heavenly 2015 fullmoon

middle note autumn 2015 supermoon

Chillout

happybgm04

Chill

open the winter 2014

electronica, ambient

night

Improvisation with the studio doors open. 

Goldmund - Improvisation 4:54 PM

Improvisation. 

Photo by Jake Erwin Berry

Goldmund - Improvisation 11:15pm

Tycho "Awake" LP on Ghostly International
Release date: MARCH 18, 2014

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artwork by:
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For nearly a decade, Tycho has been known as the musical alias of Scott Hansen, but with the release of Awake – his second LP for Ghostly International – the solo project has evolved into a three-piece band. Relating closer to post-rock than ambient soundscapes, the record is situated in the present, sounding more like Hansen than drawing from his influences. “This is, in many ways, the first true Tycho record.”

Following 2011’s Dive LP, the San Francisco-based designer toured extensively, and with a full band on stage, his sound coalesced into a percussive, organic whole. Zac Brown (guitars, bass) rejoined Scott on the road for this tour, but it was the particular addition of Rory O’Connor’s live drumming that ultimately sent Hansen back to the studio with a more precise vision. “After the tour, I decided that I wanted to capture the more energetic, driven sound of the live show on the next album,” Hansen recalls. Bringing musicians into Tycho’s creative process was a step towards expanding his own songwriting and advancing the project beyond its current sound.

In a cabin near Tahoe last winter, Zac and Scott began fleshing out the structure of the new record, but it wasn’t until they set up shop in the hills of Santa Cruz with Rory that it all fell into place. “It crystallized the vision of how the drums would come to the forefront on this record,” says Hansen. The sound was much more stripped-down and concise with more organic instruments in the fold. Songs like “Montana” and “Awake” are a departure from Tycho’s previous material – unique to the group effort poured into the songs on the new record – while “See” and “Dye” echo ideas from previous works, bridging a middle ground between the old and new. Working with Count Eldridge, who also engineered Dive, the team could fixate on the pulses that Tycho might previously layer under synthesizers and exhume them with distinct bass and guitar patterns.

Also known for his design work as ISO50, Hansen’s visual and sonic efforts have dovetailed throughout the course of his career. “This is the first time in my life I've dropped everything to focus on one artistic pursuit,” notes Hansen. Previous Tycho releases came to fruition when an amalgam of songs were nearing completion, but Awake is where music becomes the focus and true expression becomes the result.

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Awake

As the scout ship approached planet Fomalhaut b, the small crew customarily improvised on their first impressions of the planet and star system.

This is a rough cut of me jamming by myself in Ableton. Multiple keyboard synths, and me playing tabla (a bit loud in the mix- sorry)  and some explorative vocal melodies. The first keyboard reminds me of Led Zeppelin's "No Quarter" mellotron feel, so thanks, John Paul Jones. Thank you for listening. I hope it takes you somewhere, like to the exoplanet Fomalhaut b, courtesy of the NASA Kepler mission. Thanks NASA for the artists conception: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/fomalhaut.html

Exoplanet Fomalhaut b

Zone Two: The Necklace Nebula

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Keith Kenniff - Map

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Goldmund - Improvisation 9pm

one life

BRILLIANT HOPES / [.que]

01. Origin
02. Home
03. Joint feat. affable noise
04. Anew
05. Trivial Lie
06. Himitsu feat. unmo
07. Lullaby feat. petitoto
08. Springlike
09. Misty Moon feat. akira kosemura
10. Curtain
11. Verdure
12. Will
13. Never End

溢れ出しては儚く消える輝きが、宙で結ばれ形を成してゆく。
磨き続けられた希望のかけらは、柔らかな色を纏った結晶となる。
透過と反射が織り成す世界に今、心躍るほどの美しさが広がる。

2015.2.12
Release

schole

http://schole-inc.com/?page_id=23438

[.que] / trivial lie

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Helios - Embrace

this too
from the "for nihon" compilation, 2011

near the parenthesis - this too

nidae
from the "intelligent toys 4" compilation, 2007

near the parenthesis - nidae

trailing
from the 2007 LP "of soft construction"

near the parenthesis - trailing

i wonder why.

samples from: eminem - stan (dido - thank you)

Tea's Gone Cold

For the past eight years the duo of Rob Lowe and Michael Muller have nurtured and refined their creative partnership as the core members of the band Balmorhea.  Though their first album on Western Vinyl Rivers Arms (2008) garnered some remarkable press, their self-titled debut, recorded in 2006 and released in 2007 best captures the duo's unique magic as it first blossomed.  With no label, distributor, manager, publicist, or booking agent the duo quietly self-released their first recordings and started playing live shows. 

For these two Texans the release of their self-titled album was the beginning of a new trajectory in their lives.  They were young enough that their prefrontal cortexes were still developing, but old enough to tap into the ancient stories that coursed through their veins.  Though crudely recorded at home, those early songs display all of the key characteristics and emotional scope that continue to define the duo's sound.  Now, seven years later Western Vinyl is honored to have the opportunity reissue the band's self-titled album, and make it available on vinyl for the first time ever.

In honor of this special reissue, the audio has been lovingly remastered, drawing out even more of the nuances…magnifying the sounds of Muller and Lowe's fingers on the instruments, and teasing out the textures that set these recordings apart from the rest of their catalog.  Simple and sincere, these songs and ambient sounds the duo captured in these recordings are strangely inviting.  Throughout the album the distant sounds of Texas grackles, the warm summer rain, the steady rhythm of crickets chirping, and creaking wooden stools, all seeping in to cradle the notes in a restrained din of primordial wonder. 

Attesa (Nils Frahm Rework)

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Skeleton Park

I've been working on some new music with Tom Hodge, combining piano and electronic elements - the first track preview is below, with the full release coming 20th April.

For this track we made the drums from clanging around inside a broken piano, and then applying some complex editing, so they have an interesting partially live feel, even though rhythmically they are very electronic.

The piano came from a live jam over an initial chord structure, then lots of editing to find that one simple little hook in there. It felt like a reflective piece of music to me, invoking memories, so we chose "remnants". Nick Cobby has taken the concept further with an amazing music video, coming soon!

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Hamburg-based musician Jan Martin collaborated with Silk's original muse Mango at the end of last year on "Pillows", an emotive, pop-influenced progressive house gem. We're thrilled to present brand new remixes of this track by two wonderful talents: Russian sensation Stendahl and Estonian talent Sure-I-Can.

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Quinn XCII – Stung (Prod. ayokay)

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Compilations

Café Del Mar Chillout Mix 8 (2016)

A track from the forthcoming Crisopa album 'Biodance'

Crisopa - Biodance With Me

Stream on Spotify

REM Sleep Research

3 - Your Eyes Could Start a Fire

戦場のメリークリスマス(piano)

James devane - s-t - 03 10-15

"Near the Parenthesis' taste for deep, layered musical compositions combined with his musical background make for soundscapes that drift between ethereal and melancholy so skillfully it's impossible to track how this artist moves from one musical point to the next."
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"Anyone still unconvinced that electronic music can convey emotion need only listen to Near The Parenthesis to be convinced otherwise. NTP has an uncanny talent for maximizing the emotional side of his material, with the result serenading tracks brimming with showers of synthetic sparkle and plaintive piano melodies."
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