Nocturnal Discord, by Dirk Serries

This represents an excellent new direction for Dirk Serries’ Ambient project (slightly more caustic & “gritty” sounding)– just started listening to this yesterday — but have already earmarked 2 tracks for an April podcast . . .
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NOCTURNAL DISCORD is the next phase in DIRK SERRIES’ long running ambient trajectory. Known since the early eighties for his trademark ambient music under the VIDNA OBMANA pseudonym, Dirk now boldly crosses into new territory creating a willful, eccentric and new album that still holds ingredients from his past but incorporates new elements. Still executed on the electric guitar in combination with an array of stunning pedal effects, treatment and processing, recorded straight to stereo. NOCTURNAL DISCORD is a nightly excursion into darker, more abstract and stranger timbres. 5 weeping songs that are melancholic, alienating, intense and soothing at the same time. An album that is definitely its own and shows the craftsmanship of Dirk and his strong ongoing pursuit to cover new terrain, challenge himself and to make once again a statement as one of the most innovative and adventurous modern musicians. NOCTURNAL DISCORD is also his debut for Cloudchamber Recordings.

Dirk Serries is an established sound artist. This Belgian-based artist has experimented with music on the border between avant-garde, industrial, experimental, and ambient for more than 30 years. He released his earliest work (1984) behind the pseudonym vidnaObmana up to 2007, with which he gained worldwide praise when he closed the book on this project (realizing an extensive discography). Other projects like Fear Falls Burning and his Microphonics series made him collaborate with several key players like Steven Wilson, Justin K. Broadrick, Cult Of Luna, Steve Roach, and toured extensively on the sides of Jesu, MONO, Low, My Bloody Valentine, and Cult Of Luna. In October 2013 Dirk Serries re-booted his classic vidnaObmana ambient sound from the mid-eighties/early nineties. Contrary to his original music which was mostly synth-based, this ambient music is constructed on electric guitar. Music that flows from its discreet origins: sonic purity, washes of harmony, and organic textures that slow time to a phase of transcendence. On the spot, improvised and real-time. 

Released March 30, 2023

Empress Nouveau, by A Journey of Giraffes

Releases March 31, 2023

Saxophone & flute by illupai on “Ztnu” & “Baroque Filigree”
Kaval by Tomlija on “Honey Bunch”
Flute by Thirsk on “Eyespot Feather”

Mastered by Orange Crate Art
Thanks to: Liz, Jason, Toby, Zed, & you for listening.

Foundations 3, by Various Artists

A nice collection of (free) Ambient music from Dewtone Recordings

Our Foundations series pays homage to artists that have had a lasting influence on our sonic values by honoring their previously unreleased, or historically significant work.

Special thanks to Autoplate, Assembly Field, Bunkai-Kei, Carsten Nicoli, Energostatic, Kahvi, Electronica, FUSElab, SEM Label, Sutemos, 1 Bit Wonder and all the artists for their individual offering.

Mastered by Nikos Fragomanolakis
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Navigating the Digital Realm . . .

Bray Dunes, by Poltrock

Checkout this pleasant ambient track, Bray Dunes, by Belgium artist, Poltrock . . .

The Wind Under Water, by Christopher Sisk

I tripped across an old friend, whilst perusing Bandcamp.
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The first album in my 2-part Wind and Water series.

The Wind Under Water is a study in complex generative chord structures. Combining small moving chord patterns into more and more complex variations.

Released February 2, 2014

Written, recorded & produced by Christopher Sisk
© 2014 – Christopher Sisk

Kvad, by Erik Levander

A captivating listen: soft/minimal tech, choral singing, found-sounds folded into glitchy, quiet-noise-driven backdrops create an enveloping & thick silk curtain of sound!
Thanks to Alex over @ Supple 9 for allowing us a preview!
~ Ambient Landscape
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This album began its life way back in 2001 when a young Erik Levander passed by the Lunds Domkyrka cathedral in Sweden, and decided to step inside to enjoy the architecture and peacefulness. Under the dome a choir was rehearsing, and Erik captured a recording with his minidisc.

Years later when browsing through his archives of field recordings, Erik rediscovered this recording and was immediately enchanted – both by the reverberated atmospheres of the cathedral, and the sparse harmonies of the song. Erik started experimenting with the recording: re-arranging it and re-processing it using both software and guitar pedals, and then layering multiple new elements on top.

The results were quite stunning: a beautifully textured, organic, and pulsating composition, which swells, dips, grows, and then collapses in on itself; it draws the listener close; it whispers and roars.
Whilst Erik is unsure of the composition’s origin, he believes the choir may have been singing “Här tystnar träden”, after which he named this track. It serves as the foundation stone of this album, and it set Erik on a path to creating his most affecting release to date.

There are familiar tonal qualities we recognise from his previous work – cassette loops, lo-fi noise, waves of distortion – but there is a maturity and depth to these compositions which pushes them into new and beautiful territories. Furthermore, his decision to use additional choral elements throughout the album strengthens the whole and lends it a cinematic quality. When we heard the demo, we were captivated, and we are delighted to present you with “Kvad”, an album which deserves your full attention.

Currently based in Berlin, Germany, this will be Erik’s 9th solo release with his previous albums garnering consistently strong reviews and high praise from sources such as The Wire, Echoes and Dust, Vital Weekly, and many more. 

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Rreleased March 3, 2023

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empty spaces 2

empty spaces II | ambient/experimental/minimal | 80:45

An ethereal follow-through to 2006’s part one . . . linear & tangential sound derivatives set against a mathematically & minimally invasive audiological backdrop (an ambient “green-screen“, if you will).

Listener indulgence advised as you traverse the empty spaces afforded by this intentional aural arrangement.

Listen/Stream on Hear.This

01 Fabio Perletta – DALP 12 -Untitled (excerpt)
02 Jakob Ullmann – Disappearing Musics (morphed edit)
03 Abstract Audio Systems – Titan Sunrise
04 Asmus Tietchens – Fahl/L10RB
05 Asuna, Tomoyoshi Date & Federico Durand – Down Through the Tunnel to the River
06 Fictions and Poetics – Light Years
07 Jesús Acevedo – The Great Journey
08 Jeff Greinke – Below
09 Carlo Giustini – A2. Manifestazioni
10 Steve Roach – First Arrival
11 Aperus – Marsh Lake, October (sampling Ensemble Ektòs #15)
12 Arovane & Taylor Deupree – Stenn Dispel
13 Benjamin Dauer & Specta Ciera – Over the Coastline
14 Svarte Greiner – Bleeding Lights
15 Daniel McCagh – Epoch I

DISENGAGE, by KODIAN PLUS

The tinkering, tweaking & tone-bending continue as Dirk Serries & Company @ A New Wave of Jazz tear into the future sounds of improvisational free jazz . . .
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In the first of new line of releases on A NEW WAVE OF JAZZ. Axis is this additional series of works that we consider to be different, unique and somehow significant to stand alone.  The series enjoys the beautiful photography of Martina Verhoeven structured within the effective design by Rutger Zuydvelt.

After KODIAN TRIO’s tour in Germany in March 2022, the trio headed into the Sunny Side Inc. studio in Anderlecht (Belgium), with special guests MARTINA VERHOEVEN on grand piano and CHARLOTTE KEEFFE on flugelhorn and trumpet. These two unique musicians have excellent reputations in the field of free improvisation, especially for their distinctive approaches to their respective instruments. And it’s this distinctive approach which is the secret sauce that’s being added to working band KODIAN TRIO.

Here are COLIN WEBSTER, DIRK SERRIES and ANDREW LISLE working at the limits of their comfort zone as KODIAN TRIO with these two strong musicians who bring another character, dimension and style into play.

This beautifully recorded studio album, captured and mixed by the head engineer at Sunny Side Inc. is unique free jazz release that triggers your listening experience, disrupts the obvious, and boosts the adrenaline.

Performed, recorded, mixed and mastered at the Sunny Side Inc. Studio, Anderlecht (Belgium) on March 26th, 2022.

Released January 31, 2023

Charlotte Keeffe: trumpet, flugelhorn
Andrew Lisle: drums
Dirk Serries: electric guitar
Martina Verhoeven: piano
Colin Webster: alto saxophone
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Photography by Martina Verhoeven
Layout : Rutger Zuydervelt
Executive label director : Dirk Serries