r 3 d @ c T i 0 n

Longer-form ambient landscapes + drones — a mix where a portion of every song has been deleted, edited, ghosted over or withheld from the listener’s ear. Given the country in which I live, it would be easy for the reader to ascertain from whence the inspiration for this project, an inadvertent follow up to 2015’s ‘r u s t‘ mix, originated.

The cuts, splicing, insertions & omissions all served to make this a navigable mix. Most of the compositions were entirely too long to be included in their original format. That being said, I’m sure you’ll find that this flows smoothly with almost imperceptible transitions between compositions, as well as where the “drop-outs” & ghost-editing occur. It’s an effort to Make Mixing Great Again (#MMGA)!!

The cover art was crafted from a 300 foot view of the redactions contained within the Mueller Report; a creative piece of American political fiction itself based upon an unearthed copy of an old Mother Goose nail-biter, entitled The Tale of the Steele Dossier (which was bought & paid for by the [ultimate] loser of our 2016 presidential campaign).

Fabrication, it would seem, has its drawbacks . . .

Some of the oral r3d@cTi0ns can be heard ever so slightly on the project’s final track.

Peace out, ;- ) !
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Project Notes

01 Michael Trommer – Phonopuls.01
02 Alessandro Adriani – Casting the Runes
03 Excerpt: Framework Radio’s #677 mix
04 Michele Rabbia, Gianluca Petrella & Eivind Aarset – Flotsam
05 France Jobin – Singulum__m (excerpt)
06 Steve Roach – Deadwood
07 Steve Roach & Loren Nerell – Para.Terra
08 Lorren Stafford – Inching Glaciers (edit)
09 Oophoi – Walpurgisnacht
10 Seofon & Steve Roach – Rev. 20-13 Teknos (fragment)
11 Freq. Magnet – Nitrous
12 SINthetik Messiah – AN-02
13 Rag Dun – The Place of Potentials
14 Benjamin Dauer & Specta Ciera – Shadows Emerging

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Immediate Horizon by Alessandro Cortini + Lawrence English

Having become mutual admirers of each others work; English of Cortini’s Sonno and Cortini of English’s Wilderness Of Mirrors, the pair were very pleased to receive an invitation to collaborate together.

Following a number of months exchanging compositional ideas and materials, Cortini and English met in Berlin several days ahead of the festival and commenced an intense period of rehearsal and arrangement. The resulting piece, Immediate Horizon, traces their shared interests in harmony and texture. It is a work that meditates on saturation and the ruptures that occur when harmonic elements are stacked. Immediate Horizon’s five pieces swell and burst in a perpetual sense of pulse.

This LP is a live recording, made at the premiere of the piece during Berlin Atonal, held at Kraftwerk in Berlin.

Released November 30, 2018

This edition is published by the fine folk at Important Records

Still Pieces, by Ian Vine

Recently I have written a series of pieces that are concerned in one way or another with the presentation of unique, and yet similar, events or objects. 
In this work there are twenty-four pieces for flute(s), accordion, acoustic guitar(s), piano, electronics, which combine to form an hour-long work.

The pieces can be played in any order; there are 620,448,401,733,239,439,360,000 permutations. 

total time: [60:00]

Releases December 24, 2018 

flutes: Jennifer George 
accordion, guitars, piano: Ian Vine 

flutes and guitars recorded at first moon, UK, September 2018 
accordion and piano recorded by lunar module in Oregon, USA, August 2018 

mixed and mastered at first moon by Ian Vine, November-December 2018 

many thanks to KAG for the use of her accordion and piano 

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)

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.

More . . .

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

Drop Me in the Water . . .

Mmm . . . looks like we didn't coin the term #EtherJazz for nuthin'!

5.31.19 on @ECMRecords

🎧 pic.twitter.com/FHaAc8k6IZ

— Ambient Landscape (@AmbientLndscape) May 28, 2019

DUO, by France Jobin + Richard Chartier

DUO is the first collaborative project from minimal composer France Jobin and Richard Chartier. 

DUO creates an “intemporelle“ and pervading atmosphere, where sounds intermingle within an intricate and delicate system delineated by spatial and temporal boundaries. 

Released December 16, 2018 

Composed by France Jobin and Richard Chartier. 

Mastered by Stephen Mathieu 

thank you to Yukitomo Hamasaki and Shuhei Miyagi 

Design by Richard Chartier

Immersion, by Grey Frequency

Limited edition physical versions of ‘Immersion’ available with deluxe, hand-finished packaging: 

Day Edition (limited 52 copies) includes white / black CDr album in string bound book packaging. 

Night Edition box set (limited 52 copies) containing all black CDr album, string bound booklet, 4 x 25mm button badge set, unique one-off art print. 

Dusk Edition (limited 52 copies) with all black CDr album in matt recycled sleeve with insert. 

Dawn Edition (limited 52 copies) with white / black CDr album in textured recycled fold out sleeve with insert and button badge. 

To order, visit the A Year In The Country web site: www.ayearinthecountry.co.uk?s=grey+frequency

or Bandcamp page:  tinyurl.com/kefdssk

Released August 12, 2014 

Produced and recorded by Grey Frequency (Gavin Morrow). 

Artwork and design by AYITC Ocular Signals Department 
(utilising visual work/source material by Gavin Morrow). 

Released by A Year In The Country:  ayearinthecountry.co.uk

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Ambient & Glitch | 79:05

A mix to go with an iPad cover I made last year using ‘Vectornater’ & ‘Paper by 53’. It’s a project built around the construct of long, deep sound installations, ghosting & extended segue/compositional editing 😉.

Source material was drawn from the various albums featured on the blog (I feature that which intrigues me & make notes as I post). As per usual, there was more material cached than I could possibly use . . . I find the best mixes are those where the cutting floor is filled with segued casualties.

So I give you, the general shape & outline of what should resemble an ambient mix collective (bleeding onto/into dark causticity glitchy, micro-sonic cacophony @ select moments) with dark/light contrasts, long-fades & a bit of noise & clatter near the end;

(“the machine can come” . . . )

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01 France Jobin + Richard Chartier – Duo 5
02 Carlo Giustini – Manifestazioni
03 扎克 (Zack) – Kasita
04 Thomas Ragsdale – Time To Go
05 Emmanuel Toledo & Lauri Hallikainen – Leaves Stories (ice) excerpt
…….(interpolating the intro of Max Richter’s ‘The Blue Notebooks‘)
06 Ümlaut – Zero
07 Federico Durand – Teatro de sombras (Shadow play)
08 O Yuki Conjugate – Dirty Roads
09 Eeem – La patience
10 Mathieu Lamontagne & Emmanuel Toledo – Il Le Faut Bien
11 Ebauche – Behind Closed Eyes
12 Plaster – Casual Encounter
13 Venetian Snares x Daniel Lanois – United P92