Research Records indicate their inclination for cosmic instrumentation and kraut pervaded polyrhythms once again with an introduction to newcomer Glass Beams. Recorded at the beginning of 2020, Mirage is the first release from the artist, issuing four compositions that lend from a profusion of sounds and influences.

"I was looking for new energy & inspiration to write a bunch of new music. I recalled a childhood memory of my parents and I watching a DVD they had bought: ‘Concert For George’ (a tribute concert for George Harrison from the Beatles). George’s long time collaborator and friend Ravi Shanka put an Indian Orchestra together for that concert, and even though I hadn’t even started playing music at the time that I watched this, the sounds really stuck with me.

My father was born in India and moved here when he was 17, and after recalling this memory I decided to look up musicians from my father’s hometown and surrounding areas. I found a wealth of Indian classical, disco and pop music that formed the building blocks for this record. As soon as I had that vision of what I wanted to write and why I wanted to write it, the songs just flowed out really." – Glass Beams

The album's opener and title Mirage arrives with a coiling vocal mantra that conspires with a sliding bassline and transcendent synthwork, reminiscent of early 70’s prog jams yet inverted and futuristic. Taurus is a brisk arrangement, steeped with spaghetti-western elements and space-jazz to pave the way for the agile Kong. Rife with psych-fusion guitar phrases and instrumentation, Kong unfolds like a forecast lysergic voyage. The finale Rattlesnake nudges the serpent with intergalactic scales and spellbinding riffs. We may not know much about the enigmatic Glass Beams but Mirage is one epic inauguration, leaving the listener with more questions than answers.

Mirage

Glass Beams - Mirage EP | snippets

Courtesy of @darnomusic, original track 'Siente' by BALTHVS

Siente (DARNO Remix)

Nicolas Jaar and Dave Harrington released Psychic, their debut album as Darkside. "Darkside is utterly sincere," said Tony Naylor in his RA review, "and at its most fractured and psychedelic, Harrington's guitar lends a smoky, mysterious dimension to Jaar's slinky electronica." "Paper Trails" is the record's dazzling midpoint, and in the first RA Sessions film, recorded at RA's HQ, Jaar and Harrington sank a couple of whiskeys and subtly teased the track out to twice its original length.

RA Sessions: DARKSIDE - Paper Trails

Opéra - Emmanuel Santarromana - Revolver Soundtrack

New track from Episode Two of Planet U, introducing the Frankenpiano, a piano built from hundreds of single piano tone samples from all of music history. For more information on the track, making of the instrument, earlier episodes/tracks and continuous development, see http://www.ugress.com/

Ugress - Monument Dilution

https://molokova.bandcamp.com/track/insomnia
https://www.instagram.com/molokova_music

MOLOKOVA - INSOMNIA

Dimitris Papaspyropoulos remixed Film's "Alarm" in 2006 and included that "Last Chance Remix" in his "One Dream Closer" cd compilation released by Emi/SonyBmg.

This is the original unreleased version of the remix 

Film - Alarm (Last Chance Remix)

Ballett 3 & 4

My Ty She

Estas Tonne - Internal Flight 2013 (guitar Version)

This track is from Sound & Silence festival in Corfu one of the greenest islands of Greece archipelago. Very special festival which lasted for 6 days and gathered people from all around the globe. After Sound & Silence there was a retreat to let the energy come down. One of those nights the moment has come which no matter how many times one relives it the shivers crawls through the body again and again. It is an evening performance of Estas & Friends joined by the biggest surprise Netanel Goldberg.

Estas Tonne - When Words are Wind

Saturn And Jupiter

Research is a Melbourne based, independent record label since 2017.

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