Composer and sound artist Carl Ritger [ @c_ritger ] presents a monthly exploration of music – and non-music – from around the world, channeling deep drone zones, environmental recordings, and experimental vibrations. Listen live - 4th Thursdays, 8-10PM ET on www.greatcircles.net

Dedicated to Steve Roden and Brian McBride

~Tracklist~ 
Steve Roden, “Small Fire 4”
Steve Peters & Steve Roden, “Winds Through Bleak Timber”
Steve Roden & Tu M’, “Paper Bridges and Small Soft Buildings”
Steve Roden, “Throat.”
Stars of the Lid, “Down 3”
Steve Roden, “Truth Is the Bell [Saarbrücken]”
Stars of the Lid, “Lactate’s Moment”
Stars of the Lid, “Be Little With Me”
Brian McBride, “Silent Motels”
Stars of the Lid, “Adamord”
Steve Roden, “Rust.”
Stars of the Lid, “Central Texas”
Stars of the Lid, “Sun Drugs”
Steve Roden & Tu M’, “Geographies”
Stars of the Lid, “Lagging”
Stars of the Lid, “The Daughters of Quiet Mind”
Stars of the Lid, “Goodnight”
Brian McBride, “String to Light Feed Frenzy”
Stars of the Lid, “Piano Aquieu”
Stars of the Lid, “Dopamine Clouds Over Craven Cottage”
Steve Roden, “Resonantlightones”
Steve Roden & Jason Kahn, “Untitled”
Stars of the Lid, “Down”
Stars of the Lid, “A Meaningful Moment Through a Meaning(less) Process”
Steve Roden, “Star Cluster [First Bench]”
Brian McBride, “Our Last Moment in Song”

This Green Earth w/ Carl Ritger - 23Nov2023

Con el propósito de encontrar otras audiencias más allá de la endogamia de SoundCloud, MPB se emitirá en exclusiva en Ivoox y en Spotify. Estamos la mar de contentos de haberla encontrado. El episodio piloto acumula casi 2000 escuchas entre las dos plataformas con una retentiva de estas de casi un 50%, lo que significa que unas 1000 personas se lo han escuchado de cabo a rabo; nos parece un buen dato estando arrancando el proyecto y se agradece y anima a seguir disfrutando de hacer radio. 

Links:

ivoox: 
https://go.ivoox.com/sq/2390461
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7GZ58jcZnykc6p3ElkFRDa?si=fIhXtwT4RRGmRv80gJ2LXQ

Sobre el programa: 
Resumen musical sutilmente narrado del sello ambient más relevante de tantos como han existido. La selección musical hace especial hincapié en los artistas que empezaron en él y hoy son absolutos totems del género como Loscil, Grouper, Tim Hecker, Stars of the lid y Benoit Pioulard entre otros.

Entren y disfruten.

[Solo Spoiler] Música Para Ballenas - Kranky Records (contenido exclusivo en ivoox /Spotify)

WHEN THE BREEZE KISSED YOUR SWEET SKIN (demo)

Pull up your lounger, take a hit, relax back into the paradise of your body and just ease into these majestic frequencies. Ignore at your own pearl. Have a glorious day.

Sayuri Sessions, Ubud, Bali (9 June 2024)

olmis

and then, from that moment i knew

Andrew Ostler continues his artistic evolution towards choral beauty, orchestral textures, ambient drones and low woodwind, into the realms of Jóhann Jóhannsson, Arvo Pärt or Stars Of The Lid. 

Building on the string arrangements of his previous LP "Dots On A Disk Of Snow", and taking a heavy dose of sax drone from an earlier album still, this record also adds a full choir, taking the music to another level of spiritual intensity.

"This is music of transcendence, and perhaps transformation... A glimpse of something profound: not merely music, but a reflection of the sublime itself - blind, unknowable, and utterly captivating" (Chain D.L.K.).

On the first three compositions the drones are, for the most part, relatively gentle, while chant-like choral arrangements drift and weave around and above them. 'Affirmation' is quietly confident, with a surge of intensity around the midpoint; 'Confession' is perhaps more tentative, the shifting canon of the voices threatened by a distant storm of distorted synth shredding; 'Adoration' restores the straightforward choral beauty, building to an unashamed cadence.

The immense final track 'Meditation' is a quite different affair. Here the drones are more intense slabs, the choir is more demonstrative in its emotion, and the ultimate climax the more devastating for it. The journey is longer, but the rewards are greater for the committed.

Originally released on  Andrew Ostler's own Expert Sleepers label on limited edition blue vinyl last year, Cold Spring are very proud to press this gem onto CD for the first time.

Out 9th May 2025: CD in matt-laminate digipak with sleeve design by Carl Glover.

https://coldspring.co.uk/csr352cd

https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/the-blind-sublime-csr352cd

Listen: https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/sets/andrew-ostler-the-blind-sublime

https://andrew-ostler.bandcamp.com

Meditation (Edit)

Adoration (Edit)

Confession (Edit)

Affirmation (Edit)

Estación de radio. 
Conversación socioMusical enlatada, sin censura ni sesgos de proximidad.

[Electromagnetismo es lo que sucede cuando le das otra vez al play. Lo que te anima a escuchar eso que llaman música, esa música que utiliza el aire como portadora, una onda senoidal como discurso y nuestros oídos como destino de su corta pero sugerente vida.

Bienvenido o bienvenida a electromagnética…]

Ambient guitar & drone solo project from New York.

Cold Spring is the UK's premier record label / mailorder for: Industrial, Dark Ambient, Esoteric, Japanese Noise, Ritual, Power Electronics, Noise, Drone, Death Industrial, Neoclassical, Neofolk, Doom, Dark Soundtracks and Experimental music.

Cold Spring Records has primarily been a label since 1990, releasing such influential artists as Coil, Laibach, Psychic TV, Merzbow, MZ. 412, Z’EV, Skullflower and more.

http://www.coldspring.co.uk / http://store.coldspring.co.uk / info@coldspring.co.uk

Philadelphia-based label, Internet radio and streaming A/V sessions. We document the grit. 

Label Catalogue [digi available for all releases via Bandcamp]
GRCR-001 - Jason Carr - Athletic [12"]
GRCR-002 - Tony G - Tous la Part le Même Sort [12"]
GRCR-003 - _moonraker - m_type [12"]
GRCR-004 - _moonraker  - remota instruere [12"]
GRCR-005 - Westov Temple - Messiah Drugs [12"]
GRCR-006 - Dan Trevitt - The Missing [12"]
GRCR-007 - Dan Trevitt / Westov Temple  - 2.2 mi [12"]
GRCR-008 - M//R - Gathering Response Data [12"]
GRCR-009 - Chaperone - P O N D [12"]
GRCR-010 - Mid-Atlantic Death [2x12" label comp] 
GRCR-011 - WOLF DEM - Hydrophobia [12"]
GRCR-012 - THRIVE - Nested Structure [12"]
GRCR-013 - Prefix Moniker  - Plasmas [LP]
GRCR-014 - Chaperone  - Snapback Balaclava [12"] 
GRCR-015 - M//R - Among The Methods [LP] 
GRCR-016 - Heckadecimal - Murder Tape  [12"]
GRCR-017 - Radere - I Do Not Want What I Have [LP]
GRCR-017R - Radere - I Do Not Want What I Have Remixes [DIGI]
GRCR-018 - M//R - Forever Intended [DIGI]
GRCR-019 - WOLF DEM - Chatter From A Dying Planet [DIGI]
GRCR-020 - Westov Temple - What's Left [DIGI]
GRCR-021 - M//R - Slo Cerebral [Cassette]
GRCR-022 - Chaperone / WOLF DEM - Live August 14, 2021 [Cassette]
GRCR-023 - Grant Bouvier & Simon Martinez - Live at Passages [Cassette]

Organic, Downtempo and Spirit Medicine music in Bali. Blessed land, frequencies and heart space. Tea and tunes. Available for villa parties, conscious/intentional gatherings and festivals. I usually stay away from bars and clubs. With love, Sho.

New tracks tagged #Stars of the Lid