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Danny Clay & Greg Gorlen - Light Through Leaves - Side B

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Jeff Brown - "Evacuation Of The Mirrored City"

LR084 - Cool Maritime - Some Sort of Wave Portal
WW release date 01.29.2016

Cool Maritime is the New Age synth wizardry of Sean Hellfritsch - named after the coastal region between San Francisco and Vancouver. "Coast Quest" was recorded in real-time to cassette using mini-modular synthesizer, re-201 space echo, and t.e. op-1. 

cover illustration by: Jesse Balmer 
jessebalmer.com/

Cool Maritime - Coast Quest

From the album EARS out April 1st on Western Vinyl

Order EARS
iTunes: http://hyperurl.co/gz5pqt
Bandcamp: http://hyperurl.co/vo3n6n
Amazon: http://hyperurl.co/qypau1
WV: http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv145

Artist Page http://westernvinyl.com/artists/kaitlyn-aurelia-smith
Website http://kaitlynaureliasmith.com/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/kaitlynaurelia/
Twitter https://twitter.com/kaitlynaurelia
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kaitlynaurelia/

TOUR DATES
March 	18 - London - Convergence Festival
March 	22 - Dublin - Button Factory w/ Battles
March 	24 - London - Electric Brixton w/ Battles
March 	25 - Paris - La Cigale w/ Battles
March 	26 - Reims - La Cartonnerie w/ Battles
March 	27 - Brussels - BRDCST Festival
March 	29 - Milan - Magazzini Generali w/ Battles
March 	30 - Rome - Spring Attitude Festival w/ Battles
March 	31 - Roncade - New Age Roncade w/ Battles
April 	01 - The Hague - Rewire Festival
April 	05 - Lausanne - Les Docks w/ Battles
April 	06 - Zurich - Rote Fabrik w/ Battles
April 	07 - Berlin - Kantine am Berghain
April 	12 - Belgrade - Resonate Festival
April 	13 - Berlin - Ableton User Group Meeting
April 	15 - Linz - Stadtwerkstatt / Kirchengasse 7
April 	28 - Fayetteville, AR - George’s Majestic Lounge w/ Animal Collective
April 	29 - Austin, TX - Levitation
May 	01 - Tulsa, OK - Cains Ballroom w/ Animal Collective
May 	03 - St. Louis, MO - Pageant - St Louis, MO w/ Animal Collective
May 	04 - Royal Oak, MI - Royal Oak Music Theatre w/ Animal Collective
May 	06 - Nashville, TN - Marathon Music Works w/ Animal Collective
May 	07 - Atlanta, GA - Buckhead Theatre w/ Animal Collective
May 	08 - Asheville, NC - Orange Peel w/ Animal Collective
May 	10 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club w/ Animal Collective
May 	13 - Wilmington, DE - World Café Live at The Queen w/ Animal Collective
May 	14 - Sayreville, NJ - Starland Ballroom - w/ Animal Collective

Listeners familiar with Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith's previous album Euclid (an album that prompted Dazed to call her "…one of the most pioneering musicians in the world.") will no doubt notice her heavier use of vocals on her new album EARS.  On all but one song, her gently ecstatic swells of vocals emerge to soar over a dense jungle of synths and woodwinds.

After initially composing on a Buchla analog synth, she wrote arrangements for a woodwind quintet, added vocals, and further refined the pieces with granular synthesis techniques she developed in her sound design work (she contributed sound design to Panda Bear's "Boys Latin" video, and handled sound design and original compositions for Brasilia co-written by and starring Reggie Watts).   

Kinetic arpeggios of synths pulse, often buoying her graceful vocal mantras, while woodwinds breathe and flutter, emulating the wildlife Smith observed while growing up on the West Coast (she even studied recordings of slowed down bird calls prior to composing these pieces).   Though some of her gestures echo the musical tropes used by early minimalist composers, the world she creates on EARS is uniquely hypnotic and full of life, not unlike Miyzaki's film Nausicaä, which she cites as an inspiration.

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - "Arthropoda"

From the album EARS released April 1st 2016 on Western Vinyl

iTunes: http://hyperurl.co/gz5pqt
Bandcamp: http://hyperurl.co/vo3n6n
Amazon: http://hyperurl.co/qypau1
WV: http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv145

Artist Page http://westernvinyl.com/artists/kaitlyn-aurelia-smith
Website http://kaitlynaureliasmith.com/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/kaitlynaurelia/
Twitter https://twitter.com/kaitlynaurelia
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kaitlynaurelia/

TOUR DATES
April 	28 - Fayetteville, AR - George’s Majestic Lounge w/ Animal Collective
April 	29 - Austin, TX - Levitation
May 	01 - Tulsa, OK - Cains Ballroom w/ Animal Collective
May 	03 - St. Louis, MO - Pageant - St Louis, MO w/ Animal Collective
May 	04 - Royal Oak, MI - Royal Oak Music Theatre w/ Animal Collective
May 	06 - Nashville, TN - Marathon Music Works w/ Animal Collective
May 	07 - Atlanta, GA - Buckhead Theatre w/ Animal Collective
May 	08 - Asheville, NC - Orange Peel w/ Animal Collective
May 	10 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club w/ Animal Collective
May 	13 - Wilmington, DE - World Café Live at The Queen w/ Animal Collective
May 	14 - Sayreville, NJ - Starland Ballroom - w/ Animal Collective

Listeners familiar with Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith's previous album Euclid (an album that prompted Dazed to call her "…one of the most pioneering musicians in the world.") will no doubt notice her heavier use of vocals on her new album EARS.  On all but one song, her gently ecstatic swells of vocals emerge to soar over a dense jungle of synths and woodwinds.

After initially composing on a Buchla analog synth, she wrote arrangements for a woodwind quintet, added vocals, and further refined the pieces with granular synthesis techniques she developed in her sound design work (she contributed sound design to Panda Bear's "Boys Latin" video, and handled sound design and original compositions for Brasilia co-written by and starring Reggie Watts).   

Kinetic arpeggios of synths pulse, often buoying her graceful vocal mantras, while woodwinds breathe and flutter, emulating the wildlife Smith observed while growing up on the West Coast (she even studied recordings of slowed down bird calls prior to composing these pieces).   Though some of her gestures echo the musical tropes used by early minimalist composers, the world she creates on EARS is uniquely hypnotic and full of life, not unlike Miyzaki's film Nausicaä, which she cites as an inspiration.

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - "Existence In The Unfurling"

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Sleep Party People - The Missing Steps

Tape label 2014-2017
Existing Digital 2018+ on Bandcamp
https://mmmsound.bandcamp.com/

https://www.discogs.com/label/733514-Mmm-Sound

Danny Clay & Greg Gorlen - Light Through Leaves - Side B

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