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Excerpt of Paraphrase on Themes of Brian Eno, from composer/pianist Timo Andres's 2013 Nonesuch album, Home Stretch. On the album, Andres pairs this reinvention with his Mozart "Coronation" Concerto Re-Composition, described by The New Yorker's Alex Ross as "mesmerizing," as well as the title piece. Metropolis Ensemble chamber orchestra performs with the composer on piano. The album, says NPR, offers "thought-provoking glimpses into how the past and the present merge in classical music today." The Chicago Reader says it "bursts with creativity." The Guardian and the Independent give it four stars.

www.nonesuch.com/albums/home-stretch
itunes.apple.com/us/album/home-stretch/id669811219

Home Stretch

Timo Andres - Paraphrase on Themes of Brian Eno (Excerpt)

Shels-The Conference of the Birds

L'Univers

Professor Ali

Black Hearted Brother – the new trio formed by Neil Halstead (Slowdive, Mojave 3), Mark Van Hoen (Locust, Seefeel) and Nick Holton (Coley Park, Holton’s Opulent Oog) – release the ‘Got Your Love’ EP on April 1. It will be available from iTunes and all download retailers and streaming services.

Get it from iTunes: http://smarturl.it/bhb-gyl-itunes

The EP’s lead track is an edited version of one of the standout songs on last year’s debut album, ‘Stars Are Our Home’, which always sounded a bit like a lost indie-disco classic, mixing moody Mary Chain melancholia with a thumping electronic beat and squelching sequencers.

“‘Got Your Love’ is really the poppiest song on the album,” agrees the band’s Nick Holton. “It started life on GarageBand, but we added a big floor drum, three big guitars, Mark’s bass synth and Neil’s catchy melody. It became a long song, clocking in at just under eight minutes thanks to Mark’s epic intro and outro. It actually features a massive hammer – and it is really massive – from Brooklyn as the pulsing percussion.”

There is also one brand new track. “‘Don’t Take The Weight’ started life in my large vault of instrumental ditties,” explains Mark Van Hoen. “One of the privileges of the Brethren is the opportunity to cherry pick from this fruitful orchard of sonic delights, and this one did the trick. This time Nick steps up on lead vocals, as he did on several cuts on the album.” The EP is rounded out by two very different remixes of the title track. Chilean electronica artist (now based in Paris) Ricardo Tobar turns in a brilliantly wonky rework which was premiered recently on The Quietus. The other remix is a gloriously downbeat, echo-laden reworking by Ultramarine – the legendary UK techno duo formed by Paul Hammond and Ian Cooper, who released ‘This Time Last Year’, their first album since 1998, last September.

Speaking of bands on the comeback trail, it probably hasn’t escaped your attention that, since Black Hearted Brother first released ‘Stars Are Our Home’ last October, Neil Halstead’s old band Slowdive have reformed and confirmed appearances at festivals around the world later this year. We’d like to think that BHB was a big step towards this being possible. Here are some of the nice things that were said about the album:

“Euphoric electro-shoegaze... It is damn good to hear Neil Halstead busting the effects pedals out of storage and making a dynamic, distorted racket after years of hushed, stripped- back folk music” - The Quietus

“A splendid, freeform racket” - The Times

 “Catchy melodies and infectious, poppy grooves” - Metro

“A super group that doesn’t celebrate itself... come up with an album of mournful pop played as tripped-out psych-gaze” - The Line Of Best Fit

The original version can be found on Black Hearted Brother's debut album 'Stars Are Our Home', which was released in October 2013.

Order LP/CD: http://smarturl.it/bhb-album
Get the album from iTunes: http://smarturl.it/bhb-itunes


Black Hearted Brother - Got Your Love (Ricardo Tobar Remix)

A piece that I recently co-composed with my good friend AJ Hochhalter (Listen Design Studio) - Uplifting, Hopeful, Ambient and Bright.

New Life

Lightwave Christian Wittmann, Christoph Harbonnier, Paul Haslinger, Serge Leroy
Live in the Choranche Caves (Vercors, France)
2000 label Horizon Music

Lightwave A Mineral Light In The Subterranean Sky

Beef terminal ak Mike Matheson
canada 2002 
label Noise Factory Records

Beef Terminal - The Grey Knowledge

from the compilation Ambient Systems 
Instinct records 1999
very rare track and never upload!

Ambient Systems - Klip - Mirage

ak Dave McSherry, Steve Cobby 
only chill tracks selected 
pork records 1994

Fila Brazilia Old Codes New Chaos "chill-select"

After its release 12 years ago, 12k is very happy to welcome Shuttle358's beautiful Understanding Wildlife album to the catalog as a download-only re-release.

"What really makes Dan Abrams special is the sounds he uses and his approach which separates him from the school of clinical reduction and makes him reflect true human emotion in his music. An excellent follow up to 'Frame'. Gorgeous." - Boomkat

"Abrams uses a particular formula because it suits him and allows him to focus on other, more important things--namely, creating emotionally resonant music out of the residue of electronic noise." - Haunted Ink

(Original Press Release, Mille Plateaux, 2002)

Dan Abrams, aka Shuttle358, has made an unforgettable mark on the American electronic music community. His highly revered releases on the legendary label 12k and his release as Dan Abrams on Mille Plateaux (EFA 08099), have established Shuttle358 as a premier standout due to his wonderful ability to create fluent, natural sounding music in a category where clinical approaches to making music has dominated much of the clicks & cuts / minimalist aesthetic out there. Earning critical acclaim and a fanbase that has not forgiven him for taking almost 2 years to release this album, Mille Plateaux is proud to give this anticipated third installment in the Shuttle358 cycle the exposure that it deserves.

Truly magnificent in all means, Shuttle358 expresses his personal experiences and musical ideals about objects and forms that have carried through his whole life. Understanding Wildlife finds deeper meaning and attempts to contemplate the alienating way many perceive the world and act to it as strangers. The sounds of harps, bells, strings and synths give the listener the ability to relate more to the natural affirmation that strikes through Understanding Wildlife. Shuttle358’s makes melodies move and twist amongst unpretentious beats, relaxing and moving the listener in its emotional swell. Captivating.

Understanding Wildlife

Models Of My Life

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Excerpts from Erik Honoré's debut solo album "Heliographs", released by Hubro (www.hubromusic.com) on 5 September, on CD, vinyl and digital.


"A hot contender for the album of the year."  - Michael Engelbrecht, Deutschlandfunk


Vinyl can be pre-ordered at Cdon.com, Bigdipper.no, Platekompaniet.no


Release concert at the Punkt Festival, Kristiansand, 5 September. www.punktfestival.no, featuring Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset, Ingar Zach and Jeffrey Bruinsma.


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Erik Honoré
Heliographs

1. Navigators (06:40)
2. Halfway House (01:28)
3. Sanctuary (03:06)
4. Pioneer Trail (04:23)
5. Red Café (03:03)
6. Last Chance Gas & Water (08:51)
7. Strife (01:35)
8. Sanctuary Revisited (04:23)
9. Departed (02:51)

Produced, engineered and mixed by Erik Honoré

Erik Honoré: samples, synthesizers, synth bass,
rhythm programming, field recording

Sidsel Endresen: voice on 1, 3, 8
Ingar Zach: percussion on 2, 3, 6, 7, 8
Jan Bang: samples on 1, 4, rhythm programming on 4
Eivind Aarset: guitar on 4, 7, 9
Jeffrey Bruinsma: violin on 5
Arve Henriksen: trumpet on 7

Excerpts from "Heliographs"

Bush storm- Kate Bush

1 Mile North - New Clock

Pete Namlook and Richie Hawtin From Within 01 Snake Charmer

 (aka 夢世界 Dream World)
track 02 from 'dream world EP'

John Schuster-Craig, piano
Adam Cuthbért, trumpet

The nature sounds and trumpet samples recorded in a park in my hometown at midnight.  Dedicated to  my patron angel who resides on the rift between reality and imagination.

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yumesekai [taiga] ft. John Schuster-Craig

Label: i.t.p. recordings – ITP004
Format: Vinyl, 12"
Country: UK
Released: 1994
Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno, Trance 

Voyage - Oaf (chord)

Paul Frankland alias Woob 
Strange Air from the 1194 album
1994 on em:t records

Woob Strange Air

Klaus Schulze Body Love, Vol. 2 02 Stardancer II

Klaus Schulze X [Revisited] Disc 1 03 Frank Herbert


Bjarte Andreassen, Jostein Dahl Gjelsvik
Beatservice Records norway
1999

Circular - Drifting

Peter Kuhlmann allias : Air, Electronic Music Center, PEK (3), Peter Kuhlmann, Romantic Warrior, Sam Pels, Silence, Syn

Peter Namlook is one of the most influential figures of electronic and ambient music in the 1990s. Inspired by Oskar Sala, one of the pioneers of electronic music, Namlook focused on the untapped potential of analogue synthesizers, often developed or extended in his laboratory.
r.i.p...

Pete Namlook Travelling Without Moving Air 2 Trip 2

Fuck Buttons - Sweet Love for Planet Earth

Since the creation of this theme it's been over a year.. 
This is my experience of how much music is able to change the state of mind. You wrote about its ability to calm hearts, rejecting grief, diminish suffering and sorrow. Indeed, he dismissed also my fears. And on the thorny road of sadness started to appear sparkling lights of hope..

Lama Rafat Dalbah poem:
https://soundcloud.com/lama-dalbah/tp3pxamdy56e

a Miserable Heart (Chillout Version)
https://soundcloud.com/shyprinceorchestral/a-miserable-heart-chillout-version

a Miserable Heart

Bon Voyage

Clouds


A beautiful live recording taken from last year's Punkt festival featuring a remarkable line up of musicians


jan bang - exile from paradise / undertow

(bang/ endresen/hassell)

jan bang: samples
lars danielsson: double bass
sidsel endresen: vocals
jon hassell: trumpet, keyboards
arve henriksen: trumpet
erik honoré: live sampling

recorded by geir østensjø at punkt, september, 2010.
mixed by erik honoré and jan bang at punkt studio kristiansand.

see also:

... and poppies from Kandahar (http://www.samadhisound.com/janbang/)

exile from paradise / undertow

Only rare stuff and good old tracks in ambient... 
music is for sharing!
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Lightwave A Mineral Light In The Subterranean Sky

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