Meditative Ambient 5

Surtouche

60°19’N 24°94E / 22°54’S 43°12’W

Physical: geographic-north.com/cassette/transformative-nature/
Digital: geographicnorth.bandcamp.com/album/transformative-nature
Catalog #: GN45
Neon Fog Cassette, limited to 100
Mastered by Sean McCann

Café Ale is Los Angeles-based musician and producer Alejandro Cohen. An irreplaceable fixture in LA’s sprawling music scene, Cohen has contributed his deft auditory touch to projects ranging from the hallucinatory Balearic bliss of Pharaohs (100% Silk, International Feel, ESP Institute, Holy Mountain) to the fuzz-drench auteur pop of Languis (Plug Research, Pehr). In addition to his acclaimed musical output, Cohen is responsible for corralling a wholly inclusive and globally-minded stable of tastemakers as director of dublab, Los Angeles’ long-running radio station.

Spanning eight shimmering sketches, 'Transformative Nature" marks Café Ale‘s debut set of recordings. With help from a revolving cast of collaborators, Cohen has crafted a tantalizing medley of evocative, rhythmic burners suited more for a breezy sunset than the dance floor. 

Opener “Devout” is an uplifting drift of noise and melody, floating down a river of serrated drones and serene piano keys. “Push-me Pull-U” unfurls its noir-ish, neon-flecked careen through saxophone-littered vistas. “Subir Es Lo Mejor” slithers with a muted and stuttering house beat, perfectly balancing rhythmic meditation with hypnotic transcendence. “Hymn” dials the narrative back into a warbled and woozy ambient symphony of synthetic beauty.

“Stranded” plays out like an autumnal raga for an unseasonably warm backyard house party, while “Dress’n Up” nods to some grand and cosmic melodrama. “Dead Child Song” brings a disarmingly moving melody of love and loss, countered by closer “Fallen Angel,” a curiously shoegaze-y traipse through a slurred and heady, effects-laden dream sequence. 

A captivating statement that shows Cohen’s dynamic, wide-ranging, and wholly unique approach to dance music.

Café Ale - Hymn

Bitchitronics

Inclusion

Apollo: Atmospheres And Soundtracks

An Ending (Ascent) (Remastered 2019)

Pre-order available now. Release date: Jan 31, 2020

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Deep Listening, we offer you the definitive double LP combining the classic, complete original 1989 release with selected tracks from the Deep Listening Band’s 1991 album The Readymade Boomerang.

This elegant double LP is packaged in a gatefold sleeve with original and updated recollections from the performers, the recording engineer and a mesostic from John Cage, to which these recordings are inextricably linked.

Recorded in a cistern, this double LP reverberates with brilliant sonic clarity and masterfully improvised performances combining live electronics, vocals, trombone and accordion. Deep Listening is a classic in the fields of improvisation, minimalism, ambient/drone and modern classical.

Listen with attentiveness, listen while lying down, listen with headphones - as recording engineer Al Swanson entices the listener to become a virtual performer in selecting the many different ways to perceive these phenomenal tracks. Whatever you do, listen deeply.

Oliveros - Dempster - Panaiotis "Deep Listening" 2LP - 30th Anniversary & First time on vinyl!

from the album 'allegiance and conviction' available 3/27

windy and carl 'crossing over'

The São Paulo-based producer Frontinn from the ODD collective arrives with her first full-length album Underlying Problems.

The record is permeated with casiotone melodies, empty-room reverbs, obsessive repetitions and partially slow reactions that suddenly turn into fast responses. An album that feels disoriented in space and could perfectly be drifting in another decade. Produced during a moment of interval, the record reflects the artist’s inner state and resonates with everyday changing moods.

As the artist points out: “The album was entirely made after fragments appropriated from different interviews, books and films that were repurposed into track names, artwork, video and album title. It’s always been usual for me to come across elements that caught my attention, change their context and work with them later; they always reveal something and I think this invisible force that makes sense out of these initially ‘displaced’ elements became clear now for this record. The way we live in society feels very much like that in a way. Being in this super productive era, with tons of information delivered to us at every minute and eventually only one particular detail captures our attention… I think this album are these small details and fragments that got stuck with me and were important for some reason.”

All tracks written and produced by Juliana Frontin
Mixed by Pedro Zopelar at ODD Studios, São Paulo
Mastered at Reel Mastering, London
Artwork by Juliana Frontin
Distributed by Muting The Noise
São Paulo, 2020

Frontinn - Often Hard To Tell (streaming)

Blue piano in Paris

European Splendour

Evangeline (David Lynch Remix)

Signals is an absolutely beautiful new collaborative effort between the much beloved Finnish electronic artist Lau Nau, and the brilliant Swedish composer and pianist Matti Bye. These 8 gently melancholic and deeply sensitive tracks are a perfect antidote to the stressful times that we all find ourselves in. Let these soothing sounds from the light filled days and nights of the far north soften your cares during these all too dark days.

Matti Bye & Lau Nau

Lau Nau & Matti Bye "Signals"... Ile Disparue

The third track off the wondrous new album from French pianist/composer, Catherine Watine...

INTRICATIONS QUANTIQUES

Catherine Watine  "Intrications Quantiques" The Lighthouse on the Edge

A preview of my latest piano piece. Official release is on October 30th.

Sonder

Sheet Music

Existem diversos caminhos em que musica se torna uma obsessão, mas todos eles aplicam uma dinâmica parecida na pessoa: A idéia de que todos os outros caminhos que a pessoa não fez se tornam uma possibilidade. Bad_Mix é Samuel Malbon, produtor e DJ e um dos fundadores da festa Caldo em São Paulo (SP), ele ficou conhecido nos últimos anos por sua impressionante capacidade de fazer todo tipo de faixa excelente para as pistas, mas aqui em Rotas Vivas este canivete suíço da musica eletrônica nos apresenta outro caminho: Acompanhado do impressionante baterista Leonardo Marques, nós nos deparamos com harmonias de qualidade poliglota, solos de tendência realista e uma bateria que respira, dobra e se desdobra, evitando típicas backbeats como se a vida de Leonardo dependesse disso ou talvez como se um disco do 4hero fosse jogado em uma sala de ensaio e fizesse questão de se tornar algo mais brasileiro do que já é. Existe um contexto de influência de jazz no disco? Sim, mas isso não é o epicentro da coisa, Rotas Vivas é um disco tão literal na ideia de que os diversos ramos da musica podem nos elevar a uma nova potencia, que qualquer outro nome ou conotação seria um crime. Quando alguém se possibilita algo a mais, você tem que oferecer o beneficio da duvida.
credits
released November 27, 2020

Produzido, mixado e masterizado por Samuel Malbon. Leonardo Marques na bateria. Gravado no Estudio Ekord em São Paulo, Brasil

Rotas Vivas

Agua Viva

Roberta Lima in collaboration with Naves Cilíndricas

60°19’N 24°94E 22°54’S 43°12’W

Hello everyone!

Firstly...many of our releases are now available digitally here...

https://timereleasedsound.bandcamp.com/ 

Founded in 2011, Time Released Sound is a lovingly hand made, limited edition release music label that is as much an art project as it is a musical outlet. Focusing primarily on classically infused and folk based ambient and electroacoustic sounds by the artists we know, love and admire, we will be striving at all times to produce visuals and packaging for these fine releases that are as original and uniquely beautiful as the music itself.

To contact us you can email Colin at…info@ timereleasedsound dot com, or join us on facebook.

Demo Policy: If you would like to submit music for consideration, we would prefer that you contact us in advance through this website, regarding the procedure.

Thanks much!