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ambient . drone . experimental . field recordings . soundscapes

Francisco Lopez - Amarok

CD - Glacial Movements
Extremely dilated drones, yet not too immaterial, redundant in their progressive slips of many sound layers. Microtones, someone calls them, but there's nothing minimalist in such a soundscape. Just consider the title, "Amarok", the name of a giant wolf in Inuit mythology, a people obviously accustomed to the extremes of an uninhabitable nature, where the sea and the abyss are clearly ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Aug 22/2010
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ambient . audio art . experimental . microsound

Ido Govrin - Moraine

CD - Interval
Creeping ambient sequences, with alluring developments are pervaded by drones and split into many layers of auditory tones. This work consists of six compositions, in an electro-acoustic continuum that flows out of deep mechanisms of sound analysis and syntheses that are rich in new and increasingly ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:57 AM - Jul 1/2010
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ambient . audio art . drone . experimental

Bj Nilsen - The Invisible City

CD - Touch
This is the third solo album by Bj Nilsen, an artist and experimenter who now, with "The Invisible City", returns to Touch, a renowned label that has maintained a strong presense over the last three decades. This record focusses on one the most engaging and sensitive issues in contemporary art: the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:31 AM - Jun 4/2010
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ambient . audio art . drone . experimental . microsound

Tu M' - Monochromes Vol.1

CD -Line
Released under the moniker Tu M' (Rossano Polidoro and Emiliano Romanelli), an interesting and all Italian mixed media project is unraveled in a rather airy and meditative way for the prestigious Line label. Since 2000, Line has been curated and directed by Richard Chartier, a sound/installation artist ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:28 PM - Feb 25/2010
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abstract . ambient . experimental . noise . soundscapes

An Antology Of Chinese Experimental Music

4CD - Subrosa
Editor Li Ching Sung and Guy Marc Hinant have come together to produce this anthology of Chinese experimental music, which includes 48 different artists whose works are divided across four engaging CDs. Moving beyond the names that are already internationally known (the same Li Ching-sung - aka ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:53 AM - Dec 31/2009
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ambient . audio art . noise

AAVV - Noise Vs Subversive Computing

USB flash drive - Computationally Infeasible Records
Noise Vs Subversive Computing' is a collaborative project that concerns sound suggestions relating to the realm of more experimental ambient-noise, and is both sophisticated and imaginative. There are not only electronic musicians joining this effort but also radical activists, computer hackers and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:34 AM - Dec 14/2009
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The Smiling Buddhas - LO

CD - Base
This work comes in an eco-friendly package, with a hardcover that pulls out the cd as if it was origami (Swedish Jakebox's patent) and has a stencilled "window" as a cover that contains a Tibetan inspired picture. The Smiling Buddhas present their first production on CD; 'Lo', a vibrant, hypnotic, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:00 AM - Aug 3/2009
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ambient . audio art . experimental . field recordings

Shinkei / Luigi Turra - YU

CD - Non Visual Objects
Textures dilated, millimetrically suspended in space such that only distracted listening could make appear neutral, together with field recordings and ambient tonal digressions. These are the sound confluences developed by Luigi Turra and Shinkei, both musicians accustomed to minimal audio ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:53 PM - Jul 27/2009
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ambient . electronica . impro

Israel M - Nareah

CD - Aagoo
Mexican Israel Martinez composes rarefied experimental electronic music, and he's careful in unravelling consistent and very sensitive sequences inspired by the minimalist canon. These sequences are quite iterated and melodic, and their development seems to be independent from both analog and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 06:49 PM - Jun 18/2009
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acoustic/digital . ambient . electronica . experimental

Ethan Rose - Oaks

CD - Baskaru
To create these minimal sound ellipses Ethan Rose uses an old Wurlitzer Theatre Organ. The sounds are often velvety, ambient and symphonic, and are manipulated using computers and other electronic devices. They are also intertwined with more traditional acoustic instruments such as flute, clarinet, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:24 PM - Mar 27/2009
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abstract . ambient . drone . electronica . soundscapes

Dj Olive - Triage

CD - Room 40
A long time has passed since some non-mainstream scenes started talking about 'illbient', a word coined - in fact - by DJ Olive that better defined and promoted, during the early 90s, the new production trends in ambient music. Very rarefied sound passages, lying somewhere between hip hop ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:00 AM - Feb 1/2009
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acoustic/digital . ambient . experimental . field recordings

Miya Masaoka / Joan Jeanrenaud - For Birds, Planes And Cello

CD - Solitary B
Joan Jeanrenaud, the irreproachable cellist of the Kronos Quartet (who can boast of collaborations with Astor Piazzolla, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, but also with David Byrne and Joan Armatrading) gives instrumental support to this 54-minutes-long continuum of field recordings and ambient textures; a ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:44 PM - Jan 10/2009
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acoustic/digital . ambient . experimental . laptop

Fennesz - Black Sea

CD - Touch
Melodic emphasis and discontinuous threads, fragments, hybridizations and crossed patterns: a thick and changing sea of sounds submerges the listener with ambient textures and thousands of streams, confluences and stagnations. Fennesz, walking down a similar path to the one he took with his previous ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:34 AM - Jan 6/2009
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abstract . acoustic/digital . ambient . experimental . glitch'n'cuts

He Can Jog - Middlemarch

CD - Audiobulb
With the anagrammatized moniker 'He Can Jog', sound artist Erik Schoster pays tribute to John Cage, master and seminal experimenter. Cage remains an essential point of reference, especially for those who still wonder about the complex compositional structures in contemporary music. It's not by chance, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:47 PM - Dec 2/2008
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acoustic/digital . ambient . drone . experimental . soundscape

Maju - Maju-5

CD - Extreme
In Japanese, "Maju" (pronounced 'may-you') has approximately the same meaning as the English word "cocoon". So in this album, the music-induced relaxation is completely different to that often obtained in neo-lounge intimate trends, usually derived from frivolous electronic entertainment and consumed in ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:46 PM - Nov 28/2008
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ambient . audio art . experimental . field recordings . microsound

Jos Smolders - Gaussian Transient (Megaphone)

CD - Nonvisualobjects
Coherent auditory elements, proliferation of individual sound ideas, field recordings, absences and frequencies, non-linearity, suspension and saturation, drones, ambience and conceptualism. These are just a few of the elements occurring in 'Gaussian Transient', a multifaceted work, that is not really very ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 04:25 PM - Nov 27/2008
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ambient . drone . experimental . glitch'n'cuts . microsound

Michael Santos - The Happy Error

CD - Baskaru
Extremely delicate harmonic passages, "clicky", dense and slightly "gummy" acoustics, interwoven with expanded patterns, with an almost oneiric quality in the juxtaposition of crackle and melody, finally combining to give a melancholic and fluctuating character. Textures are sensibly organized and diluted ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:31 AM - Nov 15/2008
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Various Artists - Favourite Places

CD - Audiobulb
Non-imaginary places, strictly related to the authors' dreams and intimate thoughts. They are "favourite places" because "there are places in the world where we come back later", "places that retain something precious feeding us". Ten sound artists were involved, starting with Taylor Deupree and his "space" ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 06:28 PM - Jun 6/2008
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ambient . deep . electronica . soundscapes

Pridon - Apnea Eina

CD - Low Impedance
Pridon a.k.a. Petros Voudouris structures a quiet and enjoyable electronica, influenced by many different styles including techno, electro, IDM, dub and even an ounce of seventies psychedelia. This tissues are then carefully reassembled mixing different "spices", but nevertheless the accessible moments are not ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:59 PM - Apr 5/2008
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acoustic/digital . ambient . audio art . experimental . glitch'n'cuts

Autistici - Volume Objects

CD - 12 K
Rarefied and abstract digital soundscapes, acoustic iterations ('Broken Guitar', 'Discarded Violin') and bleeps come to us from David Newman, aka Autistici, for the 12K label directed by Taylor Deupree. Extremely sensitive constructions full of melody, crackle attitude and very contemporary styles, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:00 AM - Mar 23/2008
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ambient . drone . experimental . soundtracks

Klaus Schulze - Body Love Vol. 2

CD - Revisited Records
Recorded by Klaus Schulze (accompanied by the percussionist Harald Grosskopf) from the end of 1976 and the following September, Body Love Vol. 2 was born originally as a whimsical reprise of a successful previous project, designed to be used as the soundtrack of a porn flick by the director Lasse Braun. The ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:32 AM - Mar 19/2008
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Carter Tutti - Feral Vapours Of The Silver Ether

CD - Conspiracy International
This is the second album after changing the old moniker (Chris & Cosey) for this duo who, together with Genesis P-Orridge and Peter Christopherson, formed the famous Throbbing Gristle combo. The adjective 'feral' in the title notwithstanding, the dilated atmospheres in the eleven tracks of this project are never ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:36 PM - Mar 17/2008
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acoustic/digital . ambient . experimental . free form . soundtracks

Nemeth - Film

Thrill Jockey
This is the first solo album for Stefan Németh, a member of Radian and Lokai, co-founder of Mosz Records, who here releases for Thrill Jockey a project full of very rarefied and spacey atmospheres. Soundscapes created for artistic installations, short films and experimental videos, not designed to be ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 08:00 AM - Mar 11/2008
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ambient . experimental . field recordings . minimal

Michael Fahres - TheTubes

CD - Cold Blue Music
Highly imaginative atmospheres, experimental attitudes untangled in sensitive sequences, iterations and ellipses, marked from the first track, 'Sevan' by the Armenian Parik Nazarian vocal interventions, well set in chorus assonanting to the classic tenor singing. Here we find sonic scans more and more ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:25 PM - Feb 6/2008
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ambient . electronica . experimental . post rock

Arms And Sleepers - Black Paris 86

CD - Expect Candy
Quiet and elegant intertwining of cinematic ambient weaves, rhythms, experiences unstably balanced in the beats heavily cut. It's a snug electronica, even with melodic treatments, subdivided by Max Lewis and Mirza Ramic in very elegant sequences, gentle, in the tradition of a groove structure contamination that ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:08 PM - Feb 4/2008
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Gogooo - Long, lontain

CD - Baskaru
Gabriel 'Gogooo' Hernandez sounds are ethereal and crystal clear, weighted in delicate weaves. This Parisian experimenter is comfortable both with traditional instruments (melodic guitar, piano, barrel organ) and laptop or field recording, including intangible audio manipulations (a carillon, a bell, a ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:22 PM - Jan 31/2008
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Minoru Sato + Asuna - Texture In Glass Tubes And Reed Organ

CD - Spekk
Simple as simple but brilliant ideas can be, this record can tune your mind accordingly with simplicity and absolutely no need to attract your attention first. Two tracks recorded in studio, are composed resonating a reed organ notes on self constructed glass tubes with a specific division of time and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:32 PM - Jan 23/2008
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ambient . electronica

Sun Electric - Lost & Found (1998-2000)

CD - Shitkatapult
Helped by Thomas Fehlmann, as the executive producer, the duo made by Max Loderbauer and Tom Thiel helped define the ambient-techno genre in the past decade. Halfway between experimentalism and neo electro-pop influences, when many different paths seemed possible, the separation between ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:13 AM - Dec 28/2007
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The Beautiful Schizophonic - Musicamorosa

CD - Cronica
Very delicate drones, fluctuating atmospheres, rarefied ambient scores and glitches, fragments of a literary universe (Proust's, in his 'Récherche', several times cited as the main source of inspiration by Jorge Mantas, aka The Beautiful Schizophonic), infused in romantic empathy, 'heart throbs' and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:46 PM - Oct 16/2007
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Gene Bowen - Bourgeois Magnetic

CD - Amorfon
This 'Bourgeois Magnetic' is really a wonderful album, full of sensitive, crystal-clear, suspended and ethereal piano acrobatics. It was recorded in 1981 and published by Cantil Records, a label that was managed by Eugene Bowen himself together with Harold Budd. The influences, of course, are those ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:00 AM - Oct 9/2007
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acoustic/digital . ambient . free form . impro

Luca Formentini - Tacet

CD - Extreme
Improvisational atmospheric sequences, abstract and sensual, meticulously articulated by Luca Formentini, an experimenter and 'erudite' guitarist from Brescia, releasing for the Australian label Extreme. With guests such as Markus Stockhausen, Steve Lawson, Steve Jansen (ex Japan), Deborah ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:00 AM - Oct 8/2007
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The Missing Ensemble - Zeropolis

CD - Low Impedance
Silent architectures, barren urban landscapes, empty and corrupted spaces, a general dystopic vision of the future of our cities seems to pervade the inspired 'Zeropolis' project, made by The Missing Ensemble (Daniel De Los Santos, John Sellekaers and Mathias Delplanque). Skilled in manipulating drones and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:14 AM - Oct 4/2007
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ambient . drone . electronica . experimental . glitch'n'cuts

Nad Spiro - Tinta Invisibile

CD - Geometrik
With the Nad Spiro moniker, Rosa Arruti experiments with electronic concatenations, drones and hypnotic melodies, full of click'n'glitch elements. Subdued ambient atmospheres in the space airs and the sound-design reminiscent of her recent collaboration with the director David Lynch. Dilated in their ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:27 AM - Oct 2/2007
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ambient . free form . impro

Annea Lockwood - Thousand Year Dreaming / Floating World

CD - Pogus
Aboriginal didgeridoos, 'conch shells' (shells belonging to Hindu musical tradition, often played during religious ceremonies), 'waterphones' (water instruments, used in ambient music and derived from Tibetan musical instruments), and (but not only) 'pod rattles' (percussion instruments from Zimbabwe). ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:03 PM - Sep 27/2007
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abstract . ambient . electronica . minimal . techno

Staatsballet Berlin presents: Shut Up And Dance! Updated

CD - Ostgut Ton/Kompakt
No, they aren't 'Shut Up And Dance', the famous combo from London: they're German. The Berghain Club commissioned to five producers five musical pieces for five choreographies for five different dancers of the Berlin Staasballet. Together with the label Ostgut Ton, distributed by Kompakt, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:00 AM - Sep 3/2007
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