Electro Spring 2023

Satellite is the 4th album from Graham Richardson's Last Days. Richardson who is now well known for his cinematic electro-acoustic pieces that effortlessly invoke an almost inconceivably tangible imagery has this time around turned ever inward for Satellite's core inspiration. While Richardson credits the album with certain personal themes in tow he's more apt to let the listener gather their own meaning of the album's affinity of satellite and stars. The song New Transmission features vocals by Beth Arzy (Aberdeen, Trembling Blue Stars) and could very well sum up the album's apex while delivering the most pop affected Last Days song to date. Satellite is out Sept 17th on n5MD

Last Days - Fidra

From the Purple Decades "Thought Forms" EP, 2020:  https://tristaneckerson.bandcamp.com/album/thought-forms-ep

Listen on Spotify:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/08lg5wRQNrKKJZzvWTynlv

Listen on Apple Music:
https://music.apple.com/us/artist/purple-decades/1503589897

Purple Decades is the new Ambient project from Composer, Pianist, and Producer Tristan Eckerson.

"The track itself is a beautiful and dreamlike classical piece that echoes with a cinematic feeling."

- Discobelle

“Adriatic” is a softly moving piece, a song that fuses together ambient backdrops and the melancholic tones of neo-classical inspired soundscapes. It’s the first track from composer Tristan Eckerson’s newest ambient project, Purple Decades and it’s an incredibly dreamy, whimsical piece. As I sit back and enjoy the track, visions of a foggy morning come to mind as the song carries this slow soundscape with it, one that is perfect for the more quiet moments of the day."

- Rural Sounds

"Inspired by the minimal works of Jon Hopkins and Ryuichi Sakamoto, electronic and organic textures and ambience have taken the place of the piano as shimmering melodic shapes undulate against the backdrop of a warm, enveloping soundscape. It is an immersive piece of music quite unlike anything Eckerson has created before and which whets the appetite to see how this new project will continue to unfold."

- Stationary Travels

Purple Decades- Adriatic

Yes, I have already premiered two tracks this week (see Plïnkï Plønkï and Resina), and yes, this is another premiere of a track, and yet it is immensely needed, wanted, and necessary during these somewhat anxious times. “Rjóður” comes from the Icelandic composer Snorri Hallgrímsson, whom I’ve profiled on many occasions before (see also his In the Studio with… feature), as well as celebrated for his film music, which has been backed by the wonderful Moderna Records (home to many fantastic modern classical and solo piano composers, such as Jacob David, Ed Carlsen, Tim Linghaus, Tambour, and even yours truly). This particular piece appears on Hallgrímsson’s second EP titled Landbrot II – the first having been released last November with five pieces, and now, a year later, with five more. “The collection takes its name from the location of Hallgrímsson’s family cabin in rural Iceland, which he describes as his ‘happy place’. Landbrot translates to erosion or ‘land fractures’, and from this, we can imagine the search for inner calm and acceptance amongst the many obstacles of daily life.”

Read more about this release here: https://hcdi.gs/Landbrot

Landbrot II

Rjóður

TRACK PREMIERE : Snorri Hallgrímsson - Rjóður

In a sonic world which currently appears to be saturated with meditative and reflective music, it seems too hard to meditate and then reflect upon the meaning of this saturation. Is it the fact that we’re all receding into quietude and need a bit more space for all our mental health, or is it simply the machinery behind the scenes that works like a suggestive algorithm to feed us more of what we want? I suspect the truth lies somewhere in between because it’s a little bit of both. Thankfully, I think I can see right through the latter, and bring you closer to the former because there are a few artists, and more importantly, record labels, that really focus on aesthetics, delivering music that connects every listener, and not just dilutes them with more of the same. In this particular case, I am speaking, of course, of Moderna, which since 2015, has been offering us beautiful gems. With their latest release, this Montreal-based imprint is introducing us to a Polish composer and pianist, Piotr Wiese. Building upon a successful string of film soundtracks, singles and albums, Wiese is currently working on a new LP for the label, but today we can get a sneak preview into his world with a charming title track, taken from his upcoming EP in September. “Coming Home” is a lovingly executed solo piano piece, with roots in European romanticism and newly-born branches in contemporary classical and reductionist minimalism genres – exactly how I like it. It’s a poetic melody that comforts and quilts, reminding me so much of those meditative and reflective pieces that I love so much to console in, even if they come from a turbulent mind of my own.

"Coming Home is all about a journey – the one you undertake to get to know your true self. Sometimes a lot of time has to pass to get to the place where you live your own life, rather than the lives of others. And then when you get to that place it feels like ‘coming home’ from a long journey. There can nonetheless be sadness because there are people, often loved ones, you have to leave behind to live in peace with yourself amidst the joy of the return to self."

Coming Home

TRACK PREMIERE : Piotr Wiese - Coming Home

Following the warmly-received Paces (1631 Recordings/Decca Publishing) and the collaborative Stadsbilder (Time Released Sound), Swedish composer and multi-instrumentalist Jakob Lindhagen presents his second solo full-length album Memory Constructions on piano and coffee records.

Recorded together with German brother-duo Sebastian and Daniel Selke (aka CEEYS, whose collaborations also include Ólafur Arnalds and Spitfire) and longtime artistic collaborator Sofia Nystrand (Vargkvint), the album merges elements of neoclassical and ambient music, with a foundation of intimate piano works paired with violoncello and vocal synth, expanded with musical saw, kantele, bowed glockenspiel and sound experiments, recorded to analogue equipment. 

”Memories are an equally complicated as fascinating aspect of the human mind. After realizing a couple of memories from my childhood surroundings simply didn’t add up - the timeline didn’t make sense so I couldn’t have been in that place at that time, or a block of houses not being placed where they actually were - I became slightly obsessed with memory research. Our memories play such a huge part of our identities, yet they are extremely unreliable, change and fade over time, and are easily influenced and manipulated. And yet I couldn’t help myself also finding beauty in the fact that I both completely trust and distrust my own memories, that make up who I am. So digging from these slightly contradicting feelings, and from where my own memories are either constructed, fading, forgotten, rewritten, made up or completely true, this album was concieved.” 

Memory Constructions has been supported by the Swedish Arts Council, and is coming out digitally and on limited edition vinyl on the 23rd of September, featuring artwork by Sofia Nystrand and desing/layout by Celia Bayo.

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Jakob Lindhagen - Tomorrow

Another exclusive courtesy of mixmag.net 

Archie Pelago and Grenier combining talents can only mean one thing: super sumptuous dance music. 

The two acts, a Brooklyn trio and San Francisco producer, have previously released material on labels such as Mister Saturday Night Records and Tectonic respectively, soon set to unleash their collaborative project 'Grenier Meets Archie Pelago' on May 19. 

http://www.mixmag.net/music/exclusive-music/download-archie-pelago--grenier


Download here

Download: Archie Pelago & Grenier 'Navigator'

Ragnar H - Eternal Reflections

Oversky

Additional Production and Keyboards by Robert Koch aka Robot Koch

Breath (Robot Koch Remix)

Nordgroove - Jakaranda

Piece taken from 'The Morning is a River', a project by Sergio Díaz De Rojas and Seraphina Theresa, released April 23, 2017.

Composed by Sergio Díaz De Rojas and Seraphina Theresa.
Performed by Sergio Díaz De Rojas.
Cover art by Seraphina Theresa.

Bandcamp: bit.ly/2nI8lto
Spotify: http://spoti.fi/2pSojVw
iTunes: http://apple.co/2pRA77K

In Der Sonne Flimmert Staubige Luft

The second song from 'Mono' - Simeon Walker's new full length album - 'Turn' invites and welcomes listeners to hunker down and hibernate away from the stresses and strains of the world.

With stunning artwork by Gregory Euclide, the album is now available to pre-order both digitally (on all major streaming services) and on limited edition vinyl and CD.

Head to www.simeonwalker.co.uk/shop for more information

Mono

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Turn

In between composing, writing, rehearsing, and recording, I have been improvising a lot, and this track is the result of one of those moments. It is very different from what I am working on but, somehow, it holds my essence, and it makes me feel well. Instead of letting it disappear along with many other pieces that I never share with others, I have decided to publish it in celebration of #pianoday2018. I hope you enjoy it.

Composed, performed and produced by Sergio Díaz De Rojas.
Artwork by Seraphina Theresa (http://seraphinatheresa.com/home).

Free Download

Untitled (Piano Day 2018)

Original track by BYLJA.

STREAM: http://hyperurl.co/ubqeny 

Cover art by Viveca Johansen (Instagram.com/vivecajohansen)

Laki

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While I'm still busy producing something I hope I can call an album, I'm happy to present you my new remix of Steve Gibbs "Patterns".

"UK composer Steve Gibbs follows his stunning Adrift LP (April 2017) with a beautiful set of reworks, a collection of inventive takes on tracks from the album. Three album tracks are shown in vibrant new light by Cyrus Reynolds, Ryan Davis, Fejká, Manos Milonakis and evolv over five remixes."

Buy: https://injazerorecords.bandcamp.com/album/adrift-reworks

Adrift Reworks

Spotify

Steve Gibbs - Patterns (Fejka Remix)

Welcome to Memoir, label and music channel of warm and relaxed soundscapes. Memoir Music is a melancholic train ride through memory lane.

Transcending genres, the cohesive aspects of the music are organic, image inducing and pleasant tracks that can be either with or without beat. Memoir Music forms its own style by combining music from different genres that share the warm feeling and make you reminisce, while making the sound accessible for a wider audience.

Layers of organic sound sourced from every day life, warm ambient layers and enticing melodies and optionally a soft beat is what defines Memoir. Memoir Music is a streaming dreamscape. A comfort zone. Something to play with headphones when you’re all alone, drifting away in to a different world.

Sergio Diaz De Rojas - Valencia

Welcome to Memoir Music, a sub-label of @chillhopdotcom where we create warm and soothing soundscapes. Memoir Music is a melancholic train ride through memory lane.

Transcending genres, the cohesive aspects of the music are organic, image inducing and pleasant tracks that can be either with or without beat. Memoir Music forms its own style by combining music from different genres that share the warm feeling and make you reminisce, while making the sound accessible for a wider audience.

Layers of organic sound sourced from every day life, warm ambient layers and enticing melodies and optionally a soft beat is what defines Memoir. Memoir Music is a streaming dreamscape. A comfort zone. Something to play with headphones when you’re all alone, drifting away in to a different world.

Sergio Diaz De Rojas - Valencia

Memoir ☾ Music

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