A selection of ambient, modern classical, and electroacoustic works for Summer 2020.  

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Field Journal Companion | Summer 2020

dub techno

Ambient, Classical, acoustic

Echo Inspectors’ “Parable” opens the ep. With a great selection of sound elements and an analogue drum set, the Melbourne based duo made a fusion of Dub and Detroit Techno. It´s the sound we love from their releases on their own Primary [Colours] imprint as well as from our Etui Winter Camp Compilation.

Parable

Primary colours is back with their last release in the second colour series. This release is star studded by two fantastic artists that have joined the family. Knowone and Star Dub. It was their approach and faithful reproductions that we named this release. Archetypes are a collectively-inherited unconscious idea, pattern of behaviour or thought that is universally present in individuals or a recurring symbol or motif in art or mythology. It is this exact thing we see here in this release, a train of consciousness with three distinct personalities.

Archetype

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Echo Inspectors - Archetype Stardub Remix (PCY02)

Primary Colours adds yet another mouthwatering edition to the reserve series with another collaboration side-by-side with Insect O. This no nonsense track comes at you with sonic precision and attention to detail and of course the Mike Schommers reprise is a perfect ode to the original elements. Both sensational and ready for the floor.

Bribie Dub

Echo Inspectors & Insect O. - Bribie Dub [Mike Schommer Remix]

A Small Journey For the Mind

Brooklyn based avant-garde trio Sontag Shogun presents It Billows Up Remixed, a comprehensive re-imagining of their 2019 multimedia project by thirteen artists across two volumes, available on all digital platforms starting May 15th and 29th respectively.

Their third full length album, It Billows Up, disregarded traditional songwriting and instead aimed to capture the collaborative techniques and modular compositions the band had developed while on the road into a linear narrative. The group extended the margins of their work by incorporating multimedia interpretations of the record in the form of a limited edition artbook and a short film. Designed by artist Thad Hilga, the artbook featured poetry and prose from the band’s network of creatives, while director Joel Schlemowitz assisted in crafting a hazy, romantic, and haunting video accompaniment to the album’s title track. It Billows Up was both an invitation into Sontag Shogun’s process and opportunity for the structure of their performance to be analyzed through separate mediums.

One year later, Sontag Shogun again opens the door to their world, inviting a global cast of friends and creative partners to re-work the already unconventional It Billows Up through new ears and boundless imagination into two juxtaposed volumes.

The first collection expands on the darker, climatic moments of their record. WNNR (NYC), Automatisme (Canada) and Black Pomade (Portugal) mold the album’s title track and “Cages” from two expansively atmospheric meditations into pulsing circular loops. Chicago’s Excepter (Woodsist) highlights and bolsters Ian Temple’s painterly piano against the haunted soundscapes and surreal foley of Jesse Perlstein and Jeremy Young. New Youngbloods signee Zoe Polanski (Israel), Christian Molenaar (San Diego), and Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch (Fat Cat/London) balance the tonal structure of the first volume by drawing scenes of swirling serenity from chaotic ambience.

Standing as a cathartic compliment to the first volume, the second collection is a deep outward breathe, allowing the subtly of Sontag Shogun’s original songs to unfurl and blossom. New York cellist Julia Kent (The Leaf Label), Strangerfamiliar (Denmark), Slim Vic (Lamour/Sweden), and Portugal’s Síria delicately paint over and around Perlstein’s soaring vocals across twenty-four minutes of patient, supernal reveries. Montreal based composer Nick Schofield (Youngbloods) draws on Sontag Shogun’s use of field recorded vocal samples in his abridged, tranquil version of “Kienast Dans Un Parc”. The collection is concluded in dramatic summary by Orphax (Amsterdam), framing new luminescence around the album’s original structure in his all encompassing twenty minute remix covering the entirety of It Billows Up.

In its initial form, Sontag Shogun’s It Billows Up sought to piece together the sounds of our waking life with thick barricades of interwoven sonic collages. In its latest iteration, those collages are carefully deconstructed and rebuilt to showcase the world’s inhabited by their visionary friends and cultural colleagues.

It BIllows Up Remixed

It Billows Up Remixed, Vol. 1

Medewi, After the Rain (Zoe Polanski Remix)

Healing Is A Miracle

Oh, Memory (feat. Mary Lattimore)

Dub Cousteau on Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/7MIlwre4wL0t72zu6TqV1B
Doing some Dub Techno and Sub Acid.
Gears:
- Behringer TD-3
- 1x Zoom MSG50G
- 1x Zoom MS70 CDR
- Volca Bass
- Volca Sample
- Maker Hart Loop Mixer
- Synthstrom Deluge

VIDEO

Dub Techno Session #19 | Behringer TD3, Volca Bass, Volca Sample, Synthstrom Deluge

https://rimetrails.bandcamp.com/album/the-sparrow

The Sparrow

Soar!

Track taken from Seabuckthorn's upcoming album 'Other Other'...

Audio: Seabuckthorn
Mastering: James Plotkin
Design: Daniel Crossley

www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com
www.seabuckthorn-music.com

Other Other

Meridian

Seabuckthorn - Meridian

From Silent Constellation

Horizons

After appearing on our debut compilation, producer and musician Amparo returns to Memoir Music with her new EP, Lost Ghosts. With each track revolving around her close friends and the memories/adventures they've shared, this three song ambient release feels like flipping through a photo album, watching a familiar movie, quietly daydreaming of yesteryear and all that it held. 

🎧 Download / Stream
・https://memoir.ffm.to/lostghosts.pbt

00:00:00 Amparo - Unlisted
00:02:28 Amparo - Midtown Rooftop
00:05:56 Amparo - Scout

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🎥 Video by Matt Newell
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🎨 Illustration by Matt Andres
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🎶 Mastered by Alex Saltz of APS Mastering
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