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The third installment of a series of mini albums opens with previous single, Los Claveles 36, a sublime strummed summer samba, that dances to the percussion of Pablo`s pal, Berlin Lama. This latin, Brazilian flavour, and Berlin`s fervor, also drives the balearic bossa of Recuerdos. Señor Color constructs El Beso Y La Noche, “The Kiss Of Night” from acoustic dexterity, electric arcs, and dubwise effects. Painting pictures of blue skies crackling with the promise of a coming storm. Remixed by Miku-Mari and "Obscure Music" guru, Chee Shimizu, this track becomes perhaps the set`s centerpiece. The pair producing an eight-minute plus avant ambient float. A river of resonance, washed by sequences that flow like fresh water currents, and what could be pedal steel, as traditional Japanese / Asian elements drift in and out. Ethereal, but expanding to epic, emotional, proportions. Bird song just part of its shimmering whole. Illuminame is a languid, Peter Green-like blues, stroked, sedated, stoned, by the sun, while 9:32PM is a simmering heat haze of cicada song. Aire Nocturno pays tribute to John Martyn`s Small Hours, which I know is a firm favourite of Pablo`s. A tranquil twilight study for Swell guitar and Echoplex delay. Alpha Y Omega finds Color collaborating with Spanish post-rock master, Suso Saiz. Together they synthesize a sea, a deep ocean, of still, calm, sustain. El Abrazo, “Hug”, is fashioned from fine folk stylings, whose carefully crafted key changes will clear clouds from any horizon. 

Words generously provided by Rob banbantonton Harris 
credits
released October 1, 2021 

All songs composed by Pablo Color, except: 

1 and 4 drums and percussion composed by Berlin Lama 
6 composed by Pablo Color & Lexx 
7 composed by Pablo Color & Suso Saiz 
9 remixed and composed by Chee Shimizu + miku-mari 

Pablo Color played acoustic guitars, electric guitars, bass, synthesizers and some other schtingelings 
Drums and percussion on 1 and 4 by Berlin Lama 
Arrangement, drum programming and additional synthesizers on 6 by Alex Storrer 
Electric guitars and effects on 7 by Suso Saiz 

Mixed by Dominik Burkhalter at Dopemixes, except 
5 and 8 mixed by Pablo Color 
6 mixed by Alex Storrer 
7 mixed by Suso Saiz 
9 mixed by Chee Shimizu 

Mastered by Nene Baratto 

Designed by Oiler 

Rinshin-koyu by Joseph Francino
license
all rights reserved

7 - Pablo Color & Suso Saiz Alpha Y Omega

Following her debut album, 'I’ll Look for You in Others' (Past Inside the Present), earlier this year, @patriciawolf_music joins Balmat label with 'See-Through', her second album. 'See Through' finds the Portland, Oregon musician and field recordist continuing to develop her signature style of ambient, balancing radiant soundscaping with a carefully expressive sensibility. But the new album is also marked by an important difference. Where 'I’ll Look for You in Others' was largely written in response to the death of a loved one, 'See-Through' represents a kind of rebirth. 

“After a long period of grief, I had been hoping to find my way to a place of lightness, peace, playfulness, curiosity, and sensuality again,” Wolf says. “What I was surprised and pleased to find is that for the most part, I had.”

She wrote and recorded many of the album’s songs quickly, in preparation for an August 2021 broadcast on the online radio platform 9128 Live. Excited for the opportunity to play live after more than a year of the pandemic, Wolf decided to write all new material for the event, working with a lean setup of Octatrack, Roland Synth Plus 10, Make Noise 0-Coast, and Novation Summit. (In fact, Wolf was the first sound designer invited to create patches for the Summit.) She also picked up an acoustic guitar that her brother had loaned her. “I decided to take the surrealist approach of ‘pure psychic automatism’ to see what poured out of me,” she recalls. “Woodland Encounter,” “Under a Glass Bell,” “The Grotto,” “The Mechanical Age,” “The Flaneur,” and “Psychic Sweeping” are all products of those sessions; the through line holding them together is their exploratory spirit and clarity of vision. 

Other songs, like “A Conversation With My Innocence”, “Recalibration” and “Psychic Sweeping”, wrestle with the traumas of the preceding year. Though they may linger on the heaviness of loss, Wolf says, “What I discovered is that a stronger archetype had grown inside me to steer my emotions and thoughts to a better place. “Likewise“, “Wistfulness” and “Upward Swimming Fish”—her first experiments with VST synthesizers—balance the bittersweet embrace of melancholy with the freedom to choose happiness.

“Pacific Coast Highway”, the album’s lone song with drums, might at first seem like an outlier. But it also signals Wolf’s interest in finding a fusion between the introspection of ambient and the togetherness of beat-oriented music. “Experiencing loss and isolation is what drove me into gentler territories of sound,” she says, “but I want to start making more beat-oriented music. After an extended period of loss and isolation, I’m ready to experience more joyous and social things.”

Listeners with keen ears might recognize the album’s closing song, “Springtime in Croatia”: A different mix of the song originally appeared on the 2021 digital compilation 'secondnature & friends Vol. II', from the Seattle label secondnature. This marks its first appearance on vinyl, however, and its spiritual home is undoubtedly here, at the close of 'See-Through'. As the bookending answer to the opening “Woodland Encounter”—another song in which field recordings play a crucial role—it closes the circle of an album that is itself keyed to the steadily turning cycles of life.

See​-​Through

Patricia Wolf - See​-​Through [BALMAT03]

WATCH_DOGS OST (Brian Reitzell) - Escape From Chicago

WATCH_DOGS OST (Brian Reitzell) - Computer Underground

Philip Selway - Coming Up For Air

Here's a new alias of mine. The track is included on the Music For Machines compilation by John Beltran on Delsin Records. And will be forthcoming on my 2016 album for A Strangely Isolated Place Records.

http://www.astrangelyisolatedplace.com/artists/

http://www.delsinrecords.com/release/4598/john-beltran-presents/music-for-machines

http://www.beatport.com/release/john-beltran-presents-music-for-machines/1407802

https://www.facebook.com/merrinkarrasmusic

Buy on Delsin Webshop

Merrin Karras - The Veldt

Mysteries Of The Deep Podcast, Chapter XLVI. Between The Spires by Eric Cloutier.

Tracklist:
1. Spyra - Supernatural Gardens
 2. Ancestral Voices - Sleepless Nights
3. Earthen Sea - Entrance
4. Skee Mask - Everest
5. Tuomo Väänänen - Raft
6. Rrose - Undergrowth
7. Planetary Assault Systems - The Dream
8. Monolake - Bicom
9. Ben Clock - Init One
10. Mohlao - Neurowaves
11. Refracted - Plateau
12. Mura Oka - Untitled C2
13. Irradiation - Black-Body Radiation
14. The Black Dog - Passport Control
15. Aardvark - Pop
16. Aardvark - Pas
17. Spygeist - Blue Lipstick
18. Ancestral Voices - Paititi
19. Sleeper Cell - Initiate
20. Below Surface - Prior
21. Vester Koza - Bind Dream Service
22. Biosphere - Startoucher
23. Henrik B - Chokolate Fabrik
24. Spyra - Crossing The Channel
25. Ancestral Voices - Rebirth and Dissolution
26. Buttechno - Bass
27. Henrik B - Elektronik Kry
28. Richard H. Kirk - The Feeling (Of Warmth and Beauty)
29. Refracted - Enter The Jungle
30. Deepchord - Untitled 01
31. Antigone + Francois X - We Move As One
32. Essay - Love & Air
33. Jac Frier - Like Two Parallel Lines
34. Ntogn - Mind
35. Padmasana - Holistic Resonance
36. Mura Oka - Log In
37. Conforce - Predictive Flow

https://soundcloud.com/cloutier

Mysteries Of The Deep XLVI - ERIC CLOUTIER | BETWEEN THE SPIRES

'Void' taken from Merrin Karras' upcoming album, 'Apex', available now on limited edition colored vinyl.

More info and links to buy: http://www.astrangelyisolatedplace.com/asipv005-merrin-karras-apex

Apex

Merrin Karras - Void (ASIPV005)

You can learn to play this piece. FREE scores and parts, among other materials, are available online: kronosquartet.org/fifty-for-the-future

Traditional / Glimpses of Muqam Chebiyat: I. Chebiyat Muqam – Muqaddima
Arranged by Wu Man and realized by Danny Clay for Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire
© 2016 Kronos Arts Publishing
℗ 2016 Kronos Performing Arts Association
Commissioned for Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire

Produced by Kronos Quartet
Recorded December 2015 at Women's Audio Mission, San Francisco, CA
Engineered by Laura Dean and Terri Winston/Women's Audio Mission
Assistant Engineers: Aimee Hamel, Maryam Qudus, Hayley Baysinger, Erin Baumann

Wu Man - Traditional / Glimpses of Muqam Chebiyat: I. Chebiyat Muqam – Muqaddima

You can learn to play this piece. FREE scores and parts, among other materials, are available online: kronosquartet.org/fifty-for-the-future

Composed by Wu Man, realized by Danny Clay for Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire
© 2016 Kronos Arts Publishing
℗ 2016 Kronos Performing Arts Association
Commissioned for Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire

Produced by Kronos Quartet
Recorded December 2015 at Women's Audio Mission, San Francisco, CA
Engineered by Laura Dean and Terri Winston/Women's Audio Mission
Assistant Engineers: Aimee Hamel, Maryam Qudus, Hayley Baysinger, Erin Baumann

Two Chinese Paintings - I. Ancient Echo

Wu Man - Two Chinese Paintings: I. Ancient Echo

Last piece on the upcoming Mika Vainio CD on iDEAL entitled "Mannerlaatta". This is the original soundtrack to the Mika Taanila film with the same title. Edition of 500 copies will be available in August 2016, or earlier.

FILM CREDITS:
Mannerlaatta (Tectonic Plate)

director: Mika Taanila

text: Harry Salmenniemi

English translation: Lola Rogers

music: Mika Vainio

graphic design: Markus Pyörälä

sound design: Olli Huhtanen

producer: Jussi Eerola

production company: Elokuvayhtiö Testifilmi Oy, Helsinki

MIKA VAINIO - Muisto Palaa Selittämättömästi/A Memory Returning Inexplicably (iDEAL149 CD)

Recorded live at DOMMUNE in Tokyo, Thursday September 22, 2016.

Tracklist:
1. Biosphere - Sweet Dreams Form A Shade
2. Alex Menzies - Duet
3. Unlogic Thing - act 1
4. Tongues Of Light - Healing Side
5. Autumn Of Communion - Perpetual
6. Unlogic Thing - act 5
7. Docetism - Dusza
8. Unlogic Thing - act 7
9. Lussuria - Boneblack
10. Zandvoort & Uilenbal - Prince Of Venosa
11. Autumn Of Communion - Interval Two
12. Docetism - Imperator
13. Ekin Fil - Senses
14. Ø - Unien Holvit
15. Ekin Fil - Untitled
16. David Siska - Reconcile
17. Monadh - Boira
18. Alva Noto - Solphaer
19. Aleksi Perälä - UK74R1619200
20. Zandvoort & Uilenbal - De Zuidwester Loert
21. B/B/S/ - Hogan Pence
22. UNDISCLOSED - III

https://soundcloud.com/insideout

Mysteries of the Deep @ Dommune (220916)

Grant Aaron - Live at DOMMUNE (Tokyo)

Nektyr

demen 'niorum'

SONAE + Werkstatt:	Between Two Worlds 	03:58
Mixed and produced by Sonae  
using material from the Werkstatt performed by Sonae, Picciotto, Islaja, AGF, Krach
taken from the album
va: Monika Werkstatt
m90

Monika Werkstatt

Sonae + Werkstatt: Between Two Worlds

Machine memory fades

Folk

http://sevensaturdays.bandcamp.com/

The subtle melodic nuances of Jonathan D. Haskell draw musical inspiration from late night drives lost in the Mulholland hills of after hours Los Angeles. In these quiet moments symphonic landscapes emerge to form the headphone-centric Seven Saturdays.

Seven Saturdays makes you feel as if you're on those late night drives, creating music with delicate keyboards and distant vocals that tug at your heart strings. While recorded in Los Angeles, Seven Saturdays strays from your typical indie rock band. The recordings of Seven Saturdays comprise an impressive list of talented musicians including: Morgan Kibby (M83), Mike Garson (David Bowie, Smashing Pumpkins), Wesley Precourt (Dave Stewart, Jenny Lewis), and Eric Heywood (The Pretenders, Ray LaMontagne).

In early 2010, Seven Saturdays released a self-titled EP which Stereogum described as "gripping and mellowly epic" and spent 6 weeks on CMJ's Top 200 Radio charts. Now Haskell is releasing the Secret Things remix EP, which includes a reworked track by Sun Airway that Pitchfork described as "sparkling" (other contributers are: Memoryhouse, White Sea, Teen Daze, Houses and Millionyoung), and a collection of ambient recordings entitled Love In The Time Of Anticipated Defeat, out now on Dynamophone Records.

Early Morning Fog Bank

Don't let anyone tell you a word is "unsingable"!

June 2019

Performed by Choral Chameleon during the summer 2019 Institute

Buy Scissors here: https://personage-press.dpdcart.com/cart/add?product_id=201152&method_id=219125

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