oh god please make a whole record like this and let me pay for it

wow.. real sound of melting icebergs... amazing.

Melodica’s head Chris Coco launches “My Summer Mixtape 2014”,his second annual selection of Balearic music for the summer season from artists on his Melodica label.
The compilation covers a broad range of genres, from Dub and Electronica, to Leftfield and Bass Music, from Drum N Bass to Nu Disco and puts together some of the label’s best artists and few Chris' good friends into this uplifting Balearic journey.
As a little taster Chris gave us this mega chilled track to give away.

Chris Coco - Heavy Mellow (Jon Hopkins Mix)[FREE D/L]

Created on iPad, mixed and mastered with Cubase 13 and Ozone 10

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 540:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku540-face-of-the-winter-pond/

Photo by zenbytes

face of the winter pond - Naviarhaiku 540

‘Apologues’ will be released by Erased Tapes on September 11, 2015 on LP/CD/DL and can be pre-ordered from www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP075

Masayoshi Fujita, the Berlin-based Japanese vibraphone player, also known under his alias el fog came to the attention of label founder Robert Raths a few years ago. Not only because the vibraphone is an intriguing instrument, but also the way Masayoshi treats his instrument and draws ethereal and layered sounds, is what truly attracted him to Masayoshi’s work.

Having released more ambient-based/electronic recordings of the vibraphone under el fog, Masa became more interested in the sound of the vibraphone itself. He started to compose acoustic pieces and released the first solo album under his real name, titled ‘Stories’, in early 2013. ‘Apologues’ sees Masayoshi for the first time use an array of instruments besides his lead instrument – such as the violin, cello, flute, clarinet, French horn, accordion, piano and snare drum played by friends, but arranged by Masa himself.

In addition to the mallets, Masayoshi often plays the vibraphone with a violin or cello bow, like on ‘Tears of Unicorn’ and ‘Knight and Spirit of Lake’. He would also place bead strings on the vibraphone bars to create an ambient shimmer that can be heard on songs like ‘Moonlight’ and ‘Swallow Flies High in the May Sky’. The latter was composed to let the clarinet express its characteristics and tell its story, whilst the vibraphone takes a supporting role. “The clarinet sounds very warm and soft and very ‘spring’ to me”, says Masa.

“With this album the main idea was to evoke images, atmospheres, sceneries and stories in the listener, the images that have accumulated in myself. At the same time it was an exploration of the unexplored beauty of the vibraphone, and also a pursuit of the charm of the instrumentation and the music itself. Erased Tapes releases a lot of great stuff and naturally became my favourite label of late. And I thought it would fit well to my music.” – Masayoshi Fujita

OFFICIAL WEBSITES: masayoshifujita.com · erasedtapes.com

Apologues

Tears Of Unicorn

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Masayoshi Fujita – Tears of Unicorn

After Tomorrow, taken from the upcoming album by Arovane & Hior Chronik, titled In-between. Available now on double-white vinyl housed in a gatefold sleeve, and digital formats.

For more info and to buy www.astrangelyisolatedplace.com/arovane-h…n-between

ASIPV003 Arovane & Hior Chronik - After Tomorrow

Preorder CD | Digital: https://futuresequence.bandcamp.com/album/earthworks 

'Earthworks' is Thom Brookes' debut album as Drombeg, following his acclaimed EP ‘Notes From The Ocean Floor’ in 2015. A soundtrack for the middle-of-nowhere, the wild landscapes of Brookes' native Southern Ireland are littered with historic (Tumulus), and geological (Béarra) structures hardened under the relentless elements. Sinuous string melodies, and tender piano phrases reach like sunlight breaking through heavy clouds, blended with electronics and field recordings in careful balance to produce a rich cinematic sound.



Tumulus by Drombeg

this song was made for the http://www.icebergsongs.com/ project
to raise awareness for global warming. it`s made with sounds of melting icebergs, a prepared piano and a violin.

written by savannah jo lack and robot koch

Robot Koch and Savannah Jo Lack - Siku

'Emptiness Is Form' is the follow up of the last Purl album 'Form Is Emptiness', released last year on Archives.
A collection of remixes by Logic Moon, Powlos, Moshimoss, Darren McClure, SVLBRD and new versions by the own Purl.

Written and Produced by Ludvig Cimbrelius. 
Remixes by Moshimoss, Logic Moon, Powlos, Darren McClure and SVLBRD. 
Photography by Alexander Kopatz | www.go70north.com 
Mastering by Rob Small. 
Archives37 // ArchivesCD018

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Purl - Emptiness Is Form (Album Snippets)

Nottingham-based composer and multi-instrumentalist Thomas William Hill returns to Village Green with Grains of Space, his second album for the label following 2017’s multi-textured Asylum For Eve. It will be released on 12-inch vinyl, CD and digitally on May 17th 2019.

Grains of Space started life as a series of minimal loops, recorded using a viola da gamba – a stringed instrument most popular in the Renaissance and Baroque eras – and a loop pedal. Using the negative space within each loop as the primary drive for composing, Thomas began a process of ‘joining the dots’, allowing the silence to dictate the next layer, informing the length, pitch and timbre of notes.

Between the overlap and juxtaposition of multiple layers, Thomas began to see melodies and rhythms emerging from relatively erratic elements:

“I began to see these loops - and recorded music in general - as a kind of fixed perspective that could be exploited. In isolation, a single layer may be no more than one or two notes punctuating four bars of silence, but when laid over multiple variations on that theme, disparate notes start to dance with each other and new connections take form, like constellations or deconstructed sentences.”

Using those recordings as the foundation, Thomas began incorporating a wide variety of other instruments into his palette, including bowed metallophones, gongs, Tibetan singing bowls, African kalimbas and metal tongue drums, as well as drum machines and analogue synthesisers.

From the tense, opening drones of ‘Carriages’ to sparser, more lyrical works such as ‘Curvature’ and ‘Refract’, Thomas again demonstrates profound compositional insight, crafting highly poignant moments rich with harmony and texture. Complementing this, a more developed sense of pulse and rhythm characterises much of the album, such as the propulsive undertow of ‘Willow’ and the tactile, modernist polyrhythms of ‘Furnace’ and ‘Tongue’.

www.villagegreenrecordings.co.uk

Grains of Space

Thomas William Hill - Furnace

Max Cooper - Lovesong - PoppyAckroyd Remix

Bersarin Quartett's exclusive contribution towards Headphone Commute's benefit compilation "... and darkness came"

Please help us raise funds for our humanitarian cause by purchasing a 67 track compilation for only $10 through bandcamp:

http://headphonecommute.bandcamp.com

Bersarin Quartett - Was Auch Passiert

The Living Layer + Vælv is taken from the new live album THE PIRAMIDA CONCERT by EFTERKLANG & COPENHAGEN PHIL - released June 10th 2013.

Order the limited deluxe vinyl release here: http://shop.efterklang.net/

The Piramida Concert by Efterklang & Copenhagen Phil was recorded live at Copenhagen's Royal Academy of Music Concert Hall in October 2012. Over the course of two sold-out nights Efterklang - plus Peter Broderick, Katinka Fogh Vindelev and Budgie (Siouxsie and The Banshees) - teamed up with classical orchestra Copenhagen Phil and German conductor André de Ridder to perform the Danish act's fourth album Piramida in its entirety. Staged for the first time at the Sydney Opera House in May 2012, the orchestral arrangements were written by fellow Dane Karsten Fundal and New York composer Missy Mazzoli. The Piramida Concert also features 'So', a song written during recording sessions for Piramida, and 'Vælv', a classical piece commissioned by Efterklang and composed by Karsten Fundal. The live performance was mixed to tape by Francesco Donadello in the Vox-Ton studio in Berlin.. The Piramida Concert will only be available digitally and as a limited edition deluxe double gatefold vinyl (one black, one white + CD inside), designed by Danish artists Hvass&Hannibal.

Efterklang & Copenhagen Phil - The Living Layer + Vælv

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Robot Koch is an award-winning artist and composer from Berlin, now located in Los Angeles.

With a discography that spans numerous albums and over 100 Million streams on Spotify alone, Robot Koch has established himself as a sonic explorer in the realm of electronic, ambient, and modern classical music. His compositions have been featured in several movies, TV shows, and his own immersive AV experiences that sell out venues worldwide.

Koch won several international awards for his work, collaborated with Grammy-nominated Estonian conductor Kristjan Järvi and his Orchestra, remixed artists like Max Richter, Christian Loeffler, and Anoushka Shankar, and is in an ongoing collaboration with The Monroe Institute around the sonic exploration of human consciousness.
In his ambient Project Foam and Sand, Robot Koch expands his fascination with the intersection
between science and spirituality.
The result is truly transformative music, reminiscent of legendary ambient composer Harold
Budd’s own reveries and the quiet ecstasy of early Sigur Ros.

Robot Koch and Savannah Jo Lack - Siku

Robot Koch

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