Cool! This is an awesome idea , I love that sound in the background.

wonderful intro the sitar pad is fantastic the rythmic too !

the high lead is very nice beautiful harmonic . this is a great track !

Wicked drum patterns and beautiful album.  Looking forward to more stuff

We’re pleased to welcome back Toronto, Canada’s anthéne in the form of this collaborative album with UK cellist and composer Simon McCorry. Between them, they have released solo recordings on labels such as Home Normal, Archives, Past Inside The Present, Naviar and Fallen Moon. They’ve also both released on Polar Seas, a label helmed by Brad Deschamps, the man behind anthéne.

Both artists are comfortable collaborators, having worked alongside the likes of Ian Hawgood, Andrew Tasselmyer and Andrew Heath. It was in 2020 when their remote recording sessions translated into The Equation Of Time, combining and processing Brad’s guitar and Simon’s cello into a collage of droning textures. A concept sprang from their work together, during the unfolding pandemic and its resulting lockdowns, where time itself seemed to stand still, go backwards and go forwards, all at once. Add to this the the sheer geographical distance and time zones separating these artists, the often-explored artistic muse of time and space became the central theme.

The title ‘The Equation Of Time’ relates to the differences between the day of the earliest sun rise, the day of the latest sunset, the longest day. Each of these days are different, noted by the ancient Greeks and the Persians before them. The enormity of time and the ability for humans to occupy the same space as multiple predecessors is particularly fascinating when faced with something ancient, such as a cave painting, a forest or the ruins of a fallen civilisation. The track titles are aptly borrowed from parts of T.S. Eliot’s 4 Quartets, which also deals with the contemplation of time. You can surmise from these poems that ideally, one would focus only on the present, in order to make the most of each turn of the clock; the past cannot be altered and the future is unknown. Our memory can subconsciously serve us back our own recollection of past times, which can result in nostalgia, melancholy or both. Our minds can also influence our perception of the future, with feelings of either fear, excitement or both.

The Equation Of Time grapples at these themes and ideas without the intention of ever truly being able to define time. A wash of faded memories, unknowns and current thoughts stir into one-another; ambient music itself always seems so able to reflect and evoke a sense of wonder, at things far bigger than we can ever comprehend. 

Releases May 22, 2021

Written and Produced by Brad Deschamps and Simon McCorry
Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Artwork by Tom Tebby
Packaging design by Tom Tebby

The Equation Of Time

wlr093 anthéne & simon mccorry - the equation of time

400 LONELY THINGS 'Mother Moon' CD

The new album from 400 LONELY THINGS, produced by WILLIAM BASINSKI, is a dark ambient, sample-based séance to the Banning Mill - a real-life decaying "mansion" and haven for artists, freaks and misfits in the backwoods of the American Deep South in the 1970s-1990s - and an extraordinary piece of art that lived there.

An archaeological excursion in found sound - wandering through the art and memory of a real place, "Mother Moon" is an origin story for 400 Lonely Things. In the 90's, Craig Varian was fortunate enough to frequent the Mill in the years before it closed. It was here that he was exposed to the artwork of Richard Scott Hill, whose artwork "Minotauress" graces the album cover. His work both captured and fed into the Mill's sinister yet playful undercurrents of mania and depression. This album, born out of that first visit to the Mill, is an imaginary soundtrack to the many years of solitude the Minotauress spent hanging in the musty, secret winding halls of Banning Mill. 

Since the days of the Mill (and Varian's subsequent purchase of "Minotauress" shortly before the Mill closed), Varian, along with best friend and late musical partner Jonathan McCall, found a thread of music they'd been consistently making yet had previously failed to notice - melancholic instrumentals with weathered sampling at its core - going back to their earliest recordings in the late 1980's. Eventually, this music was called 400 Lonely Things.

Presented in a 6-panel spot-varnished digipak.

Order via Bandcamp to receive a bonus 44-page supplemental digital book.

"Mother Moon is a cypher that saves an important hidden fragment of cultural history from erasure." Ben Ponton, Zoviet France.

"Mother Moon is darkness calling. It will take you to the outer limits and leave you there. Guaranteed to twist your mind." Andrew Hulme, O Yuki Conjugate.

"A wistful, burrowing, beautiful nightmare." Daniel Kraus, NY Times Best Selling Author of The Living Dead with George A. Romero, and The Shape Of Water with Guillermo Del Toro.

Order: https://coldspring.co.uk/csr319cd

https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/mother-moon-csr319cd

Digital: https://orcd.co/csr319cd

Out: 24th March 2023

400 LONELY THINGS Parlor Tricks

Panorama (Instrumental)

From 'Start With the River'. Kahvi Collective, July 2016.

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Ennet House (Redux)

Buy Album Here:
https://magicsquarerecords.bandcamp.com/album/yesterday-network

All music written, recorded, mixed & mastered by Elijah Franks.

"Letter Of The Day" by PBS'73 is licensed under a © ℗ ® Creative Commons License.

Letter Of The Day

Buy Album Here:
magicsquarerecords.bandcamp.com/album/yes…y-network

All music written, recorded, mixed & mastered by Elijah Franks.

"Hello Sky" by PBS'73 is licensed under a © ℗ ® Creative Commons License.

Hello Sky

Now available on tape, and as a pre-order on CD. 

Recorded by øjeRum (Paw Grabowski; https://soundcloud.com/oejerum).
Post-production by Andrew Chalk.
Mastered by Jos Smolders (EARLabs). https://soundcloud.com/earlabs

Released on glass-mastered CD in a 6-panel digipak, featuring 7 collages from øjeRum’s Silent Figure With Landscape series.

An Image of a Bird Seconds Before It Appears

øjeRum – An Image of a Bird Seconds Before It Appears [first 6 minutes]

Ekin Fil continues her quietly complex dream-pop oeuvre on Maps. For many years now, this Istanbul musician has been writing mysterious and haunting songs, rich in heavy-reverb effects and an introspective torpor. With each successive album, her songwriting has blossomed through broader instrumentation and more intricate melodic phrasing, though the somber atmospherics and ghostly manifestations remain a judicious constant. Minor-key, tear-stained notes of piano, organ, and guitar veer along elliptical orbits as a soft-whisper lilt of Ekin’s voice narrates more by emotive decree than by literary couplet. 

Maps addresses the distance and dislocation of the self from the bustling center of Istanbul, where Ekin FIl (neé Ekin Üzeltüzenci) had once called her home. Having spent her first winter on a relatively quiet island in the Sea of Marmara (while still in the greater metropolitan umbrella of Istanbul), Maps  is “lonely, different, kind of isolated,” according to Ekin, who also noted that the island had “too much silence around. There is no other choice but to concentrate, I guess.” Her poetics of silence on her previous recordings had been noted as an antidote or a dream capsule of sound in response to Istanbul’s cauldron of politics, culture, and philosophy that has been boiling almost since the beginning of civilization. Maps bends that maritime silence into wind-swept smudges that complement her already spacious compositions.  

The saddest songs of The Durutti Column excised of rhythm and those few plunges into sorrow by Harold Budd make for apt comparisons to Maps, in addition to the drone-on classics of Grouper, Slowdive, and Sarah Davachi.

Maps

Ekin Fil // Nocturnal Arc

Impromptu performance with Fennesz in Bisaccia, Italy during Interferenze Festival 2010.

Fennesz + Irisarri - Live at Interferenze Festival 2010

pájaro en rama

pájaro en rama - meditative nesting™ interlude

5th track from my latest album "Unseen".
Release date December 10th 2020

Available at
https://sozuproject.bandcamp.com/album/unseen

Unseen

Homeostasis [Unseen]

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