Organism Evolution, by Arovane and Porya Hatami

On “Organism_evolution”, the follow-up to last year’s critically acclaimed “Organism”, AROVANE and PORYA HATAMI add elements of musique concrète and electro acoustic music to their experimental, field recording-based ambient sounds.

Since his return from a 9 year long hibernation in 2013, the Berlin based electronic artist UWE ZAHN alias AROVANE has been more productive than ever and released a dozen of solo and collaborative albums. PORYA HATAMI, one of the main protagonists of the vivid Iranian electronic underground, released several albums on labels like HIBERNATE and introduced himself as a skilled experimental sound artist exploring the balance between electronics and environmental sounds.
“Organism_evolution”, as the title points out, develops further the aesthetics of “Organism” where the duo crafted sophisticated ambient music of timeless beauty. Their new album reveals influences of musique concrète and electro acoustic music that place the tracks in a more experimental field. Using techniques like modular synthesis, granular synthesis, spectral processing, granular synthesis, resynthesis and resonator / modal synthesis, AROVANE and HATAMI used many different layers of processed sounds and field recordings to create depth and complexity – with every new encounter, the listener will discover new sonic aspects and dive deeper into the multifaceted structures of the masterly sound-designed 23 compositions.
Besides the release of “Organism_evolution” as digital download, there is also a double CD combining the new album and the critically acclaimed “Organism” from 2017 in a special gatefold digisleeve.

• Released April 20, 2018
• All sounds written and produced by Arovane + Porya Hatami in 2017
• Mastered by Porya Hatami
• Cover designed by Salah Ebrahimi

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Turning In, Vol. 11

by Nadja Lind, aka, Aashya

 

Every single ‘Turning In Ambient Drone’ wave is designed to gently guide you into states of deep relaxation, emotional release and inner peace, achieved through underlying binaural frequencies – frequencies designed to physically stimulate both hemispheres of the human brain which is being used to help with the symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
This helps your body to naturally release its own destressing hormones, allowing you to breathe deeper, help your physical and spiritual body to rebalance and to recover quickly from the rigours of everyday life.

Track No. 1 – Shambhavi Four Hertz Binaural: Length 40:01 min. 4Hz binaural frequency (Delta) thoroughly.
Delta waves: Deep, dreamless, restorative sleep. Sleep has its own stages and associated brainwave patterns and more than simply the absence of being awake..

Track No. 2 – What is Time Five Hertz Binaural: Length 44:44 min. 5Hz binaural frequency (Low Theta) thoroughly
Theta waves: Meditation, deep relaxation, daydreaming, creativity.

Track No. 3 – Purry Friend Five Hertz Binaural: Length 33:33 min. 5Hz binaural frequency (Low Theta) thoroughly
Theta waves: Meditation, deep relaxation, daydreaming, creativity.

Track No. 4 – Shambhavi Nine Hertz Binaural: Length 40:01 min. 9Hz binaural frequency (Low Alpha) thoroughly.
Alpha waves: Relaxed wakefulness, light meditation. Connection between consciousness and unconsciousness.

Track No. 5 – What is Time Twenty-Two to Two Hertz: Length 44:44 min. Gently and steadily guides you from 22Hz binaural frequency (Beta) to 2Hz binaural (Delta) and from minute 22 onwards 2Hz binaural (Delta)
Beta waves: Physically active and mentally alert, waking day state.
Alpha waves: Relaxed wakefulness, light meditation. Connection between consciousness and unconsciousness.
Delta waves: Deep, dreamless, restorative sleep. Sleep has its own stages and associated brainwave patterns and more than simply the absence of being awake.

How to use the binaural tracks most efficiently:
1. use (noise-cancelling) headphones (the binaural frequencies are produced by your brain through aural stimulation of hemispheres through slightly different frequencies on your left and right ear

2. check towards the middle of the track if the volume is comfortable since the tracks are being faded int. Note that after some minutes the perception of sound might get more intense since usually our brains adapt to the environmental noise pollution.

3. ideal is if you can lay down and cover yourself with a blanket. Note that after lying still for some minutes your heart-rate and body temperature lowers.

4. it is vital for the recovery & energy charge process to be completed. So please make sure you will not get interrupted during your listening cycle. – enable e.g. flight mode on your phone
– make sure nobody will knock on your door for 22min
– if applicable use noise cancelling headphones to protect yourself from outside noises

5. put on a blindfold or darken the room. The listening experience will be much more effective the less distractions through other senses/sensations.

6. the drones are designed to keep you right at the edge between a state of being awake and sleep. If you nevertheless fall asleep the drones get more intense towards the end to gently wake you up.

How does each binaural Turning In Binaural Drone soundscape help do this? They assist you by:
● deepening your breathing
● relaxing your body and mind
● stabilizing your immune system
● easing your brain and nervous system
● energizing your body after training, at work or during breaks
● increasing creativity
● deepening & enhancing your yoga/meditation practice
● releasing fatigue
● focusing your thoughts
● helping you tap into your inner joy
● getting you closer to your inner self
● enhancing your capacity to study and learn

Dub Taylor, Path Beyond Ego

A favourite producer of Lucidflow, Dub Taylor is the deeper, dubbier alias of Alexander “Tigerskin” Krüger – best known for his releases across the highly regarded Dirt Crew, Morris Audio, Dessous imprints to name a few. As Dub Taylor, he popped up on Lucidflow co-owner Nadja Lind’s epic ‘Brain Candy’ remixes album – taking After The Rain through a slowly swinging harmonic dub workout. However, his debut release on Lucidflow ‘Path Beyond Ego’ sees the Berlin based producer in vibrant and energetic form.

This is epitomised in lead track ‘Get Up Dub’. Rolling and hypnotic, the melodic elements sit low in the mix like a blanket of murky mist, perforated by the shout of “GET UP!” throughout the track. Direct and effective, it begs for the long undulating mix treatment from DJs in full mastery of their pitch control skills.

Equally rolling is ‘Lamma’, whose tumbling beats drive the track. Resonate dub chords straddle the dived between percussive and harmonic, twanging in the background. As the track progresses, the brassy melody that rises eventually flourishes into a string led breakdown. Like a dolphin breaking the surface of the ocean, it arcs in the air before diving back down into the aqua with graceful ease.

Finally, ‘Ten O’Clock Dub’ marries half time elements over the steady footsteps of the house tempo. The uptempo heartbeat retains a vibrancy but the mood is most certainly more languid. The traditional organic dub backing sits perfectly with the modern electronic template set out by pioneering dub labels such as Basic Channel and Maurizio.

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s-c-r-a-p (techno)

Short…& to the point; beginning with a low growl & finishing in the fast-lane; I utilize techno mixes primarily for my workout regimen: specifically Nordic Track workouts & upper body weight/calisthenics – both using my Dr. Dre wireless Powerbeats.

diggit! | 64:50

01 Dirk Serries – Torrential Aether Shadows (excerpt)
01 Lucy – The Horror
02 Speedy J – Manhasset
03 Pact Infernal – Sapere Aude
04 Lemna – Knot
05 Kangding Ray – Epsilon
06 Photek – Infinity
07 David Bowie – Law (Earthlings On Fire)
08 Shifted – She Dressed In Grey (Static Mix)
09 Visible Silence – Into the Deep
10 Joachim Spieth – Annihilatio
11 Von Grall – Hyper Density

Orthodox Tales, by Andrew Sherwell

Orthodox Tales is the debut album from West London, UK based artist Andrew Sherwell. He was part of a stream of bands in and beyond his teenage years centred initially on jangly post-punk Funk. The band’s name would change routinely each time a band member left which was regularly and eventually, it was just Andrew left as the band grew more and more experimental in their approach. He did manage to rack up some releases around this period, some 30 years ago – however these are lost to the mists of time due to the Rough Trade period when things would come and go within a weekend.

Andrew is still an avid collector of physical records and thanks to inspiration drawn from Svarte Greiner, The Caretaker and Xela as well as Eastern European choral music, Film and soundtracks, Andrew has increasingly been inspired to create his own experimental music.
After a good deal of time spent working on the backbone of an album, Andrew had a demo in place and before submitting it to a label, he had it professionally mastered by Stephan Mathieu. He then dropped it over to us and the rest is history…

Orthodox Tales sees us welcome back Federica Jeanne De Luca, the artist that supplied the cover artwork for Philippe Lamy’s Inner Stretch. Her artwork provides a beautiful backdrop for this six track journey through tape loops, Korg Volca keys, samples, effects, and field recordings which re-enact the tales told by Andrew’s grandfather.

For the whole of the inter-war period, his grandfather travelled back and forth through the turmoil of the Balkans, Central Europe, the Caucasus and South Russia, returning with many treasures on the eve of the Second World War. Andrew recalls his Grandfather as an old man when he’d spend school holidays at his house. On occasion at bedtimes, his Grandfather recounted wild tales of his ‘adventuring’: of the peoples he met and their folk tales, of days lost in endless forests, of nights camped out on a sea of grasslands when the frost was so hard that his blanket twinkled in the moonlight, as brightly as the myriad stars above. He told of feasting with mountain goat herders and with Orthodox Bishops, of shape-shifting shaman and of beautiful Princesses, of demons and of angels in human form. After a while, he’d be lost, transported to the magical world of his descriptions. Grandfather would lower his voice, he would wander from the story into more philosophical byways and soon, Andrew would fall asleep.

Orthodox Tales is a deeply personal account of Andrew’s childhood experience but as the themes and anecdotes play out in musical form, the album works as a conduit in which to transfer these tales to you the listener.
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Released January 20, 2018
Written and produced by Andrew Sherwell
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu
Artwork by Federica De Luca
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Climata, by Robert Curgenven

‘Climata‘ is a new [actually 2016] work by composer and sound artist Robert Curgenven comprised entirely of site-specific recordings captured in 15 of James Turrell’s Skyspaces, spanning 9 countries. Each of the individual recordings, with their quiet & slowly changing microtonal interventions made in-situ, interrogate and offer a specific document of weather, location and duration framed by the architecture of the Skyspace – a frame that blurs the distinction between interiority and exteriority – while allowing the physicality of the Skyspace to be subtly rendered audible.

Turrell’s Skyspaces are a specifically proportioned chamber with an aperture in the ceiling open to the sky and outside world. The Skyspaces can be autonomous structures or integrated into existing architecture. The aperture can be round, ovular or square – each with its’ own “piece of sky” beneath an ocean of air. These variously shaped apertures let in and frame not only Turrell’s famous light but also sound and its medium, in this case air.

The initial tones you will notice are a by-product of the recording process in the Skyspaces, a technique which brings the air inside the Skyspace into movement against the air outside – oscillating through the ceiling aperture, creating a soft phasing sound, like a whooshing or fluttering where the listener can hear the air move – this sound is about as loud as the sound outside the Skyspace.

The two discs that make up ‘Climata’ were created to be played back to back or simultaneously, in any order and ideally on two sound systems. Together the two 58 minute CDs give rise to hours of unique combinations.

An installation version of Climata was exhibited in the National Gallery of Australia’s Skyspace in 2015 with more site-specific iterations to follow in 2016.
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Released April 29, 2016

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poWerbeaTs.3!

Just. Went. Wireless. w/ @beatsbydre powerbeats.3#Ambient #Classical #Jazz or #Techno; they rock!
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— Ambient Landscape (@AmbientLndscape) March 9, 2018

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more soft, electronic din from THE place for ambient file morphing!

Ambient, Glitch, Microsound & Fizz (within an over-arching Electronica domain punctuated by………..quietude).  This mix opens with a short, slightly-longer-than-2-minute shard from Eno’s ‘Reflection‘, so as to set up the balance of the sounds used within mix. I’ve used longer sections on previous mixes – but this required something short & to the point.

Not enough static on the radio? Tune in here. | 82:03
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01 Brian Eno – Reflection (postmodern dirge, snipped edit)
02 Confessor – Facing the Unknown (surgical query edit)
03 Chris Russell w/ Mystified – Destruct (demolition derby edit)
04 Aphex Twin – Parallel Stripes
05 Nobuto Suda – Prime (first-things edit)
06 Darren McClure & Arovane – Platform
07 Ryuichi Sakamoto & Taylor Deupree – Jyaku
08 Martin Nonstatic – Oak Branches
09 IJO -Windbellen
10 Tetsu Inoue – Particular Moments
11 Taylor Deupree – Somi
12 Markus Reuter – Glaus Haus
13 David Torn – Ever More Other
14 Pjusk – Sus
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POW! Science! An EVB Tribute.

@powscience
What a terrific crew!
"I realized a long time ago that if what you're doing doesn't somehow or other make the world better for kids, you're wasting your time."
~Eric Bulmer
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— Ambient Landscape (@AmbientLndscape) February 25, 2018

Don’t worry . . . be happy (sort of)!

😆 My brother & I will, on occasion (during stressful moments) text this back & forth. #21stCenturySchizoidMan #KingCrimson
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— Ambient Landscape (@AmbientLndscape) February 15, 2018

Here’s the actual size for texting: