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Otto A Totland - Seveen

The thing about France Jobin's music that never fails to impress is that it works on so many levels. Listen to it at the threshold of perception (the way it is mastered) or at very high volume, on headphones or through loudspeakers, and you will hear new sonic relationships, new structures, a new logic every time. Things simultaneously are and aren't as they seem; sounds you hear are and aren't really there.

Montréal sound/installation artist France Jobin has come a long way since her days as a blues keyboardist in the 1980s. In 1999, after a hiatus that lasted a decade, during which she raised two sons, she turned to experimental electronic music of the very quiet, rumbling, abstracted kind, and started performing and releasing music under the moniker i8u. Slowly but with great assurance, she built a much-lauded career and kept on refining her art, ever digging deeper into the core of sound. When the revered LINE label offered her an album (Valence) in 2012, she abandoned her alias and started using her own name.

In her own words:

«The Illusion of Infinitesimal represents another chance to refine the unique essence of each sound and composition, in an effort to better communicate intent without influencing its unfolding, a delicate balance between perfection and detachment.

A parallel could be drawn from particles of matter, which, "as far as we know, are infinitesimal points of zero size, yet they have measurable amounts of angular momentum. Does the concept of rotation even make sense for a featureless speck? Angular momentum seems to be a more foundational concept than rotation itself. The angular momentum, or spin, of a single particle is restricted in strange ways. It can have only certain values, and not all values are allowed for all particles." (1)

Perfection and uncertainty.»

(1) Collage of quotes from Jim Pivarski, "Spin", Symmetry Magazine, March 2013.

France Jobin - 0

A Rework of the track "Si" by Nils Frahm for Nils' Screws Reworked project 2014.

http://reworked.nilsfrahm.com/

Nils Frahm - Si (Sleep Orchestra Rework)

Test on resonances

Welcome to the 12th chapter of the Ambient Sessions presented by Deep Electronics. A short but intense Live Set created by Sleep Orchestra based upon his first ever live set he did for Sound of Static on the 8th of August 2015.

About Sleep Orchestra:

 "Sleep Orchestra, is the Experimental Dark Ambient Drone musical pseudonym for English born sound artist, Christopher Pegg. The music is inspired by his love of sci-fi and field recordings.

No Tracklist because everything is created live!

Links:

http://sleeporchestra.bandcamp.com

http://witheringtrees.bandcamp.com/album/dark-skies 

https://www.facebook.com/sleeporchestra?fref=ts

www.sleeporchestra.com 

https://soundcloud.com/sleep_orchestra/

Photography and Design: Jeroen Smulders

Circuit Jellyfish Design: NLz

Ambient Sessions # 12 - Sleep Orchestra

FIRST PHYSICAL EP release on Manyfeetunder/Concrete 

” X(i)NEON ” [MFU/EP 001] OUT January 27 

“Deconstruct: To discompose a structure in the elements that compose it, typically in order to reorganize it meets the new requirements” 

X(i)NEON: 
Francesco Galatro [Doublebass] 
Anacleto AV-K Vitolo [Live electronics / Laptop] 

www.manyfeetunder.eu
credits
releases January 27, 2016 

VIDEO TEASER by Kanaka Project: youtu.be/syFoXZC5BwY

X(i)neon -Album Teaser [MFU/EP 001]

from 'Landscapes of the Unfinished' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den251
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/pianointerrupted]

Recorded partly in Senegal with local musicians playing traditional instruments, "Landscapes Of The Unfinished" is Piano Interrupted's 3rd album for German experimental label Denovali.

This album sees pianist Tom Hodge and “electronician” Franz Kirmann explore a more introspective approach to their sound. The sonorities and recordings the pair brought back from West Africa are deconstructed, mangled and texturised, turned into a pointillist landscape until only a faint and distant souvenir remains.

These beds of pulsating soundscapes and earthy textures serve as base for Hodge’s delicate piano phrases and intricate compositions, interlaced with long-time collaborator Tim Fairhall's fluid double bass playing.

Harsher territories are also visited during the 9 tracks that compose the LP; fuzzy Senegalese radio voices and the distant memory of African percussion collide with distorted bass and buzzing drones or screaming textures battle with screeching double bass sounds and tortured piano strings.

The overall tone of the album reflects the duo’s desire to musically translate the experience of the Dakar trip (where Franz Kirmann grew up), but also to break away from the first two albums' intricate programming and editing and instead go towards a writing and recording experience directly inspired by their live experience. Hodge’s clarinet, an important facet of the Piano Interrupted live show, is captured on record for the first time. 

This surge towards documenting a moment, leaving a trace or examining something concrete is further reflected in the choice of titles (all named after the musicians who took part in the recordings) and also the design, which is for the first time a photograph. Taken by filmmaker Cath Elliott, who travelled with the pair to Dakar to document the process, the album artwork captures one of the numerous half-built structures, infinite and abandoned, surrounding the studio in the suburbs of Dakar, and provides both an unfinished urban landscape and yet when viewed as a single moment in time, one of many compellingly complete landscapes of the unfinished.

Landscapes of the Unfinished

Piano Interrupted - Vieux

Taken from my latest album Silent Path, released 22.1.2016 on Kunststoff recordings.

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Inner City Horizon

Trow EP out now. 
Get it here: http://carloscipa.occupanther.de

Trow

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Carlos Cipa & Occupanther - Trow

from 'Landscapes of the Unfinished' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den251
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/pianointerrupted]

Recorded partly in Senegal with local musicians playing traditional instruments, "Landscapes Of The Unfinished" is Piano Interrupted's 3rd album for German experimental label Denovali.

This album sees pianist Tom Hodge and “electronician” Franz Kirmann explore a more introspective approach to their sound. The sonorities and recordings the pair brought back from West Africa are deconstructed, mangled and texturised, turned into a pointillist landscape until only a faint and distant souvenir remains.

These beds of pulsating soundscapes and earthy textures serve as base for Hodge’s delicate piano phrases and intricate compositions, interlaced with long-time collaborator Tim Fairhall's fluid double bass playing.

Harsher territories are also visited during the 9 tracks that compose the LP; fuzzy Senegalese radio voices and the distant memory of African percussion collide with distorted bass and buzzing drones or screaming textures battle with screeching double bass sounds and tortured piano strings.

The overall tone of the album reflects the duo’s desire to musically translate the experience of the Dakar trip (where Franz Kirmann grew up), but also to break away from the first two albums' intricate programming and editing and instead go towards a writing and recording experience directly inspired by their live experience. Hodge’s clarinet, an important facet of the Piano Interrupted live show, is captured on record for the first time. 

This surge towards documenting a moment, leaving a trace or examining something concrete is further reflected in the choice of titles (all named after the musicians who took part in the recordings) and also the design, which is for the first time a photograph. Taken by filmmaker Cath Elliott, who travelled with the pair to Dakar to document the process, the album artwork captures one of the numerous half-built structures, infinite and abandoned, surrounding the studio in the suburbs of Dakar, and provides both an unfinished urban landscape and yet when viewed as a single moment in time, one of many compellingly complete landscapes of the unfinished.

Piano Interrupted - Abdou Kadre

Source material recorded at the EMP in Seattle using our mobile phones. We improvised for 10 minutes with these two really terrible digital keyboards and recorded everything using the phone's voice memo function. With a little bit of processing in the studio afterward, I constructed this piece, adding some field recordings I captured during the Substrata Festival field trip.

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Blue.Hour explores the high contrast colors created in the landscape during “l’heure bleue,” the period of twilight each evening when there is neither full daylight nor complete darkness. Directly following the ‘Golden Hour,’ know for its diffused yet powerful light, the Blue Hour retains the diffusion but lacks the strong light source giving this period of the day an especially melancholic and meditative atmosphere.

Blue.Hour is presented here in stereo with some compositional elements added to make it more suitable for home listening.

Yann Novak - Blue.Hour (Excerpt)

The sound of Logic Moon has graced the airwaves on esteemed labels such as Whitelabrecs, Archives and Ambientologist, among others.

Minimalist, Experimental, Ambient, Drone, Neo-classical. UK. #DestinationZero.label/artist

Nils Frahm - Si (Sleep Orchestra Rework)

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