{"title":"Genre - Ambient","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"mindy-meng-wang-x-tim-shiel-nervous-energy","title":"Mindy Meng Wang x Tim Shiel ‎– Nervous Energy","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. Early in 2020, the music community was forced to close its doors, not only to the outside world, but to each other. Creative partnerships were lost, performances cancelled, studio time scrapped.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn response to these limitations, as is often the case, innovation and cooperation blossomed. Melbourne’s Music in Exile label, a not-for-profit aimed at profiling musicians from refugee and migrant backgrounds that give the city its world-class reputation in the arts, kick started the new Building Bridges series, aimed at keeping individuals connected and inspired during lockdown. Nervous Energy, a collaborative effort between Chinese\/Australian avant-garde composer Mindy Meng Wang \u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'ＭＳ 明朝';\"\u003e王萌\u003c\/span\u003e, and her Melbourne-based contemporary Tim Shiel, is the first product of this series. Over the course of the year, as COVID restrictions ebbed and flowed, Tim \u0026amp; Mindy worked ceaselessly on developing new material, first recorded by Mindy on her 21-string traditional guzheng, and then shared with Tim via the internet to be reworked into something neither had imagined possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe result is four compositions that oscillate from breakbeat to minimal house influences and laid-back dub and pop sounds, underpinned throughout by an acoustic instrument almost two metres long and thousands of years old. It is a hymn to the world Mindy inhabits, a place where tradition is forced to adapt with changing values and different cultures. Throughout the record, Mindy’s strong association with visual imagery and traditional Chinese storytelling prevails, conjuring images of “eastern power and beauty” and “a dreamland surrounded by clouds and mist, as if you are floating in the cloud.” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs Mindy says, “Tim’s music made my blood surge immediately, and I couldn’t help holding my breath; my muscles tightened, like a wild leopard about to jump out from the dark, or balancing on a string up high in the sky. I used the guzheng to create a meditation of tranquility in the chaos, to try calm my emotions and fast heartbeat. The gentle melody brings rational control and pulls everything back to a perfect balance.“ – \u003cu\u003eBandcamp\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/6wfOxfDJ3qZVBPW5Aq4qfX\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allow=\"encrypted-media\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLabel: Music In Exile ‎– MIE016\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormat: Vinyl, 12\", 33 ⅓ RPM, EP, Stereo\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCountry: Australia\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReleased: 12 Mar 2021\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGenre: Electronic\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStyle: Ambient, Downtempo\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Music In Exile","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41456436674718,"sku":"741813557090","price":25.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0584\/5434\/3838\/products\/c99e3ac0835d9f035b07c18d9c2d8c105a22a109.jpg?v=1646290393"},{"product_id":"gaussiancurve-clouds","title":"Gaussian Curve - Clouds","description":"\u003cp\u003eMusic From Memory's fourth release sees the Amsterdam based label taking an exciting sidestep with the release of “Clouds”, an album of contemporary music recorded in spring 2014. “Clouds” is the debut album of Gaussian Curve, a collaboration between Italian ambient pioneer Gigi Masin, Land Of Light’s Jonny Nash and Marco Sterk (also know as Young Marco). Each of them established in their own rights, the three musicians from Italy, UK and the Netherlands, came together during a weekend long recording session in April of this year.Without preconceived ideas and developed around often purely intuitive improvised jams, the eight tracks on the album are all 'one take' live recordings. With Gigi Masin on Rhodes and piano, Jonny Nash on guitar, melodica, synths and trumpet and Marco Sterk on synths, rhythmic structures and production duties, the three of them succeed in developing a musical language all of their own\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRecorded in the heart of Amsterdam's Red Light district, the album reflects the unusually warm Spring and the buzz from the open windows that filled the derelict downtown studio space during that particular weekend. Whilst on the more introvert late night compositions the music quietly soars, reflecting the brooding melancholy of an evening in that particular part of the city. With a heartfelt simplicity “Clouds” is a record of an inspired meeting of unique souls and unique surroundings. - \u003cu\u003eBandcamp\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"300\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/4FC9qI04vobItNEKVeRh8Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allow=\"encrypted-media\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLabel: Music From Memory ‎– MFM004\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormat: Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCountry: Netherlands\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReleased: 2016\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGenre: Electronic\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStyle: Ambient, Downtempo, New Age\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Music From Memory","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41456648421534,"sku":"783024551122","price":39.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0584\/5434\/3838\/products\/62c37a7e5a9c871a18745a648ac3573cd7c66a1c.jpg?v=1646293357"},{"product_id":"inoyamalandcommissions1977-2000","title":"Inoyama Land ‎– Commissions: 1977-2000","description":"\u003cp\u003eMakoto Inoue and Yasushi Yamashita’s Inoyama Land project spans nearly four decades, still active to this day. A portmanteau of their family names, the “Land” of Inoyama hovers between imagined mythical space and concrete reality, extending beyond physical releases into installations, site-specific sound design and theatre scores. After their famed Haruomi Hosono-produced 1983 release Danzindan-Pojidon, the duo became involved in the budding environmental music business that was taking shape in Tokyo during the development boom of the asset bubble – working directly with figures like Hiroshi Yoshimura (with whom they developed sound design for the International Stadium in Yokohama) and Takashi Sekiguchi (Bamboo from Asia). This collection expands upon their sound heard on Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental \u0026amp; New Age Music 1980-1990 (LITA 167) to illuminate material that is even lesser known outside of Japan – some of it presented publicly for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWorking initially with Munetaka Tanaka’s Sound Process Design (an acoustic consulting company formed by Tanaka with Satoshi Ashikawa, before Ashikawa’s tragic death in 1983), their commissioned work mirrors the sound world first fleshed out on Danzindan: chiming synthesizers, pastoral hues, childhood memory – all pulsing with a distant, emotional resonance. This material – culled from limited CD issues of the material on Tanaka’s Crescent label, Kazunao Nagata’s Transonic Records and self-released CDRs – presents a window into this process, illustrating how Inoue and Yamashita’s idiosyncratic musical identity gelled perfectly with all of the disparate environments of their commissions. Included is music written for the Kankaku (Sense) Museum in Miyagi, an exhibit on slime molds at the National Museum of Nature and Science in Ueno park, the 1977 stage performance Collecting Net (which also included music that would later become Danzindan-Pojidon) and their score for a Tokyo re-staging of New York avant-theatre pioneer Richard Foreman’s post-modern stage piece Egyptology. – \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/inoyamaland.bandcamp.com\/album\/commissions-1977-2000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInoyama Land | Bandcamp\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"300\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/7cJG9ELM7LsyAD5kQOmoMq\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allow=\"encrypted-media\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLabel: Empire of Signs ‎– EOS03\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormat: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Limited Edition, Black\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCountry: US\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReleased: 20 Sep 2019\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGenre: Electronic\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStyle: Ambient, Abstract\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Empire of Signs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41456667820190,"sku":"683085","price":60.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0584\/5434\/3838\/products\/c8ff3936f9a38f04dc8bbc43a42944a26f4a05e6.jpg?v=1646293898"},{"product_id":"hiroshiyoshimuragreen","title":"Hiroshi Yoshimura ‎– Green","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Japanese ambient pioneer’s well-deserved revival continues with a reissue of this 1986 cult classic, which feels like an inviting frame in which to project your own feelings.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Yoshimura, who died of cancer in 2003, was a polymath par excellence: composer, designer, historian. Most of his work existed in the overlap between sound, architecture, and everyday life, including installations and commissioned work for museums, hotels, runway shows, an aquarium, a sports stadium, the Tokyo and Kobe subway systems, and Osaka International Airport. Yoshimura’s activities made him one of the central figures of kankyō ongaku, or environmental music, a homegrown style that drew upon Erik Satie’s “furniture music” and Brian Eno’s ambient investigations, as well as centuries-old ritual traditions, to fashion a new kind of site-specific sound uniquely suited to Japan’s post-war economic boom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet listeners outside Japan remained largely ignorant of Yoshimura’s legacy until the past decade, when people like Spencer Doran, of the Portland, Oregon, duo Visible Cloaks, began advocating for his work. In 2017, Doran and Maxwell August Croy’s Empire of Signs label reissued Music for Nine Postcards, helping kick off what has become a broad revival of formerly obscure Japanese ambient and electronic music; Doran also curated Light in the Attic’s 2019 compilation Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental \u0026amp; New Age Music 1980-1990. 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The result is both comforting and disturbing, producing a quiet and uncanny glow against the cold. Sometimes, as it enters 'a bad place', it takes your breath away. 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Gone are the ghost stories of Meitei’s 2018 release Kwaidan, which were conveyed via raspy spoken-word fragments and gloaming ambience. In their stead are brighter peals, intricately woven with traditional Japanese percussion. Field recordings and the familiar warmth of tape hiss are still present but rarely oppressive, providing a naturalistic undercurrent throughout. Some songs, such as “Chouchin,” sound as if Meitei lifted fragments from an ancient dream and laid them out across the 16 pads of a modern-day MPC beat machine. On other tracks, like “Ike” and “Sento [Pt.I],” babbling brooks peek out from underneath layers of plucks and noise. - \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/meitei-komachi\/\"\u003ePitchfork\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"300\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/3QfrNNsvv0GxBSQvrwwfZQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allow=\"encrypted-media\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLabel: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/label\/1462434-M%C3%A9tron-Records\"\u003eMétron Records\u003c\/a\u003e ‎– MTR002\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormat: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/search\/?format_exact=Vinyl\"\u003eVinyl\u003c\/a\u003e, LP, Album\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCountry: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/search\/?country=Germany\"\u003eGermany\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReleased: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/search\/?decade=2010\u0026amp;year=2019\"\u003e15 Mar 2019\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGenre: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/genre\/electronic\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStyle: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/style\/experimental\"\u003eExperimental\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/style\/abstract\"\u003eAbstract\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/style\/ambient\"\u003eAmbient\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Metron Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41456734503070,"sku":"636384","price":39.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0584\/5434\/3838\/products\/1838c50f9841f47e2b78e60838a9735c4551921b.jpg?v=1646295771"},{"product_id":"laraaji-sunpiano","title":"Laraaji - Sun Piano","description":"\u003cp\u003eSpiritual keyboard improvisations performed by Laraaji and recorded in a Brooklyn Church by Jeff Zeigler (Kurt Vile, The War On Drugs, Mary Lattimore). Sun Piano finds Laraaji fulfilling a lifelong ambition to return to his first instrument, learnt whilst growing up in 1950s New Jersey. A departure from his FX-soaked cosmic zither jams, these elegant miniatures nevertheless reveal enough personality and inner light to be clearly identifiable as ‘Laraaji Music’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis release is the latest step in something of a late career renaissance for the New York City based musician and mystic. He first came to public attention in the late 70s via his entry in the legendary Brian Eno-produced Ambient series of albums, Ambient 3: Day Of Radiance. In the last few years his music has been re-discovered by a whole new generation of fans via reissues from the likes of the Numero Group, Light In The Attic and Leaving Records; new collaborations with underground musicians Dallas Acid and Sun Araw; a revitalised live presence that has seen him share concert stages worldwide with the likes of Solange and Jonathan Wilson; and a wide amount of media coverage: from discussing his love of orange clothes in Vogue, to demonstrating the benefits of transcendental music on BBC4 or performing a coveted NPR tiny desk concert . This latest musical side step introduces a new chapter to the story of a much-loved cult icon. - \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/laraajimusic.bandcamp.com\/album\/sun-piano-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eBandcamp\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"300\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/4wuolIcqCP142JdnFNr0AK\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allow=\"encrypted-media\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLabel: All Saints ‎– WAST057LP\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormat: Vinyl, LP, Album\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCountry: Europe\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReleased: 17 Jul 2020\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGenre: Folk, World, \u0026amp; Country\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"All Saints","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41456775594142,"sku":"5060384618524","price":48.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0584\/5434\/3838\/products\/f0070de3fe1503ac1c193f353c99066e79cd16a8.jpg?v=1646296834"},{"product_id":"mortgarsonmotherearthsplantasia45rpm","title":"Mort Garson ‎– Mother Earth's Plantasia (45RPM)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the mid-1970s, a force of nature swept across the continental United States, cutting across all strata of race and class, rooting in our minds, our homes, our culture. It wasn’t The Exorcist, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, or even bell-bottoms, but instead a book called The Secret Life of Plants. The work of occultist\/former OSS agent Peter Tompkins and former CIA agent\/dowsing enthusiast Christopher Bird, the books shot up the bestseller charts and spread like kudzu across the landscape, becoming a phenomenon. Seemingly overnight, the indoor plant business was in full bloom and photosynthetic eukaryotes of every genus were hanging off walls, lording over bookshelves, and basking on sunny window ledges. The science behind Secret Life was specious: plants can hear our prayers, they’re lie detectors, they’re telepathic, able to predict natural disasters and receive signals from distant galaxies. But that didn’t stop millions from buying and nurturing their new plants.\u003cbr\u003e Hearing Plantasia in the 21st century, it seems less an ode to our photosynthesizing friends by Garson and more an homage to his wife, the one with the green thumb that made everything flower around him. “My dad would be totally pleased to know that people are really interested in this music that had no popularity at the time,” Darmet says of Plantasia’s new renaissance. “He would be fascinated by the fact that people are finally understanding and appreciating this part of his musical career that he got no admiration for back then.” Garson seems to be everywhere again, even if he’s not really noticed, just like a houseplant. – \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mortgarson.bandcamp.com\/album\/mother-earths-plantasia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eOn Bandcamp\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"300\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/4Pj4zPHuEUPtfacdeTlqUG\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allow=\"encrypted-media\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLabel: Sacred Bones Records ‎– SBR-3030-45\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormat: 2 × Vinyl, 12\", 45 RPM, Album, Deluxe Edition, Reissue, Gatefold\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCountry: US\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReleased: 2020\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGenre: Electronic\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStyle: Experimental, Ambient\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Sacred Bones Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41456885432478,"sku":"843563129876","price":70.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0584\/5434\/3838\/products\/aa4aacf23e6ca73208c792db2f34e9078b03df35.jpg?v=1646298861"},{"product_id":"nala-sinephro-space-18","title":"Nala Sinephro – Space 1.8","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e— The Analog Vault \/\/ Essential Listening —\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis debut album by London-based Caribbean-Belgian composer, producer, and musician Nala Sinephro is an elegiac, cosmic jazz wonder. Throughout the album’s transfixing 45 minutes, \u003cem\u003eSpace 1.8 \u003c\/em\u003efeels akin to taking a warm, reflective, slow-motion sound bath - one that cleanses, nurtures and gently heals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis minimalist and understated electroacoustic alliance of ambient and spiritual jazz envelopes you in its unhurried, free-floating thrum. Sinephro on the pedal harp and modular synthesisers - alongside a host of collaborators including Lyle Barton, James Mollison, Nubya Garcia, Shirley Tetteh, and Jake Long - have managed to process the infinity of the interior through spacious and celestial dimensions of harp, horns and layered electronics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA meditative masterwork that will restore the body and rejuvenate the soul. — \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/theanalogvault.mom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eThe Analog Vault\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e—\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe debut album by London-based composer, multi-instrumentalist, and NTS Radio host Nala Sinephro intertwines spiritual jazz and ambient music, melding acoustic and electronic instruments to create meditative pieces that explore inner space while pondering the possibilities of the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSinephro performs pedal harp and modular synthesizers, and she's joined by several notable musicians, including saxophonists Nubya Garcia, Ahnansé, and James Mollison, drummers Jake Long, and Eddie Hick, bassists Rudi Creswick and Twm Dylan, and others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe gentle, collage-like opener blooms with the sounds of chirping birds serving as a backdrop for Sinephro's graceful harp and illuminating synths. Following the dusky, comforting \"Space 2,\" the musicians briefly kick into overdrive with the momentary rocket burst \"Space 3,\" which feels like the beginning of a jazzy drum'n'bass crossover but caps that bit of excitement before developing further. \"Space 6\" is more intense, with an unsteady, angular rhythm and buzzing, bassy synths that erupt into mesmerizing waves. Concluding the album is \"Space 8,\" a 17-minute celestial jazz epic that suspends Ahnansé's warm, wistful saxophone playing inside an ethereal glow, gradually encircled by spiralling echoes. Both a reflective sound bath and an ecstatic celebration of creative freedom, Space 1.8 is a singular, eye-opening debut. — (via \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/space-18-mw0003574694\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eAllMusic\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"380\" style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/5Svfamp6qQ2IfLVNVICpVm?utm_source=generator\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e↓\u003cbr\u003eLabel: Warp Records\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Vinyl, LP, Album\u003cbr\u003eReissued:2022 \/ Original: 2021\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Jazz, Electronic\u003cbr\u003eStyle: Contemporary Jazz, Ambient, Experimental\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFile under: TAV Essential Listening\u003cbr\u003eFile under: Jazz \/\/ Modern \/ Future Jazz\u003cbr\u003e⦿\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Warp Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41563783135390,"sku":"801061032418","price":48.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0584\/5434\/3838\/products\/Nala.jpg?v=1649317443"},{"product_id":"mort-garson-mother-earths-plantasia-pink-green","title":"Mort Garson – Mother Earth's Plantasia | Pink \u0026 Green","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e15th Label Anniversary Limited Caladium pink and green vinyl. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFew characters in early electronic music can be both fearless pioneers and cheesy trend-chasers, but Garson embraced both extremes, and has been unheralded as a result. When one writer rhetorically asked: “How was Garson’s music so ubiquitous while the man remained so under the radar?” the answer was simple. Well before Brian Eno did it, Garson was making discreet music, both the man and his music as inconspicuous as a Chlorophytum comosum. Julliard-educated and active as a session player in the post-war era, Garson wrote lounge hits, scored plush arrangements for Doris Day, and garlanded weeping countrypolitan strings around Glen Campbell’s “By the Time I Get to Phoenix.” He could render the Beatles and Simon \u0026amp; Garfunkel alike into easy listening and also dreamed up his own ditties. “An ide\u003cem\u003ear\u003c\/em\u003e” as Garson himself would drawl it out. “I live with it, I walk it, I sing it.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut as his daughter Day Darmet recalls: “When my dad found the synthesizer, he realized he didn’t want to do pop music anymore.” Garson encountered Robert Moog and his new device at the Audio Engineering Society’s West Coast convention in 1967 and immediately began tinkering with the device. With the Moog, those\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eidears\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecould be transformed. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“My mom had a lot of plants,” Darmet says. “She didn’t believe in organized religion, she believed the earth was the best thing in the whole world. Whatever created us was incredible.” And she also knew when her husband had a good song, shouting from another room when she heard him humming a good\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eidear\u003c\/em\u003e. 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Following the deliberate spatial stasis of his 2020 full-length, Temporary Places, Nicolas Snyder’s first release on Evening Chants presents ambient music with an active, percussive sensibility, crackling with life via unpredictable amalgamations of field recordings, found sound, and manipulated palettes of earthy instrumentation, traversing woodwinds, dulcimers, harps and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCrafted via stream-of-consciousness approaches, \u003cem\u003eSpell of Remembrance\u003c\/em\u003e’s twelve serpentine tracks morph in an elegant, ever-constant flux – simultaneously meticulous in their through-composed nature, while breathing with a delicate cinematic impulse, assisted by Snyder’s background in film and sound design. 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LABEL and Evening Chants. Available on 180g smoke haze variant LP, CD and digital formats (LP arriving in Q3, 2023), This record is mastered by Taylor Deupree at 12k Mastering in New York. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHiroshima-based artist Meitei announces the reissue of Kwaidan on the 5th anniversary of his groundbreaking debut album. A collaboration between 2 labels – KITCHEN. LABEL (Kofū I \u0026amp; II) and Evening Chants (Kwaidan), the reissue sees the highly anticipated special 5th Anniversary Edition of Kwaidan with two previously unreleased bonus tracks. This will be released on long-out-of-print vinyl format in a new color variant, with an 8-panel insert and the first-ever CD version.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2018, Meitei shook the ambient world with the release of his debut album Kwaidan, a transposition of Japanese folklore into intricate compositions, capturing what he would coin as the “lost Japanese mood”. The album almost instantly received critical acclaim from the likes of Pitchfork, where it was included in their Best Experimental Albums of 2018, Bandcamp, calling it “different from some of the ambient music that has been coming from Japan in recent years”, The Wire and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKwaidan (怪談) is a style of Japanese ghost stories. Meitei took it as a challenge of his skill as a musician to transpose the folklore into intricate compositions, capturing this lost “Japanese mood”. “The shocking elements in the horror have become a staple. It functions as entertainment. 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There’s even a small but notable group of young people called\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003efanxiang qingnian\u003c\/em\u003e, who, in a departure from China’s mass rural-to-urban migration\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eof the past four decades, have opted to return to farm life. Of course, Chinese nationalism and the state’s push to promote Chinese culture do play a role, but the fact remains that China’s rapid economic growth, not unlike that of its American counterpart, has left its people wanting something more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBirdy Island\u003c\/em\u003e, producer\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eHowie Lee\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003etakes this desire and projects it into the future, applying it to the question of what follows society’s collapse under capitalism. The artist imagines a scenario that is by turns dystopic and hopeful, in which a Chinese investment company has decided to fund a theme park aimed at reconnecting people with nature and spirituality. The park is located on a floating island (the album’s namesake), where birds and ancestral spirits commingle. Lee, as a character in this musical metafiction, has been hired to score its soundtrack.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBirdy Island\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e proposes a kind of hopeful syncretism, reaching back into traditional Chinese spiritual practices and finding a place for them within the destructive wake of neoliberal economics. 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He is considered one of the most influential minimal techno artists. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe GAS alias went silent following the release of Nah Und Fern, a retrospective 2008 box set cementing the project’s legacy. But last year, Voigt reappeared with Narkopop, which was a bumpy landing for fans: Listeners expecting a second helping of the project’s iconic, mesmerizing tones were instead met with fidgety disruptions. Returning now with Rausch, GAS remains in an unsettled headspace. In 1999, Voigt described the project warmly: “The aim is always to give love and to be loved for your work.” It’s hard to draw that conclusion today. Rausch heaves with a potent cocktail of seasick unease, grand visions, and snarling intensity. As far-right nationalist political views lurch back into Germany’s mainstream, the project’s motherland obsessions seem suddenly less comfortable in their own skin, exuding a dissonant terror alongside the requisite transcendence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRausch is meant to be taken in as a single, hour-long piece made up of seven parts. It’s an imposing listen. More than anything, this album looms over you, swaying back and forth between awesomeness and menace. The title translates to an ecstatic state of drunkenness, or “frenzy,” and the most joyful passages teeter on the edge of chaos and oblivion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe opening contains some of the most beautiful music on the record: nearly eight minutes of stretched-out symphonic tones, rain-like static, and depth-charge bass. The arrangement is stacked to emphasize the sense of scale: The low end invites vertigo, while cymbals guide your gaze upwards, letting you breathe in pure, brisk air. In the middle, dense harmonies cascade with the muted majesty of cloud banks. Voigt has left the Black Forest for an alpine summit. If Voigt were to fade it out here, “Rausch 1” would stand as another gorgeous addition to the GAS catalogue. Instead, it’s a prelude to a descent accompanied by a chugging beer-hall beat. A bleary unease sets in, the threat of violence looming in the otherwise ethereal mist. Dissonance ripples across the surface, at times deep in the background, elsewhere rudely elbowing its way to the front. By the time we get to “Rausch 4,” the mix is half consumed by a wind-tunnel roar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOver three cycles, this rhythm rises up to the surface amid alternating waves of confusion and splendor, only to recede again. It’s another take on the timelessness that distinguished the GAS albums of the early 1990s. If those records suggested a kind of meditative eternity, Rausch feels like the mess of history playing out in an intoxicated melee. GAS’ rebirth could have easily coasted on almost two decades of accumulated goodwill, ignoring the knotty and uncomfortable problems of the day in favor of a detached, expertly crafted rehash. No one would complain, or perhaps even notice. Instead, Voigt continues to absorb and explore. 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Invited to create onsen ambient music commemorating Beppu’s 100th anniversary, he immersed himself in the city’s geothermal psychogeography, where sound rises from the ground and time clings to mist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKnown for his Lost Japan (Shitsu-nihon) works, which channel forgotten eras into flickering auditory relics, Meitei took residence in the warehouse of Yamada Bessou, a century-old inn perched by the bay. Over two weeks, he listened intently to steam, to stone, to the atmosphere itself. The resulting work, \u003cem\u003eSen’nyū\u003c\/em\u003e, traces the inner spirit of onsen culture. Like water finding its path, the music emerged with quiet inevitability, shaped by Meitei’s synesthetic sensibility and deep attunement to place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEquipped with a microphone, he wandered Beppu’s sacred sites: Takegawara Onsen, Bouzu Jigoku, Hebin-yu, and the private baths of Yamada Bessou. There, he captured the breath of the springs, bubbling mud, hissing vents, wind against bamboo, and the murmurs of daily visitors. These field recordings became the sonic bedrock of \u003cem\u003eSen’nyū\u003c\/em\u003e, an act of deep listening that attempts to render even the rising mist and shifting heat into sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnfolding as a single, continuous piece, \u003cem\u003eSen’nyū\u003c\/em\u003e drifts like fog through sulfur and stone. It traverses the veiled madness of Bouzu Jigoku, the spectral resonance of Yamada Bessou’s inner bath, and the hushed voices of Takegawara Onsen. It is a gesture of quiet reverence, for water’s patience, the land’s memory, and the hands that have bathed here for generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhere Meitei’s earlier works conveyed his personal impression of a fading Japan, \u003cem\u003eSen’nyū\u003c\/em\u003e is grounded in tactile presence, music not imagined but encountered. Here, his practice moves closer to the spirit of kankyō ongaku, environmental music born from place, shaped by it, and inseparable from it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs part of the project, Meitei conceived a two-day public sound installation inside Takegawara Onsen, culminating in a live performance. Bathers soaked in mineral-rich waters while submerged in sound, an embodied ritual of place, body, and listening.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSen’nyū\u003c\/em\u003e marks Meitei’s first full-length work centered entirely on onsen and opens a new chapter of his Lost Japan project under the expanded title 失日本百景 (One Hundred Lost Views of Japan), a series exploring extant sites of longing still quietly breathing within contemporary life. The album will be accompanied by Meitei’s first photo book, a visual document of his recording journey in Beppu. A new layer is added to the world he has, until now, built only through sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSen’nyū\u003c\/em\u003e continues Meitei’s devotion to Japan as subject, while opening new terrain: both ritual and remembrance, an immersion into the mineral soul of Beppu. — (via \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kitchen-label.com\/store\/no-47-sennyu-meitei\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eLabel\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e—\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the liner notes for his seminal album Music For Airports, Brian Eno wrote that ambient music “must be as ignorable as it is interesting.” Before him, French composer Erik Satie, whose musique d’ameublement (‘furniture music’) prefigured ambient, reportedly used to get angry if his compositions drew too much attention. Ambient music, then, has long occupied a strange space. It should reward deep listening without demanding it; operate with presence, but not insistence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a paradox that sits at the heart of \u003cem\u003eSen’nyū\u003c\/em\u003e, the latest effort from Japanese ambient bodach Meitei. Inspired by Japanese onsen culture, it’s an album with place as its central tenet. And it’s best enjoyed in the bath.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe record, released on Singapore’s Kitchen Label, is part of a wider set of works from Meitei that chronicle “Lost Japan” (or Shitsu-nihon). For \u003cem\u003eSen’nyū\u003c\/em\u003e, Meitei exiled himself to a warehouse just outside Beppu, a city in Kyushu known for its status as a popular onsen resort. There, invited to make music for Beppu’s 100th anniversary, and equipped with nothing but a microphone, Meitei got lost in onsen landmarks for days on end, intensely listening to the sounds of steam, sedimentary rock and public baths. 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Right when it feels like you want nothing more but to sink into the unhurried three-note progressions, the transitory open chords and the bath, Meitei will introduce the perfect misshapen lead for the moment, a windswept field recording – or, oftentimes, rescind into complete, all-encompassing soundscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSen’nyū\u003c\/em\u003e’s efficacy also lies in its ability to rise out of the onsen baths and into the cold air of hauntological Japan. 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