the act of composing this seems like the act of painting to me - adding layers

Nudging classical music into more accessible & 21st century relevant forms, Nottingham's one man orchestra Thomas William Hill, has crafted a wonderfully moving, global instrument uniting, viola da gamba looped & rooted, modern compositional electronic fusion of the highest order for Village Green Recordings

Elijah

203 Years taken from the album 'The Sleeper Awakes' released on the 4th May 2015 through Village Green.

The track features a 19th Century 'Dulcitone' - A piano-like instrument using tuning forks instead of strings.  Limited numbers of them were made in Glasgow in the late 1800's.

Available on LP / CD / DL here - https://benchatwin.bandcamp.com/album/the-sleeper-awakes

203 Years

Jim Perkins - Fragment

My official remix of Max Richter's wonderful Path 5.  Taken from the Sleep Remixes EP released by Deutsche Grammophon.

Sleep Remixes

Max Richter: Path 5 - Digitonal's Theo In Dreamland Mix

first excerpt from upcoming 'elephant' by Dag Rosenqvist.

Cello by Aaron Martin
Saxophone by Lisen Rylander Löve
Mastered by Taylor Deupree

order here - https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/elephant

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Dag Rosenqvist - Come Silence (from 'elephant' CD)

My father died on 16 March 2011.  His body had battled emphysema for years.  After complications caused by a bout of pneumonia he finally succumbed.  In the aftermath of these events I turned to my piano for solace and escape.  The resulting record attempts to address the emotions experienced during the 7 days between his death and funeral.  In collaboration with Ed Hamilton, who brilliantly tapped in to my experience and emotion, and with contributions from Christoph Berg, this record is about, and in memory of, my father. - Euan

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Glacis is Euan Alexander Millar-McMeeken with Ed Hamilton

All pieces written and performed by Euan Alexander Millar-McMeeken and Ed Hamilton

Violins on tracks 1, 5 & 7 performed and arranged by Christoph Berg

Violins on track 6 performed by Christoph Berg, arranged by Ed Hamilton

Piano recordings by Ana Roman and Alex Galler at the University of Edinburgh

Produced and mixed by Ed Hamilton

Mastered by James Plotkin

Art by Todd Umhoefer
www.oldearthcontact.bandcamp.com

Writing by Ali Millar 
www.readthesupplement.com

Released through Fluid Audio (May 2016)
www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com

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Thanks, and thanks, and ever thanks
 
In memory of Euan's father, Sandy McMeeken 6 November 1937- 16 March 2011

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Glacis - From One Room To Another (So You Leave Me Now)

original music: luca longobardi
piano, loop, synth: luca Longobardi

link for the album: http://luca-longobardi.bandcamp.com/album/apparatus

Opalina

The Lost

Otto A Totland - Vates

We are delighted to share with you two tracks from Sjors Mans' forthcoming EP, Noord.

Pre-order on Bandcamp: http://bit.ly/2VJ8Sw5
Listen on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2D8BSpO

Big Ballad, comprised of soft pads and a contrasting synth sequence - recently premiered on KEXP - and Without You, one of Sjors' characteristic melancholic piano pieces.

Sjors Mans - Big Ballad

Taken from Thomas William Hill's upcoming album 'Grains of Space'

The album started life as a series of minimal loops, recorded using a viola da gamba – a stringed instrument most popular in the Renaissance and Baroque eras – and a loop pedal. Using the negative space within each loop as the primary drive for composing, Thomas began a process of ‘joining the dots'.

“I began to see these loops - and recorded music in general - as a kind of fixed perspective that could be exploited. In isolation, a single layer may be no more than one or two notes punctuating four bars of silence, but when laid over multiple variations on that theme, disparate notes start to dance with each other and new connections take form, like constellations or deconstructed sentences.” 

Pre-order here: https://VillageGreen.lnk.to/7YpUIWE

Thomas William Hill - Furnace

Matthew Shaw’s travels continue. His wanderings have led him to Seatown, Sandbanks, the woods of Zeist, and the inner city of Vancouver. Now he documents a week-long trip to Lamorna, Cornwall, in the summer of 2012.

Shaw writes: “The recordings were made in the Lamorna valley, the cove, the woods and also within the Iron Age Boleigh Fogou which is an underground structure over 2,000 years old. The Fogou derives from the Cornish for Fou or Vou, meaning cave.”

“In terms of the sound of the finished music, it was recorded largely on location using acoustic guitar, bowed guitars, Moog Prodigy, my voice and a sprinkling of effects where required. It relied on the sounds of the places themselves, the trees, river and Fogou in particular. The mixing process was based on taking these raw ingredients and sculpting them into a finished whole, with the place as the focus.”

The result is a slow tide of strings, ambient vistas, and delirious harmonies that echo, then dissipate into the eponymous landscape. From the inner triumph of “Rosemerrynwood” to the tense and pulse-quickening modern composition “Bo-Lech” and the buoyant, living title track, Lamorna is a remembered call from an ancient place.

Fluid Audio presents Lamorna in a limited edition run of 100 hand made letter pressed CD’s, along with 6 large format (150mm x 150mm) double sided photographic prints taken by the artist on his journey. The package also includes a natural Larch wood slice, pressed Viola flower, rare poem by Ithell Colquhoun, download code and scent. All of the above rests inside hand typed/numbered/sealed Manilla envelopes.

Release Date: 29.03.13

Matthew Shaw: Bo-Lech

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Thomas William Hill - Furnace

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