KEXP ~ PACIFIC NOTIONS - part 5

T.Milly👑- Silhouette (Remix)

Deep Sleep Twenty Nine

cantsleep.5 You've Found Your Hobby

Suncycle (Slowed and Reverb v2)

A new track mixing real and virtual instruments.

Sun Prints

The More You Know

A day to celebrate this wonderful instrument:
www.pianoday.org/

Flint Flakes

my take on new Abul Mogard live track, I used original track as sample base for collage and mixing it into drone sounding track.

original track:
https://abulmogard.bandcamp.com/track/the-purpose-of-peace-live

my album Expanding lands (released 15.03.2020):
https://secretpress.bandcamp.com/album/expanding-lands

my label secret press:
http://secretpress.bandcamp.com/

Abul Mogard - The Purpose Of Peace (Live) [Blear Moon Rework]

World has slowed down. 
Hidden beneath a skin of fear.

All Silver was created during the first days of the Corona shutdown.
Made with passion and modular synths.

Sound and artwork by Thomas Breuer

All Silver

all silver

How Do You Feel About Getting Married? Out Now - https://Dijon.lnk.to/Married

Jesse was late again, but I don’t mind I’ll wait for him
Jesse gets mean sometimes
But I don’t mind, he’s got a lot on his mind.
And dammit Jesse. It’s true. I do love you
And dammit Jesse. It’s true. I do trust you

Jesse’s a mess again
So I lie awake with him
And he’s holding on to something I can’t see
But it’s alright, I’m safe with him

And dammit Jesse. It’s true
I do, love you
And dammit Jesse. It’s true, I do trust you

And he could be bad, and turn his back;
He could break all his promises. But when I see Jesse I smile.
When I see Jesse I smile.
He could be bad, and turn his back;
He could break all his promises. But when I see Jesse I smile.
When I see Jesse I smile.

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In the late 90’s, east-side LA was in the throws of a post-indie explosion; a network of stoned bands ranging from neo-psychedelia to pseudo-country overran Spaceland (our generation’s Troubadour) and the local Silverlake Lounge. I was playing freakbeat records twice a week in dive bars, half of Spacemen 3 was crashing at my house (my drop-out roommate was Sonic Boom’s tour drummer) and it was during this blur that I met Raymond Richards, a clean-cut all-American pedal steel guitarist playing in Mojave 3 (the country-tinged 4AD side project of shoegaze royalty, Slowdive). I was instantly swept off my feet, head over heels in love with Raymond's weeping tone — the most chill-inducing, emotionally responsive dialog I’d had with music since discovering Satie as a child — it was then and it is now, truly haunting. After a year of personnel trials, my roommate and I stole Raymond for our own band, and not only did he smother our songs with his enchanting steel, he was virtuosic with a variety of atypical instruments such as baritone guitar and theremin, he utilized them all. The band was short-lived — I split to jam with Ariel Pink, Raymond fled to Portland, then me subsequently to New York City — but in founding the ESP Institute years later, there was always a recurring mental note; "we must make Raymond’s pedal steel album." I had managed to wrangle his blessed performance on a remix for Project Club’s 'El Mar Y La Luna', but it took almost a decade until I once again wore the producer hat and we began working on 'The Lost Art Of Wandering', a title borrowed from Sam Shepard’s 'Stories'. Spiritually candid, expansive yet enveloping, this is the strung-out, visceral country music that simply radiates from Raymond. Each song is his set of coordinates in a vast open terrain, holding a sentimental familiarity, a truthful longing for the simple comforts that diffuse life’s complications, a place to get lost. —Lovefingers

Produced by Lovefingers
Cover image - Barbara and Michael Leisgen, Eintauchen [detail], 1972

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Glåsbird returns following the debut EP ‘Drift Stations’ which was a digital only release on Whitelabrecs just prior to Christmas last year. The eagerly awaited full-length debut album is something that this currently anonymous artist has carefully shaped over a lengthy period of time and it is entitled Grønland. Those looking to the themes of the North Pole and travel through the treacherous Arctic Circle which were contained within Drift Stations, will see a pattern of travel or rather, migration developing. Next stop – Greenland, the world’s largest island as well as one of the most uninhabited landmasses on the planet, which is thanks to stark temperatures and the permanent ice sheet which occupies most of this land.

Glåsbird imagined that they were assigned the task of scoring the soundtrack to a film about Greenland and spent a great deal of time researching the subject. Hours of documentaries, drone helicopter footage, NASA and satellite images, Instagram traveller accounts, 360° photos, web articles and maps were surveyed, to the point where this artist felt sufficiently immersed in this sub-zero but beautiful land. One such traveller/photographer who has physically witnessed the splendour of Greenland is Lennart Pagel, who kindly provided the cover image; the shot not only captures the essence of this country with its iced mountains, freezing lake and primary-coloured cabin but also there is a bold starkness which lends itself to this soundtrack.

Two releases in and whilst we’re no clearer as to who is behind this project, it is clear that Glåsbird is becoming synonymous with storytelling and specifically travel or migration, if you prefer.
The music itself adopts a Modern Classical approach with icy piano shards shimmering alongside glacial violin and cello drones as well as the occasional hint of grounding electric guitar. We’re told that the artist even recorded some sections of sounds to cassette before placing the tape in the freezer to give an added chill factor.

We’ve decided that such an impactful concept would suit a special ‘gatefold LP’ style packaging that we’ve run a couple of times as well as an increased run of 100 copies. Where will the Glåsbird land next?

released February 9, 2019

Written and produced by Glåsbird
Mastered by James Edward Armstrong
Photography by Lennart Pagel
Packaging design by Harry Towell

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Grønland

gunnbjørn fjeld

Snowmelt, Awakening

Pianist and producer among other things.



Contact: John@johnhayesmusic.com

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