Nice to hear some softer edged dub vibes :)

Meridian - Vani [slow]

Taken from the forthcoming album Echo

Cassette/CD/Digital

Order:
https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/echo

Releases July 5, 2021 

Recorded live. Composed, produced, mixed and mastered by Meridian 
Shimmering Moods Records 2021 
SHM 167

Meridian - Vani [slow]

Musicians David Poltrock and Adriaan de Roover (whom you may know as Oaktree) team up with Aïda Gabriëls (direction), Pieter Desmet (dance), Wim Piqueur (video), Jan Van Lindt (lighting design), Yoran Cambier (sound) for an all-immersive performance in quadraphonic sound, scheduled to premiere in Belgium in the next couple of weeks (see more details and live dates). Meanwhile, the score for this “sound choreography” is released as an album under the same name, VACUUM. The recording features binaural mixes which are designed to be experienced in headphones, capturing spatial positioning of sound to convey a three-dimensional “spherical” space. That’s all very rich and technically exciting and all, but what about the music? You know I wouldn’t be featuring something here if I didn’t connect with the piece. Hence my decision to host an exclusive premiere of “44,2 km” – a fourth track on the album, which I really enjoyed [in headphones]. On the track, advanced digital sound processing deconstructs the sounds of my favourite acoustic instrument and then places it back in the centre of a resonant space. The bass bottoms out beneath the piano, while sliced-up tiny sonic grains float up and flicker in a chamber of a hollow void to paint unexpected delays and reverbs in a space without time. A mesmerising sonic scape, one which, I imagine, could only be better if experienced during the performance mentioned above.

VACUUM

44,2 km

TRACK PREMIERE : Poltrock & de Roover - 44,2 Km (Binaural Version - intended for headphones)

I just love the albums the open up the way a film would. Especially a dark, suspenseful, and a little eerie movie, that lets the door swing open and away, and then you fall, propelled by the inertia, into the empty, into the timeless and unknown. There are many fantastic pieces on this 12-track album by Fionnlagh, which comes out tomorrow on Ambientologist imprint. But in the case of this deep cinematic journey, I have chosen to premiere the first. The rest is just as menacing and all evolving, but it’s the door that you must open first before the fall. Among the many recent fantastic releases on this Amsterdam-based label, this one comes as sort of a surprise – their “typical” affair de jour is mostly in the drone and ambient territory (oh, I try so hard not to pigeonhole and label, but it’s tough!), while this debut, What Came Before is even put out with a warning. “Not for the faint of heart. Engage at your own risk” – so states the sign-off on a press release accompanying “a thoroughly immersive and dystopian exploration of sublime vastness” by this London-born and Amsterdam-based composer. Appearing on the dance scene for the many labels, Mark Findlay tries his hand at cinematic music: part soundtrack to our tremendous longing, part echo of the distant and distorted past.

Read more about this release here: http://hcdi.gs/Fionnlagh

What Came Before

In Isolation

TRACK PREMIERE : Fionnlagh - In Isolation

Tracklist

01. Francisco Sonur - Ataraxia
02. Scattered Light - Tides
03. K Nogami -  Satoshi (alternative)
04. Grotta Veterano - Slaap
05. Hymns57 - il suono degli anelli di crescita
06. Andrew Tasselmyer - Make Your Peace
07. David Cordero - Charly Menta Poleo
08. Fortresses - June
09. Fields We Found - Snow
10. Forest Robots - Even The Tallest Leaves Return To The Roots
11. Ghost And Tape - Seabird
12. The Lifted Index - Secret Colors Never Named

266. Sleepy Sunday Podast (Elm Records)

AFTERIMAGE

meditative rocking back and forth feel to this track

Pendulum

from the album 'epithymía' available 3/24

Epithymía

anjou 'soucouyant'

Available here:
https://thesisproject.us/projects/thesis-17
&
https://thesisproject.bandcamp.com/album/thesis-17-ceeys-constant-presence

To be released on the conceptual collaborative-minded, boutique label Thesis, is the new joint project by the two neo-classical and contemporary ambient acts of CEEYS, and CONSTANT PRESENCE, the new outing between Peter Broderick [Erased Tapes, Type, Efterklang], and Daniel O’Sullivan [Grumbling Fur, Guapo]. Released during Q3AMBIENTFEST, a sterling three-day event of avant-garde, experimental pop and ambient-classical taking place in Potsdam, Germany during the first weekend of April, the limited edition 10inch EP, enriched with Zen ideology, comes replete with bespoke artwork, exclusive handmade packaging, and laser-etched designs.



CONSTANT PRESENCE, the new mesmerizing project by soundsmith Peter Broderick and multidimensional songwriter Daniel O'Sullivan, has been sporadically performing across the globe since coming together in 2019. This new, recorded body of music will see their release alongside the cello-piano brothers, Sebastian and Daniel Selke aka. CEEYS, who also happen to be the founding partners and curators behind Q3AMBIENTFEST. Looking to celebrate the notions of duology, unity and harmony, the EP features two ambient tracks that are enshrined in the teachings Shunryu Suzuki, a twentieth-century Soto Zen monk who gained popularity in the Western world for his teaching of Zen Buddhism outside of Japan. This nature of dualism becomes ever more pertinent when factoring in the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the bringing together of new and old worlds, and the pairing of Potsdam and Berlin. The East-West divide is something also very admissible to the works of the Selke brother’s, who imbue various elements of their East German upbringing within their recordings and philosophical approaches. Now celebrating its fourth year, Q3AMBIENTFEST is CEEYS’ labour of love, and it was a great honor, love and respect that they can now release something together with the multitalented and accomplished minds that are Broderick and O'Sullivan.



The Thesis Project, now on its 17th release, has set about on uniting two different artists together to create limited, custom designed bodies of music. Uniquely crafted and designed by Gregory Euclide, each 10” jacket for THESIS 17 consists of laser cut-etched designs portraying brutalist architecture and atomic structures glued on top of airbrushed designs that use the homemade Black Walnut Ink that Euclide made himself from the trees on his property, then letter pressed with the THESIS logo. Each record is hand numbered in an edition of 300, and will be made available on the second day Q3AMBIENTFEST, where it is also possible to get the record hand-signed by the artists. During the second day of the festival CONSTANT PRESENCE will share the stage with CEEYS, for a unique performance that juxtaposes the notion of duality and harmony yet further, in a show that will combine professionalism with liveliness, method with lightness of touch, and efficacy with flexibility.

THESIS 17

Nothing Special

Heavenchord - Iz Okna ( free DL )

A Lesson For The Future, Farewell To The Old Ways

from 'Karma' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den345
available on all formats at http://denovali.com/mansur

MANSUR is the newly initiated project by Jason Kohnen (ex-The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble) joined by Dimitry El-Demerdashi (ex-Phurpa) and introducing Martina Hórvath on vocals. The sound of MANSUR navigates between the waters of musical fantasy and reality - it morphs and blends traditional instrumentation with modern day electronica.

Horváth, El-Demerdashi and Köhnen return to their otherworldly worldbuilding with their debut album ‘Karma’ on Denovali. MANSUR leads the listener into mystical and magical unknowns, that lie far past the realms of material perception.

As astronomer Carl Saga once wrote “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known”.  Universal lessons of life, brought by teachings and teachers of ages. Unimaginary worlds in all our capacities of being created.  MANSUR is the transformational vessel guiding you to these non-physical realms. The realms you seek are already there, its up to you to find them.

Karma

Mansur - Memento Mori

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Meridian - Vani [slow]

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