Release Date: 10.11.14

Birthed between the burning fields of Kansas and the surreal landscape of the New Mexican desert, Black Vines is a dense layering of monophonic drones, delayed sitar and large scale cello arrangements. 

Combining the distorted and blackened influence of Aaron Martin’s recent solo and collaborative work with Joseph Angelo’s love of ragas, industrial noise and meditative minimalism, the eight elegiac strands of Black Vines are tribute to redemptive growth that occurs in the shadows.

Mastered by James Plotkin, featuring tracks reworked from the original parts by Dag Rosenqvist with stunning artwork by Chris Koell.

Packaging includes letter-pressed covers, glass mastered CD, 10 x limited edition prints on heavy card stock with glassine bags, all resting inside hand numbered, scented black envelopes. Limited edition of 200 copies!

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Black Vines - The Shadows We Cast

Bobb Bruno "Near Ecstasy"

Black Vines - Shadows (Dag Rosenqvist re-work)

Taken from the upcoming album 'Year Zero'...

Audio/Field Recordings: Gideon Wolf
Mastering: James Plotkin
Photography: Daniel Crossley

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Year Zero

Gideon Wolf - Falling

Track taken from the upcoming album '3 5 1' forthcoming on Fluid Audio...

Music: Irving Park
Mastering: James Plotkin
Record Label: Fluid Audio

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3 5 1

Irving Park - Foundations

Taken from the upcoming album 'The Epiphanies' by Bill Seaman...

The Epiphanies...

Composing memory
The backs of my hands
Headlights slowly turning, illuminating the branches
Skin (slow)
The folds of eros
Slow motion in darkness
Quietly touching
Slow moving fog
A quiescence of obsolescence
Dark wet trees and angled lines of light
The collapse of time
Hidden memories and breathing
Luminous silent stasis
An epiphany of epiphanies

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Seaman – Piano, non-location recordings, ebow guitar, DX7IIE, mellotron, samples, sample arrangements and Ableton Live abstractions. Production.
Owen Sidney Richardson — Contrabass and Electric Bass guitar library 
Craig Tattersall  — Synth Bass library  
Robert Ellis Geiger  — Trumpet, Cornet, Flugelhorn library  
Jonas Braasch  — Horn library 
Ciompy Quartet – Violin library 
Daniel Howe – Distant Guitar on 14
Design by Daniel Crossley
Photography by Nieves Mingueza
Mastered by James Plotkin

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I often work by making libraries of particular kinds of sounds or asking people to contribute a library. With the contributed library I often give the players simple verbal instructions, or sing notes I am interested in including. With the piano, I sit down and do a series of improvisations. I then go though these and edit my favorite parts, building a series of fragment libraries, some with little or no abstraction, some greatly abstracted with Ableton Live. I compose in a very sculptural manner with Ableton, dragging things in from the libraries and trying things out often exploring chance related juxtapositions. I often shift the time and transpose individual samples to make them work with the other material. I build up structures, cut/copy/paste complex layered sections, erase sections that are not working, loop things, and slowly construct a track going though many iterations. I often later cut away at the built up tracks, and edit the piece down, further articulating a structure. I often finish with having between 20 and 50 tracks. In the final set of passes I fully articulate the psychoacoustic space, working with panning, eq, distortion, delay, abstraction, and reverb. I further edit and structure the parts that begin to “work”. Along with the piano I make Libraries of DX7IIE sounds, electronic beats, mellotron, electronic micro-rhythms, non-location recordings from noises found on the internet, orchestral abstractions, midi instrument libraries— violin, cello, woodwinds, and I also employ highly abstracted piano. Additionally I build libraries of ‘abstract’ guitars, playing alternate instruments through synthetic and or real amps. This overall method allows me to work very quickly and intuitively. In this case, the music is more sparse than many of my other recordings.

The Epiphanies started with some long titles like An Epiphany Related to the Back of the Hand. I later came to the notion of just titling the album The Epiphanies, and making the titles shorter. When I searched the title I was excited to see that James Joyce had done a series of short poems with the same overarching name. - Seaman 2017

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- Special Thanks – Craig Tattersall, John Supko, Daniel Crossley and Fluid Audio

- This album is dedicated to the memories of Rick Tear, Ranulph and Aartje Glanville, Otto Piene and David Bowie.

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The Epiphanies

Bill Seaman - An Epiphany Of Epiphanies

Inspired by science fiction and the science of mans interesting in pioneering the deep reaches of the universe. 

Dark, drone infused ominous space music with no dance/techno/rock connection or rhythmic distractions. Designed for late night listening. Influences such as SETI, Biosphere, Lustmords Arecibo project, John Serrie.

Album can be purchased at Zen Gate Music: https://zengate.bandcamp.com

Within The Cosmic Void

Carbon Entity - Travelling In Deep Crysosleep

Slightly cinematic electronic music with a cosmic theme (edit version)

Inspired by science fiction and the science of mans interesting in pioneering the deep reaches of the universe. 

Dark, drone infused ominous space music with no dance/techno/rock connection or rhythmic distractions. Designed for late night listening. Influences such as SETI, Biosphere, Lustmords Arecibo project, John Serrie.

Album can be purchased at Zen Gate Music: https://zengate.bandcamp.com

Carbon Entity - The Center Of Nowhere

Slightly Edited track!

Inspired by science fiction and the science of mans interesting in pioneering the deep reaches of the universe. 

Dark, drone infused ominous space music with no dance/techno/rock connection or rhythmic distractions. Designed for late night listening. Influences such as SETI, Biosphere, Lustmords Arecibo project, John Serrie.

Album can be purchased at Zen Gate Music: https://zengate.bandcamp.com

Carbon Entity - Frontier

Track taken from Seabuckthorn's upcoming album 'Other Other'...

Audio: Seabuckthorn
Mastering: James Plotkin
Design: Daniel Crossley

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Other Other

Meridian

Seabuckthorn - Meridian

Focusing on experimental genres, we aim to provide a space to share in the creative process and spread the experience of inner exploration through musical expression.

Musical explorer journeying the mood spectrum of dark and light thru the medium of electronics. Influenced by science, nature, early works of pioneers like Terry Riley, Klaus Schulze, Lustmord and Pete Namlook.

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