A record of slowly evolving beauty that gradually unravels its meditative design. Recorded in Norwegian sculptor and painter Emanuel Vigeland' s (1875 -1948) mausoleum in Oslo in 2013. A recording space that is famous for its acoustics and its long and full-sounding reverb. These three tracks utilize both the delicacy and the power of acoustic instruments and human voice in relation to the unique recording space. This is a record that is otherworldly and eerie but also with a great primal expressive force. Performed by four artists from different backgrounds coming together to create this singular set of music. 

Maja S.K. Ratkje - Jon Wesseltoft - Camille Norment - Per Gisle Galåen - The Green Flood (edit)

Psychic sisterhood and wistful wanderlust are the twin energies feeding lush ceremonial dream-pop duo Purple Pilgrims. Their debut album ‘Eternal Delight’ was released by LA based Not Not Fun records in early 2016. 

Their piece 'Lamentations in Reverse' was recorded in Autumn at their family home in an isolated corner of Hauraki, NZ using synthesizer, field-recordings and vocals. Since they began spending time in the bush, a recurring theme in their work has been the awkward meeting point between the ever-present world of modern technology, and perpetual, vital nature.

Listen back to the full Ears Have Ears program at the FBi Radio website http://fbiradio.com/945fm/programs/ears-have-ears/2017-05-25/

EHE 25.05.17 Purple Pilgrims (NZ) - Lamentations in Reverse

Enitokwa's​​ new ​​work,​​ which​ r​eleased​ t​he ​​ultimate​​ ultra​ r​eality​​ Utopia ​​drone​​ album​​ "​2069"​​ i​n early ​​2016, ​i​s ​t​he​ third​​ part ​​of​ t​he​"​Tealightsound" ​​series​​ advocated​​ by​​ Kyoto's​ t​ea wholesaler,​​ Ujikoen,​​which ​​has​​ continued​​ since ​t​he​​ Edo ​​period.​​​ Sounds​​ of​​ nature, environmental,​​ electronic​​ and​​ prepared​​ piano​​ sublime ​t​ogether​​ as​​ a​​whole​l ​ike​​ a​​ miraculous ambient ​​music​​ picture​​scroll.

2016年初頭、最果ての超現実ユートピア・ドローンアルバム​“​2069”​​をリリースし たEnitokwaの新作は江戸時代から続く京都の茶問屋、宇治香園が提唱する ”Tealightsound”​​シリーズ第3弾。自然音、環境音と電子音、プリペアードピアノが 渾然一体に昇華した環境音楽奇観絵巻。

Ujikoen presents “Tealightsound” (http://ujikoen.co.jp/tealightsound/)

Artist: Enitokwa 
Title:  o.n.s.a.   
Label: non-entertainment-research / Ujikoen

Format: CD  (nercd003)   
Contents: 5 Tracks    42min. 41sec.

⚫︎15:01
⚫︎⚫︎23:28
⚫︎⚫︎⚫︎29:17
⚫︎⚫︎⚫︎⚫︎34:13
⚫︎⚫︎⚫︎⚫︎⚫︎42:41

Date of Release: Oct.6. 2017
Price: 1500yen ＋ Tax

Enitokwa: Electronics, Field Recordings and Mix
Shigeki Ieguti: Prepared Piano on Track 2 and 3
Mastered by Kabamix (LMD)

Produced by Enitokwa  
Executive Producer: Hirokazu Kojima (Ujikoen Co. Ltd.)

Drawing: Sakura Kondo
Photograph : Mai Narita
Design: Kei Sakawaki

©Ⓟ 2017 non-entertainment-research & Ujikoen Co. Ltd. All rights reserved.


Comment:

I think that ambient music is the music that does not limit how to listen. I hope this album will be familiar to each way of listening to music.

AMBIENT MUSIC= 環境音楽とは聴き方を限定しない音楽のことだと思っています。このアルバムを手にとって下さった方々それぞれの聴き方に馴染みますように今は祈るばかりです。

Enitokwa

Mr. Isao Tomita, a pioneer of synthesizer music, has left a word that "electronic and human beings are phenomena" as well as before life. That moment and eternity the dust of the universe gathers and eventually returns to the dust of the universe. Listening to Enitokwa's music, such feelings go round.

シンセサイザー・ミュージックの先駆者、富田勲さんが生前に、「電子音も人間も現象である」と言葉を残されています。宇宙の塵が集合し、やがてまた宇宙の塵へと戻る、その一瞬と永遠。Enitokwaの音楽を聴いて、そんな想いが巡ります。

Chee Shimizu

It is a sound richly containing theanine (sweet ingredient of tea), a gem that can taste slowly and lean heart. A documentary scenery sound reminiscent of the tea making process at Ujikoen is arranged in the whole story, and the virtuous thing with a frankly act is very refreshing.
Please try to entrust with peace of mind in "definite" works which extracted carefully every single drop.

It has been inherited the calmness from Keizan Temple constantly since 700 years ago.
How does the former pioneers feel the fragrance that Enitokwa brings up？

テアニン(お茶の甘み成分)を芳醇に含んだ音であり、心を傾けてゆっくりと味わうことの出来る逸品。宇治香園での製茶工程を想起させるドキュメンタリーな風景音が全編に配置されており、そこはかとない作為との妙がとても静涼です。 一滴一滴丁寧に抽出された"確実な"作品に安心して身を委ねてみて下さい。

径山寺から700余年 連綿と受け継がれる清閑な
営み
Enitokwaが立ち上らせる薫りはかつての先人達にどう映るのであろうか?

SUGAI KEN

The level to make it play after the storm. It was organic and quiet sequence that emerged and relieved feeling. I'd love to recommend the new work of Enitokwa which is completed!

嵐の後に再生させる境地。浮き出たのは有機的で静かなシーケンスと安堵感でした。完成されているEnitokwaの新作を是非!

ALTZ

o.n.s.a.

o.n.s.a.  (nercd003) DIGEST MIX

from 'Calibrate' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den311
available on all formats at http://denovali.com/ricardodonoso

“Quicksilver frequencies, gravelly formants and shimmering, mirage-like washes of tone. Sometimes his sounds feel like signals picked up by a radio telescope, or pure electricity poured through a sieve” Pitchfork

“He displays a resistance towards the boundaries of genre, taking experimental, techno and noise templates and blending them with different range of sounds, delivering some of the most wonderfully eccentric and evocative music in recent memory” Dummy  

“Transcendently dark permutations” The Ransom Note

“A genre-defying electronic explorer” Exclaim

On November 30th Denovali records presents ‘Calibrate’ – the new album by respected underground figure, composer and producer Ricardo Donoso. As has now come to be expected from the questing musician, once again he has endeavoured to do things differently, pushing beyond any comfort-zone parameters. 

‘Calibrate’ proffers the highest of fidelity, with blockbuster sci fi levels of production value and bombast. Donoso channels sonic spirits across fluro pointillism, futuristic industrial tribalism and more serene moments of synthetic reflection.

Having never courted accessibility, Donoso remains as unbending as ever in his approach and unwavering in commitment to his craft. Calibrate takes Donoso’s polymetric abuse and sound design to all new extremes. Conflicting rhythms and swathes of electronic debris move in tandem, to create pieces that expand and contract in on themselves.

A journey through Calibrate is an exercise in instability and failure; its aggressiveness serves as a warning against the urge to seek safety on common ground, and its entire approach seems to display a hostility towards the increasingly homogenized nature of new electronic music. 

The first in a two-part series, ‘Calibrate’ seeks to explore not only the literal connotations of instrument accuracy, gauging and tuning, as represented by the constant flux of machinery and computer noise, but also explores calibration as an adjustment; to take external factors into account, or to allow comparison with other data. With ‘Calibrate’ Donoso continues to question what music is, and what it expects of him. 
Ricardo Donoso is a composer, percussionist and electronic musician from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil who currently resides in Boston. After having studied composition at Berklee College of Music and the New England Conservatory, he has participated in a slew of projects over the years, from holding down the drum chair in avant-metal visionaries Ehnahre, to scoring for recent documentary features such as Greg Barker’s ‘Homegrown: The Counter Terror Dilemma’ (HBO pictures 2016) and the Grand Prize short film winner in Brazilian cinema ‘Casimiro Effect’. Donoso has since collaborated with film makers and video artists on commissions worldwide, creating immersive environments and performances. 
As a solo recording artist, Donoso has released music on esteemed labels such as Denovali, Digitalis, Further Records and Hospital Productions, and continues to tour throughout Europe, Asia and Latin America. He is most concerned with building and manipulating an immersive sound world that blurs the line between light and dark, hope and despair, past and future. Under a chain of progressive rhythms, cinematic textures and elegant melodicism, Donoso’s work pushes through with piercing strength, manipulating a sonic wave through space with nothing but mind-blowing intensity.

Calibrate

Ricardo Donoso - A Vigorous Unfolding

Carl Oesterhelt "Eleven Pieces for Synthesizer"
LP & Digital © 2019 Umor Rex Records
www.umor-rex.org

Umor Rex presents Eleven Pieces for Synthesizer, a collection of synth instrumentals by German composer Carl Oesterhelt. Oesterhelt has been recording a mixture of straddling kosmische and classical traditions for years on his own reel tape machine, overdubbing stacks of analogue gear to create a compelling body of work that brings fresh emotional depth and rhythmic experimentation to the syntax of the modern synthesizer.
 
Born in Munich in 1968, Carl Oesterhelt has worked in a variety of fields throughout a long and impressive career. His discography includes tenures with Neue Deutsche Welle legends FSK, intellectual disco outfit Merricks, and German legends The Notwist. His solo work has travelled even further and wider, taking in contemporary classical and chamber music, music for exhibitions and radio plays, not to mention notable collaborations with saxophonist Johannes Enders and legendary founding member of Faust, Hans Joachim Irmler. 
 
Oesterhelt augments his own analogue arsenal with synthesizers borrowed from musician friends, resulting in almost fifteen different synthesizers –some in fruitful states of disrepair– which feature on the album. Opener “La chapelle de Francis Lai” pays tribute to the French film composer with a synthesized church organ procession, disintegrating kraut-funk-noir which emerges on “Poro Secret Society”. Then, eerie sound effects mash with minimal techno rhythms on “Makonde Pattern”, and –most surprisingly– Oesterhelt turns his keys into a sub-Saharan drum ceremony on “Trinidad Pattern”. The sheer range of Eleven Pieces for Synthesizer is an impressive achievement unto itself. Yet it is Oesterhelt’s instincts as a composer which make these (largely improvised) recordings so compelling. Tensions build and emotions stir throughout each piece with a proficiency perfected through his work for the stage.
 
Musically associates, and directly connected to a heritage of German electronics, Eleven Pieces for Synthesizer touches upon similar ground to the likes of Musik von Harmonia in its pulsations, Klaus Schulze’s sonically adventurous Cyborg, and Tangerine Dream at their earliest and most primitive. The hypnotic ritualism of early African field recordings, or the spiritual regality of European organ music also convey key reference points in the formulation of this collection. Oesterhelt’s compositions here have taken the musically primitive and the emotionally raw, and woven them into a rich synthetic soundworld all of his own.

Lully's Turquerie As Interpreted By An Advanced Script

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