ambient / soundscapes / drone

my 100 favorite albums of all time - 3

Julian Cope's Krautrock Sampler

Krautrock

i need to clear my head

Autechre COVID-19 Stream 4/05

Krautrock Exploration

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Catalog #: GN65
Apr. 16, 2021
LP+DIGI

Matthew Sage is about seeing the big picture, but focused through the most intimate and personal lens possible. Best exemplified on the gauzy, cartographical opus 'A Singular Continent', as well as his impulsively meditative Geographic North debut 'Catch a Blessing', Sage’s imagination yields fully realized sonic suites to worlds both imaginary and referential to his own. 

Now, the Chicago-based composer, producer, label owner, and publisher returns with 'The Wind of Things', a personal and pastoral oblation to the wild and wind-blown waters and mountains, both from Sage’s own memory and writ large. Absent are the processed sounds and filters that have come to define Sage's work; the album finds Sage stripping away the synthesized sounds that alchemied his past work into aural gold, instead favoring an entirely acoustic and natural 
palette.

Sage called upon a myriad of long-time collaborators, who together form the aptly-titled Spinnaker Ensemble (featuring Patrick Shiroishi, Chaz Pyrmek, Nate Henricks, Chris Jusell, Allison Sheldon, Martin Albertz, David Hirsch, Matt Wenzel, and Ang Wilson) to help realize his vision and further the melodic potential of the living and breathing field recordings that permeate the album. Tapping into an intimate sense of self, these field recordings derive from natural places that are significant to Sage. Lakes, mountains, and rivers he grew up boat-racing on and swimming in; tall fields of grass in rural Nebraska near his family’s birthplaces; wildlife on the pond of his in-laws home in Texas; the harbors and beaches of Lake Michigan that he frequents; all serving as places of occupation for these compositions to live in and blow through.

Opener “Cloud Plexus” is a fog-laden float in a calm lake of unrestrained optimism. The serenity soon glissades into “Harbor Dive”, a shimmering and elegant rift of sloshing harmonies. “Launching Mossing Scow” finds its flourish in the flotsam, tinkering with rusted refrains and oblong melodies. The action quickens with “Zephyr: Ponderosa Pollen,” charting a speedy course with only a shoddy sonic sextant as its guide. “Starboard Reach” offers a moment of playful clarity before “Luffing Adrift” and “Sail-Shaped Light,” a murky pool of darkness and light that ripples into the ether.

“Slipping the Mooring/Pond” opens the B-side in an amorphous din of familiar auditory accoutrements that gather into a single, slow-motion blur. “Dazzling Shallow Bay,” “Portside Mark,” and “Tell Tail Tale” play a dreamlike suite of a waterside piano finding its fins and diving below the waves, discovering its blithe buoyancy, and exploring the depths unencumbered by the weight of the world. The hopeful meditation of “Spinnaker on a Southerly” serves as a calm before the (rain)storm that is “Hiked Way Out,” a welcome reflection on past, present, and future maritime melancholia.

The Wind of Things

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M. Sage - "Harbor Dive"

The newly established label bié Records follows Yu Su's winter 2019 tour of mainland China where she travelled from Qingdao, the western shore of Yellow Sea Coast to Xining, the largest urban hub on the Tibetan Plateau. As she encounters musical artists and enthusiasts at the foreground of the explosive leftfield electronic scene across China, she is inspired to participate and contribute; Yu Su is delighted to offer her debut album Yellow River Blue for release through bié Records in China, with a European vinyl edition delivered by Amsterdam-based Music From Memory.

bié Records 和 Yu Su 想以厂牌第一号出品 Yellow River Blue 作契机，为华人文化区域内不同背景的音乐人建立抒发个体感受的出口。

2019 年冬，这位中原生⻓又旅居海外的音乐人一路从黄海西岸的青岛游历至青藏高原最大的城市西宁；在这趟首尾对应黄河两端的巡演途中，她被中国前卫电子音乐场景和场景参与者的自由姿态深深吸引，随即思考如何以音乐创作为这个集体作出贡献。

Yellow River Blue，Yu Su 对于这段经历的开放性回应，听感流畅也暗藏情绪张力。源于自己丰富的聆听经验和对个人经历的敏锐感知，Yu Su 的音乐语言包含了超越⻛格标签和自身文化根源及所处环境的复杂意识。山水的清幽不仅仅源于她与自然的亲近关系，更是一种个人情绪外化的 “人造” ⻛景。

透过 Yu Su 拨弄的象征符号与音乐风格元素，你会清楚看到她扰乱 “内与外” “中与洋” “我与他” 边界的初心以及她温和又澄澈的自我画像 —— 于愈发混浊的湍流中泛起轻舟，以自若之势扬起一面古老的帆；Yu Su 正为自己，也为世上紊乱的风指引新的方向。

Yellow River Blue

Touch-Me-Not

Andrew Thomas Huang - Solipsist Soundtrack [YGK020]

1. Intro
2. Limits
3. Stone Meets Stone
4. The Knowing
5. Galaxies In A Straight Line
6. Light Alight And More Light

Format: Digital/EP
Release Date: 28 April, 2023
Mixed by Andrew Thomas Huang
Cover by Andrew Thomas Huang
Mastered by Soda Plains

Andrew Thomas Huang - The Knowing [YGK020]

Ans M - Bud

Originally produced for a sound installation, this sound piece vulnerably reveals various emotions through intimate voice notes, disruptive surges of noise and morphing soundscapes. Coming from a personal perspective of storytelling, the non-linear progression of the sound finds its resonance within the in-between.



Written, composed, produced and mixed by Jie Elaine Wang
Trombone by Ming
Mastered by Nerve
Special thanks to Cédric Maridet

i emanate amidst your presence just like you emanate amidst mine

Oisatsana ~ Past Life

A Lost Era in NYC 1987 - 1992

Expressions Flute Mix

Amon Düül - Snow Your Thirst and Sun Your Open Mouth (Germany)
Jacob Miller / Ray I - Natty Broke For Ismas (Jamaica)
Benny Soebardja - Crime (Indonesia)
Claudette & Ti Pierre - Camionette (Haiti)
Clara Rockmore - Ravel Habanera (Lithuania)
Dedalus - CT 6 (Italy)
Kraftwerk - Kling Klang (Germany) 
Victor Jara y Quilapayún - Drume Negrita (Venezuela)

239 - Snow Your Thirst and Sun Your Open Mouth

Cluster II

Plas

Im Süden

The Sun Rising

Preview of "France we send our House to you" by Farley Jackmaster Funk. Trax Records 2016

Farley Jackmaster Funk - France We Send Our House To You (PREVIEW)

Don't Need Your Love

Don't Need Your Love (Dub)

Lookaftering

If I Were

Phallus Dei

Dem Guten, Schönen, Wahren

Kanaan

Kollektion 04: Bureau B

Sowiesoso

Umleitung

Cluster 71

7:42

Kollektion 06: Cluster 1971-1981 (Compiled by John McEntire)

Zum Wohl

Dem Wanderer

21:32

15:43

Halwa

Rastakraut Pasta

Solar Plexus

Recording under different aliases, the Burrell Brothers were the backbone of Nu Groove Records. This New York label started in 1987 and took inspiration from Trax Records, both musically and aesthetically. This compilation compiles the absolute best of the Burrell's output and in doing so is giving us a valuable insight to the much overlooked roots of New York house music.

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01 - Metro - Brownstone Express

Amon Düül - Paramechanical World (1970)

instrumentals

music for indigo

"Intimate Ghosting", a compilation album featuring nine musicians from Japan and South Korea, is being newly introduced to the roster of the Netherlands/US-based record label Psychic Liberation. Under the curation of novelist and musician Jiyoung Wi, the album contains the works of Arexibo (KR), Arles (KR), bela (KR), Jiyoung Wi (KR), Joyul (KR), Kazumichi Komatsu (JP), Kenji (JP), Ultrafog (JP), and Yeong Die (KR). ‘Intimate Ghosting’ is a lucid invitation to the effervescente sonic field progressing throughout the experimental, left-field, ambient music communities of said regions. The album artwork is from Moon Bae, an artist working in the US and South Korea.

Curation : Jiyoung Wi
Mastered : Elizabeth Davis
Design : Moon Bae

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Solar Plexus

Moebius & Plank