A collection of Ambient works and modern classical pieces. I designed this collection to showcase many of the artists that drive some of the sound design I create. 

I listen to this when I fall asleep 

I listen to this when I walk deep into the forest

I hope you enjoy my journey.

Racing to Sleep

Alone, not alone

Excited to announce the release of a new single which I composed exclusively for #PianoDay. This is music for a "Portrait of a Lady with a Fan" whom I found looking back at the artist with heartache in her eyes. I am not a painter, but this is what I saw.

Portrait Of A Lady With A Fan

Mike Lazarev plays Portrait Of A Lady With A Fan

I’m excited to spend this morning in a company of a new name to my ears in this constantly evolving, vibrant music scene. Although Chronos is officially a sophomore full-length album for this self-taught pianist, Johann Pätzold [his first was a record titled Minds out on Timezone in 2011], it is the first time I am presented with his stunning music, courtesy of InFiné. This Rostok-based (northern Germany) multi-instrumentalist and producer’s discography includes a few more self-released EPs and two more for the imprint, Monumentum (2017) and Odesea (2018), including compositions for Dior fashion shows and HBO programmes. But today I’m listening to Chronos, and premiering “Nothing Lost Yet” from this upcoming album, out on April 23rd. The piece, nearly halfway through the album, is a texture-rich cinematic journey, balancing elements of modern classical composition with an electronica momentum of the progression arc – if you listen closely you can hear influences of Trentemøller, Apparat, and Jon Hopkins in the mix. “Wide open spaces are filled with elegiac strings and reverberating electronic percussion, fine-tuned to the millisecond: everything is in the right place, making for a listening experience that is ultimately musical storytelling.” The background of the album is built on the composer’s real experience with the Syrian refugee crisis, musical activism, and the eventual nervous breakdown – all of which is left unspoken, yet still heard…

"Another track that had to be put on hold for a year because of covid-19. Whilst fine tuning the album I had to leave France in a hurry before the border closed, to get back to my home in Rostock, Germany. We then asked our InFiné label mate (Thomas) Toh Imago if he could build us some beats. His work improved the track and gave it a whole new polish. I’m so lucky that so many people helped me to get this album finished during the pandemic."
— Johann Pätzold

he record is available as a digital, 12″ black vinyl, and a striking all-red compact disc. A quick head nod to a beautiful and memorable album cover by Alice Sfintesco​. This is a winner for InFiné!

Chronos

Nothing Lost Yet

TRACK PREMIERE : Secret Of Elements - Nothing Lost Yet

The Wedding

Out Now!

Spotify: 
https://open.spotify.com/album/3i6jM3AJXkjOg1nQt5seyT?si=Tcpf5iYQSoGQCVRCrC9oyg

Apple Music: 
https://music.apple.com/us/album/pillowtalk-single/1566843976

Youtube: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOBfFHui420
Deezer: 

Label: Moriarty
Genre: Dance
Secondary Genre: Techno
UPC: 689690641702
Release Date: May 8, 2021

The first track from the new Pillowtalk/Whispers EP from Berlin based Moriarty. This EP will take a deep dive into human emotion and what drives us to create powerful music.

Pillowtalk (Original Mix)

02 Valse

from 'Nomad Frequencies' [CD|2xLP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den237
available in September on all formats at [http://denovali.com/johnlemke]

An ardent moulder of sound, John Lemke began carving out a very unique music blend on his debut album 'People Do' (2013) and its follow up EP 'Walizka' (2014). Informed by his work as a sound designer & composer for documentary films and his natural inclination towards fusing rhythm with rich textures and emotive melodies, he set out on a musical path that had been long in the making and is ever evolving.

The quest for unusual, inspiring sound sources has always been at the heart of John's process, however the genesis of his second album 'Nomad Frequencies' was rooted in much more inadvertent circumstances. In the summer of 2014, forced to indefinitely evacuate his Glasgow flat and studio due to structural damage from one hour to the next, with nothing more than a laptop and a bag of clothes, John embarked on a six month odyssey of soul searching, couch surfing and spending an extended period of time in his old hometown of Berlin for the first time in years - it was to be an odyssey that would help ferment and distill the ideas of his second album on which work had just begun. 

A year of particular global turmoil and upheaval, combined with John's personal, albeit very minor, 'displacement', caused a lot of questioning, frustration and anger, which somehow found its way onto the new material: a more confrontational, at times aggressive sound, paired on the other hand with a yearning for harmony, balance and space. Other influences came less from the world of music, but rather in visual form, through the densely textural art of Anselm Kiefer and the political, yet poetic musings of film maker Adam Curtis.

Intent on refining his sound toward a more minimal, bolder style, John set out to limit his sonic palate to a handful of carefully chosen elements. At the centre of this new direction remains the muted piano already introduced on his debut, but in a much more purified and raw form. This organic base is adorned by the warm fuzzing and wavering of analogue synthesisers, tape echoes, meditative tuning forks, field recordings from John's 'exile' period and percussion based on his rigid approach to sampling, which started developing on 'Walizka'. The guiding principle of his orthodox style of recording and sampling is to only use home-made sounds by utilising his own field recordings, applying contact microphones or hydrophones to objects and instruments, running them through different kinds of speakers and re-recording the sounds to arrive at a 'lived in' quality, often misunderstood as plainly 'lo-fi'. Touches of viola and woodwinds parts (Kim Moore of WOLF and Andrew Baker respectively) provide melody fragments and subtle details throughout the journey.

With John's healthy disregard for genre boundaries, the array of influences on 'Nomad Frequencies' is vast, but never over-powering. From the meditative tuning fork that starts proceedings on 'Of Elsewhere', the dub echoes to the hints of minimalism, free jazz explosions to the Lynchian atmospherics, all elements serve nothing more than the album's narrative journey between friction and harmony, best appreciated in its entirety. A rhythmic backbone collides with rich ambience and melody, often infectious and jarring at the same time, forging a soulful whole which most likely only reveals its true self after multiple spins.

Nomad Frequencies

John Lemke - The Unwinding

My official remix of Max Richter's wonderful Path 5.  Taken from the Sleep Remixes EP released by Deutsche Grammophon.

Sleep Remixes

Max Richter: Path 5 - Digitonal's Theo In Dreamland Mix

https://www.facebook.com/sebastianplano
Watch Live Video Session at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB9zsb2wy9I

Sebastian Plano - 'Indie' - Funkhaus Live Session

Annihilation (Music from the Motion Picture)

The Alien

What he wrote - Laura Marling

Tale Of Us recorded live at Time Warp Mannheim 2018.

Time Warp

Tale Of Us live at Time Warp Mannheim 2018

Monsters

Orphée

Flight from the City

The Sun's Gone Dim and the Sky's Turned Black

@juliagjertsen curates our latest mix with a beautiful selection of tracks featuring Bersarin Quartett, Dmitry Evgrafov, Daigo Hanada, Jim Perkins, Daniel Pemberton and much more. 

Julia released her album 'Fragile' on @modernarecords in November which you can listen to and purchase here: https://modernarecords.bandcamp.com/album/fragile 

Tracklist:
Bersarin Quartett - Wenn wir nur wollen             00:00
Jonas Meyer - Strömung                                      04:40
Dmitry Evgrafov - Anthem                                   11:59
Daigo Hanada - En                                               14:39
Mette Henriette - Passé                                        18:11
Jim Perkins - Enfolding                                         22:58
Niklas Paschburg - If                                             27:04
The Seven Fields of Aphelion - Michigan Icarus   32:00
Chris Watson - El Divisadero                                 37:04 
Daniel Pemberton - OSR I - I                                 42:15
Nuojuva - Hämärään                                             45:57

Contemplative Classical Mix

Julia Gjertsen - Contemplative Classical Guest Mix

The Paper Kites - Bloom (Bonus Track)

Moriarty has been a producer of House and Techno for almost twelve years. Since then his style has drastically changed, taking influence from the likes of Digitonal, Max Richter, Hans Zimmer and a host of other ambient and emotional Techno artists. 

Over the years, Chris's sound has taken a more dynamic and cinematic style, blending deep, textured soundscapes with rolling and bouncy techno aspects. 
Chris brings a certain uniqueness and freshness to the world of Electronic Music. 

For booking and or collaborations, please contact Jacob at Agartha Media: booking@agarthaagency.de