On the 17th of May 2011, Audio Gourmet will be precisely a year old. To celebrate this, we have been busy putting together a couple of compilation albums. The first of which I can reveal, is 'In The Bleak Wilderness Of Sleep' which will be available for purchase next month around the 17th of May.

The compilation features 12 tracks from some of the globes most talented sound-designers; a subtly rewarding headphone listen from start to finish. It has been curated and ordered purposefully to induce a state of sleep, starting off minimally and gradually gathering tone and atmosphere as the experience goes on without ever boiling over or reaching a crescendo. Parts of the album are light and restful whereas traces of it tread darker territory. All in all, the imagery that the album conjurs sits perfectly as a soundtrack to the dreams one experiences during a nights sleep.

The artwork was put together by French artist Eric Lacombe (Monstror) who some may remember for his cover art collaborations for past Spheruleus releases. Here for 'In The Bleak Wilderness Of Sleep', his surreal imagery lends itself perfectly to this mysterious and dream invoking soundtrack.

The eventual release will come housed inside a recycled card case with the cover artwork slipped inside, printed to photographic paper. Along with a CDr containing this album, the tracklist will be printed to high quality paper/card. On the front, the album title will be rubber stamped in brown ink and on the back, the Audio Gourmet logo will be cut out by lazers. This will be limited to 200 copies and the first 50 copies will be come with a second bonus image, taken by select friends and photographers. There will be a digital counterpart available too, available through the Audio Gourmet Bandcamp account.

For the meantime, please enjoy this album 'teaser' which presents a condensed version of the album, so that you may get a general idea as to how it sounds and the sorts of atmospheres that are on offer...

IN THE BLEAK WILDERNESS OF SLEEP
TRACKLIST:
1    Michael Trommer
2    Simon Whetham "Cold Shoulder (Part 1.2)
3    D'Incise "Octobre-Septembre"
4    James McDougall "Scarborough"
5    Deep Into Perspectives "Home"
6    Specta Ciera "Under Cool Air"
7    Francisco Lopez "Untitled #264"
8    Spheruleus "Overcast"
9    Small Things On Sundays "Harbour"
10  Philip Sulidae "Aher"
11  Natalia Noelia Siebuła and Bartosz Dziadosz "Ótta og kvíða"
12  Julien Demoulin "Dull Ache"

Artwork by Eric Lacombe 
http://monstror.blogspot.com

Released by Audio Gourmet
www.audiogourmet.co.uk

In The Bleak Wilderness Of Sleep (Album Sampler Mix)

playing harp, guitars and vocals 50+ years. Self taught jammer. played in several rock bands late 70s and 80s 90s . Busking the blues and some folk using rhythm backing tracks. on some of these tracks added recently.

Composer based in London, UK.

Debut album 'In The Half Light' is out now: https://smarturl.it/InTheHalfLight

www.liamjhennessy.com

What Jazz Avoid is music label based on Hokkaido Japan.

Kyo Yanagi as known as SANMI is the founder of the label and also Japanoid musician, activated in music since 1996. He had music career in several bands as Pops, Avant-garde, Experimental and Authentic Jazz at Tokyo. After that he worked with algorithmic composition as a mean to sculpt IDM tracks, using MaxMSP, MaxForLive and Ableton, and has released countless music in a European, Amercian, Russian and Japanese of music labels. Besides, regularly collaborates with the artist V4W.Enko (aka Evganiy Vaschenko), from the Kvitnu (Ukraine) label artist. And recently engaged in free style improvised acoustic music. And also worked with several movie productions, rap artists as track maker and contemporary dancers as multi-instrument player. Also the researcher of Duke Ellington and Blliy Strayhorn compositions as life work. 

What Jazz Avoidは北海道を拠点とする主宰SANMIによる音楽レーベル


主宰SANMIプロフィール

北海道白老在住の音響芸術家。都市環境並びに自然との霊的な交感をテーマとした作曲やパフォーマンスが特徴。国内だけでなく、リトアニア、ウクライナ、香港などの海外公演も行う。DJセットを含む８０タイトルを超える作品群をリリースしており、多作な電子音楽家・実験音楽家・即興演奏家として実績がある。近年、岡本太郎ドキュメンタリー映画『太陽の塔』のサウンドトラックの制作に携わるなど、映画音楽も作成している。ウクライナの全方位型アーティストであり、max/msp専門家のV4W.ENKOとのコラボレーションプロジェクトY:E:T名義としても活動。多楽器奏者として、集団アコースティック即興演奏・舞踏集団とのコラボレーション・ワークショップを主宰。NYジャズの鬼才ドンチェリーとの共演で知られるパーカッション奏者の木村正人氏と共同制作を行なっている。またトラックメーカーとしてラップアーティストやダンサーに楽曲提供をしている。ライフワークとして、デューク・エリントン及びビリー・ストレイホーンの楽曲研究に日々勤しんでいる。

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In The Bleak Wilderness Of Sleep (Album Sampler Mix)

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