Andrew Liles - Drone Works #7 (Twenty Hertz, 2005)

1 Untitled 21:15

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Paul Bradley - Drone Works #6 (Twenty Hertz, 2005)

1 Untitled 20:24

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Freiband - Drone Works #5 (Twenty Hertz, 2004)

1 Untitled 20:02

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Mendel Kaelen - Remembering What Was Forgotten (self release)

1 Satori 29:08
2 Forgetting to Remember 13:13
3 In the Stillness 13:13
4 Light of Nature 10.25

Once in while we are hit by such a significant realization that our perception of the world is changed for good. Such a powerful flash of insight, or satori, as the buddhist tradition terms it, can provide us with a deepened understanding into ourselves and the nature of existence. For a moment we are awakened to our deeper truths. And as we return to our daily life we may feel fuller, more complete and more one with the world around us.

Personal and spiritual growth seems to be in essence a process of remembering of things that we already knew. The insight temporary lifts the veil and broadens our awareness to the more hidden aspects of our consciousness. These moments of remembering shape our deepest motivations and ideals as we navigate trough life.

But while the moment of insight may have been powerful, there also seems to be something constantly challenging in the character of the life experience. Maya lurks on every corner of existence. And even after we may have tasted to ecstatic bliss of infinite awareness, she still remains a damn good trickster. This battling, this crossing of threshold after threshold, this ever returning process of remembering and forgetting is the concept which inspired me during the process of recording the album.
Mendel Kaelen

Remembering What Was Forgotten is the debut album from sound artist Mendel Kaelen. Mendel´s work is inspired by a deep love for the natural world and by various disciplines related to understanding consciousness. The release has become an adventurous blend between experiments with fieldrecordings, acoustic elements and electronic modulations. The hypnotic drones and the organic sound textures, in combination with the fragile melodies of the violin and the piano, give the album overall a strong cinematic and at sometimes even a ceremonial ambience. It plays with extremes: sketching contrasts between meditative moments of tranquility and quietness, and intense peaks of emotional rapture. It surely reminds the listener of an awe, a recognition of something precious, almost something religious. Something essentially beautiful and true we seem to have forgotten? This young artist sure is must to check out and keep an eye on for all lovers of experimental music, ambient, drone and sound art.
Bram K

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mysterybear - Elementals (Stasisfields, 2009)

1 Herald of Air
2 Nur
3 A Door Into Spring
4 Herald of Water

Peterborough, New Hampshire's Dave Seidel offers a microtonal ode to the four primal elements. Water, fire, earth and air are represented here by elegant synthetic sounds and digitally manipulated field recordings. Working primarily in Csound, Seidel sculpts swathing drones and digital flutters into monolithic representations of his natural subjects. Technicians will undoubtedly consult Seidel's notes included in the album's digital packaging as well as the more extensive essays on his personal website for details of these tracks' construction, while aesthetes will simply lose themselves in their overwhelming beauty.
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For the Australians

Room40
guest programmer Lawrence English

Presents: Pimmon | Ai Yamamoto | Chris Abrahams

Lawrence English is a media artist, composer and curator based in Australia. Working across an eclectic array of aesthetic investigations, English’s work prompts questions about field, perception and memory. Outside of his recording and art commissions, Lawrence English curates a number of ongoing sound and media programs including ‘Mono’ at the Institute Of Modern Art, Brisbane and ‘Syncretism’ at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, Brisbane. He produces the annual Room40 festival, ‘Open Frame’ (in Australia and London) and co-produces a number of other festivals including ‘Sound Polaroids’, ‘Liquid Architecture’ and ‘Frankly!’.

Paul Gough, otherwise known as Pimmon, is a Sydney-based electronic composer who has performed internationally, including Europe and the United States. Ai Yamamoto is a Japanese born, Melbourne-based experimental sound artist, and a favourite performer on the Australian scene with her often accompanying visuals. Chris Abrahams was born in New Zealand but grew up and performs in Australia. Abrahams is best known for his piano and jazz work and has collaborated with many bands, including The Necks.

Event Information
Saturday, 31st July
7.30 pm – 12.00 am
Book Now | room40 | Lawrence English | 31.7.10
Entry also available on the door from 8 pm

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Darren Tate - Drone Works #4 (Twenty Hertz, 2004)

1 Untitled 22:02

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Gabran - Secrets (Just Not Normal, 2010)

1 Secret 1
2 Secret 2
3 Secret 3
4 Secret 4
5 Secret 5
6 Secret 6
7 Secret 7
8 Secret 8
9 Secret 9
10 Secret 10

Return in the forest for a new harvest of sounds...
I'm looking for other sounds ... other worlds ...

These are just some of the sounds that I brought home after my last trip ...
After my last dream ...

Echoes of distant nebulae disappeared into infinity of the mind...
only a few sounds, a gift for those who want to listen ...

To hear them turn off the light and let the images exploding in your mind ...
only a candle... and, then, a full immersion into sounds ...

Sounds help us to understand ourselves...

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Birds Of Tin & Mechanism - Scapegrace (self release, 2000): here (link fixed)

Colin Potter & Phil Mouldycliff - Drone Works #3 (Twenty Hertz, 2004)

1 Untitled 22:50

It must be a very fertile period for Colin Potter, judging from the recent cds on Twenty Hertz and the new Monos album which has just been released. This is an incredible ep in the ltd. "Drone works" cdr series, and probably my favourite one of the lot as of yet. I haven't listened to Potter's first collaborative work with Phil Mouldycliff ("Shellfish in kettleback", ICR 2003), so I wonder if it is similar to this little gem. This is a huge droning thing with dripping water recordings over some ominous rumblings and electronic reverberations. Powerful, trascendental and perfectly constructed. It sounds like a dark ambient version of Ora, or Lustmord revisiting the Deep Listening Band's "Troglodyte's Delight". What can I say? I still have to find a record involving Potter which is not great...
Chain Dlk Review by: Eugenio Maggi (aka Cría Cuervos)

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Orchestra Eclettica E Sincretista - Notturni (Webbed Hand Records, 2010)

1 Notturno 1
2 Notturno 2

orchestra eclettica e sincretista performs live in this two-part release. Led by Marco Lucchi, this trio performs music by members of the o.e.s. collective.

This album consists of two live performances of the same body of work, performed on the same ay at the same venue, in Carpi, Italy, on April 30, 2010.

Marco Lucchi – electronics, melodica, steel string acoustic guitar
Geoff Warren – flute, soprano sax
Roberto Corsini – nylon string electric guitar

music by Garrett Fisher, Elisa Luu, Marco Lucchi, Geoff Warren, Roberto Corsini
video samples here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IpT3DqNZck

“…in the silenced minutes on both “notturni” i lighted up an abat-jour and read Petrarca

i am a Fedele d’Amore….”
–Marco Lucchi
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Colin Potter - Drone Works #2 (Twenty Hertz, 2004)

1 Untitled 23:45


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Paul Bradley - Drone Works #1 (Twenty Hertz, 2004)

1 Untitled 19:53


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CEZAR - Vol. 50 (Zeromoon, 2010)

Cezary Gapik (also know as CEZAR) was born in Czestochowa, Poland in 1963. He started his musical activity in 1980 as an animator of punk rock bands. Soon enough he discovered new sounds which were brought by the punk rock rebellion. Cabaret Voltaire, Public Image Ltd. or other “new wave” bands had an enormous influence on the perception of music by Cezar. Plunging into the fundaments of musical avant-garde (Karlheinz Stockhausen, Morton Feldman, Luc Ferrari, La Monte Young), the appearance of new creative possibilities (computer) together with the works of artists like Mick Harris (Lull, Scorn), Illusion of Safety, etc. had definitively shaped the musical direction towards which Cezary Gapik follows. His musical creation is based on drones and micro-tonal sound planes interlaced with abstract “images” (field recordings) or computer-processed synthetic sounds (glitch). In his compositions one has the opportunity to feel the fascination of the artists like Luc Ferrari, Philip Glass, La Monte Young and the masters of isolationist ambient – Lull, Thomas Kaner, Nocturnal Emissions. After individual experiments with dark electronic vibes in the mid-nineties Cezar met in 1998 Bartlomiej Kuzniak (bass, sax & electronics musician), with whom he created QG/GQ project. A little trace of this cooperation is a track “Z1? on “C9H13O3N” album released in limited, 200-pieces edition under the independent label Polycephal. The year 2000 brought another collaboration of Cezar with musicians like B. Kuzniak (mentioned above), Joe Giardullo (sax – New York’s jazz avant-garde), Dawid Kosiarkiewicz (sax, prepared piano), Zbigniew Szmatloch (prepared guitar & electronics) and Andrzej Zaleski (drums) which evolved into a concert tour across Poland. The memorable concerts were performed in Warsaw (Centre of Modern Art in Ujazdowski Castle) and in Szczecin (Kana Theatre). Part of the Warsaw concert has been included on the Dokument. Program Strefa’s compilation released in 2005. Cezar is very often invited for co-operation by grind-core and death-metal bands like YATTERING, for whom he composed drones which were used to fill the gaps between tracks on the album “Murder Concept” (2000). He can be called a “fulltime” intro & outro specialist for the band INFERNAL WAR which with his contribution released albums “Terrorfront” (2005) and “Redesecration” (2007). Cezar has also an episode with computer gaming IT Industry on his account where he composed an ambient soundtrack for the PC game “Painkiller” released in 2004 and acclaimed by critics. Up to year 2006 Cezar has composed in his own self-created studio a large volume of sound material which he regularly released on CD-R discs in limited editions for his friends and fans. Originating from this collection – the album “Artefakt” (2000) has been highly valued and recognized by critics and finally re-released by a netlabel Torrentech in 2009. The years 2007 and 2008 can be considered as a pause in Cezar’s creation while the year 2009 brought an increased artistâs activity. After the re-release of “Artefakt” and release by a Russian netlabel DNA Production of the retrospective compilation âThe Collection 1998-2006â Cezar brought to life his own label – C.G. Drone Records. The first âfruitâ of this project was a mini CDr (3) “The Limestone EP”. At the same time Cezar tightened his cooperation with DNA Production which resulted in his new EP to be also available for download (mp3 & FLAC format) from this netlabel’s catalogue. The year 2009 has also brought a new cooperative project – this time with German ambient musician Siegmar Fricke which concluded with an album CEZAR | PHARMAKUSTIK â âEnukleacjaâ. The album could be described as a cool, isolationist and dark-ambient creation. The year 2010 opened with the release in January by French netlabels Le Colibri Necrophile, Earsheltering and M.i.r.e.n.a. of the compilation “Nektar 2017 Volume 2?. Cezar contributed to this production with the track “0421?. In February C.G. Drone Records released “Zaduszki (All Saints Day) EP” which is a re-edition of the tracks previously composed in the years 1998 and 1999 under the same title.

What concerns the future – “there is still a lot of unrest in my soul which I desire to transform into sound” – says Cezary Gapik.
Zeromoon

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Werkbund - Aquis Submersus (Walter Ulbricht Schallfolien, 1988)

1 Beginne Den Tag Mit Sterbe 21:12
2 Der Feind Sieht Dein Licht Verdunkeln 27:13

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Ambient Fabric - Experimental Soundscapes (VJG Records, 2010)

1 Experimental Soundscape
2 Experimental Soundscape
3 Experimental Soundscape
4 Experimental Soundscape
5 Experimental Soundscape
6 Experimental Soundscape

Another journey in the feeling of sounds by Ambient Fabric. Experience of the sound and a great feelings for our growth...

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MaCu Vs. CEZAR - Electronic Symbiosis (Isolationism Records, 2010)

1 Underworld 10:40
2 Perception 15:12

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Just Out: Philippe Petit - Off To Titan (Karl Records, 2010)

Philippe Petit: turntables + electronics
Kumo (Jono Podmore): theremin + electronics

"Post-Classical" soundtrack FOR FANS OF Gustav Mahler – Philip Jeck – Bernhard Herrmann - Luis & Bebe Barron's "Forbidden Planet" - Kumo...

In a previous century Gustav Mahler composed a symphony named "Titan". Created in search of a work that echoed industrialism and society in the nineteenth century. Philippe Petit believed that even if firmly rooted into Classical it was announcing what Contemporary music would become so it sounded natural to recontextualize, add new flavours by having something constantly modern in there.
Philippe began work on a recording of the original symphony - re-editing, time-stretching, distorting, filtering. He then sent the result to Jono Podmore as a backing track. Who began work with his theremin and electronics by identifying areas he could enhance or develop or even alienate further from their original form, and then set to work improvising and layering new material into the piece, mindful of the collage aesthetic in Mahler's work. Jono sent the results to Philippe who began mixing both works and further processing the result.
In a way reminiscent of "2001, A Space Odyssey" offering romantic music in an ultra modern design which set the orchestra in a new space...
A little bit like if Bernhard Herrmann had scored the glorious "Forbidden Planet" sci-fi classic, listening to the soundtrack, the Titan you're heading for is Saturn's biggest moon!
May the stars be with you...

The backing track is now being transcribed for full orchestra by David Plate in Köln as both intend to play the piece live: Philippe Petit and Kumo on electronics with a full symphony orchestra - it should be quite an event...

A journalist for various magazines and radio as well as a musical activist, PETIT now celebrates his 25th year of sharing his musical passions Pursuing a tradition he had started with his "Reciprocess" project, given away with The Wire magazine issue 301, Petit is benefiting from the talent of Jono Podmore, aka KUMO, who has been part of the electronic scene since the 80's and collaborates with Irmin Schmidt from the legendary Can.

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Vibracathedral Orchestra - Øyenstikker Utbrudd (self release, 2005): here

irr. app. (ext.) / Wyrm - Hypothetical Tardigrade Resurection #1 / Labyrinth Defector (Somnimage, 2003)

A irr. app. (ext.) - Hypothetical Tardigrade Resurection #1
B Wyrm - Labyrinth Defector

Wonderful weird noise and dark ambiance from nurse with wound collaborator M.Waldron and Allan Zane's Wyrm.
Somnimage

This is a split single from two US artists on the Somnimage label. irr.apt.(ext.) is the project of M. S. Waldron, a sometime collaborator of Nurse With Wound and various Steven Stapleton related projects. 'Hypothetical Tardigrade Resurrection #1' is something of a restrained piece of ambient experimentation offering textured drones, some percussive interplay and just as it starts to evolve into electronic tones, it dissipates into the sound of ball being bounced. It's all too brief, and from what I've heard from irr.apt.(ext.) they're not best suited to the 7-inch format. Wyrm, on the other hand, offer an intricate mass of sounds that tends toward the darker ends of ambient-experimentation. Wyrm is the project of Allan Zane, here assisted by Terry Stalcup, John Murphy (- yes, John Murphy of KnifeLadder, SPK...), and Kensaku Nishizato. Torturous electronics, submerged voices, environmental sounds, processed bells combine combine to create a fine slab of malevolent intent. I'm not too familiar with the work of Allan Zane, besides some contributions to material from the Sword Volcano Complex and Shining Vril though on the basis of 'Labyrinth Defector' I'd be keen to hear more.
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irr. app. (ext.) - Drone Works #10 (Twenty Hertz, 2005)

1 Untitled 21:45


Despite being around for some time, Matt Waldron, aka Irr.app.(ext.) is still not a household name, which is a pity. He has a couple of solo releases on labels as Fire Inc and Helen Scardale, and has played with Steve Stapleton's Nurse With Wound on a rare concert in Vienna recently. On 'Drone Works #10', perhaps the final release in this series, he plays a single, twenty-one minute drone piece, starting out with humming in Asia, but slowly guitars played with fans, bows or e-bows (or some such or maybe all together) take over and built a majestic drone piece. The piece is much louder, top heavy under it's weight, than the usual pieces in this series. Harsh but non-violent, this is more Tony Conrad than Brian Eno, if you catch my drift. A masterpiece and if this is the end of the series, it doesn't end with a breeze but with a nice electric storm.
Vital Weekly

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Colin Andrew Sheffield - For Tomorrow (Bee Eater Recordings, 2009)

1 For Tomorrow 20:09

Colin Andrew Sheffield runs the Elevator Bath label, and as such he released some music by Pacione, and here he shows up on the Bee Eater label. Its a companion piece to a piece he did on a compilation for his own label and consists largely from processed church organ sounds. It starts like a massive block of sound and then over the course of the twenty minutes this piece lasts, he adds more and more sound effects (from the computer I assume) and then it seems to die out slowly. But towards the end the organs returns and that ending seems a bit superfluous, but it perhaps make sense too. The ending would have been a bit too much of a cliche and now it restores the order of the piece. Nice one...
Vital Weekly

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Voice Of Eye - Isolation (Cyclotron Industries, 1990)

A1 Delivery 5:49
A2 Twisted Reflections 1:07
A3 Temple Gates Of Apprehension 8:53
A4 Message Of The Sentinel 4:50
A5 Contemplation 16:10
A6 The Butcher (The Sharper The Blade...) 7:19
B1 The Field Of Eyes 3:46
B2 Las Vegas 2:56
B3 Voices I (Nightfall) 4:07
B4 Voices II (Darkness) 0:47
B5 In Santa Fe 10:49
B6 Voices III (Daybreak) 2:17
B7 Gathering Drums 5:36
B8 Transcending Consciousness / Duets Of Smokey Guitars 11:06
B9 Isolation (Dawn) 4:28

Isolation is the result of 5 days during the summer of 1989 in a one room cabin on the coast of Northern California. The instrumentation was restricted by the amount of food, clothes, bedding which also had to fit in the van. All selections recorded live: no overdubs, tapes of the road trip are also included.

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St. Atom HTR605 - Smiling Autumn Leaves (self release, 2010)

1 Near The Path 05:39
2 A Few Seconds After The Grief 04:03
3 A Fair End 02:50
4 As The Night Train reminded me of Ash Ra Tempel 11:09
5 Travelling 03:57
6 Alike 01:59
7 Across The River 06:46

1. Across The River
2. Alike
3. The Dawn
4. As The Night Train Reminded Me of Ash Ra Tempel
5. Near The Path
6. Weak Winter
7. Far Away (Still)

Reçu un mail de Stavros / Received a mail from Stavros:

Stavros lives in Greece and this is first double CDr. It was recorded at home and will be ready in a few days in 100 copies. He's involved in music over 20 years but never made something solo except a couple cassetes in the 80's. This is a small text could describe him:

""Love, hope, sorrow, joy, despair, awe ...
particles from the stellar dust which has created us.
A train started (....) years before and has traveled the most intense emotions to a world a little more personal through this "dust" which continously caresses our souls and our bodies.
and the journey continues
and probably will never end."

you can visit him here or here (this site will soon be launched but not yet ready)

the photographies were made by Stavros & Penny Ktena (you can visit her here, here or here)

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The new Lethe on Invisible Birds is ready for shipping

disc one - catastrophe point #7 - 50.50
sound materials recorded at arsenic: lausanne, switzerland
2004.10.21 - 11.28

disc two - catastrophe point #8 - 58.00
sound materials recorded at ex power station : edinburgh, scotland
2006.10.23 - 10.28

all compositions by lethe
photos by kuwayama kiyoharu
sleeve design by invisible birds & kuwayama kiyoharu
letterpress printing by ben owen at middle press, brooklyn
liner notes by giancarlo toniutti


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Simon Whetham - Landlocked (Gruenrekorder, 2008)

1 Landlocked 23:04


"Landlocked" comprises various recordings of water sources, recorded on a visit to Mongolia in November 2006.
The work features recordings of the holy spring in Dulaanhaan, a water run-off from a power station in Ulan Bataar, droplets of meltwater on a metal window sill and colliding ice floes amongst the sources.
Water sources were the focus of the work as Mongolia is a land that is known to be mainly arid, and landlocked by Russia to the north and China to the south.
This work is also significant, as it is all that is left of hours of recordings collected over a two week period, the rest of which were lost due to a faulty external hard drive.
Gruenrekorder

Unlike Simon Whetham I've never been to Mongolia but I believe him when he says that this massive country hasn't got much water. Wetham got struck by this and, oddly enough, all the recordings he made in Mongolia, only the water recordings survived. With these he recorded a pure soundscape piece of water flowing and various types of rain (or so it seems) and created a very nice, if not a bit short at twenty-three minutes, piece out of it. Silence, near silence and massive water sounds are mixed together into a soundpicture of a dry country. Quite nice at that, this Lopez like work.
Vital Weekly

That the latter’s release is dominated by water sounds isn’t in itself so unusual but it is when one discovers that the material comes from recordings Whetham made during a 2006 visit to Mongolia, an arid country that, caught between Russia to the North and China to the south, is completely landlocked. The EP, part of Gruenrekorder’s Field Recording Series, presents a twenty-three-minute episodic piece that moves from pure water sounds to percussive episodes (created by droplets striking a metal windowsill) and from micro-sound passages to ones where water barrels forth with crushing force (sound sources include the holy spring in Dulaanhaan, water run-off at a Ulan Bataar power station, and ice floes). The submersive Landlocked offers an interesting, almost diametric contrast to Whetham’s 2006 Ascension_Suspension EP where cable cars in the French Alps provided sound material.
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Sam Hamilton - Low Hill (CLaudia, 2006)

01 Low Hill 9:30

Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Sam Hamilton works through various media, including groups such as City Peoples Farmers Music and Muffin Seeks Sunship, and film collaborations with Eve Gordon. But he's known mostly for his solo recordings, of which the nine minute "Low Hill" is a fine example. Hamilton digitally edits recordings of busy, shuffling percussion and pinging guitar harmonics into a short suite loosely held together by low, abraded drones. All the action happens thanks to Hamilton's deft editing, as he cauterises little moments of static and smears them across the dashboard. Towards the end, he starts humming along absentmindedly, inserting the auteur's presence indelibly into the frame.
The Wire

Sam's CDR contains just one nine minute piece, for which he lists guitar, voice, computer and drums, and all of these instruments are to be recognized in this strange curious piece of computerized noise, guitar strumming and playing the cymbals. There is some sort of cut-up collage like elements to be discovered here, which reminded me of thefirst solo CDs of Dean Roberts. A nice mixture of glitch music,improvisation but also in a strongly composed manner.
Vital Weekly

Just under ten minutes of minimalistic fish slapping. It's funny how droney, small buzz laptopism can still be quite striking. While at times mellow, it's full of changes and varied instrumentation. Tense trebled free drums. High freq strobes. Guitar loops interchanging. Static bursts in tiny melody. Whispers of downtempo mouth trumpets xoring the jazzerblues. Levels of crank extending like a teenage robot on a tense day at the microchip hurler.

It's easy to say, "ah, yet another laptopper." and dismiss this, but I think the effects here are applied a little more wildly. Not bombastically, but with more emotional dynamics than a glacier's chemistry in action on a winter's day, which is what so typically passes as laptop sound art in the last few years especially.

I feel scratched. It's good to hear the young NZ experimental crowd continuing to push outward and keeping the NZ noise faith alive.
Foxy Digitalis

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Entia Non - Dead Blue Horizon (Audio Gourmet, 2010)

1 Penultimate Teather 04:43
2 When The Land Settles You 06:43
3 Nicklin's Gate 03:33

we welcome talented Australian sound artist James McDougall, under his Entia Non guise.
James lives in an elevated residence somewhere within Queensland, Australia and his work is typically focussed around his superb field recordings.

His output has been nothing short of prolific, straddling between netlabel releases and physical CD packages. These excursions have included notable projects out on labels as diverse as Slow Flow, U-Cover, IOD, Duckbay, Ripples Recordings, Mystery Sea, Resting Bell, Test Tube...and that's just to name but a few!

Although typically his recent work has been centered around his field recordings, James has himself recorded projects with additional 'ambient' sounds and collaborated with other artists such as Sylvie Walder to create gorgeous sonic experiments. In the future, a release is penned with talented Japanese ambient artist Hiroki Sasajima, due out on Unfathomless.

For this short EP on Audio Gourmet, we're presented with a deep exploration of James's sound recordings through three beautifully paced tracks. His ability to capture an environment designed to enable you as the listener to actually feel present at the time of recording serves as a truly fascinating spectacle. Upon listening to 'Dead Blue Horizon', it can feel as though you are blind, imagining the events as they unfold in your ears.
Audio Gourmet

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