Listen / Purchase: https://lnk.to/mastrokristo

Presenting ‘Departures’ (out now on Lost Tribe Sound), the debut album from μastroKristo. ‘Departures’ is a nocturne, built from a humble and quiet rehearsal for untuned piano, tuba, bassoon, and tapes. It's a tribute to the night, and to all the failed and successful attempts at falling asleep. In gentle gray and pale blue hues, its watery, moonlit emotions spill forth... a siren’s song tempting heavy eyelids to take the final plunge towards a long night’s sleep.

‘Departures’ makes use of the worn mechanics and incidental noises generated by μastroKristo’s nearly 100 years old John Spencer & Co upright piano and its exposed soundboard. The artist takes advantage of the fragile character found in the low fidelity recordings and uses it to serve an equally important role as the piano itself. The tired piano hammers collapse in cascading cyclical patterns, resting comfortably inside the hiss and the wow and flutter effects brought on by an old TASCAM cassette recorder. Further still, these moments are glued together by the relaxed conversations between a tuba and a bassoon, which help lend a certain film noir like character to the music. This combination of forward motion and fluidity creates an intoxicating ebb and flow.

Departures

Waves

mastroKristo - Waves (from Departures)

Listen / Purchase: https://lnk.to/meltingworld

Ryan Chamberlain (aka Arrowounds) originally envisioned 'The Rise and Fall of the Melting World' as an extension of the previous two albums, 'Oncotype Sketchbook' and 'The Loneliness of the Deep Sea Diver,' although with the intended purpose of exploring the "aftermath and resurfacing" from the events that inspired those creations.

Chamberlain aimed for a more open sounding terrain to represent a clearing of the mind or the ability to breathe again, though there were multiple occasions throughout the making of 'Rise and Fall' where the waves came crashing back down into the depths. Nothing is ever that easy. Continuing health scares of those closest to Chamberlain and the overall climate of anxiety the world maintains always threatened to darken and pollute the soundscapes during their creation.

Field recordings from Chamberlain’s new living environment; far from the city, also played a huge role in shaping this album, maneuvering the senses of uncertainty and isolation throughout. Traveling in the mind, projecting ones being through nature, spilling out amongst the moss and soil into your own film of wreckage… senses perceive as much as deceive.

As it stands, 'The Rise and Fall of the Melting World' is the perfect closing to the trilogy of albums, with its lingering threads and cancerous tentacles breaching the surfaces and branching into unknown landscapes.

The Rise and Fall of the Melting World

Caverns of the Behemoth (Edit)

Arrowounds - Caverns of the Behemoth (Edit)(from The Rise and Fall of the Melting World)

FRÉDÉRIC D. OBERLAND (Oiseaux-Tempête, FOUDRE!, Le Réveil des Tropiques, NAHAL Recordings)

Dans ce berceau cosmique d’où sans cesse s’envolent les rêves, siesteuses, siesteurs, siestez…

TRACKLIST
00:00:00 Luar Domatrix "Bocadino de Alenteo" - Antologia de Musica Atipica Portuguesa (Discrepant, 2017)
00:00:32 Jonathan Fitoussi "Dunes" - Plein Soleil (Obliques, 2020)
00:03:48 Shit And Shine "Blowhannon" (Diagonal, 2013)
00:09:19 Emmanuelle Parrenin "Delyade" - Targala, La Maison Qui n'en est pas Une (JohnKool Records, 2022)
00:13:26 Fennesz "Caecilia" - Endless Summer (Editions Mego, 2001)
00:17:07 This Mortal Coil "Another Day" (4AD, 1984)
00:20:00 Villeneuve "Stars" - Now I Am Alone Before The Stars (Scum Yr Earth / Doucement, 2022)
00:24:48 Caykh "Soumatra" - Où? (Akuphone, 2020)
00:34:07 Jon Hassel "Blues Nile" - Vernal Equinox (Lovely Music, 1978)
00:36:40 Ø Mika Vainio "Muistetun Palaava Taajuus" (Säkhö Recordings, 2008)
00:38:22 Antonin Artaud "Tutuguri, Le Rite Du Soleil Noir" - Pour En Finir Avec Le Jugement de Dieu (Editions La Manufacture, 1986)
00:40:32 Suzanne Ciani "Water Lullaby" - Seven Waves (Finnadar Records, 1982)
00:45:10 The Dreams "Milk By Myself" - Morbido (Replica Nova, 2021)
00:48:52 Alice Coltrane "Blue Nile" - Ptah, The El Daoud (Impulse, 1970)
00:54:44 Tomaga "Reverie For Fragile Houseplants" - Intimate Immensity (Hands In The Dark, 2021)
00:55:25 Erik Enocksson "Prologue Somnio" - Man Tänker Sitt (Kning Disk, 2009)
00:58:31 Siavash Amini & Saåad "Dragging The Harrow" - All Lanes Of Lilac Evening (Opal Tapes, 2020) 
01:00:48 Steve Reich "Section VIII" - Music for 18 Musicians (ECM Records, 1978)
01:02:21 Dave Ball, Genesis P. Orridge, Voices from Christiane F. & William S. Burroughs "Dream" - Decoder (What's So Funny About, 1992)  
01:04:35 Andrea Belfi "Vano" - Alveare (IIKKI, 2017)
01:07:03 Sarah Davachi & Ariel Kalma "Saxiran" - Intemporel (Black Sweat Records, 2019)
01:11:34 Aya Metwalli "Sitt-Il Muhanna" - Nahma, A Gulf Polyphony (FLEE, 2021)
01:17:14 François de Roubaix "La Nuit Sous La Mer" - Daughters Of Darkness (Music On Vinyl, 2018)
01:20:48 Shabazz Palaces "Bad Bitch Walking" - The Don Of Diamond Dreams (Sub Pop, 2020)
01:27:02 Vangelis "One Alone" - Blade Runner Trilogy (UMe, 1994)
01:28:55 Winter Family "Archaic Landscape" - South From Here (Ici D'Ailleurs, 2017)
01:31:25 Maria W Horn "Atropa" - Kontrapoetik (Portals Editions, XKatedral, 2018)
01:33:59 Rien Virgule "Tambour de Nacre" - La Consolation des Violettes (Murailles Music / Permafrost / ZamZamRec, 2021)
01:41:55 Frédéric D. Oberland "Quatre Épaves d'Acier (live)" - inédit (2021)
01:47:58 Rivière de Corps "Ceux Qui Rôdent" - Tout Est Chaos" (Grande Rousse Disques, 2021)
01:49:48 Sun City Girls "Café Batik" - Torch Of The Mystics (Majora, 1990)
01:52:27 Christine Ott "Mariposas" - Chimères (pour Ondes Martenot) (NAHAL Recordings, 2020)
01:53:58 Gaston Bachelard "Les Éléments Terrestres" - Causeries (Harmonia Mundi, 2004)
01:55:18 Coil "All The Pretty Little Horses" - Black Antlers (Treshold House, 2004)

Portrait par Gaël Bonnefon

LIENS
https://www.fredericdoberland.com/
https://www.instagram.com/frederic_d_oberland/
https://www.oiseaux-tempete.com/
https://foudrenoise.bandcamp.com/
http://www.nahalrecordings.net/
http://www.lereveildestropiques.grand-public.org/

Sieste Ambient #78 w/ Frédéric D. Oberland

A demo for the sample pack on Pianobook by Tom Parry - Gibson Harmonics. Using both the plucked Harmonics and Pad. In addition from Pianobook - English Classic. And from LABS - Micah's Choir - Warp Fracture. 
Happy memories of playing with my daughter.

Let's go out and play

Let's Go Out And Play

Alfredo Bojórquez + Spirodon mix
For Radio alHara @radioalhara

Track listing: (Artist, Track Title)

01. 75 Dollar Bill - I Was Real
02. Fadi Tabbal - The New And Improved Guide To Birdwatching Vol. 2
03. Asher & Jordan - Ripples (via @crashsymbols)
04. Michael Pisaro - A mist is a collection of points Part I
05. ZA! - Sancha
06. Ramsey Lewis - Dear Prudence
07. Oddjob - Kali Ma
08. Urban Tribe - Transaction
09. Adrian Copeland - Sons of Our Fathers

Photo taken by Stefan on a trip to Oaxaca by bus.

Alfredo Bojórquez + Spirodon mix for Radio Alhara راديو الحارة

for cello, transducers, and sampler.
ensemble mosaik (Mathis Mayr and Ernst Surberg) live at Acker Stadt Palast, Berlin.

Gravity and Center (cello + sampler)

Mirage

Wistful, quietly positive, and a little bit melancholic; ambient artist Umber is set to release kaleidoscopic new album ‘Sometimes that light, that shine, seemed like a pretty nice thing’ on 17th March 2023. Focused on melodies that engage the heart as much as the mind, the album brings his electronic influences to the fore, combining shimmering soundscapes with a throbbing pulse of movement.
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Tracklist:⁠
01. Glisten
02. Hologram Shut Stability
03. When The West With Evening Glows
04. Sanctuary
05. It Is Going To Be OK
06. Sun House Chant
07. In Exploding Colour
08. The Last Perfect Day


“I feel that my music taps into a part of who we all are”, says Alex. “I try to create music that will emotionally resonate with the listener. Ultimately the album is about finding hope in the smallest actions, something that can often be overlooked or discarded in a world that doesn’t always make a lot of sense.”

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Credits:⁠
Written, produced & mixed by Alex Steward. Mastered graciously by Vincent Villuis @ Ultimae, FR. Design and layout by Cameron Steward. Cover photo by Luke Fisher. 'Loose Time' stanza by Tom Branfoot © 2021 excerpted with permission from Pariah Press.

Buy Vinyl / Listen

SBTMP022 - Umber - Sometimes That Light, That Shine, Seemed Like A Pretty Nice Thing [PREVIEWS]

Buy In the Octopus Pond: 
https://arrowounds.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-octopus-pond

Buy the 4 album series:
https://arrowounds.bandcamp.com/album/therianthrope-series

Lost Tribe Sound proudly introduces 'In The Octopus Pond', the first album in a series of album from Arrowounds, titled, the 'Therianthrope Series.' With previous works, Ryan Chamberlain has taken us through personal lows and bleak watery worlds in disrepair. However, 'In The Octopus Pond' sheds much of that skin and sets course for lush, green environments steeped in the bizarre. That said, this new material sounds more accessible than ever. The first entry in the trilogy draws from a range of musical influences, Can, Bark Psychosis, Young Gods, Slowdive, Durutti Column, Seefeel and much of early 4AD.

Rather than tackle some inner monologue or global crisis with the album, ITOP is instead accompanied by an obscure short story and visuals just as fitting. As both Arrowounds and LTS would prefer to take some time away from heavy realities and make up our own.

For here it begins and circles back into itself…
In the days before the great boil, the earth was lush and green, cared for by a race of mystic octopoed. In acts of preservational instinct, many chose to build their temples high on top of engineered tumuli, weary of prior flooding and wildfires that drastically disfigured the landscape. It was here that these priests of arms who carved ornate reliefs into the great pillars of obsidian and bone, dug down seeking mineral deposits in the earthen abyss and found a gestating world beneath the below... to be continued

Gravity and Center (cello + sampler)

Joshua Mastel