april

Music

Post Rock

Ambient

Haider Anjum's mix (Post rock, chilled electronica)

kind of stuff

كولة- مسلسل مع سبق الاصرار -عادل حقى

دى المقطوعة الاصلية لمعزوفة الكمان الموجودة في مسلسل الداعية

عمر خيرت الله يا الله

An Ecstasy of Fumbling - double bass
The Monk by the Sea - acoustic guitar

Collaboration with An Ecstasy of Fumbling. Don´t miss his other tracks:
https://soundcloud.com/ecstasyoffumbling

Quiet Night (Guitar/Double Bass Duet)

A meditation on Francis Schaefer's Line of Despair concept.

line of despair

I Know You Are But What Am I

For Jesse Somfay music has always been about communicating and sharing immense feelings which he finds impossible to convey in any other way. His Borealis alias was born as a twinned satellite to his work under his birth name. Much like conjoined twins, the two share the same heart and breathe with the same lungs, and even though they speak of similar things, they do it from two different vantage points. According to Jesse, it is better for something to be felt in whole than to be defined and reflected upon in approximation, and this album - his sixth to date and second under the Borealis handle - is a truly wholesome, boundless, gorgeous emotional experience on both the end of its creator and its listener. 

Glittervoice is Somfay's most energetically intense work to date. It is both euphoric and dysphoric and the music itself cannot be pigeonholed into any particular genre - hints of techno, oldschool trance or rave complement each other just to ultimately get lost in an artfully crafted trademark sound. It’s easy to allow this multifaceted, hyperlayered, continuously shapeshifting aural multiverse to deprive you of any form of reason, activate all senses and carry you where no music has before, regardless of where you listen to it. Glittervoice’s 16 tracks encompass everything from visceral warehouse techno to stylish ambient compositions via rapid hypnotic drum loops and trance synths of cosmic proportions, all filtered through his unique etherial aesthetic. 

Having something equally introspective and weighty yet exceptionally club-friendly is a rare feat that could soundtrack any modern techno mecca - be it a big dark room or an open air festival. 
The emergence of Borealis meant an unexpected turn for Somfay, but at the end of the day, much like its worthy genre-defying predecessor, Glittervoice is yet another album not of this reality - a sonic guide to entering “the flow”.

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/BorealisNOTR
Soundcloud -  @jessesomfay
Twitter - https://twitter.com/borealisomfay

Borealis - Lover

HIGH JET’s debut EP is a concept release built around their two steadfastly creative tracks, ‘the chase’ and ‘slenderman’. Despite contrasting in genres and moods, they are coherent in design within the context of the release, which was put together similarly to a two film feature: a retrofuture 80s French cop movie and a dark, clever, contemporary horror film. Both tracks come with an addictive novelty value, possibly due to the sense of humor the Bucharest-based duo display through their musical and visual approach.

‘the chase’ is a lax car chase soundtrack with a vivid lead synth hinting at knockabout electronic pop, French electro-house and carefree nightdrives through Vice City. The track is somewhere between wailing and refreshing thanks to its nostalgic hook and alert chord changes.

Second in line is ViLLAGE’s first take on ‘the chase’, a parade of a track that marries the ear-catching fanfare with a sugary pinch of R&B, some hybridized footwork and ensnaring harmonic repetitions. ViLLAGE’s playful pop tinges, colorful synth samples, loose progession and contained drop from his first remix of ‘the chase’ also jut out into the bouncy, melodic house version of the track.

The mood immediately shifts from the washed-out, summery vignette to a much darker place with 3 levels of rawness that the listener has to tread through carefully, making use only of a glowstick with infinite light but a very short range. The relentless and hammering ‘slenderman’ with its maddening percussion, laughter and chants (one of them being the Romanian word for monster) is to obsess over for days, while its two remixes range from ARME’s sweltering UK garage bass to Kalli’s stomping warehouse techno, all three of them dancefloor hit material.

The chord-driven, modern take on an 80s film score alongside their fun nod to the first great myth of the web - the unsettling Slenderman - are sure to indulge a savvy, reference-loving audience. The EP comes with a DIY alt-humor video that has to do with cars, synesthetic flashbacks, absurdism and the 1980s.

Produced & mixed by HIGH JET, ViLLAGE, ARME and Kalli 
Mastered by HIGH JET @ Home Jet 
@highjet 
www.fb.com/dahighjet

Artwork by ROK 
www.fb.com/robnrok

HIGH JET - the chase (ViLLAGE Remix)

this is our first song, we hope you like it.

Exit Music (For A Job)

From "Someplace not here, sometime not now"

BANDCAMP

Some Great

This is a collaboration: The highly talented and groovy Californian Bruce @conover supplied the fab backing track which I cut up, rearranged and constructed a song over. We conversed throughout, whilst I added the melody, vocals, lyrics, all the brass and the trumpet cadenza, extra percussion, strings, re-arrangement, mix, et al, all inspired by the backtrack and discussions with BC.

Don’t Look Down (Don't Slow Up)

Down, down, down, down...

Don’t look down
You can see all you want from here
Don’t look down
It’s just your feet and a can of fear
And if you fall...
The water’s warmer on the far side of the bay

Don’t slow up
The world will never let you get off
Don’t slow up
It's just a spin on a fairground ride 	
And if you do...
The circus moves on to another little town

[Spoken]: “Run, rabbit run. Just keep on running, you don't have time to look back and see if everyone else is coming…”

Don't look down
[Trumpet cadenza]
Don’t cry out
Do you think you’ll just disappear?
And when you cry
The lights are going to shine so brightly on your face

Don’t look down
You can see all you need from right here
Don't slow up
They won't let you hide away for a day...

Don't look down
You can see all you want to hear
And if you do
The world will never let you get away again 

Don’t look down
Don't look down 	
You can see all you need from right here
Don’t slow up 		
They won’t let you hide away for a day
Don’t look down 	
Don’t slow up 		
Don’t cry out 

© Oct 2014  Phil McWalter - Bruce Conover

Don't Look Down

Cares

Marking the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The Berlin Wall of Sound is an acoustic reconstruction of the Berlin Wall. 
Its duration of 7:32 minutes reflects the time sound needs to travel the 
155 kilometres length of the Berlin Wall. Its sound wave’s shape mirrors 
the wall of concrete and its watchtowers. There are no comments – 
the tags depict the victims and mark where they were killed.
 
The Wall of Sound is not easy to bear. But 27 years locked behind 
the concrete Berlin Wall were unbearable.
 
Back in 1989, SoundCloud’s headquarters would have been part of 
the Death Zone next to the Berlin Wall. We dedicate the Wall of Sound 
to the 120 women, men and children, who lost their lives in their 
attempt to live in freedom. We will not forget.

Major original quotes used:

Walter Ulbricht (former leader of the GDR and responsible for the construction) saying a few days before the construction started: „Nobody has the intention to raise a wall“ 

Heinz Hoffmann (former GDR secretary of defense): „To those, who don’t respect our border – they will feel the bullet.“

Erich Honecker (longtime and most powerful leader of the GDR) celebrating 
40 Years of the GDR in 1989: „The German Democratic Republic will exist another 40 years and beyond.“

The Berlin Wall of Sound

Happy Birthday, Lauren Conrad

Grandfather Clock

A little loopy ditty I wrote for all my friends in the states. 

Burleson, TX

Eluvium - The Motion Makes Me Last

  Godspeed You Black Emperor - East Hastings  

هدى عمار - خوف

Free download of Tessellate we recorded at SARM Studios in July


An Awesome Wave

Tessellate (SARM Acoustic Version)

Buy An Awesome Wave

:: http://www.fb.com/origamisound :: http://store.origamisound.com/album/takeover ::

They say catchiness is recipe-based and dance music industry producers make a living trying to find and apply the perfect balance and chemistry between particular elements, however once in a blue moon some guy comes out of nowhere and touches on a bunch of soft spots with a witty seamlessness - what one might call a prodigy. 

ViLLΛGE has been in charge of our visual side, the go-to guy for anything from video trailers to VJing during our club nights. He couldn't avoid making some music of his own and it just so happens that it's not only up to par with everything that Origami Sound stands for but also a testament of his seemingly infinite potential and fantastic sense of quality and appeal. 

"Takeover" is the first in a series of EPs that will focus on our core crew of artists from both the local (Romanian) and international scene.

ViLLΛGE - Dive

This is a music library specifically geared toward film and television projects, written by Keith Kenniff.

unseen@unseen-music 

I Know You Are But What Am I

April