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A first preview to Marsen Jules new album "Beautyfear" to be released in January 2014 on Oktaf Records.

With "Beautyfear" on Oktaf Records the German electronic musician Marsen Jules (CCO, 12K, Kompakt) delivers one of his most outstanding albums so far. Mastered by no one else than 12K-labelboss Taylor Deupree and with a coverpicture taken by the highly acclaimed photographer Erik Madigan Heck from NYC, the best conditions are laid for a lasting experience of abstract musical poetry and touching soundscapeism. Jules has never been this dense, subtile and fragile before. All twelve tracks on „Beautyfear“ were created during a week stay in a theatre workspace on one of the hills of Lisbon. The panoramic view over the dusty city in spring seemed to have been the perfect surrounding for this cloudy soundscapes, which at some points remind of Angelo Bandalamentis‘ work for David Lynch‘s "Mullholland Drive". „It‘s an album on the fragility of beauty“, as Jules describes briefly. Music that can neither be described as ambient music or experimental sound art, but more likely delivers a poetic approach to music, live and sound itself. With „Beautyfear“ Marsen Jules makes a great start into 2014 and with the already announced cooperation with Swedish filmmaker Anders Weberg and an upcoming release of his works from a residence at the legendary GRM studios in Paris, one should definitely keep an eye on what is coming next. ﻿

Releasdate: 27.01.2014
Pre-Orders: 01.01.2014
Label: OKTAF www.oktaf.com
Distribution: Kompakt

Marsen Jules - Beautyfear  -  Beautyfear III (First Album Preview)

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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

Succeeding 2012’s critically lauded "Woven Tide," Aaron Martin and Dag Rosenqvist hone their combined clarity and depth into a raw strength matched by few of their contemporaries. A triumph of sparse destructive simplicity, "Into The Well" is an uncompromising and evocative tribute to sacrifice.

Fluid Audio are proud to partner with From The Mouth Of The Sun in a deluxe limited edition customized package that includes:

- Original vintage (1950's) interceptor/plotter maps/pilots kit
- 2 x detachable numbered map plates
- 5 x luxury double sided A6 prints
- Hand typed/numbered glassine bags
- 2 x CD
- Original vintage (1940's) Air Ministry Meteorological Office information
- Original vintage (1930's) aviation notes by C G Burge
- Original inspection stamps
- Housed/sealed in vintage stamped wax bags
- Scent
- Download code

Mastered by Taylor Deupree at 12K Mastering, featuring vocal contributions by Dawn Smithson & Jerker Lund and horns by Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø & Jenny Olsson.

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In the Forest, Side by Side

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'Settlers' is the new album from Western Skies Motel, out April 22nd, 2016 in a limited edition of 170 gatefold 180gram vinyl, CD and digital formats.  'Settlers' was mastered for vinyl and digital by Taylor Deupree, with master lacquers cut by Roger Siebel at SAE.  The first 50 Vinyl & CD's ordered come with a bonus EP, 'Generations' mastered by Kirk Marrison of Kiln.

In the dry desert of Arizona that Lost Tribe Sound calls home, a letter is received from guitarist René Gonzàlez Schelbeck who’s eager to share a collection of intimately composed songs, titled 'Settlers'. Upon listening, we are immediately enthralled. There’s a timeworn, arid, and almost badlands quality to Schelbeck’s hypnotic, cyclical guitar style. It seems to perfectly capture the lonely, barren landscape of the American West. 

Yet, there are curious dynamics at play here as Schelbeck, who makes music under the alias Western Skies Motel, is from Denmark and far removed from any upbringing in the rough-hewn Americana style of folk guitar. Conceivably, his music has more in common with the lonesome, calculated tone of Berlin's modern classical scene or the rainy day folk of the UK. Those are intriguing parallels, since the collective mood of Western Skies Motel's music would adapt so well to either environment. 

Words hardly do justice to the rich, immersive experience of 'Settlers'; yet a few may help to set the stage. Schelbeck is a remarkably well rounded instrumentalist, who spent his early days losing his hearing in local punk rock bands. This youthful love for walls of sound and discordant guitar squalls survives in his modern sound palette. However, a more mature approach to these techniques brings moments of palpable tension, adding in uneasy waves of guitar feedback and droning harmonium. 

But ultimately, the truth of what Schelbeck hopes to convey through his music may rest rmly in his subconscious. In hindsight, 'Settlers' is about moving between worlds: not in the dimensional sense, but more as a constant change in form. Each influence and sound Schelbeck incorporates into his music feels native to the delicate ecosystem of these songs and each turn feels as organic and nuanced as that of the natural world. Just as a tree’s leaves wither and fall; a fire sparks and expands only to expend its last bit of fuel, extinguished and left for ash. So true are the parallels we find in our own existence, the complex ritual of growing old and returning to dirt. Decay is inevitable for all life, yet through this it becomes the rich soil for all things proceeding. Western Skies Motel's weighty instrumental mantras may root in this and other meanings yet to be culled. One thing is clear, this music contains signicant power, and, regardless of our conceived themes or geographic locations, it tells a story that is lasting and instantly familiar. 

'Settlers' sees a 180-gram heavy weight gatefold release very similar to the recent Mute Forest debut, 'Deforestation'. The acetate and test pressings were scrutinized for anomalies on world-class vinyl setups at Arizona’s esteemed audio dealer, Arizona Hi-Fi.

Western Skies Motel is building upon a busy year in 2015, having released two very different full-length albums 'Prism' (Preserved Sound) and 'Buried and Resurrected' (Twice Removed).

Settlers

Transformation

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Western Skies Motel - Transformation (from Settlers)

photo by Alexey Vágin 
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unavoidable

'Debut' is the first collaborative album by german producers Fiction Surprise and Logic Moon, a well known artist in our 'Ambient Archives' series. A captivating work that moves between ambient and IDM, with room for bucolic ambient pieces, dark drones or brilliant guitar riffs, always with a thrilling distinctive sound.

Tracklist:
01. Flor De Lótus        04:55
02. The Hollow Earth     05:04
03. Signatures           03:57
04. The Red Garden       04:52
05. The Wire             06:33
06. Scale                05:10
07. Pending              05:33
08. Narrow Skies         05:41

Written and Produced by Tobias Lorsbach and Mirco Mengler.
Mastering by Zzzzra.
Archives21 // ArchivesCD003
Archives / 2016


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Logic Moon & Fiction Surprise - Narrow Skies

Hydrangea

In the Lens, Solo Andata’s fourth full-length album, was born from recordings found in the interstices of decades-old hard drives, lost email threads from disused accounts, and forgotten samples recorded on cassette dictaphones. These fragments were combined and re-worked with newer elements to create an album very much in the spirit of the band’s debut Fyris Swan (Hefty Records, 2006), an album touched by both folk and jazz and swathed in a dusty, narcotic haze.
Solo Andata’s Kane Ikin and Paul Fiocco have always pushed aside the digital studio in favor of a more haphazard and hands-on workshop vibe to their productions. They prefer near-broken acoustic instruments, cheap microphones and, as can be witnessed by their live performances, tend to turn anything they can get their hands on into a beautiful sound-making object.

While there is a raw and guileless nature to the duo’s sound it is precisely this that makes their music so powerful amidst the over-produced cliches of much modern music. The beauty of their work is how simple instruments and objects can be physically manipulated into creating such rich, layered sound. Dark, swaying, almost-looped melodies from piano, woodwinds and horns wrap themselves in smoky obscurity around remnants of percussion and warm beds of noise and the world around us.

In The Lens is very much a late-night record, reflected in the rain-soaked cover imagery, dripping with half-forgotten memories. Jittery yet calming, rhythmic, yet unhurried, it leads you down its dark corridors to a soft resting space. Ikin and Fiocco have created a new story around the chemistry of their creations that were taking place during the early days of their musical explorations.

In The Lens

Leaden Sky

Echoes from Urania

The bubbly calls of Pileated Gibbons feature in this early morning recording from Khao Yai National Park, Thailand. 


Dawn in Khao Yai National Park

Dawn in Khao Yai National Park, Thailand

A track from the album Five Cambridge Utilities out 05/23/16 on Constellation Tatsu.

L'eoscombu Couti - U-III

Download the album here > https://theancientyouth.bandcamp.com/album/the-future-of-classical-music-is-in-the-hands-of-the-uneducated

T H Y L I A

Reflection is taken from the album "Artifacts" by Chandeliers.
Last physical copies + digital album available on band camp: 

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/artifacts

Imaginative music from Chandeliers trying to capture the deep sadness and nostalgic feeling of abandonment….. 

Edition of 100 CDr's, hand made, hand numbered, photo's, no repress.

Chandeliers - Reflection

little experiment I did few days ago based on granular synthesis using random loops of piano and glocks, fieldrecordings recorded through tape.

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Olaf Dumont