Not content with putting out 6 releases a year of ambient/ electro-acoustic/neo-classical mutations, Ojerum's older beat led excursions are currently being excavated by Opal Tapes. A wonderful collection of slightly sombre, sonic artefacts.  https://oejerum.bandcamp.com/album/selected-percussive-works-1998-2001-vol-ii

Core Frequency 417 Hz. [Dark Nature Concept]

Exclusive track by Rime Trails taken from the upcoming album 'Sacred Groves' released through Shimmering Moods Records.

"Music for springtime in eight parts. Recorded between April and September, 2016, using various instruments, synthesizers, and a microphone that is now retired. A big thanks goes out to the many birds who were kind enough to lend their voices throughout, wherever they might be now."

Release Date: 9/03/18

Available as a white Limited Edition CD, Professionally manufactured high quality CDr's, limited to 50 copies. Handmade artwork, each hand numbered.
White editions handmade wallets with envelopes, small and large sizes. Photo's, transparent bag...

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Sacred Groves

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Rime Trails - Sanctum III

Taken from Billow Observatory's album III: Chroma/Contour on Azure Vista Records, out February 8.

Pre-order: https://billowobservatory.bandcamp.com/album/iii-chroma-contour-2

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III: Chroma/Contour

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Premiere: Billow Observatory - Soft Logic

This is side A from Light Leaks, a long form ambient EP that I recently completed. 
Available on cassette and digital here:
https://endurance010010.bandcamp.com/album/light-leaks

About Light Leaks:
This is the first installment of Slow Change Ambient Sessions, which I hope to continue on a more or less yearly basis in the future.
My focus in composing these tracks was on creating multiple loops of varying lengths and letting them evolve generatively over time to form slowly modulating layers of sound. As such, this album leans more towards the meditative and calming side of ambient. When I'm not listening to other people's music, these are the kinds of compositions that I set in motion when I want a soundtrack to work, read, or think to at home, and I thought that some of you might enjoy them as well. I certainly hope that that is the case and that listeners will feel just a little more relaxed and happier about being in the world.

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Having recently signed to FatCat’s 130701 imprint, and following closely on from Deutsche Gramophon’s release of Jóhann Jóhannsson’s ‘Last and First Men’ project which Yair co-composed, Yair Elazar Glotman & Mats Erlandsson’s sophomore album ‘Emanate’ is a powerful and stunningly executed extended duration work that utilises a fantastic ensemble cast and continues to explore their ideas of a 'displaced sound’ - combining electronic and acoustic sound sources through both analogue and digital means to create an ambiguous composite work, a music that sounds neither clearly electronic or acoustic, existing instead in some in-between space.

In many ways, the idea of a longform music is unsuited to and out of phase with our times. And yet, there is recent evidence of a reaction against this – witness the rise of the practise of mindfulness and the cultural elements of a ‘slow living’ movement; the huge success of Max Richter’s marathon 'Sleep’ project; and the emergence of an expansive musical niche that draws from drone, electroacoustic and classical traditions and prioritises a more immersive, durational sound worlds - see artists like Kali Malone, Ellen Arkbro, Clarice Jensen, Abul Mogard, William Basinski, Claire M Singer, and labels like Longform Editions and XKatedral. Music here is intended to function not as ambient backdrop to other activities but as a deep listening, intensive immersion.

Aligned with these approaches, Glotman & Erlandsson’s work is suffused with a chromatic density and a tendency towards an edgy darkness that puts it closer to Hildur Guðnadóttir’s ‘Chernobyl’ score or Jóhannsson’s ‘The Miner’s Hymns’. It shares that same brassy, bass heavy weight and glowering, simmering sense of tension as well as a similar, sliding feeling of instability. Its authors cite the influence of  Renaissance vocal polyphony; Giacinto Scelsi’s ‘Pranam II’; György Ligeti’s 1967 piece ‘Lontano’ (heard on the soundtrack to Kubrick’s ‘The Shining’ and Scorcese’s ‘Shutter Island’); as well as American composer Ingram Marshall, and Iceland’s Valgier Sigurdsson. Gorgeously recorded, beautifully focused and measured throughout, ‘Emanate’ is a texturally rich, deep spectrum exploration that flows and unfolds almost seamlessly throughout its fifty-minute span to create an energy field which feels simultaneously static and yet continually shifting.

Emanate

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Yair Elazar Glotman & Mats Erlandsson - Procession

Folk music from another dimension by singular artist Kaboom Karavan and his new album "The Log and the Leeway", following a 6 year journey of personal exploration and drastic change. 

"The Log and the Leeway" is released 17th of July 2020 and features amongst others a bizarre cover painting by John Lurie (of The Lounge Lizards). It also comes with a 16 page booklet of musical illustrations by Walter Doogh & Erik K Skodvin that more or less connects and confuses the stories behind the record.

Red and Black LP editions.

The Log and the Leeway

Kaboom Karavan - Silk Skin Armor

Picture disc edition of 300 copies

Maja S. K. Ratkje is at the forefront of the musical avant-garde. Her music is bold, original and it is meant for sharing. At its heart lies Ratkje’s own voice, an open door to her individual musicianship and a constant tool for realigning her work with natural expressions and human truths.

On Mara, layers of vocals overlap and layer their way through the reverberant woodwork of an early baroque parish in Austria. At times slow and beautiful, other times frantic and sinister, this live recording is full of depth, passion and life. 

Live-recording at Pfarrkirche, Lockenhaus at Kammermusikfest Lockenhaus July 9, 2018. 

Recorded and mixed by Peter Laenger and Andreas Ruge from Tritonus Musikproduktion.
Mastered by Maja S. K. Ratkje at Svartskog 2019.

All music created and performed in real-time by Maja S. K. Ratkje, except sung parts from the Norwegian traditional Hanen sten på stabburshella and the American traditional Mining for Gold. 

Maja is using voice processing software created by Øyvind Brandtsegg. 

www.ratkje.com

Maja S.K. Ratkje - Mara - Picture Disc LP - Pre - Order Available now

Released by Opal Tapes

Limited Edition Cassette now available for preorder at

opaltapes.bandcamp.com/album/selected-percussive-works-1998-2001-vol-ii

Millions Of Moon Strings Vibrate As The Animals Sing

Zoltan Fecso is a composer based in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. With previous releases on Hush Hush Records, Sonder House, The Slow Music Movement and Shimmering Moods, Whitelabrecs is thrilled to present Zoltan’s most restrained work to date on ‘Daylight in an Empty Room.’

Zoltan’s pointillist compositions combine single notes of varying lengths to form ever-changing patterns. A composition technique he’s been exploring since 2018, Pointillism borrows its name from the post-impressionist painting technique which uses individually coloured dots to form an image. Zoltan’s works are performed on a modified guitar, on which he captures fragments of notes, creating ever-shifting tonal permutations.

‘Daylight in an Empty Room’ is an album of solo guitar improvisations, in which Zoltan has aimed to create a more open, spacious sound than in previous records. Zoltan works closely with his partner and painter Claire Lefebvre, who created the artwork for this album. ‘Daylight in an Empty Room’ suggests finding new detail in simplicity.

Written and produced by Zoltan Fecso
Mastered by James Edward Armstrong
Artwork by Claire Lefebvre
Packaging design by Harry Towell

Daylight In An Empty Room

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Various formats available at:
http://oejerum.bandcamp.com

Millions Of Moon Strings Vibrate As The Animals Sing

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