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wh222 Ash shA – State of Cosmic Factories

C.P. McDill — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:33:56 +0000

Ash shA, a synth musician from Russia, returns with a work completed in memory of a fellow artist who passed away while collaborating on this piece.

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Melodies, beats, drones and synthesized sound effects are woven into a rich sonic tapestry that engages the attention like an invitation to a voyage.

About the album:
“This work is dedicated to the memory of my good friend – a musician Dmitry Zubov (Hypnoz, Zuboff Sex Shop, Der Golem, BRZB). It was originally written specifically for him as a soundtrack for further refinement and blending instruments and voices. Unfortunately, Dmitry died of pneumonia October 25, 2011 (he was 35 years old) in Fryazino outside Moscow. The bright memory of him.”

Vitalij Elektronoizov: composer and performer
Using a vintage soviet-era synth called “Kvintet”
Recorded in 2011-12
Visit his site: http://ashsha.bandcamp.com/

Track List:
01 State of Cosmic Factories [00:34:10]

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wh221 Witch Farmer – Love Potion

C.P. McDill — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:04:13 +0000

Witch Farmer’s debut on Webbed Hand is a seamless blending of soothing synth ambient and a restless undercurrent of noise.

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The agitated and distorted sounds which comprise the underlayer of this recording were generated from a heavily-effected contact mic capturing vibrations from steel strings. Spread over this is a shifting soundscape of drone ambient, drawing the listener between the tension of one and the release of the other.

About the album:
“The Love Potion’s sound kind of came out of a family break up and a small depression. Hints the beauty and the chaos of the sound of the release.”
Album was recorded – April 2012
Music performed by Anthony William Grant
Produced in San Luis Obispo, CA
Instruments: Steel springs, Contact mics , Effects pedals and a synthesizer

Track List:
01 Love Potion [00:32:05]

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wh220 The Ghost Between The Strings – Unfinished Decline

C.P. McDill — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 01:24:17 +0000

The signature sound of tgbts is the use of heavily processed guitar to craft profound droning soundscapes.

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About the album:
A selection of tracks recorded between 2009 and 2011 that were all more or less planned to be completed – but finally stayed in their first, raw state, with various flaws. This is TGBTS’ 2nd “posthumous” album.
As usual, using only guitars (often prepared, detuned, e-bowed…) and effects.

About the artist:
“One person project, creating experimental soundscapes with guitar sounds only : between raw guitar drones, dark ambient, ambient-noise, and no-wave / experimental rock.
TGBTS curates the free download section of the Eg0cide Productions label.
He is also a member of Stillborn Ghosts and Rivers Of Ashes (with lusruta)” from last.fm

Official page: http://www.tgbts.com/
egOcide Productions: http://eg0cide.com/

Track List:
01 Seconds Before [05:35]
02 The Last Dawn [06:58]
03 Letting The Dream Consume Itself [09:10]
04 Failure After Failure [09:52]
05 Unheard Voices [10:49]
06 Questions To The Ocean [05:33]

wh219 Eccentrum – Hurricanes

C.P. McDill — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:56:17 +0000

Ominously deep drones by Eccentrum were named after hurricanes, a natural weather force that inspired this album.

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About the album:
“Hurricanes, awe-inspiring and foreboding weather phenomena, were an inspiration for this work – a journey through the deep and dark sounds.” – the artist

Credit:
The cover picture is a wall of a hurricane’s eye, source: NOAA.

Track List:
01. Fausto [08:41]
02. Omeka [05:00]
03. Sarika [06:46]
04. Sean [06:43]
05. Vastness of Fog [04:39]

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wh218 The Nikki Grace Experience – Divergence

C.P. McDill — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 23:15:36 +0000

In “Divergence” the post-rock/ambient fusion of The Nikki Grace Experience explores the concepts of nearness and separation, the first of a trilogy.

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About the album:
“For a long time, I’ve worked on this piece of music. I was not sure whether to release it or not, but now I think it’s time to release the first part of a trilogy. Divergence is the parting from everyone you’ve ever loved that was closing into your heart. So “We Breathe Differently” says so much about nearing and letting go. We breathe so differently, inhale the same, but exhale so heartless. The song is created for a second heart we’re all looking for and flows into the question “Is Anyone Still Here?” Here and there, looking around, hopeless and strange and falling into “Black Tar Hearts” crawling and motionless, drowning into a fiery magma of long lost hope, with the look of “All Things I Can Not Hold Near.” The things that ripped out of your hands and dive in “This Wailing Sea,” the sea we want to split like Moses, and at the same time, we want to walk on it like Jesus … nothing’s stranger than closeness … that’s the mind of “Divergence,” a piece of music that’s written and arranged by myself in the Proclambient Studios, in the desert of middle Germany …Thanxx” — the artist

About the artist:
“The Nikki Grace Experience — The Project was born in the year 2010. The Idea of the musical fusion rose from my novel Eta Carinae, existing since 2008. I try to put all dark and sinister images into musical landscapes and post-rockish and ambiental walls. I’m always inspired by journeys through my home, Germany, the Woods, the people, all strange things I see every day, and over there I’m inspired from other beautiful countries like Ireland, the northern countries, all this, with its breath of coldness but beautiful strangeness. I think Music must be a kind of Heart and Soul and the Heart of the Soul turns into Music.” — the artist

Note: This album was originally released under the artist attribution Eta Carinae, and has been retroactively renamed.

Tracklist:

01 We Breathe Differently [10:41]
02 Is Anyone Still Here? [06:24]
03 Black Tar Hearts [10:01]
04 All Things I Can Not Hold Near [13:19]
05 This Wailing Sea [11:02]

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wh217 Mystified – Dance Like Branches

C.P. McDill — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 22:02:31 +0000

The result of a creative challenge, this work uses a variety of acoustic instruments and sound sources to craft rhythms and ambient textures.

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“Dance Like Branches” was a response to an artistic challenge by C.P. McDill for mystified to compose in an older style, and without using certain tools. All sounds were created by hand in the studio from instruments played by Thomas, with the exception of the vocal samples.

Musicians who like the sounds are welcome to remix them or to use them in their own mixes, with attribution. The remix kit:

http://mystified.bandcamp.com/album/dance-like-branches-remix-kit

Credits:
Thomas Park (Mystified) – all instruments, recording & production.
visit mystifiedmusic.com

Track List:
01 Dance Like Branches 1 [04:59]
02 Dance Like Branches 2 [05:33]
03 Dance Like Branches 3 [04:46]
04 Dance Like Branches 4 [05:08]
05 Dance Like Branches 5 [01:29] (see video)

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wh216 Ice Guild Kaiser – The Past Is Foreign

C.P. McDill — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 21:37:14 +0000

Further exploration of atmospheric improvisations on heavily effected guitar characterize this sequel to “The Goat Encompasses.”

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Ice Guild Kaiser is a recording project of C.P. McDill and is a sub-project of Saluki Regicide in ways that are difficult to define. Is it a variant personality, a mutation, a doppelganger, or an entirely new form of life? Still finding its way, perhaps we shall see it mature into its own person, though we are aware that the apple seldom falls far from the tree…

Credits:
Recorded & Produced by
C.P. McDill – Guitar, e-bow, synth, accordion, autoharp, voice, effects, samples

Track List:
01 Endless Raven [10:32]
02 The Past Is Foreign [07:04]
03 The Arcane Dreamboat [06:06]
04 A Porcelain Astronaut [07:34]
05 Weathered Dollhouse [03:44]

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wh214 Mystified – Bone Drones 5

C.P. McDill — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 22:45:13 +0000

Further explorations of the dronescape by Mystified with his remarkable blue plastic trombone.

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Bone Drones has now become an open-ended quest to find the sonic possibilities of the trombone as a drone instrument.

“For Bone Drones 5, Mystified brought in some new elements. One was Paulstretch– some of the pBone sounds were stretched before they were further effected, giving them more of a string-like quality. Another was bits and pieces of an ancient opera recording, highly warped and effected. You can hear them if you listen closely. Special thanks go out to David Nemeth for specifically asking for more Bone Drones — Mystified hopes he can continue to furnish new Bone Drones whenever there is a need.” – T. Park

Credits:
Thomas Park (Mystified) – Trombone (pBone), recording & production.
visit mystifiedmusic.com

Track List:
01 Bone Drone 19 [10:30]
02 Bone Drone 20 [10:29]
03 Bone Drone 21 [09:57]
04 Bone Drone 22 [10:14]

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wh213 The Nikki Grace Experience – Rest

C.P. McDill — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 03:02:03 +0000

The Nikki Grace Experience combines a variety of influences, from classical, jazz and post-rock with the moods and soundscapes of dark ambient.

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About the album:
“The Album ‘REST’ was recorded and mastered by myself in my own Proclambient (means Progressive-Classical-Ambient) Studio at my Home in Germany. It was a process about one year, I put all my ideas together, first on piano (that´s played by myself on a Midi keyboard). The speeches on “Broken Home” I took from a Creative Commons blog –it´s a preacher who’s talking and weeping about God and Jesus– together it´s my interpretation of a broken home that´s left and leaving. All strings I used were formed from synthesizer tunes into real strings by myself. The dialogue on “Playback rewind…” are recorded in Dutch speech one year ago by myself; it´s an old Woman which would not leave alone her old cassette player. Sad story I think, deep minded and terrible. “Easy Steps Moving Downward” is the newest one on this release. It´s my own favorite, a little bit jazzy I think. It´s a view to the next releases I´m working on. The drums are created by myself on a drum machine that I use for my computer, also Midi into real stuff. “Spaetrot” is a German word and means “the last Autumn light.” It was the hardest song to work on – the speeches are an old couple (on it you can hear one of them, together you can hear it on the second Part I´m working on) who are talking about their time as teachers in the past, a remembrance which sounds like a last autumn light I think. It was taken from Creative Commons blog called Freesound. So “Rest” is putting all the sad stories together. It´s a very personal song about my dead Father who died 26 Years ago, my inner peace to find him everywhere, sounds like a ghost story. It´s the deepest Song for me on this release. I´ve worked on it 6 Months and made it by myself, Which was important for me.” — the artist

About the artist:

“The Nikki Grace Experience — The Project was born in the year 2010. The Idea of the musical fusion rose from my novel Eta Carinae, existing since 2008. I try to put all dark and sinister images into musical landscapes and post-rockish and ambiental walls. My music is like a mirror, very different, sometimes strange, jazzy, classical, melancholical but always The Nikki Grace Experience. The full release called ‘Rest’ is the first full length I´ll release. In two years I wrote tons of tracks and ‘scapes. I think ‘Rest’ is now ready to go out. It´s very experimental I think, all of The Nikki Grace Experience flows into ‘Rest’, from electronica spheres to rock parts. It´s not a concept album; every song stands alone and for itself and flow into ‘Rest’. I´m always inspired by journeys through my home, Germany, the Woods, the people, all strange things I see every day, and over there I´m inspired from other beautiful countries like Ireland, the northern countries, all this, with its breath of coldness but beautiful strangeness. I think Music must be a kind of Heart and Soul and the Heart of the Soul turns into Music.” — the artist

Note: This album was originally released with the artist attribution Eta Carinae, and has been retroactively renamed.

Tracklist:

01 Broken Home [06:56]
02 Playback Rewind, Forward Rewind [11:30]
03 Easy Steps to Moving Downward [08:56]
04 Rest [18:13]
05 Spätrot [09:37]

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wh212 Nasienie – How To Say Goodbye EP

C.P. McDill — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 02:39:07 +0000

With “How to Say Goodbye” Nasienie sculpts a dark, droney soundscape which incorporates recorded sounds and a subtle melodic motif.

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About:
This single longform composition is described by the artist as “downtempo electronic sound with influences from drone and sometimes ambient techno.”

Recorded and Produced by Nasienie
Artwork by Annie Lou.

Track List:
01 How To Say Goodbye [16:23]

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