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Henny Soaked Psyche EP - P1

this sound is my first (well, second or third) exploration of the error instruments sonic lullaby eurorack module which basically places a music box and a contact mic on a module. it's absolutely beautiful and so much fun. not just the bell sounds of the music box, but all of the mechanical noises and squeaks as well.

this modular patch is quite simple:

sonic lullaby > make noise moraphagene > three sisters filter > intellijel rainmaker

there's a bit of bricasti M7 reverb on the end

enjoy!

july 15, 2017 (error instruments - sonic lullaby)

one day, while i was working on some new stuff, this one here, i realized that it sounded quite similar (to use an euphemism) to BoC's "Olson"... so let this be a humble tribute to that great track from the fantastic duo...

olsonian interlude

Depicted is a picture of a picture of the RCA MKii synthesizer at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center from an exhibit "Sounding Circuits: Audible Histories" shown at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. These were early days in the history of electronic music. "Summer Breeze" tries to capture some of that innocence (some folks may even hear a little Laurie Spiegel in this) before it all turned into a mad rave.
This is a case study on the virtues of very light modulation - the piece is based on the sound of Plait's chord mode, with the morph feature lightly set in motion by a 1.6 volt waveform from a Zadar envelope generator which scans a  wavetable very subtly

A World Beyond

Summer Breeze

Faex Optim - Escape From New York (Cover)

I Like To Sleep - Circles

To be released on CD and 180g VInyl on February 26, 2021!

Johan Lindström – Guitar, Pedal Steel and more.
Per Texas Johansson – Sax, Klarinetter
Jonas Kullhammar – Sax
Mats Äleklint – Trombon
Jesper Nordenström – Orgel, Piano
Torbjörn Zetterberg – Bas
Konrad Agnas – Trummor
+ Elvis Costello, Margareta Bengtsson & Sofie Livebrant

On Johan Lindström Septett’s second album, Swedish pedal steel player, composer and producer, Johan Lindström, invites the listener to dive deeper into his kalejdoscopic musical mind.

Their debut album was released in early 2018, receiving praise around the globe. It ended up being nominated for a Swedish Grammy, while the septet itself received the “Band of the Year” award at the Swedish Radio jazz gala.
An in-demand musician and producer throughout Scandinavia since the 90’s, Johan is no newcomer to the scene. Featured on pedal steel in a jazz quintet setting. Johan was also a member of saxophonist/clarinetist Per Texas Johanssons group, which took Europe by storm in the 90’s. On the jazz/impro scene he is mainly known as a founding member of the group Tonbruket, which also features bassist Dan Berglund, formerly of EST (Esbjörn Svensson Trio).
Tonbruket has received four Swedish Grammy awards.

For his own septet, Johan assembled six of his favorite musicians on the Swedish jazz scene. Their new album, ”On the asylum”, was mainly recorded in the legendary Atlantis Studio in Stockholm – coincidentally, the very place where Johan first met and worked with Elvis Costello, who makes a guest appearance on the album, reciting his own lyrics on the opening track.

Johan Lindström was born in Stockholm in 1972 and has been a professional musician since 1991, playing guitar, piano and pedal steel. Johan has worked with artists like Ane Brun, Tonbruket, Rebecka Törnqvist, Graveyard, Susanne Sundføer, Nils Petter Molvaer, Anna Ternheim, Freddie Wadling, Elvis Costello, Patti Smith, Sly & Robbie, Ebbot Lundberg, Edda Magnason, Kristian Kjellvander, Goran Kajfes, Kristofer Åström, Big Johnny Jewel and many more.

We’re proud to present ”On the asylum”, a fascinating album that defies categorisation.

Johan Lindström Septett - On The Asylum (album teaser)

It’s fair to say that the events of the year 2020 will go down as quite a year and may form a large part of the history curriculum for the children of tomorrow. The pandemic is of course just part of the story, against a backdrop of political unrest, climate change and injustice too.

Whitelabrecs was affected with the closure of our local post office, meaning we were unable to ship our CDs. We also felt we had a duty not to hold up a queue of people and decided to stop production of our catalog. During that time, to make sure we still had a label left to return to, we launched the ambitious Home Diaries series. It ran for 3 months and in that relatively short space of time, the series reached 30 releases!

Home Diaries was an invitation to artists and musicians to create an album or EP to document their personal experience during the lockdown or social distancing conditions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. The series reflects a range of sounds, styles and ideas, as each artist portrayed their own reflections uniquely, available as a digital only edition including a bonus interview and photos.
Each of the 30 digital editions in the Home Diaries series is an individual work of art, created to share the varying experiences felt by each artist. 

This compilation album pulls together a track from each record, sequenced in a way that flows as a specially curated environment, over the course of two CDs. We have two versions available as follows:

A standard edition, which is a double-disc gatefold vinyl-effect CDr album, featuring a re-interpretation of the original cover artwork, painted by Adrian Lane.

A deluxe matchbox edition, in which the double-disc gatefold vinyl-effect CDr is housed inside a gold foil-etched box, which also contains a booklet which includes a photo from each artist's home during lockdown. This version serves as a time capsule into the original series; a keepsake which is limited to just 70 copies.

If you opt for the digital version, this also includes the photo booklet as a bonus PDF item. 

credits
releases January 23, 2021

Painting and artwork by Adrian Lane
Booklet images provided by each respective artist
Packaging layout by Harry Towell
Compilation curated by Harry Towell

All tracks mastered by James Edward Armstrong, except:
12 'Out In The Open' Mastered by John Hannon
17 'Distance Learning' Mastered by Michael Southard
29 -'Stanze e Distanze (part 2)' Mastered by Francis M. Gri

The Home Diaries

wlr085 Various Artists - The Home Diaries

thanks to Ingvar for the possibility of further joint playing - "at a distance" https://soundcloud.com/agnosturaelwar/earthbound

Ingvar - guitar, synths
Milan - Handsonic HPD 20 - own sounds "hang drum"

2021-01-16

Earthbound (NN Edit)

BOBBY LEE - Origin Myths - Out March 5th digital. LP out May 7.
PRE-ORDER LP : http://www.tompkinssquare.com/bobbylee.html

Bobby Lee trades in a wide screen brand of cosmic country-folk, full of space and pawn shop guitars. There are touches of JJ Cale's analogue Americana, the swampy groove of Tony Joe White and Richard Thompson's sinewy, modal guitar work. Amps hum in the warm afternoon sun, kids and dogs snooze on the grass and broken drum machines keep time with the universe…Open sky/scorched earth improvisations recorded to four track tape during the rare moments of solitude afforded by lockdown and early fatherhood. Bobby Lee’s “worn-denim psych-country” remains, but the ancestral spirits of Ashra, Popol Vuh and Terry Riley are present here too. Time and technological limitations have been embraced. A song dreamt up, tracked and mixed in an afternoon, never to be tampered with again. Imperfections allowed to stand; knowing that nothing is ever truly finished. The Bob Ross school of philosophy. 

“Overdriven drum-machine low slung choogle" - MOJO

“The further Bobby unmoors himself from songs and heads towards long-form abstraction, the more engrossing it becomes” - UNCUT

Origin Myths

Broken Prayer Stick

Jazz record label founded by Jonas Kullhammar in Stockholm 2000.
Home of many of scandinavias main improvisers on the scene!

Johan Lindström Septett - On The Asylum (album teaser)

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