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Melancholic

Meditation 41

Ambient 98

fave listenings of this month

in the pic : Tim Buckley

"musica assoluta" (agosto 2022)

Ambient

Dark Ambient / Cosmic Ambient

Radio Mnemosyne

Långt under noll

Unmistakably Cio D’Or, Polar Q’s eight tracks explore ambient and cinematic techno, before dissolving into broken-beat, aquatic compositions from the outer reaches. 


Distributed by N.E.W.S. Mastered by Emanuel Geller (Salz Mastering).

“With deep thanks for the scholarship from the Ministry of Culture and Science NRW on the topic of water and climate change with electronic orchestral elements and piano.” - Cio D’Or

B4 Cio D'Or - Transparent Q III

B3 Cio D'Or - Permanent Drop Q X

080122002 MDLR Ambient

One of my all-time favourite recordings of free improvisation is „Limescale“ by Tony Bevan, Alex Ward, Derek Bailey, Sonic Pleasure, T.H.F. Drenching @stuart-calton. Here I play contrabass recorder along the first track „Burger Plus“.

Limescale Playalong

What Does The Night Say?

dig perc piano, dig piano, violin: matthias boss

so wie die dinge liegen

walking around in circles

From our Album "Inseln", released on Whitelabrecs

Support

Logic Moon & Henrik Meierkord  - Inseln

Intro

Feelz

Soletto

‘Floating World’ is an album by US based artist Todd Gautreau, who records as Tapes and Topographies. It was created in response to a collaboration project called Thirty-Six Views of Newland Island with British artist Jonathan S Hooper. The album follows last year’s ‘Amplitudes’ and is another entry to Todd’s discography, alongside music on labels such as Past Inside The Present, Dronarivm, Shimmering Moods and his own Simulacra Records.

Jonathan S Hooper is a mixed-media artist based in London, who works with paintings, photography, sculpture and film. Thirty-Six Views of Newland Island is an evolving multi-factorial project in which Hooper continues his exploration of ontological concepts of time and space through the landscapes of his native Cornwall. Specifically, the project focuses on a small uninhabited outcrop called Newland Island, which lies just off the Cornish coast in the Atlantic Ocean’s most westerly margins. The project’s title is inspired by Katushika Hokusai’s series of woodblock prints of Mount Fuji, drawing in Hooper’s broader interest in Japan’s artistic heritage. It also adds to the cultural connection between Cornwall and Japan first established in St Ives, in the 1920’s, through the collaboration of master potters Bernard Leach and Hamada Shoji. A collaboration that continued through much of the twentieth century.

A particularly fascinating consideration is that Mount Fuji is an instantly recognisable geographic icon, yet in contrast, Newland Island is unknown to most. This frees the project from the limits of preconception, opening up opportunities to explore further ideas of landscape, and our place within it. Through collaboration with Gautreau (who is based some 5000 miles away), Hooper sought to give creative licence to a composer, in order to encourage another viewpoint. He had first discovered Todd’s music through Elizabeth Alker’s BBC Radio 3 Unclassified programme, and subsequently reached out to invite him to work on a soundtrack, which has now become ‘Floating World’. He sent photographs of his paintings, scans of the polaroids and his studio notes; the work developed organically into a collection of nine soundscapes, in which Hooper sees as independent views of Newland Island in their own right.

Hooper will be working to share this project through galleries and installations and we felt it was apt to assign full creative control over the CD packaging design to these two artists. Todd, also a graphic designer, has pulled together some of the polaroids for the outer and inner sleeves. There is a 16 page booklet included, which contains paintings, further polaroids and text from both artists. This is also included with the digital version of this album.

Written and produced by Todd Gautreau
Mastered by James Edward Armstrong
Paintings and polaroids by Jonathan S Hooper
Design by Todd Gautreau

https://www.jonathanshooper.com/

floating world - reflections on 36 views of newland island

wlr126 Tapes and Topographies -Floating World - Reflections on 36 Views of Newland Island

Night Drives

1982

Buddhist Incantations the meditative sounds of buddhist chants & mantras

Buddhist Chanting 4: Prayer Guru Rinpoche to Clear Obstacles on the path, By Jigme Namgyal (EX TIPA)

From the album "The Edge of a Fairytale", released April 2009 on Spotted Peccary Music.

Minotaur's Lair

From the album "Autumn Continent", released 2006 on Spotted Peccary Music.

Autumn Continent 1

From the album "Radio Silence", originally self-released on CD-R 2004, remastered and re-released 2007 on Spotted Peccary Music. If you listen closely, you'll actually hear my voice in this one.

Vortex

Excerpt of track from the album "Secret Observatory", released 2005 on Spotted Peccary Music.

Garden of the Divine (excerpt)

Vajrasattva (Sanskrit: वज्रसत्त्व, Tibetan: རྡོ་རྗེ་སེམས་དཔའ། - Short form is "dorsem" རྡོར་སེམས།, Монгол: Доржсэмбэ)[

Om Vajrasattva Samaya / Om Benza Sato Samaya

This is a mix of my own tracks that I did somewhere back around... 2009 I think, shortly after the release of the The Edge of a Fairytale-album. It contains selected tracks from my four first albums, as well as a few unreleased tracks.

Track List:

1. Garden of the Divine (excerpt 1) [Secret Observatory]
2. Delta Capricorni [The Edge of a Fairytale]
3. Passageway [Autumn Continent]
4. Pillars of Creation [The Edge of a Fairytale]
5. Garden of the Divine (excerpt 2) [Secret Observatory]
6. The Dark Light [Radio Silence]
7. The Tides of Time [Autumn Continent]
8. Vortex [Radio Silence]
9. Entropy [Secret Observatory]
10. Our Special Place [unreleased]
11. Early Life Remainings [Autumn Continent]
12. Gravity Shift [unreleased]
13. Three Years Ago [The Edge of a Fairytale]

[Album title within brackets]
All albums & tracks, except for track 10 & 12, are released on Spotted Peccary Music
http://www.spottedpeccary.com
Composed, produced & mixed by Stefan Strand

In the mix

Not only is Manjushri a bodhisattva who is representative of wisdom, but he also belongs to the trinity of family protectors. The family that he is known for protecting includes the first supreme Buddha – Shakyamuni. Of all of the known and recognized bodhisattvas, Manjushri is the individual who is known for having the closest association and relationship with the Buddha.
Manjushri Mantra helps the mind to be free from ignorance and heightens one's intelligence. Allowing clarity of thought and increase memory retention.


Manjushri Mantra (Tibetan Deepvoice Resonant Chant)

ImRam - Mariam Fantesy Violin

Klaus Schulze about „X“:
Richard Wagner could also have been part of these musical biographies on "X". Wagner is particularly close to me because for me he was the first to create a synthesis of the arts. For instance he demanded for a composition a separate theatre where the orchestra could disappear in the pit. Therein I see an analogy to the synthesizer. Here the actual instrument is also disappearing behind a few buttons – you're hearing very much but you don't see much. But Wagner was a far too tremendous topic because then I would have had to make "X" a triple album. For this reason I had chosen only authors – except Friedemann Bach – who had influenced me very much. Frank Herbert's novel Dune almost was a bible for me at that time! Bavarian king Ludwig II was, of course, no author but his life is a novel itself. "X" also was film music – Barracuda – I had the budget so I could afford an orchestra. However, it was really difficult to master the orchestral score. I can actually write notes – I once took also classical guitar lessons – but to write such a score is a different kind of thing. All that music I could have played within a day but on the score I worked for four weeks long. Cellist Wolfgang Tiepold was a big help since I wasn't that experienced just to say a violin can really play what I had written in the score. In the middle section of "Ludwig II." We had to make a tape loop for those repetitions. The loop reached out across the studio and the kitchen, and then we looped it. Because the musicians dropped their violins when trying to play this passage live for 15 minutes. The tape loop of course was – typical for my compositions! – 20 meters long, haha. The bonus track "Objet d'Louis" is a live verson of "Ludwig II." using a complete orchestra. I did that in 1978 because I wanted to hear how this track sounds live on stage with an orchestra. I was on tour and also performed "Ludwig", and in Belgium there was an opportunity to perform the song in that style. A radio station wanted to broadcast the concert live. So I asked if we can do that with an orchestra. Then Tiepold rehearsed it a little bit with the orchestra, and in the evening we played it and it was broadcasted live. Now you can hear it again on the CD.


Heinrich Von Kleist

Release date: 29/09/17

If you would like to review this release, please email info@astralindustries.co.uk

Format: 2x180g vinyl//matte finish gatefold cover//mastered by Noel Summerville//original artwork by Theo Ellsworth.

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DC Promo Tracks #114: "Morning Splendor" by Pauline Anna Strom is part of the upcoming release "Trans-Millenia Music" on RVNG Intl. @igetrvng

Pre-Order: https://smarturl.it/rervng10-rvng

Pauline Anna Strom’s unique style of inner space music reaches across time to futures and pasts far from our own. Trans-Millenia Music compiles eighty minutes of Strom’s most evocative work, composed and recorded between 1982 and 1988, for the first authorized overview of the enigmatic Bay Area composer. 

Pauline Anna Strom’s Trans-Millenia Music is available November 10, 2017 on double LP, CD, and digital formats. Vinyl and CD editions feature original artwork by visionary Karma Moffett.

Trans-Millenia Music (ReRVNG10 - Promo)

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DC Promo Tracks #114: Pauline Anna Strom "Morning Splendor"

Live recording of Jóhann Jóhannsson performing on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic (2/7/12)  
Hear/Watch the full session in the archives here:  http://www.kcrw.com/music/programs/mb/mb120207johann_johannsson

Jóhann Jóhannsson - Flight From the City (Live on KCRW)

We welcome back Gallery Six, with his new album 'Snow Light'. Our first release this year. CD edition limited to 50 copies.

Written and Produced by Hidekazu Imashige. 
Mastering by Rob Small. 
Photography by Brian Young | www.instagram.com/losingtoday 
Archives43 // ArchivesCD24 
Archives / 2018
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Gallery Six - Passage

Miracle, Mystery and Authority

DESTINO DE ABRIL- Performed by The Green Car Motel

PIOTR KUREK 'Polygome' (LP/DL)
Release date: 29th March 2019

Cat.#: HITD 046
All songs written & Produced by Piotr Kurek
Mixed by Devin Greenwood @ Honey Jar, NY
Mastered by Mike Grinser @ D&M, Berlin
Artwork by Florent Groc

www.handsinthedarkrecords.com
www.handsinthedarkrecords.bandcamp.com

PIOTR KUREK - Polygome

Tangerine Dream - Reims, 1974 (Tangerine Tree Vol. 30)

"My name is Devin Underwood and I make many different styles of music under the name Specta Ciera (https://soundcloud.com/specta_ciera) . I also create electro/house music as Devroka. I love working with other musicians and have many collaboration releases as well."
More info can be found at http://spectaciera.com

Tracklist:

Eluder - Dusk Invites The Dark
Sleepy Town Manufacture & Unit 21 - Pairwise
Darren Harper - Brush
Porn Sword Tobacco - Evans Sundown Corp.
Krill minima - Submarine Poetry
Mind over MIDI - Linear
Ishq - The Sun Arcs A Smile
Voder - Leaving Cylon Tape Loop

Have a good listening.

Deep Breakfast 048 - Specta Ciera

The brothers Samu and Ville Kuukka from Helsinki, Finland, making music together since they were teenagers, and trying their hand at many styles, came upon a unique sound in 2004 and thus were born The Gentleman Losers (https://soundcloud.com/the-gentleman-losers). Their mix of ambient aesthetics, lo-fi-but-hi-fi production, post-rock leanings, a hint of Americana, and a dark undercurrent, has earned them a cult following – which is way cooler than being a stupid lame-o big name and selling lots of records and tickets and t-shirts and stickers.

Tracklist:

1 Ceremony in Starlight  Mark Isham, Art Lande
2 Glass Shattering  Yoshio Ojima
3 El Conquistador  Daniel Lanois
4 Ayers Rock Bubble Eyes  Wally Badarou
5 The Emigrant Hannu Karjalainen
6 Rabbits in The Path Midori Hirano
7 Installation Tapani Rinne
8 Pleasantly Lost Emilia
9 Nexus On The Beach Roberto Musci
10 Raw Silk Uncut Wood Laurel Halo
11 John Cage 13 Harmonies: No. 10 GreenwichNoel Akchoté
12 Sketch Julien Neto
13 Wind in Black Trees The Gentleman Losers
14 It Tolls for Thee Vito Ricci

Have a good listening.

Deep Breakfast 049 - The Gentleman Losers

Alessandro is an electronic music producer, DJ and record collector based in Switzerland.
For his contribution to Deep Breakfast Series, the man delivers a special 2hr journey into the realms of ambient and experimental music.

~ DB058 by https://soundcloud.com/alessandro_crimi ~

Tracklist:
01. Linkwood - Suspension (Linkwood)
02. AXS - Distant Receptor (Cold Fiction)
03. Clubsessel - Wiesenliegen (K2 O)
04. Space Afrika - sd/tl (Sferic)
05. Aquarium - Swimming (Silver Lake)
06. Gallery Six - Morgunn (Dewtone)
07. Laslo - Maradek (Greta Cottage Woodpile)
08. Skóll - V (Accent Records)
09. DSN. - Code 69 Revisited (Source)
10. Leafar Legov - Family Is Everything (Giegling)
11. Qik - Ensueña (Aula Magna)
12. Saphileaum - Violet Pond (Silent Season)
13. Aquarium - Floating (Silver Lake)
14. DT-90 - Magnetosphere (Space Of Variants)
15. 2030 - Theta (Subosc)
16. Sa Pa - Room With A View (Mana)
17. Earthen Sea - Living Space (Kranky)
18. Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek - Helio (Faitiche)
19. Howes - Cold Storage A.03 (Cong Burn)
20. Submersion & mon0 - Passage Of Silence (Silent Season)
21. Sraunus - Glaxomi III (Kunst Musik)

Have a good listening.

Deep Breakfast 058 - Alessandro Crimi

" Recently I found myself listening to more music that comforts me and serve as sort of an emotional scaffolding. I pulled together some pieces which I find to have a healing quality which I hope to be able to relay to you. ”

~ Deep Breakfast 065 by Night Dives (https://soundcloud.com/divedeep) ~

Tracklist:
01. Laraaji - Ocean Flow Zither
02. Bark Psychosis - Pendulum Man
03. Global Communication - 4 14
04. Windy & Carl - The Smell Of Old Books
05. Hiroshi Yoshimura - ミスト (Mist)
06. Glåsbird - Søvnfjord
07. Glåsbird - Fjernfjord
08. S.hel - Eia Popeia
09. Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Palace Of Time
10. Boris Salchow - Stars
11. Gigi Masin - How To Disappear In A Kiss
12. Bedroom - Apart Worlds (Ft. Yoga)
13. Suso Sáiz - Frogs In Love
14. Marsen Jules - Oeillet En Delta
15. Ju ca - Chasms
16. Melaine Dalibert - Musique Pour Le Lever Du Jour

Have a good listening.

Photo credit: Marcus Chong

Deep Breakfast 065 - Night Dives

“For your pleasure: newest and latest favorites from my rotations, some blasts from the past plus some great stuff you may have not heard of. Melodic classic ambient gems, haunting melodies, nostalgic tones, deep relaxing colors with moving pastels and some tasty guitar sprinkled in of which I’ll share with you. These have influenced me and inspired my love of this beautiful art form.” 
Hipnotic Earth has been releasing ambient albums since 2015 and has some upcoming new albums on Whitelabrecs, Past Inside the Present, Dronarivm and a track on Shimmering Moods. In February, Rare Quiet Day was released on Healing Sound Propagandist, and in May two remixes on Liquid Bloom’s ‘ReGen: Deep Ambient Remixes.’

~ Deep Breakfast 068 by https://soundcloud.com/hipnoticearth ~

Tracklist:
0:00:00 - Adrift by Pleq & Hakobune [https://pleq.bandcamp.com/album/adrift]
0:04:14 - Dissolve by Tear Ceremony [https://tearceremony.bandcamp.com/album/film-decay]
0:08:38 - Falling Hum by Altars Altars [https://altarsaltars.bandcamp.com/album/kind-hums-cassette]
0:16:25 - Gloriously Gentle, Warm & Fuzzy by Halftribe [https://halftribe.bandcamp.com/album/backwater-revisited]
0:20:41 - Still Wandering by vidnaObmana [https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/revealed-by-composed-nature]
0:26:41 - Eight by Nobuto Suda [https://organic-industries.bandcamp.com/album/transitoriness-oi010]
0:32:55 - The Seduction Of Dr. Pasteur by Richard Bone [https://www.discogs.com/Richard-Bone-Serene-Life-Of-Microbes/release/834490]
0:40:05 - Natur - Dub 01 by Dubicity [https://bionika.bandcamp.com/album/natur-dubicity]
0:45:31 - Naiima, An Excerpt by zakè (扎克) & Tyresta [https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/healing-sounds-a-compilation-for-hurricane-recovery]
0:47:29 - Enoch by Bubble [https://bubble9.bandcamp.com/album/01]
0:52:48 - Refresh, Restore by Spheruleus [https://spheruleus.bandcamp.com/album/night-spheres-ep]
0:57:59 - Monsoon I (Anticipation) by Lycia [https://lycia.bandcamp.com/album/ionia]
1:00:59 - Map In Hand, Pt. 4 (Epilogue) by Seaworthy [https://12kmusic.bandcamp.com/album/map-in-hand]
1:05:09 - Quiet Boy by Black Brunswicker [https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/hidden-amongst-the-trees-and-foothills]
1:10:42 - Voyagers by Gallery Six with Lights Dim [https://lightsdim.bandcamp.com/album/young-city-ep]
1:15:00 - It's Not The Same Without You by Slow Clinic [https://audiogourmet.bandcamp.com/album/the-things-i-leave-behind]
1:21:15 - Once In The Summer Morning When The Sun Was High by Murkok [https://www.discogs.com/murkok-Investigation/release/7652409?sort=catno&sort_order=]
1:25:55 - Looking Into The Past by Benn Jordan [https://bennjordan.bandcamp.com/album/pale-blue-dot]
1:30:02 - Song For Staring by Swell Sounds [https://ache-label.bandcamp.com/album/ache-compilation-001]
1:33:38 -  Fern And Robin by Loscil [https://loscil.bandcamp.com/album/endless-falls]
1:40:27 - спускаясь в самую глубь by Blank Embrace [https://blankembrace.com/album/--63]
1:46:40 - Coastal Lows by Halftribe [https://archivesdubmusic.bandcamp.com/album/daydreams-in-low-fidelity]
1:49:34 - Osmund by Stabilo (Speaker Gain Teardrop) [https://stabilo-loadbang.bandcamp.com/album/unknown-tracks-08-12]
1:53:41 - Flam by José Soberanes [https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/the-rising-tide]

Have a good listening.

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Deep Breakfast 068 - Hipnotic Earth

Coherence EP

Coherence

Silverbird

Slow Light 2 (Ambient)

The sound of Logic Moon has graced the airwaves on esteemed labels such as Whitelabrecs, Archives and Ambientologist, among others.