microphones in the trees: cetacean nation cassettes
Showing posts with label cetacean nation cassettes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cetacean nation cassettes. Show all posts

Sunday, December 01, 2013

orphan fairytale


"second cassette we've put out by this girl,... 'Neverending Waves' is a reissue of a recent ultra-limited tour cdr by Eva Van Deuren. the album heads off with a beautiful potion of C.G.J. approved subconscious mood channelings made out of ideas taken from Javanese Court Gamelan music. after about seven minutes, the tones are shifting out into a lengthy, triple chapter, melancholic evocation of some sort of "Aguirre Opening Scene" style lushness. beautiful and endless..." cetacean nation cassettes


"Eva Van Deuren makes beautifully simplistic music using toys, sampling keyboards, vocals and electronics and Neverending Waves is one of her most ambitious sets, with music inspired by Javanese Gamelan and Popol Vuh’s soundtrack to Aguirre. on Lieven Martens of Dolphins Into The Future’s own imprint." volcanic tongue

sold out ~ download

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

lieven martens moana


"Lieven Martens Moana’s first album under his birth name marks an important shift in his oeuvre. while still indebted to the universe created under his moniker Dolphins Into The Future, ‘Music From The Guardhouse’ shows the Artist reaching the shores of his mental island, fully matured. this is where a new journey begins, a musical research program within the ‘composer genre’." kraak 

"here’s an LP from the man formerly known as Dolphins Into The Future, Lieven Martens Moana, a mixture of concretey field-recorded soundscapes, tape hiss, wibbly analogue synth tomfoolery and occasional spoken commentary which seems to be from Moana himself. on the first side alone we have a lengthy passage of hiss and field recordings and sporadic piano tinkles, followed by a wibbly midi-synth passage with abstract, brightly layered synths plinking and plonking in a chaotic yet relaxing manner which brings to mind the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and Vernon Elliott’s magical score from ‘The Clangers’, finishing on a field recorded beach scene with weirdly sped-up bird calls which sound totally alien. over on the other side is a single long track ‘As Falesias’, which opens with dramatic soundtracky neoclassicism before delving into plangent analogue soundscapery with a sinister edge, with lots of swelling, quavering drones and continued subtle orchestral touches which sound like they’ve been beamed in from the 1950s. It’s a weird alien nostalgic excursion which will confuse and relax you." norman records
 

Thursday, March 14, 2013

lieven moana


"computer music b/w electronic music. two side long sonatas. these two compositions sound vaguely like the next cassette in this list, yet unlike "Two Colours... " , this release is truly composed and more sparsely excecuted. i've studied for years, for years.... (ah ah ah) the a side is a midi tracking of the life under the Umbrella Pine the b side is a personal tracking of the sensual movements of The Island in classical music. this is the first official release under my own name. (c.q. Dolphins Into The Future 2007 - 2012)"




"fieldrecordings and writings from the Gulf Stream. i little study on observational writing and impressionistic field recording, an evocation of both the sunset and the sunrise in this glorious Stream Of Consciousness. sounds of rain, waves touching the harbor quay, many birds, farmers in their trucks, the surf, winds, branches, breakers, dew, chanticleers, dogs, crickets, etc. counterpointed w/ writings about all these and much more." lieven moana


"so here it is. a final salute to ur days of love and research on the Açores archipelago. a final collection of text and sound, collected at our then temporary homes. the Isles of Pico and Flores. these sounds are compiled and mixed as being sounds you would hear in a (day) dream. by means that every extant detail is amplified, enlarged. and all the lenghts are altered for the internal dream logic. as being the listener through the looking glass. these sounds are definitly not meant as being the collected participants in a contest. a contest of recordings the most weirdest, strangest sound in nature. i leave this game upto the more materialistic either luxurious minds in field recordings. "to each one his own zone", as Spence Clark would put it." lieven moana

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

kandahar


"on demand: a small extra run of this extremely nice historical recording. two lovely minimal compositions, recorded in 1982 by this Belgian prog / jazz band, for the Samuel Beckett play "Spel". a soft mix of guitars and synth using the memory moog, korg sigma and fender strato. recorded on a fostex tape recorder. originally released on Hara Productions in 1983 as "Kandahar: Spel - Samuel Beckett" on cassette. (first edition of 150 copies in yellow covers. second edition of 50 copies in grey covers. out of print!)" edições cetacean nation communications

"weird soundtrack reissue from Lieven Martens of Dolphins Into The Future’s imprint, two minimal compositions recorded in 1982 by this progressive Belgian group as a soundtrack to Samuel Beckett’s play Spel. guitar, synth and percussion... " volcanic tongue

otra burbuja de nostalgia y placidez, otra preciosísima delicatessen a baja fidelidad del sello de Lieven Martens. la cara b es puro elixir sonoro, sintetizadores vintage que harían las delicias de Miaux... no sabría cómo definir el sonido del memorymoog y el korg sigma pero es como si brotase directamente de planetas desconocidos, una sensación parecida a lo que me produce el theremin, instrumentos que de tan bonitos, evocadores y anacrónicos no parecen reales

out of print ~ download

Friday, September 07, 2012

dolphins into the future


"Dolphins into the Future is one Lieven Martens, a Belgian currently living in the Azores, who has since 2007 steadily released a number of albums, EP’s, 7”s and tapes on a variety of hip and homespun labels. 28th March sees the long-awaited CD release of Dolphins into the Future’s acclaimed cult 2009 LP ‘…On Sea-Faring Isolation’, an album previously released on cassette by Martens’ own label, Cetacean Nation, and on vinyl by Not Not Fun. In addition to the original tracklisting, the Fonal re-issue includes a 15 minute bonus track ‘Various Possible Notes and Timbres of the Mental Unit Molecule’, recorded in 2011 on Okapoka Island. ...Dolphin’s vision is as smudged and somnambulant, but very much of itself. Amorphous and carefully framed, Martens’ sound landscapes place field recordings and lo-fi instrumentation on a democratic plane, to create one seamless mass of bubbling percussive flow. But if Martens taps into a pool of tropical references, such influences are relayed from an unashamedly outside perspective, a deliberate refraction of nature, a re-imagined idyll, that shows him to be as close in spirit to the Romantics, or perhaps even film maker Jean Painlevé’s surreal take on aquatic life." fonal


no puedo evitar emocionarme con esta tercera reedición de on~sea faring isolation, el disco mágico de lieven martens, al que más cariño le tengo, cuya portada, sólo verla, me produce cosquilleos y cuyas influencias van más allá de lo musical... el disco clima, orgánico, burbujeante, por excelencia, de los que tienes que contenerte para no ponerlo todos los días, al acostarte, al levantarte o al ir en bicicleta un día soleado... y si ese día también suena 'like glass' de charlatan será el día perfecto. tiene algo de secuencia onírica de viejos documentales submarinos, flota y avanza y evoca a una roadmovie bajo el mar que no parece real, una preciosa colección de sonidos marinos y mantras electrónicos donde caben delfines, el sonido de las cuerdas que amarran las barcas retorciéndose y balanceándose suavemente con el vaivén de las olas del mar, sintetizadores abstractos new age, grillos, gaviotas, pingüinos, una luz muy blanca, la calma y la relajación... pero lo que verdaderamente importa es el aura, la emoción, el eterno compromiso de lieven con la vida acuática, esa sensación de aislamiento, de sumergirte en el paraíso, de estar ante algo muy especial, ese algo indescriptible que tienen muy pocos discos. como regalo, la reedición de fonal incluye una canción de quince minutos grabada en la Isla de Okapoka que, si no me equivoco, es una variación de la cara b de 'a star maker, strange dreams, and clairvoyance'. más cosas de los delfines, aquí.

Monday, June 25, 2012

lieven moana


"a new composition using only field recordings. this composition is a poem. a poem of symbolical sounds. sounds, which are made by various invisible residents. representing signals, which haul a mysterious language. a flux of information, pattered by the grand Dorsal Meso-Atlântica. that magical, giant blowhole. which releases minute sprouts. which produces the notes, rhythms and timbres of an orchestrated piece.... the hot water, as being its conductor. sounds recorded on location at Ilha Do São Miguel and Ilha Das Flores, Açores. composed, mixed and recorded at Cetacean Nation Studios, Antwerp, Belgium." cetacean nation communications


"Lieven Moana, también conocido como Lieven Martens alias Dolphins into the Future, profundiza en el mundo de las grabaciones de campo con una cinta que documenta los sonidos de la Ilha São Miguel e Ilha Das Flores, dos de las islas que componen las Azores. Lieven captura el canto apacible de los pájaros y otros sonidos de la isla, ya sea una brisa suave, el susurro de las hojas o el incesante fluir del agua. me recuerda a los documentales de vida salvaje y no puedo evitar pensar que Lieven podría haber dejado escapar su vocación natural como técnico de sonido para la BBC. si te gustan las últimas grabaciones de Dolphins, esta cinta también lo hará." business lady


Monday, May 28, 2012

dolphins into the future


"limited reissue of the two Voyage cassettes, previously released on Skulls Of Heaven and Pacific City. all tracks are remasterd and some are remixed and re-editted."

"Dolphins Into The Future es el proyecto de Lieven Martens, artista belga dueño de Cetacean Nations. como ya pueden imaginar, todo lo relacionado con Lieven y su música se referirá a diversos ambientes acuáticos. es una mezcla entre ambient, algo de tribal y field recordings oceánicos, muy rico de escuchar. Lieven trabaja también como embajador de la Nación Cetácea, un organismo científico reconocido por la mismísima ONU que se dedica a proteger e investigar los Océanos del mundo. es apasionante ver cómo esto se refleja en sus trabajos, mezclando arte y ciencia, muy en la onda de Oneohtrix Point Never y Stellar Om Source, Caboladies, Panabrite... esa onda. disfruten!" vaka

sold out ~ download

Thursday, April 12, 2012

shark flakes


"a beautiful 60's style radio play by Joker & Edith. originally created for a theater / puppet play by Joke Van De Casteele (meet her at Homey!). Edith Vandenhoeck plays in EekhoornX (together with Orphan Fairytale). the sound is the dreamworld of Raymond Scott commercials and kiddy pools." tomentosa


cajas de música y monitores de signos vitales, latidos de corazón, risas de bebés, burbujas y chapoteos, sintonías musicales de anuncios y dibujos animados, cetáceos, juegos, campanas, zumbidos de abejas y avionetas, timbres de bicicleta, kalimbas, olas, burbujas, burbujas, burbujas...otra miniatura en cassette del sello de lieven moana, ambiental, rosa y acuático, tan placentero y orgánico que podrías escucharlo durante horas hasta quedarte plácidamente dormida

Friday, April 06, 2012

miaux


"Mia Prce. a mother, a lover, a piano player. Étude Des Têtus is her third limited run release, after a self-released cassette and a nice 7" for the Ultra Eczema recordlabel. this current cassette holds four compositions. all organically scored, played and recorded "with two hands". forming an unintentional, beautiful and singular take on 1950's styled "keyboard exotica". if you are a thinker like me, and always wished Korla Pandit was a woman instead of a man ~ since we all know, women are better "dreamers" than man ~ here's your chance! (edition of 100 copies. last copies!)" taped sounds

"she only needs a keyboard for her instant-dream compositions that float between childhood cartoon memories and repetitive light version of your favorite fitness soundtrack" kraak


deliciosa y entrañable, como una película de ed wood, como lonesome mountain y no clouds today. tanto con tan poco. y que se publique en el sello marino de lieven moana hace que sea incluso más apetecible...me encantaría tener un sello sólo por el placer de poder publicar cosas así

foto: fort 8, scheld'apen, july 2011 by mark rietveld

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"...miaux slowly moved towards to a small free standing yamaha keyboard. the way miaux started playing, the peace that her face was carrying and the magical sparkling shoes she was wearing, fill the whole room with a different type of joy. miaux music and performance added something very particular to the exhibition and to our evening, she added gentleness and perfume" inspire me, again

Sunday, July 17, 2011

l.r.j. martens & ada van hoorebeke

"L.R.J. Martens aka Dolphins Into The Future presents two 'Eternal Landscapes' inspired by the artwork of Ada Van Hoorbeke. These landscapes were recorded at the Cetacean Nation Studios in Antwerp, and at Wiels, Brussels, in 2010 and cover similarly tropical aquatic zones as Lievens is best known for. The first expanse is a trip through tropical mangroves soundtracked by chirruping bird calls, trickling polynesian rhythms and a nocturnal chorus of unidentified animalicula, maybe... The other side feels like we're on land, in a humid downpour listening to a novice gamelan orchestra zonked on the heat but compelled to keep playing beautifully out of time. Immersive." boomkat

tropical field recordings beneath the ocean como pequeños viajes bonitos por selvas y océanos donde suenan pájaros, búhos, delfines, metalófonos, xilófonos, tambores, gongs, cantos nocturnos de animales no identificados, agua...

Sunday, January 31, 2010

duncan cameron

"Duncan Cameron is an alias of Lieven Martens, the dutch dude behind Dolphins Into The Future...side a is the story of his voyage, side b are the strange glyphs and fires he experiences at the temple." mimaroglu/the decibel tolls