Album: Nils Frahm - Solo

Band: Nils Frahm
Album: Solo
Label: Erased Tapes

Year: 2015

Tracklist

01. Ode 

02. Some 

03. Circling 

04. Merry 

05. Chant 

06. Wall 

07. Immerse! 

08. Four Hands

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Nils Frahm has declared a Piano Day! A new annual celebration of the instrument he loves so much, which takes place on the 88th day of each year, cause that's the number of keys a piano has.

"Piano Day is intended to be the most joyful of all holidays," says Frahm and what a better way to celebrate his newly declared day than releasing a new album called "Solo" via Erased Tapes and making it free for anyone to download! Of course the solo piano LP is also available on vinyl, CD and iTunes. All proceeds will go to help piano builder builder David Klavins build his latest model, the Klavins M450, with a prototype of which Frahm's new album was recorded. You can also donate here.

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EP: I Am Planet - Silene Stenophylla

Band: I Am Planet
Album: Silene Stenophylla EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2014







Tracklist
01. Adelidae
02. Labes
03. Silene Latifolia
04. Silene Stenophylla
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I Am Planet is a Slovak musician and composer. I Am Planet plays music based on influences of contemporary classical and minimalism.

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Album: Taiga - The Coriolis Effect

Band: Taiga
Album: The Coriolis Effect
Label: VCO Recordings
Year: 2014








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01. The Jurãcan
02. Troposphere
03. Tufão
04. The Polar Lows
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Taiga is cinematic komische music from BC Meyer (pression, Palms, ISIS, Red Sparowes.) Taiga has been performing and producing music since 2007.

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EP: Slow Clinic - On Leaving, On Missing

Band: Slow Clinic
Album: On Leaving, On Missing EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2014








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01. On Leaving
02. On Missing
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Slow Clinic began following a sleepless night and a sunrise walk around Cardiff Bay. The field recordings gathered during this walk provided the foundations of the first Slow Clinic self-release, 'First Works'. Slow Clinic is an experimentation with sound and surrounding environments.

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EP: 36 - Heather Spa

Band: 36
Album: Heather Spa EP
Label: astrangelyisolatedplace
Year: 2013








Tracklist
01. Heather Spa
02. Dangerous Days
03. Heather Spa (Burning)
04. Shadow Play (After Dark Reprise)
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There’s always private pleasure in seeing beauty where others don’t. Sometimes it’s just a case of the personal outweighing the spectacular but in a part of the world as vast and stunning as Yorkshire, the abundance of scenery makes finding that place an infinitely easier coincidence. Ilkley or ‘Heather Spa’ is one such place for 36 aka Dennis Huddleston. A moorland area on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, it’s served as both a place of escape and inspiration.

“It’s a place I’ve visited many times at various stages of my life,” he begins, “coming from Bradford, which has had its fair share of social and economic problems over the years, Ilkley provided an escape from the city and is somewhere me and my friends spent many days and nights. It isn't the largest, nor the most beautiful countryside in England, but it has an undeniable charm that’s felt by everyone who’s visited.”

You feel that connection throughout ‘Heather Spa’. It’s one of familiarity and rejuvenation with the exhale of the strings evoking happiness and a gazing contentment. ‘Heather Spa (Burning)’ is just as poised and gentle with its slow, weaving melodies and whilst it’s more clouded and subdued, it leaves a determinedly resonant impression.

“There was a huge fire in 2006 which destroyed vast areas of the moorland,” Dennis explains. “I had visited it only a few days prior and the lush green land was replaced by charred cinders, completely decimating the landscape. It was quite a sight to behold and there was an undeniable melancholy in the air. Reseeding efforts and the tough will of nature has reversed most of the damage and Ilkley Moor is alive once again.”

The initial inspiration for the ‘Shadow Play’ album, this final instalment of ‘Heather Spa’ marks the culmination of Dennis’ personal trilogy, and helps the ‘Heather Spa EP’ feel like a very natural conclusion to a journey of transition, progression and redemption.

"It's come full-circle in a way,” Dennis muses, “Heather Spa as a concept was the catalyst for my latest album 'Shadow Play' and you can see three distinct yet fully-connected chapters on what is a single story; the inception with Heather Spa, the realisation with Shadow Play, and finally with this EP for the ASIP Places Series, an epilogue. I think they're some of the most emotional pieces of music I've worked on and I hope you enjoy taking this final journey with me, right back at the place where it started."

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EP: Thursday Bloom - Somnolence

Band: Thursday Bloom
Album: Somnolence EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2013









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01. Bridges
02. Into Dark Somnolence
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Thursday Bloom is an artist from Adelaide, Australia who uses sound to create vivid and emotional textures and imagery. His music looks to create imagery through the use of sound; taking sounds and weaving them together in a sonic tapestry. Contemplative headphone music for the individual to escape into.Persephone is his seventh of the twelve EPs planning to release during 2013 for the 12EPs project.

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EP: Thursday Bloom - Persephone

Band: Thursday Bloom
Album: Persephone EP
Label: Self Released
Year: 2013










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01. Flowers Of Persephone
02. Into Darkness
03. The Sleep Eternal
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Thursday Bloom is an artist from Adelaide, Australia who uses sound to create vivid and emotional textures and imagery. His music looks to create imagery through the use of sound; taking sounds and weaving them together in a sonic tapestry. Contemplative headphone music for the individual to escape into.

Persephone is his sixth of the twelve EPs planning to release during 2013 for the 12EPs project.

 

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Album: Listening Mirror - Nets Of Wonder

Band: Listening Mirror
Album: Nets Of Wonder
Label: Self Released
Year: 2013










Tracklist
01. Her Resonant Echo (with Sophie Kazandjian)
02. Unicord
03. Temple Founder
04. Jetstream
05. The Space Behind
06. Your Laughter.....
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These are the various unreleased and unfinished remnants of the Listening Mirror project that ran from October 2009 until January 2013.

Much of the credit for the project must go to the amazingly talented Kate Tustain, without whom the project would never have got off the ground.
I will be forever grateful to her for the joy and beauty that she brought to our early recordings, and wish her love, peace, and success in everything she does.
Thanks are also due to my good friend Gary Warner who introduced Kate and I to each other.
There have been quite a few other collaborators over the years, Jon Frost, Sophie Kazandjian, Wil Bolton, Sarah Maria Raun, and of course my dear friend Alicia Merz.
I hope that you have enjoyed the drift that we have taken together, and that you will join me as the music evolves.

Keep checking back - If I find any more tracks, I'll add them to the album.

Thank you

Jeff

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EP: Tyler Etters - The Geometrie Of Our Lost Cause

Band: Tyler Etters
Album: The Geometrie Of Our Lost Cause EP
Label: Endless Field Studios
Year: 2013










Tracklist
01. Immemorial
02. Generative
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“The Geometrie Of Our Lost Cause” – the first release from Tyler Etters, is split into two 15 minutes songs and released on digital and cassette. Listen to the first track and it’s easy to understand why the artist chose this imperfect medium for the physical release. The album has a timeless quality to it. It breathes and has a soul. The first piece, “Immemorial” is an ever-changing semi-ambient track that feels very introverted, almost like Tyler is searching for something within himself. The second piece, “Generative,” is an experiment in algorithmically generated music. Tyler meticulously bounced down 100 different versions of “Generative” to cassette tape. As cassettes are purchased, the correlating versions of “Generative” become unlocked for everyone else to download. Tyler Etters’ first release is a beautiful display of how electronic music can still be sincere and uninhibited. Recommended for fans of Brian Eno, Tim Hecker, and GY!BE.

'Immemorial' is made up of several movements. They are:
I. The Forgotten Distance
II. Time Slopes
III. By The Train Tracks (w/ Arthur)
IV. Hazey Power Plant, 1001 Drones (For Paul)
V. At Another Working Gate

'Generative' is actually 1/100th of a much longer piece. Each cassette is dubbed with a different section. The original intention was for everyone to download a random copy of 'Generative' from his website each time, but alas that strategy proved exceedingly complex to integrate the current media dissemination tools at his disposal. So, this section of 'Generative' is from is from Tyler Etters' cassette.

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Album: Okat - Sable

Band: Okat
Album: Sable
Year: 2012
Label: Self Released










Tracklist
01. Saudade Snare
02. Views of Distant Towns  
03. World's End Terminal
04. Boring Wells
05. Twisty Little Synapses
06. Sable in AM
07. The Bodies of Sleeping Birds Littered Among the Barren Highways
08. The Subtle Mechanics of Body Duplication
09. Birdlime
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Okat is the solo project of award-winning Arizona musician Tyler Griffin. Drawing inspiration from minimalism, ambient, and drone, Okat focuses on dynamic melodies juxtaposed against drowning, tonal climaxes, breaking through genre labels to build music that is equally warm and yet somehow chilling.

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Band: 36

Band: 36
Album: Hypersona
Label: 3six Recordings
Year: 2009










Tracklist
01. Signal
02. 2249
03. Inside
04. Intercept
05. The Box
06. Nephyr
07. Beacon
08. Hypersona
09. Juliet
10. Dream Window
11. Forever
12. Untitled
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Band: 36
Album: Hollow
Label: 3six Recordings
Year: 2010










Tracklist
01. Hollow
02. Find Me
03. Home
04. Tunnel
05. Geiga
06. Ghostfields
07. Fiona's Room
08. Siren
09. Darkroom Distortion
10. Equassa
11. Freefall Peak
12. Arc
13. Lightout
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Band: 36
Album: Tape Series: Blue
Label: 3six Recordings
Year: 2010










Tracklist
01. Inside (2:56AM Mix)
02. The Box (Closed Mix)
03. Forever (Universe Mix)
04. After Time
05. Glint
06. Ghostfields (Midnight Mix)
07. Far From Home
08. Darkroom Distortion (Distant Mix)
09. Siren (Seduced Mix)
10. Somewhere
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Band: 36
Album: Tape Series: Red
Label: 3six Recordings
Year: 2010










Tracklist
01. Transmission
02. Theme For Red
03. Decode
04. Lights Over Wibsey
05. Peripheral Shadow
06. Null
07. Tongue Depressor
08. Lost
09. False
10. Consumed
11. End Credits
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Band: 36
Album: Memories In Widescreen
Label: 3six Recordings
Year: 2010










Tracklist
01. Before Time
02. After Time
03. Drifta
04. Drowning
05. Disappear
06. The Mirror
07. Lucid
08. Memories In Widescreen
09. Melt
10. Slide
11. Vesl
12. Revert Time
13. It's You (It's Me)
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Band: 36
Album: Bass Communion Remixed by 36
Label: 3six Recordings
Year: 2010










Tracklist
01. Untitled (Track 1)
02. Untitled (Track 2)
03. Untitled (Track 3)
04. Untitled (Track 4)
05. Untitled (Track 5)
06. Untitled (Track 6)
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Band: 36
Album: Cocoon / Saphron 7"
Label: 3six Recordings
Year: 2011










Tracklist
01. Cocoon
02. Saphron
03. Saphron Drowning
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Band: 36
Album: Reunion / Deluge 7"
Label: 3six Recordings
Year: 2011










Tracklist
01. Reunion
02. Deluge
03. Wraith
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Band: 36
Album: Tape Series: Green
Label: 3six Recordings
Year: 2011










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01. Nistarim
02. Bergensbanen (Part 1)
03. Bergensbanen (Part 2)
04. Neon
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36 (pronounced three-six) is the ambient/experimental project of Dennis Huddleston from the United Kingdom. Since 2008, the focus for the project has been to develop warm, hugely emotive loop-based compositions, with particular emphasis on melody and melancholy. He also runs the label 3six Recordings, which is used to publish his self-released works.

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From the forthcoming Dear and Unfamiliar, which is a cinematic concept album by Birds Of Passage & Leonardo Rosado, to be released via Denovali Records.

Album: Logreybeam - Perhaps

Band: Logreybeam
Album: Perhaps
Label: Les Enregistrements Variables
Year: 2011







Tracklist
01. Prologue
02. Opening
03. Lullaby
04. Melody Pines
05. Roma Dance Party
06. My Own Home
07. Lullaby Re-Revisited
08. This Torment And This Thought
09. Shall Not Fall
10. Epilogue
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Logreybeam (aka Gabriel Morley) re-emerges from his studio in Los Angeles after years of collecting instruments, obscure noise gadgets and designing custom effects. He applies years of electronic music production and training from Cal Arts Academy (BA in Music Composition) to his latest projects, which range from ambient layers under electronically eroded recordings to melancholic multi-tracked instrumentals.

Perhaps is a 37 minute album lost in time. Between it's lonesome pianos and wailing accordions, one can hear the cynicism of the past looming on us. It is a romantic orchestration to an old, familiar, forgotten movie. A bizarre yet sweet perfume.

All songs written, performed, and recorded by Gabriel Morley
except ' My Own Home ' written by Robert and Richard Sherman, additional vocals on ' Melody Pines ' by Janice Marder, vocals on ' This Torment And This Thought' by Julien Neto.

It is mastered by Shawn Hatfield at Audible Oddities.

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Album: Birds Of Passage - Without The World

Band: Birds Of Passage
Album: Without The World
Label: Denovali Records, Futurerecordings
Year: 2010







Tracklist
01. You
02. Scarlet Monkeys
03. Fantastic Frown
04. Pray For A Sunny Day
05. Skeletons
06. The Patterns On Your Face
07. All My Lines
08. Heal
09. Whisper A Word
10. My Own Mind
11. Those Blackest Winter Nights
12. Alone And Raw
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For someone who thinks it's difficult to describe music in general it's even more difficult to describe the soundscapes of Birds Of Passage. The influences of Alicia Merz, the girl behind Birds Of Passage, are her memories, breathless-inspiring cold winds, the smell and atmosphere of a spring day, smoking cigarettes, sunshine and shadows. As a mixture of all these elements and a minimalistic experimental instrumentation you could describe her music as follows: sometimes shy, sometimes more energetic ('Fantastic Frown') but always intensely and extremly private. Listening to her debut record 'Without The World' is like sharing one long day with Alicia and her thoughts in the diverse landscapes of her home country New Zealand.

Alicia doesn't need the bombastic spectacle of a band to evoke emotions, with the help of different instruments, used in a minimalistic way and combined with field recordings she doesn't create specific songs, she builds up a mood. You maybe can describe Birds Of Passage as a singer songwriter for people who don't like singer songwriter music. There's no typical song structure, there's no melody to chase after ' but there's a development which absorbs you and which makes you start to think about elements you block out in your everyday life.

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Album: Rafael Anton Irisarri - The North Bend

Band: Rafael Anton Irisarri
Album: The North Bend
Label: Room40
Year: 2010







Tracklist
01. Passage
02. Blue Tomorrows
03. A Great Northern Sigh
04. Traces
05. Deception Falls
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Rafael Anton Irisarri is an American composer, multi-instrumentalist and media artist based in Seattle, Washington, predominantly associated with post-minimalist, drone and ambient music.

He is also known as the main member of electronic music/shoegaze act The Sight Below (on Ghostly International).

His placid compositions utilize ostinato motifs containing short melodic phrases. Reverb-drenched guitar textures, drones, field recordings, submerged piano notes, strings and minimal electronic counterpoints all contribute and converge equally in the music to create an oceanic experience that can be both epic and subdued. His music has been described by The Wire contributing writer Jefferson Petrey as "a dual perspective close-up focus on the micro textures of rustling static-filled sonic surfaces with the wide-open distant tree lined horizons of sunset at dusk."

Irisarri cited in an interview with German electronic music magazine De:Bug as been inspired by Mahler, Satie, Debussy, and Wagner, as well as Kevin Shields, Robin Guthrie, and Harold Budd.

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Album: Jodis - Secret House

Band: Jodis
Album: Secret House
Label: Hydrahead
Year: 2009







Tracklist
01. Ascent
02. Continents
03. Secret House
04. Follow The Dogs
05. Little Beast
06. Waning
07. Slivers
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Jodis, an entirely new outfit involving James Plotkin, Aaron Turner and Tim Wyskida, is a modern exploration of restrained sonic minimalism and tonal/textural density.
What might you expect from a band made up of two parts Khanate, and one part Isis / Grey Machine / House Of Low Culture? Probably nothing as pretty and haunting as this. That's right, we said pretty. We were definitely expecting some crushing slo-mo heaviness, figured if that much of Khanate was involved it would have to be screechy and torturous.
And while Jodis is doomy, it's also moody, and atmospheric, slow and spare, spacious and strangely lovely. Occasionally the guitars rev up and get way louder, and it sounds like the band might explode into some sort of bellowing dirge, but instead, they sprawl into an ominous creep, the guitars shimmery, the notes spaced way out, as much about the decay and overtones as the initial note or the overall melody. The vocals are weary and washed out, reverbed and down in the mix. If anything this reminds us of some classic slowcore, maybe Codeine or Seam, albeit a little more abstract, a little less indie rock, but the same sort of moody drift, the same kind of minimal melody, emotional and dark and haunting and dreamlike.
Surprisingly, the drums are super restrained, in fact, the first few tracks sound almost drumless, minus a few cymbal shimmers, some flares and accents here and there. On "Secret House" the drums are active, flurries of fills all over the kit, but not for bombast, again for texture, almost like playing chords on the drums, there are some harsh vox on "Secret House", and they almost sound out of place, disrupting the strange slow tranquility. But once we move on to the next track, we're back to that gauzy melodic drift, the drums again super skeletal, the guitar drifting in the ether, the vocals choral, almost monk-like, super meditative and ethereal.
And the rest of the record plays out in a similar fashion, long drawn out slow burning epics writ small, the three exploring the space around the notes, finishing off with the gorgeous 9 minute "Slivers", the guitar unfurling a fuzzy blurry drone, the drums more active, a bit tribal, but still muted, and the vocals a falsetto off in the distance, the track, heaving and pulsing and shimmering, before slipping into a more abstract drone and then blinking out.
Some seriously gorgeous stuff, a surprise new favorite for sure, getting lots of play late at night, lights turned low, consciousness at rest, on the cusp of some other plane...

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