So good. Reminds me of Bibio’s Phantom Brickworks 

pet shop b

This piece is taken from my second album "Drifted Heaven", released on audio cassette by VCO Recordings. (sold out)

It is now available as a digital download from my bandcamp page:
https://abulmogard.bandcamp.com/album/drifted-heaven

Airless Linger

Frederik Valentin & Loke Rahbek  “Together”

“Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean—
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down—
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don't know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”

The Summer Day - Mary Oliver


“Together” is the third collaborative album by Frederik Valentin & Loke Rahbek, following 2020's “Elephant” and 2017's “Buy Corals Online”. The album was originally conceived in response to a commission by the Danish documentary festival CPH:Dox to create an alternate soundtrack to Chris Marker’s sublime documentary travelogue from 1983, “Sans Soleil”. Lo-fi vignettes of guitar and field recordings are presented alongside electroacoustic experiments, as enchanting invitations to rhythmical synthetic worlds, with each finding poise about Marker's meditation on the nature of human memory. With acoustic instruments treated digitally and instrumental performances reinterpreted, “Together” travels the lush path of their earlier works to new destinations.

The album unfolds like a series of postcards, its colours bleached by the sun and its stories told with blurry fragments. Behind the details, the ruling stories are seamlessly enjoyed if not intimately entwined. On bike in the city, swimming in the harbour, birch trees, kissing, first teenage acid trip, experiencing the oneness of life in a messy adolescent apartment. Stargazing eye-to-eye, every face seems familiar. Colourful blankets, being broke, feeling joyous, sandals, a fountain, flowers. Preteens high on soda with joy-blushed skin. Like Marker, Together travels in time to revisit lost emotions.

The inner cosmology of Valentin & Rahbek's work is that of naturalistic reportage just gently sprayed by the crashing tide of psychedelic curiosity. “Together” is about finding the miraculous in the ordinary. It's about trying to find composure in a world where suffering and ecstasy live as next door neighbours. It's about how we are dying even as we tremble with as much life as we've ever felt.

Valentin's long wake of solo works and collaborations include his productions with Yung Lean (as Jonatan Leandoer127) for the album “Nectar”, as well as their joint commission for Sweden's Cullberg Ballet, and most recently includes last year's exquisite double EP “0011001/ 0011000” for Posh Isolation. For more than a decade, Rahbek has been making electronic music as Croatian Amor and a wealth of other monikers. He has been running Posh Isolation with Christian Stadsgaard since 2009.

The cover features the work of Copenhagen-based photographer Halfdan Venlov, portraying the city's youth in a cemetery in central Copenhagen, and forms part of his ongoing series “Under Heaven”. The sunny meeting against unkept headstones and weathered memorials is an evocative companion to the blissful details “Together” encloses.

“Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”

Posh Isolation 272

Together

Frederik Valentin & Loke Rahbek - Together

This is an excerpt of the concert I made in London with Alessio Natalizia's Not Waving and Pye Corner Audio.

The original version of this piece can be found here:
https://abulmogard.bandcamp.com/album/abul-mogard

The Purpose Of Peace - Live in London 17 July 2014

Tim Hecker plays his favorites new and old. This show is 100% Terry Riley. 
https://www.nts.live/shows/tim-hecker/episodes/tim-hecker-26th-september-2023

Spa-Time w/ Tim Hecker 260923

Thanks to https://soundcloud.com/genus-aix.
Tracklist:
flaty - upper spell
mu tate - me when u
infant - 20 kilos
err walou - sleep
h2op - don’t trust your head boy
chevel - bromine (yamaneko’s irusu mix)
innerinnerlife - ?
genus aix - ?
hajj - burning illusions
ity - rokson (loop)
match fixer - melted
crimeboys - days go by
simone bauer - brainframe
nemerov - ad05
arovane - delc_r
cybermission - ?
monocoat - harness
dj ojo - foo for thought
freecell - head with reflecting sphere (james k rinse dream mix)
hp:925 mp:463 - rural song
fennesz - got to move on
sex - it’s gonna b alright :)

(+)earth w/ Genus Aix

Grammar Of Movement makes his debute for Posh Isolation with a new double single.

An exploration of rythm and textures through the silk of habitual sleeplessness.

The warmth of the the city waking up, a new day beginning before the night has ended.

Posh Isolation 288

Double Figure / No Sleep

Grammar Of Movement - No Sleep

Solfeggio frequencies recorded on the morning of the winter solstice copyright Tai Inoue at Nature Sounds 2011 

Windy Winter Solstice - Lakefield National Park, Cape York

Soli City debuts with the double single "Ultra Violet / At this point, only the memory of it remains vital" from the upcoming album “Paradoxe” coming on Posh Isolation.

Soli City explores the divine world of technological representation of life and humans in a mixture of westeren classical instrumentation and radical electronic soundscapes.

Posh Isolation 292

Soli City - At this point, only the memory of it remains vital

A tantalising experimental club exchange by @ev-ia and @s_l_y_n. 

The set was originally recorded live on Cashmere Radio, on Nov 23rd, 2024.

xenial on Cashmere Radio w/ èvia & slyn

Addiction

Two of Us

Recorded in Nottingham around the Full Pink Moon in April 2025.

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Cycles (April 2025 Full Pink Moon)

Merseyside musician-producer @ForestSwords creates a complimentary mix for his cinematic second album Compassion, bookended with an unreleased ANOHNI remix and a 45-minute rework of Björk.

Read more: http://bit.ly/2oMpTVC

1. ANOHNI – Four Degrees (Forest Swords remix)
2. Ivor Cutler – For Practice
3. Okzharp & Manthe Ribane – B U
4. Africa Hitech – Cyclic Sun
5. Phil Cohran & Legacy – Theme
6. Tricky – Overcome
7. The Tesco Bombers – Break The Ice At Parties
8. Ms Jade – She’s A Gangsta
9. Colin Stetson – Spindrift
10. Adrian Younge – The Concept of Love (instrumental)
11. Unknown – Unknown
12. Visible Cloaks – Circle
13. Forest Swords – The Highest Flood
14. Dawn of Midi – Ymir
15. Jean Ferris – Sound Patterns
16. Kayhan Kalhor – I Will Not Stand Alone
17. Benedikt Frey – Can’t Joke With Dxy
18. Zurkas Tepla – Way To The Bank Robbery (forthcoming Dense Truth)
19. Anna Homler/Steve Moshier – Ee Che
20. Forest Swords – Shrine Out
21. Björk – Stonemilker (Forest Swords 45min remix)

Dazed Mix

Dazed Mix: Forest Swords

Taken from Dmitry's forthcoming 'Comprehension Of Light' album, which will be released on FatCat's 130701 imprint on October 6th.

The stunning ‘Comprehension Of Light’ marks a sizeable step forward for Dmitry. A must-hear for fans of fellow 130701 alumni Max Richter, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Dustin O’Halloran and Hauschka, the LP is Dmitry’s first ever vinyl release and is a wonderfully conceived and realised work. Where ‘Collage’ was heavily augmented with an expansive use of electronics and virtual instrumentation, the new album sees Dmitry upgrade to real strings / orchestral instrumentation with a more limited use of software. ISKRA String Quartet (The XX, Radiohead, Jóhann Jóhannsson) contributed strings. Other contributors include William Yates (Memotone), Abul Mogard and Benoit Pîoulard. It was mixed by Addi 800 (Ólafur Arnalds) and mastered by Martyn Heyne (Nils Frahm, Peter Broderick, The National and others).

In places recalling Jóhann Jóhannsson and Hauschka, in others the work of Leyland Kirby / The Caretaker, or Eduard Artemiev's score for Tarkovsky’s ‘Stalker’, 'Comprehension' is a stunning album which traces a redemptive narrative arc and bears witness to a rising young talent in the field of modern composition.

LP includes dig download card (inc. 2 dig-only tracks which don't appear on the vinyl)

Comprehension Of Light

Dmitry Evgrafov - Znanie (feat. Abul Mogard)

An hour of unreleased music from Vanessa Amara

05/02/2016 
06/02/2016 (feldman)
04/03/2017
viseu 14/07/2017 (live)
21/02/2016 / coomkeen 5
coomkeen 3
untitled 7
07/04/2016
coomkeen 2
coomkeen 7
chamber organ 11/10/2017
untitled 2
23/11/2017
coomkeen 9
cembalo 13/10/2017
16/03/2016
bells 03/12/2017
untitled 1

https://www.nts.live/shows/posh-isolation

NTS RADIO MIX

Vanessa Amara - NTS Radio Mix 12/03/2018

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Vanessa Amara - NTS Radio Mix 12/03/2018

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