Mountain Meditation

The Sustain Series project continues with its second volume, 24 recycled forms created from old and unused material. Since the release of Volume 1 in November last year, more artists have come together to salvage, repurpose, restore and deconstruct each other’s pieces, or collaborate on a particular idea. What results is a growing variety of approaches and outputs, from minor embellishments to full disfigurement.

Volume 2 moves thematically, as if in four chapters, from the expressive openers, through enchanting natural-sounding pieces, before opening up to more ethereal expanses, and finally darker and more thoughtful ones. As it does, visions emerge of our natural world - its power, its beauty and its vulnerability.

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Lauge - Frazil Ice (Sebby Kowal Recycle)

Lauge - Reflection Of Self (Off Land Recycle)

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(About Loneliness) #1

Lauge is self-taught composer Henrik Laugesen, who is better known for his pseudonym ‘Lauge’. So far, he has been involved in the creation of 11 albums, participated on multiple compilations, sync placements and one patch bank for the Danish sound design outlet ‘Luftrum’. He also curates mixes and playlists for outlets like Spotify, under the brand ‘Ambient Soundscapes’.

Perry Frank is project started in 2005 by Francesco Perra from Sardinia, Italy. He is perhaps best renowned for his Ambient guitar sessions, in which live performances are filmed against backdrops of scenic landscapes, museums, gardens and verandas. He has also had releases out on labels such as Idealmusik, Tranquillo Records and n5MD.

We have seen great productivity through remote collaboration between musicians since the pandemic and in 2020, Henrik and Francesco began exchanging their sounds, files and ideas. They had the vision to combine their individual sound components into a cohesive whole. The result is ‘Selvascapes’, in which each composition is connected to forestry, reflected by the track titles and sonic content. The artists navigated their sound landscapes through this chosen theme; vastness, enormity, enclosure, open space and nature can all be gleaned by those who listen.

releases July 24, 2021

Written and produced by Henrik Laugesen and Perry Frank
Mastered by James Edward Armstrong
Photography by Harry Towell
Art and design by Andrew Heath

Selvascapes

wlr096 Lauge, Perry Frank - Selvascapes

One of ambient drone's most recognised names, anthéne graces Ambientologist with his debut vinyl release. Having brought 12"s into the world for so many wonderful artists under his own Polar Seas imprint, it's nothing but an honour to have him as the first vinyl offering of this little label.

Grab yourself a copy here: https://bit.ly/3CvnwM9

maritime is a showcase of anthéne's patient yet intriguing soundscaping, but this time with an altogether more grounded and directional approach. After an unmistakably calming first half, the album journeys somewhat darker, more introspective, without drawing away from the vastness of its initial input.

A new, more focused sound for anthéne, maritime presents a real cognitive exploration, framed by its subject - the vastness, awe and terror of the ocean.

anthéne - hearth

In November 2016 a musical bond was formed in a small suburban part of Copenhagen. What later turned into the foundation of Nature Tales, several sonic creations, events, workshops, concerts and travels, all began with a walk around the local lake with a handheld recorder on an ice-cold late autumn day. On that day these two pieces were composed from recordings from the frozen lake, combined with ngoni, frame drum and voice, and from there the journey back to nature through organic/electronic ambient music commenced.

We are happy to finally share this EP for the first time to the public, almost 6 years after its creation.

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Releases 25. February

Pre-order via Bandcamp: 
https://naturetales.bandcamp.com/album/moon-lake

Pre-save for Spotify, Deezer etc
bfan.link/moon-lake

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Artwork by Markus Trige Frandsen

Mastering by Molle Nifkin

Ishtadi & Respira - Moon Lake (Preview) [NT005]

Tracklist

01. Andrew Tasselmyer - Our Own Private Libraries
02. Marcus Fischer + The OO-Ray - Ghost Lights
03. Olli Aarni - Huoneen Yllä
04. David Cordero -  Unreal
05. Darren Harper -  Sunflower Dream
06. Steve Pacheco -  I Remember You
07. Will Samson - Faroleiro
08. The Green Kingdom - Blear
09. Wouter van Veldhoven -  A head stuck in tapes 1

273. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

Tracklist

01.  Stephen Sera and Bill Seamna - Dusk Till Dawn
02. David Cordero & Kenji Kihara - Grazalema
03. Letna -  Sava
04. Samuel Edmund - The Trouble With Brian
05. Pruski - Zorza
06. Fields We Found - Rains
07. Ouvala - Spatial Distributions
08. The Humble Bee & Benoît Pioulard - Off camera
09. Chihei Hatakeyama + Asuna - Folk Scales
10. Tomotsugu Nakamura -  Resolution
11. Tomoyoshi Date - Unfurling of young leaves

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