From the Distant|Spirals EP on Past inside the Present:
https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/distant-spirals

released May 3, 2019 

Past Inside the Present 
This is PITP16 | MMXIX Digital Series

PITP

Spirals

from 'Symmetrie und Wahnsinn' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den370
available on all formats at https://denovali.com/sanktotten/

After the 2020 album "Lieder Für Geometrische Stunden", Sankt Otten finally make us happy again with a new release at the beginning of 2022. "Symmetrie Und Wahnsinn" (Symmetry and madness) fits here skillfully, both creatively and musically, in an album series with geometric context.

The album starts unusually buoyant with "Hymne Der Melancholischen Programmierer" (Hymn for sentimental programmers). A Kraut-Pop pearl, which could go on forever with its Motorik swing and with its catchy melody the track doesn't come across as melancholic as the song title predicts. You have to listen twice to not succumb to the illusion that it was composed in Düsseldorf at the end of the seventies. Here (and on the track "Sei Symmetrisch Zu Mir"), Sankt Otten were supported in the studio by drummer friend DIRK PELLMANN.

The drum machine in rumbling funky mode. "Die Glücklichen Unglücklichen", the secret hit of the album? They bend the beat into geometric shapes, let the bass play in circles and cover the song with ghostly choirs. The echo of a spinett-like sound overlays the sound, spitting out a deceptively cuddly dream world.

The 10 minute long "Die Ordnung Des Lärms" could be called an Ambient-Kraut symphony without hesitation. An enormous swelling to ecstasy, a guitar sings distantly in the background. Silence. Synthetic strings pave the way and are supported by choirs. A crackle that suggests a rhythm until it is taken over by a drum computer in the main part of the track. Bombastic mountains of synthesizers pile up and yet a catchy melody finds its way through this mishmash of hypnotic electronics. Fourth movement - Kosmische-choirs in suspension over a bass synth and an Ebow guitar. Is this already Prog-Rock? The question doesn't arise, in the end everything merges into reverb.

"Luftspiegelung Der Sentimentalitäten" begins cautiously with a gentle sequence and a discreet kick drum. The mini-Moog sounds like a guitar. Anyway. A surface floats by and returns, layers and shapes build up. At last, everything melts into perfect harmony with a plaintive-sounding synth. This track was composed as a stripped back reprise of the first track from the last album "Sentimentale Sequenzen".

A hypnotic Motorik-beat of an 808 that encourages head nodding and could almost be danceable. True to style with warm analog 80s electronic sounds and a loose echo guitar. This is "Angekommen In Der letzten Reihe". Man and machine hand in hand as a homogeneous musical unit and the connection of tradition and vision.

Sankt Otten like images of infinity. In the religious sense of meditative mantras, or also in the mathematical sense of an elongated curve that eventually returns to its starting point. "Bis Das Helle Licht Uns Holt" goes exactly in this direction with its classical use of sequencers and a sound carpet of choirs. Sound worlds that, through a clever repetitiveness, barely noticeably guard the constant changes in the compositional mesh like a secret and only reveal what is to be discovered by listening closely and letting it be seen. Such a thing is probably called Berlin School?

The Osnabrück duo Sankt Otten, founded in 1999, has been releasing on Denovali since 2009. With their now 12th album they give us again a gem of timeless instrumental music. The holy trinity of Krautrock, Ambient and contemporary Electronics, but always stylistically confident and unmistakable Sankt Otten.

For the mastering New York based RAFAEL ANTON IRISARRI could be won. Also with the cover layout again good taste is proven. As part two of a cover series, this extraordinary die-cut cover artwork was again created by designer DANIEL CASTREJÓN. The vinyl version comes in a die-cut cover (in a limited transparent edition), the CD in an elegant cardboard slipcase.

Symmetrie und Wahnsinn

Luftspiegelung der Sentimentalitäten

Sankt Otten - Luftspiegelung der Sentimentalitäten

Sustain Series returns for its third iteration, bringing together ever-more artists for another showcase of recycled music. Reworks and newfound collaborations make up this 27-piece album, demonstrating what can be achieved with ‘one’s trash and another’s treasure’.

 https://bit.ly/amb-sustain3

All Bandcamp proceeds of this album are to be donated to Eden Reforestation Projects, to help continue their work sustaining important local environments, and providing jobs to those that restore and maintain them.

Lauge - Reflection Of Self (James Bernard Recycle)

eRecords is a digital record series created by Whitelabrecs, to run alongside our physical releases. These editions aim to transform the digital format into something that can be experienced in a similar way to a listener’s interaction with a real, white label vinyl record. Each edition includes a special PDF scrapbook including polaroids and liner notes.

We do not publish details about the concepts or production methods of a release, so that the liner notes and content in each scrapbook will give you the background of each edition in the series.

catalog: eR028
artist: the unknown shape
release title: transient ep
runtime: 15:30
location: north rhine westphalia, germany

written and produced by tobias dziapko
mastered by NFM-Mastering (HerbLF)
cover artwork by george korunov
booklet art and design by harry towell

Transient

eR028 The Unknown Shape - Transient

Recording sessions from  07/06/2024 - 05/09/2025 .
presets, mixing, processing and editing: Pier WILL.
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🛠 - Made with MOOG & Modular / Multi-tracks / No I.A. / No samples.
🎹 - Composed, arranged, performed, produced by Pier WILL & 4H09
🔲 - Cover art - Pier WILL
🙏 - Acknowledgements - Ableton, AKG, Arturia, Audacity, Cantabile,
Focusrite, Hewlett Packard, Korg, Logitech, Marantz, M-Audio, MSI,
Sony, SoundCloud, Teac, Techniks, Yamaha.
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Delicate Torture while Muted

°!°---Delicate Torture while Muted---°!°

Wednesday from the album Ambient Distancing, written in 2020 during the first big Covid lockdown as a daily cloud-watching. Free download (enter zero or pay something to support me) is available at Bandcamp - take it with you and watch the clouds!

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Wednesday [from Ambient Distancing]

Cycle Drifts

~ IIKKI 007 ~

music : Federico Durand
photography : Albarrán Cabrera (Angel Albarrán & Anna Cabrera)
album/book : Pequeñas Melodías
duration : 38.24 mn
date : November 2018

edition : 
vinyl : limited to 300 copies, DDM Cut, 180 gm, hand numbered 
cd : limited to 200 cd (glass mastered) hand numbered
book : limited to 500 copies hand numbered + hand stamped

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pre-order : October 11th, 2018 / official release : November 08th, 2018

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Mastered by Taylor Deupree
Artwork by Albarrán Cabrera
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

Recorded in La Cumbre, Argentina, on tape loops and cassettes with a Sony TCM200-DV, Fostex X-18 & Macbook, using acoustic guitar, music boxes, synthesizer, electric piano, Rhodes piano sampling, Roland Space Echo RE-201, CT5, EHX 2880 and a small modular sampler (Morphagene, Clouds, 2hp LFO, 2hp RND, Bastl Ciao).

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Links :
https://federicodurand.bandcamp.com/
http://albarrancabrera.com/
https://www.iikki-books.com/

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℗ & © 2 0 1 8 - I I K K I - I I K K I 0 0 7

Federico Durand – Pequeñas Melodías (album preview)

First full length album by Purl. Music made between 2000 and 2005, inspired by the book 'Il Barone Rampante' by Italo Calvino. Originally released as a free download by Eter Records in 2010, now available for free on http://eternell.bandcamp.com/ (200 free downloads / month)

Ombrosa I | free download of Purl's first album 'Cosimo di Rondò'

Track 2 from “Absolute Fields” by @PhillipWilkerson

https://stereoscenic.bandcamp.com/album/absolute-fields

Absolute Fields

Phillip Wilkerson - Afternoon Shadows

I first encountered Ben Chatwin's music as Talvihorros sometime in 2011 through his release on hibernate imprint. We become more acquainted when he contributed a beautiful track towards my ...and darkness came benefit compilation appearing in 2012. A few years later, Chatwin moved from London to Edinburgh and began recording under his real name. This new beginning also gave his music a refreshed and upgraded sound and with newly found confidence he moved on to the independent Village Green imprint - see Sleeper Awakes appearing on Headphone Commute's Best of 2015 lists. We've seen his follow-up, Heat & Entropy, grace the 'best of' lists a year later, but in 2018, I must admit, I was completely blown away with the Staccato Signals. Something changed entirely. Chatwin's music became cinematic, darker, edgier, blending synthetic and the acoustic, pushing the boundaries of intense sonics and textures, and totally gripping my mind. Needless to say, the album grabbed the top spot in the coveted Music For The Film Behind Closed Eyelids list of best cinematic music of 2018. This year, Ben Chatwin is back to unleash The Hum for Village Green, his sixth studio album under his own name, and today I've got an exclusive premiere from the release dropping tomorrow.

The title of the album, and indeed the title of this track, hint at something lurking behind the lights, the pipes, and concrete. That something is a sound, a drone, a purr, of lifeless objects generating life. When electricity is cut, the house fills with silence, and only then are you aware of all that constant whir you've been surrounded all time. This sonic ghost becomes the bloodstream of the dwelling, and with The Hum, Ben Chatwin amplifies its voice. This rumble is electric, growling, at times it's suffocating with the bass, its place expanded, frequencies increased, dynamics magnified. But at the center of this multi-dimensional chant lies a song, alone in space, alone in beauty. This is the song of Chatwin's music, and I've been mesmerized with all it has to say.

"When electronic artist Ben Chatwin plugged his Moog synthesiser into the mains at home one day, he was surprised to find the electrics of his home faintly singing. His house was built in the nineteenth century, and what he was listening to was the building’s natural hum. He boosted the volume, and in doing so, found the inspiration for his next release, The Hum, out on Village Green on November 6th"

The Hum

Ghost In The Machine

TRACK PREMIERE : Ben Chatwin - Ghost In The Machine

ambient record label and radio network (Ambient Sleeping Pill & a.m. ambient)

Phillip Wilkerson - Afternoon Shadows

Stereoscenic Records

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