Two Thousand & Eighteen

If you follow, visit, peruse or otherwise…”pop” in to this blog…then you know we strive to “rock it” in the ambient mixological world. : )

And now, 2017 is finito…and 2018 looms large upon us. We’ll not disappoint you in the new year’s ambient realm…& that’s a promise!

Happy New Year!!!

 

 

Alio Die & Parallel Worlds – Wordless Arcanum

A new video of one of the tracks of the Alio Die & Parallel Worlds – Elusive Metaphor CD album (HSL075) (2014), made by Mamonu (website for the album)

Gear used in this track::

Many of the electronic sounds in this track were made with a modified EMS VCS3mk1 plus EMS DK1 keyboard, a Roland RE-201 Space Echo and Korg Stage Echo SE500.

 

L-NE, MIX4

Mmm . . .listening to this now – nicely executed!
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HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM L-NE!!!

This 2 hour mix by Richard Chartier showcases recent and back catalog works from his label LINE’s history.

It’s a ‘Name Your Price’ extravaganza, with all proceeds go back into L-NE operating costs.

TRACKS:
01 Evelina Domnitch + Dmitry Gelfand – Xenon Wind / from LINE_030 / 2007
02 AElab – Induction Piece 1/ from LINE_016 / 2003
03 Seth Cluett – Forms of Forgetting (excerpt) / from LINE_067 / 2014
04 Yann Novak – Surroundings (excerpt) / from LINE_086 / 2017
05 z.e.l.l.e. – untitled 4 / from LINE_006 / 2001
06 Asmus Tietchens – Teilmenge 36 / LINE_020 / 2005
07 Miguel Isaza – Y Para Mencionarlas Había Que Señalarlas Con El Dedo / from LINE_092 / 2017
08 Triac – Here pt.4 / from LINE_082 / 2016
09 William Basinski + Richard Chartier – Aurora Liminalis (excerpt) / LINE_060 / 2013
10 Olivier Alary – V / from LINE_089 / 2017
11 France Jobin – Scène 2 / Scène 2 / from LINE_093 / 2017
12 Fabio Perletta – Ichinen Pt.1 (excerpt) / from LINE_085 / 2017
13 Cygni – untitled #10 / from LINE_091 / 2017
14 Simon Whetham – Watering the Piano (Part 2) (excerpt) / from LINE_088 / 2017
15 Steve Roden – The Radio Station at Nome / from LINE_090 / 2017
16 NHK – ch.10 / from LINE_069 / 2015
17 Porya Hatami – 8 (Kurdish Folk Song) / from LINE_087 / 2017
18 Bjørn Hatterud – Victoria Arreleano / from LINE_081 / 2016
19 ELEH + Richard Chartier – LINELEH2 (excerpt) / from LINE_084 / 2017
20 Skoltz_Kolgen – Uhliko / from LINE_016 / 2003
21 Steinbrüchel – scene 04 / from LINE_028 / 2006
22 Richard Chartier – Threshold / from LINE_066 / 2014
23 Yves de Mey – Lichtung (excerpt) / from LINE_039 / 2009

Released December 27, 2017

Polysémie, by Arbee

Releases December 29, 2017Sounds by Mathieu Lamontagne
Mastered by Adam Badi Donoval
Art by Jenny Sundby
~ buy cassette: speakerfootage.bandcamp.com/album/polys-mie

Merry Christmas!

Mmm . . . just turned off the studio lights for Christmas & New Year's . . . but peaked @ the Engineer's Mix list for 2018 – be prepared – he even tossed in a little #RockAndRoll onto the mix manifest! Santa ain't got nuthin' on us!
🌲😍😎🎅🎧#MerryChristmas

— Ambient Landscape (@AmbientLndscape) December 24, 2017

s t i l l

‘s t i l l‘ . . . “like the moon on the breast of the new fallen snow . . .“

Ambient & Drone; inspired by the David Gerard track, the Kloob & the Klotzsch.
This final 2017 release should be just the thing for a quiet New Year’s Day listen as you hang out in your pajamas with a hot cup of tea, planning your 2018 calendar [#MakeItCount!]
81:46

01 Steve Roach – Stars Begin
02 Peter James – Into the Invisible
03 Terra Ambient – Wisp (excerpt)
04 Glos – Figurant (excerpt)
05 Chris Russell – Dolmen (excerpt)
06 Kloob – Thin Thread
07 Oophoi + Ran Kirlian – Breath (excerpt)
08 Mendel Kaelen – Sunayaca-tala
09 Brian Eno & Leo Abrahams – Late Anthropocene
10 Headphone Commute – Residuum (mix excerpt)
11 David Gerard – Outer Spaces 1 (treated excerpt)
12 Jonathan Hughes – Terminal
13 Beautumn – Bordeaux
14 Emil Klotzsch – Aussennacht

The Swiss Illness, by Lowercase Noises

“This album is about nostalgia.”

• Released May 19, 2017
• Written, recorded and mixed by Andy Othling
• Mastered by Taylor Deupree
• Artwork by Ryan James

Vermaledeite Pein, by Emil Klotzsch

This album was improvised completely on my modular synth and my looper. All Instruments had been played live by me. No computer was used, except for the last editing.

Released September 11, 2016 | Music: Emil Klotzsch

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Loss, by Marcus Fischer

Loss is the long-awaited and anticipated follow-up to Marcus Fischer’s acclaimed Monocoastal (12k1063, 2010). Fischer created Loss over several years, finding inspiration to complete it during his time at the Robert Rauschenberg Residency in Captiva, Florida, in early 2017. The album is a particularly emotional work as Fischer explored what loss means to him and how to cope with the permanence of absence. The result is decisively somber and perhaps one of the darkest, most emotional albums in the 12k catalog.

Fischer manifested the concepts of loss in his compositions through the use of generation loss from reel-to-reel tape, re-recording sounds through various speakers in physical spaces, layering, and the use of sounds that have been physically displaced from their source. Conceptually, he listened inside the degradation of sound, pulling out chance moments of beauty and hope amid the rubble.

While Loss has a bleak and lonely tone, the music is characteristic of Marcus Fischer with fragile tape loops on the edge of falling apart, distant haunting melodies and a physicality that grounds the album’s human spirit.

The Rest Is Silence, by Arash Akbari

Arash Akbari (born 1987) is a musician, new media artist and designer, living and working in Tehran, Iran. His music explores the styles of experimental, ambient, drone and noise. His works ranges from experimental audio/visual performances to interactive installations and web based projects. He’s interested in generative systems, human computer interaction, real-time graphics and intersection between physical and digital, and the ways in which technology shapes human life.

This marks Arash’s first album on Unknown Tone Records. We gladly welcome him to our roster. Keep listening…x
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credits

Released November 11, 2017

*Composed, performed and produced by Arash Akbari
*Mastered by Lawrence English at 158 – Brisbane
*Artwork/Photography by Mark Kuykendall

** As The Silence Grew – used on a mix…here.