pockets of light

recorded live at good work in a backyard on a lovely saturday in brooklyn

Loidis @ Good Work - 12 July 2025

Unter - Tristana - Ambre-Nils Frahm

01 Pockets Of Light

‘The Birds’ are three tracks released together as the lead singles from the upcoming album, aptly named ‘Sketches’, due to its stripped down nature, is bejeweled by thematic undercurrents. 

‘Sketches’ serves to reintroduce listeners to Ackroyd’s most stunning pieces from her previous albums, all of which have been reworked into ‘acoustic’ solo piano arrangements alongside four brand new unheard pieces, which offer a taste of a new forthcoming record. The mini album sees a July release in preparation for a brand new full length album to be released in October, and One Little Indian will also reissue Ackroyd’s back catalogue on CD and vinyl alongside the new mini-album.

Feathers

Poppy Ackroyd turned heads in the neo-classical world with her previous works Escapement and Feathers, as well as her involvement in Hidden Orchestra (Tru Thoughts). Advocated by giants of the genre, Hauschka and Nils Frahm, the unique musician has returned, freshly signed to Bjork’s label One Little Indian Records, with a mini-album, Sketches, to be released on 4th August 2017.

Sketches

Time

From the album Occasus available April 13, 2018 on Western Vinyl

Bandcamp https://goldmund.bandcamp.com/album/occasus
iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/occasus/1343456707
WV http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv169

Pennsylvania native Keith Kenniff’s output as Goldmund has established him as one of the preeminent composers of minimal piano-based ambient music alongside peers like Hauschka, Dustin O’Halloran, and even Ryuichi Sakamoto, who himself once described Kenniff’s work as “so, so, so beautiful.”  Hyperbolic as it may sound, Goldmund’s newest collection Occasus may be his most exquisite yet. Where his previous recordings trod faithfully and sincerely on paths of dimly lit, polaroid-esque nostalgia, Occasus deepens the undeniable aesthetic that was hard-won over eight previous Goldmund albums, while expanding the palette to include desultory clouds of synthesizer and a tastefully distressed analog sheen.

The word Occasus means downfall, end, or the rising and falling of heavenly bodies. The title is apt in more ways than one: while the emotional tone of the album denotes bittersweet feelings of conclusiveness, it also perfectly soundtracks the quiet moments when we look up to the sky, and humbly relearn the smallness of our lives as cosmic objects churn slowly overhead with bewitching indifference. Occasus feels deeply personal, private, and hushed yet simultaneously grand, colossal, and profound. Remarkably Kenniff is able to capture micro and macro with equal fidelity.

Occasus

Goldmund - "Circle"

Playlist and other information available at: http://www.freeformfreakout.com/fffoxy-podcast-119-with-sean-mccann-of-recital/

FFFoxy Podcast #119 with Sean McCann of Recital

INTERVIEWEE: @christinavantzou
INTERVIEWER: @bergsonist
DATE: APRIL20TH, 2018
LOCATION: WYCKOFF STARR COFFEE SHOP, BROOKLYN

#01 / CHRISTINA VANTZOU

Look Ma No Hands

Me&My (To Bury Your Parents)

https://bfan.link/adagio-for-strings-2

An Analog Guy in a Digital World Pt. II is based on Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings (1938).

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An Analog Guy in a Digital World

An Analog Guy in a Digital World Pt II (Adagio for Strings)

For over a decade, Zola Jesus - aka Nika Danilova, has been releasing deeply engrossing music that draws on a wide range of musical traditions, from goth to industrial to electronic... and even classical. 

Pitchfork Radio's Elia Einhorn speaks with Nika about how proximity to nature influences her songwriting process, the challenges and rewards of finding interesting acoustic spaces for Zola Jesus' live performances, and the never-ending process of creative reinvention.

Sound & Space with Zola Jesus

William Basinski is a minimalist ambient composer, best known for his work using analog tape loops. Over the decades, his work has drawn inspiration from everything from September 11th to the sound of black holes colliding. 

For this episode of Sound & Space, we get front row seats to a rehearsal for the orchestral arrangement of Basinski's seminal work "The Disintegration Loops" with the Chicago Philharmonic. William and Pitchfork Radio's Elia Einhorn also discuss how physical spaces inform musical presentation and just what “art scientists” actually do.

Sound & Space with William Basinski

piano recorded at fox's house in south minneapolis.
additional recording in my kitchen
and an elevator.

https://theghostmaking.bandcamp.com/track/uncollapsing-for-piano-day-2019

piano (not tuned!)
violin
tape machines
synth

uncollapsing (for piano day 2019)

Taken from Lorenzo Senni new album 'Scacco Matto'.

Out on Warp the 24th of April. 

https://lorenzosenni.ffm.to/scacco-matto

uncollapsing (for piano day 2019)

the ghost making

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