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Luke Sanger – Salt Water Motifs – Listening Party

Monday 16th October

https://quietdetails.bandcamp.com/merch/qd03-luke-sanger-salt-water-motifs-listening-party

Alongside the release of qd09 observatories (Ian Hawgood and Craig Tattersall), today we have the second run of CDs and cassettes of one of our most-loved quiet details albums, Salt Water Motifs by the wonderful Luke Sanger.

Stalwart of the UK music scene and beyond, Luke has been making music and performing under a number of aliases for years – from deep synthesised psychedelia to jacking techno to the most spaced-out dub-influenced electronica – he’s covered a lot of ground and each time showed his originality and unsurpassed understanding of electronic music.

Here, with Salt Water Motifs, we find we him creating an otherworldly journey with off-kilter fuzzy melodics and morphing auditory illusions – this is heady and beautiful music, taking the quiet details idea and making something truly unique.

Colourful synths, some upfront and others miles away in the ether, mix with highly processed field recordings and other gorgeous sound design, making the most of every space in this nuanced trip through time and space.

Each track is full of elements with their own quirky character and personality, there’s a huge sense of depth in this album and it flows beautifully along with each listen.

Listening parties weren’t a thing when this was released so Luke and I would love to get together with you all, whether you’ve heard it or not, to listen and chat about the album and beyond :)x

Hope you can join us!

Much love

Luke and Alex

Categories
Ambient Electro-Acoustic Experimental Review

Audio Obscura – The Xenakis Station

Interesting, washed-out radio fuzz trades places with intermittent synth, chimes and drum loops, giving a distinctly haunted vibe. Sometimes nudging towards BoC’s bleaker moments (ala Tommorow’s Harvest), The Xenakis Station keeps things tense, without going full darkside.
Not sure if there is any reference to composer Iannis Xenakis here, as the music is certainly not similar, other than in name.. Curious!

Either way, here is the accompanying release blurb:

The Xenakis Station. A long abandoned research station. A place always officially denied. The place now a fiction where shards of disputed truth remain.

The location, still not declassified. Remnants destroyed.

Last winter we got a phone call to say graffiti on an abandoned building on Redpoint Sound states” ‘Xenakis broadcasts were made here’ but official enquiries are still met with silence.

Release Date: 06/10/2023
Via: Woodford Halse

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Ambient Drone Minimal Review Synth

Luke Sanger – Shared System Research Project

After a couple of years intensely researching, saving (and selling), in 2015 I finally ordered this instrument. The excitement was real and I was totally ready for a complete paradigm shift in making and performing music and the Shared System filled that role, inspiring many records in the process. However in that time, I haven’t made a full release completely focused on it.


All the tracks on this album were recorded in single takes using the Make Noise Shared System and an external spring reverb.
Composed in June – August 2023, the motive for recording this album was to focus and build on ideas that would only briefly surface during fleeting moments in a live performance or undocumented jam, giving priority and space to develop those themes.
Anyway, hopefully the music will tell it’s own story, but the gear and background info is there for anyone interested!

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Ambient Avant Garde Drone Electro-Acoustic Experimental Field Recording Radio

Flatland Frequencies 2/8/23

NameArtistAlbumYear
Coded Music Apparatus: Patterns On The Pitch GraphHugh Le CaineCompositions Demonstrations 1946-19741955
like lightningAdam BosargeStructures Without Rooms2023
Interview 1963 (WRVR, Riverside Radio, NYC)Tod DockstaderInterview 1963 (WRVR, Riverside Radio, NYC)1963
Sunrise Of The Planetary Dream CollectorTerry Riley & Don CherryLive Köln 19751975
A Room of One’s OwnEd HerbersComing of Age2023
Windy broad (Field Recording)Luke SangerField Recordings SD702T2014
polymerarovanepolymer2023
The Oak Of The Golden DreamsRichard Maxfield / Harold BuddThe Oak Of The Golden Dreams1970
Mouth Cavity Oscillator With MKI Touch Sensitive OrganHugh Le CaineCompositions Demonstrations 1946-19741955
bend toward the light.Adam BosargeStructures Without Rooms2023
ajatikarovanepolymer2023
Angel FixPauline OliverosReverberations: Tape & Electronic Music 1961-19702012
PerseidsS. CostaThe Radiant Point2023
PipesTod DockstaderAerial #22005
The Radiant PointS. CostaThe Radiant Point2023
Music For ExpoHugh Le CaineCompositions Demonstrations 1946-19741967
Sitting in the dunes (Field Recording)Luke SangerField Recordings SD702T2014
Fantasy In SpaceLueningTape Recorder Music1955
물먹는하마YetsubyWater Flash EP2023
Field RecordingLuke SangerField Recordings SD702T2014
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Ambient Drone Electro-Acoustic Experimental Field Recording Musique Concrète Radio Synth

Flatland Frequencies 5/7/23

Tai-chi Seminars in LeverkusenJönsMusic for Euronews
Still, WaitingThe Lifted IndexA Still Voice
Kontu Folktale (vinyl exerpt)Verna GillisFrom Slavery to Freedom (Music of the Suramaka Maroons, Suriname)
KitchenyyuKaraoke
Râles (vinyl excerpt)Pierre HenryVariations Pour Une Porte Et Un Soupir
Night DrivePulseloversNorthern Minimalism
Consagish (feat. Moon Wiring Club)Dolly DollyAntimacassar
Dawn RainCloud TearsSongs For Summer Rain
Love (vinyl excerpt)Maharishi Mahesh YogiMaharishi Mahesh Yogi
SmileUllaTumbling Towards a Wall
A Ship With No CaptainLo FivePersistence Of Love
Look Back To DifferentationAkhira SanoPhase Contrast From Recollection
SoakUllaTumbling Towards a Wall
An Audio Obstacle Course (vinyl excerpt)ShureTrackability Test Record (TTR 101) For Stereo Cartridges
ConfluentAkhira SanoPhase Contrast From Recollection
My Queen is Dead (Long Live The Queen)Dolly DollyAntimacassar
The Kindest Touch‘t GeruisTerre, Poussière
Sea Fishing. A Survey by Clive Gammon (vinyl excerpt)BBCGone Fishing
As WellBetweenLow Flying Owls
SICKDolly DollyAntimacassar
Shell PatternsCoral SeaIf Memory Serves Me
A Tesco for LiberecJönsMusic for Euronews
KnowBetweenLow Flying Owls
DreamyyuKaraoke
Selte 2 vinyl excerpt)Das Lied der VölkerHawaii
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Ambient Avant Garde Beats Drone Electro-Acoustic Experimental Field Recording Minimal Musique Concrète Radio Synth

Threads Radio – Flatland Frequencies (Pilot Show)

We’re back on the airwaves with a new monthly residency.
Come check every four weeks for the finest horizontal sounds of the flatlands, now via London’s Threads Radio!
First show proper will be 5th July, 1.5 hours of the best new and old experimental electronic music.
In the meantime, get your ears into the pilot episode:

NameArtistAlbumYear
LatticePolyporesPraedormitium2023
a spearhead in my pocketthe humble beelichen cloak on a white stone2023
Spectral Interference (Datassette version)MüchaHello Caller2023
Fõrste snõfall over GravdalT. JervellUndergangen (Håp)2022
QuantisPOSVN0022023
Halftime BluesKalabreseLet Love Rumpel – Part 22022
currykingeikooGikrit2021
a7_rippled_quick editLuke SangerFools Fayre2023
日帰り旅行Psychedelic Digestion TherapyPsychedelic Digestion Therapy2021
SoapUmlaut
2019
Wind for Weighted KeysAndrew CS & GliaNimi2022
The Chance to Jump OffTony RolandoShared System2022
Synthesizer Voice (Legowelt Remix) Pampidoo
2023
GnawLoula YorkePartials III2023
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Ambient Hardware Live Video

Luke Sanger – Live Noodling on Norns + Sidrax

Flatland Freq’s editor Luke gets his feet wet with the awesome orgnwrms script (by andrewcs_ 🪱) for Monome Norns open-source sound computer and appreciates the contrast and interplay of the analog vs digital FM between the two instruments.

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Ambient Beats Drone Experimental Minimal Review Synth

V.A – Partials III (Frequency Domain)

Frequency Domain 3/2/23

Frequency Domain making a welcome return to the fold in 2023 with a string of releases announced, starting with part 3 in their partials various artists series. Featuring familiar names to the labels as well as some new faces, the comp covers a range of styles, but keeping the F.D deepness we’ve come to love and expect.

“We said we’d never do another label comp (as it’s a lot of work), but we’re over the moon with how this one’s turned out. The third edition of our Partials series curates 18 new tracks over two sides of a C90 tape. There’s music from Frequency Domain artists Luke Sanger, Mücha, Jo Johnson, Apologist, Polypores, Datassette, Linnley, Plant43, Quiet Clapping and Matt Whitehead, plus label friends Loula Yorke, Fields We Found, Virusmoto, D1G and Golden Shields. The release also features a handful of collaborative projects between FD artists, appearing here as Trappist, Blue Lamps and Spiral Wrack. All proceeds from the compilation will support the work of UK NGO, the Refugee Council.”

Out Friday 3rd Feb via their bandcamp

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Dub Minimal Review

International Sangman – Death Roads & Spirit Ways 2

Ish Records – 28/1/23

Chasing after the herbs like Druids, a peppery Anansi with a pink balayage hurried by carrying a bunch of loose cables and heavy bulky bags. Mumbling something to herself, we believe she said: “Music is my name. I’m a dreamer.”, we followed her about but soon after lost her path. Walking our way back, a few of these cables were scattered amongst bushes and the mossy forest ground, we found a small cardboard box containing 5 cassettes. Most of them seemed to be unused, but one read “Death Roads” on one side, and “Spirit Ways” on the other.

A somewhat divine and powerful revision of the dub sound, stripped down, full of space, hiss and dynamic depth. A beautiful shimmering with analog wash and broken textures. Dirty and deep, breathing smoke like breathing life. Dubient.

Play it loud. On big speakers. Inhale. Enjoy.

Out now on LP (limited screen print options) and digi via Ish Records

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Ambient Synth

Luke Sanger – Deleting Your Presence

Originally edited to 4 mins and released as a lathe cut 7″ in 2018. 
These are the two original full length pieces, both recorded in one take using the Make Noise Shared System.

Available now via the artist’s Bandcamp