Meerland is third Himmelsrandt album and was composed & recorded in Zoltán Kodály Studio between 2018/19 by Peter Honsalek.
Strings, Piano, Choir, Sampling, Synthesizers by Peter Honsalek
All songs mixed by Hannes Kretzer and Peter Honsalek
Mastered by Nihad Tule
Design, layout and packaging by Melanie Kretzer
Original drawings by J. J. V. Cissarz

Big thanks goes out to Jihee Hong for her love and support, to Hannes & Melanie Kretzer for their help and trust, to Buchhandlung Reuffel for making my music a bit more popular, and to YOU for listening and being part of my journey.

Meerland

Composed, produced & mixed by Ali Phi
All vocals reproduced and recorded by Ali Phi
Samples with permission
Mastered by Noah Mintz [Lacquer Channel]

INSTRUMENTS:
Nazanin Ghanizadeh [Kamancheh for YALEH]
Farough Rahmani Shestan [Soroud for ENDELAH]
Mehrdad Bameri [Soroud ENDELAH]
Moein Bameri [Tanbourak ENDELAH]

Cover Artwork by Shahab Shahali
Designed by Erfan Jamshidi

More info:
https://aliphi.com/elemaun

Elemaun

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THAM

Live recording in Bristol Cathedral. Evensong August 2012

Arvo Part Nunc Dimittis

Temporal

Sheared

These are two live tracks from our set at the Sando supporting Rosetta in July 2012. Our good friend and sound guy, Mikey Taverner, managed to salvage from a live recording we had done. These were the only 2 that could be saved. One is With Grace and the other is 3/4 of Balaclava Cold. It was a great show for us, and in general and the only decent live recording of With Grace. We're glad to have at least that one. x 

01 We Lost The Sea - With Grace - Live At Sando

02 We Lost The Sea - Balaclava - Live At Sando

from 'Blossoms In Red' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den243
available in October 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

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Ensemble Economique - You, By Candlelight (feat. J Moon)

Enjoy 'Beauty King' by The White Birch taken from the remastered edition of the band's milestone 'Star Is Just A Sun'. Unavailable for the last seven years, this outstanding piece of music is now available again, carefully remastered by Helge Sten (Motorpsycho, Nils Petter Molvaer, Supersilent), and available for the first time ever on vinyl!  

► Vinyl: http://goo.gl/tG27T5
► CD: http://goo.gl/adZKzI

THE WHITE BIRCH - BEAUTY KING | GLITTERHOUSE RECORDS

Resilience

02 - Xuramento

Ikaros

We Lost The Sea are a progressive post-rock band from Sydney Australia.

Crushing guitar noise with post-rock atmospherics and melody from a large, dimly lit space.

http://www.welostthesea.com
welostthesea@gmail.com


02 We Lost The Sea - Balaclava - Live At Sando

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