Album: Nº1 DVD and Remixes
Label: Self - Release

and instantly take effect (loscil remix)

from Nº3
Kranky records
www.kranky.net
RELEASED OCT 16, 2015

inspired by Laurie Spiegel's The Expanding Universe
1980
http://www.unseenworlds.net/releases/the-expanding-universe

"Laurie Spiegel" was recorded in Kortrijk, Belgium w. The Chamber Players and in Brooklyn, New York w. synthesist John Also Bennett.

voices: Els Wollaert, Louise Kuyvenhoven, Pieter De Praetere
vibes: Simon Decraene
cello – Harm Garreyn
viola – Pieter De Rydt
violins – Freek Ruysschaert, Robin Van Heghe
synthesizers - John Also Bennett
recording engineer (The Chamber Players)– Chris Lambrechts
mixing Engineer – Francesco Donadello
mastered by – Jason Ward
conductor: Christina Vantzou
2015

Laurie Spiegel

Taken from the new EP "Noyaux" - out Nov. 6th  2015 on Morr Music.
Buy the single on iTunes: api.morrmusic.com/itunes/1044652779
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Benoît Pioulard: Noyaux

REM (nel sogno)

a life worth living

Music from the forthcoming EP by Luke Abbott and Jack Wyllie of Portico. 

Released via Buffalo Temple (BFFT003) on 25th September available on 12" vinyl and digitally.

Xantako

Over several years, Guenter Schlienz has graced labels such as Constellation Tatsu, Sacred Phrases, S.I.N.K. CDs, SicSic, Preservation so we are very excited here at Rural Colours to be added to that list with his latest work Peace.

After noticing that several friends had begun to end emails marked 'Peace', Guenter Schlienz, ever full of questions, started to ponder on the meaning of the word in this context.  Around the same time he started to read Henry Miller's book 'The Collossus of Maroussi' and was intrigued by a couple of paragraphs devoted to exactly this question: what is "the meaning of peace". He came to the conclusion that there is much more to "peace" than just the absence of war.  The albums track titles are words by Henry Miller, and the work is Guenter's humble attempt to gather sounds and atmospheres around those lines.

Using modular synths combined with tape loops, analog and digital delays, vintage electronic organ and guitar, Schlienz works within a romantically inward looking framework, creating music that comes from deep within.  His compositions reflect themes of tenderness, alienation and homecoming and feature a range of guest musicians including Masako Kamikawa (piano on  'Reverberation of the Pandemonium') and Niko Lazarakopoulos (guitar on 'Faint Whispers') and even an anonymous busker from the streets of Stuttgart on 'Who Put the Demons There?'

inspired by henry miller's book "the collossus of maroussi". / "i never knew the meaning of peace until i arrived at epidaurus ".

Artwork by Katie English / This is rural colours 82
https://ruralcolours.bandcamp.com / vote for us

Guenter Schlienz / Peace (Snippets)

Taken from 'Sensorimotor Remixes' LP by Lusine, out September 15, 2017.

Purchase at The Ghostly Store: https://www.theghostlystore.com/products/sensorimotor-remixes
Or at the retailer of your choice: Ghostly.lnk.to/sensorimotor-remixes

Sensorimotor Remixes

Lusine - Tropopause (Loscil Remix)

Mirall

Rauelsson - Sierra

The first track off of the 2018 tour cassette "On Falling". 
Edition of 50 w/ hand letterpressed covers.

Out of print (but repressing *could* be possible)

(on falling) debris

from 'Cycle and Reveal' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den319
available on all formats at http://denovali.com/mariodiazdeleon

Denovali is pleased to present Cycle and Reveal, the fourth full length LP of contemporary classical works by acclaimed composer Mario Diaz de Leon. Featuring bold performances by a cast of longtime collaborators, this compilation is an essential chapter in his celebrated series of recordings for acoustic instruments and electronics.
 
The output of Mario Diaz de Leon defies easy categorization, spanning the worlds of contemporary classical composition, experimental electronic music, extreme metal, and creative improvised music. Working extensively with an inner circle of close collaborators (ICE, Talea, and TAK Ensemble, among others) his classical works have been celebrated over the last decade for their “hallucinatory intensity” (New York Times), “snarling exuberance” (Pitchfork), “helter-skelter, electronically enhanced cadenzas” (New Yorker Magazine), and coupling of “crystalline clarity with the disorienting turbulence of a sonic vortex” (Wire Magazine). 
 
The A-side features two works written in early 2017, which colorfully embrace hypnotic repetition alongside dynamic contrasts and distinctly embody the electrifying post-minimalism that Diaz de Leon is known for. Opener Sacrament is written for a trio of musicians from Talea Ensemble and features the composer’s shimmering, bass heavy electronic production. This energetic piece, driven by the virtuosity of marimba player and Talea executive director Alex Lipowski, makes use of rapid-fire arpeggiations and heavy rhythmic unisons. These are starkly contrasted with moments of reverberant echo, bursts of noise in the flute and electronics, and ecstatic rhythms. Labrys, written for ICE bassoonist Rebekah Heller, builds on the celebrated legacy of solo + electronic works heard on his 2015 album The Soul is the Arena. Built around virtuosic interplay between bassoon and synthesizer, Labrys features shifting and hypnotic repetition alongside expansive melodies and sub-bass frequencies.
 
The B-side consists of two works composed in July of 2016 which draw from primal, incantatory, and improvisatory sonic landscapes. Irradiance, a collaboration with cellist Mariel Roberts, begins with a series of spacious riffs exploring the extremes of the cello’s register and transforms over time into a climactic frenzy of noise loops. Tuning the cello’s low C down to a growling G, Roberts interpreted the sounds of each pre-recorded loop by ear.  The piece gradually builds from cavernous depths into an ecstatic climax of anarchic noise. Concluding track Mysterium is written for the ICE trio of flutist and ensemble founder Claire Chase, clarinetist and artistic director emeritus Joshua Rubin, and bassoonist and current artistic director Rebekah Heller. Archaic melodies, improvised heterophony, spectral transformations, echoes of Klang-era Stockhausen, and the colorful noise of Moog and Ciat-Lonbarde synthesizers combine to create an expansive and wildly ritualistic atmosphere.
 
Cycle and Reveal was recorded in vivid detail by Marc Urselli (John Zorn, Laurie Anderson) at East Side Sound, Stephen McLaughlin at EMPAC, and mastered by Ryan Streber at Oktaven Audio. Diaz de Leon invited Melbourne-based visual artist Yuria Okamura to design the cover image and inner sleeve symbols. Sharing Diaz de Leon’s interest in the reinterpretation of spiritual art, Okamura’s cover “maps and reconfigures geometric patterns and symbols that reference esoteric symbolism, occult diagrams, religious architecture and decoration.”