Sometimes I felt as if we were all wading around in grief, 
reluctant to admit to others how far we were waving or drowning

Part 1 : https://soundcloud.com/migsxxxjacker/sets/abstract-ambient-drones-neo 

Abstract Ambient Drones & Modern Classical #2

Taken from the upcoming album 'Eaten Alive' on Fluid Audio...

“Art is not a mirror held up to reality,  but a hammer with which to shape it.” - Brecht

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Talvihorros - Little Pieces Of Discarded Life

Written & performed by Greg Haines
Published by Erased Tapes Music

Greg Haines – 183 Times

This album is, for all intents and purposes, is an homage to classic ambient and ambient techno albums of the past (of course filtered through the distinctive sound world of The Green Kingdom). This is not to say that the aim was to recreate or mimic the sound of these recordings, but rather the feeling they create through the use of sustained tones, repetition, melody and texture.

As indicated by the title, these pieces are meant to evoke vast and expansive environments, either real or imagined. These landscapes can often provide a sense of calm and wonder at our relative insignificance in comparison to the majestic grandeur of the larger universe all around us. Although the cover is one example of such a landscape, the tracks remain untitled in hope that the listener might attach their own associations.

Mike Cottone is a graphic designer and musician based in Detroit Michigan. Under The Green Kingdom moniker, he produces minimal ambient music using a variety of digitally manipulated sounds sourced from a variety of acoustic and electronic instruments.

thegreenkingdom.wordpress.com

Digital version of album contains a 2 bonus tracks by Tobias Hellkvist and Segue.

Release page: http://dronarivm.com/2014/01/13/the-green-kingdom-expanses/

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The Green Kingdom - Untitled (from 'Expanses' CD)

Sun, live at Maida Vale December 2013

April 24th at St John's (http://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?572955)

Max Ballie (1st violin)
Phil Granell (2nd violin) 
Oli Langford (viola)  
Lucy Railton (cello)
Calum Gourlay (double bass)

Sun (String Quintet Live At Maida Vale)

grouper 'holding'

taken from the album 'GARCON' (flau,2015)
http://www.flau.jp/releases/47.html

Radicalfashion returns with his second album in 8 years!

Radicalfashion - Born China

Strange Light [ii]

Live With Orchestra Version of "Pour Cyril" from How To Dress Well joined by Minna Choi’s Magik*Magik orchestra and first performed as part of a continuous sixty-minute live score put together to mark the release of "What Is This Heart?" in Berlin last June. 

Listen to How To Dress Well deconstruct the making of "Pour Cyril" in a new episode of Song Exploder: http://bit.ly/1EFXd04

"What Is This Heart?" out now on Weird World / Domino

Order the album on CD or LP
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Pour Cyril (Live With Orchestra)

Huge thanks to Nils Frahm and his brand new Piano Day (http://http://www.pianoday.org) for inspiring me to finally setup for proper recording my piano with two microphones, RME Babyface, and Ableton... This is a very short piece that I composed on the spot, as I was too excited to see the fruits of this first recording! 

Now I can play with mic positioning, multi-layering and software effects! :)

Mike Lazarev - Accidental (Piano Day)

Taken from the upcoming album 'Marram' by Wil Bolton featuring special guest appearances by Christoph Berg and Edward Farrow.

Mastered by James Plotkin
Released through Fluid Audio
Available: May 2015 

www.fluidaudio.co.uk

Wil Bolton - Marram

Sirens is the first collaborative LP of Kara-Lis Coverdale (Tim Hecker, L/B) and LXV (David Sutton). Following their respective solo cassette releases Aftertouches (2015) and Spectral Playmate (2014) on Sacred Phrases, Coverdale and LXV debut on Umor Rex with a collection of multi-textural and multi-source electronic music rich in narrative, melody, and spectral intrigue.

LP limited to 300 copies pressed on virgin vinyl. Packaged in an uncoated stock jacket with double sided insert, black polylined inner sleeve, and free download coupon. This is a pre-order for May 19th street date. PRE-ORDER HERE.

Inspired by the link between seduction and violence, Sirens comprises a series of timbrally vast anamorphic pieces that poise the voice as a newly imagined tool of multiplicity. Processes of sample manipulation, signal processing, routing, and source design inform instrumental writing and performance in feedback until intertwined, flickering between states of conflict and consonance. Apparitions of the schitzophrenic voice are at one moment fractured and cold and at the next full of warmth and vivaciousness, embodying velvet rituals of romanticism in the digital age.

Ultimately, Sirens is music for ambitious dreamers: surreal sound portraits sound like the warmth of the world laid over an ice cold virtual altar. LXV’s vocal truncations and fleshy sound palettes depict the archivation of the breath and aural fantasies of the flesh which Coverdale sets amongst a vast and unconfined landscape of deeper and unknown force. Harmonically active and dynamic orchestrations underpin post-sacred tonalities while brooding pipe organs, sphinx flutes, and hailstorms of metallic percussion characterize uniquely disjointed discussions between disparate compositional ontologies. At times violent and at others serenely peaceful and seductive, these pieces, at their most powerful moments illuminate a felt space between cybernetic energy and the body. 

Kara-Lis Coverdale and LXV — Informant

SP-57 // Dino Spiluttini - All I want Is To Be A Happy Man (cs/digital)

out on Sacred Phrases, April 28th 2015. 

PRE-ORDER CASSETTE: http://www.sacredphrases.com/product/dino-spiluttini-all-i-want-is-to-be-a-happy-man/

Dino Spiluttini - Emerge

SP-57 // Dino Spiluttini - All I want Is To Be A Happy Man (cs/digital)

out on Sacred Phrases, April 28th 2015.

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Dino Spiluttini - Father

A beautiful track from TRS054...new full length release from Italian soundscaper, Giulio Aldinucci, entitled, "Spazio Sacro"....out in early May...

Giulio Aldinucci   "Spazio Sacro"... Sator

title: A Pulse Passes from Hand to Hand
artist: Jeremy Young & Aaron Martin
Release Date:2015/6/17
Country of Origin : JAPAN
Catalog Number:WPMC022
Format(s): CD

White Paddy Mountain
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Bandcamp  
https://chiheihatakeyama.bandcamp.com/album/a-pulse-passes-from-hand-to-hand

シガー・ロスやヨハン・ヨハンソンの美しい旋律と静寂が同期する来日ツアーも大盛況に終わったSontag Shogun のメンバーで
あるJeremy Youngとアンビエント・ポストクラシカルの様々なプロジェクトに参加し、
Preservation、Experimedia、Under The Spireなどからの多数のリリースで知られるチェリスト・マルチ・インストゥルメンタリストのAaron Martinの初のコラボレーションアルバムが完成。
マックス・リヒター, キース・ケネフといったポストクラシカルや、ブライアン・イーノ、テイラー・デュプリー、フェデリコ・デュランド、ハロルド・バッドといったアンビエントの狭間に系譜に位置するこのアルバムは荘厳なチェロの響きとテープループのピアノの中で水平線に沈み込む夕日のような美しさをともなった傑作となった。
Jeremy YoungとAaron Martinの作り出す淡いレイヤーに重なる幾つもの微かな楽器の音は銀河にいくつも表れる彗星のように、儚い響きを持って立ち行きます。
古いテープが作る微かなモジュレーションがどこか懐かしい感触を引き出す、アンビエント・ポストクラシカルの傑作がここに誕生しました。


Aaron MartinA Pulse Passes is the first collaborative recording between Martin and Young. This project was dreamt up while Martin was on tour with Young's project Sontag Shogun in April 2014, as a meeting place between the lush ambient layerings of cello, guitar and tape-collage textures, and conceived in the months to follow. Each piece begins with a tape-loop cut from short piano compositions by Young, and is then augmented brick by brick in fluid, stream-of-consciousness instrumental improvisations. The four repeating tape splices never quite retreat too far from the foreground, and as the textures become more and more lush, the loops seem to change their definition, adapting endlessly to the sonics around them. Minimal electronic treatment serves only as a binding element here, yet it is the raw and untampered integrity of the instrumentals that sits at the core of this collaboration. 

These four works are true meditations on a theme, laid down onto and anchored by the tape. Let this album pass over you like cirrus clouds on their way inland, or underneath you like a woodland stream. 

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Jeremy Young & Aaron Martin /  A Pulse Passes From Hand To Hand I (Short ver)

full track from upcoming Olan Mill 'Cavade Morlem' CD.
out on middle of July on Dronarivn. 
more info soon...

Olan Mill - Tallole

from 'III' [CD|2xLP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den246
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/bersarinquartett]

Melancholia. Longing. It is difficult to speak about these moods or states of the mind without invoking stereotypes. In ancient medicine, melancholia was considered to be one of the four temperaments, matching the four humours. In fact, melancholia, meaning "black bile" in Ancient Greek, was thought to be caused by an excess of this very body substance. By contrast, in more modern interpretations, literates and Freudians relate many variations of longing to the one primordial longing, the desire to return to one's mother's womb. In this context, the womb is considered to be the place of absolute comfort and cosiness, of total bliss. Thus it should not be surprising that to many of us melancholia is a mood which we like to invoke and to maintain, we like to envelop ourselves in it like in a warm blanket. Our brain and our sensory systems appear to be made for perceiving and emotionally responding to music in a very immediate fashion. Consequently music is the obvious drug for all of us melancholia-addicts. However, there is a thin line between melancholia and sadness, and music which is meant to be melancholic too often crosses this line by far. Only very few artists succeed in avoiding this crossing, and in creating music which is melancholia in its most pure form. It is safe to say that BERSARIN QUARTETT - the electronic music project of Thomas Bücker - is one of them.

After his successfull selftitled debut in 2008 and the sophomore "II" in 2012 - album of the month in many magazines and in numerous "Best of the year" lists - Bücker returns with his third BERSARIN QUARTETT album "III", due for release 6.11.2015 on Denovali Records. Much like his two predecessors, III is a pure paradox. It is the creation of a perfectionist, an adamant control freak. Every element, be it a note, an ambience layer, a string arrangement, a field recording, a baseline, a vocal (Clara Hill on Track 11) or a beat, is meticulously modified and then assigned its place in Bücker's vast but still minimalistic arrangements. Thus, superficially Bücker's pieces seem to radiate a certain mechanical bleakness. However, there is a unique reduced warmth and liveliness emerging from these stainless compositions and transcending them. This transcendence is precisely the point where Bücker ironically looses control over his creations. In contrast to the first two BERSARIN QUARTETT albums, III offers a few darker shades and succeeds even further in narrowing down the arrangements to the absolute essentials without loosing the characteristic grandeur of Bücker's sound. Whereas BERSARIN QUARTETT's debut was merely a description of melancholia in its most pure form, III maybe even goes as far a defining what melancholia really is. It is the only emotion in the vast spectrum of human states of mind which one can bear forever. 

Bersarin Quartett - Jeder Gedanke umsonst gedacht

From the album Sometimes out November 13, 2015 on Western Vinyl.  Vinyl LP format will be out in 2016.

CD/LP http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv138
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Golmund:
Label page http://westernvinyl.com/artists/goldmund
Twitter https://twitter.com/Goldmund
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/keith.kenniff
Instagram https://instagram.com/kenniffs/
Artist site http://www.unseen-music.com/

Raised in the rural town of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Keith Kenniff aka Goldmund started playing piano at age 20, while studying percussion at Boston’s Berklee College of Music.  Though he may not be a household name, Kenniff's evocative, distinctly American music has become quietly ubiquitous in the past few years, often appearing on NPR, in films, on TV, and in ads for Apple, Facebook, and Google among others.  As an artist who spends a great deal of his time producing music for others, it might be surprising to find out that when he has the opportunity to relax and re-center himself, he often chooses to produce music for himself.  Recorded over the course of three years, the material on his new album Sometimes functions as a journal, documenting brief moments in Kenniff's day when he could turn to the piano as a source of solace and unending creative possibilities.  Kenniff wrote and recorded everything on the album with the exception of the track "A Word I Give", which is a collaboration with preeminent Japanese pianist Ryuichi Sakamoto, who once described Goldmund's music as “…so, so, so beautiful…”.  

Kenniff's pseudonym is taken from the Herman Hesse novel Narcissus and Goldmund in which the Goldmund character leaves the cloister where he was living and studying in search of meaning for his life.  The story resonated with Kenniff when he was searching for a moniker to represent his solo piano work, "I think the way I approached the piano was in the same way: impulsive—searching and feeling things out in the dark."  On Sometimes he continues his explorations in the dark; each of the album's 17 pieces were improvised, and recorded in one or two takes, often late at night, after work-for-hire was finished, and the kids were in bed.  In an interview with NPR's Weekend Edition Keith Kenniff discussed his appreciation of Civil War era music, and it's ability to covey "…so much story in so few notes."  Similarly, these improvisations manage to be richly evocative despite their technical and compositional simplicity, using subtle details and dynamics to express what might otherwise be inexpressible.  

Throughout Sometimes, Kenniff fully employs the wabi-sabi aesthetic that has always defined Goldmund recordings.  "I like mistakes, I like when things don't go perfectly. I do have a tendency to want for things to be perfect and precise, but I have to also realize that a lot of things I like about music and art are very rough and impulsive, the slight imperfections that give something or someone a unique voice," says Kenniff.  He goes on to explain that these pieces served as a way for him to "step outside of whatever I was doing and return back to a place of discovery very much like when I first started playing."  As we follow him on his path of discovery, we get a glimpse into the world of a young man expressing his myriad feelings and experiences with honesty, and inherently imperfect gestures, which is part of what makes them so relatable and powerful — the local, for a few moments, resonating with the universal. 

Goldmund - "Sometimes"

'Umrika' is a 2015 feature film directed by Prashant Nair with an original score by Dustin O'Halloran. The film stars Suraj Sharma ('Life of Pi') and Tony Revolori ('The Grand Budapest Hotel').

iTunes: http://apple.co/1RJT4R4

Dustin O'Halloran – A Voyage Begins (Umrika OST)

Artist: Eluvium
Title: Regenerative Being
Album: False Readings On
Release Date: September 2, 2016

Pre-Order: store.temporaryresidence.com/products/trr265

Cognitive dissonance is, at this point, an everyday part of modern society. The difference between belief and reality is blurrier than ever, and there is often sufficient manipulation to both so as to make the distinction intentionally unclear. The source of those manipulations can either be external, or deceptively internal.

False Readings On is the new album from renowned experimental composer, Eluvium. Its creation was originally inspired by themes of cognitive dissonance in modern society. By its conclusion it had become a mirror rather than a magnifying glass, evolving into an hour-long meditation on self-doubt, anxiety, and separation from one's self.

There is an emotional lucidity and melodic ingenuity to Eluvium's music that has made him increasingly stand out from the sea of ambient artists that his earlier albums no doubt helped inspire. Sounding like an orchestra ceaselessly performing even as it sinks beneath an ocean of distortions and tape noise – with the occasional operatic voice piercing the surface – False Readings On is assuredly the most daring, dynamic, and distinct album of his luminous career.

TRACK LISTING
1. Strangeworks
2. Fugue State
3. Drowning Tone
4. Regenerative Being
5. Washer Logistics
6. Movie Night Revisited
7. Beyond The Moon For Someone In Reverse
8. False Readings On
9. Rorschach Pavan
10. Individuation
11. Posturing Through Metaphysical Collapse

© 2016 Temporary Residence Ltd.

Abstract Ambient Drones & Modern Classical #2

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