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Rural Colours

Another sunset in the Waipoua Forest, Northland, New Zealand. This time featuring the wind in the pine trees. 

Location on google maps: http://goo.gl/QgGmwX

Waipoua Forest Wind

Recorded live during InFiné Workshop August 28th 2013.
SHE, Vanessa Wagner, plays classical piano pieces from: Satie, Philip Glass, Ligeti, Scelci, Arvo Pärt... HE, Murcof aka the Mexican sound wizard, live produce and enhance the piano.

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Murcof & Vanessa Wagner (live @ InFiné Workshop 2013)

Although it is close to Sydney, Wollemi National Park protects an area of wilderness which is relatively unexplored. This is an early morning recording on a warm summer day.

Summer in Wollemi

Summer in Wollemi National Park, NSW Australia

Bassline Of Memory

Strong winds made recording difficult on this trip to Mount Kinabalu, but I managed to get one decent recording where the sound of the wind complements the birdsong & ambience.

Windy Morning on Mount Kinabalu

Windy Morning on Mount Kinabalu, Malaysia

a slow, late night drive with a nord lead 1 being looped by a mungo g0 and make noise phonogene. the chord that scrapes over the top is a sample on the qu-bit nebulae.

various filters are involved... intellijel dr. octature ii, verbos amp & tone.

there's also an intellijel atlantis pinging off a sine wave here and there every time the phonogene loop cycles....and a verbos harmonic oscillator fading in and out via an LFO.

it's a patch based on the the previous two days patch.. but it's starting to devolve now and will be dismantled this morning.

december 09, 2014 (late night woozy loops)

Collaborative track by Darren McClure and Martin Thompson.  A work in progress.

01 (in collaboration with Martin Thompson)

Steve Reich - 18 Musicians

Woop! We're super excited to welcome Alex Smalley aka Olan Mill to Rural Colours with his first release under his own name.  JAN SBR 15 references a quiet time for Alex last year which gave him some space to produce some supremely minimalist and blissful ambient. 

http://ruralcolours.co.uk/alex-smalley-jan-sbr-15/

Released on double 3" CDr, a numbered edition of 75.
Artwork by Katie English.
This is Rural Colours 074

Alex Smalley / JAN SBR 15 (Snippets)

Une fois par mois l'équipe d'InFiné prend les platines de Rinse FM France pendant deux heures.

Mix en exclusivité signé par les artistes du label et présentations en avant-première de morceaux inédits et de coup de coeur de l´équipe

L'émission du 13 juillet met en avant Deena Abdelwahed lors de la deuxième heure, figure montante d'une scène tunisienne en pleine ébullition - déjà apparue chez InFiné en remixant Bachar Mar-Khalifé ainsi que sur la compilation #Explorer3. Premiere heure : Ambient mix signé par Dresde. 

https://soundcloud.com/deenaabdelwahed

InFiné Show - Rinse France 13.07.2016 - Dresde & Deena Abdelwahed

Deconstruction/1

Wil Bolton's 'Maemi' takes its title from the Korean word for cicadas. Recorded live at Cafe OTO, London during the Home Normal label's Homenormalism festival on 3 August 2013, Wil weaves effected guitar drones, synthesizer, music box, effects pedals and environmental sounds creating a slow moving dronescape. The environmental sounds - timber mill machinery, traffic, and the buzz of cicadas - were recorded in Incheon, South Korea in August 2012, during an artist residency at the Incheon Art Platform.

This is Rural Colours 77
Mastered by Fraser McGowan
Artwork by Katie English

Wil Bolton / Maemi (Preview)

Working from the 1950s onwards and best known as the creator of Deep Listening, Oliveros primarily utilised electronic, vocal and improvisational media. A composer and musical theorist of considerable scope, intelligence and sensitivity, her life-long aim was to develop new and more profound ways of hearing music. 

This project was inspired by Phelan and Cherer’s attendance at one of Pauline’s last public appearances, at St. John Smiths Square in summer 2016, during which she led the audience in a performance of her composition ‘Tuning Meditation’, both feeling it to be a singularly memorable and moving experience. 

By drawing upon Oliveros’ principles the thirteen musicians featured on this compilation have fashioned dedicated pieces, using a variety of musical palettes and compositional styles, to reflect both Oliveros’ own wide ranging talent and the influence that her work has had upon their own practice.

With Alison Cotton, Brona McVittie, Oliver Cherer and Keiron Phelan, David Colohan, Isnaj Dui, Thollem Electric, The New Honey Shade, James Stringer, Neotropic, Anne Garner, The Hardy Tree and Michael Tanner.

Produced by Keiron Phelan and Oliver Cherer 
Mastered by Mark Kuyenkall 
Artwork by Katie English 

This is Rural Colours 080
Released May 30th 2017

Album launch, Cafe Oto, London, May 30th 2017.
https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/rural-colours-presents-pauline-oliveros-tribute/

The Last Sense To Leave Us, A Tribute To Pauline Oliveros (Snippets)

GOD 43
Phill Niblock - Rhymes With Water
LP
GODrec
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GOD 43 - Phill Niblock - Rhymes With Water, excerpts

Taken from the forthcoming new album by Jasmine Guffond entitled "Traced". Available early July 2017

Traced

Jasmine Guffond - Post Human

Jorden Under Stille Vand

From the album "Nest" by Darren McClure and Arovane.

https://darrenmcclure.bandcamp.com/album/nest

Mound

Track from Poiesis, out now on Rural Colours.

Siyr Siylur

Leigh Toro has been producing music for the past twenty years.  Back in the day he recorded under the guise of Flotel and released works on the excellent Expanding Records.  More recently he has been recording under his own name and has had albums out on Eilean Records and Handstitched.  We are excited here at Rural Colours to bring you his latest work Layers of Ash, an album of frayed granular resonances.

Layers of Ash started life as a series of short improvisations which were then woven together to create more developed pieces.  Leigh tells us that he is currently producing longer form pieces of music that explore the textural qualities of digital distortion, bit reduction and resonance. He enjoys exploring the balance between the harsh noise and more subtle delicate sounds and how that balance can evolve over a longer period than he has worked on before. 

This is Rural Colours 081
Written and produced by Leigh Toro
Artwork by Katie English
www.ruralcolours.co.uk / innit

Leigh Toro / Layers of Ash (Snippets)

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)

Having spent the past two years working on shorter projects including the EPs Answers at Dawn (Was Ist Das) and Sunspot Loops (Courier Sounds), Fresh Yorkshire Aires graphic scores project and a commission with aerial artists for Bristol's Feel It Festival, Katie English aka Isnaj Dui returns with full-length album Poiesis on Rural Colours.  Already being described by some from the electronica underground as lulling the listener into a subdued state only to be taken by the feeling that you’re about to be hit round the back of the head with a blunt object, Poiesis has lost none of Isnaj Dui’s unnerving calm but has taken on a more expressionistic edge as she (consciously or otherwise) gets her head around the general state of things and tries putting the world to rights. 

The CD comes packaged in a hand-printed sleeve.

This is Rural Colours 083
Released 30 October 2017

Isnaj Dui / Poiesis (Snippets)

Map 165 is a collaboration between Martin A Smith and Tim Hooper exploring disorganised sound, atonality, beauty and evocation. Following on from 2014’s The Fatigue of Sunlight and Wine (Voxxov) and their collection of live recordings A Foreign Country, we are pleased to announce the release of their latest album Of Adam Sleeping in the Lap of God. 

An ambient work in four movements inspired by the north portico of Chartres cathedral Of Adam Sleeping in the Lap of God melts stone into music using a series of field recordings, synths and guitars. 

Of Heaven and earth: 
The formless becomes formed. A swirling coalescence of themes and sounds. Through repetition a pattern appears. Order is created. Across a slow shimmering, four notes call out bridging the void. 

The deepest midnight blue 
The sound from the lowest point of the lake 
The silence of the space above the Earth 
The beat of the heart 

Of the firmament: 
A blissful disorientation. Shimmering, confusing, a wrapping inwards of time and rhythm with multiple refraction of the same themes overlaid but still apparent. 

It is the clangour of bells reflected off stone walls in an old town 
It is the beat of wings over a lake 
It is the confusion of walking in to a dark interior out of the brilliant sunshine 
It is the clamour of foreign languages in the market place 

Of the Sun and the Moon: 
Reflective and contemplative, with a receding sadness. Watching the last sun of Summer set knowing that Winter will be coming. 

Wind between the fingers of trees 
Dust settling in corners until Spring 
Hands resting upon the table 
Valleys filled with fine rain 

Of Eden: 
Neither afraid of night or morning. Each day welcomed; each day passing as easily as water in a river. The security of knowing what you like and trusting your judgement. Equal with all, afraid of none. Night comes blissfully again. 

The comfort of time passing 
The first moment of sleep 
Closing the door once home 
A friend’s voice 

Written and recorded by Martin A. Smith and Tim Hooper 
Assembled and Produced by Martin A. Smith 
Choir at Chartres Cathedral recorded by Helen Smith 
Recorded at Flying Boat Studio, Cambridge, UK 
Sleeve artwork by Katie English 
This is Rural Colours 84

Map165 / Of Adam sleeping in the lap of God (Snippets)

this will be a VERY limited edition ep: lathe cut 8" and made to order! the pre pre order is open: please email jonathan@hibernate-recs.uk for more information.

notes from the rural colours newsletter about this release:

These will be made available to order for 7 days only and they will never be released on this format again. There will only be as many copies as there are pre-ordered plus a few additional copies for the artist. Each release will come in a hand printed sleeve on recycled card with original artwork by Katie English who has been doing all the recent Rural Colours sleeves. The cost for each EP is £20 including shipping.

offthesky / Coma communion [excerpts from side A and B]

Buy (until 03/09/18) -  https://www.hibernate-recs.uk/product/8-ep/

The second release in a series of 10 8″ lathe cut transparent vinyl EPs to be released on Rural Colours; Stijn Hüwels’ Inaka No Iro is a VERY limited edition which will only be available to order for the next 7 days and will never be released on this format again. There will only be as many copies as there are pre-ordered plus a few additional copies for the artist. Each release will come in a hand printed sleeve on recycled card with original artwork by Katie English who has been doing all the recent Rural Colours sleeves.

Stijn Hüwels / Inaka No Iro [excerpts from side A and B]

This is an early version of "Black White and Grey" (misspelled here) from the CD of the same name.  I hope you enjoy it.

Black, White and Gray

Four minutes in Tierra de Fuegos, on the south end of the Americas. Wind, sheep and cowboys. The cheapest way to travel is to close your eyes. 
Recorded by By Félix Blume https://soundcloud.com/felixblume - Produced by http://arteradio.com
Quatre minutes en Terre de Feu, avec les moutons du bout du monde. Un beau voyage les yeux fermés. 

En Terre de Feu, à la pointe australe du continent américain. La plaine et la forêt s'étendent à perte de vue. Quelques fermes ici et là dans lesquelles on élève les moutons par milliers pour leur laine. Chaque année, au moment de la tonte, les bergers sillonnent les champs en hurlant pour pousser les moutons vers la ferme centrale. À cheval, à pied, avec leur chiens, ils avancent sur une ligne invisible, se repérant à leurs cris respectifs. Dans la grange, les moteurs ronronnent, les engrenages actionnent les lames pour tondre les moutons.

Enregistrements : janvier 08
Mise en ondes & mix : Charlie Marcelet
Réalisation : Félix Blume

Download : http://bit.ly/TA7JAm

Terre de feu

Location on Google maps: http://goo.gl/QgGmwX
Set the volume at a comfortable/low level, not too loud or you'll overload your senses. 

The first European to sight Niue was Captain James Cook in 1774. Cook made three attempts to land on the island but was refused permission to do so by the Polynesian inhabitants. He named the island "Savage Island" because, legend has it, the natives that "greeted" him were painted in what appeared to Cook and his crew to be blood. However, the substance on their teeth was that of the hulahula, a native red banana.

For the next couple of centuries the island was known as Savage Island, until its original name Niu ē, which translates as "behold the coconut" regained use.


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Niue: "Savage Island"

Warner CD - Steve Reich - Different Trains - III After The War

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