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Fluid Audio episodes

  • Bill Seaman - An Epiphany Of Epiphanies
    Taken from the upcoming album 'The Epiphanies' by Bill Seaman...
    The Epiphanies...
    Composing memory
    The backs of my hands
    Headlights slowly turning, illuminating the branches
    Skin (slow)
    The folds of eros
    Slow motion in darkness
    Quietly touching
    Slow moving fog
    A quiescence of obsolescence
    Dark wet trees and angled lines of light
    The collapse of time
    Hidden memories and breathing
    Luminous silent stasis
    An epiphany of epiphanies
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    Seaman – Piano, non-location recordings, ebow guitar, DX7IIE, mellotron, samples, sample arrangements and Ableton Live abstractions. Production.
    Owen Sidney Richardson — Contrabass and Electric Bass guitar library
    Craig Tattersall — Synth Bass library
    Robert Ellis Geiger — Trumpet, Cornet, Flugelhorn library
    Jonas Braasch — Horn library
    Ciompy Quartet – Violin library
    Daniel Howe – Distant Guitar on 14
    Design by Daniel Crossley
    Photography by Nieves Mingueza
    Mastered by James Plotkin
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    I often work by making libraries of particular kinds of sounds or asking people to contribute a library. With the contributed library I often give the players simple verbal instructions, or sing notes I am interested in including. With the piano, I sit down and do a series of improvisations. I then go though these and edit my favorite parts, building a series of fragment libraries, some with little or no abstraction, some greatly abstracted with Ableton Live. I compose in a very sculptural manner with Ableton, dragging things in from the libraries and trying things out often exploring chance related juxtapositions. I often shift the time and transpose individual samples to make them work with the other material. I build up structures, cut/copy/paste complex layered sections, erase sections that are not working, loop things, and slowly construct a track going though many iterations. I often later cut away at the built up tracks, and edit the piece down, further articulating a structure. I often finish with having between 20 and 50 tracks. In the final set of passes I fully articulate the psychoacoustic space, working with panning, eq, distortion, delay, abstraction, and reverb. I further edit and structure the parts that begin to “work”. Along with the piano I make Libraries of DX7IIE sounds, electronic beats, mellotron, electronic micro-rhythms, non-location recordings from noises found on the internet, orchestral abstractions, midi instrument libraries— violin, cello, woodwinds, and I also employ highly abstracted piano. Additionally I build libraries of ‘abstract’ guitars, playing alternate instruments through synthetic and or real amps. This overall method allows me to work very quickly and intuitively. In this case, the music is more sparse than many of my other recordings.
    The Epiphanies started with some long titles like An Epiphany Related to the Back of the Hand. I later came to the notion of just titling the album The Epiphanies, and making the titles shorter. When I searched the title I was excited to see that James Joyce had done a series of short poems with the same overarching name. - Seaman 2017
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    - Special Thanks – Craig Tattersall, John Supko, Daniel Crossley and Fluid Audio
    - This album is dedicated to the memories of Rick Tear, Ranulph and Aartje Glanville, Otto Piene and David Bowie.
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    www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com
    www.billseaman.com
    www.nievesmingueza.com
    8 min
  • Steven Kemner - Displacement
    Track taken from the upcoming album 'Gradation Movements' on Fluid Audio...
    Music: Steven Kemner
    Mastering: Taylor Deupree
    Design: Daniel Crossley
    Mailing List:
    www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com/mailing-list
    9 min
  • Norihito Suda - Light Snowfall
    Track taken from the upcoming 2 x CD release on Fluid Audio...
    Music: Norihito Suda
    Mastering: James Plotkin
    Label: Fluid Audio
    Mailing List:
    www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com/mailing-list
    11 min
  • Irving Park - Foundations
    Track taken from the upcoming album '3 5 1' forthcoming on Fluid Audio...
    Music: Irving Park
    Mastering: James Plotkin
    Record Label: Fluid Audio
    www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com/mailing-list
    9 min
  • TRS Selection
    Many thanks to Colin over at Time Released Sound for putting together a selection of unreleased TRS tracks in celebration of the new Stashed Goods website launch. Check out the huge TRS and TSM sale:
    www.bit.ly/2pmSofC
    and here:
    www.bit.ly/2pqHiUh
    Track list:
    1 Swoop And Cross - Stories Of Disintegration (Sykkel)
    2 Swoop And Cross - Stories Of Disintegration (St. No)
    3 Tinycastles - Lull (Turrets)
    4 Francesco Maria Narcisi + Giacomo Fidanza - The Accordion Sessions (A1 - In limine)
    5 Francesco Maria Narcisi + Giacomo Fidanza - The Accordion Sessions (D1 - Voce celeste I)
    6 Morgen Wurde - Assassinous Acts (Forgiveness)
    7 Leo Takami - To A Child I
    www.timereleasedsound.com
    58 min
  • Behind Closed Doors
    Shimmering Moods boss Paul Slot has put together a wonderful selection of new and unreleased tracks from the label in celebration of the new Stashed Goods web site. You will find lots of new music along with an EXCLUSIVE SALE here:
    http://bit.ly/2pZ4VTq
    Track list:
    1. Gipsi - Belgas
    2. Autumna - Heavy Glow (special H version)
    3. Bålsam - You'll Be Safe Here
    4. James Osland - Where It All Began (sat in a church)
    5. Macheteoxidado - Canyon Sequence 3
    6. Luca Sigurta - Track 3 from West of Eden
    7. Jurko Haltuu - Oh Lights Go Down
    8. Maiya Hershey - Outer Rim
    9. Eensdenkend - Garden Of Yellow Birds
    10. Andrew Tasselmyer - Seattle
    11. Mess Montage - The Death Of Optimus Prime
    12. Thet Liturgiske Owäsendet - North County
    13. Murkok - Akbara
    14. Nao Otsuka - Slide On iron 2
    15. DR - Ukulele + Playground
    Mixed & Selected by Shimmering Moods
    2017
    www.stashedgoods.co.uk
    www.shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com
    1 hr 5 min
  • Hotel Neon - 7:42 AM
    Track taken from the new Hotel Neon album 'Context' forthcoming on Fluid Audio...
    Mailing list:
    www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com/mailing-list
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    Album Credits:
    Music written, recorded and produced by Hotel Neon
    www.hotelneonmusic.com
    Additional textures and arrangement on "4:10 AM" by Takahiro Yorifuji
    www.hakobunemusic.jp
    Vocals on "6:59 AM" and "8:30 AM" by Lacey Tasselmyer.
    Mixing and additional production by Matthew Kidd
    www.slowmeadow.com
    Mastering by Taylor Deupree
    www.12kmastering.com
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    Tracklist:
    1. 12:41 AM
    2. 1:57 AM
    3. 3:04 AM
    4. 4:10 AM (ft. Hakobune)
    5. 5:20 AM
    6. 6:37 AM
    7. 6:59 AM
    8. 7:42 AM
    9. 8:30 AM
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    Release Date: Feb / 2017
    9 min
  • TLO - Instrumental Transcommunications
    Taken from the recent album: Instrumental Transcommunications
    Full review:
    www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2017/02/tape-loop-orchestra-instrumental-transcommunications/
    Instrumental Transcommunications was originally commissioned by Shimmering Moods for their Red Light Radio Show. This edition also includes a track recorded during The Invisibles sessions.
    A collection of fragments and reference points from my audio notebooks. Voices from the other side, soundtrack re-edits, the wisdom of Sun Ra, faulty toned radio transmissions, cult leader shout outs, TLO experiments and a few other audio morsels. An esoteric guide to the inspirations that have helped form the foundation to current and future TLO works.
    There are other dimensions beyond the material world and the people there are holding out their hands to us.
    www.ourotherideas.bigcartel.com
    14 min

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