from the album 'Interreferences' on Room40 (Australia)

formed & recorded 2018-2020 by Richard Chartier 
mastered by Lawrence English at Negative Space 

cover: Untitled, 2018 by Linn Meyers (courtesy of the artist) based on a lithograph printed & published by the Tamarind Institute, NM 
design by Richard Chartier

Interreferences

Interreference.4

:: OUT TODAY ::

Here's the 4th track of my new 7track ambient album entitled "her name is a whispered lullaby" I wrote, composed, performed, recorded, mixed and mastered between December 2020 and March 2021.

SOLD OUT, Digital copies are available:
shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/her-name-is-a-whispered-lullaby (Shimmering Moods Records' Bandcamp), thechildofacreek.bandcamp.com/album/her-name-is-a-whispered-lullaby-out-now-on-shimmering-moods-records-the-netherlands
(My Bandcamp)

The album was released by Shimmering Moods Records in a wonderful edition of 40 cds.

Instruments performed, recorded, processed:
Piano, Electric Piano, Organ, Synthesizers, Acoustic Guitars, Electric Guitars, Voice, Field Recordings.

Album cover by my lady and myself.

FALLEN:
Bandcamp: thechildofacreek.bandcamp.com
Soundcloud: @fallenproject
Instagram:_the_child_of_a_creek_fallen
Twitter: The Child of A Creek/ Fallen
YouTube: Lorenzo Bracaloni The Child of A Creek

SHIMMERING MOODS RECORDS (The Netherlands)
Bandcamp: shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/her-name-is-a-whispered-lullaby
Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/shimmering-moods-records
Instagram: shimmeringmoodsrecords

04 your hand in mine_by FALLEN_ALBUM OUT NOW on Shimmering Moods Rec_CD

Single from the new album by Zelienople frontman, Matt Christensen called "Constant Green" (June 18th, Miasmah / 300xColoured vinyl). 

As Matt himself describes: " I Had A Vision That I Could Move Anywhere" is  about how much fear does, or doesn't play in our limitations or unwillingness to do things. What is chemistry, genes and fate, and what is choice (if there is any)? In other words, this is a fantasy about free will."

Constant Green

Matt Christensen - I Had A Vision That I Could Move Anywhere

GRFTPS015
Sunbeamer - Cape
limited edition cassette / digital - now on bandcamphttps://giraffetapes.bandcamp.com/album/cape

Cape

A2. Sunbeamer - Sunrise [GRFTPS015]

From my album 'Upics', available today for preorders on Flag Day Recordings

https://flagdayrecordings.bandcamp.com

Vacuum (UPICS)

Meditative Sounds is not just a soundtrack, but a transformative experience that allows you to connect with your inner self and find balance amidst the chaos of life. Soothe your senses, quiet your mind, and embark on a journey of self-discovery with Meditative Sounds by Julie Jewels Smoot.

Meditative Melodies

Single tapeloop on Tascam MF-P01 Portastudio. Recorded live to Ableton Live.

Det är alldeles för sent

Whilst compiling øjeRum’s Forgotten Works, Vaknar stumbled across a multitude of discarded compositions that didn't necessarily fit within the context and sonic characteristic of the Forgotten Works compilation, yet the label believed them to be of equal merit and persisted for them to be released in another given way.

After some discussion with Paw two pieces were selected to be presented on a companion release to Forgotten Works, featured on the first ever 10” lathe record released on Vaknar.

VAK15 | øjeRum - Sidste Segl

in recent years, the turkish drone-pop composer ekin fil (born ekin üzeltüzenci) has been refining her talents in the realm of the film score. since her first recordings that were published by root strata and students of decay, she has always exhibited a preternatural ability to express the saddest of emotions through sound. once channeled through the lens of a gauzy shoegazing smear of guitars and voice, she has peeling away layers of her ephemeral songs to reveal their emotional core. that compositional process that works so well for her award winning film scores informs the soft-focus tenebrous pieces of her 2020 album coda. 

it’s true that any number of these pieces on this album could announce the finale to an emotionally draining movie, but ekin sculpts the entire album as a whole, dissolving one perfectly tempered piano motif, an impressionist ambient plume or a sibilant vocal melody into another. just at the threshold of perception, she occasionally invokes cascades of distant noise that easily can be interpreted as the ominous premonitions for natural disasters - incoming storms, earthquakes, or tidal waves. this subtle disquiet amidst the introspective melancholy furthers the emotional weightiness of coda.

her somber, blissful compositions have considerable gravity of their own in the constellation of grouper, felicia atkinson, and harold budd.

Coda

Ekin Fil // On Sand

The music of Naarm/Melbourne composer Lisa Lerkenfeldt channels a unique wavelength of foreboding, interstitial electronics, incorporating strategies of musique concréte threaded with veiled currents of melody and hypnosis. Recent recordings for Vienna Press, Longform Editions and Aught Void have demonstrated different depths of process and finesse but her latest, Collagen, captures perhaps the most complete and complex manifestation of her craft to date.

Drawing on a disciplined palette of peach wood combs, contact microphones, piano, strings, and feedback, the album moves in low, looming arcs, ascending to strange purgatories of opaque atmosphere. Lerkenfeldt cites a core aspiration to “elevate the everyday,” transforming common objects into otherworldly sound sources, which colors Collagen with a beguiling tactility, like vibrations traced in sand. The tracks shift in frequency and feeling, alternately heady and bodily, acoustic and synthetic, isolated states of static, light, and undertow skirting the outer rings of ambient, noise, and modern composition.

Although each piece exists in its own rare air the composite panorama they present is striking in its sweep and subtlety. Lerkenfeldt's muse seems one of evasion as much as evocation, navigating negative spaces for their subliminal whispers of dread or beauty. It's an aesthetic both ascetic and exploratory, minimalist mirages of resonance, texture, and gravity skewed through the pensive glow of room tone.

But Lerkenfeldt is too versatile an artist for purist restraint, which Collagen demonstrates dramatically in its closing cut, “Champagne Smoke.” A quivering bowed eulogy ebbs under a flickering film of distortion, slowly swelling in sorrow until suddenly the screech goes silent, revealing a murmuring phantom haze hidden beneath the strings, like a specter lost in an abandoned house.

14 Gestures associated with this album will be performed in experimental film and online viewing room of graphic notation at 14gestures.com from 29th July to 29th October, 2020.

Collagen releases on Shelter Press in LP / DL format on August 21, 2020. LP mastered and cut by Kassian Troyer at D+M, designed by Bartolomé Sanson with art by Lisa Lerkenfeldt, housed in reverse-board inner and outersleeve, including a 16 pages limited edition score book.
credits
releases August 21, 2020

All music by Lisa Lerkenfeldt
Mastering by Kassian Troyer at D&M
Design by Bartolome Sanson
Scores by Lisa Lerkenfeldt

Collagen

LISA LERKENFELDT 'Collagen' (SP120)

Alina Kalancea's Impedance is available on CD and audiophile-quality double vinyl cut by Golden Mastering and pressed at RTI. Both CD and 2LP are packaged in a deluxe, heavy duty tip-on gatefold sleeves printed by Stoughton. 

Highly recommended to fans of Eleh,  Caterina Barbieri, Shasta Cults, Jessica Ekomane, Eliane Radigue and Alessandro Cortini. 

Impedance, an entirely instrumental album spanning 4 sides, contains powerful rhythmic sequences, heart beating frequencies and hypnotic loops that are paradoxically encapsulated in carefully crafted compositions which are full of secret passages and hidden doors. Kalancea's work creates ungraspable sonic experiences, which take us over, immersing us in powerful and mind altering soundscapes. 

There's no quick payoff on Impedance. This is the sound of new, patient electronic music full of depth and substance. 

Alina Kalancea is a Romanian sound artist and composer based in Modena, Italy. She has studied sound design and synthesis with Enrico Cosimi and collaborated with producer Alex Gamez, and artists Julia Kent and Raven Bush.

Alina Kalancea - Impedance/Abandon All Hope/Lost Souls - From Impedance 2LP/CD - Pre-Order available

Richard Chartier (b.1971) is a Los Angeles based artist, considered one of the key figures in minimalist sound art. Chartier’s works explore the inter-relationships between the spatial nature of sound, silence, focus, perception, and the act of listening itself. Chartier’'s sound works/installations have been presented in galleries and museums internationally and he has performed his work live across Europe, Japan, Australia, and North America at digital art/electronic music festivals and exhibits. In 2000 he formed the recording label LINE and has since curated its continuing documentation of compositional and installation work by international sound artists/composers exploring the aesthetics of contemporary and digital minimalism.

He is also Pinkcourtesyphone.

Interreference.4

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