{"title":"Ambient \/ Minimal \/ Drone","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"finis-africae-el-secreto-de-las-12-cd","title":"Finis Africae - El Secreto De Las 12 (CD)","description":"This time too, it's extremely rich !!! The second edition of the Spanish miracle Finis Africae by EM is an editing board that is organized in organic ambient with the famous song El Secreto De Las 12 at the top !!! Of course, it is highly recommended for new age lovers. !!!!\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe second installment of Finis Africae is finally the appearance of the Anno song! A 6-track mini-album titled \"El Secreto de las Doss (The Secret of Midnight)\", a Balearic classic that has been played since the 1980s! There is no duplication of content with the previous work \"A Last Discovery\"! !!\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"El Secreto\" is a song from Finis Africae's 1st album released in 1984, by Jose Padilla, DJ of the cafe \"Cafe del Mar (Sea Cafe)\" in Ibiza, Balearis Islands. I fell in love with it and quickly defined it as a \"chill-out\" tune. It is a chill-out classic that has been recorded on mixtapes that he has been selling for a long time, and has been established as an organic groove classic beyond the ambient techno \/ house era.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIt seems that only \"El Secreto\" is recognized in the DJ world, but Finis Africae is a unit that has crossed over various sounds independently with an experimental feeling since NEW WAVE (leader Huang Alberto). There are many songs that have the same impact as \"El Secreto\" (also famous for musical instrument nerds), and there are also fans who love the essence. In this album, Finis Africae's \"Ambient\" degree is deeply cut, and works comparable to \"El Secreto\" are compiled from the 1st \/ 2nd \/ 3rd album. There is no dance music, only deep listening is supported. The deepest part of Finis Africa, dense 32 minutes! (It is also an ant to play as ambient music)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e+ 48khz \/ 24bit latest remaster. 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This work is an Amazon expedition record by Finis Africae, a classic of Balear Relic, \"Amazonia\" (1990) ) Is used as a sound material to create a new Amazon. Strongly inspired by Toru Takemitsu, Joji Yuasa, Charles Ives, Juan Alberto and others, this work has strong elements as classical and contemporary music, but it makes full use of analog and digital instruments and recording techniques, collage and sound art, We will cook shredded materials from various perspectives such as electronic music and folk music. The finest natural beauty and psychedelia, in the endless inner universe that spreads in front of the listener, the electronic sound that shimmers like a heat haze leads, and the magnificent nature and the earth beat on the leaves of the sound, a pleasant ambience Cosmicche soundscape that wanders into the unexplored interior with the wind. This emotional melody is truly unique. Undoubtedly one of the most important masterpieces in the second half of the year.\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/345601385\u0026amp;color=%23ff5500\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_artwork=false\u0026amp;show_comments=true\u0026amp;show_user=true\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=true\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Em Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39824986538141,"sku":"EM1165CD","price":2200.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0285\/1694\/1956\/products\/134342ef0c951d870565d21b963013fc.image.558x550.jpg?v=1619864858"},{"product_id":"finis-africae-amazonia-cd","title":"Finis Africae - Amazonia (CD)","description":"Finis Africae, a group without fixed members organized in Spain in the early 1980s by Huang Alberto Arteshe Guell, is a studio project that emphasizes work, especially \"Amazonia\" (1990) in the far north. It is a standing masterpiece. Inspired by Conan Doyle's adventure novel that he once read, Huang Alberto develops a soundscape that depicts the fantasy unexplored Amazon that circulates in his brain. In the late 80's, Arteshe upgraded his studio equipment to 16 tracks, and the technique he had tried on his two albums was complete. Manipulating many European and African instruments, overdubbing most of them alone, and combining the natural sounds of wind and rain, birds, insects and creatures, this \"Amazonia\" has a mysterious atmosphere and a mysterious sign. Expression. His unique organic groove feeling is also very comfortable, and it became a masterpiece worthy of its name (* note).\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e* \"Africae\" is an old name for \"Africa\" in Europe based on Latin, and adding \"finis\" creates nuances such as the farthest land and unknown places.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e+ Japanese \/ English publication\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e+ CD version: Paper jacket, liner included\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e+ LP version: Liner included\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/236889411\u0026amp;color=%239a8d5e\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_artwork=false\u0026amp;show_comments=true\u0026amp;show_user=true\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/236889421\u0026amp;color=%239a8d5e\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;show_artwork=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=true\u0026amp;show_user=true\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/236889430\u0026amp;color=%239a8d5e\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_artwork=false\u0026amp;show_comments=true\u0026amp;show_user=true\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/236889416\u0026amp;color=%239a8d5e\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_artwork=false\u0026amp;show_comments=true\u0026amp;show_user=true\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Em Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39825000923293,"sku":"EM1148CD","price":2420.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0285\/1694\/1956\/products\/EM1148.jpg?v=1619865185"},{"product_id":"7fgo-竜のぬけがら-cd","title":"7FO - 竜のぬけがら (CD)","description":"Captain Ganja + Haruomi Hosono + A. Russell !? This is the rumored Pure Land Dub New Age Base! A natural talent who fell in love with that Tapes, a new album of all 7FO songs has been completed !!!! A fluffy daydream experience with Nirvana BGM with a faint grassy scent.\n\nOffers from leading labels such as RVNG and Bokeh Versions are coming in, and the attention is rising overseas overseas, but Japan is left behind? I hear a voice saying, but wait! We kept waiting for this talent to stone and explode, and finally it was time to awaken !!!!!!\n\nThe decisive difference between 7FO and conventional electronic music writers is that it treats ambient-new age synth electronics with natural ethnicity like dub-reggae, with a feeling that Westerners do not have. That's the point. That sense is the reason why it produces the sound that the times demand, and is supported by RVNG-like new age-electronic music, new roots revival to extreme bass music, and La Monte Young to Equiknoxx fans. In a metaphorical way, what would happen if Haruomi Hosono from the YEN-Monad period appeared in the 2010s base scene? That is, it still has a mysterious potential. If you tell someone who doesn't know anything about the charm of \"Ryu no Nukegara\", you can get the true value straight away! ?? Natural high additive-free chill-out decision board that will be a landmark of 7FO that told that Tapes \"There is no reason for me to make music ...\" (The binding by Hiroto Higuchi is this sound Successful visualization.)","brand":"Em Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39825006559389,"sku":"EM1178CD","price":2200.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0285\/1694\/1956\/products\/EM1178_1.jpg?v=1619865305"},{"product_id":"iasos-inter-dimensional-music-cd","title":"Iasos - Inter-Dimensional Music (CD)","description":"Around 1967, mysterious music began to play in my head, and I heard that I began to listen to it naturally. The beautiful music that emerges from within him uplifted, healed and exhilarated his spirit. He called it \"paradise music\", referring to this type of music that he had never heard before. (From the commentary) -Yassos, who was born in Greece and raised in the United States, began to feel the light called Vista (the existence of light near the forehead), and from the records of communication and telepathy with them, human beings. I created a musical piece to help lead to the next stage. This album, which is the 1st album of 1975, makes you feel free, profound, spiritual, and even beyond the galaxy, so that the image of the word New Age (80's etc.) changes 180 degrees. It's a magnificent and very visual album. A truly true spiritual mix of electronically modulated flutes and steel guitars, spacey electric pianos, and natural sounds such as waves and animal calls, taking you to an unmeasurable world.・ The monumental tower of cosmic music. Close your eyes and keep listening deeply. 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This emotional melody is truly unique.\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/345601385\u0026amp;color=%23ff5500\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_artwork=false\u0026amp;show_comments=true\u0026amp;show_user=true\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=true\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Em Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39830903881885,"sku":"EM1165LP","price":2530.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0285\/1694\/1956\/products\/134342ef0c951d870565d21b963013fc.image.558x550_91ebdb84-ec75-47a7-9f75-2704bdbf4e20.jpg?v=1619932388"},{"product_id":"roland-p-young-hear-here-lp","title":"Roland P. 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Takao, a Japanese artist who was influenced by Motohiko Hamase, Toru Takemitsu, Akio Niitsu, Yann Tomita, Sean McCann, etc., released voluntarily from Bandcamp in June this year, and the work \"Stealth\" that involved peripheral artists and attracted attention The physical version of EM Records is now available!\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis work, which took a year and a half to complete, has an unusually short time of 33 minutes with 13 songs, but in a blink of an eye, it is swallowed by the transition of a magnificent time. I am impressed by the outstanding ambient view that looks after Post-Internet-New Age Revival and the solitary soundscape that fascinates the standard of the current experimental scene with a stylish sound that is one or two steps ahead! In addition to the former influenced by Hiroshi Yoshimura, Midori Takada, Nuno Canavarro, Haruomi Hosono, etc., it is said to be a big stone thrown in to push the timeless view of ambient music to the next stage. 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Recorded live over two nights, March 14 and 15, in 1978, at New York City's legendary performance space The Kitchen, \"Singing in Unison\" is a dramatic yet meditative work: modal improvisations for three male voices, singing, with great gravitas, in purposeful unison.\n\nThese previously unreleased recordings, featuring vocalists Richard Hayman, Imani Smith and Wada himself are extremely powerful, with a glacial majesty and a sense of timeless wonder. Wada's earliest musical memories are of hearing Zen Buddhist ritual chants in his native Japan, and those memories are reflected in the deep vocalisations here; also evident is Wada's period of intense study with Indian master singer Pandit Pran Nath. Thus there is a definite \"Eastern\" feeling to \"Singing in Unison\", with further elements added by Imani Smith's Sufi background and Wada's interest in Eastern European vocal styles, but the music is also informed by Wada's experiences in the Fluxus movement and as a member of the New York avant-garde community. The edgy atmosphere of 1970s New York City pervades these recordings, adding a hint of menace. 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His unique organic groove feeling is also very comfortable, and it became a masterpiece worthy of its name (* note).\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e* \"Africae\" is an old name for \"Africa\" in Europe based on Latin, and adding \"finis\" creates nuances such as the farthest land and unknown places.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e+ Japanese \/ English publication\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e+ CD version: Paper jacket, liner included\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e+ LP version: Liner included\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/236889411\u0026amp;color=%239a8d5e\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_artwork=false\u0026amp;show_comments=true\u0026amp;show_user=true\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/236889421\u0026amp;color=%239a8d5e\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;show_artwork=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=true\u0026amp;show_user=true\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/236889430\u0026amp;color=%239a8d5e\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_artwork=false\u0026amp;show_comments=true\u0026amp;show_user=true\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/236889416\u0026amp;color=%239a8d5e\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_artwork=false\u0026amp;show_comments=true\u0026amp;show_user=true\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Em Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42261652242691,"sku":"EM1148LP","price":2750.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0285\/1694\/1956\/products\/EM1148_7b3201af-e99c-41ac-a8ab-938451ae8fd2.jpg?v=1640739361"},{"product_id":"pauline-oliveros-taras-room-cs","title":"Pauline Oliveros - Tara's Room (CS)","description":"Pauline Oliveros' Tara's Room has long been a favorite in the Imprec office and it's a great honor to be able to release it on LP for the very first time. 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Through improvisation, electronic music, ritual, teaching and meditation she has created a body of work with such breadth of vision that it profoundly effects those who experience it, and eludes many who try to write about it. Oliveros has been honored with awards, grants and concerts internationally. Whether performing at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., in an underground cavern, or in the studios of West German Radio, Oliveros' commitment to interaction with the moment is unchanged. She can make the sound of a sweeping siren into another instrument of the ensemble.\n\n\"On some level, music, sound consciousness and religion are all one, and she would seem to be very close to that level.\" ~ John Rockwell\n\n\"Through Pauline Oliveros and Deep Listening, I now know what harmony is. 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He has performed and\/or recorded with Laurie Anderson, Bang On a Can, Brave Combo, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Coleman, Dave Douglas, Bill Frisell, Rahim al Haj, Robin Holcomb, Kepa Junkera, the Kronos Quartet, Natalie Merchant, Present Music, Relâche, Zeitgeist, and John Zorn.\n\nPauline Oliveros, composer, performer and humanitarian is an important pioneer in American Music. Acclaimed internationally, for four decades she has explored sound - forging new ground for herself and others.\n\nThrough improvisation, electronic music, ritual, teaching and meditation she has created a body of work with such breadth of vision that it profoundly effects those who experience it, and eludes many who try to write about it. Oliveros has been honored with awards, grants and concerts internationally. Whether performing at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., in an underground cavern, or in the studios of West German Radio, Oliveros' commitment to interaction with the moment is unchanged. 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This three-part composition, with its great humility and contemplative simplicity, heralded a new period of work and was the first in a series of masterpieces inspired by Tibetan Buddhism: Adnos II (1980); Adnos III (1981) [both included on IMPREC 028CD]; Songs of Milarepa (1983), with the voices of Lama Kunga Rinpoche and Robert Ashley; Jetsun Mila (1986); as well as the Triologie de la Mort (XI 119CD): Kyema (1988), Kailasha (1991), and Koumé (1993). 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Records in 1975 and here expanded to a double LP with the addition of over 40 minutes of contemporaneous material. Pioneer of live electronics, innovator in music education, collaborator with artists as diverse as Jon Hassell, Jacqueline Humbert, Terry Riley and Anthony Braxton, Rosenboom is renowned for his ground-breaking experiments with the use of brain biofeedback to control live electronic systems.  Each of the three pieces that make up the original Brainwave Music LP integrates biofeedback with musical technology in different ways. In the side-long opening piece “Portable Gold and Philosophers’ Stones”, four performers have electrodes and monitoring devices attached to their bodies to receive information about brainwaves, temperature, and galvanic skin response. This information is analysed and fed into a complex set of frequency dividers and filters, manned by Rosenboom, but essentially played by each of the performers through their psychophysiological responses to the situation. The result is a slowly unfolding web of filtered electronic tones over a tanpura-esque fundamental, possessing the unhurried, stately grandeur of an electronic raga. In “Chilean Drought”, three different variations of a text about a drought in Chile, each read by a different voice in a different style, are associated with the Beta, Alpha, and Theta brainwave bands. Alongside an insistent piano accompaniment, we hear a constantly shifting combination of the three vocal recordings controlled by the relative preponderance of each of the brainwave bands in the soloist whose brainwaves are being monitored. “Piano Etude I (Alpha)”, the earliest piece included here, is based on research into the link between Alpha brain wave production and the execution of repetitive motor tasks. As Rosenboom plays a very rapid, incessantly repeated pattern in both hands – deliberately designed to be difficult to execute without being in an alert, non-thinking state similar to that associated with strong Alpha brainwave production – two filters controlled by monitoring his brainwaves process the piano sound, moving gradually higher in frequency as the average Alpha amplitude increases, resulting in a hypnotic, constantly shifting blur of repeated notes reflected through the shimmering, watery lights of the filters. For this reissue, the original LP is supplemented with an additional LP containing an unreleased 1977 live recording of Rosenboom’s “On Being Invisible”, in which the composer himself performs on an array of electronics that are fed information from his brainwaves. Stretching out over 40 minutes, the piece begins in similar territory to “Portable Gold and Philosophers’ Stones” but eventually becomes far wilder, building up to pointillistic bleeps and dense layers of electronic fizz that unexpectedly cut to near-silence. As Rosenboom explains, the piece creates a situation in which the ‘performer’s active imaginative listening became one of the ways to play their instrument, as well as an active agent in how self-organizing musical forms might emerge.’ Enriched with archival images and new notes from the composer, this expanded reissue of Brainwave Music is essential listening for anyone interested in the history of live electronic music and alive to the possibilities it might still contain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"300\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M3CDa4SQAmA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dc4H4216ENQ\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" frameborder=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Black Truffle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42329986072835,"sku":"BT048LP","price":3697.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0285\/1694\/1956\/products\/a0787481414_10_3f09fc7e-a60b-4e3b-b121-e40a817b8b06.jpg?v=1642160075"},{"product_id":"laraaji-ambient-3-day-of-radiance-lp-cd","title":"Laraaji - Ambient 3: Day of Radiance (LP+CD)","description":"180-gram vinyl. Gatefold sleeve. Includes CD. 2015 remastered reissue. Includes lengthy interview with Laraaji. Laraaji's glistening 1980 debut Ambient 3: Day of Radiance has from the beginning been considered an outlier. Though widely celebrated at that the time of its original release (as the third installment in Brian Eno's emerging ambient music series), the album also brought with it an aura of mystification. Where did it fit in? An uncharted synthesis of resonating zither textures, interlocking hammered rhythms, and 3-D sound treatments (courtesy of Eno), Day of Radiance seemed to push open many doors at once, ambient music being only one of them. Though there are certainly aspects of the album that find sonic common ground with other Eno-related \"ambient\" projects (on the tracks \"Meditation #1\" and \"Meditation #2\" in particular), the album is not easily boxed into a singular genre. Day of Radiance also mines the ethereal spiritualism of late-'70s new age music (of which Laraaji is considered a pioneer), the harmonic and rhythmic repetitions of American minimalists Terry Riley and Steve Reich, and traditional global sounds from India and Java (particularly gamelan music). And while Laraaji never explicitly embraced the \"Fourth World\" theories of fellow visionary and Eno collaborator Jon Hassell, Day of Radiance echoes a kindred exploratory exoticism. In the late '70s Brian Eno had relocated to New York City from London and had begun a period of fertile intersections with musicians in his adopted home. 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Everything on this label is gold...\u003cbr \/\u003e\n\u003cbr \/\u003e\nPontiac Streator previously appeared as a guest on the first West Mineral Ltd release, Pendant’s by-now classic Make Me Know You Sweet, while Ulla Straus is perhaps best known for her part on the cultishly adored bblisss compilation tape which introduced Huerco S.’s Pendant alias to the world at large. Their first album together is a bedroom-crafted confection where drowsy meditations smudge with lounging exotica themes in a blunted style to properly heavy-lidded effect.\u003cbr \/\u003e\n\u003cbr \/\u003e\nChat was recorded on July 5th in Pilsen, Chicago on Ulla’s bed after a long week spent dancing with friends, staying up all night typing in chatrooms, and hate-watching Fox news. 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This balmy feel of the surreal comes out in a sylvan patina of sweetened cicadas and curling pads urged along by a stream of wooden drums, variously recalling Spencer Clark on some kind of Aguirre soundtrack mission in the tropics, a heatsick Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement piece, or, in the dream-pop drift of the last part, like Leven Signs smudged by Muslimgauze.\u003cbr \/\u003e\n\u003cbr \/\u003e\nCoolly serving to expand West Mineral Ltd's remit after that spellbinding Pendant album and a 12” of ectoplasmic dubs from uon, the flux of arid\/fluid textures and para-dimensional fidelities in Chat feels somehow calming yet fraught with a somnambulant appeal that’s dangerously easy to fall for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"50%\" height=\"100\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/482287488\u0026amp;color=%239a8d5e\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=true\u0026amp;show_artwork=false\u0026amp;show_user=true\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=true\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"50%\" height=\"100\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/482287635\u0026amp;color=%239a8d5e\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=true\u0026amp;show_artwork=false\u0026amp;show_user=true\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=true\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"West Mineral Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42359205134595,"sku":"OUEST097","price":3797.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0285\/1694\/1956\/products\/80604f1aede93520311b72f2c9412893.image.550x550_c471d878-e4bb-451e-9369-e0304717fcbf.jpg?v=1642586340"},{"product_id":"moondog-snaketime-series-lp","title":"Moondog - Snaketime Series (LP)","description":"The first album was released on Prestige in 1956. 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Performers include Dante Boon, Stefan Thut, Andrew McIntosh and J\u0026uuml;rg Frey himself.\u003cbr \/\u003e\n\u0026ldquo;I think my process of work is similar to Roud\u0026rsquo;s: roaming with my sketchbook, taking a movement here, adding some notes there, following an impression, writing a little melody or a rhythmic constellation, deepening a feeling, extending a pitch, waiting and letting it happen\u0026hellip;\u0026rdquo;\u003cbr \/\u003e\nInterview with J\u0026uuml;rg Frey\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDisc One:\u003cbr \/\u003e\n1 Paysage pour Gustave Roud (2007 \/ 2008) 14:25\u003cbr \/\u003e\nJ\u0026uuml;rg Frey clarinet, Stefan Thut cello, Dante Boon piano\u003cbr \/\u003e\n2 Haut-Jorat (2009) 7:51\u003cbr \/\u003e\nAndrew McIntosh violin, J\u0026uuml;rg Frey clarinet, Dante Boon piano\u003cbr \/\u003e\n3 La pr\u0026eacute;sence, les silences (2013-2016) 41:07 Dante Boon piano\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDisc Two:\u003cbr \/\u003e\n1 Farblose Wolken, Gl\u0026uuml;ck, Wind (2009-2011) 48:10\u003cbr \/\u003e\nRegula Konrad soprano, Stephen Altoft trumpet, Stefan Thut cello, Lee Ferguson percussion\u003cbr \/\u003e\n2 Ombre si fragile (2007 \/ 2008 \/2010) 15:09\u003cbr \/\u003e\nAndrew McIntosh violin, Stefan Thut cello, Dante Boon piano\u003c\/p\u003e\nA double CD with five beautiful pieces that engage with the work of the extraordinary French-Swiss poet Gustave Roud. 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The last year has been a particularly fruitful one, revealing extensions to his compositional approach. There was the release of the two-disc set Grizzana and other pieces 2009-2014 for small ensemble on the Another Timbre label as well as his residency at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, featuring multiple performances of his pieces. Two other releases, Circles and Landscapes and String Quartet No. 3 \/ Unh\u0026ouml;rbare Zeit deserve special focus as each represents the continued development of Frey\u0026rsquo;s compositional sensibilities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCircles and Landscapes features a program of solo piano pieces performed by Philip Thomas, one of the preeminent interpreters of contemporary piano compositions as well as an accomplished improviser. 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This applies to every material, whether stones or a piano, but with the piano it seems to be more challenging because of the clarity of the material and how the instrument itself suggests it should be used.\u0026rdquo; The opening \u0026ldquo;In Memorium Cornelius Cardew\u0026rdquo; moves with slow assurance back and forth between low register intervals and a resonant chord, pausing midway to progress to a deliberately paced, falling phrase which pools in darkly voiced chords. Three pieces from the \u0026ldquo;Circular Music\u0026rdquo; series, composed a decade later, distill that concentration on intervals and resonance with poised consideration. Here, the notes and harmonies are allowed to sit. It is not about motion or development, but rather about simply letting the sounds unfold across the duration of the piece.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrey has stated about his music, \u0026ldquo;A sequence of notes is most composers\u0026#39; starting point. 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Yet even here, the music proceeds with notes and chords sounding alone with a sense of succession rather than melodic or harmonic progression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrey\u0026rsquo;s string quartets, particularly \u0026ldquo;Striechquartett II,\u0026rdquo; are some of his most absorbing pieces, particularly as performed by Montreal-based Quatuor Bozzini. In these pieces, the composer makes potent use of the microtonal nuances of the string instruments to elicit fragile, almost vocalized voicings of his poised harmonic structures. Where his second string quartet created a diaphanous scrim of sound, on \u0026ldquo;String Quartet No. 3,\u0026rdquo; he opens things up, introducing a spaciousness to the deft voicings. The members of the quartet are completely synched in to Frey\u0026rsquo;s strategies, fully embodying the tonal structures into a singular sound. Frey writes about this piece, \u0026ldquo;Elemental materials and constructions are thereby perceived as a sensation, and mindfulness consists in hanging these sensations in balance before they have arrived at the limitations of expressiveness.\u0026rdquo; And it is the way that the quartet hangs at the edges of expressiveness, letting the sensations of the notes and harmonies play out without investing them with dramatic expression. It is this equanimity and stability that allows the piece to play out in a totally absorbing way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;Unh\u0026ouml;rbare Zeit\u0026rdquo; (inaudible times) adds two percussionists to the mx and here the structure opens up even more. The durations of silence are as central to the piece as the sounds of strings and the low rumbles of percussion. Frey states that he is working with \u0026ldquo;audible and inaudible durations that appear partly simultaneously and partly consecutively. They give the piece lucidity and transparency, as well as materiality and solidity.\u0026rdquo; While silence as a structural element has been fully absorbed into the vocabulary of contemporary composition, it is the way that Frey gives the silences weight and dimension within this piece that really stands out. The balance of the timbre of strings, low register percussion, the rustle of room sounds and the mercurial pacing of sound and silence is fully entrancing.\u0026rdquo;\u003cbr \/\u003e\n\u0026ndash;Michael Rosenstein, Point of Departure\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;A few months ago I noticed the change in J\u0026uuml;rg Frey\u0026rsquo;s music in recent years, when discussing two contrasting but very fine albums of his earlier and later music. A similar impression was made by the concert of his 2nd and 3rd string quartets by the Quatuor Bozzini in Huddersfield last November: that Frey is moving away from ideas and towards music. Frey has long been associated with the Wandelweiser collective, but his recent music has been compromising the \u0026ldquo;purity\u0026rdquo; Wandelweiser\u0026rsquo;s reverence for silence. With this supposed loss of aesthetic purity, Frey has embraced a purity of sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAfter releasing the quietly beautiful Grizzana album, Another Timbre released a CD of Philip Thomas playing Frey\u0026rsquo;s recent piano music at the end of last year. I previously wrote of his third string quartet that Frey was joining Morton Feldman as a fellow master of non-functional harmony, adapting some of the more rhetorical elements of classical and romantic music, but piecemeal, on his own terms and his own ends. In this piano music, most of it composed between 2010 and 2014, there is a similar sense of exploration, without any perceived goal, to that found in Feldman\u0026rsquo;s \u0026ldquo;middle period\u0026rdquo; before he discovered the tenuous equilibrium found in repeating patterns.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt that time, Feldman was also moving away from abstraction and responding to the need to create melodies (\u0026ldquo;big Puccini-like melodies\u0026rdquo;). An interview on the Another Timbre website shows Frey seeking a common solace in a material understanding of music, and in negotiating the paradoxes that arise when wanting to compose without disturbing the music\u0026rsquo;s material.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen composing for the piano, the notion of harmony is more prominent \u0026ndash; although we know all the (lovely) extended techniques that have been developed for the piano, to make it sound unlike a piano. But yes, the piano remains the instrument to represent harmony\u0026hellip;. When I write for piano, I shouldn\u0026rsquo;t rely on the piano itself, but on the composition. The piano gives single notes, dyads and chords too easily. Also, if I write consonant dyads, it could suddenly sound wrong, ironic, like a quotation rather than the real sound. In this context to compose means to build a basic confidence in the clear and restricted material that you are working with.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe shorter pieces have a meditative quality, alternating between pedal tones and chords. The longer pieces take on a resemblance to a journey through a succession of musical terrains. Sometimes progress is slow, tentative, with long periods stranded in one particular harmony or register, before unexpectedly moving on. It becomes clear that the journey is its own destination. If there is a structure underneath it all, Frey does his best to conceal or disrupt it or render it irrelevant to the listener.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe album begins with a much older piece, the brief In Memoriam Cornelius Cardew from 1993, with a tonal palette that anticipates the later works. Has Frey allowed a space for emotional expression in his new music, however abstracted? It\u0026rsquo;s interesting that when philosophy is raised in the interview, he demurs but admits that he feels \u0026ldquo;a closeness\u0026rdquo; to Deleuze and Spinoza, two Western thinkers who tried to reason without a dichotomy between mind and body.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe piano is close-miked on this CD, focussing on the grain of the instrument\u0026rsquo;s sounds. Thomas\u0026rsquo; playing is softly-spoken but full-voiced \u0026ndash; well suited to the quiet but indomitable character marking out a trail through an empty expanse, as in the longest piece on the album. 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The resulting music would serve to highlight Teddy’s love affair with the possibilities found within tireless instrumentation, with the flute and particularly synthesisers becoming a mini-obession of his (he once spent a 7,000 Francs loan, which was meant to be spent on fixing his roof, on synths).\n\nTo this day Teddy continues to record and experiment with music, a passion which in many ways has never left his side, even at the age of 75. His career was one that was fuelled by innate curiosity and an intrinsic desire to discover new methods of expressionism, be it through the realms of Jazz-Funk, ambient electronics, Swing music or indeed through the medium of instrumentation itself. On this compilation, we look to encapsulate the essence of his innovative sound, and from start to finish a sense of his ingenious approach to composing structure and mood is made abundantly clear. The funk-jazz fusion style that embodied the majority of his 70s work is on full display here, with the vibrant flute driven \"Los Angeles\", the Miles Davis inspired \"Blue Theme\", the progressive and driving \"Chamonix\", and the deeply intricate \"Krazy Kat\", along with one of his finest 80s slow jams, \"Funky Ghost\". Two cuts off the ‘Back To Amazonia’ album are also featured (Teddy’s last album including his Prophet T8, Yamaha DX7 and Oberheim drum machines). \"Raising Sun in Bali\" and the title piece both emphasise an ever present passion for synthesisers. \"Birds of Space\", a standout track off the ’e=mc2’ album, closes the comp, and is a fitting way to end this journey.\n\nTo sit through this compilation is to listen to a musician at ease with his abilities and his eagerness, with the music taking the listener one way before building upon that anticipation and guiding it beyond the realms of reality - and into a sphere where the imagination is allowed to run free.\n\nPulled together in close collaboration with Teddy and his family, this collection of songs looks to introduce new listeners to his work and we are proud to present this limited and carefully remastered compilation on vinyl, including extensive liner notes. \ncredits\n\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 350px; height: 439px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3333119568\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=333333\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/hotmule.bandcamp.com\/album\/funky-ghost-1975-1987\"\u003eFunky Ghost 1975-1987 by Teddy Lasry\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Hot Mule","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42397576560899,"sku":"HTML008","price":4529.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0285\/1694\/1956\/products\/HTML008_03eaca45-a090-4c95-b922-1ff930535241.jpg?v=1643352480"},{"product_id":"kevin-mccormick-david-horridge-light-patterns-lp","title":"Kevin McCormick, David Horridge - Light Patterns (LP)","description":"Light patterns in a glass dream\nSound fountains in a gentle stream\nSmoked visions in another room\nForm and fade all too soon\n\nIn 1970, Kevin and David met whilst they were working in the Labour Exchange Office on Aytoun St, Manchester. Both played guitar and had been searching for other musicians who played atmospheric music. Kevin had been playing in small clubs in Manchester and David had been playing in a few local bands. One evening, they jammed together, at Kevin’s family home, and quickly realized that their playing blended together to form the basis of the sound they had been looking for.\n\nIn the late 70s, the music scene in Manchester was bursting with new bands and music. Kevin and David, however, had little in common with the local acts, being disciples of a more meditative approach. They followed a path of their own, reaching for an otherworldly sound that they heard from artists like John Martyn, David Crosby, Erik Satie, Terry Riley, Eberhard Weber, Alice Coltrane, and Ralph Towner. They experimented combining their acoustic guitars and David’s bass with various effects pedals and techniques to try and achieve a warm and expansive sound that rides the line between ambient, jazz, and psychedelic folk Music.\n\nTowards 1981, they had written eleven songs and accompanied a few with Moog synthesizer laid down by Rob Baxter. All were recorded on cassette decks in their simple home studios. They named this collection of music “Light Patterns”, after a poem Kevin had written. With Light Patterns complete, they set out to find a label to represent their music.\n\nThey started playing a few gigs in Manchester; Band On The Wall, the Gallery, and other venues, such as Rotters which local promoter Alan Wise had organized. They set up with small amps along with their effects and played as though they were back at home. As Kevin remarks, “It was unusual, to say the least, to play such venues in a low volume chilled out way. 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The record’s rich textures combine ambient, tribal rhythms, field recordings, ritualistic vibes, and a meditative feeling that runs through the entire LP. Đ.K. is in full flight mode, illustrating the project’s aptitude for deep transcendence.\n\nĐ.K. is a DJ, composer \u0026 producer based in Paris, France. A versatile and prolific artist, D.K. has cultivated an eclectic body of work in recent years, with acclaimed output on renowned labels including Antinote, Melody As Truth, 12th Isle, Good Morning Tapes, Music From Memory’s Second Circle imprint, and L.I.E.S. 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Movements of pulse and ether.\n\nOn ‘Mirror’, sonorous, elaborate percussive phrases are interwoven with drifting ambient vapours, while ‘The Other Side’ veers into broad, rolling blasts of dub and Antipodean drone, a cavernous trance evoking the early roots of Ras Michael and Yabby You, pared back to resolute drum sequences and infused with esoteric chimes and sultry synthesis.\n\nThe finale of ‘Eighteen Movements’ represents one of Đ.K..’s most ambitious recordings. ‘Awakening’ is an epic tone poem of aqueous, outer planetary resonance that completes this mercurial cycle with a poignant, euphoric fadeout. Chronicled in the moment, alternating between rhythm and repose, momentum and aviation, 'Eighteen Movements' sees Đ.K. voyaging further, into vast, uncharted outskirts of sound. 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Performed by the composer on electronics and Werner Durand on soprano saxophone in Berlin in 1989, the first realisation immediately ushers the listener into an environment of long soprano notes, lush, sustained synth harmonies, randomised percussive interjections and distantly burbling arpeggiated patterns.\n\nThe 1999 realisation recorded in New York with Jon Gibson on soprano shows how much room for the instrumentalist to affect the course of the music exists in Behrman’s interactive pieces, in which, as he notes, ‘performers have options rather than instructions’. Beginning in a roughly similar area to the version with Durand, this later recording eventually becomes substantially more active, as polyrhythmically layered arpeggios and percussive patterns respond to fast chromatic lines and dynamic phrases from the saxophone, moving Gibson in turn to respond with cycling figures and moments of extended technique that touch on the soprano languages pioneered by players like Steve Lacy and Evan Parker. Yet even at its most active, the lack of conventional forward movement in the music allows it to retain what Behrman’s friend Jacques Bekaert called its ‘fragile tranquillity’, as episodes of activity appear only as momentary disruptions of an underlying calm.\n\nOn the B side, we are treated to a new collaborative work from Behrman and Werner Durand, building on the 2002 installation work ViewFinder, in which a camera detecting physical motion triggered changes to electronic sound. 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An intense, multilayered continuation of earlier collaborations (Atsuko was featured on Midori's debut LP back in 2006), the foundation for this new collaborative album was laid when they shared stages in Berlin (Ausland) and Japan in 2019. Working remotely at first, they later recorded parts of the album in Nara's snoihouse (using omnidirectional polyhedral speakers). \"As we rallied back and forth with our recordings in the process of creating this album, unanticipated fluctuations and irregularities emerged, coming together into a kind of music with a unique resilience and buoyancy that cannot be confined to existing molds. It was as though we had built a Water Ladder to bridge the gap between us,\" explains prolific composer and viola player Atsuko Hatano, who's been busy recording solo and with colleagues such as Jim O'Rourke, Eiko Ishibashi, Mocky, Tatsuhisa Yamamoto, Takeo Toyama, and Anzu Suhara (Asa-chang and Junrei). 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