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London-based keyboardist/producer Dan Nicholls (of Y-OTIS) introduces a new album project ‘Mattering And Meaning’ to be released by We Jazz Records on August 13th. Nicholls' music uses acoustic piano as its key element, transporting the instrument into new territories that sound remarkably natural and organic, whilst displaying a strong kinship with the world of abstract electronic music. The music utilises piano loops and field recordings as its key elements, forming what might be described on the surface as a fascinating ambient jazz record – but at the same time there's so much more at play here on deeper levels. Dan's music sounds at once otherworldly and immensely inviting.

With its uncanny landscape of fine sand drifts, juniper fields and pine, the ancient Beerze forest in the North-East of the Netherlands is a site of many unusual convergences of human and other than human stories. 'Papa' continues to unravel the threads of a deep artistic collaboration and kinship between pianist and producer Dan Nicholls and the Dutch filmmaker and anthropologist Louise Boer. These fuzzily collaged images and sounds represent a common love for finding the in-between places in which ideas can find deeper roots, channeled here through a dreamlike world which holds within it the location in which Louise’s father, Henk Boer, found his final resting place.

Mattering and Meaning

Exclusive Premiere: Dan Nicholls "Papa" (We Jazz Records)

From the new album by Chinese-Australian guzheng artist Mindy Meng Wang (and collaborators), 'Phoenix Rising'. Available for purchase here: https://mindymengwang.bandcamp.com/album/phoenix-rising

Mindy Meng Wang & Fia Fiell - Undercurrent 暗涌

A Year Ago

~ LAAPS 021 ~ [SEQ.03 - LP21]

artist : Tomotsugu Nakamura
 album : Nothing Left Behind
duration : 41.06 mn
 date : July 21st, 2022

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 300 copies / marble ultra-clear + violet LP / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 200 copies / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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pre-order : June 27th, 2022 / official release : July 21st, 2022
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All songs written and produced by Tomotsugu Nakamura.
Recorded between Nov 2020 and Sep 2021.

Mastered by Taylor Deupree
Artwork by Russel Burden
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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Links :
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https://tomotsugu.bandcamp.com/

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Tomotsugu Nakamura - Poolside

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Catalog #: GN70
February 17, 2023
CASS+DIGI

Over the past few years, Andrew Osterhoudt has quietly curated a slew of comforting kosmische musik that gazes deep into the stars while peering just as deeply inward. Now, the Brooklyn-based composer sets their sights on more tangible artifacts and nearby nuance with 'Out Together', an earthbound fit of maniacal mindfulness mixed with calm chaos.
 
Constructed on a scaffold of juxtaposed symmetry, the two sides of 'Out Together' foil and compliment each other in delicate harmony. Live collaborations with Ka Baird and John Also Bennett (JAB) colligate with manipulated found sounds from records and digital audio files from old broadcasting sound libraries, recontextualized into moments of ambient turntablism. The search for harmony shines throughout. Take the final tones of A-side closer “Runoff” drifting downstream with bubbly textures and arpeggiated bliss, trying to reach harmony with the initial tones of B-side opener “Frequency.” The latter ultimately spotlights a fortuitous flute duet from Baird and JAB born from Osterhoudt’s own graphic score.
 
The patient pointillism and avant assurance of “Crowds” balances out the opposite side’s “Everyone Arriving, Eventually,” a tone poem of sand-like textures flowing through melodic reeds and other sonic detritus. “Undergrowth” awakens in a steam-drenched run of modulated meditation, focusing on Ka Baird’s singularly enraptured vocal exorcisms which perfectly reflect its B-side counterpart “The Breathing Green,” engaged in a din of rustic psychedelia with waves of buzzing, ember-like tones and unseen fauna.
 
As a whole, 'Out Together' presents a vibrant spectrum of feelings ranging from magnified isolation to zoomed-out, wide-angled euphoria.

Andrew Osterhoudt - "Everyone Arriving, Eventually"

This is the 99th Ambient Sessions presented by Deep Electronics. These monthly released sessions brings you the best and the most diversity Ambient music can offer.This month I welcome Alessandro Crimi.

He created a smooth and sublime ambient mix for the month december. The last session of 2022. Dive into rhythmic natural elelements combined with atmosphere, field recordings and a ambiance to end this  year.

Tracklist:
01 Alka_Rex - Blur Shape
02 Saphileaum - Distant Ray Collector
03 The Vision Reels - Aconites (Launaea Immersion)
04 Strië - Untitled 1956
05 Hviledag - Intention and Chance
06 Rime Trails - Dusk Embers I
07 Misha Sultan - Fuji
08 Birds ov Paradise - Osiris
09 Martin Jarl - Drömsekvens I
10 Lauge - Amalthea
11 Milieu - Dithent
12 Areliz Ramos - Ava
13 Joachim Spieth - Terrain 4
14 Sraunus - Warm Night.

Links:
https://soundcloud.com/alessandro_crimi
https://alessandrocrimi.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/alessandrocrimi.ch

Design created by Jeroen
Photo by Jeroen, Zermatt 2006
Logo design by Subchord

Ambient Sessions # 99 - Alessandro Crimi

Liquidity

Sensorama - Echtzeit

Why?

Why? (feat. Evicshen)

From the album Reflections Vol. 2: Black Decelerant
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Reflections Vol. 2: Black Decelerant

Black Decelerant - two

We are thrilled to announce the signing of Pariah for a debut full length, Here From Where We Are, due for release on July 13th 2018. The artist’s first release in six years marks a natural progression in his sound across nine interconnected pieces.

Arthur Cayzer was a relative late comer to dance music. He grew up in various hardcore and punk bands before moving to London and being swept away by dubstep. After just six months messing around making his own stuff on Logic, Pitchfork coverage piqued the interest of the legendary R&S, and over the next two years he released three EPs with the Belgian label. Each one showed subtle evolution and further established Pariah on the international scene. 

Since then, Arthur has continued to DJ round the world and play live with Blawan as Karenn. Musically, though, he’s been adrift. With countless unfinished projects cluttering his hard drive, he felt he’d pressured himself into making the music people expected, rather than music that was an honest reflection of himself. It was only by taking a step back to analyse the music that has always resonated with him—and where, how, when and in what context it did—that gave him a renewed confidence in his work. After one track was finished, an album of coherent pieces naturally followed.

Although Here From Where We Are is inspired by a series of very personal reflections, responses and reactions, Arthur is keen for people to process it in their own way, free from interference. Opening with the transcendental ‘Log Jam’ which spills into the huge, empty and plaintive ‘Pith’, the artist distills his experiences into an album of nine moving, multi-layered tracks, where peculiar textures combine with rich harmonies and absorbing melodies into a heady mix of abstracted environments, formally structured songs and sound collages. Absorbing from start to finish, Here From Where We Are is a long overdue return and accomplished new direction for this rejuvenated producer.

Here From Where We Are
VINYL / CD / DIGITAL

01. Log Jam
02. Pith
03. Seed Bank
04. Linnaea
05. At The Edge
06. Conifer
07. Rain Soup
08. Drug The Lake
09. Here From Where We Are

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Pariah - Linnaea

Nothing 2 Loose

Dj Healer - Nothing 2 Loose (2018)

Happy to share some new music from ISAN member Robin Saville today: "The Deepdale Halophyte Economy" is the first glance on the upcoming album "Build A Diorama". 9 minutes of ambient bliss, merging the aesthetics of his main project with field recordings & gentle drones. Available now everywhere, f.e. on Bandcamp, Spotify & Apple Music / iTunes.

The Deepdale Halophyte Economy

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Robin Saville: The Deepdale Halophyte Economy

Album : DJ Healer ‎– Nothing 2 Loose
Released: 01 April 2018

https://www.discogs.com/DJ-Healer-Nothing-2-Loose/release/11849140


"I remember the day I walked out of my Lion's mother's cave, the snakes had being awaiting me outside, and I started to play and dance with some fine confidence, full of plain white innocence. and when I learned to fly, I learned a lot about what lifts you up can throw you down and found out that also works the other way around

Thank you for your trust, because that is what makes me believe that we can heal each other cause everything is everything and i know sometimes you’re worried about the future and again and again I said to myself, don't you worry cause everything is everything, everything is everything.

Walking through the same dreams, undescribable and out of control as it seems, dream within a dream

and I try to remember that I don't depend on anything, only in a way that like loving or laughing, sleeping or crying

Creation is the opposite of dying, this is what keeps me sane, when someone interrupted the circle with consciousness, pretending to myself it could last had being the greatest part of it. It is the earth of lying

and its never being healthy to depend on someone's love, rather than the freedom it may give you to enjoy our wonder

I fear all this is a mirror that expands and everyone is free to mirror a part of himself. You can see your self in the way you want to see something

I hope you remember, that everything is everything, everything is everything, is everything, is everything, is everything....."




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