ILUITEQ + Lorenzo Montanà - Noesi

Hydrophonic sample of snow with some added instrumentation. Half speed Macumbista Benjolin, Soma Dvina and other friends.

Samplad snö

Slow Heart Music is the acoustic side project of ambient and drone musician Ben Rath. Based in Manchester, UK, Ben has released music under his own name with labels including Sound in Silence, Unknown Tone Records, Eilean Rec., Cathedral Transmissions, Moonswing Netlabel, Triple Moon Records and Whitelabrecs. As Slow Heart Music, Ben focuses more closely on solo acoustic guitar instrumentals and has released albums exclusively through Whitelabrecs.
The majority of Ben's musical output finds its home in the rich and diverse territory of experimental ambient and drone music. Ben creates compositions using original recordings of guitar, keyboard, and piano, as well as samples, field recordings, and digital synthesizers. These sounds from various sources are then moulded, transformed, and edited together to form instrumental arrangements which span a wide variety of styles, tones, and emotional registers, with inspiration drawn from pioneers in the genre such as Tim Hecker and Lawrence English, the early ambient works of artists such as Sean McCann and Colleen, and the emotional weight and resonance of Constellation Records greats such as Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Esmerine (among many others).

Under the Slow Heart Music moniker, Ben strips things back to explore the simple joy of the acoustic guitar. His playing, influenced by the likes of Eric Chenaux and Richard Dawson, as well as the gentle beauty of solo piano works from artists such as Nils Frahm and Olafur Arnalds, combines a sense of playful and spontaneous improvisation with arrangements and compositions that often express a gentle and tender emotion.

For his new album ‘Hope’, Ben returns to the artful acoustic arrangements and soulful guitar playing that marked his debut as Slow Heart Music, ‘This Body Is Not Me’ (2017). Armed with the same £5 half-size classical guitar which was used to record the first time around, Ben adds a second classical acoustic borrowed from his girlfriend in the spirit of using whatever was to hand to create with. He had a vision for the sound he wanted to achieve, which builds on influences from artists that embrace the mournful and melancholic, but also find beauty and uplift amidst the sadness. As Ben explains, “I’ve struggled with my mental health ever since adolescence, and music was the thing that often provided me with the most solace and comfort. The artists that inspired me were those who were expressing something that felt real to my experience, that taught me that I was not as alone in my feelings of deep sadness and anxiety as I often felt, and that meaning and beauty could still be found and expressed in the midst of it all.’’

Those who know him would describe Ben as a quiet, calm, and reserved person, but his music is the space where he is able to express himself more fully. ‘Hope’ is a collection of soft and minimal pieces, steeped in emotion and feeling, at times mournful, at others uplifting, but never seeking to prematurely soothe or distract from the suffering of the world, instead sitting in the mud of it all, and seeing what can be created from there. It is Ben’s sincere hope that his music may help some other lonely soul feel that little bit more connected and understood.

Hope

wlr161 Slow Heart Music - Hope

Forest is calling

Tracklist

01. Federico Durand - Había Una Vez
02. Ian Hawgood & David Cordero - Where the mind is no shelter
03. Ishmael Cormack -  Weaver
04. Observatories - Sapphire Waters
05. Pool of Light & Slow Clinic - Caverns
06. Russell Burden & Craig Tattersall - Settlings
07. Ryuichi Sakamoto & Taylor Deupree - Curl To Me
08. Solo Andata - Diffused_1

380. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Tracklist:
00:00 Istar Project - A Little Strange
03:56 Cary Crank, Mary Lean - Fight My Fears (Gai Barone Remix)
09:48 Alex Gold - Eternal (Extended Mix)
14:46 Istar Project - A Little Strange
18:23 Paul Thomas - Summersault (Simos Tagias Remix)
24:28 bride - Spiritually Unwell
30:12 David Forbes - Alcazar (Extended Deeper Mix)
36:21 Something Good, Yotto - Rhythm (Of The Night)
39:28 Sian Evans - Hide U (Tinlicker Extended Remix)
44:40 Nesamovyta - Літаки (Stas Underhill Radio Remix)
48:37 Drumcomplex & Frank Sonic - Ultra Hex (Solee Remix)
54:31 Off Night - Definition

https://www.mixcloud.com/andrey-rav/deepscape-18/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jspXYJHoEdE

DeepScape 18

Can You Swim? (Feat. P'nk Black)

Before The Storm

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Glimmer of the Profane

Here's an older track that I never released and now it's available as a FREE DOWNLOAD. :)

unreleased

Little Hands (Unreleased Studio Session)

track 7 from “Abstract Elegies” by Rahikka (@iamrahikka )

https://rahikka.bandcamp.com/album/abstract-elegies

Abstract Elegies

Rahikka - Elegy VII

n5MD is a record label based in Oakland CA that releases emotive styles of contemporary music.

ILUITEQ + Lorenzo Montanà - Noesi

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