Drift Stations EP, by Glåsbird

Glåsbird is an anonymous project by an established artist within the Ambient/Modern Classical scene. To date this artist name has not produced any work that has been published and we’re proud to present both the first ever Glåsbird release as well as the debut album, due out early next year. 

The Glåsbird sound is undefined and we’re told that it will be used to demonstrate working to themes, ideas and soundtracks. The artist studies their chosen topic intently before crafting electro-acoustic recordings into evocative cinematic soundscapes. The debut album Grønland is a sonic expedition to Greenland, tracking the enormous frozen ice cap, the colourful scandi huts and its lack of human inhabitants. 
The preceding Drift Stations EP features two tracks which tell the story of embarking on this imaginary journey to Greenland, as it begins in the North Pole before traversing the frozen Arctic Circle sea towards the monolithic landmass. 

In a brief section of recording space, the artist has stitched together a shrill and lonely coldness using violin, cello, sparse piano notes and other digitally effected acoustic instruments. Drift Stations is then set off with a magnificent photograph, taken on Greenland by photographer and tour guide Lasse Kyed.

Released December 14, 2018 

Written and produced by Glåsbird 
Mastered by James Edward Armstrong 
Photography by Lasse Kyed
(www.instagram.com/greenland_explorer)

elements_windows (single pane)

In actuality, part 4 of the elements_windows series . . . but considerably shorter & predominantly piano-based ether-jazz. A single malt mix, the pace of which quickens as the listener nears the end (tracks 8, 9 & 10). Check the boxes: quietude, temporal, experimental, euro-funk . . . a 1/2 day’s journey into Jazz.

[I’m not saying that an obsessive compulsion is absolutely necessary when crafting these slabs of sound . . . but it certainly doesn’t, uhm . . . hurt. ;- ) | 54:04

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01 Marc Sinan & Oguz Buyukberber – Upon Nothingness, White
02 Kristjan Randalu, Ben Monder & Markku Ounaskari – Escapism
03 Yaz Ahmed – Misophonia
04 Barre Phillips, William Parker, Tetsu Saitoh & Jodlle Leandre – Bleu Grek
05 Thomas Strønen & Time Is A Blind Guide – La Bella
06 Shinya Fukumori Trio – Silent Chaos
07 Hely – Chopin Space Station
08 Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin – Modul 34
09 Marcin Wasilewski – Big Foot
10 Herbie Hancock’s New Standard – New York Minute

Deconstructing Brian Eno’s Music for Airports

Here’s a site that deconstructs and reconstructs Brian Eno’s classic Music for Airports album; additionally you can play with the files yourself!
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In 1978, Brian Eno released Ambient 1: Music for Airports, a landmark album in ambient and electronic music. Although it wasn’t the first ambient album by any means, it was the first album explicitly released as an ‘ambient music album’. The album was essentially a continuation of Eno’s experimentation with the tape machine as a compositional tool, as well as his exploration of generative music, music created by systems. In this article I’ll discuss how Music for Airports was created, I’ll break down and recreate the tracks 2/1 and 1/2, and hopefully give you some ideas about how to adopt this approach yourself.

Eno’s experiments with tape loops go as far back as 1973’s (No Pussyfooting), a collaboration with King Crimson’s Robert Fripp that employed an early experiment in sound-on-sound tape looping. For the recordings, Fripps’s guitar was run into two tape machines feeding into each other. The musical material runs back and forth between the machines, creating longs delays akin to modern loop pedals. The length of the delay was set by the physical distance between the two machines.

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About Time, by Le Berger

Samuel Landry has been working to distinguish his craft under the guise of Le Berger for quite a few years, mostly self-releasing digital-only records, mostly flying below the radar. But last year, the world at large saw what Landry was capable of on his solo debut physical release, Music For Guitar & Patience on Home Normal, which was his most ambitious and fully realized release to date. 

About Time is the follow up to Music For Guitar & Patience, another digital-only self-released record, and it sees Landry moving towards an even grander sound. It’s a double record in the truest sense, two songs that are roughly 40 minutes long, with two bite-sized bonus songs, and its drone as majestic and intimate as anything you’ve heard. Centered around the concept of time being beyond the grasp of our minds, these songs are teeming with the utmost refinement, smooth slow burning meditations on the truths and absolutes of the unknown, eschewing the shock and awe wall of noise treatment for ethereal minimalism that breathes life into the ubiquitous and otherwise inert Cosmic Dust, Landry achieves an unequalled perfection with poise and intentionality. 

– Justin Snow 

N.B. All funds gathered from the digital sales of this album will be invested in my brewery project. If you wish to learn more about said project or fund it directly please go to www.indiegogo.com/projects/les-gueux/x/13483044#/

Released April 11, 2016 

Not words & somewhat music by Le Berger 
Cover artwork by René Margraff

Zero Point (remixed)

Just got in from some killer, 4th of July fireworks . . .now onto the serious business of mix-posting:

NP: An all-time album favorite – Seofon’s ‘Zero Point‘ – remixed w/some ambient, glitch, dub…& a li’l bit o’ techno!

Remixed over the years – most recently May of 2019 & featuring a new track from the just released album from Zahn, Hatami & Mcclure; ‘Ypsilon’.
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01 Pan Sonic – Ilma Air
02 Marcus Fischer & Simon Scott – Branches (excerpt)
03 Marcus Fjellström – Skelektikon
04 Seofon + VidnaObmana – Splendors
05 VidnaObmana, Steve Roach, Thermal & Seofon – Zero Point
06 Christopher Willits – Olancha Hello
07 Chris Russell – Orchid
08 O Yuki Conjugate – Binaryglow
09 Zahn, Hatami & Mcclure – Synfolt*
10 Lufth – Methane on Mars
11 vidnaObmana/Stephen Kent – Collecting the Spirits*
12 Aes Dana – Grassland
13 Von Grall – Infinitum
14 Kangding Ray – Saudade

* this version not available until July 2019