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Lauki - 69º54´S-135º12´E

2011-06-21T16:06:00.000+02:00

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Next up on Audio Gourmet, we present an EP of five tracks by Spanish artist Lauki. He was born in Pamplona and lives in Barcelona where he currently works as freelance sound technician and composer.

Mikel Lauki has several other projects, including f.ex and Lupus where he blends ambient music and IDM. At the end of 2008 the netlabel 49manekinow published his album “Obertura”, a piece of sound experiments trapped within IDM, glitch and concrete music boundaries.
He is also part of the collective Sci-Phi, where he explores through different audiovisual pieces, the connection between image, sound and the sensibility of the time we live.

He has a particular weakness for contemporary classic music, generative art and the aesthetics of the digital error.
With the juxtaposition of classical music set to fractured digital manipulation, 69º54´S-135º12´E is characterised by crystalline nets of microsound, glitch and computer sounds that break upon contact with the delicately analog melancholy of rubbed strings.

The contrast of these two ingredients is stark, like ice melting in the hot summer sun. The ice is fragile and vulnerable, inevitably melting away quickly in the intensity of the heat. For this EP, the five short tracks reference this beautifully as the modern classical melodies are quickly melted into droplets by the electronic glitches, evaporating in just fifteen minutes.

The beauty is in the collapse...

Additional liner notes from the artist:
"69º54´S-135º12´E - Coordinates scribbled on a map, lost, then recovered in the world of dreams. In the coldest region, the promise of breaking through the inner ice. The polar desert, another frontier of our planetary existence, a territory where only fools and heroes dare to go."

released 21 June 2011
Produced by Lauki

Collaboration - Track 2 "Deconstrucción". main violin - Heike Grafe.

Original photograph by Sdroie: sdroie.deviantart.com
Artwork design by Urtzi Ziarsolo
Texts by Irantzu Piquero

<a href="http://music.audiogourmet.co.uk/album/69-54-s-135-12-e">69º54´S-135º12´E by Audio Gourmet Netlabel</a>

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David Tagg - The Lingering Path

2011-06-20T17:30:00.000+02:00

<a href="http://davidtagg.bandcamp.com/album/the-lingering-path">The Lingering Path by David Tagg</a>

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Parallel Gaze - Wave

2011-06-20T14:58:00.000+02:00

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ZAC KEILLER - Migration

2011-06-20T14:53:00.000+02:00

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The third in a series of EPs created during 2005. The other two being "Stay" available as part of the Dreamland Recordings online series and "Venture" available as part of the Shamefile Records "Terra Australis Incognita" series of Australia artists. Migration was never released, but was recently dusted off and newly remastered for your ears.

released 01 October 2005

<a href="http://zackeiller.bandcamp.com/album/migration">Migration by ZAC KEILLER</a>

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Andrew Lahiff - Airscapes Vol. 1

2011-06-19T17:16:00.001+02:00

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A continues mix of Andrew Lahiff's music. Mixed by Michael Lanfield. Made by Ambient New World in Canada. 3 CDs. All free to download. For more music visit www.michaellanfield.tk

All music is ambient and space. Drift dream music. Airscapes Vol. 1 disc 1-3. enjoy. Email any comments, questions or suggestions to ambientnewworld@yahoo.com

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Geotherm - Distances

2011-06-18T22:09:00.000+02:00

<a href="http://leoncen.bandcamp.com/album/distances">Distances by Geotherm</a>

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Slowly evolving compositions over stretches of time, like field recordings of deep dreams.

released 17 June 2011

All tracks written by Leonce Nelson

Recorded March 10 - April 8, 2011

Tape-op by Will Burnett

Fabio Orsi & Seaworthy - Near And Faraway

2011-06-18T14:28:00.001+02:00

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A meeting of minds spanning thousands of miles, 'Near And Faraway' marks the joint release by Italian ambient musician Fabio Orsi and Seaworthy, a three piece collective from Sydney, Australia.

With the 51 minute running time divided equally into three parts, each artist contributes a solo track which in turn bookend a collaborative composition that forms the album’s centrepiece.

Originally from Naples, Italy, but now a resident of Berlin, Fabio Orsi’s solo contribution to the album, ‘Evening By Evening’ skilfully demonstrates why he is regarded as one of his home country’s premier underground musicians. Utilising layers of guitars, keyboards and found sounds, Orsi creates an atmospheric audio postcard with a tangible sense of time and place.

Seaworthy, primarily the recording project of core member Cameron Webb, with additional instrumentation from Sam Shinazzi and Greg Bird, present ‘Branch And Stone’ a minimalist soundscape of looped guitar, electronics and field recordings. Throughout the track pervades a highly refined sense of texture, creating something at once intimate yet panoramic.

The individual elements of both artists are brought together for the title track, ‘Near And Faraway’. Through the long distance exchange of ideas and sound files, their shared experimental, yet melodic approach to composition are incorporated to form one unified whole. An album that is a perfect show of individuality, which is also able to represent itself as a greater cohesive entity.

released 20 July 2009

&amp;amp;lt;a href="http://lowpoint.bandcamp.com/album/near-and-faraway"&amp;amp;gt;Near And Faraway by Low Point&amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;gt;

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Gareth Hardwick - Of The Sea And Shore

2011-06-18T03:39:00.000+02:00

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‘Of The Sea And Shore’ is the third album (and the first full length consisting entirely of new material since his debut release in 2006) by Nottingham musician Gareth Hardwick.

Inspired by visits to remote coastal locations around the UK, Gareth has created an album that draws upon the cyclical nature of the tides and the forces of nature that regulate the oceans.

Recorded over a four month period during the Winter of 2009/10, Gareth's characteristic long form guitar drones have been enhanced by a widened palette of sounds consisting of different instrumentation, effects and recording techniques. Cymbals and chimes supply a percussive undercurrent, whilst radio static, dictaphone field recordings and harmonium are used to add further texture.

As a result, through subtle layering and delivery, 'Of The Sea And Shore' is perhaps Gareth's most accomplished and focused work to date. Over the course of two beautiful long form tracks, a tangible sense of time and place is presented to the listener, evoking grainy recollections of forgotten landscapes.

released 09 August 2010
Mastered by Taylor Deupree

<a href="http://lowpoint.bandcamp.com/album/of-the-sea-and-shore">Of The Sea And Shore by Low Point</a>

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Kyle Bobby Dunn - A Young Person's Guide To Kyle Bobby Dunn

2011-06-18T03:28:00.000+02:00

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Spread across two cds with a total running time of nearly two hours, ‘A Young Person’s Guide To…’ is a stunning collection of recordings from New York based minimalist composer and sound artist Kyle Bobby Dunn.

Four tracks on the first disc originally appeared as the download only album ‘Fervency’, released by the Moodgadget label in 2009. Impressed by Dunn’s sensitive and world-wise compositions, it was felt that the music deserved to be released on a physical format and expanded upon with a second disc containing an additional 60 minutes of music gathered from the same period as the ‘Fervency’ recordings.

Utilising an instrumental palette of guitar, strings and brass, often played by classically trained musicians drafted in on the spur of the moment, the sounds of these sessions were recorded as Dunn dictated and then reworked via computer processing into spine-tingling soundscapes.

Dunn's compositions here are fully rich in timbre, painterly, hopelessly romantic and haunting; balanced between a wash of pure sound and an ornate yet subtle dance of classical instrumentation. Occupying a truly cinematic scope, these pieces can transport the listener from the deepest and most forgotten landscapes to the furthest recesses of time.

released 18 January 2010

<a href="http://lowpoint.bandcamp.com/album/a-young-persons-guide-to-kyle-bobby-dunn">A Young Person's Guide To Kyle Bobby Dunn by Low Point</a>

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Celer - Mane Blooms

2011-06-18T03:16:00.000+02:00

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‘Mane Blooms’ is the very first vinyl release by Celer, the husband and wife duo Will Long and Danielle Baquet-Long

Seen by Celer as an 'outdoor' companion piece to ‘Brittle’, the duo’s album recently released on Low Point, the music on ‘Mane Blooms’ was created by multiple layers of cello and piano, which were then processed and played back at differing speeds. Also contained within the tracks are field recordings taken whilst Dani rode horses along the Californian coastline, a weekly pursuit that acted as a form of self-therapy and enjoyment.

With the music composed specifically with the vinyl medium in mind, the two sides of the record act as a mirror image. For the B side, Celer approached the music of the first track in reverse, inverting the structure and musical motifs established within the first piece. Altering the playback speed of the vinyl brings previously hidden textures to the fore, providing each of the tracks with a new identity and a different reflection of memory.

released 19 October 2009

<a href="http://lowpoint.bandcamp.com/album/mane-blooms">Mane Blooms by Low Point</a>

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Le Berger - Expeditions on the Grayscale (one tiny, two medium and a grand one)

2011-06-17T17:24:00.000+02:00

<a href="http://leberger.bandcamp.com/album/expeditions-on-the-grayscale-one-tiny-two-medium-and-a-grand-one">Expeditions on the Grayscale (one tiny, two medium and a grand one) by Le Berger</a>

All profit from sales until April 1st will be donated to help the relief & reconstruction effort in the aftermath of the tsunami in Japan.

released 15 March 2011

Kirill Platonkin - Trails

2011-06-16T16:17:00.000+02:00

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Although Audio Gourmet is based in the relatively small isles of the United Kingdom, we like to think of ourselves as part of an international community. Our catalog has seen us release work from artists from all continents bar Africa so far! Yet it must be pointed out that with the rise of the internet, the geography of a record label is becoming increasingly irrelevant.

So onto our latest 15 minute EP from afar, we welcome Kirill Platonkin to the fold. Kirill is from a town called Blagoveshchensk in far Eastern Russia. It lies at the point of confluence of two rivers, Amur and Zeva. Kirill was born in 1986 and began writing music in 2002, centering his early work around psychedelic rock. With Pink Floyd a huge influence since before he can remember, Kirill progressed onto playing in a thrash metal group for a while before eventually moving on to experiment with sound by himself.

Through a couple of early pseudonyms such as Platon and GhostSonic and some releases under his belt, Kirill Platonkin became of age. He chose to drop his attempts at finding a name for his works and decided upon using his birthname for future output.
This has led to releases on labels such as Dark Winter, Treetrunk, Circlesandlines and his own Tukuringra netlabel.

Kirill's sound falls loosely into the dark ambient category and is made up from field recordings and sounds he captures from his instrument collection which includes guitar, flutes and ethnic instruments.
Collecting instruments is very much an accompanying hobby for this artist and he is always searching for new objects to impact his music

For Audio Gourmet, Kirill has put together 'Trails', a three track EP of dense and brooding ambient music. Dark ambient music is a saturated sub-genre in which only a select band of artists are able to come up with something challenging and well put together. Kirill Platonkin is one of these artists, as you will soon hear for yourelf...

released 16 June 2011
Produced by Kirill Platonkin
Artwork: Drawing by Kirill Platonkin

<a href="http://music.audiogourmet.co.uk/album/trails">Trails by Audio Gourmet Netlabel</a>

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Ex Confusion - Small Reality

2011-06-15T16:44:00.000+02:00

Text taken from Rural Colours

Ex Confusion is Atsuhito Omori from Japan who creates gentle ambient works using looped guitar sounds and synthesizer. To date releases have appeared on Heat Death, U-Cover and Somehow recordings. Small Reality contains 5 fairly short tracks each between 3-4 minutes in length. Chapter 5 recently appeared on the compilation album "For Nihon".

Dedicated to your beautiful memories...

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Benjamin Dauer - Saturation Event

2011-06-15T16:11:00.001+02:00

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Based in Washington, D.C, Benjamin Dauer is a musician, artist and designer who is in possession of a talent that is combined with an impressive output. Besides his solo material, Benjamin is also known as one half of The Dwindlers, a duo with partner Michelle Seaman, whose recent album Dreams was also released on Portugalâs Feedback Loop to very favourable reviews. All this without a single slip in quality, one has to wonder where Benjamin derives such a wealth of inspiration from and when he finds time to sleep.

Saturation Event is an album comprising seven ambient tracks, thick with explorative synthesis and brooding undertones which surround the listener and hint at something which could be sinister, just out of reach. Opening with Borderland Of Sleep, Benjamin composes with care and the artist removes all trace of human design, leaving one alone to navigate a journey through the mysterious and immersive listening experience.

By mid-point, Benjamin delivers the intangible Crown Of Sparks, a possible album highlight, though it is difficult to pick out specific moments in such a cohesive, organic work. After many more high points have passed, the album comes to a close all too soon with Transient Pool. Saturation Event is another unique gem in Feedback Loopâs ever-expanding roster of experimental music and a work which will inspire further exploration of Benjamin's rich back catalogue of music.

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cover design by Leonardo Rosado
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Kluge - All That You Can't Leave Behind

2011-06-12T16:05:00.001+02:00

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Release on French netlabel Nowaki with the support and assistance of Marc Jolibois.

Also you can find it at Nowaki catalog

Please visit Nowaki webpage:
www.nowaki-music.org

released 11 June 2011
nk080
Nowaki. 06-2011

&amp;amp;lt;a href="http://kluge.bandcamp.com/album/all-that-you-cant-leave-behind"&amp;amp;gt;All That You Can't Leave Behind by Kluge&amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;gt;

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Gimu - The Sacred

2011-06-12T02:09:00.000+02:00

<a href="http://gimu.bandcamp.com/album/the-sacred">The Sacred by Gimu</a>

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Quinn Walker and Danny Clay - Track A/Track B

2011-06-07T16:24:00.001+02:00

Text taken from audiogourmet

With a straight up 'a and b' side EP, we welcome Quinn Walker and Danny Clay to the Audio Gourmet netlabel.

Their long distance collaborative effort through file-sharing and sample swapping has yielded these fifteen minutes of sound, constructed from various acoustic instrument treatments, drone textures and field recordings.
Quinn is based in Daegu, South Korea and Danny is based in Ohio, US. Despite the far-flung locations in which these artists reside, their results sound remarkably coherent and restrained. Its parts mutate and evolve, gathering momentum slowly throughout these two tracks.
'Of The Days And Shapes' is a patiently building piece comprised of discernable instrument and chime sources that have been shaped into a kaleidoscopic soundscape.
'Wavering Lines Rise And Fall' closes the EP in a beautiful manner, with the building of organic drone sounds that rise and fall gracefully.

A glance at their past discography and you'll see that both artists have released 3" cd-rs through the Heat Death imprint. Aside from this, they are relatively new to the scene with two releases each. Danny has had both of his released through Heat Death whilst Quinn's other EP 'The Weight Of Care' was put out on the Rural Colours label earlier this year.
Their respective tallys now sit at three EPs each, with 'Track A/Track B' also serving as a highlight in the Audio Gourmet netlabel catalog...enjoy!

released 07 June 2011
Produced by Quinn Walker and Danny Clay
Artwork selected by Quinn Walker

&lt;p&gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;a href="http://music.audiogourmet.co.uk/album/track-a-track-b"&amp;amp;amp;gt;Track A/Track B by Audio Gourmet Netlabel&amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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Landrecorder - Morning-Afternoon-Evening

2011-06-06T01:28:00.000+02:00

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Reportedly, that would be a music box, not an ice-cream truck, coasting into (aural) view early on during "Evening" -- those tinkling notes immediately summoning up (mental) images of childhood, despite their objectively terse, metallic timbres.

"Evening" is the third and final track of Landrecorder's lovely, daylong, slo-mo odyssey. We know it is a music box because of some brief liner notes provided by Landrecorder but without that insider information, we might not be entirely certain. This is because Landrecorder mixes field recordings and instrumentation in a way that artfully confuses any preconceived notions of scale.

In that one track alone, we hear mournful piano chords, the delicately wound music box, and a variety of field noise, including birdsong and street sounds -- often at the same time. By and large, Landrecorder's approach is to maintain such sounds at the same relative volume level, and the result is that the piano and the music box, the avian calls and some random bristly disturbance, are all set alongside each other, like so many ducks in a row.

Occasionally he modifies these sounds -- there's some backward masking on "Morning" that mimics the seep of a half-lost thought, and during "Evening" the piano at one point is echoed majestically -- but his primary technique is deeply, and creatively, curatorial: combining unassociated sonic elements into something new.

Landrecorder announces the importance of framing in his technique at the album's outset, when "Morning" begins with an acoustic guitar part on repeat, as if a needle has been set down more than once at the same place on an old piece of vinyl. A similar sense of nostalgia is infused in all three tracks, from the mournful harmonica on "Morning" to the distant chatter of children on "Afternoon," to the way the sound of a car driving past brings "Evening" (and, hence, the full set) to a close.

This compositional technique mirrors the process of memory, things combined in unlikely combinations, and in unlikely proportions: sometimes warped, sometimes laid bare. And both approaches, in Landrecorder's hands, lead to tantalizing results.

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Savaran - Resonances

2011-06-05T19:09:00.000+02:00

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Welsh electroacoustic artist Mark Walters aka Savaran comes to Feedbackloop with a five track EP 'Resonances' after a number of netlabel releases over the past year. Utilising both digital and analogue instrumentation with field recordings, samples and an array of effects, Mark develops refined micro-soundscapes, tightly knit into granular textures which demand an attentive ear. In Resonances he marks waypoints in the contours of his own life, describing personal experiences - memories of events and locations - and his own interests in history, astronomy and geology.

Opener 'The Forest' is closely grounded in nature, a perpetually moving and shifting piece - being more and more ethereal. 'Aurora' cinematically depicts the sound of the lights in the sky created by particles passing through the atmosphere. A granular focus that is present also in the micro movements suggested in 'Tectonic'. Constructed literally from the vibrations of earthquakes through a custom built digital effect, the track offers a kind of cathartis, made all the more relevant with the recent happenings in Japan. 'Graaw' is a childhood place remembered and revisted, illustrated with a careful eye, and representative of Mark's unique observational style.

In last track 'Delphic' we've travelled as far from earthly groundings as we can, to otherworldly dimensions set within Greek mythology. Delphi was the seat of the oracle, housed in the temple of Apollo. Inspired by this historic reference - Mark translates these dramatic visuals into an exciting sonic experience.

Resonances is deeply personal, born from historic and personal interest which reveals itself to be emotionally evocative and intriguing for the listener. By allowing us this intimate insight into these parts of himself, Mark achieves a brilliant expression of his own history, memory and self.

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Dentist - Accidents

2011-06-05T02:24:00.000+02:00

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"Dentist is the ambient/ drone project of Washington, D.C.-based recording artist Lou DiBenedetto, also known as one half of Bengalfuel. Last year saw the release of Bengalfuel's Rural Colours EP, Feldspar. Dentist now presents his own contribution to the subscription series, a selection of four early tracks that should appeal to fans of Bengalfuel's intoxicating drones. Accidents is the second proper Dentist release, and it's a slightly more accessible set compared to Cuts, his debut LP of cinematic, often uncompromising synthscapes out earlier this year on Auraltone Music.

Accidents opens with 'Lost Track,' and allows us to get lost indeed. This extraterrestrial ballad sets the tone of the EP: deluxe journeys in sound that are full of mysteria and wonder. ‘Spirals’ is pure oceanic bliss which seems never to begin or end. It washes over like a delicate current on a sunlit beach, beautified by one swelling synth riff after another, each bringing in the news of the sea and cleansing the day’s memories. ‘Spray’ is its sister and her shades are deeper; the day has passed. Musical valium, spliff-enhancement, soothing background or all three, these 22 minutes are no accident: heaven-painted moods from an artist who has given the listener something lovingly done with the splendor that is life in this galaxy."

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whirr - Revealed underworld

2011-06-05T00:58:00.000+02:00

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Fennel - Relics

2011-06-05T00:39:00.000+02:00

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Tange and Bing Satellites - A Crossing Of Paths

2011-06-04T13:40:00.000+02:00

Text taken from BFW Recordings

The first collaboration between ambient musicians Tange and Bing Satellites - hopefully the first of many.

You may know Bing Satellites from his many releases here on BFW recordings.

Many of you will be aware of Tange through his catalogue of beautiful ambient music, some of which you can download for free from the wonderful Earth Mantra netlabel.

Others will know him through his radio show Mysterious Semblance on StillStream which airs weekly on Friday at midnight UK time (6pm CST).

released 04 June 2011
all music by Tange and Bing Satellites

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Listening Mirror - Midnight at Teques, Storm Approaching

2011-06-03T18:12:00.004+02:00

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A reworking of Guitar Improv 1 with added field recording of the lake at Tequesquitengo, near Cuernavaca, Mexico. At midnight with a thunderstorm approaching in the distance.
A diversion from the usual LM sound. Normal service will be restored soon! :-)

Midnight at Teques, Storm Approaching by Listening Mirror

No album art, I've used my own photo!

This one was only free to download for a few days!

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Ben John Robertson - Its What Was in the Sky That Day

2011-06-01T19:38:00.000+02:00

Text taken from pingthings

ping things is very pleased to release Ben John Robertson's latest EP "Its What Was in the Sky That Day". By turns delicate and uneasy, Robertson's work blends abstract feedback and noise with unfiltered and raw emotion to create an engaging and powerful listening experience that stays with you long after the last tones have faded.

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VA - In the rhetoric of rupture and re-appropriation

2011-05-31T22:59:00.000+02:00

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"...many field records covered with deep drone, digital cracking sounds and special effects are especially close to each other as if you can touch the sounding object with your hand. It's the main distinctive feature of this music, together with it you fall hundreds of meters under the earth surface, there is no sun ray, no wide spaces and each new rustle makes your heart sink..."
pi micron | SOUND PROECTOR

released 01 July 2009

<a href="http://capillarywaves.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-rhetoric-of-rupture-and-re-appropriation">In the rhetoric of rupture and re-appropriation by ripples</a>

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Palancar - Elysium Planitia

2011-05-31T19:26:00.000+02:00

Text taken from Earth Mantra Netlabe

We have another Palancar release in store for you today, this time a re-release of a title originally from 2003. Called "Elysium Planitia", this is a collection of ambient space music that was described by one fan as "the quintessential Mars album". Originally released commercially on Blue Water Records, this album is now re-released and available freely under Creative Commons via Earth Mantra.

The 'prequel' in many ways to Darrell Burgan's 2010 Palancar release "Serenitatis", "Elysium Planitia" is intended to be a sound track to accompany an imaginary visit to the red planet. Each piece is named after a particular location on Mars, and each attempts to evoke the sights and sounds that one might experience if one could visit such an exotic locale. Unlike "Serenitatis", the music of this release is more tightly focused on pure space music, with more emphasis on ambience and sound design, and correspondingly less rhythm and traditional melody.

Though the album is primarily solo pieces, Palancar was joined by Gwydi on "Aureum Chaos", and by FootFall on "Olympus Mons".

Darrell is proud of the music in this album, and hopes listeners find the music both enjoyable and inspiring.

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Offthesky and Pillow Garden - A Dream In A Dream

2011-05-26T13:03:00.001+02:00

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The Audio Gourmet first birthday festivities continue and we're the ones offering the presents...and what a treat it is too!

Ever since the birth of the label last year, we've been talking to Jason Corder about the possibility of releasing an Offthesky EP on Audio Gourmet. Now a year on, it is a reality - he has teamed up again with Pillow Garden for this short excursion ahead of a stunning solo debut for Hibernate, due out this summer.

"A Dream In A Dream" is the debut EP from Offthesky and Pillow Garden. For many Offthesky will need little introduction, having graced several of the finest labels and netlabels such as Home Normal, Resting Bell and Zymogen. This prolific artist has been operating in this field for about a decade and has become a firm favourite with many. His project alongside Pillow Garden began with several live performances and first surfaced as the opening track to Audio Gourmet's Hidden Landscapes compilation album released in January 2011.

Pillow Garden is experimental new media artist and educator Sarah Chung. She uses a variety of field recordings, orphaned instruments and curious objects to create collages of layered compositions. Sarah especially enjoys the process of revealing hidden sounds that are secretly embedded in any ordinary or extraordinary object; pine cones, books, bird cages, chairs, forks and glasses are just some of the items that may be found/heard. Pillow garden invites the listener to lie back and contemplate the various sounds that have been stretched, cultivated and sown like seeds to grow in the lush multifarious garden of your imagination.

A Dream In A Dream carefully fuses the artists' respective backgrounds together in a dense wash of detail that never quite reaches a crescendo. Heavily treated recordings of instruments, gently mutated vocals, field recordings, subtle chimes and snippets of tape-deck effects make for an otherworldly listening experience that gives off a warm glow from start to finish.
Conceptually, the EP maps out dreams within dreams; several unconscious experiences that are half thought and collapsing in on one another. Always encouraging the wandering of thoughts and offering a gentle push into the daydream, this two piece set will have you spinning out into the fantastical in no time.

released 24 May 2011
Pillow Garden is the audio collaboration of Sarah Chung and Jason Corder.
www.offthesky.com | www.pillowgarden.com

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Adam A Williams - On Recovery (demo)

2011-05-25T23:27:00.000+02:00

<a href="http://adamawilliams.bandcamp.com/album/on-recovery-demo">On Recovery (demo) by Adam A Williams</a>
An incomplete and unmastered selection of tracks from an upcoming album by Adam A Williams.

Released 18 May 2011

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Nils Quak - On Sinking

2011-05-25T15:20:00.000+02:00

Text taken from ruralcolours

Nils Quak has been around for quite a while releasing music under his own name and the NQ moniker somewhere between abstract rhythms and droning ambient for labels such as Progressive Form, Distance Recordings or Ripples Recordings.

Compared to older releases “On Sinking” is a lot lighter and etheral. Warm and soothing textures float beneath delicate crackles and melancholic reverberations of distant melodies.

Released 23/05/11

Photography by Nils Quak

<a href="http://nqmusic.bandcamp.com/album/on-sinking">On Sinking by nq</a>

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Antonymes - Lost In Waves Of Light

2011-05-22T16:52:00.000+02:00

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[Includes a stunning 12 page photographic pdf booklet.]

Created from elements lifted off Antonyme’s critically acclaimed album The Licence To Interpret Dreams, ‘Lost In Waves Of Light’ is a deftly crafted sonic and melodic patchwork. The track sits as a wonderful companion piece to the album, as recognised melodies unfurl, cloaked in new guises. As a work unto itself it once again places Antonymes at the height of his game, producing some of the most emotionally and sonically engaging work being released today.

Antonymes new album The Licence To Interpret Dreams has been met with universal acclaim since its release in April. It is an album of resonant beauty, as expansive as the wilds of North Wales from which it came, yet as delicate and intimate as a loved one’s breath upon your skin. Each song deploys a modest array of instruments and textures, giving them ample space to breathe and glow. It is available now through Hidden Shoal Recordings - agora.hiddenshoal.com

released 05 May 2011

&amp;amp;lt;a href="http://hiddenshoal.bandcamp.com/album/lost-in-waves-of-light"&amp;amp;gt;Lost In Waves Of Light by Hidden Shoal Recordings&amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;gt;

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Oathless - Zephyr

2011-05-22T15:18:00.000+02:00

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Micah Wolfe - Rain (Ambient Mix)

2011-05-22T02:21:00.000+02:00

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Alan Morse Davies - Svalbard

2011-05-21T15:38:00.001+02:00

This is not a double post of Svalbard. Blogger bug!

Text taken from At Sea

A collection of pieces based on the landscape of the Svalbard archipelago.

Source materials include the Welsh pibgyrn (bagpipe), Italian zampogna (bagpipe) and ciamarella (shawm), hardanger fiddle plus some 78 records from the 1920s. All have been stretched, processed, re-tuned and edited into soundscapes ranging from the relatively static to the dramatic.

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Alonefold - Last Roadpost and Alone

2011-05-21T15:24:00.002+02:00

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Szymon Kaliski - For Isolated Recollections

2011-05-20T02:12:00.003+02:00

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In the time spent since Out Of Forgetting was released to favourable reviews, Kaliski seems to have matured further with a sound more his own, more nuanced and intelligent. For Isolated Recollections consists of four delicate piano-led pieces which are peppered with glitches, static and found sounds. Opening with Without Breaking, Kaliski delivers beautiful and measured piano notes, repetitive but not overly so. This is complemented by a recording of what sounds like the composer taking a meandering walk through rural countryside. The track is spartan even for those used to the genre and Kaliski seems to take joy in studying the beauty in each individual sound; the results speak for themselves.
-- Fluid Radio

released 20 May 2011
Mastered by Clem Leek
Photography by Jan Hoffmann

&amp;amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href="http://treesmovethemost.bandcamp.com/album/for-isolated-recollections"&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;For Isolated Recollections by Szymon Kaliski&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;amp;gt;

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Blues for spacegirl - Arezzo

2011-05-19T23:51:00.001+02:00

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An extended treatment of the Fibroma split EP's closing track, this time granted a life-span of half an hour. Arezzo's soundscape is dense, demanding and restless: an almost static loop that's constantly shifting in place, flangered and phaser-treated as it turns inward. Closer to Yellow Swans than William Basinski. Mastered while suffering excessive sleep deprivation. Record & play it on cassette for enhanced romanticism. Tell a friend (or an enemy).
released 26 April 2011
Music by T De Bauw

&amp;amp;lt;a href="http://blues4spacegirl.bandcamp.com/album/arezzo"&amp;amp;gt;Arezzo by Blues for spacegirl&amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;gt;

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Vozrozhdeniya - Atmosphere

2011-05-19T16:20:00.001+02:00

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Hiroki Sasajima – Quadro

2011-05-18T23:24:00.001+02:00

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James Mcdougall - Double Tilde

2011-05-18T22:47:00.002+02:00

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Fescal – Into The Atmosphere

2011-05-17T21:34:00.001+02:00

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«From South Korea we welcome a new artist to our ever growing test tube family, his nom de guerre: Fescal. He has previously released through a couple of labels, with his most notable work being 'Beautiful Neurotic' published by the reborned Camomille Music label.

Fescal's signature sound is a marvellous and seducing combination of hiss and low frequency drones with some sort of 'lowercase' dark ambient cleverly stitched to the mix with much subtlety, and then he uses those ingredients to build massive walls of sound that leave the listener simultaneously numb and amazed, and even euphoric sometimes, just like a good psychdrug should.
This little gem of an EP will easily be featured in my top 2011 releases.»
- test tube

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uncertain - part i: denial

2011-05-17T18:02:00.000+02:00

uncertain - part i: denial by blackantlers

The first piece to 'grief: silence in five movements'
an upcoming EP release by uncertain

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Osakan - Antarctica EP

2011-05-17T16:29:00.001+02:00

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The second album from Osakan, Antarctica EP is a bridge between the guitar-based ambient music of his debut album, Music For Astronauts, and the synthesizer-heavy drone of the forthcoming follow-up album. Musical influences and points of vague similarity include: Aidan Baker, Stars of the Lid, Hammock, Loscil, and Casino vs. Japan.

Released 07 April 2011
Cover artwork contains a photograph taken by Eli Duke and released under a CC-Attribution-ShareAlike License

&amp;amp;lt;a href="http://osakan.bandcamp.com/album/antarctica-ep"&amp;amp;gt;Antarctica EP by Osakan&amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;gt;

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Nobuto Suda - Ecotone

2011-05-17T15:47:00.001+02:00

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Based in Kyoto, Japan, Nobuto Suda blends field recordings with ambient drones to produce a glacial slide through almost an hour. Even in such stark soundscapes as these, it’s easy for field recordings to clutter the work but Suda succeeds in keeping his unobtrusive and they never once feel disruptive to the flow of the sound. Graceful and spacious, Ecotone is a must for anyone who likes to immerse themselves in miminalism
by suit case orchestra

Nobuto Suda’s “Ecotone”, released on Somehow Recordings, starts with transparent and sparkling sound of ”Ecotone”, which entitled the whole album. You hear some water babble, and spreading, sweet drone; the next track “Connected Place”, as if continuing to create the fresh and light atmosphere, contains the damped version of the water sounds. “Fluidity” is too, a nice, radiant piece of Nobuto’s music, presumably made of some wind section instruments, may be processed flutes or something else – it is difficult to make it clear, what was the initial and base source of that sound. “Abundant” is serene and unobtrusive. Pulsating “Fragment Of The Sun” is so radiant, as if some part of the day star was processed and transformed into the sound. “Somewhere” with its semantic feeling of indefiniteness of location, favours the listener with the terminal brushstroke of the artist, with its tender brids’ tweet and airy ambient melody. In the whole, this album represents a specimen of natural music, which is closely connected with trees, the sky, animals, elements, by accurate addition of music components into the field recordings. So, make a drift to Somewhere with Nobuto Suda’s “Ecotone”.
By agniworld

Release from Somehow Recordings,2010.
Format : CDR
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released 01 January 2010
music by Nobuto Suda

&amp;amp;lt;a href="http://nobutosuda.bandcamp.com/album/ecotone"&amp;amp;gt;Ecotone by Nobuto Suda&amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;gt;

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Wil Bolton - Melt

2011-05-16T01:42:00.002+02:00

Text taken from Rural Colours

Wil Bolton is an artist and composer based in Liverpool, UK. His debut CD release ‘Time Lapse’ (Hibernate, 2010) uses guitars, chime bars and vintage keyboards to create warm and emotive melodies, fragmented and submerged among beds of droning ambient textures and environmental sounds.

‘Melt’ is a single long-form track of warm, overlapping tones created with a toy keyboard, a synthesizer, analogue delay and looper pedals, and some minimal laptop processing. Glitches and signal problems were welcomed into the process, shrouding the fragmented yet lyrical keyboard melodies in a gentle mist of fuzz, clicks and hiss.

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Lefolk – Weather To Shore

2011-05-15T23:08:00.002+02:00

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lefolk is audio/video artist Leif Folkvord of Grand Rapids, Michigan USA. The material he creates is influenced by a formal education in media arts filtered through the juxtaposition of experiences at his day(night) job as a pilot.

After two full-length albums and the EP “blankscape”, lefolk releases his new work “weather to shore“ on Resting Bell. Consisting of 13 tracks and a complete duration of one hour, “weather to shore“ is a wonderful microsonic sound adventure. The concept of “weather to shore” was based off of stories of shipwrecks in the great lakes region, many of which occured in bad weather. The track titles are names of ships that sank in the various lakes. With that concept in mind you can basically feel the dense and crackling atmosphere on this release. Droning basements layering through the structures like a constant fog. Trickling glitchy sounds reminding me of hail showers. And little melody fractures peeking around like sunlight through a cloud cover after a heavy storm.

Nevertheless “weather to shore” sounds to me like the perfect soundtrack for a lukewarm spring night. And I can see me standing in the outside and holding my face into the cooling evening breeze.

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EUS - Tras El Horizonte

2011-05-14T00:12:00.001+02:00

&amp;amp;lt;a href="http://euscr.bandcamp.com/album/tras-el-horizonte"&amp;amp;gt;Tras El Horizonte by EUS&amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;gt;

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Gimu - "E.K."

2011-05-13T21:28:00.001+02:00

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Paul Bradley - re:collection

2011-05-12T19:36:00.000+02:00

&amp;amp;lt;a href="http://paulbradley.bandcamp.com/album/re-collection"&amp;amp;gt;re:collection by Paul Bradley&amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;gt;

Bringing together four tracks from a number of compilation discs and a split release.

Released 28 August 2010

All music Paul Bradley

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One Day We Will Grow Old - Lost In Useless Territory

2011-05-12T16:17:00.000+02:00

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Cinchel - friday.deconstrucion

2011-05-12T15:58:00.000+02:00

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I live in Chicago and play out very rarely, this recording uses samples recorded during a live performance in early 2009. The first track is the closest to the way the performance sounded. The next 4 tracks use all the same samples but in each I have picked new looping points, stretched/slowed down a loop, or affected various loops in a number of ways using Abelton Live. I did this as both a challenge to use such a small template as well as to explore each sample fully and deeply.

Released 18 February 2011

<a href="http://cinchel.bandcamp.com/album/friday-deconstrucion">friday.deconstrucion by cinchel</a>

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Arafúra - The Gardens of Endless Blossoming

2011-05-11T02:02:00.001+02:00

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The Gardens of Endless Blossoming' will feature minimalistic soundscapes that are purely meant to dull the senses and are to be considered as 'sleep music'. The entire concept revolves around layers of sound subtly revolving around each other to create a blissful effect through a sense of a hypnotic induced trance. This record is gonna stand apart from all the other material I'm making and isn't to be considered an album per sé.

&amp;amp;lt;a href="http://arafura.bandcamp.com/album/the-gardens-of-endless-blossoming"&amp;amp;gt;The Gardens of Endless Blossoming by Arafúra&amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;gt;

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Susperia-Electrica - A World Beyond Our Own

2011-05-09T00:29:00.001+02:00

Text taken from Earth Mantra Netlabel

Earth Mantra listeners know that we are big fans of the work of Nick Fortune, aka Susperia-Electrica, having released two of his albums, both in 2010. Consequently, we are very honored to announce his triumphant return, as well as his first release of 2011 on our humble netlabel: a luxurious collection of dazzling space music called "A World Beyond Our Own".

Space music is one of those genres that, when done right, can elevate the spirit and expand the mind, opening up possibilities and vistas that transcend the ordinary world. Measured against this scale, "A World Beyond Our Own" both satisfies and delights, providing all the expansiveness a lover of space music craves while also delivering a delicious subtlety and sophistication that any music lover will appreciate.

As typical of Nick's work, the sound design leaves a deep impression, both lush and refined, making full use of the sound stage and somehow conveying an impression of three-dimensional depth. Immaculate.

But sound sculpture alone is not enough. The best space music marries the sounds themselves with inspired compositions, yielding results that are as musically satisfying as aurally stimulating. The ambient subgenre of space music is particularly challenging, if only because ambient composition itself is so difficult to do well. Here is where Susperia-Electrica truly shines. One certainly can imagine listening to this remarkable album while laying back in a planetarium seat, or as the soundtrack to a space voyage film; but one can just as easily imagine listening to the album actively in a darkened room with headphones as a standalone work of music unto itself. One can also even imagine the music as providing a sonic backdrop to an art installation, or simply as background music for the work day.

This is why we are so impressed by Nick Fortune, and particularly by "A World Beyond Our Own". His music succeeds both as space music, ambient composition, and as passive mood music, a very difficult trifecta to hit -- but Nick makes it look easy. We think that there is something for nearly everyone to love in this release, and encourage all of our audience to give it a listen. Simply magnificent work.

So with great pleasure, Earth Mantra unveils "A World Beyond Our Own", the latest release by Susperia-Electrica. Highly, highly recommended.

Released in May 2011

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Cordell Klier - I believe (draft 2)

2011-05-07T02:26:00.001+02:00

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Karl Verkade - Soundtracks & Stories I: She Ran

2011-05-03T22:51:00.001+02:00

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Put on a good pair of headphones, play the mp3, open the pdf, and let the soundtrack bring the story to life.

This song was specifically written as a soundtrack for this story, not as a standalone piece. Same with the story. They need each other like Rutger Hauer needs Pris. You know what I mean.

Released 02 May 2011
Strymon Brigadier, Damage Control Timeline, Arion SPH-1, Strymon Blue Sky, Arion SAD-1, Godin SD, Matchless HC30, Hartman Vintage Germanium Fuzz, etc.

Guitars only, and no post-effects. As with most of my recordings, you'll need good headphones or good external speakers to get the full effect.

Composed, written, performed, and produced by Karl Verkade.

&amp;amp;lt;a href="http://karlverkade.bandcamp.com/album/soundtracks-stories-i-she-ran"&amp;amp;gt;Soundtracks &amp;amp;amp;amp; Stories I: She Ran by Karl Verkade&amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;gt;

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Bing Satellites - Twilight Sessions volume 6

2011-05-02T21:19:00.000+02:00

Text taken from BFW Recordings

The sixth album in the Twilight Sessions series.
Like the first five volumes, this is an album of completely improvised, live ambient music.
Each piece starts as a blank canvas.
The music is built around a long, slowly decaying loop. Notes are added from synths, guitar, voice and clarinet and over time, they built into grand, atmospheric soundscapes.
Sometimes, however, I forget to press record when something wonderful is created. On these occasions, I can only capture the loop that has already been created. This is the reason that three of the tracks on this album are unusually short.

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Arcticology - Athena

2011-05-02T20:10:00.000+02:00

Text taken from Earth Mantra Netlabel

Earth Mantra is very happy to welcome back ambient maestro Dale Humphries and his Arcticology project, with his wondrous new release "Athena".

Our listeners and artists alike will know that Earth Mantra has a strong preference for full-length albums, and that in particular we do not like to release EP-length titles. This is primarily because we think ambient music requires time to fully establish itself in the mind of the listener, and there just isn't enough to go around in an EP. Like all aspects of our format, however, we sometimes make exceptions when the circumstances dictate and the quality of the music justifies the exception. This is one of those times.

"Athena" is indeed a shorter album, clocking in at close to 24 minutes, but we are very proud and happy nonetheless to be bringing it to our listeners. As it turns out, Dale was not intending to create a shorter album, but ran into some technical difficulties that prevented him from working further on it. He asked us if we were interested in releasing what he had finished in abridged form, and after listening to it, our answer was of course an enthusiastic 'yes'.

As is always the case with Arcticology, the music can only be described as sublime. Dale certainly is one of the premier pure ambient artists active today. He creates blissful moodscapes that draw heavily on the Eno school of ambience, but with the characteristic lush sound design and loving compositional approach that are hallmarks of Arcticology. In "Athena", we are particularly struck by Dale's use of subtlety, by how deceptively simple the music is, hollowing out a space from the silence and filling it in with just the right amount of music and active sound sculpture to delight the listener. Truly masterful work.

Sometimes we have to take a step back to realize how privileged we are. Somehow, Earth Mantra has been fortunate enough to release every single title Arcticology has ever released, and "Athena" is certainly a delightful addition to this collection. We are very proud to be bringing the music of Dale Humphries to our listeners, and we hope we have the continuing opportunity in the months and years to come. In our opinion, this is nothing less than music for the ages.

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Collin Thomas - April Triptych

2011-04-29T16:25:00.001+02:00

Text taken from Resting Bell

Collin Thomas is an experimental musician, composer, and artist. He has composed numerous pieces including works for percussion, winds and many different chamber ensembles. As an experimental musician, Thomas has released over ten albums, many of which can be downloaded for free.

April Triptych is a two hour long piece chronicling a typical suburban morning, afternoon, and night. Elements of three are two-fold: 1. three field recordings of a backyard in a housing complex layered and sequenced. 2. three musical elements, two utilizing traditional instruments, the third an extremely elongated renaissance madrigal using sine waves.

Thomas creates a truely unique cosmos with these four elements. Bird sounds, leaves, voices and gusts of wind are woven together with piano sprinkles and a grounding, drone-like basement, taking the listener on a long and calming voyage.

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Spheruleus - Tales From The Labyrinth

2011-04-29T02:07:00.002+02:00

Text taken from monocromatica

«'A Labyrinth, unlike a Maze, has one clear/unambiguous/obvious route to the centre. Whereas a Maze has many complex and difficult to negotiate pathways.' - H. Towell

Although there's certainly wisdom in Towell's words, the choice of following (or not) the clear path of the labyrinth is always on the table when we initiate the journey; And here is no different: 'Tales From the Labyrinth' - the new work from Harry Towell's brainchild project Spheruleus - lays a clear path for the listener to follow, from beginning to end, but it also offers him other routes, some of which could be dead ends, making you go back to the start and re-initiate the journey. This is the perfect soundtrack translation into a music experience from what a Labyrinth is.

Towell is also right when he writes:

'The ancient ideas behind the Labyrinth were to create a spiralling pathway to the centre, where a holy shrine or statue would be. During the walk through the Labyrinth's spiralling pathway, the person making the journey would feel separated from the outside world and it would give time for reflection and to focus the mind.'

That said, the Maze's original purpose is to confuse the user into getting out of it, hiding the real way out in plain view, dissimulated. The only goal is to get out. There is nothing at the center.
The Labyrinth has clearly a goal at the centre. Close your eyes, play it loud, and use headphones to be guided all the way in.» - Pedro Leitão

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Bored Man Ganesh - Entlang

2011-04-28T16:25:00.000+02:00

<a href="http://boredmanganesh.bandcamp.com/album/entlang">Entlang by Bored Man Ganesh</a>

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Gimu - A Piano Piece

2011-04-27T02:07:00.000+02:00

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Sokpb Avabodha - Velitchiye Gor

2011-04-26T17:14:00.000+02:00

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One composition, three chords and endless variations of pauses and accents. Monumentality and grandeur of the mountains, expressed in 27 minutes insinuating guitar passages.

Released 01 December 2010

<a href="http://sokpbavabodha.bandcamp.com/album/velitchiye-gor">velitchiye gor by sokpb avabodha</a>

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Kurrel the Raven - DEEPER WORLDS

2011-04-23T21:52:00.000+02:00

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Over an hour of droning, rumbling atmospherics from outer space to your inner space. Turn off the lights, put on the headphones and drift.

The tracks are meant to be enjoyed continuously in one program. Pick whatever format you can play gaplessly. :)

Check out the promo video on YouTube or read the liner notes at kurreltheraven.posterous.com

<a href="http://kurreltheraven.bandcamp.com/album/deeper-worlds">DEEPER WORLDS by Kurrel the Raven</a>

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Marc Robot - Une route

2011-04-23T20:04:00.000+02:00

<a href="http://marcrobot.bandcamp.com/track/une-route">Une route by Marc Robot</a>

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Ghostheory - Swan Songs

2011-04-23T02:03:00.000+02:00

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Field recordings and dark resonant tones permeate this new ambient drone work by Ghostheory.

"Hypnotic drones... warm sounds... veiled in a deeply shadowed darkness. Black and white cinema. A bit of noir, a bit of horror. A deep melody plays its dreary song while metallic sounds bounce and echo off the tight walls... bleak digitized atmospheres weave, ebb, and flow.

Ghostheory creates richly textured sonic atmospheres and unflinchingly intimate soundscapes, combined with vocal washes and a warming flood of molten, ethereal noise. A slowly shifting palette of drones, clangs, inscrutable noises, and static blurred into a beautiful and melancholy waking dream."

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Quiet Evenings Fog Hammers

2011-04-22T15:59:00.000+02:00

3" CD-R (edition of 10)
Hobo Cult Records

Part of the Hobo Cult 3" CD Boxset Vol.I

<a href="http://quietevenings.bandcamp.com/album/fog-hammers">Fog Hammers by Quiet Evenings</a>

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Luis Antero - Water Recordings III

2011-04-22T02:09:00.000+02:00

Text taken from Just Not Normal

Today March 22nd 2011 is World Water day. By special request from Luis release of his latest field recordings album is on this special day.

For those familiar with the works from Luis, a portugese sound enthusiast, know that his recordings are of very high quality and always very pure in its essence and so is this release. Pure water, so pure it makes the listener thirsty.
Locations where these recordings are from: Local das Gravacoes; Sobral de S. Miguel (Covilha); Agroal (Pomares, Arganil): Mangualde da Serra (Gouveia) â Portugal.

Sit back and enjoy the 37 minutes of trickle treats.

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Tidal - Butterfly Coil

2011-04-19T00:35:00.000+02:00

<a href="http://tidal.bandcamp.com/album/butterfly-coil">Butterfly Coil by Tidal</a>

C50 originally released on Hobo Cult Records

released 03 January 2011
Music by J. Billingham
Artwork by Francesco De Gallo

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Altus - Sleep Theory Volume 1

2011-04-17T22:23:00.001+02:00

Text taken from altusmusic

Introducing a new series from Altus called “Sleep Theory”.
Originally I had planned this to be warm drone style release for sleeping purposes, but I found what I had created to be tedious and boring. In fact, after completing the first pass of the three tracks, I considered scrapping the entire project.

Instead, I decided to re-purpose and re-design the existing elements into something more pleasing to my ears. These are tonally active yet hypnotic soundscapes, and in my opinion require multiple listens to get the most use out of them.

It’s best experienced at lower listening levels, and headphones are encouraged. Available to download in 320kb MP3, and FLAC for those who rather to burn to CD.

Review by Brian Zimmer

Composed December 2010 to March 2011
Dedicated to Lucette Bourdin. 1954-2011.
Thank you for your gift of art and music.
You will be remembered in the hearts of many.

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Quinn Walker - Kwichon

2011-04-16T23:16:00.000+02:00

<a href="http://quinnwalker.bandcamp.com/album/kwichon">Kwichon by Quinn Walker</a>

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Stella Polanski - Ghost Window

2011-04-16T01:06:00.000+02:00

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Fosel - The Rule Of Signs

2011-04-15T17:43:00.001+02:00

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"The track is named after René Descartes and his work La Géométrie where he describes The Rule of Signs, a technique for determining the number of positive or negative real roots of a polynomial. Beyond the fact the computer is a machine that performs arithmetic instruction, Descartes' theory has nothing to do with the music."

released 06 April 2011
recorded mid-March 2011, in Austin, Texas, by Kurt Nimmo

cover photo by Kurt Nimmo

&amp;amp;lt;a href="http://domadata.bandcamp.com/album/the-rule-of-signs"&amp;amp;gt;The Rule Of Signs by DomaData Netlabel&amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;gt;

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nigul - de sobte tot canvia

2011-04-15T17:26:00.000+02:00

<a href="http://nigul.bandcamp.com/album/de-sobte-tot-canvia">de sobte tot canvia by nigul</a>

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Gareth Davis / Jan Kleefstra / Romke Kleefstra - Sieleslyk

2011-04-13T00:13:00.000+02:00

Text taken from Rural Colours

Jan and Romke Kleefstra are brothers, currently based in The Netherlands who have previously collaborated with Machinefabriek and Peter Broderick amongst many others. On Sieleslyk they are joined by British artist Gareth Davis to make some ominous dynamic soundscapes using guitar, clarinet and spoken word.

The spoken words of Jan Kleefstra are in Frisian, a minority language spoken in the north of the Netherlands.

Music by Gareth Davis (bass- and contrabass clarinet) and Romke Kleefstra
(guitars and effects), words and voice by Jan Kleefstra.

Recorded by Jan Switters at Studio Landscape, Gauw (The Netherlands), February 5/6 2009. Mixed and mastered by Gareth Davis, Amsterdam, October 2010.

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Сreation VI - Apeiros

2011-04-10T18:01:00.000+02:00

Text taken from DNA Production

Apeiros (Greek word means "infinitely incognizable") is a term Plato used for description of primary matter which is out of principle of the form. Unlike the common matter of the perceived Universe, Apeiros has to contain determinacy principle as it should be the beginning for everything else. But also it means that Apeiros must stay indefinite. Thus here is an actualization of the transcendent into immanent.

"Apeiros" by Creation VI is an original picture of Universe where superstrings theory combines with Plato’s doctrine about the matter and Hindu universe conception combines with quantum mechanics.
The World here looks like united decentralized network where each element can express all others. The World as a universal wave function of indefinite number of vibrating superstrings which all are just monad essences cuts, indefinite archetypes that continuously actualize itself and thus create the stream of unboundedness.

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Headaches + Foxes In Fiction - Untitled

2011-04-10T15:12:00.000+02:00

<a href="http://landonspeers.bandcamp.com/album/untitled">Untitled by Landon Speers</a>

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Jake Jackson - Abstract Transmissions

2011-04-09T20:25:00.000+02:00

Text taken from Earth Mantra Netlabel

We at Earth Mantra find it remarkable how many great ambient musicians there are in the community, and we feel privileged whenever we have the opportunity to meet a new artist and release their work to the world. Such is our honor today, as we introduce Jake Jackson to our audience, with his jaw-dropping new album "Abstract Transmissions".

Folks, we have a real treat in store for you here. From the moment we started listening to Jake's work, we knew that we were hearing something truly special. There are a lot of ambient artists out there who can put together competent ambience; a subset of those artists can produce results that are truly interesting, and fewer still create music that is genuinely compelling. But very few artists can create compelling music that is both abstract and textural as well as tonal and composed, fusing it all together into a whole that feels natural and, indeed, inevitable. Such is the level of talent Jake brings to bear with this beautiful album.

The music of "Abstract Transmissions" deals heavily in drone, but only insofar as the melody and song structure has a pace that makes it feel like drone. For underneath the surface beats a heart of tonal magnificence slowly flowing across the soundscape like molten lava, powerful and unstoppable. This is the kind of ambient music that justifiably demands active listening, the kind of work that will make you sit up in your chair and pay attention to all the fascinating things happening to your ears.

If the music itself weren't enough, Jake also obviously paid careful attention to the sound stage. The recordings are clear and smooth, and the sound design is exquisite. Really, this album hits on all cylinders with perfect timing, the kind of ambience that we think our fans will want to hear again and again.

So with great pleasure we unveil "Abstract Transmissions" and add Jake Jackson to the family of Earth Mantra artists. Another album that we feel certainly will go down as one of the notable titles of 2011. Welcome to Earth Mantra, Jake.
Released in April 2011

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36 - Memories In Widescreen

2011-04-09T03:04:00.001+02:00

Text taken from 3six

• Limited Edition Vinyl Picture Discs.
• Strictly limited to 250 copies, with NO repress.
• First 50 copies come with the bonus CD "Bass Communion Reprocessed by 36"
• Free MP3/FLAC version with every purchase.
• Digital version includes two exclusive tracks.
• Individually hand numbered and stickered.
• Packaged in 2 polysleeves, placed in a heavyweight PVC sleeve.
• High quality vinyl mailers, so they arrive in perfect condition.
• Artwork and design by 36.

"Memories In Widescreen" is the first vinyl-exclusive album from 36, with 13 tracks spanning 70 minutes of material.

The intense, bitter-sweet melancholia of "After Time" converses with the touching, dreamlike quality of "Lucid", whilst the huge bass drones of "Vesl" preclude the haunting "Revert Time", bringing the album to it's heart breaking conclusion.

"Memories In Widescreen" is available in limited edition 2xLP picture disc vinyl. The record includes a free coupon to download the digital version for free, including 2 exclusive bonus tracks. Each record is individually hand numbered from the artist, with the first 50 records including a bonus CD, with unreleased tracks, never heard before.

36 has made all albums free to download or pay what you want
Thank you for the gift 3six

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36 - Cocoon / Saphron

2011-04-09T02:53:00.000+02:00

Text taken from 3six

The "3six Seven" series is a collection of 7" vinyl releases. These will be limited to 100 copies, in carefully printed full-colour sleeves, matt laminated, with stunning artwork, curated by various artists around the world. Hand numbered by the artist. No represses will be made in this format.

The first release features the tracks "Cocoon" and "Saphron". Artwork by Masaki Okezawa.

"Cocoon" uses low-end pressure and dub-like delay to create an ever-rising, constantly evolving sound, with an intensity matched only by it's sensitivity.

"Saphron" is pure melancholia, with melodic padwork and drifting textures, reminiscent of the most haunting moments from Hypersona, but taken even deeper into the abyss.

The digital version includes the bonus track "Saphron Drowning" which is a moodier, darker edit of the original.

It is music for the earliest of hours, lighting a candle of sound that illuminates any headspace

<a href="http://3six.net/album/cocoon-saphron">Cocoon / Saphron by 36</a>

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Nobuto Suda - The Locus of The Life

2011-04-09T02:24:00.000+02:00

<a href="http://nobutosuda.bandcamp.com/album/the-locus-of-the-life">The Locus of The Life by Nobuto Suda</a>

All the money from this album is donated to the tsunami and earthquake relief via the Japanese Red Cross.

released 23 March 2011

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Sloum - Night Time In the Owsla

2011-04-08T01:36:00.000+02:00

Text taken from camomillemusic

Brian Evans' work reaches out and brings you within. Like a warm wind, you become suspended in its density. In its depth, we feel sweeping signs of hope, drifting without restraint.
We're proud to release such a beautiful album. Sloum makes us wonder and stare at our surroundings ; he seems to be able to give extra minutes to our days.

Night time in the owsla by Sloum by Camomille

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Kirill Platonkin - Transfiguration

2011-04-07T15:53:00.001+02:00

Text taken from Webbed Hand

Kirill Platonkin's first release for Webbed Hand is a trio of shimmery drone-ambient blended with field recordings.

About the Album:
"The idea of creating this album is based on a conclusion, that a Human Being with his consciousness, is a very complicated psychic system, representing a Transfigurator. The point is, that everyday we get a lot of information: positive or negative impressions, news, observations, reflections and so on. Units of information are numerous, and in certain moments, all these units are processed by our minds, and turned into some item of creation - a picture, a song, a sculpture, what not. And it is truly difficult to predict, which way our consciousness will transform them. As for this album, it is a transfiguration of the complex of walks, talks, books, dreams and anticipation of summer."

About the Artist:
"I was born in 1986 in the Russian Far Eastern town Blagoveshchensk, and since early childhood was interested in enigmatic music - I started with the sound of Pink Floyd. At the age of 16 I learnt to play guitar, and some years after, besides listening to the music, I began writing it myself. First, it was psychedelic rock and avant-garde, but later drone ambient became the dominant preference." --K.P.
Produced January 2011

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Bas van Huizen - Wegwerpwee

2011-04-06T16:04:00.000+02:00

Text taken from Resting Bell

Bas van Huizen is a sound and visual artist (video/animation) from Nijmegen the Netherlands. You may know him from his "Ontgalman"-release on test tube or from his physical releases on Etherkreet records. A label focusing on electroacoustic and improvised music, which he runs together with Ezra Jacobs.

"Wegwerpwee" contains 8 tracks. According to Bas most of the material is older than "Ontgalman", but he mixed and remastered everything for this release. And it is a wonderful piece of electroacoustic-experimental-ambient-music. "Wegwerpwee" has a rough, down-to-earth, handmade touch. Very drony, with background-noises, hisses, crackles, melody layers, all mixed and set together very carefully and subtly.

Please also have a listen to "Ontgalman" at test tube and his output on Etherkreet. And to maximise your pleasure: Make sure to listen with headphones.

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Bing Satellites - Time

2011-04-05T02:12:00.000+02:00

Text taken from BFW Recordings

Bing Satellites returns with the fourth release in as many months.
'Time' is an ambient album but it is emotive and psycheldelic, touched by Bing's love of shoegaze and experimental music. The sounds on this album come from a wide variety of sources - synths, laptop, guitar, clapped ot old keyboards and objects lying around Bing's studio in Manchester.

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Ananta - Four Ways Of Redemption

2011-04-03T16:30:00.000+02:00

Text taken from RAIN netlabel

This is the 10th release of the RAIN netlabel. But not only because of this it's special. This recording brings almost 5 hours of unique music.
Just try to imagine this landscape: a lake covered with unsearchable mist, surrounded by a dark forest...And finally inside the lake but also somewhere around - there is the abyss.
The abyss of dark, disturbing nightmares, silent voices and undefinable shapes.

We hope you will enjoy these soundscapes.

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jmdkm - Red Sea

2011-04-03T14:41:00.000+02:00

Text taken from Silent Flow

Red Sea is jmdkm's 2nd audio release and is based on electro-acoustic improvisation.
jmdkm likes to present an almost soothing notion of sound. This collection tries to capture a more beatdriven gesture. The arrangments are edgy, eerie and somewhat overwhelming perhaps. The arrangments are edgy, eerie and somewhat overwhelming perhaps. The general idea is to perform and represent true ambient.
The actual recordings came together by using: AMfrequencies, toykeyboards, winds, percussion, FX & digital editing.
The arrangsments were written between 2009-2011 (Croatia / the Netherlands).

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Nova Scotian Arms - Slow Architecture

2011-04-01T18:09:00.000+02:00

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Split with Motion Sickness of Time Travel
2xCassette (edition of 100)
Sweat Lodge Guru (SLG019)

Grant and Rachel Evans construct monuments of sound that calcify and expand as deliberately as the soil beneath them washes away – time-lapsed and reversed erosion; melodies and distortion are extracted from sparkling beds of sediment and adhered to the foundation in algorithmic patterns of fractal intensity. Slow Architecture seeks out the empty corners of the psyche and builds its towering steeples of noise therein. This set of two pro-dubbed, imprinted cassettes is limited to 100 copies. Packaged together in a clear cassette album.

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Grip the other half of the split here: motionsicknessoftimetravel.bandcamp.com/album/slow-architecture

released 08 March 2011

<a href="http://novascotianarms.bandcamp.com/album/slow-architecture">Slow Architecture by Nova Scotian Arms</a>

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Pascal Savy - The Endless Seasons

2011-03-31T22:23:00.000+02:00

Text taken from fieldnoiserecords

"The Endless Seasons" is an experimental ambient project by Pascal Savy and Toshikatsu, who worked together on creating music and lacquer incense cases. All tracks have been produced by Pascal Savy, upon conceptual propounding by Toshikatsu and long-distance communication between London and Tokyo. The incense cases have been designed and hand-crafted as a quadtych (series of 4) over a year period. This release explores the concept of Japanese seasons within the realm of imagination, and their instrinsic absence of absolutes.

mastered by Christopher Leary at Melograf Mastering

<a href="http://fieldnoiserecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-endless-seasons-with-a-secret-season-track">The Endless Seasons (with a secret season track) by Field Noise Records</a>

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