SOOTHE & SLEEP - Playlist

The Sound of J-Ambient

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AMBIENT - 2

Working Ambiance 🌷✨

AHNUNGSLOSE OBERTÖNE I - 11

ABSCHALTEN I - 2

Set crossfade at 12 seconds under settings->advanced->playback. The first two hours are usually what I am working with in the office. If you liked a previous arrangement you will find it in Ketamine #1-#11

Ketamine Assisted Therapy

ambient & artistic

Modular floaty Sunday morning (Daylist)

Inspiration Information 3

Addis Black Widow

The See Within

Novu Hisy

Underwater Temples of Mahabalipuram

Taken from 'Profound Mysteries' out now on Dog Triumph.

Profound Mysteries

The Mourning Sun (feat. Susanne Sundfør)

Moedi, Vol. 2 available now: https://ffm.to/abstract-aprils-moedi-vol2

With comparisons to Brian Eno, Robert Fripp and Hammock, the deep ambient blogosphere has described past Abstract Aprils work as “tranquil,” “rich in organic sounds,” and a “masterpiece of ambient music.” Inspired by the vast skies and landscape of western Montana, these past releases have explored a marriage between ethereal organic layers and experimental electronic sounds.

The first release on Minneapolis label Anthem Falls, the Moedi EP series, however, marks the start of a new chapter.

A strict limitation was placed on the writing of these songs - everything you hear is entirely made from synthesizers. No microphones, no field recordings, no organics - only electronics - only oscillators and the manipulation of their audio signals. In fact, the word moedi actually translates to “limitations.”

Ironically, boundaries can open the door to freedoms. The challenge of making the songs interesting under these limitations led to unexpected and unique outcomes. Finding depth may have been more difficult than usual at times, but, with a nod to author Ryan Holiday, sometimes the obstacle is the way.

Experimenting with analog synths such as the Prophet Rev2 and Moog Mother-32, along with vintage synth emulators via the esteemed Arturia Collection series, the journey to this depth comes in the form of imaginative and unexpected layers - be it finding the right plucking sound through synth envelope experimentation and then reversing the recording to create sparkly atmosphere; or, taking a small clip of a few recorded notes and processing it through a granular synth for a 12-minute improvisation, and finally cutting and chopping that ensuing recording up even further - to name just a few of the experiments.

Indeed, even the song titles were limited to one word.

Moedi and its subsequent EP volumes is a new chapter for Abstract Aprils - one that was not held back by limitations, but rather given its pulse by them. The result is a rich, unique, and enduring ambient offering.

Moedi, Vol. 2

Margin

Planetary Unfolding

As the Earth Kissed the Moon

Music For Growing Flowers

Music For Growing Flowers (Edit)

3 am walk

3 am walk (Slowed & Reverb Version)

Dancers

Draft 7.30

6IE.CR

Balearic Pulse

Sona Jobarteh - Saya

Paint The Town Red

Polyrhythmic Focus And Studying

Polyrhythmic Focus and Studying Part 1

Relief Focus

Relief Focus Part 2

Emerging

Rising

Dissipating

past dream

past dream (Slowed & Reverbed)

Inner World

One Of My Favorite Prayers (Instrumental)

Unknown Coordinates

Paper Boats

Weather Clears Up

Dreamy State

Floating Mind

Vague

Cumulonimbus

Flow in the Back

うたたね(2024) utatane - Leina (Live Tour 2024 "ReUnion")(레이나 - 선잠)

Pulse Of The Early Brain [Switched On Volume 5]

Refractions In The Plastic Pulse [Feebate Mix] - Autechre Remix

https://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/album/--18

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２８１４ - 真実の恋

From the 2016 EP 'One Tusk', available to download here: mothequals.bandcamp.com/album/one-tusk-ep

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[Samples Annette Hanshaw - Body and Soul (1930)]

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The Heavens Opened And Closed

U.F.Orb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCE7Wgh84m4 Piano Sample
Finding Nemo Voices
Srry for making nemo serious


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Apollo

An Ending (Ascent) (Remastered 2005)

Geogaddi

Over The Horizon Radar

He She Them Us

Willing Suspension of Disbelief

Mirage

Chihei Hatakeyama - starlight and black echo

Sonorite

kokyu

Rafael Anton Irisarri from "The Shameless Years"
Available in LP & Digital
www.umor-rex.org © 2017 Umor Rex Records

Post-minimalist American composer Rafael Anton Irisarri makes his Umor Rex debut with bold new album, The Shameless Years. Inspired by a troubled socio-political climate, buried melodies punch their way through a bleak cover of noisy drones, periodically veering into some of Irisarri’s most eerily pertinent music to date.

One of Rafael Anton Irisarri’s most thematically and sonically cohesive records to date The Shameless Years came together in a relatively short burst of creativity starting at the end of 2016. Rediscovering some relatively older tools - namely Native Instruments’ Reaktor, Absynth, and Kontakt software - Irisarri combined them with his collection of guitars, pedals, amps, and analogue processing gear, turning his Black Knoll Studio north of NYC into a powerful writing tool. Completed quickly by Irisarri’s standards, let alone during a period of social upheaval in American society, the record faces down several key personal themes. The title, suggests Irisarri, could in fact be seen as a reflection of the era of shamelessness we’re currently living in; a time of fake news and alternative facts.

Two tracks were completely remotely between Irisarri in New York and Umor Rex veteran Siavash Amini from his home in Tehran, Iran. This music came together at the peak of all the anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant rhetoric happening in the USA, not to mention the banning of Iranians from entering the country, explains Irisarri. The diptych with Amini, ‘Karma Krama’ and ‘The Faithless’, seems bathed in additional waves of sorrow and dread. The wash of symphonic stormclouds of synth drones and processed notes on the latter gradually appears and disappears over the course of thirteen mournful minutes.

‘Rh Negative’ marches gigantic guitars through towering valleys of scarred ambient noise dealing with Irisarri’s own heritage, many of his ancestors having come to America to escape poverty and oppression. The refusal of modern America to extend similar sanctuary to refugees escaping turmoil weighs heavily on the composer. Elsewhere an emotional onslaught of notes buried in mounds of greyscale noise on ‘Sky Burial’ aims to deal with Irisarri’s very own mortality – something he was recently confronted with following health scares, an accident, and a near-death experience in 2016. Pushing 40 as this album was being made, the composer is constantly aware that he’s already outlived his own father, who died at the age of 32. Facing down both intolerance and the void, the epic soundscapes of The Shameless Years are a vast cry of emotion from Irisarri. The clock is ticking - gotta make the most out of it while you still can.

All songs written and performed by Rafael Anton Irisarri, except #5 & #6 written and performed with Siavash Amini. Design by Daniel Castrejón, photos by Camilo Christen. Mastered by James Plotkin.

The Shameless Years

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Rafael Anton Irisarri — RH Negative

When I wanted to clear my head on a weekend, I would take a walk. I would start at the Williamsburg Bridge, walk over to the lower east side, head over to the basketball courts on west 3rd, grab a snack on Macdougal, and then sit and watch the time pass in Washington square park. I would think about being at the center of it all, about the millions of people around me. It was isolating and inspiring and invigorating and scary. And I would think about leaving it all behind to move to California. 

This is the music that reminds me of those days, feeling free and trapped and open and plugged in, mainlining the pulse of civilization on NYC streets.

Rounds (Special Anniversary Edition)

As Serious As Your Life

Fake

Bittersweet Symphony

Bittersweet Symphony (feat. Emily Roberts)

six songs about feelings

available on limited edition CD (£5) or download (£3) at my bandcamp:
http://uthermoads.depthsoundrecordings.co.uk

released via the association for depth sound recordings, november 2011

Future Waves

猫 シ Corp. and t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者 - Building a Better World HR001
Out now: smarturl.it/hr001

Building a Better World

Lost Promises

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猫 シ Corp. & t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者 - Lost Promises

Downloaded from and downloadable from http://www.pogomix.net

Pogo - Wishery

Mix collage, please enjoy heavily, and listen as a whole if you have the time.

09 Isan  Calf

Boards of Canada - In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country

Lofi Beats

When You Wish Upon a Star Lofi

The Immortal Stan Lee

Fairy Tales for Grown Ups

Electronic,Ambient,Downtempo,Chillout Musician. Sound designer.
& Singer song writer.

Flow in the Back

KENJI KIHARA / sphontik