Name: The Quiet Hour by Pharoah Tickles The Sun
Duration: 20 min 26 s
Description: A Daily Help in Personal and Family Devotions

If there ever was a monicker apt for describing an artist’s behavior, that is Ghost Lemurs. Manifesting spottily in compilations and limited edition tapes, then returning to the shadows without much fanfare, the project has indeed demonstrated a ghostly behavior and a nature as puzzling as the animal it takes its name from. Wombs And Alien Spirits represents now their most public outing, one in which the duo of visual artist / producer Kareem Lofty and Daniele Guerrini (better known as Heith and as Haunter’s co-founder) are happy to showcase all the discoveries in a process of musical and spiritual research begun in 2019.
Described by the artists themselves as an experiment in mediterranean psi-trance, the album makes use of an incredibly diverse number of traditions, sonic sources and techniques of musical experimentation, keeping its psychedelic intentions central to the whole creative endeavor. Moments of meditative relaxation are brought to unsettling new levels by cavernous basses and spaced out drones, while tight polyrhythms bring beautiful granular melodies to a sidereal ceremonial dance.
As beautiful and captivating as it is, Wombs And Alien Spirits remains as chimeric and unrestrained as any previous effort by the two artists. It’s a type of folk music devoid of a specific homeland, but resulting from the authors’ heritages, simultaneously divided and united by the mediterranean sea, injected with all the trajectories of their personal journeys. It ends up sounding profoundly human and uncannily inhuman, tapping into the undiscovered alien element at the beginning of the experience of life.

Music by Ghost Lemurs
Mix by Heith
Master by Tapewave
Artwork by Katja Novitskova
Layout by Nicola Tirabasso

Molecular Repair

https://languageinstinct.bandcamp.com/album/where-is-everybody

Back After A Long Absinthe

Æther #006 by David Cordero
Dronarivm Guest Mixes Series

The new mix in our guest series comes from the Spanish artist David Cordero, whose album 'Postales' we recently released ~ https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/postales. 

In this mix, David has curated a selection of his favorite tracks from 2024, offering his personal perspective on contemporary ambient music. Through his choices, he invites us to explore atmospheres imbued with emotional depth and nuanced textures, which are shaping the genre today.

Tracklist:

00:00. Bahía Mansa - Camachaca (from 'Ruralia', Florina Cassettes)
05:38. Federico Durand - Mensaje desde el Mar del Norte (from 'Té de Flores Silvestres', IIKKI)
11:04. Sachi Kobayashi - Clouds in the Sky I (from 'Clouds in the Sky', Enmossed)
14:54. IDRA - What you Thought that Day (from 'Resonant Bodies, Anticipate Memories', Seil Records)
17:55. Rhucle & Morimoto Naoki - Kisui (from 'Reminiscence', Seil Records)
21:46. Elin Piel - Gärden (from 'Vaka', Northen Electronics)
26:11. Shuta Yasukochi - Sakura (from 'Harmonies of Flowers', self-released)
30:48. Ian Hawgood & Wil Bolton - Sylvan Phase (from 'Floral Forms and Subsequent Interactions', Home Normal)
34:43. Yumi Iwaki - Smoketree (from 'Spin a Tale', Muzan Editions)
42:33. Gläsbird - Timberline (from 'Fenscapes', Whitelab Recs)
46:59. Moskitoo - Evve (from 'Unspoken Poetry', Headz/Weather)
49:39. Warmth - Into Dust (from 'Claroscuro', Archives)
53:07. Chihei Hatakeyama - Stray Sheep (from 'Thousand Oceans', Dronarivm)
57:15. Suso Saiz - The Horizon Did it (from 'Distorted Clamor', Music From Memory)
1:02:55. anthéne - Sometime Someway (from 'Cloudburst', Home Normal)
1:08:53. Marine Eyes - All you Give (for Ash) (from 'To Belong', Past Inside the Present)
1:12:29. Hollie Kenniff - For Forever (from 'From Forever', Nettwerk)

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Æther #006 by David Cordero

hard times sometimes last

Support on Bandcamp: https://stegonaute.bandcamp.com/album/reworks

Stegonaute - Brume

A Daily Help in Personal and Family Devotions

The Quiet Hour

Romance

opium piano voice memo 1

“Subject 137, your epidermal inversion is a temporary side effect of reintegration. Please remain calm.”

“Temporary?!” My voice was shredded, like it was being dragged over gravel.

The voice continued, ignoring me: “The process will stabilize once you complete artifact alignment. Please report to Excavation Site 3 immediately. Your condition will worsen if you delay.”

“Artifact alignment? What the hell are you talking about?”

But the comm went silent with a definitive click.



Bios Contrast & Nilotpal Das - art1fact

Despite its conceptual framework, there's a mischievous playfulness lurking beneath the surface of van Herpen's latest sonic investigation. Drawing from extremely reduced free jazz and skeletal compositional structures, Derivatives presents pairs of pieces that exist in dual states: "Sources" - electronic and electro-acoustic compositions that serve as germinal materials - and their "Derivatives" - transformed through a process that's both rigorous and playful.

The methodology itself hints at van Herpen's sly approach to experimental music. Each Derivative emerges through a series of solo improvisations, recording one instrument at a time in response to a source's characteristics, but deliberately isolated from previous takes. When these responses are finally combined, with their inspirational Source removed, the result is a phantom ensemble performance that manages to be both deeply experimental and quietly humorous in its unlikely instrumental conversations.

This playful deconstruction of group dynamics yields music that's refreshingly unpretentious despite its experimental pedigree. Van Herpen's multiple instrumental personas interact in ways that subvert expectations, creating unconventional combinations that challenge traditional approaches to space, sound, and noise while maintaining an undercurrent of subtle wit.

The album becomes a kind of musical puzzle box, inviting listeners to match Sources with their Derivatives while experiencing how reduced electronic structures can birth organic, breathing improvisations that dance between the serious and the joyous.

All music, instruments, compositions,
performance, mix and master
by Raoul van Herpen

Instruments:
Japanese Shakuhachi, Daxophone, Toy saxophone
Clarinet, Tenor saxophone, Flute headpiece,
Indian Bansuri flute, Western concert flute,
Piano, Wurlitzer piano, Electric Guitar,
Serge and Modular synthesizers, radio,
Diy Ciat-Lonbarde instruments, Modified guitar pedal,
Bastl Kastl synthesizer, Arp Axxe synthesizer.

Raoul von Herpen - Aerial Dance

Porya Hatami | Aaron Martin | Roberto Attanasio ​ - 'Sallaw' 
Label; Dronarivm 
Cat #.: DR-58
Format: CD (ltd. 150)/ Wooden box special edition CD (ltd. 50)/ DL
Release date: March 1st, 2019

“Sallaw” is a Kurdish word that expresses the passing of time, and on this new album the three sound artists have found a way of expressing that notion in music. Four tracks of slowly unfolding ambience make up this collection, each piece named after different months, again in Kurdish. The four sections represent the different seasons and their movement through time.

Mastered by Fraser McGowan
Artwork by Hawar Amini

Buy CD / DL

PORYA HATAMI | AARON MARTIN | ROBERTO ATTANASIO - Pûşper

ambient devotional experiments 
synth + shortwave
theology + hauntology

The Quiet Hour

Pharoah Tickles The Sun

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