Name: Blue Collar Parade by Marconi Union
Duration: 8 min 13 s
Description: Taken from the album "Beautifully Falling Apart"

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This is the audio from our live improvisation filmed 17th March 2016: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXXAz_6pxfQ&feature=youtu.be . The audio has been taken from the video and improved for listening. Faith Brackenbury plays Violin and Joel Pike plays Guitar and Piano. It is completely improvised and live in one take with no rehearsal beforehand. It's also called "If We Play -variation" as it shares the same key and a small theme from that track appears somewhere in the improv. If We Play is a track from the forth coming 3rd album from Tiny Leaves. Thank you for listening!

If We Play - variation  [live improv]

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Opalescent, the debut album from Mercury Music Prize and Ivor Novello award nominated artist Jon Hopkins has been remastered and reissued for the first time on vinyl for its 15 year Anniversary in a special edition 2 LP gatefold with liner notes. (Pre-order from the Just Music Store now).

Back in 2001, (the year of Opalescent’s original release) the process of creating the album was a joyful one. At the age of 20 Jon had just signed to Just Music, so we bought him a PC and with a hotch-potch of software and some basic equipment, he set to work. His only assistance came from friend and regular collaborator, (another Just Music alumni) Leo Abrahams, who plays Opalescent’s sparkling, plangent guitars.

It was a record which, in numerous, enthusiastic reviews, was filed in the then burgeoning “chill-out” genre. But Jon had no interest in making relaxing or therapeutic music, which may help explain why Opalescent still sounds so distinctive, musically and emotionally complex. It was never meant to be enjoyed passively. It is in the contradictions between beauty and bass, gentleness and volume, ecstasy and elegy, that Opalescent derives its enduring otherness. Even 15 years on, it is never quite what you think it is.

For all Hopkins enjoyed making Opalescent, this was an uncertain period in his life. He was a shy and reclusive musician adrift in London and, like any artist, prey to doubts and apprehension. At its most radiant and awe-inspiring (“Lost In Thought”, “Halcyon”), Opalescent is tinged with something wistful, even mournful. The chilly and hollow, piano-led “Apparition” or the lost-in-deep-space ambience of stand-out track, “Cold Out There” (listen below), contain a kind of universal longing, an ache for love or transcendence, that you can hear in instrumental music as diverse as Tangerine Dream and jazz pianist Bill Evans’s solo pieces.

But while Opalescent was a series of tentative steps, it is also already recognisably the work of Jon Hopkins. In the hypnotic minimalism of “Private Universe” (a precursor to “Light Through The Veins” on Insides), or the dense gloaming of the title track, elements of the drum ‘n’ bass, classical and soundtrack influences that have come to define Jon’s work were clearly asserting themselves. In its passages of drone music, its use of repetition, its cinematic scale, its stark piano lines, the album is an audible antecedent of the very different Immunity – Jon’s acclaimed, recent breakthrough album.

Hopkins currently has an audience waiting in anticipation for his fifth album, a work that he is determined to take as far out-there as he can – and Opalescent is the perfect primer.

Listen to the remastered version of Cold Out There:

Jon Hopkins - Cold Out There (Opalescent Vinyl 2016)

Marconi Union - Weightless(Alexys mix) - walking  in the clouds

Ambientologist is proud and honoured to present, as the first offering of the new label, the fantastic new EP from Antarctic Wastelands. Having treated to Ambient lovers to a fine choice of wonderful singles in recent years, his fullest release to date, Frozen Voyage, is a journey in the truest sense.

The full EP is out now on Bandcamp and streaming services: http://bit.ly/2mTPxLC

A condensed epic, Frozen Voyage is a concise expedition into the wonders of deep exploration, vast yet immediate. The current track, 'Light, Fragmented', offers a dazzling glimpse into the waters below, and the wonders of space.

Be sure to keep up with the exciting releases coming through on Ambientologist, whose primary purpose is to provide resource for mental exploration, emotional experimentation, and above all, wellbeing.

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Antarctic Wastelands - Light, Fragmented

Taken from the album "Beautifully Falling Apart"

Beautifully Falling Apart (Ambient Transmissions Vol 1)

Blue Collar Parade

Taken from the album "Under Wires And Searchlights"

Under Wires and Searchlights

Border Crossing

Temperature Drop

Taken from the download only compilation album "13"

Two Kinds Of Silence

Since the release of their first album in 2003 Marconi Union have stealthily developed an international reputation for their unique fusion of ambient electronica and live instrumentation.

They have recorded for a number of labels and released four highly acclaimed albums as well as contributing to innumerable compilations, art projects, film and TV.

In 2010 founder members, Richard Talbot and Jamie Crossley invited Duncan Meadows to join them and they continue to explore new ideas and sounds.

Blue Collar Parade

Marconi Union

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