Rare to find music so ambient and calm, yet at the same time so melodically busy.

The Stuff

Samiyam is Sam Baker, hip-hop producer working out of the same dusty corners of Los Angeles that brought us Flying Lotus, Jonwayne, Gaslamp Killer, Ras G and so many others.

Sam Baker's Album was his debut, released on Brainfeeder in 2011. More
recent credits include production for Captain Murphy's Duality and Earl Sweatshirt's Doris.

Wish You Were Here is his first release with Leaving Records & Stones Throw. It's sixteen tracks ­ instrumentals with three rap tracks featuring
Evidence, The Alchemist and Samiyam, making his debut on the mic. "I'm just trying to show where I'm coming from," he says, "I'm not about futuristic spaceship beats, just straight forward hip-hop."

http://www.stonesthrow.com/leavingrecords

http://www.stonesthrow.com/news/2013/10/samiyam-wish-you-were-here

Samiyam - Snakes On The Moon

Recorded live Sunday 19th May 2013 at Cinefamily, Los Angeles

Doug Shipton - All Will Be Set Right

from 'Walizka' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den201
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/johnlemke]

Working across a variety of media John Lemke explores all things sonic through live performance, sound design and his work as a documentary film composer. The Walizka EP is his latest solo release on Denovali Records.

Three items in a suitcase, a clarinet, a looper and a microphone - is how it all started. 

A free improvisation with friend & collaborator Łukasz Bernacki (on clarinet) sparked John’s desire to bring his compositional and production approach back down to the most basic elements. Creating simple, yet distinctive rhythms only through tapping contact microphones run into noisy guitar amps became the base for the EP’s three tracks, consequently inspiring its live, lo-fi feel. Written and recorded between John’s native Berlin and his adopted home of Glasgow, Walizka (Polish for ‘suitcase’) somehow absorbs the defining atmospheres of both cities in its core.

Previously released digitally as a teaser for John’s debut album, the Walizka EP actually presents newer material, progressing the electro-acoustic nature of ‘People Do’ towards more dub drenched territories. Refining John’s blend of prepared piano and field recordings with hand crafted beats and swampy bass lines, this deeply moody and danceable release bends genres with refreshing ease.

The EP is furthermore enhanced by a second half of remixes by fellow Denovali artists Piano Interrupted, SaffronKeira and Petrels and the ever elusive Everyday Dust. Far from conventional remixes, these pieces fall more in the category of re-imaginations, complementing the EP’s first, more rhythm anchored half with a coherent ambient counterpart.

Written, performed, recorded & produced by John Lemke in 2013
Mastered by Alex Gámez at Störung Studio
Artwork by Łukasz Bernacki

Walizka

John Lemke - Walizka (Piano Interrupted Remix)

extrait de l'album Novö Piano, sorti en avril 2010 chez Kwaidan.

Maxence Cyrin - No Cars Go

The Gaslamp Killer - Gaslampkillers (Mix)

TRACER

Symbol is the solo effort of producer and multi-instrumentalist Christopher Royal King. Best known as a founding member and lead guitarist of the massive orchestral-rock ensemble This Will Destroy You, King has also composed and recorded scores for a host of prominent feature-films and documentaries, established Light Lodge Records, and moonlights in Austin’s amorphous ambient collective AMASA•GANA. Now on his first solitary odyssey apart from TWDY, King’s masterful ear for signal processing and affinity for corroded elegance takes free reign over a vastly expanded inventory of instrumentation. Throughout Symbol’s debut Online Architecture, organic sound-sources are meticulously transmuted through chains of modules and magnetic tape, each successive stage creating a compounded quantity of detail and decay. After four studio albums with TWDY, King has crafted an arresting solo debut that is both gorgeously tranquil and devastatingly heavy, offering a direct-line into his psyche which had not existed until now.

SELECTED PRESS:

“King lulls the listener into thinking that they’re zoning to background music before grabbing them by the throats and reminding them that they’re listening to something murky and formless, but full of icy beauty nonetheless.” – Pitchfork

“Symbol claims the next peg up on the “post-” trajectory, carrying any inklings of “rock” to their deepest point of ambient departure and bidding them good luck on their journey through the waves.” – Tiny Mix Tapes

“Complex, moody, and fascinating, it is the use of analog decay and damage that give this album its distinct identity, and help it to stand out brilliantly amongst so many other synth heavy records.” – Brainwashed

“‘Clear Passage,’ the first single, begins quietly, with a soothing ambient hum that slowly builds into a cavernous well of desiccated noises scratching and clawing their way into your ears.” – Decoder

“With its six-and-a-half-minute runtime, “Clear Passage” is quite the immersive experience in and of itself. To simply label the track “ambient” or “drone” would be cutting its nuance short. It sounds both organic and alien, as if King has tapped into some lost frequency floating listlessly in the vast expanses of outer space.” – PORTALS

“If TWDY toes a line between melody and white noise, Symbol takes a deeper dive into chaos…King is obviously enjoying the opportunity to push his limits and challenge his audience. The result is cinematic and unnerving.” – Suburban Decay

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"ONLINE ARCHITECTURE" LP/C̶S̶ available now at 
http://holodeckrecords.bandcamp.com/album/online-architecture-hd022

"Rail Cables: Spring Selection" LP available now at
http://railcables.bandcamp.com/album/springselection2015

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