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Track taken from the upcoming album 'The Castle and The Garden' released through Fluid Audio on 31.05.18...

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Exclusive track taken from the upcoming album 'Mirall' released through Sonic Pieces...

Following the intimate but epic Vora from 2013, Rauelsson is back and in grand form with the utterly captivating Mirall, his second full-length album for Sonic Pieces. The new record continues the lush landscapes of earlier times while moving his sound into a feast of organic beats and textural dynamism.

Among the novel elements there's a great sense of joy and upbeat moments scattered throughout the album, mirroring its melancholic base. This combination feels very natural and merges perfectly with the overall majestic sound. Raúl also blends an impressive array of instruments and genres while still reflecting his personal and somewhat secretive presence. The producer lives on the Spanish coast in a rather detached way from any online presence, focusing on family life and the real sense of humanity. This feeling vibrates through the sound of Mirall making for a very emotional venture.

Expect to hear organs, synths, tape-loops, clarinet, strings, piano and percussion, just to name a few key sounds present on this record, all compiled and produced with a passionate taste for acoustic experimentation. This sense of sonic open-mindedness was skillfully amplified by Nils Frahm's studio work, who mixed and mastered Mirall. The album finishes off with a surprising unaccompanied lullaby, interpreted by Heather Woods Broderick. Rauelsson delivers another timeless album we already can't wait to re-visit again and again.

Release Date:

May 25, 2018 (Worldwide)

www.sonicpieces.com

Tokyo’s flau record label cerebrate their 10-year anniversary with the 'Waltz Compilation'. The album was also called "A dance to draw circle" in Japan, with each artist producing an interpretation of the meaning of the waltz.

Artists included span the globe from Europe, South America, Australia and Japan: Danny Norbury, Kanazu Tomoyuki, Ensemble 0, Fábio Caramuru, Otto A. Totland, Rayons, Sophie Hutchings, Frédéric D. Oberland, HAU (Henning Schmiedt + aus), Takeo Toyama and MayMay.

Pre-order:

www.flau.bandcamp.com/album/circles

www.flau.jp/releases/circles/

Recorded in the last months of 2017, 'The Ambushed Semiotic' is an investigation into the reduction and reconfiguration of pop music using tape loops, chance operations and live mixing, creating what Andrew describes as ‘Distant Pop’. 



The factory pressed CD comes housed in a protective anti-static bag and features an art booklet. 

Limited to 200 copies. 

www.tapelooporchestra.com/record/ITCARHCD001

Taken from the upcoming album 'Spheres' released through Sonic Pieces...

Spheres is not only Tatu Rönkkö´s debut album, but it´s also one of the most unusual entries in the Sonic Pieces catalogue so far. As the de-facto reason for Efterklang starting off their new band Liima, Tatu is one of the most diverse and intriguing percussionists working today.

Rönkkö appeared out of nowhere sometime around 2010, performing intense improvised concerts in home-kitchens around Berlin and abroad, using the room and everything in it as his instrument. On Spheres, which includes almost only self-made instruments from everyday objects, he´s taken this idea to the next level. The kitchen and the improvisations around it have been concentrated down to 6 standalone pieces of music, produced in incredible detail.

The sound hovers in the darklands between tribal experimentations, 90's jungle ambient textures and electro-acoustic endeavours. Pieces like Then remind of a more focused Aphex Twin performing with Konono No1 in the Finnish woods. While the title track Spheres even links the sound all the way back to early Photek with it´s reduced cinematic textures and explosive repetitive beats.

All of this says rather little about the actual album as it feels completely its own. Especially the incredible centrepiece Tekoäly featuring Islaja on vocals sounds like nothing else. Rönkkö is a true visionist who manages to balance his mass of sound sources in an expert fashion. Spheres is truly an otherwordly listen.

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Track taken from the upcoming album 'And His Many Seas' by Moss Covered Technology...

Audio: Moss Covered Technology

Mastering: James Plotkin

Design: Daniel Crossley

Label: Fluid Audio

Release date: 30.04.18

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'Protective' is the name of the new collaborative LP by two of Bulgaria’s busiest electronic artists Mytrip (Angel Simitchiev) and Evitceles (Etien Slavchev). Not only does the LP feature two solo tracks by each other, but two tracks that reveal their combined efforts and approaches to aggressive electronic music as their new project Protective.

We’re now presenting “Seclusion”, the second single from the LP and their melodic, even mellow take on ambient, with carefully layered melodies, reverb-drenched voices, obscure samples and persistent hi-hat leftovers.

'Protective' is out May 12 on Bulgaria’s Amek Collective. Pre-orders are up and running here:

www.amekcollective.bandcamp.com

Born in Athens, Greek composer Zinovia Arvanitidi is most widely remembered as one half of the duo Pill-Oh in Vanishing Mirror as well as her debut solo The Gift of Affliction. Zinovia returns with her first solo modern classical undertaking titled Ivory, and like its precursors, further highlights her mastery in crafting piano ambiances of austere beauty and melancholia, led by mesmerizing melodies and evolving cinematic textures.

Fully self-produced, the now France-based composer navigates through her own time-memory universe with Debussy-like impressionistic daubs, but sublimely she draws the listener into a strangely familiar landscape where the past confronts the present - it is perhaps a dimension that exists within all of us. As the chapters unfold, memories are untangled as darkness shifts into light. The minimalistic nature of the early piano pieces are then transformed, lush and ornate with orchestral strings, subtle electronic atmospheres, field recordings and airy whispers. What makes Zinovia’s musical expression exquisite would perhaps be her use of the melodica, an instrument uncommon amongst the modern classical genre, that adds a contrasting depth to her harmonic palette.

An omnipresent sense of duality lingers throughout the album, as with the ivory and ebony colours of piano keys, or the birth and decay of seasons. This is a work where the artist has grasped the essence of the quote by Albert Camus: “There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between”. The aural journey heightens, then subsides with a newfound serenity in closing, engaging the listener to invoke their own introspections on acceptance and healing.

Rooted in film and television (and represented by film composer agency Oticons among the names of Shigeru Umebayashi and Jan A.P Kaczmarek), Zinovia’s well-versed background in cinematic scoring manifests in her dexterity at veiling intricacies within each track that only unveil themselves with each subsequent listen. As a fully expanded realisation of Zinovia’s artistic voice, Ivory will resonate with fans who love Pill-Oh, and appeal to those familiar with Ryuichi Sakamoto and Dustin O’Halloran.

French photographer Aëla Labbé’s enigmatic cover art photography once again unifies with Zinovia’s soundscapes since her work for Vanishing Mirror.

Zinovia Arvanitidi releases Ivory on 29 March 2018 on Piano Day via KITCHEN. LABEL worldwide. Available on 180g white vinyl LP, CD and DL.

Pre-order:

www.kitchen-label.com/store/no-21-ivory-zinovia-arvanitidi/

KITCHEN. LABEL : www.kitchen-label.com

Zinovia Arvanitidi : www.zinoviaarvanitidi-composer.com

Track taken from the upcoming album '45°12′N 72°54′E' by Giuseppe Cordaro (con_cetta) released through Fluid Audio...

Music: Giuseppe Cordaro

Mastering: Paul Corley / Greenhouse Studio / Reykjavìk

Design: Daniel Crossley

Date: 28.02.18

Dedicated: Zeno

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Track taken from the upcoming album 'The Autumn Elegy' released through Wist Records...

‘The Autumn Elegy’ is a botanical compendium to the previous season’s diminished sun by Glowing Swords, a collaborative project between Zachary Corsa of Nonconnah & Lost Trail and Scott Cortez of Loveliescrushing. This full length release of rumbled and hazed dissonance features prepared herbarium specimens, a Campbell-Stokes Recorder card and a weather chart of dropping soil temperature.

www.wistrec.com