The Rough Guide To Drone Ambient

After a 6 month hiatus, the Mysteries podcast returns with a stellar new mix from Anthony Child (Surgeon). Cover photo courtesy of Candace Price.

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https://anthony-child.bandcamp.com

Tracklist:
1. Chris Watson - Lencten
2. Émile Zener - Laguna Cibernetica I
3. Michael Ranta - Absurd
4. Jon Anderson - Qoquaq Ën Transic - Naon - Transic Tö
5. Mac-Talla Nan Creag - Grugaigian Chant
6. Galen Tipton - honey (w S280F, Miedo Total)
7. Boredoms - (Tilde)
8. Chris Watson - El Divisadero
9. Black To Comm - Traum GmbH
10. Księżyc - Kapkowa
11. Anna von Hausswolff - Persefone
12. Shasta Cults - Console
13. Coil - Baby Food
14. Black To Comm - Licking the Fig Tree
15. William Selman - A New Old Firmament
16. Oneohtrix Point Never - Physical Memory
17. Charlie Morrow - Telephone Music
18. Ishq - Memories I Have Dreamed
19. Delia Derbyshire / Barry Bermange - Falling
20. Charles Cohen - Shopping Cart Lady
21. Jon Brooks - Fibre Optics
22. Bea Brennan - Focus
23. Chris Watson - Los Mochis
24. Teleplasmiste - An Unexpected Visit
25. Henry Wolf & Nancy Hennings - Towards the Bending of the Light

Mysteries of the Deep CXXVI - Anthony Child

The second instalment of Dose Radio has landed softly and was prepared by one of Vancouver’s most interesting and esoteric DJs, Scott W. 

The recording effortlessly trips through a rich and expansive universe of ambient and downtempo selections and will be a perfect companion on your next mind expanding experience. Enjoy the journey!

Tracklist:
Sun Ra - Cluster of Galaxies
Andres Lõo - Parast Vihma Sajab Paikest
Scott Gailey - Sorgente Termale in un Cantiere
??? - ???
MLO - In Search of Lost Time
Bochum Welt - Asteroids Over Berlin
Edgar Froese - NGC 891
Shasta Cults - October 
Iasos - The Bubble Massage
Takashi Kokubo - Music For The Corridor
Summe - Strukture III
Joey Beltram - The Cure
Mystic Tribe A.I. - Telepathic Seduction
G.E.S. - Schlaf (vor und Nach Einführung der Psychoanalyse)
Bochum Welt - Terpsitone
Ross 154 - Mayflower
Brother From Another Planet - Soundscape
Lee Gamble - Frame Drag
Jon Hassell - Empire II
NRSB-11 - 685-471 2 
Exael - into deep
Roedelius - Gewiß
Air Liquide - Uludag
Brian Eno - Unfamiliar Wind
Inoyama Land - Hair Air
Money Morning - Haze
Fripp & Eno 
 ??? - ???
Echo Mike - Phil 1
Jeff Mills - The Hunted
Sorte Joey - Ready

DOSE RADIO vol.02 with Scott W.

Musica Nuvolosa

Horse Sings from Cloud

2LP available directly from Imprec.com

"This is where you have been forever and will always be forever."
Stuart Dempster, speaking about what it feels like to be in a cistern where time seems to stop.

Stuart Dempster created Underground Overlays From The Cistern Chapel in the same cistern where the legendary Deep Listening album was recorded. Reverberating with powerful, deep tones, this double LP is intended as a companion to the acclaimed Oliveros/Dempster/Panaiotis album Deep Listening. 

Underground Overlays From The Cistern Chapel is one of the deepest drone albums ever recorded. Nine trombones, didjeridu and Tibetan bells fill the massive two million gallon cistern with dense sonic reverberations that are both haunting and healing. 

Packaged in a heavy duty paper sleeve printed with metallic gold ink to match the Deep Listening design.

Stuart Dempster - Melodic Communion (edit) - Underground Overlays From The Cistern Chapel 2LP

Console

Mechanosphere

Drift Through

Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill

Disengaged

How To Disappear Completely - ‘Seraph VI’
Donnacha Costello - ‘Leeway Drift’
Blanck Mass - ‘Sifted Gold’
Substan - ‘Generated Memories’
Apart - ‘Encantamento’
Ryyba & Stephan Hinz - ‘The Echo Within’
Konchord - ‘Freedom Is’
Julianna Barwick - ‘Big Hollow’
Still Life - ‘Dancing / New Phases’
Woob - ‘Earlier’ / Olan Mill - ‘Ntr hs hr sy’
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - ‘Under The Midnight Sun’
Rosa Anschütz - ‘Diopter’
Pallas Kat - ‘Leirelva’
Philipp Otterbach - ‘The Roamer, Pt. 1 / Placid Angles - ‘1700’
Symphocat - ‘Fljuga Yfir Jokulsarlon’
Amotik - ‘Chatis’
Shasta Cults - ‘Looks Frozen’
ZHI16 - ‘Ocean’
How To Disappear Completely - ’Seraph II’
Brambles - ‘Spirits’

Kilchurn Session XVI

Here’s a selection of music that I’ve been enjoying during the last few months. Mixed for you to enjoy during lockdown and self isolation. Ideal for ‘eyes closed’ adventures.

We aren’t always tied to one beat, and sometimes we float in space. 

Please support me by buying something at https://dj-surgeon.bandcamp.com

Panda Bear - Scheherazade	     
Sarah Davachi - burgundy	          
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Joy    
Mac-Talla Nan Creag - Love's Promise		     
Olivier Messiaen - Offrande au Saint Sacrement 1930	     
The Undisputed Truth - Take A Vacation From Life (And Visit Your Dreams)	     
Oto Hiax - Strain 
Anthony Child - Old Technology     
Charles Cohen - Shopping Cart Lady
Jackie Mittoo - Winchester Cathedral
Bee Mask - Scanops	     
Midori Hirano - Belong (feat. Christoph Berg)	     
David Crosby - Laughing     
Stephen Vitiello and Michael Grigoni - Transparent As A Hanging Glass
Carl Stone - Fujiken (Final Section)    
Kali Malone - Sacrificial Code I	     
Olan Mill - Metatrons Cube	     
Orlando Julius with The Heliocentrics - Omo Oba Blues     
Panda Bear - Drone	     
Moss Covered Technology - Departure Process     
Nyx Nótt - Citation Needed	     
Scott Walker - Farmer In The City	     
Holden & Zimpel - Sunday	     	     
Jónsi & Alex Somers - Boy

Isolation mix

Self Isolation mix Vol.4

Here’s another mix for you to enjoy during lockdown and self isolation.
This time it’s a mixed bag of old and new with a few twists and turns.
Stay safe, clean and please look after each other.

Please support me by buying something at https://dj-surgeon.bandcamp.com

Cabaret Voltaire - Low Cool
Aroy Dee - City Of Others
Zenker Brothers - 	Bengel Mode
Nathan Fake - Vectra
Jay Clarke - Kicker
Off The Meds - Belter (Joy O Belly Mix)
Mhonolink - Prelude (VIL edit)
Temudo - Stolen
Vanligt Folk - Boss
Cosmin TRG - Having Said That
HVL pres Kiyadama - Slammbeat (Sims JFF Edit)
Brad Goddard - Layers
Hodge - Cutie
Minos - Brown Sauce (Claude Young Remix)
Cabaret Voltaire - Easy Life (jive turkey mix)
Ido Plumes - Which Way Is Up
Andrea - TrackQY
Albert Salvatierra - Distorted (DJ Shufflemaster Remix)
Zeki 808 - White Label
Nathan Fake - Stepping Stone
Zenker Brothers - 	Chi Boost
Naked Eye People - Balsa Wood Blues
VIL - Bad Kids
Acronym and Kali Malone - Legs of the Fly
Max Cooper - Repetition (feat. James Yorkston)
Plant43	 - Dream Archive

Self Isolation mix Vol.5

With some intrepidation I decided to have a go firing up Novachord 346 for the first time in what turns out to be 8 years since I resurrected and partially restored this 1/4 ton behemoth!...

To my great relief, this now 87 year old quarter ton 163 tube beast came out of slumber with all 12 of her master oscillators in action and pretty much in the same order she was in last time I hooked this monster to the power!...

After some initial tests I made this recording consisting of one overdub of a plucked Attack setting over a slow sustained Attack setting whilst occasionally moving some of her triple L/C formant resonator controls, the Bright/Mellow control and the Vibrato Depth.  

The source is 100% Novachord and the recording was made directly from the line output of the pre-amplifier into basic delay and reverb but with no form of added modulation processing such as chorus/ensemble/flanger.  Any natural chorusing you hear is due to the Novachord's 6 free-running vibratos acting on pairs of her 12 master-oscillators.

It still truly astounds me that an all electronic instrument originally on the drawing board in the mid 1930s can sound like this.. and even moreso 85 years after she left the factory!!

We are so used to hearing muffled scratchy recordings from the 1930s – but that is not to say its what it sounded like on the day of the recording – the HF the NC produces is amazing for its era.

Composition & Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio, 2020.

1938 Novachord #346: The Beast Doth Gently Awaken (87 Year Old Tube Polysynth!)

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Leaves lose their effervescence, stroking the strings of the ground as they bring us into the colder months. Such is the sound that resonates out of Chris SSG, our next guest from Japan. A master of mesmerizing, emotive passages, he is known for his careful consideration, patient execution, and sublime selections. As co-founder of the now-defunct MNML SSGS blog and event series and a resident at the semi-regular Sound Garden chill out parties, he has spread his infectious love for boundless forms of music far and wide, reaching audiences across the globe. After hearing his acclaimed mixes for podcasts such as Electronic Exploration and Mysteries of the Deep, we are ecstatic to have him contribute to UNRUSH. So grab a blanket, some tea, and watch the eternal processes of decay and rebirth unfold before you with this very special session from Chris SSG.

Thanks a lot https://soundcloud.com/mnml-ssgs

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/mnmlssgs

Cover artwork by Irakli Kiziria 
Words by Nathan Levenson

Tracklist:

Biosphere - Berg
Ital & Halal - Where Exactly I Am
Shasta Cults - Incline
Sarah Davachi / Ariel Kalma - Adieu La Vie
Art Crime - Self
Niagara - Ano-B
William Selman - Polysemy
Imaginary Softwoods - Lie Down and Rest
Grand River & PRG/M - Rosenbach Acoustic Piano (70's)
Neel - Planatia
Pye Corner Audio - Phase B
A.R. Hill - PT2399
Exael - Actaeon
Pontiac Streator - Enter Sandman
Tadd Mullinix - Woman in the Dunes
Norm Chambers - Glass
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe - Kreintoj
Ragnar Grippe - Part 1
John Also Bennett & Field Works - Indiana Blindfold
Laurie Spiegel - Pentachrome
Christina Vantzou - Lava (Ka Baird remix)
Spirit & Form - Spirit & Form (Lieven Martens remix)
Koen Holtkamp - Flint (for Flynt)
Baba Stiltz - Hotel Exile
Lord Of The Isles feat. Ellen Renton - Inheritance 
The Detroit Escalator Co. - Fractual (in)

Unrush 049

049 - Unrushed by Chris SSG

Pre-order now available from Imprec.com

Harry Bertoia's Glowing Sounds LP contains three versions of the same composition, each transferred at different tape speeds in accordance with the artist's instructions. This is the third LP to be released from Bertoia's extensive tape archive and it's the first, of many, to be released using instructions left behind by the artist himself.

Bertoia wrote the concept for this Glowing Sounds LP on a note in 1975 and slipped it into the master tape case where it sat unread for 45 years. The idea was simple, transfer the original recording at its original speed and two slower speeds. Bertoia noticed that the results, however, were profound. 

Recorded on January 20, 1975 using two large gongs, Glowing Sounds is one of the most powerfully minimal recordings yet discovered in Bertoia's collection. The artist's note left with the tape indicated that it was recorded at a speed of 15 IPS (inches per second) but slowing it down to speeds of 7.5 IPS and 3.25 IPS were quite effective for enhanced playback. Side A features the original 15 IPS recording and the 50% slower 7.5 IPS recording. Side B features a 20 minute, ultra-slow version at 3.25 IPS. 

Long, deep drones and powerful overtones define the sound of this recording. Comparison of the three speeds provides a revealing magnification of Bertoia's gongs, overtones and the artist's inventive approach to performance, composition and recording. 



Bio: 

Harry Bertoia first gained some artistic visibility in the early 1940s, then came into prominence with his sculptural, ergonomic chairs, produced by Knoll Furniture beginning in 1952, which quickly became classics of modernist furniture. Inspired by the resonant sounds emanating from metals as he worked them and encouraged by his brother Oreste, whose passion was music, Harry restored a fieldstone "Pennsylvania Dutch" barn as the home for this experiment in sounding sculptures which he had begun in the late 1950s. Bertoia was an obsessive composer and relentless experimenter, often working late into the night and accumulating hundreds of tapes of his best performances; Oreste, too, would explore and record the sculptures' sounds during his annual visits to his brother's home in rural Pennsylvania.

Harry Bertoia's recently dismantled Sonambient barn collection was an attentive listener's paradise full of warm, expressive instruments that were gorgeous visually and audibly. Nothing could prepare you, even on return visits, for the overwhelming experience of entering the spacious wood and plaster interior where gongs, some of them giant, hung among the ranks of standing sculptures of various metals. Over nearly twenty years of adding, culling and rearranging, Bertoia carefully selected nearly 100 harmonious pieces ranging in height from under a foot to more than fifteen feet. He considered this barn a full experience, sights and sounds comprising not a collection of works, but one piece unto itself. It was here, deep in the woods, that his Sonambient recording work took place.

Learning by experimentation was common for Bertoia and he mastered the art of tape recording, turning the Sonambient barn into a sound studio with four overhead microphones hanging from the rafters in a square formation. He would experiment with overdubbing by performing along to previous recordings, sometimes backwards, constantly improving his methods while also honing his performance skills. Bertoia was a careful editor of his own work and only chosen recordings remained, each with a date and carefully considered observations written on a note included with each tape. Through these pieces of paper a the artist's logic can be uncovered, a careful approach to composition, ideas, feelings and forms. The story of Sonambient barn collection will slowly be told through the release of recordings from the archive as well as installations and performances built from Bertoia's own recordings, lectures and a book.

Glowing Sounds

Harry Bertoia - Glowing Sounds (slowest) - LP -  Pre-Order

Alina Kalancea's Impedance is available on CD and audiophile-quality double vinyl cut by Golden Mastering and pressed at RTI. Both CD and 2LP are packaged in a deluxe, heavy duty tip-on gatefold sleeves printed by Stoughton. 

Highly recommended to fans of Eleh,  Caterina Barbieri, Shasta Cults, Jessica Ekomane, Eliane Radigue and Alessandro Cortini. 

Impedance, an entirely instrumental album spanning 4 sides, contains powerful rhythmic sequences, heart beating frequencies and hypnotic loops that are paradoxically encapsulated in carefully crafted compositions which are full of secret passages and hidden doors. Kalancea's work creates ungraspable sonic experiences, which take us over, immersing us in powerful and mind altering soundscapes. 

There's no quick payoff on Impedance. This is the sound of new, patient electronic music full of depth and substance. 

Alina Kalancea is a Romanian sound artist and composer based in Modena, Italy. She has studied sound design and synthesis with Enrico Cosimi and collaborated with producer Alex Gamez, and artists Julia Kent and Raven Bush.

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