QILIN House Volume 8

from 'Skeylja' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den184
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/thealvaretensemble]

--- "Skeylja" An invented word combining the Frisian word for Terschelling, "Skylge", and the Icelandic word for island, "Eyjan" ---

Skeylja is an international multimedia project, based around the ideas of improvisational music and the coming together of musicians from different countries and musical backgrounds to create a spontaneous sonic landscape. The project started when The Alvaret Ensemble (Greg Haines, Jan & Romke Kleefstra, and Sytze Pruiksma), who you may know from their eponymous debut on Denovali in 2012, travelled to Iceland to try to find a shared music language with the Icelandic musicians Ingi Garðar Erlendsson, Kira Kira, Borgar Magnason and Eiríkur Orri Ólafsson . They were joined by the 33 1/3 Collective, a group of visual artists from the Netherlands, who began to collect footage that would later be used as source material for the visual side of the performance.

Some months later, after a successful week of traveling to beautiful locations and playing music together, the group met again, this time during the Oerol festival on the island of Terschelling in the Netherlands, for a series of nine sold-out shows in an old church, all of which were being recorded. Each artist "curated" a rough plan for one evening, which could be anything from hand-drawn images to be interpreted musically to more precise plans of structures and combinations of musicians to be explored. Never were the notes, or the content of the music itself, discussed - this was instead left up to chance and developed through listening intently to each-other, trying to create an atmosphere where each player was vital, but where everyone always worked towards the whole.

After ten intense days on the island, all that was left were the memories of the audience and, luckily, a hard-drive with over ten hours of recorded music. After everyone had had a chance to listen back to rough mixes of each night and make comments, the material was taken to Greg Haines' Electricity Works studio in Berlin, where the long process of selecting, editing and mixing began. Finally, almost two years after that first initial meeting in Reykjavik, the album is complete and ready to be released into the world. We hope you enjoy it.

Participating musicians (in alphabetical order):

Ingi Garðar Erlendsson (Tuba, Trombone, Thranophone)
Greg Haines (Piano)
Kira Kira (Voice, Electronics)
Jan Kleefstra (Voice, Poems)
Romke Kleefstra (Guitar)
Borgar Magnason (Contrabass)
Eiríkur Orri Ólafsson (Trumpet, Electronics)
Sytze Pruiksma (Percussion)





Skeylja

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The Alvaret Ensemble, Kira Kira, E. O. Ólafsson, I. G. Erlendsson, B. Magnason - Borgarvatn

phantasmagoria (Rooms: No Escape OST)

Arabian Paddock

Max Cooper live at Radialsystem on 6 March, 2015.

Space for experiments and special encounters: We are happy and excited about a night to remember at the sold-out hall of Radialsystem and the German premiere of Max Cooper's stunning audio-visual performance "Emergence".

Many thanks to Max Cooper, to a fantastic audience and our great staff for beautiful lighting and amazing sound.

Special thanks to Carlo Grippa for mastering this tune.
Recorded at Radialsystem, Berlin.
Published with permission of the artists.
Photo: Markus Werner.

If you like what you hear, support the artist!
www.maxcooper.net

Visit UM:LAUT on Facebook: www.facebook.com/umlautberlin

Max Cooper @ UM:LAUT - Origins (Live)

This track is quoted from EP "
the vanishing point".
Listening to all tracks of EP and purchasing are available on a link below.

https://gallerysix.bandcamp.com/album/the-vanishing-point

written, mixed, mastered by Hidekazu Imashige 
cover photo, design by Hidekazu Imashige

Tidal Shift

This eventually became 'Winter Industry' on the album Impressions: https://alonefold.bandcamp.com/album/impressions

Untitled Drone

Part of ArtLism.JP, Vol. 7
http://artlism-jp.tumblr.com/discography

Warmth - Distance

Andrea Belfi live at Radialsystem on 16 April, 2016.

Enoy this great souvenir of Andrea Belfi's visit to the UM:LAUT stage. Back in April 2016 he opened two sold-out evenings with a solo show before supporting Nils Frahm and his Nonkeen band for their release tour kick-off at Radialsystem V. 

Special thanks to Andrea for the great performances, and for mixing and mastering this tune. And cheers to Carlo Grippa for the amazing sound and the recordings.
 
Recorded at Radialsystem, Berlin.
Published with permission of the artist.
Photo: Markus Werner

If you like what you hear, support the artist!
www.andreabelfi.com

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Andrea Belfi @ UM:LAUT - Live Snippet

Bugge Wesseltoft & Christian Prommer live at Radialsystem on 08 August, 2017.

Two extraordinary live musicians with a shared passion for experimentation and club music: Back on 08 August 2017, we had the honour to welcome Norwegian pianist Bugge Wesseltoft, a pioneer of electronic jazz, and the renowned drummer and producer Christian Prommer for an exclusive live session on the stage of UM:LAUT. We are happy to share one track of this amazing concert at the mighty hall of Radialsystem.

Special thanks to Bugge and Christian for the great performance, shout-outs to Sven Fobbe for making it happen, and cheers to Jan Gieseke for the amazing sound and the recordings.

"Lac"
Written by Bugge Wesseltoft
Performed by Bugge Wesseltoft and Christian Prommer
Recorded at Radialsystem, Berlin
Published with permission of the artist.
Photo: Markus Werner

If you like what you hear, support the artists!
www.ohsotrue.de/wesseltoft-prommer

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Bugge Wesseltoft & Christian Prommer @ UM:LAUT - Lac (Live)

múm is back in Berlin in February: After their celebrated performances in the last two years, the Icelanders return to the stage of UM:LAUT right in time for Berlinale. Get your tickets now: http://umlautlive.de/menschenamsonntag/

múm (Gunnar Örn Tynes, Örvar Smárason & Samuli Kosminen) live at Radialsystem on 12 February, 2017.

Together with the percussionist Samuli Kosminen, the founding members of múm, Gunnar Örn Tynes and Örvar Smárason, returned to the UM:LAUT stage to once again perform a splendid live score to “Menschen am Sonntag”, a masterpiece of silent film.

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

Live @ UM:LAUT (12.02.2017)

múm plays Menschen am Sonntag @ UM:LAUT - Live Snippet 3

Alive

A year end mix of ambient, electro-acoustic and neoclassical released in 2018. Curated and mixed by n5MD label owner/operator Mike Cadoo. 

Abul Mogard - Upon Smallish Circulation [Ecstatic]
The Gentleman Losers - Shelter from the rain [Sound in Silence]
Qluster - Weite [Bureau B]
Helios - Even Today [Ghostly Int]
Poemme - Forest Hymn [Stereoscenic]
bvdub - Seas of shores, forever sweeping [Apollo]
Steven Kemner - Little Notes [Fluid Audio]
Ocoeur - Shelter [n5MD]
Jan Wagner - Nummer I [Klangbad]
PRjDicE - Aichi [Self Released]
Hammock - We Watched You Disappear [Hammock Music]
Stray Theories - How Long [n5MD]
Rafael Anton Irisarri - The Clock [Geographic North]
Grouper - Blouse [Kranky]
The Green Kingdom - Illuminations (dub) [Sound in Silence]
Oliviaway - Distance [Self Released]
Jason van Wyk - Clouds (Alternative Version)[Self Released]

Once More, With Feeling [2018 - Ambient Mix]

offthesky - 'fallow' (CD / CS / DL)
due out November 1st via Dronarivm

pre-orders start October 18th

fallow
definition: [verb] - to leave (land) fallow (uncultivated and un-sown for a period of time).

the songs herein are an ode to the still beauty of forgotten light, the smell of dust-covered memory, and time-stained fragments of abandoned space at the edge of winters past.

credits

vocals - rin howell
strings - julie slater
composed effects; all other sounds - jason corder

Buy CD / CS / DL

OFFTHESKY - Fallow

Track taken from Erik Williamson's upcoming album 'The Streets Are Quiet, But The Birds Very Loud', released through Fluid Audio...

Written & Produced by Erik Williamson at In My Room Studio 
Additional Piano Recorded at Alchemix Recording Studios
Mastered by Marly Lüske at Alchemix Recording Studios
Images by Erik Williamson
Design by Daniel Crossley
Thanks: Craig Tattersall / Cotton Goods

www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com

The Streets Are Quiet, But The Birds Very Loud

Erik Williamson - Hunters In The Snow

Written and Produced by Powlos
Mastered by Emanuele Pertoldi
Photography by Alexander Kopatz.
www.go70north.com
Faint020 // FaintCD020
Faint / 2020

Enamour

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In die Ferne - Green Night

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

Once More, With Feeling [2018 - Ambient Mix]

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