Ken Zo gives on a huge remix of the title track a great impression how to deal with sounds.
Toward the end of his time as a guitarist, he started playing around with Synthesizers. He has been playing keyboards for over 50 years at this point. He grew up with a love for classical music, and has studied many of the great composition masters through the years. This knowledge of classical music is what informs his current works.
On Uncultivated Upland Daniel presents six new works that reflect his perspective on life today. Some of these compositions are a reflection of life in our world today, sometimes from
a slightly off-center perspective (like on “The Zookeeper Escapes” or “Baked”), while other times appealing on a purely emotional basis (like “Uncultivated Upland” or “Tears”).
Give these compositions a close listening. There is a lot to experience and a lot to savor in these well crafted, exquisitely produced recordings.
CNP and TA2MI go back to 2001 when a mutual friend introduced them. In 2011, TA2MI was featured in the documentary KanZeOn and is now set to launch his whirlwind interview and show tour. Today’s release is a taste of a full-length project that’s set to drop in 2017.
A very special thank you goes out to TA2MI, HighSnow, Long John & Cheese N Pot-C for this dope new EP! I look forward to the LP next year!
Of course, thanks once again to you for downloading & listening. We always strive to deliver the music you’ll love. Please spread the word about blocSonic, if you enjoy what we do. Remember… everything we release is cool to share! Always keep the music moving… share it… blog it… podcast it! If you’re in radio… support independent music and broadcast it!
artwork by (?) Vianna [link on release page]
Die freie Wahl der Mittel stellt Erich Schall vor das Problem, nicht in die Beliebgkeit abzudriften. Er löst dies ganz meisterhaft durch Selbstbeschränkung. Jedes Stück verfolgt exakt eine Idee und das ganz konsequent. Seien es nun Sounds von elektronischen Klanghölzern in „Sticks“, von einem Saxophon in „Saxblock“ oder von einem Klavier in „Quantifier“ – stets lotet er alle Möglichkeiten und Variationen bis ins letzte aus. Auch scheint es, als habe er zudem noch verschieden Tempi erforschen wollen. Denn vom extrem treibenden Peaktime Kracher „Tropical Dodge“ über hypnotische Midtempo Stücke für die Aufwärmphase wie „Outside the Tent“ oder „Seep“ bis hin zum abschließenden, chillig langsamen Rausschmeißer „Dew“ werden alle Zeiten bedient.
Ein Album für einen ganzen Abend also, mit einer wunderbaren Spannungskurve. Kann man gut durchhören. Aber natürlich darf sich auch jeder gerne seine Perle herauspicken. Und das Schöne dabei: Perlen gibt es für alle genug bei diesem Album.
“The most recent work of Miguel Conejeros, aka F600, corresponds to the soundtrack for the artistic installation “Dos Puertas y un Puente para una Banda Sonora (Two Doors and a Bridge for a Sound Track),” a collaborative montage between Miguel and the artist Rodrigo Vergara. The work, which combined sculpture and music, was exhibited in the International Museum of Chile – Gallery MICh, in Santiago, Chile, between the 17th and the 24th of June 2016.
The sonic montage in its original version was developed in a multichannel (5.1) format, in order to be appreciated by the viewer/listener as he or she transverses the space of the exhibition, where the sounds are released from the four corners of the hall, projecting a sensation of spatiality and movement, in contrast to the apparent inertia of the sculpture.
In the words of Sebastián Riffo, Director of the Gallery MICh, “The pieces exhibited were erected from the concrete, free of abstract sentimentalisms, interior life and/or conceptual and/or symbolic over-determination. They were there, alone, supported above structures of metal in order to say nothing. They wouldn’t share stories, messages, nor morals, they were only embedded in our floor and extending themselves through space. Of a palpable nature, realizing distinct material layers and sounds, as if dealing with geological strata; enigmas impossible to resolve without the help of an attentive ear and a dilated interest.”
This disc contains a demonstration in stereo of the work of F600, valuable as a historic register of the creative processes of Miguel, moreover, it provides the listeners the possibility to appreciate in a new instance the materiality of his sounds, those that are capable in and of themselves, of telling us this and other stories, of opening doors and laying new bridges.”
Mika Martini
(Santiago, Chile. Octubre / October 2016)
REVIEW:
“The intimate and unrepeatable process of the construction of this piece is captured through the sounds that inhabit the studio.
They are the acoustic frequencies from the manipulation of the distinct elements that raise the scaffolding of this sound track.
Much like the materiality of a sculpture is intervened with pigments, molds, and tools: the captured sounds are processed electronically and digitally, imprinting their own character in the result.
‘Dos puertas y un puente para una banda sonora’, is an exercise in congruence between materialities that plant themselves like a tale of a tactile, optic and acoustic construction in order to be traversed, contemplated, and inhabited from their interior.”
Miguel Conejeros (aka F600)
(Santiago, Chile. Junio / June 2016)
Rodrigo Vergara:
Visual artist. He has participated in more than 40 expositions, including 6 individual. His work has been shown in diverse countries in Europe and America, and he has also been published in more than 25 media specialized in art, as much in Chile as foreign. He has obtained three distinctions in concourses and 5 state financed grants. He has realized residences in Brazil and Argentina.
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Tracklist:
01. Pripyat (Original)
02. Pripyat (IQbit remix)
03. Pripyat (Stasis Device remix)
04. Pripyat (Shema remix)
05. Pripyat (Thlaaflaa remix)
06. Pripyat (illocanblo remix)
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Artwork: Nick R 61
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Fusion Netlabel
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You almost have to draw breath after the album finished, this listener suddenly realised that he had been holding his, hanging on every note. There is genuine power held in these songs, quiet and drifting as they are; they have an intensity that is bewitching and all encompassing. This is music for the liminal hours, for dawn or dusk, for candlelight. Highly recommended, this album deserves your close attention.
Excerpt of review by Grey Malkin (The Hare & The Moon) for The Active Listener blog.
Susan Matthews is a UK based composer/musician, known for her intense, ambitious, hypnotic harmonies and industrial noise creations.
Composed, performed, and produced by Susan Matthews
Photography and design by Mark Ingram
Lucian Freud’s inspirations: Nirvana, Van Halen, Agent Orange, The Cure, Black Sabbath, Blue Oyster Cult, Butthole Surfers, Cop Shoot Cop, Cream, David Bowie, Ryu Umemoto, California X, Dead Kennedys, The Talking Heads, Devo, Archers of Loaf, Dinosaur Jr., Elliot Smith, Failure, Shellac, Pavement, Pixes, The Police, Rush, Sonic Youth, Thin Lizzy, Tony Molina, Trans Am, The Who.
About Letmeknowyouanatole:
26 years old, a professional journalist and historian. Candidate of Philology, scientist Genderology. Free artist and photographer. Music was the fourth year.
Acceptance EP is an interesting mashup of different styles, such as subtle guitars overlaid an electronic background, epic ambient passages with hardcore analog or detailed minimal electronics getting you to stretch your ears.
An interesting but perhaps little short introduction to NNYz? Let’s hope for more, longer work in the future! Track of choice, the coolest Emilove!
This release sees Ambelion’s more IDM approach to electronic music: lots of beats and breaks, with hints of swirling ambiance at times, and other times more mechanical counterpoint. This is really a return to the style of the 90’s, but with a modern touch that only Ambelion could envisage.
“In this new album there is a considerable and decisive personal, emotional load. I’ve already felt for some years the need to work with the poetic, political, and geographical concept of the SOUTH, both as a creative motor and as a vehicle of resistance, at a personal level and at a purely sonic one. I’ve somehow also felt a special need to connect this concept with my own circumstances; using the Alpujarra region in Granada as a reference seemed to be the logical personal space around which I should build this “i.r.real 8”. The album is a metaphor of the dissidence and necessary resistance that I identify with the SOUTH as a concept. However, as I’ve already said, there is a personal space in this land located next to the enormous wall formed by Sierra Nevada, which appears as a barricade, separating this world from an unreal world – a deeply i.r.real world. My father, born in a village of Alpujarra named Cádiar, used to speak about the ‘hill’ (‘el cerro’, the 3.479m high Mulhacén Peak), as a static guard that filled up the horizon towards the North and that somehow fell thousands of metres down towards the South, through that other world, with the sea as its final destination…”
Javier Piñango
August 2016
javier piñango: synthesizer (korg ms-20) and effects
recorded, mixed and mastered at madrid
summer 2016
photo by almudena villar
That re-connection is apropos for an album that is about finding The Way Home. Tim’s approach to the concept of “home” is about more than just the lodging that one might have. It’s about the emotional home, the strength of beliefs, and the patience it takes to find one’s true home.
Having the forbearance to work on a release for five years is tantamount to the journey that it can take a person to find their home. Tim has created a release that is the most personal expression of this journey.
We welcome Tim to CerebralAudio with this release, and hope you will enjoy it as much as we have in working on bringing this release to you. It’s truly an honor for us to be entrusted with a release that has taken Tim many years to bring to its most perfect form.
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