Track number 4 from the upcoming album 'Seafields' available from Dronarivm 260321

Decapod

'Decapod' - Seafields - [Dronarivm, 2021]

Purchase: bit.ly/3wjrs0f
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 - "Cloud Plexus"

From Prism of Dust, coming late April on LP

Ross Gentry - Nobody Wants To Be Here

I love piano. This is my first piano focused track - very different from what I typically produce.

Lost in a World

Crystal

vertikal

A new 5 track mini album released on Hibernate Recordings.
https://hibernate.bandcamp.com/album/nia

Charitable fundraising has been hit very hard by the COVID-19 so as part of #TwoPointSixChallenge we plan to release 26 free download/pay as much as you can afford Ep or albums on Hibernate Bandcamp page over the coming weeks. 100% income being donated to charities. All proceeds from this EP go to Medicins Sans Frontiers.

blochemy - Nia (Hibernate) Sampler

Idm Hobbyist 81620

from https://oberlin.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-a-corridor

Live In A Corridor

Market Song (album-dl see info)

The first time Stijn Huwels and Cok van Vuuren collaborated with Michel Banabila was in April 2020. They made an extremely peaceful 12-minute track in reaction to all the stress in the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic, to soothe some of the stress and calm you down. The track was picked up by Apple Music and added to one of their playlists, resulting in over 655.000 streams in just a few months, still increasing to this day: https://soundcloud.com/michel-banabila/one-moment-in-time

'Across The Sky' is their second collaboration, maintaining a positive vibe, this time with a little more emphasis on rhythm. Droney synths and imaginative electronics are mixed with space guitars, all infused with analog elusive layers of tape echo and reverb. 

DL & cassette: https://banabila.bandcamp.com/album/one-moment-in-time

Michel Banabila: keys & sampler.
Stijn Hüwels: el. guitar & field rec. @steiner
Cok van Vuuren: el. guitar. @user-472747517

Produced by Michel Banabila.
Mastering by Marlon Wolterink / White Noise Studio.

Across The Sky

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with Stijn Hüwels & Cok Van Vuuren: Across The Sky

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'Decapod' - Seafields - [Dronarivm, 2021]

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