Atmospheric, Drone, Dark ambient

Distinctions

Skuddår

ambient

Arminator2 Soundbankdemo

Electro-minimalist

Mind over MIDI - Skuddår 2
Released April 2
Album 2 of 3 focusing on life just below the arctic circle.

mindovermidi.bandcamp.com/album/skudd-r-2-2

Album 1 Skuddår:
mindovermidi.bandcamp.com/album/skudd-r

Skuddår 2

Svartsinn

DL Album

Svartsinn (Skuddår 2)

Mind over MIDI - Skuddår 3
Release May 7
Album 3 of 3 focusing on life just below the arctic circle.

mindovermidi.bandcamp.com/album/skudd-r-3

Skuddår 2
mindovermidi.bandcamp.com/album/skudd-r-2-2

Skuddår
mindovermidi.bandcamp.com/album/skudd-r

Skuddår 3

Kaldfront

Kaldfront (Skuddår 3)

slowburner bby (dreamers unite mix)

Long, meditative final track of "Remote Textures" https://alonefold.bandcamp.com/album/remote-textures

Music by Craig Tattersall.

The Humble Bee - The Bedside Book (A Miscellany for the Quiet Hours) Cotton Goods
The Archivist - (i did it deliberately) (David Newlyn/The Archivist/Insecto) Mobeer
The Seaman and The Tattered Sail - Suspended Dust, Slow Movement, Light's End (Light Folds) Facture
E and I - Tiniest Smile (An Inch of Air) Cotton Goods
E and I – Putting off Stars (Putting off Stars) Cotton Goods
The Archivist – Untitled 6 (The Keeper of The Library, Handmade Edition 3” CDR) Lacies Records
The Archivist - Mining for Sound (The Wooden Laser) The Archivist Self-released
The Humble Bee – Beginning (Henrietta) Other Ideas
E and I - Pearls for Alma (Projected Images) Cotton Goods
The Humble Bee - 31 jan 2010 (Morning Music) Cotton Goods

Music by Craig Tattersall 
exept E and I with Emmanuel Witzthum
The Seaman and The Tattered Sail with Bill Seaman

Craig Tattersall is a multi-talented brilliant artist, member of Remote Viewer, The Boats and several other projects. The man behind the much loved bespoke imprint Cotton Goods, Other Ideas and the Moteer/Mobeer labels. He makes beautifully modest and understated music, highly recommended to fans of life's subtler joys.

"A lot of times it’s not only the sound itself but also the way it has deteriorated. I just love the crackle of vinyl, the saturated distortion of analogue tape, the hiss of wax-cylinders, the aging process of the artifact itself is equally important as the sounds themselves. They add a second layer of emotionality to the sounds. The medium is part of the instrument". (Craig Tattersall) 

More info about Craig and his amazing music and art, please visit Tape Dust:

http://tape-dust.tumblr.com

Dowload the mix here:  http://mindovermidi.no/mwtr.htm

Man with a tape recorder. Music by Craig Tattersall

Tidal Sky Drift

over the last couple of years i’ve been making really really really quiet music to listen to when i do yoga or sleep or meditate or panic. i ended up with 4 hours of music and have decided to give it away.

you can download it for free here: http://moby.com/la1 or stream it for free on soundcloud. or you can get it on spotify, apple music & itunes & deezer & tidal.

it’s really quiet: no drums, no vocals, just very slow calm pretty chords and sounds and things for sleeping and yoga and etc.

and feel free to share it or give it away or whatever, it’s not protected or anything, or at least it shouldn’t be.

thanks,

moby

Long Ambients 1: Calm. Sleep

Free Download

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Her Name

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Direct - Abandon (Ecepta Remix)

Strathcona Variations

Strathcona

As thrilled as I was to be invited to support American pianist Harold Budd in London in April 2018, for his first show there in 17 years, I was equally dispirited by the cancellation of the event suddenly last week.

In the absence of this live show then here's a version of a piece I intended to perform on the night itself as a little tribute to Budd, and for the audience. I hope you will enjoy it and imagine sitting in a Church in London, only the creaking of the wooden benches and occasional shoe shuffles and coughs as your only other sonic distraction.

It's a version of his tune Late October, originally heard on The Pearl (1984), in collaboration with Brian Eno and produced by Daniel Lanois.

For Harold

Late October

Exclusive track taken from the forthcoming album "You Don't Belong" which releases 13.07.2018 on Shimmering Moods Records. Available on a baby blue limited cassette and limited CD in handmade packages.

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"This album was made between August 2015 and March 2017, which was in some way a transition period for me. Some life stages ended, some relationships failed, some changes happened. All the tracks on the album are dedicated to several places from those times, that meant or still mean something very special to me. A house by the lake, an apartment on the first floor, a park in the middle of the city – the places that stuck with me for a long time and don’t let go. 

It’s a tribute to those times, but also some kind of closure. The album was mostly a reminder to myself that when you feel attached to something in one way or another, you need to keep going, to move forward, that you really don’t belong anywhere. It was a reminder that it’s never too late to move on." 

All tracks by Kirill Mazhai 
Mastered by Early Reflections 
Artwork by Antonina Sotnikova 
Shimmering Moods Records 2018

Pre Order: 

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/you-dont-belong

You Don't Belong

N59.957534 E30.323258

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Kirill Mazhai - N59.957534 E30.323258

Shortly after releasing his highly acclaimed ‘The Benoît Pioulard Listening Matter’(Kranky), Pioulard left on tour to Europe in order to promote the album. This tour took him to several distinctive places ranging from urban Brussels to rural France and the mystic capital city of Iceland, Reykjavik.

Once returned to Seattle, these new impressions and memories formed the inspiration to make ‘Slow spark, soft spoke’. Not surprisingly, the album continues in the same vein as his tour cd ‘Lignin Poise’ - which was repressed on vinyl by Beacon Sound - and is characterized by slowly moving lo-fi ambient textures. The album reveals Pioulards most melancholic side and once again shows his capabilities to bring beautiful sonic narratives with only a few instrumental layers.

‘Slow spark, soft spoke’ was initially released on tape on Dauw but sold out quickly during pre-order. After having received only sublime reviews and tons of request to re-issue the album, we now decided to give it a well deserved vinyl repress.

 “'Never, just as you wanted' is a timeless odyssey of complete transcendence with gradual bliss of guitar tones – and meticulously crafted sounds – that somehow map the ocean swell of human emotions – of the innermost kind – embedded deep within us all." (Fractured Air)

For this vinyl edition, Pioulard decided to add 2 totally new tracks in addition to the 4 initial ones. These new tracks are presented as the single 'Athanasy, 1993' which will be released and announced with the vinyl pre-order on October 4th. All together, the initial EP and the new single form a consistent full length which adds to his impressive and ever growing catalogue.

‘Slow spark, soft spoke’ will be released on October 26th on a limited  vinyl edition (200 heavyweight clear vinyl) and digitally. The tape comes with original hand-printed artwork by Femke Strijbol and will be accompanied by a unique polaroid taken by Benoît Pioulard (limited to 50 only).

Athanasy, 1993

With this, I disappear

Listen / Purchase: https://lnk.to/dregs

Nearly ten years ago at the onset of Lost Tribe Sound, an artist emerged whose impact would go on to define our core direction as a label, to release music that leaves its tattered edges proudly in place, acoustic instrumentation blended seamlessly with dirty mechanics, timeworn sound worlds rooted in the muck and mire of the present. While we’ve traversed a wide variety of genres over the years, 2019 will find LTS returning to our origins, a label dedicated to exposing some of most beautifully bizarre beat-driven electro-acoustic music we can get our hands on.

With that said, who better to kick off the year, than Vieo Abiungo. Many know this artist by his proper name William Ryan Fritch, but those who have followed LTS for a while should instantly recognize Fritch’s more obscure moniker.  A name thought to be long since retired, as it’s been over 6 years since Fritch released his last Vieo Abiungo album, ‘Thunder May Have Ruined The Moment.’  March 15th, will see the release of a new full length album ‘The Dregs.’

‘The Dregs’ was conceived over the last couple months to help along our 8 album series currently underway, titled, ‘We Stayed The Path That Fell To Shadow.’ The series hit some typical production lags, combined with a dose of personal tragedy. Fritch and LTS wanted something to offer our loyal subscribers that would bridge the gap until the arrival of his upcoming double album ‘Deceptive Cadence: Music For Film Vol. I & II,’ slated for release in late April 2019. We discussed resurrecting Vieo Abiungo, something we’ve entertained for a while now.  We asked if we could dive into Fritch’s massive archive of music and unearth some our favorite Vieo Abiungo tunes from lost and abandoned albums.  What we discovered were pieces that buzzed with the same raw and texturally unpredictability that first drew LTS to Fritch's music.   

While arranging the album, we focused in on songs that showcased a side of Fritch’s musical personality that has rarely been heard.  The aim was to make the distinction between William Ryan Fritch, the film composer and singer songwriter and his Vieo Abiungo project even clearer. In place of his signature sweeping strings and intricately layered orchestration, the thrum of plucked viola de gamba forms much of the backbone of the music, played in a style akin to a North African oud. In addition, ‘The Dregs’ stands out with its unusual percussion teasing out and tangling together poly-rhythmic lines that make for some of the most intoxicating rhythms we’ve ever heard from Fritch. A large arsenal of horns, marimbas, vintage keyboards, mbiras, and Tuareg-style electric guitars also find their way into the mix.  

‘The Dregs’ draws comparison to Fritch’s 2017 soundtrack for GoPro’s ‘Eagle Hunters in a New World,’  though the music of ‘Eagle Hunters’ focused squarely on experimenting with techniques and sounds of Mongolian Folk music and its incorporation into the landscape of the film. ‘The Dregs’ is allowed to dance more freely, unbound to a specific region, genre, or stylistic concern. The album feels malluable, held in permanent motion by its shapeshifting beats and bombastic melodies. Every track on the album is pure gunpowder, explosive in both mood and delivery, with the exception of a couple somber and timely interludes meant to give pause, recharge and prepare the ears for the next expansive onslaught.  ‘The Dregs' hits upon so many genres yet refuses to be defined by any of them. With any luck, ‘The Dregs’ will persuade Mr. Fritch to pull Vieo Abiungo permanently out of retirement and give us the next evolution in this immersive tale.

The Dregs

Cobble Together

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Vieo Abiungo (aka William Ryan Fritch) - Cobble Together (from The Dregs)

Track taken from the upcoming album 'The Topologies of Blue'...

Bill Seaman - Piano, Piano Libraries, Sample Compositions, Samples, Abstracted Percussion, Non-location Recordings, Electric Guitar Abstractions 
Wei Ping Lin – Violin Solos 
David Rothenberg - Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Contralto Clarinet Solos
Sid Richardson – Upright Bass Libraries
Tim Bjorklund – Electric Guitar Libraries
Volkmar Klein, Sound Engineer for initial violin recording

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Produced by Bill Seaman
Mastered by James Plotkin 
Cover design by Ian Hazeldine 
Overall design by Daniel Crossley

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Special Thanks to all of the musicians + John Supko, Craig Tattersall, Volkmar Klein, Maura Walsh-Seaman, Dan Crossley & James Plotkin.

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The Topologies of Blue

Bill Seaman - Isolated Reflections / Dark Slippages / Falling Inward / A Collection Of Repercussions

ORDER: https://ekinfil.bandcamp.com/album/koma

Ekin Fil is the solo moniker of Ekin Üzeltüzenci from Istanbul and 'KOMA' is her first release on Stockholm imprint Possible Motive.

"KOMA is an album which is based on the combination of separate songs made in various times in the last two years. Songs that sometimes include unwanted noises caused by my broken sound card, songs that I left unfinished with the intention of finishing later. The sleepy and still mood that's all over the 7 tracks may be the response to the hard times that I was not able to react sober to until recently."

Koma

Ekin Fil – Speak In

Mouldream

A(r)tmospheric morning sounds from @scav, recorded live at @la-vallee-electrique.

Read more about the festival: https://mnmt.no/magazine/2020/01/20/welcome-to-la-vallee-electrique/

1.Unjin - Untitled Space
2.Mixmaster Morris & Pete Namlook - Under Water
3.Plants Army Revolver - Alpaca Vision
4.Jonas Kopp - La Luz Nunca Se Apaga
5.Autumn Of Communion - Actinium
6.Unjin - Tail Of Us
7.Shuttle358 - Emergent
8.Ishq - Highmoor
9.Delusional Circuits x Polygonia - Swirling Mirage
10.Asfa - Reliqui Domun
11.Pariah - Pith
12.Terekke - Arrpfaded
13.Ark Noir - Tunnel Visions (Delusional Circuits Afterglow Remix)
14.Skee Mask - Cerroverb
15.Petre Inspirescu - Delir 2
16.Shuttle358 - Isonpgn
17.Heavenchord - Mindscape
18.Master Margherita - Alternate Pathway (Alternative 2)
19.Eshu - Creating Moods
20.Higher Intelligence Agency - Secret Location
21.Monolake - Void
22.Arovane + Porya Hatami - Cycloid
23.Skymn - Subterrane 2
24.Jonas Kopp - Tension En El Sur
25.Scav - Morphing Clouds V
26.Shuttle358 - Frame
27.Selffish - As The Leaves Fall
28.MTRL - Enclave
29.Esem - Obbe ttid
30.The Chi Factory - Part One
31.Eshu - Naturally Divine
32.BLM - Front Room
33.Tracey - Thrrvl
34.Cassegrain - Hexagon Fifteen
35.Scav - Morphing Clouds II

MNMT Recordings: scav — La Vallée Électrique 2019

Mind over MIDI - Skuddår
Release: 2902. Format: DL

https://mindovermidi.bandcamp.com/album/skudd-r

Deep meditative soundscapes. The first in a series of three albums focusing on Arctic ambience from below the Arctic Circle.


Recorded at home Kristiansund, Norway
Tools: Analog synths, reel to reel, pre-amp, field recorder, master recorder.

Væromslag

Væromslag (Skuddår)

In A Room

coast/range/arc//

Stave Peak

From the album "Space Born" now available on all platforms.

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Space Born

Intelligent Infinity

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Aboriginal music and culture are deeply entrenched in nature. The aborigine would go into the wild and listen intensely to animal sounds, not just voices but also the flapping of wings or the thump of feet on the ground. The Aborigine would also listen to the sounds of wind, thunder, trees creaking, and water running.

The essences of all these sounds were played with as much accuracy as possible within the droning sound of the didgeridoo. What are we talking about? It's all about Ambient music.

United Soundscapes Oriented to Nature (USON) is a new ambient specialized record label focused on that palpable essence between nature and sound. The work from various sound artists committed to environmental conservation, endangered wildlife and sustainability will be released via this hyper-conceptualized label which seeks to raise enriched awareness about this global challenge through meditative atmospheric ambient pieces.

USON’s first reference sets the way how label's will present all the releases; three artists, three tracks.

Opening USON01, we find Hilyard with a wild expansive piece which has being premiered now, it magically combines the folklore of the forest among a beautiful fall of emotions that makes us feel more human than ever. Marco Uson and Henrik Lauge aka Collapsed Textures on the second and third cuts, keep the momentum high with mind-blowing textured drones that conduct us by way of infinite sonic ecosystems. 

United Soundscapes Oriented to Nature creates that intimacy that only ambient music is capable of producing, in order to raise awareness about the enormous importance and responsibility that we as human beings have in terms of environmental conservation and sustainable development.

Hilyard is a multi genre music artist/sound designer with a heavy focus on creating immersive and often long form dronescapes. A bit of a nomad, Hilyard has lived in many places both rural and urban but now resides in the quiet fog soaked forests of Maine on a family homestead. He didn’t start out as an ambient artist; in fact he played in a few death metal/grind bands and started producing beats at an earlier age. His interest in ambient music stemmed from a need to escape a tragic reality where the deaths of close friends and family couldn’t be counted on both hands and feet. The meditative ambient genre was a natural evolution of both personal music taste and need. Music was always the healthy way out and a vehicle to move forward and possibly help others who may be dealing with harsh realities of their own.

Hilyard's story, style and sound are still being formed but his hazy and sometimes-melancholic drones tend to balance out darkness with bittersweet positivity. He utilizes his own found sound and field recordings along with an array of instruments and organic noisemakers to sculpt his ambient dream worlds. Much of his music tends to be minimalist which can also dive into cinematic ambient and a bit of modern classical. Although ambient environments are his main focus, Hilyard also intends to create within other genres such as post-metal, post-rock, and beat-based electronic music.

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Premiere: Hilyard "Understory" - USON

Campfire Stories 101 (A Forest) by Ryan Blackman (@farfromthesun)

~ About The Story ~

“How we view ourselves can often determine the perspective and degree in which we see others and the world around us. Each and every one of us has a view. Such a view, that it can shape the future of others and how they live, dream and look towards the future that we all hope is better and more fruitful than our past. This I believe is a common initiative.” ― Jeff Mills

~ Chapters ~

Sublamp / Echolalic / Dragons Eye Recordings
cv313 / Transversewaves / echospace [detroit]
Plant43 / The Countless Stones / Plant43 Recordings
Shelter Ov Shadows / The Abyss / Shelter Ov Shadows
Bea Brennan / Surface / Old Technology Records
Tropic Of Cancer / Plant Lillies At My Head / Blackest Ever Black
Havenaire / Drone 1 / Constellation Tatsu
Jo Johnson & Hilary Robinson / Maze Echoes / Self Released
Puri / Frosten / Self Released
Moss Covered Technology / Once Hallowed / Healing Sound Propagandist
Wanderwelle / An Offering Of Gratitude / Silent Season
Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement / These Spirits Version / Hospital Productions
Wolves and Horses / Aphelion / Cryo Chamber
Nine Inch Nails / Together / The Null Corporation
Infinite Medium / Retrograde / Healing Sound Propagandist
Peter Michael Hamel / Colours Of Time (Deepchord’s Carolina Forest Mix) / Astral Industries
r beny / Overgrowth / Dauw
The Future Sound Of London / Everyone In The World Is Doing Something Without Me / Virgin
Proem / It Ends Now / Self Released
Jo Johnson / Marching / Self Released
The Exaltics / Extracted / m_division
Alva Noto / A Forest / Noton
Slownoise / Silent Wilderness / Silent Season
Rafael Anton Irisarri / Vanishing Points / Dais Records
Markus Guenter / Kuria (with Bvdub) / A Strangely Isolated Place
Multicast Dynamics / Ancient Circuits Part 2 / Astral Industries
Soultek / What Dreams Are Made Of / Score Records
Confessor / Cleaning / Healing Sound Propagandist
nthing / Hypnotherapy / Lobster Theramin
X.Y.R. / Polar Night / Constellation Tatsu
The Transcendence Orchestra / Hinge Caterpillar / Editions Mego
Night Sea / HDSB / Silent Season
JASSS / Parental Youth / IDEAL Recordings
Max Wurden / Constituent Elements / A Strangely Isolated Place
Wolves In The Throne Room / Sleeping Golden Storm / Artemisia Recordings
65d Mavericks / Beginnings End / Surface
Sound Synthesis / For Microlith / Fundamental Records
Demdike Stare / A Tale Of Sand / Modern Love
Bvdub / Sparking Legions Turn To Black / Glacial Movements Records

~ Notes ~

Campfire Stories is a mix series by friends of Silent Season. The focus of the series is on storytelling through deeper electronic music. Artists weave together narratives using the emotional characteristics of ambient and techno music.

Thanks to all the artists and labels whose sounds help tell the story.

Thank you for listening.

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Photo: Daniel Peters

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http://campfirestories.ca

A Forest

Campfire Stories 101 (A Forest) by Ryan Blackman

a rework from Mean Flow of "piano patterns n°15" by Marco Lucchi

for "piano patterns" vol. 2, a project by Marco Lucchi
https://soundcloud.com/marcolucchi/sets/piano-patterns-vol-2

dicembre 2020

Marco Lucchi & Mean Flow - Liquid Air (piano patterns n°15)

Subsolar out now 

Hailing from Kristiansund on the northwest coast of Norway, Helge Tømmervåg has been crafting electronic sounds since the early '80s. His earliest work recorded under the now-familiar Mind over MIDI moniker arrived in the early '90s. He's released scores of highly regarded and stylistically uncompromising sounds over the years, appearing on labels including Silent Seasons, Diametric, Hibernate, Whitelabrecs, ROHS! Lontano Series, Shimmering Moods Records, Slow Tones Collages and via his own Berserk Fabrik.


ABOUT THE MUSIC
Electronic music for daydreamers and nighthinkers. Inspired by the icy winds, snowy vistas and frozen landscapes in Norway.

If you can picture the very furthest, coldest, darkest part of Norway, that's where Mind over MIDI resides. If you want to get an idea of what it's like there, and can do without the frostbite, then this is the perfect solution.