For me, creativity is so dependent on surroundings.  Exterior attributes like temperature, sound and even smell, play a large role in igniting creativity.  Digging further personally, maybe it’s more ‘comfort’ that opens your creative mind.  What comforts you?  Does 73 degrees Fahrenheit do the trick?  The smell of a fresh-cut lawn?  Maybe the sounds of a Harold Budd album?  I have been out in the world and heard, felt, smelled, things that have triggered a memory.  If you ever run into these things, stop and make note.  Triggers will do more than transport you back to a book-marked event, they also leave your mind wide open to new ideas.

Ambience

Brian Eno - Thursday Afternoon

Halo 2 Soundtrack [Ambient Guitar Cover] (Epilogue/High Charity)

2011 i guess..
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Biosphere live in Iceland

Hi, please check out my bio! Back to sadness, I will always appreciate any feedback, comments, support etc and I'll reciprocate too - if anybody wants to connect at all, happy to do so - feel free to get in touch.

Sadness Within

GTA IV TBoGT - Pause Menu Song

From "Agua" 
Recorded during the Lanzarote Music Festival, December 1989

Agua

3x12" of 'and their refinement of the decline' back in print for the first time in many years as of 8/14

stars of the lid 'december hunting for vegetarian fuckface'

Terry Riley - Rainbow In Cologne2

A track from the album 'UV Sea' out 02/13/16 on Constellation Tatsu.

Forest Walker - Desert Lighthouse

Despite his status as a key figure in the history of Japanese ambient music, Hiroshi Yoshimura's music remains tragically under-known outside of his home country. Empire of Signs – a new imprint co-helmed by Maxwell August Croy and Spencer Doran – is proud to reissue Yoshimura's debut Music for Nine Postcards for the first time outside Japan in collaboration with Hiroshi's widow Yoko Yoshimura, with more fully licensed reissues of Hiroshi's work to follow in the future.

Working initially as a conceptual artist, the musical side of Yoshimura's artistic practice came to prominence in the post-Fluxus scene of late 1970s Tokyo alongside Akio Suzuki and Takehisa Kosugi, taking many subsequent turns within Japan’s bubble economy afterward. His sound works took on many forms - commissioned fashion runway scores, soundtracking perfume, soundscapes for pre-fab houses, train station sound design - all existing not as side work but as logical extensions of his philosophy of sound. His work strived for serenity as an ideal, and this approach can be felt strongly on Music for Nine Postcards.

Home recorded on a minimal setup of keyboard and Fender Rhodes, Music for Nine Postcards was Yoshimura’s first concrete collection of music, initially a demo recording given to the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art to be played within the building's architecture. This was not mere background music in the prior Japanese “BGM” sense of the word, but “environmental” music, the literal translation of the Japanese term kankyō ongaku [環境音楽] given to Brian Eno’s “ambient” music when it arrived in late 70's Japan. Yoshimura, along with his musical co-traveler Satoshi Ashikawa, searched for a new dialog between sound and space, a new way of listening: sound not as an absolute, but as something that interlocks with a physical environment and shifts the listener’s experience within it. Erik Satie's furniture music, R. Murray Schafer's concept of the soundscape and Eno’s ambience all greatly informed their work,  but the specific form of tranquil stasis presented on releases like Nine Postcards is still difficult to place within a specific tradition, remaining elusive and idiosyncratic despite the economy of it's construction. This record offers the perfect introduction to Hiroshi's unique and beautiful worldview: it's one that can be listened to - and lived in - endlessly.

Music for Nine Post Cards

Hiroshi Yoshimura (吉村弘) - "Water Copy" from Music for Nine Post Cards (EOS01) OUT 11/17/2017

Single from Water Memory, out December 21st 2017.

preorder: mlesprg.bandcamp.com

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Water Memory began as an imagination of the feelings that are floating through the natural world around us. It morphed and cycled and gained memories of my own which are now contained like those in all bodies.

Water Memory 1

Brian Eno & Robert Fripp - Wind on Water

Arve Henriksen - Pink Cherry Trees

~ IIKKI 009 ~

music : The Humble Bee & Offthesky
photography : Nieves Mingueza
album/book : All Other Voices Gone, Only Yours Remains
duration : 42.18 mn
date : July 2019

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Jason Corder: vibes, arrangement, mixing, mastering
Craig Tattersall : piano, guitar, vibes, synths, tape loops
Cody Yantis : sax
Julie Slater : viola
Rin Howell : voice
Jiah Shin : cello
Esther Hernandez : flute

Mastered by Jason Corder
Artwork by Nieves Mingueza
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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edition : 
vinyl : limited to 300 copies hand numbered 
cd : limited to 200 cd (glass mastered) hand numbered
book : limited to 300 copies hand numbered + hand stamped

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pre-order : June 17th, 2019 / official release : July 15th, 2019

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Links :
https://www.offthesky.com/
https://www.leavings.co.uk/
http://www.nievesmingueza.com/
https://www.iikki-books.com/

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The Humble Bee & Offthesky - For Her Breath Is On All That Hath Life

Biosphere is the main recording name of Geir Jenssen (born 1962), a Norwegian musician who has released a notable catalogue of ambient music. He is well known for his early "ambient techno" aesthetic and later for his "arctic ambient" style, his use of music loops, and peculiar samples from sci-fi sources. His track "Novelty Waves" was used for the 1995 campaign of Levi's. His 1997 album Substrata was voted by www.hyperreal.org  as one of the all time classic ambient albums. But over the last few years his albums (such as Cirque, Shenzou, Autour de la lune, Dropsonde and N-plants) have embodied some touches of jazz, classical, drone and even some dub-techno. His unique sound signature is quite peculiar: an immense feeling of being absorbed in the cold winter. More here : http://funkyjeff77.wordpress.com/2013/01/11/2495/


Another electronica tribute : http://soundcloud.com/funky_jeff/fsol-tribute

TRACKLISTING : 

1)	Intro documentary 
2)	The silent orchestra
3)	Laika
4)	Poa alpina
5)	Chukhung
6)	The things I tell you
7)	Kobresia
8)	Lounge (From Insomnia) 
9)	Cannon hill
10)	 From a solid to a liquid
11)	 White lightning
12)	 Hyperborea
13)	 Antennaria
14)	 When the night was black - Fires Of Ork 2 (Geir Jenssen, Pete Namlook)
15)	 Microgravity
16)	 Cygnus-a
17)	 Mir
18)	 The shield
19)	 The seal and the hydrophone
20)	 Startoucher
21)	 The third planet
22)	 N & C
23)	 Le grand dôme
24)	 When I leave (Version)
25)	 Monju-2
26)	 Genkai-1
27)	 Oi-1
28)	 Novelty waves (Aedenna cycle ambient mix) 
29)	 W/ Âne Brun : Temporary dive (Biosphere ambient mix) 
30)	 W/ Âne Brun : Temporary dive (Clueless dubstep mix)
31)	 Space shuttle Endeavor launching and the Biosphere
32)	 Corona
33)	 Gravity assist
34)	 Freeze frames 
35)	 In the shape of a flute 
36)	 In triple time 
37)	 Algae & Fungi part 1 
38)	 Too fragile to walk on 
39)	 Ancient campfire 
40)	 Shape of no form 
41)	 Silene
42)	 Bird watching 
43)	 SETI project

Biosphere Tribute

Harold Budd - Templar

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

Please no demos or links.

Jefre & Maxwell

Harold Budd - Templar

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