For The Ambient Lovers...review and mixtape archive 001

Focis Left, Ghosts In The Photographs & Neuroharp on tonight! Doors open 20.20, my set is meant to start around 20.45

Come say hello and I will buy you a beer for wrecking peoples eardrums and lives.

Sam KDC - Late Night Innominate Vol.1 (Auxiliary)

http://www.samuraimusicgroup.com/product...vol-1vinyl

Yes, big release, checked the soundclips yesterday.
I wish it would be released on CD as well, but this time it's only vinyl and digital.

New Klute track on Metalheadz "Arboretum":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8LoyriT0ms&pxtry=1

[Statto]

that's quite nice

I will sell the GTI field recordings I made of my set on CD for the price of posting a CD. If there is direct demand for excess CD copies I may consider doing a fixed artwork print for batch a of b and c etc instead of acrylic and mixed media card sleeves.

Currently listening to David Tagg on Google Play.

[Statto]

New Klute track on Metalheadz "Arboretum":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8LoyriT0ms&pxtry=1

just listening to the whole EP via...

http://www.discogs.com/Klute-Savage-Circ...se/7326798

Arboretum was nice, and then the beginning to Mirror

...and then it turned into some terrible derivative hardstep nonsense

clicked quickly through the other two tracks, nothing special

shame really; I was almost excited for a minute there

Mind over MIDI - Deep Map (diametric.)

http://diametricmusic.limitedrun.com/pro...d-preorder

Ghost and Tape - Shift (Slaapwel Records)

http://slaapwel.bandcamp.com/album/shift

The following piece is from the early 1980 (81, 82 ?) by disco/Hi NRG producer Patrick Cowley (who died in late 1982). I think this is great stuff ! - "The Jungle Dream"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9IP4LEWc18

https://soundcloud.com/mick-chillage/zen...ing-on-txt

A Mick Chillage goodness. Out around Dec/Jan on ...txt

Markus Guentner - Theia (A Strangely Isolated Place)

https://astrangelyisolatedplace.bandcamp...lbum/theia

Absolutely gorgeous release!

New Klute track on Metalheadz "Arboretum":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8LoyriT0ms&pxtry=1

just listening to the whole EP via...

http://www.discogs.com/Klute-Savage-Circ...se/7326798

Arboretum was nice, and then the beginning to Mirror

...and then it turned into some terrible derivative hardstep nonsense

clicked quickly through the other two tracks, nothing special

shame really; I was almost excited for a minute there

And it looks as if Arboretum isn't on the vinyl

Blair French - Through The Blinds (Delsin Records)

http://www.delsinrecords.com/release/490...the-blinds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_56nKTIsXQ

https://www.dropbox.com/s/m4151cxnyfs1oe...0.png?dl=0

An unnumbered review page. After I listened to these records yesterday I wrote a short prose poetry capsule in 2 formats.

Stillhead – Brightest Dark Place Mix 06

Cicada - Ocean (flau)

http://flau.jp/releases/54.html

http://flau.bandcamp.com/album/ocean

Gacha - Send Two Sunsets (Apollo Records)

Now available to download for free if you wish!

http://gacha.bandcamp.com/

Well this is rather lovely.

Chihei Hatakeyama & Dirk Serries - The Storm of Silence (Glacial Movements)

https://glacialmovements.bandcamp.com/al...of-silence

My favourite ambient review I've done this year was this:

Mikael Tariverdiev - Film Music

Much love and life, hope and mistakes are bound by catharsis. Much hate and self-loathing, disinterest and avoidance is released by paranoia. Delusion binds the two mini world’s together, where the mind is a constant monologue of reflexive thought. Of course; for musicians need a stream to bathe in, it can be found tranquil, and in the soundtrack genre composers use tranquility and nominative modes to structure a set of sounds that do not wallow.

Soundtrack ingredients – also the bane of cinematography – is illusory to the deficit between personable hardship and plot line, gravy train and gravy lake. You can get stuck in false completions and knots in the resulting album or albums (mainstream film adaptation The Hunger Games is a prime example of trilogies; Morricone the go-go pencil in film scores for exceeding three decades easily) where track sequestration becomes hard to undo.

There is also the aspect of veneration in music turning from pointillism to pointless. Mikhail handles his work comparatively masterfully, calling a bluff to paint the noir, the noise and the nomadic ecstasy of disc one. The entirety of the collection compiled concisely by Mikhail’s beloved wife, the master sound is primarily settled in soundtrack jazz, slight neoclassical wafts floating in. It leaves the definition of new music as suffixed by library music attributes of suspense and contextual gravity. Place a meaning on a songs heat, the song sheet is read out with notes reverberating beyond a classical chamber music background.

This mood continues into CD two. Manning the flamenco guitar for a 50s-lite (the bisect period between serious pop and shiny flowery people begun in 1959), “Along My Street For Many Years” better than titular sets up CD 3’s rather cheerful lament riposte “Your Voice”, which is further away with the fairies and insatiably catchy, a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory bonus scene where the children get high on a sugar loop instead of porridge and oats.

Compendium highlights here, for example “Moscow In Morning” are hard to separate from the weakest tracks, but then there’s the variation on harpsichord probing interdimensionality, and that’s no problem for Taridiev because he has a lot of skill and consistency within. The vocal performances are as strong as the string sections, but only just – pick up a hint of a Pierre Schaffeur melody and add a Nancy Sinatra mezzo and you’re good to go more than Lebanese (pardon the food menu mezzo reference to mezzo soprano tautology). Phrasing is genially crisp and grants more than three years of wishes. It shows most in the piano tones and how scaling works solidly across the release. Not surprisingly the least successful instrument in terms of sounding dated is the use of woodwind (and slightly-tinny-before-its-time-sounding drum machine) precise percussion. “Dance At The Stadium” for contrariwise understandable reasons stands out for me due to the horns hauling a bit of pomp from a crowd pleaser of a tune.

Ultimately 2015’s Film Music 3CD is a remarkable showcase, but be warned – films steep themselves in tradition, so did the 40s to 70s in an exponential curve waiting for punk to bowl a straight line wicket. Mikhail Taridiev may be less heard of now, but thanks to all his management, what we have here is a truly international accomplishment of world’s colliding, gently – music, and film.

www.earthrecordings.tumblr.com
www.tariverdiev.bandcamp.com

www.fluid-radio.co.uk

400 posts almost and a ginormous 750000+ views. So, I will do something. A sixth ftal mix will be edited in here today, comprised of cd deck mixing no post processing of mine and others tracks.

Gonna call it 'Handling Life' a happier mood counterpart to the theme of expelled grief from 2014. Has it really been that long since I made a full ambient mix of mine and others tracks.  Crikey.

- insert mix

Here is your helping of, labelled by iTunes, Muttley/Foci's Left 'Chicago House Classics', with remixes of my aquamarine Samurai Red Seal Dj Rum dubplate release, covers of Slowdive and Balloon Ascents, and edited recordings of Drone Records 024 artist Yui Onodera, and of course everything I label FL. It's the sixth mix in the For The Ambient Lovers series. Handling Happie! Happy pie.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/964ndxpzxp0p…/...titled.mp3…

You'll be able to nab it from my repository there (now locked up) in under 2 hours.

Post 400 (or 401 otyr 402) will be for a special batch of 5 Stortford reviews.

FTAL Reviews (A FaceBook recommendation because it's utterly exceptional. Happy Valentines equinox material methinks.

Dave Kirby - Contrails (Whitelab Recs)

About 7 years ago, there was a ambient blog doing the rounds called Asphalt Eden. Created by Brian Bienowski, all kinds of forgotten memories and gems of the orient would come flooding in, wave upon wave of drone lighting up this ambient lover's room until early morning dawn. Sounding like something from another type of dawn - the dawn of time - comes this record on vinyl effect CD-R from Dave Kirby, and although I've never seen his name in ambient and drone circles before, has a strong, storied career that recalls my time spent with Asphalt Eden's "The Endless Sea Parts 1 & 2 Mix". Those mixes are offline now, but I have the 2007 archive backdated to the start for safe keeping. But this release is a frankly unmissable emission of what makes drone great. It winds and whirls in spools and strands; the emotions are henceforth spooled and spun like a curried cobweb into flavoursome binding melodies, the notes of a forgotten trail, a contrail at that. It's deeply meditative, pristinely woven listening.

The Nest - Retold Expanded edition is loveable. One difficult track on first listen - the remastered version of 'Amroth'. But the rest and that tunes piano remix make for warming early morning and late night listening.

I also bought 6 boom kat releases today. 3 from Dell.