Name: It's Been a While by :zoviet*france:
Duration: 13 min 45 s
Description: Created yesterday from original recordings made on location under a bridge in Wester Ross, and in a hawthorn glade in north Northumberland.

Beautiful Ambience... Much enjoyed, thanks :-)

Wonderful. Have loved Zoviet France since 1984. Still have all of those albums on vinyl and listen frequently. This is very nice.

A Life In Poverty

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Today we’re glad to premiere ‘Lacertid‘, a new extract taken from the Trancess EP. Fitting somewhere between Autechre ambient works and Tim Hecker’s Harmony In Ultraviolet, the dark-shaded, droning convolutions of the track promise to haunt your days and nights.

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S Olbricht - Lacertid [Proto Sites]

Drew McDowall "Hypnotic Congress"
from the debut LP "Collapse" on Dais Records
Out September 25, 2015
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Drew McDowall "Hypnotic Congress"

Track for EXO compilation, record out on Ekster.(http://www.eksterlabel.com/EKS007-EXO)

Trooper

2018 repress now available. 

Excerpts from the powerful new double LP from Caterina Barbieri comprised of compositions for analog synthesizer. Highly recommended to fans of Alessandro Cortini & Eleh. 

"Patterns Of Consciousness finds Caterina Barbieri at her best, elegantly moving between melodically pleasant yet twisted sequences and comforting, reassuring sonic spaces. Every piece, while given a singular identity, is part of the bigger picture: a work of art that will push you, pull you, and then eventually leave you with your back against the wall once you get to the last track. " Alessandro Cortini (Nine Inch Nails)

Patterns Of Consciousness

Caterina Barbieri - Patterns Of Consciousness - Album excerpts - 2LP April1 2017

From : Gabriel Saloman ‘Movement Building Vol.3’ (SP085)
→ http://shelter-press.org/gabriel-saloman-movement-building-vol-3/

Shelter Press has made good on its promise to deliver the third and final volume of its series featuring Gabriel Saloman, released both on vinyl and collected with Movement Building Vol. I (2014) and Vol. II (2015) as a double CD. For fans of Saloman’s post-Yellow Swans work – an already dense catalog of darkly cinematic compositions mostly conceived as accompaniment to some of Vancouver’s edgier contemporary dance companies, Movement Building Vol. III is not only a much anticipated conclusion to this trilogy, it is the most fully realized album in years. Where as Movement Building Vol. I & II acted primarily as documentation of time-based artworks, Movement Building Vol. III offers a more coherent and narratively rich album that will appeal to admirers of Soldier’s Requiem (Miasmah, 2013).

Listeners will recognize the emotive bowed strings, militant percussion and searing guitar eruptions that evoked memory and trauma in that previous album. Joining this pallet are other familiar Saloman sounds: shoegaze washes of distorted guitar, minimalist piano attacks, melancholic appregiated melodies, and a patina of harsh noise. Added to this is a more 21st Century approach to drums and bass, perhaps an effect of his collaborations with producer Michael Red in their dub-ambient project Chambers.

Saloman’s music has never sat comfortably in any genre, sharing with a select cohort of other artists (Stephen O’Malley, Lawrence English, Grouper, Kreng, Tim Hecker, among others) an ambiguous position between “modern classical”, “electronic music”, and the more outer limits of metal. Movement Building Vol. III doesn’t clarify as much as it expands Saloman’s oeuvre further into an idiosyncratic musical no-man’s land that fails to be faithful to any popular musical trend – contemporary, retro or futurist.

Movement Building Vol. III’s themes are taken from the dance it was composed for, 2015’s What Belongs To You, created by longtime collaborator Vanessa Goodman (Adhere, Soldier’s Requiem). That work sent its dancers through a physical journey exploring the needs of the body, for shelter, for love and for self-actualization, roughly aligned to Abraham Maslow’s “hierarchy of needs”. The resulting album seems to achingly soundtrack the struggle for survival, not simply for bare life but for something greater and more transcendent that would make survival have meaning. It holds dread and hope in equal parts, never quite giving away the end of the story. Though this record was recorded two years ago Movement Building Vol. III could be the perfect album for our current era of civilizational near-collapse, whether at the hands of maniacal politicians, the slow burn of the Anthropocene or the constant enclosure of the corporate driven, social media enabled surveillance state.

Movement Building Vol. III arrives both as a stand alone vinyl release, and as part of a collection of all three volumes packaged in one double CD. The collection of these works allows one to see clearly Saloman’s techniques and approaches to a relatively limited number of instruments – guitar, percussion, occasional piano and tape. Movement Building Vol. I is presented as one continuous piece, moving through an extended set of drone and loping drum play before climaxing in the kind of glorious guitar chording most often associated with My Bloody Valentine, GSYBE or Mono. Movement Building Vol. II explores various combinations of drum and drone, ASMR inducing high end clatter and the now infamous take on Miles Davis’ classic My Funny Valentine. 

Movement Building Vol. III is not only the final installment in Shelter Press’ series but also represents the culmination of a prolific period of creation that began with 2012’s Adhere.

Movement Building Vol. 3

GABRIEL SALOMAN 'What Belongs To Love' (SP085 / SHELTER PRESS)

'A Poem' cassette available @ www.strangerules.com

Emily Berregaard - A Poem [Excerpt]

uon + Exael - Piano

Created yesterday from original recordings made on location under a bridge in Wester Ross, and in a hawthorn glade in north Northumberland.

It's Been a While

Stefan Fraunberger - Elegie
from the album "Quellgeister#3-Bussd" expected October 2019.

Composed, performed and produced by Stefan Fraunberger. 
Recorded in September 2016 except B3 and B4 in September 2018 in the fortified church of Bussd. Bellows pumped / interpreted by Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger except on track B3 and B4 by Nicolai Guta.
Mastered by Neel at Enisslab Studio, Rome
Cover Artwork by George Sowden - Designed by M-L-XL
Supported by SKE / Austro Mechana

doser034LP - Morphine Records 2019
All rights reserved to the respective owners.

Stefan Fraunberger's Quellgeister#3 Bussd is Recorded entirely on an abandoned church's organ in the village of Bussd, Romania, the album is the third installment of the series by Austrian artist and composer Stefan Fraunberger. His research on the influence of nature on culture touches on time, periphery, memory, and transience as evidenced in his Quellgeister research. The album is an archeological sonic research on the deteriorating Organ discovered in the saxon church in Transylvania.

Stefan Fraunberger - Elegie (doser034LP preview)

The title track from a real artefact in time, Couronne de Merde's forthcoming EP 'Amazing Grace'. Released via soft verse 14/08/2020 on cassette and digitally.

Stream and download the full thing via Bandcamp - https://couronnedemerde.bandcamp.com/album/amazing-grace-2

Limited run of 20 Cassettes.
Some words from the artist follow - 

The main inspiration of this project is « Amazing Grace », a well-known Christian hymn written in 1772 by the Anglican clergyman and poet John Newton, and still vividly interpreted in the Anglo-Saxon world. The text has been arranged musically with several melodies through past centuries - the most famous one being composed by William Walker around 1835. 

This hymn evokes the remission of sins by faith in God and salvation by grace, themes linked to the personal experience of the writer, former slave ship worker and trader John Newton who became a slave in his turn for 3 years in West Africa. He had, during a violent storm at sea in 1748 while he was rescued from his enslavement, called out to God for mercy. This was the beginning of his spiritual conversion to Christianity. He considered himself later a repentant sinner saved by divine grace.

I composed the EP during Avril 2020 in Paris, during the confinement and the pandemic episode which is still affecting our world and societies. The growing loneliness of my daily life, the emotional and physical distanciation from those I love, combined with a heavy sense of a possible end of mankind, pushed me to read poetry speaking of grace, divine and religious conversions. I stumbled upon « Amazing Grace » on the internet, and behind my screen, felt the urge to compose something uplifting, full of hope and mercy for my specie. Reading the life of John Newton and his progressive repentance, I decided to build a project about the life of this man and my own need of spiritual elevation, facing the fear of death and the perpetual human hesitance between Vice and Vertu.

The beginning and the internationalization of the Black Lives Matter movement after the death and assassination of George Floyd in Houston, May the 25th, gave to the project a new sense - a new interpretation ; a tragic one for sure. More than two centuries later, racism, racial violence and discriminations linked to skin color are still vivid and effective all around the world.

Couronne de Merde - Amazing Grace

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