From the album, 'South Wind,Clear Sky,' out now on Second Language Music.  www.secondlanguagemusic.com

Perhaps still most widely recognised for Dreaming With Alice, his 1972 psych-folk debut for RCA Italy as a 19-year-old art student-troubadour, Mark Fry has been turning his creative gaze on the world, and alchemising its elements into shimmering, quietly visionary works of art, ever since. Certainly not an artist who dances to the music of time in any conventional sense, Mark, a respected, and collected, painter, most often to be found holed up in his Normandy farmhouse studio, allowed more than three decades to glide by before recording Alice’s follow up, 2008’s Shooting The Moon. His subsequent musical activity has been frenetic by comparison.

Mark’s beguiling, Arcadian-flavoured 2011 Second Language album, I Lived In Trees, recorded in collaboration with The A. Lords – musicians from a more recent generation of psychedelic-folk experimenters – proved a major critical hit, demonstrating that Mark Fry’s musical stock lay not only in the Paisley-hued haze of his Aquarian Age youth, but also in the full glare of the postmodern, internet-facilitated present. A series of concerts in Japan and Scandinavia, and a widely reported ‘supergroup’ London showcase, featuring members of Mercury Rev, Super Furry Animals, Tunng and Lemon Jelly, further evinced the subtle but inexorable diffusion of the Mark Fry legend, something abetted by BBC Radio 4’s Today programme airing an interview with Mark in the wake of Trees’ release.

All of which brings us to Mark Fry’s latest, most exquisitely realised musical offering to date, South Wind, Clear Sky. Sung with that now familiar alloy of cool restraint and wondering innocence, and passingly reminiscent of the kind of English pastoralism associated with the likes of Kevin Ayers or Bill Fay, the album’s leanly arranged yet immersive songs are propelled by Mark’s glinting, plangent guitars and deliciously embroidered by John Parker’s double bass, Angèle David-Guillou’s piano and backing vocals and Katie Lang’s French horn, all bound together by producer Guy Fixsen (My Bloody Valentine, Stereolab) into a delightfully iridescent whole. For all its finely honed arrangements, and the translucence of its recording, South Wind, Clear Sky is still very much the work of the man who made Dreaming With Alice; the mature Mark Fry’s feeling for wonderment and magic, for the dreamlike and the innocently surreal, is just as pervasive, and persuasive here, only more focused, and etched against a more luminous, even heavenly canvas.

Where the lyrics on his last album found Mark reaching up through the summer branches toward an azure sky, here that celestial dimension provides the focus for eight shimmering chamber-folk essays whose wistful narratives of flight and fancy and empyrean romance purr and soar with a stately grace, like the ‘Aeroplanes’ of the album’s richly melodic opening track.


Mark Fry - Aeroplanes

Album and film OPENING by Christopher Willits, out September 2, 2014.
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Moog guitar / Voice / Baritone guitar / Keys / Drums / Percussion - Christopher Willits
Keys on 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 - Scott Hansen
Baritone on 6 - Zac Brown
Live drums on 2, 4, 6 - Rory O’Connor
Field recordings - Ryan Kleeman
Mixed and mastered by Christopher Willits and Ryan Kleeman at Overlap Studio
Engineered by Christopher Willits
Production consultants - Scott Hansen, Ryan Kleeman and Kenric McDowell
Artwork by Scott Hansen, Christopher Willits and Alingo Loh
Images sourced from the film OPENING by Christopher Willits

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Timo Kaukolampi, Tomi Leppänen, Anssi Nykänen and Tuomo Puranen together make one of the most potent and psychedelic forces in 21st century music. As K-X-P, they deliver ultra-intense live shows where krautrock, industrial and disco collide together in one brain-melting surge of energy – a direct continuation of Kaukolampi and Puranen's previous bands, the truly legendary Op:l Bastards. This track from their forthcoming III Part One album is an unholy collision of Hawkwind, Front 242, Spacemen 3 and something skyward-bound and ecstatic that we can't quite put our fingers on – but whatever that might be, it transcends influences to create something streamlined and dangerous. Blow away your Monday cobwebs with this. 

K-X-P "Space Precious Time" - Boiler Room Debuts

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Loreve - The Universe

Warmth's new album ambient 'Home' is the first vinyl release on Archives. Comes in a Double Vinyl with pictures by Alexander Kopatz. Also on Double CD with each one of the original pieces revisited by talented artists, including: Hotel Neon, SineRider, Leandro Fresco, Purl, SVLBRD, Chris Weeks, Tone Color and Robert Farrugia.

Written and produced by Agustín Mena.
Remixes by Hotel Neon, SineRider, Leandro Fresco, Purl, SVLBRD, Chris Weeks, Tone Color and Robert Farrugia.
Mastering by Rob Small.
Photography by Alexander Kopatz.
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Warmth - Hivern (Hotel Neon Remix)

Christopher Willits - Olancha Hello
taken from Oktaf#04
Various Artists - Lost In The Humming Air (Music inspired by Harold Budd)
Out on Oktaf (Kompakt) april 9th.

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With "Lost In The Humming Air - Music inspired by Harold Budd" oktaf records announces an amazing collection of thirteen exclusive tracks made by a selection of some of todays best known ambient music producers giving their tribute to the outstanding piano legend Harold Budd.

The playlists features names as: Deaf Center, Loscil, Martin Fuhs, Biosphere, Xela, Marsen Jules, Andrew Thomas, Mokira, Christopher Willits, Taylor Deupree, Rafael Anton Irisarri, Porn Sword Tobacco and bvdub feat. Criss Van Wey.

Well known for his spaceful piano playing and his early cooperations with Brian Eno, Harold Budd has inspired a whole generation of modern protagonists of ambient, jazz and especially the so called modern classical genre. WIth his recent releases on David Sylvians Samadhi Sound label as well as on Darla, he is still showing his outstanding musical genius to the world.

"Lost in the Humming Air (Music inspired by Harold Budd)" will be released on April 9th (March 26th digital) on oktaf records. Exclusively distributed by Kompakt.

Olancha Hello

Behind The Sky is the incredible debut collaboration from @inthebranches and @bluetech. Featuring the signature psychedelic space-guitar soundscapes of Shane Cotee (aka @theadaptive) and masterful modular synthesis from Evan Bartholomew (aka @bluetech).

Limited double-vinyl release (300 copies), coming soon thanks to diggersfactory.com! Preorder the album at http://behindtheskymusic.com.

Behind The Sky

Passing Io (with Bluetech)

'Roman and Mayan' is the 3rd single from @arms-and-sleepers' forthcoming new album 'Safe Area Earth', out January 17, 2020 on @FutureArchiveRecordings.

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The electronic music duo Max Lewis and Mirza Ramic, aka Arms and Sleepers, has been actively releasing music since forming in Boston, Massachusetts back in 2006. Their sound has spanned electronic, trip-hop, ambient, and hip-hop genres, among others. With several dozen releases and extensive worldwide touring under their belt, the duo is now gearing up for what looks to be their most serious musical undertaking yet: a six-part music release to be made available throughout 2020.

The Luxembourg-based music producer @SunGlitters has once again been tasked with mixing and co-producing the new Arms and Sleepers material. He's been a frequent collaborator since 2016, and the two artists—along with Little People and CNJR—also came together last year to start their own record label Future Archive Recordings. The forthcoming Arms and Sleepers album will be the artist's first full-length release on the new label.

Arms and Sleepers will release their ninth studio album, titled ‘Safe Area Earth’, on January 17, 2020 via Future Archive Recordings. The 1st single 'Give Me This' was released on September 13, 2019 and the 2nd single ‘Ruined By Geography’ was released on October 31, 2019. The third single 'Roman and Mayan' is out now.

Track Listing:

1) SAE
2) Art and Scope
3) Ruined By Geography
4) Open To The Elements
5) Give Me This
6) If I Had Drowned, I Would Be Here
7) Leon (feat. Sofia Insua)
8) Roman and Mayan
9) After World's End
10) Don’t Forget
11) Black Out / Sun Shine
12) In The Jaws Of Life
13) Both But None
14) Centralia
15) Unwound
16) … .- .
17) That Is What Human Beings Do [BONUS]

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Safe Area Earth

Roman and Mayan

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Arms and Sleepers - Roman and Mayan

Immersive ambient composer, guitarist, and producer. Co-founder & Director of Envelop. https://christopherwillits.com

Christopher Willits is an artist, musician, and guitarist who creates immersive ambient music. As one of the core artists on the Ghostly International label roster since the early 2000s, Willits has continually evolved his craft, producing one of the most diverse and prolific catalogs within contemporary ambient music. Releases span introspective solo albums, widescreen audiovisuals, and unbridled collaborations. His process is an expression of love, inspired by an international audience of listeners, and the conviction that music can catalyze personal transformation and spiritual awakening.

Willits began his career with a string of critically acclaimed albums on the 12k label. The minimal sound introduced on those recordings remains at the core of his work: warm guitar tones woven into smooth, harmonic surfaces. Willits made his Ghostly International full-length debut with 2006 landmark Surf Boundaries. He’d expand his vision next through collaboration, working with Ryuichi Sakamoto (2008’s Ocean Fire and 2012’s Ancient Future), Zach Hill of Death Grips, Taylor Deupree, and, for 2014 LP Opening, with the whole band of Tycho. He also lent a hand in mastering the latter’s album Awake, composed the original score for documentary The Art of Listening, and continues to lead music production and meditation classes in San Francisco.

In 2017, Willits put forth Horizon, the first ever spatial audio release on Ghostly International. The album’s innovative 3D mix is mapped to surround listeners and align with sleep patterns, meditation, and other mindful practices. Willits is also the director and co-founder of the nonprofit, Envelop; leading a mission to amplify the connective power of music through immersive audio venues and spatial audio production tools. Like Horizon, his 2019 album Sunset utilizes Envelop’s cutting-edge technology to encourage listening from within. The five compositions move from warm to cool designed as a soundtrack to embrace the day's end; a collective letting go. Another skyward, pioneering project from an artist who occupies a unique corner of the electronic music universe.

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