Kurr is the first full length record from the icelandic band amiina. Released in 2007.

“In the way that the Cowboy Junkies' classic album The Trinity Session arrived in the
midst of all the pre-grunge noise and clatter at the death of the 1980s, it almost feels
as if there's something quietly revolutionary about this gently overwhelming record.
Either way, a revelation.”
David Peschek, The Guardian

“Utterly original and deceptively relaxing, Kurr is the fullest-sounding minimalist
electro pop you’ve ever heard.”
Chris Whibbs, Exclaim!

“Kurr is a gently rippling stream of enigmatic moods and textures.”
Paul Sullivan, bbc.co.uk

“Whatever the permutations, Amiina's fragile magic can't fail to beguile.”
David Sheppard, BBC Collective

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Neil Gaiman reads his short story "The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury," written as a present for Bradbury's 91st birthday. Context and more here: https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/08/22/neil-gaiman-reads-the-man-who-forgot-ray-bradbury/

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Dragon’s Eye Recordings is pleased to announce the re-release of 'Substrate / The Garden' by Japanese sound artist and composer Yui Onodera. 'Substrate' and 'The Garden' (Le Jardin) were originally released in 2007 by Mystery Sea and Taâlem, and after their 2018 remastering, return alongside each other eleven years later. 

On 'Substrate', Onodera interrogates the fundamental limits of perception. Throughout the eight tracks, shimmering frequencies pan through organic tonal structures and streams of resonance swell and ascend in a gradually expanding space of audition. While Substrate accentuates the poeticism of the microsound genre, the album progressively draws a listener toward awareness of the physical subtleties of their own surroundings. 

'The Garden' is a rich, blooming composition built around the sound emitted by hydrogen and oxygen bubbles as captured by the ELS 19, a custom transmitter device which utilizes the electrolysis of water. The irregular sounds generated by this process are micro-acoustic phenomena which can only occur in a particular environment, and sit well beyond the range of unaided human hearing. As such, Onodera considers the relationship to sound and listening outside of a musicological hierarchy that might position environmental sound and music as independent and opposite concepts. Instead, Onodera regards these sensory experiences akin to that of a garden, with instrumental composition and environmental ambience each offering a total, continuous experience with innumerable interdependent relationships. The boundary between nature and artificiality becomes ambiguous.

Substrate / The Garden

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Made this 10 days after i finished circle, with the mighty BoomBip...the Man behind MUSH, made the beat...in the apartment where we recorded this and all of circle, there was a hairless cat named Tyrone, who knocked little panes of window out with his bear head...

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Chris Garneau's fifth studio album. Produced by Patrick Higgins. All songs written by Chris Garneau. Recorded at Future-Past Studios, Hudson, NY. (C) 2021 Creepy Crawler / Private Friend (BMI). (P) Rough Trade Songs.

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"Hey Cool Kid (Acoustic, Live for The Fader)" is a track on Cloud Nothings' album Turning On (10th Anniversary Edition), out now on Carpark Records.

Listen/Order:
https://found.ee/CN_TurningOn

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Turning On (Deluxe 10th Anniversary Edition)

Cloud Nothings - Hey Cool Kid (Acoustic, Live for The Fader)

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