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Jonas Ruchenhever “Somber Part I”
From the netlabel AMP release, Somber (I-III) (amp050)
Jonas Ruchenhever is a sound artist and composer from Belgium, who combines field recordings, found sounds, acoustic samples and electronically generated and processed sounds to create audio collages, soundscapes, experimental music, drone works and minimal ambient.
Somber is Jonas Ruchenhever’s second release. It is an audio work in four parts created in 2006 and one of his first experiments with sound. A.M.P. is proud to present this special free download edition of Somber, containing Part I, Part II & Part III, complete with printable art for inserting in a standard jewel case.
The complete work (Somber I-IV, 52’25”) is available on high-quality cdr, nicely packed in a soft frosted slimline case with original art work. Please buy it directly from the artist.
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This audio is part of the collection: .Amplified.Music.Pollution.
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Observation Point “Bloodking”
From the Bulgarian netlabel OUIM release, Behind the Sun
Observation Point is Welsh artist Antony Thomas whose discography stretches back to 2002s Sidewinds. Abandoned buildings, missing towns, deserted beaches… experimental and deep thought, experimental and deep space ambient. A rather pure, fundamental droning with shifting melodies, all carefully arranged. Listening, I can’t help but lose myself in subtle, endless possibilities. Headphones recommended.
Observation Point’s official site, and on MySpaceMusic, this audio is part of the collection: OUIM
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Mosca “The Blue Sunshine (One)”
From the netlabel Phantom Channel release, The Blue Sunshine (One)
Scottish artist Mosca delivers a dense, out of this stratosphere ambient sound, inherently powerful yet deceptively tranquil. Such is the calming nature of Mosca’s wall-shaking ambient noise, music that drips with all the viscosity of syrup, that those who listen to it are wrapped in a thick cocoon of sanguine sound.
Mosca is archetypal essential headphone listening. The Blue Sunshine (One) is the first part of a quadrilogy. Clocking in precisely at a whopping 3600 seconds of seamless, sky-scraping, cloud-kissing , star-hugging bliss.
This audio is part of the collection: Phantom Channel
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Love Notebook #4
Before The Girl, there was another man, an in between man if you will. Thinking back on things, he was the one I should have considered being in a relationship with, not the lesbian or the treehugger or that guy who wanted to make documentaries about turtles for PBS. I should have been with this guy because he was the wilder version of me; he made my antics look like kindergarten shit. He saw me for what I was: a conflicted, heartbroken, eternally filthy 19-year-old girl with a taste for drinking and fucking in the afternoon. He carried a torch for his much smarter ex-girlfriend who had left and I had her eyes and breasts. His name was Dirk and for three weeks, he was a permanent fixture in the passenger seat of my car. This installment is about the shortest love stories.
We met long before anything happened between us at some sort of gathering of mutual friends. He was tall and looked like he had stepped off the cover of a Sex Pistols record. Bleached hair, tight pants that revealed just enough package, old faded t-shirt, tattoos all over including his ex-girlfriend’s name on his forearm and some sort of abstract design on his neck. Not tribal, thank god. I was poured into a 1950’s style floral circle skirt dress, waist cinched, breasts presented as a gift to all in view. I was nursing an amaretto sour next to my then-boyfriend and I felt him looking at me. I looked at him and he licked his lips. He winked before turning and walking away. I was pissed off and aroused; I held onto my boyfriend’s hand more tightly.
“Who was the guy who looked like he should be in a Clash tribute band?” I asked my boyfriend as we drove home.
“That’s Dirk. He doesn’t really do much, he’s sort of just known around town. He used to live with his ex but she went to grad school somewhere in Iowa or something when they broke up and he’s stuck around town. We hung out a few times last year, before you moved here. Why?”
“No reason.”
“You sure?”
“Yeah, definitely. I just hadn’t seen in anyone in an outfit like that since I was in the 8th grade going to the mall.” I looked out the passenger window the rest of the way home.
The next morning …
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“A current exhibition of work from the 1980s by Robert Mangold brings together paintings from his X, + and Frame series, the common theme being the relationship between figure and surface. Mathematical operations are the focus of the X and + series, where mathematical relationships determine the precise manner in which the canvases of varying sizes are laid out and abutted to create a whole. The Frame series is made up of paintings formed by three or four canvases connected to create a framework..”
Artist: Robert Mangold
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The exhibition runs through May 8, 2009 at Parasol Unit in London.
Art MoCo: ”+ Within + (Red, Yellow, Orange)” by Robert Mangold
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Wo0 “Sunkissed Ladymoon”
From the netlabel Phantom Channel release, With the Flowered Minds
Wo0 is the founding member of the Belgrade Noise Society, a small group of artists doing some strange things with the medium of sound. As an avant-guitarist Wo0, who has honed his art by performing with the likes of Fennesz, has christened his style as Sky-Noise.
Utilising his guitar as a receiver of signals, Wo0 captures the frequencies from radios, computers, media players, remote controls, phones and other inventive mobile devices to create a very subtle, harmonic, deep and oscillating sound…” —Internet Archive
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Son Clair “Street Sounds”
From the netlabel Frozen Elephants release, Up on the Hill
There it is – straight and classic fieldrecording at its best. When Son Clairs (or Thom Carters) recordings reached us a few months ago we instantly knew that this would make a perfect release on Frozen Elephants. Carter manages to create an unique composition without any digital processing or treatment, simply using the present environment as instrument. All tracks were recorded in summer of 2009 in Rye (an ancient coastal town located in East Sussex, England), then cut, pasted, and layered, eventually forming a simple, quiet collage of St Mary’s.
“Of all this day, perhaps I will remember most the elderly couple (in track 2 ‘Crowds in the Church’) who stopped by a tombstone set inside the church and remarked on what a “good age” it was to have lived to at that time. To my surprise and delight, the old man then sang the words “backwards, forwards, backwards, forwards”, swaying to his own rhythm in a strange dance. At such times, a visual accompaniment to the audio would have helped to explain this meaning – but it is suffice to say that his gesture was towards the grave on the floor and then upwards to the giant pendulum of the belfry clock that hangs through the ceiling, swinging symbolically overhead like the hand of Time. As I sat there, unnoticed by them, observing and recording the sound, I was reminded of the inscription written on the outside of the church tower ‐ ‘For our time is a very shadow that passeth away.’ To walk in on the Friday afternoon that I chose to visit St Mary’s, and hear the wonderful music, and the people wandering in and out, conversing, enjoying the atmosphere of the calm town and the cool stone building, was a beautiful experience. I hope this recording can evoke some of the atmosphere of that special place.” —Thom Carter
Written, recorded & produced by Thom Carter
Artwork by Peter Prautzsch
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AOGU YOSHIDA [ON_14] Mix
Favourite netlabel artist mix by LAJ
A mix of beautiful, fragile, and ethereal guitar-based ambience and drones from one of the best purveyors of this genre - the Japanese artist AOGU YOSHIDA composing music as ON_14 (formerly known as AO) and the man behind the excellent ON_LI netlabel.
Runtime: 1h22m40s
Night Song “Sea Song”
Aqua “Just Think Again”
Forest “After Summer”
Happy Hour “(ON_14 remix)”
Aqua “Aqua”
Green “Lavender”
Endlessly, Sweetly and Slightly “Thyme”
Forest “Forest (part 2)”
Sad Hours “Still”
View Room “Room 1”
View Room “View 1”
Night Song “Less”
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Loscil “Windless”
From the netlabel release Stases
Revealing the somber underpinnings of his Loscil recordings, Scott Morgan has given us Stases - a collection of drones based upon the backgrounds of his work for Kranky Records, from 2001 to now.
As with his previous output, Stases follows theme and concept with further reference and meaning given through the title’s definition: “…a condition of balance among various forces; motionlessness”. Textured, aqueous, warm and pleasingly rich in (often bright) tonality giving us a deeper focus and alternate view into the corners of Morgan’s music. Seemingly so surrounding, submersive, and natural - that it becomes easy to forget the complex overtones and flowing mixtures involved in the creation of them.
This audio is part of the collection: One
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