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The Unavoidable Death of Loneliness, an expressionist venture at the cross-section of classical and ambient, traverses as a wander, a trip through emotions encountered first hand and unprocessed.

Available on CD here: https://bit.ly/3yLUjvI

Like an internal dialogue, the album mutates continually - ever changing, expressing, chattering - never dwelling on the same exact thought as before. These are emotions formed, put to paper, but as though still raw and unfiltered, a free association of musical feeling.

The Unavoidable Death of Loneliness

Sven Laux & Logic Moon - The Unavoidable Death of Loneliness (Album Mini-Mix)

Tööpuudus

Kñsiraamat

Glottal

From "We Can Sleep Now", available on cassette and digital from Unifactor:
https://unifactor.bandcamp.com/album/we-can-sleep-now

The Mountain (cassette out now on Unifactor)

With our next release we welcome back Nicola Fornasari who is one half of La Petite Vague, a project which we’ve almost exclusively supported across Whitelabrecs and our sister label Audio Gourmet. Nicola also records solo work as Xu, with material released through labels such as Eilean, Cathedral Transmissions and most recently, Manyfeetunder.

The next album in the Xu catalog is ‘Embodying Formlessness’, which Nicola created by recording improvisations performed on his daughter Nina’s toy ukulele and then setting these into non-synchronised loops. These were made by using various pedals by experimenting with ‘blind looping’, a technique used to create unpredictable variations of a certain loop. Additional sounds were layered into the compositions by adding minibrute parts which were also fed into effects pedals and these provide an array of high and low frequencies.
The resulting sound throughout the six tracks that encompass this album is one of a tactile minimalism and the sound itself is a representation of the concept.

In the period during which Embodying Formlessness was created, Nicola was studying the Two Truths, fundamental points developed by Buddhist philosopher Nāgārjuna. These consist of Relative Truth, which is the conventional way in which we perceive reality and Absolute Truth, which is the theory that objects and events have no intrinsic existence and no individual identity, except in our thoughts. Both perspectives are true and neither intellectual position is the correct one. So in summary, phenomena are both real and not real; things exist, yet nothing exists.
There is a sentence in the Heart Sutra which inspired the title for this album:
Form is no other than emptiness; emptiness no other than form. Form is exactly emptiness; emptiness exactly form.

Embodying Formlessness sets out a short collection of existential pieces, crafted from the random placement of melodic source material, adorned with subtle electronics. This provides an ideal backdrop to contemplate the theme of the Two Truths, as you try to separate the difference of what is real and what is perceived.

embodying formlessness

wlr063 xu - embodying formlessness

Dan Wack - Learning Curve

"Drone Works Vol. 3 - A Compilation Of Contemporary Drone And Ambient Sounds" celebrates the third year of DRONE WORKS INTERNATIONAL with 15 amazing artists from all across the world, combining about hundred minutes of complex sound experience.

DWI likes to thank all artists involved. More information about each artist at each track. Please support them and check out their music.

Tracklist:
01. Vinny Vortex - Off The Radar
02. Velo Di Nebbia – Luminoso (Rework)
03. Lofield - Another Tomorrow
04. Logic Moon – Dolor
05. Deep Tremolo Sustain - Off Shore
06. 9VoltDisaster - Footprint
07. Phalioo - On A Dirt Road Guided By A Flashlight
08. Kraut Sounds - In Transition
09. Whalt Thisney - Nothing Alone Is Greater Than Itself
10. Jörgen Kjellgren - Warm Luminous 1
11. Mila Drone - North Beach
12. Polaroid Notes - Dissolve (Drone Rework)
13. Carbonates On Mars - Propranolol Nights
14. Tom Cadillac - Gully Ghosts
15. D.Y.H.M? - Rabbit In The Headlights

Download @ https://droneworksinternational.bandcamp.com/album/v-a-drone-works-vol-3

Release Date: 26th December 2019
Drone Works International DWI 21

Bandcamp

V.A. - Snippets Of Drone Works Vol. 3 (DWI 21)

Jet Jaguar - Storm In Lisbon

Taken from the new album "Recording"

Out now: https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/recording

Released January 29, 2020 

Written and recorded by Michael Upton 
Mastered by RedRedPaw 
Photos by Michael Upton

Jet Jaguar - Storm In Lisbon

Disquiet0426 - Cellular Chorus

caduceus ep. (bandcamp digital download ep.)

stabilo-loadbang.bandcamp.com/album/caduceus-ep

:art work

stabilo (speaker gain teardrop

download

pulse of rain

Maps and Diagrams - Kalia

Bay Area, CA tape and modular artist r beny is today releasing his new track ‘northern breath’ ahead of the release of ‘Seafoam & Dust’ this Friday. ‘northern breath’ appears exclusively on ‘Seafoam & Dust’ as a bonus track, closing ‘Eistla’.

LISTEN/BUY: https://dauw.bandcamp.com/album/seafoam-dust

r beny - northern breath

Purchase: secretpyramid.bandcamp.com/album/embers
Catalog #: GN62
August 20, 2020
LP+DIGI

Secret Pyramid is the nom de nocturne of Vancouver, BC’s resident ambient explorer Amir Abbey. Having perfected his brand of elegant elegia over the past decade heard on albums released by illustrious imprints as Students of Decay, Ba-Da-Bing!, and Nice Up International and collaborated with the likes of Loscil, Abbey makes his Geographic North debut with 'Embers,' Secret Pyramid’s most sincerely solemn and curiously calming work to date.

Embers’ six pieces find Abbey furroughing a few of his most trusted tools (including Ondes Martenot, sampler, Space Echo, two tape machines, and a computer), while taking a more compositional approach than his past works. This method opened entirely new aural possibilities and allowed Abbey to consider, manipulate, and re-consider each passing tone. The end result is an exquisitely enveloping work of contemporary ambient music that is equally inspired by and spiritually linked to influential French composer Olivier Messiaen, the progenitors of Dub, and a number of ephemeral oddities in between. 

Sonically, 'Embers' reveals some of Secret Pyramid’s most minimal and open works yet. Certain pieces (such as “Pins,” “Particles,” and “Ohms”) employ a single instrument or sound source with only a modicum of manipulation. This “less is more” approach gave each sound actual room to breathe and find a balance of beauty and dissonance, and the magical transition between the two.

Emotionally, the music was created during a particularly turbulent time in Abbey’s life, allowing him to process things musically. In his own words, “It’s a reflection of the impermanent, shifting, and fleeting aspects of our lives, both the good and the bad, that often spark something inside of us. Aspects of our daily existence, and the self (whether our emotions, surroundings, relationships,) that are constantly morphing, disappearing, reappearing, burning out, reigniting, and so forth, metaphorically like flares or embers.”

Secret Pyramid - "Flares"

@AwakenedSouls remix from “Soledad” by @PepoGalan

https://stereoscenic.bandcamp.com/album/soledad

Soledad

Pepo Galán - Botes (awakened souls remix)

Iuno-Wenimo

Iunu-Wenimo

The first six minutes of Where We Meet by An Moku & Stijn Hüwels, released 6th November 2020.

Lifelines. Hold tight.

https://slowcraft.bandcamp.com/album/where-we-meet

Written and Produced by An Moku & Stijn Hüwels
Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Artwork by June Murray
Design by James Murray

http://slowcraft.info
http://anmoku.net
http://stijnhuwels.bandcamp.com

ambiente

Laura Asensi Giner