Name: Escape by Rūdolfs Macats
Duration: 5 min 56 s
Description: “Escape” is my first solo piano improvisation what i have published since long time!

“Escape” is my first solo piano improvisation what i have published since long time!

Escape

Taken from the album "Deep Ground" [SSD03]

Deep Ground

Storisende

There are very few demos of the legendary, rare and beautiful RSF Polykobol II. To me the best ones are by Sebastien of Mos-lab, on YouTube. I decided to try to recreate (as accurately as possible) the first 2.5 minutes of this demo, my favorite one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H247bhAZOS4   

I wanted to see how close I could get with the Kijimi. Sebastien used quite a bit of reverb and delay on this demo, and I tried to recreate those as accurately as possible too, as well as the mostly mono sound. I ended up with two versions I liked so I added them both here. In the first version Kijimi is slightly more detuned (VCO2 detune, and voice drift setting). In the second version  (starts at 2:30) the VCO and voice tuning is tighter, giving a nice cat purrrrr in the low notes.

Kijimi recreation of Polykobol II demo

Bird (Naviarhaiku 330)

Icelandic theremin maestra Hekla returns with charastically sparse and haunting new EP Sprungur, following her acclaimed 2018 debut Á.

Hekla’s delicate, spectral music pierces the dark negative space within Iceland’s dreamy, permanight magick and folklore with a deep, intense sonic soundworld all her own. A long-term scholar of solo theremin, Hekla (shortened from her own name Hekla Magnúsdóttir) coaxes otherworldly and powerfully evocative sounds from her instrument, alternately howling and yearning with equal grace. Her songwriting and performance are totally unique: no-one uses the theremin as she does. Indeed, very few can.

Her debut album Á was released by Phantom Limb in 2018, attracting high praise for its beautifully expressive range and its eloquent spareness. Sprungur - her first new music since then - develops her palette to include gently reverberated piano lines and subtle synth parts alongside the theremin and her own ghostly vocal delivery. Opening single “Tvö þrjú Slit” begins as a haunted waltz, the forgotten memory of an abandoned ballroom, trading its melody between voice and theremin. “Sofðu Unga Ástin Mín” is an arrangement of a traditional Icelandic lullaby (Hekla writes that it “always scared me out when I was little” - you can see why). Its mournful theremin melody blooms amid a garden of dulcet synthesis and twinkling piano. And within the lyrics lies the line “Í jöklinum hljóða dauðadjúpar sprungur” [Eng: In the glacier rumbles deadly deep cracks], from which Hekla took the title of the EP, exploring the imagery of great mythical beasts inhabiting the earth and causing deep fissures from their rumbling movements.

Sprungur will be released on August 28, 2020 via Phantom Limb.

Sprungur

Tvö Þrjú Slit

One Of

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CREDITS:
Stephen Newton (Vocals)
Julian Smith (Backing Vocals, Production)
Skyler D. White (Production, Mixing, and additional vocals)
Mark Littlemore (Vocal Mixing, and Recording)

Original track can be found on Depeche Mode's album "Delta Machine".
Lyrics written by: Dave Gahan and Kurt Uenala

Depeche Mode Cover

Broken feat. Stephen Newton

Name your price or get it as a bonus download with any US/Canada vinyl album order:

It's Not Too Early For Each Other:
http://clocolan.bandcamp.com/album/it-s-not-too-early-for-each-other

Nothing Left To Abandon, Special Edition:
http://clocolan.bandcamp.com/album/nothing-left-to-abandon-special-edition

For #BandcampFriday orders only, US shipping is free.

You Look Pretty Today

Episode 1

BASSMACHTSPASS - Episode 1

Track is taken from the upcoming TELESCOPES album 'Songs Of Love And Revolution' (out Feb 5, 2021 )

More info:
https://www.tapeterecords.de/artists/the-telescopes/

Escape

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