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ZONE – an area, stretch of land or . . . audio mix having a particular characteristic sound, purpose,  use or resonance; subject to particular restrictions (for instance, “No Disco!“).

…………………..E.G. “an experimental ambient or pedestrian zone”

Crafted by fusing past & present ambient/Argerantenian-Tramponian riffs, each edition  closes with a [ghosted] original drone composition created via Thomas Park’s Organic Urban Soundscapes site (an ambient wave-table engine where the user can create looped sound files utilizing found-sound audio painstakingly compiled & catalogued by Mr. Parks).

…………………Zones utilized: Utility Plant*, Downtown & Desolation Repository

The ‘Scapes created the edge we needed to launch this tiny series, the editions of which were mixed within a 2 week period in order to maintain continuity & theme flow — it is our sincere wish that you find something across these 3 ambient/drone installments to dig!

Cover art stolen from a local art gallery . . . Thomas Crown Affair style . . .  ..

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Part 1 of 3 | Ambient & Experimental Ambient Drone | 82:39

01 Sergio Merce – Insect (Parallel Path/Windsor edit)
02 Christopher Bissonette -The Colonnade
03 Beta Two Agonist – Seele
04 Jonathan Hughes – Monoline
05 Cymphoni – The Passage
06 Seconds Before Awakening – Nine (excerpt)
07 O Yuki Conjugate – Sunlessglare
08 Brian Eno & Harold Budd – Among Fields of Crystal
09 Deaf Center – Lobby
10 Stars of the Lid – Jan. 69
11 Off the Sky – Maker’s Folly
12 Rumforskning – Ligevaegt
13 Alio Die & Aglaia – Reflections on the Abyss
14 Erik K Skodvin – Drowning, Whistling
15 Peter James – Imprint; ghosted w/ Utility Plant*

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Markus Reuter, String Quartet #1 ‘Heartland’

Beautiful . . !

45 Echoes Sounds, a Net.Label

45 ECHOES SOUNDS – логическое продолжение уже знакомого слушателям сетевого лэйбла 45RPM-Records. Однако 45 Echoes Sounds выдвигает более жесткие жанровые и качественные требования.
45 Echoes Sounds – независимый, некоммерческий лэйбл, цель которого – распространение качественной музыки AMBIENT. Все релизы нашего лэйбла распространяются бесплатно для некоммерческого использования. Вы можете свободно скачивать нашу музыку и делиться ею с друзьями, но, согласно лицензии Creative Commons License, вы не можете использовать скачиваемый с наших сайтов материал (весь и какой-либо фрагмент) в коммерческих целях без согласия авторов музыки, являющимися исключительными правообладателями.

(Rough Translation [Google]
Logical extension of the familiar listeners network label 45RPM-Records. However, 45 Echoes Sounds pushes tougher genre and quality requirements.
45 Echoes Sounds – an independent, non-profit record label, which aims – the dissemination of quality music AMBIENT. All releases of our label, distributed free of charge for non-commercial use. You can freely download our music and share it with friends, but, according to the license Creative Commons License, you can not use the downloaded material from our sites (all and any fragment) for commercial purposes without the consent of authors of music, are the exclusive owners.)

Uhm . . .great . . .sounds . . . here:
http://45echoes-sounds.blogspot.com/2012/03/releases-catalog.html

A Trio from Tonus

This is a great trio of albums – – we’ve listened & are working on a tribute mix, of sorts . . . please stayed tuned…

The Future of Music Today

Tonus
Cagean Morphology
Intermediate Obscurities I + IV
Texture Point  | A New Wave of Jazz (CD/DL)

Belgium label A New Wave of Jazz has released a steady discography of albums, all sharing an in-house visual design that favors minimal aesthetics. This visual identity, incidentally, is the work of Rutger Zuydervelt, the experimental sound artist who records as Machinefabriek. This dedication to minimalism extends to the sounds on these releases, each exploring a less is more approach to improvised jazz.

Label director Dirk Serries is present on all recordings, and this month sees the release of a trio of Tonus albums. Tonus is described as “the next chapter in his ongoing investigation into the relation between sound and time”, which is certainly evident on these three new works. Space, slowness and an exercise in restraint are common threads in each. Tonus is a collaborative project which involves Serries…

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g r A y

Another year older, another gray hair (maybe several!) – hopefully we’re all getting better with age.

This is a fusion of genres from days gone by . . . ambient, experimental, dub & minimal techno – with a closer borrowed from an R&B friend of mine.

01 toru takemitsu – piano distance
02 brian eno – matta
03 rhomb – 360 degrees
04 saul stokes – hurried space
05 farben – the video age
06 seefeel – charlotte’s mouth
07 EU – Christmas
08 jan garbarek – visible world
09 jack dejohnette, herbie hancock & pat metheny  – parallel realities
10 viridian sun – pelior is v
11 lunatic calm – neon ray
12 saul stokes – conundrum
13 suba – a noite sem fin (the endless night)

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Emergence; Experimental Music from Vietnam

“Emergence” is an introductory compilation of experimental music from active Vietnamese artists, foreign artists who are based in Vietnam and those who collaborate with Vietnamese artists. This compilation features ten tracks of both established and emerging artists from all backgrounds.

Experimental music is a genre that has been overlooked in Vietnam. The number of artists active in Hanoi, Saigon and abroad is small. The first generation of experimental musicians appeared in Hanoi in the 1990s. Late 2000s and early 2010s, the second generation of Vietnamese experimental musicians started developing.

Up until now the local scene is still lacking resources, awareness and appreciation for experimental music in Vietnam. Our emergence is not only to claim our musical identities but also to open up new possibilities, exploration and potential future collaboration. For us, experimental music is a direct way to construct our sonic language; to freely express a complex range of personal experience, thoughts and emotions.

………………………………………………………..~Nhung Nguyen, Hanoi, Vietnam

Released April 25, 2018

Curated by Nhung Nguyen
Art by Dan Ni
Mastered by Jason Corder
All tracks by listed artists.
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SEQUENCE4, by Various Artists

SEQUENCE 4 is the fourth installment of the Sequence series. Continuing the series started almost a year ago, SEQUENCE 4 showcases some of the finest artists from around the world, working in the genres of ambient, drone, minimal, electronic and modern classical.

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The compilation remains free and is curated from just over 130 artist submissions and like it’s predecessors, weighs in at 42 tracks.Release artwork is available as framed print, stretched canvas or mobile phone case here: society6.com/aphomic/SEQUENCE4_Print

Credits

Released June 27, 2012
Curated by Ed Hamilton and Michael Waring

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Installation Music Mix

Brian Eno will release ‘‘Music For Installations” on May 4th.

In commemoration of that, our studio engineers have crafted for me a personal mix (residing on my phone & iPad) which is perfect for computing, writing, contemplating, cleaning firearms, reading the U.S. Constitution, heterosexual love-making, napping, dithering and/or staring out windows — utilizing several fine atmospheres from Mr. Eno’s v-a-s-t ambient collection.

This simply condenses several long-form pieces into something easily managed & looped if a longer listening session is required.

34:18

1. Kazakhstan (excerpt)
2. Reflection (excerpt)
3. LUX (excerpt)
4. Compact Forest Proposal, Condition 5
5. Music for Installations/Kazakhstan (fade-in excerpt II)
6. Left Where it Fell (excerpt)

Awase, by Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin

Looking forward to the 5.04.18 release of this . . .
#MoreRonin!
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‘Awase‘, a term from martial arts, means “moving together” in the sense of matching energies, a fitting metaphor for the dynamic precision, tessellated grooves and balletic minimalism of Nik Bartsch’s Ronin.

Six years have passed since the last release from the Swiss group (though Nik Bartsch did release ‘Continuum’ with his group Mobile on ECM in 2016). In the interim, trimmed from quintet to quartet size and with new bassist Thomy Jordi fully integrated, Ronin has become a subtly different band.

The pianist/composer speaks of a new-found freedom and flexibility in the approach to the material, with “greater transparency, more interaction, more joy in every performance”. The freedom here extends to revisiting early Bartsch modules alongside new compositions including, for the first time on a Ronin record, a piece by reedman Sha.

After “Modul 60,” the reflective and tranquil opener to Awase, from pianist Nik Bärtsch’s groove-metric quartet Ronin, “Modul 58” comes at you with such an insistence and power that it leaves you, after its persistent eighteen minutes, catching your breath, marveling at how you went from zero to mach 10 in the blink of an eye.

Bärtsch describes the music of Ronin as “Zen Funk” or “Ritual Groove Music” and, as evidenced on previous thrillers including 2002’s Randori (Ronin Rhythm Records), ’08’s Holon (ECM Records), and ’12’s Ronin Live (ECM), the keyboardist’s in no way pulling our legs or playing with our heads.

Play with our heads the music does, though, in a dizzying, grand way, employing simple patterns unconcerned with downbeats or expectations and mantra-like modules (or “Moduls,” as Bärtsch chooses to title his works) of sheer minimalist groove that expand, contract and expand again at the whim and will of both composer and players.

Positioned, as it is, after the maelstrom of “Modul 58, Sha’s “A,” is a languid, darkly hypnotic work, its theme offered up repetitively as the band interprets each go ’round in shifting, intrinsic ways. “A” also serves as an oasis from the growing dance of “Modul 36,” a flowing, firing-on-all-cylinders rave that, if you weren’t familiar with the vision of Ronin, you might suspect was out of reach for this brainy quartet.

Ditto “Modul 34,” with Rast holding a hard rock ‘n’ roll center as Bärtsch goes unhinged. It is a tune that blends rock and jazz with a stunning ease seldom found since the fusion heyday of the mid-’70s. “Modul 59,” after the fashion of the opener, takes us out quietly, with Bärtsch and company knowing full well that we need the time to recover from the rush.
~All About Jazz

Awase was recorded at Studios La Buissonne in the south of France in October 2017 and produced by Manfred Eicher. It is released on CD and on a double LP (180g vinyl) with a free download code.

Personnel:
Nik Bartsch (piano)
Sha (bass clarinet, alto saxophone)
Thomy Jordi (bass)
Kaspar Rast (drums)

Vegir, by Dominique Vantomme feat. Tony Levin, Michel Delville

Dominique Vantomme of VANTOMME, is a pianist, keyboardist, composer, band leader, music educator and producer, equally well known for his work with many European pop and rock acts as for being the jazz piano instructor at the Music Conservatory in Kortrijk, Belgium.

This album was born from his nomadic adventures: traveling in 2016 to see Stick Men, in Holland, and meeting up with old pal, MoonJune’s Leonardo Pavkovic; and shortly thereafter befriending the legendary bassist/stickist Tony Levin of the King Crimson, Peter Gabriel and Stick Men hall of fame. In the studio session which shortly followed, Dom and Tony were joined by veteran MoonJune artist, also from Belgium, Michel Delville (The Wrong Object; douBt; Machine Mass), who was recruited on guitar, and another Belgian musician, Maxime Lenssens, tasked with holding down the timekeeping duties.

The spontaneity and freshness of this sizzling, high-altitude set reflects the equally unpretentious manner in which the session itself came together. Tackling some decidedly hip musical sketches of  Dominique Vantomme, the band is given full artistic liberty – and with all participants in top form, the resulting music weaves and winds its way across paths previously untrodden … in stunning fashion, and with sure footing! In the truest MoonJune tradition, “Vegir” thumbs its nose at convention and showcases these seasoned veteran musicians at the top of their game: with the skill set, bravery and chutzpah to follow their instincts and, in the process, allow the music to seek out and ultimately capture its own form. It slinks; it growls; it stalks; it devours! It grooves; it stutters; it holds you in suspense, then explodes! (… think ‘juggling chainsaws’ in the sonic realm.

I’ll be using the final track, ‘Odin’s Wig‘ on an upcoming (June) elements ether-jazz edition.

Credits

Released January 5, 2018

DOMINIQUE VANTOMME: Fender Rhodes Electric Piano, Piano, Mini Moog, Mellotron
MICHEL DELVILLE: Electric Guitar
TONY LEVIN: Bass Guitar, Chapman Stick
MAXIME LENSSENS: Drums
Produced by DOMINIQUE VANTOMME
Recorded by Pascal Deweze at Studio Jezuz, Hoboken, Belgium, October 29th 2016.
Mixing by Fritz Sunderman.
Mastering by Mark Wingfield.
Photos by Perry Schrijvers.
Artwork by Marcel van der Heyden.