Tuesday, 07 June 2011 08:07
100 martin lukanov & mytrip - TWO
GENRE: Electronic, Minimalist, Piano, Experimental, Drone, Ambient
Label: Abandonment
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:22:22
'two' is at the same time an emotional and highly conceptual collaboration between martin lukanov and mytrip. it is a minimalist walk beyond and within the boundaries of drone ambient, accompanied by a gentle and melancholic piano on the verge between isolation and loneliness.
Label: Abandonment
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:22:22
'two' is at the same time an emotional and highly conceptual collaboration between martin lukanov and mytrip. it is a minimalist walk beyond and within the boundaries of drone ambient, accompanied by a gentle and melancholic piano on the verge between isolation and loneliness.
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Friday, 03 June 2011 07:50
Spheruleus – Forgotten Outland
GENRE: Electronic, Ambient, Electro Acoustic, Drone, Field Recordings
Label: Resting Bell
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:28:34
The sound-art of Spheruleus is produced by British artist Harry Towell with a previous discography including releases on the likes of Under The Spire, Earth Mantra and Test Tube as well as his own label Audio Gourmet. Intrigued by all things old and rustic, his music is often inspired by the rural Lincolnshire surroundings in which he lives and his first outing of 2011, here on Resting Bell, is intended to really captured this.
A short collection of deliberately loose and degraded instrument samples and field recordings, ‘Forgotten Outland’ is presented as if it were an old record found discarded inside a derelict farm building on disused land.
It comprises of blurred melodic passages and offers a faded insight into times gone by when the farmland thrived. Just like the physical state of the farm itself, the record sounds timeworn, warped and a shadow of its former self.
The instrument leads and various sounds climb over one another as if fighting for a voice. Nothing seems structured or in order, although amidst the deluge of disjointed melody, subtle detail can be focused upon to reveal parts of this purposefully concealed soundtrack.
Label: Resting Bell
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:28:34
The sound-art of Spheruleus is produced by British artist Harry Towell with a previous discography including releases on the likes of Under The Spire, Earth Mantra and Test Tube as well as his own label Audio Gourmet. Intrigued by all things old and rustic, his music is often inspired by the rural Lincolnshire surroundings in which he lives and his first outing of 2011, here on Resting Bell, is intended to really captured this.
A short collection of deliberately loose and degraded instrument samples and field recordings, ‘Forgotten Outland’ is presented as if it were an old record found discarded inside a derelict farm building on disused land.
It comprises of blurred melodic passages and offers a faded insight into times gone by when the farmland thrived. Just like the physical state of the farm itself, the record sounds timeworn, warped and a shadow of its former self.
The instrument leads and various sounds climb over one another as if fighting for a voice. Nothing seems structured or in order, although amidst the deluge of disjointed melody, subtle detail can be focused upon to reveal parts of this purposefully concealed soundtrack.
| TRACKLIST |
| 01 - Wilting Bounds 02 - Grey Haze 03 - Grass Stands Green |
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Sunday, 22 May 2011 06:30
Michael Sandler - Ansatz
GENRE: Electronic, Ambient, Space Music, Psychedelic, Drone
Label: Earth Mantra
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 01:05:32
We've oft mentioned how much we enjoy faring along with our friends, the Earth Mantra artists, as they travel down their unique path through the world of sound. Even greater is our joy when we can welcome back an artist who has been long away, to again enjoy the music of a friend we have not heard from in some time. Such is the pleasure we have today, as we release Michael Sandler's first album on Earth Mantra since 2007, a glorious new release called Ansatz.
Folks, we have a real treat in store for you today. We have long believed Michael's music to be among the best the ambient world has to offer, but his latest effort knocks the ball clean out of the park. Blending diverse influences, even a touch of 60's psychedelia, this is the kind of music that simply fascinates. One moment an immense unfathomable drone mesmerizes us with lights and colors, the next we find ourselves floating serenely through the depths of intergalactic space, and the next we lay back on our blanket at the outdoor evening concert, shooting stars blazing a path through the heavens to the ebb and flow of the enigmatic music. Masterful.
Indeed, one of the hallmarks of this powerful album is the strength of its composition. Michael has always struck us as an ambient musician's musician, someone who really hears what he is playing and finds that zone where everything falls into place. With Ansatz, Michael has elevated this craft to an astonishing level. Put simply, we are blown away by what he has accomplished here. Every piece is so lovingly and carefully constructed, each phrase and section interlocking perfectly with those around them, each transition so precisely measured, that the whole is unified with nary a seam. A majestic achievement by an artist who is not nearly so well known as he should be.
So it is our great privilege to unveil Ansatz, the second release by Michael Sandler on Earth Mantra, and the first by him in nearly four years. Certainly one of the most important releases of 2011, and one we are distinctly proud to bring to our audience. In our view, nothing less than music for the ages.
Label: Earth Mantra
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 01:05:32
We've oft mentioned how much we enjoy faring along with our friends, the Earth Mantra artists, as they travel down their unique path through the world of sound. Even greater is our joy when we can welcome back an artist who has been long away, to again enjoy the music of a friend we have not heard from in some time. Such is the pleasure we have today, as we release Michael Sandler's first album on Earth Mantra since 2007, a glorious new release called Ansatz.
Folks, we have a real treat in store for you today. We have long believed Michael's music to be among the best the ambient world has to offer, but his latest effort knocks the ball clean out of the park. Blending diverse influences, even a touch of 60's psychedelia, this is the kind of music that simply fascinates. One moment an immense unfathomable drone mesmerizes us with lights and colors, the next we find ourselves floating serenely through the depths of intergalactic space, and the next we lay back on our blanket at the outdoor evening concert, shooting stars blazing a path through the heavens to the ebb and flow of the enigmatic music. Masterful.
Indeed, one of the hallmarks of this powerful album is the strength of its composition. Michael has always struck us as an ambient musician's musician, someone who really hears what he is playing and finds that zone where everything falls into place. With Ansatz, Michael has elevated this craft to an astonishing level. Put simply, we are blown away by what he has accomplished here. Every piece is so lovingly and carefully constructed, each phrase and section interlocking perfectly with those around them, each transition so precisely measured, that the whole is unified with nary a seam. A majestic achievement by an artist who is not nearly so well known as he should be.
So it is our great privilege to unveil Ansatz, the second release by Michael Sandler on Earth Mantra, and the first by him in nearly four years. Certainly one of the most important releases of 2011, and one we are distinctly proud to bring to our audience. In our view, nothing less than music for the ages.
| TRACKLIST |
| 01 - Manifold 02 - The Mists of Awakening 03 - Soft Comprehension 04 - Congruence |
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Monday, 16 May 2011 05:08
[angstrom:institute] - The Return of SuperViolence
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GENRE: Electronic, Experimental, Drone, Noise
Label: Silent Flow
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 01:11:22
The song – “Go” – got inspired by the cult movie “Blade Runner” and the question: “what makes us human and where are the boundaries to Artificial Intelligence?”.
“Love Me like a Machine” is a hommage to the new series of “Battlestar Galactica”, where Humans and highly evolved Machines even loose their sight of difference by falling in love to each other.
The outstanding “Substance-T” is an Epic, inspired by the movie: “A Scanner Darkly”, where nothing seems to be quite for sure until the great plan behind got uncovered at the end.
“Blood and Tears” assembles the atmosphere of: “Dune” – a universe where humans are able to fold spacetime by their drug-altered minds.
The triology of “Assassins” is about the most freightening scenario ever put on screen: “Terminator”, where our so highly blessed technology starts to think by their own and treats humanity as an enemy got to be erased, while the story behind treats with the interacting fabric of time.
“The Sting” is for “The Fifth Element” – where love itself got treated as a weapon.
This project is part of [Esc.]Laboratory / Art Factory Worms and is the 33th release at the 8th Year of the renowned project-studio for Utopic Listening.
Label: Silent Flow
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 01:11:22
The song – “Go” – got inspired by the cult movie “Blade Runner” and the question: “what makes us human and where are the boundaries to Artificial Intelligence?”.
“Love Me like a Machine” is a hommage to the new series of “Battlestar Galactica”, where Humans and highly evolved Machines even loose their sight of difference by falling in love to each other.
The outstanding “Substance-T” is an Epic, inspired by the movie: “A Scanner Darkly”, where nothing seems to be quite for sure until the great plan behind got uncovered at the end.
“Blood and Tears” assembles the atmosphere of: “Dune” – a universe where humans are able to fold spacetime by their drug-altered minds.
The triology of “Assassins” is about the most freightening scenario ever put on screen: “Terminator”, where our so highly blessed technology starts to think by their own and treats humanity as an enemy got to be erased, while the story behind treats with the interacting fabric of time.
“The Sting” is for “The Fifth Element” – where love itself got treated as a weapon.
This project is part of [Esc.]Laboratory / Art Factory Worms and is the 33th release at the 8th Year of the renowned project-studio for Utopic Listening.
| TRACKLIST |
| 01 - Go 02 - Love Me Like a Machine 03 - Substance-T 04 - Blood and Tears 05 - Assassins Part 1 06 - Assassins Part 2 07 - Assassins Part 3 08 - The Sting |
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Tuesday, 26 April 2011 04:56
Bulkrate - entities
GENRE: Electronic, Drone, Dark Ambient
Label: Dark Winter
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:45:48
Follow-up release to Convocation by Netherlands based producer/musician Bulkrate. This release leads you further into the artist's mind and the inner demons festered nightmare and the darkest side of being.
Betrayed and raped from his last shred of innocence.
More and more living in his own world filled with entities and spirits. Where left could be right and up could be down.
Label: Dark Winter
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:45:48
Follow-up release to Convocation by Netherlands based producer/musician Bulkrate. This release leads you further into the artist's mind and the inner demons festered nightmare and the darkest side of being.
Betrayed and raped from his last shred of innocence.
More and more living in his own world filled with entities and spirits. Where left could be right and up could be down.
| TRACKLIST |
| 01 - a frozen realm 02 - the curse 03 - gathering of spirits 04 - 220 demons 05 - drown thy sorrow |
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Thursday, 21 April 2011 07:00
Quonset Slut - Quonset Slut
GENRE: Electronic, Drone, Dark Ambient, Experimental
Label: Distance Recordings
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:44:20
Ted James Butler is an electronic musician and visual artist from Providence, RI. As Quonset Slut he explores the darker side of guitar based ambient music, creating a sound with is at times both haunting and desolate.
The four pieces on this album are comprised of several layers of improvised electric guitar, each layer a direct reaction to the previous. The result is just under 45 minutes of dark, looming ambience which blends elements of doom metal and post-rock.
The cover art, also by Ted, is a colour treated photograph of one of his oil paintings. In addition to the free download available here, Ted is selling this release as a limited edition, hand numbered c44 cassette which repeats the album on both sides.
Label: Distance Recordings
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:44:20
Ted James Butler is an electronic musician and visual artist from Providence, RI. As Quonset Slut he explores the darker side of guitar based ambient music, creating a sound with is at times both haunting and desolate.
The four pieces on this album are comprised of several layers of improvised electric guitar, each layer a direct reaction to the previous. The result is just under 45 minutes of dark, looming ambience which blends elements of doom metal and post-rock.
The cover art, also by Ted, is a colour treated photograph of one of his oil paintings. In addition to the free download available here, Ted is selling this release as a limited edition, hand numbered c44 cassette which repeats the album on both sides.
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Monday, 28 March 2011 06:11
Spanse - Sky
GENRE: Electronic, Ambient, Drone, Sound Art, Experimental
Label: DNA Productions
Release date: 2010
Total running time: 00:31:21
The pieces range in style from minimal sonic landscapes, to huge hyper-chromatic compositions. Many of the works in this series use huge numbers of discreet tones.
These are present often in the form of successive layers of large "tonal clusters", which add a very natural and otherworldly feeling.These techniques are achieved through a variety of processes, including custom software environments. Instruments are viewed more as tone generators, than in the traditional way.
Sound sources include: guitar, synthesizer, found objects, exotic native American and third world flutes; electromechanical sonic sculptures; many found sounds and field recordings; unusual hacked and created circuits; software environments in platforms like Max/MSP and Pure Data, VB etc that relate directly to whatever I might be doing at the time.
Label: DNA Productions
Release date: 2010
Total running time: 00:31:21
The pieces range in style from minimal sonic landscapes, to huge hyper-chromatic compositions. Many of the works in this series use huge numbers of discreet tones.
These are present often in the form of successive layers of large "tonal clusters", which add a very natural and otherworldly feeling.These techniques are achieved through a variety of processes, including custom software environments. Instruments are viewed more as tone generators, than in the traditional way.
Sound sources include: guitar, synthesizer, found objects, exotic native American and third world flutes; electromechanical sonic sculptures; many found sounds and field recordings; unusual hacked and created circuits; software environments in platforms like Max/MSP and Pure Data, VB etc that relate directly to whatever I might be doing at the time.
| TRACKLIST |
| 01 - A Billion Stars 02 - Chaiii 03 - Allo 04 - The Ancient 05 - Soft Dive 06 - ORC mvt3 |
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Wednesday, 23 March 2011 06:20
BpOlar - deep_locators
GENRE: Electronic, Ambient, Drone, Dub
Label: Fwonk*
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:53:38
BpOlar, hailing from Antwerp in Belgium specialises in deep, deep ambient with a dub flavour.
Listening to deep_locators is an aural return to the womb, only with reverb trails that last forever. Seven tracks, and nearly one hour of aural bliss.
Available in FLAC!
Label: Fwonk*
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:53:38
BpOlar, hailing from Antwerp in Belgium specialises in deep, deep ambient with a dub flavour.
Listening to deep_locators is an aural return to the womb, only with reverb trails that last forever. Seven tracks, and nearly one hour of aural bliss.
Available in FLAC!
| TRACKLIST |
| 01 - essential grey evolvement 02 - another YELLOWbrick road 03 - Marlons breakfast meeting 04 - LG_a tribute 05 - LM stAging rEvisited 06 - latent wAter 07 - deep locators |
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Saturday, 12 March 2011 10:19
Petal - Up From Here
GENRE: Electronic, Acoustic, Ambient, Drone
Label: Earth Mantra
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:48:42
With Up From Here, Jon takes his music to a higher level, retaining his breathtaking fusion of Americana and dark ambience, but adding an even more potent dose of bittersweet reminiscence, with even stronger visuals and evocative themes. Where his previous release blended Jon's various influences seamlessly, with Up From Here, the fusion is so complete that one cannot say with certainty where one influence ends and another begins. It all forms one inseparable innate whole, an assembly of fascinatingly articulate ambience unlike anything else we've heard. In fact, atop the obvious ambient structure, we would also call this music post-gospel. Not the kind of slick gospel that comes at you from a Hammond B3 or a Wurlie and a polished Stratocaster, but more like Libba Cotten Piedmont gospel, shuffling off into the twilight with two chords and no answers. Simple, sweet, plaintive and sad with the sadness you get when you hit bottom, hopeful with the hope that it's all up from here. Really profound stuff that hits home on multiple levels. As usual, Jon's process is almost as interesting as the music itself. For many of the pieces, he recorded string band quartet and quintet versions live, straight into the computer, and then decomposed them into ambient arrangements. Others, like Run to the Rock were improvisations that happened in the spur of the moment. Regardless of how he created it, the work stands tall on its own, the kind of ambient music that crosses so many boundaries that nearly everyone will find something to love.
| TRACKLIST |
| 01 - World Without End 02 - Lacrimae 03 - Run to the Rock 04 - When She Loved Me 05 - There is a Gentle Hand 06 - Up From Here |
Creative Commons license: Attribution - Non Commercial - No Derivs 3.0
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Friday, 04 March 2011 07:11
Subterrestrial - The Goddess of Atvatabar
GENRE: Electronic, Dark Ambient, Drone, Tribal, Ecperimental
Label: Subterrestrial
Release date: 2010
Total running time: 00:38:14
The debut album from this San Francisco Bay Area artist, The Goddess of Atvatabar is inspired by the 1891 hollow earth adventure novel by William R. Bradshaw and leans heavily on dark ambient, tribal ambient and middle eastern musical themes. Subterrestrial explores hollow earth and subterranean themes that appear in science, literature and religion using a variety of experimental musical styles as a vehicle. The Goddess of Atvatabar is a self-released web album and is available as a free download in a zip file with high quality MP3s and covers.
| TRACKLIST |
| 01 - Sailing Into the Polar Abyss 02 - The Goddess of Atvatabar 03 - Spiritual Battery 04 - The Sin of a Twin-Soul 05 - The Garden of Tanje 06 - Glorious Annihilator of Time and Space 07 - Egyplosis 1 |
Creative Commons license: Attribution - Non Commercial - No Derivs 3.0
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