Noise suite recorded for the MAV Records Festival (15th October, Marghera, Venice)
MAV [0kbps] Records, October 2016
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.
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
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.
2 [0kbps106]
2.1
2.2
2.3
MAV [0kbps] Records, October 2016
Preset loops are used as set parameters with the addition of vocals as a further instrument. These limits and boundaries allow for See Pereria to really experiment with the software to create new sounds. Each track in the song is manipulated and sculpted by being layered, cut up and/or looped. Songs are made with heavy emphasis on synths, beats, repetition and harmonies.
Track listing:
Futura – 4.39
Electron – 3.47
Mountains – 4.41
Not sounding unlike Curious Inversions with his subtle mentions of Tangerine Dream and Solar Fields, Realm takes it to another level with subtle and gentle peaks and troughs.
Self loops and voices is a favourite for me with it’s retro feel and nudges towards Tangerine Dream, and Vorpal Sword is more aimed at squaring off alongside Curious Inversions territory. Cover artwork is by guest artist Jukka Hautamaki, who is well known for mixing art with electronic audio. This work is entitled ‘Empyrean’ fittingly. http://www.galleriahuuto.net/?p=10044&lang=en
Thanks again to Derek Rutter and Eddie Palmer of Electric Mirrors for this month of incredible new music!
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!
Piod is one of the newer music projects of phonocake co-founder Knut Kaulke who accompanied us from the very first beginning. While his latest stuff is heavily influenced from new production settings with the Kyma system his first tracks under the Piod moniker are diversely looking for direction. Nonetheless it is genuine electronic music, kind of wild and alive.
Tracklist:
1. Plastic Penguin – Anomalia Magnetica
2. Kappasaur – Modulo
3. Shango – Interstellar
4. Boogie Natty – SoK
5. Claudio Iacono – Castagnes Del Fuego
6. Opak – Noe’
7. Osinski – Narcotics
8. Outlaw Producer – Golden Cup
9. Bakra – Rock Dat Vibe
10. Wormhole – Light Skeleton
11.Mas&Delayer – Gratitude
Noisybeat Extended 016
https://noisybeat.bandcamp.com/album/deeper-shades-vol-6
www.noisybeat.altervista.org
O [0kbps104]
01 – Tf3olo
02 – pista segreta
03 – A%27VAll
04 – 100
05 – (°v°)(-v°)(-v-)
06 – INDIb0T
07 – ç(oneellLL
08 – SGUARTO 0
09 – 7 ò
10 – 8 2
11 – 9
MAV [0kbps103] Records, September 2016
The second track swaps the singularity of the first track with a sequence of melodic chambers, each housing the guitar within a different atmospheric casing. Those infinite delays are shortened into extended comet trails, dripping out the back of contemplative guitar refrains as they soar over field recordings of cicadas at night, or dwell within absolute silence, or press and clip against the walls of stereo volume confinement, or detonate within excessive amplifier distortion.
Jack Chuter – ATTN:MAGAZINE
Tracklist:
1. Maxim Kornyshev – Pulse 05:20
2. Maxim Kornyshev – Sappfire Wind 03:39
3. Maxim Kornyshev – The Life Above The Clouds 04:31
4. Maxim Kornyshev – Pangolin 01:54
5. Maxim Kornyshev – Night Radiance 03:29
6. Maxim Kornyshev – The Dark Sea 03:24
7. Maxim Kornyshev – Past Absolute Gravity 03:34
8. Maxim Kornyshev – Daydream 04:22
