And More Ambient

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2016

2020-01 Music To Write To (Tiny Portraits)

An absolutely beautiful track from the upcoming early December release from Polish composer and violinist, Olga Wojciechowska. From an album of music composed for various theater and film productions.

Olga Wojciechowska,  "Maps And Mazes",   Lazy Indifference

Purchase here: https://heligatorrecords.bandcamp.com/album/finity

The nom de plume Benoît Pioulard should be no stranger to anyone remotely interested in guitar-based experimental music. Pioulard has crafted a career creating softened, aching songs that pulse with given breath and slow decay along songs of fragile guitar melodies and a honeyed, yet supremely confident voice ringing through the reverb and acoustic guitar lines. 

On "Finity" PIoulard spins a deft web of sustained guitar tone that peaks, just above the red, in crucial moments - tethering an otherwise otherworldly composition to the very real, very messy world that we try to transcend through obtaining oneness with. 

A stately, gorgeous track, that for only two dollars, allows you to contribute to the literacy and ongoing learning of refugees at the Malindza Refugee Camp in Swaziland, Africa where every dollar spent at Heligator goes. All proceeds from the purchase of Heligator Records music goes towards maintaining the library through the purchase of supplies, the paying of the electric bill and a small stipend for volunteer refugee librarians.

Benoît Pioulard - Finity

Release date 29.04.16 
www.fac-ture.co.uk

“Work with the intention of slowly fading from sight.”

Returning to the light from the darkness of 2012’s ‘In a Lonely Place’, The Tape Loop Orchestra and Facture present ‘Go Straight To The Light Of All That You Love’, a landmark intersection of music and visual media. Interrogating the contradictory dualism in the life that inspires art, this unique project displays the panoramic influence of Ozu, Neuer Deutscher Film, Weldon Kees and Yves Klein, as well as forming of a larger arch with TLO’s ongoing body of work.

“Distortions are inherent to representation.”

Examining the multiple philosophical strands found 'In Search Of The Miraculous' - Dutch artist Bas Jan Ader’s intended trio of art actions, P D Ouspensky's book of the same name, Gurdjieff's early teachings - TLO pay homage to the artist’s continual search, even when the camera isn’t looking; searching for miracles, or simply an answer to the metaphysical why...

If life is art, can the artist decide where art ends and art life begins? Can they co-exist in one form? Do we celebrate the art or the artist?

“Death isn’t about judgement, it collects us all.”

As with all TLO releases, the material was recorded after development in live performance, with the new approach of using multi-track control over trademark tape disintegration for the first time. Edited, sequenced and mastered by James Plotkin for both CD and vinyl, with both formats offering different versions of the same work, ‘Go Straight To The Light Of All That You Love’ is an ambitious and densely rewarding entry in a sequence that fiercely questions the collective human failure to unravel complexity.

Performed by Tape Loop Orchestra with Beth Roberts, aus and Cuushe... Mastering: James Plotkin
Photography: Azra Haracic
Design: Craig Tattersall
Inspiration: Bas Jan Ader 

With love to:

Craig, Beth, Yasuhiko, Cuushe, Dan & Jess, Alice, Danny, Dean, Miles, Thomas, Michael, Russell, Richard, Joe, Masami and team Bookman

Packaging:

Deluxe 4 panel gatefold covers printed on reverse board Printed inner sleeves
Clear vinyl
Letter-pressed CD cover
Glass mastered (not CD-R) CD
16 page photographic booklet
2 x limited edition prints
CD/Booklet/Prints all rest inside hand stiched/sealed oversized glassine bags Hand Tagged/Typed/Individually numbered
All of the above rests inside sealed oversized black metallic photographic bags Download code
Scent
CD and vinyl hold different recordings of the material

Tape Loop Orchestra - Go Straight Towards The Light Of All That You Love

Started by recording three samples from my little daughter's toy guitar with my iPod. The entire track solely consists of these three samples, though heavily processed. This is just a try-out and needs some mastering.

Untitled 1 (demo)

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Gallery Six + Sound Awakener - Here Comes The Acoustic Season 

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“This album basically consists of beautiful sound materials from Nguyễn Hồng Nhung aka Sound Awakener, based in Hanoi, Vietnam. Her special soundscape brought me many inspirations, so I immediately figured out what I have to do. Although both of us have basically been trying to turn our attentions to beauty which inhere in elements of minimalism, consecutiveness, silence, darkness, at the beginning of making this album, in an attempt to share each other's sensibility, we interacted very often, and then, eventually found out the affinity. To combine things we see, hear, touch, taste, smell, feel in our everyday life is just only what we wanted to express in our music. We have confidently concluded that it's a thing we've been looking for. We two artists from Asia are, as it were, AWAKENER with SIX senses.” 

•	Hidekazu Imashige (Gallery Six) 


“I discovered Gallery Six’s music in summer 2014. I really, really love the sound he created as well as his photos so I got in touch with him and we started discussing a bit about the collaboration. I am much inspired by his approach to field recordings and electronic sounds – which is a great reminder of nature. 

In this album I tend to focus on layering soft soundscapes and adding classical music influence – this is the first time I’ve ever done it. 
For me Minimalistic Freedom is an experience for the peace of mind and my usual admiration for nature. It is a strange sweetness through pain – since most of my parts were recorded at one of the hardest times in my life. It is my pleasure to have Gallery Six throughout this musical journey.” 

•	Nhung Nguyen (Sound Awakener)
credits
releases August 30, 2016 

All tracks composed and recorded by Hidekazu Imashige and Nhung Nguyen 

Mixed by Hidekazu Imashige 

Mastering by Mark Kuykendall at Unknown Tone Studios (www.UnknownToneStudio.com) 

Artwork/Photography by Hidekazu Imashige 
Cover image by Mark Kuykendall 
Total play: 40:27

ORDER HERE: https://unknowntonerecords.bandcamp.com/album/here-comes-the-acoustic-season

Here Comes The Acoustic Season

Gallery Six + Sound Awakener - Here Comes The Acoustic Season

Rhucle - Lantern

Try-out of a second track I am currently working on.

Untitled 2 (demo)

THIS SESSION HAS BEEN ISSUED ON TAPE by Tanuki Records : 
https://tanukirecords.bandcamp.com/album/niobium

here is a short excerpt from session41
slight compression & reverb

those who were there that day : 
* Anna : harp
* Arthur : things & electronic things
* Gregory : cigarbox guitar
* Lidya : psalterion
* Sylvain : things & electronic things

E42.A8 - Nul N'y Voulut Entendre

For some reason my shortcut through the woods was flooded. Every year the water level in this area was rising until the location became permanently waterlogged. Trees fell and the former forest became silent and inaccessible. This summer the area was drained, and it is now no longer a swamp or a forest. In the evaporating puddles the last of the remaining water creatures can be heard crunching.
Peter Olsén, Järna, Sweden.

eat the world of yesterday to make room for today - Peter  Olsén - Tiny Portraits

Ramberget towers over central Hisingen. Like a remnant of something ancient, something that was here before we even started measuring time. As a reminder of everything that came before us, and of all that will continue once we’re gone. Through ages that will soon have forgotten our mere existence, it will remain, silent, unyielding. But there is a promise in that. Something always remains, something that watches over us, something that never forgets.
Keillers Park at Ramberget was inaugurated on October 3rd 1908. In 1912 and 1915, the park was enlarged in a northern and westerly direction. Today it comprises approximately 31 hectares.
Life is short. Humans exist for a moment, only to fall back into darkness once more. But something remains. Some call it the soul. The law of entropy states that energy can never disappear, it can only change from one form to another. And energies have to go somewhere. Keillers Park is a place where energies gather.
On August 22nd 2016 I went up on Ramberget to do some field recordings for this piece. I made recordings on a number of locations, in the park and in connection to the park. When I later listened through the material I discovered recurring noises in some of the takes. High frequency sounds which I did not know the origin of, and could not find any logical explanation for. I had not heard these sounds during the actual sessions, something had disrupted the recordings. Perhaps it was merely radio waves, perhaps the recording equipment just malfunctioned? Perhaps someone is trying to tell us something. I let them become part of the piece.
I don’t believe in the soul and I don’t believe in the afterlife. But I do not believe that death is the end of everything. Death is perhaps just a new beginning. Of what I don’t know.
Dag Rosenqvist, Göteborg, Sweden

Keillers Park - Dag Rosenqvist - Tiny Portraits

Taken from the A Made Up Sound (2009-2016) label compilation 

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Life Garden - Saura

From "Tracer Wanz"
Track_01: Rogue Idiot

Bandcamp: blo-om.bandcamp.com/album/tracer-wanz
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W - I 06
Artwork by Oli XL

Rogue Idiot (W - I 06)

Out now on 12" clear vinyl and digital formats
https://perctrax.bandcamp.com/album/kepslok

Perc Trax closes it's second quartet of 'Ltd' releases by welcoming back Scalameriya for his second EP on the label. Last time he teamed up with VSK for 'Haka' but now he flies solo serving up three percussive grinders, each showing off different facets of his detailed and powerful sound. 

Opener and title track 'Kepslok' is built upon jagged electro riffs and the kind of stop / start rhythms that instantly differentiate it from techno's current glut of linear drum tools. 

'Annex No.3' utilizes the metallic percussion that Perc Trax is infamous for to devastating effect and closer 'Geargrind' tiptoes between 4/4 and broken rhythms, overlaying them with the glitching sounds of early computing and an irresistibly energetic bassline.

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Scalameriya - Geargrind (Perc Trax)

The latest from Gobby’s barnstorming BBG series. “Newboz” is a miraculous new occurrence in the saga, from the seemingly unexpected Beats By Gobby II (forthcoming), today coinciding with his valiant return to UNO NYC’s Pinball & Laundry Service lineup: RSVP bit.do/anotherholiday

Gobby - Newboz

In the summer of 2015 I spent two weeks in a small house by the beach in Marušići, Croatia. With a view to the island of Brač and the quarry where our landlord’s grandfather rowed to gather stone when building the house, it was a perfect place for a holiday of relaxation. Recorders were placed outside, around the house, recording more or less continuosly for two weeks, capturing the sea, bathers, birds and wildlife, farmers, workers, an out-of-tune rooster and daily life though a warm and sleepy period of summer. After several days of windless, almost unbelievably hot weather, the weather changed and strong winds ripped across the coast for almost 12 continuous hours. This overnight recording formed the raw material for this composition. The winds changed the sonic signature of this beach paradise completely, making it into a much more poetic scene than the usual sun-drenched beach with cries of children playing in the water, birds and boats. This short piece is an attempt at capturing this poetic. 
Ulf A. S. Holbrook, Oslo, Norway.

Borka (winds) - Ulf A. S. Holbrook - Tiny Portraits

Outside of Memory is a piece comprised of aeolian harp, wind, and a thunderstorm. It was recorded in a single afternoon in Southern Colorado, USA at a place called Sisu, which is private land owned by a family of artists. It’s a unique spot, ringed by four separate Rocky Mountain ranges and with views of the great plains, though the immediate terrain is semi-arid high desert full of cactus, piñon, and juniper. I’ve spent many days over the past half-decade at Sisu, camping, hiking, sitting around a fire, talking, drinking coffee, reading, taking photos, performing, and recording.
 
This piece shares its name with a series of sketches from Sisu by Charles Parson. Many thanks to Chuck and his family for the hospitality and inspiration over the years. I’m happy to have a bit of the place documented and shared in this way. Thanks, too, to Seth Chrisman, who provided an alternate mix and mastering for what became the final draft of this piece.
Cody Yantis, Arvada, Colarado, USA.

Mastered by Seth Chrisman.

Outside Of Memory - Cody Yantis - Tiny Portraits

Every once in a while - during these last few years - I get to stay a few days in Liguria, a region that I love very much, during holidays or times when I do not have to work (I work as a graphic designer in Cremona, the city where I was born and live). Near the house where we stay there is an impressive place called San Fruttuoso Abbey (very close to Camogli and Portofino), which as well as being the residence of the Doria and a catholic Abbey, was also a hideout for pirates!
The place is still reachable only by boat or through a long path in the woods, but I must say that to swim in the sea of that small harbour really worth it!
I visited this place at least three times, and the thing that has always struck me, even more than the beautiful sea, is the atmosphere of the inside of the abbey (I’m not a Christian then is not a religious issue), especially if visited in a season where there are no tourists or bathers outside.
On one of these occasions I had bought the umpteenth music box from a vendor outside the church (since I incorporate them very often within my music I'm always looking for a new one).
Then, once we were on the balconies of the abbey, my oldest (at that time four years old) daughter Viola began to play the music box very slowly and it felt so good that, in the absence of professional equipment, I began to record everything with my iphone.
Once back home I arranged this raw recordings in a sampler and I used that as a starting point for a series of improvisations with the simple aid of looper + ring mod + fuzz pedals.
Nicola Fornasari, Cremona, Italy.
Mastered by Jason Corder.

A Quiet Removal - Xu - Tiny Portraits

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Arctica - Machines

From the Tiny Portraits Industrial series.
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About the piece: 
Originally marshland situated at the mouth of the 
Don River and Lake Ontario, the area became industrialized in the 
late 19th Century. Currently lying mostly abandoned due to the 
area’s large-scale de-industrialization in the mid-80s, the area is 
on the verge of a massive high-tech urban redevelopment scheme 
dubbed the ’Smart City’ project. 
The Port Lands are home to a large variety of boreal waterfowl, 
including cormorants, several species of ducks, geese as well as a 
diverse range of freshwater fish. Most recordings were sourced 
from ships currently being refurbished in the area’s Turning Basin 
complex (including large ‘Laker’ cargo ships, which characterize 
water transport in the Great Lakes region) as well as from the 
massive, derelict Hearn Generating Station complex. ‘Port Lands D’ 
is intended as a sonic portrait of a location in transition – an area 
that exists in the liminal zone between the urban and natural, 
and at the confluence of an rapidly developing metropolitan centre’s 
past, present and future. 
Michael Trommer, Toronto, Canada 
For the Tiny Portraits online map visit: flamingpines.com

Port Lands D - Michael Trommer - Tiny Portraits

A Flaming Pines project:

Tiny Portraits: 

Small renderings of place in memory and sound. 

Sound and place are two terms often thrown together, but what actually connects the two? Sure places sound differently, or may shape the sounds that enter them in particular ways but in what ways is sound actually able to capture and convey place? Is place something to be captured at all? 

In Listening to Noise and Silence, Salomé Voegelin talks of soundscape compositions occupying a site 'between preservation and invention' – an attempt by the composer or field recordist to retain the essence of a site inevitability results via the processes of recording, composition and listening in the creation of somewhere new. 

Tiny Portraits asks each participant to dwell on these connections and disconnections between sound and place, representation and invention by starting somewhere small, somewhere overlooked or obscure, and to interrogate this site using sound. 

In listening to these pieces we ask you to bring only some stillness and imagination, as together we create new places, connections and silences out of these traces of forgotten and hidden sites. 

To visit the Tiny Portraits map by Arash Akbari visit: 
http://www.flamingpines.com/tiny-portraits/

Credits: 
Tiny Portraits is conceived and curated by Kate Carr and is distributed via the record label Flaming Pines. 
Website design and programming by Arash Akbari 
All pieces by listed artists. 
All artwork by Kate Carr 
Mastering by Taylor Deupree at 12k Mastering. 

If you would like to pitch a portrait for this project contact: flaming.pines@gmail.com