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Surrounding Magic

An autumn 2017 selection of newly released and newly discovered ambient, electroacoustic, and modern classical tracks

Photo by Dorian Baumann via Unsplash

Field Journal - Autumn 2017

Relaxing Drone

morskie ucho - #2

oöphoi - requiem for the green planet

Track 2 from Synesthesia - A collaborative album from myself and Porya Hatami - Released on the 15/03/14 

Buy from:

https://unknowntonerecords.bandcamp.com/album/synesthesia


Taste - Porya Hatami + LCOMA - Synesthesia

Trampique is Volor Flex's new alias. "Face To Face" is the 12-tracks long album best described by the man himself: 
<i>"Trampik is this place in my hometown, where I go when I want to be alone. My close friends know that if I'm missing, they can find me there.
This album is about one year of my life. 2013 was very emotional and complex, each month has left a distinct print on my life. I had a lot of very difficult moments. I tried to translate them all into music. I made an album that describes this heartbreaking year." </i>

<b>Out March 14 on Dark Clover Records.
Artwork by Nicolas Hansen 
Mastered by HIGH JET</b>

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Trampique - January

Trampique - February

Trampique - March

Trampique - April

Trampique - May

Track 1, titled 'Cuando El Misterio Es Demasiado Impresionante Es Imposible Desobedecer' taken from Leandro Fresco & Rafael Anton Irisarri's album, 'La Equidistancia'. Available April 10th. Pre-order now available: https://astrangelyisolatedplace.bandcamp.com/album/la-equidistancia

ASIPV008 - Leandro Fresco and Rafael Anton Irisarri / La Equidistancia

Leandro Fresco & Rafael Anton Irisarri / Cuando El Misterio Es Demasiado Impresionante...

Full stream of Ellen Arkbro's stunning composition "Mountain of Air," a rework a track from her latest work, 'for organ & brass,' out on Subtext Recordings on April 14.

More info: https://www.xlr8r.com/news/2017/04/premiere-hear-a-stunning-new-composition-by-ellen-arkbro/

@ellenarkbro
@subtext-recordings

More info

Premiere: Ellen Arkbro - Mountain of Air

R Porter - Sint Laurenskerk

https://faintmusic.bandcamp.com/album/svalbard

Written and Produced by Agustín Mena.
Mastering by Neel.
Photography by Alexander Kopatz www.go70north.com
Faint001 // FaintCD001
Faint / 2016

SVLBRD - Hvit

Taken from the new EP by Leandro Fresco & Rafael Anton Irisarri titled 'La Espera'. A companion EP to their album, La Equidistancia, this release was put together to help raise funds for the repress of their vinyl album. More information: http://asip.me/2sJMOm2

La Espera

Leandro Fresco & Rafael Anton Irisarri - Bajo Dos Siglos

Track taken from the upcoming 2 x CD release on Fluid Audio...

Music: Norihito Suda
Mastering: James Plotkin
Label: Fluid Audio

Mailing List:

www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com/mailing-list

Norihito Suda - Light Snowfall

Excerpt from Pierre Bastien's Live album ''The Mecanocentric Worlds of Pierre Bastien'' out on 27th October on Vinyl and Digital.

More info at www.discrepant.net

Pierre Bastien - May Yam (Excerpt from The Mecanocentric Worlds of Pierre Bastien)

Listen / Purchase: https://lnk.to/hymnb

Aaron Martin and Dag Rosenqvist and their musical collaboration as From The Mouth Of The Sun seems to elicit immediate excitement from an ever-growing number of modern classical, post-rock and experimental music fans from around the world. The duo appears to be on a mission to bring their dynamic breed of electro-acoustic classical to the masses this year. From composer David Wingo selecting three From the Mouth of the Sun songs to appear in the critically acclaimed sci-fi thriller ‘Midnight Special,’ to their first original score for A24’s feature film ‘Menashe,’ praised at Sundance and in theaters this summer, Rosenqvist and Martin are well on their way to receiving the recognition they deserve.

‘Hymn Binding’ is the pair’s third album as From the Mouth of the Sun, and their first for US label, Lost Tribe Sound. The album is teeming with all the soul-stirring character one has come to expect from their work together. The long form crescendos built from Martin’s mournful strings and vast array of acoustic instrumentation are a perfect compliment to Rosenqvist’s delicate piano melodies, humming electronics, and waves of warm static.  

‘Hymn Binding’ was given the deluxe vinyl treatment. The edition arrives as a lacquer cut vinyl pressed on 180 gram virgin vinyl, housed in a matte finished gatefold tip-on jacket with artwork throughout from Gregory Euclide (Limited to 300). The deluxe edition also comes with a download card offering a choice of formats including FLAC, 320K MP3, etc. Mastering for vinyl and digital was performed by Taylor Deupree. The CD edition is also a work of art, housed in a heavy stock, handcrafted 7" x 5" book-style case with glass mastered CD and a download card for the album in high quality format (Limited to 150). The first 50 editions of both the vinyl and CD will come with a 6.5"x 5" print of the cover art by Gregory Euclide when purchased directly through LTS.

Artwork by Gregory Euclide

LINKS:
https://ftmots.bandcamp.com
https://aaronmartin.bandcamp.com
https://dagrosenqvist.bandcamp.com

Hymn Binding

Roads

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From The Mouth Of The Sun - Roads (from Hymn Binding)

Hvide Sejl, Varg & F Valentin "Brazil" 2 x LP
Posh Isolation 173
Out October 27th, 2017

Hvide Sejl, Varg & F. Valentin - Till The Flowers Wilt

In 2016 ATLAS Arts, in partnership with Artangel, brought Bethan Huws’ film Singing for the Sea (1993) to the Isle of Skye. Huws’ film documents a group of eight Bulgarian women, the Bistrista Babi, who Huws invited to travel from their home in the heart of Eastern Europe to the edge of an island, to the north east coast of England. She then asked the women to sing to the North Sea.

This film installation marked the start of A Work for the North Atlantic, a year-long programme of commissions, exhibitions and workshops exploring singing and the sea. As part of this ATLAS commissioned a new piece of work by Richard Skelton.

Skelton has created a multi-channel composition that evokes Huws’ work and its re-sited presentation in the Scorrybreac boathouse, Portree. He has turned his attention to the west, from the North Sea to the North Atlantic. Exploring traditional songs, field recordings, and inspiration from the landscape of Skye, its seascape and the stories that accompany them, Eilean Fuinn suggests that the sea and the landscape are "endlessly singing to each other" over the vastness of geological time.

Richard Skelton - Eilean Fuinn exceprt

From the "Two Shadows Collide" LP (Ba Da Bing!) 

More info here: https://secretpyramid.bandcamp.com/album/two-shadows-collide

Touch

taken from upcoming DR-49 : Sven Laux - Paper Streets
out on November 3rd, 2017
Pre-order : dronarivm.bandcamp.com

Sven Laux’s “Paper Streets” is a deeply intimate and vulnerable affair. Released on the Russian label Dronarivm, Sven paints minimal landscapes with watercolors in shades of violin, cello & piano; stripped bare & soaked in memory. 

The artist’s works bares a sense of detachment & reflection that usually occurs with the passing of time. Forlorn irony shows itself as it reminds you what feels like to fall in love for the first time, while conjuring ghosts from the last time you shared a gaze. 

A departure from the Sven’s earlier work, “Paper Streets” is an organic, neo-classical journey heard through a cinematic lens. Orchestral notes surge like tides and resonate like heartache. Nostalgia echoes and dissolves with a disarming vulnerability. 

Mastered byTobias Lorsbach

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TRACK PREMIERE : SVEN LAUX - A Glimpse Of Memory

Costero

Boy In A Water Globe

Boy In A Waterglobe

"Mej" mean fog in Kurdish ! 

The release will be a full digipack with contributions from the following artists:

1. Hakobune 2. Porya Hatami 3. Darren Harper 4. A Bleeding Star 5. Celer 6. Chihei Hatakeyama 7. Tomoyoshi Date

A full seven art cards will also be attached to the release and will be limited to 90 copies for the world. A special edition of 18 copies with a small additional poster, which will be released on the morning of it's actual release date, will also be available.


Porya Hatami - Mej - Taken from F O G B O U N D release on Somehow Recordings

Peter Kuhlmann allias : Air, Electronic Music Center, PEK (3), Peter Kuhlmann, Romantic Warrior, Sam Pels, Silence, Syn

Peter Namlook is one of the most influential figures of electronic and ambient music in the 1990s. Inspired by Oskar Sala, one of the pioneers of electronic music, Namlook focused on the untapped potential of analogue synthesizers, often developed or extended in his laboratory.
r.i.p...

Pete Namlook Travelling Without Moving Air 2 Trip 2

自然 - Released by Nighttrippin netlabel 2013: https://skyambient.bandcamp.com/album/--2

天 - 雨

The birdtweets are from Passer domesticus (0:30 for example) and Corvus corax (0:17).

Free Download this album: https://skyambient.bandcamp.com/album/-

天 - 静かな庭園

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