Surprise package from James and Cynthia aka ‘awakened souls’.
5 tracks of carefully considered drones, created on 6 string bass, synth, guitar, vocals and synth.
Out now via bandcamp
Tag: drone
Another fine year for music here in the flatlands.
Here are our ten most frequented frequencies of the past 12 months. Go check them out and support the artists!
1. Tape Loop Orchestra – Onde Sinusoïdale Et Bande Magnétique
2. S. Costa – The Radiant Point
3. Cate Brooks – Easel Studies
4. T.Jervell & ChromaDots – Faksfjord / Fragsfjord
5. Field Lines Cartographer – Tone Maps
6. Elia Piana – Sotto l’Albero Tutto Si Copre
7. Anagrams – Blue Voices
8. Night Gestalt – The Staring Night
9. VirusMoto – ◯
10. Sundheim – Glades of Flowering Stone
Excellent 3-part documentary on one of my favourite musicians of modern times, Laurie Speigel
A range of heavy dronescapes from Mosiac Tapes aka Simon Thomas, which traverse from fucking intense and dark, to submersed deep underwater, to noisy industrial wastelands. The sound, often reminiscent of distant machinery and ominous rumblings, hangs in the air like a spectral presence, filling the void with a disconcerting and mysterious energy.
Out on cassette and digital, this Friday 1st December via bandcamp
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
| Name | Artist | Album | Year |
| Coded Music Apparatus: Patterns On The Pitch Graph | Hugh Le Caine | Compositions Demonstrations 1946-1974 | 1955 |
| like lightning | Adam Bosarge | Structures Without Rooms | 2023 |
| Interview 1963 (WRVR, Riverside Radio, NYC) | Tod Dockstader | Interview 1963 (WRVR, Riverside Radio, NYC) | 1963 |
| Sunrise Of The Planetary Dream Collector | Terry Riley & Don Cherry | Live Köln 1975 | 1975 |
| A Room of One’s Own | Ed Herbers | Coming of Age | 2023 |
| Windy broad (Field Recording) | Luke Sanger | Field Recordings SD702T | 2014 |
| polymer | arovane | polymer | 2023 |
| The Oak Of The Golden Dreams | Richard Maxfield / Harold Budd | The Oak Of The Golden Dreams | 1970 |
| Mouth Cavity Oscillator With MKI Touch Sensitive Organ | Hugh Le Caine | Compositions Demonstrations 1946-1974 | 1955 |
| bend toward the light. | Adam Bosarge | Structures Without Rooms | 2023 |
| ajatik | arovane | polymer | 2023 |
| Angel Fix | Pauline Oliveros | Reverberations: Tape & Electronic Music 1961-1970 | 2012 |
| Perseids | S. Costa | The Radiant Point | 2023 |
| Pipes | Tod Dockstader | Aerial #2 | 2005 |
| The Radiant Point | S. Costa | The Radiant Point | 2023 |
| Music For Expo | Hugh Le Caine | Compositions Demonstrations 1946-1974 | 1967 |
| Sitting in the dunes (Field Recording) | Luke Sanger | Field Recordings SD702T | 2014 |
| Fantasy In Space | Luening | Tape Recorder Music | 1955 |
| 물먹는하마 | Yetsuby | Water Flash EP | 2023 |
| Field Recording | Luke Sanger | Field Recordings SD702T | 2014 |
This was originally streamed as a live improv on Bandcamp Live. In hindsight, I think it’s an OK set, with range of moods and timbres. My fave sections are the looser unpredictable bits (mostly phonogene-related weirdness) and in the future will try to focus in more on these techniques. Maybe a bit overkill on the pentatonics, but there we go…
Things used:
- Make Noise Shared System (with older phonogene module)
- 2hp pluck
- Cabernet Sauvignon
- House plants
Soaring, psychotropic drones, which manage to tastefully meld spoken word, cello and synthesised tones into a deep meditative experience.
An entirely mesmerising release which ticks all the boxes (for me) when it comes to drones. Evolving textures and shifting synth tones combine with beautifully ghostly vocal elements, the resultant effect is somewhat intoxicating. Would love to hear this live.
Order the cassette or digital via their Bandcamp
Eerie electronica, characterised by distant synthetic messages and spindly environmental noise. The latest offering from A Year In The Country, continues with earthy drones and odd folklore in both it’s sound design and accompanying Novella.
Deep and heady drones from AHRKH. Two 30 minute pieces unfold at considered pace, resulting in distinct mind states from the experience.