welcome back,, nice to see you again here :)

Excellent. I love to hear the piano running the show cyclically. Gorgeous.

I denote Oriental reminiscences in this wonderful third fragment, dear Davide. The arrangements are great. The super sound clear and crisp. Well, the production level is such excellent as usual. Great work, my friend. It is a pleasure that occasionally show us one of these precious fragments.

Love your unique piano style! Beautiful sound!

Wonderful interplay between the piano melody and the string lines!  Love it!

Cool plucked string (bass?) sound! Very effective!

Here's a track edited from our fourth Lockdown '21 collaboration series, recorded live at home 28/01/21.

Most of the sounds here are highly modified field recordings of things like a washing machine, old piano strings and other things that go bump and clang! 

It starts quite dark and moody, before Gillie brings in a brighter dreamy sound half way through and things become quite serene... for a bit ;-)

One Drop

I guess have listened a lot to Philip Hochstrate.....

Photo: Henry Cartier Bresson

Fragment #3 - I'll be with you

pre-order: imprec.com
Release date: Nov 18, 2022

Golden Leaf is the 19th album by the Italian experimental band Larsen here exploring free-form sounds and spatial dynamics by real-time composing and creating a sonic and social environment.  It also confirms the love and interest the band has for collaborations as ongoing dialogues and portals to new paths.

 This album documents a four-hour site-specific performance by Larsen and Alessandro Sciaraffa featuring interactive sound totems designed by Alessandro Sciaraffa and exclusive food creations by chef Gabriele Gatti. The performance took place at a secret location in Torino (Italy) in 2021 and was meant as an alchemical rite with the audience as an integral part of it. It was recorded and then edited and assembled into two pieces by long-time collaborator, sound engineer, solo musician Paul Beauchamp.

Larsen - Golden Leaf (edit 2)- CD available 12.16.22

Det Förgångna VI

Album samplers of our releases in 2023 from Fields We Found, ghost and tape, Federico Durand, Stefano Guzzetti, Stijn Hüwels and Wil Bolton.

homen145 ghost and tape - Freeform (album sampler)

Anomic

A Weather Internal

Cold Euphoric

'Cold Euphoric' - A Weather Internal - [Fluid Audio, 2023]

HeroicFantasy

Numbers Station is a track part of the Sonologyst album "Shortwave Spectrum".

The new Sonologyst "sonic documentary" delves into the secretive realm of shortwave transmissions; a chronicle of clandestine shortwave transmissions culled from a span of nearly four decades (1982-2021). These mysterious transmissions - repetitive voices, signals, sound pulses, short pieces of music - were collated and edited to compose the tracks of the main album.

Immersed in an isolating fog of dark ambient, deep drone music and cinematic sound art, it provides an auditory exploration of the ongoing Cold War. Originating from covert radio stations engaged in military and espionage endeavours, the tracks unveil a hidden sonic landscape of strategic communication.

The second disc, in its extensive presentation, provides a deeper immersion into these enigmatic broadcasts. Each recording remains unaltered, accompanied only by a ghostly drone. It offers an unfiltered glimpse into the world of clandestine communication, where words are transmitted beneath the radar and in the shadowy confines of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Double CD in a matt-finish gatefold ecopak with graphic design by Abby Helasdottir.

Watch album teaser (YouTube) by Abby Helasdottir: bit.ly/SonologystShortwaveSpectrum

NUMBER STATIONS:

The so-called Number Stations are short-wave radio transmissions, broadcast at various hours of the day, and with variable durations, available on many frequencies and observed and studied for decades by radio amateurs from all over the world. These mysterious transmissions, consisting of voices reading groups of numbers or letters in the international phonetic alphabet, or of Morse code signals or sound pulses, are often preceded by transmission start "alerts" consisting of short pieces of music, sequences of letters or scales of notes, cyclically repeated at set times.

Several studies, conducted by telecommunications experts, have concluded that these transmissions were, and still are, used by numerous secret services to transmit short text messages to their undercover agents, operating in other countries. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, these transmissions suffered a significant decrease, but in recent years other broadcasts have followed the raising of respective new global geopolitical players, and Chinese, Korean and Indian Numbers Stations have been picked up.

Shortwave is cheap, reliable, and, unlike web communications, cannot be intercepted or blocked except in the event of a nuclear explosion. The ideal secret communication system in times of new cold war.

Shortwave Spectrum

Numbers Station

Akhira Sano – 'Keep Making Selects'

Folk music from another dimension by singular artist Kaboom Karavan and his new album "The Log and the Leeway", following a 6 year journey of personal exploration and drastic change. 

"The Log and the Leeway" is released 17th of July 2020 and features amongst others a bizarre cover painting by John Lurie (of The Lounge Lizards). It also comes with a 16 page booklet of musical illustrations by Walter Doogh & Erik K Skodvin that more or less connects and confuses the stories behind the record.

Red and Black LP editions.

The Log and the Leeway

Kaboom Karavan - Silk Skin Armor

Musical architect and sound lover

Album-Patterns: itun.es/gb/f95G-

Fragment #3 - I'll be with you

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