brett naucke / bil vermette

brett naucke ~ home by now (field studies, 2012)

"In an instant Presence wells around you. Naucke (Face Worker, Catholic Tapes) moves deftly through this suite of ambient works, filling the stereo field with dense timbral structures, transcending placid drift through a series of oblique compositional transforms. Resounding polyphony gathers and crests, interrupted by radiophonic counterpoint, reforming, and finally resolving into an alive, dynamic stillness."

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bil vermette ~ archives I (field studies, 2012)

"In the late 70s Bil Vermette set out to harness new synth technology and the evolving vocabulary of electronic music to realize his own internal music. Selected from a collection of rediscovered recordings, “Archives I” brings light to the early environments and motifs that would reappear in his private-press LP “Katha Visions” and later self-released works. Through these quiet, late night home studio reflections and short themes for film, join Bil on his long trail to Katha"

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pequeñas leyendas reactivadas, como JD Emmanuel, Iasos o Vil Bermette, gracias a pequeños grandes sellos como Rotifer, Sonic Meditations, Sun Ark y Field Studies, definitivamente otro minúsculo sello repleto de tesoros: Panabrite, Quicksails, Floating Gardens, Lunar Miasma, Golden Donna..., buscando música más allá del silencio, en cualquier lugar. "this is beyond wonderful". gracias, eric

fotos: gandhidandi & robin mellway

dolphins into the future

dolphins into the future ~ ...on sea~faring isolation (fonal reissue, 2012)

"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.

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david morris & simon drinkwater

david morris & simon drinkwater (red river dialect) ~ split (self~released, 2012)

"Simon & I are releasing our cd of solo instrumentals in a limited edition of 50. Some of you who pre-ordered 'awellupontheway' already have this, hope you're enjoying it. The album features 10 tracks by myself & Simon Drinkwater, a songwriter who also plays electric guitar in Red River Dialect. Mine are primarily "solo acoustic" & Simon's touch on drone & raga whilst still featuring his acoustic picking & the occasional harp.

It comes in a fancy black card sleeve, with pasted on artwork and an insert. Once these 50 are gone that's it, we won't make any more. They will begin shipping on August 27th, but if you buy a copy you'll receive a download immediately."

foto: randy p. martin

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sylvia monnier

suspended time

hobo cubes / reedbeds

hobo cubes ~ slow summer soul (old frontiers, 2011)

"Hobo Cubes is Montreal’s Francesco De Gallo. On Slow Summer Soul, he digs away at the concept of summer listlessness. Approaching the solstice time stretches its legs, and then gives way to increasingly shorter summer days. There’s a point in the evening, as the sun is setting, where its colour intensifies and imparts a recognition that nothing lasts forever, not even summer. That’s where this music lives." old frontiers

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reedbeds ~ heirloom garden (old frontiers, 2012)

"Reedbeds is Sacramento’s Carter Mullin. Ornate guitar loops transport us to a botanical garden for a nature walk at dawn. Appropriately titled, Heirloom Rust Garden takes long deep breaths. These waves of sound gently construct spiritual origami. Inner wellness ensues." old frontiers

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"save on shipping by buying both August tapes by Hobo Cubes & Reedbeds"

zack kouns

zack kouns ~ returning home from dark countries (self~released, 2012)

"Zack Kouns is author, graphic artist, adventurer, theosophist and composer from Ohio. Despite the rarity of his public appearances though, he is known to be prolific with his release of recorded music on boutique labels including Chocolate Monk, Bumtapes, Isle of Man and Tired Trails. He is drawing from experimental music, folk and lo-fi jazz, religion, mythology, ancient history, and romantic philosophy."

"human voice, tenor and alto saxophone, clarinet, trumpet, temple blocks, chinese opera gong, tape manipulation, violin, banjo, reel to reel tape recorder, piano, accordion, whirly, piers as empty as arms, congas, synthesizers, tunnels, electronics, roto toms, timbales, duck call, slide whistle, ukelele, zither, theremin, turtle from a junk shop in Missouri, night time, balalaika, native american flute, kalimba, bamboo xylophone, organ, chanter, whispers, silence and space, tremolo harmonica, agogo, elephant bells, drills, translucent recorder, thunder tube, flute, painful passages, drum kit, thin purplish scar, fire bells, hubcaps, bodies of water, cello, sitar, shruti, electronic bagpipes, melodica, bandoneon, harp, silence, chant, dulcimer, omnichord, harmonium, carrying everything with him that he thought had died"

zack kouns es la américa profunda, profundísima... me deja literalmente sin aire, no hay nadie que se parezca ni remotamente a él, es como de otra época, estratosférico, espiritual, poderoso, un vendaval donde la voz y el saxo lo dominan todo, como si en vez de cantar invocase. 'returning home from dark countries' es uno de esos pequeños grandes discos que enamoran sin esfuerzo, basta con leer los títulos y escuchar la primera canción, 'father is dead', para caer rendida. catalogado por el propio zack como 'hermetic hillbilly', hay detalles que le alejan un poco, sólo un poco, del sonido de sus otros discos. intuyo, aunque a lo mejor me equivoco, que fue grabado tras la muerte de su padre. es tan emotivo y profundo y a la vez espontáneo como 'young prayer' de panda bear (siendo zack lo opuesto a la dulzura juvenil del oso panda). de alguna forma también me hace pensar en valerio cosi: ese saxo, sólo ellos dos pueden hacerlo sonar de una forma tan evocadora y fascinante. voces, palmas, órganos 'luctuosos',...en 'father, let me see your hands' canta 'father, i want you to swimming in the sea'...creo que eso es lo que dice y no sé porqué pero me pone la piel de gallina, ...el título en sí no puede ser más bonito y decir tanto. tanto como la voz ululante y celestial  ('father, i understand your fear, i understand your pain') de 'our bodies washed up in storms creek', o el ukelele o balalaika o slide whistle de 'i saw the light from heaven', el espíritu de la montaña y de las raíces en estado puro

fotos: christina dixcy

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christina carter / josephine foster

christina carter ~ trickster who is like god (many breaths, 2011)

In the words of  Christina Carter: "It is a sixty plus minute song, and it is definitely a song, not a piece. It is like taking a six-minute song and stretching it out for an hour with compositional coherence intact. In other words, it isn’t like a six-minute song with a 54-minute jam stuck on the end." The low E string thrumbs for the whole 60 minutes like a heartbeat. It's like dipping into someone else's memory for an hour. It's a whole other world. One of America's greatest living artists. Hey America, remember art?" amoeba

"Christina Carter in full-on tonal ascension mode"

entrevista con christina

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josephine foster ~ blood rushing (fire, 2012)

"A story within a story, Blood Rushing is a glimpse into the world of Blushing, a heteronym of the artist Josephine Foster. A rock-ballet chanté, the music is set to a Pueblo drum's metapulsing Pan-American heartbeat. ...Josephine's voice is not metaphoric. Nor is it a spell. Blood Rushing is as native as my flesh and yours." Natasha Pradhan

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madre mía, qué dos discos. blood rushing es un clásico lleno de canciones clásicas, el mejor disco del año, de cualquier año, es difícil encontrar canciones tan bonitas como 'waterfall', 'blood rushing' y 'o stars'. y el de christina carter tiene el buen gusto de siempre y unas melodías que, mmmm, la hace simplemente irresestible. 'trickster who is like god' es un larguísimo mantra con cambios de melodía y la voz inmaculada y dulce de christina que suena como una caricia, que crece y decrece y trasmite una agradable sensación de bienestar flotante, una burbuja de calma y placidez,... todo lo que estamos acostumbrados a recibir de una mujer irrepetible que vive dentro de sí misma, única en su especie, que nunca decepciona, 'a whole other world'

donovan quinn and michael james tapscott

donovan quinn and michael james tapscott ~ goodbye, marlene (self~released, 2012)

“though best known for his work with the Skygreen Leopards, Quinn has been culling his private weird recordings since he lived in a rotting trailer in the suburban sprawl of Walnut Creek, California. due to popular insistence, Donovan has finally gone solo. Quinn is a Marlboro man mystic channeled through Francois Hardy just woken from a nap: frowsy, susurrant and surly. he curls out chords like Duane Eddy on ludes, strumming on some ether plane of American guitar groupmind. It warms my heart that perhaps people will hear Donovan and be able to discern a true contender from the hollow trees out there.” ~ Elisa Ambrogio, Arthur Magazine

"if i could only be serenaded by one person for the rest of my days, i'd choose michael tapscott in a heartbeat. the odawas vocalist's talent is something to die for. that voice... cannot be beat. but what tapscott brings on his debut solo release under his own name is far more than just that voice." digitalis

a veces los sueños se cumplen... dos de las voces más bonitas juntas en un disco que aparece de repente, sin promoción y que nos regalan donovan y michael desde su página de soundcloud. 'goodbye, marlene', un título que dice mucho más de lo que pueda escribir, es una preciosidad que de alguna forma da continuidad narrativa a nuestro querido 'sunny california'. letras evocadoras a modo de diario para un space folk soleado y cristalino que depara pequeñas grandes canciones una detrás de otra: 'i'll kill you in time', 'many safe returns, anne' (mazzy star meets beachwood sparks) y 'marlene left california' cantadas por donovan (espíritu oklahoma soul, one, two three, guitarras acústicas, pianos y algún tímido field recording como en los días felices de los leopardos del cielo verde), 'it's not the blues, it's the drug', a ritmo de armónica, y 'otw marlene', que me recuerda en algún momento fugaz a lindsey buckingham, esos coros, cantadas por michael james tapscott. un disco sencillo y bonito que en realidad sólo suena a the skygreen leopards y odawas, puro california dreaming, perfecto para escuchar a media luz, entrecerrar los ojos y soñar que el verano no toca a su fin (snif)

fotos: alina senchuk & adriá cañameras

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orphan fairytale

orphan fairytale ~ comets comes alive (blackest rainbow, 2012)

'Comets Come Alive' is a beautiful dreamy album of keyboard, layered with various unknown objects, toys and other non-instruments creating a sea of sound that is so stunning it's hard to put into words. The sounds Eva creates have a childlike nursery rhyme like quality which is what makes her music so charming, it's simplistic, but there's not much else out there that sounds like what Eva does, she blends the minimalistic with the psychedelic.

the lp is pressed on 180gram virgin vinyl including a download code. Edition of 500 copies, 100 copies pressed on 180 gram green vinyl with red, yellow and blue splatter with a hand numbered insert available only directly from Blackest Rainbow and 400 copies on 180 gram black virgin vinyl with an un-numbered insert on a different coloured paper to the coloured vinyl edition..."  blackest rainbow

decían en live arts que C.G. Jung nos enseñó a inventar juegos funcionales de niños para ponernos en contacto con nuestro pasado y así aprender a entendernos un poquito mejor ("las personas son totales solamente mientras juegan"). y que Orphan Fairytale sería la traducción musical de esa técnica, como Elodie Lauten, Terry Riley, Moondog o Clara Rockmore.

Eva, 'la amante belga del casio', juega con theremines, organillos, con instrumentos de juguete que tienen lucecitas que se encienden y apagan, xilófonos, membranófonos, flautas de bambú que imitan el sonido gamelan, juega con las imágenes y nos hace partícipes: lluvia de meteoritos, chicas correteando por bosques encantados, una portada entre bonita y enigmática, loops, efectos, notas y melodías entrelazadas al azar por su varita mágica, un folk exótico y extraño para el que faltan las palabras, que no se amolda a ningún estilo, coqueteando con la melodía sin entregarse a ella, electrónica fantástica que tiene tanto en común con Miaux o Mittland Och Leo como con Hanna Barbera y Kuupuu, que suena a caseta en el bosque, que invita a accurrucarnos en su regazo, folk marciano, folk modular, free-folk, free-ambient, free!, todo en una sóla 'canción' de atmósfera onírica que podría ser un cuento de walt disney sobre bosques encantados dirigido por Ed Wood, siempre él, preludio del que estoy convencida será su disco más alucinante.

no se puede entrar en 'comets come alive' sin retirar las tres densas y polvorientas cortinas que esconden a Eva Van Deuren en 'meteor shower'. una, dos, tres,... y ahí está, presa de una bruma densa que sólo despeja con el sonido de algo que recuerda a un theremin. todo en 'comets come alive' queda sometido a la presencia magnética de ese sonido. ciencia ficción en blanco y negro, la manta acogedora de taped sounds,..todo es tan bonito que sólo piensas en tener ese vinilo cuanto antes en tus manos aunque no tengas donde hacerlo sonar. y que el hechizo no desaparezca nunca

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dreamers cloth

dreamers cloth ~ a bamboo dream (relax with nature, 2008)

"here is a tiny album from Danish musician Dreamers Cloth. It was released by Relax With Nature on a cassette titled A Bamboo Dream. this feeds me the necessary energies and inspirations I need to cancel out the bad shit. excellent healing pleasure. as far as I know, he’s got 4-5 releases under that name… all sold out though ~ super limited edition. though I do believe there is a blog out there that one might be able to find his stuff on (that is an assignment)." gift tapes

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dreamers cloth ~ mind beach (sloow tapes, 2008)

"New Age meditation dance party on tropical beach, getting one with nature under a relaxing shower of multi~colored fractals and shining keys. It’s only the dreamer who moves mountains. Fantastically zoned drones from Denmark . Smoked-wreathed drones underpin heady swirls of vocal wail and wow." sloow tapes

"I think Mind Beach is whenever you rest your thoughts on something ~ and that could be anything really... Mind Beach is a picture of this static “thought gazing". But, also when you’re having many concurrent thoughts and the next minute everything seems solved and you rest your mind on one specific thing. This way, “Mind Beach” works as a landing strip for your thoughts. That is a picture I find really beautiful" jonas frederiksen aka dreamers cloth

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dreamers cloth ~ plays 'ecstasy waterfall' (relax with nature, 2008)

"Relax with Nature is my idea of chilling out and going with the flow. I think that what I’m trying to evoke is an atmosphere of a place where civilization and culture is non~existing. Maybe I should call it cultural~civilization, since our concept of civilization is defined and interpreted via our culture. What I’m talking about is a place ~ or a state of mind, which becomes real the very second cultural~civilization is cancelled, and all that is left is nature ~ but ~ a new nature where, amongst other things, communication between individuals isn’t corrupted by words. I know this sounds really romantic and it’s also paradoxical to try to describe a place free from culture by means of words!..." jonas frederiksen aka dreamers cloth

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dreamers cloth ~ the coconut pearl (relax with nature, 2008)

 

"Dreamers Cloth is diving underwater in the ambient dreamlands of fantasy creatures and unknown high sky visions. beautiful & psychedelic new age bliss-sound drones, for the fans of Ashtray Navigations, Family Underground, Skaters, Dolphins Into The Future."

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dreamers cloth ~ pearl divers (relax with nature, 2008)

"Dreamers Cloth is Jonas Frederiksen from Copenhagen. He has been pumping out limited-edition, cassette-only recordings from a secret lair in Denmark as fast as eager bloggers can upload them. The idea of swimming in an ocean on a distant planet full of telepathic otters, diving underwater in the ambient dreamlands of fantasy creatures and unknown high sky visions: these are beautiful & psychedelic new age bliss-sound drones. Jonas runs the tape label Beyond Repair" ~

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dreamers cloth es una pequeña y exótica maravilla del danés jonas frederiksen, uno de esos grupos 'clima' tan escondidos que agradeces mil veces que exista alguien que se acuerde de ellos y finalmente lleguen a ti. su música es infinitamente evocadora, como si fuese tocada bajo el agua rodeado de peces y corales de colores, o compuesta en una habitación junto al océano pacífico, huye de la contaminación, del frío, sueña e imagina paisajes tropicales en sellos como relax with nature o beyond repair y todo es tan bonito que es imposible resistirse a compartir casi todos sus discos. no puedo evitar asociar nombres: dolphins into the future y monopoly child star searchers sobrevolándolo todo, buchikamashi y komodo haunts flotando en el hilo musical, james ferraro, john elliott, exo tapes, palmeras, sol, tormentas de verano, cascadas de agua, cocos, sueños de bambú, buscadores de perlas, playas imaginarias, grabaciones de campo, de agua, kraut, psicodelia submarina, hypnagogic pop, ambient, lo-fi, glow-fi, chill wave,... todo!, para volar muy muy lejos. larga vida, espero, quiero

entrevista a jonas frederiksen, aquí

micromelancolié

micromelancolié ~ owl eater (already dead tapes, 2012)

"dissonant tones, an unstable aural combination, and tensions that demand more; 'owl eater' from Micromelancolié is an album that finds a much more humanly private quality than resolution: it finds conflict and grief. the album begins in the static unknown ~ a monotonous search in the woods of a lonely whir. as an owl's gaze wanders, so does the light buzz in the tone, moving in and out of the speaker, up and down in the melody.

looking for prey, Micromelancolié eats the bird of wisdom and moves onto the second side with a pounding harmony on the piano. the gloom and drear of chord pushes back into another tension, but this time more harsh than side a. contact mics, samplers and pre-recorded sounds; 'owl eater' brings a moon-skulled thrill, and a surreal reach for the creatures of the night." ray jackson, already dead tapes

fotos: siri thorson & jordan david small

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brendan codey

brendan codey ~ casco ep (treetop sorbet recordings, 2012)

"Philadelphia songwriter Brendan Codey just released his latest collection of spacey jams: the Casco ep, recorded over several years, and in several locales ~ a bedroom in New Jersey, apartments in Maine and Chicago, and his current home in Philly ~ and is a fine survey of the tones and textures Codey has explored thus far in his recording career. “Diaspora” showcases his nimble folk-style acoustic fingerpicking; “What a Lucky Girl You Are” blends that with spacey backwards loops similar to his debut EP A Bottle House Vernacular; “The 43rd Suite” is a straight-up space rock anthem in the vein of “Twelfth Page” (spotlighted last year in the Philly Local Philes). Codey says a few of the tracks are destined for a full album he plans to release later this year, tentatively titled Phoenicia 1995." the key

"This Philly songwriter has a knack for combining dusty, folky ramblin’ trail songs like “Diaspora” with vast and ambitious 70’s-style orchestrated post-hippie reaction pieces like this one into a single set of songs. His Neil Young influence is worn proud, like a frayed navajo serape at a bonfire." yvynyl

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brendan codey ~ a bottle house vernacular (self~released, 2010)

"Gorgeous, complex and heartbreaking work....This is the kind of album you should have headphones on for ~ and let it wash over you like laying in pillowy fresh snowbank during a snowstorm ~ so cozy and soft, but fall asleep and you could be dead. Recorded throughout January and February, deep into a recent Chicago winter, "a bottle house vernacular," was inspired by certain visionary and outsider artists" yvynyl

"Ethereal. I seem to kick that word around a lot when describing Emery Blagdon Saves Your Mortal Soul. As I was struggling to assemble various words and phrases to get you all interested in this beautiful track by Brendan Codey, ethereal seemed to be the only one that came to mind. Maybe the limited knowledge of the english language I contain has forced me to fall back upon this adjective so many times. Or maybe it’s just the wistful combination of Nick Drake-esque folk melody and haunting reverb-laden vocals that have led to me once again use the word ethereal to describe a track." nothing sounds better

foto: ffion atkinson

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"Sometimes, when I’m sitting at my desk, I close my eyes and imagine being in the woods, walking down a long trail in the quiet piney air.  That’d be the day dream captured here by this film shot and directed by Alee Peoples on beautiful Super 8mm in Upstate New York." yvynyl

what a lucky girl you are, diaspora...absorbiendo el espíritu ted lucas meets 'graveyard' de loren connors & kath bloom meets voices of the seven woods. nos flipa mil, y más con los vídeos de alee peoples. mil veces sí :)

panabrite

 Panabrite: la paciencia, la calma, el bucle... sería tan bonito vivir en el mundo de Norm Chambers. poco a poco me ha ido ganando el corazón hasta el punto de que un día sin Panabrite, al menos una canción, no es un día completo. presente, pasado, futuro. Norm juega en la liga del minimalismo, la delicadeza y la inspiración infinita. no es fácil transmitir en palabras la cantidad de imágenes y sensaciones que sugiere su música, siempre entrañable, de superficie melancólica y esencia melódica, contemplativa, próxima a la perfección, relacionada con un pasado que es futuro, el mar, el universo, programas de ciencia ficción de los setenta, teclados vintage comestibles, guitarras acústicas que asoman cristalinas y muy de vez en cuando (sobre todo en 'Soft Terminal'), documentales del mundo submarino,... la música que ilustraría la melancolía retrofuturista de las viñetas de 'Lupus' de Frederik Peeters y 'El Caminante' de Taniguchi. eso es precisamente lo que más me gusta y a la vez me desconcierta, como Leyland Kirby (The Caretaker), esa sensación evocadora y difusa, constante, la capacidad de sugerir mil imágenes y no ser capaz de ubicarlas en el tiempo y lugar exactos.

decían en mnml ssgs (para quienes hizo este mixtape), que Panabrite trasciende el peligro de sonar simplemente 'bonito' porque su música está llena de matices y texturas y por encima de todo refleja un cariño especial a los géneros con los que trabaja, gracias en parte a un profundo conocimiento de la biblioteca musical de sintetizadores, kraut, new age, ambient, etc de los 60, 70, 80, tan prolífica. para muestra un botón: 'Lunar Atrium', un blog repleto de pequeñas joyas que 'dirige' el propio Norm.

suena 'reflections' y me parece la canción más bonita del mundo, como si Norm Chambers volara hasta el cielo y se desintegrara en el viaje de vuelta. o 'rainbows in the catacombs', 'turqoise veil', 'cirrus' y 'crystal colosseum'... no existen canciones que determinen mejor qué es el ambient acuático y espacial, que expliquen por qué un loop puede ser cambiante y seguir siendo un loop, que suenen frías y calientes, que tengan alma, groove, a pesar de ser eminentemente electrónicas. o ese breve momento de infinita belleza llamado 'garden interlude' que da paso a 'octopus in your dreams', que además de ser preciosa tiene un título de cine fantástico de serie B de los cincuenta que me vuelve loca. pero entonces asoman las primeras notas de 'glass corridor', despegando por encima de lo terrenal, alzándose hacia el cielo. así que, mientras esperamos con ansia y curiosidad su próximo disco, qué mejor que compartirlas en un recopilatorio dedicado sólo a la ensoñadora discografía de Panabrite. bon apétit!

01. garden interlude | "blue grotto" ~ love all day, 2012

02. beau vallon | "seychelles" ~ field studies, 2012

03. cirrus | "illumination" ~ under the spire, 2012

04. octopus in your dreams | "sub~aquatic meditation" ~ aguirre, 2012

05. anemone | "neptune visions" ~ cylindrical habitat modules, 2010

06. citadel in the sky | "omni center" ~ sturmundrugs, 2011

07. clean lines | "infinite pulsation" ~ digitalis ltd., 2011

08. atoll | "sub~aquatic meditation" ~ aguirre, 2012

09. sound softy | "soft terminal" ~ digitalis, 2012

10. databank meditation | "infinite pulsation" ~ digitalis ltd., 2011

11. humid zones | "seychelles" ~ field studies, 2012

12. glass corridor | "blue grotto" ~ love all day, 2012

13. infinite passage | "the baroque atrium" ~ preservation, 2012

14. the gate | "omni center" ~ sturmundrugs, 2011

15. whirlpool | "sub~aquatic meditation" ~ aguirre, 2012

16. vortex | "wind rider" ~ tranquility tapes, 2011

17. siphonophore | "neptune visions" ~ cylindrical habitat modules, 2010

18. crystal colosseum | "cloud prism"/split with the away team ~ hooker vision, 2011

19. atlantic pulsation 2 | "infinite pulsation" ~ digitalis ltd., 2011

20. glass palace | "soft terminal" ~ digitalis, 2012

21. nocturnal | "wizard chimes" ~ gift tapes, 2010

22. capraia | "the baroque atrium" ~ preservation, 2012

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mt. tjhris

mt. tjhris ~ amethyst cave (holypage, 2012)

"get ready for the headiest New Age cave experience of the Summer. British composer Mt. Tjhris throws down on Amethyst Cave. open up your chakra and get ready to let the powerful mineral take over your soul as you realize the answer to life and the meaning of existence!. New Age dream drones from England's darkest cave. close your eyes and let the purple float around you." holypage

foto: luke byrne

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europa rural / berlenga

europa rural / berlenga ~ split cs (exo tapes, 2011)

exo tapes se está convirtiendo poco a poco en un sello a seguir casi ciegas, junto a sloow tapes, cabin floor esoterica, hooker vision, tranquilitity tapes, rotifer... todo lo que editan tiene un sonido especial, reconocible al instante, como si  joão costa gonçalves estuviese detrás de todas las grabaciones: jccg, the exhalers, mediafired y meadowlands. hay algo en todos ellos que me hace tenerle un cariño inexplicable a esas tres letras. no es una novedad, cuando creas un sello tan pequeñito, y si es de cintas de cassette todavía más, lo haces para publicar la música que de verdad te apasiona. ser fan antes que músico, para mi tan tan tan importante.

europa rural y berlenga, de los que sólo sé que son portugueses, siguen la senda y la filosofía de todo lo que joão ha publicado hasta ahora. melancolía acústica sobre un colchón de teclados, un paraíso ambient, melodías desenfocadas, ensoñación atmosférica, aires a monopoly star searchers, former selves, mark mcguire, cetacean nation cassettes,... siempre ahí la naturaleza, el agua, la nostalgia, acariciando como nunca en la preciosísima canción-refugio 'violas' de berlenga. si me obligo a quedarme con sólo una, con permiso de 'os días máis curtos' y 'violas', sería 'untitled 1', o tal vez 'untitled 2' porque en realidad son dos que son una, de europa rural, gozosamente contagiosas y refrescantes, perfectas para hacer el recopilatorio perfecto en el que también asome la nariz 'waterfalls introduction' de monopoly star searchers. ojalá el micromundo fan en el que nos movemos aprecie lo suficiente a exo tapes para que sobreviva durante mucho mucho tiempo

fotos: beth hoeckel & inès amd

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charlatan meets the north sea

charlatan meets the north sea ~ s/t (field hymns, 2012)

"Here is our new release, out September 1st by Brad Rose of Digitalis record label fame. Impromptu post-speakeasy jam session, recorded at the witching hour by two of the the scene's most reclusive noise cats around. They got down and burned all the heat out of the studio with some serious synthesizer blowouts, each getting in their own licks. Charlatan's mellow moods converge with the harsh wailing of the North Sea, faithfully laid to tape (in the midst's of tension) by Green Country's chief engineer Brad Rose. These cats might not break it down ever again, but for one magical night it got crazy."

brad rose meets brad rose...

filed under: Jürgen Müller, Ursula Bogner, weatherbeaten analog skies

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pentros

pentros ~ a night residue (love all day, 2012)

"A Night Residue was recorded entirely in a bedroom studio in the very late evening on the brink of slumber. Pentros wanders the off-roads between electronic and acoustic spaces. In its improvisational unfolding, A Night Residue evokes the contingent atmosphere of dreams~aural atmosphere paradoxically defined by a cloud of melodic fragments. Disparate elements coalesce in moments of sharp lucidity."

todo lo que tenga un poquito que ver con panabrite (' a chance'!), blithe sons, evan caminiti o dolphins into the future será siempre bienvenido. 'resting on winter winds' (emocionante, delicada como la espuma del mar), 'ground and complete', 'darkets of night' (sci-fi lullaby, el futuro en el pasado), 'carried by sea' (demasiado bonita para describirla con palabras, suena incluso una steel, o dobro, o...) y 'pacífica' no se escuchan, se respiran, acarician, adormecen...sintetizadores analógicos, viento, mareas, burbujas, pajarindos

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deep magic

deep magic ~ colourful storm (colourful storm, 2012)

"organic soundscape of textural harmony"

"installment seventeen features Alex Gray, aka Deep Magic, explore sound collages of euphoric instrumentation and vocal tone. Gray's preferred cassette medium has seen releases on Not Not Fun Records, Moon Glyph, and his own Moon Tapes, where he correlates a beautiful audio/visual aesthetic. a member of psychedelic outfit Sun Araw, Gray describes the piece as "weird garage stuff time stretched with spoken word by yours truly, all processed strangely..." colourful storm

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creation VI

creation VI ~ paleolith (dronarivm, 2012)

"Creation VI is an ambient/drone project for Ukrainian sound artist Tim Six, started in 2006. the main aim of the project is to discover the properties of music as a tool for expressing nonverbal concepts. the first such notions arise in philosophy, mysticism and of course, in all kind of creativity. power of ambience is practically inexhaustible, so every aspect in which there is a need of musical thinking, finds its particular expression. so the music of Cretion VI may vary from dark and ritual ambiences to weightless, transparent drones.

"Paleolith" was inspired by archaic music practices. album will be released in october by dronarivm as limited edition cassette. you can pre-order it now for special price."

free your energy field. Paleolith es un regalo, un universo de cuevas misteriosas y lagos subterráneos, una acogedora habitación con vistas al pasado en la que es muy complicado escoger una sóla canción porque todas son mágicas, ancestrales, cristalinas, artesanales, eufóricas, tribales, literalmente perfectas. gracias en parte a la presencia constante del arpa~birimbao, ese antiguo instrumento de apariencia sencilla que se toca con la boca, tan importante en toda la música de creation VI o Drop Sum. también a la esponjosidad de los drones, a un sonido tallado a mano, indescriptiblemente orgánico y acuático, que consigue ponerte los pelos de punta en maravillas como 'cave rites' o 'the emergence of language'. arranca con 'the birth of music' (uf) abriendo paso a las campanas, murmullos, grillos, palos de agua, cuencos tibetanos...y a un clima que me recuerda a 'from there to here' de sunhiilow o a las cuerdas flotantes de brother ong. uno de esos discos que, ojalá, se quedará conmigo, contigo, durante mucho tiempo

fotos: anna verlet shelton & gandhidandi

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soft sounds

va ~ soft sounds (calm in trees, august 2012)

01. patiente (waiting for the summer) ~ sunny dunes

02. wake up in summer ~ sparkling wide pressure

03. faraway trees ~ loner deluxe

04. song for nana ~ luminous craft

05. dominican black abbey ~ the driftwood manor

06. soft sounds ~ muffin

07. emery blagdon saves your mortal soul ~ brendan codey

08. a grave affection ~ tim kinsella

09. bull doze blues ~ henry thomas

10. you're going to leave the old home, jim ~ lulu jackson

11. summer oscillating ~ j. hanson

12. the store ~ mirror to mirror

13. spetses ~ panabrite

14. khi ~ high wolf

15. deeper into meadows ~ black eagle child

16. palolo ~ charlie wilson

17. in the park ~ deep magic

18. crystals in time ~ nibiru communion 

19. hummingbird city ~ orphan fairytale

20. kid island ~ mpala garoo

21. what comes after, part. 2 ~ long legged woman

22. edna ~ dead drums

23. goon the dooms star ~ ladyshapes & braden j mckenna

24. asyndeton ~ hobbledeions

25. veranda ~ monster rally

26. tape studies ~ günter schlienz 

27. rescue of prisoners from cannibals ~ x.y.r.

28. stained glass sequence demo ~ motion graphics

29. song of the whale ~ jd emmanuel

30. flown the other side ~ good shepherd

31. leaves on the breeze ~ shep and me

32. ceramy ~ kandodo

33. ~ ~ happy tendry

34. moonlight mind ~ imperial topaz

35. guider ~ braden j mckenna

foto via amhpics & kevin hsia

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