Improvisation with the studio doors open. 

Goldmund - Improvisation 4:54 PM

“Companion” is the title track of Otto A Totlands final album in his trilogy of personal, sparse piano compositions, following “Pinô” and “The Lost”. It´s a first glimpse into a new series of fourteen melancholic pieces by the Norwegian composer. Coming November 26th on Sonic Pieces.

Otto A Totland - Companion

New LP out Feb 10th! Pre-order/stream: https://ampl.ink/2YMZK
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We All Have Places

Hollie Kenniff - Amidst The Tall Grass

Stream in full the forthcoming special edition version of Nest's Retold. This will be out on vinyl (2xLP) in September. Also available digitally. 

Contains two bonus tracks, Tides by Nest and a re-imagining of Amroth by Brambles.

Nest - Amroth (Brambles Version)

I particularly enjoyed working with Gabriele C. Kunz. I was very taken with her "Magical Melodies" and asked her if I could orchestrate it. Thanks to her enchanting personality and the inspiring original, it was an easy undertaking. Let yourself be captivated by the magic of this enchanting song...

Here is the link to the track on her portfolio and please, please visit Gabriele C. Kunz' page. Her music is so colorful and joyful.

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Lyrics:
[Verse]
In a land of dreams
Where the moonlight gleams
There's a fairy creature
With mystical themes
With a voice so pure
And a heart so bright
She sings her song
To create a new light
[Verse 2]
With every note
The stars align
As she weaves her magic
In a rhythm divine
Her melody floats
In the soft night air
Creating a world
Beyond compare
[Chorus]
Her song soars
Like a gentle breeze
Unveiling a realm
Where dreams find peace
With each sweet word
Her power unfurls
The fairy creature
Who creates new worlds...

Magical Melodies w/ Gabriele C. Kunz

Taken from his debut album 'Gravity' re-issued by Erased Tapes on June 10.

Order the LP/CD/DL here: www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP084
iTunes: http://snip.ftpromo.net/gravity
Spotify: http://snip.ftpromo.net/onlyinthedark
Bandcamp: http://snip.ftpromo.net/gravitybc
or any other good record store worldwide

In celebration of their latest signing, Erased Tapes are set to re-issue Ben Lukas Boysen’s compelling debut album ‘Gravity’, alongside new album ‘Spells’ on 10th June 2016.

‘Gravity’ was the first album Ben recorded under his own name, merging programmed piano pieces with live instruments, combining the controllable technical world and the often unpredictable aspects of live improvisation.

From ‘Only In The Dark’ to the two movements of ‘Nocturne’, it’s a serious, solemn listen. And yet, with pieces like ‘To The Hills’ and ‘Eos’, ‘Gravity’ is an exploration of heights, cliffs and vertigoes. With piano lines and choir-like drones, this record suits its title in all its meanings, as the magnetic force takes us deeper towards the core. Marking a new beginning, this debut reveals a touching, and more melodic side to Ben’s body of work, which he previously only hinted at as HECQ.

Friend and fellow Erased Tapes artist Nils Frahm mixed and mastered the album. Ben is not a master pianist like his dear friend, but his sound collages are so meticulously designed that after hearing the result an impressed Nils declared: “from now on, if anyone asks – this is a real piano”.

His intricate, humanised programming – enhanced by drummer Achim
Färber, additional synthesisers played by Nils, and a considerate selection of echoes, delays and compressors – has been used to create a hybrid sound that intends to deceive, question and challenge existing listening habits. Utilising the contrast between reduction and decoration, ‘Gravity’ as well as its successor ‘Spells’ can be seen as a quest to find out how much or how little composition is required to constitute a song. Why the ear can and should be deceived about the authenticity of instruments. What significance these instruments have within this process, and why the personal perception of balance and sound exclude ultimate truths. Linking the two albums are the four movements of ‘Nocturne’, an ever-developing conversation that on occasion flirts with the grandeur of compressed rock drums.

As HECQ Ben has released nine albums since 2003, exploring everything from ambient to breakcore. He has simultaneously established himself as a trusted composer and sound designer, working for a wide array of clients including Amnesty International and Marvel Comics; composing for feature films, games, art installations and convention opening titles.

After embracing this demanding line of work, in 2010 Ben felt the need to explore his roots and early education, which inspired these albums under his own name. Born in 1981 as the third child of opera singer Deirdre Boysen and actor Claus Boysen, his classical music training on piano and guitar began when he was seven years old; the works of Bruckner, Wagner and Bach laid an important foundation. Rediscovering this music shared with his parents – united with the sounds of Autechre, Cristian Vogel and
Jiri.Ceiver to Pink Floyd and Godspeed You! Black Emperor – brought back an understanding of why he wanted to write music in the first place.

“Gravity strips away the cloaked mysteries of electronic music production to expose the tender side of this musician’s mind." — Headphone Commute

TRACKLIST:

01. Only In The Dark
02. Nocturne 1
03. To The Hills
04. You'll Miss Us One Day
05. Gravity
06. Eos
07. Nocturne 2
08. The Behenian Gospel

Gravity

Only In The Dark

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Ben Lukas Boysen - Only In The Dark

Order 'Iris' on (Ltd. Clear) Vinyl, CD and digitally here: http://phonofile.link/iris-bonus

A Winged Victory For The Sullen, the otherworldly collaboration between Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie and Dustin O’Halloran, commence the New Year with their third full-length titled Iris – available worldwide via Erased Tapes on January 13th 2017.

Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie and Dustin O'Halloran first met the director Jalil Lespert after he had discovered A Winged Victory For The Sullen on a music search online. After listening to their music, he immediately knew: "it was the sound of my new film". With an excellent cast of France’s finest actors Romain Duris, Charlotte Le Bon, and the director himself, plus a script filled with tension, sexuality and darkness, they knew there was a lot of musical territory to mine. It was agreed that they wanted to explore more analogue electronique experiments as well as working with a large string ensemble, to create something that felt very modern and still cinematic.

“Despite A Winged Victory For The Sullen being associated with film score type music, trying to survive the process of creating the modern film score is not for people with fragile egos. It requires those who are the most responsive to change. The director and the film presented a new set of challenges, so we decided to stop thinking about cinema as an object, and moved closer to using the film’s images as triggers for experiences. The more we were able to let go, and see the music as something that happens, like a process – not a quality, the more we were able to reach a place that sounded like us. It was as if we were making our first record all over again, except being filtered through another language littered with dead metaphors”, the duo elaborate.

The recording sessions began with their long time sound collaborator Francesco Donadello in the form of some modular synth sessions in Berlin. Dustin and Adam began working from the script in their own studios, and after filming commenced they continued to create music that could be used for first edits of the film – each day getting new scenes that triggered ideas that would become the base of the film score. Over the course of the next few months the two slowly crafted the music with weekly discussion from their studio to the editing room. The final sessions to what is now the score of Iris were recorded with a 40-piece string orchestra at Magyar Radio in Budapest.

Upon label founder Robert Raths' request the over sixty minutes of material were then edited down to a concise album listen at forty-one minutes with a physical release set for January 13, 2017. The digital bonus track edition includes two solo pieces by Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie entitled The Endless Battle Of The Maudlin Ballade Part 2 and The Endless Battle Of The Maudlin Ballade Part 3, as well as tracks by Petite Noir, dOP, DJ Pone and The Shoes which feature in the film. The artwork was created by Berlin based illustrator Stephanie F. Scholz who also created the iconic cover for Nils Frahm's Music for The Motion Picture Victoria.

TRACK LISTING

1. Prologue Iris  
2. Retour Au Champs De Mars 
3. Fantasme  
4. Gare Du Nord Part One  
5. L’embauche  
6. Le Retour En Foret  
7. Metro Part Three  
8. Flashback Antoine  
9. Galerie  
10. Le Renversement  
11. Normandie  
12. Comme On A Dit

A Winged Victory For The Sullen - Galerie

Artist : James Maloney
Track : Blink
Album : Gaslight

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All music by James Maloney
Mastered by Tim Debney

Gaslight

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James Maloney - Blink

OFFICIAL VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWMbeySRIXg

This is the fourth and final track from my new album Notes On Belonging coming out on 27th October 2017! This track is the place where I find space and meaning in the form of repetition of three notes. It explores the notion of belonging to a place, physically and spiritually, and a sense of journeying to a place called home. It's both tinged with joy and a sense of longing, of nearly being there but not quite yet. The track explores a sort of counterpoint, where instruments go in and out of phase to emphasise this nearness of things. They delicately tow the line of independent improvisation to colliding in pattern, most noticeable at the end of the track. I wanted to explore themes of indiviuality and freedom in the piece with the hope that inevitably we'd join forces at times.  Buy the CD version of this album here: http://tinyleaves.bandcamp.com/album/notes-on-belonging-2
Joel Pike - Piano, Guitar, Glockenspiel
Faith Brackenbury - Violin

Notes On Belonging

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Taken from - 'a lone cloudburst' (LP)

Written & Performed - Gareth Schott (music), Ylva Krantz (voice), Micah Templeton-Wolfe (piano/synth) & Catherine Milson (cello)

Production - Sean Erin Lynch

Artwork - Stephanie Chalmers

Dedicated to Kim Schulke & Callum Plews

Already Dead Tapes 

fade away (LP 'a lone cloudburst' OUT NOW)

From the album The Time It Takes available October 16, 2020 on Western Vinyl.
Pre-order / stream: https://smarturl.it/ibfvzw

The Time It Takes

Goldmund - "Day In Day Out"

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Goldmund - "Day In Day Out"

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