Saint is the first single from AFTER LONDON's debut album. It represents a new direction for the band, who have developed a heavier, darker sound that draws influence from grunge, rock and nu-metal.

Saint

Format: CD
Pre-order: 15th November 2024
Release date: 22nd November 2024

While playing and composing this album, I experienced a possibility: the chance to access a new space, hidden from me until that moment. A space outside of time, where at the center of darkness there is a radiant light. Each time I had the opportunity to access this space, a piece of music was born, over the course of several years. Meanwhile, I felt gratitude permeate me, the simple awareness of living life.
The Cave is that space, which belongs to all of us. The Cave is also the heart, which I felt open up. Perceiving this sensation take form was like drawing seals that attest to the truth contained within it. For this reason, La Grotta è Apertais sacred music. It is not tied to a religious tradition, but rather to the feeling of elevation it transmits when playing or listening to it. La Grotta è Aperta resonates with the rhythm of breath and heartbeat, dwellin in a timeless dimension. It is an album conceived as if it were played by a bodiless orchestra, where resonances, feedback, Tibetan bells, synths, and trumpet coexist in an electro-acoustic timbre, with intent as the only guiding coordinate.

The Cave is also that unfathomable mystery where shadow, light, death, and life are the same thing, whose threshold can be crossed in a single instant: now.

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previews. Edmondo Riccardo Annoni - La grotta è aperta | ROHS!

Jabuticaba - Dirty Black

Here's the opening somewhat apocalyptical section of our first improvisations around the sounds found on the Noise Vs. Silence compilation album. 

Portentous Siren - Nz-À-Nz Jam 1 - 1

Original Version By:
https://soundcloud.com/anastasios-koyrlios/no-shadow-in-my-mirror

Αναστάσιος Κούρλιος - No Shadow On My Mirror (Senglar Version)

Smiling Liquid Flowers (NaviarHaiku568)

Purchase/Download:
https://mechanatura.bandcamp.com/album/gods-earth-as-an-effigy

ONLINE @ https://MECHANATURA.COM

GOD'S EARTH AS AN EFFIGY

side (i)

RELEASE OF FULL ALBUM on Dec 01
https://wanjaolten.bandcamp.com/album/pathfinder

pathfinder is an improvisational musical encounter
bandoneón + piano

Please listen to the full album on bandcamp, starting Dec 1
https://wanjaolten.bandcamp.com/album/pathfinder

IV A

pathfinder | IV A

El Chumbo_Sandia (EDA BROWN REMIX)

Original Version:::
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jGJavcSJTg

Photo by Ivons

2Nite

HERMIT THRUSH AND DRIP: A Hermit Thrush singing with drip from trees after rain. Recorded 5:10am, 7 June 2016 inShindagin Hollow near Brooktondale, New York. © Lang Elliott.

Microphone: quasi binaural SASS (Stereo Ambient Sampling System) modified for use with Sennheiser MKH20 mics.

WHAT COULD BE more relaxing than listening to a Hermit Thrush singing after a rain, with water dripping from the trees?

Last night I visited Shindagin Hollow at dusk. I was surprised by the number of Hermit Thrushes I found singing in the mixed forest, especially areas with lots of towering Eastern Hemlocks. I tried recording, but there were jets passing high overhead and lots of traffic noise, both in the distance and close-by on the road that passes through the hollow. I did manage to capture several brief parabolic closeup recordings of both a Hermit Thrush and a Veery, but I was completely unable to gather any useable soundscapes. So I went home, slept soundly, and then rose early so that I could be present for the dawn chorus.

It rained off-and-on through the night but the sky was clear when I arrived at the hollow at 4:30am. There was so much drip falling from the forest canopy that it sounded like it was raining. The first bird to sing was a robin that chimed-in at 4:40am. Soon after, the Hermit Thrushes began and it took me nearly twenty minutes to home-in on one that wasn’t overwhelmed by the song of a robin or some other species.

The result is just wonderful, at least to my ear. The Hermit Thrush, which was singing from high in a Hemlock almost directly overhead, is not too close nor is it too far away. It is at just the right distance for a pleasurable effect that allows one to hear the intricacy of the songs without being overwhelmed. The drip also sounds good, although I must admit that I had to remove a dozen or more loud splats from drops that fell too close to my mic (thank goodness for sophisticated editing software that allows me to do this without interfering with the bird songs).

As you can imagine, I am very pleased with this morning’s catch. It’s the first really nice Hermit Thrush recording I’ve made this season. Such an exquisite soundscape featuring a voice that is at once ethereal, tender, gently caressing … the voice of solitude, of a shy and hidden bird of secluded forests.

Naturalist John Burroughs thought the Hermit’s song an expression of “serene religious beatitude” that embodies “a peace and a deep, solemn joy that only the finest souls may know” … “O spheral, spheral! O holy, holy!” I only hope my recording conveys the essence that Burroughs so elegantly describes.

Let me know what you think of this recording. Does it affect you the way it affects me?

© Lang Elliott, All Rights Reserved
Microphone: Crown SASS (Stereo Ambient Sampling System) modified for use with Sennheiser MKH20s.

Hermit Thrush and Drip

Hi Friends! I am a professional nature recordist who travels to wild areas throughout North America and sometimes beyond. My current focus is to gather  immersive binaural 3D soundscapes that effortlessly transport listeners (using headphones) into nature and have a positive and healing effect on the mind, body and spirit.

Hermit Thrush and Drip

Lang Elliott – Music of Nature