A seasonal selection of ambient, modern classical, and electroacoustic works.  Closed on May 29, 2021. 

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Field Journal Companion - Spring 2021

Lend Me Your Radio - Mar 21

Atmosperic Ambient 2.0

German Vaagner label and Bulgarian collective Amek team up for "An Embrace EP". Monument premieres Evitceles' and Fortunes Brine's track "Fallow" from the V/A release, that will be out on March 26th.

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MNMT Premiere: Evitceles & Fortunes Brine – Fallow

This two-hour mixtape by Taylor Bratches—not only her first for enmossed, but her first physical release period—is a creature that slowly but radically evolves. Sometimes it’s left-field spa, others it’s more 7 a.m. dancefloor. The folkish string arrangements and big-room shoegaze make this tape an expansive and daring foray, with few pauses and natural transitions from one idea to the next. Optimistic and buoyant no matter the genre, Bratches explores the range of her musical interests with a lightness that also floats the listener.

This doesn’t mean there aren’t heavier moments, where bass is employed to move bodies. Ambient pads get laced with knotty breakbeats, while nearly everything is drenched in finely tuned reverbs. Bratches’ poetry and dance practices inform Lift & Kismet, making physical impressions on its hybridic sound. Her formal arts education and work as a music journalist may have something to do with the scope of her vision, but it’s Bratches’ emotional intuition that guides this infectiously positive, cathartic release.

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Taylor Bratches (she/they) seeks to explore and transmit an emotional experience through sound. A lifelong poet and dancer, her relationship to sound is intimate and ever-evolving. Her sets aim to fuse genres and find hybrid spaces. She aims to move people physically and spiritually, creating a dance floor experience that is both terrestrial and extraterrestrial. Sharing music comes from a need to express and experience emotional catharsis, and to connect with the body. 

releases April 2, 2021

artwork :: Joe Bastardo

all proceeds to Chab Dai - chabdai.org

purchase :: https://enmossed.bandcamp.com/album/lift-kismet

Taylor Bratches -  Lift & Kismet [Side A Excerpt] (ENMX13)

Fold

Reading Frances Shelley's biographical story, you can't help but feel inspired. Now, in her early 70s, this neo-classical pianist's and composer's roots go back to being a rebel and a romantic from a very young age. "I can tell many tales from my days as a wild child in 60s London; from working with David and Angie Bowie in the early 70s, the 10 years I spent travelling the world as a fashion model followed by a life-changing stint in rehab in 1981 (before it became fashionable!)” she jokes. “To being a single mother and starting a successful event business in my home.” A decade ago, Shelley decided to pursue her passion for music, and now, multiple years and self-released albums later, she's been signed to Manners McDade, the composer agency and publishing house for Nils Frahm, Caitlyn Aurelia Smith, Poppy Ackroyd. Shelley captures the stories of her eventful life through beautifully layered keys, gently orchestrated arrangements, and carefully measured dose of electronic post-processing, to create atmospheres that swoop in with warm winds of her sonic valley and raise your spirits to fantastic heights. The eleven pieces on her upcoming album, Songs Of Possibility, are also influenced by the events of the last year, "travelling through realms of regret, grief and loss, towards optimism and a sense of excitement for living." In these unprecedented times, we've all found a moment to ask ourselves of 'what it is,' and more importantly of 'what can be'. In this reflection, we'll find a new way to begin. In Shelley's case, it is a dream of music.

Songs Of Possibility

Racing To Belong

TRACK PREMIERE : Frances Shelley - Racing To Belong

Extant ii

From the new Icelandic label that brought us Atli Örvarsson, Sin Fang, Christopher Royal King & Nico Rosenberg, comes a new composer, hailing from Naarm (Melbourne). As a professional concert pianist, Rose Riebl has captived the audience from around the world with her performances which include her own compositions. Her musical work "extends her intimate relationship with the piano into a realm of more fragile, soulful and transcendent works that guide the listener into vulnerable emotional spaces," and when you play through the previously released two singles, you'll know that these words ring true. Now that she's been signed to INNI, Riebl is preparing for her debut album of compositions, titled Do Not Move Stones, due out on June 18th. Meanwhile, I am here today to tease you with a beautiful piece borrowed from her album, titled "Even As The Light Fades". Here, the sparkling piano keys, weaving in the plush bed of organic reverb, carry and lift the soaring strings into a poignant dance, that is at once a little melancholic and triumphant in its song. Echoes of romantic classical composers, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky and Chopin, return in ghostly melodies that pluck at the emotions in your heart, recalling false memories of the past lives, when sitting in a concert hall was enough to be transformed with only music.

“I think sometimes people forget to feel, or it’s easier not to,” she told classical and new music magazine CutCommon. “So, I like my music to elicit some kind of emotional response. Sometimes, that’s just rest or calm; other times, it’s more intense – there’s fury, rage, longing. We all walk around carrying these things, and if music can act as a bridge back to feeling, allowing us to access those dormant parts of our own little universes, then it’s doing what it’s meant to. I think art wants to wake people up.”

Do Not Move Stones

Even As The Light Fades

TRACK PREMIERE : Rose Riebl - Even As The Light Fades

4Sep18

The image is my re-work of the Dr. Mrs. The Monarch image found here;
https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/260364422180851722/?lp=true

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Boson Spin - Soundscape Experiment #53

temple byte

Pic by Matthieu Arnauld
https://www.instagram.com/analogue__dreamer/

Dream Gate

The final track of surrealm which you can stream on spotify here:
https://open.spotify.com/album/0nJVoghfmHXak0eVhiLuy5?si=238paIz_TS-ewf8ndSsrNw

Messages For The Future

A colourful selection of ambient tracks I've made over the past year using my Eurorack and VCV Rack. I hope you enjoy it.
Subscribe to my Youtube channel for more: https://www.youtube.com/user/Synthikat

2 Strumming Trees

Jay Chakravorty - Maps

Dancing Trees

From "And Where Are You Really From?". Out March 19th, 2021

Simon McCorry - Strange Charm

From Panabrite's Sub-Aquatic Meditation Vol.2, out now on cassette and digital.
https://muzaneditions.bandcamp.com/album/sub-aquatic-meditation-vol-2

Panabrite - Euphotic

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

Simon McCorry - Strange Charm

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