February 2021

Related: Nils Frahm/ ambient/ soundscape

Logic Moon

ambient

renaissance

track 7 from the newly remastered and expanded edition of Black Brunswicker’s debut “In The Age of Aristocracy”

Name your price on bandcamp: https://blackbrunswicker.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-age-of-aristocracy-2nd-anniversary-extended-edition

In The Age of Aristocracy: 2nd Anniversary Extended Edition

Black Brunswicker - Vltava

From the Distant|Spirals EP on Past inside the Present:
pitp.bandcamp.com/album/distant-spirals

released May 3, 2019

Past Inside the Present 
This is PITP16 | MMXIX Digital Series

PITP

Distant

Logic Moon and Atmøsphäre come together for ‘Fading’, a carefully assembled study of light and dark. One minute light dances in the dark, and the next minute the shadows mime their way across illuminated canvases.

Logic Moon’s deliberately faint compositional style, coupled with Atmøsphäre’s ear for musical space, combine for something noticeably more affective than their previous solo outputs. A captivating and consuming listen.

Available here: bit.ly/39Q7GzJ

Fading

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Logic Moon & Atmøsphäre - Falling Leaves

"Photo by Céline Colin under a Creative Commons license."

http://www.flickr.com/photos/celine181/7575494552/

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/

Forest Song 森

Image by Dominik Dombrowski - https://unsplash.com/@k1n1m0de
Novelka created a nice video: https://youtu.be/UOWUGWVk52A

Silence

'Short Stories' is the debut album by japanese artist Shuta Yasukochi. The album comes in a 6-Panel CD.

Written and Produced by Shuta Yasukochi. 
Mastering by Rob Small. 
Archives39 // ArchivesCD020 
Archives / 2017

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Shuta Yasukochi - Into The Forest

COSMOSCOPE - smarturl.it/cosmoscope

"Lights out. Headphones on. Breathe, and fly"

A deep, ambient, meditative journey through the cosmos.

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Au5 - Cosmoscope

Phenibut 02

I think of You / Drift (Phenibut 02)

ÓLAFUR ARNALDS & NILS FRAHM - 'a2' from their forthcoming collaborative EP 'STARE'.

ORDER the Ltd. Edition 10" Vinyl/Download HERE and receive an Erased Tapes 5th Anniversary sticker with it:
http://www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP042

'A hazy slow-builder that sits nicely equidistant between Arnalds’ solo work and his excellent Kiasmos project' – The Line Of Best Fit

CONTENT

Erased Tapes label mates Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm record and mix their first collaborative record between Reyjkjavík and Berlin as a surprise release for label founder Robert Raths.

The ambient/electronic work ‘Stare’ is a true family effort from Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm with Anne Müller joining in on cello and all graphics by close label-friend and now in-house designer Torsten Posselt of Feld Studios.

This release will be strictly limited and exclusively available on Record Store Day 2012, April 21st. Coinciding with the 5th Anniversary of Erased Tapes, it’s also available from the official Erased Tapes online store and sure to become a must-have for fans of the label and these two artists.


CONTEXT

Words by Nils Frahm: 
‘I heard ‘Eulogy For Evolution’ for the first time 6 years ago and I was totally captivated. Impossible to know back then that I was supposed to meet Ólafur many years later as my label mate. Later when he took me along a tour of his we also noted that we kind of like hanging out together, doing important things like cover versions of long forgotten songs or eating veggie pizza. Also he would join my live set for a jam and I would return the favour by playing along with his set. 

All in all, I fell for Óli and after one memorable jam session we had in Berlin at Roter Salon in 2011, he finally proposed the idea to visit me in my studio in Berlin to work on 'some music'. I was happy and delighted about that idea, so we got together in April 2011 and after having a big pizza, I plugged in some old analogue synths and we played for four days until late in the night. Also queen Anne Müller stopped by after a show with Agnes Obel to record some cello at 5 am in the morning for ‘b1’. Making music together with people is lovely! 
 
The time I spent with Óli in Berlin made me very happy and the music wasn't like anything I have heard before. It was all very reduced and minimal and I felt like I couldn't have done this alone. So we decided to do another 4-day jam at Óli´s E7 studio in Reykjavik. So I flew there in the end of October to repeat the trick and record some out of this world ambient music. It didn't take us too long to write ‘a1’ and ‘a2’.  I can’t wait for the follow up!’

Words by Olafur Arnalds:
 ‘After having toured together and having had many inspiring late night conversations, I decided to visit Nils in his Durton Studio in Berlin for a weekend. We didn't have anything specific in mind, we just wanted to hang out, jam and eat some falafel. That's what we did, but somehow we also made 25 minutes of ambient bliss that weekend. 

After that we quickly decided we had to do the same in my studio in Iceland. Just hang out for a weekend and possibly make some music. So the album became kind of an Iceland vs. Berlin thing. I think you can hear it very well in the sound (side a vs. side b) and that is the most interesting thing about this record for me: that subtle but significant different in the characteristics of the music two people made in Iceland against what the same two people made in Germany. 

I'm not sure why we decided to keep it secret, it just happened. But it sure was fun! I remember a party at Robert's (Erased Tapes founder) flat in Berlin, where me and Nils stood in the corner the whole night whispering about the project. We then delivered the fully mastered record with finished artwork to Robert around the 5th anniversary of the label. It would have been nice to be there to see his face…"

The live video of Nils and Ólafur’s spontaneous improv live set in Berlin last summer won them many fans since, including UK electronic music producer Max Cooper who is now remixing two of his “absolute favourite artists”. Nils and Ólafur will be touring together throughout Europe this spring.

You can watch it here: http://vimeo.com/28631568
 


LABEL: ERASED TAPES RECORDS    UK RELEASE DATE: APRIL 21, 2012
CAT.NO: ERATP042 EP/DL   EAN: 4050486068137

TRACK LISTING:  1. a1  2. a2  3. b1

OFFICIAL WEBSITES:   OLAFURARNALDS.COM   DURTONSTUDIO.COM   ERASEDTAPES.COM 

Stare

Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm - a2

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This is the first track of a wonderful cooperation between Berlins poetess @Stephanie-Mattner and @Cis-Minor from our upcoming album "Zwischen Seenot, Salz und Tang". 

"Meeresstimmung" 
Poem & Performance: Stephanie Mattner (https://www.stephanie-mattner.de/dichterin/seenot/)
Music: Cis Minor

Zwischen Seenot, Salz und Tang

"Meeresstimmung" - A Spoken Word Poem by Stephanie Mattner

Demo 3

Grenzwellen 5

The Wanderer

I See Planets

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Somnia

say goodbye

Over the past year, a selection of artists have been digging through the depths of their creative pursuits, for material they either cannot finish, or else would like to see adapted. These same artists and more have delved into the resulting repertoire, and emerged with new, repurposed pieces.

Out of this births the first volume of the Sustain Series: a means for artists to make use of old sounds, hoping to bring forward music that might have otherwise not seen the light of day. Thanks to the input from a variety of fantastic musicians, old material can breathe new life, sometimes in more than one form.

Find it here: bit.ly/3nW52x3

In keeping with this 'recycling' of ideas, all proceeds of the compilation here on Bandcamp will go to Conservation International, promoting sustainability and conservation across the world.

www.conservation.org/

It’s ever more important to think sustainably for the sake of our planet, and every effort we make will help curb the cataclysmic events we see shaping in front of us. Give what is feasible in these tough times, but most of all please enjoy this collection of recovered gems.

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Logic Moon - Drone 0002 (Lauge Recycle)

OtisPacific music: synth
Lady of Fire Poetry: vocals, synth

https://soundcloud.com/otispacific

Truth teller
Truth teller
what will 
you tell
will your tongue
be a sweetner
a luminescent pearl
or will it be a flame
to burn down the world.

Truth Teller

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SAD EYES

Rubber Souls

Ennio's Muse

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Shepherd

Written & recorded by Matteo Neufeld , in collaboration with Benoît Pioulard

Mixed by Matt Kidd

Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studio

To Be In The Grey Is Okay (feat. Benoît Pioulard)

Amulet

Prayer

Piano Day 2021 sees Nils Frahm surprise the world with his Erased Tapes debut. Wait, what? How? Anyone who has seen the trail blazing sonic pioneer live will know Nils likes to deadpan a joke. Graz is in fact the first studio album he recorded for the label back in 2009, that somehow remained a secret… until now.

Stream, download & pre-order Graz now (CD & LP shipping on May 21): https://idol.lnk.to/Graz 

"A grand piano is a particular kind of beast to play, which will only sound refined and beautiful if you command a strong control over the keyboard. Each slight change in touch results in a different timbre, which will be rewarded when used wisely and will be your trapdoor when you fail to hold the horses. I remember how I had to squeeze the music out of the grand piano in the Graz sessions, and while I enjoy listening to it now, I kept these recordings secret for a good while – they sound like a much younger version of myself to me, and a lot of the musical expressions from that time would be impossible for me to replicate today. Close friends whom I had shared the record with reminded me of it once in a while, and some of the pieces got released in other versions on the album Spaces in the meantime. But somehow, any piece of music you create wants to get out there in order to find you, which is why I’m glad to share this beast with you and do hope you enjoy listening to it too!
Love, Nils"

Graz

Hammers (ft. Peter Broderick)

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Nils Frahm - Hammers (ft. Peter Broderick)

I was listening to some of the sound files I had made for past live performances to use as reference for a particular work. The file for a live performance in 2017, which I was supposed to appear but never did, really caught my attention. 

I have no idea what I was thinking at the time when I created the file with the looping processed water sound. All I can say is that the sound, though very simple, captured my heart in 2021. 

It was just a loop of some processed water sounds of different lengths, but there was a nostalgic comfort in it, like when I was still asleep in my mother's womb. 

In line with my concept as an artist, which is to "Multidirectionally considering aesthetics which are very familiar, often forgotten, concealed in nature or events, and finally reveal them," I discovered a beauty that I had seen many times but had been unaware for years in my Mac hard drive. It is very pleasant to listen to it by myself, so I present it here with some modifications to the original file.

Produced by Hidekazu Imashige 
Cover Photo by Hidekazu Imashige

Origin

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