Flatland Frequencies
Refining her setup and sound, Lou has been beavering away over the border in Suffolk on a more minimalist approach to her compositional process. Channeling early Kosmiche sensibilities, with a modern twist, Yorke conjures mesmerizing, arpeggio-driven realms that beckon listeners into the cyclical embrace of time itself.
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
Polypores Live 2023 showcases a departure from his previously released musical endeavors, opting for an exploratory approach rooted in improvisation and continual discovery. A patchwork quilt of modular delight, the snippets of each live performance incorporate selective repetitions, ensuring that each rendition remains a unique and distinct experience.
Nehalennia documents the second meeting of the The Cley Project. We were able to meet and play again in the inspiring surrounds of the same artist’s house we used last year in Cley.
These tracks are a development of the music we made last year and utilise more prepared musical elements in the improvisations. More time has also been spent on producing and mixing the tracks.
Joseph Myoushin Sanger – Shakuhachi
Dave Pullin – Bass
Harralulu – Electronics
Recorded & mixed by Cley Project
Available now at Bandcamp
The release date for Lou’s new album Volta – January 23rd 2024 – with a video for the first single ‘It’s been decided that if you lay down no-one will die’ going live as a YouTube Premiere this Tues 17th Oct at 9.00AM GMT
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
| Name | Artist | Album | Year |
| Flowstate | Cate Brooks | Easel Studies | 2023 |
| Warm Currents | Polypores | Azure | 2020 |
| Jamestown (Accra) | Luke Sanger | Field Recordings | |
| Amulet | IE | Pome LP | 2018 |
| Tchaikovsky, Valse Sentimentale | Clara Rockmore | Ohm – The Early Gurus of Electronic Music 1948-1980 | 2000 |
| Curig | Cate Brooks | Easel Studies | 2023 |
| Delphic (Extended Mix) | Yeon | In The Flow | 2023 |
| thai_mountain_amb | Luke Sanger | Field Recordings | |
| Clockworks | Laurie Spiegel | The Expanding Universe | 2012 |
| Outline of Nature | Twilight Sequence | Outline of Nature | 2023 |
| False Azure | Night Gestalt | Staring Light | 2023 |
| learning the door | dan derks | phylum | 2019 |
| Soft Meadow | Green-House | Six Songs for Invisible Gardens | 2020 |
| A Fresh Dawn For North Cheshire | Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan | Building a New Town | 2023 |
| all the way to kang | roya | bound | 2020 |
| A Sonic Womb Part III | Suzanne Ciani | A Sonic Womb: Live Buchla Performance at Lapsus | 2020 |
| uume 24 extended mix | Claude & Ola | uume | 2023 |
| Unfamiliar Wind (Leeks Hills) | Brian Eno | Ohm – The Early Gurus of Electronic Music 1948-1980 | 2000 |
| Telepath | Boards of Canada | Tomorrow’s Harvest | 2013 |
| Sacred Transparency I | Night Gestalt | Staring Light | 2023 |
| An Act Of Surrender – Part 1 | Thomas Stone | An Act Of Surrender | 2022 |
| Lichwake Familiars | Food People | Mirrors & Vegetables | 2020 |
| Before this Body is Forsaken | Aeons | Into Eternity’s Embrace | 2023 |
| crumple your crypto | roya | bound | 2020 |
| hiroshima_frogs | Luke Sanger | Field Recordings |
Live performance of Karlheinz Essl’s “Coastline” project for modular synth patched as an unstable dynamic system. Performed in the CMS assembly hall SX55 in front of the CMS life size image (18m x 18m) at CERN P5- CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid experiment) at CERN, the European Centre for Particle Physics on August 17, 2023. Filmed by Michael Hoch.
https://www.essl.at/works/coastlines.html
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!
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