Ambient Goodness

Excerpt from KATE CARR upcoming album on Soft-Recordings (ST006 - Dec. 2014)
A soundtrack for made up stories set in out of the way places.

Tracklist :
1- Cold trains
2- A sound art festival in Barcelona
3- Under an ancient fort
4- I remembered it all somewhere near Glasgow
5- Broken sheep fence in a gale
6- I felt better about everything in Duquin
7- In corridors a thousand years old
8- I slept in the shadow of a rock
9- Echoes in Le Calanques
10- Bleeding love (bus/Sicily)

Cover photo by Kate Carr
Artwork by David Teboul.
Track Mastered by David Teboul.
Album Mastered by TAYLOR DEUPREE.

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KATE CARR - I remembered it all somewhere near Glasgow (from ST006)

The result of what started as a hotel collaboration in Seaside, Oregon. 

Monadh + Shea McGilvray - Virid

From Ben Frost's score for "Fortitude", A 12 part TV series created by Simon Donald

Fortitude stars Richard Dormer, Michael Gambon, Sofie Gråbøl and Stanley Tucci

More Information www.sky.com/tv/show/fortitude

"Tainted Love" Written by Ed Cobb ©1964

Performed by Mariam Wallentin & Ben Frost
Produced by Ben Frost & Paul Corley

Mariam Wallentin & Ben Frost- "Tainted Love" (Score excerpt from Fortitude)

Refraction and Reflection has taken field recordings and synthesizer sounds and processed them in various ways to alter and reconstruct the original. Some of the sounds present are complexly processed recordings, retaining none of their original qualities, others are delicate noise, and then there are those which recreate the sounds of nature, such as that of treading on snow or tree branches, or the call of a bird. There are truly a great variety of sounds utilized. In this album, I tried to bring into harmony both the tactile and the deeply spiritual aspects of sound.

Tatsuro Kojima - Surface Of The Light

The Bend

They Were From Somewhere Cold (Pjusk Rekonstrukt)

Preorder: https://futuresequence.bandcamp.com/album/purity 

Title: Purity
Artist: Wolf Maps

Following his EP ’Sun Ghosts’ from a few months ago and debut album ‘Landforms' (2011) is Wolf Maps' second album ‘Purity’. His most personal work to date crafts layers of guitar tape loops into eight tracks of ambient drones, which with an apparent emotional fragility, envelopes the listener in washes of translucent memory and life-weary noise.

As an experienced drone-creator with a large following in the experimental music community, Wolf Maps has reached a new plateau in his work, placing him along side his established peers.

Limited edition: The first 30 copies of ‘Purity’ will be white tapes, the rest will be black. All are hand numbered.

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Destroyed by Wolf Maps

Steel Symphony

Daniel Lanois' Iceland - Mixed by Pan•American. Live guitar, Mark Nelson, live drums, Steven Hess


Iceland (pan•american remix)

NE32 ვარგ – ჟინვალი

Recorded by Varg in Georgia 2016

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ვარგ – ჟინვალი 5

KENNETH JAMES GIBSON, one of the most multifaceted artists in electronic music today, enlists for the fourth instalment in our POP AMBIENT artist album series - he's the mastermind behind the Adjunct Audio label and projects as diverse as [a]pendics.shuffle, Eight Frozen Modules, Reverse Commuter, neo-americana duo Bell Gardens (with Stars Of The Lid's Brian McBride) or noise pop band Furry Things. On THE EVENING FALLS, he deviates from his other, more beat-infused work and explores vast aural landscapes with an intricately woven tapestry of swelling string drones, shimmering pedal steel and minimalist piano motives.
The first strictly ambient solo offering from this incredibly versatile composer and musician reveals a delicate sense for rich, ruminant textures and fine-grained synth buzz dispensing organic highs on tracks like opening movement TO SEE YOU DRIFT, the Polaroid-colored LONG GONE CANADIAN SUMMER, the meditative A CONVERSATION BETWEEN FRIENDS or terraforming blues LATERAL DECOMPOSITION. The iridescent quality of these recordings almost appears to be born out of an auditory illusion - with the arrangements seemingly evolving in time lapse and slow motion at the same time.
The natural, wholesome flow of the album certainly finds itself influenced by Gibson's recent move to a 6000 ft. mountain community called Idyllwild. While two of the tracks on THE EVENING FALLS were started in LA about two years ago, for them and others to get fully realized, he needed to transition away from inner city roaming: "my wife and I heard the calling of the mountains for a while - getting deeper into meditation and nature and a slower way of life. There've been beatless tracks on many of my albums, but this is the first full-scale ambient album I've done... I simply needed to find the right focus." The result is a masterful new addition to our growing series of Pop Ambient full-lengths, presenting the fully-formed vision of a veteran producer who never lost his taste for sonic adventure.

The Evening Falls

Kenneth James Gibson - The Evening Falls (Continuous Album Mix)

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Here's a really long B major chord for you. It felt nice to play a little, but also to just sit and listen. Hopefully you'll feel ok sitting and listening for a little bit too.

Here's the pedals I used:
Digitech Whammy 5
Walrus Audio Deep Six
EHX Pog 2
Old Blood Noise Procession
Chase Bliss Warped Vinyl
Smallsound Bigsound Mini
Xotic EP Booster
Chase Bliss Gravitas
Earthquaker Devices Disaster Transport SR
Strymon El Capistan
Line 6 Echo Park
Eventide Space
TC Electronic Ditto X4

The guitar is an Ibanez Super 70's Les Paul. Amp is Guitar Rig 5.

Thanks for listening!

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Sketch #44 - Drone in B Major (05.05.16)

New album 'Departed Glories' out Sept 23rd on Smalltown Supersound!
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Biosphere - Sweet Dreams Form A Shade

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Sarah Neufeld - Where the Light Comes In (Loscil Remix)

Seventeen Words

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Gailes - Surface Variations In The Snowfall

V/A - mono no aware もののあわれ

Format: 2xLP / Digital
Label: PAN
Cat.No: PAN 77
Release Date: 17 March 2017

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mono no aware (もののあわれ) is the first compilation to be released on PAN, collating unreleased ambient tracks from both new and existing PAN artists.

Featuring Jeff Witscher, Helm, TCF, Yves Tumor, M.E.S.H., Pan Daijing, HVAD, Kareem Lotfy, ADR, Mya Gomez, Sky H1, James K, Oli XL, Bill Kouligas, Flora Yin-Wong, Malibu, and AYYA, the compilation moves through more traditional notions of what is called ’ambient’, to incorporating wider variations that fall under the term.

“Mono no aware”, ‘the pathos of things’, also translates as “an empathy toward things", or "a sensitivity to ephemera”. A term for the awareness of impermanence, or the transience of things. A meditation on mortality and life's transience, ephemerality heightens the appreciation of beauty and sensitivity to their passing. In investigating the passing of time, the boundaries between memory and hallucination become blurred; between fiction and reality. The movement of time transforms into an eternal present.

The album is mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, featuring photography by Molly Matalon and design by Bill Kouligas. A limited version of 100 copies will be released as a special art edition in collaboration with Mount Analog for the LA Art Book Fair 2017, before going on general release.

mono no aware

16. HVAD & Pan Daijing - Zhao Hua (PAN 77)

Midori Takada sounds like heaven. Over the past forty years, the masterful Japanese percussionist and composer’s musical output has ventured far and wide; deep diving through Asian and African percussive language, with a specialist subject of Japanese meditative and ceremonial sonic practices.

Ahead of her performance at the Barbican's Transcender 2017 series tonight, we asked her nicely if she would curate a mix of her favourite transcendental music from around the world and boy did she deliver.

Let Midori talk you through her selections here: http://dlvr.it/PrB7cm

i-DJ: midori takada

https://rimetrails.bandcamp.com/album/mend

Mend

Mend IV

Composed, Played & Recorded By Madeleine Cocolas + Monolyth & Cobalt

Mixed by Monolyth & Cobalt.

Month Eight Project (Madeleine Cocolas + Monolyth & Cobalt)

Order 'Beautiful You' at: ghostly.com/products/beautiful-you
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Beautiful You

Khotin - Water Soaked In Forever

For me, music always exists within a space, within a context, and as a texture of phenomena. It is my sincere effort to find the sound of spaces, contexts, and phenomena. I am a Seattle-based music producer, and Noctilusense is my musical alias. 

Over the years, I've worked various day jobs in custom music curation and studied recording studio technology. I finally took a turn into producing my own electronic compositions starting in the late 2000's. (My even earlier training in classical and jazz guitar informs my music too, if in some very oblique ways.)
 
My current sound is a combination of softsynths, processing, and ambient guitar exploring textures and overlapping tonal layers. Usually slowly evolving and sometimes static. Frequently liminal and  melancholic. Occasionally romantic but never sentimental.

To borrow the words of contemporary music critic Alex Ross:  "In all, I approach music not as a self-sufficient sphere but as a way of knowing the world."