another new release from John Foxx
http://www.ghostharmonic.com/
Ghost Harmonic are solo violinist Diana Yukawa, electronic pioneer John Foxx and his collaborator in John Foxx And The Maths - Benge.
They’ve been working at Benge’s MemeTune Studios in Shoreditch, London over the last couple of years, creating the Ghost Harmonic sound - a combination of the purity of Diana Yukawa’s violin with the complexity and textured noise of analogue machinery.
Thx for post ML. 
Just had a 3.5h aft siesta to http://www.lowlightmixes.blogspot.com 'Quiet Winter Sun ' and 'Summer Sleep' mixtapes one after another. So much heavenly drone feelings in those files.
I have a thing for early/mid90s dreamy Ambient and here is another fine example of this sound:
Yantra on SynewaveUK (released September 1994), goes for little money too these days (on discogs marketplace at least)
http://www.discogs.com/Yantra-360/release/81393
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FTAL 031 - Bamboo Stilts - Beneath The Bark (Eilean) / RST - Palimpsest (Aucourant)
Slowly drifting sonic Polaroids. Slim sized droplets of white noise on a fuzzy drone cornerstone. A slight veering unto the dark, like a data trail that brings up lies in the centrifuge. But neither Orla Wren, Leigh Toro and Robert Scott Thompson become overweight mass mercenaries of incited doom. Instead, their soundscapes here intrigue and perplex logic.
Beneath the Bark is like a softer cousin, whereas Palimpsest tricks and ticks along with a reddish rogueness about the sounds. Both releases are rhythmically stilted and sullen, but contain a good dose of vitalising progression. Their tactility is a matrix snake that sneaks from the undergrowth of drone to surprise when least expected, but with a genetically softer bite.
The pleasing ease of whacked out soporificity in vibe and tone, then, can be seen as an example of polarised toxicity towards attitude between listener and auteur.
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FTAL 032 - 09.07.15
Multicast Dynamics - Aquatic System
Denovali vinyl/CD/DL
I'm not sure which label this is on, but what I do know isit's incredibly
quieting and easing. MD paint with a restricted dub techno and ambient drone
palette that rarely fringes on pulse. Being a pub dog brings with it a fave
pub snack, a walk of choice, a favourite spot at the bar. And this is true of
the musician and listener too - an idea to grow, to be humanly connected in
succinct dynamism. When I listen to these track sequences, there is a paracosm
awaiting me to split the atom, but also an intterrelationship with why atomism
is not inseperable from taxonomy. What that means for ambient drone people is
they stay off the roads of dangerous mindstate and get incubated in warmth.
http://denovali.com/multicastdynamics/
FTAL 033 - 09.07.15
Arovane & Hior Chronik - In-Between
A Strangely Isolated Place 2LP/DL
Giving someone else the burden of your own guilt is a passable excursion, like
painting your nails for the first time only to notice you don't like the
colour. It's often not whhaat tools you paint with, but the initial intent,
that matters.
In-between by Arovane & Hior Chronik represents this spaced passing, but
without the implied guilt of a bad trip through rough terrain. As you'd wish
from Arovane, those entrancing piano cascades are in full effect, while Hior's
contribution is easier to pin down thanks to his recent 'Taking The Veil' LP.
A Strangely Isolated Places have been in between vinyl and digital places
with their 'Places' series since 2012 or thereabouts, putting out recordings
by numerous fabled artists of admiration by Ryan Griffin, head honcho of the
cause. Their Isolated Mix series features wonderful ambient mixtapes by 36,
Parks, Carbon Based Lifeforms amongst others. This is all indispensible stuff.
https://astrangelyisolatedplace.bandcamp...in-between
http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2015/06/hior-chronik/
FTAL 034 - Anne Garner -Long Journey Here
eMusic.com
Long Journey Here I'd say, for these sounds are beautifully set like clay. Baked like a tandoori in a background of grilling, it's a shillings patch on history where these melodies thrill without spilling. Much of electronic beats are harmonically self-conscious, like a poem with a gear shift into upper echelons. But only Anne Garner can di this job as well, as, say, a critter can make you spell out what life is all about.DL
FTAL 035 - 09.07.15
Marsen Jules - The Endless Change Of Colour (marsenjules.de)
24 hour USB stick
If you spend your life regretting the past, forgetting the future and being static in the present, you are selling yourself short to an imposter persona. This has never been the case with Marsen Jules, however. On this 24 hour extension of the 47 minute CD and download original, a full day of wanderlust ambient drone doesn't just elapse time, it transcends existence. This also applies to Martin Juhls, aka Marsen Jules format - his only choice here at that - the USB stick, able to be played on USB hifis and laptops. Costing less than 3 LPS worth in Euros, the generative spectrum spools are like reel to reel chameleonic ghosts under the guise of microtonal drone structures.
Juhls work in time and space here is as much a musical weapon as a thing of beauty. On 'Les Fleurs' from the early 2000s on Swod and Arovane's City Centre Offices label, were palette pushing flourishes of soft ambient pads and crystalline green textural fauna. Those remain on 'The Endless Change Of Colour', but subtly transformed - as much a modus operandi for longform drone LPS as a testament to the narcoleptic properties of hum. How far can it be stretched? Where does continuity by multiplicity's sweet spot lie? What about other sounds: a bell, whistle, a field recording; what does everything mean?
For Jules, the answer is like a bear with a soothed head, in sense that he doesn't tunnel signal paths, or the action/reaction paradox, as heavy as, say, Tim Hecker in the feedback stakes; or BJ Nilsen in sheer weight of interference noise in the recording process. 'The Endless Change Of Colour' is titular successful in that you will never hear it the same twice. This result of generative music pushed by Eno in the nineties and synthetic geek Keith Fullerton Whitman processes a meta cognition towards perception in the current era, and for once an endless change of sound feels truly warranted.
http://www.marsenjules.de
FTAL 036 - 14.07.15
Eilean rec. - Daq Rosenqvist - The Forest Diaries / ieva - Lueurs / Lee Chapman - The
Common Silence
CD/DL/vinyl
The perplexing dichotomies of everyday life splinter and slip your attention like being
repeatedly stabbed in the back with a machete biro. That pin-pricking, bigger-than-it-is soulless
pomp is rife with abandonment and atomicity, a type of reversal system where big nasties are
prescribed as being the only cure for a reality hangover. The reality is often very different, a
temperance on saying what it is you feel without blaming any person or object for your wants and
thoughts. On eilean rec, this bewilderment of evading soulless temperance comes to break the nib,
and flush away toxic environmental damage that can build up in the ears.
Starting with Japser TX's abandoned alias. Now going under his own name Daq Rosenqvist, the gentle,
soothing piano figures are quixotically slinkied against numerous atmospheric field recordings in
their short duration, avoiding an implicit statement of intent, instead intending to act as mortar
to the brick. Labelled with Roman numerals - quite a apt ideological temperance for the mood
transcript and to stabillise a context. Like a machete, the forest needs more than weeding out of
the unnecessary foliage and foiled diatribes of negative thought. This polar axis - ambient with a
rough edge, attached to folicles and hairy growth like the whispers of wind on a hand - keeps the
listener attentive; in other words, this is thoughtful, untitillated spectrum-of-drone music with
piano figures to match.
The very Eno-esque, higher-octave-ranging piano radiography has a hauntological dichotomy of its
own to it, buffered later on by light strings that stretch out the sound palette. This aesthetic is
quite atypical of eilean rec releases, benching the bricks as if they were weights to lift like hands
on a piano - ultimately a transcendental purposefulness about the whole thing, a atom split into
strawberry pieces and dished out with a sweeter edge. The balancing of octave phrases that scale
conservatively between A major and a augmented fifth break no moulds that don't need breaking, and
ultimately wrap up an untarnished objective - getting lost in the forest has resolve here, and
beyond the occasionally pointillist preaching of slow speed, as is the prefix of ambient, the release
is a very successful one, spleen-drained of anger and annoyance, as the blade has been tucked away.
I've been editing some audio more recently among several other things, including communications preliminary for Fluid Radio about Blue Tapes, particularly Benjamin Finger's release which is scheduled for release nearer the end of the month.
Have you heard the recent Kid606 stuff?
https://kid606.bandcamp.com/track/atavua...t-mix-2015
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Kid606 - Atavuasca (Jan 2015 Ambient DJ Mix)
https://soundcloud.com/tigerbeat6/atavua...ent-dj-mix
Atavuasca mix Tracklist:
Tibetan Chime
Gregg Kowalsky - Battery Townsley (studio mix by Giueseppe Lelasi)
Locust - Ancient Hometown
Wim Mertens - Salernes
Christopher Willits - Gold
Main - Phase Space
Loscil - Black Tusk
Laraaji - Essence
Strategy - Awareness is Fruit (2009)
Thomas Fehlmann - Falling into your eyes
Zoe Keating - Legions (Forest)
Craig Murphy - A Distance Between Us
Kronos Quartet - Tusen Tankar
Wolfgang Voigt - 10' 04" (part 1)
Todd Terje - Snooze 4 Love (Version)
Steve Roach - Structures from Silence
Main - Haloform Part III
Chris Weeks - Below the Horizon
Recorded at home on Jan 23rd 2015
The Orb have a new album out as well, what I have heard is quite enjoyable:
The Orb "Moonbuilding 2703 AD" (Kompakt)
http://www.discogs.com/Orb-Moonbuilding-...se/7144376
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Wolfgang Voigt presents Rückverzauberung live in London (Astral Industries)
https://soundcloud.com/astralindustries/...-in-london
I have a divert-isment of my own, thanks DIB.
On 260915 - whereby you should attend the August Gappy Tooth Industries show at the end of the month coming (line-up at www.gappytooth.com) - I have a live set at The Wheatsheaf planned, but unplanned, live, if you get what I mean. Seeing as I'm ultimately - my best mode of expression - an improvisor. It will be on one machine, fully live.
BUT I AM MOST LOOKING FORWARD TO - (Jesse's mostly been eating) surprise from Mogwai-esque Oxford Punt band Ghosts In The Photographs headlining, and a curiousity-tingle in Neuroharp, which is said to be a producer-constructed instrument built on brainwaves. 8:20PM High St Oxford, Saturday night. Should be a whole lot of fun. Do come along.
New Foci's Left EP constructed entirely on the machine I will be using live, at Bandcamp, now available. Free to stream always, £3 download.
This suggestion is a fw months old already but why not still add it here:
Danish musician Sekuoia released a 4 track vinyl EP in March this year, but the tracks are also available in the usual stores digitally.
http://www.discogs.com/Sekuoia-Reset-Hea...se/6672894
Here is the most ambient-ish track of it: Broke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4ByXX84FlU
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PMs please 
(21st June 2015, 09:13)firefinga Wrote: I have a thing for early/mid90s dreamy Ambient and here is another fine example of this sound:
Yantra on SynewaveUK (released September 1994), goes for little money too these days (on discogs marketplace at least)
http://www.discogs.com/Yantra-360/release/81393
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