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KICKTOM is a sample library for Kontakt made from hundreds of kick and floor tom drums.
www.sound-dust.com

Close Harness KICKTOM Demo Pendle

Together Rebels debut single 'The Love That You Deserve'. 

Together Rebels is a collaboration between South London singer-songwriter Breezy Lee and Glasgow-based composer/producer, Richard Luke. 

www.togetherrebels.com

Together Rebels - The Love That You Deserve

Codify depicts the gradual loss of self and identity; the control that we have over our own decisions, choices and lives ultimately. It speaks to how the sort of tech based society that we live in is not even hiding the fact that it's manipulating and controlling representation of ourselves and what we should find important so that our own autonomy is blatantly and unashamedly diminished.

Codify, 
Codify,
my decisions,
so I may not, I do not, 
rely, 
on myself, 
integrity, 
my breath, 
judgment, 
my breath,

pick the through the patterns, flick,
away, 
irrelevance, experiment,

potential, 
you may crawl, through,
the intimate, 

fought tongue hiding,
no longer, 
beneath, 
the flower,
you have the power,

knowledge, 

penetrate, 
once private
disregard, 

intuition, 

please do

Produced by Leg Puppy 2.0
Mastered by Paris Alexander 
Strings by Paris Alexander 
Words and Vox MB aka Kerry Coburn
Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oowyfLSBrl4

Codify feat MB

Deep In The Holy Water' in the old days would be the hidden track on the album. Colin wrote the tune after I said I'd like to have a surf song about surfing the Severn Bore. in a crazy coincidence our pal Jane's Granda mad Jack Churchill(no relation) 1955 surfed the 'Severn Bore' in Gloucestershire on a homemade 14 foot surfboard. and it coincided at the time with the scandal that had hit the news that the majority of England's rivers are polluted, only 14% meet the standards of a "good ecological status. Its not perfect in Scotland but its better and one of the few brags we've got is that our water tastes better, but i dont want our English family literally swimming in shit when they're at the beach. I was listening to the Blindboy Podcast at the time about Irish Godesses and the reverence that Clíodhna the Celtic goddess of the sea, with a passion and love, and deep beauty had and how our old myths and religions meant there was a deep devine respect for nature that has been lost over the years. Where as before water was worshipped and revered, now it is sadly polluted. Look what happened to The Black Sea for evidence of why we shouldn't mess with our life giving bodies of water. It experienced unprecedented degradation in the 1990s causing a large dead zone. The main sources of nutrients were runoff from the agricultural sector (fertilizers and livestock waste) as well as domestic and industrial wastes. You can go a month without food,  but you can't survive 3 days without water. The oceanographer Helen Czerski's was on the brilliant 6 Music Cerys Matthews  show talking about her latest research, measuring ocean breathing. All of these different bits of inspiration led to the lyrics. It's time we got back to respecting our water and what we put into them and oh aye 'Deep In The Holy Water' is a banging tune to surf or dance to regardless of the meaning. 

7. Deep In The Holy Water lyrics 

Deep in the holy water,
into the endless wave,
The tide breaks free into the estuary, oh me oh my oh me.
Deep, deep state, Illuminate my faith, deep in the holy water. 

Deep in the holy water,
where throats and tears run dry,
storm speeding, ocean breathing,
Clíodhna reigns supreme, oh me oh my oh me.
Streams like veins, and dreams remain to ponder, deep in the holy water 

Deep in the holy water into the endless waves  oh me oh my ,oh me 
Deep in the holy water where throats and tears run dry, oh me oh my ,oh me 

Deep in the holy water!


Deep in the Holy Water by Mellow Party

Stance

I thought it would be interesting to write a song celebrating/acknowledging good times. The catalyst for the song was a positive end-of-something song. A lot of endings are often marked by bitterness. The song is part tongue-in-cheek because although the song is called “Good Times” ultimately the song is about someone I had to pull away from as she was a bit mixed up. It’s also partially about the city of Madrid which is a place I’ve had a love/hate relationship with down through the years.  The city has been calling me back in recent times so I decided to shoot the video there. When I wrote the song, I was thinking of previous Good Times in my life I’ve had there (and the not so good times) but with time I’ve been able to reignite the love I had for the city. We had together so I’m both celebrating those good times albeit with a sense of perspective and loss of something. The song is about being good together but the relationship was blowing hot n’ cold like the weather.

Good Times

Keelan X - Good Times

Don’t make sound
you tear it up
you carry on
Stop carrying the worst thing.

April's entry for our song a month quest for 2025. Nearly a day to spare, we must be getting the hang of this...

The Mourning

For this Exclusive Track Premiere, I'm actually inversing on my roles: instead of being the announcer, I am the featured artist, along with Uwe Zahn, for our collaborative album, title "Aeon" released on Eilean Rec. today.

During our private conversation through music, Uwe and I explored the most mysterious of mediums, dimensions and philosophies - that of "time". Time is what allows sound to exist, by carrying the pressure levels through its mythic axis. Timelessness is unbeknown to man, and concepts like "forever" and "eternity" are captured in a Latin word of "aeon". The German word "unendlich" describes the notion of infinity on which philosophers have puzzled over "ages". And as "finality" is easier to grasp, since all things come onto an end, we're left with "endlich" of ourselves and of our music.

Uwe and I sincerely hope that you connect with our studies and deconstructions thereof, inasmuch as you simply enjoy the beautiful music that we wanted to share, beyond all theories... beyond all thought... beyond all time...

Mike + Uwe
Unendlich, Endlich
Aeon, 8/8/2019

Aeon

Unendlich, Endlich

TRACK PREMIERE : Arovane & Mike Lazarev - Unendlich, Endlich

2nd single from Oslo-based pianist / composer Julia Gjertsen's forthcoming album 'Fragile' (01/11/2019) 

Stream (track) : https://orcd.co/floating 
Pre-order (album) : https://modernarecords.bandcamp.com/album/fragile

All music written, recorded and mixed by Julia Gjertsen
Mastered by Taylor Deupree at 12K Mastering
Artwork by Carsten Daub

Fragile

Floating

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Julia Gjertsen - Floating

Fall Single Series no. 5
stream/download : https://orcd.co/love-in-falling

Recorded in a Glaswegian church, 'Love in Falling' is Richard Luke's striking debut film score for BAFTA-winning animator Will Anderson's new short 'Betty' about making sense of a broken relationship. The music is suitably romantic, tearing itself between optimism, lust and trepidation in heroic waves of starry-eyed nostalgia. Resplendent with piano and violins Luke collaborates once again with Scottich Chamber Orchestra violinist, Amira Bedrush-McDonald.

Love in Falling (Original Score for Betty)

Love in Falling

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Richard Luke - Love in Falling

Japanese pianist @daigohanada lends his subtle felted playing and beautiful textured arrangements to this rework of 'Last to Let Go' by @richard_luke. Close your eyes and immerse yourself in this intimate and soulful piece for piano.

stream on your favourite platform : https://orcd.co/last-to-let-go
download : https://modernarecords.bandcamp.com/album/last-to-let-go-daigo-hanada-rework

Glass Island (Reworked)

Last to Let Go (Daigo Hanada Rework)

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Richard Luke - Last to Let Go (Daigo Hanada Rework)

Sometimes I can't tell if my mood is driving the music I'm playing, or if the music is influencing my mood. I think it's a little of both. But this Saturday morning, I'm waking up to another gentle day. The city is peaceful just behind my curtains, like a frozen postcard from a moment stuck in time. Only the clouds seem to move, announcing the passage of hours. I turn back to music, to feel something 'changing', and with it, emotions, perceptions and senses are all that I know that are signs of my 'life'. Today's soundtrack to the imaginary narrative is a piece by Richard Luke appropriately titled "Silent Story". This track originally appeared on Luke's 2019 release on Moderna titled Glass Island, and today we are honoured with a rework, this time accompanied by short thumping bass, and gorgeous string passages courtesy of Amira Bedrush-McDonald. This piece is taken from an upcoming EP, featuring additional reworks by Daigo Hanada, Aisling Brouwer, Jakob Lindhagen, Halftribe and Anna Pluto. I hope that it starts off your quiet May weekend, as it has revealed all that's real in mine.

Silent Story

TRACK PREMIERE : Richard Luke - Silent Story (Rework)

"We're all quietly immersed in our own personal narratives, it's those intimate stories that are the most compelling to me as they evolve and define us in our lives without fanfare or publicity." - @richard_luke

https://orcd.co/glass-island-rw

Violin by Amira Bedrush-McDonald

Silent Story (Richard Luke Rework)

Richard Luke - Silent Story (Alt. Version)

Extract from Richard Luke's 'In the Company of Insects Pt III' being introduced and played on Scala Radio by Mark Kermode on his Soundtracks show 19/09/20. Music from short film 'In the Company of Insects' short film by Duncan Cowles available here: https://vimeo.com/448798190

Full soundtrack on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/album/1PijeVKyI5BWmIPRhLrF7V?si=mWuY5obEReykVgqJrw6_cg

In the Company of Insects ptIII On Mark Kermode's Scala Radio Soundtrack Show 20/09/20

The latest Contemplative Guest Mix is curated by Montreal based record Label @ModernaRecords. The mix contains new and upcoming releases with some gems from their back catalogue too.

You can listen and purchase all Moderna releases here:
https://modernarecords.bandcamp.com/

Track listing: 
Tom Adams 'Particle VI (Shadow & Light)' - from LP Particles (0:00)

Ed Carlsen 'Words' - from upcoming LP Morning Hour (2:59)

Josh Alexander 'Murmur' - from LP Hiraeth (7:43)

Jacob David 'Intet Forbi' - from LP Omkuld (10:30)

Daigo Hanada 'Under the Starry Sky' - from EP Ouka (13:46)

Manos Milonakis 'Dressing' - from LP Festen (15:50)

Richard Luke 'Silent Story' - from LP Glass Island (17:37)

Snorri Hallgrímsson 'Be Still, My Tongue (Slow Meadow Rework)' - from EP Orbit Reworked (20:30)

Veroníque Vaka 'Minning Um Himinn' - from EP Erlendis (25:15)

Ed Carlsen 'Loose (Lambert Rework)' - from LP The Journey Tapes (Deluxe Edition)(31:14)

Tambour - 'The Nude And The Quiet' - from EP Chapter I (34:34)

Moderna CC Guest Mix

Moderna Records -  Contemplative Classical Guest Mix

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