Adore Benoit's sound,  always reassuringly familiar but always so beautifully textured and emotionally provoking 

Fills the heart with librating feeling of open spaces

Cosmic Whispers

Sequenie

Map 165 is a collaboration between Martin A Smith and Tim Hooper exploring disorganised sound, atonality, beauty and evocation. Following on from 2014’s The Fatigue of Sunlight and Wine (Voxxov) and their collection of live recordings A Foreign Country, we are pleased to announce the release of their latest album Of Adam Sleeping in the Lap of God. 

An ambient work in four movements inspired by the north portico of Chartres cathedral Of Adam Sleeping in the Lap of God melts stone into music using a series of field recordings, synths and guitars. 

Of Heaven and earth: 
The formless becomes formed. A swirling coalescence of themes and sounds. Through repetition a pattern appears. Order is created. Across a slow shimmering, four notes call out bridging the void. 

The deepest midnight blue 
The sound from the lowest point of the lake 
The silence of the space above the Earth 
The beat of the heart 

Of the firmament: 
A blissful disorientation. Shimmering, confusing, a wrapping inwards of time and rhythm with multiple refraction of the same themes overlaid but still apparent. 

It is the clangour of bells reflected off stone walls in an old town 
It is the beat of wings over a lake 
It is the confusion of walking in to a dark interior out of the brilliant sunshine 
It is the clamour of foreign languages in the market place 

Of the Sun and the Moon: 
Reflective and contemplative, with a receding sadness. Watching the last sun of Summer set knowing that Winter will be coming. 

Wind between the fingers of trees 
Dust settling in corners until Spring 
Hands resting upon the table 
Valleys filled with fine rain 

Of Eden: 
Neither afraid of night or morning. Each day welcomed; each day passing as easily as water in a river. The security of knowing what you like and trusting your judgement. Equal with all, afraid of none. Night comes blissfully again. 

The comfort of time passing 
The first moment of sleep 
Closing the door once home 
A friend’s voice 

Written and recorded by Martin A. Smith and Tim Hooper 
Assembled and Produced by Martin A. Smith 
Choir at Chartres Cathedral recorded by Helen Smith 
Recorded at Flying Boat Studio, Cambridge, UK 
Sleeve artwork by Katie English 
This is Rural Colours 84

Map165 / Of Adam sleeping in the lap of God (Snippets)

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Pepo Galán & Max Würden - All Of A Sudden 

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It was a rainy day in October when the mail man knocked on Max Würden's door. He had ordered an album from El Muelle Records in Malaga, Spain, but when he opened the package it didn't contain only PEPO GALAN's album STRANDED, he found a bunch of CDs in there, published by the same label. What a pleasant surprise, and it turned out to be a true cultural survival kit just in time for the following grey weekend full of rain. Having never actually met in person they came to realize that they already followed each others musical projects online for years, a vivid exchange ensued peaking with a question if they shouldn't work together on an album. 30 minutes later Pepo had sent his first idea, and Max started working on it right away. Musically the two artists had found each other. They immersed themselves so deep into the tracks that at the end neither one of them was able to tell who exactly contributed which sounds to their album ALL OF A SUDDEN. 

They also found commonalities in their work processes. Both like to incorporate cassette tapes (like Max's album RETOUR, Kompakt 2016), and they also like to experiment with guitars...  more
credits
releases May 30, 2018 

All Sound + Production | Pepo Galán & Max Würden 

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Pepo Galán 

Pepo Galán is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer born in Málaga. His compositions create a characteristic sound with micro-textures, noisy atmospheres and melancholic melodies full of beauty and elegance. 

pepogalan.bandcamp.com 

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MAX WÜRDEN 
*born 1971 
- musician since 1987 in various formations 
- soundtrackproduction since 2001 
- educated drummer and game sound designer 
- generates sounds from silence if necessary 

RELEASES on 
farfield records, exponate, kompakt records, tonatom, schaltkreis, tinnitus hörspiele, edition roadhouse, traum schallplatten, nurnichtnur... 

soundcloud.com/wuerden 
wuerden.bandcamp.com 

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CHRISTINE NGUYEN (Artwork) 

Christine Nguyen currently resides in Long Beach, California. She received her B.F.A from California State University, Long Beach and M.F.A from University of California, Irvine. Solo exhibitions of her work have been featured at the Hammer Museum (Project), Michael Kohn Gallery, Andrewshire Gallery in Los Angeles, Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, St. Augustine, FL, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong and Galerie Quynh, Vietnam . Her work has also been included in group exhibitions at the Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany; Laguna Beach Art Museum, Laguna Beach;Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena; San Art, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Sprueth Magers Projekte, Munich, Germany; Dancing Elephants Project, Bogota, Columbia and Churner and Churner, New York. 

www.lephant.com 
contact: christine@lephant.com 

*Album Cover | Tree of Life (2016) salt crystals, graphite, cyanotype on stretch muslin by CHRISTINE NGUYEN 

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Music Video for "Particle" by Mark Kuykendall (thenewhoneyshade.com)

All Of A Sudden

Pepo Galán & Max Würden - Particle

'Peaks' it's our first compilation, with fifteen pieces going from ambient to techno. Including some new and familiar faces on Faint, like Mykja, Araceae, Powlos, Data Domain or SVLBRD.

Mastered by Emanuele Pertoldi.
Faint008 // FaintCD008
Faint / 201

Faru - Ella

Sven Laux and Daniela Orvin​ - 'The Writings' 
Label; Dronarivm 
Cat #.: DR-59
Format: CD (ltd. 150)/ DL
Release date: April 12th, 2019
Pre-orders start March 29th

Sven Laux is a Berlin-based artist and composer who returns to Dronarivm following ‘Paper Streets’, which was released in 2017. He has also previously released on labels such as Archives, Whitelabrecs and Archipel, producing anything from modern classical to experimental minimal music.

Daniela Orvin is also based in Berlin, a pianist, musician and composer who has to-date released her second album ‘Home’ on Sven’s ‘Seasides On Postcards’ label which to many, became a stand-out recording in 2018.
Around a similar time to the release and creation of ‘Home’, Sven had been creating some tracks for an album and felt that there was something missing. After casting his ears over Daniela’s work, he realised that piano was the missing piece of the jigsaw that he had been searching for in the album he had been culminating. He invited Daniela to his studio, they walked through what had been created up to that point and she became inspired to the point that they began to work together. The process was very intuitive as piece by piece their own styles collided effortlessly into what has become a completed album project.

‘The Writings’ plays out in the exact order in which the tracks had been worked on, providing an accurate account of the studio time in which these stories had been etched. During the process, Sven and Daniela became friends and the concept of the album itself has become about collaboration itself.
Typically when artists work together in tandem, particularly in modern classical or ambient music, the result tends to be loud and powerful, as the two voices compete for the sonic space. This is not so in ‘The Writings’, as the artists showed great restrain between one another, a respect for each other’s expertise. Piano isn’t everywhere on this album, nor are Sven’s ‘hollywood strings’. Both are present, along with many many more wonderful elements. But each is afforded its own time and space, in a truly patient but evocative and enthralling listen, best enjoyed from start to finish.'

Mastered by Tobias Lorsbach
Original photo by Daniela Orvin

Buy CD / DL

Sven Laux And Daniela Orvin - Friends (from 'The Writings')

"Rionnach Maoim" - shadows cast on the moorland by clouds moving across the sky on a bright and windy day (Gaelic)

Music by Benoit Pioulard
Artwork by Gregory Euclide 

Place Language is an international non-profit compilation album project inspired by the themes found in Robert Macfarlane’s widely-acclaimed book ‘Landmarks’. In particular it focuses on the book’s extensive topographic glossaries, the “word-hoard” of depictive landscape terms gathered from 30 different languages, dialects and sub-dialects around Britain & Ireland and divided into sections by type of terrain (Flatlands, Uplands, Waterlands, Coastlands, Underlands, Northlands, Edgelands, Earthlands and Woodlands). Relying on these topograms, or “tiny place poems”, as creative prompts, Place Language seeks to both inspire a renewed interest in our surroundings and reinvigorate our appreciation for the audible textures & patterns that characterize a place in keeping with the book’s stated desire to “re-wild” our vocabulary.

The collection features the work of 28 different sound-artists, field recordists, and musicians from around the globe each of whom selected a Landmarks topogram and recorded an impression of it thus adding rich new aspects of dimensionality through the act of sonification. These selections cover all nine of the book’s glossaries along with place-words of  new coinage as prompted by the blank one which Macfarlane leaves at the end of the book for readers to fill in from their own experience. The end result is a truly global and collaborative survey of place, language, and sound.

More info: https://stationarytravels.wordpress.com/place-language/

Benoit Pioulard - Rionnach Maoim

Halftribe - 'Backwater Revisited'
Label; Dronarivm 
Cat #.: DR-61
Format: CD (ltd. 150)/ CS (ltd. 50) / DL
Release date: July 19th, 2019
Pre-order: July 5th 

Melancholia laid bare, stripped back, then dissipating into thin air.

Mastered by Tobias Lorsbach

Backwater Revisited

Buy CD / CS / DL

Maybe

Slow Walking

'Departure Process' - Slow Walking - [Polar Seas Recordings, 2019]

"Language of Loss" is a piece composed in collaboration with Blurstem, an ambient side project by Chris Bartels of Minneapolis, MN.

Music by Hotel Neon and Blurstem - blurstem.bandcamp.com 
Mastered by Taylor Deupree - www.12kmastering.com 
Artwork by Chris Bartels - anthemfallsmusic.com

Buy on Bandcamp

Language of Loss (with Blurstem)

Adriaan de Roover, who is also known as Oaktree (check out a few of his excellent mixes for Headphone Commute), announces a new EP, titled Voor anderen, with which he joins a Belgian imprint, Dauw. The label has been on the forefront of delicate ambient music, working with graphic artist Femke Strijbol "to create a unique hand-made piece of art that flatters both the ear and the eye." With this new release, they welcome Maarten De Naeyer as a new in-house graphic designer to continue the visual identity while opening up the door to new artists. I continue to be happy with their choice of album covers, which "engage interactions between different art disciplines." The work of Adriaan nicely slots among the label's catalogue, with its soft blurry hues of minimalism, micro-drone and environmental sound. On the EP, elegantly combined organic textures blend with their electronic parallels, sweeping the wide-ranging frequency spectrum across glitters and bass. The selection features commissioned pieces between 2015-2018 "merging feelings of distance and proximity into melancholic sonic entities."

Voor anderen

TRACK PREMIERE : Adriaan de Roover - Voor Damiaan

Stationary Travels is a personal music blog covering ambient, electroacoustic, modern classical, post rock & experimental music.  Outside of ST, I enjoy a variety of other genres which you may see mixed in here as well.  Please feel welcome to follow along on Facebook, Twitter, and WordPress (links below).  If you are an artist and would like to submit something for consideration of promotion or review, you can message me to discuss the details. 

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