Strange Town (Julia Holter Edit)

Building his name and reputation up through regular releases with the likes of Hip Dozer, Inner Ocean, Aviary Bridge, Cascade Records, Handbook has built up a loyal fanbase, accrued significant champions on BBC Radio 1, KCRW, across French college radio, and boasts multiple tracks with many millions of streams to their name on the major streaming platforms... 

In his debut full length for the label he brings his already popular sonic palette of warm, tasteful, and reflective grooves, but stretches his artistic horizons with a plethora of analogue synths, organic elements and some definite nods to electronica, despite remaining firmly in beats territory.  

Deliberately opting for an upbeat tone and positive feel across the album tracks, he worked with Maschine and Ableton - drawing inspiration from film scores, Madlib’s recent album ‘Sound Ancestors’, and the process of resampling his own work. His creation process operating entirely ‘in the box’ might be a surprise to some who hear the record due to his fondness for organic sounds and analogue warmth, it could well have been a vintage console recorded to tape.

Handbook - Glint

First track from the new record coming out March 2nd, 2015. It's a vinyl-only release (limited to 500 copies) consisting of three long drone-pieces created from analog synths, piano, organs and fuzzzzzz. Get the LP here: http://www.elparaisorecords.com/releases/jonas-munk-absorb-fabric-cascade-lp

Or the bundle with the Pan reissue here: http://www.elparaisorecords.com/product/jonas-munk-lp-bundle-preorder

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Second solo LP from Causa Sui guitar player/producer Jonas Munk. These three long pieces aren't defined by Munks signature guitar-approach, but is rather a musical vision of vintage synthesizers, organs, piano and analog electronics elegantly weaved together to create extensive formations of pure sound. The harmonic simplicity and unrestricted dedication to sonic balance and texture is something of a first in Munk's body of work. This is pattern music, characterized by slow builds and subtle, but refined, transformations, where gradual tectonic shifts and tiny harmonic gestures generate vivid emotional responses. Instead of imposing any direct intention or meaning, it's an album that can create a mental environment for the listener to expand and open up into.

Music like this is perceived as incredibly simple and free flowing, but, as is the case with the biological world, reveals textural minutiae and interweaved intricacy once studied close-up. Every tiny detail serves the bigger picture. It's music that's practically vibrating with possibility.

File next to: Terry Riley, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Brian Eno, Popol Vuh.


Jonas Munk: "Absorb"

Taken from 'Body Complex' LP by Heathered Pearls, out August 7, 2015.

Purchase at The Ghostly Store: http://www.theghostlystore.com/products/heathered-pearls-body-complex

Heathered Pearls - Abandoned Mall Utopia (ft. Shigeto)

Free download from www.bodyclocksmusic.com

Still Life

All those eyes silhouette, 
Faintly in your glow

Are you breaking me down?

Both those hands separate, 
Holding me in your glow

Are you breaking me down?



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Glow

Album ● https://submerse.lnk.to/aya @submerse

Are You Anywhere

Zeros

BUY GREEN LP/CD-JP/DIG

submerse - Zeros on BBC 6 Music (Are You Anywhere - Project: Mooncircle, 2017)

I have decided to give away one of my recent ambient pieces for Apollo / XLR8R - 

http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2012/03/i-miss-you

My 'Broken Promise' EP for http://soundcloud.com/apollo-records is now available - 12" vinyl & digital - 

http://randsrecords.greedbag.com/buy/broken-promise-ep/

Free Download

Synkro - I Miss You

Album • https://Takeleave.lnk.to/InnerSea @takeleave

Inner Sea

BLUE 2LP/DIGITAL

PMC170 - Takeleave - Inner Sea - Album Teaser (Project: Mooncircle, 11/30/2018)

Groove 6

Berlin based label and creative collective operating in the left-field sphere of electronic music since 2002.

submerse - Zeros on BBC 6 Music (Are You Anywhere - Project: Mooncircle, 2017)

PROJECT MOONCIRCLE