Track number 10 from the upcoming album 'Seafields' available from Dronarivm 260321

'Wind Shaped' - Seafields - [Dronarivm, 2021]

Dark ambient soundscapes for your pleasure. Relax, chillout and enjoy. SFS

DARK AMBIENT - THE LURKING FEAR

Leigh Toro has been producing music for the past twenty years.  Back in the day he recorded under the guise of Flotel and released works on the excellent Expanding Records.  More recently he has been recording under his own name and has had albums out on Eilean Records and Handstitched.  We are excited here at Rural Colours to bring you his latest work Layers of Ash, an album of frayed granular resonances.

Layers of Ash started life as a series of short improvisations which were then woven together to create more developed pieces.  Leigh tells us that he is currently producing longer form pieces of music that explore the textural qualities of digital distortion, bit reduction and resonance. He enjoys exploring the balance between the harsh noise and more subtle delicate sounds and how that balance can evolve over a longer period than he has worked on before. 

This is Rural Colours 081
Written and produced by Leigh Toro
Artwork by Katie English
www.ruralcolours.co.uk / innit

Leigh Toro / Layers of Ash (Snippets)

Cascadian Mind

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Aethery Fields

Taken from the album "Deep Ground" [SSD03]

Deep Ground

Watts

Alive

Shortly after releasing his highly acclaimed ‘The Benoît Pioulard Listening Matter’(Kranky), Pioulard left on tour to Europe in order to promote the album. This tour took him to several distinctive places ranging from urban Brussels to rural France and the mystic capital city of Iceland, Reykjavik.

Once returned to Seattle, these new impressions and memories formed the inspiration to make ‘Slow spark, soft spoke’. Not surprisingly, the album continues in the same vein as his tour cd ‘Lignin Poise’ - which was repressed on vinyl by Beacon Sound - and is characterized by slowly moving lo-fi ambient textures. The album reveals Pioulards most melancholic side and once again shows his capabilities to bring beautiful sonic narratives with only a few instrumental layers.

‘Slow spark, soft spoke’ was initially released on tape on Dauw but sold out quickly during pre-order. After having received only sublime reviews and tons of request to re-issue the album, we now decided to give it a well deserved vinyl repress.

 “'Never, just as you wanted' is a timeless odyssey of complete transcendence with gradual bliss of guitar tones – and meticulously crafted sounds – that somehow map the ocean swell of human emotions – of the innermost kind – embedded deep within us all." (Fractured Air)

For this vinyl edition, Pioulard decided to add 2 totally new tracks in addition to the 4 initial ones. These new tracks are presented as the single 'Athanasy, 1993' which will be released and announced with the vinyl pre-order on October 4th. All together, the initial EP and the new single form a consistent full length which adds to his impressive and ever growing catalogue.

‘Slow spark, soft spoke’ will be released on October 26th on a limited  vinyl edition (200 heavyweight clear vinyl) and digitally. The tape comes with original hand-printed artwork by Femke Strijbol and will be accompanied by a unique polaroid taken by Benoît Pioulard (limited to 50 only).

Athanasy, 1993

Opening track from Ian Hawgood's Impermanence, released 18th April 2019 on Slowcraft Records.

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Impermanence

Ian Hawgood - Fire

Originally released on 2016. Remastered version.

Written and Produced by Robert Farrugia
Remixes by SineRider and Warmth
Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Photography Alexander Kopatz
www.go70north.com
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Archives / 2019

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Programming Ambient Concentration

Tracklist

01. Ian Hawgood - The Endless Sadness of the Shoreless Heart
02. Silent Vigils - Unborn
03. Norihito Suda - Codium Fragile
04. Stijn Hüwels -  Coalescence
05. Tobias Hellkvist - Vesterhavet
06.Stijn Hüwels + Tomoyoshi Date - Tou
07. Benoît Pioulard - Slow spark, soft spoke

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