Angele David Guillou -  Valley Of Detachment

For today’s program I’ve invited Orla Wren, an artist from North England releasing music on Flau, Facture, Home Normal, and most recently Oak Editions, to share with you his favorite pieces, which happen to be from film. It’s a beautiful chronicle, with its own special plot and emotional journey: 

"For this mix I collected many fragments of music, dialogue and foley sounds which were taken directly from the films themselves and which I then arranged variously and carefully placed to construct some possible narrative. I always feel drawn to the most intimate moments within a film, most often I find it’s where the music and story hold the most emotion and poignancy. This mix is made with love and respect for the film makers, actors and the musicians, thank you for the beautiful moments." - Orla Wren 

Orla Wren - Filmscores Two

Taken from the upcoming album 'Marram' by Wil Bolton featuring special guest appearances by Christoph Berg and Edward Farrow.

Mastered by James Plotkin
Released through Fluid Audio
Available: May 2015 

www.fluidaudio.co.uk

Wil Bolton - Marram

from 'Blossoms In Red' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den243
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/ensembleeconomique]

Based in Californian Humboldt County, Brian Pyle wanders the world on his countless travels. Far from being restless, he has his very own Pylesque way of travelling. Much like a Lynchian version of Hemingway, he has an eye for the thin layer between restlessness and relaxation, gloom and serenity. Wherever he goes, he ardently absorbes these nuances, rarefies them and moulds them into a seamless array of glimmering styles, from drone and ambient to shoegaze and post-wave, giving birth to yet another creation of his prolific Ensemble Economique project.
On his by now eleventh album and fourth Denovali release "Blossoms In Red", Pyle combines and perfects elements of his previous output into a cohesive narrative. The opener "From The Train Window, Red Flowers On The Mountain" is a surprisingly scarce ambient piece, which feels like an almost infinitely stretched precious moment of time. Despite being austere, it is warm, sublime and incredibly captivating and after listening to its full 8 minutes, one cannot help but to rewind and replay. Having barely escaped this seductively infinite loop, one encounters the title track "Blossoms In Red" featuring Portland electronic duo Soft Metals. Starting off with a characteristic sluggish programmed beat, one is immediately overpowered by the onset of the towering combination of a warm bassline and a shimmering synth ambience. As the track flows, these elements writhe around each other in a delicately beautiful fashion, absorbing the materialising wailing guitar which almost sounds like an ethereal voice, as well as the occasional melodic and rhythmic accents. The next track sees this guitar return in a rather pure form. "On The Sand", featuring jack-of-all-trades Peter Broderick, is essentially just reduced analogue drums, electric guitar, a simple vibrating bassline and hoarse almost spoken vocals. Slowly and methodically, these constituents form a captivating erotic ritual, much like a beguiling and hypnotic mandala procession of imperturbable blissful individuals on the beach. As proven on numerous occasions, Pyle can easily lead all his trumps in the presence of female lead vocals, and "Blossoms In Red" makes no exception. Indeed, "You, By Candlelight" is easily the best Ensemble Economique track with female vox to date. Pyle manages to embed the vocals just in the right minimal amount of instrumental layers, making the track radiate an elusive tranquility. The fifth and closing track "Nothing Is Perfect" is a classically tinged piano piece with only very little processing and sparse field recording samples. With all pieces of the album, Pyle manages to create tracks which feel like being composed only of two or three layers of sound, that are nevertheless allowed to develop a life cycle which seems incredibly long - track lengths vary from 6:30 to 8:10 - but still feels just right. Thus "Blossoms In Red" is probably Ensemble Economique's most minimalistic album, but at the same time - or maybe just for this reason - his most skilled work.

Blossoms in Red

Ensemble Economique - From The Train Window, Red Flowers On The Mountain

PEREGRINUS UBIQUE
Photozine + CD
To be released on Gazzar(r)a & VoxxoV - Nov 16th 2015

ORDER: 
https://fredericdoberland.bandcamp.com/album/peregrinus-ubique

Scene I -> Scene VI: 40:04

// All tracks composed, performed & realized by Frédéric D. Oberland at Magnum Diva during Summer 2015: field recordings, harmonic pipe, electric guitar & bass, dark energy doepfer, percussion, Altagor's pantophone, error noise box, critter&guitarri pocket piano, vocals, mellotron, soprano sax, bouzouki, Gaveau piano, signal generator, fender rhodes, drum machine
// Mastered by Vincent Villuis
// Photographs by Frédéric D. Oberland
// Graphic design by Max Paskine

//  This opus is the sonic companion of the photozine 'Peregrinus Ubique'. May I recommend you listen to it in the half-light. To open the window and let the world participate.
// Thanks & love to the stunning teams at Gazzar®a (Pamela & Léa), VoxxoV (Mourad & Vincent) and Balades Sonores (Toma & Esther), to my family of friends for their daily support, to Fanny, Stéphane, Andrea, Nicol, to all my bandmates from Oiseaux-Tempête, FOUDRE!, Le Réveil des Tropiques, FareWell Poetry, The Rustle of the Stars, et aux désarçonnés. Cheers to all the people I've met these last years crossing roads and wandering, playing music and taking photographs, and a warm hug to Mother Nature. 

www.fredericdoberland.com

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Peregrinus Ubique - Scene VI

Elementar Morphosis

This EP was recorded around a documentary film "Papa Hédi", that looks at the life and legacy of celebrated Tunisian musician Hédi Jouini. 
We started writing the score in the summer of 2011 as specific cues for the film and using short samples from Hédi's music. 
In the autumn we decided to develop the cues to make full tracks and the results are on this record. 

Hobi

Premiering on Stationary Travels: https://bit.ly/2MWfA00

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"This is utterly sensational!" Stephen McCauley, BBC Radio Ulster 

UK composer Matt Emery follows his extraordinarily beautiful debut album Empire (September 2017) with a brand new single, ‘I Put a Flame in Your Heart’. Released digitally on September 7th 2018 via Injazero Records, the single is a delicate piano composition featuring a wave of 8 pianos meandering through the piece in a wistful and atmospheric mood, delivered with the sombre grace of heavyweights such as Nils Frahm, Ólafur Arnalds and Chilly Gonzales. 

The full band version sees Emery's music swell with frantic drums, throbbing synths and a full choir culminating in an expansive interpretation, more aggressive in comparison to his gentle and intricate modern classical piano and string repertoire. It fuses the post rock intensity and epic feel of bands like Mogwai and Sigur Ros, while the energetic live drums and piano loops bring to mind DJ Shadow. 

Completing the three-track release is the stunning remix by currently one of the UK’s most exciting electronic bands Vessels, who put their gritty and glitchy spin on the original à la Jon Hopkins, Rival Consoles and Kiasmos.

Out on all digital platforms on September 7th, 2018.

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Matt Emery - I Put A Flame In Your Heart

String Quartet No. 1

Fiona Brice String Quartet No. 1 - Mvt.1 (Holographic Field Rework)

Greg Haines - Azure

JAMES BLACKSHAW & LUBOMYR MELNYK
THE WATCHERS

IMPREC375

The Watchers is a historic collaboration between Lubomyr Melnyk and James Blackshaw. Both artists are well known as composers but here it is their impovisational skills that are on display.  First 200 copies of the LP will ship on blue vinyl.  CD version is packaged in a heavy duty digipak.

http://importantrecords.com/imprec/imprec375

"Haftorang" by James Blackshaw & Lubomyr Melnyk IMPREC375

Village Green Recordings is a British independent label reshaping the landscape of minimalism, classical and electronic music.

Angele David Guillou - Valley Of Detachment

Village Green Recordings

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