So fuckin' hyped for this record. These guys have grown into a truly special band. THAT DEEP, MASSIVE ATTACK BASS. Perfection

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from the album 'physicalist' available 9/23

physicalist

forma 'physicalist'

Artist: Hauschka
Title: Constant Growth Fails 
Album: What If 
Release Date: March 31, 2017

Pre-order North America: https://www.temporaryresidence.com/products/trr290
Pre-Order ROW: http://hauschka.lnk.to/whatif

Since 2004, Volker Bertelmann – aka Hauschka – has, steadily earned a remarkable reputation as a purveyor of imaginative, distinctive, prepared piano music. On What If – which finds him adding player pianos (also known as pianolas) to his arsenal – Bertelmann expands his range even further, defying expectations and delivering what is without a doubt his most ingenious album yet
While engaging with his trademark technique of utilizing unusual objects – art erasers, for example – to treat (or ‘prepare’) the piano, Hauschka also programmed parts for player pianos, exploiting the speed at which they could play, manipulating the resulting sounds, and building layers to emphasize a composition’s meter.
What If aims to provoke reflection beyond the musical sphere with the titles of the both the album and its individual tracks. Overflowing with haunting melodies, mysterious sounds, and complex patterns, What If crowns an extraordinary couple of years for Hauschka. Likely to prove one of 2017’s most original albums, What If redefines the very notion of piano music in dramatic and exceptional fashion. It stands as a rebuttal to those who lazily shoehorn Hauschka’s work into the so-called, uncomfortably broad ‘new classical’ category, and instead underlines his status as a unique and invaluable artist.

© Temporary Residence Ltd. & City Slang

What If

Hauschka - Constant Growth Fails

Rayon live at Radialsystem on 20 November, 2016.

Back in November 2016, we've had the great pleasure to celebrate 5 years of UM:LAUT with Markus Acher's project Rayon. With his numerous bands and collaborations (The Notwist, Lali Puna, Tied & Tickled Trio, 13 & God...) Markus Acher has contributed various relevant and exciting chapters to the recent history of music, thereby constantly re-exploring his sound universe and repeatedly widening the horizon of pop music. Within the series of UM:LAUT, Rayon presented the album "A Beat of Silence" (Morr Music) for the first time live and in one of the rare concerts with a full band and an extensive instrumentation.

Special thanks to Markus and the band for the great performance. And cheers to Carlo Grippa for the amazing sound, the recordings and the mastering.

Recorded at Radialsystem, Berlin.
Published with permission of the artist.
Photo: Markus Werner

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Rayon @ UM:LAUT - Any minute now (Live)

Taken from Hannah's new album: 'Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia' 
OUT Sept 22nd 2017
http://smarturl.it/syjioe

**** MOJO / **** Record Collector / **** Loud & Quiet

PRE-ORDER 
Limited Edition Metallic Space Vinyl and CD: hannahpeel.tmstor.es
Itunes: itunes.apple.com/gb/album/mary-ca…eia/id1252718712

Hannah Peel's third album is a seven-movement odyssey composed for analogue synthesizers and full, traditional 29 piece colliery brass band!

 "We have a hundred billion neurons in our brains, as many as there are stars in a galaxy" Theoretical physicist and author, Carlo Rovelli.

LIVE DATES:

29th July - WOMAD Festival
5th August - Edinburgh Festival
23rd Sept - Liverpool - Liverpool Philharmonic
30th Sept - Stockton - The Arc
21st Oct - Barnsley - The Civic Theatre
28th Oct - Basingstoke, The Anvil Concert Hall
MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED...

INFO:
With only a year following on from the release of her second album ‘Awake But Always Dreaming’ to widespread acclaim (Voted No.1 Album Of the Year – Electronic Sound Magazine), ‘Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia’, explores one person's journey to outer space, by recounting the story of an unknown, elderly, pioneering, electronic musical stargazer and her lifelong dream to leave her terraced home in the mining town of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, to see Cassiopeia for herself. With artwork by Grammy award winning designer Jonathan Barnbrook (David Bowie collaborator on albums ‘Blackstar’ and ‘The Next Day’ ) and the complete brass band and rhythm section recorded live on location in The Barnsley Civic Theatre with Peter Gabriel’s Real World studio team, this exclusive album combines Peel’s detailed, analogue synth layered production and her expressive flair for performance with ‘Tubular Brass’, featuring the top UK championship brass band players. It’s a wholly unique, collaborative sound and seemingly, a first of it’s kind both live and on record. 

At the close of the album’s final song ‘The Planet of Passed Souls’, tutti brass jostle with the hiss and crackle of a 78rpm record. An emotionally charged, scratchy sample taken from a 1928 recording of Peel’s own choirboy grandfather in Manchester Cathedral leaves the listener questioning the reality of Mary’s connection with the stars… Did she ever make it to Cassiopeia? Is this all a daydream as she sits in a back garden shed tinkering with electronics and her telescope? Or maybe this is her final breath as her mind and body pass into another realm of life? Is this science or fantasy? And how much is there really a division between the two? 

ALBUM TRACKS:
1. Goodbye Earth
2. Sunrise Through The Dusty Nebula 
3. Deep Space Cluster 
4. Andromeda M31
5. Life Is On The Horizon 
6. Archid Orange Dwarf
7. The Planet Of Passed Souls

Mary Casio - Journey to Cassiopeia

Hannah Peel - 'Sunrise Through The Dusty Nebula'

Matt Dunkley - Cycle 1

from the album 'semblance' available on kranky 07/20

semblance

forma 'new city'

Brian Eno & Robert Fripp - Wind on Water

http://brian-eno.net
Small Craft On A Milk Sea album released: 2 Nov 2010 (15 Nov 2010 in the UK)

Small Craft On A Milk Sea

Emerald and Stone

Brian Eno with Jon Hopkins & Leo Abrahams - Emerald and Stone (taken from Small Craft On A Milk Sea)

Taken from "Yesterday Was Dramatic – Today Is OK" (20th Anniversary Edition) out on Morr Music 2019-08-30
Tourdates:
Sep 17 – Rote Fabrik – Zurich (CH)
Sep 18 – Maroquinerie – Paris (FR)
Sep 19 – Church of Laken – Brussels (BE)
Sep 20 – Neuadd Ogwen – Bethesda (GB)
Sep 21 – Union Chapel – London (GB)
Sep 22 – Church of Sint-Denijs – Kortrijk (BE)
Sep 26 – Planetarium – Berlin (DE)
Sep 27 – Planetarium – Berlin (DE)
Sep 28 – Aglomerat – Moscow (RU)
Sep 29 – Opera – St Petersburg (RU)

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Múm: Random Summer (Hauschka Rework)

from the album 'cloud room, glass room' available 4/29

pan•american 'project for an apartment building'

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