PostClassical Gas

Very likeable: "Laika" from d_rradio’s upcoming postclassical-tastic Forecast, on Heat Death.

d_rradio - Laika from Ivan Villafuerte on Vimeo.

OK, so Stars of the Lid will obviously be the generic reviewer’s de rigueur reference, and, yes, there’s definitely an influence from them there (where isn’t there in the current crop of slowcore-ambient-drone-cum-postclassical-home-listeningzzzzzzz?). But, derivation aside, this Geordie lot's Forecast is better, to this LMYE scribe’s ears at least, than Mr Wiltzie’s effort with his latest collaborative flame, Dustin O’Halloran, A Winged Victory for the Sullen.

d_rradio - Forecast by heat death records

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A possibly knowing reference to Stars…?


Shades of early-mid Eno too (Apollo esp.). Also I can hear Kiln’s sadly unsung Thermals (Infraction) too (try this, that, and the other), esp. on the following:


Last track is just gorgeous, and wins a spontaneously instituted LMYE Award for Tuesday Track of the Day


Previously on d_rradio, Parts, from which comes this:

Opsin from Ivan Villafuerte on Vimeo.

And before that, Leaves:

D_rradio - Leaves by transportation



(Get it from stormin’ Norman)

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Digger Dug

Digging archaeologist Mark Walters aka Savaran's Observations, via man of perpetual ambient motion, Harry Towell (previously on LMYE), here playing Audio Gourmet host to this ‘electronic musician, sound designer and sound artist working in the ambient, electronic, electro-acoustic and experimental genres from his small home studio on the Welsh border near Shrewsbury.’ The man they call Saravan is not just engaged in musical archaeologies, but is a professional unearther, whose music, we dig, ‘is inspired by the random daily events that life throws at you, landscapes, environment, atmosphere, astronomy, geology, past cultures, or just the indefinable need to make music.’


“The Jewelled Sea” ‘blends coastal field recordings made on holiday in Scotland with gentle ripples of processed and sequenced synthesizer sounds that provide a background swell for the minutiae of hydrophone derived flotsam and jetsam.’


“Inside Out” ‘was inspired by a rainy Sunday morning in Islington, London observing umbrella clad passers-by from a cosy hostelry and soaking up the sights and sounds of the street scene.’


“Lost in Conversation” is ‘a live improvised piece played over the complex crosstalk of multiple conversations in a busy restaurant.’


“1860 Redux” ‘revisits a phonautogram of the oldest song recording made by Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville in April 1860. The song Au Clair de la Lune was sung by an unknown performer and the original lasts just 10 seconds. The faint warbling voice on the original is lost in a fog of hiss and distortion which makes it quite a difficult listen. I stretched and processed the sound with reverbs to create a gentle wash that fades in and out of this ambient track as a small homage and remix of the original achievement.’ (all extracted from here)



Savaran’s recent Resonances can be freely heard via FeedbackLoop...



...who also freepost his Summerday postcard here.

[FPc009] Summerday by Savaran by FbL soundcards



Also worth exhuming is “Luminosity” on the Futuresequence birthday compilation (FS interview him here), Sequence 1, along with 41 others, many of whom familiar to LMYE frequenters. Not got? Tsk. Freeloading ambience-chasers, over here!



On which, incidentally, anorak-clad cross-referencing LMYErs will note, Harry Meets Bartosz again:

Pleq and Spheruleus - A Journey Through Unfamiliar Places by pleq (bartosz dziadosz)



Back to Savaran, there’s “Hidden Places” on the Flaming Pines compilation Burning Palms, described by label owner Kate Carr as 'a compilation about a small beach in Sydney , Australia called Burning Palms. Accessible only on foot, It is the home of black cockatoos, many palm trees and a natural figure eight rock pool. Most contributers haven’t been there. For them this compilation has been a process of imagination and fantasy, for others it has been one of nostalgia, remembering and forgetting. This compilation is about the process of imbuing a place with meaning, a common theme in ambient music. But rather than aiming to uncover some inner essence of the landscape this compilation looks at how this act can be just as much a work of fiction as one of fact. Tracks by: Broken Chip, Savaran, Kate Carr, Sublamp, All N4tural, Manrico Montero, Adam Williams, Darren McClure, Every Bolt Rumbling. Mastering: 12k' Get it here. While downloading, you can ear’ole the Savaran track and eyeball a pic of the Burning Palms-frequenting pumped-up darkside budgie.

02 hidden places - savaran by Flaming Pines



And if you haven't had your fill of Savaran, you can bloat on his float-on Microcosmos, released by Gradient Audio.

Microcosmos (from Gradient Audio Microcosmos EP) by Savaran

Elysian Fields (from Gradient Audio Microcosmos EP) by Savaran

Solar (from the Gradient Audio Microcosmos EP) by Savaran



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When Harry Met Bartosz

“a yearning tumult of haunting quietude” jumps out of the mix - in the blurb accompanying A Silent, Swaying Breath, the musical mission of Harry Towell (Spheruleus and Audio Gourmet) and Bartosz Dziadosz (Pleq), that is. And what, pray, might that mission be?

‘...to curate an album created "by the people for the people", to raise funds for those that has been affected by the recent unrest that ravaged cities across the country.’

Various - A Silent Swaying Breath (A Public Record) (Preview) by bartoszdziadosz

When we last checked Pleq, it was his own musicianly prowess that was the object of LMYE’s verbals. Now, his lot thrown in with Towell, facilitated by SoundFjord, it is their joint choreographing of “a statement and a monument to collaboration and community,” that “brings together works selected from 1-minute, unedited recordings gleaned from artists, musicians and the general public across the globe. Spheruleus and Pleq sensitively weave together an eclectic selection of field recordings, samples, spoken word pieces and instrumentation, creating for the listener momentous emotional landscapes, delicate, tender moments and most of all, a yearning tumult of haunting quietude: a silent, swaying breath.”

Various - A Silent Swaying Breath (A Public Record) (Preview 2) by bartoszdziadosz

12 days ago, they said: “We are currently gathering sounds and samples until 05 September 2011. We are interested in receiving unedited recordings (not finished works). The most appropriate recordings will be process and assembled into an album. For further info on how to participate, please download our info sheet here”

If this is the case, no more sound submissions are being taken, though it’s not clear if the soundclouded version is complete, or a sort of in-progress rough mix illustrating the overall concept. Be that as it may, make a note to watch out for release, and give generously, “All profits raised by sales of this album assisting those that have lost their homes and livelihoods and to help provide opportunities for philanthropy, creative expression and collaboration within local community projects.”

Bartosz

Harry

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Strange talismans

Ahead of a look at Rachel Evans' fecund, sometimes mesmerising Motion Sickness of Time Travel, a densely blissy 'track of the day' from her & Grant Evans' Quiet Evenings duo - a gliding, tingling preview of their new-ish Intrepid Trips (Hooker Vision; full BandCamp stream below too)...

Blurb: "Initiation. Design. Strange talismans and insignias. The path of the Quiet Evening is revealed to the true seeker. Washes of illumination. The toadstools of fairytales and the stoned ape. The curtain is drawn."

quiet evenings - intrepid trips (album preview)

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Empty gallery

The transfer window may have closed, but Premier League talent - Taylor Deupree! Steinbruechel! Simon Scott! - converges on our old friends ISAN as each contributes a remix of the pair's gently, twinklingly unfolding 'composite', an installation tone poem, all then packaged into a ravishing 12" for Scott's keshhhhhh label.


Hear all four compelling takes on the lambent original in a single preview below. 


Blurb: "It started a couple years ago - we had been working on a sound installation for the Eastside Gallery in Birmingham. The installation was based on ambient recordings made in and around the empty gallery, also from synthesised tones played out and recorded in the same space. We then constructed a multi-layered piece to be played from un-synchronised CD players, with new layers added over a period of 9 weeks.

Sometime after it was all up and running, we sent a "composite" of the work to our friend Simon Scott as he was really curious to hear it... Simon came back to us straight away with a vision to remix and release this on vinyl for his Keshhhhhh label, along with guest remixes from Taylor Deupree and Ralph Steinbrüchel (and more to come with the future digital release).

It's been a labour of love - beautifully mastered by Lawrence English, hand-stamped labels by Carl Harris, all lovingly assembled by Simon..."

Eastside (Remix 12" Preview) by isan


Extras - ISAN contributions to two giant & hugely worthwhile compilations, Sequence1 & 31 songs for japan: 









A dramatic exit of tosca from Rosa Menkman


EB.TV interview. 


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