An ambient an ominous track featuring soft strings alongside a subtle piano and haunting vocals.

The Crystal Cave

for little big band & bagpipes. raccoon print photo courtesy of my grandma

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Falling somewhere between dread futurism and perfumed ambience, Cabasa's slo-mo stepper opens the inaugural Eclipse Tribez release.

'Uncle Sigmund's EP' is out June 4th on Eclipse Tribez.

Pre-order: bit.ly/2I845gt

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Premiere: Cabasa – Uso Sketch [Eclipse Tribez]

Robert Martin - Divine Light
Upper Astral - Crystal Cave (Back To Atlantis)
David Storrs - Channel For The Light
Celestial Odysseys - Galactic Odyssey
Steven Cooper - Transcendence
David Naegele - Dawning Of The New Age​

NTS Show 43

Sounds of the Dawn NTS Radio May 26th 2018 VALLEY OF THE SUN SPECIAL PART III

Purchase: ilyasahmed.bandcamp.com/album/behold-killers
Catalog #: GN56
November 22, 2019
CASSETTE+DIGI

Since embarking on an enchantingly forlorn run of musical activity, Ilyas Ahmed has remained incredibly active both as a visual artist and an incredibly versatile musician. Ahmed has cultivated vibrantly esoteric collaborations with Liz Harris (Grouper) and Matt Carlson & Jonathan Sielaff (both of Golden Retriever), among others, is an active member of heady, genre-defying experimental instrumental band Grails, and steadfastly issued quiet epics of psych-minimalism. Now, the Pakistan-born, Portland, Or.-based musician returns with 'Behold Killers,' perhaps his most alluring and distantly seething work to date. 

"Pass No Jazz" unfurls its tattered but tranquil tapestry over the entire A-side, tracing each step with unhurried care and curious composure. "Metal Freedom" leads the B-side in a synth-laden cloud of shimmering tragedy and seething hope. "Mad Love" dials things down for a modest symphony of gritted minimalism and soot-covered, negative space. Closing piece "Wild Violet" shimmers in a desolate dance of eerie weightlessness and wretched resolve.

Best consumed in the dead of night or frosted isolation, ‘Behold Killers’ is an aural yarn explicitly woven for the trodden.

Ilyas Ahmed - "Wild Violet"

Premiere of the title track You, Only to be released on the Vaagner Summer Batch, July 1st 2019.

You, Only is a beguiling insight into the world of Turkish musician Ekin Üzeltüzenci and her debut release on Vaknar. 
The album features a series of musical tapestries which prominently include live instrumentation in tandem with Ekin’s own voice, all of which has been fed through a series of tape delays, giving the final outcome a brittle and reflective tone.

Track List:

A1 Ekin Fil - Hope
A2 Ekin Fil - Other, Others
A3 Ekin Fil - You, Only
A4 Ekin Fil - Arise
B1 Ekin Fil - Scar
B2 Ekin Fil - Incident Light

About Ekin Fil:

After a stint of initial tape only albums which included the aforementioned 'Heavy', Ekin Fil went on the produce 4 albums for the Helen Scarsdale Agency. She was awarded "Best Original Film Music" for her first Soundtrack "Kaygi" at SIYAD, 2017 and "Best Film Music" for the Soundtrack of "Korfez - The Gulf" at Türkisches Film Festival in Frankfurt, 2018.
This year she released an LP of separate songs titled KOMA on the Stockholm based imprint Possible Motive.

https://soundcloud.com/vaagner
https://soundcloud.com/ekin-fil

Premiere: Ekin Fil - You, Only [Vaknar]

First Terrace Records have the honour to present an album of new work by influential and idiosyncratic artist K. Leimer. 

His second outing for First Terrace, following his part on FTS001, the album finds the composer working in a solemn & focused mode, rendering deep sonic landscapes that shimmer, sink into themselves and play host to a slowly emerging carousel of auditory apparitions - dynamics delivered through his mastery of textural manipulation. 

Emerging in opposition to the sunless days & countless distresses of current US politics, each track is imbued with a refreshing sense of equanimity - in Kerry’s own words, he “does not profess that music - especially an experimental, lyric-free music - can change or influence such circumstances. But this is the context in which we now live, and this has shaped the music of Irrational Overcast — a coping mechanism for living under clouds of baseless beliefs and simplistic ideologies that disfigure and stifle what is an admittedly difficult though really quite lovely world.” 

The album is released worldwide on July 5th, on LP & digital formats, with artwork featuring images from Richard Misrach’s series of photographs documenting American petrochemical landscapes. 

Kerry includes this transcript to accompany "Irrational Overcast": 

"Authoritarian ideas that have persisted somewhere in the depths of human nature for millennia have resurfaced at a crucial moment for the environments we all inhabit — natural, cultural, intellectual and economic. The power and influence of this ideology will again prove catastrophic, as it already has for many people in many parts of the world. Authoritarianism, along with the refutation of our shared responsibility to one another and to objective knowledge in favor of personal gain & gratification consistently lead to disaster. Yet, somehow, a significant number of people seem to feel that this time will be different. To some extent they are right. It will be infinitely worse. 

Irrational Overcast is preoccupied with the perpetual failings of human tribalization, of assuming dominance over nature, of choosing belief and ideology over objective reality. The impetus was brought into immediate focus by the destructive impulses and actions of such excrescences as the Trump Administration and his republicans, as well as the blatant dishonesty and bigotry of thousands more retrograde, ill-informed nihilists operating in and outside the pubic sphere. 

I do not profess that music — especially an experimental, lyric-free music — can change or influence such circumstances. But this is the context in which we now live, and this has shaped the music of Irrational Overcast — a coping mechanism for living under clouds of baseless beliefs and simplistic ideologies that disfigure and stifle what is an admittedly difficult though really quite lovely world. Music, to my mind, can not clearly express anything so literal, or metaphoric, or allegoric — but Irrational Overcast makes the effort to articulate the problems created by some enduring and banal aspects of human behaviour. Which is the reason it is built of lo-fi, deformed emergent or regressing or fragmented phrases, subsumed by distortion, noise, wow and flutter… and played with the understanding that there can be no more bedtime stories." 

K. Leimer has been recording and releasing experimental and electronic music since 1979. Irrational Overcast is his first full length record for First Terrace Records, and his 20th solo album. His work can also be found on the Palace of Lights, RVNG, Origin Peoples, Invisible Inc., and Les Giants labels as well as through The British Library.

Irrational Overcast

K. Leimer  'Weather On The Fen'

Записи выступлений с концерта X.Y.R. от 3 августа.
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X.Y.R — Live @ 03.08.2019, Екатеринбург, ГЦСИ

Painé - Africa Oscura (Drums Of Passion Mix)

For our 25th release, we'll be revisiting the work of singular Japanese musician Minoru ‘Hoodoo’ Fushimi. In 1983, a young Minoru was working from his home studio in Japan’s Kanagawa prefecture and determined his first release would be an ode to Japan’s musical heritage. Minoru had noticed the younger generation become increasingly disillusioned with traditional Enka songs and decided to breathe new life into the sentimental ballads of old. The multi-talented artist laid down the beat using a TR-606 and played all the additional instruments himself. 

The resulting tracks are two mutations from the energetic style of the originals into much darker and abstract versions, albeit managing to maintain the passion and spirit of the Enka genre. Minoru utilised a number of vocal distortions to honour the original vibrato singing style, executing the tracks in a way that was more of a mesh between early punk squelching of the late 70’s and Troutman’s funk-fuelled voice-box of the early 80’s. In true Minoru style, his vision overshadowed the accessibility and ironically the tracks fell short of their appeal to the younger generation he was aiming to inspire, yet resulted in two timeless renditions.

Minoru Fushimi - Hone Made Aishite (Love Me To The Bone)

"Having long admired the work of Tokyo’s Sapphire Slows, Hidden Harmony Recordings is overjoyed to present her remix of Morita Vargas’ ‘Deysa‘ (from the upcoming release of ‘8’). Dappled with hypnotic murmurs percolating beneath synthesized hand-percussion, ‘Deysa‘ mutates further from Vargas’ elegiac vision, seemingly disappearing down glowing, vine-covered corridors. While sharing the same nocturnal yearnings and rhythmic lushness, Sapphire Slows summons a unique, luminescent dialect, like a prism viewed from a new angle.”

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Sapphire Slow remix of Morita Vargas -´Deysa´.

´Deysa´, A4 on Morita Vargas - "8" LP,  released as HH03 by Hidden Harmony Recordings.

12" 180-gram vinyl record, 33RPM, black vinyl.

Edition of 1000 numbered copies
Die-cut outer sleeve, color print inner sleeve + poly-liner sleeve.

https://hiddenharmony.bigcartel.com/product/pre-order-morita-vargas-8-lp-hh03


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Morita Vargas – composer, producer, voices
Mastering - Diego Crisalida
Vinyl mastering, lathe cutting - Matt Colton (Metropolis Labs, London)
Recorded in Buenos Aires, Argentina (Recording period 2014-2018)

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Releases 18.Sep.2020

Premiere: Morita Vargas — Deysa (Sapphire Slows Remix)

summer to night and back again

(っ◔◡◔)っ ♥ ~obit for sunshade
 - https://hotspring.bandcamp.com/album/obit-for-sunshade ~♥

Polysensuality on Séance Centre here (Repressed): https://scottgailey.bandcamp.com/album/polysensuality

suggesting that every line supposes the arc of a circle (12/31/2056)

you're me : 
https://isla.bandcamp.com/album/youre-me

juniper systems:
https://isla.bandcamp.com/album/juniper-systems-s-t

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