AMBIENT SESSION

ambient

Ambient

Proxima Selections - Hanoi Community Radio

The circuitry of curiosity, the playfulness of the patch, the sublime in the subfrequency. Coalescing together in an emotive dance, these eloquent elements comprise the foundation of JakoJako's approach to music. Whether you find her deeply engrossed in her modular system, performing live at Berghain as a part of the Leisure System crew, or working behind the counter at the legendary Berlin synth shop SchneidersLaden, her profound knowledge and passion for translating her external and internal worlds into sonic anomalies permeate throughout everything she does. 

Versatility and virtuosity are the common threads woven into her productions, such as her recent album with Unrush founder Mareena Altas Der Gedanken on Muzan Editions. The same can be said for her mix here, which features everything from traditional southern Laotian music to øjeRum and Steve Roach. As a close friend and collaborator of Unrush, her contribution is long overdue. We couldn't conceive of a better artist to bring us into the warmer months with a glimmer of hope and a glimpse into the infinite...

Thanks a lot to https://soundcloud.com/jakojako_live

Album on Muzan Editions: https://bit.ly/2OXzyKr
Leisure System: https://bit.ly/3qMSWY6
Instagram: https://bit.ly/3bKsYjp

Cover artwork by Irakli Kiziria
Words by Nathan Levenson

Tracklist:

1. The Way to The Ocean - Secret and Melancholy
2. Nang Pit -Katu Song
3. Barker & JakoJako - unreleased
4.Cousin Silas - Part 7
5. Steve Roach - Robert Logan - Dark beyond the Blue
7. Novelle - Pre-fabled
8. Dan Deacon - Adrianes Lament
9.Steve Hillage - Gardens Paradise
10. Jonathan Fitoussi - Oceans
10.Richard Norris - Water
11. Mareena & JakoJako - Sinnessprung
12.øjeRum -Hidden Flowers Below Your Lonely Gaze
13.Nørdvest - Rooftops & chaotic Streets
14. Cousin Silas - Part 1
15. Al Pagoda - Steel Outro
16. walden - Windhauch
17. Erratics & Unconformities - Hangingstones
18. Daniel[i] - Statig Feeling (Meditation)
19. Kangding Ray -Trade on Azul

Unrush 055

Unrush Bandcamp

055 - Unrushed by JakoJako

Donato Dozzyは日本にいる多くの友人たちへの想いを馳せ、またLabyrinthで私たちの前でプレイすることを思い描きつつこのミックスを作りました。彼の奏でる音楽にまた身を委ねる日が待ち遠しいですね。

Donato Dozzy - For Labyrinth

Warm up mode, ambient into beats. Recorded live in February 2022.

Warm up 2022

Up next in our mix series is Berlin based Dutch-Italian recording and performing artist Grand River (@grandriver). Interview (excerpt) down below.

www.musicfrommemory.com
 
MFM: Hi Aimée. In the musical landscape nowadays it often seems to be all about the final result (or product even) rather than the process and path before it. With your music it feels that it's more about the process of making rather than the final outcome. Where does your profound interest for experimenting with audio and composing come from?
 
GR: Nice to hear that you see it that way and to know that it may be perceived like this from the outside as well. The work itself and how we experience the process is what matters most. It’s not always easy to be mindful about how everything is created along the way. The end result or end product is important, but if you don’t enjoy the process of how you get there, I don’t think it makes much sense to even undertake the journey. And of course this applies to many aspects of life.
 
MFM: You've got a rich experience in doing technical work for and at radio stations and with other kinds of media. Did you have someone to teach you all the ins & outs of audio and technical production?
 
GR: Most of the technical work I learned directly through working as I did not go to any audio school to study sound design or audio engineering. When I started to work as an audio engineer for radio stations and other media outlets 13-14 years ago, there were not many audio schools like there are now. Back then, the people I worked with were mainly composers that had learned audio engineering on their own, just as I had. However, as a child, I was formally taught music theory and musical instruments. That, of course, came long before the technical work.
 
MFM: Your first official release dates are from 2017 but you had been active with experimenting, composing, and recording for a much longer time already. At what point did you find yourself confident and pleased enough to share your productions with the outside world?
 
GR: When I moved to Berlin in 2015 I took the first few years to research and study the sound I wanted to express and felt a connection to. Long before that, I was building and playing other genres. It takes time to find your sound and style, and the interesting part is that it continues to evolve over time. Even when you think you’ve found it, it still changes slightly.
 
MFM: Do you go to the studio religiously, regardless of whether you feel inspired or motivated? Do you have a certain routine when working in the studio?  
 
GR: I don’t go to the studio religiously, at least not to make music. 
I do work every day, but often I am just sitting in my studio listening to music, writing emails, or having meetings. Many people don’t know how much work is behind a project. From the outside, what you see is just the tip of the iceberg. I mostly compose in phases; I might compose a lot for two months and then the next month I will be focused on researching, or preparing a live show, recording a mix like I did for you, or creating a sound installation. I need time to absorb what I compose and let it rest, and then get back to it.
 
MFM: Are there any new projects that you're working on and can share with us? 
 
GR: I am working on several beautiful projects at the moment. This year I am working on different collaborations of which the releases will follow in the near future. I have a new album coming out either at the end of the year or beginning of 2023. I am currently working on an immersive installation and I will also be premiering a new AV show with the visual artist Marco Ciceri this summer.

MFM Mix 041: Grand River

Dark times call for dark music. There is something about the cold catharsis of winter that inspires our next guest, Eònan. Making a name for himself in the caverns of Berlin over the last half-decade, he has carved out his niche through a series of timbre-filled techno trips for his Lucidmind imprint. However, it was his ambient mix for the same label which showcased a more sanguine side to his taste and thereby caught our ear. Here he has once again amassed a monolith of musicality, illuminating a path forward through the longest nights.

Thanks a lot to https://soundcloud.com/eonan

Instagram: https://instagram.com/eonan.wav?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Lucid Mind Records: https://soundcloud.com/lcdmndrecords
RA: https://ra.co/dj/eonan
Beatport: https://www.beatport.com/artist/eonan/663941

Unrush Bandcamp: www.unrush.bandcamp.com/
Unrush Hardwax: www.hardwax.com/label/unrush/
Unrush Instagram: www.instagram.com/_unrush_/?hl=de
Unrush Facebook: www.facebook.com/unrushme/

Cover artwork by Irakli Kiziria
Words by Nathan Levenson

Tracklist:

1. Giuseppe Falivene - Artificial Atraction
2. Ben Bondy - Wish
3. Varg2tm - The Burn Of All Ages (ft. Soho Rezanejad)
4. Misantropen - Moll 5
5. Yttrandet - Sundr
6. zakè & ossa - mission control
7. Sabled Sun - Dreams without a future
8. Curved Light - Greater, Less, Equal
9. Magna Pia - Vsyo
10. Tyresta - Fragile
11. Luis Sterling - A.D. Millenium View
12. poemme - forest hymn
13. Warmth - Growth (Retrospective)
14. Rashida Prime - Enter Dream
15. D-Leria - Reborn
16. 36 & zakè - Stasis Sounds for Long Distance Space Travel (Phase 3)
17. Arovane - stat
18. Boris Salchow - Deteriorating
19. Architectural - Vida Sin Luz
20. Allpa Putuma - Fotosintesis
21. Curved Light - Shadowplay
22. 36 - Apollo
23. Suss - Train
24. Luis Sterling - The Pilar of Serene
25. Space Afrika - where is
26. zakè & ossa - calculating trajectory
27. Geins’t Nait & L.Petitgand - Naga
28. Caya - Measure In Sand
29. Bascha - Bilalayl
30. HIrako Lizuka - Vapor
31. Anthony Linell - Being Water
32. Echodive TM - Stop it
33. Des Vies - The Garden of Eden
34. Huerco S. - Plonk X
35. Moss Covered Technology - Under A Tree
36. Vril & Rødhad - ENNOCH
37. Stefano Guzzetti - Aurora
38. Hadone - And Then You Were None
39. Ocean Sound Outro

072 - Unrushed by Eònan

Recorded live at the Labyrinth Festival, Sept 2013.
The set was a tribute to Pete Namlook who passed away the previous year.
Thanks to all @ Mindgames
http://mindgames.jp
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lnR7Ow3qfo&t=7s

Live @ Labyrinth - Pete Namlook Tribute

Headspace [I] - Mixed by Alphaxone - (2015)

Mysteries Of The Deep Podcast, Chapter XXXII. Evening Of Light by Neel.

This is the second part of Neel's hybrid live performance at Innervarnika Festival, Australia.

https://soundcloud.com/neel

Mysteries Of The Deep XXXII - NEEL | EVENING OF LIGHT

1. red calx [slo]
2. lush ambulance 2
3. early morning clissold
4. rhubarb rev.
5. th1 [slo]
6. just fall asleep
7. chopped f beginning
8. stabbing interview
9. road shimmer f
10. slothscrape
11. [Sl]ow Early Morning Clissold Sunrise


yeah sorry track 8 is messed up and went mono at two points. the old laptop can't handle the awesomeness.

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 2.5 (12.25.15 Mix)

over the last couple of years i’ve been making really really really quiet music to listen to when i do yoga or sleep or meditate or panic. i ended up with 4 hours of music and have decided to give it away.

you can download it for free here: http://moby.com/la1 or stream it for free on soundcloud. or you can get it on spotify, apple music & itunes & deezer & tidal.

it’s really quiet: no drums, no vocals, just very slow calm pretty chords and sounds and things for sleeping and yoga and etc.

and feel free to share it or give it away or whatever, it’s not protected or anything, or at least it shouldn’t be.

thanks,

moby

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LA11

Welcome to the 20th chapter of the Ambient Sessions presented by Deep Electronics. This monthly released podcast brings you the best and the most diversity Ambient music can offer.
This months set is created and mixed by one of the most respected Dark Ambient producers: Kammarheit. 
With this set he presents his most well known tracks in one amazing piece. A dark and sometimes melancholic feeling in a apocalytic setting takes the listener into his musical world.

Bio:

Kammarheit is a well respected dark ambient project by Pär Boström, currently living in Umeå in the north of Sweden.

The project started in 2000 as a way to explore and re-create a certain atmosphere – a post apocalyptic stillness among majestic subterranean halls, deep chasms and abandoned places. Initially the project also functioned as a means to ease insomnia and to drift in and out of sound. With no musical education the atmosphere became the focal point, using what little equipment he had at the moment. Throughout the years Pär has mastered a music that is both apocalyptic and soothing, a kind of numinous and meditative ambience.

Tracklist:

01. The Howl
02. Hiding 
03. A Room Between The Rooms 
04. Hypogaeum
05. I Found It Weeping In The Field
06. The Poignant
07. Unsealed 
08. Hypnagoga 
09. Sung In Secret 
10. All Quiet In The Land Of Frozen Scenes

Links:

https://kammarheit.bandcamp.com/

https://soundcloud.com/kammarheit

https://www.discogs.com/artist/167300-Kammarheit

http://www.parbostrom.com/music/

Live set @ Phobos 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpmuhdakIGE

Photo provided by Kammarheit

Text by Jeroen Smulders

Circuit Jellyfish design by NLz

Ambient Sessions # 20 - Kammarheit

The first Sphäre Sechs album "Tiefschlaf" was recorded on a seven hour long sleeping-concert in Wuppertal´s Sophienkirche (where the Phobos festival takes place). Our task was to edit an album that was interesting to listen to and also catch the vibe of our sleeping concert. The final version was 55 mins long and this is our first draft which was 74 minutes long. 

Sphäre Sechs - Tiefschlaf (early demo version)

Sarah Davachi (CA) @sarahdavachi
Thursday June 2, 2016 - Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (MAC)
Mastered by @Pheek

WHO: Vancouver, now Montréal-based musician, composer and musicologist Sarah Davachi
STYLE: Minimal electronic and electroacoustic compositions, synthesized ambient sonics of a bygone era, extended drones and harmonic textures
LATEST WORK: Barons Court (2015), Qualities Of Bodies Permanent (2015), neustadt/altstadt EP (2015), Σ = 4 (2015)
LABELS: Students of Decay @studentsofdecay, Constellation Tatsu @constellationtatsu, Cassauna
MORE: Holds an MFA in electronic music and recording media from Mills College in Oakland, California and works for the National Music Centre in Calgary as an interpreter, researcher and archivist of their collection of acoustic and electronic keyboard instruments

Making her MUTEK debut last festival, Vancouver now Montréal-based composer and synthesist Sarah Davachi, turned in a gorgeous sweep of richly emotional electronic harmonics and textures. This is the live recording of her delicate and elegiac set.

Full bio: http://www.mutek.org/fr/fm/podcasts/muteklive/735-muteklive112-sarah-davachi


MUTEKLIVE112 - Sarah Davachi

Thris Tian presents a weekly mix series on Worldwide FM, broadcast live every Saturday at 6PM, continuing the weekend workout straight after Gilles' 6Music show.

Swedish DJ and producer Sebastian Mullaert created a mix that focuses on music that inspired and continues to inspire him from the classical world.

Tracklist: http://worldwidefm.net/show/new-music-worldwide-sebastian-mullaert-22-07-17-6-7pm-bst/

New Music Worldwide: Sebastian Mullaert

Blade Runner 2049 Soundtrack - Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch

Recorded at wordless @ Contact Tokyo 
9th February 2019 (22:00~23:30)

thanks to Yone-ko, Contact Tokyo, and all the people who were there.

DJ mix _ 9 Feb 2019 _ Wordless @ Contact Tokyo (22:10~23:30)

IORI [ Prologue / PHONICA ] Japan

A Dj/producer from Okinawa, Japan. Now based Berlin. Iori’s musical career started up in Naha, Okinawa in the late 90′s. He went to New York in 2003, and later on headed back to Japan after serving as a project coordinator for The Loft under David Mancuso. Taking Okinawa as center, Iori is famed in both Japan and stages around the world at the present. As deeply influenced by True Deep house, Manuel Gottsching, Moritz Von Oswald, and Basic Channel, Iori does not only present sets ranging from House to Techno but is also proficient in alternative deep sets. 
Characterised by the heavy and bouncy rhythms , grand atmospheric synth layers, He has already established his unique sound in the European techno / house circuit.

His past release have fancied by international DJs such as Cio D'or, Kirk Degiorgio , Nick Hoppner , Mike Parker , Sigha , Levon Vincent, and enthusiastically supported by many domestic underground Djs Like DJ NOBU… 

http://www.facebook.com/ioriasano09
www.smkmachine.com 
www.facebook.com/SmokeMachineOfficial

UN #27 IORI

This is a mix by Barker, Berlin-based music producer, that was featured on our last podcast: Sam Barker and David Pearce on Art, Paradise Engineering, and Existential Hope (With Guest Mix). We hope that you'll find inspiration and well-being in this soundscape. 

You can find the page for this podcast here: https://futureoflife.org/2020/06/24/sam-barker-and-david-pearce-on-art-paradise-engineering-and-existential-hope-featuring-a-guest-mix/

Tracklist: 

Delta Rain Dance - 1
John Beltran - A Different Dream
Rrose - Horizon
Alexandroid - lvpt3
Datassette - Drizzle Fort
Conrad Sprenger - Opening
JakoJako -  Wavetable#1
Barker & David Goldberg - #3
Barker & Baumecker - Organik (Intro)
Anthony Linell - Fractal Vision
Ametsub - Skydroppin’
Ladyfish\Mewark - Comfortable
JakoJako & Barker - [unreleased]

Where to follow Sam Barker :

Soundcloud: @voltek
Twitter: twitter.com/samvoltek
Instagram: www.instagram.com/samvoltek/
Website: www.voltek-labs.net/
Bandcamp: sambarker.bandcamp.com/

Where to follow Sam's label, Ostgut Ton:

Soundcloud: @ostgutton-official
Facebook: www.facebook.com/Ostgut.Ton.OFFICIAL/
Twitter: twitter.com/ostgutton
Instagram: www.instagram.com/ostgut_ton/
Bandcamp: ostgut.bandcamp.com/

This podcast is possible because of the support of listeners like you. If you found this conversation to be meaningful or valuable, consider supporting it directly by donating at futureoflife.org/donate. Contributions like yours make these conversations possible.

Barker - Hedonic Recalibration (Mix)

live recordings + podcasts

Video Club 026 - Aurora Halal (downtempo mix)

Read our interview with Ario here: https://www.patternsofperception.com/post/a-chat-with-ario

Followers of ambient music will no doubt know Ario as the man behind @astralindustries, the revered label that fuses reissued work with new releases from some of the most exciting artists in the genre. Despite the challenges thrown up by 2020, this year alone has seen AI releases from @multicastdynamics, The Chi Factory and Waveform Transmission, among others, and 2021 already promises to be even more prolific for both the label and its boss. 

Yet London-based Ario is just as much a DJ in his own right, with a sound that evades neat categorisation: drawn to the “deeply ritualistic and primal” side of drone, yet partial to the occasional dance floor set, he is reluctant to get too concrete when discussing his own music. His Patterns of Perception 77 is designed to challenge the listener – built on the belief that, contrary to what many may think, an ambient set is not necessarily designed to soothe and subdue. 

Links:
https://www.facebook.com/arioastral
https://soundcloud.com/astralindustries
https://www.facebook.com/astralindustries
https://astralindustries.bandcamp.com/
https://www.astralindustries.co.uk/

Patterns of Perception 77 - Ario

U N R U S H is an experiment in sound, a crystalline vision of eternal pause. Through our record label, podcasts, interviews, and event series we focus on presenting a diverse array of alluring ambient music. With each guest contribution we search for a serene space within the mind that is free from the encumbering stresses of daily life. Our events will act as a platform for distinguished artists and take place in stunning cultural surroundings both in the city and in nature, taking a step away from the pounding hedonism of the club to showcase the other side of electronic music.

- no podcast inquieries or demos please -

072 - Unrushed by Eònan

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