One of the finest pieces of music I've ever heard.  Absolutely beautiful, Julia! :)

Nice transition. Loved the whole Soundscape :)

So pleasant to listen to your lovely and emotional compositions

The atmospheres that you create are like taken from scenes inside of my head… places that I would like to see; places that I still have yet to see. It helps me remember something inside of me that I almost forgot. Thank you, J.

The image is of deep psychology or the depths of one's heart.

A voice calling from the depths

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"Disquiet" is a benefit compilation of ambient artists, across multiple volumes, with 100% of the proceeds being donated to non-profit organizations that support the environment, investigative journalism, women and minorities. The compilation features many previously unreleased tracks and tracks composed exclusively for the collection. Released soon.

0:00 Balmorhea - Natural World

0:30 Ben Lukas Boysen - Kentograph (Short Version)

0:56 The Album Leaf - AW 11316

1:30 Mint Julep - Longshore Drift

2:00 Eluvium - Windmills

2:34 Windy and Carl - For End of 2016

3:08 Synkro - Transition

3:40 Benoit Pioulard - Home Taping Billowed Edge

4:10 Helios - Within

4:50 Christina Vantzou and John Also Bennett - Chione

5:40 Hammock - In the Shape of Longing

Disquiet Volume 1 Sampler

Released on my album Koyomi: woolookologie.bandcamp.com/album/koyomi


I've been experimenting with different live setups lately and this is one of the recordings I made. I'm not entirely happy how the recording turned out and wanted to redo it (accidentely recorded it to one stereo track so I couldn't change anything about the mix either), I never got the same atmosphere again though.
A new minimal ambient/drone album is in the works, by the way.

Setup: Synth and Flute loops on the Zoom R8, a MFB Microzwerg Bass layered with a Microkorg Pad -> Tascam 4-track tape recorder with a (mono) FX loop consisting of a Monotron Delay and an EHX Hog. Everything recorded straight to one stereo tape track, later overdubbed another microkorg pad.

Southwards (live)

Slow Motion Stories

Forgotten Houses

Gone

Full stream and free download of the opening track from the album 'Charcoal' by Brambles. The extended edition was released March 1st, 2014. 

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Charcoal

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Nerves / Familiarity is the first official start to Elskavon’s next album era, and it’s a representation not only of composer Chris Bartels’ sound over the years, but also a metaphorical look inside his mind. That is, one of contrast.

With Elskavon’s sound, there’s always been a contrast, and marriage, of grandeur and intimacy. Nerves / Familiarity is no exception.

While it starts out quiet, the listener can immediately feel the enormity of Nerves. The sustained sound is that of Bartels slowly drawing a string of yarn across his old spinet piano’s strings. Only a minute and half in, the sound is thick and full, layered with falsetto vocals fed through modular synthesizers. It hasn’t taken long to be engulfed in the grandeur. 

However, as quickly as it arrives, there’s a departure. An intimate and rhythmic cassette texture, signaled by a slow tonic modulation, foreshadows a look at the second track - the contrast.

Familiarity begins with a bed of introspective notes and textures - mostly that of high piano notes and chopped up Rhodes improvisations. There’s a certain closeness with this sound, and a contrast to the large reverb-soaked fabric that leads Nerves. Then halfway through the song, there is a short build - an encore, if you will, to the grandeur of the first track.

Much like these songs and past Elskavon albums, there is a journey of contrasts with every creative turn for Bartels, finding himself deep in a whirlwind of excitement and fear, anticipation and anxiety, inspiration and frustration. And while being fully aware of the negative sides of that whirlwind, there’s an indescribable beauty and hope in the choice to keep writing, to keep moving. And to not simply run from the negatives, but to allow them to inspire, to motivate.

A creative journey should never be easy or comfortable. If it is, the other side will most certainly be lacking in the beauty and depth it so desires.

With this next album era, Bartels is choosing to embrace the contrast.

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Familiarity

Taken from - 'a lone cloudburst' (LP)

Written & Performed - Gareth Schott (music), Ylva Krantz (voice), Micah Templeton-Wolfe (piano/synth) & Catherine Milson (cello)

Production - Sean Erin Lynch

Artwork - Stephanie Chalmers

Dedicated to Kim Schulke & Callum Plews

Already Dead Tapes 

fade away (LP 'a lone cloudburst' OUT NOW)

Float in a dreamworld with the one and only @peterbroderick. In his latest, Earnest Leslye, a radiant piano melody glides above a bed of bubbling synths, feeding our minds with inspiration and our ears with an air of calm.

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Entry no 4 in our summer single series. Artwork by Mikhail Mishin.

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