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Ólafur Arnalds and Janus Rasmussen finally release their unique Nordic electronic sounds in album size.

'Full of melancholy-frosted electronics and emotive swells of classical piano, the new single from Nordic duo Ólafur Arnalds﻿ and Janus Rasmussen is a delicate, icy slowburn' – NME

Pre-order the CD/2LP/DL: www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP062
Pre-order the DL via iTunes and receive the album version of 'Thrown' instantly: snip.ftpromo.net/kiasmos

After dropping several tracks and performing at select festivals throughout the years, Ólafur Arnalds and Janus Rasmussen dedicated the year 2014 to explore the area in-between Ólafur’s more acoustic, piano-based solo work and Janus’s synth-heavy electro pop, with their collaborative electronic project Kiasmos.

By focusing solely on their self-titled debut album, Ólafur and Janus have been able to combine and further develop their unique sound aesthetics to complete an album driven by their mutual love for electronic music. Made in Ólafur’s newly build studio in Reykjavík, Iceland, a majority of the album was recorded using acoustic instruments next to a variety of synthesisers, drum machines and tape delays. It features a live drummer, string quartet and Ólafur performing on the grand piano, producing an ambient, textured sound, which makes it a perfect home listen and equally danceable record. If you listen closely, you can spot them record the thumb piano, finger snapping and even the sound of the metal grinder of a lighter slowly to replace the usual electronic hi-hat sounds, giving the album a far more intimate and unique atmosphere.

“We decided to start almost completely over with this record, so most of the material is written this year with the idea of making a record that can stand as one piece rather than a collection of songs. I am very excited to get a proper record out exploring a different territory than I am used to. I touch a lot on electronic genres in my own music but never have the opportunity to go full out electronic like we do here.” – Ólafur Arnalds

“The Kiasmos project has been around since 2009, but because of all our other projects we never really got the time to sit down and write all the tracks we always wanted to. So when we early this year finally found the time to sit down and make a full length album there was so much we wanted to try out. The result surprised us a bit, it's deeper and more emotional than we imagined it to be, but that's the beauty of being able to make an album.” – Janus Rasmussen

Kiasmos – s/t will be released on Double-Vinyl, CD and Download via Erased Tapes on October 27th, 2014.

TRACK LISTING:

1. Lit 2. Held 3. Looped 4. Swayed 5. Thrown 6. Dragged 7. Bent 8. Burnt

LIVE DATES:

29.11.2014 London (UK) – Village Underground
05.12.2014 Berlin (DE) – Watergate
06.12.2014 Istanbul (TR) – Salon
15.01.2015 Groningen (NL) – Eurosonic

OFFICIAL WEBSITES: facebook.com/kiasmos · erasedtapes.com

Kiasmos

Bent

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Kiasmos - Bent

Fun projects need to be shared. In this case I like to give away my newest fun project - I did in my free time. Hashtag is a combination of five elements in one track. With the focus on a snare drum roll, a upward pitching part, a melody, a fat baseline and acid elements. Acid in that case means, crazy sounds in a groovy beat. Hope you like it - have fun.

WAV quality here:
http://www.borisbrejcha.de/hashtag

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Hashtag - Boris Brejcha (Original Mix) FREE

DOWNLOAD ON iTUNES: https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/journey-radio-mix-feat.-emma/id922052445?i=922052654
FACEBOOK: facebook.com/wearebunt

Mixed and mastered by Nikodem Milewski
www.facebook.com/MixedbyNikodemMilewski


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Journey (ft. Emma Carn)

For the past eight years the duo of Rob Lowe and Michael Muller have nurtured and refined their creative partnership as the core members of the band Balmorhea.  Though their first album on Western Vinyl Rivers Arms (2008) garnered some remarkable press, their self-titled debut, recorded in 2006 and released in 2007 best captures the duo's unique magic as it first blossomed.  With no label, distributor, manager, publicist, or booking agent the duo quietly self-released their first recordings and started playing live shows. 

For these two Texans the release of their self-titled album was the beginning of a new trajectory in their lives.  They were young enough that their prefrontal cortexes were still developing, but old enough to tap into the ancient stories that coursed through their veins.  Though crudely recorded at home, those early songs display all of the key characteristics and emotional scope that continue to define the duo's sound.  Now, seven years later Western Vinyl is honored to have the opportunity reissue the band's self-titled album, and make it available on vinyl for the first time ever.

In honor of this special reissue, the audio has been lovingly remastered, drawing out even more of the nuances…magnifying the sounds of Muller and Lowe's fingers on the instruments, and teasing out the textures that set these recordings apart from the rest of their catalog.  Simple and sincere, these songs and ambient sounds the duo captured in these recordings are strangely inviting.  Throughout the album the distant sounds of Texas grackles, the warm summer rain, the steady rhythm of crickets chirping, and creaking wooden stools, all seeping in to cradle the notes in a restrained din of primordial wonder. 

Attesa (Nils Frahm Rework)

Im Herbst veröffentlicht Deutschlands erfolgreichster Elektronik-Künstler Schiller mit Symphonia ein einzigartiges Werk: Die Live-Aufzeichnung des Open-Air-Konzertes auf dem legendären Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin.

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Ein schöner Tag - Schiller | Symphonia

The New Album | 'My Favourite Faded Fantasy' | Available from 31st Oct
Pre-order here: http://smarturl.it/MFFF

The Greatest Bastard

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iBeard: http://bit.ly/1tgH0gz
Spotify: http://bit.ly/ASLMDOMT_SP
Beardport: http://bit.ly/ASLMDOMT_BP

Follow us on Spotify: spoti.fi/1jvJuin

There was a moment in time, where The Bearded Man almost live happily ever after. 
While traveling through South East Asia he met a woman. This was no ordinary woman, she was the perfect woman. One that could tame and satisfy the appetite of the bearded man, while leaving him hungry for more. As it usually happens, this true love came suddenly and out of nowhere. He was nursing a Mai Tai at a local warung on the beach while in deep contemplation. He was reflecting on his nasty run in with a Titan Trigger Fish on a free dive earlier that day. He got a little to close to ‘Big Phil’ (as he is known by the local people) and his nest and nearly suffered a fatal poisonous bite. Luckily he had stuck his lucky gold toothpick in his beard earlier that day, and this was his saving grace. He ended up dropping it in the fight and was mourning his loss when she literally fell into his lap after tripping on his fins in the sand. An exotic beauty of tiny stature, and unusually large feet, she was mesmerizing. They never actually spoke a word to each other, but danced to the sound of the waves. At the exact moment that The Bearded Man fell in love, a 20ft wall of water hit them both. As the wave washed them away, she managed to grab a hold of his beard, but to no avail the strands of hair slipped out of her grasp. Later, in therapy, The Bearded Man revealed to his doctor that he blamed himself for losing her. He had been applying extra beard oil to compensate for the drying effects of the salt water which had made it lackluster. He felt that his vanity had caused him to lose her.  
His therapist, Dr. Aaron Scott was so taken by this story of love and loss that he was inspired to write ‘Let Me Dance One Last Time’. The Bearded Man never speaks of her and no longer uses beard oil.

Aaron Scott:
https://soundcloud.com/aaronscottfr
https://www.facebook.com/ItsAaronScott

The Bearded Man:
www.facebook.com/beardedmanrecordings
https://soundcloud.com/bearded-man-recordings

iBeard

Aaron Scott - Let Me Dance One Last Time [OUT NOW!]

Sublab
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https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sublab/580675211942981

Released by UTM Records
https://soundcloud.com/utm-records
https://www.facebook.com/utm.rec

Sheepy on Spotify
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Sublab - Last Time I Saw U

Ryuichi Sakamoto Bibo No Aozora

Al Cross - Drums
Fergus Marsh - Bass
Michael Occhipinti - Lead & Acoustic Guitar
Makeda Taylor - Vocals 


COMING BACK

From the album 'Gentle and Mellow' 2006:)

Casiopea - Southern Breeze

This ones a bit more housey with a few wobbles chucked in for good measure. 

Old Swing Mix 2

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (a.k.a. Forbidden Colours) by Ryuichi Sakamoto (1983)

Live video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_v_pbd-O8U

Soundtrack from the movie Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (戦場のメリークリスマス), a.k.a. Furyo in Europe, directed by Nagisa Oshima, and starring David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Takeshi Kitano.

The instrument is a Kawai VPC1 controlling a Clavia Nord Stage 2, using a sampled Yamaha C7 grand piano, and... straight from the 80's a sampled preset named "Touch Perco" from the Yamaha DX7 mk2 synth.

Spotify

Ryuichi Sakamoto 坂本龍一 Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence [live cover]

Meandering - Jeannette's lyrics to a Charlie Parker solo

Jeannette Lambert - vocal
Reg Schwager - guitar

from the Jazz From Rant release "Ballads II" (1996)

Jeannette Lambert - Meandering (with Reg Schwager)

The song is Habiba written by Kirk Lightsey and performed by Kirk Lightsey on piano with Cecil McBee on bass and the leader of the group The Experience, Master Dr. Marvin Smith on drums. This was one session of 7 recorded over a three day period June 5th,6th and 7th,1992 Live At Visiones in NYC.

HABIBA  LIVE AT VISIONES With THE EXPERIENCE

La Vie En Rose (Edith Piaf/Louiguy)

VOLTA (2012)

Guela Records / Som Livre

La Vie En Rose (Edith Piaf/Louguy)

The Sheltering Sky theme, composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto (1990).

Live video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlxAEmGmK-s

Soundtrack from the movie The Sheltering Sky (Il tè nel deserto) directed by Bernardo Bertolucci starring Debra Winger and John Malkovich.

The instrument is a Clavia Nord Stage 2, using a sampled Yamaha studio C7 grand piano, with pedal noise and string resonance, and sampled orchestral strings.

Video

Ryuichi Sakamoto 坂本龍一 The Sheltering Sky

See if you can guess who the vocalist is.

Bad and The Beautiful

Vocal/Piano Duet
This was fun. Yes, you can buy a CD of this session of Arlene Smith and yours truly.

Everything Happens To Me-Mark E. and Arlene Smith

transcription of ryuichi's solo performance at the trio tour 20121212, rikuzen takata.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vlyp75l1aa2zjq2/Energy%20Flow-2.pdf

ryuichi sakamoto energy flow

Here's an alternate take of the title track of "Arctic Passage" a guitar/piano duo CD that will soon be released on Jazz From Rant. 

Reg Schwager - guitar
David Restivo - piano

Reg Schwager & David Restivo - Arctic Passage (take 2)

O que tinha que dar ( Reg Schwager/ Luanda Jones)

Nem vou dizer que acabou 
Se nem mesmo começou 
Como deveria ser

Como falar do nosso amor 
Se ele nem desabrochou, nem 
Só terminou sem 
Dizer adeus

E agora fica a impressão 
De que tudo foi em vão 
Não passou de uma ilusão

Deu no que deu 
Sem ter motivos pra ficar 
Só o tempo pode esse amor curar

Reg Schwager | Acoustic and electric guitar
Luanda Jones  | Voice 
®2011


O que tinha que dar

I will be releasing an album of trombone multitracks this year stay tuned here for details.

An original composition of mine based on a Pilón rhythm. It is dedicated to El Misterioso, José Luis Quintana, better know as Changuito, master of Afro Cuban percussion.

It's me on all trombones and bass trombones, 18 or so tracks, performed, composed, arranged, recorded, mixed and mastered by me.

If you dig it share it with your friends and you can download it for free (pay what you want) at http://chrisbutcher.bandcamp.com/track/misterioso

Sampling encouraged just shoot me the finished product so I can promote it. Email me at chris@chrisbutchermusic.com and I'll send the multitracks. 

Misterioso

SABOR a Articulo Veinte, Los "Top Shottaz!"

SHOTTAZ

Live at the Drake Hotel April 26 2013

Justin G. - Bass
Joel V. - Keys
Max S. - drums

Rubix Live at the Drake April 2013

Recorded LIVE at the old Top O' The Senator.
A Duo with just Piano (Mark Eisenman) and Voice (Bonnie Brett)
.... nice to hear someone who gets the notes right coming out of the bridge of this tune. A rarity.
