Sachi Kobayashi * Frieder Nagel
Music for quiet moments: two dreamy albums by Sachi Kobayashi, and Frieder Nagel‘s music for an installation celebrating a park tree.
Music for quiet moments: two dreamy albums by Sachi Kobayashi, and Frieder Nagel‘s music for an installation celebrating a park tree.
Shorelights (Rod Modell and Walter Wasacz) and Ian Wellman present their aural view on two different natural phenomena: ioluminescence and Bioaccumulation. Plus: two albums on Serein by Jonas Meyer and Kryshe.
Max Ananyev charts mysterious waters * Danny Clay helps you fall asleep with his release on Slaapwel Records.
Capac celebrates the cold winter season with a fascinating collection (and an unprecedented combustible edition) * Strië tells about the perpetual journey of Laïka the Russian space dog.
On ‘Fiction – Non-Fiction’, Olivier Alary presents a multi-faceted overview of his recent soundtrack compositions – with a special unreleased track called ‘Discipline’ as additional bonus listening on Ambientblog.
Next to that, Selffish (yes: two ff’s) presents his new album on the Serein label, which is every bit as beautiful as you’ve come to expect from this label’s output.
A collection of various compilations:
The Audiobulb label proves that intense beauty does exist * The renaissance of the Silent Records label continuing the From Here To Tranquility series * and a massive charity compilation titled Where Words Fail, Music Speaks
Ian William Craig demonstrates that true beauty hides in distorted details on his ‘near-imperfect’ new album Centres – raising the bar of the aesthetic of the fundamentally distressed.
Furthermore:
Label compilations (by Serein and 130701) with all new unreleased tracks of their major artists.
Starting out as a netlabel, distributing free releases such as the original Nest EP, Serein took an unexpected sudden turn and resurfaced as a ‘standard’ label.
“Re-Told” – a remastered version (with additional tracks) of the original Nest EP – was their incredible “initial”release and immediately set themselves a difficult high standard.
Re-Told was immediately and widely recognised as a classic release and got sort of legendary status for all those that found it. (To modestly illustrate this: the short review from 2009 has been on top of the ‘most read’ ambientblog list ever since).
(Only) Three other releases have followed since this initial masterpiece – and then, finally, a new Nest release called“Body Pilot” was announced.
Olan Mill is the name of the duo (Alex Smalley and Svitlana Samoylenko) presenting “Pine“, the long-awaited second release of the british Serein label.
Serein started out as a net-label a few years ago. Following the succes of their Nest-release they reformed completely, and re-released their greatest succes as “Retold” – one of the most praised (re-)releases of 2009/2010. (BTW – the Serein website does not mention it, but most of their netlabel releases – including the original NEST EP – can still be found on archive.org.)
Following up a release like that is not an easy task. But Olan Mill lives up to the expectations, without simply ‘copying’ the Nest success formula.