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Melodic 25

Ambient #134

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Ambient

Epic

Mon Essentiel-Emmanuel Moire

The Hardy Tree – Common Ground
Frances Castle is the illustrator/owner behind the Clay Pipe record label and The Hardy Tree is her on- going musical project. Common Grounds was started at the beginning of the 2019 pandemic - when time moved very slowly and travel away from home became impossible. 
“Like many others with extra time on my hands I walked the streets of my neighbourhood for exercise and well-being. I rambled like I might in the country side; stopping every now and then to take in the view, or notice something I’d missed before. I took to looking up local streets in historical newspapers, and read reports of murders and deaths and robberies that had happened in the past.  I researched the names of the people who had lived in my house before me, viewed old census returns from the surrounding area, and noted the birth places and livelihoods of past residents. I began to see the ghosts of these people on my walks, and notice the things that they had left behind; shapes of ancient tram tracks creeping under the tarmac, an old gas street light in an alley way, a tiny metal sign indicating a culverted  river.   I spent my evenings writing and recording the music on this LP and then the following day would listen to the rough mixes as I walked, the music began to soundtrack the walks, and the walks began influencing the type of music I was creating.”
Frances Castle 2022

01 A Garden Square In The Snow

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.

G. Strizzolo & Sebby Kowal - Flying Through My Thoughts

Taken from the album Still Night, Still Light, out now.

Au Revoir Simone - Shadows

Vinjettlåten till TV-serien "Jättebästisar" 
Text och musik: Nina Ramsby
Henrik Schyffert och Johan Rehborg manus

Piano Concerto No. 21 K. 467, 2nd movement: Andante in F major  by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1785).

Live video: https://youtu.be/vDJdG8Qj4UE

The original is piano solo vs full orchestra. I'm trying to do it all live one one track with piano and some synth. So it feels a little bit empty at times.

The instrument is a Clavia Nord Stage 2 using a sampled Yamaha C7 grand piano and some sampled Mellotron flute and a synth pad.

Spotify

Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 21, Andante [piano + synth]

"don't be proud of your wealth, you'll never tire of accumulating it"

Download: https://www.toneden.io/axelthesleff/post/bad-karma

free download

Bad Karma

Creature

Записано з короткохвильового діапазону.

Summer Music  (AM Radio)

Official Music Video: https://youtu.be/kiLfUnhfT8o

After The Storm

Now also available as a high quality download:
https://perplexon.bandcamp.com/track/naive


Naive

Advent

Rakete

New More Than Records release from @WizardBeats
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Wizard - Jackpot

Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street

A true king of timbres, John Roberts continues making the earthliest electronic music, to which "Orah" is no exception. The title track from Roberts' forthcoming EP illustrates his comprehensive style of building percussive samples into unique, beautifully harmonious music – with subtle tastes of the Orient in this particular example. A mesmerising follow-up to the three diverse tracks of last year's Ausio EP, and one of our favourite albums from 2013, Fences. John Roberts has still got it, and in abundance at that!

Orah EP drops on 7th September via Brunette Editions. Pre-order it here.

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John Roberts "Orah" - Boiler Room Debuts

‘Loon’ will be released on Erased Tapes as a 12” vinyl as well as digitally on October 2nd. 
Pre-order it here: www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP072
or via iTunes: http://snip.ftpromo.net/loon

Containing five synthesiser-led pieces, ‘Loon’ was recorded in autumn 2014 across five days at Nils’s Durton Studio in Berlin, and continues on from the ambient sounds of ‘Stare’ but with the addition of more percussive elements and dub influences. For this new EP the duo wired an Oberheim 4 Voice and a Korg PS3100 to the mixing desk and performed live takes on both instruments. With all four hands on its pots, all mixes were recorded straight onto 2-track ½-inch tape.

Like on ‘Stare’, their first collaborative affair in 2012, they simply followed what was laying in front of them, and this time they were driven by some new synths, a kick drum and tape effects. Indulging in dub, the tracks where all performed rather than engineered, with Ólafur riding a few elements on faders and Nils bringing effects in and out. After running several mixes, they went for the five strongest moments from this session. The release was announced on a joint website www.arnaldsfrahm.com together with the launch of an intimate 45-minute studio film titled ‘Trance Frendz’, featuring another seven improvisations.

“Nils got some new synths and we thought we’d try them out. We loved them so much that we didn’t actually end up using anything else to make these songs.” – Ólafur Arnalds

“When I was young I was smuggled to Goa parties by my brother. The music played there in the late nineties had a somewhat deep effect on me. ‘Loon’ is almost a blurry memory of these times. In other words, it is what I’d like to remember that music sounded like back then. In fact it sounded probably really cheesy.” – Nils Frahm

Loon

Wide Open

Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm - Wide Open

Download free at www.lifeafterdeathstar.net

Notorious B.I.G. - Dead Wrong (Star Wars Remix)

Notorious B.I.G. - N*ggas (Star Wars Remix)

Black star - David Bowie

christina vantzou 'homemade mountains'

Live iPad jam on a rainy day. Uncut video here: https://youtu.be/kUqGkci1iVo

Flowing

White Atlantis

Clouds

Parasol (Roland SH-01A solo)

Buy it on Bandcamp

03 - Rollmottle - This Is It

Fire

Fire Fire

To The Sky - Owl City

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Carly Rae Jepsen and Owl City - Good Time

From Insides, 2009. Buy direct from the label here : http://www.dominorecordco.com/uk/albums/26-03-09/insides/

A Drifting Up

Erased Stills is the debut LP of the Russian composer Igor Dyachenko is an odyssey into the unconscious that lies at the intersection of meditative ambient and industrial IDM.
First thing you notice when you press play is the incredible cinematic landscape of the album and its narrative. Each composition can be read as a chapter of Joyce's “Ulysses”, where moving in space transforms the mental state of the hero evoking wiped memories, random allusions and suppressed associations. In Erased Stills the artist shares his experiences for the last five years, including musical ones.
The album opens with the composition Access Keys. The name refers to the term in psychotherapy, when through barely noticeable gestures, eye movements, posture and breathing, the therapist adjusts to the patient's rhythm trying to find the key to the gate of his unconscious.
In the general storyline, this is a 3am moment. A blank canvas, a stage without artists and scenery, a coordinate system not yet dissected by rays and dots. Soft piano chords, barely touching the listener, are hesitantly making their way through the rustling emptiness.
Tachyons and In Signals are the essence of laboratory experiments with modular synthesizers. It is still predawn twilight, when in silent moon shades you’re trying to guess the shapes and silhouettes carved into the sound.
Unlimited Trance is the most lyrical moment in the album. A touching, youthfully romantic composition with a quivering piano part and convincing strings reveals the spiritual essence of a person.
Mountain Stream continues the ambient line of the record, but melancholy gives way to the joy of awakening. It is as if you see dazzling arrows of the morning rays, beating with cosmic energy and overflowing of diamond light. This is one of the climaxes of the album, when with the awakening suddenly comes the moment of motion: dense, enveloping structures of the bass emerge through the bright cheerful vibrations, a drum machine starts up and from a state of solitary contemplation you seem to be transferred to the center of the earth. Energy, languishing in the unconscious, is converted into kinetic. Transitions from meditative ambient to rhythmic IDM are the common essence of the record.
After taking a short pause in Starfall, the artist leaves the listener again with an epic Space Translation. Bass, smelling like burning rubber, and carefully polished textures are layered on the sequences that are sparkling like a spike of pearl.
You hear even more wildness and gustiness in one of the album’s key tracks - Disintegration: the melodic ambient line dissolves in a saturated groove. The bass goes slowly, like space-time in Interstellar, distorting the rest of the soundscape with its gravity. The drama of the LP is revealed in this tension between hell and paradise: the plots, taken from memory, acquire new sounds and details, turning into an audiopanel and a screenplay.
The final track with atmospheric trance passages and an accelerated straight-line beat is a kind of sublimation of all the experience you lived through this album. Connection to the general flow of energy and dissolution in it.

Erased Stills

Mountain Stream

Deena Abdelwahed's upcoming release Tawa gets a progressive techno workout courtesy of Barcelona's Clip. 

Deena will be performing Khonnar Live at Sónar 2019, at the Resident Advisor SonarLab. Tickets and info at www.sonar.es 

Tawa is released on 22/02/19 on InFiné. Pre order here https://idol.lnk.to/Tawa_Remixes

https://soundcloud.com/deenaabdelwahed 
https://soundcloud.com/clip-4

Tawa Remix

Deena Abdelwahed - Tawa (Clip Remix)

Climbers - Equal Responsibility (Betoko Remix)

Dziwny jest ten świat

Czesław Niemen- Dziwny jest ten świat

Perplex On is a band from Munich which makes electronic music.
Between Apparat and Tocotronic, Funkstörung and postpunk sounds of raindrops leaking through the cracks in the city, looking for the jumps to reality where dark psychedelic replaces the omnipresent pathos.
The result is on the one hand black metal for digital sleep walkers, but on the other hand dream pop for existentialists. [S.A.W.]