I'm so glad I finally heard her music-incredible that I had not until today!

it's been years and it only gets better and better

The high priestess of ambient. I believe Hildegard von Bingen resucitated in her.

Brian Eno - Thursday Afternoon

Canto Ostinato is the new volume of classical minimalism from musician and producer Erik Hall. Written for four pianos in 1979 by Dutch composer Simeon ten Holt, the piece is freshly framed as an intimate, hour-long solo performance consisting of multitracked grand pianos, electric piano, and organ. Modern yet warm, ethereal yet tangible, Hall’s Canto Ostinato expertly bridges a revered piece of meditative concert repertoire with a tactile and highly personal studio setting.

Chicago-born and Michigan-based, Erik Hall is known as a multi-instrumental pillar for the groups NOMO, Wild Belle, and his own songwriting moniker In Tall Buildings. He has composed music for feature films, and as a producer/engineer he has shaped records for Natalie Bergman and Western Vinyl labelmates Lean Year. In a 2020 creative pivot, he chose to reinvent composer Steve Reich’s monumental contemporary classical masterpiece Music for 18 Musicians as a solo undertaking, applying the piece’s score to the familiar keyboards, guitars, and synthesizers in his studio. “At the time I think I was working through my identity as a musician and an artist,” Hall explains, “and on a level there was some sort of exorcism of a long held pop spirit.” The album was celebrated for being “freshly thrilling” and “legible in history but assertive of the moment” (Pitchfork) and “beguiling, meditational, and magical” (Electronic Sound). It won the 2021 Libera Award for Best Classical Record, and it quickly joined the canon of the piece’s quintessential recordings.

“There is a pseudo-meditational benefit to working on a longform piece that’s built on repetition,” Hall says. “Every stage— from internalizing the music, to executing the performance, to editing and mixing the record— requires deep and sustained presence of mind. I’ve always been drawn to a hallucinatory combination of harmony and repetition, and I found the entire process addictive.”

An apt second chapter, Canto Ostinato is inherently vast, and its score gives great creative license to the performer. Comprising 106 sections, complete freedom is given to repeat each one as many or as few times as desired. Additional leeway is given with regard to dynamics, articulation, and even instrumentation. On the heels of his previous, rather maximal arrangement, Hall chose to limit this album’s palette to three foundational keyboards of his studio: a 1962 Hammond M-101 organ, a 1978 Rhodes Mark I electric piano, and his family-heirloom 1910 Steinway grand piano. “This particular piece brought the added challenge of rekindling my dexterity as a pianist, something I haven’t maintained in earnest since I was a teenager,” he admits. The ensuing five-note rhythmic motif— the piece’s primary building block— is steady and workmanlike, forgoing virtuosic flare for depth, texture, and resonance, and eventually giving way to the stunning gratification of a gorgeously lyrical left turn.

As with Music for 18 Musicians, Hall employed no loops nor quantization nor any programmed or sequenced instruments of any kind. Every part was performed live in a room and captured with microphones, one at a time, each informed by, and reacting to the last. In this way the record breathes with interplay and an organic humanity, complete with flaws, noise, and the faint sound of turning pages. The recording quality is nonetheless toneful and saturated, characteristic of Hall’s production style and straying from the usual transparency of classical albums by using gear with tubes, transformers, and various stages of compression in the signal path. Always there is unmistakable realism and the feeling of being present in the room, sitting among the keys, hammers, and tines.

Ten Holt said: “Time, patience and discipline are the prerequisites for making a genetic code productive." His landmark composition provides Hall once again with a wondrous space in which to reverently embody this sentiment and deftly convey the elegant beauty of this music.

Erik Hall - "Canto Ostinato - Sections 17 - 30"

1) How Music for airports came to be..
2) 2-1
3) An ending slow version
4) Thursday afternoon
5) An arc of doves
6) Cluster & Eno : Anna Pavlova
7) Harold Budd & Brian Eno :  The pearl
8) I Dormienti
9) Bang on a can : 1-2
10) Stars
11) Under stars & Under stars II
12) Lyra
13) Dunwich beach, autumn,1960
14) Unfamiliar Wind (Leeks Hills)
15) Edward Hooper & Brian Eno : Lanzarote
16) Signals
17) The secret place
18) An ending ascent (Ethereal mix) 
19) An ending ascent orignal mix
20) Deep blue day

Brian Eno ambient tribute

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Insensatez Remix (Re - Model By Alva Noto) + Brian Eno & J. Peter Schwalm - Intenser

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Insensatez (Re - Model By Alva Noto) + Brian Eno & J. Peter Schwalm - Intenser

"Steve Reich in The Hague"  
 14.12.2003
 Bootleg

Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians

- Rime Trails - Sanctum II
(Forthcoming Shimmering Moods)
- Arve Henriksen - Patient Zero
(Rune Grammofon)
- Kryshe - March Of The Mysterious
(Serein)
- Sage Taylor - waltz in D
(Forthcoming Shimmering Moods)
- Macheteoxidado - Canyon Sequence 1 
(Forthcoming Shimmering Moods)
- Faunethic - AMB Muezzin from city moss at night from a rooftop (Forthcoming Shimmering Moods)
- Omrr - Rotten Poetry (Dronarivm)
- Hotel Neon - 1_57 AM (The Green Kingdom Remix)
(Bandcamp)
- Richard Horowitz - Eros Never Stops Dreaming 
(Freedom To Spend)
- Ross Alexander - Mbale (Discrepant)
- Trislar - Leave (Jungle Gym)
- Waveform Transmission - V2.0-2.1 (Astral industries)
- Cynthia - Mellan två världar (Shimmering Moods)
- Dedekind Cut - Tahoe (Forthcoming Kranky)
- From the Mouth of the Sun - A Breath to Retrieve Your Body (Lost Tribe Sound)
- Giuseppe Falivene - Horizon Pt 2 (Nova Fund Recordings)
- Jay Glass Dubs - Nameless Dub (Anòmia)
- Brainwaltzera - [Take 1] (Film)
- V I C I M - Thirty one (ACR)
- Kj - Cotton (Lost Tribe Sound)
- Gipsi - Incendies (Forthcoming Shimmering Moods)
- Topdown Dialectic - 20170804-05 (Aught)
- IUEKE - Giza (fast ;-) (Antinote)

Shimmering Moods @ Red Light Radio 9.10.2017

Joanna brouk the space between

From "We Can Sleep Now", available on cassette and digital from Unifactor:
https://unifactor.bandcamp.com/album/we-can-sleep-now

The Mountain (cassette out now on Unifactor)

Compiled and mixed by Bersarin Quartett (first hour) & Nadia Struiwigh (second hour)


Tracklist Bersarin Quartett (first hour):

NILS FRAHM - harm hymn
BURIAL - endorphin
W - 在扭曲的水中受损的灵魂
STEFAN WESOŁOWSKI - prelude
BJOERK - arisen my senses (lanark artefax remix)
INON ZUR - rebuild, renew (fallout 4-soundtrack)
CHARLESTHEFIRST - beacon
DJRUM - blue violet
GHOST WARRIOR - double vision
PHIL FRANCE - jackal
CATERINA BARBIERI - unreleased (live-recording, helsinki)
SKEE MASK - rev8617
HAWK. - 88glam - 12 (hawk. edit)
CLAUDE SPEEED - no kings
GEWALT - guter junge, böser junge (ensslin research rmx)
CHRIS READ & PUGS ATOMZ FEAT. WES RESTLESS - drum roll
ANDREA - track xl
KLLO - candid


Tracklist - Nadia Struiwigh (second hour):

Aphex Twin - #3 (Original Mix)
Digital Rain - Night Passion (Original Mix)
Rabbit - Fossilized Universe (Original Mix)
Clubroot - Dry Cured (Original Mix)
Hydrangea - Beyond The Invisible (Original Mix)
Answer Code Request - Calm Down (Original Mix)
Tzusing - O.D.D. Metapop Remixes (FMProducer Remix)
b2 - love goes on and on (Original Mix)
Lowfish - Knives (Original Mix)
Blac Kolor - Wide Element (Original Mix)
Alfredo Mazzilli - Njord (Original Mix)
Biome - YOOF (Original Mix)

05.01.2019 · Denovali NTS Radio Special

From "Kläppen" on Malmö Inre.
https://www.malmoinre.se/product/preorder-golden-ivy-klappen-lp

Kont

FEATURE > inverted-audio.com/feature/lf58-neel-filippo-scorcucci-shed-light-into-their-mystical-collaboration

To mark the release of 'Alterazione' on @astralindustries, we caught up with the LF58 production duo to learn more about the makings of the album.

Alterazione

LF58 - Evocazione [Astral Industries]

Hi im hippie i dont own any soundtrack i just upload them from youtube if you’re the owner of the soundtrack send me a message ill add your youtube account or ill remove it i just want everyone to be happy and satisfy peace ☮️✌?

Joanna brouk the space between

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