[brh07] From Twilight till Dawn – Squeezed Memories (2009)

Squeezed Memories is a project based on the soundscapes composition through the digital exploration and electro acoustic, influenced by the current ambient and downtempo focused on a purely conceptual mix of ethereal textures, creepy, disturbing and repetitive droning synth melodies. It’s just the sound of deep silence.

Download here.

http://www.archive.org/details/From_Twilight_till_Dawn_-_Squeezed_Memories

[ANGSTPROD LP10] DAMIEN CESBRON – Exocity (2009)

Angstprod: Started from a group of exchange on Soulseek, Angstprod (also called Angstprod Net.labs ) became in 2004 the Net label associative French pioneer, proposing exits directed Electronica, Ambient and industrial musics towards formats of virtual Cd like the formats Iso, .cue or the format Ogg Vorbis.

9 Trax, ambient electronica, idm minimalism, electroacoustic, modern jazz.

Tracklisting :
1.Procession 2 (4:23)
2.Kuiper_Belt_And_Beyond (4:52)
3.Black_Market (3:57)
4.Lost (5:43)
5.Elektrojazz (4:20)
6.Electric Song (4:16)
7.Elektropop (4:21)
8.Sia_Bilou …

http://www.angstprod.org/index.php?page=netreleases

[PHCH013] Inverz – Slow (2009)

Inverz is Thessaloniki-born Savvas Metaxas, who runs the excellent Granny Records stable. Influenced by the likes of Fennesz, Pan American, Alva Noto and My Bloody Valentine, Metaxas utilizes acoustic & electric guitars and an arsenal of pedal effects and field recordings, to create a sound rich in texture and panoramic in depth.

http://www.archive.org/details/Inverz-Slowphch013/

http://www.phantomchannel.co.uk/webreleases.html

[ca334] Menhirs of Er Grah – Live in London (2009)

A short set from Menhirs of Er Grah live at Londonâs Bull and Gate venue. Includes 3 new unreleased songs as well as tracks from his studio albums.

Recorded live at the Bull and Gate, London, 3rd October 2009. Design and Photography by Karolina Urbaniak. All songs written by Thom Carter. Distributed by Clinical Archives. Copyright Verlaine Records 2009.

http://www.archive.org/details/ca334_meg

http://www.clinicalarchives.spyw.com

Aphex Twin – Rhubarb (Remixes)

http://soundcloud.com/astrangelyisolatedplace/

[rb075] Herzog – First summer and the running dream (2009)

Resting Bell is really happy to welcome herzog, a.k.a. Bill Bawden and his latest EP “first summer and the running dream”. Bill’s previous releases on Serein were the first netaudio-works I got in touch with. And you also might know him from his fantastic release on 12rec. So what an honour to do a herzog-release here on Resting Bell.

“first summer and the running dream” contains 5 tracks with a complete duration of 30 minutes. Compared to his earlier works “first summer…“ has a more droning, a bit distorted character. The sounds are layered very softly and sublime to a very harmonic composition. The overall mood is quite laid-back with noisy, distorted splinters. The noisy elements are getting stronger to the end of the EP but it leaves still a very harmonic picture.

For me a perfect soundtrack of the season. Watching raindrops on the window and feeling wind in the hair.

www.archive.org/details/rb075

www.restingbell.net

[NS003] Rho – October Turncoat (2009)

mellow electronic / ambient / acoustic music

Rho is childhood friends Steve Setzepfandt and Josh Wittman. No-Source worked with Rho to curate the October Turncoat EP. October Turncoat sets out of show off Rho’s more acoustic side. Each track contains washes of guitar complimented with subtle ambient texture.

The EP often evokes the sounds of early Bibio or “The Campfire Headphase” era Boards of Canada.

Three songs, Simpl, JW2 and The Game of Flowers are all taken from Rho’s 2008 debut, “Breathing Through the Liquid System”. The songs, Long Drive Home and Lightning Strikes and LEDs are taken from Rho’s most recent album “Glass Memories”. The EP contains one previously unreleased track, And More Rain, a 5 minute journey of backwards guitars, subtle picking, drums and end of a season.

http://full-source.com/nosource/netlabel/releases_003.htm

[SJSEP-9201] Proviant Audio – Mushrooms EP (2009)

Our new member, Mathias Stubø from Norway gives you some really interesting jazz tunes. These are his unreleased works between 2005 and 2007. The five tracks from the EP “Mushrooms” combine glitchy, broken beats with funny, smooth and melodic jazz samples. A real ear candy!

www.sojusrecords.com/loopjazz/proviant-audio-mushrooms-ep-sjsep-9201

Zhang Li – The Habitual Stain (2009)

Composed By: Zhang Li
Software: Timbretronics; Progressive Recursion [Fahy]
Location: Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba; Paris
Date: 2009

www-tracey.archive.org/details/The-Habitual-Stain

http://tomfahy.org/music/?p=325

[SFIRE015] Ringhausen – Sequenced (2009)

Ringhausen, Musican from Germany, the first Musictool 1975 its a do it your self Tonegenerator (XR 2206) and a WEM Copycat Delay.

My Musicheros are : NEU!, Ashra, Achim Reichel (grüne Reise/Echos), Harmonia deluxe, Steve Reich, the old Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze and much more…

Since 1998 Sound-Programmer (not Designer) for Sound Art Elmenhorst.
Synthesizer Sounds for: Waldorf Q, Quasimidi Polymorph, Yamaha….and other
My big Hobby Akustik Recording….

Are you sequenced ?
Mr. Ringhausen (Hans-Ulrich Günther)

www-tracey.archive.org/details/SFIRE015

http://sfintrecords.altervista.org

[ca322] Id of Mobius – Excursions (2009)

The album consists of two lives shows recorded this year of which the whole content is completely improvised.

Id of Mobius are:
Shaun Blezzard (electronics / bass)
Simon Jones (violin / electroacoustic instruments)
Ian Simpson (electronics / lapsteel)
Harry Gallimore (electronics / kaoss instruments)

Id of Mobius had its roots in last years Centrifuge concerts at the Kings Arms in Salford, Manchester which were organised by Frakture (Liverpool). The chance grouping of Shaun, Harry, Ian & Simon received extremely positive feedback with many audience members requesting they ‘do it again’ sometime. Excursions is exactly that, Id of Mobius ‘doing it’.

Id of Mobius features members from Fonik, Good Noise Bad Noise and Noise Club.

My faith in Electronic Musik has been restored (Phil Morton, Frakture)

www.archive.org/details/ca322_im

www.clinicalarchives.spyw.com

[pc0909-01] Stig Inge Oy – 39 68 99 09 (2009)

Stig Inge Oy from Poland incorporates acoustic instruments field recordings and post processed audio signals not commonly associated with music as primary sources for his close-in-the-box electroacoustic music, as he would call it. In the case of 39 68 99 09, the first release for the Petcord netlabel, this equates to tension ridden cinematic soundscapes that confront listeners with gloomy feelings of despair. The title refers to years that Maciej Miskiewicz, the man behind Stig Inge Oy, consider corner stones of the Western civilisation, though it remains unclear which events the composer had in mind. The work is characterised by a chilly feeling of hopelessness that does not entirely go away even at the lighter and more accessible parts. Sombre piano lines are contrasted with glassy drones, ecclectic string parts, guitars drowning in reverberation and processing artifacts like distortion, skipping sources or plain white noise. Caught in between tension and desperation, the listener is confronted with intense feelings that seem to be at odds with today’s tendency of drowning dissent in a sea of political correctness.

Olliver Wichmann

www.archive.org/details/pc0909-01/

www.petcord.com/releases/pc0909-01-stig-inge-oy-39-68-99-09/

[sec.038] Nina-me – Life Of Steps (2009)

Music has always been an important source of inspiration for Nina. She started her singing career in her early twenties and has sung in a number of different bands. Nina is very interested in the arts with particular focus on music, painting and photography.
Nina was born in Stockholm but now resides in Malmö, Sweden.
All songs are written and performed by Nina with the exception of ‘After seven years love’ which was a joint venture together with the late Johan Pettersson and ‘Dying’ on which Johan plays guitar. Unfortunately Johan choose to end his life when only 25 years old, he is still missed to this day.

www.23seconds.org/038.htm

[ca309] Turkey Makes Me Sleepy – The Big Part Of The Wishbone (2009)

Turkey Makes Me Sleepy celebrated its 10 Year Anniversary on April 26th, 2007 with an all-day improvisational recording session. Before that day, group members Michael Adams (Mikadams), Charles Rice Goff III, and Eric Matchett had not all been in a single room at the same time since 2000. The session took place at the Taped Rugs Productions studio in Lawrence, Kansas.

Goff edited the audio highlights of the groupâs anniversary marathon into the seven pieces presented here. Some portions of the recordings were deleted; some of the remaining portions were spliced together; no sound effects were added. What you have here is essentially “the big part of the wishbone.”

A video recording camera was placed in a corner of the studio for a brief time during this session. Goff subsequently played around some with the resulting video, adding photos, effects, and the in-line audio track, creating the lo fi video presented at the link below:

www.archive.org/download/TheBigPartOfTheWishbone/Americabra.mpg

Taped Rugs Productions has produced twelve Turkey Makes Me Sleepy audio releases since 1997. Band members Mikadams, C. Goff III, and Eric Matchett each have a long history of being involved in experimental audio projects and other artistic endeavors.

copyright 2007
Taped Rugs Productions

www.archive.org/details/ca309_tmms

www.clinicalarchives.spyw.com

[LostChildren073] American Green – Roof To Roof (2009)

“Roof To Roof EP” is my second EP.
I think that this EP should be categorized following genres…
Chill-Out, Pop, Electro, Post-Rock, Indietronica, Down-Tempo, Acoustic,
And so on.

I hope you enjoy this EP.

Thank you.

www.archive.org/details/LostChildren073

http://lostchildrennetlabel.wordpress.com

Free Albums Galore » Ben Stepner – four albums

from Free Albums Galore by Marvin

I recently reviewed Ben Stephner’s Sleeping In The Forest, an above average ambient album with ethereal guitar and electronic effects. Since then he has released a number of other albums all just as good or better. As Ben Stepner is primarily a jazz pianist I was especially excited to see two piano albums available. Music fans can now get a more rounded perspective of this talented musician.

Ben Stepner is joined by Bassist Dan Durham and drummer Matt Rousseau on Ode to NEC. This is a jazz trio album that ranges from Bill Evans-ish flourishes as heard on the ironically titled “Cecil Taylor” to more Taylor styled dissonance on “The Nature of Sound”. This is excellent jazz throughout with both Durham and Rouseau right with Stepner every step of the way.

Nineteen Pieces for Piano is also excellent and spotlights the pianist on 19 original solo piano compositions. Both albums features all original material by Stepner. Again there is a variety of sounds ranging from the blues influenced “The Cosmic Lesson” to an impressionistic “Shower”. The pianist has an impressive pallet of colors and tones. This is another excellent album and one of the best piano efforts I’ve featured on Free Albums Galore.

Lucid Dreaming and Reflections returns to ambient guitar and electronics. The albums are more in line with the earlier Sleeping In The Forest. If you looking for ambient styled soundscapes or meditative music these may be what you are looking for. As for me, I have been playing those two piano jazz albums a lot in the past few days.

The albums are in MP3 format. You can either directly download them from the links below, which were provided by permission of the artist, or you can go to the Pure Potentiality Records web site and not only download these albums but other good jazz and ambient offerings by Stepner and other artists.

Download
Ode To NEC
Nineteen Pieces For Piano
Lucid Dreaming
Reflections

Paolo Pavan – Looking for a Way Out (2009)

Self-produced Cd: Paolo & Roberto Pavan

jazz piano instrumental acoustic melodic

Musicians: Paolo Pavan piano, keyboards, computer programming; Stefano Baldasseroni drums (1, 4); Fabrizio Boccardelli drums (2, 3, 5); Alessandro Cioffi drums (6); Devid Medina bass and doublebass (1, 4, 6); Marco Roccuzzo doublebass (2, 3, 5); Daniele Arena trumpet; Davide Marinacci tenor sax; Michele Villari alto and soprano sax.

Cover by Bruno Parretti, cover painting by Mariarosaria Stigliano.

www.jamendo.com/en/album/49558

[ca300] VA – Clinical Anthology (2006-2009) (2009)

Eclectic and illogical compilation from different releases of a netlabel Clinical Archives of the period with 2006 for 2009.

Total time: 379:08

www.archive.org/details/ca300_ca

www.clinicalarchives.spyw.com

[RB066] Bas van Huizen – Wegwerpwee (2009)

Bas van Huizen is a sound and visual artist (video/animation) from Nijmegen the Netherlands. You may know him from his “Ontgalman”-release on test tube or from his physical releases on Etherkreet records. A label focusing on electroacoustic and improvised music, which he runs together with Ezra Jacobs.

“Wegwerpwee” contains 8 tracks. According to Bas most of the material is older than “Ontgalman”, but he mixed and remastered everything for this release. And it is a wonderful piece of electroacoustic-experimental-ambient-music. “Wegwerpwee” has a rough, down-to-earth, handmade touch. Very drony, with background-noises, hisses, crackles, melody layers, all mixed and set together very carefully and subtly.

Please also have a listen to “Ontgalman” at test tube and his output on Etherkreet. And to maximise your pleasure: Make sure to listen with headphones.

www.archive.org/details/rb066

www.restingbell.net/releases/rb066-wegwerpwee

[plague037] Royce Icon – A Warm Summer’s Day (2009)

Cold ambient soundscapes recorded late one afternoon in July 09 using a Korg EA-1 electribe, guitar and voice.

Royce Icon has been releasing experimental music for the past 7  years. So far he has released over 20 records, both online and through physical labels. aside from solo music he is also involved in the bands Gentle Beast, Starvation Ritual, Dracula Biscuits and Die Rote Form.

www-tracey.archive.org/details/plague037

www.thisplagueofdreaming.net/netlabel/plaguenews.html

[ca297] VA – The Synthi Group Vol. 1 (2009)

Formed in 1969, Electronic Music Studios (EMS) quickly became innovators for the recording, production and advancement of electronic music. The ideas and designs that bubbled forth out of the ingenuitive minds of Peter Zinovieff, Tristram Cary, David Cockerell and others, led to the creation of some of the most wildly original musical/sound design equipment ever conceived. The VCS3, Synthi A + AKS, Synthi 100, Synthi E, Synthi Logik and the Soundbeam are among these, almost unworldly, devices. [...]

www.archive.org/details/ca297_tsg

www.clinicalarchives.spyw.com

[pc0809] Fabio Keiner – Resonant (2009)

Resonant, the latest album from Austrian artist Fabio Keiner, is a collection of electroacoustic works that have accumulated over the years. It therefore shows a certain degree of variety in sound, density and complexity, emphasising different timbres, pitches and variations on basic structures. This orchestration without an orchestra is effectfully interspersed with minimalist, almost fragment-like works or low key drones. Resonant as faint memories re-entering one’s mind with familiar scents, shapes and sounds, Fabio Keiner’s latest album seems to describe an irrational world, one that turns the inside out.

Olliver Wichmann

www.archive.org/details/pc0809-01

www.petcord.com

[treetrunk 090] Anton Mobin- Inner Collapse (2009)

Treetrunk is proud to bring you this work by French musician and sound artist Anton Mobin: “My work is called ‘Inner Collapse’. It’s an electro-acoustic collision between home-made instruments… Quite drony & ghostly sound art–
Not an improvisation, but an original composition for Treetrunk. . .” –Anton Mobin, 2009

Treetrunk finds this work to be interesting and enjoyable.

www.archive.org/details/Mobin_Inner_Collapse

http://mystifiedmusic.com/treetrunk-records/

[ca294] Bernardo Barros, Henrique Iwao & Mario Del Nunzio – Musica Eletronica 2004 (2009)

That all the pieces in this compilation were composed in 2004 (exceptions being Frankfurt, Frankfurt & Nec Spe Nec Metu, both composed in 2003), is far from being a curiosity. In such period of time, Bernardo Barros, Mario Del Nunzio & Henrique Iwao were living in the same city, Campinas, and studying at the Music Department of the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), where they had the rare opportunity of being in a creative environment, full of exchanges between the participants and of occasions to show and discuss new works. From the last months of 2002 till the end of 2004, the university was open to new propositions and behaving as an open and living space. This fact resulted, in the works of these composers, in the pieces here presented (and others premiered during the same period), in which there are clear mutual influences (denoted by the use of similar sound materials and by sharing technical procedures), but also preoccupations and predispositions of a highly individual character (the improvisational gesturality of Del Nunzio, the automated procedures of Barros, the structural rigidity of Iwao).

(Henrique Iwao and Mario Del Nunzio. Translation: Mario Del Nunzio)

All musics composed in 2004, except “Frankfurt, Frankfurt”, composed in 2003.
Album Art: Henrique Iwao
Album Photographs: Bruno Yanagizawa

http://www.archive.org/details/ca294_bidn

http://www.clinicalarchives.spyw.com

[earman089] Petal – The Last Season (2009)

Earth Mantra is proud to welcome acoustic ambient wizard Jon Wheeler of Petal to our netlabel, with his magnificent and refreshingly unique new album “The Last Season”.

This album is all about contemplation and tension, and musically represents a meditation on memory and the loss of context. The music asks a question: when a person or place that we associate with certain memories ceases to be, how far does grief overtake truth? To answer that question, Jon’s goal was to create a soundtrack for a fictional movie, one that would have a high level of human emotion and content, but which wouldn’t have a single person actually in it. In this imagined film, the music would have to drive the narrative and completely compensate for the lack of a human presence.

The soundscapes came about as a result of hardware failure. Forced by a system crash to move from a modern laptop to an ancient computer, Jon found there wasn’t enough processing power to do anything fancy, nor was there enough storage to keep a lot of data. As a result, each day for a month, he recorded a half hour of loops and immediately threw away all except the best moments from the session, sometimes saving five minutes of useful audio, sometimes only thirty seconds, many days throwing the session away entirely. Amazingly, the loops were made mostly with banjo samples (acoustic and electric), along with some software synths for the drones. When Jon had collected about an hour’s worth of audio, he began mixing those which were most complementary, usually recombining and remixing the same loops over and over again.

Throughout this process Jon began writing melodic themes on acoustic guitar, which complemented the textures and mood of the evolving loop mixes. All the while, the narrative framework for the fictional motion picture came together in his head. When the laptop finally came back from the shop, Jon recorded the melodic themes he had been composing and finalized the soundscape/loop mixes, combining the drones with the themes themselves, producing the fictional soundtrack at long last.

The result was this marvelous album, a delicious and fascinating fusion of dark ambient and acoustic instrumentation unlike anything we have ever heard previously. Folks, we listen to a lot of ambient music, but we are floored by what Jon has achieved here. To transform the banjo and acoustic guitar, staples of Americana not electronica, into such evocative and mature ambient pieces as these is a flat-out jaw-dropping accomplishment. And regardless of how he produced it, the music of “The Last Season” is simply beautiful.

In fact, we believe Jon Wheeler may be one of the most creative and ingenious ambient artists active today. We certainly could not be prouder to be bringing you this gorgeous and emotional release. Highly highly recommended.

http://www.archive.org/details/earman089

http://earthmantra.com/thelastseason

rec72[023] Small Radio – Le Migre EP (2009)

Le Migre EP gives an almost 17 minutes long acoustic drive-through the universe of Small Radio; one will immediately recognize that there is an entire album hidden in this release. Le Migre is a dense package of multi-genre-crossing music and one won’t get rid off guitars on that debut EP, too! If you are into smart Electronica adapting the sound from two guitar heroes, than go ahead with those four tracks on Le Migre EP by Small Radio:

http://rec72.net/?p=206

[ca291] Keith Morris & The Crooked Numbers – Live Candy (2009)

Keith Morris is an American singer-songwirter born in Talladega, Alabama and raised in Columbus, Georgia. Now residing in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Charlottesville, Virginia, he is a regular fixture on the music scene there, playing with the likes of Paul Curreri and folk legend Devon Sproule. He released his debut album, ‘Songs From Candyapolis’ on City Salvage Records (USA) in 2007.

http://www.archive.org/details/ca291_km

http://www.clinicalarchives.spyw.com

Skeksis Netlabel Project – 10 Songs… – Vol.8: Spirits of Summer (2009)

Release: July 2009
Genre: Wave, Indie, Post Rock, Ambient

The eighth part of the series brings you a varied mix of catchy (but also deep and emotional) songs and atmospheric instrumental tracks.
‘Spirits of Summer’ is a soundtrack for sunny days, starlit nights and the life itself.
So, If you like new wave, folk, post rock, indie pop, piano, ambient, shoegaze or simply good music you should definitely check this out!

PS: Almost all of the ten bands and artists on the sampler offer their full albums as free downloads!

http://www.archive.org/details/10SongVol8

http://www.myspace.com/skeksis_86

[sfp06] HALO XVI – The Sixteenth Hour (2009)

HALO XVI is the project of italian musician Gianpaolo Diacci, who’s been playing bass, among other instruments in several bands over the years. For the album “The Sixteenth Hour” he is accompanied with Giorgio Ricci and Massimo Berizzi. Together, they have created an ambient album that’s full of misty atmospheric soundscapes, fused together with guitars and something that’s not often heard in context of electronic music, the trumpet. A word from the artist himself:

“The Sixteenth Hour is indeed a weird title for a record, given that there are little or no connections with the band’s name. It has it’s roots in not so distant time, when the sixteenth hour was the hour in which a lot of things, real and fantastic, were accomplished. It was the magic time of the day, a new beginning, the end of the daily routine and the start of lucid dreaming. The atmosphere and the soundscapes we tried to summone on the EP come directly from that time. We tried to obtain all this by the means of an array of modern electronics, electric vibrations from some bass and guitar, and, most of all, the breathe of a trumpet.”

http://www.archive.org/details/sfp06

http://softphase.org/netlabel/releases/sfp06

[pc0609-02] Greg Surges solid state (2009)

Greg Surges, an US-based composer with a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours in composition and music technology, creates both electroacoustic and contemporary classic works that incorporate improvisations, algorithms, instructions for sound manipulation and open forms with variable passages. An introduction to these concepts provides his first album for the Petcord netlabel, “Solid State” with three works, one of these in two different versions (hence the total of four tracks).

Swarm, the opener, can be considered an experiment in technology with distinct sections that tries to avoid ambient drone stereotypes and opts for unrest instead and uses the positioning of sound (panning) as part of the composition, too. Solid State, is a work for a Laptop ensemble and a piano solist, whose input is used as “raw source” that is further processed by the participants until a solid state of uniform sonority is reached. 153 x 56, a work for traditional instruments, utilises variable elements that rely on the participants’ imagination and creativity and and can lead at times to entirely different results, as the two versions included on the release demonstrate.

Olliver Wichmann

http://www.archive.org/details/pc0609-02

http://www.petcord.com/