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Ambient/Experimental; part 3

01. Markus Guenter – Baryon (feat. The Sight Below)
02. Broken Harbour – Superluminal
03. Steve Roach – Everything Inside
04. Leonardo Rosado – Variation in Blue #4_Before the Storm
05. Ambient Landscape – Full Bleed_1
06. Chris Russell – Echo
07. Rumforskning – Ligevaegt
08. Budd, Foxx, Artoh, l@bs – Frequency de Dimidium
09. M. Peck – Soma
10. No-xygen – Black Rain
11. No-xygen, l@bs, Coppice – Black Rainfractal+X
12. Hertz & Mystified – Nepcetaq

Red Cloud ‘Panic in the Forest’

Butterfly Effects – James Johnson Recycled

http://relaxed-machinery.bandcamp.com/album/butterfly-effects-james-johnson-recycled

Early in 2011, electronic music veteran James Johnson approached the Relaxed Machinery community with an exciting project idea: an album comprising remixes of material from several of his albums.

The response was immediate: 30 artists from around the world – all members of the Relaxed Machinery Ning Online Community – expressed an interest in taking part. James provided them with 25 clips culled from eight albums, which included synths, piano, voices and generative tracks. Submitted pieces often included source material from more than one album.

James selected nine pieces for this collection, including work by Disturbed Earth, Altus, Chris Russell and more.

These are all “purist” remixes, using only source materials provided by James.

In keeping with the project’s remix/recycle ethos, its title is extrapolated from one of James’ album titles, and the artwork (by Scott M2) is remixed from James’ photography.

Butterfly Effects is available exclusively from the Relaxed Machinery Bandcamp page. The release package includes cover, wallpaper and liner notes.

Julie Slick – Terrior

Featuring Adrian Belew & David Torn…

http://julieslick.bandcamp.com/album/terroir

Also: http://store.nexternal.com/dgm/julie-slick—terroir-p1315.aspx

Various Artists – Celestial Matter

1.  Alone in the Vast Sea (Excursion 1) by Bobby Jones
2.  Divinidad Revelada by Fernando Carvalho
3.  Dry Ice (1st movement) by Cinchel
4.  Sung From Sympathetic Strings by Darren Harper
5.  Oort Cloud by Savaran
6.  Back and Forth by Eeem [eim]
7.  Dusty Measures by Mystified
8.  Unknown, or Unremembered by Darwin Raymond
9.  City Point by Elian
10. Interiors by Darren McClure
11. The Dust of Divinity by The Green Kingdom
12. Tolophie by Kluge
13. Breathing Through Me by Gimu
14. Destine by Jii-Music
15. Orchestral by Caterpillars Dressed In Their Finest
16. Adrift by HXDK
17. Divination by Kid Feardive

Celestial Matter, the fragments of objects of any form that orbit, fly or remain still in the vast darkness of our universe, a wondrous thing when thought about, and even more amazing when you stare up at a night sky and see these objects in their luminosity. But have you heard celestial matter?

For new US netlabel Subterranean Tide’s first release this is what they have aimed and succeeded in capturing, that essence of turning one’s head to the sky and hearing the celestial bodies that flicker and shimmer as they pass one another. Presented as a compilation in reaction to a poem written by label runner Emily Loren Moss Ferrell, or the poem of the artists choosing, the constellation of ambient and experimental excursions take the listener on a journey outwards while remaining introspective.

 

‘Singing through the windows
of a decayed youth

divinity revealed itself

playing the strings
of a celestial matter

in measures of orchestral dust’

 

Divinity revealing itself is what comes to mind when Bobby Jones’ piece opens up the compilation.  And through art we are able to experience such divinity. Glistening and otherworldly guitars are stretched in time and space. A haunting yet peaceful ambience surrounds the listener, and you are drawn into the concept and the music. And if one closes their eyes at any point, you could be forgiven for feeling that you are drifting through space with the sound of orchestral dust scattering at either side of one’s head during the plaintive Dusty Measures by Mystified, or the time stretched chants in Gimu’s haunting contribution.

There is a beautiful meeting point between the electronic and acoustic worlds throughout this compilation, purely exemplified in Darwin Raymond’s glittering minimalist guitar, Reichian in nature with subtle ambience while Eeem’s piece brings us back down to earth – I imagine myself on waking at dawn, the light of the sun refracting on the clouds to paint a purple hue as birds sing to one another, it is cold and the moon is still visible but fading.

There is a symbiotic relationship here, the nature of our planet, its inhabitants reacting to a vastly mysterious universe – and with this music presented here the universe is reacting back at us, the watchers, playing the strings of a celestial matter, and it is beautiful and breath taking.

~Alex Stretton

Release Date: May 2013

Encyclotronica (Electronic Music New Rellease Guide)

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Part 2 of 3.

01. Ancestor’s Circle – Steve Roach
02  Inside & Out – The Winterhouse
03  Infection – Justin Vanderberg
04  Breaking Water –  Rick Wright
05 Stepping Sideways – Harold Budd & John Foxx
06 One Minute After Sunset –  Herion
07 The Mysteries – David Bowie & Erdal Kizilcay
08 Dream, for piano – John Cage
09 Forever – Robert Rich & Steve Roach
10 From a to B – Ozone Player
11 Green Sky – Marcin Wasilewski