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The month of August brings many things, but those dearest are the warm, summer breezes. Flowing around Brooklyn and New York bringing with it a brief respite from the hot summer day ahead. Much like a breeze in the morning, today’s mix from Owl brushes all the senses, enveloping the listener in the sounds and textures of a wonderfully deep time and place. Catapulting you from chaos to an inner sanctuary of peace.

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Settle Down / The Here And Now CD / SEM 023 

CD and digital available here: http://semlabel.com/the-here-and-now/

Segue - The Here And Now - 05 Settle Down

BRYAN SENTI COULD BE WELL KNOWN TO LISTENERS OF A WINGED VICTORY FOR THE SULLEN (DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THE WEIRD & WONDERFUL HIPPITY HOPPITY VIOLIN SOLO ON THE UNDIVIDED FIVE'S ADIOS, FLORIDA???? BRYAN APPROACHED ADAM SUMMER OF 2022 FOR A REWORK. I AGREED AS LONG AS I COULD RECORD A SIXTEEN PIECE CHOIR, SO I DID....

released July 7, 2023 
RECORDING & MANIPULATION OF BRYAN SENTI SOUNDS - OXDONK, BELGIUM @ AANTALVIER - 16 PIECE CHOIR RECORDING BUDAPEST, HUNGARY @ MAGYAR RADIO STUDIO 22 ORCHESTRATIONS ADAM WILTZIE - CONDUCTOR PETER PEJSIK ORCHESTRA CONTRACTOR MIKLOS LUKÁS @ EAST CONNECTION MUSIC - MIXED BY FRANCESCO DONADELLO @ SYNECDOCHE MUSIC RESEARCH

ADAM WILTZIE APU REMIX (Apu Minus Seven Plus Sixteen Voices)

Second track off of "1979", released on digital, vinyl, and handheld projector on Friends of Friends Records.

fofmusic.bandcamp.com/album/1979 <---- To buy digital/vinyl
http://shop.1979.la <---- To order the projector
www.1979.la <---- To submit a memory for the gallery

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Memory is one of our greatest gifts; it gives us access to time, to identity, to dreams. Guided by the wisdom of Jackson Sonnanfeld-Arden, discoverer of the Nine Pure Tones, I created 1979 as a concept album through which I could share his brilliant theory, and my life-long infatuation with memory.

Before music was such an easily traded commodity, it was often an experience to which people gave their full attention. Let’s bring that experience back. Let’s respect what music is worth.

Yours in the waves,
- Deru

Let The Silence Float

This is an excerpt of the concert I made in London with Alessio Natalizia's Not Waving and Pye Corner Audio.

The original version of this piece can be found here:
https://abulmogard.bandcamp.com/album/abul-mogard

The Purpose Of Peace - Live in London 17 July 2014

In September 2015, I got swept away by the sonic tapestry of modular synthesis, deep textures, and fluid dynamics (the sonic composition, not the discipline of physics and engineering) coming out from a mysterious Serbian composer calling himself Abul Mogard. The story was that this Belgrade-based retired metal factory worker, with no previous music background, picked up a vintage Farfisa organ and self-build modular synthesizer and began recreating the sounds surrounding him for many years.  It was a great story, but I didn't buy it because the production quality was simply top-notch, and I knew that it would have come from an experienced electronic musician. I wasn't wrong, and years later, we learned that it was an alter ego of an Italian Guido Zen. "Great story, Mike, but what does it have to do with today's track premiere?" Well, as far as I know, Jan Nemeček _is_ from Belgrade, and he does indeed build rich layers of sound from "raw tonalities of partially defunct digital synthesizers." In this organic meets digital sound-generating chain of "neural" synth network, Nemeček reveals lovely hidden depths with low sub-bass, drony mutations, and granulated particles, which slowly evolve on this subtle horizon. It's an absolutely delectable track, which would keep many sound designers entranced with its tasty details. And yes, albeit I enjoyed that fable of Mogard, I am indeed delighted that Jan Nemeček is real. Lovinly mastered by Stephan Mathieu!

Dissolved

On Subtle Horizon

TRACK PREMIERE : Jan Nemeček - On Subtle Horizon

If, 20 years ago, you told me that I'd still be writing about ambient music, I think I would have simply laughed. How much could be said, not just with words but also with these sounds? But as the years appear to speed up, I find myself immersed in it much more (even as I see so many other publications slowly disappear), discovering new layers, space and people who have another story to convey, one that I am happy to be a part of. Regular followers of this site will, without a doubt, recognise my personal connection with the present moment, often hoping to convince myself and others that we should focus on what is instead of how it was before and certainly instead of how it could be. How could it possibly be any other way? How could we not be here and now, experiencing all that's happening around us as it could only be? Are there better times ahead of us, or is it only doomsdays? And does it really matter when we get there in the end? Okay, I'll pause here for a time and focus on the music, premiering for you a piece by Austin-based ambient artist TJ Dumser, who releases music under his Six Missing moniker. This piece is titled "Guidance", and it is taken from his upcoming full-length, Here For Now. Across the twelve pieces on the album, soft pads, swirls, and swooshes are echoed in a faint, reverb-drenched ambient calm, sometimes accompanied by the quiet acoustic guitar strums, sometimes allowed to simply expand into infinite indistinct space. It's in this space where I find myself writing these words. Here for now... and hopefully for a little bit more...

Here For Now

Guidance

TRACK PREMIERE : Six Missing - Guidance

From a series of (almost) daily ocean glimpses. The music is composed to a video of the sea (photons captured fresh every day). You can experience the full video version here: https://youtu.be/34Qz2q2PI2I

Glimpse 1001

Glimpse 1001 (Jun 26 2024)

from 'Synecdoche' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den240
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/saffronkeira]

In the beginning the universe was full of light. Shining bright and incredibly energetic no solid matter could exist. As the universe expanded, the light became less energetic until the very first hydrogen atom could form. More followed forming molecules which in turn merged into gargantuan molecular clouds until they collapsed under their own weight, giving birth to the first stars, illuminating the universe once again. Being monstrous fusion factories, these stars burned hydrogen to complex chemical elements and eventually exploded leaving even more complex elements behind. After two such stellar cycles, there was enough material in the universe to form all solid matter that we know to exist today. Yet, everything began with the very first atom ...

Synecdoche - the whole consists of parts, and each and every part embodies the whole. This motif is at the heart of Saffronkeiras so named fourth album. Saffronkeira is a project established in 2008 by Eugenio Caria from the island of Sardinia, Italy. With Saffronkeira, Eugenio Caria lives out his passion of being a researcher of the possibility of expression offered by currently available technology. Indeed, in his tracks he experiments a lot with electronics and unconventional elements, which sometimes seem meaningless at first sight, but uncover their significance only on a closer examination. Combining subtle and sometimes even almost invisible rhythms with textures of sound he confidently moves between minimalistic pieces and classic ambient tracks which should please both the analytic ears and the listeners who just want to dive into the music.

Saffronkeira's previous album "Cause and Effect" constituted the first ever collaboration work of Caria and resulted from a close and unique joint work with trumpeter Mario Massa. Synecdoche picks up this collaboration idea, but this time features collaboration with various different artists, namely Mia Zabelka and Siavash Amini & Idlefon, as well as the Denovali artists Field Rotation, Sebastian Plano, Subheim and Witxes. Mixed and mastered by Alex Gámez at Störung Studio, Synecdoche brings Saffronkeira's distinct electronic sound to a next level which is further perfected by the individual and fascinatingly diverse collaborations.

Synecdoche

Saffronkeira - Epifonema (with Witxes)

Taken from 'At The Dam' LP by Mary Lattimore, out March 4, 2016.

Pre-order at The Ghostly Store: http://www.theghostlystore.com/collections/music/products/at-the-dam
Or at the retailer of your choice: https://Ghostly.lnk.to/mary-lattimore-atthedam

At The Dam

Mary Lattimore - Jimmy V

"When we bring our full attention to the act of listening, new worlds emerge that we wouldn't even notice if we were just passing by, distracted by thoughts". Introducing the new album, 'A State of Becoming' by Lav & Purl. Released Feb 6th. Now available: http://asip.me/asipv007

ASIPV007 - Lav & Purl / A State Of Becoming

Lav & Purl / A State Of Becoming

Track 1, titled 'Cuando El Misterio Es Demasiado Impresionante Es Imposible Desobedecer' taken from Leandro Fresco & Rafael Anton Irisarri's album, 'La Equidistancia'. Available April 10th. Pre-order now available: https://astrangelyisolatedplace.bandcamp.com/album/la-equidistancia

ASIPV008 - Leandro Fresco and Rafael Anton Irisarri / La Equidistancia

Leandro Fresco & Rafael Anton Irisarri / Cuando El Misterio Es Demasiado Impresionante...

"Perversa" is taken from the album "Versa" by Biuddha, out March 19 on Shimmering Moods Records. 
Available digital and limited CD packages, handmade....30 copies only.
Release date: 19.4.2018

Pre Order: https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/versa

The goal was set to input sounds of life and mix them with my own sound output.

To do so, i designed a blend of computer-made ambient loops with field recordings and sound design. The field recordings where taken as i traveled from Baja California to Ciudad de México, mostly from airports, planes, streets, parks, animals and my voice. As a result, the album consists in 7 lengthy tracks of minimalistic transitions.

The structure of every track is loop-based, therefore you can listen to the same sounds at the beginning then at the end, they will repeat through the entirety of the piece, therefore i chose to call it ''Versa''. In spanish, my mother tongue, it means ''To spin around something'', and ''To set a topic or theme'', however it seemed fit to the album and applied as a wordplay to name every track.

Ernesto André

Mastered by Roel Weerdenburg (Early Reflections)
Shimmering Moods Records 2018

Biuddha - Perversa

Pausal are Alex Smalley and Simon Bainton | pausal.net
Mastered by Lawrence English and Porya Hatami
Cover artwork by Susanne Seinmann  | www.susannesteinmann.de

Buy: https://hibernate.bandcamp.com/album/volume-flow
Edition: CD /150
HB66 | hibernate-recs.uk | We Like Ambient

Pausal / Volume Flow (Snippets)

Olreilion

excerpt from a live tape loop, percussion, guitar + modular synth performance at S1, Portland.

180812

from 'After the Flash Flood (Remixes)' [DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den296
available for download at [http://denovali.com/prairie]
album available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/prairie]

Prairie is the project of multi-instrumentalist and producer Marc Jacobs, hailing from Brussels with roots in The Netherlands. He previously released an EP (I'm so in love I almost forgot I survived a Disaster - 2013) and an LP (Like a Pack of Hounds - 2015) on the Berlin imprint Shitkatapult. On stage, Prairie plays with two or three musicians and together they re-create a free association of musical ideas and atmospheres. Prairie has played in selected venues and festivals across Europe and toured with Apparat in 2016.

If the apocalypse was painted in several layers of pastel gouache, its soundtrack might be PRAIRIE's Flash Flood. Listening to the album, we drift through a series of frozen landscapes that gesture at a post-apocalyptic ambience. This is a kind of blackened music that has been left to sediment, excavated from traces in ice core samples. Flash Flood showcases a deep sensitivity to narrative and rich cinematic textures as Marc Jacobs returns with palimpsestic sonic layers. It has been three years since PRAIRIE's last release——the 2015 Cormac McCarthy-inspired Like a Pack of Hounds——and it is clear that it has been several years of pensive reflection. Now, PRAIRIE takes the sentiment of his 2012 debut, I'm So In Love I Almost Forgot I Survived A Disaster, several steps further: it is after the apocalypse, and no one has survived. And yet with Flash Flood, we can hear the hum of this impossible future.

'After the Flash Flood' introduces the sonic ruins of distorted guitars, field recordings, drum programming and synths that create the textures of the entire album. The melancholic and subdued black metal churn of 'Raindeath' becomes the cold backdrop for unnerving, paranoiac speech. The third track, 'Sisters', foregrounds this coldness while slowly moving away toward alternate vistas where the acoustic timbres of the saz-driven 'A Permanent War Economy' take over. 'Underwater Body Hunting' and 'Rabid Ibrahim' are hard hitting beat-oriented tracks that insist on burning slow. There is a patience with PRAIRIE's FLASH FLOOD that is difficult to deny. The lamentation of 'Elephants Will Rise Again' perhaps signals that it is not only the human that is lost after catastrophe. The album closes with 'Hard Water: Cracked Ice' and 'Hayashi Clock'. The former is a beautiful coalescence of clean harmonious tones and softly overdriven drums; while the latter brings us back to a meditative state, drifting through the final pastel tapestry.

"... his cosmos is located somewhere between Bohren & der Club of Gore and Sunn O))), ambient is as familiar to him as brachial sounds, and he is as much acquainted with guitars as with synths and modern technology" (GROOVE)

"... sounds like a requiem for this broken world." (SPEX)

"... Like Ben Frost, (Prairie) exudes a certain harshness while tempering his work with moments of sublime beauty. This isn’t club material; it’s music for the hammer in one’s hand, the confrontation of the demon, the soul-shattering revelation." (A Closer Listen)

"unusual trip into disturbing soundscapes... (the tracks) possess a broadness, drama and depth, which by far exceed any conventions" (Musikexpress)

After the Flash Flood Remixes

Prairie - Hard Water:Cracked Ice (Yves De Mey Remix)

One of the pieces I wrote as part of the score to the 2012 documentary film, "Outliers Vol. 1: Iceland".

More info here: www.outliersiceland.com

Black Beach (Outliers Vol. 1)

ILUITEQ - A Sylvan Elegy

Taken from the upcoming album 'Departures', forthcoming on Fluid Audio...

Credits:

All tracks composed, performed and produced by Maria Papadomanolaki and Nhung Nguen in London, Brighton (Digital Music and Sound Arts Studios, UoB), UK, Hanoi, Vietnam and Chania, Crete.

Mastering: Ian Hawgood

Print design: Craig Tattersall

Packaging design: Daniel Crossley

www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com

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