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Amazing. Using Abulla Rashim you have created a rich penetrating sound in which we lose ourselves...

If you’ve missed the self-titled debut, released by Island People in 2017 on raster, you’re in for a treat! Known for its surgical- precision explorations into post-digital manipulations, the celebrated label and a platform for many groundbreaking sounds has signed a mastering engineer Conor Dalton, Grammy Award-winning producer David Donaldson, musician and DJ Graeme Reedie, and a guitarist Ian “Chippy” Maclennan for a fascinating journey that brought much of their organic and warm sounds to the slightly cold, a little sterile, and desolate space. For their sophomore release, simply titled II, the group push their sounds into a further territory, resembling their home country of Scotland, “made of contrasting lights and harsh elements where time seems to stand still, circling the moment.” Beyond elements brought on from individual contributions, the group has relied on influences experienced together during their tour. Such slight melancholy can be grasped through pieces titled “Far From Shore,” “Stillness,” and “All My Plants Are Dead,” but today I am happy to offer you this exclusive premiere of a track named “Loneliness Has a Purpose,” which you can first experience it here on its own, and then, along the rest of the tracks on the full album.

"Out of the whole album, this track best represents the sound of paths not taken. Of one destination for some still feeling like a journey yet to be taken for others. The narratives we create reveal us all to be unreliable storytellers, it is only in looking back honestly that we can direct the ending. With the feeling of isolation during intense quarantine bringing up a lot of time for introspection, songs like “loneliness has a purpose” reflect on the many directions a life could take, potential futures not chosen and the many decisions that shape a future."
— Island People


I was going to write a bit more about this exciting release, but I feel that I’d be simply paraphrasing the following words, already appearing on the group’s Bandcamp: “The arrangements unfold like the long tracking shots of an early Antonioni film […] gloomy, darker, richer textures have conquered their space…” Yeah, well said. An absolute gem for lovers of surrealist and organic noir-fi as well as pristine, process-oriented production – a culmination of the above four minds gathered in the same unique space! Once again, the physical album is scheduled to start shipping on June 25th.

Loneliness Has A Purpose

TRACK PREMIERE : Island People - Loneliness Has a Purpose

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Worriedaboutsatan - Circles II
CD/Cassette/Digital

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/circles-ii

Release date: 10.9.2021

CD: last 4 copies left!!!
Cassette (Circles I&II): last 11 copies left!!!!
September Releases CD Bundle: SOLD OUT

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/circles-ii

The idea about these releases is to present a continuous mix of floating - experimental - ambient - techno - electronica pieces.....a perfect mix between styles...... 

Artwork and music by Gavin Miller 
Mastering by Kris Illic

Video: Worriedaboutsatan "Tunnels"
https://youtu.be/NxdHnO3Gmz0
Directed by Gregory Hoepffner:
http://www.gregory-hoepffner.net

Worriedaboutsatan - Circles II

Gimmik - Sonic Poetry

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Sand Circles - "Motor City" (Abdulla Rashim Remix)

Sublime escape in ambient territory by https://soundcloud.com/abul-mogard

Taken from Versus Remixes vol2 out May 4th 
http://www.infine-music.com/news/3099/carl-craig-versus-get-remixed

Check out the other remixes : https://soundcloud.com/infine-music/sets/carl-craig-versus-remixes

Carl Craig

Carl Craig - At Les (Abul Mogard Remix)

French duo Ligovskoï are to release Esam, their second artist album and first on Field Records. It features eight expertly crafted tracks that take the listener on a spacey and hypnotic journey towards inner bliss. 

Formed by Nikolaï Azonov and Valerio Selig in 2010, Ligovskoï once again draw on a sound palette that includes samples, synths, vocals, feedback, guitar and field recordings that merge in a painterly and romantic form of music. It recalls vast landscapes, abstract patterns and poetic movement. The title 'Esam' refers to a small, isolated mountain located on the moon, and the album is a journey to a similarly otherworldly landscape absent of human life. It features free improvisations, repetitive patterns and experimental materials that convey a wide range of emotions and styles from weightless shiny atmospheres to dark, heavy and swarming textures, leading the listener to deep contemplation. 

'We spend a lot of time exchanging thoughts and feelings about the experiences we had while creating and listening, like old friends looking at clouds and discussing the shapes they see. By publishing our music, we hope that listeners will recognise their own feelings and that they will understand or feel something in common with us.'

From sombre musical landscapes made from lingering drones to more uplifting, light emitting tracks, this is a slow burning but high impact album. Tracks like ‘Behaim’ suspend you in comforting sound, the title track prompts inward reflection and the likes of ‘Cortege’ is the sound of being listen to the heavens.

Tracklist:
A1. Thessalonians
A2. Mungu
A3. Behaïm
A4. Fairbanks
B1. Dautz
B2. Esam
B3. Bjanka
B4. Cortege

Bandcamp

Ligovskoï - Esam

Listen to the full album, 'Atwater': http://www.astrangelyisolatedplace.com/asipv014-james-bernard-atwater

With productions dating back to 1994, James Bernard has gained a cult following for his combination of atmospheric analog beats and modular synthesizers. His debut album, ‘Atmospherics’ is often heralded as a classic by the diggers who stumble across it, and James’ 'Unreleased Works' are a hidden gem of early 90’s electronica (if you’re lucky enough to own a copy on CDR of course). 

James has been busy experimenting and refining his modular setup over the years, to the extent that a full album of beautiful music, created live in one take on a sunny afternoon, comes to life once more here on ASIP. 

‘Atwater', was performed live during a 2018 'Modular On The Spot’ event, held in Los Angeles’ North Atwater Park. With his custom analog modular rig, a small set of speakers and a generator, James took the afternoon audience on a glistening tour of the beautiful sounds to emerge from a Moog Mother 32, custom built filters and various Eurorack modular sequencers, modules and effects. 

After hearing James' set, ASIP proposed presenting the music in permanent form for everyone who missed that special day. James initially took the chance to recreate the set and edit versions ready for a release, but after careful consideration, it was decided to release the raw unedited live version of his set (mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri) forever cementing that special moment and irreplaceable emotion found in North Atwater Park that one afternoon.

ASIPV014 James Bernard - Hands

Jan Jelinek - They, Them

Kangding Ray . Pruitt Igoe
12’’ E.P.

Pruitt Igoe is a 4 track E.P on which both Alva Noto and Ben Frost have been invited by Kangding Ray to produce sonic variations on a contemporary architectural myth.

The EP’s title Pruitt Igoe is taken from a gigantic social housing project, completed in 1955 in the U.S. City of St Louis, Missouri, and often regarded as a symbol of the modernist architecture failure. Designed according to the principles of modernism, and by the same architect who would later build the World Trade Center, the project saw a disastrous and violent decline after only a few years, plagued with vandalism and massive criminality, leading to its complete destruction from 1972 onwards. Footage of its demolition are visibly featured in the 1983 movie “Koyaanisqatsi”, scored by Phillip Glass.

Pruitt Igoe is more than a post-modern icon, it represents an ancestral movement of hope and disillusion, of perfectly planned models and evaporated dreams. It serves as a judicious metaphor for our era, where the feeling of imbalance and doubt has replaced the certainity of eternal progress and endless economical growth. 

This movement is reflected by the two sides of the record: on the A side, the original track and its remodel by Alva Noto, both represent the planning and construction phase, based on a clear structure and a hypnotic loop of women chanting in the streets of a small town in North India. On the B-side, Ben Frost and Kangding Ray undertake the demolition process - slicing beats, destroying structures and emphasising the beauty of collapse.


A2 Pruitt Igoe ( Alva Noto remodel )

Live session from the "Healing Cycles" album presentation at DiG Store: @koyil (23.02.20)

Koyil - Live @ DiG Store (23.02.20)

www.poshisolation.net
https://poshisolation.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/poshisolationsounds/

Sand Circles - "Motor City" (Abdulla Rashim Remix)

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