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Subdued Ether-Jazz, Ambient & Electronica, inspired by the recent Jazz releases from Dirk Serries and, specifically, the  Dikeman, Serries & Noble CD ‘Obscure Fluctuations‘. | 60:13

This has become a personal favorite, on ear-buds, since I mixed it this past December on my Christmas break. Cover art created with Paper by Fifty Three.

01. Dikeman-Noble-Serries Trio – The Heart Stripes Bare (Obscure Fluctuations), excerpt
02. Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin – Modul 8_9 I
03. Ben Monder and Paul Motian – Triffids
04. Jon Hassell – The Elephant & the Orchid (excerpt)
05. Brian Eno & Jah Wobble – Transmitter and Trumpet
06. Serries-Verhoeven-Webster – Cineplace (excerpt)
07. Triosk -Re-Ignite
08. M. Bentley – From There…
09. Lucy & Klock – A Ghost Love Story (with treatments)
10. Ponton – Horizont
11. Kenny Garrett, Pat Metheny, Brian Blade, Rodney Whitaker – Latifa

Nik Bärtsch’s Mobile – Continuum

Available 4.22.16 (or iTunes & Amazon U.K. now!)

Dakota Suite & Emanuele Errante – The North Green Down

Beautiful. Nay…gorgeous! (Errante is also a member of Herion)

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immersion station: ‘delicate extract’

The first mix project from ‘immersion station’, created via iPad/Audacity:

basically the manipulation of immersion station’s sound orbs via iPad, (original post on this was here) exported to PC & then tinkered with via Audacity (overlap, stretch, reverse/reverb/echo & hyper-segues) knit together with sounds predisposed to one another.

Fun/challenging as one constantly seeks differentiation in tonal structure…so the whole thing remains cohesive as a project without simply sounding “the same”.

Delicate Extract | 52:38 | Created 03.05-06.16

01. Ambient Landscape – Delicate Blend (stretch edit)
02. Ambient Landscape – Blue Orb Drone
03. Ambient Landscape – Amber Orb Drone (mid overlap w/ track 2)
04. Ambient Landscape – Metallic Static
05. Ambient Landscape – Delicate Balance (parts 1, 2 & 3)
06. Ambient Landscape – Delicate Extract (L/R balance edit)
07. Chris Russell – Goloka (w/ embedded immersion effects)
08. Ambient Landscape – 3 Orbs Walk into a Bar
09. Steve Roach/Loren Nerell – Texture Wall (excerpt)

 

 

Podcast 428: Maayan Nidam

Having spent her earlier years in Tel Aviv, Israel, with brief stints in Amsterdam and New York, Nidam arrived in Berlin in 2004. It was, she says, a “desperate move,” motivated, above all, by a need to “move forward” rather than pursue any particular musical endeavour. “I needed to move, to see somewhere else and to get away from everything. It had nothing to do with trying to become a successful musician,” she says. “DJing was just something that I could do.” Over time, as she struggled to settle in the place where she had limited knowledge of the local dialect, music, she explains, became her main vehicle of communication with people in the scene. “I just spent all my time going to parties and playing music,” she recalls. Production, too, at this point began to grow. Releases, under a plethora of different monikers—including Laverne Radix, Miss Fitz and Mara Trax (her collaborative project with Vera)—became increasingly frequent, spanning from labels including Raum Music, Oslo, and Freak n’ Chic. Her first work under her own name landed in 2009, a debut full-length on Power Shovel Audio. This, she says, marked a point of maturity in her sound, and the first time she first felt comfortable without an alias.

Download: https://www.xlr8r.com/podcasts/2016/02/podcast-428-maayan-nidam/

Review/Interview: Filling the Scars with Light

Announcing a fantastic aural adventure from this first EP offering on the Intimate Silence  label:

The three EP tracks:

01 Figurant
02 Filling Scars with Light &
03 Empathy Keeps me from Sleeping

…invoke a subtle sense of synthetic strings & somber drones, painting a densely thematic, aurally looped, holistic landscape. They could be the perfect, quiet backdrop to your sleep-time, meditative/emotive time…or even more amorous activities.

Tonal synergy & poetic ambient structure are ever present as the listener drifts [and drifts] further into this gorgeous wash of sound & sonance – slightly reminiscent (at times) of Seofon’s Zero Point release from The Foundry to give but one point of ambient reference.

I’ll soon have an excerpted portion of one of the tracks, ‘Figurant‘, on the drawing board for an Ambient/Drone mix slated for Mixcloud release later this year.

Meanwhile, curious listeners can find these sounds at the links below:

• https://soundcloud.com/intimatesilence
• https://www.facebook.com/intimatesilence
• http://intimate-silence.com/

Interview: I was recently  “speaking” (FaceBook/online/email) with Benedikt Christian, the founder of this German based label: here’s a bit of our conversation:

1. What’s your passion in sharing your brand of Ambient music with the world?
   Intimate Silence is a label with the philosophy to bring out music for the lonesome hours, the intimate moments and the wish for silence, healing the pain that other music is inflicting.
   

2. What are your goals with this new label?
   The intention of my new label is to enrich more people with this kind of music, because ambient should be more popular! Ambient music is a relatively ‘unpopular’ genre that isn’t covered too much by the common media. And this label is something that’s coming from the heart into which I’ve put a lot of work.

3. Which genres/sub-genres of Ambient will you concentrate on?
   I’m not planning to concentrate on a certain sub-genre as I am a very open-minded person and I like all the different aspects of Ambient music, be it the beautiful and swirly scapes or the more rough and droney sounds. As long as I like it, I might consider it to be part of Intimate Silence.
4. Who are/were your influences?
   My influences are mostly things or situations that happen to me in my life, both positive and negative. But also artists like Ben Frost, Tim Hecker or Alva Noto leave a big impression on me because of their amazing shows and outputs.

5. Which other artists are you approaching for this label/catalog?
   At the moment I’m in constant contact with a young guy from Stockholm called Dold. It seems as he would be the next one.

6. When can we expect your next release?
   You can expect the next release in the middle of this year.

7. Brian Eno once stated that Ambient music MUST be as interesting as it is ignorable; what might you add to that statement?
   There is nothing to add, I totally agree

…we’ll certainly be looking forward to the mid-year release!

kloob, solid foundations

This second Kloob album has been inspired somehow by the desire of showing musically some of his favorite topics of interest: metaphysics, attraction, emotions management, extraterrestrial life, astral projection and personal development. Every sound, drone, ambience and effect on each track has been carefully chosen to convey the way that Kloob feels these exciting matters.

Diversity of ambient styles and Kloob´s uniqueness make this LP an essential deep electronic ambient journey.

Released February 19, 2016; all tracks composed by Dani Kloob.

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