Ambient Modes

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104. Stevie Wonder "I Just Called To Say I Love You" (1984)

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109. Kenny G "Songbird" (1986)

Vidění - Forest Rain 
An Unexpected Day [SEA#003 / Shaded Explorations]

Produced by Rosario Piscosquito aka Vidění
Mastered by Emanuele Pertoldi at Organic Audio
Handmade Packaging by Officina Del Disco
Released by Shaded Explorations from Udine, Italy
Release Date : October 09th. 2022
Format - CD and Digital

Immersed in the waves of the tropical sea, exploring exploring its depth, while a blanket of clouds approaches the sky.
Today it’s atypical here, one of those days you don’t expect to live on the island. Little by little mist fills the air and a storm comes from the sea. In the forest the rain beats hard, recalls strange visions and opaque sensations. It's late now and the storm is coming to an end as the sky clears up, giving us the last weak light of the day that sketches in a sunset that envelops the soul.

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An Unexpected Day

Forest Rain

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Taken from Vidění's LP An Unexpected Day on Shaded Explorations, out October 9.

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Shrouded In The Mist

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Shaded Explorations #002 - Soundscapes For Escape Vol. 2
Limited Double Cassette VA in an handmade cover.
Out 2 march 2015.

A side:
As Patria - Belisama
Antonio Vázquez - Nebenan
Ntogn - Träl

B side:
Shaded Explorer - Förlorat Småstad
Fjäder - Vingar
Gigi Masin - Vienna

C side:
Commodity Place - Tentacle Rape
DiY Project - #01
Deison - Subsurface

D side:
Claudio PRC - Zona D'Ombra
Mørk - Resonant Mutism
Tom Adams - North

© 2015 Shaded Explorations [SE#002]
Mastered at Evasion Room Studio
Photo by Matteo Spangaro

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Koen Holtkamp — Voice Model
© Umor Rex Records

Koen Holtkamp’s music is never quite what it seems. There are distinct textures, tones, structures, relationships, and references —the things that bring us back again and again, but the undercurrent remains elusive.

For listeners unaware of Holtkamp’s solo efforts, most will have encountered him as half of the Brooklyn based duo Mountains (Thrill Jockey) —a project which has pushed musical boundaries for more than a decade. Voice Model wades effortlessly into this same ambitious territory, but focuses on the breadth of possibility activated by a narrow band of sonorities. It’s two interrelated works, Scene One and Scene Two, feature Holtkamp on piano, modular synth, bowls, cymbals and processing, as well as contributions by Nina Mehta on Flute and Josh Millrod on trumpet. Both sides, though in clear conversation, weave autonomous worlds - collapsing the ground between the historic efforts of Groupe de Recherche Musicales (GRM), New Age, and contemporary avant-garde practice, while sculpting their own worlds of sonic potential and understanding.

Voice Model’s fascinating intricacy works gradually like the sediment of time, gathering beneath a pool of conflicting streams, and defying the normal expectation of structure and artistry. Though the album fits seamlessly into the larger body of Holtkamp’s output, his hand remains elusive. Sounds appear to have sculpted themselves - to have appeared from an organic inevitability. This is an exploration of discrete encounters within an electronic ecosystem - a world of chance, where the dimensions of time unfold. As its tones ricochet off each other, they lead us not to themselves, but towards a whole. Single tones and textures expand and bleed, generations of influence raise their heads and disappear into the shadows.

Recorded in 2014 and 2015 before being allowed to percolate for the better part of a year, Voice Model finds an artist at the height of his powers —curious, and at equal ease with challenge and invitation. It’s singular and mature and welcomes listeners both seasoned and new to these territories.

—

Recorded and mixed by Koen Holtkamp in Brooklyn, NY 2015/2016
Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studio
Design by Daniel Castrejon

Voice Model

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Koen Holtkamp — Scene I

from 'Continental Ruins' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den274
available on all formats at [https://denovali.com/multicastdynamics]

Finland-based Samuel van Dijk is an electronic music producer, sound designer and media artist, having released electronic music under a variety of projects, namely, Mohlao and VC-118A. Following on from 2014-2016's praised album quadrilogy, Multicast Dynamics releases his new "Continental Ruins" LP on Denovali Records. Inspired by decayed infrastructure, Samuel van Dijk reveals his sound documentary about sunken cities and continents.  A study on storytelling with sound, where electronic music acts as a verb, moved by images and narratives.

„Continental Ruins“ LP is a journey through washed out, blurred particles, gliding across the ungraspable seafog of the atlantic, transforming the visible into sound. The murky and desolated atmosphere throughout the tracks reflects an forgotten utopia of places that were once populated. Unfolding fallen structures, immersing into the elusive, submerged land, searching for signs of life in the lost memories of faded civilizations, Multicast Dynamics explores ultrasonic underwater communication, decodes messages and browses through the archive of the past.

Written and produced with analogue synthesizers, arcane effect units and manipulated field-recordings, finally sequenced with the computer and mixed using temperamental analogue mixers. "Continental Ruins" LP is a slow horizontal panning, gliding through frames of sounds, creating textures and layers with unobtrusive rhythms. Samuel van Dijk delivers a calm and organic sound journey, resting on gloomy swirls and hidden artefacts. Artwork by T. van Dijk.

Continental Ruins

Multicast Dynamics - Frequency Modulation

Mysteries of the Deep Podcast, Chapter CXI by Claudio PRC (@claudioprc). Cover photo courtesy of Candace Price.

'With this mix I wanted to experiment with some of the folk music that I collected during these years of traveling around the globe. I wanted to combine a certain type of traditional world music, mainly Asian, with a raw and enveloping ambient and electro-acoustic background. Inside there are aspects of Mongolian, Japanese, Taiwanese and South Korean music culture, together with field-recordings by Hafdís Bjarnadóttir from Iceland and electronic compositions by Eliane Radigue, Pete Namlook, Carlo Giustini, Loscil and Music For Sleep. My aim is to submit the listener to a different approach to listening to folk music, creating a soundscape that fully reflects the experiences and emotions during those travels.'

Tracklist:
1. Hafdís Bjarnadóttir - North (Island)
2. (till end) Eliane Radigue - Adnos I
3. Pete Namlook - Music For Urban Meditation - Part II
4. Damdin Khadkhuu - Intro (Mongolia)
5. Carlo Giustini - I Cani Di Strada Ottavi
6. Splendour Of The Shakuhachi - Yamagoe (Japan)
7. Loscil - Windless
8. 大悲咒課頌 - Track 2 (Taiwan)
9. Music For Sleep - Notturna
10. Byungki Hwang - The Labyrinth (South Korea)

Mysteries of the Deep CXI - Claudio PRC

Vladislav Delay - Rakka
Format: LP/DGTL
Cat.No. CR11
Pre-order: http://bit.ly/35ZwaBQ

It’s been 5 years since “VISA”, Sasu Ripatti’s latest release under his iconic Vladislav Delay moniker. Time of the study, of exploration and reconstruction, a time in which his sound, his methods, and practice have never ceased to evolve. It is now time for a new release which he titled Rakka, and it only makes sense for it to find a home on Cosmo Rhythmatic.

Ripatti makes it very clear that Rakka is not a ‘nature recording’, though it is inspired by the time he spent in the wilderness above arctic circle and tree lines, and the feelings and thoughts that traversed him while there. The music on the album is thus directly inspired by the arctic tundra: the elemental struggle to survive or thrive, the living creatures’ fight for existence. The raw, undefined, uncontrolled and uncorrupted power that exists within it.

Ripatti remakes these values into music, in monumental yet humble forms. Reductionist though not minimal, setting each part to prove its meaning, stripped from the meaninglessness of hooks and melodies. Sounds feel like carved off the flesh, leaving the bones bare. Beats emerge as ripples, as the motion of isolated forces, thwarting with the icy textures and backgrounds and trembling with strenuous energy.

A truly extreme ecosystem of sound, unleashed in the album as much as in the new Vladislav Delay live set, visually given life by Ripatti’s wife, artist Antye Greie-Ripatti (AGF).

Written and produced by Sasu Ripatti
Artwork by LCR
Graphic Layout & Type by Pasquale Ascione
Mastering & Cut @ Dubplates & Mastering
Publishing by Warp Music LTD
© Cosmo Rhythmatic 2020

Vladislav Delay - Raajat (CR11)

[01201] SaffronKeira & Claudio PRC - Mare Tranquillitatis

Mare Tranquillitatis I
Mare Tranquillitatis II
Mare Tranquillitatis III

W&P by SaffronKeira and Claudio PRC in Castelsardo. Artwork by Michele Zuddas. Mastered at Stardelta Audio Mastering. Distributed by Void Vinyl / Unearthed Sounds.

[01201] SaffronKeira & Claudio PRC - Mare Tranquillitatis

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Kanthor - Épithape
Kanthor - Mathème EP [SE#004 / Shaded Explorations]

Produced by Alexandre Galmard aka Kanthor
Mastered by Emanuele Pertoldi
Photo by Ab
Released by Shaded Explorations from Udine, Italy
Release Date: March 2020 
Format - Cassette & Digital

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Mathème EP

Epitaphe

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« Atsume - あつめ » means « forms of collection » , each title of the album refers to a form
that could represent an accumulation, based on the typology in the book « Form in Japan » by
Yuichiro Kojiro. This album is our opening, the fondation of our collaboration in which we seek the
emergence, for the listener, of a mind of one’s own. To do so, we suggest that one shall explore
soundscapes associated to electronic and exotic lands, to be propelled into a space where
shamanic territories merge with artificial and sonic landscape. A virtual exploration to open fractal sensations

« Aucuba Replica », symbolizes for us the duplication of the natural elements. The
botanical genus Aucuba includes a few species of shrubs native to Central Asia or Japan. Starting
from the premise that plants can be multiplied and reborn almost identically, even if each
individual remains unique. This idea of multiplication and artificial landscape generates our sound
atmosphere. We have creating a sound replica emanate from our individual practice, by collecting
sounds that can combine organic and artificial elements, bringing out the possibility to perceive
landscape as an audible geography.

Release date: October 2nd, 2020

Aucuba Replica - Atsume あつめ

Taken from Formant Value's LP Catarsi on Shaded Explorations, out December 16.

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Formant Value - Catarsi I
Catarsi [SE#005 / Shaded Explorations]

Produced by Lorenzo Zucchetti aka Formant Value
Mastered by Emanuele Pertoldi at Organic Audio
Photo by Michele Brusini
Released by Shaded Explorations from Udine, Italy
Release Date : November 16th. 2020
Format - Limited Cassette & Digital

Catarsi was born from silence. A creative void that generates an array of frequencies ready to be discovered by the listener. Spontaneous live creations emerged, flowing effortlessly, both on the dance floor and in a quiet listening environment.

Formant Value creative techniques are based on spontaneity, mixing analog drums machines with airy soundscapes to express the feelings of the instant.

Label’s head Shaded Explorer adds his touch to the release, reinterpreting Catarsi II, with a psychedelic Remix and a more organic and introspective Re-dream version.

Catarsi will be mostly enjoyed with a quiet mind, doing nothing except listening or dancing.

Formant Value (Italy)
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Catarsi

Catarsi I

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