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Hildur Gudnadóttir “Unveiled”
From the Touch netlabel release Without Sinking TO:70
« This is Hildur Ingveldardóttir Gudnadóttir’s second solo album and her first for Touch. [‘Mount A’ was released on the Icelandic label ‘12 Tónar’ in 2006.] Hildur flew so much during 2007 and 2008 that she spent alot of time staring at clouds through the airplane window, considering their appearance and formation… She says: “My aim with this record was to create a feeling of breath with a bow on string. I wanted to create a sky and cloud-like feeling in the compositions. I wanted to have open space for single notes and let them breath, like single clouds in a clear sky. As a contrast I also wanted create denser and heavier compositions which were more thundercloud like. I like the way clouds form, how many tiny droplets can form such dense forms and then slowly evaporate into thin string-like ones.
‘Mount A’ was an intensely solo work, composed and recorded in winter darkness, a solitary, rural affair. ‘Without Sinking’ was recorded in Berlin, mostly during the summer of 2008; also Hildur has collaborated with Icelandic musicians Jóhann Jóhannsson [two of his albums were released on Touch, ‘Englaborn’ in 2002 and ‘Virthulega Forsetar’ in 2004], and bassist Skúli Sverrisson. Her father, Gudni Franzson, also guests playing clarinet on two tracks here. This collaborative process is reflected in a much more open sound; there is more space and you can hear the air. Mixed by Valgeir Sigurdsson and Hildur at Greenhouse Studios Iceland, and mastered by Denis Blackham at Skye, ‘Without Sinking’ is a luxurious, riveting and involving piece of work. —Touch »
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Device for Experiencing Lightening Strike
This device increases the user’s likelihood of getting struck by lightning. Energy from the strike is transferred to heat, used to brand the user, who following the experience is left scarred as a memory of the event. The device questions the dissemination of this experience, from the life threatening, to simple story, the transition from the fantastic to the banal.
For ease of transportation the device is modular, packing down to under 170cm in length, (fitting within the baggage allowance of most commercial carriers) — Andrew Friend
Saffron Slumber “Part 1”
From the Saffron Slumber | Specta Ciera | Carl Sagan’s Ghost Split EP, Myth of the Near Future, out on the ambient micro-netlabel circlesandlines recordings
Saffron Slumber: Part 1 · Saffron Slumber is the primary music project of Kevin Stephens |Salem, OR, USA|, focusing on the exploration of timbre in acoustic instruments. Originally meant to be only ambient music, the project has grown to include aspects of noise, drone and other genres.
Specta Ciera: Part 2 · Specta Ciera is Devin Underwood |Cambridge, MA, USA|. A side from creating music and visual art under the name Specta Ciera, originally started as an ambient/experimental project, but now focuses on all styles.
Carl Sagan’s Ghost: Part 3 · Carl Sagan’s Ghost is the most recent project from Daniel Davis |Seattle, WA, USA| focusing on ambient music. CSG just released his 6th album. All of CSG’s music can be downloaded for free.
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Sohrab “Tanhai (Live in Tehran)”
From the netlabel Touch/TouchMusic release Touch Radio 45
Runtime 42m 24s / Headphones are best…
Includes: Biking in Holland · Tears (Sohrab Version) · Tanhayi · Satyr · Tears (Esteban Olenikov Version Tundra) · There Is an Ashtray Between Us · Tears (Yozhik Version) · New Zealand · Barf
Recorded and played live in 21 October 2009. Sohrab used Reason 3, his midi controller (R)evolution UC-16 and a sampler, recorded live through Ambrosia recording software.
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Children Of Ishizuke Tree “Chameleon Starship” (Album Version)
From the Clinical Archives netlabel release Chameleon Starship
« Chameleon Starship is the second release of magick lo-fi duo from Belarus. In comparison with the first record, Entering the Ocean (2009), Chameleon Starship is a light, airy and accessible to understand. The sound of guitars organically supplemented by magical poetry of Marina Bartosh and has become more sophisticated and diverse.
Children Of Ishizuke Tree - the guitar duo from Minsk, Belarus, consists of Alexander Haletski and Marina Bartosh. Formed in 2009. Style of music - magick lo-fi. Ishizuke - kind of Bonsai, a tiny sapling, which grew on the rocks or cliffs, where the roots of a tree are growing in the crevices of the stone. Also Ishizuke - part of samurai sword. Duo practice a games with delay and distorts the guitar sound to full unrecognizability.
In summer 2009, the duo recorded a double minimalistic deep-drone & noise album, freely available for download. In December 2009 Entering the Ocean was released by Clinical Archives. In January 2010 the duo has completed work on a second record, which was called Chameleon Starship. — Clinical Archives »
« Musical influences: Troum, Stars Of The Lid, Medicine, MBV, Sonic Youth, Sunn O))), Nadja, Aidan Baker, La Monte Young, ANS, Windy & Carl, Slowdive, Terry Riley, Iannis Xenakis, Steve Reich. — Last.fm »
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Two Skytrain Bridges /by dooda · Taken right beside GM Place, Vancouver BC
The Necks “Drive By (remixed by Kudzoo)”
trippy, refined, mannered, sophisticated, ethereal, meandering, reflective, atmospheric, elegant, calm/peaceful, soothing — All Music Guide
« Created to accompany an essay titled, “Walden + Railroad + Sound,” (a late draft headed to Textual Studies in Canada), this remix struggles to realize or, better, to version Thoreau’s requirements for imaging place, which combines the auralesque (nature as landscape) and choragraphy (nature as force or energy). I have remixed Drive By, a recording by the Necks, an Australian jazz-minimalist trio (keyboards, bass, and drums). Elemental stuff, my remix—a mash-up really—relies heavily on a field recording I made, while in British Columbia, riding Vancouver’s SkyTrain. I hear the loud hum (or, maybe, it’s a pleasant roar) of “the world’s longest automated light rapid transit system” as a giant Buddha Machine, recalling a claim made by one of the members of Kraftwerk. He said, “As soon as you travel in a train, you’re in a musical instrument” (qtd. by Kodwo Eshun in Modulations). — Michael Jarrett »
Download the complete mix courtesy of Michael Jarrett
For some background on the original by The Necks, see my original post with excerpts from Stylus, Wikipedia, Dusted Magazine, Nils Jacobson, All About Jazz, and The Necks, Info. The Necks’ CD & Sales and ReR MegaCorp
Last but certainly not to miss is Marc Weidenbaum’s Disquiet essay entitled Michael Jarrett’s Thoreau Listening
Apuntando al Cielo (Lomo Expo) /by Hipnos
Aquí una de las fotos del primer rollo de 120 mm que uso. La foto fue tomada con una Holga 120. La foto es en Plaza Patria, Aguascalientes donde abundan los globos y los algodones de azucar :)
LowLight “A Vibration of Strings”
An ambient mix by Dave Michuda
« I ran into the track “The Last Message” by John Murphy on a mix at A Strangely Isolated Place, and it got me thingking about doing another classical-ish mix. The Murphy track is in there, along with new tunes (Maya Beiser, Max Richter, Nils Frahm, etc) and old tunes (Steve Reich, Peter Gabriel, Gavin Bryars, etc). There’s really not much more to say except that I hope you enjoy this collection of ambient, soundtrack, minimal & neo-classical tunes. — Dave Michuda »
Runtime 54m 55s
00:00 David Byrne - The Lodger · 04:15 Maya Beiser - Memories · 08:45 Max Richter - The Haunted Ocean 2 · 09:05 Nils Frahm & Anne Müller - Reminds to Teeth · 13:15 Olan Mill - Country · 16:30 John Murphy - The Last Message · 18:00 Chihei Hatakeyama - Light Drizzle · 20:30 Hummingbird - Starfish Seastar · 22:30 Tarwater - Clock · 23:30 Terry Riley - is in c in f (r. luke dubois remix) · 25:30 Steve Reich - Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices & organ · 34:50 Sufjan Stevens - Movement III - Linear Tableau With Intersecting Surprise · 39:15 Max Richter - Infra 2 · 40:50 Kyle Bobby Dunn - The Tributary (for voices lost) · 46:20 P Jorgensen - Palimpsest II · 48:15 Gavin Bryars - Epilogue from Wonder Lawn · 52:20 Peter Gabriel - The Nest that Sailed the Sky · 54:55 End
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Long Desert Cowboy “Way Down in the Well”
From the ‘| Test Tube netlabel release Midnight Lullabies
Runtime: 22m 35s
« Daniel Catarino wrote: ‘This album is about departure’. And when you get to the end of the ten+ minutes of ‘Heartattack and Wine’ you know exactly what he meant. But this could also be an album about Saudade, that famous Portuguese word that has no translation and is always connected to Fado. Yeah, could be. Because saudade - something about missing and longing for someone, someplace or something - is also about departure, because when you feel saudades, that’s because someone left or you left someone or someplace behind. The first track has that feeling written allover.
So ‘Midnight Lullabies’ is about departure. Leaving. Going away. It’s sad and beautiful and melancholic all at the same time. If you’ve listened to all the previous releases by Long Desert Cowboy here at ‘| Test Tube, then you know what it’s all about. Essential guitar drones. — Pedro Leitão »
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Silence Drift “Cheow Lan”
From the Clinical Archives netlabel release Landscapes Through The Viewfinder
« Following on the success of the debut album, ‘Aircode’, Silence Drift returns with deep and tunefully beautiful ‘Landscapes Through The Viewfinder’, his second full-length album. Hypnotic and charmful journey to the mystery of ancient tropical rainforest, filled with nostalgic melancholy. A breathtaking masterpiece!
‘Landscapes’ was written and recorded by Maxim partially over his trip to Cambodia and Thailand, during July-August, 2008. The jungle atmosphere was an important influence in these pieces, as they helped him to capture a tremendous beauty of nature. Additional piano, vocal and guitar recordings was made at his home studio in Moscow.
Silence Drift is an dark ambient / drone project formed by musician and sound engineer Maxim Komov in late November 2007. In May 2008 Silence Drift releases 1st full-length CD called Aircode - the four long drone pieces inspired by amazing photographs taken by Alexey Seliverstov. Following on the success of the debut album, ‘Aircode’, Silence Drift returns with deep and tunefully beautiful ‘Landscapes Through The Viewfinder’, his second full-length album. — Clinical Archives »
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Black Dog “Bodytonic Podcast 081”
« Hot off the heels of their ‘Music for Real Airports’ and a recent ambient mix for their label Soma, The Black Dog continue their barrage of sets with a mix for Bodytonic. — A Strangely Isolated Place »
Runtime 01h 02m 23s
Brian Eno - An Ending (Ascent) [Polydor] · Bitstream - Retreat Pod [Pylon Music] · The Black Dog - BCN 4 [Dust Science] · Coil - Box Theme [Solar Lodge] · Pan Sonic - Suhteellinen [Blast First] · Alex Smoke - Intro [Soma] · Gas - Untitled [Kompakt] · Fever Ray - If I Had A Heart [Rabid Records] · Dave - Wire [Downwards] · Monolake - Credit [Monolake / Imbalance Computer Music] · FUSE - Carocell [Plus 8] · Plastikman - Lost [NovaMute, M_nus] · Craig Armstrong - Delay [Sanctuary Records] · Loscil - Cloister [Kranky] · MLO - Sleeper [Reflective] · The Black Dog - Delay 9 [Soma] · Jacaszek - Powoli [Miasmah] · BMB - All The Saints Have Been Hung [Counterbalance] · Autechre - Eutow (The Black Dog’s Arvo Alg Edit) [Warp] · Jarvis Cocker - Lanhydrock [Old Music Box]
This is a nice and fairly dreamy ‘headphones recommended’ mix. Apologies for the rather jarring Bodytonic ID tag near the end… you’ve been warned.
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Mensa “Blackford Hill (Extended)”
From the Resting Bell netlabel release Braid Heritage
« After his “Nordic Recordings” and “Southern Recordings” Edu Comelles aka Mensa returns to Resting Bell with a new two-track-EP. Besides his work as composer and sound designer Edu also runs the fantastic Audiotalaia netlabel.
Both tracks on “Braid Heritage” are alternate (extended) versions of compositions originally released on the album “Moorland” via Test Tube. The work is strongly related to Edu’s recent sound project “Walking Composition,” a great concept between technology and nature. The general sound is shifting between deep droning elements and more rhythmical glitches and bleeps, layered on top of each other and beautifully woven together.
All recordings done in Edinburgh’s Heritage of Braid between June and August 2009. This album is a live recording using Walking Compositions Material. Edited and mastered in Valencia, Spain. — Resting Bell »
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