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0 Five new releases of interest
Five new releases for your aural pleasure. Different styles, different artists, different labels. Imaginative, well crafted, well executed music. Images and project names will link to the music.
Skiks (Bruce Hamilton) – compulse
“compulse” is a collection of (mostly) pulse-driven microtonal/xenharmonic tracks produced in 2010-2011. Tunings are often mixed, producing a kind of heterophonous pitch space; other times one tuning or scale is explored with focus. The track list is designed for album style listening.
Emerald Adrift (David Herpich) – Within the Purple Forbidden
This set was recorded live at the Kansas City Electro-Music Festival on Friday, July 23, 2010 and is full of surprises. Most notable about this release is Emerald Adrift’s unique ability to transition effortlessly from one genre to another so smoothly. This longform live set glides from spacious piano ambience with jazz and classical influences, to celestial night-sky space music, to experimental terrain that recalls Morton Subotnick and some of the early sounds of electronic music. This is an album to get lost in. A powerful sonic experience that never overly indulges in sounds, leaving just enough space for a wonderfully introspective journey.
Artist Website: Emerald Adrift
Artificial is a collection of 16 cyberpunk inspired works between music and noise. Roaming electronic styles from ambient to experimental to psychedelic krautrock . Mystical and yet full of life organic musical movement by Jack Hertz. This release as Jack wrote : is focused on using the studio to explore surreal sonic spaces that feel natural and artificial at the same time .
jmtta (Jason Breitigan) – about an ocean
a collection of sounds and textures that willingly surrender themselves to the tiny corners of your speakers, and reside there as whispers and dust.
— Delicate, thoughtful, “lower-case” soundscapes.
Shane Morris – Complex Silence
Shane presents four minimal pieces that can only be described as lush and gorgeous. Bell-like sounds and electric piano predominate, but to say that is at once a contradiction. Listen deeply and then listen even more deeply. You’ll hear reversed drones, floating tones, washes of faraway sounds, hints of melodies, echoes and reverbs adding space and immensity to an overall ambience and drifting quality, yet each track is intense and focused.
Four tracks of pure, ambient complexity. An October treat for your ears and for your mind.
0 Music from last Thursday – Episode 45
MflT Episode #45, 6-30-11
MflT Episode #45 on electro-music.com radio
Bleepy, blurpy, glitchy nerd-hop
Live improvisations by Faux Pas Quartet.
Recorded material by JFox, Bubzy, MusicMan11712 and featuring the Jmtta release “Norwaldo”
Music from last Thursday electro-music.com radio
Tuesday 20:00-22:00 GMT and Friday 01:00-03:00 GMT
Two hours of bleepy, blurpy, glitchy electro-acoustic and electronic improvisations with faux pas quartet and friends on electro-music.com radio.
Tune in and join us in the chat room.
Episode #45, 6-30-11 MflT playlist
01. Faux Pas Quartet – My own eyes – 16:31
02. Bubzy – The New Adventures of Bob – 08:11
03. JFox – Alchemy – 09:44
04. Faux Pas Quartet – In your mind – 15:26
05. MusicMan11712 – Hypnotek – 15:24
06. Faux Pas Quartet – It’s scary what they do – 15:02
Jmtta, “Norwaldo”:
07. Norwaldo – 05:30
08. Sunset at the Rails – 02:20
09. Biological Sound System – 04:52
10. Thicket – 04:41
11. Birch gives up her Treasure – 03:06
12. Maple Cliff Autumn – 02:48
13. Of Moles and Miners – 01:42
14. Bottle No[i}se Rock – 01:49
15. Water and Sonar – 00:40
16. The Factory Floor – 02:40
17. The Sickness of Nostalgia – 01:04
0 Jmtta release – “Norwaldo”
Free download at MCSD NetLabel
— Eleven delicate, thoughtful, “lower-case” soundscapes from Jmtta
— Norwaldo is a collection of sounds and textures that willingly surrender themselves to the tiny corners of your speakers, and reside there as whispers and dust.
0 MCSD NetLabel Release – Summer Solstice Improvisation
Summer Solstice Improvisation – dRachEmUsiK and urbster1.
Performed Live, by dRachEmUsiK and urbster1, June 18th 2011 at the radio.electro-music.com Summer Solstice event
“Morphing, mutating abstractions fighting to overthrow concrete reality — pop music for the apocalypse.”
“Spatial, edgy dark ambient that moves into atonal glitch-groove then morphing into chaotic digital industrial and gradually disintegrating into a holographic sunset.”
For the last few years the wonderful folks at electro-music.com have hosted live streaming events during winter/summer solstice and spring/fall equinox. Last weekend Aaron Urbanski and I participated in the 2011 Summer Solstice streaming concert along with 30+ other musicians from around the planet. “Summer Solstice Improvisation” is the result of our performance and the first in a series of live improvisations MCSD NetLabel will be releasing over the next twelve months.
“Summer Solstice Improvisation” is available as a “you name the price” download (yes that includes free). A limited number of physical CD’s are also available for $5 plus S&H. Message me and I’ll send you a copy. The CD’s will also be available at dRachEmUsik, Faux Pas Quartet and IEMG performances.
Cheers
0 dRachEmUsiK site updated
Made some substantial changes on the dRachEmUsiK site in preparation for the upcoming new releases “speakeasy” and “dRachEmUsiK live 2010”.
Charles Shriner 