3pjJ1oPKlrh8JZMAPC2BS-UYDx1VYsy40

Both tunes are now available as name your price downloads through the "Buy" link above.

Enjoy!

ambient

Jeff