https://youtu.be/ZH5feXnjZoU - music video

Lightforms

Port Mone do not trying to be avantgarde. They are. They reached excellent instrumental compositions that connects the whole palette of modern classical music from rock, ambient, psychedelic and extraavantgarde experimental music to pop-music. With only three instruments this band could unite the essence of all modern musical culture legacy into brand-new stylistic form. They brings something new big and geniusly performed to the basement of known cultural legacy. And it can't be boring.

Horvi Tehac (terapija.net)

Port Mone - Crossing

A slow musical landscape unfolding, not sure if its bright or dark at the end, but it gives clarity of mind. The Ugal is the lead instrument in the Balinese Gamelan; although we play this routinely in our sessions, we chose to use an electronic sample to see if we could catch the vibe, and we think we did. 
Check out our track 'Minggu- the warrior' for the real thing.

Reflections of the Ugal

Zlatni rez / Ovozemaljske stvari

Iv/An - Zlatni Rez

Planetarium 12" EP out now on Smalltown Supersound w/Remixes by Gigi Masin.
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Safe

from 'Sanctuary' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den284
available on all formats from [http://denovali.com/mariodiazdeleon]

Performed by the brilliant TAK Ensemble, “Sanctuary” is a ritualistic masterwork of modern classical music, combining acoustic and electronic elements with visionary intensity.

For the third full length document of his classical works, Mario Diaz de Leon presents his most unified offering to date, distilling the modernistic hellfire of his previous releases to a crystalline essence. “Sanctuary” is an album length piece created in collaboration with TAK Ensemble, a brilliant NYC based quintet devoted to energetic and virtuosic performances of contemporary music. Featuring soprano voice, flute, violin, bass clarinet, marimba, and the composer’s own synthesizer work, the album is a hypnotic and ritualistic journey through realms of angelic and demonic experience.

Since 2002, Mario Diaz de Leon has created a significant body of new works for acoustic instruments and electronics. Following his teenage years playing hardcore punk, metal, and electronic music, Diaz de Leon was inspired by the mystically oriented modernisms of Stockhausen, Scelsi, Messiaen, and Dumitrescu, and soon after developed his signature style while a student at Oberlin Conservatory. His debut album as composer, "Enter Houses Of" was released in 2009 on John Zorn's Tzadik label, and praised by the New York Times for its "hallucinatory intensity". A second album, entitled "The Soul is the Arena", was released in 2015 on Denovali, and was named a notable recording of the year by New Yorker Magazine. Pitchfork wrote that the album "combines his interests seamlessly into music that throbs with snarling exuberance." Both releases were performed by his longtime collaborators in the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE).

He currently leads the metal band Luminous Vault as vocalist and guitarist, whose “Charismata” EP was released on Profound Lore Records in spring 2017. From 2012-2016, his solo electronic project Oneirogen (o-NI-ro-jen) toured internationally and released three full length albums on Denovali. He collaborated with director Zev Deans to create the score for Alien: Biotic, a short film commissioned by Fox as part of the official Alien: Covenant campaign. In 2016, the Los Angeles Philharmonic commissioned and premiered his “Lightmass” for their “Noon to Midnight” festival of contemporary music. He has also collaborated with Nate Young of Wolf Eyes on “Standard Deviance One”, which they recently performed at Tectonics Festival Glasgow with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Born in Minnesota, he has lived in in New York City since 2004, and received a doctorate in music composition from Columbia University in 2013, where he currently teaches.

“21st century chamber music that combines crystalline clarity with the disorienting turbulence of a sonic vortex.” - WIRE Magazine

“Plenty of people can write a one-off ‘amplified’ piece for chamber musicians, but few artists have built a language as stable and rewarding as Diaz de Leon’s.” - Pitchfork

TAK ENSEMBLE
Laura Cocks - flute
Liam Kinson - bass clarinet, clarinet
Charlotte Mundy - voice
Marina Kifferstein - violin
Ellery Trafford - marimba, percussion
with Mario Diaz de Leon - synthesizer

Sanctuary

Mario Diaz de Leon - Sanctuary

#♭

text by Emily Dickinson

Love is all there is,
Is all we know of Love;
It is enough, the freight should be
Proportioned to the groove.

picture by Vaidas Jokubauskas Photography

SOFIIA - That Love

Unknown Album

どんな言葉も単なる言葉です

Premiered by self-titled: https://www.self-titledmag.com/heinali-new-album-madrigals/

Credits:
Igor Zavgorodnii: baroque viola, violin.
Oleg Shpudeiko: modular synthesizer, mixing.
Recorded by Vadyk Lazariev at LipkyZvukoZapys in Kyiv (December 2019)
Mastered by Taylor Deupree at 12k Mastering.
Cover art by Nastia Lopatiuk.

‘Madrigals’ is the result of a two-year-long exploration into generative counterpoint in modular synthesis. Inspired by Heinali’s love of the polyphonic compositional style of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance, the album employs historical acoustic instruments such as the theorbo lute and the baroque alto viola alongside Heinali’s mastery of notoriously complex generative synth systems.

Heinali - Beatrice

The long-awaited compilation of "Si us plau" by Chilean label @iranwymorganizacion

The collection consists of 12 tracks, which includes artists from Chile, Tunisia, Spain, Russia, the United States and Denmark.

The compilation also includes my new track Dalila Delarosa - Don't fade away. This track is associated with the most pleasant feelings and memories. This is the first time I've used my voice in music.

I am madly glad and grateful to everyone involved. Listen and dive

Don't Fade Away

MATJAMI: Acoustic-electronic soundscapes, deep beats, slow trance, empty space: meditation by listening and playing. 
Tip: Use good speakers or headphones to enjoy the rich, deep sounds and binaural recordings.

We three at MATJAMI (Marcel Bode, Tjalling de Leeuw, Mike de Leeuw) develop our sounds and grooves as we interact live, using our bronze, wooden and stringed instruments, (Balinese gamelan & gongs, bowls, Tibetan horns, Chinese guxing & gongs, Javanese kendang drums, timpani, beer bottles) with Native electronics, samples and live loops. The quality and the texture of our sounds are at least as important as the composition. 
We play our sessions 'on the fly', where one of us starts and the rest comes in at leisure... All you hear here was recorded live, with only some simple stereo and eq mixing afterwards.
We love to perform in open areas, theaters, level stage, and spaces with a special feel to them; a small audience is just as nice.
Recently we started collaborating with other audio-artists like VictorYibril, Fintan O'Brien and Phlip Smith (G.A.), Miraela, and Augenmerk, combining their very different music styles, field recordings and soundscapes with our beats and sounds. 
Connect at mike@branchingtree.com

Reflections of the Ugal

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