QILIN House Volume 8

Massive Attack - Teardrop (Preghost remix)

Gray Hoodie is the debut album from french musician / composer Elise Mélinand. The album, written in Berlin then sequentially recorded throughout various locations in France, was initially inspired by the techniques she was exposed to after being recruited as part of Christina Vantzou's (Kranky / The Dead Texan) Little Prism Ensemble. Her newly adapted recording and composition tool, the laptop, is undeniably the norm today. However, it allowed Mélinand to better visualize her compositions while experimenting with techniques that Gray Hoodie so skillfully showcases. Crafted by Mélinand to tell a story of a friend who gave her a gray hoodie one cold evening. This gray hoodie was a symbol of their friendship and this album is said by Mélinand to be "A way to thank him for everything he gave me". Gray Hoodie showcases Mélinand's childlike voice and legato string work juxtaposed over frenetic experimental beat-work all injected into ten cinematic vignettes that exude the comfort and warmth of a sweatshirt on a cold day.

http://n5md.com/discography/225/Gray-Hoodie

Elise Mélinand - Sur L'Océan (Featuring Ocoeur)

from 'Skeylja' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den184
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/thealvaretensemble]

--- "Skeylja" An invented word combining the Frisian word for Terschelling, "Skylge", and the Icelandic word for island, "Eyjan" ---

Skeylja is an international multimedia project, based around the ideas of improvisational music and the coming together of musicians from different countries and musical backgrounds to create a spontaneous sonic landscape. The project started when The Alvaret Ensemble (Greg Haines, Jan & Romke Kleefstra, and Sytze Pruiksma), who you may know from their eponymous debut on Denovali in 2012, travelled to Iceland to try to find a shared music language with the Icelandic musicians Ingi Garðar Erlendsson, Kira Kira, Borgar Magnason and Eiríkur Orri Ólafsson . They were joined by the 33 1/3 Collective, a group of visual artists from the Netherlands, who began to collect footage that would later be used as source material for the visual side of the performance.

Some months later, after a successful week of traveling to beautiful locations and playing music together, the group met again, this time during the Oerol festival on the island of Terschelling in the Netherlands, for a series of nine sold-out shows in an old church, all of which were being recorded. Each artist "curated" a rough plan for one evening, which could be anything from hand-drawn images to be interpreted musically to more precise plans of structures and combinations of musicians to be explored. Never were the notes, or the content of the music itself, discussed - this was instead left up to chance and developed through listening intently to each-other, trying to create an atmosphere where each player was vital, but where everyone always worked towards the whole.

After ten intense days on the island, all that was left were the memories of the audience and, luckily, a hard-drive with over ten hours of recorded music. After everyone had had a chance to listen back to rough mixes of each night and make comments, the material was taken to Greg Haines' Electricity Works studio in Berlin, where the long process of selecting, editing and mixing began. Finally, almost two years after that first initial meeting in Reykjavik, the album is complete and ready to be released into the world. We hope you enjoy it.

Participating musicians (in alphabetical order):

Ingi Garðar Erlendsson (Tuba, Trombone, Thranophone)
Greg Haines (Piano)
Kira Kira (Voice, Electronics)
Jan Kleefstra (Voice, Poems)
Romke Kleefstra (Guitar)
Borgar Magnason (Contrabass)
Eiríkur Orri Ólafsson (Trumpet, Electronics)
Sytze Pruiksma (Percussion)





Skeylja

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The Alvaret Ensemble, Kira Kira, E. O. Ólafsson, I. G. Erlendsson, B. Magnason - Borgarvatn

Ocoeur - North

Max Cooper live at Radialsystem on 6 March, 2015.

Space for experiments and special encounters: We are happy and excited about a night to remember at the sold-out hall of Radialsystem and the German premiere of Max Cooper's stunning audio-visual performance "Emergence".

Many thanks to Max Cooper, to a fantastic audience and our great staff for beautiful lighting and amazing sound.

Special thanks to Carlo Grippa for mastering this tune.
Recorded at Radialsystem, Berlin.
Published with permission of the artists.
Photo: Markus Werner.

If you like what you hear, support the artist!
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Max Cooper @ UM:LAUT - Origins (Live)

Full length version of the mix featured in the DEGENESIS: SACRIFICE EVERYTHING trailer: 
youtu.be/0Tw3KaMr8wk

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There Is No Other (Degenesis trailer mix)

I had a modern classical/electronica mix from a friend (JamBon) which I had been listening to a lot, and after a weekend away the original of this track was really stuck in my head. At some point I clicked that it sounded just like the style of another friend - Hiatus, and on checking, it was him! So I got straight on email to him asking if I could have the parts, and I even got started on the remix before they arrived by buying the mp3 and starting to lay some ideas around that - When it's on I find it's best to go with it. It was a really enjoyable remix to do given how beautiful the original parts are, my mix is quite similar really, as I couldn't improve on it melodically, I've just tried to add some of my own flavour and twists.

Hiatus - Third - Max Cooper Remix



Taken from the album 'Taking The Veil', released worldwide on May 24, 2015 on Kitchen. Label

Pre-order on CD + Art Book here:
www.kitchen-label.com/ki015-hior-chr…king-the-veil/

“Shadows surrounding, this lucid veil that will not conceal.”

‘Taking the Veil’ is the debut solo album on Kitchen. Label by Berlin-based musician Hior Chronik. Originally from Athens, the new album is a follow-up to his previous work on the label as the duo Pill-Oh in ‘Vanishing Mirror’. The established foundation are intact on ‘Taking the Veil’: the bitterly romantic strings and gentle electronics whisper melting over plaintive piano scores. Hior Chronik has a penchant of producing subtly immense and cinematic compositions which are remarkably chilling in its beauty.

The latest release follows Hior Chronik’s distinctive compositional path with the pairing of a collaborator on each track. This time the instrumental colors are most intimate, honed to evocative perfection with each collaboration bringing its own nuances to a permeable set of motives. Through the contemplative moments, what give it life is the varied scoring which goes from solo piano to string orchestra, opening up a space that shimmers with stirring melancholy. Featuring classically aligned contemporaries such as Field Rotation (Denovali Records), Sophie Hutchings (Preservation), Lüüp (Experimedia) and Japanese composers Yasushi Yoshida (noble), Yoshinori Takezawa (Schole Records) among many others. The biggest change in this new album is the addition of vocals by Amber Ortolano and Fabiola Sanchez (Familiar Trees) on four songs. Figured centrally in the soundtrack as recurring lyrical voicing, the Amber Ortolano and Hior Chronik pairing also produced a rearranged version of ‘Twice’ originally written by Swedish electronic band Little Dragon.

‘Taking the Veil’ is presented in a 16-page art book format, also featuring the New York based Amber Ortolano as a photographer. The subject in the visual narrative of ‘Taking the Veil’ is of young women imprisoned by their flow of thoughts and their dark imagination. The delicate beauty and ambiguous gestures of feminine protagonists serve as powerful metaphors of the veil as the title of the album reflects – They reveal and conceal all at once, reviving emotions conjured by a sense of mystery. The album underlines this atmosphere that probe the consciousness imbued with burnished hues of something half-remembered and half-dreamed. ‘Taking the Veil’ is the best company for late hours and memory searching in a world of mist and shadows.

Released & distributed by Kitchen. Label
Ⓟ & © 2015 Kitchen. Label

MORE INFO:
www.kitchen-label.com


Hior Chronik - Cold Winter Morning (Featuring Luup)

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Brombaer & Phole - Globo

Loess - Striae

Ocoeur - Progression (Field Rotation Rework)

OKADA - Don't Come Any Closer

Andrea Belfi live at Radialsystem on 16 April, 2016.

Enoy this great souvenir of Andrea Belfi's visit to the UM:LAUT stage. Back in April 2016 he opened two sold-out evenings with a solo show before supporting Nils Frahm and his Nonkeen band for their release tour kick-off at Radialsystem V. 

Special thanks to Andrea for the great performances, and for mixing and mastering this tune. And cheers to Carlo Grippa for the amazing sound and the recordings.
 
Recorded at Radialsystem, Berlin.
Published with permission of the artist.
Photo: Markus Werner

If you like what you hear, support the artist!
www.andreabelfi.com

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Andrea Belfi @ UM:LAUT - Live Snippet

Bugge Wesseltoft & Christian Prommer live at Radialsystem on 08 August, 2017.

Two extraordinary live musicians with a shared passion for experimentation and club music: Back on 08 August 2017, we had the honour to welcome Norwegian pianist Bugge Wesseltoft, a pioneer of electronic jazz, and the renowned drummer and producer Christian Prommer for an exclusive live session on the stage of UM:LAUT. We are happy to share one track of this amazing concert at the mighty hall of Radialsystem.

Special thanks to Bugge and Christian for the great performance, shout-outs to Sven Fobbe for making it happen, and cheers to Jan Gieseke for the amazing sound and the recordings.

"Lac"
Written by Bugge Wesseltoft
Performed by Bugge Wesseltoft and Christian Prommer
Recorded at Radialsystem, Berlin
Published with permission of the artist.
Photo: Markus Werner

If you like what you hear, support the artists!
www.ohsotrue.de/wesseltoft-prommer

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Bugge Wesseltoft & Christian Prommer @ UM:LAUT - Lac (Live)

múm is back in Berlin in February: After their celebrated performances in the last two years, the Icelanders return to the stage of UM:LAUT right in time for Berlinale. Get your tickets now: http://umlautlive.de/menschenamsonntag/

múm (Gunnar Örn Tynes, Örvar Smárason & Samuli Kosminen) live at Radialsystem on 12 February, 2017.

Together with the percussionist Samuli Kosminen, the founding members of múm, Gunnar Örn Tynes and Örvar Smárason, returned to the UM:LAUT stage to once again perform a splendid live score to “Menschen am Sonntag”, a masterpiece of silent film.

Special thanks to the artists for a great performance, to Carlo Grippa for the amazing sound and for mastering this tune.
Recorded at Radialsystem, Berlin.
Published with permission of the artist.
Photo: Jacob Hansen

Live @ UM:LAUT (12.02.2017)

múm plays Menschen am Sonntag @ UM:LAUT - Live Snippet 3

Tangent - Confinement

Axel Rigaud - New Land

A year end mix of ambient, electro-acoustic and neoclassical released in 2018. Curated and mixed by n5MD label owner/operator Mike Cadoo. 

Abul Mogard - Upon Smallish Circulation [Ecstatic]
The Gentleman Losers - Shelter from the rain [Sound in Silence]
Qluster - Weite [Bureau B]
Helios - Even Today [Ghostly Int]
Poemme - Forest Hymn [Stereoscenic]
bvdub - Seas of shores, forever sweeping [Apollo]
Steven Kemner - Little Notes [Fluid Audio]
Ocoeur - Shelter [n5MD]
Jan Wagner - Nummer I [Klangbad]
PRjDicE - Aichi [Self Released]
Hammock - We Watched You Disappear [Hammock Music]
Stray Theories - How Long [n5MD]
Rafael Anton Irisarri - The Clock [Geographic North]
Grouper - Blouse [Kranky]
The Green Kingdom - Illuminations (dub) [Sound in Silence]
Oliviaway - Distance [Self Released]
Jason van Wyk - Clouds (Alternative Version)[Self Released]

QILIN House Volume 8

Patrick Robineau