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This is a record released by experimental brothers Simon Lanz & Tobias Lanz from Bern, Germany on the Swiss drone label Hallow Ground in November 2023.Contains 11 minimal drone to ambient drone songs using a self-made pipe organ. DL code and booklet included.Below is an explanation by the label. "The first collaborative album by brothers Simon and Tobias. The album was written for and performed on a prototype of a homemade wind instrument inspired by the classical pipe organ, but the two composers The cum-performer was able to surpass its limits in several ways.The music on this 4-minute album, produced for the Swiss Hallow Ground label, was created by the label's co-founding with the CRTTR collective. Conceived and recorded during an artist residency in their hometown of Bern in May 2, Arches is more than just a record of a performance. , the artist's interest in exploring unknown, creative and new tonal horizons within and beyond the realm of drone music, and his background in visual art and design, combine into a conceptually concise whole.Simon and Tobias come from a background in electronic music and share a penchant for drone music, so they have used this novel instrument to overcome the constraints inherent in the dominance of the 40-tone scale in Western music, and to use traditional pipes to They were designed in a way that allowed for microtonal tuning, allowing them to handle a much broader and more nuanced sonic palette than the organ.Furthermore, the physical design of these instruments was inspired by the instruments that inspired them. This gives musicians the freedom to invent and explore completely new ways of playing.'' Label and other works here /// Click here to see...

This is a collaborative record released by experimental musicians Lawrence English from Australia and Werner Dafeldecker from Austria on the Swiss drone label Hallow Ground in November 2. Contains two long-form sound collages and dronescapes created by Werner Dafeldecker based on field recordings collected by Lawrence English. DL code included.It's an orange edition.Below is an explanation by the label. "Tropic of Capricorn is the second album by Lawrence English and Werner Dafeldecker.Based on field recordings made by the prolific Room 2023 owner, the legendary Austrian improviser uses electro-acoustic techniques to Subtly but decisively inflected, these two full-length works blur the lines between sonic ecology and aesthetic intervention, between concrete local sound worlds and transnational art. The works question where nature ends and human perception begins, and at the same time focus on the relationship between us, the listeners, and nature. They deeply disturb and, perhaps, dazzle in the most beautiful of ways. English recorded the base material on two different field trips, one in the Pilbara region from the west coast to northern Australia, and the other in the Arrernte lands of the central desert. "And in some ways, it's a rejection of the modern civilization's refusal to listen to the land," says English.When recording the soundscapes, the artist focused on the remnants of failed colonial aspirations. "The buildings and objects that remain from failed ranches and other efforts create their own ominous world of sounds. "Even in the most remote places, the distant drone of industry can be heard. He eventually brought back a document on natural regeneration.

This is a record released by Sam Dunscombe, an experimental musician from Berlin, Germany, on the Australian experimental label Black Truffle in November 2023.Contains two sound collage/drone songs processed from field recordings of the forest and the sea.Below is an explanation by the label. Two Forests begins in a redwood forest in central California.Bird songs and insect calls are processed with various time-based processing methods (slicing and recombination, primitive granular synthesis, delay, etc.) to remove the linear, documentary character from field recordings and to reduce traces and echoes. reconstructed in a fascinating web. Dunscombe analyzed the pitches contained in the original recording and generated a large set of just-intonated pitches.These sounds are slowly woven into the field recordings, gradually increasing in density and complexity, transforming the forest into a surreal space of infinite proportions.At the end of the song, we break out of this cosmic expanse and find ourselves in the Amazon rainforest outside Manaus, Brazil. As Dunscombe writes, the work creates "a strange sense of place, where space and time simultaneously expand and contract across octaves, miles, and minutes." On Oceanic, various beach recordings fade in and out, the rhythm of the waves and the depth and distance of each recording creating a homogeneous yet ever-changing texture.The tones, related in simple proportions to the average rhythm of each beach, overlap each other, coloring the field recording's white noise texture with shifting hues.In both works, Dunscombe rejects the easy consonance of contemporary ambient music in favor of richer harmonic arrangements derived from extended tuning practices and spectralism.The result suggests a hitherto undreamed-of encounter between the rolling sonic masses of Radulesque and the sparingly processed location recordings of Ivtaiber's "psychologically extreme" Environments. .Beyond the narrow-mindedness that can plague experimental music culture, Dunscombe's work makes a moving case for the healing power of a wide-ranging approach to sound and music.Beyond psychedelic therapy, frequent immersion in Two Forests/Oceanic is almost certain to have psychologically beneficial results. " Click here to see other works from the label /// Click here to see...

V Vecker Ensemble, led by multi-instrumentalist V Vecker from Vancouver, Canada, released a limited edition of 2023 cassettes on Vancouver's ambient to IDM label Hotham Sound Recordings in November 11.Contains 70 spacey dark ambient songs. DL code included.Click here to see more Hotham Sound Recordings...