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Inspired by the Armenian instrument, the duduk. Vocal expression of the very emotional and mysterious sounds of this music. 

Duduk For Two Voices

The fifth volume of 'Ambient Archives' comes with music by Shuta Yasukochi, Surroundyou, Slow Clinic and Logic Moon. A wide range of ambient lines, guitars, beautiful piano chords, hazy textures and field recordings.

Written and Produced by Shuta Yasukochi, Surroundyou, Slow Clinic and Logic Moon. 
Mastering by Zzzzra. 
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Surroundyou - Awakening

'Soundscapes Vol.1' is our first CD compilation. Eight ambient tracks by Robert Farrugia, Logic Moon, Dead Melodies, Powlos, CloudBurn, The Aurora Principle, Caught In The Wake Forever and Warmth.

Mastering by Rob Small.
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Dead Melodies - Monochrome Rebellion

Leigh Toro has been producing music for the past twenty years.  Back in the day he recorded under the guise of Flotel and released works on the excellent Expanding Records.  More recently he has been recording under his own name and has had albums out on Eilean Records and Handstitched.  We are excited here at Rural Colours to bring you his latest work Layers of Ash, an album of frayed granular resonances.

Layers of Ash started life as a series of short improvisations which were then woven together to create more developed pieces.  Leigh tells us that he is currently producing longer form pieces of music that explore the textural qualities of digital distortion, bit reduction and resonance. He enjoys exploring the balance between the harsh noise and more subtle delicate sounds and how that balance can evolve over a longer period than he has worked on before. 

This is Rural Colours 081
Written and produced by Leigh Toro
Artwork by Katie English
www.ruralcolours.co.uk / innit

Leigh Toro / Layers of Ash (Snippets)

“Sallaw” is a Kurdish word that expresses the passing of time, and on this new album the three sound artists have found a way of expressing that notion in music. Four tracks of slowly unfolding ambience make up this collection, each piece named after different months, again in Kurdish. The four sections represent the different seasons and their movement through time.

Sallaw

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PORYA HATAMI | AARON MARTIN | ROBERTO ATTANASIO - Rêbendan

The lead track from the new album from Francesco Giannico, entitled "Les Mondes Imaginaires"...

Francesco Giannico "Les Mondes Imaginaires"  Primum

Taken from the upcoming album 'Bij Wat Ook Moog' Gebeuren', forthcoming on Fluid Audio...

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Bij Wat Ook Moog' Gebeuren

Gareth Davis / Rutger Zuydervelt / Leo Fabriek - Bij Wat Ook Moog' Gebeuren II

Marina Abramović reflects on all the moments that made her the performance genius that she is today—in which the artist is, indeed, utterly present.

Design Matters From the Archive: Marina Abramović

In 1968, Dr. Bernie Krause was leading a booming music career. A prodigiously talented musician and early master of the electronic synthesizer, Krause was busy working with artists like the Doors and the Beach Boys and performing iconic effects for blockbuster films. Then Warner Brothers commissioned him to create an album incorporating the sounds of wild habitats, so he headed into Muir Woods with his recording equipment. What he heard changed his life and triggered a fifty-year odyssey.

Then and there, Krause decided that he wanted spend the rest of his life recording and archiving the music of wild animals and wild places. He quit Hollywood and began traveling the world. The soundscapes he recorded were full of epiphanies about the origin of our own culture and music, about the profound connectedness of creatures, and about the unseen tolls of human activity. Previous wildlife recordings isolated the calls of individual creatures, but Krause recorded habitats as a whole. He soon proposed a new theory of ecosystem functioning: that each species produces unique acoustic signatures, partitioning and occupying sonic niches such that the singing of all of the creatures in a healthy ecosystem can be heard, organized like players in an orchestra. 

Today, Krause’s astonishing archive contains sounds made by more than 15,000 species. It is, as The New Yorker aptly put it, “an auditory Library of Alexandria for everything non-human." Fifty percent of the recorded habitats no longer exist due to habitat destruction, climate change, and human din. We spoke with Krause about the beauty of and perils facing wild music, the extraordinary science of soundscape ecology, and how sound impacts the welfare of animals. The music in this episode is from Wild Sanctuary (www.wildsanctuary.com).

Ep. 39 - Bernie Krause on saving the music of the wild

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