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[8dpromo]

KiloWatts & Vanek - Perennials Remixes (Harmonious Discord)

8DPromo · KiloWatts and Vanek - Perennials Remixes (Harmonious Discord)

Spring begins to bloom as seedlings lay down their roots, a sturdy foundation for their generational journey. The masters of the journey, those perennial species that brave the cycles of the earth, continue to endure. Rewind nearly 20 years to a festival in Augsburg, Germany, called Lab30, which featured a bouquet of forward-thinking musical pioneers. In that collective were the cross-genre band KiloWatts and Vanek, who had played their first show in 2004 as part of a gathering of like-minded music producers and artists worldwide, focusing heavily on experimental electronic music and art. Fast forward to the present, KiloWatts and Vanek have reunited in a boundlessly special album called Perennials. The album is a truly impressive blend of their classic signature sound and multiple nods to musical innovations that have sparked in between their albums. In celebration of Perennials, the duo decided to reach out to some of those artists for a reunion, as well as collaborate with new friends made along the way. The collection spans a network of producers from near and far, old and new, with eyes looking to the future. The remix collection offers a bountiful selection for all musical minds, from the intelligently precise ethereal offerings by Orphax, The Village Orchestra, Megaheadphoneboy, and Lackluster to the upbeat midtempo music from Erothyme, Gift Culture, Polygon Rainbow, and PointBender. Heavier techno placements from PointBender and Andrew Sega ultimately crescendo into the edit-heavy, dub offering from PHAENOS. Rediscover the Perennials listening experience with this dynamic selection of remixed offerings and rediscover the collective experience.

*Klaus Benedek (Fortunea Records) – “The Gift Culture Remix of One Day is a Beauty!” LUROB (Still Bumpin) – “Nice variety on this release. PointBenders Warehouse Dub of Nankurunasia is my go to.” P.M.F.M. (Deep Dive Corp.) – “Excellent release!” Danny Ward (Moodymanc) – “All nice … Fermenwah (TVO Tool) in particular got me here.” Sandro Bianchi (Ibiza Sonica) – “This is amazing!” Redstickman** (The Ambient Mafia) – “Great album! Please Hold (Polygon Rainbow Remix) is amazing. Super lush and chill. Love it!”

Available Now From: Beatport, Bandcamp, Apple Music, And Spotify.

[zef-zef]

A Duck in a Tree 2024-07-27 - Copper Coins and Boiled Water

zoviet*france weekly radio program listen/download

track list

00 Suzanne Hardy - Intro 01 Ruaridh Law, Debbie Armour, James Papademetrie & Orphax - The Sun 02 Ruaridh Law, Debbie Armour, James Papademetrie & Orphax - The Emperor 03 Ruaridh Law, Debbie Armour, James Papademetrie & Orphax - The High Priestess 04 Philippe Neau - Wein Dou Damn 05 Joe Shaw - The Salt Marshes at Alnmouth 06 Matt Atkins & Stuart Chalmers - Ante-Choir 07 Aidan Lochrin - In the Ruins of No Specific Place (with Jude Norton-Smith) 08 Demetrio Cecchitelli - Oxygen 09 Philippe Neau - Cigales à l'orage 10 Soundsaroundus - Jungle Night After Rain 01 11 Audela - Images Which Form Within your Ears 12 Ben Ponton - BS 19:36 07.03.12 13 Sophie Sleigh-Johnson - I Cairn Get Enough of It 14 Sala - Cell Tower 15 Jan Ryhalsky - Night, Entryway 16 Ting Ting Jahe - 6 17 Drone Forest - Ominous Vine Movement Through Unsuspecting Undergrowth ++ Suzanne Hardy - Outro

[postambientlux]

• orphax • spectrum • bit.ly/oPx-StRm

[whtaever]

[fluidsf]

Project B2 01 Orphax: Live Circles Release date: September 13, 2019 Label: Moving Furniture Records Catalogue number: MFR077 Reviewed format: CD Welcome to a review in the Project B2 series in which (like previously in Sonic Picks) I review music with a generally “lighter” kind of sound through review submissions from artists and labels as well as the occasional personal picks. This review is of a release I picked myself this time. Today I have for you the new album by an artists whose activities in experimental music I’ve been following for well over a year now, Orphax (Sietse van Erve). Sietse has been active performing his own music as Orphax as well as releasing many albums, singles and miscellaneous releases for many years now and has also been always been very active in releasing music by a variety of well-known and new names in experimental music and sound art through his label Moving Furniture Records as well as organising various concerts and events of artists he invites, like the excellent series Ruisburo which I often attend here in The Netherlands. Previously I reviewed the series of albums that Haarvöl mostly released through Moving Furniture Records, the last part of which I will write at some point but for today I thought it’s time to put the spotlight on Orphax’s own music with this 1 track live album titled Live Circles. Live Circles is a reworked and mixed version of two direct live recordings of performances of Orphax’s piece Circles as performed at IKLECTIK and Centrala in the UK earlier this year. The recordings are seamlessly blended into each other, creating a dynamic captivating progression in Orphax’s drones that blends bright uplifting atmosphere with darker shades of texture. The album doesn’t feature audience noise. Live Circles is presented on CD in a neat 4 panel cardboard sleeve featuring (uncredited on the packaging) artwork by Orphax on the front cover. A neat composition of thin black circles on a warm yellow-orange background that expresses the pulsating tones of the music quite well but also adds a classy 70’s like LP cover touch to the design of this release. Besides the cover artwork the design of the package is quite minimalist but on point, featuring artist name, title and catalogue number in Orphax signature lowercase type on the spine, credits and label logo on the back as well as a nice written introduction to the album by Sietse on the inside left panel. A great touch and Orphax’s explanation of the influences of the environment at the places he performed on his performances is also enlightening and a nice guide for listening. The CD itself features minimal print, with only the artist name, album title and label logo featuring on it. Let’s focus on the music on Live Circles itself now. Being a 1-track Drone album I thought it’d be good to approach this album with a general interpretation and afterwards a short analysis of several time points part of the 37 minute track to have a look at the various layers part of Live Circles. Live Circles in general is a Drone piece which has this captivating theme of pulsations within it, the “circle” aspect part of the textures in Live Circles can be found in various manners within the various synth layers and eventual progression of these over time. Having seen two performances of Circles live before, right from the start I could recognise the curious juxtaposition of some kind of distant dark tension and the buzzing sharpness inherent in several of the synth layers within Circles. Live Circles can best be described as a mostly liquid morphing organism in which the at times tense or subtly fluctuating chords created by the layers synth tones hint at either a safe but at the same time also fascinating situation or a bright peaceful sensation enhanced by the sharp buzzing of the synths combined with sharp but not piercing high tones or a combination of both kinds of atmospheres as the music blends these at various points. The strong bass vibrations throughout as well as the rich detailed stereo movement also make for a very impressive listening experience where speed ups and other changes in bass tone and pattern add exciting sonic events making for a Drone piece which is still quite minimalist in composition but also full of progression and never meanders into an idle stretch of tones. The waves of tone, at times ticks from the gated effect or pulsations of the synths especially nearing the middle of Live Circles make the Drone also feel very physical even if the synths have quite a strong filtered sound to them throughout. Indeed only the ending climax is when Orphax opens up the filter of the buzzing synth fully to expose the sharp radiant tone within and fades out with more drones starting, everything moving to a place in the distance. Jumping to a few time points in Live Circles, at 6:39 you can hear a great example of the intriguing juxtaposition of the highly resonant phaser affected warm buzzing drone synth with a dissonant high pitched tone creating tension but also calming the listener as even this high pitched bright tone could be interpreted as a warm shining light. At 13:33 the piece transitions within a similar kind of juxtaposition to a section in which the phasing synth drone feels like a sniffed river stream, a calming spring like ambience is emitted from the bassy but also liquid texture of the synth. The hollow tone accompanying the drone pulsates in an exciting ear massaging pattern creating a hollow kind of texture wave, eventually fading out. At 22:08 we can feel a didgeridoo like kind of entrancing pattern created within the phased drones by a gating effect or sequencer. The filtered synth tones subtly overflow you and a buzzing synth enters adding high pitched textural elements to the mixture. The pulsating synth eventually drops in pitch and fades out revealing a recognisable warm drone sound. Indeed Live Circles features quite a lot of variation in its progression but there are also recurring drones and textures that add a nice consistency to the piece and act as reference points to grab onto while listening if you feel like your mind wandered off a bit too far while listening. Orphax does also point this out in his written introduction, that the listening experience of Live Circles doesn’t necessarily need to mean the full attentive kind of listening but often felt more like a kind of trip the audiences had in their thoughts and applying this shifting in and out of thoughts while listening the subconscious effect of the music is indeed very inspiring and calming, the occasional dissonance and darkness triggering a healthy kind of urgency from the music which keeps it fresh and definitely not predictable, also on repeated listens. At 30:32 we enter the final climax of Live Circles which happens quite gradual but is also definitely very thrilling in its nature. Featuring multiple types of drone pulsations, both “round” and choppy Live Circles “organism” slowly starts to grow bigger and bigger, seemingly morphing into its final life form. Indeed this might make it seem a bit Horror like, but this is definitely how this ending felt like to me. A warm but sharp stream of bright warm buzzing synth totally engulfing you into an overwhelming stream of highly resonant sound and it feels amazing. To conclude this review of Live Circles I would say that especially Orphax’s kind of Drone music is especially inspiring for a whole lot of interpretations of the “meaning”, subconscious imagery or aural sensation you feel while listening and indeed you as a listener will definitely have a different kind of listening experience than I did but as always I hope this review gave you an idea of the qualities and sonic imagery on this live album through my own review and analysis of a few points in the album’s timeline. Live Circles is a great aural documentation of the live performances of Circles and Orphax’s fine reworking and mix of the two live recordings used for the album allow you to have a quite similar experience to a live performance of Circles within your preferred listening environment and I highly recommend this live album for fans of Drone and (experimental) electronic music in general. This is top-notch music you can listen to again and again, a very fine release. Definitely go check Live Circles out. The limited edition CD version and download of Live Circles are available from the Moving Furniture Records Bandcamp page here: https://movingfurniturerecords.bandcamp.com/album/live-circles

[mamiffer]

The Eternal Chord

“Mutatis Mutandis”

Spire 7.1D

12 tracks, 1:42:06. Digital download with .pdf booklet. Touch will pay all receipts to the artists; any donations above that will go to support the label. Buy “Mutatis Mutandis” on Bandcamp. Photography: Sydney Russell.

1. Olivia Block - Flue 09:17 2. Marta De Pascalis - Alexandria 08:30 3. Richard Chartier - State 08:32 4. Faith Coloccia - Voice 1 Grapheme 07:55 5. Daniel Menche - Minimal 11:09 6. Jiyeon Kim - Organ Tapes 1 05:48 7. Philip Jeck - 75 bus 07:24 8. Dahra - Abadan (Perpetuum) 11:00 9. Orphax - Aeternus 12:54 10. Jiyeon Kim - Organ Tapes 2 06:40 11. Fennesz - Crystal Canyons 04:44 12. Faith Coloccia - Artifacts (bonus)

“Mutatis Mutandis” - featuring 12 exclusive new compositions, using source material from “Semper Liber” by: Fennesz, Faith Coloccia (inc. bonus track), Richard Chartier, Philip Jeck, Orphax, Olivia Block, Jiyeon Kim, Dahra, Daniel Menche and Marta de Pascalis [UK, USA, Senegal, South Korea, Italy, Netherlands, Austria].

Liminal organ

Immersive and compelling, Mutatis mutandis expands the organ repertoire into new territory, with influences from Senegalese traditional folk music, modern composition, classical organ, pop and electronic music.

The four colour plates by the art historian and author Sydney Russell show cave art from 4,000 to 6,000 years ago. Taken in Brazil on one of several expeditions she made around the world, these highly emotional works reveal the sophistication and ageless quality of the imagination of the peoples who were expressing themselves at this time; they have been slow to reveal their beauty to us, having survived all weathers; their acoustic soundtrack unfolds slowly, submersive and involving.

Sydney Russell writes: “These photographs were taken in 1976 in Brazil. We eventually obtained minimum radio carbon datings for levels covering the paintings from approximately 3750-2500 BCE. They originate from the rock shelter sites of Sucupira, (Lagoa Santa) and Lapa do Cipo (Santana do Riacho), near Minas Gerais and Quadrillas (Montalvania), Bahia.”

There are many other delights in the Spire section of Touch’s Bandcamp page. Please check them out: theeternalchord.bandcamp.com

Buy “Mutatis Mutandis” on Bandcamp

[sergeparakovsky-blog]

Machienfabriek & Orphax - Weerkaatsing, album artwork

[philmaguire]

Slow Evolution - a verz/Moving Furniture concert in Amsterdam - 26/1

Slow Evolution – a verz/Moving Furniture concert in Amsterdam – 26/1

Anne La Berge and I launch our new tape two cities, available on verz. Orphax (Moving Furniture Records) will perform a solo.

https://splendoramsterdam.com/en/agenda/380217/slow-evolution

[ruaridhtvo]

There's an excellent campaign to support the work of the great Moving Furniture Records now online here. I have a track on the compilation cd to support the campaign - a collaboration with Dutch legend Jos Smolders of EARlabs - and there is also another perk, a very limited cd which is a mix/reworking of 70 minutes of music from label boss Orphax by myself. It's packaged in a clamshell case with a postcard in an envelope. But be quick, only 18 left at time of writing.

[darlinglove]

Music of the presentations The Dance Awards Las Vegas 2018

Sophia Frilot - Red Sky: Ich Wollt', Ich War' Des Sturmes Weib - AGF & Gudrun Gut

Casey Cheung - Here With Us: Here with Us - Joy Williams

Juliet Donenfeld - Eternal Love: Eternal Love - Abel Korzenionwski

Jadyn Dumound - Entertain Us: Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana *COVER*

Kailyn Yi - Farewell: Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart - Vera ynn

Charlotte Foldes - Forced Through Time: Stillness #1 The FRam, Greenland - Machinefabriek

Angelina Elliot - We Had Today: We had Today - Rachel Portman

Rachel Loiselle - Arch Angel: heyr himnasmiður - Hildur Gudnadottir

Crystal Huang - Look Out: Look Out - James Vicent McMorrow

Tate McRae - Woman: Woman - Rhye

Harlow Ganz - Elegy: Elegy - Hammock

Savannah Kristich - Escape From Mongolia: Mongolia - Armand Amar

Ava Brooks - Tiger Rag: Tiger Rag - Art Tatum

Ally Reuter - Mad World: Jasmine Thompson

Brooklyn Simpson - I'm In Here: I'm in here - Sia

Mia Damico - Lose Control: Lose control - Missy Elliott feat. Ciara & Fat Man coop

Izzy Howard - Penny Dreadful: Broadchurch Album Main Theme - Olafur Arnalds

Kaitlyn Paula - Sweet Child O' Mine: Sweet Child O' Mine - Jasmine Thompson

Gracyn French - Ivy: Infra 1 - Max Richter

Elliana Walmsley - At The Mercy Of The Waves: At the mercy of the waves - Clem Leek

Elyse Wingertsahn - Beautiful Thing: Beautiful thing - Grace VanderWaal

Taytum Ruckle - Charms: Charms - Abel Korzeniowski

Daviana Fletcher - Ne Me Quitte Pas: Ne me quitte pas - Jesse Cook

Olivia Benyamin - Dimming Light: The dimming of road and rights - Raime

Alexis Weldner - What Holds Me Down: Phantom Rhread IV - Jonny Greenwood

Grace McKinley - Define: Together we will live forever - Clint Mansell

Aaliyah Dixon - Rhythm Nation: Rhythm Nation - Janet Jackson

Laci Stoico - Feel It: Feel it still - Portugal. The Man

Sky Mottet - The Radical Self: The radical Self - AGF feat. Kubra Khademi

Bella Sor - Through Time: Seasong 1 to 4 and other little stories - Ezio Bosso

Delaney Taylor - Inescapable: Vastaa - Vladislav Delay

Leah Sachs - Mississippi: Mississipe - Paula Cole

Olivia Bell - Confine: The last foundry - Raime

Audrey Donnelly - I Won't Dance: I won't dance - Peggy Lee

Campbell Clark - The Feather: Main Theme, Feather Theme - Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

Blanche Arnold - Mama Knows Best: Mamma knows best - Jessie J

Alexis Alvarez - Caution: Nuage III - Sylvain Chauveau

Christian Smith - Malware: lost & Found - Amon Tobin

Ezra Sosa - Drowning: Drowning - Mick Jenkins feat. BADBADNOTGOOD

Jaxon Willard - Down N Out: Makin me happy - Elias

Yadiel Figueroa - Futeki: Feel the love - kids see ghosts

Jamie Bacon - Tiger's Bride: The tiger's bride - Lena Fayre

Zeke Lindsey - Acceptance of Death: On the nature of daylight - Max Richter

Chau - Miracle Mire: Nannou 2 - Aphex Twin

Talia Seitel - Thirds: Toy Plane - Dustin Nantais

Jada German - Her Pigment: - *

Aaliyah Zolina - Wandering: aheym - Kronos Quartet With Bryce Dessner

Lauren Yakima - You Are Mine: I put a spell on you - Alice Smith

Lucy Vallely - Natural Woman: A natural woman - Carole King

Shelby Patterson - For All We Know: For all we know - Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway

Sarah Reasons - Nothing Compares: - *

Alli Burgess - This is Where I Fall: Go home - East of my youth

Selena Hamilton - Hand Covers Bruise: Hand covers bruise - Petra Haden

Kamri Peterson - Rain: Raein - Ólafur Arnalds

Jenna Valenzuela - Human Touch: Human Touch - Gazelle Twin

Emmy Cheung - Oblivian Interval: Aheym - Kronos Quartet with Bryce Dessner

Sydney Centeno - The Radical Self: The Radical Self - AGF feat Kubra Khademi

Addison Jones - Floating: Floating/Sinking - Peter Broderick

Sophia Sands - Snowfall: Winterreise - Max Richter

Alden Rosaldo - Human: Human - Sevdaliza

Tiana Heaton - Demise: Tippy's Demise - Stars of the Lid

Avery Watson - Smile: Smile - Halie Loren

Julia Stumpf - Construction: Hammers and nails - Johann Johannsson

Brooke Judge - Ne Me Quitte Pas: Ne me quitte pas - Maysa

Athena Andrade - Inhibited: The way - Zack Hemesey

Gabi D'Ambra - Lilac Wine: Lilac Wine - Nina Simone

Reyna Pine - Descruction: Death of a florest - Murcof

Michelle Siemienowski - Becoming: -*

Lane Styles - Voices: Sand - Keaton Henson

Carlee Schield - Restless Heart: Restless heart - AGF

Izzy Warfield - Drill: Driling an ocean - Greie gut fraktion

Shylah Bucher - Induced Reverie: Bohrer - Senking

Milla Fabirkiewicz - The Answer: Answer - Sarah McLachlan

Aimee Cho - Under the Moon: Nocturne in G minor - Olafur Arnalds & Alice Sara Ott

Marion Norris - Wave of Thoughts: one of twelve - Johann Johannsson

Daphne Mar - My Party Dress: My party dress - Kait Kerrigan & Brian Lowdermilk

Brooklyn Vara - Is The Color: Black is the color of my true love's hair - Nina Simone

Page Kracht - The Mind: -*

Madison Beerer - Some 1 2 Watch Over Me: Someone to watch over me - Frank Sinatra

Courtney Chiu - Torn: - *

Kiarra Waidelich - Ocean Eyes: ocean eyes - Billie Eilish

Kayla Seitel - Explosions: Explosions - Ellie Goulding

Anna Brown - Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah: Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah - Debbie Reynolds

Kate Deshler - Requiem for a Dream: Summer Overture - Clint Mansell

Zack Sommer - Spare Thought: Hum - Adult Jazz

Chloe Slone - Reset: - *

Joziah German - As Crazy As It Is: As crazy as it is - ZHU

Madelyn Munz - The System: My tears flood the streets - Charlotte Martin

Zoe Ridge - We Were Sparkling: No promises - Cheat codes feat Demi Lovato

Jade Bucci - I'll Fall Behind: Spiegeling - Orphax & Machinefabriek

Malia Gardner - Gone: Gone to Earth - Goldfrapp

Holden Maples - Aquatic: Aquatic - Son Lux

Summer O'Haver - Overload: Unflesh - Gazelle Twin

Carter Williams - Nerve Leak: - *

Samuel McWiliams - Containing A Thousand: Mausoleum - Lakker

Allie Andrew - Accustomed To Your Love: Tu me acostumbraste - Chavela Vargas

Jake McAuley - Passport Control: Chapitre III, Us border anne-james

Mia Maxwell - Breathe Into Me: keepers - Croatian Amor

* Soon | https://swki.me/7cWsp38a

[postambientlux]

• orphax • less is more • bit.ly/oXlSiSmE

[fluidsf]

Fluid Artist Focus on Haarvöl 1 Haarvöl: Indite (2015) Reviewed format: review copy of CD Album on Moving Furniture Records in digital format as kindly provided by Haarvöl Welcome to the first review in a series of four reviews of releases by the Portuguese experimental music group Haarvöl, whose awesome recent album with Xoán-Xil López on Crónica I reviewed not too long ago. Since this review series is similar in style to Fluid Label Focus I decided to name this Fluid Artist Focus for this occasion. I received the four Haarvöl albums I’m going to review as rips from the original CDs as lossless digital files from Haarvöl themselves through email. I received a great response from them on my previous review so they kindly suggested to me to review several more release by them as well, to which I obviously said yes. So here we are with the first release I’m reviewing of the set of four albums. My approach is to review the albums chronologically from old to new, so today we’re starting with Haarvöl’s 2015 album on Orphax’ label Moving Furniture Records, Indite. Conceptually Haarvöl state in the accompanying release description PDF that a strong focus of Indite is the actual process of composing music. Indeed in all of the 6 pieces on this album you can definitely feel a sense of being able to hear the compositions being composed, layered and structured, while they are playing, with the 6 pieces following quicker progressions than the Unwritten Rules of a Ceaseless Journey album released this year. The various elements of the pieces on Indite are brought more to the foreground, have a rougher at times distorted texture to them and the music sounds more like an exploration in progress with various elements in the music often occurring just once, spontaneous and on the fly, creating compositional paths within the pieces which you can follow, with the music having a less diffuse interlocking of layers. Now, before we move into the review of the music, I’ll mention the contents of my review copy of Indite. It contains the 6 album tracks in 16-bit/44.1kHz CD quality audio, a log file from the CD ripping process and the description PDF file. Indite begins with the track Stazione metafisica (A Antonioni), a piece which introduces the sound of this album quite well. With much more prominent melodic elements in the form of strong drones, bass and synthesised strings the piece lays Haarvöl’s droning side more bare. I also noticed right from the start that the music is much louder on this album, with less extreme dynamics and more of consistent flow of sound than Haarvöl’s newer music which features bigger differences between more subdued and louder sections of the music so it does feel quite in your face at times. The music’s quality again however and right from the start with this first piece we have an exciting and very varied musical journey from A to B, which you can also guess from the title’s meaning, a metaphysical station. Flowing from station to station as it were, the piece starts with a very strong intense bass which moves towards a calmly fluctuating synth drone melody, this synth drone melody then moves towards the middle of the piece. Clattering metallic objects can be heard throughout the stereo field, as well as fuzzy noise and strange stuttering delayed metallic effects. These metallic industrial elements are definitely not unfamiliar to us, especially if you’ve also listened to Unwritten Rules of a Ceaseless Journey. But on this track and on the album in general, their usage is much less about blending in with the droning tones and melodic elements and more about being a clear integrated both resonant and percussive layer of textures but that is still just like most elements on Indite, a clearly distinguishable part of the puzzle that forms the sonic layering of all the music. What Stazione metafisica (A Antonioni) brings as a first piece is a composition in which calm ambiences morph into darker more mysterious cinematic gloomy darkness, with the middle of the track taking an especially foreboding eerie ambience but afterwards the music moves towards a brighter albeit more “chaotic” kind of part in which especially creaking sounds and mechanical sounds and P.A from a train are audible, backing cinematic string drones and swirling droning sweeps. This latter half seems like a hybrid of sound describing the noisy and at times stressful experience of travelling by train, in a full train for example and blends this with a sonification of subconscious thoughts, like a subtle sleep creeping in as you wait and wait in that train until you finally reach your station. This first piece also showcases the way that this album features Haarvöl’s music in slightly more compact form, spread over the 6 pieces as they’re all shorter than the 15-minute pieces from the new album and form more of a continuous collection of shorter works that all have their own short story or sonic events composed on the fly as the music moves on and while these pieces are a bit harsher and industrial in nature, the music feels more accessible for listeners unfamiliar with experimental / avant garde music too as the melodic elements and separation of elements makes the pieces quite easy to get into straight away. Next track Water Ordeal matches its track title quite well, a more traditional styled Drone piece, this piece features water field recordings indeed blended with calm meditative drones but also some lovely distorted tones in the mix as well. Quirky synth effects, metallic shifting sounds and glimmering sounds and sharp sawtooth synth tones from some sweet details in this piece that also adds an oriental instrument to the mix creating a kind of “Eastern Industrial Drone Ambient” sound. It’s a sweet relaxing piece of music that feels a bit like the soundtrack to a mysterious boat trip on a river, a very nice track. The Massive Downward of Greyness moves into some proper Industrial territory with pretty much the whole track being filled with all kinds of metallic, warbling, distorted tones and screeching. The piece retains a drone based style however, as low filtered eerie blobs of sound fill the background and a strange didgeridoo like warbling sound starts and ends the piece in a very intriguing and sonically pleasing manner. This piece is definitely the most intense piece on the album, feeling like walking in a gloomy noisy environment near both a factory and a landfill, as the bells combined with the metallic machinery sounds create that suggestion of wind brushing against bits of junk and loud heavy industrial machinery constantly in use. At times the sounds are all enveloping, almost ear piercing but the variation in textures as well as subtle single tones on a string instrument (that sound pretty funny in an absurd way when you notice them) brings a nice dynamic to the piece which keeps it from becoming predictable and always keeps surprising within this noisy sonic environment. Also, keep an ear out for some voice sounds in here, won’t spoil too much though. Quaestio Tormentorum is a favourite track of mine, much less dense in terms of textures with the sonic space, but a great piece in its slow build towards a very explosive climax. Featuring brooding eerie resonant drones, resonant reverberated plucked string tones, mysterious glimmering and ghostly electronics and this amazing sounding clarinet part which is gated in chopped bits and panned in a very impressive manner, creating intriguing fluctuating sonic shapes that give the music a sweet electro-acoustic touch that also fits the Dark Ambient vibe very well and adds a lovely new element to this album as it progresses, making every track lean into yet another new direction of ambience and types of sounds used. The aforementioned climax occurs in the second half of the track and features a very intense distorted Noise drone that is looped, adding a curious element of sound manipulation to the climax that is quite unexpected as very recognisable looping doesn’t often occur, at least not in Haarvöl’s music that I listened to so far. This climax then fades out into the eerie ending of the piece which features resonant reverberated percussion, buzzing synth drone and ghostly synth effects. A very nice eerie dark piece of music in which the clarinet chopping adds a very unique sonic element to the music and the climax is very intense and effective. Then on The Inescapable Labyrinth bring us a brighter drone piece again featuring some lovely water sounds, this time more of a crackling kind that are mixed in with morse code, high frequency shimmers and organ like wavy drones. This piece is a sweet mixture of the organic sonic elements and electronic sounds, feeling like a smoothly flowing stream of warm liquid river textures in which the high frequency melodic and rhythmic details add additional shimmering colours to the blend of crackly resonant drone goodness. Metallic textures, subtle saturation and short percussive hits continue the more Industrial oriented direction of this album in general which is also enhanced by additional noisy fuzzy AM radio static like drones that also feature in this piece. A great mixture of ambiences and Industrial elements. On final track Broca (Effacer la mémorie) builds a layered drone from scraping resonant overtones, brushes like percussive elements, cello droning and stuttering metallic elements. It’s a great combination of acoustic and electronic elements that also features a bit of noise in the second half of the piece and the simple yet captivating melodic progression also adds a nice charming element of compositional depth to the piece. Sounds like pretty classic style Industrial Drone in its execution with again some organ like tones as well as glockenspiel popping up as well. A great richly textured final piece of the album with some lovely scraping drone work and industrial elements in the music again, very intense and a great progression within the composition itself, very nice. All in all, Indite by Haarvöl offers up an excellent set of 6 richly textured and composed pieces of experimental drone soundscapes that have a more melodic and rhythmic focused approach to both the compositions themselves as well as the sound sculpting. The well balanced pacing of the compositions, Industrial influences and inventive captivating details within the music make this an album that is both ambient and cinematic but also Industrial and harsh at times, forming an interesting cross between the meditative and introspective qualities of Drone Ambient music and the mechanic, resonant sonic qualities of machinery and Noise infused Industrial elements that form some great climaxes at times too. This another strongly recommended album by Haarvöl that’ll definitely be a great listen for fans of Drone, Industrial and Dark Ambient music and Electro-Acoustic soundscapes and proves the versatility of the group Haarvöl, showing their tonal qualities this time as well as letting the listener participate in their observations while creating their compositions through the clear structures of the 6 pieces on Indite. A great recommended album to check out now for sure. Limited CD and Digital Album are available from the Moving Furniture Records Bandcamp page here: https://movingfurniturerecords.bandcamp.com/album/indite

[welcomethevisitor]

180717

Two hours of underground music from Cambridge and beyond. The Memory Band - The Bold Grenadier Beach House - Baseball Diamond Laurel Halo - Do U Ever Happen Andrea Belfi - Lead Janek Schaefer - Tale of Two Angels Jaap Vink - Screen Jasmine Guffond - GPS Dreaming Sly & The Family Drone & Dead Neanderthals - Molar Wrench The Thing With Jim O’Rourke - I Can’t, My Mouth is Already Full Arve Henriksen - Demarcation Line Bruce Ditmas - Visioni Sconvolgenti Maxwell Stirling - Hollywood Medieval Pt II Mille & Andrea - Stay Ugly Porter Rocks - Prismatic Error Tom Carter - Prussian Book of the Dead Orphax & Machinefabriek - Weekaatsing Download the show here.

[philmaguire]

Slower Evolution - 22/3 - Postponed

Slower Evolution – 22/3 – Postponed

Hello friends,

Due to the ongoing Coronavirus situation, the show I am due to play with Anne La Berge, Orphax, Fani Konstantinidou, and Luke Deane in Amsterdam on 22 March has been postponed. We’re looking for a new date later in the year.

Phil x