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Anne Lovett’s stunning new release for 1631 is a departure from her beautiful previous solo piano album Beyond (and below). Without loosing any of the startling beauty of the preceding album, in The Eleventh Hour, Anne Lovett revels in a new sonic world. Joined by the London Contemporary Orchestra , UK’s most innovative and respected ensemble routinely heard alongside such luminaries as Radiohead or Johnny Greenwood, and later in duo with phenomenal cellist and composer Oliver Coates, Anne Lovett also introduces subtle electronics interwoven carefully alongside layered melodic piano lines.

The main narrative for the album was conceived shortly after a new addition was brought in to Anne’s studio, a plantation chair which sat opposite her Grotrian-Steinweg grand piano. It led to intense hours of rethinking around the instrument itself and more generally about the seismic shifts that were taking place in society. The album is an attempt to reconcile the flaws of time.

Best described by the Japanese concept of Kintsugi or “broken beauty”, The Eleventh Hour is a heartbreakingly beautiful contribution to the modern “indie” classical genre. The thirteen tracks all meticulously crafted and ringing out with a dark luminosity, like an elegy to our troubled times.

It will appeal to fans of Dustin O’Halloran, Nils Frahm, Max Richter, Philipp Glass, Jóhann Jóhannson who will find many reasons to love this album .

www.1631recordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-eleventh-hour

Mordançage is a new project from Tobias Hellkvist and Andrew Tasselmyer...

The new album is a reference to the photography technique that creates a degraded appearance in photo prints by physically altering film, a close metaphor for the way the album was created; manipulation of source audio and sound design creating a very different result.

Audio: Tobias Hellkvist / Andrew Tasselmyer

Mastering: Ian Hawgood

Artwork: Brittany Nelson

Photography: Craig Tattersall

Design: Daniel Crossley

Release date:

30.09.18.

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Surrogate Sibling is the solo studio project of composer/multi-instrumentalist Dieter Dolezel.

Being an already established, multiple award-winning classically trained composer, originally active in the field of contemporary classical music, his interests gradually developed over time towards a more inclusive approach to music making, one that would incorporate the multitude of musical influences that accompanied him since his earliest days of being a musician. As a consequence, the vision arose to found a music project, that would be an open playing field of free musical expression between the poles of classical and popular music, yet devoid of any mainstream trends and hence, Surrogate Sibling was born.

From early on, a rather unique feature of the project was the notion of featuring various collaborating musicians with vastly different musical backgrounds, that would also possibly change with each new album.

The music is deliberately neither strictly classical nor pop, oscillating freely between intricately crafted, chamber-music-like string and piano arrangements and contemporary electronic beats and soundscapes in varying degrees, mixing it up with the occasional electric guitar part, performed by Dolezel himself, incorporating a wide range of influences spanning from Reichian minimalism to Autechre’s abstract electronica and even a little dose of Ravel.

The self-titled debut album was released to critical acclaim on Autentico Music in late 2014, and the sophomore album "Hive" will be released by 1631 Recordings on October 5.

www.1631recordings.bandcamp.com/album/hive

Exclusive track taken from Ben Chatwin’s stunning new offering 'Drone Signals', released through Village Green Records on CD and vinyl format…

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Feeding strings through an array of modular synthesisers and utilising modern sampling andgranular synthesis, Ben Chatwin remoulds his recent ‘Staccato Signals’ album into newmicroscopic electronic textures. ‘Drone Signals’, a companion piece to the original album, is setfor release via Village Green Recordings on 14th September.

Unlike ‘Staccato Signals’ where Ben started with a blank slate and built the music up layer bylayer, finishing with the string quartet, this time the process began with everything on hand. Thetask became dismantling the tracks – stripping them apart to see what was left, letting certainsounds or instruments become the focus, and then rebuilding the arrangements around them.This allowed elements to breathe, yet also to become more static. The less chaotic and moreambient nature of these pieces suggested a related album of versions, a conceptual sibling –‘Drone Signals’.

Using the final element of the previous album, recording the strings, as a starting point to feedinto his machines, Ben developed a central conceptual tool of his previous album – giving upcontrol – even further. The result is a fractured and dissembled interpretation of ‘Staccato Signals’as performed by modular synthesisers.

In this way, ‘Drone Signals’ might best be understood as the aftermath of ‘Staccato Signals’,retaining much that made the latter such a rewarding album – it's mournful beauty, the tense,ambiguous relationship between electronic and acoustic elements, and a delicate if not volatilebalance between elegance and intensity. This time, however, the palette is broader, more static –concerned more with monolithic structures than with sharp edges.

Accordingly, the hectic energy of ‘Hound Point’ and ‘Knots’ from the former melt and decay intothe slow, gradual burns of ‘Nordsjœn’ and ‘Unravel’, while the strings on ‘Black Castle’, prominentand stirring on ‘Staccato’, reappear only in strangled, muted gasps on album-opener ‘BurningWitches’ - occasionally flickering through the smouldering distortion. Where ‘Staccato’ is urgent,dynamic and chaotic, ‘Drone’ is expansive, dispersing its harmonic identity over much widerspaces, requiring more of a vertical listening experience than its predecessor.

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Track taken from the upcoming album 'The Licence To Interpret Dreams' by Antonymes. ..

The album will be a 2 x CD of the original album, re-mastered by James Plotkin along with a remix CD from the following artists:

Christoph Berg, Humble Bee, Tape Loop Orchestra, Olan Mill, Clem Leek, Antonymes, Ben Chatwin, Aaron Martin, P Jørgensen, Marconi Union, Bill Seaman, Hummingbird and Ian Hawgood.

Physical format will include: A deluxe double edition with a 6 panel blind debosssed outer on heavyweight GF Smith stock, 24 page perfect bound photographic book along with vintage ordnance survey maps of the Lake District.

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Track taken from the upcoming album 'The Licence To Interpret Dreams' by Antonymes. ..

The album will be a 2 x CD of the original album, re-mastered by James Plotkin along with a remix CD from the following artists:

Christoph Berg, Humble Bee, Tape Loop Orchestra, Olan Mill, Clem Leek, Antonymes, Ben Chatwin, Aaron Martin, P Jørgensen, Marconi Union, Bill Seaman, Hummingbird and Ian Hawgood.

Physical format will include: A deluxe double edition with a 6 panel blind debosssed outer on heavyweight GF Smith stock, 24 page perfect bound photographic book along with vintage ordnance survey maps of the Lake District.

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Track taken from the upcoming film-score album 'Wiwanana' by Alessio Ballerini...

Release date: 31.07.18

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Exclusive track taken from Olan Mill's latest offering “Curves”, released on Shimmering Moods Records as a limited edition CD / tape...

This record was completed on either side of a trip to Myanmar at the end of 2016 - it captures a time of total change as I prepared to become a father and relocate to Germany.

Built upon field recordings from my home and various work environments I found myself reflecting on places I had spent hours of my life living, working and growing. Layers of processed guitar, synthesisers and voice were added to create a time-capsule of locations and experiences. - Alex Smalley

All tracks by Alex Smalley

Mastered by Roel Weerdenburg

Shimmering Moods Records 2018

Special thanks to Linus Schrab for helping out with the layout design of the cassette!

Available here:

www.shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/curves

Exclusive track taken from the forthcoming album "You Don't Belong" which releases 13.07.2018 on Shimmering Moods Records. Available on a baby blue limited cassette and limited CD in handmade packages.

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"This album was made between August 2015 and March 2017, which was in some way a transition period for me. Some life stages ended, some relationships failed, some changes happened. All the tracks on the album are dedicated to several places from those times, that meant or still mean something very special to me. A house by the lake, an apartment on the first floor, a park in the middle of the city – the places that stuck with me for a long time and don’t let go.

It’s a tribute to those times, but also some kind of closure. The album was mostly a reminder to myself that when you feel attached to something in one way or another, you need to keep going, to move forward, that you really don’t belong anywhere. It was a reminder that it’s never too late to move on."

All tracks by Kirill Mazhai

Mastered by Early Reflections

Artwork by Antonina Sotnikova

Shimmering Moods Records 2018

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Track taken from the upcoming album 'You Were Always An Island'...

Music: Alaskan Tapes

Mastering: Taylor Deupree

Design: Daniel Crossley

Release date: 30.06.18

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