• About
  • Logistics
  • Net.Labels
  • Radio

Ambient Landscape

~ Digressions & musings on Ambient, Electronica, Mixing & the Ether

Ambient Landscape

Monthly Archives: June 2016

Another Deep Blue Day

23 Thursday Jun 2016

Posted by gabulmer in Ambient, Experimental, Post Rock, Rock, Uncategorized

≈ 1 Comment

A tribute mix from several years ago, paying homage to Brian Eno’s ‘Another Day on Earth. My motivation in making tribute mixes is to separate the songs I like vs. dislike on a given album & re-order them into a listenable version of the album along with some like-minded tunage.

I rarely listen to albums in their entirety more than once, as I begin the categorization process which leads to the inevitable mix. This one picks up momentum as you approach the final track.

: )

01 Brian & Roger Eno – Drift
02 darXtar – The Secret Place
03 Brian Eno – And Then So Clear
04 Talking Heads – The Overload
05 U2 – Dirty Day
06 David Bowie – Always Crashing in the Same Car
07 Brian Eno – Under
08 David Bowie – Sunday
09 Pink Floyd – Fearless
10 Brian Eno – The Roil, The Choke
11 Brian Eno & Robert Fripp – Altair
12 Brian Eno – Just Another Day
13 David Bowie – Untitled #1
14 Blur – London Loves
15 Brian Eno – This
16 Brian Eno & David Byrne – Regiment
17 Aylie Cook & Brian Eno – Bone Bomb

another deep blue day

iNDEX05 (DiN50)

18 Saturday Jun 2016

Posted by gabulmer in Experimental, Tech/Glitch

≈ Leave a comment

Just enough Techno for me . . .

From Ian Boddy & V/A

iNDEX05 is the fifth DiN compilation album and includes two tracks each from the titles DiN41 – 49. The artists on show this time are Ian Boddy, Node, ARC, Dave Bessell (one of the members of Node) and collaborations between Parallel Worlds & Dave Bessell, Ian Boddy & Markus Reuter, Erik Wøllo & Bernhard Wöstheinrich and Parallel Worlds & Self Oscillate.

As with the previous four DiN samplers DiN label boss Ian Boddy has mixed and cross-faded the 18 tracks into a continuous ambient mix that iNDEX_05not only showcases the albums featured on the release but presents an exciting and varied title in it’s own right. It also highlights the varied and intriguing music that the DiN label offers on it’s releases from deep analogue synth grooves through vibrantly melodic instrumentals to powerful, epic ambient atmospheres. An intoxicating mix of the old and new beautifully presented in a slimline cardboard wallet with an extra flap which just adds to the value and collectibility of this release.

Track listing:

01 Borderlands by Ian Boddy & Markus Reuter from Colour Division (DiN43)
02 Shinkansen East by Node from Node 2 (DiN44)
03 Subgiants by Erik Wøllo & Bernhard Wöstheinrich from Weltenuhr (DiN46)
04 Ground Warmth by Parallel Worlds & Self Oscillate from World Adapter (DiN48)
05 Tone 3 by Ian Boddy from Tone Science (DiN49)
06 Paradise Lost by Dave Bessell from Black Horses Of The Sun (DiN47)
07 Arcadia by ARC from Umbra (DiN45)
08 Denormal by Parallel Worlds & Dave Bessell from Morphogenic (DiN41)
09 Never Reaching by Ian Boddy from Liverdelphia (DiN42)
10 Thin Air by Node from Node 2 (DiN44)
11 From Here To There by Dave Bessell from Black Horses Of The Sun (DiN47)
12 Above The Snow by Parallel Worlds & Dave Bessell from Morphogenic (DiN41)
13 Tone 1 by Ian Boddy from Tone Science (DiN49)
14 My Window View by Parallel Worlds & Self Oscillate from World Adapter (DiN48)
15 Oculus by Erik Wøllo & Bernhard Wöstheinrich from Weltenuhr (DiN46)
16 Triptastique by Ian Boddy from Liverdelphia (DiN42)
17 Cherry Bomb by ARC from Umbra (DiN45)
18 Slowfall by Ian Boddy & Markus Reuter from Colour Division (DiN43)

Total Time: 77:48

elements _ wash

10 Friday Jun 2016

Posted by gabulmer in Jazz Fusion, Uncategorized

≈ Leave a comment

A trumpet laden, Jazz/Ether-Jazz edition that started with the Wadada Leo Smith/Vijay Iyer track & grew from there
(track 1 is a short, morphed, ambient rendition of the second track).
79:22

01. Ambient Landscape – Passage/Wash intro
02. Wadada Leo Smith & Vijay Iyer – Passage
03. Avishai Cohen – Quiescence
04. Ethics and Michel Benita – Lykken
05. Thomas Strønen – The Drowned City
06. Kodian Trio – I/III (excerpt)
07. Ches Smith, Craig Taborn & Mat Maneri – Wacken Open Air
08. Tomasz Stanko Quartet – Suspended Variations II
09. Charles Mingus – Pedal Point Blues
10. Medeski, Martin & Wood medley – Paper Bass/Baby Clams/Between Two Limbs
11. Ralph Alessi, Drew Gress, Jason Moran & Nasheet Waits – Hair Trigger
12. Vijay Iyer Trio – Break Stuff
13. Medeski, Scofield, Martin & Wood – Louis the Shoplifter
14. Benny Green – Kaleidoscope [take #2]

elements_wash_alt c

Black Ice, Wolfert Brederode Trio

10 Friday Jun 2016

Posted by gabulmer in Jazz Fusion

≈ 2 Comments

NP 6.17.16 – waited ’til Midnight just to grab this (an early Father’s Day gift!) from Amazon. Mmm…

Release date: 01.04.2016 | ECM 2476 |EN / DE | Releases in the United States on 6.17.16


Black Ice
is a nice image for Dutch pianist Wolfert Brederode’s new trio music, with its gleaming lyricism, transparency, and hint of danger, as well as sleek melodic invention both from the leader and from Icelandic bassist Gulli Gudmundsson. Brederode and Gudmundsson have collaborated often over the last two decades in contexts from free improvisation to theatre music and have a keenly honed intuitive understanding. Jasper van Hulten is a resourceful addition to the team, a tone-sensitive drummer adept at embellishing the sensitive musical language and sense of interplay. The album, recorded at Lugano’s Studio RSI in July 2015 and produced by Manfred Eicher, is issued as the Brederode Trio goes on tour in the Netherlands…

Background

After the quartet adventures of Currents and Post Scriptum, Wolfert Brederode returns to a piano trio setting, and Black Ice makes an apt metaphor for his new music, with its gleaming lyricism, transparency, and hint of danger. “I find the combination of danger and beauty intriguing”, he says. There is sleek melodic invention both from the leader and from Icelandic bassist Gulli Gudmundsson, and Jasper van Hulten proves to be a resourceful addition to the team, a tone-sensitive drummer adept at embellishing the sensitive musical language and sense of interplay.

Brederode and Gudmundsson have collaborated often over the years in contexts from free improvisation to theatre music and have a keenly honed intuitive understanding. They met in the 1990s when both were studying at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and, as Wolfert notes, “immediately had a strong musical connection.” Their creative compatibility first found expression in an earlier Brederode trio, which in turn evolved into a quintet co-led by Wolfert and drummer Eric Ineke. In 2006 Brederode joined Gudmundsson’s Binary Orchid trio, completed by trumpeter Arve Henriksen. And pianist and bassist have continued their association also inside the quartet of Dutch tenorist Yuri Honing.In parallel, Brederode has developed his own music, documented on his critically-acclaimed ECM albums with his quartet with Claudio Puntin, Mats Eilertsen and Samuel Rohrer, and he has continued to make important contributions to the music of singer Susanne Abbuehl.

Wolfert Brederode: “Though I’ve been busy playing in many formations, the experience and joy of playing in a classic jazz piano trio had never left my mind. An opportunity to try the trio formation again occurred when I was asked to assemble a group for a benefit concert in 2011.” Gudmondsson was an obvious choice, and Wolfert had appreciated the way in which Gulli played with drummer Jasper van Hulten in the rhythm section of trumpeter Eric Vloeimans’s band Gatecrash. “I really enjoyed Jasper’s subtle but sharp playing, which is also influenced by rock and pop, and his dedication to the music, whatever the context.” Their first trio concert “felt so natural and fluid. We all felt something real and beautiful took place. Then the idea to start a trio again seriously took shape. I started to write new material with this particular setting in mind and we met up and played many times, to experiment and concentrate on the direction the music should or could be taking.”

A few words about some of the tunes: “Glass Room” was inspired by English author Simon Mawer’s novel The Glass Room (which in turn was, in part, inspired by the cool rationality of the architecture of Mies van der Rohe). “Elegia”, says Brederode, “is a lament but is also intended to give solace. Its melody rises gradually, only to return to the piano’s deeper region near the end.” On “Fall”, heard in two variations, bass and piano move around a fractured rock rhythm until finally absorbed by the mood emanating from the drums. “Terminal” explores the eerie ambience – familiar to all travelling musicians – of airports late at night, while “Curtains” references a periodic need to withdraw from the world, and “Rewind” plays with the idea of turning back time…

“Mood and atmosphere are leading in this trio, the stories we tell are not always finished or concluded. As a listener I like to be given the space to let the music continue in my mind…” The aim, he says, was “to approach the songs in an unprejudiced and open way” and the process of working on the tunes in rehearsal and in the studio was one of shedding layers, peeling the music back to its essential core.

The album was produced by Manfred Eicher at Lugano’s Studio RSI in July 2015 and
is issued as the Wolfert Brederode Trio goes on tour in the Netherlands. Dates include Bimhuis, Amsterdam (March 13), Lantaren Venster, Rotterdam (March 19), Dakota Theater, The Hague (April 10), Stadsgehoorzaal, Leiden (April 14) and Vredenburg, Utrecht (May 29).

 Wolfert Brederode   Piano
Gulli Gudmundsson   Double Bass
Jasper van Hulten   Drums

Track List

01. Elegia (Wolfert Brederode)
02. Olive Tree (Wolfert Brederode)
03. Bemani (Wolfert Brederode)
04.Black Ice (Wolfert Brederode)
05.Cocoon (Wolfert Brederode)
06.Fall (Wolfert Brederode)
07.Terminal (Wolfert Brederode)
08.Conclusion (Gulli Gudmundsson)
09.Curtains (Wolfert Brederode)
10.Rewind (Wolfert Brederode)
11.Bemani, var. (Wolfert Brederode)
12.Glass Room (Wolfert Brederode)

13. Fall, var. (Wolfert Brederode)

Info:  Black Ice

Wolfert Brederode Trio

Ambient Music Blogs

Categories

  • Ambient
  • Classical/Neo-Classical
  • Experimental
  • Jazz Fusion
  • Mixing
  • Noise
  • Post Rock
  • Rock
  • Tech/Glitch
  • Uncategorized
  • Vinyl
  • You.Tube

Follow me on Twitter

My Tweets

Blogs I Follow

  • Joachim Spieth
  • Greg Bulmer's Artwork
  • Dean Frey Leadership and Life
  • Ambient Landscape
  • Weird Jazz Collective
  • TEAM Centurion
  • LIFE and Leadership by Chris Brady
  • Soul Caffeine
  • Team AO

Recent Posts

  • Raise your glass high!
  • Break, by COREY FULLER
  • B O W I E [2023]
  • Fridman Variations by Stephen Vitiello & Taylor Deupree
  • Domes, by Heather Woods Broderick

Blogroll

  • A Strangely Isolated Place
  • Ambient Music Collective
  • Ambient Music Guide
  • Ambient.Blog
  • Art of the Mix
  • Data Obscura
  • Disquiet
  • ECM Records
  • ello ambient
  • eno shop
  • Framework Radio
  • Headphone Commute
  • Hypnos
  • Hypnos blog
  • Line Imprint
  • Make Your Own Taste
  • Mixcloud
  • Nova Future Blog
  • Oktaf Recordings
  • Ontario Street
  • Phonaut
  • Relaxed Machinery
  • Steve Roach
  • Tonefloat
  • Toneshift
  • Tonsturm
  • Twitter
  • WordPress Planet
  • Zoviet France @ Podbean

Meta

  • Register
  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.com

Archives

  • June 2022
  • May 2022
  • April 2022
  • March 2022
  • February 2022
  • January 2022
  • December 2021
  • November 2021
  • October 2021
  • September 2021
  • August 2021
  • July 2021
  • June 2021
  • May 2021
  • April 2021
  • March 2021
  • February 2021
  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • May 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • February 2020
  • January 2020
  • December 2019
  • November 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • July 2019
  • June 2019
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
  • March 2019
  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • September 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • June 2017
  • May 2017
  • April 2017
  • March 2017
  • February 2017
  • January 2017
  • December 2016
  • November 2016
  • October 2016
  • September 2016
  • August 2016
  • July 2016
  • June 2016
  • May 2016
  • April 2016
  • March 2016
  • February 2016
  • January 2016
  • December 2015
  • November 2015
  • October 2015
  • September 2015
  • August 2015
  • July 2015
  • June 2015
  • May 2015
  • April 2015
  • March 2015
  • February 2015
  • January 2015
  • December 2014
  • November 2014
  • October 2014
  • September 2014
  • August 2014
  • July 2014
  • June 2014
  • May 2014
  • April 2014
  • March 2014
  • February 2014
  • January 2014
  • December 2013
  • November 2013
  • October 2013
  • August 2013
  • July 2013
  • June 2013
  • May 2013
  • April 2013
  • March 2013
  • February 2013
  • January 2013
  • December 2012
  • November 2012
  • October 2012
  • September 2012
  • August 2012
  • July 2012
  • June 2012
  • May 2012
  • April 2012
  • March 2012

Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com.

Joachim Spieth

Greg Bulmer's Artwork

Dean Frey Leadership and Life

In pursuit of excellence

Ambient Landscape

Digressions & musings on Ambient, Electronica, Mixing & the Ether

Weird Jazz Collective

Jazz is the Teacher - Funk is the Preacher

TEAM Centurion

lead from the front

LIFE and Leadership by Chris Brady

Soul Caffeine

Christian inspiration and encouragement to give a jolt of caffeine to your soul.

Team AO

We started and we will finish

Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy
  • Follow Following
    • Ambient Landscape
    • Join 63 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Ambient Landscape
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...