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Benoît Pioulard - Censer (Field Rotation Remix)

New track written exclusively for the For Nihon compilation.

Buy the album digitally now, or pre-order the CD at http://www.whitevinyldesign.com/fornihon/

All proceeds go to the Japan Earthquake Relief Fund. 


Also contains new tracks by Ryuichi Sakamoto, BIosphere, Robin Guthrie + Harold Budd, Olafur Arnalds, Helios, Max Richter, Alva Noto, Ulrich Schnauss and many more.


Jon Hopkins - Abandon Window

from 'Nomad Frequencies' [CD|2xLP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den237
available in September on all formats at [http://denovali.com/johnlemke]

An ardent moulder of sound, John Lemke began carving out a very unique music blend on his debut album 'People Do' (2013) and its follow up EP 'Walizka' (2014). Informed by his work as a sound designer & composer for documentary films and his natural inclination towards fusing rhythm with rich textures and emotive melodies, he set out on a musical path that had been long in the making and is ever evolving.

The quest for unusual, inspiring sound sources has always been at the heart of John's process, however the genesis of his second album 'Nomad Frequencies' was rooted in much more inadvertent circumstances. In the summer of 2014, forced to indefinitely evacuate his Glasgow flat and studio due to structural damage from one hour to the next, with nothing more than a laptop and a bag of clothes, John embarked on a six month odyssey of soul searching, couch surfing and spending an extended period of time in his old hometown of Berlin for the first time in years - it was to be an odyssey that would help ferment and distill the ideas of his second album on which work had just begun. 

A year of particular global turmoil and upheaval, combined with John's personal, albeit very minor, 'displacement', caused a lot of questioning, frustration and anger, which somehow found its way onto the new material: a more confrontational, at times aggressive sound, paired on the other hand with a yearning for harmony, balance and space. Other influences came less from the world of music, but rather in visual form, through the densely textural art of Anselm Kiefer and the political, yet poetic musings of film maker Adam Curtis.

Intent on refining his sound toward a more minimal, bolder style, John set out to limit his sonic palate to a handful of carefully chosen elements. At the centre of this new direction remains the muted piano already introduced on his debut, but in a much more purified and raw form. This organic base is adorned by the warm fuzzing and wavering of analogue synthesisers, tape echoes, meditative tuning forks, field recordings from John's 'exile' period and percussion based on his rigid approach to sampling, which started developing on 'Walizka'. The guiding principle of his orthodox style of recording and sampling is to only use home-made sounds by utilising his own field recordings, applying contact microphones or hydrophones to objects and instruments, running them through different kinds of speakers and re-recording the sounds to arrive at a 'lived in' quality, often misunderstood as plainly 'lo-fi'. Touches of viola and woodwinds parts (Kim Moore of WOLF and Andrew Baker respectively) provide melody fragments and subtle details throughout the journey.

With John's healthy disregard for genre boundaries, the array of influences on 'Nomad Frequencies' is vast, but never over-powering. From the meditative tuning fork that starts proceedings on 'Of Elsewhere', the dub echoes to the hints of minimalism, free jazz explosions to the Lynchian atmospherics, all elements serve nothing more than the album's narrative journey between friction and harmony, best appreciated in its entirety. A rhythmic backbone collides with rich ambience and melody, often infectious and jarring at the same time, forging a soulful whole which most likely only reveals its true self after multiple spins.

Nomad Frequencies

John Lemke - The Unwinding

Assorted remixes from 2013-2015. 

Free download here:
https://oddlogic.bandcamp.com/album/remixes-vol-6

Nils Frahm - Re (oddlogic remix)

ETHEREAL AMBIENT SOUNDSCAPES INSPIRED BY GAME OF THRONES AND THE  LORD OF THE RINGS AND MANY OTHERS. RELAX, ENJOY AND DRIFT AWAY.

CTHULHU MYTHOS - HATCHERY

Taken from nonkeen’s album ‘the gamble’ released 05/02/16
pre-order from iTunes - smarturl.it/TheGamble
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For further details, please check www.nonkeen.com

re:turn!

Opalescent was recorded in 1999 and originally released in 2001.
It has been re-mastered for its first vinyl release this August 2016.

Cold Out There (2016 Vinyl Remaster)

Bersarin Quartett - Oktober

Track released in April 2011 by BT. 

It is with exceptional pleasure I share this gift back with you. Thank you ALL so much for making a donation to Japanese relief efforts. As individuals we can do little, together we can do much. 

Thank you for supporting this worthy cause. Blessings to you,
_BT

ps: there is a marker for 3 minutes at the end of the track. It is not just silence, it is there for a reason.
All my best.

Hikari

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

Helios - Bless This Morning Year

Thoughts Replaced of a girl I was with a long time, and I was sad enough to make this song, that was originally called "Erase you from my Mind". It was mastered by Tommy Patzius, the Master of music!

Thoughts Replayed [Rough Copy (MASTERED BY TOMMY PATZIUS)]

Following last year´s critically aclaimed EP release ´DRM´, Visionquests own Ryan Crosson teams up with Cadenza’s Cesar Merveille for a full-length album that carries the ever-protean label into as yet uncharted waters. Tightly constructed so as to form a unity that is nothing less than cinematic, Crosson and Merveille offer up nine pieces of music that are less ‘tracks’ than sonic essays(Maouris).

MERVEILLE & CROSSON ALBUM PREVIEW

Artist: Eluvium
Title: Don't Get Any Closer
Album: Nightmare Ending
Order Here: http://shop.temporaryresidence.com/trr214

Eluvium - Don't Get Any Closer

Nils Frahm - More & Less (Skyphos Remix)

https://brambles.bandcamp.com/album/half-gramme-holiday

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