sample from upcoming cassette on PSI LAB -- overcast ambient tape loop, minimal and modern classical elements, balancing the gloomy haze with threads of focused intensity and holy respite -- available 14 NOVEMBER 2016 via https://psilabtapes.bandcamp.com/

PL14 - SKITTISH ARM - THE OUTSIDE INFLATION (SAMPLE)

Track taken from the upcoming album 'Needle Shaped Silence' on Fluid Audio...

Music: øjeRum
Strings: Aaron Martin
Artwork: øjeRum
Label: Fluid Audio

Needle Shaped Silence

øjeRum featuring Aaron Martin - IX

Since moving to Los Angeles three years ago, Gregg Kowalsky has been mixing and editing analog synth sounds to create his evocative new album, L’Orange, L’Orange. It wasn’t always easy: the unfamiliarity of a new city, plus the fact that Kowalsky hadn’t made a solo album in eight years, made it tough to get back in a groove. So he spent some time at a friend’s house in the beachside city of Malibu. As he sculpted tracks there, one emerged that captured the experience of his visit, so he called it “Maliblue Dream Sequence.” The second song on L’Orange, L’Orange, it anchors an album that’s drenched in the atmosphere of Kowalsky’s sunny home city.

“It’s probably the most important track on the record for me,” says Kowalsky. “It emotionally sums up my headspace for that entire three-year period. Things were difficult and that time was dark, so that's what I needed. Just making it was meditative.” Listening to “Maliblue Dream Sequence” is meditative, too. The track opens with high, heavenly tones, to which Kowalsky adds a mesmerizing slow-motion bass line, injecting forward momentum into his sky-seeking tones. The calm, devout aura of “Maliblue Dream Sequence” is a kind of sonic therapy; there’s a sense that the right sounds can lift dark clouds and let the sun shine through. “I made a blissful record, and that's not usually what I do,” Kowalsky admits. “But for me this track just has a great emotional connection to a great California experience.”

L'Orange L'Orange

Maliblue Dream Sequence

Gregg Kowalsky - Maliblue Dream Sequence

Taken from the upcoming album 'The Epiphanies' by Bill Seaman...

The Epiphanies...

Composing memory
The backs of my hands
Headlights slowly turning, illuminating the branches
Skin (slow)
The folds of eros
Slow motion in darkness
Quietly touching
Slow moving fog
A quiescence of obsolescence
Dark wet trees and angled lines of light
The collapse of time
Hidden memories and breathing
Luminous silent stasis
An epiphany of epiphanies

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Seaman – Piano, non-location recordings, ebow guitar, DX7IIE, mellotron, samples, sample arrangements and Ableton Live abstractions. Production.
Owen Sidney Richardson — Contrabass and Electric Bass guitar library 
Craig Tattersall  — Synth Bass library  
Robert Ellis Geiger  — Trumpet, Cornet, Flugelhorn library  
Jonas Braasch  — Horn library 
Ciompy Quartet – Violin library 
Daniel Howe – Distant Guitar on 14
Design by Daniel Crossley
Photography by Nieves Mingueza
Mastered by James Plotkin

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I often work by making libraries of particular kinds of sounds or asking people to contribute a library. With the contributed library I often give the players simple verbal instructions, or sing notes I am interested in including. With the piano, I sit down and do a series of improvisations. I then go though these and edit my favorite parts, building a series of fragment libraries, some with little or no abstraction, some greatly abstracted with Ableton Live. I compose in a very sculptural manner with Ableton, dragging things in from the libraries and trying things out often exploring chance related juxtapositions. I often shift the time and transpose individual samples to make them work with the other material. I build up structures, cut/copy/paste complex layered sections, erase sections that are not working, loop things, and slowly construct a track going though many iterations. I often later cut away at the built up tracks, and edit the piece down, further articulating a structure. I often finish with having between 20 and 50 tracks. In the final set of passes I fully articulate the psychoacoustic space, working with panning, eq, distortion, delay, abstraction, and reverb. I further edit and structure the parts that begin to “work”. Along with the piano I make Libraries of DX7IIE sounds, electronic beats, mellotron, electronic micro-rhythms, non-location recordings from noises found on the internet, orchestral abstractions, midi instrument libraries— violin, cello, woodwinds, and I also employ highly abstracted piano. Additionally I build libraries of ‘abstract’ guitars, playing alternate instruments through synthetic and or real amps. This overall method allows me to work very quickly and intuitively. In this case, the music is more sparse than many of my other recordings.

The Epiphanies started with some long titles like An Epiphany Related to the Back of the Hand. I later came to the notion of just titling the album The Epiphanies, and making the titles shorter. When I searched the title I was excited to see that James Joyce had done a series of short poems with the same overarching name. - Seaman 2017

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- Special Thanks – Craig Tattersall, John Supko, Daniel Crossley and Fluid Audio

- This album is dedicated to the memories of Rick Tear, Ranulph and Aartje Glanville, Otto Piene and David Bowie.

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www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com
www.billseaman.com
www.nievesmingueza.com

The Epiphanies

Bill Seaman - An Epiphany Of Epiphanies

A History Of Birdsong (from 'The Nature' LP)

Artist: Sofia Ozdravovna
Track: Direzionale 70, Modena
Album: Mèmoires historiques, Vol. 1

Released 10th December 2017
Cat: HG008

Mèmoires historiques, Vol. 1 is a four-track compilation featuring Victorine Meurent, False Moniker, Entertainment and Sofia Ozdravovna, released exclusively for the Tape Summit event at ACUD Macht Neu in Berlin on 10th December 2017.

Mèmoires historiques, Vol. 1

Sofia Ozdravovna - Direzionale 70, Modena

From Keys to the Fields 17: øjeRum "Under Gange"

øjeRum _ Above Dreams Hands Now Flee III

Artist: Jon Law and Oli Genn-Bash
Track: To Dream Of More Light, Faintly
Album: To Dream Of More Light, Faintly

Released February 2018
Cat: HG012

Hand-cut collage by Ryan Kent

Jon Law and Oli Genn-Bash - To Dream Of More Light, Faintly

Cooper's Last Ride

Excerpt of One Winged Angel, side A from our next LP "The Cleaner." Yet to be released.