As dusk falls in the African savanna, the sounds of frogs and insects take over the soundscape. Lions and other predators will soon start hunting and their prey has to be vigilant while trying to get some sleep. Long version at https://youtu.be/nW87hGK-UiE

Dusk in the African savanna - Frogs and insects

Sustain Series returns for its third iteration, bringing together ever-more artists for another showcase of recycled music. Reworks and newfound collaborations make up this 27-piece album, demonstrating what can be achieved with ‘one’s trash and another’s treasure’.

 https://bit.ly/amb-sustain3

All Bandcamp proceeds of this album are to be donated to Eden Reforestation Projects, to help continue their work sustaining important local environments, and providing jobs to those that restore and maintain them.

anthéne & IKSRE - sunlight on the tundra

this isn't your card, right?

Warehouse Heroes #15 - Ano Poli

Ano Poli est un activiste de la nuit nantaise depuis plusieurs années. Aujourd’hui à la tête de son label, il navigue au sein des courants de la musique électronique : Breaks, IDM, Acid et Electro infusés saveur Rave.Inspiré par ses paires anglo-saxons, ses lives sont un savant mélange d’influences larges, n’ayant aucun complexe pour passer d’Aphex Twin à Jul. Sa motivation, annihiler toute tentative de rester statique.

www.warehouse-nantes.fr/

Warehouse Heroes #15 - Ano Poli

LULL 'That Space Somewhere' CD

Cold Spring proudly present the first new album in 14 years from LULL - the pioneering, isolationist dark ambient project of MICK HARRIS (SCORN, FRET, ex-NAPALM DEATH).

EXCLUSIVE FULL ALBUM STREAM AT THE SLEEPING SHAMAN: https://www.thesleepingshaman.com/streams/premiere-lull-that-space-somewhere

LULL was conceived by Mick Harris in 1990, in an attempt to create music that would stretch, if not forsake entirely, the structures of conventional music by developing and exploring sound without beats.

MICK HARRIS ON LULL: 

"I finally heard the way of recording, making profound sounds. Lull is purely something I can get lost in, as far as trying to create these imaginary spaces. And that’s what I always tried to do – to create. I'm a lover of sounds. I love collecting sounds. Playing with those sounds using various software until I created something new from that sound. Which for me end being what I call "a droner" or "a drift",  I’d use those to create a piece of music, or a sound-scape. That's what I’m doing with Lull. Just trying to create soundscapes. And to this day, still, absolutely love doing that". 

THAT SPACE SOMEWHERE:

"I haven't made Lull records since 2007 so... with this pandemic, I have time on my hands. I've used that time, I think, to the best. Going to the music-room is pretty much an everyday thing to me. Which has been the best thing because I’ve not been able to do this since the 90's when I had various studios... Since the lockdown I had all this time on my hands and I created a lot of good music, which I'm actually happy with.

I'm a fisherman. It gives me a lot of space. It gives me immense pleasure. For me it's about going to the river. I like moving water. The seasons change, the river changes with the seasons. It clears my mind, gives me ideas, gives me the space to be by myself and with nature... just listening to the sounds around me.

LULL is quite natural for me. It's an extension of me. Drifting. Just going to darkness. Into a space. LULL is drifting and droning, discovering more and more what can be done with sound. These soundscapes hugely appeal to me".

Mick Harris interview August 2020, courtesy of Peek-A-Boo Magazine.

http://www.peek-a-boo-magazine.be/en/interviews/mick-harris-scorn-lull-ex-napalm-death-2020

Matt-laminate digipak with majestic artwork by Abby Helasdottir (Gydja). Out 2nd December 2022.

Order: https://coldspring.co.uk/csr321cd

Order: https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/that-space-somewhere-csr321cd

Digital: https://orcd.co/csr321cd

Watch: https://bit.ly/LULL-TSS

Listen: https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/sets/lull-that-space-somewhere


LULL / MICK HARRIS:

https://mickharris.bandcamp.com
https://coldspring.co.uk/Lull

"Though this is dark ambient, the tone here is more meditative than menacing, something the name of the project has always made obvious and which always set Harris' work apart" (The Sleeping Shaman)

"The first really minimal music I encountered that really captivated me... It seems to exist somewhere on the threshold between consciousness and the unconscious" (Aaron Turner).

LULL Unplumbed (Excerpt)

Last Days - Close The Windows

Asian Zen: Tibetan Bells & Singing Bowls, Yoga Class, Healing Reiki, Chakra Balance, New Age Instrumental Meditation Music

Calming & Soothing Song for Trouble Sleeping

BUY DIGITAL : https://cocanha.bandcamp.com/album/que-son-a-ros
MUSIC VIDEO : https://youtu.be/CDzw1HpjYp0

Traditional Vivarais song collected from Marie Rouier, transmitted by Pèire Boissièra, rewritten and interpreted by Caroline Dufau and Lila Fraysse.
Arrangements by Cocanha and Raül Refree.
Produced by Raül Refree.

Que Son Aüros

BUY + DIGI.

Cocanha - Que Son Aüros

From the album Planetary Vision by nubo, available March 1, 2024 on Western Vinyl.
Pre-order / stream https://lnk.to/planetary-vision

nubo - Planetary Vision : 惑星のビジョン

"Critical thinking without hope is cynicism. But hope without critical thinking is naïveté. I try to live in this space between the two." The creator and editor of Brain Pickings on the pratfalls and promise of knowledge-sharing in the digital age.

Find more at onbeing.org/becoming-wise

Mapping Meaning in a Digital Age | Maria Popova [Becoming Wise]

PRE-ORDER AVAILABLE NOW: ImportantRecords.com 

Anthony Burr and Charles Curtis present this collection of curated compositions from Alvin Lucier and Morton Feldman. Two Lucier pieces, August Moon and Trio For Clarinet, Cello & Tuba are presented here for the first time. Liner notes are excerpted from a lecture on Morton Feldman given by Alvin Lucier. 

“For Feldman, dynamics serve an acoustical function. When he mitigates a piano attack he reduces that spike of noise that’s at the onset of every piano sound leaving only the sinusoidal pure after-sound. It’s as if he invented electronic music with the piano.” Alvin Lucier from liner notes. 

“Lucier manages to hear a layer of acoustical physics in Feldman’s music that perhaps no one else would hear. He’s hearing something in Feldman that is actually coming from his own musical world; in a way, hearing his own music in Feldman’s, and drawing inspiration from that.”

Chamber Music:  Morton Feldman - 3 Clarinets, Cello And Piano (1960) - Anthony Burr/Charles Curtis

Groundbreaking Peabody Award-winning conversation about the big questions of meaning, hosted by Krista Tippett. Every Thursday a new discovery about the immensity of our lives — and frequent special features like poetry, music and Q + A with Krista.

Mapping Meaning in a Digital Age | Maria Popova [Becoming Wise]

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