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Yann Novak ~ Surroundings
Surroundings first emerged as a site-specific sound performance commissioned for the Hamon Observation Tower at the de Young fine arts museum in San Francisco. Yann Novak used the museum’s striking architecture to shape a spacious world of glistening, natural sound, and Surroundings explores its clean atmosphere.
Yann Novak ~ Surroundings
Surroundings first emerged as a site-specific sound performance commissioned for the Hamon Observation Tower at the de Young fine arts museum in San Francisco. Yann Novak used the museum’s striking architecture to shape a spacious world of glistening, natural sound, and Surroundings explores its clean atmosphere.
Olan Mill ~ Orient
A dream-touched record, Orient‘s music continues to linger long after the Eastern-flavored tones have faded. An unexpected confusion of static opens the record, but a flowing drone soon straightens everything out, ebbing and flowing with its mystical practices and ancient atmospheres. Orient both trembles
Olan Mill ~ Orient
A dream-touched record, Orient‘s music continues to linger long after the Eastern-flavored tones have faded. An unexpected confusion of static opens the record, but a flowing drone soon straightens everything out, ebbing and flowing with its mystical practices and ancient atmospheres. Orient both trembles
Steve Gibbs ~ Adrift
Adrift is three years old, but on April 28 a remastered and expanded edition will be available via Injazero Records, both digitally and on 180g vinyl. In preparation for the release, we’ve remastered our original review. The opening notes of “Passion” let us all
Steve Gibbs ~ Adrift
Adrift is three years old, but on April 28 a remastered and expanded edition will be available via Injazero Records, both digitally and on 180g vinyl. In preparation for the release, we’ve remastered our original review. The opening notes of “Passion” let us all
Sound Meccano / Jura Laiva ~ Salty Wind And Inner Fire
Salty Wind And Inner Fire navigates through and vividly explores its new surroundings. Beginning with the kindling of a young fire, the ambient music gracing this collaboration between sound designer and field recordist Sound Meccano and ambient guitarist Jura Laiva is an animated story
Sound Meccano / Jura Laiva ~ Salty Wind And Inner Fire
Salty Wind And Inner Fire navigates through and vividly explores its new surroundings. Beginning with the kindling of a young fire, the ambient music gracing this collaboration between sound designer and field recordist Sound Meccano and ambient guitarist Jura Laiva is an animated story
Stephan Mathieu ~ RADIANCE X: HER DARK GAZE DROWNED IN LIGHT
Her Dark Gaze Drowned In Light is a re-narration of Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1932 film, Vampyr. While Stephan Mathieu‘s music isn’t really a score to the film, it is etched in the film’s gloomy, ill-defined imaginings, and the disorienting drones play
Stephan Mathieu ~ RADIANCE X: HER DARK GAZE DROWNED IN LIGHT
Her Dark Gaze Drowned In Light is a re-narration of Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1932 film, Vampyr. While Stephan Mathieu‘s music isn’t really a score to the film, it is etched in the film’s gloomy, ill-defined imaginings, and the disorienting drones play
Seldom Family ~ Audrey & Laura
The affectionately-titled Audrey & Laura arose out of a Twin Peaks marathon. In the 1990 show, Laura Palmer was the ghostly star, a beaming Homecoming Queen, her dazzling eyes gazing out at you. Looking back at the series, Audrey &
Seldom Family ~ Audrey & Laura
The affectionately-titled Audrey & Laura arose out of a Twin Peaks marathon. In the 1990 show, Laura Palmer was the ghostly star, a beaming Homecoming Queen, her dazzling eyes gazing out at you. Looking back at the series, Audrey &
Sophie Hutchings ~ Yonder
Australian pianist Sophie Hutchings ascends on the wings of eagles, because she rises higher and higher with every release. On Yonder, serenity and freedom are forever blooming. The Sydney-based pianist has a captivating style, a melodicism without limits, ebbing and flowing from the stream
Sophie Hutchings ~ Yonder
Australian pianist Sophie Hutchings ascends on the wings of eagles, because she rises higher and higher with every release. On Yonder, serenity and freedom are forever blooming. The Sydney-based pianist has a captivating style, a melodicism without limits, ebbing and flowing from the stream
Paskine ~ The Shapes of Collapses
Paskine has recorded a ferocious, unstoppable event. Things are falling apart – collapsing – on a massive scale, the universe itself vomiting out intergalactic dust. Dead stars litter a pale sky emitting only a cold, crushed radiance. This isn’t just the
Paskine ~ The Shapes of Collapses
Paskine has recorded a ferocious, unstoppable event. Things are falling apart – collapsing – on a massive scale, the universe itself vomiting out intergalactic dust. Dead stars litter a pale sky emitting only a cold, crushed radiance. This isn’t just the
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