Calm stuff

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

Free Entire Album Download..The Lady Or The Tiger..http://backyardghost.com/download.htm

Carpathia

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"British ambient band Marconi Union has drummed up the world's most relaxing song: Weightless is 8 mins 10 sec. of aural bliss" - Time Magazine, Best Inventions of the Year. 

"An excellent compilation from the always interesting Just Music" - The Sunday Times

"The Ambient Zone is an album that feels like the world is peeling away, layer by layer, into multi-colored panoramas, just for you" - Echoes (CD of The Month)

The Ambient Zone is a beautiful journey into ambient and electronica inspired by universal themes of calmness, purity, relaxation and enrichment where Weightless is coupled with some exclusive first releases and other blissfully ambient tracks from Just Music artists and alumni.

Created instinctively and intuitively by Marconi Union, Weightless has been claimed to have therapeutic properties in the way the track almost appears to have a heartbeat running through it which slows down very gently throughout the piece, encouraging a deep sense of relaxation in the body, It's use of specific rhythms, beep bass tones, frequencies and intervals induce an almost trance like state in the listener.

"The Ambient Zone is an album that just screams (albeit quietly) of pure class" - Fluid Nation.

Weightless (Ambient Transmission Vol. 2)

Weightless Part 1

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Marconi Union - Weightless

NAMIDA

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

Deadmau5 - Brazil

Written tonight on my flight home. I was inspired by a twitter chat about favorite composers and decided to read up on one of my favorite pieces by Strauss. Ended up listening to some Debussy and it inspired this. On the flight I experimented with some new granular/convolution ideas. Overdubbed piano (Pianoteq) in the kitchen with some Valhalla shimmer and Room (automated). This composition is one of 7

Nicht Musik [Verklärung] No.2 in D major

This track was written and recorded in a single day. It is a short "what if" thesis asking "What do acoustic gut string guitar, vocal, hammered dulcimer, AC-30/Ebo/Tele sound like with judicious amounts of spectral bluring and some Csound granular opcodes". Inspired by a conversation...a long and meaningful one, late at night. 

Sometimes conversations become a place, that in memory at least, you can return too. Listening to this I can remember where I was sitting, and the way I held the phone and exactly how I felt on this very hushed night. 

I took this photograph in Erskine in Australia (short drive inland from the coastal town of Lorne). It was taken on a 5DmII using a 17mm 1.4 L lense and I did minor color correcting/film grain/vignetting in Magic Bullet. It seemed to really suit this piece. 

Excited to share these two new albums with you. Enjoy.

Our Dark Garden (Final Mix

ÓLAFUR ARNALDS & NILS FRAHM - 'a2' from their forthcoming collaborative EP 'STARE'.

ORDER the Ltd. Edition 10" Vinyl/Download HERE and receive an Erased Tapes 5th Anniversary sticker with it:
http://www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP042

'A hazy slow-builder that sits nicely equidistant between Arnalds’ solo work and his excellent Kiasmos project' – The Line Of Best Fit

CONTENT

Erased Tapes label mates Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm record and mix their first collaborative record between Reyjkjavík and Berlin as a surprise release for label founder Robert Raths.

The ambient/electronic work ‘Stare’ is a true family effort from Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm with Anne Müller joining in on cello and all graphics by close label-friend and now in-house designer Torsten Posselt of Feld Studios.

This release will be strictly limited and exclusively available on Record Store Day 2012, April 21st. Coinciding with the 5th Anniversary of Erased Tapes, it’s also available from the official Erased Tapes online store and sure to become a must-have for fans of the label and these two artists.


CONTEXT

Words by Nils Frahm: 
‘I heard ‘Eulogy For Evolution’ for the first time 6 years ago and I was totally captivated. Impossible to know back then that I was supposed to meet Ólafur many years later as my label mate. Later when he took me along a tour of his we also noted that we kind of like hanging out together, doing important things like cover versions of long forgotten songs or eating veggie pizza. Also he would join my live set for a jam and I would return the favour by playing along with his set. 

All in all, I fell for Óli and after one memorable jam session we had in Berlin at Roter Salon in 2011, he finally proposed the idea to visit me in my studio in Berlin to work on 'some music'. I was happy and delighted about that idea, so we got together in April 2011 and after having a big pizza, I plugged in some old analogue synths and we played for four days until late in the night. Also queen Anne Müller stopped by after a show with Agnes Obel to record some cello at 5 am in the morning for ‘b1’. Making music together with people is lovely! 
 
The time I spent with Óli in Berlin made me very happy and the music wasn't like anything I have heard before. It was all very reduced and minimal and I felt like I couldn't have done this alone. So we decided to do another 4-day jam at Óli´s E7 studio in Reykjavik. So I flew there in the end of October to repeat the trick and record some out of this world ambient music. It didn't take us too long to write ‘a1’ and ‘a2’.  I can’t wait for the follow up!’

Words by Olafur Arnalds:
 ‘After having toured together and having had many inspiring late night conversations, I decided to visit Nils in his Durton Studio in Berlin for a weekend. We didn't have anything specific in mind, we just wanted to hang out, jam and eat some falafel. That's what we did, but somehow we also made 25 minutes of ambient bliss that weekend. 

After that we quickly decided we had to do the same in my studio in Iceland. Just hang out for a weekend and possibly make some music. So the album became kind of an Iceland vs. Berlin thing. I think you can hear it very well in the sound (side a vs. side b) and that is the most interesting thing about this record for me: that subtle but significant different in the characteristics of the music two people made in Iceland against what the same two people made in Germany. 

I'm not sure why we decided to keep it secret, it just happened. But it sure was fun! I remember a party at Robert's (Erased Tapes founder) flat in Berlin, where me and Nils stood in the corner the whole night whispering about the project. We then delivered the fully mastered record with finished artwork to Robert around the 5th anniversary of the label. It would have been nice to be there to see his face…"

The live video of Nils and Ólafur’s spontaneous improv live set in Berlin last summer won them many fans since, including UK electronic music producer Max Cooper who is now remixing two of his “absolute favourite artists”. Nils and Ólafur will be touring together throughout Europe this spring.

You can watch it here: http://vimeo.com/28631568
 


LABEL: ERASED TAPES RECORDS    UK RELEASE DATE: APRIL 21, 2012
CAT.NO: ERATP042 EP/DL   EAN: 4050486068137

TRACK LISTING:  1. a1  2. a2  3. b1

OFFICIAL WEBSITES:   OLAFURARNALDS.COM   DURTONSTUDIO.COM   ERASEDTAPES.COM 

Stare

Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm - a2

Somewhere between the setting and rising of the Australasian sun is a rest for the soul that can't be described with words. I've done my best to give it to you audibly.
 
"Rise" is the opening track from Movements of the Heart | now available on iTunes

Additional programming and composition | Salomon Ligthelm | Sydney, Australia
Hear "Rise" with the film "Where is Your Wilderness | https://vimeo.com/38775602
Artwork | Salomon Ligthelm

Rise

"Moiety" is a new Helios album free for download at http://www.unseen-music.com/free .

Helios - Nothing It Can

A remix I did for the wonderful band Arms and Sleepers.  Purchase this single here: http://www.armsandsleepers.bigcartel.com/product/tusk-single-download

Buy this track

Arms and Sleepers -Tusk (Helios remix)

Also another very ambient song I made a LONG time ago. I named it "The Seven Sages" because i was playing zelda at the time, and I was within the chamber of the Seven Sages. One of my favorite old works for sure.

The Seven Sages

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these balconies are hardly safe
without a head to contemplate
seems chandeliers can clearly break
when crooked breathing wont awake

and i thought i knew you well
as my limbs begin to swell
with my awkward bloody knees
can't you just let me be, just let me be

stale repetition, blending in
marginal doorways getting dim
insisting chaos takes control
pretentious friendships let me go

everyone here is the same
everyone here is the same
everyone here is the same
everyone here is the same
I hardly remember their names

Weepy Hollow

Your mind is your instrument. Learn to be its master and not its slave.

Contains my own field recordings of a day out at Windsor Riverside feeding the ducks with Bluffmunkey and our son, as well as my whispers used in Bluffmunkey's https://soundcloud.com/bluffmunkey/whispered-echo. A big thank you to Bluffmunkey for his input on the strings.  

Lyrics: 

Nothing ventured, nothing gained, 
All my thoughts remain the same, 
Waiting for the day to come,
The day that I get my way. 

Ev'ry move so underhand, 
Hoping soon you'll understand,
It's all in my mind engraved,
You'll never get what you crave. 

Cover art: http://dcw1979.deviantart.com/art/Hilltop-Sunset-196925917 by: http://dcw1979.deviantart.com/

Crave (Let It Be)

Artist: Eluvium
Title: Don't Get Any Closer
Album: Nightmare Ending
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Eluvium - Don't Get Any Closer

This track is a part from the contemporary ballett piece i worked on with the amazing choreographer Wayne McGregor. It's heavy, but we all like the occasional heavy track, right? 
I released my soundtrack to the piece as an EP, called Dyad 1909 (2009)

Brotsjór

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Yesod (River Styx)

The "It All Falls Apart" album was something Thom and I (Aaron) were huge fans of during our recent 2 years of touring. It made us so pleased when we approached Rafael (The Sight Below) and he agreed to remix "The Sun" for us.

Available on the Passive Me, Aggressive You Remixes & B-Sides album.

Digital download: http://po.st/TNAFbsds
Limited Record Store Day vinyl release: po.st/L0DeVv

The Sight Below:
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Calm stuff

Kasri