Aairria - The Fourth Dreaming
Label: Rain
Release date: 2012
Total running time: 02:59:30
“If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less, but to dream more, to dream all the time.”
| TRACKLIST |
| 01 - The Mourning Dream |
Gardens From Light – The Axis Of The Skies
Label: Resting Bell
Release date: 2012
Total running time: 00:77:00
"The Axis Of The Skies" is a huge 77-minute piece, loosely inspired by the H.P. Lovecraft story Polaris. It is designed to evoke a feeling of drifting in and out of a dream world, whilst simultaneously floating through space towards a dying star. It is divided into 5 pieces but is best enjoyed as a single long-form piece. If you take a listen, you’ll drift into a massive world of sound. Sparkling melodies; dark, droning environments and GFL's trademark use of field recordings are all there, changing around and guiding you through this journey. The climax of the piece is the fourth section, "Gravity Assist", with its slowly-evolving, harshly distorted parts changing to a very subtle and quiet passage leading into the final part of the work.
| TRACKLIST |
| 01 - Aphelion 02 - Precession Of The Axis 03 - Moment Of Inertia 04 - Gravity Assist 05 - Perihelion |
Kendall Station - Mend
Label: Test Tube
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:24:37
«Hailing from the USA is Michael Simpkins with his Kendall Station ambient project. Not much is known about this except for an excellent previous release on Endless Ascent 'Nebulae and Gridlock' and that maybe Michael grabbed the name from a well known train station at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
Anyway, 'Mend' was a bit of long time waiting in line for the release schedule, but finally it came around and oh what a nice little EP it is! The first three tracks are pure light (as opposed to dark) ambient, something that Kendall Station works quite well. Fourth and last track 'Barge' is a short piece reminiscent of the calmest and most instrospective moments scottish act Boards of Canada had to offer in their days. Works a bit like an outroduction and works quite well in it. Perfect release for the spring days to come. Be sure to listen to this with you eyes closed or while contemplating a nature scene.» - test tube
Lokua - Water Rock
Label: Soft Phase
Release date: 2009
Total running time: 00:39:45
We’ll make a departure from our familiar nordic landscape, across the Atlantic, in order to welcome our new guest artist Lokua, all the way from Chicago, US. With the album “Trails“, released last year on the Moment Sound netlabel, Lokua displayed the versatility of his musical styles and fresh ideas. “Water Rock” is more focused on the deeper ambient tones and textures, here’s how the artist himself describes it:
“In comparison, Trails was like Summer, Water Rock is like Winter. The first is a little more outwardly pleasing, one can enjoy it without effort. I think to appreciate more ambient and experimental music one needs a certain level of imagination. It takes some concentration to fully appreciate the entirety of winter. What makes the cold unpleasant? How can I enjoy it? These are the sort of questions I was asking myself when composing the selections on Water Rock, only more music-techy like, how can these harsh unavoidable audio clips be made pleasing? Or maybe it’s just that Water-Rock was made in the winter, a time of introspection and isolation. In other words Trails was more-so geared towards head-nod-factor, whereas Water Rock was made by a fire while my toes defrosted.”
Available in FLAC!
| TRACKLIST |
| 01 - Water rock 02 - Nobodys fool 03 - Acheron 04 - Cold limbs 05 - Belle 06 - Snare ya 07 - While she slept |
Meteer - End
Label: BFW Recordings
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:27:23
Björn Asserhed from Sweden, also known as 'Meteer' has been making electronic music for many years. He is part of the Linköping based music collective 'Dogma Noveau' and has done a couple of net releases, collaborative projects, some remixes and live performances the last years. Meteer is attracted to textured soundscapes, minimalism and evolving rhythms.
More of what we have come to expect from Meteer - crisp, minimalist ambient electronic soundscapes that are quiet and beautiful. Another fantastic free download from BFW recordings.
| TRACKLIST |
| 01 - End.firebird 02 - End.11111110 03 - End.time_on_spac 04 - End.world_as_we_know_it 05 - End.mono |
NuN’s Chaostry – Tiyoweh
Label: Chill Label
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:49:15
“Tiyoweh” is a kind of journey, finding self on Earth and opening mind on beauty and immensity of space. The journey is accompanied by abstract person… it show us the direction, tries to understand us, and we are trying to understand it.
Ambient landscapes combined with organic accents will take us into journey inside us, will open our eyes on uniqueness of our world.
| TRACKLIST |
| 01 - Initialisation 02 - Yorsh, the last one… 03 - Olonkho 04 - Floating on Air 05 - Journey Through the Gate 06 - Complutor |
Mank - Awen
Label: Circlesandlines Recordings
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:45:07
mank is the ambient/electronic project of ben powell, based in menai bridge, north wales, uk.
ben has been recording as mank since 1998 releasing 'home made' cd's on his mankymusic label. influenced by nature and maths the music is computer based, combining field recordings with real and virtual instruments. ben is known for using some exclusive recording locations - two releases 'isbjorn' and 'ambergris' were recorded whist on board a russian polar research ship at the north pole, most of the mank albums were born at sea.
Available in FLAC!
| TRACKLIST |
| 01 - cerridwen 02 - math ap mathowny 03 - arianrhod 04 - gwydion 05 - don 06 - arawn 07 - cwn annwn 08 - blodeuwedd 09 - cyhyraeth |
Humberto Luis Schenone - Songs For Rainy Mornings
GENRE: World, Experimental, Percussion, Soundscape
Label: SELF
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:43:44
In 1990 Humberto assumed his role in music as percussionist. After different periods travelling and living in Brazil, he settled a house 30 kms away from Buenos Aires where he built his first “percussion-room” and started his studies of afro-american rhythms with several important teachers. He has been part of several bands related with afro-percussion, bossa nova, samba, salsa, rock, south-american folk, tango, etc. Nowadays, again in Buenos Aires, he works on his solo project CD collections: “Human Tracks”, “The Rhythms of Life I & II”, “Human Fights”, etc. , dedicates part of his time to the construction of ceramic udus and participates as guest musician in different groups.
| TRACKLIST |
| 01 - December '97 Farewell 02 - Punching ball 03 - Stupid territorialism & Thougthtless Speech 04 - Morning Double Kalimba Impro 05 - Songs for rainy mornings 06 - X.S 07 - Cansina Escansion 08 - Awakening solo 09 - Sueno en la puna 10 - Remembering The Sun 11 - VENINO VENGAS VENI 12 - Tree Oh 13 - Riding Again 14 - What Are U duing 15 - Red wave2011 |
Creative Commons license: Attribution - Non Commercial - No Derivs 3.0
Slow - Strange Dreams
GENRE: Electronic, Ambient, Soundscape
Label: Passage Music
Release date: 2010
Total running time: 00:59:27
Smooth and absorbing full-length dream movie, intricate like a mandala and vast like a wilderness. Steal a nap and discover blurred hues from the past, unexplored mysterious lands, illusive toneboxes and delicate womanhood far off the reality pipe. Have a nice flow.
| TRACKLIST |
| 01 - Memories 02 - Bee Is My Girlfriend 03 - Otherworld Images 04 - Sirens In The Garden 05 - Dead Love 06 - Little Hurry Man 07 - Air Floating 08 - Fly Over The River 09 - Waiting For A Beautiful Mystery 10 - Dawn 11 - Lizzy And The Gnome 12 - Lost Pictures 13 - Your Tears 14 - Vishudha |
Creative Commons license: Attribution - Non Commercial - No Derivs 3.0
Ben Woods - We Are Silhouettes Now
GENRE: Electronic, Ambient, Shoegaze, Soundscape
Label: Lost Children
Release date: 2010
Total running time: 0:27:44
Lost Children Net Label proudly presents Ben Woods‘ We Are Silhouettes Now. A wholesome offering of layered sky-gazing soundscapes, piano driven introspection and subliminal bliss. It is an addictive seven track EP that will entice its listeners with its elegant structures and variations, reminiscent of those found in the cinematic compositions of Angelo Badalamenti. The music subtly finds its way under the listeners skin, stopping time, bringing a moment of peace draped in shades of melancholic yet uplifting blue as reflected so dexterously in the artwork by Ludo Vanroy. In a way it can be seen as the extension and pinnacle of These Passing Thoughts, a collection of ‘endless hours of wasted moments’, which will offer the additional fix the listener will crave for after listening to We Are Silhouettes Now.
| TRACKLIST |
| 01 - This Departure 02 - Together Standing 03 - Your Footprints, My Shadow 04 - Those We'll Never Know 05 - Parting Words 06 - Above & Beyond 07 - We Are Silhouettes Now |
Creative Commons license: Attribution - Non Commercial - No Derivs 3.0
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If you liked "Songs for Rainy Mornings", try "Sketchbook" of the same musician http://humantracks.blogspot.com/2011/04/cd-sketchbook.html Written by Roxana on 20 April 2011 -
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