Taken from 'I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night' LP/Download [ELP063]

Sublime debut of lilting sketches for guitar x synth by manc bosom buds Celestial, quietly resplendent in a classic vein of soft touch Balearic blues and kosmische hues that comes very highly recommended if you’re into anything from The Durutti Column to Vincent Gallo’s classic ‘When’ album or even the instrumental splendour of HTRK at their most diaphanous.

Bathed in moonlight, ’I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night’ is the gorgeous debut by childhood friends Celestial, arriving in the glistening wake of 2021 gems on the same label by Romance, Not Waving, Spivak, claire rousay & more eaze. Convecting a richly sanguine sound gleaned from a Sequential Circuits Sixtrak synth and Fender guitar with the results mottled to frail AGFA tape, it’s the modest and warm soul on display that speaks to a quieter side of the rainy city psyche, picking up a fine thread of etheric inspiration that leads back to The Durutti Column via Ry Cooder’s ‘Paris, Texas’ soundtrack and Iasos’ intoxicating new age, with a fragile, gauzy vision of instrumental songcraft ripe for getting lost in dappled fantasy.

Practically synaesthetic in their spatial sensitivity and psilocybic tactility, the six songs make a real virtue of reverb, echo and tender hiss that swaddles their lyrical phrasing with a cottony texture. Subtly but crucially favouring analogue enigma over digital clarity, their sound unspools with a kaleidoscopic, nostalgic quality surrendered in shimmering waves of bliss and back-of-the-eyes swirl between the hash haze of ‘Endless’ and northern gothic tone of ‘Lonely Weekend.’ Tape hiss resembles drizzle outside in the lowlit langour of ‘Hat Full of Rain’, and we can practically taste the petrichor in ‘The Perfumed Garden’, leading to ASMR levels of synth tingles with an unmistakeable northern melancholy of ‘At The Rivers Edge’, especially in its gloaming coda.

A reel low-key stunner.

Mastered by Alessio Natalizia

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Colliding Bubbles (surface tension and release) - 28:50
Composed by Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard, 2022

Quatuor Bozzini:
Alissa Cheung, violin I + harmonica (G) Clemens Merkel, violin II + harmonica (G) Stéphanie Bozzini, viola + harmonica (C) Isabelle Bozzini, cello + harmonica (C)

Colliding Bubbles (surface tension and release) is a composition for string quartet and harmonica quartet, meaning that Quatuor Bozzini is playing string instruments while playing harmonicas.

"The title refers to different kinds of bubbly matter which are set to collide within the composition, leading to different ruptures and possible release of surface tension.
The collision of bubbles unfolds partly in relation to sound, where small fluctuations appear in the encounters between harmonicas and string instruments and partly in relation to a more performative or conceptual bubble where instruments representing different systems, or bubbles, will collide; the very celebrated instruments within the classical string quartet and the perhaps more prosaic harmonica."  - Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard

This release was made possible with generous support from Augustinus Fonden, The Danish Conductors Association & The Danish Composers’ Society.

This release has been supported by Conseil des arts lettres du Québec

Cover photos by Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard (Bubble studies, 2023)

Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard & Quatuor Bozzini: Colliding Bubbles CD release: 3.1.24

Chilling, frigid and wintery scores from the obligatory snow level - featuring music from Final Fantasy, Silent Hill, Stardew Valley, Skyrim... 
https://www.nts.live/shows/otaku/episodes/otaku-winter-soundtrack-27th-january-2024

Otaku: Winter Soundtrack 270124

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Recorded live at Spanners, London

Excelsior Ruth @ forecast, 09.12.23

Format: CD
Pre-order: 16th February 2024
Release date: 23th February 2024

The sound dramaturgy of 'Unity' starts with the album title, which refers to the strength of remaining united and constantly rooted in the present and the surrounding space. This release is a continuum of the first cassette for Lontano series from February 2023, that now shows its second side into a “non-song” shape. Conceptually part of the storytelling, memories without a geographical location are energy of the whole creature, in an eternal and abstract way, as the record moves in its full length.
 
Passing through different emotional listening signals, without ever touching a clearly defined goal or target. Structurally sculpting a sound of electro-acoustic nature, no coordinates, whether this tends more towards experimental, research, or soundtrack music: a daily practice in recording, drawing ideas and intuitions with the sound media.
 
Recorded at WORM Sound Studios in Rotterdam (3, 6, 8, 10), in a small flat in Rimini (1, 2, 5, 7 and 11 together with Jacopo Buda's trumpet), while playing at Imbarchino del Valentino in Turin (9), a forgotten recording (4). 

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