Bass Clef's Ralph Cumbers turns in a live modular session to mark the release of his new album under his Some Truths guise, Bliss Abyss, forthcoming on We Can Elude Control. 

Says Cumbers of the set: "So I was in a foul and abyssal mood, life is hard boohoo now shut up already and make some music.  It was late Sunday night or early Monday morning depending, and the Roland TR-606 was definitely in charge, the beat, the pulse was the driver, don't mention the m*t*r*k-word, I was swirling and whirlpooling through some rough seas, finding some islands which later sank, dredging some wrecks and this is a tired maritime metaphor ok, but it's hard to find words to rationalise your intuitive nonsense, afterwards. 

"There's not much in the way of melodies, and every time I listen to it I think the downbeat is in a different place, everything is overdriven, but tenderly and with care. There's no edits but not because I would have objected to them - I was planning to stitch together something good out of four or five takes, but this one just arrived fully-formed, gnarled and twisted but with a few truths within. I called it 'deathwishbones' because that is what it is called."

Some Truths - deathwishbones (live set)

Strands

steve hauschildt 'strands'

Enjoy this first listen from The Orb's upcoming brand-new album 'COW / Chill Out, World!' which is due October 14, 2016 on Kompakt.


COW / Chill Out, World!

out October 14

The Orb - 5th Dimensions

A track from the album 'UV Sea' out 02/13/16 on Constellation Tatsu.

Forest Walker - Desert Lighthouse

Iury Lech - Barreras

"Only Once Away My Son" by Brian Eno with Kevin Shields

Listen to this track and many others at adultswim.com/singles

Adult Swim Singles 2017

Brian Eno with Kevin Shields - Only Once Away My Son

Single from Water Memory, out December 21st 2017.

preorder: mlesprg.bandcamp.com

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Water Memory began as an imagination of the feelings that are floating through the natural world around us. It morphed and cycled and gained memories of my own which are now contained like those in all bodies.

Water Memory 1

from the album ~~~
https://anaroxanne.bandcamp.com/album/-

Ana Roxanne is an intersex Southeast Asian musician based in Los Angeles. Born & raised in the Bay Area to immigrant parents, Ana's love for music and singing began through her mother's cd collection of 80's/90's R&B divas. Raised in the catholic church, she became a devout choir nerd and found any opportunity to sing, whether for religious mass, the jazz ensemble of her catholic high school, or karaoke at family gatherings. Her commitment to singing led her to a brief stint at a vocational jazz program in the cornfields of the midwest; in a remote town of 7,000 people, she began a formal study of jazz and classical music. During these years she would tour with her jazz and chamber ensembles to beautiful old cathedrals in nearby cities and became enamored with the sacredness of choral music, as well as the enveloping sound of harmony. 

A near death experience, too, served as a connection between music and spirituality, and music as a healing art after facing tragedy. 

In 2013, Ana was also fortunate enough to spend a few months in Uttarkhand, India where she met an incredible voice teacher who introduced her to classical Hindustani singing. Living and studying with this teacher deeply impacted her outlook on the voice as art. It was there that she began to see the singer - the Diva - as a symbol of divinity; that the unique power of one's voice comes from the vulnerability of using the body as an instrument. Be it romance, love, or worship of a deity - in order to access such depths of emotional expression, one must be willing to be intensely vulnerable, lay one's heart in the open air, expose what is kept hidden. This brief study was the catalyst that led her to finish her music study at the experimental Mills College in Oakland, CA, where she began to combine all of these influences into her current self-titled project. This album ~~~ was created during her last years residing in the Bay Area, a tribute to the great musicians who inspired her and the landscape where she spent her formative years. 

In addition to the worship of R&B and pop divas, Ana's current practice explores themes of gender & identity. In October of 2018, she decided to come out publicly as intersex, and is dedicated to being a voice for her community and speaking out about social justice for intersex youth.

Ana Roxanne - Nocturne

A track from the album Island Alchemy out 11/19/19 on Constellation Tatsu.

Sofie Birch - Myg

Sakura

Tobiume

from the album 'ravedeath, 1972'. available feb14th.

tim hecker 'hatred of music I'

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