microphones in the trees: taped sounds
Showing posts with label taped sounds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label taped sounds. 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, April 30, 2013

tape sounds


"Music made with what's lying around in my house. These are the sounds I like to hear and make. I hope people find something to appreciate about this stuff."


"edition of 35, released April 22, 2013. each tape comes with a one-of-a-kind cover made with old botanic books. we found on a road on our way home on April 14, in Dijon."



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

Thursday, August 30, 2012

orphan fairytale


'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

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


Saturday, April 14, 2012

brother raven


"great new self-released cassette from this zoned Seattle duo. slow sunrises of keyboards married to wiggy 20th century avant electronics, the kind of fuzzy celestial melodies of ‘72 Sun Ra and a slow-burning atmosphere that is pure cyborg" volcanic tongue

"radient jungle experience colossal modulation" gift tapes



"excellent cassette on Lieven Martens’ label from a duo with a jones for the primitive electronica of 80s underground synth, electronics and tape music. at points they orbit the lonely sound of early Harmonia or even Mark McGuire but there’s an alien, homemade quality to the sonics that is extremely appealing. Lieven compares it to some of Colin Potter’s early work and that makes a lot of sense. one to get lost in." david keenan, volcanic tongue

"Brother Raven's music burbles and pulsates in a cosmic eternal now, unspooling fractals of clean-blooded analog-synth tones that ripple and disperse into that bright light filmmakers flash when characters cross from reality into dream/fantasy." dave segal, the stranger


érase una vez un belga con bigote y gran amor a los cetáceos que además de ser el autor del disco que hoy me llevaría a una isla desierta, sigue llevándonos de viaje con taped sounds aka cetacean nation cassettes, otra vez ese sello favorito fuente inagotable de tesoros marinos y tropicales, cósmicos e hipnóticos, como orphan fairytale, miaux, shark flakes o brother raven. indescriptible la sensación de relajación suprema al escuchar 'chilling with strangers' y 'we live in a seal zone'

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, 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