Ambient

Mix Series

For our 18th Reflexions podcast we are taken on a wonderful auditory journey by Demetrio Cecchitelli. 

Demetrio is a composer and multi-instrumentalist sound researcher from Italy. In this podcast he explores a delicate sonic world and assembled a  variety of pieces which come together to create an enticing story. 

As usual for best listening experience; get comfy, take a deep breath, close your eyes and let music transport you. 

Check out his work --> https://demetrio-cecchitelli.bandcamp.com/ https://soundcloud.com/cecchitellidemetrio
https://www.instagram.com/demetriocecchitelli/?hl=en

Tracklist:

1. Blanket Swimming - 05 Untitled (Attenuation Circuit)
2. DR - Minor (Singing Birds)
3. Taylor Deupree - August (vintage National resonator guitar) (12k) 
4. ASERET - Consciousness Of Undefined (Edit) (Midira Records) 
5. Yann Novak - Shortwaves to Longwaves (Dragon’s Eye Recordings) 
6. Nebel Lang - Nobody Else (Self-released)

Atrwork by Leslie Deboeur

Reflexions Podcast 18 - Demetrio Cecchitelli

Experimental sound artist KMRU(@kamarujoseph)is a master of quietness. His music is as much about empty space as it is the delicate field recordings that fill it in. The Kenyan artist has been perfecting this balancing act from his base in Berlin, most notably on 2020 full-length Peel. It's a record of slowly unfolding synth beauty and drawn-out drone mindfulness. Soft focus chords bleed and blend into one another like different shades of watercolour paint and the environmental nature of the sound sources lends it a gorgeously natural atmosphere.
For this week's most meditative mix, KMRU puts together an hour of soothing sound in a painterly fashion. It is unhurried but always going somewhere thanks to a gentle underlapping rhythm, expansive synth arc or little hiss of static. What sounds like distant vocal calls drift in and out of the mix which at times is like a recording from the furthest recess of the cosmos, at others the pleasant ambiance you might hear out of a Berlin window on a sunny afternoon.

Tracklist

Dekmantel Podcast 378 - KMRU

Producer, DJ, promoter, and @soundsofvala label head, @soundsofkaspiann's work straddles a range of paces and moods, always with an eye toward the innovative. With a lower-tempo release due early next year on an undisclosed label, Kaspiann's more recent sonic explorations wade into swampy techno with psychedelic inflections.

In Patterns of Perception 117, Kaspiann pulls you into the flow through these murky sounds that dips and stomps along, with a selection of unreleased tracks from both his and his friends' studios, along with a handful of carefully unearthed gems.

Links:
https://www.instagram.com/kaspiann__
https://valaseries.bandcamp.com/album/vala-2
https://ra.co/dj/kaspiann
https://www.facebook.com/kaspiannhki/

Patterns of Perception 117 - Kaspiann

Known for her hypnotic dives to the psychedelic reaches of deep techno, London-based @freyacaldwell signature style emphasises meticulous sound design and the incorporation of lush and evocative textures. 

Having graced the stages of renowned venues and festivals throughout Europe, she has appeared at prestigious locations such as Amsterdam's De School, the Positive Education Festival, and London's own Village Underground.

Faery's Patterns of Perception 118 circles around echoes, resonances and hauntings, shifting between shadowy low-ends and moments of ecstatic crescendo. Encapsulating the tension and drama held in dnb's darker edges, the mix also weaves in touches of eerie contemporary classical-esque ambient.

Patterns of Perception 118 - Faery

Hailing from Amsterdam and with De School as his homebase, @nawazworldwide’s sound is always evolving, sliding deftly from wormhole techno to fast rhythms and glitchy electronics.

His selections on this Patterns of Perception 119 melt together while also reinforcing each other, each transition subtler than the last, sometimes even employing his own tailor-made tools and tracks for the purpose.

Beginning from a visual image, this mix blends diverse rhythms and atmospheres, offering a story line from which the listener can create their own narrative, their own image, free of imposition.

Patterns of Perception 119 - Nawaz

Marking the culmination of 2023, our final mix features the debut release from one of our own, @zilkamarie. As the driving force behind comms within our collective, Zilka's music inspiration is drawn from the diverse array of artists she collaborates with.

Recorded live at Jacopo (@severja) and Fred’s (@fred-czital) Hitze party back in July, the set follows on from a daytime open air while also opening the after party. Progressing from wet, spacious ambient sounds to dubby, irresistible beats, Patterns of Perception 120 captures and plays with quintessential afterhours vibes.

Patterns of Perception 120 - Zilka

Hailing from Germany and now based in Portugal, @vril_01 has in recent years been quietly producing and performing some truly extraordinary electronic music. Going from strength to strength, he takes dancefloors on vivid, compelling journeys across Europe and beyond.

Patterns of Perception 121 takes us back to a very special live ambient set .VRIL performed at @nachtdigital MINT 2019, an immersive hour of lucid textures and swelling intensity.

Big thanks to @sentientechno for making this happen with us.

Patterns of Perception 121 - .VRIL

Campfire Stories 28 (Transitions) by @GrandRiver

~ About The Story ~

When reeds are dead and a straw to thatch the marshes,
And feathered pampas-grass rides into the wind
Like agèd warriors westward, tragic, thinned
Of half their tribe, and over the flattened rushes,
Stripped of its secret, open, stark and bleak,
Blackens afar the half-forgotten creek--
Then leans on me the weight of the year, and crushes
My heart. I know that Beauty must ail and die,
And will be born again--but ah, to see
Beauty stiffened, staring up at the sky!

~ Chapters ~

01. Don't Dolby - Cosmokoz - [Gefriem]
02. Locust - More Like Prayer Than Science - [Editions Mego]
03. TV Victor - 100609 -  [Non Standard Productions]
04. Donato Dozzy & Nuel - Aqua 5 - [Spectrum Spools]
05. Ancestral Voices - Eiyani - [Horo]
06. Serena Butler - When I'll Die I'll Go To Heaven Because I Served My Time In Hell [Konstrukt]
07. 33.10.3402 - O Tom Potom S.T. - [L.I.E.S.]
08. Arca - Extent - [Mute]
09. Leo Anibaldi - Evocation (Ooze Drown Mix) - [Cannibald Records]
10. Fjäder - Vintergatan - [Shaded Explorations]
11. Porter Ricks - Polytoxic 2 - [Force Inc. Music Works]
12. Backwords - Tanzania - [OOH-sounds]
13. Brain Machine - Light Space - [Emotional Response]
14. Earten Sea - Our Bloods - [Silent Season]
15. Farceb - Korg MS-20 Mini - [One Instrument]
16. Klara Lewis - Twist - [Editions Mego]
17. Aleksi Perala - UK74R1510119 - [AP Musik]
18. Futuro Antico - Track 1 - [Black Sweat Records]
19. Yotam Avni - Marva - [Stroboscopic Artefacts]
20. Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek - Waltz (A Lonely Crowd) - [Faitiche]
21. Neel - Travelling On Kepler Dorsum - [Spectrum Spools]
22. Melanie Velarde - Parcel - [Rvng Intl.]
23. Deru - Black Beach (Tape Version) - [Frieds Of Friends]
24. Yair Elazar Glotman - Lamant (Coda) - [Subtext] 

~ Notes ~

Campfire Stories is a mix series by friends of Silent Season. The focus of the series is on storytelling through deeper electronic music. Artists weave together narratives using the emotional characteristics of ambient and techno music.

Thanks to all the artists and labels whose sounds help tell the story.

Thank you for listening.

- - -

www.silentseason.com
info@silentseason.com

Campfire Stories 28 (Transitions) by Grand River

Campfire Stories 30 (Lunar Lodge MMXVII) by Paul Fleetwood

~ About The Story ~

Sometimes the unseen is not to be feared and that those meant to love us most are not always ones who do. ― Leigh Bardugo

@fleet412

~ Chapters ~

This story was translated by an ancient scribe and is told in different ways depending on the culture. The chapters have been lost but the story remains intact. 

~ Notes ~

Campfire Stories is a mix series by friends of Silent Season. The focus of the series is on storytelling through deeper electronic music. Artists weave together narratives using the emotional characteristics of ambient and techno music.

Thanks to all the artists and labels whose sounds help tell the story.

Thank you for listening.

- - -

www.silentseason.com
info@silentseason.com

Campfire Stories 30 (Lunar Lodge MMXVII) by Paul Fleetwood

Mount Shrine is an ambient/drone project from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The project usually is characterized by its long and repetitive "low-end droning" tracks and 'slow-motion song movements', incorporating lo-fi field recordings, fainting tape hiss and vinyl crackle, and recurrent themes of abandoned urban places and lonely rainy nights.

https://soundcloud.com/mtshrine
https://mtshrine.bandcamp.com/

Tracklist

Deepchord - Fog Hotel
Vladislav Delay - Ranta
Skee Mask - VLI
Aphex Twin - Blue Calx
Tor Lundvall - Blurred Dream
Tim Hecker - Currents of Electrostasy
Fennesz + Sakamoto - Cendre
Bowery Electric - Postscript
Grouper - Heart Current
Claude Debussy - Arabesque No. 1 (played by Noriko Ogawa)
Carl Crack - Radio Tschernobyl
John Frusciante - 23 Go In To End
Gary Jules - Mad World
Atrium Carceri & Cities Last Broadcast - Laudanum
Andy Stott - Missing
Autechre - Perlence Suns 
Popol Vuh - Der Ruf der Rohrflöte
Black Sabbath - Solitude
The Microphones - My Warm Blood (Ending Loop)

Have a good listening.

Deep Breakfast 021 - Mount Shrine

Much loved London selector https://soundcloud.com/janefitz steps up with a beautiful, twisting and textured journey. More info and download: http://asip.me/isolatedmix97

ASIP - isolatedmix 97 Jane Fitz

More info

isolatedmix 97 - Jane Fitz: We Fall Into The Sun

Warmth in the winter sun.
A recording from the Astral Industries x Kizen Records party at Ping Pong Hong Kong. Contributed to the Astral Industries 9128.live takeover, April 2020.

Hong Kong 221218

Hailing from Wales but a resident of Japan for the past 25 years, Steve Good has, in various forms, been involved with music for his entire life. From classical violin through just about every genre imaginable, he finally found himself sucked into the vortex of London’s rave scene in the 90s. After moving to Tokyo in ’95, he started work at a recording studio, producing, mixing, mastering, remixing and programming music for artists, bands, games, and TV commercials, while simultaneously DJing for clubs and parties and producing via his own downtempo project, Puff Dragon. Involved in Labyrinth since its beginnings, Steve takes responsibility for that festival’s legendary sound quality.

After moving to the wild northern-Japanese island of Hokkaido in 2012 with his family, he found natural inspiration for what is now recognised as the Labyrinth sound. The epic beauty and remoteness of this icy, rock-covered isle on the north-west corner of the Pacific Ocean became the inspiration for Steve’s musical explorations of the interplay between the human and the natural, creating a huge and lasting effect on both his own musical output and the indelible artistic mark of Labyrinth Festival.

This present live set grew out of a phase of sadness and listlessness Steve experienced as the upheavals of 2020 ricocheted across the globe. In the absence of those usually unnoticed markers of the passage of time, anchor points drift and the moorings that ground opportunities for perspective and insight flit and vanish. Yet in this sea of disorientation, the plants continue to grow, rivers flow, waves crash, and the seasons keep on turning. In place of what appeared to be missing arises the possibility of experiencing each moment in its sublime evanescence. Steve Good’s Patterns of Perception 67 is forest music, mountain music, lake music. It holds chaos and beauty within it, transporting the listener to places both on the edge, and at the core, of the fleeting beauty of existence.

After witnessing his ethereal, truly moving opening set on day two of last year’s Labyrinth festival, this mix is a uniquely personal one for our collective. We’re delighted to welcome Steve onto our platform to share his inimitable musical vision.

Links:
https://www.facebook.com/stevegoodambient/
https://stevegood.bandcamp.com

https://soundcloud.com/mindgameslaby

Patterns of Perception 67 - Steve Good

A dream sequence of ambient and drone from the Nairobi DJ and producer.

Read more here: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=740

@kamarujoseph

Resident Advisor podcast

RA.740 KMRU

"I love functional (electronic) dance music, but given our current shipwrecked state, my attention is naturally drifting towards more abstract, meditational, experimental shores. This is a mix of some of my favourite records from outside of the box. It’s the music I think of when I try to describe our arch events to newcomers - expressive, sensitive, harmonic, swaying gently between ecstatic and melancholic. Complex synth arpeggios, sub bass and crystalline atmospheres. I’m so excited to embrace this side of electronic music more, and see where it takes us. " Inland

For more arch music visit:
http://archbln.bandcamp.com
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBFrEtjKyoLbn86Cz1M43MQRGz32lOtIZ

instagram.com/arch.berlin
www.sweatlodgeagency.com

www.instagram.com/arch.berlin
www.sweatlodgeagency.com

Inland - arch 0.3 selections

Visionary electronic music.

http://patternsofperception.com