FavTracks 05/18 Ambient & Classic

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Yui Onodera et al 2019

The release date is now set for the follow-up to last year's self-titled Parallelism release, and Angular Geometry will be available on February 12th.

Pre-order your copy here: shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a…eometry

50 copies available, handmade covers, hand numbered
(brown kraft hand cutted paper is used with real photo's)

A soft whisper beckons you to the horizon. Dusk or dawn, a faint rhythm gently takes your hand and guides you into a fluid realm of pulsating sonic drifts. "Angular Geometry" digs deep to sooth and invigorate the listener with engaging waves and invigorating microbeats into a lush natural soundscape.

Track list:
1. Lost	
2. Warehouse At Dusk	
3. Naturally	
4. Interference Pattern	
5. Piezo	
6. Cerulean		
7. Eclipse	
8 .00769 Picograms	
9. Wires
10. Sunrise	
11. dB	
12. Battery	

All tracks by Sage Taylor
SHM CD017
2016 Shimmering Moods Records
Thank you Matthew Hellmich for the words

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Parallelism - Angular Geometry - Preview (OUT NOW)

the yearly roundup from Cold Fiction Music is on the horizon!! 

here's my offering :)

https://soundcloud.com/cold-fiction-music

[ This compilation is now available!! https://cfmlabel.bandcamp.com/album/futur-e-cho-2017 ]

an echo from the future - Futur[e]cho 2017 [Cold Fiction Music]

taken from upcoming DR-49 : Sven Laux - Paper Streets
out on November 3rd, 2017
Pre-order : dronarivm.bandcamp.com

Sven Laux’s “Paper Streets” is a deeply intimate and vulnerable affair. Released on the Russian label Dronarivm, Sven paints minimal landscapes with watercolors in shades of violin, cello & piano; stripped bare & soaked in memory. 

The artist’s works bares a sense of detachment & reflection that usually occurs with the passing of time. Forlorn irony shows itself as it reminds you what feels like to fall in love for the first time, while conjuring ghosts from the last time you shared a gaze. 

A departure from the Sven’s earlier work, “Paper Streets” is an organic, neo-classical journey heard through a cinematic lens. Orchestral notes surge like tides and resonate like heartache. Nostalgia echoes and dissolves with a disarming vulnerability. 

Mastered byTobias Lorsbach

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TRACK PREMIERE : SVEN LAUX - A Glimpse Of Memory

Dragon’s Eye Recordings is pleased to announce the re-release of 'Substrate / The Garden' by Japanese sound artist and composer Yui Onodera. 'Substrate' and 'The Garden' (Le Jardin) were originally released in 2007 by Mystery Sea and Taâlem, and after their 2018 remastering, return alongside each other eleven years later. 

On 'Substrate', Onodera interrogates the fundamental limits of perception. Throughout the eight tracks, shimmering frequencies pan through organic tonal structures and streams of resonance swell and ascend in a gradually expanding space of audition. While Substrate accentuates the poeticism of the microsound genre, the album progressively draws a listener toward awareness of the physical subtleties of their own surroundings. 

'The Garden' is a rich, blooming composition built around the sound emitted by hydrogen and oxygen bubbles as captured by the ELS 19, a custom transmitter device which utilizes the electrolysis of water. The irregular sounds generated by this process are micro-acoustic phenomena which can only occur in a particular environment, and sit well beyond the range of unaided human hearing. As such, Onodera considers the relationship to sound and listening outside of a musicological hierarchy that might position environmental sound and music as independent and opposite concepts. Instead, Onodera regards these sensory experiences akin to that of a garden, with instrumental composition and environmental ambience each offering a total, continuous experience with innumerable interdependent relationships. The boundary between nature and artificiality becomes ambiguous.

Substrate / The Garden

Yui Onodera – Substrate 5

From Something Cathartic, out May 2018

polarseasrecordings.bandcamp.com

Celer - There's No Time To Process

https://auroraprinciple.bandcamp.com/album/singles-2018

A short piece I wrote, dedicated to my mother.

Singles, 2018

Those Moments, Quiet and True

From the debut album For a Wandering Beam of Sun. Vinyl available at http://solidarityhymn.bandcamp.com

Death Was Between Us

Anomaly - Single

Coro - Anomaly

The opening track from the upcoming album from Kira Kira, entitled "Alchemy & Friends"...available on vinyl in two handmade versions on June 17th...

Kira Kira, "Alchemy & Friends"... Talk To Your Hands

Berlin-based composer and vibraphonist Masayoshi Fujita will release his new album Book of Life, the third instalment in a trilogy of solo vibraphone recordings, on July 27. Stories, the first in the series and Masayoshi’s debut under his own name, will be re-issued by Erased Tapes at the same time.

Masayoshi continues his mission in bringing the vibraphone — a relatively new invention in the history of instruments often kept in the background in orchestras and jazz outfits — into the spotlight with his new album, Book Of Life. Having trained as a drummer, Masayoshi began experimenting with the vibraphone, preparing its bars with kitchen foil or beads, playing it with the cello bow, or using the other end of the mallets to create a more ambient texture of sound. Focussing on the vibraphone in this way sets Masayoshi apart, dedicating his artistic life to celebrating this fascinating and often under appreciated instrument and making his take on ambient and modern compositional styles a unique one.

 “I think the vibraphone is capable of more interesting and beautiful sounds that haven’t been heard before. It’s quite a new instrument but it’s often played in a similar way. I feel that there is a lot more to explore with this exciting instrument.” — Masayoshi Fujita

Masayoshi previously released two albums under his alias El Fog. He often collaborates with other artists, most frequently with the adventurous German producer Jan Jelinek whose revered album Schaum was released in 2015. The following year, Masayoshi released his experimental Needle Six piece, a BBC Radio 3 recording of an improvised session with UK electronic artist Guy Andrews for Late Junction. In addition, his label peer and fellow Berlin resident Nils Frahm mastered Stories, providing a fitting symmetry to its re-issue on Erased Tapes now.

Book Of Life

It's Magical

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Masayoshi Fujita - It's Magical

The Joy And Agony Of Travel (On A Train Version)

excerpt from a live tape loop, percussion, guitar + modular synth performance at S1, Portland.

180812

James A. McDermid is a Bristol, UK based artist who has also spent some time in Portugal. He became inspired to write music under the name Like Kisses of Thread after discovering artists such as Philip Jeck, Janek Schaefer, Christian Marclay and Kaffe Matthews; a project which ran alongside the curation of his label Nastycandy, which even piqued the interest of a certain John Peel, who played a piece on his Radio 1 show. The label ceased operation in 2005 due to work commitments and the rigours of running the demands of a job and a label simultaneously.

James stopped writing and recording music in 2010; this was until the sudden tragedy of his sister Harriet being diagnosed as terminally ill threw his world upside down. Struggling to understand the gravity of it all - or know what to do to help - he turned to music once more. In fact, the music poured out of him to the extent that he decided to create a trilogy of albums all dedicated to the memory of Harriet. The initial record ‘Ghost Folk’, made up of 25 tracks, was released on Polar Seas in 2017 and earlier this year KrysaliSound released the follow-up, ‘Tonal Glints’. The triptych is now complete with the final piece which is ‘Kern-Host’. 'Ghost Folk' represents his sister’s diagnosis and worsening condition, 'Tonal Glints' represents her death and the immediate aftermath, while 'Kern-Host' embodies closure. In the three albums, James tried to focus on melody and structured each track around it. Not all of the tracks worked out this way but working through his grief seemed to lend itself to finding melodies.

'Kern-Host' began as James spent some time alone in Paris. He’d walk around the city during the day and then work on music at night in his hotel room. He’d sift and rework sounds he had captured at home; he has a piano, a couple of accordions, a violin, guitar and ukulele. Using his laptop, headphones and a tiny keyboard controller he is able to work in a location away from the environment that his sample library had been created and Paris became the backdrop to this project. The ten recordings, aptly titled in French, feel as if James has recorded a sonic diary of his time spent alone in Paris and the beautiful texture to these drones will help you feel a part of his solitary visit. The accompanying cover artwork is of arranged, dried flowers against a plain background. Of the trilogy, this is the first cover that is in colour to represent the themes of closure that are present in Kern-Host.

Kern-host

wlr049 James A. McDermid - Kern-Host

Ambient, electronic and drone label based in Toronto, Canada.  Operated by North Atlantic Drift and anthéne.