Canyon In The Rain

Artist: DEMIAN CASTELLANOS
Album: The Kyvu Tapes Vol.I (1990-1998)

HITD 025
Limited edition of 350 copies on black vinyl 

Label, orders: www.handsinthedarkrecords.com
Co-release with Cardinal Fuzz

DEMIAN CASTELLANOS - Lizard Raga

Misty

you never told me 10.1.25

Headed home after a wonderful trip to Florence in Italy. This piece reflects my current mood. I met a lot of new people and I took a lot of photos. This music is a spontaneous improvisation. Recorded at my personal recording studio at home. Please enjoy. 

Improvisation_021025_Homebound

from 'Blossoms In Red' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den243
available in October on all formats at [http://denovali.com/ensembleeconomique]

Based in Californian Humboldt County, Brian Pyle wanders the world on his countless travels. Far from being restless, he has his very own Pylesque way of travelling. Much like a Lynchian version of Hemingway, he has an eye for the thin layer between restlessness and relaxation, gloom and serenity. Wherever he goes, he ardently absorbes these nuances, rarefies them and moulds them into a seamless array of glimmering styles, from drone and ambient to shoegaze and post-wave, giving birth to yet another creation of his prolific Ensemble Economique project.
On his by now eleventh album and fourth Denovali release "Blossoms In Red", Pyle combines and perfects elements of his previous output into a cohesive narrative. The opener "From The Train Window, Red Flowers On The Mountain" is a surprisingly scarce ambient piece, which feels like an almost infinitely stretched precious moment of time. Despite being austere, it is warm, sublime and incredibly captivating and after listening to its full 8 minutes, one cannot help but to rewind and replay. Having barely escaped this seductively infinite loop, one encounters the title track "Blossoms In Red" featuring Portland electronic duo Soft Metals. Starting off with a characteristic sluggish programmed beat, one is immediately overpowered by the onset of the towering combination of a warm bassline and a shimmering synth ambience. As the track flows, these elements writhe around each other in a delicately beautiful fashion, absorbing the materialising wailing guitar which almost sounds like an ethereal voice, as well as the occasional melodic and rhythmic accents. The next track sees this guitar return in a rather pure form. "On The Sand", featuring jack-of-all-trades Peter Broderick, is essentially just reduced analogue drums, electric guitar, a simple vibrating bassline and hoarse almost spoken vocals. Slowly and methodically, these constituents form a captivating erotic ritual, much like a beguiling and hypnotic mandala procession of imperturbable blissful individuals on the beach. As proven on numerous occasions, Pyle can easily lead all his trumps in the presence of female lead vocals, and "Blossoms In Red" makes no exception. Indeed, "You, By Candlelight" is easily the best Ensemble Economique track with female vox to date. Pyle manages to embed the vocals just in the right minimal amount of instrumental layers, making the track radiate an elusive tranquility. The fifth and closing track "Nothing Is Perfect" is a classically tinged piano piece with only very little processing and sparse field recording samples. With all pieces of the album, Pyle manages to create tracks which feel like being composed only of two or three layers of sound, that are nevertheless allowed to develop a life cycle which seems incredibly long - track lengths vary from 6:30 to 8:10 - but still feels just right. Thus "Blossoms In Red" is probably Ensemble Economique's most minimalistic album, but at the same time - or maybe just for this reason - his most skilled work.

Blossoms In Red

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Ensemble Economique - You, By Candlelight (feat. J Moon)

First Album Le Motel x YellowStraps called 'MELLOW'

Album available on Itunes, Spotify, Bandcamp, Bigcartel

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YellowStraps x Le Motel - Pollen

from LR105 BANANA "LIVE" OUT WORLD WIDE DIGITAL JAN 27 2017
*ltd. cassette now shipping, vinyl LP pre-order shipping this spring
https://leavingrecords.bandcamp.com/album/live
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BANANA 
"LIVE" 

Composed & Produced by Josiah Steinbrick 

Stephen Black - Clarinet, Saxophone 
Huw Evans - Guitar, Synthesizer 
Josh Klinghoffer - Marimba, Synthesizer 
Cate Le Bon - Piano, Vibraphone 
Stella Mozgawa - Bass, Marimba, Percussion 
Josiah Steinbrick - Vibraphone, Piano 

1. Banana A 
2. Banana B 
3. Banana C 
4. Banana D 

total runtime: 25min
Recorded by Samur Khouja at El Sereno 
Assisted by Nathaniel Eras 

Mixed by Matthew "Matthewdavid" McQueen & Josiah Steinbrick at Stones Throw Studios 
Assisted by Jake Viator 

Mastered by Samur Khouja at Seahorse Sound 

"Banana B" contains elements from Part IV of Kolm Ballaadi Poistekoorile by Heino Jürisalu & Part I of Instrumentals Vol. II by Arthur Russell 

Arrangements on A, B, & C by BANANA 

Art Direction by Josiah Steinbrick 

Image sourced from the archives of Michael Dumontier

PRE-ORDER LP/CS/DL

Banana C

"Doors" taken from their new single 7" with smoug, MOU! launches April 22 RSD as a joint release between Teto and our friends at Tokei and Preco Records.

order the 7" :  https://tetorecords.bandcamp.com/album/mou

www.miaoumusic.com
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http://www.preco-records.com/

Cat.no.: TOKEI08/PRECO023/TETO015
Format: 7"

Tracklisting
1. miaou - Doors
2. smoug - Sleepy Time

miaou - Doors

The first full moon release.
Full Moon = New Playlist.

M01 / Roedelius - Brise

Harold Budd - Nec Spero

Root Strata has closed shop. Thanks for your support over the years.

Please no demos or links.

Jefre & Maxwell

Harold Budd - Nec Spero

Root Strata

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