Are all of us the same, I wonder, navigating our lives by interpreting the silences between words spoken, analyzing the returning echoes of our memory in order to chart the terrain, in order to make sense of the world around us?

Part 2 : https://soundcloud.com/uhu/sets/abstract-ambient-modern-classical_2

ABSTRACT AMBIENT DRONES & MODERN-CLASSICAL

Title : Day Has Ended
Artist : Aaron Martin / Christoph Berg
Label : Dronarivm
Release Date : September 23
Catalogue number : DR-14
Format : CD, ltd. 250
Release page : http://dronarivm.com/2013/08/28/aaron-martin-christoph-berg-day-has-ended/ 

Aaron Martin & Christoph Berg’s split called “Day Has Ended” is a piece of quiet, intimate music, interfused with daylight and covered by a soft mist of evening dreams. This album spans the course of a day until the point where night falls.

The first part, created by Aaron Martin, is a water-colour, cool and delicate. The twinkling sun reflected itself in a slow river, transparent silvery clouds sparkle and brush the heads of drowsy trees. The closer to the middle of the album, the lower goes the gentle shadow, saturating. In the second part - Christoph Berg’s one, water-colour turns into gouache. The sound becomes more full, more sensuous, it comes in waves, like breath of a sleeping man.

Just close your eyes, be all ears and you’ll feel – the night is not silent. Sweet tune of twilight and darkness full of echo, humming blue, vague voice of the strings and clear gleaming of bright stars in a velvet sky – that is the night.

It’s a perfect and severely sincere work, slightly bittered with melancholy.

Aaron Martin is a very talented multi-instrumentalist from Topeka, Kansas who has releases on such labels as Experimedia, Preservation, Under The Spire, Sonic Meditations.

Christoph Berg is composer and sound artist currently living and working in Berlin focusing on fragile acoustic chamber music compositions. Also writes electro-acoustic music as Field Rotation. He has releases on Facture, hibernate, Denovali Records, Fluid Audio.

Curated by Bartosz Dziadosz (Pleq)
Cover painting "Where The Sea Once Was" by Richard Moult
Designed by Dronarivm Art

pre-order CD

Christoph Berg - Coda (taken from 'Day Has Ended' split CD)

from 'Fatalist: The Repetition of History' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den161
available on all formats at http://www.denovali.com/fieldrotation

Fatalist: The Repetition of History

Field Rotation - The Repetition Of History

Full version of the song I wrote for Facebook's "A Look Back" video. The song is available to purchase via iTunes, Google Play, Bandcamp and our my own Big Cartel store.

○ GOOGLE PLAY: https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Keith_Kenniff_Years_A_Look_Back?id=Bcb7l57flfmbpu2icqkrfm4xdbu&hl=en

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© 2014 Unseen
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photo by Colin Kenniff

Keith Kenniff - Years (Extended Version)

I seem to be able to find some quiet time on Sundays to record more piano...

Mike Lazarev - Impromptu 03.09

Origamibiro's debut album Cracked Mirrors & Stopped Clocks. Released on Expanding Records back in 2007. 

No More Counterfeit Bliss

M. Geddes Gengras - "Ishi" June 24th
180g 12" tip-on _ CD & digital include 40min bonus 'Vigil'
http://www.stonesthrow.com/store/album/mgg/ishi

“No dream, no wildest nightmare, prefigured for Ishi a city crowd, its clamor, its endless hurrying past to be endlessly replaced by others of its kind, face indistinguishable from face.”

- Theodora Kroeber, from Ishi: In Two Worlds


M. Geddes Gengras has inhabited the Los Angeles experimental music scene for the last 7 years, bouncing through various bands, monikers, and a critically acclaimed collaboration with Sun Araw and The Congos. The producer perhaps shines most brightly, however, when left to his own bespoke devices. His solo work is largely based in modular synthesis, comfortably straddling a variety of forms while remaining rooted in a deep affinity for the limitations of analog electronics and a keen ear for timbral manipulation.


Ishi finds the producer diving headlong into beautiful, sprawling ambient explorations and deep, mystical drone. Its title is the name given to “the last wild Indian” in North America, who emerged in 1911 at the age of 49. Hidden all his life in the wilderness of northern California, Ishi spent most of his life completely unexposed to the modern world lurking just beyond his own timeless reality. His only exposure to the “civilized” world came from Gold Rush settlers, whom he watched massacre and disease each and every member of his family and tribe, until he alone remained. When he was found, communication between the miraculous survivor and this strange new world was understandably difficult and frightening— but the knowledge gained through the process proved invaluable.


Sometimes the most effective and direct means of communication and understanding exist outside of human language. Gengras’ highly expressive instrumental record reveals itself via sweeping tonal gestures and striking, intensely colorful washes of heavily processed electronic sound. “Ambient” is insufficient to describe the uniquely evocative soundtrack presented here, a lushly nuanced sound world generated directly from the deeply personal relationship between one man and his meticulously cultivated machines.


“The record is about the schism that exists between the world we live in and those stuck on the margins of it— perpetual outsiders and their quest to understand the torrent of information they are constantly subjected to. I was directly inspired to these pieces by two people in my orbit who died this year, one accidentally and one not, both of whom suffered this affliction and eventually lost their lives to it. The music was a reaction to these losses and a sort of offering of something peaceful but at the same time respectful of the conflict and dissonance of life, with movement always in the distance. I look at it as music for passage between different realms, conscious & un, this world & another, layers of reality... ISHI is a metaphor for that— the man who walks into our world understanding none of it but forced to live in it regardless. This is somewhere in between a prayer and a lullaby for him and for the rest of them, but also something for those of us left behind.” - M. Geddes Gengras

M. Geddes Gengras - Passage

taken from Ulises Conti's new album 'Los Griegos creían que las estrellas eran pequeños agujeros por donde los dioses escuchaban a los hombres'
http://www.flau.jp/releases/41.html

Ulises Conti - D

from 'Acoustic' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den202
available in June on all formats at [http://denovali.com/theeyeoftime]

THE EYE OF TIME is the Solo-Project of French musician Marc Euvrie. Euvrie's musical development is deeply connected with the French DIY punk and hardcore scene, though he has been classically trained as well. He started to play piano being 9 years old, composed his first pieces with 15 and studied cello at the conservatoire after finishing school. Euvrie used to play in several bands before, being influenced by CLAUDE DEBUSSY, PHILIP GLASS, ERIC CHOPIN, J.S. BACH, MICHAEL NYMAN just as by GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR, A SILVER MT. ZION or PORTISHEAD, he began to translate his personal reflection of our complex world into music, which initiated THE EYE OF TIME. A self titled debut record, released in Spring 2012, evolved first.

For his debut Marc Euvrie's critical writing exposed a dark look on the present, past and future: Linked to machines and samples, revealing an unnatural direction of the human being's existence. His upcoming release ACOUSTIC is a consequent change of focus. Looking for the motor, the personal needs to survive, he found himself experimenting with only Cello and Piano. Apparently these classical instruments turned out to be a relevant strong signal to go back to the roots with something more natural and simple to start from. Though both records seem to go in opposite directions in terms of sound and concept, a strong underlying layer stays inevitable: The Eye of Time's compositions imply a call to fight for the things we love.

ACOUSTIC might be understood as a counterbalance to The Eye of Time's debut. Where the previous record disclosed the coldness of our time, destructing everything that is meant to be our deep nature and presenting the despair of our situation, Acoustic embarks on a little glimpse of hope: Finding some strength to keep fighting for the nature of things and their vital qualities. Marc Euvrie composed six songs for six different locations and points in time, reaching way back to ancient centuries as well as taking a glance into our near future of a yet unknown place. A very personal travel through time and space, between the beauty of nature (Cisjordania, Norway) and the beauty of hope, which allows humans to dream their dreams (Spain, Poland). Marc Euvries own feelings and thoughts about his life evoke mostly in the last two tracks, where he found a form to intensify what keeps him alive.

Acoustic

The Eye of Time - Exarchia, Athens, Greece, September 2008 - Februar 2009

taken from ULISES CONTI new album 'Los Griegos creían que las estrellas eran pequeños agujeros por donde los dioses escuchaban a los hombres'
www.flau.jp/releases/41.html

Ulises Conti - S

Deaf Center - Oblivion (Excerpt)

"Amps, Drugs, Mellotron" by Tim Hecker

Download this track for FREE at adultswim.com/singles beginning July 8.

Tim Hecker - Amps, Drugs, Mellotron

A Winged Victory for the Sullen - 'ATOMOS'
Double-Vinyl/CD/Digital out on Erased Tapes/Kranky on October 6, 2014

PRE-ORDER the album now!

Worldwide (excl. North America):
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or via iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/atomos/id894692856

TOUR DATES: 
https://www.facebook.com/awvfts/app_123966167614127

After releasing a first glimpse in the form of the ‘Atomos VII’ EP earlier this year, A Winged Victory For The Sullen finally reveal their second full-length album entitled ‘Atomos’, which besides familiar piano, string and drone sounds also sees the duo introduce flurries of electronics, harp and modular synthesisers.  

Wayne McGregor, founder of Random Dance Company and resident choreographer at the Royal Ballet, chose to play the album repeatedly during practices with his core group of dancers. After noticing the group's reaction with the music, he contacted Adam and Dustin to see if they could write the score for his new oeuvre. The duo were given complete artistic freedom and they treated the score with the same care and attention as their debut album. They recorded more than sixty minutes of music over a four-month period during the summer of 2013 across studios in Brussels, Berlin and Reykjavik, with the help of their long time collaborative sound engineer Francesco Donadello. During the recording process they realised, that this would become their official second studio album. McGregor provided them with the inspiration to expand their sound palette into more electronic territory, whilst keeping their signature chamber sound, resulting in a very unique record.  

“As a wise man once said, one who procrastinates their own choosing will inevitably have their choice served to them by circumstance. We had virtually no time for second guessing ourselves. That being said, we tried to balance the discordance between being creative, and fulfilling our duties for a commissioned soundtrack with a very strict deadline, and all the while staying true to our collective melancholy.‘’ – Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie  

“We never imagined 2013 would be such an explosively creative year. The first record took us two years from start to finish, but in the micro span of time over last summer we were able to change the formula for the way we write, record, and let go. It was incredibly liberating.” – Dustin O’Halloran

OFFICIAL WEBSITES:  awvfts.com · erasedtapes.com · kranky.net

Atomos VI

Helios - Embrace

A textural piece I recorded whilst playing around with an old tape recorder and some musicbox's. 

Image by P. Avendaño

Solis Ortus

UPDATE: the track is now available for free download! This winter I am releasing a new Goldmund album called "All Will Prosper".The album is a collection of re-arrangements of folk songs from the American Civil War."Shenandoah" is one of the songs featured on the album, which will contain 14 other songs.


Goldmund - Shenandoah

Bersarin Quartett - St. Petersburg

Another sneak preview from Christoph Berg's upcoming album 'Paraphrases'...

Christoph Berg - A Small Path Crossing

Rachel Grimes -  Earthly Heaven

Bersarin Quartett's exclusive contribution towards Headphone Commute's benefit compilation "... and darkness came"

Please help us raise funds for our humanitarian cause by purchasing a 67 track compilation for only $10 through bandcamp:

http://headphonecommute.bandcamp.com

ABSTRACT AMBIENT DRONES & MODERN-CLASSICAL

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