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Ambient sound

Exclusive new track from our new album The Unified Field. 
Out on Denovali Records on October 25th on Vinyl / CD / Digital

Cross Hands

Happy Cloud Live Session II is my third live session composed of 2 pieces of music made on a full dawless setup.
Each music is the result of a recording without post-processing.

Or Why Not?

INTERNATIONAL RELEASE ON APRIL 29th 2016!
Featuring Carlos Cipa on piano and the New York Sirius Quartet on strings.

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CXCIV

from 'Nomad Frequencies' [CD|2xLP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den237
available in September on all formats at [http://denovali.com/johnlemke]

An ardent moulder of sound, John Lemke began carving out a very unique music blend on his debut album 'People Do' (2013) and its follow up EP 'Walizka' (2014). Informed by his work as a sound designer & composer for documentary films and his natural inclination towards fusing rhythm with rich textures and emotive melodies, he set out on a musical path that had been long in the making and is ever evolving.

The quest for unusual, inspiring sound sources has always been at the heart of John's process, however the genesis of his second album 'Nomad Frequencies' was rooted in much more inadvertent circumstances. In the summer of 2014, forced to indefinitely evacuate his Glasgow flat and studio due to structural damage from one hour to the next, with nothing more than a laptop and a bag of clothes, John embarked on a six month odyssey of soul searching, couch surfing and spending an extended period of time in his old hometown of Berlin for the first time in years - it was to be an odyssey that would help ferment and distill the ideas of his second album on which work had just begun. 

A year of particular global turmoil and upheaval, combined with John's personal, albeit very minor, 'displacement', caused a lot of questioning, frustration and anger, which somehow found its way onto the new material: a more confrontational, at times aggressive sound, paired on the other hand with a yearning for harmony, balance and space. Other influences came less from the world of music, but rather in visual form, through the densely textural art of Anselm Kiefer and the political, yet poetic musings of film maker Adam Curtis.

Intent on refining his sound toward a more minimal, bolder style, John set out to limit his sonic palate to a handful of carefully chosen elements. At the centre of this new direction remains the muted piano already introduced on his debut, but in a much more purified and raw form. This organic base is adorned by the warm fuzzing and wavering of analogue synthesisers, tape echoes, meditative tuning forks, field recordings from John's 'exile' period and percussion based on his rigid approach to sampling, which started developing on 'Walizka'. The guiding principle of his orthodox style of recording and sampling is to only use home-made sounds by utilising his own field recordings, applying contact microphones or hydrophones to objects and instruments, running them through different kinds of speakers and re-recording the sounds to arrive at a 'lived in' quality, often misunderstood as plainly 'lo-fi'. Touches of viola and woodwinds parts (Kim Moore of WOLF and Andrew Baker respectively) provide melody fragments and subtle details throughout the journey.

With John's healthy disregard for genre boundaries, the array of influences on 'Nomad Frequencies' is vast, but never over-powering. From the meditative tuning fork that starts proceedings on 'Of Elsewhere', the dub echoes to the hints of minimalism, free jazz explosions to the Lynchian atmospherics, all elements serve nothing more than the album's narrative journey between friction and harmony, best appreciated in its entirety. A rhythmic backbone collides with rich ambience and melody, often infectious and jarring at the same time, forging a soulful whole which most likely only reveals its true self after multiple spins.

Nomad Frequencies

John Lemke - The Unwinding

2. track of my upcoming debut "Window Gazer" to be released 18th of september via Hellbig Music



Afloat

One Swallow

LNT: http://po.st/olafurLNT  
iTunes: http://geni.us/LNTolafurarnalds
Bandcamp: http://po.st/olafurBC 

Standing at the intersection where techno meets classical music, Ólafur Arnalds directs the new Late Night Tales.

“When I was asked to do the next installation of the Late Night Tales series I thought "This will be fun and easy, only a couple of days work. No problem!". Six months later, I was still pulling my hair out in some kind of quest to make the perfect mix. As someone who has never really done mixes before, I learned a lot of things along the way and the whole experience was very inspiring. I decided to approach the mix in a similar way as I would one of my scores. This is the soundtrack of my life. I included songs from many of my friends and collaborators and tried to deliver a mix that represents who I am as an artist and where my influences are coming from - both personally and musically.” - Ólafur Arnalds, March 2016

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Late Night Tales: Olafur Arnal

Ólafur Arnalds - RGB (Late Night Tales: Ólafur Arnalds)

Bersarin Quartett - St. Petersburg

Carlos Cipa & Occupanther - Branches (Original Mix)

Two By Four is Piano Interrupted first full length record, compiling the work of three years of collaboration between laptop / electronician Franz Kirmann and pianist and composer Tom Hodge. 


You Don't Love Me Yet

A Gentleman's Guide to Entropy

The main theme in this track was originally recorded in 2009 and titled "Harvest". While going through a particularly emotionally challenging  time during Autumn 2019, I was listening to a remaster of Harvest and thinking it would be nice to extend it and slow things down. Now I have done that I thought it would be appropriate to re-title it Autumn's Shadow. The field recordings in this track were made at Conwy harbour late at night with the eerie wind resonating around the metallic boat masts and other structures, and the lone blackbird singing sweetly in Liverpool city centre which could be heard from some considerable distance away cutting through the urban soundscape which was refreshing and delightful. I had to record that moment.

Autumn's Long Shadow

1 line synth - 1 line live kalimba (with guitar pedal - hall of fame )
video   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy0OIhIV_Rk

2020-01-24

sleeping

long blue line

2020-01-25

bowl of green tea

Greg Haines - Azure

SURROGATE SIBLING is the crossover studio project of composer/multi-instrumentalist Dieter Dolezel, located right at the intersection of modern electronica and contemporary chamber music.

The music is deliberately never strictly one or the other, oscillating freely between intricately crafted string and piano arrangements and contemporary electronic beats and soundscapes in varying degrees, incorporating a wide range of influences spanning from Reichian minimalism to Autechre’s abstract electronica.

From early on, a rather unique feature of the project was the notion of featuring various collaborating musicians with vastly different musical backgrounds, that would also possibly change with each new album.

The self-titled debut was released to critical acclaim on autentico music in late 2014, with a short tour accompanying its release. The notable first lineup featured Carlos Cipa on piano and New York based Sirius Quartet on strings as collaborators, with each track featuring a different combination of musicians never to repeat itself on the entire album.

Since its release, the album slowly but steadily garnered recognition, ultimately resulting in listings on several high-profile playlists on Spotify et al. and a publishing deal with Warner/Chappell. Recently, CIV, the first ever written composition for Surrogate Sibling, got featured as opening track on renowned Café del Mar’s latest piano compilation album.

2018 saw the release of Surrogate Sibling’s sophomore studio album Hive on acclaimed Swedish label 1631 Recordings. Despite being staged in a much more intimate setting, it is significantly broader in scope by rebalancing the relationship of its ingredients more towards the electronic side and the addition of maverick vocalist Chaem to the current lineup, enhancing the so far purely instrumental sonic palette with her hugely distinctive voice.

2020 will see another change of gear with the release of a new EP titled Proto. It will feature a 3 part cycle solely consisting of electric guitar and subtle electronics.

I can`t live without music! Magic, amazing & divine soundz)))

CXCIV

Surrogate Sibling

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