Like the sounds man, nice vibe and feel. 

Love it, sounds like one massive slide drone, but somehow going on for ever!

Oh i 'traveling accross the 30's love song !!! Poetic sound man 

love this atmospheric stuff...what are your live shows like?

From the album "Ivory" released via Kitchen Label (2018)

IVORY

Duende

A Total Knew (unmastered)

from 'Blossoms In Red' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den243
available in October on all formats at [http://denovali.com/ensembleeconomique]

Based in Californian Humboldt County, Brian Pyle wanders the world on his countless travels. Far from being restless, he has his very own Pylesque way of travelling. Much like a Lynchian version of Hemingway, he has an eye for the thin layer between restlessness and relaxation, gloom and serenity. Wherever he goes, he ardently absorbes these nuances, rarefies them and moulds them into a seamless array of glimmering styles, from drone and ambient to shoegaze and post-wave, giving birth to yet another creation of his prolific Ensemble Economique project.
On his by now eleventh album and fourth Denovali release "Blossoms In Red", Pyle combines and perfects elements of his previous output into a cohesive narrative. The opener "From The Train Window, Red Flowers On The Mountain" is a surprisingly scarce ambient piece, which feels like an almost infinitely stretched precious moment of time. Despite being austere, it is warm, sublime and incredibly captivating and after listening to its full 8 minutes, one cannot help but to rewind and replay. Having barely escaped this seductively infinite loop, one encounters the title track "Blossoms In Red" featuring Portland electronic duo Soft Metals. Starting off with a characteristic sluggish programmed beat, one is immediately overpowered by the onset of the towering combination of a warm bassline and a shimmering synth ambience. As the track flows, these elements writhe around each other in a delicately beautiful fashion, absorbing the materialising wailing guitar which almost sounds like an ethereal voice, as well as the occasional melodic and rhythmic accents. The next track sees this guitar return in a rather pure form. "On The Sand", featuring jack-of-all-trades Peter Broderick, is essentially just reduced analogue drums, electric guitar, a simple vibrating bassline and hoarse almost spoken vocals. Slowly and methodically, these constituents form a captivating erotic ritual, much like a beguiling and hypnotic mandala procession of imperturbable blissful individuals on the beach. As proven on numerous occasions, Pyle can easily lead all his trumps in the presence of female lead vocals, and "Blossoms In Red" makes no exception. Indeed, "You, By Candlelight" is easily the best Ensemble Economique track with female vox to date. Pyle manages to embed the vocals just in the right minimal amount of instrumental layers, making the track radiate an elusive tranquility. The fifth and closing track "Nothing Is Perfect" is a classically tinged piano piece with only very little processing and sparse field recording samples. With all pieces of the album, Pyle manages to create tracks which feel like being composed only of two or three layers of sound, that are nevertheless allowed to develop a life cycle which seems incredibly long - track lengths vary from 6:30 to 8:10 - but still feels just right. Thus "Blossoms In Red" is probably Ensemble Economique's most minimalistic album, but at the same time - or maybe just for this reason - his most skilled work.

Blossoms In Red

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Ensemble Economique - You, By Candlelight (feat. J Moon)

múm (Gunnar Örn Tynes, Örvar Smárason & Samuli Kosminen) live at Radialsystem on 14 February, 2016.

Together with the percussionist Samuli Kosminen, the founding members of múm, Gunnar Örn Tynes and Örvar Smárason, performed an improvised live score to “Menschen am Sonntag”, a masterpiece of silent film. 

Special thanks to the artists for a great performance, to Jan Gieseke for the amazing sound and to Carlo Grippa for mastering this tune.
Recorded at Radialsystem, Berlin.
Published with permission of the artist.
Photo: Markus Werner

múm plays Menschen am Sonntag @ UM:LAUT -  Live Snippet 1

Pre-order the album 'Aforger' out October 14th on LP/CD/DL here: http://phonofile.link/aforger

In a digital age where memories are mimicked by pixels and identity is as malleable as static, Douglas Dare’s new album Aforger questions the boundaries between reality and fiction. 

Inspired by recent events and revelations encountered in his life these songs depict Dare at his most vulnerable, whilst simultaneously reflecting our own obsession with reality and technology back at us.  

Aforger was mixed at the iconic Abbey Road Studios and produced by long-time collaborator Fabian Prynn. In the following conversation Douglas strips back the personal journeys and realisations which preceded its recording.

In a conversation with Douglas Dare on July 11th 2016:

The album title plays with the idea of a forger – someone creating imitations or copies, and reimagines them as the creator of something that’s no longer real. Prior to writing the record, I came out to my father and came out of a long relationship, both were hugely challenging for me and questioned my idea of identity and reality. These thoughts leaked out into the record and formed the core of Aforger. I was determined not to write a break-up album or repeat what I’d done before..

I grew up on quite an isolated farm in Dorset, surrounded by fields and not much besides. My mother taught piano from home and we didn’t have a computer, or the internet or mobile phones. In fact, my family still chooses not to use these things. It’s worlds apart from my life now in London where technology seems to dominate everything I do.

After finding out my boyfriend had been leading this double-life, I became obsessed with the question of what is real and George Orwell’s 1984 felt appropriate for me to re-read. Orwell explains this idea of reality control and Doublethink, and it struck a chord with me. The idea that truth can be steered or changed, and we might be able to believe two contradictory things at once. In my case, ignorance was my protection from the truth and ignorance really is bliss, until you’re no longer ignorant.

Binary talks about the idea that technology is allowing us to live on after we’re gone. A relative of mine whose parent passed away kept a picture of them on their phone as a background image. A friend saw this and asked ‘how can you have that there to constantly remind you of your loss?’ They replied, ‘no I have to, it shows me that they’re still here’. This resonated with me and I thought ‘okay, this is just an image to me but to them it’s more than a reminder or a reassurance, it’s a reality’. At the same time, I was finding myself haunted by the digital reminder of my ex-partner and wishing they would disappear. I had to realise that it’s all just pixels on a screen. 

I think New York can be thought of as this fabricated, magical place. I was there with my boyfriend after touring the U.S., but when I came back to London I discovered all these lies and began questioning everything. I even questioned whether New York actually happened or not. New York is a song that’s literally describing that very real feeling of not knowing who or what to believe any more – scary and magical at the same time. 

Lyrically I wanted to be as honest as possible. The album deals with so much dishonesty, so I felt the lyrics had to be the counterbalance. I was inspired by Björk’s album Vulnicura and how everything is almost awkward in its honesty. Like my first album, Aforger started as poetry, but I consciously tried to be less poetic. For instance, Oh Father is an example of complete unambiguity. It’s certainly the most personal song I’ve put out there, and the realisation that people may hear it makes me feel very vulnerable. That’s the most real feeling of all for me right now. 

Aforger

Oh Father

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Douglas Dare - Oh Father

"Cloisters", the debut album from Charlie Coxedge, is available to order now via Bella Union:

Vinyl: https://bellaunion.greedbag.com/buy/cloisters-0/
Digital: http://smarturl.it/CloistersCCoxedge

Charlie Coxedge - Cloisters

Artist: Odonis Odonis
Album: No Pop
label: felte 
Order: http://bit.ly/1lhkzoR

No Pop

Odonis Odonis - Fluke

Released 6th December 2018; 
Available from https://evivine.bandcamp.com/track/sabbath-single-edit
Spotify, ITunes etc...

Features guest appearances by Simon Gallup on bass & Peter Yates on Guitar.
Written by Evi Vine, Steven Hill, Matt Tye, David Gb Smith
Produced & Mixed by Dave Izumi @ Echozoo Studios, Eastbourne
Engineered by Phill Brown
Additional Production and Engineering by Christoph Skirl
Mastered by Aneek Thapar


Taken from the new album "Black//Light//White//Dark" released through Solemn Wave Records February 22nd 2019.

LYRICS

LOOSEN YOURSELF
I DON’T MIND
A LITTLE LIE
GOES DEEPER STILL 
WE BUILD A WALL 
CLOSE IN THE PAIN 
I SHED MY SKIN 
IT GOES DEEPER

HOLD IT INSIDE
THAT LITTLE LIE
IT IS ENOUGH 
BEFORE I COME UNDONE 
WHEAT IVE BECOME 
SO INNOCENT 
I’M ALL MESSED UP 
AND IT GOES DEEPER

COME FIND A WAY FRAGILE BUILD A WALL AROUND IT
WE FIND A PERFECT PLACE & I’M WATCHING SEE YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE

ARE YOU LOSE ENOUGH
WE BUILD IT UP
WALK IN THE FIRE
CLOSE ENOUGH
IT GOES DEEPER
WALK IN THE FIRE

HOLD IT INSIDE FOR A LITTLE WHILE
BEAUTIFUL LIE…

Black//Light//White//Dark

Sabbath

Sabbath (single edit)- Featuring Simon Gallup

Brother of Dusk & Umber - Teaser

For his remix comp... submitted under my real name because It's not really prof purply.
DL here http://soundcloud.com/jeremymalvin/steve-reich-2x5-jeremy-malvin-remix

Steve Reich- 2x5 (Jeremy Malvin Remix)

Daughter kindly put the stems for their song 'Love' up on their website (www.ohdaughter.com) and as fans of their new record we thought we'd have a go at remixing the track. Feel free to download and share!

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A Total Knew (unmastered)

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