Taken from the upcoming album 'Gaze Into The Sun', forthcoming on Fluid Audio...

Gaze Into The Sun

Szymon Kaliski - To Linger

Today I'd like to introduce you to Laurel-based (Mississippi, US) neo-classical composer, pianist, and synth (and breakfast food) enthusiast, Jameson Nathan Jones. Perhaps "an introduction" is the wrong term here since Jones appeared on these pages back in 2021 with his beautiful piece, "Places We Could Have Gone", which I have featured on this Piano Day Special. He's got a handful of releases on his Bandcamp page, with the 5-track Carried EP appearing on Bigo & Twigetti imprint in May 2019. He's now off to release a full-length on an independent label, Fractured Capstan, scheduled for December 2nd, and I am excited to premiere a track titled "Kept" from the upcoming album, Somewhat the Same. The result is a very humble "collection of sonic experiments created with no cameras, no recording engineers, and no intended end-game or subsequent expectations," and it is moving in its honesty, sincerity, and warmth. Here, gently guided modular synth arpeggios are accompanied by soft piano keys, a touch of distorted lead swarms, and driving percussion to create a melodic journey through voltages and space. It's a beautiful marriage of organic and synthetic, and I think that when you hear this piece, you will appreciate my choice for today's track premiere. 

"Kept" was among the first tracks written in an empty church during the first lockdown. It started with some simple piano ideas, which I layered using the same felt upright featured in my 2018 release, "Sanctuary Sessions." The piano sits in the church's large, reverberant sanctuary, and I've always found that some kind of magic happens when recording such an intimate sound in such a large space. As was a common theme for this album, those initial recordings were fleshed out back at my studio, where I created a bed of tape loops from samples I had made of the church's magnificent pipe organ. While the organ features much more prominently on other tracks, I find the instrument's string celeste stops to be so stunning I tried to work them in almost like a reverb-drenched synth pad at various points throughout the record. Several layers of synths and eurorack percussion continue to build through the climax before it fades back to its humble beginnings."

Somewhat the Same

Kept

TRACK PREMIERE : Jameson Nathan Jones - Kept

Main Theme

a hazy ambient journey that drifts like the last light of a summer evening, filled with distant laughter and the soft ache of childhood memories you can’t quite touch again.

golden hour

Sacred Geometry

Composed, Played & Recorded By Madeleine Cocolas + Monolyth & Cobalt.                                                                                                                Mixed by Monolyth & Cobalt in October 2015.

Madeleine Cocolas : piano                                                                                                                                                                                     Monolyth & Cobalt : strings, breathes on tapes, electronic devices,  effects processors, loop pedal, amplified objects.

Month Seven Project (Madeleine Cocolas + Monolyth & Cobalt)

Not Home may seem an unusual choice of single from Anne Garner’s upcoming album Lost Play but there’s precious little that is conventional about this singer-songwriter. Fans of her strange, seductive melancholy will be beguiled once again by the song’s signature union of disembodied sadness and reassuring intimacy. Warm waves of electric guitar and synthesiser cradle glitchy, restless percussives, the soaring silvered pedal steel of Jack Hayter (Hefner, Dollboy) and a lyrical message both beautiful and hard to hear.

Not Home and Porya Hatami's remix are available across all major platforms and in lossless 24bit audio exclusively from Slowcraft Records.

Written by Anne Garner
Produced by James Murray with Anne Garner
Artwork by Bobbie Russon
Mastered by Dean Honer
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annegarner.com
poryahatami.com
jackhayter.com
bobbierusson.com

slowcraft.info

https://slowcraft.bandcamp.com/album/not-home

Not Home

11th May 2018

Michiru Aoyama is a Japanese ambient producer from Kyoto who also enjoys making music in the quiet seaside city of Kamakura, just south of Tokyo. Michiru studied electronic music production in Berlin after his work was hand-chosen by Ryuichi Sakamoto for a radio audition in 2006. Since then, Michiru has released projects on prominent ambient labels such as Organic Industries, taâlem, and Somehow Recordings.

Michiru Aoyama’s Brilliant Days LP comprises two tracks of untitled songs that weave in and out of each other. Michiru’s signature guitar harmonics are treated with serene electronic filters met with youthful under-layers of electronic experimentations and glitchy backdrops.

Production - @michiru-aoyama
Mastering - James Plotkin 
Artwork - Patti Bai 

180g vinyl pressed at GGR, Cleveland, Ohio. Comes with insert and download code. Limited to 200 copies. 

Available for ordering at Juno, Boomkat, Bleep, Deejay.de, etc. 
Bandcamp: https://miraearts.bandcamp.com/album/brilliant-days
More updates on our website and social pages: https://miraearts.com/

Michiru Aoyama - Brilliant Days LP [Audio Sample]

Composed, Played & Recorded By Madeleine Cocolas + Monolyth & Cobalt

Mixed by Monolyth & Cobalt.

Month Nine Project (Madeleine Cocolas + Monolyth & Cobalt)

Track taken from the upcoming album 'The Topologies of Blue'...

Bill Seaman - Piano, Piano Libraries, Sample Compositions, Samples, Abstracted Percussion, Non-location Recordings, Electric Guitar Abstractions 
Wei Ping Lin – Violin Solos 
David Rothenberg - Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Contralto Clarinet Solos
Sid Richardson – Upright Bass Libraries
Tim Bjorklund – Electric Guitar Libraries
Volkmar Klein, Sound Engineer for initial violin recording

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Produced by Bill Seaman
Mastered by James Plotkin 
Cover design by Ian Hazeldine 
Overall design by Daniel Crossley

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Special Thanks to all of the musicians + John Supko, Craig Tattersall, Volkmar Klein, Maura Walsh-Seaman, Dan Crossley & James Plotkin.

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The Topologies of Blue

Bill Seaman - Isolated Reflections / Dark Slippages / Falling Inward / A Collection Of Repercussions

Due out on limited CD on July 24th

DR-69 : PORYA HATAMI - Kani + Remixes (incl. Darren McClure, Purl, Arovane, Tomotsugu Nakamura, Sven Laux)

Originally released in 2013 on the Inner Ocean label, Porya Hatami’s “Kani” was a four track EP showcasing his intimate take on modern ambient music. The Iranian artist has issued a large number of albums that imbue pastoral ambient with subtle field recordings and melodies. The melodic aspect of Hatami’s work took centre stage in this release, and shone bright across the four pieces.

So now, seven years later, “Kani” is being given the reissue that it deserves, and will delight those listeners new to it, and those who are rediscovering it again. Besides the original four tracks, there are an additional five remixes by artists working in a similar orbit to Hatami, and some who have collaborated directly with him in the past.

These reworks cover plenty of ground, reimagining the source material into new shapes. Some remixes extend the foggy soundscapes and conjure delicate melodic plucks. Others add mellow pulses that infer rhythm under the washes of sound, while others take these rhythmic ideas much further.

Original tracks mastered by Jason Corder aka offthesky
Remixes mastered by Porya Hatami
Artwork by Hawar Amini

Buy CD / DL

Porya Hatami - Restless (Sven Laux Interpretation)

Madeleine is an Australian born composer who writes electronic, ambient and postclassical music.