This is right up my street. There’s been a dearth of quality ambient / atmospheric music for too long.

This is magical.  Really looking forward to absorbing this release!

quality amid a sea swath of mediocre stuff (the ambient sound is so easy to make)

Looking forward to getting my hands on this!

EVMAPPLETHORPE

Taken from the new Ben Frost EP -
'V A R I A N T' - out on vinyl and download on 8 December 2014 through Mute / Bedroom Community.

The limited edition EP features remixes of tracks taken from the latest album A U R O R A  by British producer Evian Christ (following his critically acclaimed Waterfall EP and work with Kanye West); Downward label boss and techno producer Regis (previous remix credits inc. VCMG, Terence Fixmer), Good by Air affiliated experimental artist Dutch E Germ (previous remix credits inc. Fatima Al Qadiri and Mas Ysa); Australian duo HTRK and raster-noton recording artist Kangding Ray.

Get A U R O R A here: iTunes - http://smarturl.it/auroraiTunes
CD - http://smarturl.it/auroraCD
Standard Vinyl - http://smarturl.it/auroraLP
Coloured Limited Edition Vinyl Boomkat - http://boomkat.com/vinyl/969946
Rough Trade - http://www.roughtrade.com/albums/81850

www.ethermachines.com
www.facebook.com/theghostofbenfrost
www.twitter.com/ethermachines
www.benfrost.bandcamp.com
www.myspace.com/theghostofbenfrost
@benfrost

www.mute.com
www.bedroomcommunity.net

Get A U R O R A 

Ben Frost :: 'Venter' (Evian Christ TF 12" Mix)

Buy HTH035: 8 track CD & digital http://found.ee/HTH035 
Buy HTH030: 2 track remix EP on heavyweight 12" bit.ly/HTH030 
Download HTH030 from iTunes: smarturl.it/HTH030 
Play HTH030 on Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/track/4oNkddDxTVLrF77X5R1daq

“An absolutely outstanding piece of work” - Mary Anne Hobbs (BBC 6 Music)

"Haxan Cloak remixed Akkord and it's one of the best things he's ever made" - Tri Angle Records

"For anyone bold enough to drop it in a club, expect folk to fall over or climb the stacks by its final climax" - Boomkat

HTH030

HTH020 (The Haxan Cloak’s Cloud Of Witness)

Buy 

Akkord – HTH020 (The Haxan Cloak’s Cloud Of Witness) [Houndstooth]

HERBCRAFT - Push Thru The Veil

from 'Blossoms In Red' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den243
available 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

Ensemble Economique - On The Sand (feat. Peter Broderick)

Composer Joseph Koykkar, described by American Record Guide as writing “music with a crystalline kind of clarity and rhythmic urgency that places him among the more exciting of contemporary composers,” presents his debut full-length release on Ravello Records DOUBLE TAKES AND TRIPLE PLAYS. Featuring works spanning a 20-year period in the composer’s career, this album exemplifies Koykkar’s practical approach to writing, dictated by the bounds and the interplay within chamber ensemble combinations, occasionally using computer-generated sounds.

As the works on this album illustrate, Koykkar pulls influences from a variety of genres, from American music styles such as popular, jazz, rock, and blues music, to the Western European concert music tradition of the last three centuries. Pieces like Keyboard Dances incorporate blues and rock themes with a raucous quality reminiscent of early boogie-woogie piano music, while Interfacing and Triple Play use electronics to enhance the keyboard’s textures. Koykkar also includes programmatic works like Streets and Bridges, which depicts imagery of specific streets and places in Milwaukee from the composer’s past including Downer Avenue, Lafayette Place, and Brady Street.

Double Take - Joseph Koykkar

Times of chaos rings the bells for newest sea-bottom R&B sound lurch from radical sonic artists WOLF EYES. The U$A’s longest-running homemade primitive electronic poetry & vibes trio launches another scotched taped nuclear audio radioactive front on humanity.

This is the title track of the new WOLF EYES studio album which will be release March 24 2017.

http://wolfeyes.net/

Undertow

LR118 - Kiefer - Kickinit Alone
Vinyl: http://bit.ly/2mmuYCc
Digital Album Download: http://bit.ly/2mmuYCc

Californian keyboardist & beatmaker Kiefer (birthname Kiefer Shackelford) has dropped his debut LP on LR, "Kickinit Alone".

Kiefer's Instagram is inspiring and may very well restore your faith in humanity, as will his Soundcloud.
https://soundcloud.com/kiefdaddy
https://www.instagram.com/kiefdaddysupreme/

VINYL & DIGITAL ALBUM

Kiefer - U R What U Repeatedly Do

Track 1 from The Cradle 'Bag Of Holding' [NNA114]
Available July 20th, 2018 on Vinyl & Digital formats.
http://nnatapes.com

Bag Of Holding

The Cradle "Sweet Dreams"

Available @ http://thee-roundtable.com
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Founded in Rome in 1964, ‘Il Gruppo D’Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza’ was a collective of noted and noteworthy composers who challenged the very structure and performance of music itself.

Today the most renowned of its members would be film-scoring genius Ennio Morricone (indeed “Il Gruppo…” performed on many celebrated Morricone scores of the 1960s and 1970s) but each contributor has an intriguing history in Italian music. The collective improvised live (according to strict exercises) and in the studio (recording for RCA, Deutsche Grammaphon, General Music and others). Come 1970 “Il Gruppo…’ (as ‘The Group’) recorded “The Feed-back” (for RCA Italy), an insane amalgam of avant-improvisation and motorik krautrock beats that, understandably, has become one of the most collectable LPs ever issued. In 1971 ‘Il Gruppo’ returned to the studio to record a sequel. This is that record. For reasons unknown “Niente” was never originally issued but one listen will convince that not only is it the sequel to one of the most sought after LPs of all time, but it is also by far its superior.

Brain melting jams collide with unhinged intensity in a hothouse of Italian avant-improv. You have been warned...

•	First ever LP issue of this originally unreleased masterpiece. 
•	Band members: Battisti D'Amario, Egisto Macchi, Ennio Morricone, Franco Evangelisti, Mario Bertoncini, Walter Branchi, Vincenzo Restuccia. 
•	Official release remastered from the original master tapes 2011. 
•	Sequel to mythical RCA LP “The Feed-back”

Il Gruppo D’Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza - Bambu (Excerpt from Niente LP)

from NNA054: Anthony Child "The Space Between People And Things" LP
Available March 5th, 2013 on NNA Tapes
Now available for Pre-order: http://nnatapes.com/available-releases/anthony-child-the-space-between-people-and-things-lp/

The Space Between People and Things

Anthony Child "The Space Between People and Things" [Side A excerpt]

Cassette & Record label. Established 2008

Anthony Child "The Space Between People and Things" [Side A excerpt]

NNA Tapes

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