amazing, absolutely love these ambient piano tracks

So sad that I missed the first LTB, and I don't have a record player, anyways.

absolutely epic..sad and euphoric at once

The first single to be taken from the forthcoming album, Upper Hell, released worldwide on Howie B's HB Recordings label on April 27th.

Album Release: ‘Upper Hell’
Release Date: 27th April 2015
Label: HB Recordings

“ timeless,organic and quite simply beautiful “ – Norman Records - 10/10

“ an enlightening, everlasting album” – The List - 5/5

“a quiet, emotional power” – The Scotsman - 4/5

“Deliriously inventive” – Clash Magazine 

'Album of the Month’ – Monorail Records

“…Ela Orleans is a revelation. Both utterly timeless and of the moment…” Rough Trade 

“She is Moondogmatic in her intransigent commitment to producing compositions of subtlety and incongruent beauty. These are polysemous confections which make you feel that you are listening to pop music for the first time again” – Time Out NY

‘Upper Hell’ is the sixth album to be released by pop noir collagist Ela Orleans. Produced by Howie B, it’s due out on 27th April 2015 and will be released on his new label, HB Recordings. Howie was introduced to Ela’s music by his sister and was so wowed that he offered to produce an album for her. She is also the first artist signing to HB Recordings.

Inspired by Dante’s ‘Inferno’, ‘Upper Hell’ is an intriguing, cerebral body of work that sees Orleans push her pastoral pop roots into more cinematic terrain, experimenting with carefully considered sound art segments and complex electronic textures.

Ela has been flirting with the dance aesthetic for a while under another moniker TRACT so Howie’s offer to produce this album allowed her to explore that further with this album.

Orleans is a Polish musician now based in Glasgow. She was a member of the genre defying Glasgow band Hassle Hound, has played with various luminaries of the New York experimental and noise scenes and is a composer for the screen and theatre.

During her career this hugely prolific artist has released five solo albums and collaborated on several more. Her 2012 album ‘Tumult in Clouds’ won the Mercury alternative the Dead Albatross Prize in 2013 and her work has won her admirers in The Pastels, David Lynch, Thurston Moore and Ian Rankin.



Ela Orleans - The Sky and the Ghost

From the album Shriek (Deluxe Version) by Wye Oak, out now on Merge Records.

Shriek (Deluxe Version)

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Wye Oak "Despicable Animal (Moss of Aura + Future Islands Remix)

i keep destrying myself n i dont know why

Artist: Eluvium
Title: Confessor
Album: Life Through Bombardment Vol. 2
Release Date: December 18, 2015

Pre-Order: shop.temporaryresidence.com/trr260

Life Through Bombardment Vol. 2 collects every Eluvium recording made since the release of the first Life Through Bombardment set back in 2009. Packaged similarly to the first set -- a library-style clothbound hardcover book with seven distinct sleeves featuring new original artwork by longtime collaborator Jeannie Lynn Paske -- this is the first time these recordings have been released on vinyl. This awe-striking, super-deluxe set includes the albums Similes, Static Nocturne, and Nightmare Ending, as well as the b-sides, remixes, and bonus tracks that accompanied them. Also included is Wisdom For Debris, the rare album that accompanied Paske's art book of the same name, and finally Curious Things, a full-length bonus album of rare and previously unreleased material recorded from 2009-2015.

As with the first (long out-of-print) volume, Life Through Bombardment Vol. 2 is strictly limited to 1,000 copies. Each is hand-assembled and hand-numbered, and includes a removable library card signed by the artists.

PACKAGE INCLUDES MP3 DOWNLOAD OF ENTIRE 7xLP COLLECTION

© 2015 Temporary Residence Ltd.

Eluvium – Confessor

Limited 12": smarturl.it/MariaUsbeckVinyl
Spotify: smarturl.it/MariaUsbeckSpotify
Apple: smarturl.it/AmparoApple
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Maria Usbeck's solo debut, Amparo, is a collection of songs written and recorded across the span of three years in Ecuador, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Barcelona, Lisbon, Easter Island, Costa Rica, Florida, L.A. and her home in Brooklyn. Though the songs were composed electronically, Amparo called for an acoustic treatment, so Usbeck spent a winter in the studio recording the arrangements live with producer Caroline Polachek and mixer & engineer Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson. Fleshed out in full sonic color on the marimba, xylophone, quena flute, piano, and harp, the album stretched into something hi-fi and expressive, meditative but not meandering.

Amparo stems from Usbeck's desire to compose in Spanish, her native language. Growing up in Quito, Usbeck was immersed in salsa, merengue, bachata, and Andean music, but was more attracted to German and American culture than to her own, and moved to America by herself at 17. After five years of fronting new wave outfit Selebrities and writing songs in English, Usbeck experienced a delayed-onset homesickness and knew it was time to "let the mother tongue speak." The impulse manifested itself directly: Amparo takes its title from Usbeck's middle name and her mother's name, and translates roughly as "to guide, protect, and embrace." Usbeck wields her Spanish lyrics cleverly while folding in snippets of several other far-flung tongues: Rapa Nui from Easter Island, Quichua from Ecuador, Bribri from Costa Rica, and Catalan. Because these lyrics were composed while visiting the countries from which they originate, their usage is more impressionistic than literal, like a mockingbird imitating fragments of other bird calls. Similarly, Usbeck reinterprets the Ecuadorian music that she grew up with as a newcomer, returning home with fresh ears, and as such the sounds are very much her own.

The backbone of Amparo is percussion, vibrating throughout with timbales, tumbas, a talking drum, bongos, shakers, and an Indian flat drum, with the gaps filled in by her field recordings of birds, beaches, and jungles. The songs were written and recorded chronologically, with the exception of the closing track, a cover of Colourbox’s “Tarantula” reimagined in Usbeck’s Spanish translation. Amparo is a reflection of the textures of Usbeck's childhood. It is also a distinctly grown-up pop record – a travel diary, music made by a visiting outsider to tap into a shared core of human expression. Emotively, Usbeck is her most powerful on piano ballads "Uno De Tus Ojos" and "Jungla Inquieta," but is a magnetic narrator throughout, moving between whispers, chants, and lullabies. Amparo pulses with many stories in many voices, but they flow together seamlessly like water, leaving behind a wordless hum.

Amparo is released May 27 via Cascine in North America, Labrador in Euope and Rallye in Japan.
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Maria Usbeck - Jungla Inquieta

Bit Part

Off the EP "You Are A Young Unknown."
Available here:
http://youngunknowns.bandcamp.com

Words and music by Meredith Meyer
Produced by Bill Racine
Mastered by JJ Golden

Vox, Guitar, Rhodes- Meredith Meyer
Drums- Matt Arbeiter
Bass- Ethan Walter / Bryan Percivall


c. 2012 Willow Walk Music, BMI 

Far Enough

Fenster passed "oh canyon" to the magical hands of knob wizard "slow steve"

SLOW STEVE (FR-DE)
http://slowsteve.bandcamp.com

Also known as Deoda Byrnes or Defenestration, SLOW STEVE is a french composer, sound artist and music activist living in Berlin. He plays a noisy analog synth pop with layers of keyboards, vocals, anolog synthesizers and drum machine, bringing his audiences into a sonic realm of outer space. After a three weeks EU tour opening for Fenster in October 2011, he's currently working on a first EP in collaboration with the talented producer Tadklimp.
Slow Steve played among others with Blouse, Wild Palms, Civil Civic, Dustin Wong (from Ponytail), the Black Atlantic, Yule FM, Royalchord.
His remix of the Fenster track OH CANYON, co-mixed with Tadklimp, will be released digitally on Morr Music on Sep 28th (AT CH DE) and Oct 2nd (Worldwide)

Fenster: Oh Canyon - Slow Steve RMX

'Evolution' is taken from PVT's fourth studio album titled Homosapien, out now worldwide: http://smarturl.it/pvt

Touring Europe in May: http://pvtpvt.net/live

http://pvtpvt.net

http://www.feltesounds.com/


Evolution

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