love these tones & drones... very peaceful & pensive.

Ambient/Electronic

New track written exclusively for the For Nihon compilation.

Buy the album digitally now, or pre-order the CD at http://www.whitevinyldesign.com/fornihon/

All proceeds go to the Japan Earthquake Relief Fund. 


Also contains new tracks by Ryuichi Sakamoto, BIosphere, Robin Guthrie + Harold Budd, Olafur Arnalds, Helios, Max Richter, Alva Noto, Ulrich Schnauss and many more.


Jon Hopkins - Abandon Window

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"British ambient band Marconi Union has drummed up the world's most relaxing song: Weightless is 8 mins 10 sec. of aural bliss" - Time Magazine, Best Inventions of the Year. 

"An excellent compilation from the always interesting Just Music" - The Sunday Times

"The Ambient Zone is an album that feels like the world is peeling away, layer by layer, into multi-colored panoramas, just for you" - Echoes (CD of The Month)

The Ambient Zone is a beautiful journey into ambient and electronica inspired by universal themes of calmness, purity, relaxation and enrichment where Weightless is coupled with some exclusive first releases and other blissfully ambient tracks from Just Music artists and alumni.

Created instinctively and intuitively by Marconi Union, Weightless has been claimed to have therapeutic properties in the way the track almost appears to have a heartbeat running through it which slows down very gently throughout the piece, encouraging a deep sense of relaxation in the body, It's use of specific rhythms, beep bass tones, frequencies and intervals induce an almost trance like state in the listener.

"The Ambient Zone is an album that just screams (albeit quietly) of pure class" - Fluid Nation.

Weightless (Ambient Transmission Vol. 2)

Weightless Part 1

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Marconi Union - Weightless

An excerpt from a session recorded during our A.I.R. in Krems (A) in October 2011.
It is the genesis of a new collaboration between  Dhrupad singer Amelia Cuni and myself on Pan-Ney , in which Indian Ragas and Just Intonation pitches find a common ground.
We are also using delays and moving sinetone drones to support the tunings. This is  Part 1 of a work-in-progress , including sections with other invented instruments.The duration the whole composition still in the air.

The Krems 5

A deep dive into the Aural Archipelago archive, featuring field recordings from Sumatra, Java, and Kalimantan. All field recordings by Palmer Keen (Aural Archipelago, 2014-2017) except for “Simalungen Rayat.”  To hear more, please visit http://www.auralarchipelago.com. This episode originally broadcast on Resonance 104.4 FM (London, UK) May 7, 2018 and on Delgado's Dolphin Radio - WXDR 99.1 FM (New Orleans, Louisiana) September 23, 2018.

RIAFC 004

The Aural Archipelago Archive (RIAFC 004)

Shizen 自然, (nature, the natural world), a live recording of a work composed to celebrate the new year and performed on 01/01/2019.
The main audio samples used for the performance have been extracted from a recording of a cello and transformed live.
Please listen at a very high volume to perceive the inner resonances.
Recording date: 01/01/2019, Pordenone.
Personnel: Alessandro Fogar - Live electronics.

Shizen 自然

A 60-minute ambient piano suite. Download it, free. Or don't—space doesn't care.

Every Day We Are Dying and Outer Space Does Not Give One Single Fuck

Playlist:

Livebatts!
"Harold in Salt Lake City"
from Livebatts!
(Ants)

André Vida
"Wicking for 23"
from Minor Differences
(Entr'acte)

JP Jenkins and Joe Foster
"Desire Paths"
from Money Desert
(Self-release)

Staplerfahrer&Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson
"the sound file"
from Two Lost Souls
(Brombron)

Leonid Soybelman
"Against Woolen Blankets"
from Surfing in My Bed
(Review Records)

Jerry Hunt
"Fluud"
from CDCM Computer Music Series Vol.1
(Centaur Records)

Nya Kulturvartteten
"Final Rag"
from Narrskeppet
(Caprice Records)

Ilan Volkov - At Home 23

Pre-order now available via Imprec.com 

Tim Catlin formed the Overtone Ensemble in 2012 in order to perform works using his self-made “Vibrissa” instruments. The Vibrissa includes twelve vertically mounted aluminium rods that are longitudinally stroked with gloved hands to produce ethereal “singing” tones. The long sustaining nature of the rods sound and microtonal tunings allow players a sonic palette of complex textures and harmonic complexity. 

Expanding from the instrumentation on their first album, these new recordings utilize Vibrissa instruments, plus a range of extended techniques on old instruments including timpani, bowed piano, bowed glockenspiel, bowed guitar as well as some new instruments like doppler rods and whirled tubes.

The majority of the recordings were done in the Old Chapel building in Melbourne, Australia. The chapel, formerly attached to the Old Melbourne Gaol boasts 10 metre high ceilings which added an enveloping acoustic ambience. At times it felt as though the spectral presences of former inmates were hovering benevolently in the rafters watching on.

The Krems 5

Werner Durand

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