3/4HadBeenEliminated - The Religious Experience LP

Label:Soleilmoon Recordings
Format:LP
Country:US
Released:2007
Genre:Electronic
Style:Experimental,Field Recording,
Drone,Free Improvisation
Notes:Total time:36:37

Tracklisting:

1 - Nacht,Und,Nebel Or,To,Have (17:20)
2 - (I Am (19:17)

Colored vinyl LP, presented in a deluxe hand-made sugarcane fiber cover, with a delicately perfumed inner sleeve and silkscreened insert, and is limited to 225 copies. ( The companion CD "Theology" contains the source recordings used for the LP, and is limited to 450 copies.The two albums and their music should be considered as mirror opposites. Where theology is a completely artificial system of belief, a religious experience is the immediate experience of the thing itself. Likewise, the music on "Theology" is complex and elaborate, while "The Religious Experience" is much simpler, going directly to the heart of the material comprising "Theology". Thus, the two works are independent, yet relate to each other as mother and daughter. ) 3/4HadBeenEliminated was founded in 2002 in Bologna, Italy as a trio, with Stefano Pilia, Claudio Rocchetti and Valerio Tricoli. The group straddles the line between live improvisation and studio experimentation, blending and shaping raw sounds into living pieces, then gently dissecting the delicately structured songs into disruptive sonic excursions more evocative of moving shadows and swirling leaves than recognizable tunes. Stasis and stability are nowhere to be found here. Instead, an ever-changing dialogue between structure and chaos shifts from one performer to the next, never resting long before launching again into shuddering flight. Accoustic instruments and vocals form a familiar reference point, but studio treatments take the music into psychedelic and cinematic realms. In their words, ?Improvisation is a way to experiment without thinking. When our improvisations ?work?, the music just happens on its own. It reveals itself as if guided by its own logic, its own desire. In fact we don?t even feel like we are actually playing the music. It?s more like a stream that moves and changes autonomously. With composition (editing, overdubs, etc. etc.) we then remodel this stream, trying to make it more complex, ?forever lasting, forever changing?, in the sense that every hearing will reveal a new perspective of the music. As a live band, we improvise 100%, and it's really risky, but when it ?happens?, it?s the greatest satisfaction.?

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Oren Ambarchi - Destinationless Desire

Label: Touch
Catalog#: TS 05
Format: Vinyl, 7", Single, Limited Edition
Country:UK
Released:Apr 2008
Genre: Electronic
Style: Experimental, Ambient

Tracklisting:

A		Highway Of Diamonds (5:55)
B		Bleeding Shadow (6:38)

The 5th instalment in the Touch 7" series is for our money the most incredible of the bunch - with the always brilliant Oren Ambarchi delivering two exclusive new tracks recorded in Sydney between 2005 and 2007. Opening piece "Highway Of Diamonds" develops around a fluttering organ loop and immersive static, a radiant, sonically cushioned arrangement that leaves you unprepared for the stark organ transmission that breaks loose halfway through and takes the piece to a much more sonically daring environment. It's beautifully conceived and expertly realised at the hands of Ambarchi, interweaving textures and barely perceptible undulations in the most confident and original manner, once again stamping out a brilliantly unique niche for Ambarchi somewhere between the dense drones of sometime bandmates Sunn o))) and the more ethereal, processed beauty of his label contemporaries BJ Nilsen and Fennesz. Flipside track "Bleeding Of Shadow" is just breathtaking - features almost 7 minutes of electric guitar, samples, bells, percussion and a motorised cymbal in the most exquisite fashion, making use of some ghostly Fairport Convention recordings and creating the kind of re-working last heard on the mighty "Plays" single from Chrisitan Fennesz almost 10 years ago. With the record framed by another oddly moving image by Jon Wozencroft - it's a compelling proposition, and an utterly essential purchase.

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Alessandro Bosetti - Her Name

Label:Crouton
Format:CD,Album,Limited Edition
Country:US
Released:2007
Genre:Electronic
Style:Avantgarda,Abstract,Experimental
Notes:Total time:40:15

Tracklisting:

1 - Her Name (3:28)
2 - Her Face (7:22)
3 - Mask (4:36)
4 - Ivory Coast (8:33)
5 - Idiot (8:43)
6 - It's Me (4:47)
7 - Fumatore Non Fumatore (2:39)

“Her Name” is a collection of seven songs by Alessandro Bosetti and, no question about it, they’re songs. As a general rule, it sounds like he recorded conversations of people he met while touring through Europe, Asia and the US, transcribed the conversations, wrote musical lines that closely paralleled the rhythms and cadences of the speech, and then set these lines (sung/spoken by himself and others) into various beds of improvised and written music. The results may require a listen or two for one to get comfortable in this halfway world, a few moments to gets one’s footing, but once acclimated this is a beguiling little offering.

Aside from his voice, Bosetti brings multiple instruments into play including soprano saxophone, guitars, electric and acoustic piano, cello, harmonium, organ and various electronics. Many other voices are heard in a variety of languages and on a few tracks he’s assisted by Koen Nutters (bass), Ernst Karel (trumpet) and Morten J. Olsen (drums) but one gets a strong sense of a solo effort here, of Bosetti gathering, reorganizing and emitting the sounds encountered. Sometimes the pieces are strongly reminiscent of past work by earlier composer/performers investigating the art song format. The title track, for instance, with its vaguely Rypdalian guitar overtones and descending piano chords, reminded me a lot of Michael Mantler’s work from the 70s with Jack Bruce. Here, as elsewhere, Bosetti double-tracks the voice, speaking the same material in very slightly different timing and intonation, an attractive effect. “Her Face”, on the other hand, awash in multi-tracked, feminine lamentations and deep, bowed strings, summons up memories of Julie Tippetts’ “Sunset Glow”. Both, however, substantially flesh out those associations (likely entirely in my mind, not Bosetti’s, anyway), especially with the embedding of these elements into cradles of electronics and reed respirations. In a subtle change of pace, Karel’s muted trumpet surfaces on “Mask”, dancing around music that makes loose allusions to Brazil.

“Ivory Coast” is a fascinating, humorous work, beginning with bell-like percussion and softly plucked electric guitar, before a vocal/soprano line, almost sounding like a backwards recording, recounts an off-the-wall mini-story involving a cousin who was a comedian in the Ivory Coast. These lines reappear in various guises throughout the first part of the piece, bobbing into view amidst the plucked and struck flotsam before the instruments take over and provide several delightful minutes of giddy, prickly sounds. “Idiot”’s line, Italian male voice and soprano sax, inevitably recalls Lacy before morphing into, of all things, a gentle bass-propelled swatch of tropicalia, replete with laughing vocals chanting, “chi-ri-ri” over small explosive piano kerplunks and shortwave transmissions. Excellent song! “It’s Me” is another really intriguing idea, contrasting harsh, guttural shouts, male and female, with a plaintive, hoarse vocal by Bosetti, accompanied by tentative acoustic guitar strums, as though he’s practicing next door to some noisy neighbors. The disc closes with perhaps my favorite piece, a collection of apparently contrary declarations in Italian, “Fumatore non fumatore”, including “non vegetariano, vegetariano”, “anarchico, liberale moderato” and “compositore, improvisatore”, until the final word, “Io” (I), clearly summing up the intricacies and complexities of this unusual, ultimately very rewarding recording.

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Akira Rabelais - Hollywood

Label:Schoolmap
Released:2008
Style:Experimental,Drone

Tracklisting:

1 Hollywood (56:48)

from label:

The birth of Akira Rabelais’ “Hollywood” has its roots in the composer’s lifelong interest in field recordings and in the desire to create a piece of work dedicated to Los Angeles: Texas born Rabelais has used a Tascam recorder to capture almost four hours worth of sounds on Hollywood Boulevard, between Betty Grable’s and of Rod Serling’s stars. These original recordings have been lightly edited, cut and mastered into a composition that encapsulates the sounds of casual chats, drunken tourists, peddlers, passing cars, music coming from surrounding shops. An extremely dynamic and always changing soundscape dedicated to “the pleasure of being present”.
Akira Rabelais, composer and software devoleper based in Los Angeles, has released records on Ritornell, Orthlorng Musork and Samadhisound. He has collaborated, among others, with Björk, David Sylvian, Harold Budd and Stephan Mathieu.

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Robedoor - Shrine To The Possessor

Label:Music Fellowship
Format:LP
Country:US
Released:13 Mar.2008
Genre:Electronic
Style:Psychodelic,Experimental,Ambient,Drone
Notes:Total time:37:21

Tracklisting:

1 - Blood Ark Carving (10:05)
2 - Abandoned Shadowlands (11:43)
3 - The Retch's Mecca (15:33)

from label:

New batch of brutal minimalism from Robedoor on their first vinyl full length, Shrine to the Possessor. This one is pure darkness - no light, no air, just tortured souls and echoed cries. Three epic droning processionals built from the heaviest, thickest low-end tones. The sound of indentured servants from a scorched dustbowl wasteland. Caveman aesthetic pushed to its limits by recording to eight analog channels. Recorded by Bobb Bruno at Bored Fortress HQ in Eagle Rock, CA. Artwork by Andy Spore. Includes silkscreened 11x17 poster. Limited and numbered to 50 "HIGHLY RECOMMENDED"

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Fabio Orsi - Picture Myself In A Cloud

Label:Ruralfaune
Format:CDr,Album,Limited Edition
Country:France
Released:12 Feb 2008
Genre:Electronic
Style:Abstract,Experimental,Ambient,Drone
Notes:Total time:38:34

Tracklisting:

1 - Part One (15:28)
2 - Part Two (23:06)

Another gem from the fantastic Mr Orsi that comes in a gorgeous butterfly-festooned sleeve design by George Parsons of Dream magazine. Amorphous synth-float and a feeling of rural bliss.

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Mahmoud Refat - Mort Aux Vaches

Label: Mort Aux Vaches
Released: 2008
Style: Experimental

Mort Aux Vaches series artworks are more and more sophisticated. This artwork has been commissioned to Piotr Mordel, graphic designer founder of the atypical "The Club of Polish Losers" in Berlin, Dialog magazine contributor, and skillful here in associating elaborate drawings to a "precious" lettering, decorated with a sort of glitter. It's an exoticism that seems to be suggested by the same sound nature. The Egyptian Mahmoud Refat recorded his tracks at the VPRO Dwars Festival in Amsterdam, in 2006. Sounds are dense with entangled juxtapositions, glitched sequences and clicks'n'cuts, painstakingly combined by in patterns. There's a hollow mood, ethnic feelings with hums composing skeletal rhythmical scores. The author's past funk and jazz experiences are well hidden, and there's a real experimental character in the aural continuum that for functional reasons has been divided into seven tracks, all "untitled". It's a measured and neutral quality, perfectly fitting the standard of such productions, even if evidencing a non-linear, twisted and hypnotic approach that sports an even more mystic quality with the various added field recordings. It's a continuos crackling of suspended and dreaming sounds.

Tracklisting:

1 Untitled 1 (8:30)
2 Untitled 2 (5:19)
3 Untitled 3 (4:14)
4 Untitled 4 (1:44)
5 Untitled 5 (8:04)
6 Untitled 6 (4:29)
7 Untitled 7 (5:37)

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Pocahaunted - Island Diamonds

Label:Arbor CDR
Format:Vinyl,LP,Limited Edition
Country:US
Released:Apr 2008
Genre:Electronic,Folk,Rock
Style:Folk,Dub,Lo-Fi,Experimental,Drone
Notes:Total time:32:42

Tracklisting:

A1 - Ashes Is White (7:46)
A2 - Gehetto Ballet (8:53)
B1 - Riddim Queen (7:52)
B2 - Follow I (8:12)

Teepees turned in for shanties. Moccasins turned in for high tops. Spirit fog turned in for purple haze. This is the sound of the world town. Amanda and Bethany have had S. LA metal head Bobb Bruno play electric drums on their tracks in the past, but the results of this album is something entirely different than anything they attempted before. It is less Bobb playing drums with Pocahaunted, than it is an entirely new entity operating in perfect unity. Dubbed out and drenched in the grime of the streets, Island Diamonds features the same vocal come downs and chord repetition/progression to infinity that P-haunt is know for, but with the addition of almost (dare I say) “danceable” beats. This is the record that Amanda and Bethany have always wanted to make, the crown jewel of an epic sistership. Rub soap in your eye make it red so you look raw. Recorded/mixed/mastered over a period of three months, and the effort/time shows; Pocahaunted’s most developed/realized work yet; features additional saxophone riffage by Andy Spore (of Raccoo-oo-oon, Youth of the Beast, Pukers) mastered by James Plotkin. In an edition of 500 Rasta colored LP’s on clear yellow vinyl with pro-printed jackets with art by Crystal Stokowski, labels by A+B, and an insert..

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Terje Isungset - Ice Concerts

Label:All-Ice Records
Format:CD,Album
Country:Norway
Released:2008
Genre:Non-Music
Style:Experimental
Notes:Total time:59:05

Tracklisting:

1 - Dolosaigi (4:08)
2 - Fola, Fola Blakken (5:13)
3 - Contemplation (4:27)
4 - Ser Deg (3:37)
5 - Inuit (3:36)
6 - Horizon (5:47)
7 - The Other Side (4:28)
8 - Silucian Town (6:22)
9 - Ice Talks (2:38)
10 - Cahcelottas (3:21)
11 - Vond Dag (4:37)
12 - Duottarjogas (2:21)
13 - Silent Coldness (1:32)
14 - Ice Memories 2007 (6:58)

Terje Isungset, like many of his Nordic compatriots, straddles the divide between jazz, avant garde and even folk. A lot of this has to do with the inherent Scandinavian respect for nature and its power on the imagination. Isungset, a percussionist who has worked with just about every major name in Norwegian jazz, is a man who uses nature's materials to make his music. Anyone who has seen him perform knows that he can express himself more fully with a ram's horn, a bunch of twigs or a couple of pebbles, better than most musicians could with a whole fjord full of modern gadgetry. Ice Concerts, culled from his tour of Arctic spots in 2006, sees him extend the pallette of sounds that he first explored on his album Iceman Is. And yes, it's all made with nothing more sophisticated than frozen water and the human voice.Again, when dealing with the Norwegian frame of mind, boundaries and genres become meaningless. Musicians are simply musicians, and as such regard themselves as part of a lineage that stretches from folk tradition to the drum and electronica of say, Nils Petter Molvaer. Isungset thus includes the Supersilent trumpeter and all-round genius Arve Henriksen on the ice trumpet and haunting vocals as he did on Iceman Is, but he also throws in several female voices including some fine 'joiking' courtesy of Sara Marielle Goup. Originally devised as a cattle calling technique, this yelping sound fits perfectly with the glacial, ringing tones of struck and blown ice. Also Isungset performs one of Grieg's folk adaptations, Fola, fola Blakken. The (arctic) circle, remains unbroken, then...As if to highlight Terje's belief that he is a part of nature's music rather than being wholly responsible for its manipulation, each track comes complete with a temprature reading and a meteorological snapshot. By the final track, Ice Memories, the wilderness has almost taken over completely, with 'The Nature' credited with performning on snow. If you expect this stuff to be cold and unforgiving, you'd be wrong. It's a chiming, intimate and utterly beautiful world of sound that entrances as much as it avoids any notion of 'novelty'. Talk about chilled out...

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Tom Carter & Christian Kiefer - From The Great American Songbook

Label: Preservation
Released: 2008
Style: Folk, Experimental

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Preservation sure now how to package their releases: this second collaboration between Charalambides' Tom Carter and Christian Keefer comes housed in a lovely fold-out sleeve housing thick card inserts with liner notes for each song as penned by some of the avant-folk royalty these two are prone to hanging around with. Wooden Wand, Sharron Kraus, Glenn Jones, Tetuzi Akiyama and Tony Conrad are among the writers who pay tribute not only to Tom and Christian, but their source material - all of which comes from American traditional folk songs now in the public domain. As you'd probably expect, these two aren't always prone to sticking closely to their original texts, and familiar standards like 'Camptown Races' are given a fairly liberal overhaul. Tony Conrad writes at length about the interesting use of 'Doodah' in the original, citing this as one of the earliest examples of scat singing. That's the kind of info most albums just wouldn't bother giving you, but you'll be glad of the pains Preservation have gone to in providing context for these often very obscure songs (usually made that little bit more obscure by the adventurous cover artists). Highly Recommended.

Tracklisting:

1 The Coo-Coo Bird (5:20)
2 Hard Time Killing Floor Blues (6:08)
3 Go Dig My Grave (Railroad Boy) (7:21)
4 Pretty Polly (11:32)
5 The Entertainer (7:50)
6 Camptown Races (5:56)
7 Will the Circle Be Unbroken (12:26)
8 Jesse James (2:06)

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Sunburned Hand Of The Man - Locked/Loaded

Label:Meudiademorte
Format:Cassette,Single Sided,C60
Country:Germany
Released:Nov 2007
Genre:Electronic,Rock
Style:Noise,Avantgarde,Psychedelic Rock,
Free Improvisation,Experimental
Notes:Total time:30:24

Tracklisting:

A1 - Locked I (8:03)
A2 - Locked II (6:53)
A3 - Locked III (4:53)
A4 - Loaded I (4:35)
A5 - Loaded II (3:55)
A6 - Loaded III (2:05)

from label:

Sunburned Hand Of The Man "Locked / Loaded" One Sided C60 CSNew Limited cassette from Sunburned Hand Of The Man. Sounds funky like a psych jam at a hot summer day in the winter. But where is the ice cream... lim to 200 copies.

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Faryus - Lucid Dreams

Label:Faria Records
Format:CD,Album
Country:Russia
Released:2008
Genre:Electronic
Style:Ambient,Drone
Notes:Total time:59:43

Tracklisting:

1 - Vivid Dream (9:49)
2 - Clarity (The First Gate of Dreaming) (12:55)
3 - Lucid Dream (13:17)
4 - Free Flying (6:43)
5 - The World of Inorganic Beings (16:59)

from label:

This album is devoted to a phenomenon of the "Lucid dreams".

A “lucid dream” - is a dream, in which the person is aware that he or she is dreaming while the dream is in progress. During lucid dreams you have control over the dream characters and environment, as well as the ability to perform otherwise physically impossible feats. The feelings which you feel during lucid dreams are very similar to those available during a waking state. Often they surpass the 'usual' with a saturation and intensity.

This phenomenon has been researched by such well-known researchers as Stephen LaBerge, Robert Monroe, Carlos Castaneda, etc.. The 9th book of Carlos Castaneda - "The Art of Dreaming" explains more fully the events occuring within this album.

The album is conceived as travel from the moment of falling asleep up to the depths of the infinite universe of the Dreaming: “Vivid Dream” - this is a dream, where colours and events are extremely bright. After awakening we never forget these dreams, it remains in the memory as a very exciting experience. It is the first phase of lucid dreaming and the beginning of our travel. We can then find "Clarity", passing through the first gate of dreaming to enjoy the "Lucid Dream". Opening infinite opportunities of the universe of dreaming we begin our "Free Flying" obtaining the sanctum sanctorum of the dreaming universe - to the "World of Inorganic Beings".

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@c - Up, Down, Charm, Strange, Top, Bottom

Label: Crónica
Catalog#: Crónica 031~2008
Country:Portugal
Released:Feb 2008
Genre: Electronic
Style: Abstract, Musique Concrète, Noise, Experimental

Tracklisting:

1		62 (20:08)
		Percussion - Miquel Bernat
2		71 (1:36)
3		72 (1:42)
4		61 (40:31)
		Cello - Ulrich Mitzlaff Guitar - Neil Davidson Percussion - Gustavo Costa , Jonhatan Uliel , Matchume Zango , Miquel Bernat , Tinoca Zimba Saxophone - Raymond MacDonald Voice - Cheny Gune , Kenji Siratori , Rita Azevedo Pinto

from label:

“Up, Down, Charm, Strange, Top, Bottom” is our seventh full-length release, and the third in Crónica. The four tracks in this CD are composed from studio, live and field recordings that span a period of five years in our work, influenced by the various collaborations we developed over that time. 61 and 62 were performed live in several venues and in various development versions since early 2006.
Some of the collaborators found their way into the compositions as “sampled guests”, as bits of sound collected from live performances or studio work. Their presence is both a testimonial of the crossing (or forking) paths and a hommage to those musicians that contributed to our ongoing work in progress.

Building a CD like this, a studio composition, is perhaps much like sculpting, constructing a fixed and closed relationship between parts; it is also like photographing, framing a certain composition from within its vaster surroundings. It is like editing a documentary, shifting the focus from the individual pieces, found or produced, towards their connections, balances and compositions. It sometimes feels like the work of a mechanic or a watchmaker, in which individual pieces are tooled to work in a much larger and complex system.
When working on “Up, Down, Charm, Strange, Top, Bottom”, we found ourselves between formats, between different possible models for the realization of this fixation of sound. What should a CD be? Should it be the registration of a piece (or of several pieces) in a canonic form? Should it be a device for the recreation of a multitude of pieces, where each playback may yield a new becoming of a composition, where each listening act, with its different, personalized and unique focus, shapes the sounds, combing them in individual interpretations, as when reading a poem out loud?

All representation is false, therefore, concrète music does not aim to represent or to convey anything in a romantic sense, using the music as a medium to transmit anything other than itself. Francastel: A work of art is not an imitation of reality: it cannot take the place of reality; a work of art does not excite the same sensations as nature. McLuhan: The medium is the message. Negroponte: The medium is not the message. @c: The message is the medium and the moment. The CD is not communicating a live performance or an idealized composition, rather, the CD is itself, and will become music each time it is played, to everyone and everywhere it is so.
“Up, Down, Charm, Strange, Top, Bottom” is one more step in finding our way in music, looking for something we can’t really define. Explorers, we. Finding through doing, acting and doing.

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Implex Grace - Through Luminescent Passages I

Label: Distance Recordings
Released: 2008
Style: Ambient, Noise

from label:

A beautiful collection of ambient/noise instrumentals from Chicago, Illinois artist, Michael Perry Goodman. This is part one of a two volume set which will eventually be released on vinyl. We're extremely pleased to be able to offer this first volume as our premiere release, on free digital download mp3 and aac formats.

Tracklisting:

1 Twilight: Diamond In The Sky (5:59)
2 Gorgeous Pale Light (8:00)
3 Hyperstrings - Superspace (2:35)
4 Constellation Pisces, Spiral Galaxy M 74 (3:05)
5 The Face Of An Angel (4:22)
6 Starlight: A Distant Shimmering Particle (4:05)
7 In Space And Time We Travel (5:52)
8 Beyond The Cosmic Gates (3:38)
9 SAMSARA / Smoke And Mirrors (6:38)

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Ourson - Power Hum

Label: Ourson Music
Released: 2008
Style: Field Recording, Drone, Ambient

Power Hum is one 24 minute track of incredibly raw ambient recorded during winter of 2007-2008.

Tracklisting:

1 Power Hum (24:00)

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Cheer - Red Walk

Label:Drifting Falling
Format:CDr,Album
Country:UK
Released:09 Apr 2007
Genre:Electronic
Style:Post Rock,Experimental,Ambient,Acoustic
Notes:Total time:54:22

Tracklisting:

1 - Broken But Still Working (3:05)
2 - Rain In The Wind (4:28)
3 - Routine Cross Fade (3:55)
4 - Rockets And Blue Lights (7:17)
5 - Music For A Wooden Stage Play (3:02)
6 - Autumn Stare Out (6:22)
7 - Still Crumbling Faces (8:55)
8 - A Few Minor Mistakes (2:44)
9 - Twilight Milk Raid (14:50)

Following on from the absolutely gorgeous Benbecula Minerals Series CD we had from Alec Cheer last year comes this simply divine offering on London's Drifting Falling label. As a solo guitar album it's really quite exquisite and there's a wonderful balance between catchy, lightly folky instrumental numbers and a more sculptural, processed sound. That, for me, is really where this CD hits its stride... the longer, more densely constructed pieces are absolutely beautiful and really bring to mind the looped, hypnotic sound of artists such as Windy and Carl or even - possibly more pertinently - Jasper Leyland or Mole Harness.

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Ulf Schütte - Summer Ist Äther

Label:Meudiademorte
Format:CDr,Album
Country:Germany
Released:Jul 2007
Genre:Electronic,Non-Music
Style:Krautrock,Drone,Noise,Experimental,Ambient
Notes:Total time:25:09

Tracklisting:

1 - Untitled 1 (8:00)
2 - Untitled 2 (4:53)
3 - Untitled 3 (5:10)
4 - Untitled 4 (3:09)
5 - Untitled 5 (3:57)

from label:

Ulf Schütte is the dude behind a couple of Meudiademorte Releases. 1/2 of Aosuke , Cones or Scanners, the man behind Shivers, Member of Datashock and Labelhead of Tape Tektoniks. His first Solo output under his real name is a modular synth madness. could be a sound track to lucio fulci's worst nightmare. wasteland, end time and post nuclear war sounds. heavy in the 70ies. the score to a yet to be done / never to be made zombi flick." limited to 25 copies

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Troum - Objectlessness

Label: Faria Records
Catalog#: FAR-16
Format: CD, Album, Reissue, Limited Edition
Country:Russia
Released:25 Feb 2008
Genre: Electronic
Style: Abstract, Drone

Tracklisting:

1.		(Pre)-Symbolism
2.		Echoes Of A Boundless Existence

There is a big gap between "rational", verbal language and the pre-symbolic language of our emotional and unconscious mind. Music is perceived partly with our conscious mind, who can analyze it and reflect on it. On another part, it is perceived by our unconsciousness, by our "primal consciousness" that lies "under" the rational mind.
The idea: Experimental music, especially that of a more droning character, can easier "get in touch" or be unconsciously connected with this primal state of mind. It is music that is linked with unconscious fantasies coming from a pre-verbal sphere of existence... the phase of life based on the dyadic interaction with the "primal object", the mother.
At this early stage, there's no awareness existing of being a full separated Subject, and no other full separated Objects can be perceived. Inner and outer reality is the same. Spheric, droning, dissolving music is pointing unconsciously at this "objectless" sphere of existence. This release is dedicated to the idea of an especially formed "pre-symbolic" music.
Artwork conception contain 4 cards and cover with art from english creator Pete Burn.

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Claudio Rocchetti - Another Piece Of Teenage Wildlife

Label: die. Schachtel
Released: 2008
Style: Acoustic, Ambient, Drone

from label:

Taking plaintive tones of drone music and early electronic and tape experiments, 3/4hadbeeneliminated former member Claudio Rocchetti has absolutely defined a sound, building a subtle, majestic landscape. Using awide variety of instruments (synth, tone generators, organs, guitar, tape machines) he creates an absorbing sound that is mainly layers of loopsfading in and over each other, ethereal vocals, repetition, melody, noise. An emotional resonance with a tinge of melancholia that permeates every moment
and creates a sense of longing and nostalgia.

Tracklisting:

1 Wasted Years (0:57)
2 We Got In Touch, Talked On The Phone (6:51)
3 Auf Gebautem Bauen (9:41)
4 It Was Purely Accidental, He Said (5:50)
5 I Miss You Like Hell (16:09)
6 I' m Broken, I Just Wanna Go Home (3:25)

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P Jørgensen - Lets The Sun Drag Itself Out Into A Long Ray

Label:Monotype Records
Format:CD,Album
Country:Poland
Released:24 Sep 2007
Genre:Electronic
Style:Ambient,Drone
Notes:Total time:35:09

Tracklisting:

1 - Ava (9:38)
2 - Sun-Hwa (7:25)
3 - Onassis (2:19)
4 - July/Julee (4:05)
5 - Maxine (7:49)
6 - E (3:53)

p jørgensen is a composer & sound artist based in copenhagen, denmark. his current work is primarily based on heavily computerprocessed acoustic instruments and field recordings which are turned into luminous textures, crystalline tones and vibrant ambient drones.“recalling an early experiment at the age of twelve that involved overdubbing worn cassette tapes so many times that several recordings were heard on top of each other, j ørgensen has been devoting his pieces to a study of composition, chance, and the intersection between the two for the past few years. though indeterminacy and generative systems play a significant role in the software he uses to create the tracks, he’s also interested in simply creating special, inimitable spaces within the sounds. by focusing on timbre and texture, jørgensen’s atmospheric tracks seem to take on the properties of a morning’s fog or the glow of reflected light.”

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Lau Nau - Nukkuu

Label:Locust
Format:CD
Released:May 2008
Genre:Electronic
Style:Experimental,Folk,Psychodelic
Notes:Total time:40:25

Tracklisting:

1 - Lue Kartalta (4:29)
2 - Painovoima Valoa (5:00)
3 - RuususuU (4:13)
4 - Rubiinilasia (5:04)
5 - Lahtolaulu (4:42)
6 - Maapahkinapuu (5:58)
7 - Mooste (1:53)
8 - Jouhet (4:30)
9 - Vuoren Laelle (4:37)

from label:

Nukkuu (Finnish for Sleeps) is the long awaited sophomore album by celebrated Finnish folk fave Lau Nau. Nukkuu is psychedelic, abstract & emotionally captivating. Nukkuu is an album of changes.In the years since her debut album Kuutarha, Laura became a mother, moved to the Finnish countryside and took valuable time to carve out a space for her enchanted art in the new found tranquility of her remote surroundings.Conceived in tight attics & vacant dens on off hours when her young son Nuutti was fast asleep, this is an intimately crafted 9 song collection that unfolds like dreamlike musical ribbons for the senses and delivers the listener to a place of unhurried contentedness.

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Paavoharju - Laulu Laakson Kukista

Label:Fonal Records
Format:CD,Album,Fold-out Card Sleeve
Country:Finland
Released:14 May 2008
Genre:Electronic
Style:Modern Classical,Ambient,Experimental,Neofolk
Notes:Total time:35:03

Tracklisting:

1 - Pimeänkarkelo (3:56)
2 - Kevätrumpu (3:56)
3 - Tuoksu Tarttuu Meihin (3:43)
4 - Italialaisella Laivalla (3:49)
5 - Alania (0:49)
6 - Uskallan (3:20)
7 - Ursulan Uni (2:36)
8 - Kirkonväki (3:46)
9 - Salainen Huone (1:07)
10 - Tyttö Tanssii (3:51)
11 - Sumuvirsi (3:06)
12 - Untitled (1:04)

BOOMKAT REVIEW:

It's hard to pin down precisely what it is that's so alluring about Finland's hugely acclaimed Paavoharju, but the consensus seems to have been that their remarkable debut album "Yha Hamaraa" quite simply managed to marry a myriad disjointed influences and sound sources without ever sounding like it was trying too hard. If you've never heard the music of Paavoharju, prepare yourself for one of life's more considerable and uncontained pleasures. They are a band who take in influence from the "Radio India" style shortwave pop transmissions of the Sublime Frequencies label, freak folk, Europop, modern classical, plunderphonics, choral, devotional, experimental and multicoloured music of almost every description imaginable - and yet they embody a specific sound that's unmistakably their own. Their aforementioned debut "Yha Hamaraa" made such an impact when it first came out that it seemed to unify music critics and the buying public from all ends of the musical spectrum, worshipped by chin-stroking journalists and passers by alike - one of those records that you could play almost anywhere and guarantee people would virtually queue to ask who it was by and where they could buy it. Their long awaited follow-up "Laulu Laakson Kukista" does that remarkable thing and doesn't disappoint. The scope and energy here is once again impossible to contain - opening with drone washes, de-tuned music box tones and vocals degraded by worn down analogue tape, it sounds like a day in the park, a far away ice cream van, an orchestra rehearsing and Fennesz doing a soundcheck all at the same time. From there we go to "Kevätrumpu" - an absolutely genius generic jamboree that sounds like Kylie Minogue playing with a backing band that's half Finnish folk and half Bolywood session band, recorded to a four-track recorder that's been thrown into the sea and discovered 20 years later by some fortunate anthropologist. Heck, there are even some Autechre-style rhythmic distortions towards the end of the track - you just couldn't make it up, and it sounds SO good. Next - "Tuoksu Tarttuu Meihin" takes in some far away solo piano and quietly malfunctioning distortion pedals in a Tim Hecker meets Akira Rabelais sort of fashion, while "Ursulan Uni" sounds like a cross between Isan and Philip Jeck - and is just utterly beautiful. It's virtually impossible to sum up the sheer brilliance and scope of this schizophrenic yet brilliantly coherent album, it shimmers with all the excitement and knowledge of a seemingly endless stream of influence and once again manages to sound unlike anything you'll have ever heard before in your life. And believe us when we say that recommendations really don't come much higher than that. An utterly Essential Purchase.

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Sawako - Bitter Sweet

Label:12k
Catalog#: 12k1047
Format: CD, Album
Country:US
Released:May 2008
Genre: Electronic
Style: Minimal, Ambient

Tracklisting:

1		Wind Shower Particle (7:20)
2		April ~ From Sea Shell (3:08)
		Edited By - Radiosonde (2) Other [Processed By] - Radiosonde (2) Producer - Radiosonde (2)
3		Deep Under (4:34)
4		Looped Labyrinth, Decayed Voice (9:34)
5		Ex.o.tico (2:10)
6		H u g b u g (9:50)
7		Utouto (4:01)
		Cello - Jess Ivry Edited By - Ryan Francesconi Guitar - Ryan Francesconi Mixed By [Co-mixing] - Ryan Francesconi Other [Processed By] - Ryan Francesconi Producer - Ryan Francesconi Violin - Lila Sklar
8		Tsubomi, Saku (4:59)
9		A Last Next (3:31)

Another great microsound transmission from the 12k camp, Sawako's Bitter Sweet comes as a follow-up to a string of works for And/Oar, Anticipate and 12k's own Hum (released as her debut album for the label in 2005). At her best, Sawako explores a hyper-real, spectrally filtered dreamscape of sounds, glistening in your ears to the point where it's almost overwhelming. Her bright, gleaming sound matter just floods into you, which, speaking synaesthetically, isn't entirely unlike the sensation of walking from a darkened room into the bright sunshine of a summer day. These subtly melodic soundscapes are incredibly tactile, fusing both instrumental and field recorded sources and then treating the end product with an unusual and comprehensive barrage of post-production techniques. At its best, you end up with compositions like 'April -From Sea Shell', which despite its cloyingly twee title is actually a thing of striking beauty. It doesn't always work out in such a wholeheartedly successful fashion, however. As is so often the case with 12k releases nowadays, unnecessary acoustic instrumentation threatens to tip the music into a kind of pastoral banality, never more frustratingly than on 'Utouto', whose cello and violin drones work beautifully, only to be unnecessarily augmented by slightly irritating, filtered acoustic guitar sounds, which really add nothing to the record. This kind of meandering, ornamental material just seems superfluous and brushes with an aesthetic that comes perilously close to branding itself as 'child-like', surely one of the most damning euphemisms for inconsequentiality you could ever level at an artist. This transpires to be a fairly minor blip though, barely tarnishing the track itself let alone the album as a whole. After a series of wonderfully obscure compositions, the album eventually concludes on 'Last Next', a vocal piece that toys with the idea of being an actual, proper song. To some this might come as a jarringly direct gesture on an otherwise wonderfully obscure album, but it's only fair to permit the artist this richly deserved curtain call.

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Stephan Mathieu - Radioland

Label: die. Schachel
Released: 2008
Style: Ambient, Drone

from label:

Radioland is Stephan Mathieu's long awaited 5th full length studio work, following his acclaimed The Sad Mac CD from 2004. Exclusively based on real-time processed shortwave radio signals, Radioland takes the listener on a carpet ride across endless, majestic shimmering landscapes. Radioland is a mesmerizing reflection on the bubble of information thats all around us, all the time, by one of the truly unique minds in today's abstract digitalia

Tracklisting:

1 Raphael (10:04)
2 Gabriel (10:02)
3 Michael (10:08)
4 Promenade (5:06)
5 Auf der Gasse (5:03)
6 Licht und Finsternis zum Auge (8:20)
7 Prolog i Himmel (7:05)

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Vaznis - Tremulant Tympanum

Label: Wise Owl Records
Released: 2008
Style: Ambient, Experimental

Before I even listened to Vaznis's new album, I had a good feeling about him. It might have been the Zelda pictures he had as his album art on myspace, or the fact that his album is free for download, regardless I had high hopes. Vanzis states "music should be free. enjoi," and enjoi I did.
I am happy to say that Tremulant Tympanum did not let me down. I have never been a huge fan of instrumental artists. Acts like Godspeed You! Black Emperor have always left me bored. Vaznis managed to keep me entertained throughout the entire album which I consider to be a huge success for an instrumental piece. His different sounds flow nicely together to put out a powerful stream of pure emotion. Since there are no words, he relies entirely on his guitar, drums, and whatever else he might use to portray his feelings. Even wordless it is always easy to tell what he is trying to get across.
In the future, I hope Vanzis considers picking up some band members to play live shows. His music is exactly the kind of sound experimental enthusiasts live for, and nothing is better than a fantastic experimental band playing live.
All in all, the album is quite solid and deserves any positive recognition it gets. That is why I give 'Tremulant Tympanum' four stars out of five (five out of five on the next if he adds an ocarina).

Tracklisting:

1 Bak0n v2 (6:17)
2 Black Babydoll (5:22)
3 Scrape (2:03)
4 Munich (6:46)
5 My Favorite Color Is Green (7:11)
6 Humility (4:38)
7 Nasa (7:27)
8 Untitled (3:06)

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David Tagg - Cold Spring Harbor EP

Label:Magnanimous Records
Format:CDr,Mini,EP
Country:US
Released:05 Apr 2008
Genre:Electronic
Style:Ambient
Notes:Total time:20:36

Tracklisting:

1 - Suspended Above Power Lines (6:19)
2 - November (3:48)
3 - Mary (3:52)
4 - Gold Painted House (6:44)

from label:

This immersive and textural work is culled from the artist's collection of home recordings produced years ago by his grandfather. Tagg's patient, surreal treatments to these recordings illustrates our connections to the past using layered yet spatial drones that provide a timeless, multi-generational, musical communication.

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John Davis - The Gold Hooped Nature

Label: Root Strata
Released: 2008
Style: Experimental

from label:

'The Gold Hooped Nature' is the debut long player by California dreamer John Davis. Picking up where his 3" CD-R 'At Home And Afeild' left off, this disc is a scenic set of audio drift that easily zigzags dense passages of analog crunch as well as blank vistas of crystalline tones via guitars, found sounds, contact microphones, tape speed oscillations, field recordings and a small battery of effects. John's study as a Filmmaker & Photographer definitely plays some roll here, with any number of landscapes (real or imagined, inner or outer) being brought to mind. Way less head than heart though, with plenty of these tracks dipped in a romantic glaze that betrays any tendency to over conceptualize drone / ambient / whatever music. It's more wide-eyed sunset, lost west coast stargazing than that. And I suspect the endless Midwest horizons of John's youth are in there as well.

Tracklisting:

1 Before & Since (2:52)
2 Hudibras (5:41)
3 Queen Mab's Chariot (7:11)
4 Moral Frost (2:10)
5 Difficulty Climbing (5:49)
6 Half Consumed (1:28)
7 Blood Rust (5:20)
8 The Forlorn Bookworm (1:08)
9 Naumkeag (3:37)

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Thurston Moore - Black Weeds / White Death

Label:Meudiademorte
Format:Cassette,C40
Country:Germany
Released:Feb 2007
Genre:Electroni
Style:Noise,Drone
Notes:Total time:37:16

Tracklisting:

A - Black Weeds (18:18)
B - White Death (18:58)

New solo album from Thurston that dovetails beautifully with the feathers of feedback drone that dominated Flipped-Out Bride. This one starts with the same kind of phantom electricity before dovetailing into railroads of gloriously overloaded guitar, all cut into chunks of singing fuzz. Some absolutely wild playing here that touches on Haino's form circa The Book Of Eternity Set Aflame. Limited to only 200 copies and housed in a full-colour 8x6 inch art pack. Recommended.

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Brael And Tokyo Bloodworm - Living Languages

Label: Moteer
Released: 2008
Style: Modern Classical, Experimental

from Boomkat:

Following on from last week's digital sampler, the Moteer label deliver this gorgeous album from new signings Brael/Tokyo Bloodworm who combine intricate sound treatments with elements of dense, reduced shoegaze, lilting pop and breathless drones with an exquisite attention to detail. The scene is set perfectly on opening track "Saturn Shine", slowly coming to life with diffuse vocal whispers layered in a manner reminiscent of Grouper's fabulous "Way Their Crept" album, before distilled, shimmering glockenspiel and vibraphone make your spine tingle. Stephanie Flood's vocals finally emerge from this velvet arrangement with a subdued, almost downcast undercurrent that provides the track with depth and dimension, bringing to mind bands like The Cranes or Slowdive merged with the other-worldly bliss of Japanese home listening from the likes of Piana or Gutevolk. It's immeasurably moving, beautiful music. "Golden Mean Rectangle", meanwhile, introduces an acoustic guitar to the equation, with a swirl of instruments and found sounds coming across like something off the recent Philip Jeck album strummed along to under a tree in the middle of the desert - intimate and somehow disjointed music evocative of youth and long, slowly unfolding summers. One of album's loveliest moments, however, comes with "Seed" - a fractured love song taken straight out of the Remote Viewer school of thought, revolving around melodies frayed and caressed by miniature processes and aural degradation, the barely audible hum of machines offering an indefinable backdrop for cascading keys and a stream of words half spoken, half sung. Brael / Tokyo Bloodworm have provided Moteer with the most sumptuous and fragile 40 minutes in their catalogue to date - and another debut we absolutely implore you to discover. ESSENTIAL PURCHASE.

Tracklisting:

1 Saturn Shine (9:00)
2 Moss Grown Weary (3:18)
3 Morning Of The World (5:44)
4 Golden Mean Rectangle (5:22)
5 Seed (4:52)
6 Blue Fields (5:58)
7 Magic Wand (5:36)

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Cloudland Canyon - Lie In Light

Label:Kranky
Released:2008
Style:Psychedelic Rock

Tracklisting:

1-Krautwerk (6:57)
2-White Woman (5:54)
3-You & I (6:25)
4-Scheiße Schatzi, Auf Wiedersehen (4:10)
5-Heme (6:59)
6-Lie in Light (5:33)
7-Mothlight Part 1 (2:59)

Cloudland Canyon deliver on the promises of a kraut-rock epic hinted at by their previous releases with their full length debut on kranky. The album traverses a breadth of sounds, embracing funky treadmill grooves, swelling synthesizer baths, and bucolic psych jaunts.
Between their Silver Tongued Sisyphus EP and their collaboration with Lichens on Holy Mountain, it was obvious big things could be expected from this duo. On those releases, it felt as though Cloudland Canyon were holding in the reigns, and giving us merely a taste of where their sound could go. Here Simon and Kip let loose and discharge their fullest noise yet.
"Krautwerk" begins with a swath of beautifully textured drones and synth washes that we've come to know these guys for, but soon ramps into a full-on groove living up to the song's title. Understated bass and percussion intermingle with squealing and wah'ed guitar perfectly. The clear and upfront vocal chants are a welcome addition to Cloudland Canyon's sound, which previously featured very little and over-effected voice. The track's beat never gets stale and comes to an end appropriately.
After the vibrant "White Woman," we get the obviously Cluster-inspired "You & I." A steady analog drum machine beat holds down the repeated shift between descending synthesizer sweeps and indiscernible but catchy vocalizations. You’re kept nodding until the tempo is drug to a snails-pace and the song is overtaken by an intoxicating waver and subtle distortions.
While hard to pick just one, "Heme" is the stand-out track on this record for me. After two minutes of soaring through the clouds, we're gently let down into a pasture where delicate keyed and plucked lines sift through the grass and into the ears. While this is perhaps the lightest moment on the album, it is also the most sonorous. The title-track follows and is an appropriately darker and intense juxtaposition. The closer, "Mothlight Part 1," is short lived but effective. It is certainly a happy note on the end of an album that runs the gamut of emotions.
Lie In Light is exactly what I was hoping to hear from Cloudland Canyon. While living up to the tradition of kosmiche musik and the 70’s kraut-rock masters, it doesn’t get bogged down in its roots and has carved out a unique space all its own.

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Lawrence English - Studies For Stradbroke

Label:winds measure recordings
Format:Cdr
Country:US
Released:7 April 2008
Genre:Electronic
Style:Field Recording
Notes:Total time:36:59

Tracklisting:

1 - Slide (Open) (5:35)
2 - Reeds Of Brown Lake (5:03)
3 - Intercepted Communications (3:27)
4 - Invented Tide (5:01)
5 - Terminal Motor (3:29)
6 - Slipping Grains (4:48)
7 - Rock Walls (2:09)
8 - Slide (Close) (7:27)

hydrophonic recordings made january and august 2007, Stradbroke Island, Queensland

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The Skull Defekts and Lasse Marhaug

Label:Meudiademorte
Format:Cassette,Limited Edition
Country:Germany
Released:Jul 2006
Genre:Electronic
Style:Noise
Notes:Total time:38:13

Tracklisting:

1 - Infekted Skulls (38:13)

"Infekted skulls" it is a live recording from oslo with LASSE MARHAUG recorded at Chateau Neuf in Oslo. The Skull Defekts is a four-headed beast consiting of Henrik Rylander( ex- Union Carbide Productions), Joachim Nordwall (ex KID COMMANDO, ALVARS ORKESTER , THE IDEALIST and he is also doing the awesome label IDEAL RECORDINGS ), Eric Olofsson & Jean-Louis Huhta. You may meet the band in different shapes. You may be treated well. Limited to 100 copies with Screenprinted fold-in card sleeve."

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Abandoned Place - Shadow Of Memory

Label:Thonar Records
Format:CD,Album
Country:Germany
Released:04 Apr 2008
Genre:Electronic
Style:Dark Ambient
Notes:Total time:1:00:05

Tracklisting:

1 - Untitled (7:02)
2 - Untitled (7:25)
3 - Untitled (10:41)
4 - Untitled (9:33)
5 - Untitled (5:04)
6 - Untitled (5:26)
7 - Untitled (6:46)
8 - Untitled (8:07)

The debut album from french Dark Ambient artist Abandoned Place (sideproject of March Of Heroes!). Mastered by Frederic Arbour (Cyclic Law)

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Steve Stoll - Locate

Label: Locate
Released: 2008
Style: Ambient, Experimental

Steve has recently started a new cdr label entitled Locate.The label will focus on micro-sound, field recordings, experimental electronics, instillation projects, with an emphasis on experimentation and the furthering of electronic media.
Packaging for this first release is an opaque dvd box.All graphic and liner note elements are included on the cdr, of wich 50 physical copies will be made available.

"I began to program the source material used in these recordings three years ago and repurposed these loops based on my experiments in digital signal processing.Tools: homebuilt oscillator, ixi software, max/msp, ableton live. Effective listening at lower volume settings. "
Steve Stoll

Tracklisting:

1 Untitled 1 (5:06)
2 Untitled 2 (4:51)
3 Untitled 3 (4:28)
4 Untitled 4 (4:12)
5 Untitled 5 (8:50)
6 Untitled 6 (6:26)
7 Untitled 7 (3:34)
8 Untitled 8 (4:56)
9 Untitled 9 (5:31)

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Paul Wirkus / Mapstation - Forest Full Of Drums

Label: Staubgold
Released: 2008
Style: Experimental, Free Improvisation, Ambient

from Boomkat:

This collaboration between Paul Wirkus and Stefan Schneider finds the two musicians out on an expedition into the woods with a drumkit and recording equipment in tow. In getting back to nature Wirkus and Schneider manipulate and interact with their surroundings, dissolving Wirkus' percussive details in to the fabric of the forest itself. cymbals, branches and footsteps all intermingle to create a hive of sonic activity, all processed, mixed and edited by Schneider, resulting in a beautifully layered, immersive electroacoustic composition. It's like Chris Watson collaborating with Chris Corsano. Maybe. In any case, this is a great listen

Tracklisting:

1 Being With The Birds (1:15)
2 In Dialogue (2:59)
3 Summer Rain And Fading Plane (1:04)
4 Active Branches (1:35)
5 Cone, Crackle, Skin (2:01)
6 Distant Kit (1:36)
7 Circulation (1:57)
8 Autumn Wind (1:04)
9 Throwing Logs (1:10)
10 Cymbal Dog (1:38)
11 Between The Beeches (2:30)
12 The Story Tellers (0:37)
13 Air Modulation (3:56)
14 Darkness Arriving (1:20)
15 Animals Possible (2:45)

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Vadim Bondarenko - Smoking Music

Label:Faria Records
Format:CD,Album,Limited Edition
Country:Russia
Released:17 Mar 2008
Genre:Electronic
Style:Abstract,Ambient,Modern Classical
Notes:Total time:1:04:28

Tracklisting:

1 - Smoking Zone I (6:05)
2 - Smoking Zone II (4:50)
3 - Smoking Zone III (5:11)
4 - Smoking Zone IV (12:58)
5 - Smoking Zone V (13:30)
6 - Smoking Zone VI (5:06)
7 - Smoking Zone VII (9:45)
8 - Smoking Zone VIII (3:47)
9 - Smoking Zone IX (3:16)

from label:

The style of this music can be really named 'smoking music': it is delicate made melodic ambient compositions (9 Smoking Zones).To creatе this album Vadim used keyboards, clarinet, samples and piano. It is a good listening for everyone who likes misty ambient music and the creative work of Brian Eno or Harold Budd.

Born in St. Petersburg in 1972 Vadim Bondarenko makes music in different styles since 1998. Guidelines of his creative work: neoclassical, atmospheric and ambient melodic music. Before focusing on composition, he studied piano and clarinet.

V.B. is soloist of the orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre. In collaboration with the singer Polina Runovskaya and the soloist of the same orchestra Vladimir Shostak (double-bass) he founded acoustic ethno-jazz-meditative project RusHoBo Trio recorded three albums and regularly gives performances in Russia. The album "Smoking Music" was created in 2000-2004. The style of this music can be really named "smoking music": it is delicated made melodic ambient compositions.

Highly Recommended Folks ;)

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BJ Nilsen & Stilluppsteypa - Passing Out

Label:Helen Scarsdale Agency
Released:2008
Style:Experimental

Tracklisting:

1 Scandinavian Tourist (67:52)

The Nordic sound artists BJ Nilsen & Stilluppsteypa have authored the last component to a trilogy of isolationist compositions for barren field recordings and lumbering electric drones, thematically linked in the psychotropic effects of alcohol. In doing so, they have issued a brief statement in defense of their research: "It's been four years and three studies, Passing Out being the final. Even in its most general, colloquial usage, Passing Out indicates the occurrence of a state that is incompatible with active behavior. It is possible that the individual could experience both consciousness and unconsciousness at the same time while encountering Passing Out."
Yes, Passing Out is a crepuscular recording, with the flickering of twilight further dimmed by the distant Arctic sun in wintertime and the blackened numbness of too much drink. With one singular track that spans 60 minutes, a nearly constant thrum and rumble of monochromatic low frequencies casts a grim pall upon the precisely dialed-in modulations and vibrations. Spectral guitars, maudlin tunes from haunted radios, angrily growling voices, and field recordings of wind-whipped snow and ice bury themselves deep amidst these subharmonic drones. All of these tease at the edge of perception, sculpting the narrative of the drone into a vehicle for unhinged expressionism of varying degrees of horror, melancholy, beauty, and oblivion.
The Swedish born BJ Nilsen defines his work as "focused upon the sound of nature and its effects on humans, and the perception of time and space as experienced through sound." He has numerous recordings on Touch and has collaborated with the likes of Chris Watson, Christian Fennesz, and Z'ev. The Icelandic citizens Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson and Helgi Thorsson are Stilluppsteypa, whose electronic abstractions engage absurd theatrics that mar the pristine surface of minimalism.

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Cloaks - Serene

Label: Students Of Decay
Released: 2008
Style: Drone, Experimental

From Label:

Cloaks is the nom-de-plume of Spencer Doran, a Portland
based musician who also moonlights as a member of RV
Paintings. Doran employs acoustic piano, guitars and various
electronics to sublime effect. Obvious comparisons can be
made to the flurries of overtone piano that Charlemagne
Palestine has pioneered, but Doran truly has crafted an unique
and inspired voice of his own, weaving clouds of piano with
spiralling plumes of FX and warm gushes of plaintive guitar.
Positively magical.

Tracklisting:

1 Dream Tape Number One (35:32)
2 Improvisation For Guitar And Piano (5:03)

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Rumforskning - Himmelhvaelv

Label:Gears Of Sand
Format:CDr,Album
Country:US
Released:March 2008
Genre:Electronic
Style:Ambient,Drone
Notes:Total time:53:03

Tracklisting:

1 - Himmelhvælv (53:03)

Rumforskning is an ambient/drone duo operating in the field between wide soundscapes and cold glitchy textures. The project was formed by Danny Kreutzfeldt and Mads Weitling in 2003 and the project has always been driven by a need to deliver both atmospheric and challenging ambient music with emphasis on outer space as metaphor.

from label:

We are extremely proud to release this brand new work by one of our favorite groups out there, Rumforskning. Danny and Mads create the kind of sound of impermanence that strike to the core of the GoS aesthetic: minimal, haunting, but always evolving, however subtly.

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Datashock - Pox Ice Cream

Label:Tape Tektoniks
Format:CDr,Mini
Country:Germany
Released:Aug 2007
Genre:Electronic,Non-Music
Style:Krautrock,Noise,Experimental,Free Improvisation,Drone
Notes:Total time:17:00

Tracklisting:

1 - Untitled (10:20)
2 - Untitled (6:40)

“Pox Ice Cream” is the latest from Saarlouis, Germany´s free form collective Datashock who according to themselves play “Grusel Psych”, a description that is quite fitting for their moody soundscapes. Datashock is centered around Meudiademorte label owner Pascal Hector who gathers fellow musicians around him to put out tons of music on various formats and oftentimes as split releases with friends and likeminded bands.

The 3” CD-R “Pox Ice Cream” on Hamburg´s Tape Tektoniks label features two untitled tracks, both of which are quite different. The first one clocking in around ten minutes leaves any notion of time and space far behind. It´s one long piece of distant drones created with unidentifiable instruments that is seriously dislocating. The second shorter piece is sort of divided in three parts. The first part begins in an almost melodic fashion with dense drones being covered by percussion and reverbed vocal moans. Then it turns into an interplay of different instruments, background noises and more vocals while the third episode goes back to the beginning, but leaves the melodies behind and drifts off into space.

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Davenport Family - At the Foot of Zodiac Mountain

Label:Meudiademorte
Format:Cassette,Single Sided
Country:Germany
Released:28 Oct 2006
Genre:Electronic,Rock
Style:Psychedelic,Avantgarde,Free Improvisation,Experimental,Drone,Noise
Notes:Total time:32:41

Tracklisting:

1 - At The Foot Of Zodiac Mountain (32:41)

One sided 35minutes long jam. their very last jam withmask of the davenport clan on their faces, free-form improvisational folk performed on walpurgis, clay rubys brithday by clay ruby, t endless, woodman, johnny d, billy lee, nico kain, aaron laurant, tyler olson.limited to 230 copies.

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Ólafur Arnalds - Variations Of Static

Label:Erased Tapes Records
Format:CD
Country:Iceland
Released:2008
Genre:Electronic,Classical
Style:Modern Classical,Ambient
Notes:Total time:21:36

Tracklisting:

1 - Fok (4:29)
2 - Vid Vorum Sma... (2:22)
3 - Haust (5:28)
4 - Lokadu Auganum (3:45)
5 - Himininn Er Ad Hyrnja,En Stjornunar Fara
Per Vel (5:37)

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Fragile, emotional, classical indie music would maybe be the best term to describe Ólafur Arnalds’ music. Combining classical instrumentation with an indierock aesthetic there are obvious comparisons to Sigur Ros, but Arnalds is sculpting his own epic, string-laden compositions.

Only 21 years of age, Ólafur hails from the suburban Icelandic town, Mosfellsbær, just a few kilometres outside Reykjavík. He as immersed himself completely in the world of delicate symphonic compositions in a near weightless orchestral undertaking. Mixing strings and piano with loops, ambiance, electronics and beats. Debut album 'Eulogy for Evolution' (Now out in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, UK and Iceland!) takes the listener on a journey, representing different periods in life, from birth to death. The follow-up 5-track EP ‘Variations of Static’ so far has only been available as a limited tour edition. While keeping the classical foundations of his debut album, here Arnalds incorporates crackling electronics and the dead voice of a machine; like vague memories of tradition lost within the digital age we all live in.

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